We'd think about what that plan would be uh and then and then implement accordingly. So, he did give me a call to say he misspoke last night. Thank you. Thank you. There will be security for kids on the fields um at budget vote. Correct. Like our regular security that we have, right? And the police and then the police inside the school and then the police. Well, I'm talking about I mean if our kids will be out on the fields after school, right? And then we have mingling going in and out, right? And then we have the police presence that um uh I know Mr. done worked with the chief and said make sure that you know whichever school or both schools we want to have extra officers on duty during the day to you know be safer and make people feel safer both got it thank you all right so let's go to subcommittee reports first is Cape okay so we met on April 9th so we um we were given a presentation which is um either it's linked yeah it's attached here it's It's linked.
Any questions or discussion? I get a motion. I'll make a motion. Okay. Is there any questions or comments on if not call? All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries four to zero. Next up, we have personnel additional class increase in schedule 4546. Mr. President, members of the board, due to a change in the high school schedule 2526 school year, it became necessary for Don Cory Williams to teach an additional class during a per preparation period to administrative most below. I recommend the approval of an additional hour per day for Don Cory Williams. May I have a motion? I'll make it. I will second it.
Jennings County Middle School donations. Layman Hmel Insurance of North Vernon, $50 to be used for VIP recognition breakfast. JCSC donations, giving grace, $5,000 to all Jennings County schools for unpaid school lunch balances. Jennifer Hughes, six children's books that she wrote to each elementary school, a value of about $120. North Vernon Elementary, uh, NBIC grant, $250 for donor's choose funding, asking for approval of those donations. So, I have a motion by Pat. Do I have a second? Second by Chelsea.
We're still at the bottom of the list in terms of what we spend per pupil. Significant. Next, please. To answer the question about special education, it was a great question. And the reason why we're asking for that $300,000 transfer is you can see the cost of special education out of district students. Students that that we've are not able to educate in our community no matter what programs we've created. We might have students who have to be uh in school for the blind or school for the deaf. We don't have those types of programming. Well, they're costly because there's transportation involved. There's se schools that are residential sometimes. So, as you can see, our numbers have gone down, but the cost is up about 20%. So, private residential schools or private special education schools are not subject to that 2 and a half% tax base or rate increase that communities are uh you know um subject to.
It's linked hyperl in your board documents if you wanted to look at that. So, it was a presentation on beginning of year, middle of year, and and um for MCLASS and Aadian data. So, just so that everybody's understands, MCLCAS and Dibbles is our K through three universal screener, and Aadians is our four to grade four to five universal screener. So, they're all timed about one minute and it tests automoticity and fluency skills. And then, um you hope that that would then free up space for comprehension. And next year we'll have K5 MC class and we discussed math fluency which was something to consider as a weakness. Um IM focuses on concepts. That's the program we currently use and that's what we tend to do better in. So um we talked about how it's important for us to find more time to improve and practice that fluency.
Any discussion or question? I'll call for the vote. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries four to zero. Okay. Next up, personnel additional contract a for Mr. President, members of the board, it is necessary to inventory and organize the science lab room number one for safety purposes. Lori Lori Fay Glio and the administration are requesting extra divity pay be approved for two weeks from June 9th to the 20th. recommend the approval of an additional two weeks to be added to Lorie Fibodio's contract. May I have a motion? I'll make it. I'll second discussion or question. If none for all those in favor say I. I.
Any discussion? All those in favor? Seven. Next, we're down under relations. Asking for approval of agreement with Grateful Care ABA. Uh this would be for um parentally placed uh ABA center that uh the staff would come in and help work with our students in the classroom. You can entertain a motion to approve of that agreement. Mary Lynn, I have a motion by Mary Lyn. Do I have a second? Second by Cheryl.
And I think the next slide might be it. So revolving accounts, we talk about how are we spending the money that comes in school choice funding. So we have students who come into Ashlin who are school choice students. We take we can use those funds to help offset our budget. So as you can see, we're anticipating using $3.3 million of revolving accounts next year. school choice building rental circuit breaker is reimbursement for special education costs for students who are out of district. It's not a full reimbursement. It's a partial reimbursement. So, we got to be, you know, it's really complex. Uh, and I don't have time to explain it, but if you ever want to know, swing by my office and we can sit and talk. Uh, and our revenues are starting to decrease. School choice revenues. We had this number of years ago. We stopped adding school choice seats because our growth was significant here and we didn't have room.
Um it was mentioned that's recommended that 60 to 90 minutes is to be focused on math. We're aiming for 85 to 90 minutes. um we may have found 15 minutes of practice time and it was noted that we need to allow more time for flexible grouping model and focus on our tier one teaching since tier one is more universal it's better teaching it's the most effective instructional approach so again you can access that in our board documents if you want to see that presentation we also followed up with the BHS midterm memo um we reviewed that which is also um in the board documents linked Um, and I just requested a comeback for that, a more thorough and comprehensive followup with that data. We'll be doing that next month or this month, this coming month. Um, Anna and Deb also shared information on the CLES, their scheduling committee, and their progress on that.
Any opposed? Motion carries four to zero. Next item, personnel, additional contracts for ESS and student staff. Mr. Mr. President, members of the board, to address the needs of parents, guardians of of special education students during summertime and to ensure the services are timely given. One special education teacher will be reporting for the whole summertime. Teachers will be reporting from 7:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. Monday through Thursday. So, you have the schedule as follows. June, Mr. Pman, uh, and first and second week of July, Miss Kitan. Third and fourth week of July, Mr. Delara. And I would like to also uh remind the board for Missu uh for her to have 10 days June transitioning the special education Miss Dan but also starting the prek class. So I'd like to add that for her to have 10 days. Mr. I will make that motion. I'll second.
Any discussion? All those in favor? 70. Which brings us to the end of our agenda. Anything under other? Nothing under hearing. Nothing under other. We'll entertain a motion to adjourn. Have a motion by Travis. Do I have a second? Second by Pat. All those in favor? 70. Meeting adjourned.
We're adding more seats back in now, but that doesn't mean they're going to be filled. So, as you can see, we're going from 5.5 million FY25 balance down to 4.5. Extrapolate that out in a couple more years and those revolving accounts are gone. And that means cuts will occur because school choice is funding eight 10 teacher positions. And listen, I this is the I'm never a doom and gloom type of person. I'm actually a pretty positive individual. Um, but as we continue to look forward to the future, and that's part of my job is to where do we land in the future and what are we going to invest in? Uh, everything in orange happens to be a capital issue for our community, whether they're boilers, keeping the pitaway warm, uh, building from 1927, sometimes things break, uh, roofs, uh, modular replacements. If you remember 10 years ago, actually it was 11 years ago, we we purchased modulars at the Warren School because our growth enrollment, those were modulars were meant for five years.
Um, and some of the instructional coaches visited a school in Woodbridge in February. um that school didn't departmentalize till sixth grade and they sent a survey to teachers and created a scheduling committee and recent PLC days have focused on it and the committee's goal is grades fourth and fifth a twoerson team 120 minute block for CKLA and a 75 to 90 minute block for math and that was about it thank you anybody have any questions right let's go to finance All right. So, we last met on Thursday, April 10th. Um, and after reviewing the check registers, which are all checks written over $1,000, um, we then started to review the um, month end March uh, financial report. Um, there was little month-to-month change from February to March. Um there was um a small potential change in special education which I'm sure by now there's probably more specific information on which we will be reviewing at our um finance committee meeting this upcoming Thursday.
If there's no question or discussion, yes. Okay. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries 4 to zero. Next item up is the classified reassignment of school secretary Shane Wars. Mr. President, members of the board, the administration is posted internally for the position of school secretary for internal applicants applying and renovated. Committee is recommending Shine Vades as the school secretary. Recommend the approval of the employment of Shine Wades as the school secretary. I have a motion to make it. Second, if there are questions or discussion calls in favor say I. I.
We're 11 years in now, folks. Chromebook replacement, student management software. You can get an idea about $12.6 million of additional capital items that just the school side of things. And you know, it's it's it's a challenge for sure. I think that was it, Michael. So, but I want to end by just saying from a budgetary standpoint, I I'm really thankful to be in the community I'm in. And this community has supported the Ashlin Public Schools uh and our budget. Again, for my 11 years as superintendent, everyone has been supportive of what we're doing, and I and I couldn't be uh more thankful to this community, to Michael, to the select board, to the finance committee, and the school committee for continuing to advocate for our youth and and building the programs that we have and need. So, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Adams. Mr. Herbert.
Um but other than that there was very little change monthtomonth. So the financial report is pretty stable and unchanged from my last report. Um we also talked about the um implications of some of the budget cuts that we were talking about at our last regular meeting. um to not bel that point because I know we'll be talking about the budget later today. Um I'll gloss over that part. Um and then the important I think actually came out of miscellaneous discussion. Um we proposed or I should say Rob proposed the idea of eliminating all of this paper that we get on um at the table for our board meetings. Um, and as a committee, I think we all were kind of like, let's just go to to, you know, electronic versions. Of course, unless a board member specifically wants a paper copy. Um, but I think that's probably a good way to I mean, we're not going to reduce like thousands of dollars worth of paper, but it's still paper that we don't really need to be printing on.
Any opposed? Motion carries 4 to Z. Next up, we have classified employment school health aid. Mr. President, members of the board, Lisa has been interviewed for the position of school health aid. uh recommend the approval of the employment le as a school health aid motion. I'll second there is no question or discussion for the vote. Okay. All those in favor say I. I.
Thank you, Mr. moderator. You know, each year I keep on saying I'm going to not drive and try to present at the same time, but uh here we are. How's that working out for you? It's not working out too well. Um but thank you very much. Um yeah, good evening everybody. Um Michael Herbert, town manager, and uh I'm here also to talk about the FY26 budget. And I want to start off just echoing a lot of what uh Superintendent Adams comments were. Um and I'll start off with uh really the more positive piece which is really the level of collaboration that we experience here in this community between uh boards, committees and staff volunteers is really one of the I I would say the primary thing that makes this community successful. the things that you see happening in town now are built upon a spirit of collaboration, a spirit of creativity, a spirit of can do.
Um, so I don't know. I I I said that during my committee report that I'd bring it to you guys and see what we all thought. I don't think it needs a vote, but I think we can just kind of all agree to maybe just maybe go electronic if and bring your laptops or device to read materials on unless and then maybe like before our next regular meeting we we go to that and if you want a paper copy just email Lisa and I'm sure she'll bring one. Does that sound good? Or maybe when the agenda goes out just apply something like that. Well, I think that it goes out early enough too that we have plenty of time to review and decide what like we could indiv. But I do think in general that's really yeah progressive. Yeah. All right. So I mean board goes in that direction and somebody wants to have a a device in front of them department have that ready.
Any opposed? Motion carries 4 to zero. We have approval of staff for the for the grades 7th through 12 summer school June 9th through 12th and 16th through 18th. Mr. President, members of board, the district handly hold handly holds seven and 12 summer school in June to make up credits for secondary students. The administration is recommending the employment of five teachers and two par professionals be employed from June 9th to the 12th and the 16th to the 19th from 3:15 a.m. to 1:15. Teacher will be Miss Fernandez, Miss Williams, Mr. Dr. Miss Lingo, Miss Garcia, the a will be Miss Simpson and Miss Far with Chief David Tibbit as security recommend the employment of the above staff for secondary summer school from June 9 to 12 and 16 to 19. Okay, I will make a motion. I'll second questions or discussion. All those in favor say I.