School Board Meeting   2/22/2024

Thank you very much, and now if you will join us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

To the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Madam Clerk, if you would please do roll call board members.

Mrs. Burns.

Here.

Mr. Morris.

Present.

Mr. Meyer.

Here.

Mrs. Torres.

Again, welcome everybody and I will now ask for a motion, I'm sorry, for approval of our proposed agenda.

I move that we approve the proposed agenda.

Second.

All in favor, please say yes.

Yes.

And now we will ask that Miss Dooley read her little statement and disclosure please.

A disclosure was filed on February 22nd, 2023, and will be reflected in the public records of the Clerk of the School Board for five years.

Please state your full name, your address, and you are limited to three minutes.

Thank you.

And if not, I will turn it over to Dr. Gurley.

Torres?

specific to the people transportation I realize it's a little early in the process but my understanding is that the city that they're going to kind of phase that increase in so this this increase that's reflected right here is just for this current year for is that do we know is that it's just salaries or or is it equipment what

Powell, she can speak to the changes in the transportation agreement.

and then two additional drivers as far as service level changes.

So what is the compensation increase for the bus drivers?

What this increase represents is just the increase and the impact of that for next fiscal year.

Any other questions on this slide before we move to the next one?

Can I just ask, relative to our competing surrounding counties where our 2%, I know that mid-year raise was, we're paying ourselves back for that in this budget?

Right, that was not budgeted in this current fiscal year.

Other jurisdictions?

So I think ACPS just released theirs yesterday.

I think they're meeting right now, right, to get Dr. Haas's.

But we do feel like it's going to happen.

Each of the next two years, give or take a little bit for SOQ funded positions, which then we will, as we've all talked before, have to make up or supplement.

Mr. Meyer.

Can you go back to the previous slide?

To which one?

So for the city appropriation is that this is that table I guess all off or would be this is the in that general funds table well in the slide above it's showing an ask for 9 million in change and then in this slide below it's showing an ask for 7.8

Pat has a mic if you need your computer.

The city appropriation that you see under the general fund would not reflect the total $9,023,000 because the city appropriation is split between the general fund and the special revenue fund.

And then we are going to be debiting our fund balance by $3 million.

So that gets reflected in the next budget, which will be FY 25.

Okay, so we're expecting our fund balance to increase at the start of FY 24 by $3 million.

We're always behind in budgeting the fund balance change.

Okay, so we're not generating a three million dollar surplus in any way.

No, no, no.

All we're doing is updating our budgetary fund balance in the budget.

You want me to come back to you?

I fear that we're not doing that here and it's not because we don't want to, but I don't know.

So we also are excited about starting that work.

Richardson?

But thank you.

Thank you.

This is an action item and unless there's anything else that board members would like to say.

Second.

I think I'm going to ask for a voice vote on this, please, Madam Clerk.

Mr. Morse.

Yes.

Mr. Meyer.

Yes.

And Mrs. Torres.

Thank you, Dr. Gurley.

Thank you.

All right, any other board comments?

Thanks.

Thank you.