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And in every single category, we're at the bottom third, sometimes the bottom quarter. In the city category, we're actually fifth. Fifth, not good. Fifth, the bottom fifth from the bottom. Meaning that we're not even we're not even average. So, I was on this board for the first two years. I did Mr. I'm sorry. I know it's your comments, but not in what in spending in Oh, average spend per people. Thank you. Sorry. Thank you. I just wanted Yeah. So I was on the when I got on this board the f the first year as we were seeing state increases we said why would we go out to the taxpayer and bop them on the head they've been overfunding because of this right so we said as that moves forward we're going to we're going to give them a little bit of leeway and that's where the 0% increases came from but then the third year I was here I said the same thing we were looking at 0% I even said not not this year we'll talk about it maybe next year until Dr.
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Um it put $1.3 million in in reserves, maintenance reserves. uh also accounting for uh increased costs that we're going to have with regards to uh utilities and benefits. Um and then uh also put $3 million in that capital reserve fund. Um the tax levy is about half uh of what the full amount would be calling for. Um, and if you ask me that there's a significant amount of money there that enables us to plan for the future while still not taking every opportunity we can to put an extreme undue burden on a lot of people who would be hurt again if we go to the full amount. So again, if you want to see the details of that plan, please email me. Uh, my board email is on the website and I'll absolutely share it with you. Just to be clear about the plan, it's probably closer to twothirds, not half of the funded amount.
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Okay. Is it a possibility? I don't know if that could have been done at the beginning. I know because we only have I think the three of us are not speaking just speaking in general. I feel much better. I mean, we can table it. That's fine. That's up to the board whether we do that or not. But I think that a clear response in either motioning for the item and defeating it might might speak a little bit more clear, if you know what I mean. You understand? Yes. Uh, with that, I'd like to motion on the item. Is there a second? And again, a motion, a second just puts the item up for vote. I'll go ahead and second. Second by Miss Sylvia Hendricks. All those in favor of this motion, Juan Bundia. No. Sylvia Hendris. Anime Stevens. No. Motion fails. Thank you. Number four this evening is the barber I'm sorry discussion and possible approval of amendment of the barber cubidified school district I'm sorry 2025 2026 schools school calendar Mr.
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I don't think we have anyone there. Yeah. Oh. Uhoh. So close. Oh, wow. What a game though. That was so close. The Cyber Tigers didn't win, but they gave it their best shot. I really am proud of them. Fought to the bitter end. Never gave up. Really worked well together. Good teamship. Yeah, they fell down, but they got back up. Yeah, that was such a close game. We took them and that was They couldn't have been any closer. Yeah, I thought for a second they were going to do it. Yeah, we had 99% there. Yeah, I thought that was going to be it. Yeah, we had them. We had the momentum. Everything going our way. Well, so, uh, thanks for joining us this evening, everyone. 1.2 million. I heard we're up to 2.2 right now. 2.2 million. Thank you for the update. Congratulations to the Norwell Knights.
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Um all of that will be taking place um the week of April 14th. Um we're hoping that the interfal piano, like I said, will come to central office. to look through those applications and start that process so we can do the next round of starting some interviews as well too. Um the hard part for us is wanting that many people on an interview. We got to calendar all those people never mind along with people who are candidates to get here as well too. So that's going to be um strategic. Most of it will take place um probably most likely after school as well too. Um we'll continue to keep you updated on on the process, but we wanted to know where we're at at least at this time. Anyone else have questions about that as well? I will continue to keep you updated. Um, we decided as staff, they want complete information all the time.
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Robert Toy brought up and said, "You realize that we're not even average, right? These are all things we didn't talk about necessarily in finance at that time." You know, uh we talked about our class size at that point. It came all came out in a meeting and you all watched the meeting. Um and literally mid meeting I said we can't do this. When we say we're giving status quo, we're not even giving status quo like the average status quo. We're saying we're a poor district and we're going to continue that for next year. That's literally what we're saying. So, we're not putting we're not putting anything behind our students when we talk about things that we want to do. We we just went through a strategic plan where they literally laid out a plethora of things we could do and we should do and none of them had a zero dollar amount attached.
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Um the if we took all of the money, the a the average assessed increase would be 909. If we took your plan, it would be 560. Um and your plan still eliminates 10 middle school teaching positions, which for me is a non-starter that we're going to ask the residents to have that large of a tax increase. And we're still going to eliminate 10 middle school teaching positions. Right. If we're going to talk, John, about what what our priorities are if we're not taking all, um, mine would be maintaining or reducing the class sizes, keeping team time, keeping PAR benefits. And the bus aids, I know there was a lot of concern from people with non-verbal kids putting them on the bus, and that's a huge concern. So, I know we talked about keeping bus aids on the bus routes. Those are my priorities. And then I would really like to hear from the public in terms of administration positions, intervention positions.
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President media, members of the board, uh we have looked at the calendar um and there were a couple of changes. Um and this is based on um some when we look at the attendance from this current year. Um there were um some specific days that require u some changes based on the low attendance. One of them was the day after rodeo. Um and and we decided that it would be best if we can turn that one into a professional development and we have that one right now on February 2nd. Um based on what we know or traditionally we know on the rodeo. Um this may come back if the rodeo changes on the days we we may have to review it once again. But we want to make sure that uh we are proactive that based on the the days that the students are not um coming on school based on um some community events.
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Um, Briana will be sort of our point person. I think Brianna and I already talked three times today. I'm feeding her information. She is then giving that information to the staff and that's the way we'll keep everyone informed. I'll keep scooping information in as well too. Um, next on the schedule is Tanto Regional Middle High School graduation. Um, it's going to be here before we know it. Um, for school committee opportunity is scheduled for June 1st, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. Um, we'll talk a little bit more about graduation, what it looks like for all of us. Um, for for our chair as well as our school committee members on the day of that graduation. We're hoping everyone can make it. Um, as we know, when our students are walking across the stage, it's just not the work that's taking place at the middle or high school.
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I'm sorry. It's just that's just the way it goes. So, if we are going to fund education, which I think we all swore to do, we we all swore that, you know, we want to see this thing move forward, I think we have to put we have to put something into it. Um, not sure what that is yet. Again, I do want to meet with an executive session. I don't know if we could do that tonight to talk about some of those things. We'll not be doing that tonight. We can, but that's up to you. We want to add it. It's certainly up to you, Mr. Paris, and the board. We do have items Thursday night for executive session. We could include it Thursday night. We'll add it to Thursday. Okay. On Thursday, right? I am not. You can Maggie will be here. Um, I have confidence in you and Maggie.
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Thank you, Miss Fox. I definitely would need a consensus from the board. Um, board members, I guess giving individual uh priorities is helpful, but give it's we need a consensus from the board. Yeah. Give Go ahead. I was going to say, I don't know. I'll leave it up to you guys how you want to do this, but maybe it makes sense when you do the actual vote to have somebody say like yes to submit the application um and I'm in favor of taking it all or I'm in favor of taking x amount of money. I don't know. Yeah, I I think that's probably the cleanest way to Yeah, I think that the easiest way to get us past our two goals, which was one to decide if we should take any money or and and two give Mr. Gates in the business administration office a direction to go is I think we should move into public comment.
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We want to honor the community. We want to honor the events that takes place in the community. But at the same time, we we need to modify the calendar in a way that can uh ensure that the students have a better chance coming to school. So that's one of the changes that we are uh promoting. Um the second one it is on December um December 5th which uh we had four calendar four community days um on the calendar on on the previous uh version. we want to have on on the 5th, it will be a full day um for our staff and then um the um miracle on main event to take place. Um so those are the two changes that we feel that we want to bring to your attention um to ensure that our students and our staff can um be here for those event and as well for the students to be here uh during the learning.
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It's the work from everybody in this room, right? all of our principal, all of our teachers when they first start out preschool all the way up to graduating across I I really think when a student walks across the stage is the pinnacle of the work that we're doing and Boston Regional School District, right? All we should take pride in that day that's happening. Um so we'll talk more that coming closer, but I want to make sure you have that on the calendar. We're really looking to do some special things and um in recognizing the work that this committee has also done, right? the decisions that you guys make every single week or every single month when we're coming together. It it it impacts the budget. Everything we're talking about helps those kids walk across the stage and graduate. So, we want to make sure that's a special day for us.
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So that's up to the board. If if the board wants to go on executive tonight, we can. I we definitely have to go in Thursday. So the only reason why I would say tonight is because this meeting is for tonight and we're specifically going to talk about that tonight if we do go into executive tonight. But um because it's so pressing that we only have a certain time frame to to do any of this stuff and to understand what it really means financially for us if we don't pay our certain things. I'm not even going to say what that is. Um I I think it's important that we do that now. I that would be my recommendation. What the will of the board is? Yep. Okay. We will have it in executive session then. So do you want to pause comments now or do you want a break for that or do you want to finish comments and then make a motion for comments?
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I think after that we can have a couple questions or comments from the board if need be after the motion. And I think you should either be voting yes or no. Yes meaning we'll take x amount of dollars whatever that might be. No meaning we take no additional tax levy. And if you are voting yes I believe that you should identify of those three slides which three of those you would like to see included in your yes vote. And then maybe Dr. Smith could pull the board somehow because we have to build this and submit it to the county by Monday. So, you know, it recording a vote where board members are shouting out individual priorities isn't going to be helpful. No. And I think that if we go line by line, we get disastrous close into talking about personnel items, which is an executive session topic.
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Um, having said that, we recommend uh to the Baba County Unified School District governing board to approve the amendment um to the 2526 calendar as presented. Are there any questions? Sia, can you speak in the mic? Sorry. The calendar says that it's a holiday. So, you That changed your professional development date for which one? Second. It wasn't uh it wasn't anything last year. This year. Oh, okay. This is this is for sure. They're just considering that there was no attendance after the road. So they're moving one day which would have been professional development for a different day to this. Okay, that is correct. And then I don't know P for me you know and I did mention this but I know we can come back and address it if we need to but but for for for whatever reason I thought I saw that the next year's rodeium per was going to be the sixth, seventh and eth.
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And that's my report to school committee um from the superintendent. Oh, sorry. One last thing. I I got to apologize. Um May 7th, we're we're updating the calendar as we speak. Someone brought it to our attention today. Is it update online? So, May 7th will be a full day of school. Um remember it was Ridge was scheduled for a half a day of school. Um we took a half a day when our our team made the Super Bowl and won the championship. I know that was a tough decision. It was like a snow day call, but we called a half day there. We decided on that May 7th that was scheduled for a half day. We made it a full day. It's updated on our calendar. We'll be sending more information out as well, too. But May 7th will be a full day of school making up for that Friday, December 6th that we had a half day.
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We can make Okay. Someone make a motion for executive session to discuss. You have to make a mo motion eventually. You have to make a motion to go into executive session. The question on the is whether you want to finish your comments first. I just want to clarify we could add this to Thursday's executive, too. Is that correct? Yes. Yes. Thank you. I'm done with my comments. Okay. We'll we'll finish comments and then we'll take uh take motions if there are for executive session. Dr. Danny. Uh so I I'll just be brief. Um, I just want to say that, um, you know, I don't think at, you know, going to a 0%, you know, is is is good or, you know, I I don't believe in that. But when it comes to thinking about, you know, Clifton and what you do, um, you know, I have to say like, you know, Joe, you were saying about, you know, like kind of giving a crappy, you know, um, like not an and cost per is lower than average.
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