So, and we will bring that twice, whereas M&O came three times, capital we will do twice in hopes to get an approval in May so that we can start ordering long lead time items that maintenance will need and IT for the next school year. And then on May 5th, we will also do our final budget revision for this current year 2026. Um see where our numbers are there. And then June 2nd, we will have our proposed '27 budget. And June 23rd, our adopted '27 budget.
So, I really I want to emphasize the change to the re rise goal takes out the short-term recommendations, which is what I think is is most necessary for us as a school committee in making choices and moving forward as as a as a school at this moment. And the other thing I want to say is we we don't have the artifacts or evidence of of what progress has been made. So, I understand uh I I just wanted to say that in response to some of the comments that like progress has been made. Um we haven't seen what progress has been made. We know that there was a draft of a survey, but it hasn't gone out. And there there are a lot of things that were perhaps in draft form, but haven't actually moved forward yet. And so we we don't actually know what the superintendent has done aside from the two community meetings in response to the budget um in terms of making progress towards this goal.
So, that would be kind of the hope if if all things go with us. We're just losing time to do it this summer. If we're allowed to. So, then we get into the total capital assessments uh to each town. Um again, I I, you know, with the um Tahanto way down being parking only, um I I don't think that's something that we would want to put on for this year anyhow for '27. So, you know, you could probably reduce both by that amount with the understanding that we would keep those add on for next year for sure in some way, shape, or form. So, then we get into total assessments. As I shared, you will see fiscal '26 and fiscal '27 numbers for Berlin. Berlin. Um operating assessment that capital that increase of 729601 uh for a net increase between the two of 7.90% Uh solid lift in uh Boylston as well, 1.1 million in operating, 557 in debt capital.
Um, but this will also be divided. So, students will be able to walk through the middle of it as well as along both streets on >> And will non- studentents be able to walk through it? >> And what's that? >> Will non- students be able to walk through? >> Like it's it's like a university an existing university space where it might not be clear that you can get through, but that there is a way through >> like many of the walkways on central campus. So, yeah, I should Yeah, everybody will be able [laughter] >> Okay. All right. Thank you. >> Thank you, Commissioner Weatherbe. Commissioner Hammer Schmidt, >> that was actually the same exact question I was going to ask. So, thank you. I was in a staff report saying, and no offense, but the vacation will have no impacts on vehicular or pedestrian access.
Ryan and his team. Nobody wants to sit with you it seems like. I'm sorry. >> Apparently not. So, Julie's feeling bad. So, she'll come and join me. Dr. McCord, Mr. President, governing board, thank you so much for the opportunity to present this evening. Uh, we are excited as as Dr. Accord outlined, we've we've been at this process for a while now going on two and a half years of the creation of a district continuous improvement plan, but it as so many other things is continuously changing and moving and we're analyzing um so many things have been created since that point in time including our data and research team. Uh we have formed the district continuous improvement team by way of teachers, instructional coaches, site administration, district administration, representation across the board. Dr. McCord gave us the opportunity to embark on this this journey and I I truly believe it has been the impetus to really jumpstart our academic growth.
And with that, I will take any questions. President Wade, um I just had a question about the uh I know last time we discussed a possible refi. I don't know if you'd had a chance to look into that. We have We have We have been talking with Stifel about that. Um that won't affect M&O. It It will affect our debt accounts, but yes, we have been looking into that. But we have nothing's been finalized yet. Okay. Yes. Mhm. All right, thank you. You're welcome. President Wade, I was kind of uh what board member Van Hook just mentioned. I was wondering the same things. So, but also be cognizant of Usually if there's refis and stuff like that, there's potential add-on fees and stuff like that. So, hopefully we can be mindful of that. Um we really want to do what's best. It's kind of This is really mentally challenging for me to like look at these numbers.
And it looks to me from everything I'm reading that this is for sure now in smart format and also has a whole lot more to accomplish including the entire section 2B B2 um really be um really grounded in this school futures committee that doesn't yet exist. William, >> uh, I just have a process question. I know that the school committee sets the goals or the all three. Do we have the ability to change this goal without it going approval from all three districts? That was my process question. >> Yes, we do. we can vote on it ourselves and pass it back to the other committees. So yes, we can we I've I inquired about that earlier and yes, we can do that. >> But the just to follow up, the other committees would have to also accept them. >> No, I don't I don't I mean I'll double check, William, after the meeting, but >> I was just curious.
Uh total assessments of 1 a million, 681,485, 12.34%. Again, a lot of that is is capital, right? Big piece of capital on there for them. Relatively speaking. And then we get into whoops, I skipped. Um I I put this on I I I we we did the video last time. This time we're we're doing uh we're not alone. There are so many districts right now and and every every district I talked to is talking about health insurance costs. So, you know, between last year and this year, we're looking at at, you know, 18 plus 7 and 1/2% That's a 25% 25 and 1/2% increase in our health insurance in 2 years. Other other districts, while we're a little lower this year, are higher this year. Um a lot of other districts don't have the kind of resources that we have on the back end at School Choice.
I was like, hold on, cuz this would create an entire super block. So, I appreciate your explanation. Um, and look forward to seeing what you guys build. Any other discussion? Commissioner [snorts] Lee? >> Sure. Yeah. Um, just a note for folks that the [clears throat] vacation of the uh the underground um storm water facility does come with upsizing I think alongside Madison Division and Packard, I think is what I read in here. Just wanted to confirm that that was indeed going to occur to service this >> proposal. Um once they're vacated um we take responsibility for them. Woo and um they'll be incorporated as part of the overall plan which comes back to the engineering review and things like that. >> Gotcha. Cool. >> All right. Yep. That looks good to me. I'll be in support of this. Thank you. >> Any other comments? Are we ready to vote?
um to really focus us on the areas that that need our our greatest attention and ensure that we have a plan in place moving forward in each of those areas. So tonight u we do have teams of each of our five goal areas that in of of itself has changed this year. Uh in a recent revision we added the number one goal is now culture. after we would talk about reading and writing and early literacy and future ready graduates and all the pieces that are within our document. Our document's now grown to 58 pages in length um full of every bit of of data and detail you can imagine. Um and we looked at each other and we said we're missing something. And what was that something? It's fundamentally who we are and that is our culture. That is who we are as Gilbert Public Schools.
So, I'm grateful that, you know, we're being really cognizant of these numbers. Really meeting the rubber where meets the road, trying to get those resources to the teachers, and trying to really be strategic for that. M&O fund. And um so, just keep it going. Keep as true to these numbers as you can. Um and be mindful. I've had multiple conversations where the schools and all that kind of stuff, they're they're really kind of uh reaching out as they always do, but just really being mindful of making sure that the schools and admin have all the resources and the teachers that they need, but also being very zealous and forthright in um and uh conscious of their spendings, if that makes sense. Yes. Thank you, Ms. Rushcamp. This brings us to uh 6.2 K through 5 ELA instructional materials adoption recommendation. Ms. Davis. Good evening. >> Thank you.
Sorry, >> I I don't believe so. I I believe that we can recommend since this is a specific to Pelum that we can recommend this back. Jenny, I have a clarifying question because I want to make sure I'm understanding. Um Rachel, you just made the comment that this change would take away the shortterm review. I was not interpreting the document in that way. When I was looking at number two in the document where it says conduct baseline programmatic review, I was thinking that that was the same thing that that the baseline review is a short-term programmatic review and that what this change would do would be expanding beyond that. So my question is a clarifying one I think for Megan um whether you can help us um understand whether this change would remove the original goal or is instead an expansion upon the original goal.
Um in addition to these articles, you could Google them and you will see articles including Framingham, Easton, Brookline, Hampden-Wilbraham, Winfield, Pioneer, Mashpee, Pelham, North Attleboro, Amherst, Hadley, Mendon, Upton, and Harvard. So, and that's just a quick Google by me. This isn't some I I've talked to some people in these districts. Um this is going to be a very challenging district. I think I've a year for every district in the state. I think I've also shared that as we've become a minimum aid district on chapter 70, um to over 250 of about 350 school districts in this state are now minimum aid districts. And that means that we only get the bare minimum of aid. In the past, we might see a 3 to 5% increase or or sometimes even more in chapter 70. Now, what we're seeing is more in the 1% range because that's that minimum aid.
Manager Kelly, would you please call the role >> on the motion as presented? Yes. >> Hammer Schmidt, >> yes. >> Lee, >> yes. >> Mills, >> yes. >> Weatherby, >> yes. >> Adams, >> yes. >> That carries. >> Thank you. >> I have to count this meeting has to be a little different than what we [laughter] >> What do you mean? >> Thanks for your have no idea. [laughter] That takes us to 10 C. Regular business amendment to chapter 55 unified development code regarding storm water management reviews. A proposal to amend section 5.22 storm water management and soil erosion to clarify the sites that are within the jurisdiction of the county water resource commissioner. Therefore, storm water management plan reviews are deferred. Staff recommendation is approval. We'll start with a staff presentation by Planner Deo and then we'll have a public hearing. Planner Deo. Thank you.
uh family members and employees, um our community, our students, uh our governing board, and our administration team. And so I'm going to turn it over to Julie. This will be a little bit unusual. Miss Auster being our director of professional growth and development will kick us off with goal number one. And then as we go through each goal, we have a couple new people that are going to come up and and help us with the presentation and and we'll go through. But any point in time you have questions, stop us because somebody might leave that you want to talk to. So, um, with that, we'll turn it over. >> All right. So, um, like Dr. Ryan had mentioned, >> can you speak into the mic more because they got to pick you up? You can move it. There you go. >> So that you don't have to move forward.
All right. So, I'm going to go over our recommendation for the K-5 ELA um curriculum adoption. And I just want to go over and highlight our adoption process. It was quite a lengthy process that we started over a year ago. Um with the goal of ensuring a thoughtful, research-based process that honored stakeholder feedback. Our timeline was intentionally designed to bring a recommendation to you all by March with the hope of getting the materials into our teachers' hands before the school year is over. As well as um a timeline to explore and kind of play with those materials and even maybe um build in some professional learning before the school year is out depending on the timeline with the vendor. Um I also want to highlight that the steering committee um which is made up of HCEA reps, um instructional coaches, site admin, as well as district leadership, worked together last year to develop a robust scope and sequence for our RFP to ensure it would meet all of our district needs and priorities.
>> Yeah. Sorry. Bear with me a second. Uh I just turned my camera off because I'm not feeling great. Um the the primary intent here is that it's an expansion along the original goal. It doesn't mean that there isn't going to be short-term review. Um part of the thing here was that Dr. Z didn't want to make preemptive recommendations because we we saw what happened there. when preemptive recommendations are made, it can cause immediate concern. Um, that might makes a lot of sense, but we don't want to cause unnecessary concern when the primary purpose here is to have a discussion and conduct that review. So we wanted to focus more on grounding that in additional analysis and datainformed work versus making more immediate recommendations. I think that's the key thing here. It is expanding on the work. It is not saying there won't be more short-term review and action, but it is just making it clear that that is not the sole intent because before it only said that the purpose was to present short-term recommendations and it didn't say anything about long-term recommendations or review.
This year, it's $75 a student on the governor's budget. Last year, the legislature brought that up to $150 a student. That was significant and meaningful. Um and that's one of the reasons why we have that excess and deficiency money to put in. Legislature may do that again this year. And then we would have that excess and deficiency money to put in next year. Right? So, we're trying to be responsible about that and only take out putting in. Uh appendices remain the same. Um I'm working on what sort of those school committee motions might be. So, I wouldn't read too much into what I've written there. Those That's a little word play by me. Um uh I think the regional agreement um indicates that we need to provide the towns with a report once we do our final budget that includes the following items. This presentation, one of the reasons it's so long, is fully compliant with the requirements of the regional agreement.
Um we have presented to you tonight in your packet one staff report that covers two um two different amendments proposed as two separate agenda items with one staff report. The first is uh the first are some amendments to section 522.1 storm water management specifically uh paragraph C um [clears throat] that proposes to clarify the current requirement for when storm water management review is delegated to the county water resources commissioner from henceforth I will say the county um by switching [clears throat] to an easier to understand list our my colleagues in the public services area have asked for these amendments. They have found that the current language um is not very clear to our customers which are generally developers. Um and we have proposed um the changes both on the screen and in the packet. Um, this section was revised recently uh in 2022 to adjust the review responsibility between the county and the city to match our geographical boundaries.
>> You don't want me like over just so that they can they have to hear us when we record it. >> Oh, wonderful. Okay. So, thank you. So, um like Dr. Ryan mentioned um we added the culture goal actually this year and we realized as we were going through the intentional systems and processes that we have in place to support all of the people within Gilbert um we're missing that vital piece and that's the human experience and and the intentionality of making sure that each one of our our critical groups that make up Gilbert Public Schools um has that exceptional experience. erience that really defines who we are as Gilbert Public Schools. And so as the committee met together and we started to talk about the different groups that make up this goal, like where should we start, where should we focus and of course we automatically went to students.