thanks for visiting today this is bill morrow and this is things they usually don't teach you the program that we're doing today is a little unusual because it's actually talking about taxes talking about the property taxes here in peter's township  tonight we're going to be voting on those taxes a school taxes for the community and i thought it probably would be good even though dan sullivan did an excellent job during our last meeting when we had the bomb counselors and everybody there discuss some of the things i think that it's very good if you didn't want to sit through that entire meeting which is very difficult sometimes to in fact see specifically what you're paying why you're paying and how you're paying and what your benefits are and what the community benefits are for having a school system like peters township and today the topic is tax facts for today and tomorrow what you need to know and this is just from my view i'm a school board member but in fact this is not been vetted by anybody else the only person i talked to in the district is dan sullivan to get some figures most updated figures from him so as we're going through the program today you're going to in fact see a lot of information i mean a lot of and we're going to be comparing ourselves to the other local schools to see how their tax structures are working or not working in some cases we're going to see the the difference between a mill of taxes we're going to see the different programs we're going to see how outside sources look at us as far as what do they think as far as peter's township is concerned academically all right in comparison to other districts in the state where do we stand all right these are all sorts of programs that i think you should know because i'm  scuse me that i probably will be supporting this and i want to give you my reasons for supporting the tax increase some of the districts are going to be looking at our upper saint clair bethel gateway and some other local districts and see what they're doing to lower their their educational cost per district i think when you see some of these things are going to be very surprised then you're going to understand why we can't just keep cutting costs ok because really peter sonship is in one of the best financial conditions of any district to we are probably the leanest district in western pennsylvania let alone the state all right and you'll see some of the cost and some of the districts which will drive you crazy i mean because of the fact when you see what they're paying to do certain things i believe they're going to be asking why you also see why washington county makes a difference as far as tax benefits are concerned we're going to be looking a lot of these things but these are things that are t schools these aren't things that most people understand or know about and i'm hoping that after this program that everyone will see that a little bit better ok once again we're comparing some local schools are saying clear about the gateway and some other local districts what they're doing the first one is after st clair according to their website they are raising a proposed one point three seven five mils on an average home this would cost about between four hundred thirty and four hundred fifty dollars per year an increase now this is one point three seven but that's in allegheny county which makes a world of difference because they're assessed value is different but let's take a look at some of the things that they've had to do this past year to in fact try to meet their budget requirements which fact very interesting the district cut seven positions and three support positions last year ok seven additional positions and three additional support positions have been cut this years for a total of  fourteen twenty positions in st clair school system the ministration staff has been restructured and lemonade into central office positions that total salary cost  thirty thousand dollars above what they had spent in two thousand and six and two thousand and seven the district renegotiated their contract with the union representative teachers union to save approximately three point seven million dollars this is just one that was done recently here so this is something that that is very important to us because peter such a didn't have to do that the district also renegotiated with their drivers for a savings which seems small but once again that's for the twenty three thousand dollars the district reduces expenditure request for technology and supplies field trips and capital projects over five hundred thousand for the next or the past two years they instituted registration fee for athletics which we've been doing for a couple years good bad or indifferent at this point and everybody seems to have their their different view on that the best a park school system is expected to raise a half mil point five two mil actually the district approved a seventy three point five million dollars budget in the two thousand and thirteen two thousand and one two thousand and twelve two thousand and thirteen school year which included that increase in milage as i discussed bringing t noise to twenty five point four nine all right well to be taking a look at this breakdown as we go through because of the fact the you'll see and i believe you understand why whenever we increase mills and they increase half a million why make such a big difference in bethel park this increase to them means about one hundred sixty dollars on a three hundred thousand dollar home gateway high school is one that has has had some substantial problems in the news lately you've heard about them coming back their sports programs for the middle schools and things like that but they also as you see by the slide scuse me is planning to cut up to twenty seven teachers from its sixty six million dollar budget that will trim about five point seven million million off the budget leading to a deficit still a deficit to them about six hundred forty thousand dollars all right once again i'm presenting a lot of these issues because of the fact that i need everyone to understand whenever it comes to raising or lowering or keeping taxes the same sometimes for the future it's not necessarily the best thing just to keep everything the same because  catch up to you as we talk about the program here today will be also discussing the issue of the teachers retirement fund which is in fact causing some of this potential problem because the fact that they have a defined benefits program the budget for the state in fact that includes a over three hundred million dollars this year increase to help offset some of that potential that's coming down it's not going to offset all of it but in fact when we look at it we'll see exactly where that's going to be taking us here in the near future different school districts have in fact started to look together to see what happens for example one school districts offers a language that the other one doesn't letting their students participate in that program will in fact be beneficial to everyone some of these programs as peter sonship just found out we had the opportunity through the connections of the building principal here at the high school and other connections throughout the district were able to make connections to mount lebanon and were able to get into one of their advanced programs it was beneficial to us many many ways because they have a program that they had access books so we were able to borrow them were able to skype into their program and that allowed us and the parents of these students on these high end courses many times they were being required they finished in the junior year here peter sanjit maxed out with their math or the science course and as you well know in the district over the last few months with participation of the students actually and the faculty and the administration we were able to come up with some some beneficial programs including linear algebra and organic chemistry and these are two of the programs one of which is going to be involved with modern high school with our students actually skype ing into their program allowing us to reap the benefit of their teacher and also allowing the parents not to have to pay in the past the students who advance past what we had to offer would be required to go someplace else and sometimes unlike w and j college and if they were offering a program the student not only had to get down there but then they also had to pay for the course and sometimes it was three thousand dollars for an additional math course or science course whatever the benefit to our students of course is they get the education so they can carry that on and go on to college and not be stymied their first year without having a math program the second thing it does for us of course is it allows us to offer more advanced programs the third thing it does is allows the parents to save money because a substantial scott savings to them to skype into this program the district will in fact authorize it to be done but the cost sharing is once again trying to keep costs low cost sharing for the district is in fact something that we all have to dissipate it and if you're  are all getting into the consortium to in fact offer their courses to the other local school districts to keep everybody's costs down it's akash airing that in fact peter's concept has in fact looked into and plans to participate now we talked about the cost per student and the figures that i got were from your ph gov dot com and there are there's a lag time from the last year because they were just finishing the eleven twelve year but the figures that i've got here mostly from the two thousand and nine two thousand and ten period but when we look at those we'll see how in fact the benefits to us and what we're doing the cost per student during that year then you see that gal school district spending twenty six thousand seven hundred and this was back in two thousand and ten all right as you look down here the median for the state is thirteen two and bethel park is up there  fourteen three charters values fourteen three opera st clair fourteen to panama millon and that and they all go down peterson except in this area is the lowest cost per student of any district and this was the figure back in two thousand and ten now all of these figures have gone up one of the benefits that we have the two thousand and twelve two thousand and thirteen cost per student has gone up about six hundred fifty seven hundred dollars in the last two years per student as you'll see there if you compare that to the other cars were still lower than every other district around on if you project their cost for two years and even project them to the seven hundred or a hundred dollar increase at that's all they spent then you'll see the peter size of still at the lowest cost per student the difference is in r b f is the fact that we're still gaining students some of the school systems that in fact we're talking about are actually losing students all right so whenever you look at the budget as we will you'll see how that compares to cost benefit and this is something that's very interesting now i bring back the gallatin school system school district and i want you to keep that in mind as we're talking about cost benefits the cost benefit here is very important because of the fact that it's how other people see you and how vance our students are and where they're placed as comparison to other schools spending twenty six hundred twenty six thousand seven hundred eighty one dollars as a gallon does and once again this is based on a two thousand and ten figure so you would expect that that figure would be possibly substantially higher by now but whenever you realize that they're spending two and a half times what we're spending and then whenever you see how they're reviewed by outside sources as far as their education you can see that peter thompson has done a very very good job so what does this mean to you we're talking about a lot of taxes well this slide demonstrates that over the last ten years from the year two thousand two thousand and ten the percentage of tax increases that have been seen by the local communities is very very interesting in pursuing claire in peter's time as you are two of the lowest at four percent increase during that ten year period of time and which is another reason why the property values out here will be looked at more favorably because of the fact that our taxes even after a small increase will in fact be substantially less per house than they are across the line in allegheny county we're going to take a look at that we're going to take a look at what that means to you all right what do you what cost benefit to our residents get from being in this district and what the students and their children get well this is very interesting what we look at are these standards to meet the standards of the state the average teacher salaries within the couple of these districts the enrollments in the budgets and what that means what a tax mill means to the community whenever in fact these taxes are being raised and then i think it can be put in perspective and what this increase means to us taxpayers me to you know people on the border taxpayers in this community and sometimes everybody thinks it's we're sort of get a a free ride and that's not true the cost per student to meet the p s s a map targets by the district and the that whenever i read this this just drove me crazy once again these figures came directly from the u p a god dot com dot org i'm sorry churches valley eighty seven thousand five hundred dollars to meet the math targets the pennsylvania standards and you see going down there there's not too much of a difference between bethel park and milo bennett i mean they're all spending sixty five thousand and up and peter's timeship somehow gets in there forty nine thousand seven hundred seventy one this is the entire process of teaching math to meet the eleventh grade standards from the p s a and this is a six very successful rate as you see all right lorenza in one case here we're almost half the cost so whenever we look at cutting the budget there's not a whole lot to cut when we look at certain programs the average teacher salary once again these are ten thousand two thousand and ten two thousand and eleven figures you'll see the peters time to falls right in line there with the with the local communities were not above or beyond and this is once again the ten eleven year ok these figures are not counting their benefits their health benefits and everything else that goes in with their program ok but you'll see that this look at this raid and this was like two years ago peter sonship average salary you got to take the average with all the few hundred teachers that we have it was sixty two thousand four hundred eleven next year the two thousand and twelve two thousand and thirteen budget the average teacher's salary is expected to be around sixty seven thousand ok once again that's based on a teacher's contract that we have with them and for even from the figures of two years ago that really only takes it up about four hundred four thousand five hundred dollars after two two years of contract negotiations which once again i have to go back these are two year old figures so whatever you look at all these other districts we fall very much into the middle of the range just like we did on two thousand and ten two thousand and eleven the different facts in a romance and their budget is very important and very very enlightening if you look at it from the standpoint that the park for example has forty almost forty eight hundred students their budget is seventy three million lebanon fifty one hundred students their budget is eighty million peters times it has almost forty five hundred students and our budget for next year is fifteen million eight hundred seventy two thousand now you see the figures in blue they're all reflect the new budgets for the school districts the ones you see with the africa at the end are multiple communities for example charters valley the ellsworth call bridgeville i'm not deaf i'm sorry bridgeville and collier and scott so there are multiple so some of the cost for transportation over a much larger area you would expect to be larger but whenever you look at  opera st clair as a comparison they have hundreds of students less almost three hundred students less and their budget is thirteen million dollars more than ours when you look at my lebanon there are six hundred students more an hour from now six hundred students more in their budgets thirty million dollars more than ours park which is very close we're only a couple hundred difference their budget is funny three million dollars more than our budget so when we look at this it really does  lightning for our taxpayers to realize that everybody wants to cut taxes and we all understand that especially in a day whenever our economy is going crazy and things like this but we also want to offer our students an excellent education and i think that that's what you're going to see as time goes on here this is probably the most telling slide in this whole process when we talk about mom loving or about four percent claire raising a half a mil for them as you look at  this light of charges valley raises a half a mil a basically brings in a million dollars to them and you look down the bottom of the slide when peter said you brings in a half a mill it only brings in about one hundred sixty thousand dollars which makes a big difference whenever you're looking at the process probably in a worse position than peter's township is on that we're going to take a break right now we'll come back to this live when we're done all right look forward to seeing on the other side my wife and i think our son drinks too much we hate to see him wasting his life the serapis told us to try al anon family groups where we can find understanding and support he was right it means a lot to be with people who understand what you're going through are you troubled by someone's drinking you might be surprised at what you could learn in an al anon family group meeting from people just like you call one eight hundred eight for al anon or visit al anon family groups dot org this neighborhood sure has changed in my life as you know there was a time when people like me couldn't live here because of their race and the color of their skin i'll never forget how i felt being told i wasn't welcome in this neighborhood that this apartment was for whites on well i own this building now the fair housing act made a difference to someone like me it gives up the opportunity to live in communities of our choice free from discrimination the fair housing act makes it illegal to discriminate in the renting of selling a home because of race color religion sex national origin familial status or disability no you are right if you believe you have experience out in discrimination contact  all right thanks for coming back you'll notice the studio here is a little different today when we came in as the main studio that was usually or it was taken out and so we're doing a little differently in there today they were nice enough to jerry rig the program for me and i let's go back to the district what it cost in taxes so if charges value raises a quarter mil attack pax's doesn't sound like much but in fact what that does is it brings in approximately five hundred thousand dollars to their district for us to meet that requirement we would have to raise almost one point seven five mills all right so it sounds like a big jump for us but when you compare it to another district of north allegheny as you see here if they want to raise a million dollars all they have to raise is a quarter million tax but for us it would be over three males in tax and that's what the problem is when i'm you look at the snow when you read the papers and you see that the full amount lebanon st clair only raising a little bit a tax and we're looking to raise three point seven nine it sounds terrible but our three point seven nine basically gives us another million dollars a year and that's all so that's the problem that we have and that's one of the reasons why i want to present this once again i want to make sure that everybody understands even though i'm a member of the school board this is my view this is not a member i'm not speaking for the rest of the board members i'm not speaking for anybody other than myself because i feel that that community needs to know exactly where the money's going how it's been spent why it's been spent do i think we've had some problems in the past absolutely do i think we've spent some money that we should have absolutely we're spending almost thirteen mils of our tax dollars on a practice field which i think was a bad call i said that the one of i ran for the office and i'll still say it now i don't think we needed to spend that much for a field whenever it's considered just quote unquote a practice field but with that being in the past and i had nothing to do with that we have to look forward to the future and see how solvency in our community is going to be kept even with the tax increase that we talked about earlier for our percent claire it was pointed out to me by a neighbor that they read that even with that tax increase over sinclair is looking at an eight million dollars deficit in their future next two or three years possibly  if you break that down even into their millage that means that i've been saying clear with a one point six almost one point seven million per mil is going to have to raise their taxes by four mils plus just to meet that requirement all right so for mills well we look at the cost of allegheny county as taxes which means that that's going to be about sixteen to eighteen hundred dollars additional tax than what they're paying right now all right when we look at that is that and that's without the increase in teachers retirement program benefits that are coming up and they're coming up substantial and the next four years as will point out they'll be doubled what we're paying now and like i said what we're paying is only half of what the state pays alright the state picks up the other half so their costs are increasing just like ours so the general fund has to come up with taxes i said i mentioned the budget last year threw in another three hundred plus million dollars just for the teachers retirement program all right and that's so that's very important because you were looking at the moves that we're making being a totally solvent still school system right now when we look at what we're doing we're taking the savings that we have and we do have approximately ten million dollars right now we have p million dollars in these funds that can be used for these purposes so what we're going to be doing is taking those funds and potentially spreading them out over a period of time but that's not the only thing we can do to save money all right when we look at the school district milledge tax here in two thousand and eleven you see the peter sonship in the w s behind the names are washington or allegheny depending upon the w or the a but peter sonship has a low one of the lowest tax mills in western pennsylvania right now at ninety six points fifty one mills percent claire it's distorting but once again go back to those figures that we talked about twenty four point one million or twenty five point these sound like won't g s we're spending  hundred five well it's a totally different system our system which i'll point out to differences here in a minute our system doesn't bring in and some cases it's one twin ten or one fifteenth of what these this reform bring in but then you look down at the asterix there and ringle for example one hundred twenty mills but they have averaged over the last four years a three mil increase each year so that they've actually come up about twelve mills of increases just in the last but based on the figures that we saw that they get permits they can bridge jack those three mills continuing for a period of time it's not going to stop for them  has increased their mills a three point six over the last four years and these are continuous of three point six that gives them about fifteen million crease just over the last four years and these are these are not part well these are part i'm sorry of the figures that we gave earlier because of the fact that they and they came up during that period of time so whenever you saw those twenty five or twenty six or twenty eight percent increases over the last ten years that's how dollars in taxes each year over the last four years which which really really is paled by the rest of these organizations now this is an example using bethel park all right using their their increase in milage and everything else talking about the future that's talking about with their potential increase right now all right so when you look at the school mills to four point nine seven it's going to bring when all these figures are approximated because once again when i was working with some of these  they had come up with a final figure and then they did and so i was trying to put them in there so that for mom bethel park school system would bring about seventy four seventy five hundred dollars just in school taxes to that one from that one property so when you're looking at the local milledge rate and everything else for the bethel park community the township itself of the borough they pay less at about ten thousand dollars a year in taxes now here's the difference peters township your assessment is somewhere between one fifth of the value and one half the value so your assessment if you lived up in giant oaks your assessment may only be twenty percent or less maybe in fifteen percent of what your market value is because washington county hasn't reassessed since one nine hundred eighty ok so this is this is all over so i picked one home and actually the assessed value on this is i was told by our business manager at the school system is a little bit high it should be in the lower than this so these taxes actually should be on an average lower than what you're seeing here but anyhow if you work it out including the proposed tax increase of three point seven nine mils which only it's on this three hundred thousand dollars home to a little bit over two hundred dollars extra year all right so it comes out to the seventy eight hundred almost seventy nine hundred dollars which is still substantially less almost twenty five percent what you're seeing in allegheny county now once again the moves that we're making here are all going to be reflected in the long term and that is a that's most important thing that everybody has to remember let's see what your tax dollars a box over the past years all right once again keeping in all these figures that you've seen so far keeping the lowest cost per community as far as school district and you'll see that some of the highest rated school systems and how we compare to those systems the reading school in the performance and these are taking them directly from the p s s a state results my loved ones ninety four percent for eleventh grade ninety three percent bethel park eighty nine percent and so forth ok so when we look at some of these schools paying substantially more sometimes for five thousand dollars more for student and we're paying in reading we're getting our dollars worth in the p s a say scores cost per student that i demonstrated earlier we're really getting our dollars worth because we're rated still amongst these higher schools in math  and english the business times rating for the district that's western pennsylvania out of i believe one hundred five different school systems opera st clair was number one and congratulations to them i think it's their seventh year in that position my lebanon was a close number two and peter sonship comes in number seven we slipped from number six and we're working on that to figure out what's what how we can get back up in there but the park is number twelve can mack twenty to forty five and seventy five and so forth ok these are just the district ratings in western pennsylvania let us look at what the business times rated in the state recycler once again came in number one which is a compliment to them all right mark levin is number five peter sonship in the state is number eleven where the highest ranking in washington county but i'd rather be once again compared to these better schools in the allegheny county system because of the fact that i want to be compared them to the better schools and not the average schools ok that's a part came in it's forty one now do you remember back on their budget their budget was you really do have to go back to the economy of the community all right you'll see most of these higher end communities have business districts that are pretty nice they have a higher per capita income of the families and i would i would venture to say more professional families white color are in these upper districts so whenever you're looking at that you really do have to look at that overall but on the other hand the teachers that we have are comparable to these better districts and so i mean that's where you're going to get them better and you're going to pay for a little bit more that's what we've been doing but we've only been paying a little bit more the gallatin area that i talked about earlier when we talk about funds being thrown into education doesn't make a difference they're paying two and a half times what we are per student and according to this state rating they came in a four hundred thirty two in two thousand and eleven and they dropped to four hundred forty four and this is out of five hundred school systems all right so whenever you look at that there's a problem and you know i said but just because you spend money does not mean it has to be spent wastefully or that that there not areas in the budget if you're spending twenty six thousand dollars per student our budget for this district would be over five hundred fifty one million dollars and that's what we have to really pay attention to because of the fact not only does it cost but the admin and everything else the grade school ratings peter's timeship rated attendance over st clair mount lebanon about all rated a ten all right so we're looking at our cost per student based on the education that they're getting and how they're being represented by the people in the community we're right up there with the best and i have to admit that that's not a bad place to be and that's you know and now this is a this is a really telling slide u s news the educational ratings for the state as well as the national ratings are percent claire came in ninth one behind my love it and i'm sure that that's because of the history of my lebanon has always been a top one of the top schools but in their rating system they came up eighth and ninth respectively their national ratings you would think would be higher than this but you know there's a lot of top schools out there so they came in five hundred fifty seven and six hundred  fourth nationally peters township came in fourteenth in the state and seven hundred eighty s nationally as far as the u s news report education ranked the other schools that you see were on ranking both at the state and national right levels you know and there's good schools and then they offer an adequate education for sure but whenever you look an outside sources taking a peek at us it's important that we see where we stand both state and nationally right now keep the cost down in the savings it's very important as i mentioned we have about ten million dollars and i i will tell dan whose face and i will i've told  before he's been with the township for many many years and he's just about to retire and his predecessor hopefully will follow the same path that he's taken because what he's done is he has he has mapped out a strategy for the district in the past which in fact has always allowed peter stansted to be one of the highest bond rating school districts one of the things that the bond counselors told us the other day is we don't have to go out and buy insurance for our  because of the fact so solvents is our financial picture that in fact the bond can be sold without insurance and once again i as i told dan every time i see some logic behind invent going on in the school system i always see his face or his picture is he somehow very much attached to it so we want to thank him not only for his years of service but how he is established peters township in the community we have a short outstanding de and we're going to talk about that here in a second we have a slide that the bonn conference gave us and i'm going to share that with you unlike most school systems which take out their debt for thirty five or forty years into the future than is had a  where he's tried to keep the payments high and pay it off as fast as possible not to allow our district to get out there and be extended to the point where we can't see the light of day all right raising taxes now will keep the costs controlled for the future once again we've got a couple things we've got negotiated contracts which will increase about three percent every year we have teachers retirement fund which is i'm going to show you here in a minute it's going to double within the next couple years so it's going to go from really just part of the budget now to a major part of the budget and if we can in fact change our process and extend that debt by rolling it over ok if we can extend that just by a few years then that's going to save the community from being raised about four million dollars in tax or four mills in taxes i'm sorry so with the money we have on the ten million dollars that we currently have with a potential tax increase of three point seven which only gives us a little bit over a million dollars again a million one i believe that's all gives us and then by refinancing our debt by using that million dollars and by in fact having a small tax increase now what we have is the opportunity to look towards eight to ten years while these other districts are going in deficits while they are in fact raising three and four mils of taxes a year when we have is eight to ten years without a tax increase of course it's a it's like anybody else you can refinance your home get money out of it go buy a boat i think you're going to be in good shape it's not going to happen so we have to watch that we can't do the ridiculous football fields anymore we can't do that we have to watch our budget we have to watch our money and we have to control costs as we have in the past so that's what we're going to have to do but one of the last line there is we don't project a deficit at this point and that's looking eight to ten years down the road one will not require another tax increase too as the time goes on as you'll see by the chart that i'm about to show you the price that we're spending the money that we're spending on our debt actually decreases each year so the savings per year that we come up with will actually bring more into the coffers so we won't have to go back into the community i liken it to the idea that and i'm i have a slide here we'll talk about that in a second the current  future debt you see this area and dark here that is our current debt all right and you see where we're at  is right at the beginning of the graph all right we're at two thousand and twelve two thousand and thirteen timeframe so our debt is included from here all the way through to here but this year's only two thousand and twenty two alright if we can then lower this debt will save approximately four mils as demonstrated here on the slide so we bring this that by refinancing it spread out over a few more years and this is only for seven more years or six more years actually to two thousand and eight so each year here we say here we say four mill that's right now here we save four mils four mills for mills but here we start saving more and by the time we get to two thousand and twelve we're saving another mill and by the time we get to two thousand and fifteen or two thousand since two thousand and twenty five i'm sorry we're saving so this so this savings at this point is about six mills here is about eight mills ok so as we're paying this off faster we are in fact are saving more money so that's a real big benefit because now we don't have to come back to you to do that so i liken this to a situation where you have fifty thousand dollars in savings and i know that that's a big amount today with all the people having this distressed with their businesses and things like that but if you have fifty thousand dollars in savings and you get hurt today all right it's going to take you a little bit of time to start your insurance benefits and everything so if you're living at five thousand dollars a month after the first month of you borrow you from your savings you only have forty five thousand dollars left if you get insurance money say maybe twenty five hundred you can extend the amount of months you can double them almost from forty five thousand left and adding twenty five hundred dollars each year instead of going for ten thousand taking that fifty thousand and divide that by the year five thousand expenditure you can double that's almost nineteen months because you have additional months helping fill back into that savings account so now in six months that funds come down into the thirty's but now you get an additional two thousand dollars in taxes or social security benefits because that's how the waiting time now you can extend your lifestyle at five thousand dollars a month after about seventy six months and that's basically what we're trying to do here by raising the small amount of taxes refinancing this debt and in fact living on the fact that we have a ten mil increase now the big plus here is the thirty percent more in some cases in taxes when you come out here live in a district that the school district is very good you're getting your money's worth you're saving three to four thousand dollars a year in taxes and if you have a child  going in the first grade twelve years of that pays for maybe a year of college for them or or a couple years of you get some benefits with it so that's what we're looking to do and we're trying to be solvent here is a big thing we talked about retirement cost all right and then solomon was nice enough to give me this this chart which in fact demonstrates how the retirement costs are going to change and this year all right it went from seven or eight percent just here a couple  now it's going to be at a little bit over twelve percent that equates to one point six million dollars but you see in three years from now that figure almost doubles to twenty four percent with twenty three point six six so to be three three on almost three and a half million dollars which once again peter sonship that's ten mils of increase so if we don't do anything now we're going to have to increase milledge to in fact get that i'd rather take a little bite now and look at the future without having a major increase every year then looking at some of these districts will have to do with three and four mills each year to in fact add to your  cost now we can project it we can plan it everybody can get ready for it if we have to wait you know you said when you look at the cost between two thousand and twelve thirteen versus thirteen fourteen that's two mills right there actually it's more than two mills that's about two and a half to three mills of increase for peter's timeship if you look at our cost between now and fourteen fifteen that's five mills and so if we keep doing and just piece mailing it together the district will never have money to to go forward and do anything else all right we will never have the opportunity to to be able to advance our programs you saw by the cost and after saying clear that they  actually reducing their technology cost by five hundred thousand over the past couple years we spent almost a million increasing our technology budget allowing for why five to be set up in the schools so i mean we're moving forward and this is what everybody has to understand with technology being what it is and preparing our students for the future this is the key there was an article in the business times or something that ten years ago the top or five years ago i'm sorry the top ten jobs that are now being sought after in the marketplace were not even around in five years ago so they're all technology positions so this is something that we have to be looking forward as with our students for the future one of the things that i find interesting in this is the last slide that i have so i won't bore you with anything else one of the things that i find interesting as over well since two thousand and if you don't think that this is a jobs program ok our education within our state stop to think about this over thirty five thousand teachers and administrators have been hard for our schools during that period of time so it's not a one for fourteen re here or anything else it's almost it's over one the one so we've had a decrease in overall enrollment but we have an increase in teachers and administrators in our schools nation and counted statewide it's not just nationwide but it's statewide so these are in fact situations that we have to we have to go back to the fourteen fifteen sixteen students per classroom  but no these are some things to keep in mind if peter sonship did what the local communities do as far as the school system we'd have another fifty members of our faculty ok that's how carefully it has been watched over the past we need your help and i hope you'll understand why in fact i've given you all the reasons that i will be supporting i will be supporting the tax increase i will be supporting the refund or refinancing our debt now because of the fact that i see for the long term benefits of our community i'd rather have everyone looking at those costs now and plan for that than to be hit every year fact get your support i hope that i have this program has given you a little bit of opportunity to see my reasoning behind it and understand as we pointed out in the beginning that these are things that no one teaches you  park i lived in mount lebanon no one ever tells you the facts on why these are or what's the difference that's what we try to do here today so if you have any questions or you know how to get in touch with me everybody seems to and that's fine but i wanted to share with you my logic and reasoning why i feel that this is going to be a good move and we really do need your support and we look forward to more activities more events going on in the school system with your help and that's what we need your help i'm also looking at once again this is going to benefit our real estate market and i think that the community overall will in fact see you monger's benefit here and in the few years to come this this gives us the opportunity to have you i reap the benefits where the rest  of the state may be floundering as far as real estate peters time job has always been pretty good so i look forward to hearing from you and hopefully this will be a soon enough that you can see why i voted the way i did thank you very much