You really take the time to listen to them and to give them advice and they always walk away from you with a smile on their face feeling 10 times better. So, thank you for everything that you're doing. We really APPRECIATE Deputy S from day one just fit in here and made sure that he is care, love, and compassion for all of your children. Um, it's just you don't see in a law enforcement officer every day. Um, I've worked with SRO's um, my entire career here at Continental School, 18 years, and it takes a while for them to get used to working with children. And with him, you can see it in the first day. He's got his own kids. He just gets down to their level. Um, and that compassion just shows the type of quality of father he is. He carries over to every student that he works with here.
>> Okay. Thank you. Um next uh we've been working with the capital project subcommittee and I'd like to thank uh Dr. Hall for his uh attendance at those meetings. Um we are wrapping up the Sportslex uh project. Um you'll see a pay application not for the entire amount but uh for majority of it as we're at the point right now we're working on punch list items. Uh one two items that have come up uh that we are looking to address is the replacement of the scoreboard at the competition gym at Cremon High School. And also uh this past August I believe we experienced uh some malfunctions with the control board to the lighting and the auditorium. So those two projects you can see listed in the lower right hand corner. um to replace the scoreboard, the high end of um bids we had is 1927 and that'll replace the scoreboard in the main competition at CHS.
And I wasn't going to spend a lot of of time um with a presentation this evening partly because most of the information I've shared I've shared uh previously and and not a lot of things have changed other than conversations with the school committee at our last uh school committee meeting uh in terms of where we're comfortable moving forward in terms of a percentage should an override not pass. I think that's critically important that that we have a little discussion on that uh this evening. But I will share a few things here. This is a presentation I'm going to give tomorrow evening uh to the school committee. As you all know, we do have to have a public hearing uh for the school budget. Uh that will happen uh either at the the last meeting in March or the first meeting in April uh where where numbers have to be concretely set and submitted to uh the the select board in the fincom.
There's a little more circuit breaker in there in addition to the fact that we have some savings and other district costs. So for a total budget of 3.09% increase. So I'm not going to dwell on the next slide which talks about hello. Okay. how Tahanto costs are allocated that is in the regional agreement um and you can uh read that at your leisure. Uh Tahhanto baseline operating budget is a little um more complicated in the other schools. Same thing happens. We have the school budget district share um total budget. Then we take out chapter 70 and chapter 71. Then we reduce it by excess and deficiency, Medicaid reimbursement, investment income and charter reimbursement. Um the as I said the regional agreement is silent to these items and historically that's where these items have been placed. Um it basically ensures that they're split among the towns in accordance with the Tanto.
But I thought it was very important to highlight the fact that this uh cross district or not cross intradist outreach is happening between our schools. I think that we need to create more events like that because as one of the students participated in that, it was so much fun getting to talk to the the kids at Cherry Brook, some of them recognizing me for basketball and soccer. It's it's it's really a great experience and and to help our camp community be stronger and more together. I think that more intist uh events like this should be should be sponsored and fostered. >> Great. >> Have you heard anything on college initiative yet? Uh March 26th is my five schools coming out hopefully. >> Thank you. >> Great report. Thank you. You have to leave. >> Okay. Thank you so much. >> All right. Thank you. All right.
Every time she calls me on the phone, she starts with, "It's your favorite parent," which always makes my day. On top of having a great sense of humor and being just a genuinely good person, she plays an essential role in our community school's advisory pack, and she's a regular present at pretty much every single one of our school events. Her involvement is driven not only by her love for her own children, but also a deep commitment to others who will walk through our Sierra halls and classrooms in the future. Beyond her active participation, she exemplifies the qualities of an engaged and supportive parent. She remains deeply involved in her children's education, showing genuine care for both their academic success and personal development. In every interaction, Miss Cunningham's enthusiasm for our school and the students is absolutely clear. Her dedication and sincere concern for the well-being and success of all students, both current and future, have made a positive impact.
Um, furthermore, he had been with us all of five days and his sergeant showed up offering him to move to a different school and he looked at me and I was in the room and he looked back and said, "Continental just got me >> and they deserve better than that." And so although he could have had a school 10 minutes from his house, he drives almost an hour to come and serve here, which just shows his dedication to his profession and his passion and love for continental school. Which is why although it's only been a couple months now, it's an honor to say you're part of the cool family. WELCOME. All right. >> Yes. Good job. Thank you. Thank you. So with that, you guys are welcome to stay and have a cookie or have a cookie. Take a break. Take a couple minute break.
That will also uh make us compliant with IHSA cuz next year they are requiring the use of shot clocks for girls and boys basketball. Um the competition gym scoreboard is also used for volleyball and wrestling too. So um this will bring brand new piece of equipment. It comes with video board capabilities similar to the one that we put in in the sportslex. And then the lowest quote we had to replace the lighting in the auditorium came in at $464,69. Um within those two projects, we're hoping to get those done this summer. Um, but I also did include a 10% contingency in those products there. So, you see a contingency amount of 65,620. >> Is are there any type of to your knowledge incentives any type of incentives when it comes to the lighting? Did we did we look at comed to see if there some rebates or anything of that nature?
So, let [clears throat] me just start with let's see if I can do this here. Again, I'm not going to spend a lot of time on on a [clears throat] lot of this stuff partly because we've seen it before. Um, but but I think it's critically important. The school committee does ask um continuously what does it really cost to run the Asham public schools? Uh, and it's closer to $49 million. This is FY2. These are FY26 numbers. And I think that's important. We get about 44 million from appro town appropriations. Uh and then there's plus or minus 4.4 million coming from grants, revolving funds, etc. Uh and and I want to be clear when we look at grants, federal grants especially, uh we are going to see a precipitous drop in the amount of funding that we get. Uh we're already uh anticipating a title one drop of $110,000 for FY27 and that's pretty significant because we fund three teachers, three educators out of those funds out of the $270,000 we currently get.
Um so you get to the total assessment. Now how do we deal with that total assessment? uh that total assessment is first reduced by um local contributions from the towns. These are assessed to the towns but this is the state's minimum local contribution that both towns take off the top. Then we have an above minimum contribution and that's that 5,856306 the lower end of the middle. uh the two schools split that um in accordance with the formula in the regional agreement um and gets us to their assessments. So we get into the total baseline operating assessment. So this is both schools um for um Berlin. Uh using these we have a total um assessment of $9,41,842 a dollar increase of $680,152 8.13%. Uh on the Boilston side uh we combine everything and we get to a total assessment of operating assessment of $13,227,931 an increase of 838,239 and an increase of 6.77%.
So, we'll head to Mrs. Robbins on the business report, please. >> Thank you. Um but we're reporting for the February 28th. Um we remain favorable 15,000 which is 26,000 worse than the previous month. The two categories of general education in Texas favorable 34,000 which is 18,000 worse so than the previous month special education forecasted to be unfavorable 180 um 3,000 which is 8,486 worse than the previous month. Um two areas for changes special education. The um change um of 8486 um that was unfavorable and that was directly um um that was from the a result of minor changes in purchase services and um and those were due to specific student requirements. Um in the general education um budget um our condition is um a little worse than in the previous month due to our ongoing um issue of the substitutes um budget for substitutes that um we the account covers the long-term substitutes and is effectively utilized throughout the year.
She's truly deserving of this honor. Congratulations, Miss Cunningham, Sierra High School's parent of the year. It is now my pleasure to present our district parent of the year from Isuza High School, Miss Lynn Greer. and Mr. Fernandez will begin with some remarks about Miss Greer. >> Good evening, board president or board vice president Rodriguez Pñena, board of education cabinet and attendees. My name is Gabriel Fernandez, the privilege principal of ISUsa High. It is our honor to recognize Lin Greer as the ISUsa High and the ISUsa High or ISUsa unified parent of the year for 2025 2026. with with Miss Greer tonight is her family and several several of our parent community members who have come out to join us in celebrating our honor this year. Miss Greer has been a leader in our Isuza High parent community for all the years I've known her. Two years ago, she started a parent support group to help parents navigate the intricacies of supporting students with special needs.
Good job. pretty Let's go. I got those. >> All right, let's move on to the consent agenda. Are there any any discussion around the upcoming consent agenda? >> I had a really quick question. Item D on Rebecca that I assume that is relationship. I'm not going to attempt her last name. Although I think All right. With that, this is a motion item. I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> Mrs. Lewis, >> yes. >> Peters, >> yes. Mrs. >> Am yes. And that takes us to item 11, new business to discuss the policy services. Actually, it's an action. >> Yes, this is second reading from the policies that were submitted last month. And again, they were all based on audits and financials, which since we just had our audit, we're in compliance with >> aware of it. >> I do not want to read all the audit by >> Is that a motion item?
>> Keith will be reaching out to he's got a real good connection with his rep at at Kameed and we can see if we get any rebates for that. Um we definitely look to take advantage of that as we have in the past. Correct. >> Right. Uh it is very limited on an auditorium lighting type project because it's not a fulltime lighting. >> Oh okay. >> But but I do have them looking into that. >> And also any solicitations of grants for this project. >> Um we are working with Miss Pile. She had one local company that might be looking to make a donation. We haven't been able to firm that up. So, we do welcome any money out there um that's looking to support the capital needs of the district. >> Okay. >> Um I have a question. >> Yes, sir. >> Um the we know that the wait room needs to be upgraded.
Uh so so that that's not even being accounted for in this process because we don't really get those numbers until the summer. Um, and and I prefer to to work with what we know currently, but I think this is a good start. So, what is a 6.18% operational override look like? That's the number what Michael's talking about. A an increase of $2.75 million to the Ashlin Public Schools budget. I want to be clear with this community. We are already looking at no matter what percentage or an override passes or or does not pass it, we are looking at reducing staffing by 13.2 full-time equivalent employees no matter what. Okay? No matter what happens, the national public schools will be reducing staffing. Partly through attrition of retirement positions. That doesn't mean those positions don't come at a cost to the schools. So for instance, a fifth grade teacher at the Mendes school may retire.
So now we get into um some of these items that the administration has put up for consideration. We consider these investments into the future of the district. Um these are items that will um will move the needle. Um I put this disclaimer on. I want to make it really clear. These items are not in the baseline budget. So the budget we just presented these are not in the budget. Okay. So when we look at these, we have uh three priorities. We have priority one, priority two, and priority three. I'm not going to go through every single line item. Um but at the last meeting, I believe the school committee asked us to put the priority one items on the table uh and make them available for the school committee to consider as additions to the budget. Priority two and three items are items we still think are important to moving the needle as a district and improving um our um our scores and our standing within um the the Commonwealth.
Um we will continue to adjust the forecast as necessary but again this is a very unusual year so you um see that that um there's an over budget on that line but those um summarize the changes from the previous month um just a note is that all departments are required to submit requisitions um by this Friday with few exceptions um once we have all these purchase orders in um you know we can more accurately project um the end of the year and hopefully find some savings to make after. >> Thank you for that report. The finance committee met this morning and M. Robins gave them that report. They vetted it through pretty well.
And her leadership in this area has grown over the last two years. Furthermore, she's been an active participant in our parent gatherings and events on campus. She's always willing to do what's extra to improve our campus community. The way she interacts with parents and staff is always kind and supportive. She even uses Google Translate so she can share her answers in English and Spanish during our bilingual community circles. She has been an advocate for her son Leo and his brother Calvin and we have seen how they have blossomed over the four years at ISUsa High. This is only possible with the teamwork between parents and ISUsa staff. She advocates for inclusive activities in a collaborative manner and together we've been able to make Leo's dreams come true and Calvin's journey in high school successful as well. The joy that her children bring to Isusahai is a reflection of the joy that Miss Greer and her husband have taught their children.
>> Yes. >> Okay. I'll make a motion to adopt and updates to the policy. >> That one or >> is it that one? 11. >> Yeah. >> Number 11. >> Then there's two more after that. >> I'll do the second. >> Mrs. Le? >> Yes. >> Miss Peters? >> Yes. >> Mr. Mr. McIn? Yes. >> Mr. Austin? >> Yes. and approve updates to the policy. Um, DIIE and DIE-R >> I want to approve the just that was just approved. >> She did the motion to approve. Now we're on B. It's a first read. >> Oh, I'm sorry. >> Oh, >> you're up. >> Okay. This is just first read. So, please take your time to review them and we will put them on the board agenda for next board meeting. >> Anything jump out at you that we should read more than another? >> No.
We kind of talked about that. And is there any way to get this done like in the summertime? because I don't think everybody understands that and that a lot of the equip or it's not a lot I don't know how much but there's a good number of the amount of the equipment that comes from the old high school and they just been peacememelling stuff together and as I said before it's kind of like we're Rocky and everybody else is Russia Russia so >> um no and and I do have quotes for that um I can work with Mr. connect you to see if that equipment can be procured and then work with uh you know the building staff just to see if we can schedule the logistics of it. Um that quote I can provide in the FYI um and and put that in there for everyone if you're interested in addressing the weight room um this summer.