And if you want to make it real exact, then you can throw in the amount. And I have the amount for the three-year contract listed for Do Sh, and the region. Okay. Uh it's on page 94. Okay. All right. So, I'll pass this to the region to for a motion for a vote here. All righty. Hold on. I'm making my way to page 94. Thanks. I'm getting a little too. All right. Okay. So, on the region, may I have a motion to award the um Durban public school transportation contract to Michael J. Connelly and Suns for the three-year term in the amount of uh what's the amount? Thanks. Holy moly. um region or yeah like $3,261,873 um for the annual base bid and all other related established prices for incidentals and transportation and the fuel adjustment costs as submitted in the bid form. Motion to approve.
Yes. Okay. Because basically to explain the context because people I can tell are confused. Um, last year contract substitutes received the certified pay raise, but they do not receive the certified performance pay. They receive the classified performance pay. And last year, the certified pay raise was 5%. The classified pay raise was 10%. And so, right now, if you were a contract substitute, you got the lower raise and you also get the lower performance pay. It is really hard to um do a an evaluation of a contract substitute due to the nature of their job. So it does I you know when speaking to them it makes sense that they're in the classified category but then that means they need the classified raise from last year which would be that additional 5%. If we give them a raise at the end of this year that doesn't that money just disappeared.
Colleen Bart, thank you. Um may I have a second, Angie? Thanks, Angie. Any discussion? All in favor? I believe. Yes. Okay. And I'll pass it over to Sherburn. Could I please have a motion to award the Sherborn public school transportation contract to Michael J. Honolulan Suns for a three-year term in the amount of $861,270 uh for the annual bid base bid and all other related established prices for incidental bus transportation and the fuel adjustment cost as submitted in the bid form. Kristen moved. Thank you, Kristen. Uh can I have a second? Thank you, Mega.
So we're going to we would pay them the stipend for the raise that they missed and then ongoing they would just receive the classified pay raise. So the 5% is making up for the five that they missed. Yes. Getting to% which is what the classified staff received. And the reason that they're classified is because they're not certified teachers. They're just subcertified. They yeah they they have a certification they are my understanding is that they just receive a classified performance pay because of the difficulty of evaluation is what I was told for a classified okay okay does everyone get that we okay with the wording do we need to hear it again okay so let's come to a consensus for that one the wording sorry uh contract substitutes will receive a 5% pay raise as well as a stipend of $1,73512 paid at the end of the 2425 school year to people employed as contract substitutes for the entirety of the 2425 school year.
Any discussion? hearing none. All in favor? Uh, passes unanimously. Thank you. All right. Thank you. And for Dover. Um, so can I have a motion to award the Dover public school transportation contract to Michael J. Honley and Suns for a 3-year term in the amount of $968,929 for the annual base bid and all other related established prices for incidental bus transportation and the fuel adjustment costs as submitted in the bid form. Okay, so thank you. Do I have a second? Second. Okay. Uh, all in favor? All right. We have everybody. Thank you. Thank you. When I have the contracts, I'll reach out to the three chairs. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you, Doc. And nice work on fighting the good fight on transportation. [Music] All right. So, that leaves us down to one last action item in vote, which is specifically for the region. Um, so I'll leave that over to the region for uh approval of overnight outofstate field trip for the high school.
So, we're just voting on the wording. Katie, I had a question. Are we like So, we are having contract subs definitely next year, right? Okay. All right. Y Okay. So, vote up just for the wording. Yes. Yes. for the 25 year. Well, the reason we skipped that is because that was going to be at the top of all of the recommendations. It's going to say something like to be implemented for 2526 school year unless otherwise stated. So, it's just sort of like implied for all of them. Yep. Okay. Consensus for the wording. Okay. Okay. Cool. Let's keep going. All right. Next one. Option 11 on the larger packet. If funding permits a pay raise at a ratio of 2:1 to 0.5, there is a typo in this one. It says 1.5 for administration. It should say 0.5. So it's 2:1 to 0.5 to certified, classified, and administrative employees respectively with a minimum of 1% for certified to be implemented for the 2526 school year, which I think we can also eliminate that part just because it's going to be at the top, but semantics.
Okay. Um, may I have a motion to approve the overnight out of state field trip for the high school? That is Kevin Crowley. Thank you so much. A second. Thank you.
And then to clarify, that means 2% to certified, at least 1% What does that mean? But why does it say two at least one? Um because the original wording there was not percentages by those ratios. So it was 2:1 to 0.5. Oh, I see. So it's not 2%. It's just two for the ratio. I see. Yeah. So the example is 2%. I'm with you. Does everyone understand that? Yeah. So certified got a 10% raise, right? It's 2 to1. And so classified would receive a 5% raise and then admin would receive the half 2.5. Right? You're right. Okay. So it should actually say 2% not 2 to one to.5 uh certified pay. The ratio still should still be on there. Okay. All right. Then it is 2% to certified 1% to classified 5% to administration. So we can eliminate the at least 1% because we're going to go with 2%.
Any discussion? All in favor? I got it. All in favor? Perfect. All five who are here. Yes, the motion carries. Thanks. All right. Thank you. So, our consent agenda is one single item tonight. So, we have approval of the joint school committee meeting minutes January 28, 2025. That one we can do as a whole body. Correct. Mhm. Yes. Okay. Do I have a Well, that No, you can do that one item cuz you can do the whole consent agenda as one body, but it have to do individual committees. Okay. I didn't know because it was joint. Unfortunately, you're not getting the benefit of if it was joint school committee though. We are joint school. I thought we all right. So, I will pass it to uh may I have a motion of on the region to approve the joint school committee meeting minutes from January 28th, 2025.
Correct Dorothy? Yeah, it's up. But your hand was the only one up. So, not about this. Yay. Got it. Can is this when we're also making new recommending new options because that's what Katie just did. Katie just did that anymore. I mean, well, when are we doing that? I think it's related to this. No, I think we should because it's related to this. change this. She wants to add another one that's a different rate, a different um percentage scale. You want to change the percentage scale of this option? I would like to make a new option. Yes, it's very similar to Katie's just revising it. Go ahead. Let's hear it. Um I would like to recommend a 2% raise across the board for all employees. Dorothy is making a new option related to this option. We're on the tiered one, but Dorothy's proposing a flat raise.
Thank you, Angie. And may I have a second? Oh, man was tough. That was I think it was Colleen. Thank you, Colleen Burke. Um, any discussion? All in favor? Excellent. All five who are here voted yes. Motion carries. Thank you. And Sherborn, could I have a motion from the Sherborn School Committee to approve the minutes from our joint school committee meeting um January 28th, 2025? So thank you, Becca. May I have a second? Kristen really second. Kristen, thank you.
So, it be a new option. New option. New option because I I don't want to negate the work that people did on this option. So, similar to K, right? Yeah. Just an additional option. Okay. Okay. So, it would read uh more options. All all district employees will receive a raise of 2%. Mark. Okay. So, we come to consensus on that which um all district employees will receive a 2% increase. All district employees will receive a 2% increase. We're just consenting the wording, right? Adding that option after completing the cadre. Just kidding. Okay. Uh we're almost done. This is the last one. Uh 12 or whatever number it is. Contract substitutes will receive pay raises at the classified rate for future payraises. This basically fixes the issue of what was going on before. So the other one is we're we're going to fix what happened this year and then this one is moving forward.
Um any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? Passes unanimously. Thank you. All right. And now, can I have a motion from the Dover School Committee to approve the joint school committee meeting minutes from January 28th, 2025? Thank you, Goalie. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Jesse. Uh, all in favor. All right. So, moved and approved. Uh, informationational items in the package. We do have summary of uh the fiscal year 26 budgets. Not sure if there's any other comments that you want. You had to go with the town meeting. I thought it'd be good for all you've got to see all the committees together and the capital projects and where we landed, which I think we had three really good budgets this year. So, thanks. Thank you, Don. And do we want to discuss any future uh items for our April 29th meeting to make sure we put it on the agenda?
So instead of further it should say future come to consensus. Good. All right I'm sitting down. Soon this group is going to read the option and um we're going to see if we need to reward it. So go ahead Ivon start with number 13 or Rebecca. Okay. Option 13 says, "The district will create a parental leave package with sufficient leave time and options to reserve days upon return to work." Are we okay with the wording of that one? Okay, moving on. Option 14. The school board will adjust policies for medical leave assistant program to include the parental leave. You have that sheet Option 15. Class sizes of general for general education shall correspond to the following. K 20 24 to 1 maximum 28 to 1 1 grades 1 through 3 26 1 to 30 to 1 grades 4 through 6 29 1 34 1 and grades 7 through 8 31 and 36:1.
So, that'll be out. Yes, that's be our presentation on the evaluation. It's also a 5:30 start because the Sherburn town meeting which all of our Sherburn members will walk over to it starts at 7 and that's the day before the April 30th presentation at 6:30. A lot of time at the reg. So, as a reminder, getting ready for April 29th, I'll send u information tonight or more likely tomorrow if that's okay, but just kind of an overview digital access to your copy of the PDF um with the highlighted standards.
If the maxes are exceeded, the district will within its budgetary capacity implement acceptable alternatives that may include but not limited to the reassignment of students to a different grade level teacher by level leveling classes within the same grade level. Reassign students to create a multi-grade class within a grade level band. Assign a pair professional to support the large class sizes to ineffective grade levels or reassign a teacher once student environment exceeds the max enrollment level. District driven. The district will hire professional staff to support large class sizes and effective grade level. Reassign teachers through district initiated transfers or add a teacher. Sitdriven steps will occur prior to the district driven steps. Site admin will provide written communication to affected teachers of any probable or possible solution within 10 working days. Okay, that's a long one. Um, it's very convoluted. It's almost uh well, I'm not going to give my opinion.
Um and I'll probably send like a friendly reminder in like a week or so, just seeing if you have any questions and how the writing is going because two weeks from tonight, hopefully your writing is into your um direct representative. Thanks. All right. Thank you, Mark. Any other items? And of course, in the meantime, if anything comes up, send a message to your chairs. We'll get it included. All right. Now, do I have a motion to adjurnn? Mark. Do I have a second? Christine will second. All in favor? All right. I
So, conversations. Okay. Uh consensus vote. Um okay, Ivonne, let's have conversation and then Dorothy, it's it's too convoluted. We're going from ratios. I think they're trying uh right now we're we're we're ratios and I think this these options trying to get um caps um but it's it's just not easy to understand and to follow and I think there's a lot of a lot of uh budget constraints in all of these uh directives or decisions. Yeah, we're just voting on the verbiage. We're just going the verbage is very convoluted for for me to understand and to follow. What would you what would you suggest to fix it? I I don't I don't know the group that as we work as a group here that's what we didn't write because we were trying to truly understand this the solution or the option what was the intended and I think the the intention is to move from ratios to cap but I think there will be a better way and I'm lacking so I need your support on how to reward this.
So for context, I just copied this word for word from um you said Roosevelt, right? Yeah, Roosevelt's professional agreement. Um the intention is not actually to move from ratios to caps. The intention is basically to provide a guide for both teachers and administrators on what a like reasonable number of students in a class is. So for example, let's say I'm a kindergarten teacher. It might really suck to have 28 kids, but you know in that in general language in plain English that you're expected to handle at least up to 28 kids in your classroom, right, as a kindergarten teacher. And then if you have more than 28 kids that here are four recommended steps, but it says included but not limited to that your principal, the site administrator can take, right? And um we talked a little bit um I think Amy and Katie were both in that group.
We talked about how that would be useful for new principles who, you know, might not know what like a reasonable number in a particular class is, might feel limited in their options. It gives them something to work with. Um, and then on the district level, right, if they've tried everything at the site level, nothing's available, there are some options. Um, but the only act the only thing that actually per this recommendation has to happen is that within 10 working days, the teacher has to be given an a notification, right, of that they're over the cap and what is being done to help with that. So there's no this this has no budgetary impact. Yes, it does. When when it says that the steps is um um hiring an a classified or hire another individual. Yeah, it's a potential step. It says within the budget. No, but between the possibilities, it it is and that's what makes me um a little bit um I want more clarity on the on on the wording.