The Frewsburg Central School District Board of Education held its regular meeting at the Robert H. Jackson Elementary School on Thursday. There, Superintendent Shelly O’Boyle discussed the beginning stages of a five-year financial plan for the district. Also, board members were given a presentation by the elementary school physical education teachers regarding a new mobile smart board that has been introduced into the curriculum. P-J photos by Jordan W. Patterson

FREWSBURG — Shelly O’Boyle, superintendent of the Frewsburg Central School District, outlined the basis for the district’s five-year financial plan and called its current financial trend unsustainable during a board of education meeting Thursday.

The five year financial plan was compiled by O’Boyle and Jerome Lee Yaw, district business manager. They began by considering expenses, revenues, debt service, reserves and state aid over the course of many future school budgets.

“(We’ll) use that five year plan to manage the use of fund balance … to prepare for fluctuations in expenses or in revenues and to monitor the reserves that we use,” O’Boyle said to board members gathered inside the Robert H. Jackson Elementary School.

Other anticipated financial fluctuations include insurance costs and projected contractual raises.

O’Boyle specifically highlighted aspects from the 2017-18 and 2018-19 school budgets when the unappropriated fund balance was used to supplement those budgets in large quantities. The district used $1.3 million to balance the 2017-18 school budget and $789,044 was used to supplement the 2018-19 school budget.

“We will never sustain our district using that much money,” she said.

O’Boyle said the goal moving forward is to only ever appropriate a maximum of $500,000 of the fund balance to supplement future school budgets.

The superintendent said the five-year plan will be used to plan building projects as well.

“We also use five-year financial planning to determine the best timeline for capital projects,” she said.

The district’s plan includes utilizing $100,000 capital outlay projects for maintenance upgrades for the district’s facilities each year. The capital outlay projects are 98 percent aided by the state. These types of projects do not need to be approved by district voters unlike the traditional and much larger capital projects that are considered during school budget votes. An outlay project is currently planned for the 2019-20 school budget. Additionally, O’Boyle said she plans to recommend a capital project to take to voters in May.

In other news, board members were given a presentation by the elementary school physical education teachers Jeff Uebelhoer and Jennifer Armella. They showcased how physical education classes are implemented a mobile smart board in its curriculum. The smart board is made of military grade material and the multi-touch screen allows for more than one student to use the screen at a time.