This meeting consisted of a budget workshop starting at 1:30 PM and a regular board meeting beginning at 6:00 PM. The workshop covered the general fund, summer school fund, and gifts and donations fund. The regular meeting included a trustee appointment, presentations on advanced placement, alternate standards, elementary school programs, and a recess policy discussion. Public comment was dominated by opposition to proposed cuts to school social workers.
Budget Workshop (1:30 PM):
Regular Meeting (6:00 PM):
Shop to order. This will be the first on the agenda. The rest of the agenda will be taking place at 6 p.m. So at this time we have a roundtable discussion among board members and staff addressing the following topic for discussion only no action. This is a presentation and discussion regarding the general fund, summer school fund and gifts and donations fund in the Carson City School District presented by Spencer Woodward. Thank you. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board. As you know, this will be our final workshop, at least at the level of detail that we've gone into all of the funds. I'm going over the final three funds that we haven't covered in our previous workshops. I have a couple of smaller funds that we'll start out with. First one is our summer school fund. As way of information, the last couple of years this fund has been uh mostly idle as summer school costs have been covered by ESSER funds. We don't anticipate that this year, and we've budgeted accordingly. Uh, where funds from this are generally transferred from the general fund. Um so if you look at our worksheet here, we'll we'll quickly go over some of the expenditures. And the bulk of this is for salary and benefits of 131,000. The difference here is this does not cover any one position, one full-time equivalency. It is all based off extra duty or extra hours performed by many employees who uh cover summer school. Um we're required to have an administrative member there, nurse there, and then of course instructors and paraprofessionals. And so that 131,000 covers mostly salary and a little bit of benefits because for these individuals there's not PERS cost for this because it's extra above and beyond their full-time equivalent positions. On top of that, we also budget uh $73,800 for supplies as needed for summer school for a total amount of 205,000. I believe last year that was pretty close to what we spent out of multiple funding sources to cover our summer school expenditures. The revenues of where this comes from. Um, we had some funds sitting there that were unspent from the COVID years. So the opening fund balance of 180,000 was already transferred from the general fund a couple years prior, and it's just been sitting there waiting for its opportunity to shine, which will be this summer. And then to cover the our needs that we've anticipated, we're uh transferring 25,000 from the general fund for a total of 205,000. This is one of those funds where we we budget to spend everything that we have in there. If there is, if we don't spend everything totally that we have, then we would reduce that transfer from the general fund. Um we don't, or we can leave like we did a couple of years ago, we would just leave an amount here that would reduce next year's transfer from the general fund. Any questions so far? Yeah, so and how I'd like to do this is we'll go one fund, ask the questions, go the next fund and ask the questions, and then if we have questions that address the overall budget, we'll go down the line as well. Okay. So yes, I do have a question. Um you said that we had funds coming in from the SR fund, and we no longer will have that. Is that correct? Yeah, SR funds have all been expended now. September 30th, more or less was the deadline for the spending those. So this upcoming summer, those funds are not available to us anymore. The last couple of years that is 100% covered our our summer school costs. Okay. So I guess my question would be summer school is used for students who didn't take advantage of going to school or taking advantage of a regular school year, correct? Uh you could say that there's certainly some students that probably didn't maximize their potential during the school year. So they're given a second chance through summer school. Yes, they have an opportunity to typically earn credits or credit recovery is often what it's referred to. So why wouldn't we be charging them? Why shouldn't they pay for summer school? We don't do that. We could in the past, a lot of times um, if students are free and reduced, we don't charge them, so there still would be some costs involved. We have charged for some tuition in the past. It's typically a small amount, and we still have costs very similar to what we've budgeted for.