>> Okay. I was pretty sure, but All right. Closing items. Future items. Do any members of the board have any future items? The next regular board meeting will be Thursday, April 2nd, 2026, approximately 5:00 p.m. at the ESC. Um, I would like to add AB1200, an AB1200 for management to a future item. Um, are you talking about doing one from the past because they've said they will do it from this point forward. >> Yes. So, I'm referring to the raise we gave this year to provide clarity and um fiscal oversight. >> Okay. I don't need that because we've got all the numbers from what we would have gotten and I would hate to make that department go back and recreate or create something that was never created in the first place. But >> I would like to just note that the numbers are off according to the data the district has given us.
>> Okay. Miss Aer, do you want >> I don't have anything to >> No. Do you want the AB1200 for management >> to go backwards or go backwards forward? No, I don't want to go back forward anymore. >> Okay. And Mrs. Tucker, >> need to start moving forward. >> I I think it would be nice to have, but I don't want to make extra work for our staff if we have the figures. Okay. So, that would be a no. >> Okay. Is there any other future items anybody would like? >> Um, I would like to um, you know, Kian has come and talked to us so much. I would like to propose we add a discussion item information discussion item for SB 328 and any potential movement we can make in considering um the start times for our high schoolers uh just so we we can better understand the impact it might have on our district and so we can get our wheels turning on it.
Um he's stood up here and spoken so eloquently. I want to make sure that we're respecting um his call for information. >> Okay. We had a presentation already, correct? >> Yes. >> Okay. Do you need another presentation? >> Did we have a presentation? >> We've had it before. >> Yeah. for a detailed like considering what he said like adjusting the times as we're looking to adjust our district times. >> Well, we've we've had the presentation here for us as a district to tell us what the what it entails. Um and you know right now and I'm following it on social media because obviously somebody put it out there and and I think one of the things that we um we as a board need to make a decision that we have as a district had the start time for our schools for years and years and years.
And you know because one child cannot get up and your children get to school on time, right? They don't have an issue with getting up to school. I have five children that went through school in Apple Valley and they went to school on time. They were there. And the the problem that I keep hearing is that everybody has ideas about how what they're supposed to do with, you know, start time. We have heard from people from other districts that have had it and they say it didn't change anything. It did not change. The only thing it changed was that the kids were coming in later and later and later. But we keep forgetting that we are servicing not just the kids. We have adults who work here. So if we begin to start school at 8:30 and then we end school at 4, we keep forgetting that we have employees who have to do their medical, who have to go to banking, who have to do all kinds of things.
Now we have pause them and they cannot get to those locations and those locations are not open for them on Saturday or Sunday. So as we begin to have this conversation and cater to one kid, I just want to be sure that we have the understanding that we as a district we have worked on this for so long and yeah rural school issues it was a law. It was something that was put out but they normed it on a a district that is not even in the state of in this in this area. So I'm not I'm not willing to have any further conversation about this. I think every child, the children who are making it to school are making it to school. They're not complaining and we need to cut it off and just say, you know what, this is how it's going to be.
The school's going to start on time and we're going to end on time because we have events that our children have to go to. And if we cannot allow our kids to get the access to go to those events because we are dealing with um you know, we have to start school at 9:00 or 8:30 or whatever the time is. Then we are we are shorting our children for whatever society. Are we going to say to a child that graduates from Apple Valley and he wants to go get a job and and his employer says you have to be here at 7:30. You know well that's not the right time. I need to be here at 9:00. That's not how it is. So we're preparing them for the real world. The real world says when your employer wants you to come in on time, you better be there on time if you want to be paid.
And I'm tired of dancing around this one one issue when we have to solve it. We have high school teachers. They are there 30 minutes before kids and they're there 30 minutes after kids. And now you want them to be there. And let's keep in mind that when school gets out in the in the fall, it gets out at night. 4:00 is already dark. is that when we want the kids who are living, let's say about the Marianas and there are no street lights and we are going to drop them off and then they walk up the desert in the in the dark. We need to think beyond what this child is saying to us. And I've had enough. I've had enough of hearing this conversation and I think we need to be as a district and make our decisions and say we are not doing it.
If you guys choose to do it, then you are harming your teachers who need to go and do banking, who need to go to medical, who need to do all kinds of things. you're harming them because one or two children do not like to get up in the in the morning and go to go to school. I I'm offended by this whole thing because we keep having this conversation. We need to cut it off and just say draw a line and just say we are the adults. We need to say get to school on time. That's it. I' I'd like to point out that in considering this, we're not just catering to one kid based on um the research. uh we would be considering the health and welfare of all our children which I believe is why we're here. Thank you. Okay. Are there is there anything else for future items?
Excellent. All right. Thank you all for this special school committee meeting and for making the time to attend. I really appreciate you um finding time in your busy schedules. Hopefully, this won't take too too long. Um it is Monday, March 2nd. It is now 6:01 p.m. This meeting is being recorded by the school committee. If any other persons are present uh are doing the same, you must notify me now. Seeing none, I will assume that no one else is, which is great. Um go ahead and call us to order at 6:01. Because we are all appearing online, all votes will need to be done by roll call.
This meeting is being recorded by the budget and finance subcommittee. If any other persons present are also recording, you must notify the chairperson at this time. Call this meeting to order at 11:32 March 2nd, 2026. Um, let's do our roll call. Um, member web >> here. >> Uh, I'm subcommittee chairs. I'm clearly here. And >> member good here. >> Okay, we are here with everyone here. worm, all that jazz. Yay. Public comment. There are no members of the public in the room. There are no members of the public on Zoom. And if a member of the public shows up, then we'd be happy to hear from them. Okay. Uh, next, approval of February 3rd, uh, 2026 draft subcommittee minutes. >> So moved. Okay. Do we have >> Okay. We have a motion from member Goodwin, second from member Webb.
So, uh Secretary Webb, would you call the roll of members? Member Goodwin. Here. Chair Sexton. Here. Member Webb. I am here. Vice Chair Childs. Here. Member Deneve wrote in said that she would not be able to be here tonight. Mayor Disorgher. I'm here. And Member Dietman. I did not receive a communication from Member Dietman, but if he's not here, then he's not here. Um we do have a quorum with five of seven members. Um and so at this point, I would like to move us along and I'm looking for a motion to enter executive session pursuant to Mass. General Law Chapter 30A, subsection 21 A2 to conduct strategy sessions in preparations for negotiations with non-union personnel or to collect conduct collective bargaining sessions or contract negotiations with non-union personnel. The committee will not return to open session. So moved. Second. All right. So, um motion by Member Goodwin, a second by Member Webb.
Um, do we need any discussion or a moment or we good? Okay. All in favor? I. Passes unanimously. Those minutes are approved. Okay. To the fun part, the budget update. And for that, we'll turn things over to the administration. >> The calendar. We we had talked about how the calendar >> was being altered or changed due to when the mayor's budget was due to the city council. She she being the mayor was moving that backwards to give more time. She did and and I know you received the email last week. We got we had reached out and received an email talking about when the mayor is going to get it. So her city her budget is due to the city council by April 22nd. She wrote to um Anna and Becky just last week when we were asking that the proposed budget adopted by the school committee has to be submitted to the mayor at least 21 days before that date.
Um roll call vote, please. Member Goodwin. Here. Chair Sexton. Yes. [snorts] Member Webb, yes. Vice Chair Childs. Yes. Mayor Disorgher. Yes. No. All right. And so, now I need a motion to adjourn the public session. So moved. Second. >> Okay. All right. Motion from Mayor Disorgher, second from uh Member Goodwin. And we need another roll call vote. Sure. Sounds great. Member Goodwin. Yes. Chair Sexton. Yes. Member Webb, I am a yes. Vice Chair Childs. Yes. Mayor Dis- Disorgher. Yes. Okay. Is that everyone? Unless uh Member Dietman is on. No. Um all right. So, that's all of us. The motion passes. We are adjourned at 6:03 p.m. and I will see members over in the Google Meet for the executive session. Um and Kelly, I see that you're there. If you were hopping on to to say things, the next opportunity will be Wednesday, March 11th at our regular school committee meeting.
So that would actually be April 1st. >> I'm hearing it April 1. >> I don't think I can be trusted on April 1. Full moon right now. >> Right. And then we just received this last weekend and I did. Then it talks, this is all some charter language that she put in here. So this goes on to say 21 days before the meeting, they they have to schedule a vote. This be published in a newspaper, etc. So you've seen some things come to you quickly because when we got this last week, um it is quick. It's and I think what makes things move quick is that three-week lag where it goes to the mayor on let's say April by April 1st, right? Okay. >> And then doesn't go to the city council till April 22nd, but us having to get it in prior to >> in that sense.
So we did have to do some things that'll be in the newspaper this week published. It's a kind of a brief summary. It's not much. You've seen it. It's a kind of a rectangular block that goes in. >> Okay. That has to go in on Wednesday which is the say the second third or fourth. It'll be the fourth on that day for then and it has to go. It's this time frame of no long shorter than seven but no more than 14 days. Like there's a lot of this iffy language. So that's going in on a Wednesday so that we we you the school committee can hold the meeting on March 16th. >> I saw that posted >> that evening and then that's public hearing but basically it's a meeting with you as well and then there'll be another meeting then you'll have obviously we have a regular meeting on the 11th March 11th school committee.
This will be the Monday after the 16th and that'll leave to give you give some time and then the following Wednesday potentially on the 25th I think that date is working out for a lot of people but I'm not exact I haven't seen this morning would be the potential school committee meeting on the budget that evening and it some of you have gone through this before you've probably watched it before as well and seen what happens even after that budget is presented to the mayor That doesn't mean we're done. >> That is just the >> the ask. >> It's it's an ask and it's the beginning, right? There's still much work to do after that. There'll be many things to add or subtract after that point as well too. And then when the mayor goes, I don't know exactly her steps, the mayor steps city council, but after that, right, we'll end up probably seeing some type of dollar figure that, hey, here is what we can contribute.
And then we'll I don't want to say be back to the drawing board, but we'll go back, right, and sharpen our pencils because what you're going to see today and what Andy and the business department have prepared is a level services budget, which is I think I briefly mentioned this to you. taking this year and really rolling this year, kaboom, into next year without fine-tuning things, right? And sharpening pencils and cutting things like that, but adding a few other things that were added into this year's budget after you approved last year's budget, such as special education, transportation for people who have moved in. So those if there's some additional occurrences and I think that may be the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars but we'll let Andy kind of give a rundown of that that happened after last let's call it June people moved in we anticipate these students to be with us in the future so that is now going to live with us for the foreseeable right until people move out or something like that.
That's where we stand on the calendar slashbudget for the moment. Is that a fair assessment and you get >> Yeah, I think that's a pretty thorough rundown of the timing and scheduling for it. >> Um, >> next would probably be dollars, right? Money. Yes. >> You take one and pass it down, please. >> So, >> yes, get your magnifying glass. >> That's what I'm need. >> Um, >> you know, he didn't think you needed uh, you know, a vision check and telling you he handed you the budget. >> I should have got the 4.0 glass. So >> yeah, >> what it is honestly is like is one of the things that we we've talked about but I don't think we've ever formally come to an agreement on sort of budget presentation format. I know there are some discussions with Kate was the chair. So this here just this is a an export straight from the city's munis.