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1971-05-03 Regular MeetingGALL TO ORDER The special meeting was called to order by Deputy Presiding Officer Norman Sutliff at 7:40 P.il. in the Courtroom of the State Office Building, xediak, Alaska. , r 1 1 b 1 4 S i;ODIAI( ISLAM BO[OUC': ASSIIv.S.y SPECIAL it ZTLIG APRIL 30th, 1971 ADM CALL Present Absent Wilton T. t3nite, iorougtn Chairman Ed i'aughtm Islam Sutliff T. T. Jadcsah Dot Arndt Didc Sims Also present: Russell vi. Walker, iorou9h - Clerk; Jain Lucas, Borough Assessor: Dr..larshall Lind and haters of the School board and approximately fifty people in the audience. III rm s OF BUSE1ESS A. Public Hearing On The Proposeabool Budget for 1971 -72. The Presiding Officer noted that a previous meeting had been held an April 27th and that a quo= had not been present at that time. He noted that this urns a very important Aprpril 27th 7th moreing and the ngtDr membership eind presented ted a very asserinly should be present. summary of At the revenues ail p Dr. id set and members of the and expenditures asi sk expected during the orlo g ee yopn audience were allowed to a questions or express opinions on the proposed budget. Dr. Lind was again asked to give a brief resume of the budget, setting forth the revenues and expenditures. It was noted again that there is an anticipated 7% increase in the student enrollment for the next year. The proposed Budget would require a millage rate of 5.98 or 1 -1/2 mill increase over last year's rats. The revenues further shay 6,500 from the tuition returns from Canwnity College in the noncredit courses. Under miscellaneous funds it wee noted that $75,000 will be needed to repair the roof of the present main building. There is a possibility that this rmey will be available for suds work from PL 815 funds ar would be approved by the Federal people providing that assurance can be given that the building will be functional for another 20 years. There has been a am for are more instructional unit - h19,ver it was noted the t th istisn pjer Oilier sources of reveue l ie was gn for that this is ntb tt to outati funds, the tobacco tax. It t dot ata8 students, w, l transportation, this, year well as the Johnson as tax. It is expected that 874 funds will be drat this year O'Malley funds. It is anticipated that at with these the S i funds will still be coming in and that the new programscan i be initiated There is shorn a $13,000 reserve for the at-base sd col, the allowance received by virtue of having the base school and it is being expended an that sdhool. Also the budget shows a reserve of $25,000 for the "I" Street Playground. Under expenditures Dr. Lind explained the increases in the different depart a nts noting that there was a 2.4% increase in the coat of a ninistraticn - due to additional bocidcesping services, sdool board travel and village advisory travel. Instruction is the biggest portion of the budget and is increase: by 8.8% - ; s alaries, supervisors and counselors. Another consideration is the inflationary factor of 5%. There has bean an increase of seven (7) teaching positions. Further noted the increase in the school transportatim and that this area is one in which the State may not be funding the nett year, the money would than have to cane from the foundation program. The paint enanca portion of the budget has increased as this includes. the $75,000 for the roof repair and two new light plants that must be placed at Akhiair and iarluk Spools and centralize heating for larhnk is also in the budget. It was toted that the hot -lurch program will be continuing and hoping that all the children not able to afford this hands trill have hot lunches during the spool year. The travel funds have been increased, as it is anticipated that more activities will be available for` the students. 1 1 1 4 5 5 n KID - SPECIAL Lff "lt4G - APRIL 30th, 1971 Page 2 Under community services are those funds that go to the Community College, this is a joint effort between the University of Alaska and the Kredvk School District to insure that courses are available to everyone in the Borough. Also under this item will be funds for the local library - in the anoint of $10,00C and further noted under capital outlay, there will be needs for some remodeling and for equipment for physical education - decrease of 78,000 over last year. Debt services were covered noting that the Tobacco Tax or 11% of that tax is used for retirement of the debt service and of the remainder, one -half will be picked up by the State. After the resume the public hearing was opened for comments from the members of audience. i ir. Brasie asked about :members of the school administration traveling to conferences and asked how this travel was taken care of and asked whether or not the teachers visiting other schools for evaluations euould be of benefit to our school system. Dr. Lind replied that all schools, in other to have full accreditation must be periodically evaluated and this is done every ter years. Some of the evaluation is done by the school itself and then other teachers from other districts are brought in to assist - the cost for this is picked up by the Northwest Accreditation Association and the sterol having the evaluation. In answer to the question concerning whether or not JO. Craig went to New Ftexico to evaluate the native school there, Dr. Lind replied that he did not. It was rated that tr. Craig went to Reno for conference of Association of Secondary School Principals and further that 50% of the cost was picked up 4: the Association - the trips in question took about one week for evaluation of test high and two days of school time were involved in the Conference for Secondary School Principals. It was noted that in order that the students wishing to enter college are able to do so without too many problems it is necessary for the high school to have and maintain accreditation from the Accreditation Association; inning from such a school the student is automatically eligible providing grades are up to standard. ilr T T F Ller of the Property Others' Association, voiced concern over the rise in tillage to help support the village schools and asked what could be done about having the people in the villages oay their taxes in support of their schools. Further voiced mum over the increase in the local costs. Frs. Hajdu pointed out that the increase in the local support is due to inflationary costs . and the decrease in federal funding in sate areas. She expressed disappointment that the Property Owners Association did not sad a representative to the School Board meetings as did other civic organizations had to act in an advisory capacity. Dr. Lind raped that the formula was being reworked for the support of the schools through 874 Fnanrs in that the Federal Goveaae nt was trying to keep the costs per student down in the villages and noted that it is anticipated that $123,000 will be spent in the Old harbor School; of that amount $112,000 ones from State Foundation Pxograans and the balance plus some extra cores through 874 Fords; there will be $1,000 combo; from l.ocal support for capital outlay. i•7. Brooks felt that the school adrainistration should tighten their belts and that several items should be cut somendtat - travel for instances (the point was made that there are considerable pore people traveling for the school than for the local goverment agencies and therefore the cost would naturally be more in this area). A member of the school board expressed the feeling that the budget had already been cut bade and that all the unnecessary items had been trimmed, prior to presentation to the Borough Assembly. The Presiding Officer declared a ten - minute recess. The meeting reconvened at 9:10 P.44. Mr. Sims pointed out that the City will soon be facing an increase in village to take care of several items that are to be required by the Federal Pollution Control Board and that consideration should be given to the overall picture. It was further felt that the surplus that the tax -payer has already paid should revert back to the taxpayer in order.to give him a break in tillage. .rte 1 0 1 1 ! A 5 5 KIB - SPECIAL ZIZEGAG - APRIL 30th, 1971 Page 3 A td Soerd'meObtepointed out that this had in fact been done as the surplus was carried in the budget for the next year as surplus. There was a very lengthy discussion betteen the school board members and the assembly on the projected costs of the community and the question was raised as to the amount of money being expended in different areas. One area in particttar was the tuition of teachers to the Ccrnwnity College. This su was answered LLaw the raises as such were not given to the teachers, by Alaska teachers are required to attend a certain number of classes, the school Board feht that the district should pay the tuition and thereby insure that the necessary classes for improvement of our system would be taken. Another item questioned was the amount of money for teacher's aides. It was felt that the money expended in this area is very wortlmtile as it relieves teachers for the important job of teaching and in a classroom that because of the number of children two teachers might be required, a teacher's aide and one teacher can take care of the classroom with less cost involved. It was pointed out that all are concerned about the need for a new building and concerned that the Kodiak dnildren will be getting the quality of education that they need. Mr. Sims roved that the revenue from local sources for the school budget for the 71 -72 fiscal -- be as follows: $38,122 =— •� • atef •bus or t- year; 5 ,5 ern support; •, .'tuition n ees ran patrons and further that $75,000 for the improvement of the present building roof should be deleted from the expenditure portion of the budget with the stipulation that the application will be made to 815 Funds for this and that the Sdtool Board has the authority to cane back to the ioroulh for this amount should these 815 nrneies not be expendiable for this, secnded by flr. Arndt. Following the discussion tir. Sims amended his motion with the approval of the seaatcl to include "If these fund are not available the money will be taken from the damtcm school fund reserve." Using the discussion that followed it was points, out that this amount tn,t.'. be the same as last year and that the Assembly would like to have it stipulated that there ttould be no decrease in the instructional salaries or materials. The School Loardtculd have to review the budget to determine where the cuts could and would be made. it Sims asked too that the money for the community college and the library in the amount of $5,500 would still be appropriated by the School, hammer, again the board members noted that this would have to be determined later and that the Assembly should perhaps put this item or items in the Horough budget to insure that the payments would be made. During the discussion it was further noted that the amount if provided for as in the motion would be a decrease in local sun trt as there had been an error in cnmwacatias and the actual support for last year was $265,000 not $246,000. The question was called for and the motion failed by unanimous roll call vote. h>r. Sims homed that the local sources of the 71 -72 fiscal year school budget read follows; as cwga�'ps 2L ,000 tuitsan fees fran patrons ns patrons $6,500, that wiillbe Borough total of the local support and further that $75,000 from PL•8]],,55 be listed under Federal sources, seconded by lir. Arndt. It was noted that this includes the $3,000 for the Community College and the $2,500 for the library. The members of the school board again said that at this time they couldn't be sure where the art would be made and could give no guarantee of f those parti. ^'tar programs. 'here is no question of the need for these programs haaevert the question is where the cuts will be made. Further the uoard felt if the budget were cut and these two items were desired by the Borough it should be line items in the Borough's budget. The question was called for and the Clerk noted that the teighted vote could be used by the City's representatives and that each should state whether or not they would use the weighted vote. Both representatives stated they would not use the weighted vote. The motion passed by a unanimous roll call vote, all members, Or. Arndt, iir. Sins and iir. Sutliff voting YES. B. Ratification of the Election Judges for the Special Election, itay 4, 1971. The list was read by the borough Chairman. iir. Sins moved for ratification of the election judges as presented, seconded by i:r. Arndt, motion passel by unanimous ous roll call vote. - meetteg ad�ourned 141:40 P.i;. 1 • l n KODIAK ISLAND BO%%JG1 1971 ORIGINAL BOARD OF EQUALIZATION May 3, 1971 I BILL TO ORDER II POLL CALL ATPFSP: The meeting was called to order at 7:45 P.M. by the Deputy Presiding Officer Norm Sutliff, in the Courtroom of the State Office Building, Kodiak, Alaska. Present Absent Norm Sutliff, Deputy Presiding Officer Don Arndt Dick Sims Ed Naughton T. T. Jackson Also present: John Lucas, Borough Assessor, Wilton T. White, Borough Chairman, Russell Walker, Borough Clerk-Treasurer and Kathleen May, Assessing Clerk acting as Clerk III CASES FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE BOARD Mt. Sutliff noted for the record that there were no appellants to be heard by the Board of Eq IV A[lJJURI MEIff At 7:47 P.M., Mr. Sutliff declared the 1971 Original Board of Equalization formally closed. n , ! A : ,1 1971 ORIGINAL BOARD OF EQUALIZATION MAY 3, 1971 I. CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order at 7:45 PM by the Deputy Presiding Officer, Norm Sutliff, in the Courtroom of the State Office Building, Kodiak, Alaska. II. ROLL CALL Absent Present Norm Sutliff, Deputy Presiding Officer Ed Naughton on Don Arndt Dick Sims Also present: John Lucas, Borough Assessor, Wilton T. White, Borough Chairman, Russell Walker, Borough Clerk- Treasurer and Kathleen May, Assessing Clerk acting as Clerk III. CASES FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE BOARD Mr. Sutliff noted for the record that there were no appellants to be heard by the Board of Equalization. IV. ADJOURNMENT At 7:47 PM, Mr. Sutliff declared the 1971 Original Board of Equalizati Formally be closed. JRL:km John R. Lucas Borough Assessor