>> They might have carried it. They They might have been wanting to carry it in for us. Jordan, please. >> Yes. Carter. >> No. Wait. >> NO. >> IF IF ONLY HE HAD BOOST. >> If only he had boost. >> If only. >> They're going to They're going to like spike it on the ground, aren't they? >> No. We did. >> Dang it. >> GG's. Are we going to get any Hobart? GG's or is it just going to be our team that says GG's? >> It might just be our team. >> If so, Oh, there we go. >> Hey, thank you, Pian. What else do we have on the docket? >> Well, so we can stop looking at our team stats. >> Yeah. >> Still can't go to that. So, guess what? >> It's us. Okay. >> Yes. >> Our scripts are slowly falling into the sink.
So executive session um never anybody's favorite place to be because we're usually in there um trying to do the best we can with what we have for our staff members through negotiations. Um, sometimes we're in there as a search committee conducting a search for the next superintendent and the candidates at that semi- finalist stage have the right to keep their names confidential. You know, no one wants to be the candidate that doesn't get brought forward, right? because it's clearly a person looking to further their uh work in the field of education and you don't want to be known as the one who hasn't made it forward in the past three searches because while Liz Lefon might not be right for Greenfield although I suspect I could work here um it doesn't mean I couldn't be right for South Hadley or for I don't think I'd be right for Graby but maybe I would be um there's a lot of places I would be a good fit for right and So, uh, often times it's a matter of fit when you come down to who the finalists are and not a matter of qualifications.
So I did bring them tonight so you can access it if you want. >> Uh to be sure this is not a singular accomplishment for SATA. She has been recognized and will likely to continue to be recognized for her academic and school achievements, her authentic research and inventions, her musicianship and leadership, and her award-winning business acumen to name a few. Uh, but this project is a fine example of how our students can and do collaborate with others to find solutions to real world issues with grace and a human touch. So with her parents Sunnita and Shin Vasan Palina Swami in attendance, we are proud to present Sucha Shinivasan to the board this evening. Congratulations and thank you. [applause] [applause] Congratulations. >> [snorts] >> Are we up to committees now? >> Huh? >> Are we up to committees now? >> We moving on. Thank you for coming everyone.
We have members on the stadium authority per the senate that reflect the needs and represent the community itself um and claim and others who are absolutely from that IA halava area that want us to ensure that we maximize our revenue and at the same time are in keeping with the overall aesthetic of the community and the beauty of the community. Um, we believe that the stadium authority, um, has the ability to place signage that I think ultimately would please the outdoor circle and would be reflective of what Hava and that 98.5 acres needs. >> So, if we were to restrict this for the outdoor signage to be inwardlooking or on your building and and it's pretty wide open now that you could place it anywhere. Um you you know I I I what I would encourage is the maximum flexibility given to the stadium authority to be able to work with our development partners.
The the there is a section on the brick that we need to pick the right paint, but um the old building is going to start looking like the new building and that's going to be a nice change as well. Uh March 26 is our first presentation, our show. Um it's going to be Mama Mia. Looking forward to that. And March 24th, we're going to have more information out there about the open house. Um, but really what we've been working on here is the transition. You know, changing some things is you'll see as we go through the action items that I'm going to speak a lot less and Dr. Gay is going to speak a lot more because anything for next year is really going to be on her plate. So, that's what we've been working on. Good things. Perfect. Awesome. >> All right. Move on for items action.
So, ladies and gentlemen, while we are waiting for Mario Kart and whatnot >> to work, >> yeah, we actually have a new sponsor. It's Frederick's Photography. Individual and team photos for the esports program have been provided by Frederick's Photography. With over 35 years of experience, Frederick's provides studio and outdoor photography on location options, as well as professional retouching. If you, your family, or team needs professional photos taken, check out fredericks-photo.com. That's frederick's-photo.com. >> I also think we got the photos. >> We won't be able to show them just yet, unfortunately. >> Oh, why not? >> I don't know. It's just some weird little I guess. >> Oh. So, yes, you get to uh Oh, hello, Cherry. Man, we haven't been able to see the chat. We're so sorry. >> We can only see it when we're on our uh Chcaster screen. >> Mhm. >> But maybe I mean, if you guys want to stare at our players, you can.
Right? I've provided a link there um to the 10 exceptions which brings you right to the MGL and I've provided a link to exceptions with a quick motion guide. I get so many calls each week on I'm just posting the agenda. Can you take a look and see if my motion is worded right? Um, sure I can. And that's that's a pretty easy thing to do. Um, but if you have this reference guide, it's also very helpful going forward. You know that all executive sessions have to be opened in public session first. That's so the public can know who is present and the reason. um including as much information as you can provide without giving away the reason for for confidentiality um that you are going into executive session. We know that minutes must still be taken. There must still be a summary of discussion.
Uh now we have some committee reports. Uh we'll start off with finance and since I am running the show tonight, I'm going to pass the um report off to Emily Taylor. Um, but suffice it to say that included in your packet is a financial report for the 25 202526 board of education budget reflecting expenditures and incumbrances through January 31st, 2026. Great.
Again we believe that we have community voices there so that we will place signage that will be in keeping with what the community wants and needs. We don't think that we need that level of restriction um that we can do that internally. >> So what you're hearing is from the outdoor circle that has years and years a history of keeping um signage out. Sure. >> Public places. So, um if you have language that will at least give you flexibility but restrict you so that you aren't like they're not thinking that you're going to go into, you know, >> okay, I I see where you're headed towards and we're absolutely willing to work with the outdoor circle on that kind of language. Um we're open to those discussions. What we do want to make sure is that our development partners have the ability to maximize their revenue sources [clears throat] and we also want to ensure you as a body that we have community voices that we will be in keeping with what the community needs and wants.
We've got a few things on our plate tonight. First one is the approval for the amended 2526 school calendar. And this one is is for this year, so it's mine. Uh, and it's kind of funny. We had said that we were going to have one snow day and then, you know, anything after that, we would want it to be e-learning days and we had two snow days and that caused all of us panic and we started figuring out what we had to do and everything. And then Casey got on the state website and looked and and what we actually have approved involves two possibilities for snow days before the last day of the 22nd. And so this action item is really just a technicality. If you don't approve it, we will be with the calendar that you did approve previously and we'd only have that one snow day and we'll have to figure out how to go after Memorial Day.
>> Yeah. >> You You want to stare at Lane and EMTT? Maybe you can move the camera and see the TV. >> I wouldn't be able to see the uh >> Maybe >> can I No, it's too uh diagonal. >> A >> unfortunately, but there's some behind the scenes um camera movement. We love that. especially not being able to see the the TVs as well. That's very >> Yeah. >> I mean, if you want to uh talk to the viewers for a little bit, I will go in there and see. >> Yeah. >> We can't see the TVs apparently. >> Sure. and all the progress. >> So, I'm assuming Emma's not doing too hot. You can see her in the back over there. You can see her right there asking what's going on. if you take a quick little look at that. But we're going back to Lane and Sebastian.
typically not as lengthy um or as fullbodied as it would be for a public um open regular public meeting, but there still has to be a summary of the discussion. And all votes in executive session are by roll call. I think everybody's pretty familiar with that. I want to go back for a minute and talk about subcommittees again. I did hear you say you do subcommittee minutes and thank you so much for that. But when I bring this up um when we do charting the course trainings or when I'm sitting with a committee and I talk about um subcommittee meetings requiring minutes, I get so many blank stairs back um that it's all I can do not to kind of chuckle a little bit. Um yes, you're still an elected public body. you're still conducting the business of the public and you still must have meetings and they still must be brought back to the committee in a timely manner.
Good evening everyone. Um, what's this thing on? So in your financial report narrative, we obviously our budget is $93 million124,314. As of January 31st of this year, we have expended and encumbered $81,55,631, which is 87% of our total budget. Uh which is a notable increase from last month's where we had spent 83.9% and I would say notable but not unpredictable. Um, and I wanted to list some of the accounts that showed up in the last financial report that are just of note that you'll see in the more extensive Excel document. Um, where we are keeping our eye on tuition outplacement, which is something that we have discussed in budget workshops and comes up, you know, as a as a large line item. You can see we're 170 117% expended. We have pupil transportation that includes general education uh outplacements in town out of town where we're at uh 111% expended and then textbooks and software which is a lot smaller of an account at $299,000 but we're 114% expended there.
>> I hope that answers but yes we're absolutely willing to work with them. >> So um could I also ask outdoor circle um pause on Zoom? >> I see. Can you bring outdoor circle back on? I >> you heard you heard Mr. Nadal say that they would put these signs up but it would be inward facing on the buildings. Is that something that you folks in the outdoor circle you know can live with because it's not really outdoor outdoor in the public you know on the streets and you know is that something that you know it's been done before. I mean a lot of buildings have names on it. uh the Stan Sheriff building for example at uh so um >> thank you for the question Senator uh it's very encouraging to have the stadium authority and we appreciate that that offer. Um that said it if we're actually enacting legislation it should be precise to uh reflect exactly that and our primary concern absolutely is the exterior facing what the public sees.
Or you can approve this calendar that has already been approved by the state and allow us to Yeah, this is just a technicality. I I recommend that you approve the amended 2526 school calendar which will allow our last day of school which will be a half day on May 22nd before Memorial Day. >> Can I get a motion? >> And to get a little insight to everybody before last year, we made a strong request to not go to school after Memorial Day. So, we wanted to make it. So, uh, looks like we're still going to be able to get it. So, anyway, do you make a motion? >> Yeah, I'll make that. >> Thank you. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Andrea. >> All in favor?
You can see a little bit of Sebastian. You can see it on his screen. >> I'm assuming we're I'm assuming we're winning. I panned it. >> It looks like we are winning. I just walked in there when they just finished one of the races. >> It does look like we are officially winning. So, I can say we're winning. I just don't know where we're winning. I just know we're actively winning. >> Okay. >> But what we can do is show off this bad boy. >> Oh, we got the banner. >> Yeah, we got new banners put in. It's pretty nice. In the meantime, you amazing people can watch this lovely little screen for me. Okay. We found a solution. >> We can see the screen thanks to Sebastian. We're looking at the back of Sebastian's head. >> Yeah. >> Who's currently in seventh place? I almost said sixth and seventh place.
Um I've heard all sorts of configurations with approving subcommittee minutes from oh the subcommittee approves their own minutes and then they go to full board. Oh no no no we just approve our own. Uh no because nothing you do takes place in that vacuum, right? The full board has final authority over all topics being discussed at subcommittee. It is a sub quorum in a subcommittee and it is only the quorum of the full body that um creates official action. Does this make sense?
Um you know we've analyzed these variances. We're not overly concerned at this point, but I do think that they are of note when you notice them compared to the other expenditures in the financial report. So, some financial highlights for this month is something we discussed in budget workshops and has come up during this meeting is uh reviews of our medical insurance and the insurance advisory study group. We talked about that and the town council is working on analyzing recent and projected plan costs, vendor performance, and key drivers of medical inflation. What we talked about at the last meeting, we went with Acer, who deals with our property and liability insurance and kind of walked through all of those different programs. The members of the committee had certain questions about deductibles that we had um and some followup. And our next meeting is planned with USI, which is our medical insurance broker.
So if it's on the inside of the stadium and that's what people are paying to look at on the inside that that are we don't have the objection with that. So we are happy to work with them but if we're putting this into some sort of code then we should actually codify what what we're talking about here. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you Senator >> Senator. Yes S. You know, the a study was done about three years ago about the value of a naming rights contract, and it came back at the time at about $1.5 million a year for 20 years. That'll give you an extra $30 million. What that $30 million buy for us as the public for a better stadium? >> It buys a tremendous amount. So, for instance, our private sector development partners having access to greater pools of money to increase this number to 650 million for a total stadium has allowed for us to go to 31,000 seats, allowed for us to go to individual seating and not bench seating.
>> Any opposed? >> Didn't think so. All right. >> It's a funny story, though, cuz when you're making snow day calls, you it's it's a tough call. It's a hard point to be in. And so then I spent like a week going, I got to figure out how to get this day back. And then when she came in and showed me what was approved, God has a sense of humor. >> Well, certainly. >> All right. Perfect. Next one is the approval for the 2627 board of education meeting dates. >> That would be neat. So, I wanted to go ahead and include those dates in your packet because for the calendar, which is the next action item, I wanted to include those board meetings as well so they were visible for um staff and the public. I just wanted to make one note that the location is scheduled for all board meetings next year to be at CHS.