Okay. So, I'm looking for your score again. Four is strongly agree, one is strongly disagree. >> Three. Four. Four. Four. Four. Four. Four. Four. Four. 4 3 4 >> 54. >> Is this fiscally responsible and sustainable scores ready? Is it fiscally and responsible to adopt the precision plan? 4 2 4 4 4 >> 52. >> Is this option in the best interest of children? >> Got to give it a score. 1 3 3 Ariel >> 3 >> Okay, now we're going going to do the same exercise for the option of status quo, which is to continue doing what you've been doing, which I'm guessing is just paying everybody out cash. >> I have one question. >> Is this protected by is this insured by FDIC? >> Great question. >> Can you use the mic? >> I'm asking is the accounts insured by FDIC? I know you said we don't lose money if we put it in.
I think you should give them 2%." Then we're going to have to go back and sharpen our pencils, and something else is going to have to give. Um, and so those are the kinds of things that we're looking at at this point in time. I only show you this so that you have a perspective of how we build the budget at this point in time and what we've done. And that's the work that the leadership team's done. We've met on several occasions as a collective group and individually as small groups to talk about what could we do to get to the numbers that we need to get to. There'll be some other things that you can see that we'll talk about. Um, again, you start to bring in key questions as you start to take a look at it. Can you get to where you need to get to and how big will the class sizes go if you do staff reduction?
you know, there's going to be a cost associated with that that that we wouldn't have necessarily planned for. >> Okay. >> And and the other thing is like we ended up chipping away, you know, kind of whiddling away at some and it it's like h we're kind of cutting it a little bit close here. So, this gives us a little bit of a buffer on a couple of those things, too. >> Okay. thought could I um this is going back in the presentation a little bit. I just wanted to address um about the firefighters. Mhm. >> Um and just because I thought, you know, you mentioned all of this, of course, but um it's pretty significant when you look at the data that we've been given. Um and actually heard some stories as well, but um so a couple of things that I'm not sure people realize, right, is that frequently now people when they need an ambulance, they want to go out.
>> Well, I think how how would that just a question, how would that work? Because we did I didn't vote on it specifically, but I know the board voted on the next year's calendar already. Do we bring that up back up for discussion? I would recommend early May we bring that back for discussion and we can do a revote if we think there are other calendars out there as examples of how we could do this differently. >> Um so maybe we we do a little research, get some of those, gather them, and then by early May we would have time to have looked at them and and make some decisions that might change next year's calendar. >> I do think we need to involve the calendar committee because I know that Mrs. Larson, who's also on PDK. She's kind of the bridge between what our PD days are and what our actual like they they work really hard on like factoring all those dates in and there has to be a certain amount and some are half days and some are full days.
What we've done is we've turned it over to student council um because they have not bought into it. So it's up to student council to devise a plan for next school year. Um the colors are not encouraged at this time. We did have some gang issues at the beginning of the school year. So, the red and blue didn't work for us and that was sold to you at the beginning of the year. Um, it was there was threats to each other with the colors. So, we just that's why we gave it back to student council. And that's it for RCA. And then you can show the video. My defense is that the quadratic formula is more accurate and helps you understand more in depth of how you get your answer and how math really math and numbers can transform into your solution. What about yours?
will get interest. But is it protected by the FDIC? >> I believe FDIC specifically banks. That's what I believe. >> I mean, which which account? There's there's multiple accounts and >> uh there investment opportunities that have their risks based on your indiv. >> But is the precision option are you asking about the precision option or the status quo option? >> No, the precision option 3B is FDI. We don't lose any money. >> Yeah. So Ariel's asking is like, so let's say, for example, cuz this company's owned by an investment group, right? And that's how they make their money. Let's say this investment group, I don't know, they get bought out, they make a bunch of poor decisions. >> They lose all their money. What happens to our money? Usually >> Yeah. >> Investigate what happens when investment companies go out of business. What happens to your money?
What do you do when you look at, we'll say, the high school and the middle school when you have core subjects versus electives? What do you do with specials at the elementaryaries? What happens with counselors and social workers? What if it's paid out of a grant? What if it's not paid out of a grant? All these become questions of what you do with class size reductions, administrative reductions. Can we reduce staff at the administrative level um or can you reduce benefits and achieve what you need to achieve? Again, the salaries, do we give a freeze, so no money, or do you give some iteration between basically about two 0% 2%. Um, and that's what we would take a look at. We'll run the numbers and say, okay, I mean, you can do simple math. 2% is is 735,000, then 1% is half of that. um where's the curriculum purchases?
They don't want to go to Framingham. They want to go out of town, right? So they go to Newton Welsley, they go to Milford um and beyond sometimes, right? I know there was a case where they went to Brigham and Women's lately recently and and so this has a an impact about how long they're out of unavailable, right? Um and so when we talk about currently we run two ambulances and then when we talk about moving it to three some of the rationale for that is that and this is a startling number in my mind that that there in um 2025 there were 20 2,685 calls and 1,035 were simultaneous. two. So that's kind of a kind of a startling number in my mind that that it's happening that frequently. Um and so and then again then there's also um mutual aid that we give and and receive as well.
So I think we do need to whether they meet first and give us their recommendation based on what right what we've said or I know there was discussion last year about possibly having that discussion with members of the board of ed like having one of us be on that committee. something but I haven't seen >> I don't think they've met because we already approved calendar but I do think it's critical that we involve that committee because of the makeup of it. I think it they you know they're going to be able to tell us better like >> it looks like on the ground >> this is this is how many days we need off this is how many days we have half days so >> what our options are in terms of PD and that kind of thing. >> So I I just learned about a new committee so thank you and we will involve the calendar [laughter] >> and we will do that.
Uh my stance is that factoring is faster and that it directly enables setting factors to zero. It also builds pattern recognition. >> Well, that that is needed for uh understanding more mathematical equations. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, There we go. >> There we go. Let's go, ladies. You got it.
>> Those speaks to that they've been around. It doesn't mean they haven't lost everyone's money in 20 years and came back. We now remember 2008. But I mean, we're working as this is like a tax deferred savings account. I mean, if you were to just take your cash out and put it into a savings account that was FBI protected. I don't know. I don't know. Hey, >> we can seek to get that answer or get that question answered if you want to email or put it on posted >> on it today. And then what happens if it turns out that it's not FDIC protected? >> I say let's go through the process. Okay. >> If we find out there are no protections in place, then we could update that through an email with this group. Google says >> it's on. >> Sorry, I don't know.
I'll give uh Dr. Fountain some kudos because based on the way he's got them to look at the numbers, um it's going to be less than what I would have anticipated had you come to me a week and a half ago and asked me what do you think I'm going to spend on curriculum. Um so I haven't had a chance to be totally honest to to um go through all of his numbers and say what does this mean? Uh Julie and I are talking about that, but it is less than what we had anticipated uh based on on what he's been able to do. Health premium increases. It's a same conversation every year. Is a district going to pick up the employee only? The employee is responsible right now for dependent coverage. Okay. But is the district going to pick up employee only or are we going to start to move over the cost of employee to the to uh uh to the employee themselves?
So uh if we have both ambulances occupied then we have to go to mutual aid. So your response time it changes dramatically. So now instead of maybe being four or five minutes, it's going to be coming from Framingham, coming from Southboro, it's going to be significantly longer. So I think those are um you know, significant things to think about in terms of I don't think any of us um if you're calling 911 for an ambulance wants to think about having to wait any longer than you have to. Um right >> and indeed you know sometimes I'm not sure but even ch the selection of the site for the uh police and fire station in part was so that it would be easy access to any side of town so they can use the fountain street bridge to get over the railroad tracks right >> and not have to be um rrooed because of uh a train.
I think it's made up of like teachers and students and administrators. >> The nodding of head over here is like, "Yes, we're doing [laughter] it." So, we're good. We will do that. Definitely. >> I just know Mrs. Larson's on both because she talked about how it's hard to line them up with the day off. So, that's Yeah. >> Yeah. >> That was that. >> Great. All right. >> So, I guess we'll uh anything money to talk to. Sorry. Uh if there's anything else on uh or nothing else on the count, I know we're going to revisit in two weeks and we'll come back with maybe we can get a hybrid of those scenarios or see what better looks like. All right. And we'll see how the weather is. >> We'll bring the farmers home so we can plan those days. >> Let's just so let's just recap.
Any questions from the board for the secondary campus report? >> Thank you, Miss Appreciate. >> Thank you, M. >> Continuing with our campuses, Miss Maz. >> Good evening. Uh, President Buenthia, board, and superintendent Diaz, I'm going to start off with our highlights for February 2026. Um, so we completed, not we, but our our boys uh completed 13 sessions of mind, body, and medicine with Miss, which was amazing. It was the first time that we had a board uh all boys uh sessions um completed this year. Um, also we're starting Wednesdays with Christina is another group that we um went ahead and get start got started in February. And then we've had a great uh success with Thursdays at 10 with Miss Naomi Tom and she is uh the ASU representative. Um, we also took a quite a hit with the flu um this month uh both staff and and students.
>> We can email them real quick and see if they can confirm what Google tells us. I don't That's the best I can do right now. It says, "If a company administering your 403b goes out of business, your money is generally protected because it is held in a trust or annuity contract separate from the company's assets. Your funds will be transferred to a new administrator or you would be given the option to roll them into a different tax shelter thing. >> Sure, I'll email them." >> Okay. So let's we're going to go through the same exercise with the status quo option still scoring just as you did with the former one. Okay. So if we keep everything as is, is that aligned with student outcome focused governance and the guardrails around recruitment and retention? I'm guessing there's one in is there guardrail about finance budget?
Now, please understand if we move over the cost, we're not talking about moving over the tire cost of what insurance is. What would move over would be the increase that we're going to experience next year. So, if the increase was $1,000, that's we are still paying $6,000 for their insurance right now as a district or $7,000. So, we wouldn't be saying, "Hey, you owe us eight total thousand." we would be looking at the 10,000 or some iteration of that if that's what we decided to go to. Okay? If that makes sense. The other thing we'll look at is other fund balances. What do I mean by other fund balances? One of the things we're talking about with other fund balances would be contingency. If I say we're going to roll over a million dollars, that's a number we have to work on. What happens if we only roll 750,000?
So, so it's a significant piece that we have to we you know, which is obvious, right? You want to get to um somebody in a hurry, right, that needs you. And um so I mean I think too just about the pictures from the incident on Myrtle Street not too long ago were pretty dramatic and to think about and and how many people and the other thing is you know when you see I know when I see an an ambulance or something go down the street or sometimes I I'll first see a fire probably a captain or lieutenant or somebody right in the >> in the SUV and they go and I say well pretty soon there's going to be somebody else coming and frequently it's a ambulance or it's a fire truck or both and then there's usually a police car. So there there's a lot of response involved in these calls and I think sometimes we um you know don't really think much about that but >> yeah it's um >> it's uh you know I think sometimes this is uh just one of our general um you know I don't know how to classify it.
So we're going to figure out if the February 23rd date is waved, [clears throat] right? >> Right. >> Um >> seniors go 17. I think someone should do a count of instructional hours. >> We will. >> We have to meet that 900 hours. >> Y >> um >> can the seniors only go >> and the senior can the seniors only go 177 which I don't I think we have an answer to that. >> There's clear >> legal language on that. So um they would be expected yes to come back. >> Like what does that scenario look like? They have to come back like we should lay that >> date on that right is a different story. >> Yeah. Yeah. Well, and I think it sends a message to it. It's it's important to keep it consistent between schools, right? Um the elementary school and a middle school are not going to be happy that they're working with students and the high school is not.
Um but we're slowly recorating and now it's allergies but uh not as bad as the flu um that was was coming in. So we do have a video um also with some more highlights. Hey, hey, hey. I love you. And I did forget to mention that um our attendance um and participation for Messa and hiking have been amazing after schools. um we have more than 12 students staying for that every Tuesday with um those clubs and for our tutoring um it's been a steady 10 or plus students staying after school for tutoring as well. So those are great amazing things that our students are committing to. >> Excellent. Thank you Miss Milan.