Boy, before we get started, uh something, something I
failed to bring up to you
for the 2%.
Hello and
contract position like
effective. Ok.
Uh uh count
one. Ok. So in line with what we've been doing with the
principal, uh what we've been doing with, with uh
personnel throughout the county, we just want to take the
opportunity to, you know, let you know that the senior staff,
you know, you have all those going to assist the super
position if they choose to and they don't have to if they choose
to, but then they become under contract. And
I think this is a good thing. I think some of y'all talk about
the work performance, accountability, things of that nature.
And I mean, I think you have several folks on contracts that are held on
standards such as the superintendent, CS FO and our board attorney
and people at this level, I think need to
uh be able to show you that they're a good return on
investment. So with that, you know, we're going to be
bringing to you a salary make for
uh the senior staff and which falls in line with
everything that we've been doing for the last couple of years. Uh We wanna bring
that to you hopefully in uh down October
September, September, uh
g do you have something you want to say about that? I, I can just give him the
timeline, right? Um
So if you remember what we did on principles, we're
not gonna do that again. Hopefully y'all remember the matrix and how we kind of
went back and tabulate it. It'll be the same thing. Um This was the
law that we uh got Senator Elliott introduced and Mr Baker
worked really hard to get past for us. Um This allows
Mr Tyler said in accountability uh transparency.
Um We see that our high school principals are held accountable through those new contracts through that
compensation system. This is taking that eventually to the
assistant principals and in this case to the assistant superintendent. So the goal
is, is to come back in September with a salary schedule that addresses senior
staff and put that before the board. Um If the board elects to do that,
well, it's not required that we disseminate the salary, but in
transparency, that's kind of what we've recommended. And I'm hoping that's the course the
board will want to take is to go ahead and disseminate it for September and then vote
on it. John is October will be the final vote and have that in front of you guys
to address the senior staff and then we I think around
November, December, we're gonna start working on the system principal and then that'll be the last
check in the box if you have any questions, have you.
Is this, uh, CS fo our superintendent and
our fraternal, I mean, if we do all that at one time,
we honestly haven't really talked about it to that level,
but if I was the, it's just gonna come back
to you again. I think Mr Wilson's,
I mean, it would be up to the board. We, it would take a couple of days to put something together because we're going
to continue to try to use the same matrix, but we could present
that to the board and you could take a look at all the senior staff. I think, I think the intent was to come
with an assistant superintendent, but you're right, you're just gonna turn
back around and have to do them as well. So you may want to take it all at one time and
then the board can decide what to do or not do at that time. Do you want that presented that
way, Mr President? Are you in agreement,
Mike? Ok. They're, they're not in their heads and so
many we could put something together and y'all could talk about it and try to
get it all in front of you at one time and then you guys can make that decision or you
could come back and do it again. So y'all talk Sarah, can
you follow up with him? Thank you. Any other questions for anyone? Anything
John,
I'm so sorry. It's broken for two
hours.
All right, can you hear me? Ok.
Ok. Are more fun you think?
All right, welcome to the uh fiscal year 2025
proposed budget first hearing,
you know, but um so I'll just start off by saying, you know,
obviously a budget to the size scale and scope of, of
Kalman County is a major undertaking. Um And so I wanna kind of
thank everybody involved in this process. I wanna thank all the department that for giving me their
budget in a timely manner, are also getting ready for the start of school. I
wanna thank uh everyone in my department that worked uh you know,
so hard over the last couple of weeks and months to, to pull this together in the, in
the way that they have and they're here. I just wanna say thank you, Marlena
Ashley Lisa Patsy, uh and, and others
uh that are not here, you know, coordinating crystal and, and Tamara
Indiana. And there's just a big team of people that work so hard every year to pull
this all together because, you know, we are a massive organization and
as you see the budget and you see some of my budget, fun facts and just the massive scale
and scope of, of everything that we have to work with. Um it
takes a team and I'm blessed to have such a strong team uh to, to, to
work uh to work with me every day. So that being
said, everybody stretched, all right,
ready or not budget time. Um And so, uh
you know, I hope the presentation is informative. I hope I can make, you know,
as entertaining as, as, as you can make a, a school budget
presentation and those type of things. And so we'll roll right into it.
So looking at this slide right here, you know, one of the first things you do in building a budget is you
wanna look at what is your role, you know, the student numbers and those type of things, it's gonna
drive your plan through the school year. And so as you
see here, this is an 18 year summary of kind of where our enrollment is looking at
pre K through 12 starting from the the 2007, 2008
school year um to, to, you know, the estimated
or the the enrollment numbers for the start of this school year. And you can see the last couple of
years, we've had some interesting bumps in the roads with, with city school split
with COVID impact, especially as it relates to kindergarten Children and those type of
things. And even in this previous year, we saw, you know, we went from an
AM increase of 800 to an ATM in increase of
only 100 and 88 kids. So we saw a little bit slower. Uh
and I wanna kind of walk into those numbers as well. Um
If you look at basically uh our pre K through 12
numbers and where we, the number that we showed based on the start of the uh the
school year enrollment looks like we're getting back in group with about a 500 kid
increase their R and that's right over 32,000 for this school
year. Like I said before, just to get an idea of how
big this is and what an undertaking is if you were to go line by
line on the budget is 843 pages long. It probably
is if I was to print it out, I'd kill a bunch of trees. Um with
about four inches tall over 10 pounds. Uh
roughly uh you can see we have about 73 different sources of
funds and 92% of those different sources are
earmarked and restricted. They can only be used for designated purposes. And I think that's
something that the public is not fully aware of is so many
funds are earmarked and restricted on are
used. Operating costs. This month is uh 32 to
$35 million is kind of in line with what we've seen this, this previous
fiscal year. And uh you know, and you know, during the budget
hearing guys, I wanna, I wanna be going fast and, and, and feel free to stop
me. Any questions we can have open discussions, we can do, we can
kinda have this go wherever you see fit. So I'm gonna keep rolling.
Um But if I go too fast or if anybody has any questions concerns or anything
they'd like to talk about then happy to talk about it. So
this is the summary, this is the B one A, this is the big picture financial summary of
what our budget looks like um for this next fiscal year.
And so for anyone who's not familiar with the uh with
governmental accounting and how those things work, you know, we operate on a fund
accounting basis. And so we have five main governmental funds.
We have the general fund, which is where most of our operating funds occur. We have
special revenue. Um and I'll kind of show you right here special
revenue is uh where the uh revenue sources that are legally
restricted uh to expenditures outside of state funds. And so this is
your federal funds, this is your public school dollars
um at the local school level, this is gonna be your three mil, it's gonna be your
CNP. All of the tight funds are gonna fall under special revenue debt
service. Obviously, that's where a lot of, a lot of our debt payments are made. That's one
interest capital projects where we're using a lot of our major capital facilities are
in that fund and then the fiduciary um expendable trust fund
is where the nonpublic funds at the local school levels are accounted for.
So just kind of roll again to our projected revenue um for this
fiscal year. Um So when you kind of look at this and you
look at everything all together and you look at last year's first this year, it
kind of has a shocking picture here, but just like I highlighted
this main decline is new to the srr funding ends
at the end of September. And so as you can see, we had about, you know, probably
about, yeah, $28 million that rolled into the fy
24 it's all been spent. The final reimbursement was submitted
to the state last week. And so I know there's been news articles and other things
about school systems are scrambling to spend half a million dollars here and
there b county is not one of those school districts, everything is
spent. I don't understand why school districts are running around um
panicking at the last minute because everyone knew it was gonna expire at the end of
September. And so I appreciate Ashley Lisa and everybody that worked
so hard to come up with a great plan and make sure that that plan was
executed to make sure all the funds were spent appropriately.
Um So I'm gonna kind of look at each of these revenue sources. I'm
gonna kind of dive into it. You can see the first line state revenue.
Um You can see it's kind of flat and so let's uh, well, but
before I go into that, I'll show you the breakdown of uh, of the
revenue. So you can see looking at all the revenue that we're estimated to receive.
Um, in this fiscal year, we're 51% local. Uh We're about
42% stage federal is only about
6.5%. And then that other little sliver is
basically the Pard rebate program and some rebate uh
programs uh tied into our C and P program. But the, the, the
pard rebate program, this ring about $650,000 a year.
So diving into your state revenue and you can see, like I said before, it's
flat. One of the main reasons that it's flat is because the biggest aspect in
state revenue is obviously the foundation program. And so,
um we see a very modest increase of the foundation program. That's
where I'm gonna start and that's where I'm gonna kinda kind of drill into. And so the
foundation program is driven by your A BM. What is your ad m your ad M is your average
daily membership. It represents the average daily enrollment during the 1st 20
days after Labor Day of the previous school year. Um And
it does not include three K students, like I said before, if we
look at the uh the fy 24 which was actually your
October of uh the it should be the October
of 22 versus the October of 23 enrollment numbers
here. You can kind of see that we only saw an increase of 100 and 88
students. Now, if you backtrack to this presentation from last
year, when we're looking at a and we saw an AM increase over 800 students. And so we saw a
little bit of some moderation there and uh and
also in your budget sheet there and also posted online, you can see the breakdown for
every single school in the county of, of, you know, their earn units,
their ad you know, those type of things. But I kind of wanted to drill down into these
numbers and, and kind of give a basic overview based, like I said, based on the
October 22 a 20 day average
versus the October 23 which is how the AD M for
that fiscal year is calculated to kind of give an idea in looking at schools per
feeder pattern to see kind of uh where we saw a lot of the
impact. Um Like I said before, just a reminder ad it was
based on last year enrollment, I will say for this, this current school
year though. And so as you're looking at this, we had a probably decline of
around 91 students per high school and that's a result of BP A
opening. And so we had 90 to 100 student drop in every high
school. And that's what we wanted and that's what we were hoping for. Um, because that
gives, you know, the, our, our base high schools a chance to kind of catch their breath for a
little bit as, as we are opening up all. And you can kind of see just,
just now I have a brief summary of looking at some of the AD M
changes. If you look in the North wall of Bay and that feeder pattern, you can see they were pretty
much flat over this time period. With Stapleton being the school that grew the
most by uh by 19 kids, which is a pretty big amount on a percentage basis.
Um zeroing in into uh to the Daphne feeder pattern. We can saw a good amount of
growth. Uh with Daphne high school, I do know they, they have, I think
they had the largest percentage of students that actually attended BP A the school
year. And so that does a tremendous amount to kind of help them. Um
We also saw a lot of growth in the Bell Forest area. Um Looking at
Alberta feeder pattern, we saw a lot of our growth kind of at the elementary
side. Um, you know, pivoting over to, to the Fair hope feeder
pattern. We saw a lot of your growth circled around the Fair o East
area. Um And then finally, you saw a lot of the
growth, uh really in Florence Mathis, you know, enrollment
area over that period of time. Um Robertsdale,
you saw some growth, um, at the, uh, at, at the high school, you saw a little bit
of the elementary school for the most part stayed relatively flat.
Uh, in Spanish for, you saw some growth in the, in the Spanish for middle school. You
also saw some growth in Stonebridge. But you know, one thing to point out when
looking at AD M, you can see that we had a virtual elementary
school and unfortunately, the numbers dropped uh below the
250 when it dropped below 250 we lost all of our state funding. We
were looking at registration on the, on the virtual elementary school, the registration
numbers were about 100 and 25 students that were registered and this was 1/7 and
so was a K through uh seventh grade. And so unfortunately,
we had to close it down just, it just didn't make sense to operate with the
student population in that world. And so you can kind of see the impact here when you're
looking at the 80 year growth uh year over year as well. And
so you can kind of see uh Bald County system, you can see the, the
pre K program that continues to grow and I'm gonna address that uh in
Baldwin County, you can kind of see our total numbers here.
So kind of jumping back into the foundation program and jumping back into your AD
M and so, you know, based on our October 23
snapshot, you can see, we have an AD M numbers of
30,668 students. And so they basically take these
students, they figure out what grade they're in at the divisor and
that represents the teacher units that you earn. And you can see for this fiscal year,
we're 1777 teacher units, uh,
an increase of 11 from the previous year. You can see we dropped the principal unit
because that's the virtual elementary school that dropped off the role.
And, uh, there was a modest increase, uh, on assistant precip,
I wanna talk about that a little bit, uh, further down in the presentation.
So once we figure out the teacher numbers, basically their
information, their degrees, their experiences, those type of things are sent to the state in a,
in a report called the, the leads report and it's mapped on the teacher matrix and
that determines how much you're gonna receive. And so you can see based
on the student numbers there, the salaries, the $121 million the French
benefits. It's 45 other current expenses is the one
area in the foundation program where we actually have some discretion on how that should be
spent. Uh, and I want to kind of walk into how we spend it. Uh, just, you know,
smaller alert is really all for per uh classified support
personnel at the school level. And I'm gonna have that breakdown, uh, further
down in the slide show here. Um You can kind of
see going into some of the classroom instructional support here.
Um And so they did c isa little weird last year.
They did, you know, about 570 in the foundation program and they have a
supplemental bill that did the rest. Long story short, it was
$1000 for uh for a teacher in the classroom that bumped down to
900 for this school year, as everybody knows, we,
we, we're using a class wallet to uh to help manage that, which, which I think has been a
very successful program. The technology allocation,
$500 per teacher stayed the same library at 1 50 100 and
57 and 72 cents, which just shows that's a plug figure.
This is how else would they uh put 72 cents in there? Um,
stayed the same professional development at $100 for even state. The same
textbooks did go off from $75 per ATM
student to $100 per ATM student was an additional
$780,000. And then for the first time
since 07, basically a common purchase allocation,
um you know, common purchase allocation was, was done away with during the
uh during the great recession and during um the
Proration days and those type of things. And so it's coming back. And so, uh
that's a great help because honestly, it's used to help cover the things like
ac the cy your links and copy your paper and these type of
expenses that can, that can add up. And there really wasn't anything that
you could appropriately kind of allocate in this category to cover those
things, like I said before, because of our
AD M just kind of slowed down and it wasn't quite as massive, which is not a bad
thing. Again, it's uh I like it when it's manageable. I don't like it when it's kind of like
bam 800 kids get ready. Um We did see a drop
in our Stuart growth allocation. So if you kind of look at all this, you can
see based on our ATM based on the teacher units that we
earned based on the calculations, the total foundation program is
$225 million and that's before the $10 match. And I wanna kind of point
that out because as everybody is aware, the valuations have been
skyrocketing up, but that's gonna be a Nintendo match is a twoyear
lifetime. And so it's gonna take valuations from two years ago and it's gonna hit
us now. So that has
basically a pretty big impact. And so when I look at
the 10 mil valuation, um again, that's from two years
ago, you can see that we saw a 36% year over
year increase in the value of 10 mils in Bin County, representing
$11.7 million increase. This is, this is, this is
one of, this is one of the aspects of the 10 mil maps that can kind of hit you in the
stomach. And so normally on a gross standpoint, we would have an
increase of about $8.4 million. We end up having a loss
and that's with more students, that's with the 2% raise. And that's with all of these
kind of proponents in there. And that's because of the valuation and how that
that formula is calculated
again. I start. Yes, sir. I guess I'm gonna ask a question
exactly. How did the Preparatory Academy affect our
AD M numbers? Like no students
attending them? So the uh the preparatory cabinet, I want to talk about that. So they're
not actually. Um so they'll be in the AD M report for this year.
So uh we had to basically with a new school. Uh I'm gonna
kind of walk through the implications because it has some impact on how we budgeted. Local
funding is a great question. But they're currently,
they, they don't really affect it because AD M information last year enrollment.
And so when we do the AD MS uh capture for this year, they will
actually be included. And so I'm locally funding all the teachers there for this school
year. I kinda explain what that means on a big picture perspective
until we can get called back up. Excellent question.
So that was the foundation program. Um This is some of the other state funding
and uh to kind of bring us to our total. And um
one of the things I like to do is kind of go down the list and provide the jungles and
comments to this, which clearly
demonstrate the problems with our, with our funding formula and
clearly demonstrates that the state does not fully fund any
aspect of anything, regardless of what you see on the news,
regardless of another record budget, regardless of these type of things, there is
massive deficiencies and massive gaps. So,
um you know, we talked about the foundation program, the teens contract. This is one of
the ones that's still kind of revolving. I think we're gonna have over 200 teams teachers
um in Baldwin County. Uh Transportation, we saw an increase of
just a little over a billion dollars, but realize that I'm having to
supplement that by additional $3 million to meet the operational
cost to run the transportation program. Um capital
outlay. I mean 100% of that goes to maintenance projects.
Um I'm gonna get into this but you can see some of our maintenance projects on our
existing building. Is it close to $20 million? Maybe about 8.7 from the
state that helps all offset that. Um OS
R also school readiness for kindergarten program. We'll talk about that in a little bit of
detail in a, in a previous slide. Um Fleet renewal, I wanna hit
this one again, but then fleet renewal is an area that is so underfunded.
It's almost disgusting. So the fleet renewal uh funding is
based on $75,000 per bus. That's under 10
years. Um It cost us almost 100 and $50,000
per bus. I mean, they're still funding it based on, you know, valuations from
15 years ago. Um It is, it is not caught up by
any means of the actual cost of a school bus.
Um and it only covers 16 out of the 32 buses that are
gonna be behind in this fiscal year. Um Air
rock, so air rock, you know, here we are at the
end of August, I don't have our allocation. Um And that's why it,
it says the same, I mean, you know, the state department sets deadlines on when we have to
submit a budget, sets deadlines on when to do it, but they don't give us the allocations in
order to meet that. And so I have it plugged in from, based on, you know,
last year's allocation, hopefully it's going to
encapsulate the 2%. But it's a very weird model in which they do this
and there's been no communication uh which is
always fun when you have 32 A R I reading coaches
and you have no, a, no allocation from the State of Alabama when it is passed in May.
But, um, I digress. Um, so if I take that amount, it's gonna be
16 out of 32 reading coaches. So what it is, what it funds
now, the school nursing program, um, this is one of the areas
that, you know, we've talked about a lot that is so incredibly underfunded. We did
see a nice million dollar increase um in our allocation
for this school year. But as you can see, it only funds about 43 out of our
84 RN LP NS in the county
running way.
No. So the fund how they calculate that
is insane. And so they, they fund every system for one
nurse and they do a blood figure based on your ad M it's not
tied on how many schools you have. It's not tied into your nurses, it's not tied to their
degrees, it's not tied into anything. Um
It's just a basic plug figure that's deficient.
Uh Good question. Um at risk is one of these,
it's another funding source and nobody knows how to calculate it. Um It went down
by 33 do uh $33,000 to fund seven out of our 22
social workers. Um career tech operations and maintenance. Uh
fund is a small amount to, to help with some of the programs
across the county. Um The Alabama uh
ESL funding uh went up by about $68,000. It
funds 10 out of our 64 ESL positions. Countywide
special education preschool went up by 100 and 29,000, but it only
funds 18 out of our 40 pre K fed teachers,
Countywide uh gifted. So, uh we went
up by 93 but the total allocation is only 481,000
only funds four out of our 42 gifted teachers that we have in the state. So I
hope this kind of illustrates the massive gaps in
funding every year. This is the things that people don't talk about.
Uh These are the things that uh that's not brought up, the media does that
report on it, but these are massive funding gaps. We're lucky in Baldwin County
to be in a position where we can supplement that with local funds to make up for these massive
gaps. The technology coord
coordinator, they gave us $69,000 if you were to hire
someone that's not gonna cover their salary and benefit cost at all. So that's probably why the
state department got hacked. Uh That's
not funny. I apologize.
Uh um there's some miscellaneous um
uh one time grants that we've already been awarded. So we went ahead and put
in the uh in the uh the budget for this year. There's a at Risks Bed
grant one time funding for reading and speech applications
uh that are included in this as well. So you can see all things being
said in the grand scheme of a $224 million
allocation only going up $451,000 basically
flat. So now that
you've seen our current formula and the problems with it, you know, let's,
I'm gonna kind of deviate a little bit to get a little bit of an update on what is
currently happens, happening statewide. So some of you may be aware, I'm
kind of, I've, I've been involved on two different sides of following this, this
process. So there's a discussion right now in replacing the
education funding formula for Alabama for those who don't know, the foundation
program was passed 30 years ago. Um And there hasn't been any significant
amendments to it since. And so just think about 30 years ago, we were on a
cellphone this big, we had dial up internet, look at what's changed.
Well, look at what hasn't our funding formula for funding education. And
so I'm involved on the committee through uh through a Plus
education and that's really on an advocacy side. And then I'm gonna
also be involved um I'm on the board of directors for, as o that's the Alabama
Association for school business officials. I'm gonna be involved in
diving into the data um and looking at that and
seeing what looks good and conceptually does that work in a practical
application? How does that look like? And there's a consulting firm out of
Washington DC, um called Bellwether Consulting and they're kind of doing a lot of
that. And so, uh I hope to be really diving into those details to
see, you know, again, if it's done correctly, it can have
amazing impact if it's done incorrectly. It's gonna
be very difficult to put the genie back in the bottle.
So this is the slides um Bellwether of
consulting presented at a uh at a dual legislative hearing on August
15th of this year to the Senate and the uh and the House and I just stole a
couple of slides from their presentation. But you know, the four principles that
they look at when they're assessing a a school funding formula, they look at one thing and look at
adequacy. You know, is there enough funding to meet the, the
the state's educational mandate? Um Does the state
fulfill in their constitutional responsibility
to oversee an educational system that can survey the
child? Does the policy allocate greater resource for students
with educational needs? Does the policy make clear
the decision making? Uh the the locus of decision making funding for budgeting
and look at the split between local and state responsibilities
appropriately and all the policy is clear, understandable of how the
funding is calculated and distributed. Like I said before, no one knows how at
risk money is calculated So the nurse fund formula is insane
and it makes no practical sense. Um So how do you think Alabama scored on
these four areas? Wonderful. So
Alabama, Alabama struggled with things and, and just looking at
adequacy. And so
right now based on some of the nationwide studies here, Alabama
ranks, I'm gonna jump back into this. Alabama ranks 39th in the nation on
funding on a per pupil standard agreement. So you can say that this, this
study was done by the National Center for Education Statistics.
And it's based on fiscal year 22. When you can see Alabama was
14,004 04, which was $4000
below the national average ranking us, you know,
39 in the nation on what we provide there. And
if we were to look at Alabama from 07 to 08, it will be provided on per
pupil funding compared to the to the data from this,
from this study. Um And this particular study goes to 22. You can see there was
only $1100 per people that's raw and that's
raw dollars. So when you drill into that and apply the inflation
that we've seen over the last couple of years, you can see the funding is actually gone
down. They don't report on that. You know, they always talk about another
record budget, another record budget here. I even talk about another record budget,
another record budget. It's not a record budget because the spending power has gone
down for every school system in Alabama.
Yes, ma'am usually get 6%.
Hey John, hey John. Could you ask them to use their microphones when they ask
questions? I'm so sorry. Is that better?
Ok. Um you said 6% was federal is so we're,
we're already lower in state. Does everybody get 6% from federal
or 6% is around the average? You know, and that's,
that's your title one calculations, you know, statewide looking at a percentage.
Now, it can vary based on some of the demographics, but you see it from six
to about 10% is the average you see across the nation. So federal
funding anywhere you go, it's not gonna be a big part. It's really just a
little supplemental additive to help with certain things, to help with
poverty a little bit to help with special education, those type of things.
But it rarely ever provides significant level of funding to, to truly move the
needle um student needs like we showed before
there is minimum to no additional funding if you have a student with
disabilities. Uh like we said, ad M is an AD M and that's
the problem with our home. We all know that doesn't apply to the practical application
of serving schools. We know not all students are the same, you know, you have
students that have, you know, that are high needs and special
education. We know the challenges with ESL, you know, some of the aspects would
get that, you know, all of these type things and so lumping everybody
into one bucket is a fun is a funding formula that was created by
people who have never worked in the school system a day in their life because it doesn't match the practical
application of what it truly means. And so Alabama
fails miserably as far as coming up with a
formula that's tied in the student needs. Um There's no
correlation from a state funding standpoint between student poverty and
additional state aid. There is there is uh
English language learner funding isn't tied to the actual student needs. It's a
club figure, you know, we have a resource based formula that says, hey, this is
the budget and then they do the formulas and it doesn't actually look at the individual
students in school, individual students in each district, et cetera.
Like I said, the current school, uh finance is
complex and complicated and requires all kind of legislative
tinkering um to try to change these type things. It's just
not a good model and then transparency,
you know, again, how do you compute your revenue and how is it being
spent? Uh you know, how are you addressing funding and
equities? Again, this is not John Wilson's lives. This is a nationwide
concerning uh uh consulting firm uh from Washington
DC. And I'm glad they do an ex outstanding job presenting
in our legislative, you know, and, and especially the chair, people from the
House and the Senate on the ETF, needed to hear this stuff. And so
it was really good stuff. And so, uh,
I'm gonna kind of be watching it. So, um, just to kind of wrap up this part of
what we're looking at. So 45 other states in the nation
provide a student weighted formula for education.
Only five. And Alabama is one of the five that's on the resource base. Again, that's an
outdated model. And I appreciate the uh you know, I, I
appreciate the conversation. I appreciate LA and Garrett having these
meetings to talk about it because I think it's important. And so what we're
hoping the new funding formula, if it gets past, it's a big, if
uh you know, it's very complicated has to go through a lot of different steps.
Um This is kind of, this is kind of how it works. So you come up
with a base amount, the base amount represents the cost of educating the
students without some of the additional needs and it creates the
foundation block for the rest of the formula. The base amount is gonna be
critical what they fund. The base amount is gonna determine if this funding
fund is gonna work or not. And so that's where the devil's in the details and that's where I look forward to
diving into it. Once you have your base amount, then you can basically
assess based on your student needs in your district, whether it's by
poverty, whether it's by special education status or whether it's by ESL,
and you can provide a weighted average on top of that. So where you may earn
like, like one student, if you have a special student, maybe 1.5 or an
ESL 1.3. And so they're actually
factoring in the college costs a lot
more to educate and serve certain students. That's just the reality of
the world that we live into. There's also other ways that you could potentially add that I
think are interesting, uh, which waves they add, which, which ones they don't.
And so, um, one of the ones is, uh, community characteristics like, uh,
geographic varsity. And so if you have a, a rural area, if
you have kids, every, you know, it houses every certain amount of miles, we know that you've
been the, uh, the challenges that come with
transportation and even finding, you know, teachers that to work in
schools in those areas. So you can actually add that or if you have
pockets in the county, which is Baldwin County and other areas, we have pockets of
poverty. And I'm gonna share that in a minute too. You could potentially
have other ways to address that as well. So again, this concept
is wonderful. The concept I think has been successful in other
states. The only problem is other states are willing to fund it. Um
And you can see we're $4000 less on a per student basis than the, than the
national average. And so if we want to do this and we want to do it right. We're gonna
have to fund it to the appropriate measure. All right,
that's all I gotta say about that at this moment. So, um um
like I said before diving into OS R, the pre K school
program, we got 39 classrooms a a across the county. Uh
We serve about 645 pre K students.
Um I just want to say that, you know, again, I think the pre K
program is such an important program and it's such a program that
has so much, you know, demand, but it's also a very expensive
program. Um You know, again, you hear the news and they're
like, you know, we're top of the nation in pre K program, top of the nation in pre K
program. That's great, but they don't fully fund it. Um And so if we kind of
look at our allocation for this school year, we're just a little over $3
million keep it. We have no new sites and our, our same
five ft club units are staying the same in order to fully
fund the salaries and the benefits and also the also the provisions that come with this,
such as the example here with playgrounds, I'm having to supplement another
$2.5 million to make up for that. And so I'm not saying
that any of this is, is, is wrong or bad. I think it's great, but I'm
just willing to point out how specific it is. And so we do an OS R program and
like, well, you must have a playground, has a minimum 60 square feet and it must
have a fence encapsulated. There's no more than, than 4 ft or higher and it
must have this and it must have that. And I think that's all good stuff is that they don't fund it.
And so if you want to truly have a nationwide pretty cap program,
John, what are we spending? And we've gone around the county for several
years now, what are we spending per playground?
So is costing us around $300,000. We probably spent
over $6 million up to $6 million almost a million of that.
So I'll get up again
you when you do a prepaid, a prepaid playground, can't you share it
with the, the owner play time, the
requirement? So nothing wrong with that. It's just,
and I'm ok with complaints. Just help us fun to meet the
complaints. Domas.
Uh All right. So that rounds up state revenue. So we're gonna pin it into
federal. Um, again, great question everybody. Good stuff, good
stuff. So, um our big
increase total federal um is expected to go up by
about $1.4 million. You can see the, uh, the first
one. This is, and I'm gonna get on this one too because this is another one of my pet peeves.
The, uh, ID, a funding only went out about $5000.
Two months. I was like, I want to talk about
that. Uh, we saw, um, we saw some of the Perkins, uh, group
funding pretty much stay flat. And again, we saw Title one
money, um go up by about $1.1 million. And I'm gonna talk about that as well
because they changed some of the formulas with direct students, direct serve
students that are participating in Medicaid and S A and those type programs are
now automatically classified into that. And so you can see, I
show our numbers in the, in the, in the previous slide, but that's really
driving our increase. One nd we saw a modest increase on
that title two. We saw that pretty much flat. Title
three pretty much flat is for, uh for English language learners.
And the one thing about our federal title three is we can't use it to hire ESL teachers.
Makes sense, doesn't it? Uh You can do interpreters, you can do other things
they won't want you to do. Sounds like a federal program.
Um The title four, I just got my allocation like earlier this week. And so I
had plugged in last year's, uh as I was putting this this, uh,
presentation together, but it did go actually up to
$586,000 a modest increase on title
four there. Um USDA. And this is gonna be one of the
areas that we're kind of trying to wade through as we win CE P
and that's gonna be fully dependent on participation rates. That's, we're going free breakfast,
free lunch, those type of things we've seen, we've seen some pretty
nice increases in there. So that's gonna be one of the ones I'm gonna be kind amending
and watching. Um, you can see the Department of, of Defense, uh,
that covers that the cost of our RT C structures at certain schools.
And then the other federal, um, one is a,
a grant, um, through the Department of Rehabilitation
Services, uh, for job coaches, for SPU so it's a cool
grant and it kind of helps introduce them into the workforce and things that they
can, they can excel in. And then the other one was a kind of a one
time, uh, grant for CNP tied into
some supply chain assistance on. Uh,
so like I said, with special education, I want to point out that, you know, the ID A
law passed in Hades in the law, it says
that the US will fund 40% of your education
needs fairly fund 15%. And
so there's a lot of mandates and there's a lot of permissions and a lot of these type of things
and they never even serve mandates when it comes to a funding perspective.
Um And I like when we pass the laws, you can ignore
the laws you don't like. Um, it's crazy to me, but it continues to
be an issue. And so when you have, you know, you know, right
under 5000 special needs students, um and you're
only getting, you know, you have, you're only getting about
$7.6 million in federal funding to address that. You gotta
figure out I might gonna address him or 80%. And so we're having
to pull money from the foundation program. We're having to pull money from local in
order to get. So you would like to make the names, which is right around
$50 billion to service these five fellow students.
Um and these are students that are here from 3 to 21. So
that doesn't even encompass all our 504 kids. We already get
$0. Thanks a lot. So like Sarah
said 504, there is, there is no shape, there
is nothing, it is a completely unfunded mandate without any funding associated
with. It creates a lot of challenges for school systems, not only in the state but
across the nation, you can see our special education counts
for the board members that have been here for a while. This has been one of the ones and we were going
up from uh 2013 and 2019, I was
wing the, uh, the alarm because I was like, if we don't get a
handle on this, it's not sustainable financially
based on the funding that, that we have. I mean, we saw over that time period, a
30% increase, uh, in our fed for
population now. Um, and I wanna get, you know, to, to da, I
think she's doing a great job. Um, and how making sure we don't
overclassification over classify kids and coming up with other
alternatives instead of immediately just going through the spa route. And
so we uh with COVID type things, but we've seen a
pretty, a pretty decent increase. And so I
take this chart right here to show our student account and I
overlay it with our federal funding. You can see now our
special student accounts based on last year's numbers, but you can see we went up 91 student
as a 2% increase. Our federal funding increase is
0.07%. They, when they gave us an extra $5000.
Thank you. Uh That's not gonna cover anything. Um And you can
see when they're actually calculating the federal funding calculation, they don't
actually use your sped student count, they use census
data, they use uh poverty data, but they don't actually
use the most important databases. That's how many kids you have. And so
so many aspects of, of the education funding, whether it's state or
federal completely have been devoid of common
sense. Oh, and that's
crazy. So cover moving from um from spa
and looking at, you know how this is tying into the increase in
title one. So what this chart is is it's basically showing
the the basic historical average all accounting free and
produce uh lunch percentages. And so
you can see it's kind of been balancing around the 40% for a number of
years. Um You can see some of the uh aspects that are
highlighted in the slide during COVID, we had basically had the uh
the COVID release uh free CD P program.
Nobody filled out much application. We're still utilizing the uh lunch
application data to determine our federal funding. And so that just
created a crazy environment in and of itself and that's why we jumped
down to 39. So in the middle of all this, I do have to give them credit,
uh the state credit and decided, you know, again, trying to force parents to
fill out an application again is not always successful. I mean, it was, it
was creating a huge burden on a lot of our staff, a huge burden on the
cafeteria, a huge burden on a lot of people when they saw a kid
that qualified, but their parents necessarily didn't go off. And
so instead of having to do that, they changed it. So the student is what
they call direct certified, meaning this is a student that participates in
Medicaid. This is a student that participates in the S staff program, supplemental
nutrition assistance program or the T A program, the temporary assistance
for needy families, they didn't have to fill out the paperwork. And
so they were automatically included in our percentage. And so for the first time
in probably forever, we actually had a clear indication of
what our true poverty numbers were. Fall County. And you can see we
jumped from 39 almost 20% to
55 in this past school year. We are just right under
60. And what that looks like on a personal basis here, you can
see from, from the highest poverty to the lowest
is that we currently have 2651 schools. Uh, for
this school year, you can see swift 98% of the students that
are falling the federal poverty level. Um, out of the 26 schools,
16 of our schools have higher than 70% of their student
population falls under the federal poverty level.
Um You can see a lot of these schools are in rural
areas and you can kind of see these poverty pockets
and like I said, looking at the funding formula and looking at how that can help if
you had a metro executive address that those those
pockets of areas uh that are not only rolled that are also very high
poverty to be a tremendous value to Bal County.
Um I, I, uh uh you know, I think uh Terry Goel
was going out for a, for a friend and she had, I think a f from, from
Fair Oak or something against kids. Fair Oak, but he just attacked her and he was like,
these numbers can't be real and the school system is manipulating these
numbers. And so she forwarded to me. I, I trust them. I'm like, well, you know,
again, it must be nice to live in the bubble. When you go outside the bubble, you can
truly see these are the numbers. We truly have
poverty and gains throughout all county. Once you kind of
go outside of the eastern shore, some of these areas and the rural areas where it is clear, we
see you said that the uh the teachers that work in these schools, they can attest
every day to the stories of the needs and the property they see every day for the
students. Um that East Elementary school.
Congratulations. You are 45% free, reduced. And so they're now title one
school of this year again, uh they get some more
money, but at the same time, there's more challenges that come along with that. Um
That's probably make you to the apartment complexes that continue to, to
be constructed at a massive rate across all county right
now without really any thought about the implications of create,
what is the definition of a low income student that is
safe. So I a large income student and uh
let me, I got this right here. So basically a low income student,
we have two different classifications. And so you have someone that would
apply for, for free male classification. And that was
basically a 1.3 multiplier below the federal poverty
multiplier below the federal uh poverty levels
which changes and it's based on your, you know, if you're a family of four,
which is a family of two. And so it's kind of add the tax application. So
the bigger size of your family and take your total income and there's a multiplier
that will determine at the time that you're either going to be
reduced or free. And one of the multipliers is, is
1.3 and 11.8. And guys, if I
misspeak on any of that, feel free to jump in and correct me. Uh
Yeah, target.
So you've had a certain that, but all of it basically
based on the family size. They said this is the classification of the
federal poverty levels. And so depending on how far,
you know, it's a little bit below if you qualify for reduced, substantially
below if you qualify for free. Um This is why
we're able to go ce B. Uh This is why we qualify for
the federal assistance because we're always
poverty in all. It's crazy to think about how little Spansion work. Sometimes I'm in
that level too. I don't realize that, but it's true and it's well worth saying.
So,
um uh
40%. Great question. Yes. Great question. Right. So once
you, once you surpass 40% of your students fall under the
free and produce percentages, then you qualify for
title one. Now, we don't have title one for high school. So there's a
reason there itself when they qualify for 75%
and the reason there is that we don't get a lot of Title one funds. And so you can imagine
if you have a high school that has, you know, 1500
students. And all of a sudden in the federal title one funding is based
on the pursuit of the amount. You just eliminate almost all the funding
for your Swifts and for your Deltas and for your Pine Road.
And so that was a county wide two years ago to do that.
Now, once you get 75% your mandate is
to be, they talk about program and fairly high school is and
we have other schools that are, that are kind of knocking on the door,
but all the high schools because of how big they are in the student
population. And it's basically we have the same pie, pizza
pie and someone just took a huge slide. Now, you got to divide the rest,
um, between all the other elementary schools. And so the county wide decision at the time,
this was before I got here was that we like to the work to the
elementary schools. We thought that's where we can make the basic fact.
Um So you may say how does this work that we're not actually doing free these
applications and that kind of stuff? And so how we're gonna continue to track this
amount on a personal basis is that we can take our drer
time to multiplier of the 1.6. Yeah.
So we're gonna take the drer of numbers. So we'll be able to
calculate this on every school and I'll be able to do nothing. And so
when we're going to see the B we need to freeze this for a
four year period or we can recalculate it based on the direct
certification students, not the 1.6 multiplier and
apply, which is going to impact our level. And that's gonna be something we're
gonna look at. I kind of like that there some stability we're not align on uh
you know, chasing our parents and sending out emails and notifications and customer
mind. So please go out and pay for it. We have some, we also have
self on everyone who stay with the snapshot and
we kind of reassess it on a county owned so
basis. So kind of diving into the
CFP program. So just so, you know, our last school year we serve up
meals when I say meals. I mean, you have breakfast, you have lunch, you have a car, you got
snacks. Um, by far the largest restaurant
service provider in the account in the entire county. By far, we have
266 E MP employees county wide. Um, you can
see that, that, you know, again, a couple of these things are kind of estimates as we're trying
to fill out is how CE P is going to look us C A. Uh,
we estimate again, it's gonna be based on the participation of the school program.
But we estimate hopefully, you know, uh close to $14 million
there estimated sales, these are gonna be additional sales that should be all about
for your second meals or the parent meals when they go in with their child.
I'm not sure if that's accurate or not, but we kind of need a placeholder. Um And again,
we're gonna be monitoring it the end of the school year. We apply additional local funds
to the CE P program of over $6 million that covers the benefit calls for the CE
P employees as well as other needs. Um And
then like I said before, there's some state convey some of the things that are calculated into
this. Um And so because uh you know, the
CCPP was a little bit of a question mark, you know, if we use the
participation rate from this previous school year when it was paid
and took our expenses at that point in time, we noticed that CD P would
only find 80% of what that cost is. 80% of the salaries and
benefits. 80% of the uh equipment cost those type of
things. And so I have some reserve ready if I, you know, and again,
because I, I thought CD V was, was important, I thought it was critical and I just thought
it was just a good thing to do you. Why? And so I have some reserve. We
also have a about six month reserve in the
CNB account CCNB account. So kudos to
Aaron and financial management at the CNP program, we have a strong
reserve. I have additional reserve. And so we're excited that we can
offer um CE P program, offer free breakfast to launch to every
job in all county regardless of their of their status.
Um So back up and in some budget, fun facts
here. So, um last year
we uh we bought over 4.4 million
bottles of eight ounce, 84.4 million, eight ounce
bottles of milk, which is the equivalent of filling up eight swimming
pools. Now, I'm not really a fan of milk. So I, I got zero swimming
pool for milk on this one. That's a lot of
milk there. Like I said before, last year, we were serving about
17,000 meals. This time we're over 20,000. And so
you're starting to see the impact of CD CDC DD
program uh beneficial. We had some schools that have
never served breakfast before. Um, and they're serving it for the first time
this year and they have probably the highest participation rate in the entire camp.
Um, and so, uh, again, it's, it's, it's
right now it's very successful. I'll be amending the rest numbers. Uh,
based on what we're seeing over the first couple of weeks of the school year,
last school year we purchased over 300,000 pounds of
apples. So what does that mean? That means that we stack 12
school buses on top of each other. That would be the weight of apples that we purchased last
school year. I say all this to say we are such a massive
organization, you know, and sometimes, you know, you have to take a step back.
Everybody sometimes is in there in their boat,
their theater pattern, their apartment, their area. And what I see
is I see everything as a big picture. And I realize, man, we are a
massively huge operation
r every single day in B
put it into local revenue here. So the first thing we do, the local funds is
you got to monitor how the county wide funds are split. And so
that's by A BM. And so looking at the AD M numbers, you can see there are over
34,000 students in, in Baldwin County. Um
You can see 89% of those kids go to Baldwin County school system. Bill
SHS 2500 roughly 7% of Orange Street
has a has around 1200 is about 3.5 of the
total. And so based on the number of students counted
up depends on how Countywide revenue is split. And
so we're looking at how long we collect 12 mills, none of those mills are countable
to buy it by that ratio of how many
kids we start counting live. And so you can kind of see some of the estimates for
this next school year of $74 million. 89% of that come from the Ball County in
66. Uh Gulf Schwartz getting seven uh
percent of that about 5 million and the Orange Beach getting about
3.5% of that at 2.6. Now the three M is a district tax. So it's
gonna grab evaluations within the district lines. So that one is not
actually based on your, your shooting count data. You can kind of
see the calculations there based on the uh the latest abstracts.
Um The same thing for the 2% sales tax that we collect. It's
divided by the percentage of students in the county. And so on the
2% sales tax, we get 89% of, you know, of the
1% of the 99% of the other 1%. Same with Hi Shores
at, at 7.3 80 in Orange Beach at, at 3.5 there.
So kind of tying up a lot of our general fund. I just kind of focused on the general
funds as the majority of our local funds are currently at. We're looking at about 8%
increase in that long. Uh, in the past, I've got a track
numbers that show a 17 to 18% increase and I'm like my
God, I hope this isn't a mistake and you don't have to
correct it and we buy another j so I'm
glad to see it stabilize a little bit. I think we're all glad from, you know,
getting the tax bill and I'm glad because I look at the 17 to
18% increase, I think in two years from now, our state
funding is gonna take a massive hit. Um There is also
past that basically set valuations to capture 5% for the next
five years. Now. It doesn't include, you know, new development and you
still another place. So that's gonna have some implications on the app
local taxes. This is for free. So I was pretty conservative
on the sale tax. You heard me every month watching it.
Um We're kind of flat on sales tax. I just don't know where it's gonna go. So
I decided to, you know, be as conservative as possible, has
to budget on 2% economy and sales tax. Again, I would much rather be
conservative on the budget economy to come to you guys say, hey guys I budgeted to
drop 10% at 12 5%. We have too much money we can spend
and 5% it went down 2% now.
And so I always wanted to be conservative there. Uh
Half of that is the alcohol sales tax, there's gas interest revenue
there make up with the drop in sales tax is
what we're able to get in interest revenue. And so, um
this is very conservative too, but we're bringing in almost a
million dollars a month on the depository side, uh
which is huge based, the interest environment is, is tough. You have
credit cards and other things. It's great if you have money to invest in
a safe investment, that's a three for school systems. And so
not only do we know now we're getting close to 4% on the depository
side. Probably remember in, I think in
April, we basically took $30 million and we invested it in a
kind of the latter tier um investment structure with C
DS. And so we did a six month CD, a twelvemonth CD, an 18 month
CD and bank that's gonna bring another million and a half.
And so more than I
know what rates are gonna do. I know there's been a lot of talks about the defense pay Gras in September
that going into an election year. How is that going to impact? And so again,
I'm conservative on the revenue side again because it's just some unknowns
there. But again, while we're losing the sales tax, we're making up uh
proper treasury management and making sure we're getting the best bang for our buck
uh that there. Oh,
and the after school program and those type of things, uh reimbursements back
to schools for field trips. And so you can kind of see total local revenue in the general
fund of about $9 million not actually available to
be used because T Mills of that has to be used to, to, to
backfill the foundation uh
deficit there. So, like I said, we get an 8% increase in property taxes,
probate up at 4% increase in. They have as
clear an abstract as I do on, on, on actual property
taxes. Um I do think that's conservative but I think all in all are
looking at a 7 $21 million increase in al the
about the 10, the good news is that the, the $10 is
not a of three on tax districts and have seen
tremendous growth in the three more tax districts. And so
for this school year just a quick and I'm gonna show you kind of
the estimates that we, the estimates that we're gonna have for each of the uh the three
districts. Um As well as the road, we're seeing
fair at $3.7 million. We're seeing Daphne about
2.5 million. We're seeing Central Marland at 1.6 million and
we're seeing Spanish Florida at 1.3 million. Um You're
seeing ability a fair. Uh You can see it's a 13% year
year increase to 70% increase. Uh from
when first levy tremendous growth there, they exceeded all of our
expectations. Um Definitely going into their second
year. You can see a 30% increase. Now, this is also including pro it's hard
to estimate that but still massive year over year increase,
valuations are increasing. This growth happening.
Uh The central law tax this year at
32% year over year growth in the estimates that came in
from the from the from the revenue department. So a tremendous gain in the central
ball and then if you go to Spanish Florida,
13% year over year growth and a 54% increase
since it was first left. So again, tremendous growth. Again, the
timing of some of the three bills was amazing. Um
really in retrospect and really able to capture a lot of this growth, is it
gonna maintain and grow in this percentage? Probably not.
Um Is it gonna normalize and probably grow about 98% or so?
Probably um but tremendous work uh
there. So that's right.
And, and so everybody good.
I got to find a way to include the book in some way in my presentation.
Does the 10 mil match affect Gulf Shores and Orange Beach just like it
does. OK.
That with only 1200 students. You don't even get enough foundation
program money to, to be that. And Gulf shorters is
almost, they get almost. I think I have looked at the
latest, I think recently, about 60% cut in their shape
funding based on that. So again, when they left, we did benefit
on our t match going down. But the county as a whole in the
value of, and we're all feeling good right now,
not as bad as the other, but they should have known that when they
got into that situation, but I won't say anything else
diving into expenditures.
So on the expenditure side, so we, we have eight different
expense functions and I got five main categories of expenses. I'm kind
of dive through all that through those categories to kind of
give a a good uh picture without going into too much detail and
being able to finish at a decent time here. But um he probably
funds all expenditures for everything. You can kind of see the break
out of what we can spend this this school year. You can see if
I, if I uh take the capital outlay and combine it with the
debt. It's over 41% of all of our expenditures.
What this trunk shows is that it shows a district that's working
as hard as possible to keep up with the growth demand on the
personnel side and the building side uh
to make sure we can staff our schools, our buses and our custodial
positions. We have to make sure we have the facilities to account for the growth. And
so, you know, this is as cool as I do
their power and all, you know, the governmental
agency in Baldwin County, that's the most pro act
and a dressing for
if I take out the uh debt and capital projects, you can kind of
see we all what you normally see when you're looking at a school system budget
and 80% of that is directly person. Um
And so I check it is
$351 million in salaries and benefits. I mean, it's
a huge chunk again just to understand the size.
Yeah, how big we are? $351
million in salaries and benefits. Uh
over 3.5 hours, you know, around
uh 412 total employees. And I have this broken
down from three main funding sources. So you can see
over uh over 3100 is directly tied into state funding.
And that's your foundation program. There's your nerves, there's what we can fund in
transportation, os R state,
DS L um State O me, like I said
before, I try to fit as many classified support. So
uh people as possible in there and I'll show you that breakdown, the next slide.
Um You can see that um program that function out three
positions and our program is 44 C MP
266. Although that's going to be the ROTC,
um I'm gonna jump into this one, Mr Johnson and really kind of
go into more details, but we did see him in pretty so politically funded
positions and we're gonna walk through that. And so we were um
to over 800 locally funded positions and other locally funded down
below, that's going to be your fair home three positions because they're
the only three middle that has a, on a 30 year basis that's built up a preserve to actually
start hiring personnel. And it's gonna be your, your kind of
district county wide after school war office is they
funded based on the tuition that's, that's collected.
So, um so before I get into the local units, just you can
kind of see what we're doing with the uh with uh with O CE. So
I try to grab as many positions as I possibly can. And so with O
ce budget, you can see we have 270 teacher aides mostly for
EA I uh we have uh you know, again, the two
biggest classifications here are gonna be A I DS and it's gonna be custodians.
And in between those two, I try to put in the office workers, whether it's the clerks,
the registrars, the bookkeepers, some of the technical positions, if
possible to try to fill as much as possible. So the seven
here cover about $36.7 million in
salary that cost. Now, like I
said before, if you look at the slide here, you'll get the one from last year, you can see an
increase, but you can clearly see the increases in on that front line.
And so if you look at our locally funded teacher units and we have
7070 positions for this school
here. Again, a lot of this is transitioning into a
new school is currently open right now. Again, the
funding is a year behind. So we'll have the funding for next year. That fund will
only made for the 10th and 11th grade as the seniors are going back and forth, it will be the
third year. We're fully funded from the 10th and 12th
grade perspective. Uh And so we're more
importantly, like I said, you know, we saw a 90 to 100
student drop it over. And so the worst thing that I could do is
go to, to the high school and say, hey, you lost 100 kids. I need you to no
new six teachers. I wasn't gonna do that. I wasn't
gonna pull the rug out from the high schools because of this. Again, we
wanted their movement to go down that and that's what we
want to do. And so I left, I increased the locally
funded teachers at the high school because I was not gonna pull the money off. On them.
So with the, uh, with BB, a kind of
drove our 80 student increase in locally funded teachers.
Um, the other areas on this, that increase that follow us to over
800 was that again? You saw the FED numbers and you saw the
increases. We're seeing a big increase in the number of hes we're having to hire and
service these kids and we went very aggressive on
salaries for bus driver. And as you know, state funding is based
on what it could be in 1995. And so we, we had to basically
move a lot of bus shoppers into locally funding in order to fully cover the salaries
because we had to go across it, we had to pay them so we could have enough bus drive
to drop our bus. And so you, you know, if you look at this, you will see the
area that grew were teachers, you can see that it was a and it was bus
drivers. Um And this chart here shows
the cost implications and you can see that the most, the blue
line is the so time it's the benefits.
And you can, you know, this also demonstrates one of the darkest periods in Allen
County's history between 09 and 0 10 when
probably over 1000 people were laid off during the, during the Riff
era. Um the BP oil spill and just the perfect
situation of chaos. But you can also see, you know how we were
slowly building up. You can see like I, like I've done
before. I'm not gonna out from schools. I want to do the best I can to,
to, to, to find the right balance, making sure we need to
afford it, sustain it and try to minimize
interruptions as much as possible in school. But we did that in,
uh, in, in 20 the 2020 2021
school year ago, we had 10,000 students enrolled in virtual school and
we hired almost 100 additional teachers and not make
any adjustments at the high schools. When we are presenting, I
said, guys, this is kind of a one adjustment. Why do we have a one
balance is to address situations like this? We drop
back and, and so I think countries do increase with the COVID.
And so you can see our total locally funded salaries is, is over
$60 million. And if you look at
the um the 1% sales tax revenue and look at the personnel
costs here and kind of see where it's kind of inched above it.
I do think as EPA starts growing, we can state funded for that and
as growth starts to happen at that as if the growth reoccurs
they start absorbing some locally funded payments that we advanced in. They're
going to see our personnel costs drop back below $60
million but we're just kind of in that
transition period. But again, we're, we're starting next year with over
$9 million on balance, but a great position financially. And that's what I want
to do if I can justify saying it and not
cause as minimal disruption as possible on the school level is what I'm going to do.
Um And so does that answer your question, Mr Johnson, anything else that I can
clarify there? Um So talking about this
and, and talking about this is the new slide here. So,
you know, if our teachers were only based on what we heard by the state,
what a massive gap we would have. Can you imagine what
it look like? If we don't want to operate
application budget, it would be detrimental in the classroom.
Um You know, the 337 locally funded teachers cost over
$30 million. But I think we can all agree. That's why our local fund should be
going, should be going to teacher salaries, it should be going in the classroom, it
should be going to, you know, you see the the county
systems across the state that only can operate with the state provides the main things
from. We're very fortunate in Baldwin County
uh to be able to do that. I know that I've been in a presentation where I've had
principals and others. They like, you don't get any support, you're on the bare minimum that
you can see me like uh uh start
Yeah, start time. I think it is not true.
Um, to all the schools and sometimes they don't realize just how much it
is until I find that is an,
you have no one. It is. And what we do with All County.
Look at this is not in the, the
number of teachers have got about the number of students we're looking at, at the high
school level right under uh 17, we're looking at the middle school
around 16, we're looking at the elementary school around 14. One of the
biggest challenges at the state is that the divisor on 4th,
5th and 6th grade are over 20. That's insane. And that's the
highest of I see that's higher than middle schools, that's higher than
the uh in the high school. We've had a,
you have just the, the, the convenient, right? It's the same.
Um And so again, a lot of that is having to deploy those
gaps in the deficiencies that we have from statewide.
Like I said before, there was a minor adjustment to um uh
administrative risers and that last year you had to
have over 500 students before you heard half of the unit,
they made a little change. And that said if you have over 300
students that you earn half of an A P unit, now we are already locally quality
that. But still again, you have to have over
750 students before the state provides a full time. A,
um, if you're in a school with 90% poverty and you're a principal by. So the
state doesn't need fund and a, an assistant. I mean, that's why so many
assistants are struggling. Um, they didn't make any real changes on the
secondary side. Again. It was nice to see this big
knowledge. It's nice to see a little bit. I wish they would have gone farther
and providing a more reasonable update here. But hopefully that's something that will
come. So looking at a PS, you can see we get state funding for
43. We have a total of 78. We locally fund
36 that would cost us about $4.3 million. Uh
Looking at counselors again, this is not, this isn't a device
that hasn't done just in 20 years to my knowledge. Um You
can see you have to have over 500 students at an elementary school before the state
give you a full time counselor. Uh You have to have,
it was 750 kids out of isolated and only are two
that's not sufficient. Um And so we are 59
councilors, we fund 85. We work, we fund 26 to fill that
gap at a local cost of $2.2 million. The
benefit cost, we saw an increase, we saw about a 1% increase in what the
board has to pay for. Tier one employees. The tier one employees and the employee that
was hired before January of 2013, we saw a similar type
1% increase for tier two employees. So last year it was, it was
12.56. That's what the board pays as a percentage of the
salary to Rs A for retirement. It went up to
13.5. Um In tier two, last year, it was
11.5 it went up to 12.6. Uh So if I
take the target benefit cost, it's,
it's uh it's almost $89 million for fy 25.
Let me give you an example of what this looks like a brand new
teacher with a pastor's degree is going to have a starting salary of
over $55,000. The employer benefit costs should be up
and your FICA this is what the board pays. It's gonna be an additional
$21,000 bringing total cost right up
$77,000 for a brand new teacher with the masters.
Now manufacturing the sub costs and materials and everything else.
It's almost $80,000 for a brand new teacher. So you can
imagine you being a teacher of 1015, 20 years,
the cost of the cost does go up. Um
So just uh but they just see the salaries, they don't
realize the other side of what we are obligated to pay on the four
side di into that service.
So um we've got uh the school year
start the first principal payment on the face
in another slide, but we got $26 million in principal
payment. We've got over $8.8 million in interest payment for a total
principal and interest payment of just right under
$35 million. Looking at an
amortization schedule and looking at where we're going. Um, you can kind of
see some of the areas next year. Our earlier
will finally be paid off
bonds. And so when I came in, we had a tremendous, um, state bonds
and stock next, next year, we will pay that. It's, it's
popular contributing money into a
savings fund to handle the ball in the middle of the term.
It's it. So it's not actually gonna cost us that, but then we're done with state
bonds. I mean, these were, we took out our predecessor, took out state
bonds to computers that only lasted
and we're just gonna finally pan that all next year. That's
not evangelicals and ever do. I'm so
glad that we can put that behind this, um, next year when
it's fully paid off, you can kind of see going in the 2930
year. We're gonna have our 2005,
bonds pay off as well as the pay five A O program
pays off. That's gonna leave us remaining here on our
2007. And then we go to 41 with the
$50 million bond that we get for all the pro again, it
drops down. But we know in reality, unless for some reason we just stopped growing, we're
probably gonna continue with phase six tomato program, et cetera, et
cetera. But you can kind of see horizon of what our debt
obligations are. Uh, here. So again, you wanna
see, we wanna see the long term debt kind of decline.
Um And, uh, and so when I started
deal with the opposite with the um and um and so
again, I, I'll probably be able to kind of show much
more manual, long term stay here.
Oh, and I'm looking at all your fund sources, looking at
everything bringing in it based on the different uh uh
classifications financial statement. So I just
wanna say, don't be alarmed by the first line. If you look at the first line, you know, it
looks like we're cutting instructional expenses. That is not true at
all. We added over almost $30 million in one time
federal money that went into that one for this past year. That's
dull. And so again, when you factor that in, you realize we're actually
increasing it and I wanna show that, but again, just like I said
before, this kind of shows all like I show
was function and you can see
where we no
on it in the classroom and the classrooms and this is the
system that continues to try to do everything we can to keep over.
Now, the general thought which is not going to
include is the operating your
state, your local. You can see that we have to show you here. We hear an
increase what we gonna spin on instructional service and instructional support services. A
lot of that has a new, I was passion, I was saying,
um and you can see modest increases in the other
areas and I'm gonna kind of walk through that as well. If I'm just looking at the general
fund, which doesn't include to what is
almost 80% of what we're gonna spend this fiscal year.
So I wanna show all those categories. I wanna drill down by different uh all
the different function categories. I wanna drill down by the
expense category that the state makes us use. And so we got five
categories here. So you got personnel services. Obviously, this is gonna be
your salary and benefits. You got purchase services. I'm not a big fan of
purchase services and the way the state makes is classified as a. So a
so, so the definition of a purchase services is, is any cost for
services which by nature can be performed by a person or firm with specialized
skills, knowledge services performed by persons other than school
employees, et cetera. It's very vague. Once
purchase services, it can be utilities, it can be professional development,
you know, um it could be legal fees. Uh It could be a number
of things. It could be, uh, paying the, uh, you know, it could be
postage. It's just so bad that it's, it's not my
favorite, but again, it's a little game to work, but materials and supplies,
anything that can be consumed or worn out. Um, you know,
textbooks, periodicals, custodial supplies, uh,
food supplies, et cetera. Capital outlets. Pretty
self-explanatory. Getting, getting, you know, capitalized buildings or
equipment and debt service. So I'm gonna quickly go
and then show you a percentage of what we're spending the needs based on that
definitions. So what the structure structure, you have a bunch of
million dollars. 95% of that is personnel cost.
4% of that is materials and supplies, whether that's instructional
textbooks or that's instructional software. About 1% is purchase
services, which is a lot of that is associated with PD
1000 operations. As you can see about, you know,
31% of the 62.9 billion nr
utilities and insurance. Our interest has been going up too, went up up.
Oh, it went, it went up pretty substantially. Uh, this year. Um, you can see the
person 2%. Uh, SRO is
kind of in this category is 6%. Uh, the
janitorial maintenance supplies is 15%. So if you have,
I don't understand why the principal may bring paper towels to the school.
Tell you should because we have millions of dollars budgeted for
janitorial supplies. That's like what that mean when they're like in, make sure you
bring tissues. Oh, no, it's accounted for, you know,
don't, don't need that focus on all those things. Um
Thanks is 16% there. Uh
He's not here but I have made fun of him because he knew all that not
point. Um I mean, it's like Christmas
morning, Jeff. I know Jeff is so sad. He couldn't be here for this two hour budget
presentation. But our school resource officers, our budget is
$3.8 million. It covers 63 Sr Os uh cost
of $60,000 for all. We cover $80,000 a and
$5000 for additional
shoving in theirs. Typically road into transportation is
$28.6 million. 5% of that personnel,
10% of that. Ok. 20% of that is the
actual school buses and 5% of the purchase services associated
with one of the transportation. So like I said,
13 uh process 27
on regular passenger buses, follow those with special needs, estimated
100 and $50,000 per bus for a regular 72
brooms and all 100 and $65,000 per bus for a
wheelchair accessible special needs bus, all of these buses
will be equipped with an air conditioning system as well as kind of a three year warranty in
the same manner I could typically do also on the horizon. I
don't know if this is gonna hit. But you know, they're saying that there could be some additional
EPA guidelines that can increase the cost of the bus by $20,000 per
bus. Um This is where the state has got to set up on this and they have
to other counties across the state are just not gonna be able to provide transportation if they're
continuing to be such a huge lack of funding. And so
with Cleveland Mill, uh we're getting $2.3 million and I'm go
locally another 2.4 to get us those 32 buses.
But uh you know, the average it was
3.8 million miles in Ball County. What
does that mean? That means you could circle the earth 100 and 54 top of the
equator or you could travel to eight times
and it cost you million dollars of fuel cost. So
anyway, I am back
massive. I mean, we are traveling the roads. I mean, it is it
over over 400 buses traveling almost
22,000 miles a day,
picking up and dropping off kids, massive organization that we
are service vehicles again. I wanna say
I appreciate the board support on this, on service vehicles
of our fleet has saved us millions and
millions of dollars in travel reimbursements. We
are the largest hit Lowville County in Alabama and we're paying everybody.
Yeah, 68 cents a bottle. About 10
teachers and employees and travel between schools, it
cost millions and millions and millions of dollars we're able to
buy, um, we're able to buy what we call a
white thing is our cars, our service shops and we're able to,
right, you save millions of dollars.
They continue to make sure our staff can travel around the county.
So, because we've made kind of such investments over the last couple of years, it's very
minimal this year. So we're only doing about 300,000 and that
300,000 is really going to just be uh
replacing the uh the chassis for some of our if 350.
So it's about $60,000 each to buy of
350 probably close to 9 million. So kos to the Transportation
Department, um I'm surprised they're not here. You said they're there, they're
here for the budgeteer Sam. And this guy doing a
tremendous job figuring out ways to continue to operate in a
very efficient manner such as let's keep the
bodies and replace the chassis. We can have a whole new life on these
buildings on these, on these trucks as you may have known
the brus. Wow. I mean, these two, this was a
2.5 year process. But man, did, they turn out,
um There's been a tremendous outpouring of support across
the county and across the state. We've had school districts reach out
from eight different states. And how did you do it? Who did you buy it from, was
there a grant? How did you afford it? And it's funny, I'm like, you know, no,
there was not a grant, there's no magical solution there. It's called
strategic budgeting, locate the need, providing support
to address that pain. And so um this has
been a big super exotic initiative, I think just in
year one, we see an increase of the nine kids that want to be in demand program. They see the
support we're provided and they're like, I want to join this to help because of
it could take us another two years.
Yeah, we'll get another one that will also have a couple of
spares if we run into an issue or something breaks down.
CFP. Um If you look at the budget again, the budget is
substantially higher than our estimated revenue. So I'm gonna monitor
um this year but we have a big fun balance and the
CP also I have reserved right now, but you can see 44
45% of that is food cost uh and the
material supplies and things in the kitchen makes up about 11%.
And um and we have, you know, a small 1% which a lot of that
is maintenance contract.
Cross, I feel
a few people char this is good.
Do this again. Everybody is like when China
start talking holy,
some ch ch I'm there like that
general admin expense and again, I'm gonna keep rolling fast.
Again, transparent again. And we had seen a more transparent
financial presentation. So
come, come said listen, um general admin uh
service as you can see is $17.5 million.57 percent of
personnel. This is where this a little bit, this
26% of it is our server infrastructure costs.
The state requires us to put in the same account.
We have a one on one and that's all we're doing in instruction. It should be instructional, not
admin. So, but I mean, it is what it is the state, you know,
formula still like it was in 1995. Um And
so fact, so, so when you're looking at the admin percentage, I want to
show some um later just realize that 26% of that is
actual servers infrastructure not into the
system that you can see. Uh legal fees have dropped
dramatically. Thanks to this young um we, we have some
other kind of modest um purchase services. A lot of that is the
lease for, for copiers across the district. Uh The
business hr systems are here and then just kind of explain these
tos and supplies other expenditures. Um
This is, this is the activities and programs outside of the normal school day. So
this is the pre K program, this is the after school care
program, the budget of from about $9.4
million here. And this doesn't include some of the federal funds that go
supplemented. So again, I wanna get a huge kudos that
she's here to this program here, who is over the pre K program. And I also wanna give
huge kudos to, uh, this Jack and over the after school program,
Allen County has the largest after school program, the largest pre K program in the
entire state of Alabama. Um, they're not only the largest, but they're the
most aggressive in the state. Go travel
to other areas. So again, they continue to do amazing things every
year. And so to uh to them a lot, you know, I
always want to get a shout out to the people that are just, you know, going in on the
scenes looking at PPD expenditures here
and this is the same formula that the state department does. Uh
that's uploaded to the uh basically to the federal,
like why you describe it from the state website because they haven't posted it since
2022. But I know the form on how they
created it. So there are a couple of years I went on posting, it was about two
days by posting my up, they remind me. Um But again, that's a,
that's a whole another discussion. So you can kind of see looking at the
PPD expenditures for the, for the 24 budget versus
the uh the 25 budget. You can see an increase of 30
compared to 14,000 a year. You can see how that compared. You can
see, we saw a modest increase in instructional
services to his sport services. Um, a
pretty, uh, big junk in operations and maintenance guys. We're
doing a lot of things. We're replacing the floors, we put out to legalized, we're doing
bathroom renovations, we're doing as much as we can to our existing schools. I'm gonna talk
about that as well. So you can see every single increase of
one. And so everyone's like set your
office, set your office again, the
services went down. And so as a percentage of the
whole, we are a very efficient organization,
I mean, look at other areas, look at their percentage of, of GN A
compared to revenue and then come back and you will see we are one of the most
efficient organizations in the state.
I was on that maybe not article about uh
I think that was the point I was making one of the pie charts that I did, but you can see if
you look at the total expenditures and our
general administrative is 2.4%
2.4%. And that's what I say. We are extremely efficient. You can
compare that to other foot. The cost of this if the average
is about four, five. And so when, when
people stream about central office and those type of things, they're not looking at the big picture, they're not
looking at the big perspective, they're not looking at homes what is not in the B
here is always our pay as you go program, our pay as you go program
is not. So our money just appears it is a
very strategic program that's very
intensive on the cash flow side. Um And so
it takes a huge investment to pay off these schools in a four year
period to the student, almost $1200 per student.
But what it does is that instead of taking a 20 or 30 year
bond and having to pay hundreds of millions
of dollars in interest, we're basically strategically budgeting
on the front end, putting the investment, getting it paid off on a four year period
and literally saving hundreds of millions of dollars in interest expense as opposed to
often bond. That is something that's very intensive on,
on cash flow side, it saves us 20
million to transition over a long term period. And it allows us to
be more responsive than growth advances after a four year period,
it's paid off. That means we can roll the finances back again. We can
target that in the areas that we need to target based on the latest data.
Speaking of that, we're gonna jump into some of our projects and then I'm gonna be done.
So again, appreciate, appreciate Marlena, appreciate
uh keep everything straight, appreciate it. Frank all
the products we have going, keep
it straight. Make sure all the contractors are getting paid on a timely manner.
Uh, again, it's huge. So we're gonna get a couple of ways to look at ground
building. Hr we're gonna talk about athletics and we're gonna end some of our
major construction projects here and I was, I thought it was
important to talk about. So, um, we
complex that we put in last year's special. We didn't get into for painting
playgrounds, bleachers. We have some new painting projects, new
playgrounds and uh additional bleacher repair,
whether that's inside the gymnasium or that's outside. Um,
you know, at your, your, your soccer field, your baseball field, your football field. And so
when it says full budget, this means I give right a
budget and need to use that based on his assessments of the needs throughout the county,
continuing on ground improve itself. We're gonna make some, I'm gonna continue to,
to have some identified can be uh prepared as well as continue to
have the money available when needed. Same thing with F fencing. Same
thing with sidewalks, storage building is one of the areas. A lot of people don't think
about, but it's something that we continue to invest in uh within our
schools. Right? A lot of that is gonna be if all of a sudden, uh
we have drainage issues at a school, there's $325,000 we can
do to address that light. It says Baldwin County High School football field, but it's
actually the track at Baldwin County High school, look at that,
putting, uh, putting some lights around the track high school
there. So that's something that I told them over about a year ago that we do in
the budget. Um,
um, some improvements and you can look at, um, we have the
briefing uh in a generator for the high school.
Uh, again, you don't, rising issues
know when somebody gonna call you with a water leak in their classroom. You
want to make sure you have a lot of money to address it quickly when it does happen. And so there's a
full budget of $800,000 a year
and also addressing the fire alarm and doing an upgrade to a da in high school.
Um Like I said before, if you go into any of our schools, you can see
we've done a tremendous investment and put the floor on all of our camp. And so we have
the, the LP G kind of uh new for
us. I build amazing in all of our school. We're about to wrap up.
Thanks to Frankie. This guys have done a tremendous job. Um So
not only building new schools, we're continuing to do maintenance and for his political
schools. Uh JJ, we try to
maintain the human shine and looking bird. That's the budget here.
Uh There's some sea replacement budgets there,
our restaurant renovation, um miscellaneous building
improvements that we need to replace the window and door, those type of things. Um we're gonna be
doing some renovations in North and South. Bin. South Bin is going to be
the county wide development for the church and patient department. Uh, it's a
great, uh, the county, uh,
and so that is where they're gonna be doing a lot of their, their, um,
their training. We're also gonna take the auto mechanic when South there
and that's where we're gonna service our life vehicles. So it frees up,
um, for us to be sort of our bays and we'll have a designated shop off
fleet. So again, that kind of that plan just kind of fell down beautifully because
we like to use it and not let the buildings sit there in your great, no problem is
gonna be some renovation. Some of the guys, the construction
maintenance, um, are I'm looking at doing some
painting there too so we can have another location that the house was in the summertime
h tracking permits. Uh H tracks, one of the things that is very, very,
very expensive. Um, so we have a lot of here but you gotta stay on top of them.
Nothing's worse coming to school. And the, uh ac is not working,
uh, Frank, this guy doing a tremendous job and jump right on there. And so they
do a tremendous job of addressing that. I wanna make sure we have the support to address it. So you
can see a carrier project of 2.8 additional $4
million of a track pumps and boilers that we're gonna do across the
county. About $6.8 million for this year.
You can see inflation, inflation is killing us in this
area. You can see if I took a Magnolia chiller that we did in 2020. It
cost me $80,000. Look at what it cost me in
2020. At very middle it was $171.
Central B CH A ch at 23 was 100 and 40,000.
The Sound General almost double the cost of
and then 75. So you're seeing 75 100% increases in
inflation, athletic
enhancements. This is, this is very exciting. I do want to say that um a couple of
things um before we get into, this is almost impossible to
have the same dollar amount for every school. Um
There's a number of factors here because you have it, each different
designs. You may have the same design, but it's all different sizes, different
site packets, different allow utilities work. Logan's good on
different time is going to do that. So my commitment to the board here is that
when all these projects are done, I'm gonna figure out what the average
is. If there are any high schools that are below the average, I will make them whole,
I will contribute money to make sure everybody is at the same average. And in
my experience, that's the best way to do that. Um, you can kind of
see here. B County in high school is 32% complete on
their athletic enhancement. Spanish sports. 38% I go to high
school, 75%. Um, you know, a lot was done kind of
incorporating the field house and the new gym and those type of things that I go to high school
death. And I, I just kind of starting out there. There's a lot of things that
has to have been shifted around as far as the, the softball
field has to be shifted to make room for Poppy, which is gonna be considered by the
cafeteria. And so it's multi stuff with that 5%
only at 6% of bill and just a reminder that Ball
County High School Foley and Bar gave an additional about
$3.5 million for A B uh, that's
included in its cost and, uh Phao High school, uh,
it says 24% complete because we have park
lot to the front in order to make up room to do the secondary general in the parking lot. So
that percentage including the, uh, the parking lot
there, um, pay as you go phase
five projects. You kinda see. Um, I moved Fox to
elementary now, so fund that I moved to a South again.
And so, uh, we have $80 million um,
that's gonna be in two installments. So we got a $40 million
withdrawal, last million dollar on
withdrawal. This October every draw resets the interest that you pay
on it for about 80. We're able to supplement
um an additional $47 million over about a 34 year
period to come up with right under 100 and 30 million to address these
death in itself school. Uh da North
classroom edition Magnolia classroom edition cafeteria, da
high school and the elementary cafeteria
expansion there. Um If you look
at, I mean you
in 2018, we were 100 and $45 square foot.
Uh with your dad in middle school. In 2019, we were
$214 square foot. The jail area in audition in
2020 was about 100 and $87 square foot and that
$361. Ok.
The here's another interesting, well, you take the
same exact design. So if you go to Cabernet some Silver
Hill and to go down south of Boston, we all look exactly the
same. It's the same design. It's the same market there.
It is not the same cost for square footage. And that's a clear example of how
inflation is, is, is really created challenges in all county.
You can see the Bayman FK six was 100 and $50 square foot se
was 100 and 80. Uh Another one that's, that's similar to this would be na
um uh so
81 the south was at 290 was at
304. So supposed to,
yeah, down here. But again, the reality of the
inflation, what we're seeing right now is that I may not be able to address
that happened. Hopefully it's gonna go down. But again, if you're looking at a
$40 million also in elementary school used to cost me 20. It
has some limitations, especially the sales tax cut down those type of things. But again,
again, revenue comes in, we move it into the capital projects fund. When we build
it back our cash reserve there, we try to have as many capital projects as
possible. Additional things outside of,
of, of the, the the baby. This is just an example of
me surrounding the money I possibly can for every
single source to try to do as much as I possibly can
across the county. The ad program was in South B I did not move the
ball and 12. So we're building a high school that can,
can kind of help that that work. Um Like I said before, Los
Elementary school got an extra one time $30 million of
money from the state. So I applied that for lot elementary school.
So that really only equates a $10 million difference in order to
fund that. Um So I used $7 million
of, of A and T I use space
four, pay no money. I used some local Spanish oil
which is 85% complete. Uh, we use PSC A and local
money above that transportation. We're looking at $4.5
million short shop that's gonna be behind, um, the
FL and like I mentioned before, we're, we're looking locally
into a three K early mining academy in tour.
So looking at all this tremendous amounts. So when you were looking at the
personnel is, this is what we're doing.
We're doing a lot of ground improvements, building improvements, h track
improvements, athletic improvements, new school construction and baseball,
new school construction based on money like sh round, round
together. And then we got about $5.6 million left to
pain all around. So the price tag
just kind of right under about billion dollars.
clean. They're still wrapping up the shop areas and those things.
Uh I had to do a news interview in July. The
mechatronic scene got stuck in the Red Sea and we were hoping to doesn't
involved in it. I never thought I'd be here for speculation.
Six. But yeah, it was good news for the child.
I keep thinking of like Megatron from the transformers over down the city but it's here. It's
set up. This is actual pictures with the P A. It looks awesome. It's a
two story industrial main train module. I didn't
here. Uh But once we got out of the red City, a hurricane was in the
Atlantic as the boat was coming through. And I was like, you
spend whole bunch to pay for this if it doesn't get here. I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I
Yes Meat.
It's a Megatron. You know, we can't forget about my new favorite
like to call octopus. Dr
Hey, what comes up? Oh,
yeah. For weekends.
Been too long. Let's wrap it up here JF summary
to the guinea period. Not a million dollars. A
$447 million operating operating
expenses of 445 with an excess balance of close to
$2 million. I understand that revenue is budgeted. Fair.
Well, we know that the fiscal year at a $92 million
balance at this time, hopefully next year.
So this is the end of the first hearing of and so
the first year is, is basically, so there's input sheets,
I'll bring out every, any
questions or anything I'm obligated.
So this is your chance. So any uh any questions email
me, I will address about the second budget hearing on September 26.
This budget presentation as well as the detailed budget
books that show this information on a personal per per department
basis is located on if B
CBC got long accountability, that's why whether the restaurant
I think I work 20.
Thank you. Pass away from them
near us.
Ok. I'm excited to continue
you. I'm always amazed when you do this,
the, the size and scope of this county and what goes on. So, thank
you so much and thank everybody on that table over there for making it
happen. Thank you. I guess that concludes our