And I think teachers would tell you that, students would tell you that. And so it is what it is. Um, and hopefully we won't have to use any more of those. We'll see. Um, >> is there a limit? >> There's a limit to uh uh asynchronous days, but there is not a limit to synchronous days. So, as long as we are >> online, face to face is synchronous. >> Asynchronous is without face to live. At least it was an acronym. >> Yeah. Right. Right. Right. Right. So anyway, um >> it spelled out the word. >> Um this >> having said that and Brandy and and Chrissy talked about the PD last week. Um I next month I will bring to you a resolution to pass so that I can apply for the waiver again which allows us to apply for those. um we apply you're allowed to have three asynchronous learning days and so um I will apply for us to have two additional um because even by doing so we still exceed the number of minutes required in the classroom and those days are so very beneficial you know especially in a day and age where education seems to be changing so much and and um as I've been sharing with the teachers you know one of the things we we can do is I can do this waiver and we can build in that professional development where they're not respond responsible for student instruction that day.
Uh there have been thoughtful and well-considered requests that could not be funded this year. Not every single thing made it into this budget proposal. Um but underscoring the difficult choices that we need to make, we have to make them in this current fiscal climate. Those needs haven't been forgotten and they'll continue to inform our future planning and we need to be strategic about adding things in over time and responding to the most immediate needs of the school district. Ultimately though, this budget does reflect our best effort to be responsible stewards of public resources to remain focused on our mission, which is supporting students, empowering our staff, and preparing this district for the future. With that context, we are looking forward to presenting our FY27 proposed budget and the continuing discussions that will result with our committee, with the school committee, and with the town and the community.
>> If we put in there renovation 30 to 35, new 45 to 50. >> Okay. >> Ask the questions. Well, we can put in 2026 estimates >> if you want to. >> Yeah. I think >> 45 million isn't a 2026. >> It's not that. >> Yes. >> Just so people know like this is a new this is a new number we've got and then this is a old number, >> right? So here's number that we have right now and you know we'll look at if we decide which way we're going to go, we're going to look at it again. I think yeah, if we're want to keep the survey focused on the renovation, which is what we discussed, then I think this works because I think the the one that we have here is enough similar to what Nolan had. All the questions aren't the same thing.
Murphy present and return in open session room 7:15. All those in favor say I. significantly We got five minutes. >> Okay, I'll turn this off. All right, we're back open session. I move to approve the resation of Katie Ryan as assistant coach for boys tennis at Central Plains High School. >> I'll second by Alison, second by Josh. All those in favor say I. Any opposation of Sheila Branson as cook at Central Plains Elementary School at the end of the 256 school year. All those in favor say I. Any oppos Junior High and High School principal with salary to be determined later. >> Second. by Josh. All those in favor say I. >> I. Any oppos? Same sign. Passes. >> I move to renew the contract for Shake Shi, a central plains elementary principal. The salary to be determined later. Second by second by Josh. All those in favor say I.
questions. Any questions from the board? >> Oh, Miss Hendricks. Um, so I guess with the the grade level change, would that also uh change the Indian oasis high school or would that be just middle high school accelerated campus? >> At this point, the recommendation is to keep the the name as is uh but currently serving only those grades. Um, changing the name, it it's a whole new process. Um and based on the time that we have right now, we want to only provide those services to those grade levels. The name will remain the same. >> I guess my question would be when are we looking at starting this new school year? >> That is a great question. Um these recommendations are to be um for the next school year but because we want to open the enrollment um we want to make sure the parents they are u informed ahead of time the enrollment is coming.
July 31st was a really big day. We had too many expenditure increases in our spend department. We had to revise our budget before we would have been in a non-compliance status because we thought was budgeted correctly. So, thank you. Um so with our with our uh operating fund 19,206 that was the budget that we left it with that day. Our budget last year was 19,600,000. We spent $18,900,000. So that left about 690,000 carry forward as you as you see uh as we go along with our revision. Hopefully we'll get to that a little bit here for our action item. Uh that's where we thought we might be with the same student count as last year 19206. Uh so I was able to go back and we're 100 lower 100 lower than that at this point and that 100 students takes around 700,000 right out of our budget.
I did have one detail question though on the AI chatbot. Was that something you guys found or you developed? >> Um it's um it's something that's come through our what's brand. >> Yeah, like the tech coaches introduced it to us um through some different department PDs, but it's cool. You're able to like you can just kind of open-ended explain what you want like the topic and the parameters for the topic. Um, we're also able to just upload a PDF of like one of our standard practice sheets and it'll use that as a model and then it will chat back and forth with us as we set it up and like ask a lot of follow-up questions of like, do you want the students to start at this level and work their way up? What kind of feedback do you want? And so it's it's come down to like a 5 to 10 minute process for us to get it set up.
>> Yeah. >> How can we help? How can we support your student? What can be done at home? What can be done here at school? How can we partner? >> Wonderful. >> Can I clarify on the data real quick, too? So, when you're looking at North and we're looking at the half bridge, which is the right to bar graphs, the actual last year was the 80 87.6% outreach. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Now we're at 100%. So just to make sure that's clear and then on the obviously on Gina was going to just say on the left side is the degrade. So that's where we look at that the work that the team has done in the buildings is really just an extreme improvement and a just an effort that is truly amazing. I think that, you know, we we took to heart like we weren't at 100% last year and we reported those numbers to you last year of the, you know, the 74.1 and the 87.6 and that was the first year we collected that.
[clears throat] uh lots of things that are lots of efforts obviously in that area and I was reflecting at that meeting uh about how uh how much we've done not just in the last two years since I've been on the board but for for several years I feel like in some ways you know as we've been a leader uh in this area and thinking about it so just continue that good work all right three board member comments I'll start over. >> Uh, sure. I uh attended both the uh epic um open gym night on Thursday and it was uh really cool to watch. Um all the uh collab PE students that were there were cheering everyone when they walked through the door and um >> Oh yeah. It wound up some sort of game that no one really knows what the rules are, which are always the most fun.
>> And to your point, Mr. for the um you know Dr. Finley started by talking about um our suspension and expulsion data. We disproportionately suspend boys over girls just like most every other school uh district probably in in the in the country does because of just what you described. So one of the things you've heard mentioned um from from Christa is Edge Climber. that is a an online tool where we put our um discipline data. And one of the things that we have really loved about Edclimr is it allows us to disagregate that data and allows teachers to disagregate that data at a classroom level. And it's one of those tools where every year we're getting better and better at using it and getting that um information more accessible to teachers. One of the I was just in a conversation where this came up last week at one of our elementary schools and they were disproportionately disciplining boys because just like Christa said our and I say this as a boy our behavior as a as a young boy is more outward and external than uh female students.
And so with that, we're one month into getting on the final section. We're going about three more months. graduation. One thing I say to our students is keep plugging away and finish strong. Jim, Sherry, thank you for being here. Great presentation. You guys are now the leader of the pack high for everybody else. And you know, the state pie is always welcome in our meeting. [laughter] Uh, congratulations to all the students that were here. That's really cool. We we enjoy that. It's neat to hear from the students and the teachers to share a little bit about those kids. That's always fun. Um for uh girls basketball, what a great season. It's a lot of fun, you know, and best season 10 years as we said, you know, I just for was it three seniors this year? >> Yeah. Saw some of those. That's really exciting.
Um, and and we can invest in them and it's not costing us any more money, right? So, and teachers really teachers and classified staff really appreciate that time. Um, it has really allowed us to do uh the Alice training this year, which is huge. And I I believe um with Mr. Storm. Honestly, I I'm I'm when we got when I got the letter saying we got selected uh for an on-site school safety audit, I was like, ugh. But you know what? I think it's really going to be great. I've had this conversation with with Matt, with Danny Ferris, and Officer Fry in the fact that I think when they come when these two people come from the Office of Homeland Security, um I think they're going to be impressed with what we have going on in our school district as far as school safety goes.
So, thank you. And Mr. Kylie, I'm going to turn it over to you to talk about some of the details and the hard work that you've done over the past few months in putting this budget together for public presentation. >> Thank you, Dr. Se Magcguire. So yes, as you know, it's been months in the making um to get to this point, and I appreciate your patience um with us as we as we prepare some very important um document for you to consider. And um as as you um as we go through this process and certainly even as we go through the presentation tonight, if you have questions along the way, feel free to to um you know, interrupt me. We'd be happy to discuss things as we go um or happy to discuss things afterwards and we'll have the opportunity over the next few school committee meetings to really dive into this more um and uh and you know get get more involved in this uh in this important process.
There's really only a few questions in here that get so like for example 10 A or sorry, question 10, it gets down into the weeds of like parts of this do you think are good and which aren't? >> And if I'm being 100% honest with you, I want that opinion from the people that are in the building that are dealing with it every day. I want Darla to tell me. I want the teachers to tell me. >> And it's no offense to all the civilians out there, but they don't know which of these things is the most important to the people that are in that building every day. >> So, they've got to understand that the people using the building need to make those final decisions. If it comes out that we can only spend we can get them to approve 25 then I want Darla and whatever group she comes up with to be the one that tells us okay we can live without this we can live without this this has to happen kind of thing.
Any oppos? Motion passes. >> I move to approve Payton Bryan as the high school boys assistant tennis coach for the 2026 season. say I move to approve Thomas Reason as a substitute bus driver and second by Josh in favor say I >> any opposes >> Mr. President I move that the board go into executive session to the I'll let the person go top of superintend with with superintendent Bob Murphy to be on call. All those in favor say I. Amen. Where is there? And we are back in open session. I move to extend a three-year contract through 2028 2029 for Bobby Murphy as superintendent of USC 102% of motion by second by Josh. All those in favor say I. We same time motion passes. Item number 16. Okay, so have a few items on here. I'll start off with some of the not so good news and try to work my way up.
However those parents are currently with the seventh and eth and ninth grader at uh accelerated we want to contact them and and meet with them to explain our reasons behind why we need to make these change given the the current placement and the services. The students are not showing the growth in the attendance required, the independence and the maturity required to be able to cope with the type of program that we have at accelerated. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> Okay. >> So, so this will kind of square away what we discussed last last meeting. >> That is correct. >> I was trying to catch up that retreat got to me. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Go ahead. >> I'm still in the the t the name. >> It's just that I think that once you inform these parents and that are below the the 10th grade level, um they would want to know, but you're still middle school.
But by rearranging some funds and moving some revenue into some different funds, instead of staying at the 19 million 206, we're going to propose the the budget that matches what the state has for us, increasing, not dropping back to 18.7 million, increasing to 19.3 million. So that's u due to three years of revised year-end budget for some expensive revenue. And that's just a good good situation. So it's not quite as grim as it looks here with the negative 1.75. Our budget is going up and we discussed some of those funds last year. Excuse me. Last meeting it was I guess it was the December meeting. We just January meeting it was the many meetings here. It was the funds that are run in the red all year long. They're called cash short funds. And magically at the end of the year they have about another 700,000 in them because that's been collected as the year went by.
Um, >> it's magic. >> It is brisk. Sorry, it's brisk. Yeah. Um, so we go back and forth with it for like five or 10 minutes and then it's good to go for students. >> And also to just say that we can monitor student activity as well so that we're able to see which students have interacted with it. We're able to see how long and also to say like at what parts they had to spend more time in those learning objectives. So as teachers, we're getting that feedback, too. >> Do you do a lot of students seem to use it? Is that >> I have a few students who really love it. Like I It's the number has gotten smaller, but the ones who use it like ask for it every time if it's not there. >> I think that's the cool part about the level up though is it is so individual like what works for you doesn't work for me necessarily.
So, we're really excited that, you know, the numbers went up. So, I'm sorry I didn't want to jump in. Want to make sure we understood the data, right? >> Right. So, a 12% increase from last year for the F-grade as Scott was pointing out. But if you look at the D-grade, which are obviously on the the left side there, last year was 74%, this year 97% an increase of well almost 24%. In contacts. Certainly, we would like to see that. That's very close to 100% and oftentimes grades can change based on one assessment that can can oftenimes be near even the end of the semester. Um, but I think that's an incredible gain as well. Um, when we're looking at the [clears throat] degrades. So, very proud of our teachers, very proud of our counselors, um, our buildings or in this case, North, but we'll flip to South.
And they were um all scooting around on carts. So it >> was Churchill, right? >> No, [clears throat] it was at Asiggo High School. >> Oh, okay. >> Because I got to see the new floor. It looks awesome. >> Oh. >> Um I think that we need to do a better job of advertising those because I've found out that a lot of people didn't realize that was happening. Um and uh think it I think it would be a great event to continue. Um I also went to the uh community versus cancer event on Saturday and um mostly because the Special Olympics team was doing a scrimmage between the girls varsity and the boys varsity games and I will say the uh atmosphere in that room was amazing. Um, every basket was cheered like it was the final four. I mean, it was nuts. And the kids all had the biggest smiles on their faces.