Okay? I've been at this too long. I'm not fighting that fight. But, you know, when you get into, you know, the Westports and the Fair Havens and the Akushits and the Matapoes, etc., etc., and those figures comparative are, you know, a lot bigger than ours type of deal. There's a problem and I know it's going to take the legislature to change a funding formula that nobody wants to tackle, but somebody's got to tackle it. Just my two cents. So, just food for thought. Thank you for letting me indulge. It's a 1% increase for the town. That's that's in terms of overall state aid. That's >> 1%. >> That's that's what's projected based on budget. >> There's something wrong. It's not fair. >> No, >> it's not equitable. >> Not at all. >> Um, so at the very least, we should all call >> Yeah. >> Yes.
Um however, um should we have those emerge, then we can have an executive session for those kind of contracts and stuff hopefully at the March meeting. So, >> okay. Well, I'll make the motion to authorize DBUSD to seek potential service for unused classroom space. >> I'll second. And I will ask all in favor. >> I'm not gonna I sorry I don't know what I'm doing. All right. Item 11A is our first reading of policy advisory 960 which is looks like it's audits and financial monitoring. >> Some good reading. Good reading. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Um let's see.
That would give families time to plan and staff and everything else and that we would evaluate it each of those years after. But just stick with it even if it crashes and burns this next fall that we get an opportunity to learn from it, improve it, and then take another shot at it the next year before we scrap it. I'm assuming it's going to go great, but just All right, so let's talk about a few of the the pieces in here. Uh I just want to get through that whole part and then let's talk about some of the key pieces inside of each of these features. So we talked a little bit about meet the teacher night. So teacher initiated conferences inside of there would be teachers identifying which families that they needed to talk to. And when we say talk to, we mean talk to.
Any other questions? 11.1. >> Sorry. No, we have a reminder. Sorry. We wanted to remind everyone that um next month on March 9th, our board meeting will be student led. Our second annual speak and spark student led board forum. The theme is belonging and will feature many students ages K through 12. So, please mark your calendar for Monday, March 9th at Plank Junior High, beginning at 6:30 p.m. We look forward to showcasing many of the clubs that help foster belonging across our school district. >> Thank you. >> Great. Great. Yeah. Thanks for uh bringing that up. All right. 111. Action item. Approval of bills for payment. Can I have a motion, please? >> I make a motion to authorize the payment of bills in the amount of 34,882,878.76 as presented. >> Second.
Mr. I I don't want to you know I know we'll have plenty of opportunity to discuss this and I'm I'm certainly um happy to meet with you separately but uh in terms of uh you know moving forward with asking what we need when you look at the requests not funded um I'm just curious about that you know in particular asking for a special education teacher you know special education is a federal requirement it's highly heavily regulated and having that as a need, it just feels to not fund it. It wouldn't be asked for if it wasn't necessary. And so, um, I just want to hear a little bit more about the rationale for that in terms of what the impact is with the, uh, you know, that highly regulated required role for students that need it. Um, I'm also curious about the other two. I just I I don't feel good about leaving those not funded because they are important positions that wouldn't be listed if they weren't needed.
I did find a few things that I was discussing with Marty about is that in the audits one or in item 11B first chapter first reading of chapter social media policy >> we were discussing B >> yeah A is just first reading I don't think we have any questions so let's go on read >> okay >> I'm President, Superintendent Daniels, members of the board. This evening, I'm bringing forward chapter five. Well, uh, chapter five of the the policies, which focuses specifically on students. >> Is chapter 4. >> Am I am I backwards? Okay. So, let's start with chapter four, which is um the social now is the social media policy is now embedded into it. Uh, we brought it last month without the social media policy. At the time we wanted um legal counsel to take a look at it first. So now it is all together for your for your um uh approval.
The committee is very uh strong on the idea of this not being a one-way email communication, but either a phone call, a video chat, or an in-person conversation about the student. Those conversations would be built around the idea of uh student isn't progressing as we expected or the student is making improvement. this is what we need need to do to keep it up or oh my god your kid has been so amazing I really need to let you know how amazing your kid has been right those are the kind of the three main themes we imagine would happen in those teacher initiated conferences what we have heard from teachers year-over-year is at parent teacher conferences they see a lot of parents of kids that are doing really well as you [clears throat] saw from the data earlier our kids are doing really well so I mean statistically you're going to have more conferences with students that are doing really well.
>> Any discussion? >> Mr. Cerone. >> I. >> Miss C. >> I. >> Dr. Martin. >> I. >> Miss Wmouth. I >> Dr. Mario. I, Miss Robinson. >> I, >> Dr. Pock, >> I. >> Motion passes 70. >> Action item 11.2, approval of OE diving board replacement. May I have a motion, please? >> I make a motion to approve and award the contract for the Asiggo High School diving board replacement project to Landmark Aquatic in the amount of $25,391. >> Second.
Uh, so I just wanted to hear a little bit more about that. Well, I would say as far as highly regulated, uh, we absolutely fall within the standards and and even beyond for supporting our special education students. So, I just want to put your mind at ease in that way. There aren't any IEPs that aren't being supported in the Dartmouth schools. Um, part of what we talk about when we may add a special education teacher is, and I think this one was at the elementary level, is that how are we going to best utilize that elementary teacher, that elementary special education teacher in a way that is strategic. Um, so the the teacher that we don't have not included in this budget is a teacher that would have been assigned to one of the elementary schools and it would have actually created an imbalance across the elementary schools in terms of the number of teachers.
>> So is this a second reading? >> This is first read because the social media was not in that. >> So we're having a second first reading. How >> first reading >> second first reading with no action. Okay. Got it. >> All right.
Teachers would like to take that time and refocus it on the families that they really need to have an in-depth conversation with. And in our current structure, it's about seven minutes to have that conversation. It's not a lot of time to have a conversation about like how we got here, what's going on, what the plan is to move forward. So, uh, teachers would like to have more robust conversations around those three topics. Now, this is already in partnership with all of the interventions you just heard in the in the previous presentation, right? So, this is a different type and it's really focused on dialogue, right? Having a conversation which a lot of people are not as comfortable with as they used to be, right? There is a lot of emails going back and forth in our lives and text messages going back and forth, actual face toface or phone, you know, using your phone for something other than surfing the internet, right?
>> Any discussion? Nope. >> Dr. Mr. Pock >> I >> Miss Robinson >> I >> Miss Wenmouth >> I >> Dr. Martin >> I >> Dr. Mario >> I >> Miss C >> I >> Mr.
Uh so if we're going to ask for an additional special educ educator, it would be more consistent with a strategic approach to how we're utilizing additional staff. So we added those three. You see we added the four ESPs and the three RBTs and those were meant to balance out that request. specifically the three registered behavior technicians because some of the requests that we're getting around special ed support is directly related to disregulated students. And so this is one way that we were addressing that need out across all three of our elementary schools. So I'm happy to talk to you more about that. Mamar >> I didn't mean to imply that we weren't following. >> No, I just um I know you weren't applying I know you didn't, but I just want to be clear that we are. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you, >> Mr.
Um, anyone have any questions or comments, concerns? >> Looks pretty good to me. Frustrating. >> Yeah, I've been emailing. Oh, you guys have already been talking. >> Re and I have been shaking emails. Yeah. >> Fantastic. All right. Then we'll go on to chapter five. >> And then we uh also presenting chapter five, which uh is uh focuses specifically on students.
And uh we're all very proficient with video chat today. Um getting to the point where we're actually talking about the student and what they need in a two-way communication rather than a flurry of one-way communications. is the focus of this. Also, structurally within our within our system, parents can reach out and request to do this at any point, right? Contractually, it's in the teachers contract. If a parent reaches out and wants to talk to a teacher within 24 hours, they need to work to find a mutually agreeable time to do so. So, parents already have the the opportunity at any point to do this. This [clears throat] is teachers saying we need some authority to be able to reach out to parent and say we need to have a conversation and that we build an expectation with families that if a teacher reaches out that that communica that conversation will happen, right?
Serell >> I motion passes 70 action item 11.3 approval of personnel report I have a motion please >> I make a motion to approve the personnel report as discussed and presented >> second >> any discussion >> I just want to congratulate Dr. Campbell. >> Yeah, >> we haven't voted yet. Oh, sorry. [laughter] >> And you stole my >> That's You're good. >> Um, but thank you for all of your years of service. Um, as you embark on this new adventure, we will definitely miss you here in Asiggo. >> Sorry, Joe. >> No, no, it's okay. I'm [laughter] gonna wait for the vote. >> Congratulations. Drum roll. Take [laughter] the vote. >> All right. I think >> Miss Robinson >> I >> Miss Wenmouth. >> Okay, here's where I say grudgingly [laughter] but grudgingly because we'll miss you but so very happy for you and you deserve it.
>> Yeah. Thank you, Madam Chair. So, I got to say in all my year, well, at least in the past six to eight years of being on school committee, this is one of the the most wellthoughtout budget proposals um that addresses some of our needs. um not certainly not all of them. Um but it certainly addresses it it it puts on the table, you know, our needs, what we what we need to function as a school community. Um you know, make no mistake about it. 6.8 6.885 6.85% There we go. Um is extreme is high, right? Um and I think the town recognizes that. I know we we kind of uh Mr. Kylie alluded to uh the town admin and finance director being at the budget subcommittee meeting and based upon some of what uh they were sharing with other needs in town. Um it's certainly concerning you know I don't know uh this is our first go at it 6.85%.
And this is for the first first reading >> first verse first verse first second next month will be what the second third >> yeah just to make it really confusing >> okay fantastic uh any questions on chapter 5 I'm still trying to get there so 272 >> lots of words perfect all right first reading then next month we will go ahead and do the approvals for We may um do forms. >> Okay. >> And all like the forms and stuff next month. >> Okay. >> Um before we do kind of that allows everybody to really dig through it and questions and >> agreed. >> We're see we're okay on time. We're actually two months ahead of schedule. >> That's wonderful. Thank you for all your hard work on it. >> Yeah. Marty, thank you so much for answering my questions and being on top of everything.
So that their time is really spent with parents that they really need to talk to, right? Um, plus we hear from a lot of parents that they come to teacher conferences because they feel like they'll be a bad parent if they don't, right? It's performative in some ways. And we want this to be a substantial conversation, not a I checked the box and I showed up, right? We want people's time to be spent both for the parent and the teacher uh where time can be most effectively spent. >> Um, then yes. So let's then there's this parent window where it's traditional you go online you schedule you pick it sign up. Uh we have some visions for what that could be and that's really focused on the pathway. So whether that is your student hasn't been performing well first semester. Yeah. At that point all of these other communications have already happened right it's not news to anybody come Thanksgiving week that a student has been struggling in the classroom.
Um I >> Dr. Martin >> I >> Dr. Mario >> I >> Mr. Cerrone >> I >> Dr. Pak >> I >> Miss C. >> Hi. >> Congratulations. Yeah, >> congratulations. >> Motion passes 70. >> Make us proud, Superintendent Campbell. [laughter] >> Um, can I have a motion to adjurnn? >> I make a motion to adjurnn. >> All in favor? >> I I seconded that. >> Motion passes. We are adjourned.