I mean, it's pretty much what the parent told me. So, when I talked to a parent earlier this year that they have a they want to bring a fifth grader, not sure at elementary yet, I said, "Well," they said, "Well, if the fifth grader gets approved, do the other others get approved?" I said, "No, it's based upon each individual grade level." So, it's not like if Darla has no seats in third grade and I have two in fifth grade and I take the two fifth graders, she isn't going to take that third grade. And that's that's tough. That's beyond our ability to regulate that here. Correct. Cuz once it's in the lottery, it's in the lottery. Um, we have no control over that. Okay. So we we just need to approve motion for this. Yes. Motion to approve USD 244 student enrollment projections and non-resident enrollment capacity as presented.
We want the bathrooms for the tennis court. We want those things and we're willing to throw throw some money at it as well. And I can't say it's going to be $300,000 exactly. I don't think it'd be more than $300,000. it depend on what the inind write- offs would be those sorts of things as well. I don't think that it'd be over the $300,000 mark either. And the the other catch to this is that in order So I would imagine that if you guys are going to get a addition out of the deal, you would want the three classrooms and the multi-purpose with the tennis court bathroom for 1.2 million. We can't get there. And so either way, if it's an addition of that scope, more money's got to be found somewhere. Or we delete part of it and you get three classrooms. I'm really cautious about throwing more money at this.
Um it's incredible. I went into a preschool classroom today and what those children were doing blew me away. It's typically what we were doing with our kindergarteners and they're ready. I mean, they are they're ready. And so that's that's good. The last thing, and this is not why we do it, but we were being taken advantage of by other school districts that had preschool programs that and we didn't have one and they were offering it. And that's how if you can get these kids in your school, they'll stay, right? And so behind the scenes, I think some of the again to tie back to what your earlier question about enrollment, I think this plays a factor in that. I mean, I think it it really does uh do that. But let me say this in closing with this. It's one thing to have a preschool program.
And so um this group of teachers evaluated multiple AI solutions um and they narrowed down to chat for schools and school AI. Um we engaged with other districts uh traveled around the state to see uh what we could learn from other districts and then our e coaches piloted both chat for schools and school AI this semester to assess the impact on student engagement what personalized instruction might look like and to support teachers in their workflow so that our teachers could be more efficient and have more time to focus on students. So the recommendation that they landed on uh for the entire district would be to pilot school AI for next year. Um and really the rationale for that is the student support and that personalization um and the interaction with the AI tool. Um improving teacher efficiency, school AI really is built around supporting teachers as their lesson planning and then future readiness as well as AI literacy.
Um I've hid in principles. I hide in assistant principal. I hide even in interim teachers though we call them long terms subs and what I've hired them in the past. The number one thing we said to them is just keep the flow. That's your number one job. Um when we're hiring that's not the message I heard when I came here as as interim superintendent. There were things that needed to be worked on right away. One of them was the budget. I knew that loud and clear when I came in here. The other one was processes and procedures. We had some legal things going on and my mission was to try to heal between the two towns in the school. Those are my jobs. Not telling you anything that you you don't know, but our budget was in sort of disarray right when I came here.
As we've heard from our families, they only get one shot at this. You know, there's one year in third grade, there's one year in fourth grade, there's one year as a senior in high school. And we want each one of those years to be um very valuable, important, and we want to make sure that we're providing the best possible education for our students. Um underfunding our schools has lasting consequences for students and really for the entire community, including property values and long-term economic vitality. Our kids, the kids here in Dartmouth are the future of Dartmouth. Now, this isn't a school department issue. It's a townwide conversation about priorities and how we invest in Dartmouth's future. We definitely welcome ongoing dialogue and collaboration. And we're seeing that and we're excited about that as we work toward solutions that balance fiscal responsibility with the needs of our students and our community.
Second discussion. My vote does not reflect you. about that. Motion carries 51. All right. Mhm. Greenbush blended learning. This is for our Spanish one and Spanish two students at the high school. Again, we're doing that online um blended learning through Green Bush. Uh this is their projection. Again, uh from the high school from enrollment, we have 17 students in Spanish 1, three, and Spanish 2. And our projected uh dollar amount that we're looking at is again $450 per student per semester. personally and I think it's been a good experience this year from what I understand understood. We've had the same um instructor for two years now and she does come visit campus and does fun things with them. Um and now I and she's busy so she's doing multiple schools but so our kids are actually kind of back into the IDL ages is that they are with other kids um in class like are Spanish too and so they have other schools that they're actually live with.
We got a lot of projects already that need addressed. Can can we do you think we have time to get both scopes so they have some time to visit about it a little more and then get what it would look like as a standalone, what it would look like as an attached and then be able to I mean make decisions as we're getting closer to that August deadline for the Patterson grant. Um I think that we would kind of need to we we would want to determine what because the entire idea behind design build is that we are designing to a specific budget and so that like it more than what floor plan or what area do we want to put the building in. We the budget is is kind of the bottleneck right now on you know are we proceeding as it's a 1.2 two or are we proceeding as hey like it's 1.5 and we're going to come up with money somewhere and yeah and what would be great is if there was no grant stipulation that the money had to be spent by September or that something had to be done by the end of the year and we could just talk about this for 4 months and then see if ABCC is able to get the Patterson grant and and then you guys decide what you want to do from a location standpoint.
It's one thing to have dynamite people running it and teaching it. And um if you don't have the right teachers, it doesn't work. And we have been really blessed in that area to have people who are child- centered uh research-based practitioners who understand how a three and four and 5year-old learn, right? And so we have been blessed. The leadership's good. It's great. They have um I thought I could stay out ahead of them and I'm pedaling as hard as I can to stay up with them at this point. And so I I'm encouraged by what we're doing and what we're seeing with that. So, thank you. I had a mom tell me kid went through preschool. They had four kids. The one in preschool, went through your preschool, was ready for kindergarten versus the other three weren't because they was already in your building. So, she said the one going three had already been ready to go to kindergarten because he been through having him in your building made a big difference.
Be happy to entertain any questions at this time. Thank you, Mr. Noter board. Any questions on the computer science? Do these courses also include um information on digital literacy and readiness and digital citizenship. Absolutely. Okay. That's embedded in in all the curriculum. And uh if and maybe this is something you can dig into more offline because I'm deeply uh interested in the AI curriculum um especially given the fact that that um that that world is moving so rapidly and we just uh this month reached AGI which many of you may or may not know is kind of the threshold for uh the difference between humans and computers. So that line is getting increasingly blurry and I would love to know more about that curriculum. So if there are materials just not as a but out of curiosity. Absolutely. Happy happy to share those. Just I was just going to ask about the process.
We had no director of finance. We had no treasurer that was retiring. There was no there was a payroll person and a council person that weren't able to do the job. I'll I'll leave it at that. So within a short period of time, I had to get those people in place. We were in trouble financially, right? I came into a a first pay role, right? And everyone has heard the story that went on. I was here a little week. We paid some people our first round of teachers. Others we didn't pay. Others, we paid the full salary for the entire year. We paid. We had bills that weren't paid. All those things had to take place. I went to pay a bill. We didn't pay our postage through the summer. So I wasn't even going to have postage. Our garbage wasn't being picked up. So that was a priority.
And that really is why we're so grateful for in this moment the clear collaboration that we're seeing that will ini assist us in moving forward and through the these efforts. I know I have to mention you know we are one Dartmouth and that's not the school community by itself. That is us as part of the larger community. And so I think again I'll go back to Mr. Kylie who has really done a tremendous job collaborating across this community. Um, and I know that he has some things that he'd like to update you on before you make a really important vote in terms of our budget. Thank you, Dr. Save Maguire. So, well said. Um, you know, we are in the process of considering a budget tonight for vote. Um, we do appreciate the support that we've had throughout this process from you folks, from our staff, um, and from, uh, the town being willing to consider options as we try and move forward.
So she manages it all and we have Miss Herardo and then Mr. Felipe are the monitors. Next year Mr. Felipe will be um the monitors for Spanish one Spanish 2. So he speaks three languages. And so um I went in on his board and he had what their each of their names were in Spanish, Chu, and then English. So he on the off days cuz there's two days they're live and then the off days then they're doing work. And so somebody who understands it and who can help them with their work. So they has a missard as well. So it's been just having staff alone that can support that not not certified but can support it has been very helpful. Our numbers are not growing though. Um, so we're trying to see how having the discussion how we can get that for the two foreign languages.
Unfortunately, we can't do both. Well, I feel if we attach it to the school, I I I'd want that extra. And I agree. Um if it's not attached to the school, do we need it? Would it be nice? Sure. I don't think it's so much of a demand because we're not using it for that extra facility, right? We can't take that 200,000 that we were going to spend here and dish it into there because it's not close enough for that access. Right. I did I did, you know, I I've worked with Bill some this year and then my other Steve Carlin that's mentor and a couple things that they said that I think we need to realize is you don't get this opportunity every time it rolls around where you're going to get a $ 1.5 million building and maybe have to put 250 $300,000 at it.
Any other questions? Ladies, thank you so much. Appreciate each one of you and the skill and expertise that you bring each day. And it's been fun working with you. I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. Thank you, Mr. Meltchure. And a second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Wall. All those in favor say I. I those enclosed.
You mentioned the the pilot um from like a cost or uh support. How much is the vendor involved in that pilot or is that more independent with the district? And I'm, you know, kind of a newbie question curious. Our goal is always to have free pilots. We we never want to pay for pilots. And so, uh, it didn't cost anything. And the vendor, both vendors for the AI pilot as well as our vendors for, uh, computer science are very invested in the success of the pilot because then that turns into an adoption that then generates revenue for them. But we always, we always do free pilots. Okay. Great. Thank you. Yeah. Thanks. Just I had just one comment and that is again like dual language, Lawrence Township is leading the way with AI. I know so many of our districts surrounding us are fearful of the tool that this offers our students.
It truly was. Please don't misunderstand. Also, we have this Department of Education saying we're we're concerned. We're we're we're troubled. We think we're going to be looking at a one 12th budget for you. People fully understand what that means. If that means they give us an allowance, I'm not being careless about that, but that's what it is. Every month they say, "Here's your money. We're going to proportion that." That's not a a best way to to run a district. certainly not a best way to be able to pay our staff and recruit high quality teachers. World too. Since then, um we were able to hire a full-time director of finance operation, hire a payroll person, hire an account payable person to be able to get people to move their positions in the middle of the year, especially in education, is a tough thing to do.
Um, what I prepared for you tonight is really solving one problem. U, it's definitely not solving the big picture, the things that Dr. just say Maguire just indicated um you know if we if if if this fiscal year we had an extra $245,000 we'd be 265th in spending instead of 270th. So just to give you an idea that's the scope of what we're talking about. It's not a gamecher but what it will do is limit our uh you know reliance on one-time reserves. uh over time and it will eliminate the imminent esser fiscal cliff um that we've been you know extremely concerned about now for for five years. Um so I prepared a revised proposed budget for you. It's up it's up on the screen right now. It was in your packet. The revision reflects uh the removal of the human resources position from the administration category of the budget that resulted in a $120,000 decrease to the budget.
To put it in perspective, that's a class that would require a whole another teacher and we're paying $9,000 correct a year for it. So you're paying less than correct. So this allows us to provide classes that we don't have the ability to do on site. Right. And so if you think about it, it's let's say it's $1,000 a year per kid. I guess 450 per semester. And so for any 000. Yes. Yeah. So, every kid that we add is another $1,000. We're still you're still saving money. So, right now, I mean, it's working and um so yeah, we would almost have to have half of the juniors and seniors signed up in order for it to not be costefficient. So, we do have performance language, we do have French and German, um man, Chinese all available through Ingenuity. Um so, there's some availability there. the non-live teacher and then Miss Marshall just went to listen to a training of what's coming up and so we do we're going to have an option for some live training too.
Bill said when I talked to Bill about it, he said, you know, you might never get that opportunity for that kind of a opportunity, you know, opportunity for return. So, um, the classroom space could be needed with the population. What's our budget look like as far as compared to last year? No, we're we're in good shape right now. And we'll talk about this more once we get to the capital outlay items, but you know, we've we spent $400,000 less this year in capital outlay than we spent last year at this time. So, um we're going to we're going to talk about spending some of that though here in a little bit um on some things that have to be done. But if it was something that we could budget into next year because it would be after July, you know, I think we could do that.