Osceola Village Board Meeting 3.8.2022

Village Meeting

4:20 Mark Luebker arrived

15:49 Lynette Edwards “We are not adding programming. This is not about adding things.”

15:56 LE “This is just about maintaining the programs we have”

16:06 LE “$360,000 a year about covers our salary increases”

16:11 LE “It is roughly a…somewhere between a 2 and a 3% salary increase”

16:20 LE “So when we are looking at looking at reductions or the increasing costs its really got to do with staffing.”

28:30 Brooke Kulzer “I’ve had people walk up to me and say well you want another $1Million and another $3. That’s not true. And that’s the big clarity piece here for me as a non-business manager a non superintendent. Just a normal working mom.”

28:46 Brooke Kulzer “….is that amount that is going to afford us to retain and attract our quality educators in our classrooms. It is not a million it is not three. As Lynette said before, it is about $360,000 that we are going to get extra.

30:36 Lynette Edwards “to go above the revenue limit by $3 million but don’t really need that; I mean that looking that’s get decided by the board at that time about how much of that”

32:28 Lynette Edwards “That is exactly the purpose of this operating referendum is to maintain the budget”