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I have a uh a $12,000 payout. I'm looking at the prime plan. I could pay it for 12 months. I'm going to have to come up with the money after after that. But most people know what they want to do. Some people are like, I don't want the my money locked up in a medical account. They know that they want to go into the 403b. So there's a bunch there. So when we do these exit interviews, that's how we make these determinations because at the end of the day, it's an employer plan. So the employer has to make the determination, but obviously we take the uh input of the employee and you're like, "Okay, do you ever change the determination of if somebody really wants it in the 403b, do you put it in the health account?" >> No. Because the employee knows their situation better than we do.
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Uh Priscilla Almanza is our administrative assistant who has just been in contact with all the vendors we considered and uh really her and John leading some tours at the two sites for the vendor uh visits. Um and certainly Julie Stone and Karen Finn for u looking at at the funding that majority is coming from CTE and then a small portion from capital funds. And um so I want to thank all of them for the all the work behind the scenes to really make this recommendation happen. Um as listed, we're looking at the the nursing room at um the high school and that's simply removing a wall because of um they've added uh a number of hospital beds. And if you've been in that room, they have patients in in the bed. So, it's a little startling when you walk in and you see that, but this really opens up the area for those additional um uh number of beds.
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Um and so I'm a local musician, a band director down in Planeville. and I also run the Ashlin lesson program. Um we started a few years ago providing uh music lessons to all of our elementary, middle, and high school uh band students. And so yeah, um few years ago I was uh diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and could no longer run um any marathons or any other races really. I I struggled to figure out how to run past three miles, you know, so it's been quite a a learning curve. Um, but over the last couple years, I've found my way back and I've run a few more races and um found out about about this program that we have here, the the grant, and um immediately applied for it, saw that it has benefited so many wonderful programs in Ashlin, including the Ashlin Music Association.
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tonight >> and their girls basketball team had their first states game Friday night here at 6 p.m. if anyone wants to come support. >> And that's all I got for updates. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you, Emily. Congratulations again. Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead. >> Career day. No, I didn't. No, I didn't hear about that. >> So, um the you said that the blood drive is on the 12th is scheduled for the 12th. >> Yes. Spring conferences. Aren't those half days? >> No, not just okay. Okay. Okay. [clears throat] >> Anyone else? >> Anything else family other than congratulations again? Well done. >> Great job for the calendar. >> Um that she can she wants. >> Are you are you leaving? Are you staying for the calendar? Okay. I just wanted to see if you >> Oh, yeah. I got the calendar. I [laughter] got I got things to do.
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I'm looking for a motion to bring policy 5141.5 to the board for a first read. So moved. Thank you, Gladys. Is there a second, please? Second. Thank you, Minnie. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. I.
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Right. >> I think more formally I'm thinking like a quarterly invitation for updates from both of those organizations whether it be sending somebody or sending us a memo. I I would like it to be a little bit more proactive where we're asking them for the information as opposed to saying you can come to us and talk to us whenever you want because I feel like that's already that door is already open. It's just not necessarily happening without the invitation. >> I agree specifically to the organization. >> All right. I'll say for um next agenda, I actually had a meeting today at the corner of Catherine and Fourth Street where we were talking about that sculpture park and Thistle and Bess and Gutman Gallery and some of the other neighbors are wanting to um enliven that space and make it less of a hangout for um more of a hangout for everyone um I should say.
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>> Okay. >> And they're doing their taxes right now. It's tax season. So I anticipate there's going to be a lot more money coming in around this time. >> So they do it a lot like in December. >> Yeah. >> But then when the taxes are due, which is April 15th, is when you it ramps up again because they can still claim that donation for the prior year. So, I am nobody ever I have never had a donor ask me, "Hey, how was my money being used or whatever?" Because it's it's a win-win. Like, they get a tax break and they're hope hopefully helping the educational organization. >> Granted, I understand. I just I just hope that we're able to utilize the funds as they're intended for the students and for the campuses. So, I'm hopeful to see something, Mr. ideas if we can from your sights on maybe possibilities and where they might feel like the most need is to be able to see those dollars actually do something for the students as opposed to sit there in a cure >> and they are restrictive.
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>> Yeah. In in the time that uh Precision Retirement has been around, there has been no exit interview that has gone the other way. It's based off of your answers. You know your situation the best. So, I'm not here, Max's not here to make a decision for you. We base it off of your answers. Hey, if you want to go out and buy, put a down payment on an RV, car, whatever it is in retirement, I'm not going to tell you different. You know your situation. If you think you got health care costs covered, that's your situation. >> Yep. And so, we'll take a quick look at it. Obviously, the same $10,000 payout. It's pretty straightforward. It's completely taxfree. There's not going to be any uh federal, state, FICA, Medicare taxes. Whatever you're getting paid out, you get to use the full amount. I will say this, when we implement this plan into districts, usually the first year, most people are like, I do not want my money in a medical account.
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The sports medicine room is a uh more of an overhaul uh because that used to be a computer lab and so that will be a summer project. Um but that's really going to uh just strengthen that program even more. the multimedia room um is just we're it's a safety issue as much as anything. We have wires all over the floor and now they're going to be drawn from the ceiling. >> And then at the middle school, I mistakenly put that this is a fitness room and it's actually a career room. And on one part of the room is a classroom, on the other is a more of a a computer lab. And this would allow the teacher um greater visible uh visibility. So if he uh he or she does assign a few students over to the computer lab, there will be two 4x8 uh sections in the wall that he'll be able to uh have visibility.
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So, uh, my hope is that we can as a lesson program apply and, um, find some financial aid for some families who maybe can't afford private lessons. Um, so that's sort of the long-term goal. Um, but as a runner, I'm very, very excited to finally um, get to run the Boston Marathon through this town and my hometown of NIC. So, I appreciate the opportunity. Thank you for what you do. Thank you very much. Thank you. >> Cool. >> Uh, hi, my name is, uh, Wilson Lynn. Uh, grew up in Ashland pretty much my entire life. Went to school here, lived back here now after graduating from college. Uh, you know, uh, I was a member of the Ashland High School track team, cross country team. So during the marathon, we would always go out, cheer on the runners as a team. And uh some of the biggest inspirations in my life were uh my coaches uh Chris Avery, Lou Manini, who both were able to run the marathon.
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>> I feel like you have >> love to hear student voice. >> Absolutely. >> All right. Cool. Well, thank you, Emily. >> Uh consent agenda. >> I move that the board approve the items on the consent agenda as recommended. New hires rehire. >> All right.
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Any opposed? Motion carries. Okay, Kelly, uh, policy 5143.1. Moving on. Sorry. All good. Okay. Um, so, policy 5143.1, um, is school time accident insurance, um, and this policy, um, is just, uh, informing people of our rights, that we are informing parents of their opportunity to participate in a group accident insurance. Um, we do this annually. It's part of our annual notification to parents. Um, there are no substantial changes to the policy language, other than an updated reference legal references to the statute, um, and we would recommend that we accept this revised policy. Okay. Seems pretty straightforward.
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And so I think she would like Diane from this vest would like to come at our next meeting and talk about how she can help do that. Um how she can and I talked to her a little bit about it. I said we would all be very supportive of like temporary installation pieces etc. Um so that's probably something that should go on the agenda or she'll she was thinking about reaching out to you anyways. Okay. And I don't know if that requires a conversation with um I think it's Jordan Black who oversees the parks downtown, but >> uh likely uh if it's >> that doesn't necessarily have to happen in our meeting like they talk, but >> yeah. Yeah, I can I I can definitely help uh put them in contact uh and kind of help uh uh facilitate some of that conversation uh if it helps.
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So I I know that the middle school and high school have the most flexibility because they do have the sports and the extracurricular activities. So that that's an easy one. Um, but you can't spend it like say they want to go to skate country or something. How you have to say how is that educational? How is that supporting you know what you're teaching? And so it's it's very restrictive. >> And I look at it as a challenge especially on the incentive side for we want kids to be at school. We want kids to feel like there is I mean I don't want to say we have to incentivize them coming to school but obviously we have to get creative when it comes to how some of the challenges that we're facing >> and ultimately kind of put into perspective that being at school means you do have opportunities like such and such as opposed to not being at school.
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It probably goes what 10 to 20% in a medical, 80 to 90% in the special pay. As people actually understand the advantage of using tax-free money to pay for their health insurance, it starts to switch. In districts like Chandler, where we've had our plan in for over 20 years, they're probably 85% medical, 15% special pay. Now, you do get a lot of people who are going on to tryare maybe um they're going on to their spouse's plan. You know, they're really maybe not worried about health care costs. That's what the great part about having the special pay plan is is that you can give them an option to in a sense have access to that money right away and still be able to save the taxes. Um so just quick comparison here. So there's about an extra 7 months or so um by paying out the money and going through the prime plan that you can pay for your insurance.
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Right now there's a door that connects those two and >> you know you just don't have the line of sight that you would like. Um, as I said, three of these are uh CTE, one of them is our capital funds. Three of them will be done if pending board approval over the next two weeks. So, we were pretty excited to um have the three vendors come. Uh they had a chance to visit uh each site, provide us with uh estimates, and um and then we were able to review those. Uh and again uh we're recommending that Rightand Construction uh be approved for um completing these these projects. Three of them over spring break and one over summer. >> Which one is that? The middle school. >> It is the last one where we're creating the window. Yeah. And that's that's $9,000. >> So very small portion of of our capital fund.
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So it was always been kind of a dream to follow in their footsteps and you know kind of the ultimate goal as a track athlete is running a marathon. So >> yeah, >> having this opportunity couple of my friends last year actually >> were able to run as part of the town of Ashland. Uh Ben Savage and Isha Yadv. So they kind of gave me the idea to apply. >> Yep. you know, I put my name in this year, was lucky enough to get selected, and I'm excited to run the marathon as part of the town of Ashland. >> Well, thank you very much. >> When did you graduate high school? When did you graduate? >> Uh, class of 2019. >> 2019. >> Great. >> Thank you. >> Hi, I'm Tiffany Barry. Um, I've lived in Ashlin since 2013. Um, and I love it here.
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Um any questions or discussion on that? >> Okay. >> All those in favor uh for the consent agenda, please say I. >> I. Any naysay? All right, it's unanimous. Thank you very much. And we will move on to old business. Our board of education 2627 adopted budget. I just want to say um real quick to start off, thank you to Stephen for the board retreat the other night. You really um exceeded my expectations as far as when you wanted when we interviewed you regarding the plans that you had. I really didn't think you'd be able to put it in as quickly as you outlined the other night. So, I want to give you the floor and outline it for everyone to hear some of the things that you you plan on doing and obviously open the floor up to everyone else for discussion as well.
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Does anyone have any questions, though? Kelly, no addition, no, nothing to take from this. It seem to be very clear. It's Yeah, this is a pretty straightforward one. It's one of our very brief policies. I think it's two sentences. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Mhm. All right. Looking for a motion to recommend policy 5143.1 school time accident insurance to the board for a full first read. First read. Thank you, Minnie. Is there a second, please? I'll second. Thank you, Gladys. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. >> I.
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>> Great. >> Okay. Well, we're nearing the end of our agenda. Is there any further business that folks would like to discuss before we adjourn? >> Wellrun meeting, Mary. I love it. >> Oo, what do we got? What are we clocking here? 44 minutes. >> Well, 40 if since we started at 7:04. >> Yeah. Well, thank you everybody for your time. Our next meeting is on April 1st. Not an April Fool's joke. Wednesday, April 1st will be our next meeting. Um, I like this idea of getting some agenda items and maybe selecting a presenter or inviting a presenter for next meeting. So, we'll smash some heads on that. And um Sarah and I will have some good reports from the Lancing Arts Advocacy Day and yeah, April looks like it's going to be a busy busy month. So, um, appreciate all of you. Thank you CTN.
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