 Thank you everyone for joining. This is the part of a planning assembly on December 22nd, 2024. I guess we'll accept emotions without the agenda. And I think you might be going before the residents make a motion. That's I will second. And the agenda, wonderful. Well, let's just do quick introductions. All right. That other people over there might belong to the five red. All of these. Yeah. Uh, Terry Golden and the East district school commissioner and residents. Thank you, uh, Ryan, Nick, uh, resident. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Yep. Um, next time we'll also a couple of notes on the agenda. Yeah. You should all have your ballots right now. So please fill it out and vote. You need your prime presidential primary ballot. Yeah. I just want to learn about how the case function, Uh, I don't know if I can get a vote or what I can do. There's a certain. And so. And I'm really impressed with especially the first one with a full audience last night was not quite as full. Not quite as full, but I think that's great that people came and sat there and, you know, that's good. That's really good. There's, you know, an energy on the campus, which is really important. I think, and I think that it is richer for our community to have the campus. I mean, it really brings a lot of events and I'm not, but yeah, I can love with your 10s. I mean, I really came down to questions about neighborhood code, but it's not here and Hannah's not going to be here. She is out of that in the payroll. Yeah, we might try to catch that too. They think that starts at 7. Okay, never to get to this section. Uh, moving on to, uh, so, um, so, uh, I'm just going to skip over there. We'll have fixed costs and obligations on it. So, look, probably to the most that is doing school budgets. Um, and that was in the next day. For my bigger target job, the Senate right putting their vote on the. The amended bill. So, um, I guess it's the repeat of these tests. They didn't define my presentation, but. How for my fund, it's not actually not unusual as far as whether states. As far as the victim, the fixed cost of the local cost of what we grapple with. Um, as an administration, the school and then the board members. Um, and what's the balancing act is the, um. In the past, all the school budgets and tax rate were decided. By what local resources you have available. So if you were in Vernon. Come on back in the 90s, early 2000, he had to not get into that school. There's zero tax rate across, I believe, across the board. Um, IBM and their idea was to junction very, very low school taxes. Um, and that was how it was. The state tried to, I'll send that song with the foundation rate. But it was messy. Um, it never worked until a family in the planning and the not freedoms. Took the state to court and said, um, this isn't fair. And they made a civil rights issue, uh, based on Brown versus. The support issue, uh, the land park decision number. And they want went to the state supreme court and they. Sided on the variance part and left it to the legislature side. And that's been the mess since then, because, uh, we are this latest bill. I've lost track of them. Um, is 1 of the many attempts to. Brain funding into air. And act 1, 2, 7 was the latest. And here in Burlington, we've been applying additional costs. For many years as a refugee. And while we're wholeheartedly welcome. Our golden majority of population, they come with, you know. Federal funding is really to get them here to get them place. The local site will. So it volunteers to help with the settlement, uh, and the schools and social network that. Funded through. Uh, it's very costly. This, even early on, I was an employee of the school back when there's not going to. Early population showed up and we ended up having to create a classroom where the school. Uh, the medical teachers center for that population, which is more on this. And there were possible that the director of education that. Walked through, solve what we're doing, not into that. So, uh, we've settled that. That that cost of the additional hold. They have that has probably the lowest player student. And we also found. That's all. That's going to be. So now with that in mind, I'll come back to my show. So what we have control locally is fixed cost and obligation. But these are some of the costs that we are. Um, having a hand, you know, pretty much across the board, both the wages and the other costs are 5% or more due to inflation or the contracts. Um, even the healthcare, the rating increases at 18% again on top of, I think 12 last year. And so it's either been high civil digits or low double digits. Forever and no, and inside actually this one may be the highest. I think this may be the last three. Oh, thank you. Okay, um, we also have a long rental cost. First 2 lines of that space are about displaced programs from the high school. Either the high school itself, ranging from a million and a half a year for the mason's building. Um, the tech center is spread out over multiple sites. Um, most of them out by the airport or downtown, uh, behind the CBS that wall, uh, two-story structures out. So those are costs and then we're also innovating part of the, um, fishing center for the rice and alternative programs and the next year we're doing a pretty major, heating ventilation, uh, refurbishing, geothermal, um, placements and renovating of the building. That's the front part of, uh, that integrated of our, feel real, like those that's been on the, uh, this, that wheeler was the character. So, um, and then the other cost of services, uh, transportation. So go ahead to the next, uh, this is change and wasn't official to the base. I haven't done around it. So it's a 5% cap is gone. Um, way to people was what I was talking about with the actual cost for students. I need student poverty instruments that are all additional costs born by, um, even more districts or districts in that case of the, uh, resale, so I'd be, uh, my failure and I'm proud of her over the two rivers that fly back. 5% cap has gone away, but at least hope it's all that come. Um, hope the administration was on a parallel track to help us on the board with saying there have to be some internal costs, uh, reductions. We've made up, uh, some, you know, costs from the things from the, uh, funding, we've got to include additional funding. We kept it, not for those positions, but we also, uh, removed for full time equipment, teaching positions that, uh, consultants had told us we didn't need to get our students a separate shield up to its proper level. Uh, there were also to both redundancy. So what, so what came about from that, at that point was a 2% increase. Um, we would have to adjust them to that because of the cap going away. This is actually a still a minus 0.5% factor. So we basically leveled out, um, our costs will be in control. And we let a lot of the things go by. There was a lot of money requested by principals and their guidance groups to add more behavior positions, um, or mental health supports. We did what we could. The money that goes to each school to the side of how they do their programming, we increased that some, we also, you know, some more, you have to, you know, staffing. So that's pretty much where we stood. How did that happen? You had an increase in, I was here, and the 5% increase in salaries. In this direction, I also need to get down to like, negative tax rate by then. It was, um, very impressive, um, attempt to hold a line and really say we know we're asking a lot of the taxpayer. We didn't know about this. This is all happened in December and early January. So based on the numbers we had, we thought we'd get another 4%. We do get another 7% on the bottom. And then we did the appraisal numbers ourselves. So it really was, we just had to hold a line and not add things out of the cost. So part of it is that many of those additional costs, we were already there. So they go to the factory last year or so. But coming forward and losing the open money, we just said, okay, we can only do so much. Now, the department was, most of the college was sincere. In my opinion, the department, my thought was, um, that we're not showing where we're going to go. I think we should pass, I guess, if we're not doing that. And there were no guarantees the cashers. Because that, so they can't be a few more, more vulnerable to higher costs. It wouldn't have taken the cap away. I mean, yes, very much. And that's what a lot of the districts aren't going to have to go through. Because they did target all the padding. Um, there are limited sources of money out there because of my distance, but also, that what, what are you tapping to try to offset your increases? And there are, it's very little and harder to tell us what 55 to 60 percent of roads to properties, non-profit or non-taxable ones, including those from the country. That's a bulking there. So, of course, I'm sure we'll see how, I'm sure it's going to come up. So, yeah, we're just very conscious of what was going to cost. And then we'll realize, because they, um, the 5% cap was a last minute, my stones and other wealthier towns that were getting, they knew they're going to suffer a little without waiting people. But they're, they're really, and that's what's being missed a lot of articles. So hasn't done the reading phases. So they, they're looking at like a 66% common level. Two more. Well, would they have opportunity to move within the districts? People move on, people retire. So they have the license to remain on the streets. And then myself, yeah, it's, it's not seamless, but it's, it's good. And I know what would be one person advice for the great teachers. So this is the Boogeyman skip to the bond. So stated, just a little tax appraisal based on current sales to the rate of uniformed tax burden costs from their website. So we're only 2 years out from our appraisal. We, and so what happens is the state looks across the, the state. And they track real residential real estate sales. And then they compare that number to the appraisal. And based on that, they find what that percentage difference is across the board. And that's, and that becomes the common level of appraisal. So in our case, we were in 94 last year, 95.3 last year. And they dropped us another set, almost a fish and that's what we weren't expecting. We were thinking threes and that would have been not so bad. So long. So now we're down to days and like was six. And like I said, still was at 68. They tried, they looked at a real price on 2 years ago. And at least this book, the article I read reflected and the political cost was too. It was bad here, there. It's going to be amazing and bad. And they just said, even though you're supposed to, now's our expected to do real price on every team here is, they said, we'll take the cost of being able to stay with the cost of real price. So I think it's convenient. Yeah, it has an interesting mentality, but they don't know when they don't say it. Their board chair and their superintendent have rigged at bunch of like seven, just back and forth and every committee said that's the culprit. They're culprits to see them because they're looking at it now. Well, if they had a re-appraisal fee for 15 or 20 years, at least 12. Oh, good. I think so. So I mean, if I was to drop that one, I mean, some of what I do think we'd like to get about $40,000 instead of $60,000. Yeah, I don't quite know for sure. That may have been 2023 number, not 2040. They posted those numbers and then they seemed to be really, so I can't find, but it's not, it could be their regards. And that would have left us with a 5% cap right at 14% tax rate. We're looking at a 1.5% tax rate losing capital. So that's how close we got. We were, I think the administration did their job trying to hold things down. But 15.4% tax rate is still there. Good news is it's sort of a one-year bond. The bond servicing costs next year will not be as high. Federal money will have come into place to pay off some of the buildings out there worth that we've taken over for the tech center. This is an amazing aviation program out there. They have 12 different planes and helicopters and they're taken over far too much together, completing certifications. So we didn't know how many they did. If they do the three-year program, that's something I would do well, but they're taking, they're planning certain interests. They walked up the data and made these at least $80,000. That's like, yeah, it's crazy. It probably wasn't a lot of money at all. So with that, one more. So these are things really, I tried to do a kind of a reminder of all the things that were lost, like the ester funds, that's the COVID funds, elementary and secondary school, emergency relief funds, that's it. That's what happened. CLA at that point, almost 8% adjustment. So all those, we did our best. And to be honest, this taxation was going to happen some. It's just the way it probably affects the design. The school's got it, not the city, the town. Part of that is, you know, poverty doesn't go anywhere, people can move. So it really makes it an income tax. The city and state get most of the non-homestead taxation. So business probably will possess corporations. So really, that's the balance. So these numbers, again, are a little bit off instead of for $370,000 homestead. It's more like $820 now. And additional taxes and income taxes are like $170. So it's painful. There are some solutions for taxpayers through, it's got homestead relief. I posted it to the progressives to do workshops to really help these populations maximize their tax-wise for the exception of us, but there are limits to what is happening. So we asked that you ask for your vote. What's the impact there? Well, if you're not a residential owner paying those taxes, you will be paying it through your there's a line in the process. The rest will be through the rent. The rent will become the bulk of it because there's a huge difference between that income pay imagine, which many of our renters will not because they're not residents. You know, it's an order that we can do that. Yeah, I can just stand down and let you know the figures like that. I was like, this was a figure they gave one, one of the things that they draw from them with the district promotion. I don't need to have some new consent to do pay the glass. And that I'll be right. My wonder would be equating that to your rent costs. I'm not sure how that, so that has a problem. I'll change the amount of people. We are going to vote. We could have closed the column, but so don't know that you have to give teachers notice in April. If they're not going to be, there were three higher. And the vote was 15 letters that we thought out that week. So I think we're looking at ways to offset that person. We did get 2.4 with any diagram. Our other has been five lines. This year, 23, which has been almost two years ago now. And now that money is free as a one time usage. I would probably use for that. That person would have a difference. Well, again, fortunately, we did the board early when we prepared for this. But in some of the best schools out there, other than still asking for. And we're usually benefiting from waiting. Yes, this is all brought into that. That I should have said that. That's how we kept a lot of it. Oh, yeah. That was that. Otherwise, yes, at all. Oh, yes. We're almost getting double the money out of the student study of all the others, of the non with people. Right. So we separate without that meeting to show the years. And we keep reminding them. And then I don't know what's going to happen on the state level now. The only new funding that's out there is the sports. The sports family. And maybe they allocate some of that to us. Back when the lottery happened that was front and center percentage of profits where you go to education. It does have a day where that happens. He goes directly to the education. It's not small amounts, which you would hope for. So the sports betting is public. You can hear our presence. More president is telling me after we did the town meeting show that Massachusetts dedicates about percent acts just to school structure. So that's how we just needed that. And we, our legislature, as well, just ended school construction. Even in us like 35% of the costs shown by the state. They, they saw the three plus six million server investment. How much money to take to bring all of our students. We had some discussions of what we did. That's what you a little crystal ball. So any questions that you can get in while I was Yep. I don't have a point about the rent to the high school. Yes. The market ran for a good deal. It was the only game in town. So, Don and Sean donated that. I mean, he was supposed to be able to get anything for other water. Yes. But he said that's not who he is. He wants to. Yeah. And we're thinking another 200, 300,000 something. So we negotiated that rate through the work. And we thought the school would be finishing. It's moved to another. It was supposed to be next fall, not this fall. So a year and a half from now. Now it's going to be the start of the school year. So he wants more. We have a lot of rent. I did. I did. I'm not going to say I'm a Google search. And I did rent the commercial space down at Lake Street. There was one for about a half a week. But I don't know if he's paying now. Oh, yeah. He was all out. All out. He used it to be a guarantee. And in the other local part of the school, like dunking down the one he wanted. Yeah. And then he went like, yes. That's good. Yeah. Yeah. It's he, he knew he had us, you know, from the get go. I'm not sure how the match was made between, but I'm just, it's all he said. You're not finding anything, are you? So there's nothing in the public. Pardon me. I want to keep the building and use that space for kind of an alternative. I school students who want to go do it all online or do build your own, perhaps a graduation, but not in those places. You know, galsh was a good idea. Any other, yeah, no. So the school population, that's what I said. That's one of my concerns and we'll be, you know, looking at that. It's dropped. It does. It's dropped. I mean, looked, I was, I left the district in 2011. That's decreased by, I think, two percent. That's across the board. Someone told me that the population of Burlington has also remained constant. Yeah. Yes. It's the child bearer. The children just aren't. Right. They have, you know, thousands of people. How it's done with all the new development, I think, though, and the added balancing, if we aren't meeting more people, why aren't we better shaped in the housing? But somebody told me that if we are, we have stayed level, well, let's first look at Daniel, because we have added 72 musicians in the city government in the last five years. So, and his point was, why has the city government cut expenses from if our population is? And I don't know my answer. Well, that's a pretty common question for school. You know, part of it, we in Vermont sucked up in my head. So I will not be able to quote anything other than my personal experience. What is documented is mental health, these algorithm and the staff that, or those students will not be able to participate in school. They're guaranteed a free, accessible education by federal law. And they can be, you know, you get your needs met however you want to get them met. They can often be pretty disruptive, sometimes being dramatic with classmates. So, you know, schools need to provide that support. We also have a lot of those small schools to inform our commitment to those, but the state offsets the costs to those towns to keep those small school buildings the state knows that's the center of your town. That or church and the post office and maybe we'll judge the school. The school goes. So, those are some of the things. As far as staff and as far as, you know, we've picked up a lot of administrative status aside. And I'm still querying about that. Superintendent Flankel says our percentage of staff the full of our administrative state staff as far as our state staff is about three to four percent, which is a little average. And that's all, you know, that's what we'll have to come next year or maybe with the slow focus. We haven't, we've not, we did not have that. Because we just somewhat put that out there that there are options, because the options are cutting, teaching, and so forth staff. And that's pretty awful with that. And I didn't think that would be too much of a sport. Oh, man, it's first time, man. Seven, two, and... Yes, so it would be too early. Yes, we're making several studies at the WVM and a number of bison residents from like six or seven in the eighties to the thirties so far. So yes, it's administrative load is one, you know, just everywhere. Schools are not, yeah, schools and cities are not. So we'll stick, it will be interesting. I don't, I don't have a lot of it. And we can have it. So we're hoping people will support us. Yeah, I think it will pass. But there's a bison bigger than any of that, so I think it's both being built against the school budget. It's so great. Yeah, well, one of the, our, we do have one contest for the award and during the discussion, that person had like, our, put this in combat, he accepted, not, quote, not transparent. So this, this is something. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I'm sure you've been making a lot of stuff that's going to be different. We'll catch you for the next time. Yes. With that, any comments for the comments? Seeing none, or any kind of motion to adjourn. Seconded.