um that he's offering. So, this is one-time money. Um the next slide I'll kind of show you how that breaks down for Beressa, but this is more at the state level. Um educational special education equaliza base rates. Um so that's going to increase to about $999. It currently is about $917 I think it is. Um so this is just the state's funding towards special education. Keep in mind that special education is still well underfunded. This increase isn't going to make a dent, but it is some it is uh something that will help in the future. Um so we do have the expanded learning opportunities grant which is our ELO program. They are proposing to stabilize the tier one two tier two rate at $1,800 per unduplicated account. So currently the way that ELOP is funded is um there's tier one districts. So let's say the governor proposes to fund ELOP at a million dollars or whatever it may be.
The literacy program. I I highlight the literacy program that 900,000 partly because again, if we pass an override, we have some flexibility with our school choice funds to afford this over a three-year window. We have that flexibility. We wouldn't otherwise. Um we've seen the enrollment trends. Uh you know, Paul has done a good job with the per pupil spending. I Again, I I I always want to make sure that the community understands they're getting a pretty good value for their money here in this community. It's a catch-22 to be honest with you for us. Um we are ranked 362nd out of 396 school districts in terms of the lowest amount of per pupil spending. Which is shocking. Well, we've spent that way for a long time. >> been that way the entire time I've been here, so it's not surprising. But We we did drop this We're last now.
Um, so just really wanting to positively re reinforce and positively encourage more of this. Thank you. >> Appreciate the feedback. Thank you. Any others? Any others? All right, seeing none, thank you, uh, administrators. And at this time, I think we can move on to our consent agenda. Um, a little bit of a typo. I don't think we had an item B, or if we did, we removed it to somewhere else. So, um, looking for a motion to approve the consent agenda as listed. However, are there any members that would wish to remove an item from the consent agenda? Okay, seeing none, I put forward the motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Second. >> All right. Motion from Chair Ston. Second from Member Goodwin. Uh I think because we've got a member online, every vote needs to be a roll call vote. >> Yep.
Yes. Chair Sexton. Yep. Secretary Webb, yes. Vice Chair Childs. Yes. Member Geneve. Yes. Mayor Desorgher. Yes. Member Dietmann. Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Um just looking at the way that our agenda is structured, we usually have a break available to us at 8:30. I don't know if we're going to be able to get through the School Committee reports in 7 minutes. Um so, I would like to know just a quick poll for members. Would you rather have a break now or after the School Committee reports? Yeah. My opinion is now, so we can also figure out what our community members still here are looking for and possibly bump that up in the agenda so that we don't have people waiting till 9:30 at night. Great. Any objections? All right. Let's have a quick 5-minute break. We'll come back at 8:28. >> Mhm. >> And I call us all back from our break.
Um the tier one districts get basically the up to a certain cap amount and then whatever is left over gets allocated to the tier 2 districts. And so basically what the governor is trying to do is stabilize that rate so that us going forward being the tier 2 districts know how to budget for the ELO program. And then student nutrition. Um he's going to continue to fund the universal meal program. And Josh, if you can hold right there, I just want to emphasize something with the board because th this is what the governor proposed in January, right, with his initial um budget, but there's already conversation happening in the legislature because this is all negotiated there. And in May, we'll get the May revise where we'll get a better sense of if these numbers stay true or if they change. Um, as schoolboard members, you may have already been receiving advocacy letters around these talking points because there's already recommendations to change these things.
Again, so the latest data at the state is FY24. >> Yeah. Between FY23 and 24, we dropped more. Because Holliston passed an override. So, it finally hit their their rolls. Yeah. There were a couple of overrides in other surrounding communities. So, so it it it it did shift even with the, you know, surrounding communities like Tisbury and etc. Yeah. Whatever the I was I've always been surprised at the number of communities in this area of the state like Holliston and Hopkinton, which you know, Hopkinton in particular is I consider to be more affluent community than Ashland or Holliston. And for whatever reason the per pupil number, right, is sort of in the ball the similar ballpark that it used to be. I haven't looked at it in a couple of years. I don't know if that's still It's close. But they're also bigger district with sort of probably better economies of scale that allows them to do that.
>> Member Goodwin. >> Yes. >> Chair Ston. Yep. >> Secretary Webb, yes. Vice Chair Childs, >> yes. >> Member Deneive, >> yes. >> Mayor Disorger, >> yes. >> Member Dyman, >> yes. >> Motion passes unanimously. Um, just looking at the way that our agenda is structured, we usually have a break available to us at 8:30. I don't know if we're going to be able to get through the school committee reports in seven minutes. Um, so I would like to note just a quick poll for members. Would you rather have a break now or after the school committee reports? >> Yeah, my opinion is now so we can also figure out what our community members still here are looking for and possibly bump that up in the agenda so that we don't have people waiting till 9:30 at night. Great. Any objections? All right, let's have a quick 5m minute break.
Um hope you enjoyed either walking around, talking to people, eating banana, whatever it was that you were doing during that break. Hope it refreshed you a little bit. Um all right, school committee reports. Um, we'll start with the the chair's report. The biggest thing that I have to offer to you is the subcommittee descriptions. Um, did folks have a chance to read through those? I see a yes and a no. Maybe some maybes. All right. Um, do I even have them pulled up? I do not. Um, in general, like this was my best first pass, um, based on what I know these subcommittees to do. Um, so I've included the Executive Subcommittee, Policy Program and School Committee Handbook Subcommittee, Budget Finance and Warrant Subcommittee, and the Community Engagement Subcommittee. Those are our four sort of standing, all the permanent subcommittees. Um, and then I included also an ad hoc Long-Term Facilities Use Advisory Subcommittee description.
Um, the LAO has put out their recommendation and so for uh, tier 2, for example, they feel $1,800 is too much. They actually have recommended a lower amount, which we definitely disagree, right? We as a tier 2 district, we very much disagree with that. I think their amount is at $1,500 per student. Um, you know, and and they also had uh different thoughts around the one-time money and uh special education. In addition, um I think the other uh important point of advocacy is the second bullet, the student support and professional development block grant. What we want to see is as much flexibility in usage of those dollars as possible. The legislature has different opinions about that. One of the things that we keep hearing is they want to see more accountability from school districts on how these dollars are used. Uh they feel that over the years um there's been multiple um opportunities of one-time dollars given and they want to see evidence of how have those dollars made an impact for students.
Um, I don't know what what the geographical explanation is. Yeah, because it's just actually one of the more affluent areas of the state, generally speaking. So, I also think it's always important to have the conversation that that we've built programming internally over the years. Um, one, the value statement of keeping kids in because we believe in that. Two, it's saving close to $11 million since we've had these programs, uh, you know, started within our community. Um, you know, currently So, really $11 million a year? No, it's Overall? Overall. Cumulative? It's a great question. Um, if all those kids went out, yes, it'd be $11 million for the year. But, you know, It's taken into account It'd be very difficult. So, that's that's a binary situation. Like that we didn't add any of the programs. >> it, right? Right. So, it would be It would be about that.
We'll come back at 8:28. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, I'm going to call us all back from our break. Um, hope you enjoyed either walking around, talking to people, eating banana, whatever it was that you were doing during that break. Hope it refreshed you a little bit. Um, all right. School committee reports. Um, we'll start with the the chair's report. The biggest thing that I have to offer to you is the subcommittee descriptions. Um, did folks have a chance to read through those? I see a yes and a no. Maybe some. All right. Um, do I even have them pulled up? I do not. um in general like this was my best first pass um based on what I know these uh subcommittees to do. Um so I've included the executive subcommittee, policy, program and school committee handbook subcommittee, budget finance and warrants subcommittee and the community engagement subcommittee.
However, that subcommittee needs to be voted on in order to exist, so sort of like leave that as a as a nebulous maybe. Um, at this point, I think they're fairly comprehensive, but I would like to give, um, each of these subcommittees an opportunity to basically compare this against what you know your your work to be. Um, bring that back, and maybe we can meet in the middle. Uh, I think they're fairly comprehensive. I do know that once we have settled descriptions for at the very least the four permanent subcommittees, those can live as a sort of addendum in our policy handbook. That is a per- that's just an ongoing description. That way, not only would the public know what our jobs are, but we would know, future folks would know, um, and it would just be there, um, for all members to see. Um, so that's that's my report on that.
And so my concern about that is we are still having lots of expenses that we need to be able to meet. And when I hear, you know, um not that uh I'm in disagreement about us being accountable about how we use our funds, absolutely. But, uh, when I start hearing that language, I worry that some of these dollars are going to become restrictive and they're going to be identified for very specific purposes that may not be in alignment with what our district needs. And so, that's where I think we need to keep advocating and letting our official elected officials know that we need uh those block grant funds to be sustained, number one. um but then also to have uh to make them be very broad so we can utilize them um to the best of our ability uh within our district. So a lot of things to keep in mind because all of those conversations are being held right now.
It could be that. So you don't want to be an alarmist, but it'd be somewhere in between. So so if it's $85,000 a kid out of district cost, multiply it by the 127, you know, you're going to get close to $10 million, right? So. Um Again, worried about grant funding. We talked about that. You know, you know, Marci agreed 10% of our of our budget is is grant funds, right? Um So we really have to fast forward right now. We have the override and we have the 3.25% um And and they both, you know, that still on the right side 3.25 comes with risk because we're still reliant upon heavily on our school choice funding. We don't have a mechanism for athletics. We don't have a mechanism for deferred maintenance. Uh and we don't have the ability to um be ready to to maneuver if we have a one-time expense.
Those are our four sort of standing all the permanent subcommittees. Um, and then I included also an ad hoc long-term facilities use advisory subcommittee description. However, that subcommittee needs to be voted on in order to exist. So, sort of like leave that as a as a nebulous maybe. Um, at this point, I think they're fairly comprehensive, but I would like to give um each of these subcommittees an opportunity to basically compare this against what you know your your work to be. um bring that back and maybe we can meet in the middle. Uh I think they're fairly comprehensive. I do know that once we have settled descriptions for at the very least the four permanent subcommittees, those can live as a sort of addendum in our policy handbook. That is a per that's just an ongoing description. That way not only would the public know what our jobs are, but we would know, future folks would know.
Um any questions for me? Yes, member Danahy. You did not include the ad hoc redistrict redistricting and re-envisioning our school subcommittee. Yes, thank you. Um I will share that one of the reasons that I did not include that is because I I do intend to ask for us to dissolve that subcommittee and replace it with this other ad hoc long-term facilities planning. Um any other questions or comments for now? So, what I am asking is for each subcommittee to take their description back to themselves, discuss, please, at the next time you meet. Um and then come back in April, assuming you meet between now and our April meeting. Um with like yeah, good to go, or here are some changes we would like to see. As long as it's not giving yourself less work, that's not allowed. Um the other thing, it's not here, but I did promise our director of technology that I would bring this up.
>> All right. And so going back to this or from that first slide to this slide you can see what does that actually mean for BUD as far as dollars is concerned. Right. So, increasing the LCFF rates by 2.41%. Great. But this Beressa doesn't really receive 2.41% in the increase in actual revenue um because of declining enrollment and they're only increasing rates, right? So, it's rates based off of TK through third grade rates based off of fourth through fifth and so on and so forth. Um our actual increase based on this col of 2.41% is probably closer to 1.06. 06%. So that's about $700,000 um that our LCFF revenue will increase. Um as far as the student support and professional development block grant, it's estimated for us bars about $2.7 million. Um but we don't know what can happen with this money. Um there has been times in the past where the governor has allocated a certain dollar amount during the January budget and has actually decreased that during the May revised and then even in the final budget that gets um approved in June July time frame has even be even been decreased further.
Um The other side again, I just talked about we're trying to fix what's broken. I'm not saying it's going to be perfect. I don't want the community to think that it's going to be perfect. But we're still cutting one plus million dollars out of our current operations to then make this work and pull stuff back into the operations. Next steps, uh we have to have a budget hearing. Um and we're the community is notified and and have a public hearing. You'll have to support uh and vote on two budgets. One is the op- operational override 6.18% and the other, unless you tell me to change it, is the 3.25%, which is what I I want to share with the community tomorrow. Um And and if it's a different number, you've got to say, "Hey Jim, we still want these positions or we don't." And utilize the the choice funds or not.
Um and it would just be there um for all members to see. Um so that's that's my report on that. Um any questions for me? Yes. Member Den, >> you did not include the ad hoc redist redistricting and reinvisioning our school subcommittee. >> Yes. Thank you. Um, I will share that one of the reasons that I did not include that is because I I do intend to ask for us to dissolve that subcommittee and replace it with this other ad hoc long-term facilities planning. Um, any other questions or comments for now? So what I am asking is for each subcommittee to take their description back to themselves, discuss please at the next time you meet. Um and then come back in April, assuming you meet between now and our April meeting. Um with like yeah, good to go or here's some changes we would like to see.
Um we experienced a minor snafu earlier this week where all basically all um group emails, like our school com emails, or teachers@gps, they were locked down because they've experienced a lot like a subsequent incre not subsequent significant increase in phishing attacks, and if they get access to one of these groups, then they can send out phishing attacks to our staff en masse, and so that's why our school committee email was locked down. Um it's it's reopened. Members of the public, you can email schoolcom with one m um @gpsk12, and it will come to all of us plus the superintendent. Um however, at the request of our director of technology, um we I would like to have us all do two-factor authentication on our school committee accounts, our Google accounts. So, I have a lovely little write-up that Ian provided for us that I will be emailing to you each if you are not familiar with how to turn two-factor authentication on to get that done, but I'm asking you to do that definitely between now and our next meeting because that just helps keep our entire district safer, more secure digitally.