WEBVTT 1 00:00:25.140 --> 00:00:28.830 Regan Molatore: So Kurt, how would we know of Chelsea is connected through will show up. 2 00:00:29.250 --> 00:00:34.920 Curtis Nelson: In her phone number would show up and I don't know I don't know which one is hers. I'm trying, okay. 3 00:00:49.590 --> 00:00:53.010 Regan Molatore: just texted in said that she is listed as one of the attendees. 4 00:00:53.070 --> 00:00:56.790 Curtis Nelson: Yeah, I've got three phone numbers. I don't know which one is hers. 5 00:00:57.660 --> 00:01:01.650 Regan Molatore: Okay, I do. It's that it's the one that ends. 6 00:01:02.310 --> 00:01:03.270 Regan Molatore: At nine 7 00:01:14.790 --> 00:01:15.720 Regan Molatore: Alright, Chelsea. 8 00:01:16.740 --> 00:01:23.340 Regan Molatore: Think we have you in. Do you want to try able not take yourself off mute, just to say hi. So we know you're in 9 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:28.830 1503****679: Can you hear me, yes. 10 00:01:28.860 --> 00:01:29.610 Regan Molatore: Okay, perfect. 11 00:01:31.830 --> 00:01:32.130 1503****679: Alright, right. 12 00:01:33.450 --> 00:01:34.110 1503****679: Thank you. 13 00:01:35.910 --> 00:01:44.910 Regan Molatore: All right, we're still hoping that ginger will have the opportunity to to join us and we are going to 14 00:01:45.930 --> 00:01:53.520 Regan Molatore: Begin this Special Board Meeting of the Westland Wilson bill school district and Kelly, you do, please take roll. 15 00:01:54.690 --> 00:01:55.470 Kelly Douglas: Regulatory 16 00:01:56.130 --> 00:01:58.230 Kelly Douglas: Here down hides 17 00:02:00.150 --> 00:02:00.930 Kelly Douglas: Chelsea King 18 00:02:02.370 --> 00:02:04.500 1503****679: Here 50 times thin 19 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:05.730 Christy Thompson: Here. 20 00:02:06.270 --> 00:02:06.750 Thank you. 21 00:02:08.100 --> 00:02:25.980 Regan Molatore: Alright, and our next thing on the agenda is community feedback and input and we did receive we're accepting due to this particular format and code, we are accepting a public comment I email that submitted to Kelly Douglas 22 00:02:27.060 --> 00:02:40.920 Regan Molatore: And today it was by 3pm. And we did receive one public comment in response to that, and at the same time I would always welcome members of the car of the community and public to reach out to board members. 23 00:02:41.850 --> 00:02:56.130 Regan Molatore: Whenever they they feel the need, you don't always have to wait till a public meeting to do so, we received a comment from JOHN McCAIN AND DID EVERYONE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO READ THAT COMMENT. 24 00:02:57.150 --> 00:03:06.750 Regan Molatore: All right, I'm seeing thumbs up from Chelsea's not saying no. So hopefully we've we've all been able to do that. And I'll just summarize. He sent us 25 00:03:07.320 --> 00:03:13.950 Regan Molatore: A comment that was pertaining to tonight's agenda and the loan and, in particular, he expressed 26 00:03:14.760 --> 00:03:38.820 Regan Molatore: That kind of three points he expressed that the loan, he felt was not an arm's length agreement that zero percent interest would be a detriment. And third, that he would advise that we should use the ending fun balance, rather than alone from our land sale proceeds and 27 00:03:40.380 --> 00:03:53.520 Regan Molatore: With that, we will move on to the agenda, the main item on the agenda this evening, and that is with Dr. Us and 28 00:03:55.230 --> 00:03:57.570 Regan Molatore: If you want to talk about this proposed loan. 29 00:03:58.110 --> 00:04:07.020 Son Le Hughes: Had. Yes, yes. Thank you so much, and good evening, everyone. Thank you for taking the time to attend this special meeting this evening. 30 00:04:08.130 --> 00:04:19.950 Son Le Hughes: On the last board meeting Dr luck. Where can I mention about some additional revenue and expenditure that our Detrick anticipate to receive and spend the coming month 31 00:04:20.400 --> 00:04:32.460 Son Le Hughes: So in this tonight report, I would like to capture all of that. So, so we can review it together and have a discussion someone to do a share screen. 32 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:38.760 Son Le Hughes: Oh cut this. Can I, can I share screen, please. 33 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:44.160 Curtis Nelson: Play now. 34 00:04:44.700 --> 00:04:45.690 Son Le Hughes: Okay, thank you. 35 00:04:50.340 --> 00:04:50.700 Okay. 36 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:57.330 Son Le Hughes: So in the report right here is 37 00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:16.050 Son Le Hughes: Capture the additional revenue that our district anticipate to receive under the additional revenue we have for category. The first one is student investment account when we did the project in 38 00:05:17.340 --> 00:05:26.880 Son Le Hughes: Know, throw out a month of March to June when the board doubted the information at that time we have a is about 4 million 39 00:05:27.420 --> 00:05:47.070 Son Le Hughes: And then recently the Confirm information that comes to rush indicate that we saw receive 33% of the original amount of 7.6 million. Therefore, we should anticipate to have a decline in our revenue revenue for 1.5 million 40 00:05:49.800 --> 00:06:09.210 Son Le Hughes: The second category is a measure 98 we purchase at 1.5 million, but now we have the award notification indicate that we will receive about 2.4 million would give us the additional have 100,000 41 00:06:10.320 --> 00:06:12.090 Son Le Hughes: Now eight now 800,000 42 00:06:13.380 --> 00:06:29.100 Son Le Hughes: And then the Care Act. So grant and comprehensive distance learning grant, we did not have any of that information indicate to us when we view our adopted budget this information came in late July early August 43 00:06:30.420 --> 00:06:45.090 Son Le Hughes: For the so grant under care art we anticipate to receive 450,000 and a comprehensive distance learning grant we anticipate to receive 192,000 44 00:06:45.600 --> 00:07:01.560 Son Le Hughes: So even though we have the additional revenue that come in for mention it eight and a to grain here, but what that they cry in the SI grand, we still come in shock have picked 1000 45 00:07:03.300 --> 00:07:18.060 Son Le Hughes: Besides that, we have addition own expenditure that we are facing the digital curriculum fo Carter us to me million DC provide online program for our students. 46 00:07:19.230 --> 00:07:33.600 Son Le Hughes: And then because of that online program. We have to provide training for staff that the the online program and that could be a one day training their costs SMS is at 190,000 47 00:07:35.310 --> 00:08:03.450 Son Le Hughes: In addition, we need to hide the additional of 5.8 D and we based the salary and auto Payroll, Benefits costs at the average level. So at 5.8 at the end it will cost us about 720,000 so the the additional expenditure that we anticipate of face will be 2.9 million 48 00:08:04.500 --> 00:08:11.670 Son Le Hughes: So what the shock of 50 1000 in revenue and 2.9 million 49 00:08:13.860 --> 00:08:20.850 Son Le Hughes: In the additional expenditure, now we're looking at 2.9 million 50 00:08:22.530 --> 00:08:25.560 Son Le Hughes: And for the last month. 51 00:08:27.870 --> 00:08:41.490 Son Le Hughes: facility manager. Our chief operation officer, Dr. Locke wet and myself. We look into every single way to fly saving costs that we can and 52 00:08:42.210 --> 00:08:59.430 Son Le Hughes: We from the adapted but chat we indicate to school and build in principle that DARPA chat will be reduced by 20% that k plus the additional safe in up to 175,000 and they say belong to the general fund. 53 00:09:01.980 --> 00:09:19.470 Son Le Hughes: We don't. We cut costs on utilities in July, August, and all the way to the end of September, October. So with the foreman of saving we anticipate to have 400 house and saving on utility 54 00:09:21.570 --> 00:09:36.570 Son Le Hughes: Right now we have some money coming in under construction site tax and we planning to bring 700,000 from construction si tax to support what is challenging at a time. 55 00:09:38.130 --> 00:09:52.380 Son Le Hughes: Last but not least, at a time. We have 5.8 million in our land proceeds that located under LG IP was either local government invest money. Ooh. 56 00:09:53.760 --> 00:10:13.440 Son Le Hughes: We would like to po po. So if we if we can borrow that 1.5 million from the land. Proceed then will help us cover up the expenditure that we anticipate to have and that will give us the additional 7000 57 00:10:14.850 --> 00:10:26.040 Son Le Hughes: So this is the basic information that capture all of the additional revenue and expenditure that we are facing, I will pose. Now for question. 58 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:47.250 Regan Molatore: Alright, this anybody. Oh, Dylan and Chelsea, just as we're working our way through this, I will just be kind of conclusion of this, then I will see if you have questions as well. So Dylan, please. 59 00:10:47.340 --> 00:10:56.280 Dylan Hydes: Yeah, I had a question about the construction excise tax if we take $700,000 out of that area of the budget, it reduces 60 00:10:57.270 --> 00:11:13.200 Dylan Hydes: That section from 970 5000 to 230 5000 and I'm just wondering how we can do that. Do we expect that there'd be a 975,000 excise tax the 2020 school year and that tax has been reduced by 73,000 how to be right at that 61 00:11:17.250 --> 00:11:17.850 Regan Molatore: Dr. Huge 62 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:29.130 Son Le Hughes: Yeah, thanks. So throughout the year. We have a meeting with city of Houston view and they provide us with the information like 63 00:11:29.940 --> 00:11:52.230 Son Le Hughes: The area of development and the US SOME TIME. They give us the idea of how much out it will anticipate to receive money from them through the construction si tax so at up now we have about 1 million current in our account for the construction site tax. 64 00:11:53.370 --> 00:12:12.450 Son Le Hughes: Because we house. Some several projects that not close. Yes. And we still support in that so we get I'm confident to say that we have available 700,000 from construction site that that freely to support it challenging 65 00:12:14.850 --> 00:12:16.440 Son Le Hughes: It. That answer your question. 66 00:12:17.610 --> 00:12:33.960 Dylan Hydes: Sort of. I was just confused why we budgeted for so much and how we can get by now. It's so much less this or why did the amount that we expected to pay for the tax prizes so much lower now than it was. What am I missing. 67 00:12:35.040 --> 00:12:44.520 Kathy Ludwig: So this is not attacks that we pay its revenue that we receive because when construction happens in a community. 68 00:12:46.290 --> 00:12:57.690 Kathy Ludwig: Then that city is taxed and the money is given to school districts to adjust for that new development and new growth for the construction. So 69 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:00.450 Kathy Ludwig: When, when we're in a community like ours, where 70 00:13:00.870 --> 00:13:08.310 Kathy Ludwig: Things are building and developing there's an assumption that a school district is going to have to accommodate that growth somehow build another school 71 00:13:08.580 --> 00:13:19.380 Kathy Ludwig: Or expand and need more resources so that tax that the developers are taxed and we get a portion of that in order to adjust to that growth. 72 00:13:20.220 --> 00:13:31.500 Kathy Ludwig: So we receive money from what's called the construction excise tax and we can spend it any year we can save it and spend it. The next year, some years we've had an ending fund balance of 73 00:13:31.830 --> 00:13:42.240 Kathy Ludwig: You know, two or 3 million. We haven't needed to spend it right away and some years we we find that that's a great account for us to buy some more furniture or 74 00:13:43.200 --> 00:14:01.260 Kathy Ludwig: To buy some more textbooks and so we have about a million in there. And all we did way back when we created this budget was predict maybe we'd spend about 600 this year on some projects 600,000 so we kind of wrote that in as a placeholder. 75 00:14:03.030 --> 00:14:11.910 Kathy Ludwig: And now, lo and behold, here we are with a need around digital curriculum. And so we were going to go to this account and use some of it. 76 00:14:13.020 --> 00:14:14.220 Kathy Ludwig: For digital curriculum. 77 00:14:14.730 --> 00:14:15.810 Dylan Hydes: So if we didn't 78 00:14:16.920 --> 00:14:26.130 Dylan Hydes: pass this resolution tonight. There's like something back up when when we initially drafted the budget, what do we expect to spend that money on 79 00:14:27.810 --> 00:14:39.540 Kathy Ludwig: We didn't have all the projects identified and we don't we don't need to when we create the budget. We just think we, you know, let's let's plan to spend 80 00:14:40.470 --> 00:14:52.020 Kathy Ludwig: Some money out of the CET and there's times when staff do approach. Dr. Hughes and say, here's a project, could we use that for CET it might be something I need to purchase next year. 81 00:14:53.640 --> 00:15:02.910 Dylan Hydes: And so, so the expectation was always that we were going to move that money out of that account to something else. We just hadn't yet decided what that was going to be. Now we are 82 00:15:06.150 --> 00:15:15.720 Regan Molatore: You might also we're counting on like the last time I believe that we utilize that money like a significant portion of it wasn't Dr. Ludwig to do the turf field. 83 00:15:17.250 --> 00:15:18.930 Regan Molatore: Would or wasn't 84 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:29.850 Kathy Ludwig: Last year we we predicted, we would use. I forget. I'm trying to look at the budget book here. Sorry. It's very small font. 85 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:48.030 Kathy Ludwig: Last year we paid for some of the Beckman Creek modular out of CET because that has to do with growth and expansion. That's one of the allowances. So there are some conditions for how you can use these funds. We also use some, some of the money last year on technology. 86 00:15:49.560 --> 00:15:49.860 Dylan Hydes: And 87 00:15:49.890 --> 00:15:53.700 Kathy Ludwig: The money textbooks, which is allowed and then also some on 88 00:15:54.750 --> 00:16:12.420 Kathy Ludwig: maintenance vehicles. So we did quite a bit expenditure last year and which brought us down in that fund to about a million and we weren't quite sure what our projects would be, but knew that, you know, there might be some expenditure this year and so 89 00:16:13.980 --> 00:16:20.880 Kathy Ludwig: That's her we proposed some expenditure for this year and now here we are with 90 00:16:22.050 --> 00:16:29.220 Kathy Ludwig: With with a very real need that we can take from the CET fun because it does allow for something like 91 00:16:30.450 --> 00:16:33.330 Kathy Ludwig: A capital project or multi year contract with 92 00:16:34.650 --> 00:16:35.820 Kathy Ludwig: With digital curriculum. 93 00:16:36.690 --> 00:16:38.400 Dylan Hydes: Okay, thank you, that answers my question. 94 00:16:38.700 --> 00:16:39.240 Dylan Hydes: Now, that's my 95 00:16:39.300 --> 00:16:41.730 Kathy Ludwig: Question because others may have in the community as well. 96 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:49.110 Dylan Hydes: Okay, thank you. Um, there's a the community comment that we had today. We talked about the 97 00:16:50.640 --> 00:17:03.810 Dylan Hydes: That this transaction with the land use moving the money from the 1.5 million would benefit the general fund at the detriment of the non general fund. Is there a duty of some kind of I'm on that I'm aware of with respect to 98 00:17:05.850 --> 00:17:10.440 Dylan Hydes: If it's a transaction between general and non general that it has to benefit them equally. 99 00:17:12.030 --> 00:17:12.630 If not, 100 00:17:14.790 --> 00:17:24.570 Son Le Hughes: His common is right now when we put the money that we have in the LT IP we own interest in that. 101 00:17:24.630 --> 00:17:44.790 Son Le Hughes: Account current interest. Today's a 1% so what Mr McKay thinking is, if we put that 1.5 million at a current account into our gap we own 1% and then if we borrow that money to utilize that 102 00:17:44.820 --> 00:17:46.140 Son Le Hughes: In the general fund. 103 00:17:46.170 --> 00:17:48.630 Son Le Hughes: Was a parent of a turnaround fun but 104 00:17:48.660 --> 00:17:52.650 Son Le Hughes: We don't pay the interest rate to adapt that 105 00:17:52.860 --> 00:17:54.240 Son Le Hughes: Story and 106 00:17:54.300 --> 00:17:57.510 Son Le Hughes: That because right now the enterprise is so low. 107 00:17:57.870 --> 00:17:58.620 Son Le Hughes: And 108 00:17:58.980 --> 00:18:01.740 Son Le Hughes: This morning I had a conversation with 109 00:18:01.770 --> 00:18:03.330 Son Le Hughes: Our investment company. 110 00:18:03.780 --> 00:18:18.900 Son Le Hughes: Type of seller and they say the state of Washington LG IP the interest rates go down 2.23% so they forecast that within a month or no more than two months. 111 00:18:19.470 --> 00:18:31.590 Son Le Hughes: The Enterprise from Oregon Health tip will go down from one to maybe another point 2% or less. So because of that, so low in the interest rate. 112 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:39.030 Son Le Hughes: Not to Laugh but and I did not think it relevant to factor in a memo to present it to you. 113 00:18:40.950 --> 00:18:52.530 Kathy Ludwig: And just to clarify the interest that Dr. Hughes is talking about is the interest that we would earn by having our money in that LG IP not interest that we would be paying 114 00:18:52.950 --> 00:19:05.520 Kathy Ludwig: So the Wonder from this community member is are we missing out on getting that interest by not having it in that savings by now actually using just like you would in your own 115 00:19:06.090 --> 00:19:11.370 Kathy Ludwig: personal bank account. Whenever you take something out of savings and you put in your checking and you use it. 116 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:18.180 Kathy Ludwig: You don't have the interest from savings and Doctor whose point is savings rates now are so low. 117 00:19:18.660 --> 00:19:34.590 Kathy Ludwig: That it's almost negligible. And if this is a transaction that benefits us this loan right now it's worth missing that very negligible amount in the short term, in order for us to resolve some of these 118 00:19:36.120 --> 00:19:38.220 Kathy Ludwig: Some of these shortfalls in the budget right now. 119 00:19:46.920 --> 00:19:47.250 Kathy Ludwig: And 120 00:19:49.230 --> 00:19:50.190 Kathy Ludwig: I don't know if 121 00:19:50.460 --> 00:19:51.570 Kathy Ludwig: Director hides dressy 122 00:19:51.570 --> 00:19:53.610 Kathy Ludwig: Here all of that answer. 123 00:19:55.530 --> 00:20:07.350 Kathy Ludwig: But just just lastly what we were saying why i know i think you got kicked out of zoom. But just to clarify that interest is not interest we pay its interest we earn 124 00:20:07.980 --> 00:20:17.070 Kathy Ludwig: By having our money and that savings that if we remove it, just like you would personally if you took money out of your savings you don't earn interest anymore. All you put in your checking and spend it. 125 00:20:17.610 --> 00:20:31.560 Kathy Ludwig: But that interest earnings is so negligible. And so low, and it's predicted predicted to go down even further that we feel it's worth worth it to the district to be actually utilizing some of that money now to support our budget. 126 00:20:32.760 --> 00:20:39.120 Kathy Ludwig: And as we mentioned in the memo. And as we will in the resolution when we pay this back 127 00:20:40.920 --> 00:20:48.840 Kathy Ludwig: As it gets paid back. Hopefully, interest rates go up to and we get to a point where it is benefiting again from being in that LG IP. 128 00:20:53.010 --> 00:20:54.270 Regan Molatore: Thank you and Christy 129 00:20:55.470 --> 00:21:06.510 Christy Thompson: Thank you. Um, so I just had a wondering about the additional 5.8 f t for that we needed for a secondary school. So just, I would love to hear kind of just 130 00:21:06.840 --> 00:21:15.990 Christy Thompson: You know what caused that and and then just a clarification on the digital curriculum. I see that it's 2 million. So are we kind of guessing that 131 00:21:16.350 --> 00:21:30.330 Christy Thompson: For the 10,000 approximating for 10,000 students in a district and just curious if the fuel online program what its cost is compared to then the is it Florida. 132 00:21:32.220 --> 00:21:41.490 Christy Thompson: What's the name of the other one that will be doing the Florida. Yes. So just, and I assume we have to buy that for each one of our students as well. So just a little bit more information there as well. 133 00:21:41.940 --> 00:21:48.960 Kathy Ludwig: Sure. So I can address both of those. The additional f t is because 134 00:21:50.700 --> 00:21:51.270 Kathy Ludwig: Of 135 00:21:52.290 --> 00:22:05.910 Kathy Ludwig: As we created the online program. I think I mentioned this, the last board meeting, as we created the online program. We did not cap it at a certain number. We did not do a lottery. We just allow families who felt they needed this program to enroll. 136 00:22:06.570 --> 00:22:25.950 Kathy Ludwig: And the only stipulation was they needed to enroll by July 31, at which point we didn't need to stop enrollment, to our surprise, we had 1650 students enroll, which is akin to opening a large, comprehensive High School. 137 00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:27.720 Kathy Ludwig: And 138 00:22:28.770 --> 00:22:45.090 Kathy Ludwig: And I think we talked about this when we propose the need to delay the school calendar, just the enormous task then of shifting staff from 16 schools into 17 schools and making sure that we got everybody in the right places. 139 00:22:46.470 --> 00:22:47.520 Kathy Ludwig: The math. 140 00:22:49.320 --> 00:23:03.480 Kathy Ludwig: The math looks divisible on paper, but people don't break up evenly into fractions. And we also have in secondary schools, the added complexity that people can only teach certain subjects. 141 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:20.460 Kathy Ludwig: So in primary while we shifted from the nine schools to the nine and the online and we could move staff around from school to school and grade level to grade level, it didn't quite work as seamlessly for secondary 142 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:41.940 Kathy Ludwig: We might have moved and advanced math teacher but there wasn't somebody else in the district that could leave or pick up exactly those sections and courses. So as we did all that shifting partial f t of needs in middle school and high school emerged. 143 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:57.660 Kathy Ludwig: We also felt like there were some positions, for example, counseling or some special education positions that while we shifted them. We couldn't leave something on open somewhere else or even at 144 00:23:58.410 --> 00:24:07.980 Kathy Ludwig: Shared somewhere else that we just felt that we could use that additional support, particularly when our brick and mortar schools go to hybrid 145 00:24:08.910 --> 00:24:24.990 Kathy Ludwig: And then you do want you know as many counselors there or learning specialist, even if in some places. Their caseload had gone down a little bit, because the online program, we still felt we needed a full f t or a person. So as we were working through all those 146 00:24:26.070 --> 00:24:30.930 Kathy Ludwig: Those partial positions added up to about 5.8 147 00:24:31.980 --> 00:24:40.170 Kathy Ludwig: That we believe we need in order to accommodate this is not unusual. When a district opens. So, you know, a large school 148 00:24:41.130 --> 00:24:49.350 Kathy Ludwig: If it had been an elementary school size. Maybe we could have done it with only needing one f t after all that same. Wow. After all that shifting 149 00:24:49.770 --> 00:24:57.870 Kathy Ludwig: We only needed to fill in one place, but 1600 and 50 is a very large program to shift to and 150 00:24:58.680 --> 00:25:07.950 Kathy Ludwig: And so this was the best we could do. We're continuing to look at that and see how that works out, especially as students confirm their classes. 151 00:25:08.340 --> 00:25:21.630 Kathy Ludwig: It may not be that we need as much as 5.8 but that's the most that we think we need right now. That was our, our latest run at the numbers was 5.8 that we shared with you at the last board meeting, and that we have here tonight. 152 00:25:22.320 --> 00:25:25.350 Christy Thompson: So we not hire those positions yet or we 153 00:25:27.450 --> 00:25:29.760 Christy Thompson: Will not hire them yet, are we are in the process. 154 00:25:29.790 --> 00:25:32.910 Kathy Ludwig: Where we are and we are in the process, because we know we need them. 155 00:25:33.390 --> 00:25:33.930 Kathy Ludwig: And 156 00:25:34.080 --> 00:25:43.470 Kathy Ludwig: We're in the process of doing that, we have to post and what to do interviews. So we're in the process of that then in terms of your second question director Thompson and 157 00:25:44.280 --> 00:25:53.940 Kathy Ludwig: The 2 million is for both of those contracts fuel ed and Florida Virtual and so they will provide digital curriculum. 158 00:25:54.660 --> 00:26:02.700 Kathy Ludwig: For all of our students in the district and that training is for every license teacher in the district that's why that cost is there. 159 00:26:03.450 --> 00:26:20.430 Kathy Ludwig: for eight hours for them to have training as well as opportunity to then practice with the training materials. So that's eight hours of training for each licensed person in the district. And then, of course, our administrators are getting trained as well and 160 00:26:22.050 --> 00:26:24.120 Kathy Ludwig: I forget if you had another question in there. 161 00:26:24.570 --> 00:26:30.780 Christy Thompson: So do we pay per student for those online programs or are they more just a lump sum. 162 00:26:31.080 --> 00:26:50.040 Kathy Ludwig: You know companies do it differently. And it all depends on sometimes how many licenses, because our online program with fuel ed is smaller, it's the 1600 and 50 and the way they do it is a per license and they actually bill you per month. 163 00:26:51.330 --> 00:27:00.930 Kathy Ludwig: For how many licenses you use each month and and their way of doing that is to that very, very small maybe private or charter schools can also get in on their product. 164 00:27:02.670 --> 00:27:10.320 Kathy Ludwig: Florida Virtual has more of a tiered approach you. We could pay per student. We got to a point, because we were talking about 165 00:27:10.620 --> 00:27:18.870 Kathy Ludwig: All of our students and we weren't sure if some people might actually leave the online program and common one to make sure we had enough licenses. 166 00:27:19.380 --> 00:27:36.690 Kathy Ludwig: We got to a point with our number of licenses with them where they just said it was more advantageous for us to buy what they call an enterprise license or a district license. So that allows us to have licenses for about, I believe 10,000 students 167 00:27:37.800 --> 00:27:46.140 Kathy Ludwig: Which and it's not that we're paying for each of them. It's just now we can start up to 10,000 so we, it was cheaper for us to do that. 168 00:27:47.190 --> 00:27:55.980 Kathy Ludwig: Than to pay individually and guess at about 8000 or 8100 they said, you might as well just by our enterprise license and you get 10,000 169 00:27:56.700 --> 00:28:06.060 Kathy Ludwig: That also allowed us to provide this service to Three Rivers charter school. So we have told them that their students could also have access to Florida Virtual 170 00:28:06.570 --> 00:28:14.100 Kathy Ludwig: Which I think is a great service to our community because we do have families who might have a second grader at 171 00:28:14.790 --> 00:28:33.000 Kathy Ludwig: Let's say cedar Oak, a fifth grader at the charter school and a ninth grader at Westland high school and that way. This whole family if they're at home. The family only has to learn one platform and they can be supported and it helps us feel cohesive as a district. Okay. 172 00:28:33.420 --> 00:28:39.060 Christy Thompson: Thank you. And just one last question, and this off of the email that you sent out 173 00:28:40.770 --> 00:28:43.620 Christy Thompson: Um, regarding. Let's see. It was 174 00:28:43.920 --> 00:28:48.150 Kathy Ludwig: I think you asked. Also, if, if one was more expensive than the other. 175 00:28:49.560 --> 00:28:50.460 Christy Thompson: I'm dinner. 176 00:28:50.580 --> 00:28:54.150 Christy Thompson: Last night, have I think I was just curious. Yeah. 177 00:28:54.870 --> 00:28:56.730 Kathy Ludwig: So fuel ed is 178 00:28:57.930 --> 00:29:10.470 Kathy Ludwig: Is more expensive per student than Florida Virtual and that is because, um, I guess, the simplest way I could describe it is it has more bundled in its package per student. 179 00:29:11.370 --> 00:29:21.210 Kathy Ludwig: Than Florida Virtual. So for example in fuel, Ed. When we purchased those licenses or use those licenses, they have acquired as a company 180 00:29:22.170 --> 00:29:39.450 Kathy Ludwig: The rights to many other types of resources, for example, instead of zoom. They have the rights to use neuro and so by bundling and giving us this bundle. We don't have to then individually. 181 00:29:41.490 --> 00:29:47.280 Kathy Ludwig: All a cart as a district setup students for all these other different resources. 182 00:29:47.700 --> 00:29:57.330 Kathy Ludwig: And so we went. That's what makes it more robust a little bit for a year long, long term online program which we understood. This is what those families wanted 183 00:29:57.690 --> 00:30:04.800 Kathy Ludwig: They don't intend to go back on campus. They're not interested in the hybrid. They want a full year at home. 184 00:30:05.280 --> 00:30:13.770 Kathy Ludwig: And we felt for that we wanted some of those resources, easily accessible to parents who weren't going to be working with teachers in person. 185 00:30:14.550 --> 00:30:28.440 Kathy Ludwig: With Florida Virtual it's a little bit more all a cart. And so we're we're purchasing zoom licenses. So our teachers can have access to that, alongside 186 00:30:29.220 --> 00:30:38.580 Kathy Ludwig: Florida Virtual. So that's just an example, there's not as much bundled in there which is which allowed us to then purchase many more licenses using Florida Virtual 187 00:30:39.150 --> 00:30:45.870 Kathy Ludwig: And because it is a digital curriculum that we don't foresee we might need as robustly for the whole year. 188 00:30:46.770 --> 00:31:04.440 Kathy Ludwig: As we move into hybrid and then maybe even more in person teachers may less and less use the digital curriculum as they're in school and in person more with students. And so we wanted a curriculum that had a little more flexibility that way. Okay. Okay. Yeah. 189 00:31:04.920 --> 00:31:11.010 Christy Thompson: Last question, was the same kind of just if you could explain. I read the memo or the email that you sent out 190 00:31:12.120 --> 00:31:16.530 Christy Thompson: Question that Craig Nelson, the member of the Budget Committee had asked regarding 191 00:31:17.760 --> 00:31:28.410 Christy Thompson: Why we didn't have more savings from for student our bus company, and there was an explanation there. But I'm wondering, just to for people listening or 192 00:31:29.790 --> 00:31:41.400 Christy Thompson: And for myself. If you could just explain it that I know there was something to do with the contract and 30 consecutive day period. If you could just kind of explain that again to me. 193 00:31:41.430 --> 00:31:47.550 Kathy Ludwig: Or yeah, so we didn't list our bus contract in this 194 00:31:49.860 --> 00:31:56.490 Kathy Ludwig: In this document, because we haven't garnered any savings in the new year yet from them and we don't know if we will 195 00:31:57.390 --> 00:32:09.180 Kathy Ludwig: We do know we have suspended the need for the buses while we're in CBL September, October, but we don't know if we're going to need them, November, December. And so we've only paused for two months. 196 00:32:11.640 --> 00:32:13.020 Kathy Ludwig: Our contract. 197 00:32:14.490 --> 00:32:24.840 Kathy Ludwig: States that when we suspend. Now this is not last year. We're now into the new year right after July one, that when we suspend a contract with them. They get 198 00:32:25.470 --> 00:32:36.570 Kathy Ludwig: In the first 30 days at least the minimum payment. In other words, we can't just on a dime. Say we stopped. Our contract and now they're out paying their employees. 199 00:32:36.990 --> 00:32:48.450 Kathy Ludwig: And so it's a provision in the contract. It's not unusual. It's like when you give notice and you keep paying for something. And so when we will have to pay them for the first 30 days. 200 00:32:49.620 --> 00:32:59.700 Kathy Ludwig: After we've made that payment if we continue to not need them. We will then start to earn or be able to recoup the savings. 201 00:33:00.390 --> 00:33:00.780 Christy Thompson: Okay. 202 00:33:01.110 --> 00:33:12.180 Kathy Ludwig: The amount that we need to pay for those 30 days is what we've set aside for two months because we don't get reimbursement from the state. And so it's the typical it's about the same as what we would have set aside in our budget. 203 00:33:12.600 --> 00:33:22.260 Kathy Ludwig: For about two months of payment of our portion the 30% that we pay the state pays 70 so we we have a budget for the busing are 30% 204 00:33:22.650 --> 00:33:32.760 Kathy Ludwig: And so the amount we would pay them for their minimum expenses comes to about two months of what we've set aside for September and October. So if we were to extend 205 00:33:33.270 --> 00:33:42.270 Kathy Ludwig: This document over a longer period of time, we might be able to add buses in here if we know we weren't going to use them and say, oh, we think we could recoup more with buses. 206 00:33:43.230 --> 00:33:52.170 Kathy Ludwig: But this is only projected for the savings that we were pretty sure we will get by the end of October, while we're in CD out. Okay. 207 00:33:52.380 --> 00:33:56.340 Christy Thompson: Thank you for explaining that. Again, I just easier to to hear it again. 208 00:33:56.370 --> 00:33:57.360 Kathy Ludwig: Yeah yeah 209 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:00.930 Regan Molatore: Dylan. 210 00:34:02.910 --> 00:34:09.960 Dylan Hydes: Yeah, I have a bad internet connection. So I typed up some questions in the panel. So if I don't come through their, their. The first question was, 211 00:34:10.950 --> 00:34:23.430 Dylan Hydes: Is there an Oregon law that that I miss reading and looking at or S3 28.183 subsection one and it looks like it says to me that funds from a construction excise tax can only be used on capital improvements. 212 00:34:23.700 --> 00:34:29.730 Dylan Hydes: And wondering, my misreading that and if so, why would that not apply to this movement of funds. 213 00:34:30.720 --> 00:34:31.260 Yes. 214 00:34:32.940 --> 00:34:45.750 Son Le Hughes: And here is a contraction si tax revenue on capital improvement we can you dad for land acquisition contraction reconstruction of improvement of school facility. 215 00:34:46.260 --> 00:35:06.810 Son Le Hughes: Cost of portraits and in stone equipment and furnishing order tangible property that have a huge poli that more than one years. And because of our digital curriculum. We have a huge for like more than one years is consider it listed for capital access 216 00:35:11.370 --> 00:35:11.940 Dylan Hydes: Yeah. 217 00:35:12.330 --> 00:35:22.410 Regan Molatore: Can I just, I think, if I can understand your question, I think, are your is you're wondering why don't we use 100% of the construction excise tax me. Okay, sorry. 218 00:35:23.190 --> 00:35:37.800 Dylan Hydes: It's, it's, Can you use it at all for this because what my understanding is that the money is being used for mostly hiring additional staff. And I'm just wondering how that could fall under capital improvements. 219 00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:38.640 Yes. 220 00:35:40.680 --> 00:35:50.670 Son Le Hughes: Construction so that just to gear it. And so the money from the land proceeds and construction si attack that will be a father digital curriculum. 221 00:35:51.480 --> 00:36:05.640 Son Le Hughes: So be conducted digital curriculum is a capital access that they tend trouble because we the you formalize a more than one years. So it's under a requirement to see ed it meet the requirement. 222 00:36:06.360 --> 00:36:12.060 Kathy Ludwig: Yeah, just to clarify, we will not use either of those two 223 00:36:13.440 --> 00:36:24.720 Kathy Ludwig: revenue sources to pay staff salary, we can't, we cannot use that for staff salary, so we will use it for the digital curriculum and we're going to use the 224 00:36:26.010 --> 00:36:38.130 Kathy Ludwig: The grant the 190 2000 the Conference of distance learning grant will use that for our training and by taking some pressure off of other 225 00:36:39.420 --> 00:36:51.030 Kathy Ludwig: Purchases that fall under allow allowable expenditures with CET that will allow us to support the other 5.8 teachers. 226 00:36:51.240 --> 00:37:01.470 Dylan Hydes: Okay, and the curriculum that we're producing this year. It's our expectation that if we have another year of distant learning. We could reuse this curriculum and not have to purchase it again next year. 227 00:37:03.060 --> 00:37:08.580 Kathy Ludwig: Well, so this, this is the interesting thing about digital curriculum, because I'm 228 00:37:09.780 --> 00:37:30.990 Kathy Ludwig: So years ago what this would have included and it still does actually our textbooks. You can use the bond, you can use CT to purchase textbooks, but you can't use it to purchase workbooks because the idea is that those are consuming and they're part of your operating budget likely 229 00:37:32.940 --> 00:37:56.340 Kathy Ludwig: And now what's happened is that as districts are purchasing fewer textbooks and buying more digital curriculum or items that are accessible web based or in the cloud. There's reinterpreting of those parameters and so it's moved now to an exception that districts can 230 00:37:58.260 --> 00:38:07.410 Kathy Ludwig: Can use these funds for digital curriculum as long as you, as long as it's beyond one year and it's a multiple year 231 00:38:08.010 --> 00:38:19.650 Kathy Ludwig: Contract or license and because we're going to give our students access to this all through the school year and into the summer we move into a multi year 232 00:38:20.220 --> 00:38:32.640 Kathy Ludwig: Licensure ability. And so under those auspices legal counsel auditors folks at O d say as long as your multi year in this contract. 233 00:38:33.030 --> 00:38:43.380 Kathy Ludwig: Then it qualifies. They're trying to figure out as textbooks become more obsolete and digital curriculum becomes more of the norm and school districts 234 00:38:43.830 --> 00:38:54.000 Kathy Ludwig: How is it also considered capital and that it's something that because you can't really hold it like a workbook. You can't hold like a textbook, but the understanding of it is 235 00:38:54.300 --> 00:39:03.690 Kathy Ludwig: Is that it's not something a student takes home with them. It's not a consumable it it does become something that can extend as long as you keep purchasing into this license. 236 00:39:05.580 --> 00:39:22.470 Kathy Ludwig: But it's been an evolution because it went from textbooks to then, you know, people would buy CDs well as a CD of the textbook, the same as a textbook. So as we've evolved with curriculum. We've had to keep evolving our understanding with with legal counsel with 237 00:39:23.490 --> 00:39:29.040 Kathy Ludwig: Department of Education and with auditors and they all agree that this qualifies. 238 00:39:29.460 --> 00:39:30.480 Kathy Ludwig: Okay, yeah. 239 00:39:31.380 --> 00:39:38.460 Dylan Hydes: Last question did Wilcox Aaron Dando have any concerns whatsoever when they reviewed this transaction. 240 00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:40.080 Son Le Hughes: No they did not. 241 00:39:40.680 --> 00:39:41.040 Son Le Hughes: They are 242 00:39:41.460 --> 00:39:44.550 Son Le Hughes: In agreement with our legal counsel and our district. 243 00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:47.160 Dylan Hydes: Okay. Thank you, Dr is 244 00:39:51.240 --> 00:39:54.780 Regan Molatore: Chelsea, I want to give you a moment if you want to 245 00:39:56.010 --> 00:39:56.790 Regan Molatore: chime in. 246 00:39:59.700 --> 00:40:10.380 1503****679: Yeah, thank you. Um, I think just listening to the discussion so far. I don't have any further questions, I probably want comments have to. There's a motion. 247 00:40:12.510 --> 00:40:15.360 1503****679: But just to clarify what I'm hearing is that this 248 00:40:16.710 --> 00:40:22.770 1503****679: You know, the, the digital curriculum that the the two contracts are going to be entered into will be for 249 00:40:23.220 --> 00:40:39.270 1503****679: The academic year and into the summer, but should we decide to continue using these companies are in turn to another contract. I'm just wondering what what role would the board play and having that discussion or making those decisions about 250 00:40:40.350 --> 00:40:47.610 1503****679: contracting with them again, at what point would be something that the board would play a role. And would that come before us next time. 251 00:40:48.630 --> 00:40:56.400 Kathy Ludwig: So the reason we're bringing this before you is because of the resolution and to get permission from the board. 252 00:40:58.530 --> 00:41:00.300 Kathy Ludwig: For the inter fund loan. 253 00:41:01.590 --> 00:41:11.820 Kathy Ludwig: All of the other components in this document are just to show you what contributed to the shortfall and where we believe we have savings. 254 00:41:12.330 --> 00:41:25.410 Kathy Ludwig: Even the use of the CET money for digital curriculum is something we could do as staff without needing permission from the board, we're just showing you where we're making adjustments in the budget. 255 00:41:27.270 --> 00:41:41.400 Kathy Ludwig: To accommodate for that shortfall. What we do need your permission and your boat on tonight is regarding the resolution and just the inter fund loan and so 256 00:41:42.660 --> 00:41:51.180 Kathy Ludwig: In the future, and like, let's say next year. Our prediction is that our online program would not have as many students 257 00:41:52.200 --> 00:42:04.500 Kathy Ludwig: As long as the health landscape gets better. And there's a vaccine. We believe that will come down and students and families will feel more comfortable returning to school, but we hope it still stays with maybe 258 00:42:04.920 --> 00:42:14.970 Kathy Ludwig: At 100 200 students and perhaps even in more of a blended format where students are enrolled in their school but want to take a class here where they're online. 259 00:42:15.270 --> 00:42:24.540 Kathy Ludwig: That could be offered in their course catalog, which is how we were envisioning launching the program, even as we're thinking about this years ago pre coven 260 00:42:25.050 --> 00:42:45.750 Kathy Ludwig: And so we will always need a digital curriculum company for our online program. We just wouldn't need as many licenses, which would allow it to be much more sustainable within our general budget and we actually had it projected into our SBA grant 261 00:42:46.770 --> 00:42:56.850 Kathy Ludwig: When we were writing that grant. We were, we had folded in if you recall the online program, but we were thinking of it at a much smaller scale. 262 00:42:57.420 --> 00:43:09.750 Kathy Ludwig: And two things happened. One our school exploded 1600 and 50 so the scale was huge. But the other thing that happened is we received only a third of the grant. 263 00:43:10.170 --> 00:43:24.510 Kathy Ludwig: And so we already had to pull items out of that grant that we had budgeted in there. We can no longer pay for the online program in there. We have to think about what can be accommodated within the limited funds of that si grant 264 00:43:25.830 --> 00:43:37.860 Kathy Ludwig: If we had received that grant in full we likely would not be having as much of this conversation because we wouldn't have such a shortfall. We'd have 7.4 million instead of 265 00:43:39.390 --> 00:43:40.560 Kathy Ludwig: 2.5 million 266 00:43:44.370 --> 00:43:48.600 1503****679: And and in the future. Oh, am I going 267 00:43:49.260 --> 00:43:51.630 Regan Molatore: To keep going, keep going. Okay. 268 00:43:52.830 --> 00:43:59.580 1503****679: And then I thank you for that. And that, that helps a little bit and then I'm also wondering in the future for 269 00:44:00.570 --> 00:44:17.970 1503****679: When we're not doing a pandemic response and all the complicated things we're trying to respond to here and that type of you know bundling and hybrid options down the road that my assumption is that something that the capital bond is designed to fund. Is that an accurate assumption. 270 00:44:22.230 --> 00:44:46.860 Kathy Ludwig: It absolutely could we did right into our ballot, that the bond was intended to improve information technology, and there was a lot of technology written into the bond, and most of what was described at that time was around some infrastructure things Chromebooks phones wiring. 271 00:44:48.480 --> 00:45:09.780 Kathy Ludwig: What we did not foresee when we wrote the bond was digital curriculum at such a large scale like we're seeing today, but at a smaller scale, perhaps I also think it's something that we can accommodate over over the years in our si a grant 272 00:45:11.130 --> 00:45:12.480 Kathy Ludwig: As that becomes 273 00:45:15.420 --> 00:45:22.650 Kathy Ludwig: As it starts to go back to its intended amounts per district right now because of the economy. 274 00:45:24.030 --> 00:45:37.530 Kathy Ludwig: And as you recall these grants on the SI grant came from the corporate activities tax and the corporate activities taxes based on businesses who were taxed at additional mount to fund public schools. 275 00:45:38.070 --> 00:45:45.600 Kathy Ludwig: And while the governor did not repeal that tax. There was allowances given to businesses to defer 276 00:45:46.110 --> 00:45:53.970 Kathy Ludwig: Or to not pay as much. All right now. And so they weren't able to collect as much of the corporate activities tax and that's why schools got less 277 00:45:54.540 --> 00:46:12.780 Kathy Ludwig: As the economy starts do better and the governor expects then businesses to fully contribute and to bring forward on time those taxes, it will get generated back more fully to school districts, as was intended because this was, if you recall 278 00:46:14.010 --> 00:46:18.480 Kathy Ludwig: The, the Student Success Act was in legislation. 279 00:46:25.350 --> 00:46:27.150 1503****679: Okay, thank you. That's all my question. 280 00:46:29.250 --> 00:46:29.610 Regan Molatore: All right. 281 00:46:30.660 --> 00:46:41.160 Regan Molatore: Thank you and Dylan. I'm assuming you have no further questions or D. Okay, so can I get back to us. Did you have more that you wanted to present 282 00:46:45.840 --> 00:46:48.420 Regan Molatore: Our discussion with a little bit more beyond 283 00:46:49.830 --> 00:46:57.210 Regan Molatore: This one page you put up for us, but you've provided us with a lot of really good information to prepare. All right. It's somebody willing to make a motion. 284 00:47:05.550 --> 00:47:12.780 Dylan Hydes: I will, I will move at the board adopt resolution 2020 dash for as provided on workbook. 285 00:47:15.720 --> 00:47:16.500 Regan Molatore: I'm gonna second 286 00:47:19.170 --> 00:47:23.610 Regan Molatore: Alright, so it's been moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion. 287 00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:41.730 Regan Molatore: All right. And I would just add, I support this. I think it's a smart way to bridge the deficit, um, that we have, but I, I, I have always been 288 00:47:44.190 --> 00:47:51.630 Regan Molatore: A little hesitant to dip into funds, like our land sale proceed funds because you know the ideology behind those is that we 289 00:47:52.470 --> 00:48:06.480 Regan Molatore: Are you holding those monies. So if and when a future school site would become available or identified, we would have the capital on hand to act potentially quickly to secure that property, on behalf of the school district. 290 00:48:07.620 --> 00:48:26.460 Regan Molatore: I what I do like about this is that it is alone. So we are not, you know, transferring funds at the 1.5 million out of our land sale proceeds and not have a means for recapturing that again. So that helps address my concerns as well as 291 00:48:27.810 --> 00:48:39.420 Regan Molatore: You know the updating of the long range plan, as well as the growth projections helps me also feel better in with regards to need for monies for 292 00:48:40.260 --> 00:48:49.710 Regan Molatore: Additional school sites in that nature and growth of our communities was demonstrating that it was starting to slow and we don't currently have any 293 00:48:52.680 --> 00:48:59.520 Regan Molatore: Hotspots identified where we need to urgently, you know, put those proceeds to use so 294 00:49:01.020 --> 00:49:17.490 Regan Molatore: That was how my kind of my thinking as I worked through and rationalized using those land sale proceeds. I certainly would caution future boards and our administration from having that fund be a go to to solve budget deficit. 295 00:49:18.570 --> 00:49:28.920 Regan Molatore: At the same time, I think we are all equally on the same page and but for a worldwide pandemic, we probably wouldn't be having the discussion we're having now. 296 00:49:31.560 --> 00:49:33.840 Regan Molatore: Did anybody else have any comments, Chelsea. 297 00:49:34.500 --> 00:49:45.120 1503****679: I do. Yeah, okay, good. I didn't know you could say that. That's nice. Yes, I agree that, you know, taking money from this fund is not 298 00:49:46.320 --> 00:49:56.160 1503****679: You know the ideal situation and I appreciate your caution chairman a tour and ensuring that we keep this a robust and healthy, fun for our strategic land use moves. 299 00:49:56.640 --> 00:50:07.950 1503****679: And I concur that we're well positioned today that we we have we have made a really good strategic move to anticipate growth even 10 years out. 300 00:50:08.370 --> 00:50:22.710 1503****679: And I don't see that taking this amount of money from this fund is going to prevent us from making a move in the near future, should we need to. And so I feel comfortable and particularly because of this alone. 301 00:50:24.720 --> 00:50:34.170 1503****679: You know, we were because of the careful thinking and strategic thinking of boards that came before us, we have this money we have land. 302 00:50:34.500 --> 00:50:41.640 1503****679: Because of, you know, our voters, we have the facilities and so we're well positioned to not take from our Indian fund balance. 303 00:50:42.060 --> 00:50:50.250 1503****679: Which I do believe that's important has explicitly articulated, we want a healthy and be fund balance. We don't want to get down to, you know, 304 00:50:51.060 --> 00:51:01.950 1503****679: Below the government recommendations for that body that you know makes the recommendations of five to 8% of which we do a pretty good job of staying and and that's the low end 305 00:51:02.580 --> 00:51:16.260 1503****679: So I will be voting yes to take this loan and while it's my ideal. I feel like I can vote yes comfortably without feeling like I'm you know impeding teachers strategic moves with land you 306 00:51:22.890 --> 00:51:25.380 Regan Molatore: My nose turn on mute. Did you have some people on to add 307 00:51:26.340 --> 00:51:26.730 Know, 308 00:51:29.550 --> 00:51:30.360 Regan Molatore: Christy are good. 309 00:51:32.730 --> 00:51:36.150 Regan Molatore: All right, Kelly, would you please call it for a vote. 310 00:51:38.910 --> 00:51:40.350 Kelly Douglas: Thank you Greg and mellotron 311 00:51:41.130 --> 00:51:43.740 Kelly Douglas: Yes, Christy Thompson. 312 00:51:44.190 --> 00:51:46.230 Kelly Douglas: Hey, Dylan hides 313 00:51:46.590 --> 00:51:48.540 Kelly Douglas: Hi Kathy King 314 00:51:49.920 --> 00:51:51.510 1503****679: I thank you. 315 00:51:52.920 --> 00:51:54.990 Son Le Hughes: Thank you so much for your support. 316 00:51:57.390 --> 00:51:58.080 Regan Molatore: Dr. Left leg. 317 00:51:58.770 --> 00:52:14.910 Kathy Ludwig: Yes. First I echo the same sentiments is Dr. You thank you so much we appreciate your good questions and you applied great scrutiny, we want you to do that, on behalf of the public. So thank you for asking hard questions and good questions. I do want to make a comment. 318 00:52:15.960 --> 00:52:28.650 Kathy Ludwig: We did have that a community comment that is now posted to this board meeting and I just want to before the record make two notes about the comments by Mr. McCain, just so that there's assurance. 319 00:52:29.820 --> 00:52:35.370 Kathy Ludwig: If that gets requested by anyone in the public. I just want you to be assured as a board and for our public to be assured. 320 00:52:35.700 --> 00:52:45.420 Kathy Ludwig: That Western Wilson will school district does record interest earned by capital funds, our auditors require that laws require that whether 321 00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:52.920 Kathy Ludwig: Community members can always find where they are or whether they're always on every single document, but they are in the documents where they need to be. 322 00:52:53.430 --> 00:53:12.300 Kathy Ludwig: And then also just to assure you that I did not refuse to release public documents that showed where money was spent of being interest earning what he did refuse was the public records request by Mr. McCain that asked that we've created a report for him. 323 00:53:13.980 --> 00:53:15.060 Kathy Ludwig: That showed 324 00:53:17.730 --> 00:53:30.900 Kathy Ludwig: That would show all the amount of cash that was invested for each category general special revenue debt service and capital projects for each fiscal year for seven years from 2011 to 2018 325 00:53:31.170 --> 00:53:37.440 Kathy Ludwig: And then based on those investments, the earned income for each of the four categories of each of those seven years. 326 00:53:38.130 --> 00:53:44.400 Kathy Ludwig: We don't currently have a report like that it would have taken days and days for our staff to put that together. 327 00:53:44.790 --> 00:53:51.540 Kathy Ludwig: And to research that from Mr. McCain and so upon consultation with the attorney at O. D. 328 00:53:51.990 --> 00:54:00.870 Kathy Ludwig: Who works on public records requests, she confirmed that we did not need to create this document requested by Mr. McCain. So I just want to clarify that. 329 00:54:01.830 --> 00:54:09.210 Kathy Ludwig: We work with great transparency, but we often cannot create the kinds of reports. Sometimes our community members. 330 00:54:09.690 --> 00:54:18.570 Kathy Ludwig: feel personally, they would like to have if we already have them or happy to make those available, but this would have been generating one that would have taken 331 00:54:19.260 --> 00:54:30.360 Kathy Ludwig: Quite a bit of time for staff and by law. We do not need to according to the Attorney General's public records and meeting manuals. We did not need to provide this report. So just some context for that. I know that. 332 00:54:30.780 --> 00:54:41.760 Kathy Ludwig: Those comments go into public record and just wanted to make sure. Since we're talking about transparency in our fiscal responsibility. This community that we had that coastal posted for the record. 333 00:54:42.990 --> 00:54:43.470 Kathy Ludwig: Thank you. 334 00:54:45.810 --> 00:54:57.450 Regan Molatore: All right, thank you. And also I mean when we as a board was presented with the budget and these shortfalls were highlighted for us. I know the board had 335 00:54:57.870 --> 00:55:07.230 Regan Molatore: Several questions kind of about how we were going to bridge that gap. And so I want to thank my board members for giving our administrators time to come up with a solution and 336 00:55:07.770 --> 00:55:25.050 Regan Molatore: Proposal for us to approve as well as Thank you Dr. Ludwig and back to us for for working quickly and to help us kind of fill that gap in our budget. So, all right. With that, then we will call this meeting to a close. Thank you, everyone. 337 00:55:25.680 --> 00:55:26.970 Son Le Hughes: Thank you everyone. 338 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:28.380 Kathy Ludwig: My view.