>> If for some reason the phasing doesn't happen and they never build the YMCA center that they only build the learning early learning center but the entire site was cleared. Now we have a bond in place that we can at least stabilize the site and maybe enough to redo some planting so that way the cleared site doesn't completely run off into other sites and that we're we're left with an unmanageable site that's been cleared with no recourse if for some reason it doesn't. The intent of the maturity is to be released at the end of the project. It's just a safety >> a standard practice. There's a risk in every single construction project, right, that things don't go forward. I think there's less risk in this one. >> I mean 9 to49 Homer had a bond on it that was >> 501. >> Yeah. >> You know.
The community motto is nothing for us without us and I ask you to please consider that. Thank you for your time. Thank you. I'm sorry. I'm sorry again about that. All right. Motion to adjourn the board meeting at 9.1. Uh, I may a motion to adjurnn. Do I have a second? >> This is board member Bove. I second. All in favor? I >> I. >> None opposed. Board meeting adjourned. Thank you so much public for coming.
You don't see any special ed para positions cut here. That's paid out of M. Okay. And it's because we can't afford to give up those positions because of those numbers students to adults. Right. Okay. We aren't even looking at any of Jen may be coming back later by saying you know and saying our title one funding is cut. we're going to need to cut x number of say title one pairs um and but the same with our coaches and the same with those kinds of positions. So that's an excellent question uh Barb because it's clarification for people who don't know how we you know how we divide or how our different positions are paid for. You've hit every other department but you haven't hit the school board. I know we don't get paid, but we do have a certain amount of travel and expense money.
>> Yeah. It's sitting there empty right now. >> Yeah. Exactly. Which is why you have the shity on it. So, all right. So, in any case, we're not going to solve the questions tonight. I am going to make a motion that we continue the YMCA whatever it's called site plan review and special permit um to March 26. Is there a second? >> Second that. >> And a roll call vote >> I skip. >> Montino I. >> All right. And Trisha Kendall I. Okay. 26. We are moving. We are shaking. We're going to get this thing done. >> Thank you very much. >> You're welcome. Thanks for coming. >> Thank you. Good night. Okay. Is >> that the red line draft of the housing production plan or the clean >> red red one? Yeah. >> I never even looked at the title. I just saw the two attachments.
We do. Should we be giving up a piece of that because everybody else is giving up some? I know it's probably compared to the rest of the budget very minimal, but I mean it's only fair that if they're getting everything that's in in the budget that we give up to. Sure. Well, I will tell you, okay, I will answer that in a second. I will tell you that um one of the things that annoys me about because you mentioned this earlier about um uh community people, parents, politicians, whomever talking about the administrative costs for school districts. One of the items that falls in administration are those liability and property uh insurance. Okay. of of the budget that is that encompasses you as a board. Um, Cass and me. Okay? Because that's one that's one of those lines or one of those that has two numbers and then zeros, but now we have other numbers in there.
That's why I kept saying it was a day ago. I didn't I didn't read that. >> My brain likes to look at the correct version. So, when you kept saying there's another one two days ago and the attorney's email indicates there's an edited version and the only one I'm receiving is from February 24th. Either the lawyer did not change the title or I'm looking at the wrong document. >> Yeah, they just didn't change the title. >> Okay. So, uh we're at other now, but we have one of these is significant planning board task list. We're not going to do design review committee. Is there any verbiage from Lisa yet that >> I have something >> Whoa. >> I have something very draft that she It's It's literally just essentially we've changed two lines in it to make it so that it would essentially be an ad hoc committee of >> two lines.
Okay? So there's half a million dollars and of course it goes up every year, right? Um, and uh, and so they go, "Well, your administrative costs just keep going up and keep going up." Well, almost that entire budget is that $500,000. Um, uh, you know. Okay. Uh but in terms of what you guys have, um it's about 20,000 for travel and and uh but part of that is also your dues, the aba dues. I'm certainly not going to recommend that we not stay a member of ASBA. Okay. So, uh expenses that you all for for travel and for uh conferences less than 10,000. So, I appreciate your uh I appreciate your offer, but I would not recommend that we cut them. The better informed that you all are, the better decisions you make for our district. When did you say contracts and um agreements come out?
>> No, no, no. We're just changing two lines in what's existing. So essentially instead of saying that you appoint five members on a one, two or threeyear rotating term, we replaced it that you would have three members with up to two associate members that were appointed ad hoc by the planning board for the duration of one application and can be reappointed for following reviews by the planning board. >> So can can we look at that and get that in our rotation to talk about so that we can make the warrant? You already put in the placeholder for the warrant. >> Lisa just hasn't confirmed it yet. That's what we had discussed last Wednesday, but she hasn't looked at it and said, "Yes, that works or no, it hasn't." So that's why you don't have it yet. That's the only reason because she may come back and say, "You can't do that, Goober." And you got to change it to this.
They will come out the week after spring break. They cannot come out before March 15th. Um and um and we needed this all to be done before we started doing that. Eileen will be working on contracts and work agreements next week and we will get them out um on the first day back from from spring break. And then employees have 15 days to respond uh to those offers. If I may, Dr. Stewart board. I can't speak for anybody else, but um I want to thank you for the investment that you've made in trying to come up with this solution to the problem that we have, just not enough funding for the school district. Um I'm no finance expert or anything like that. I'm not really good at budgeting. But from what I do know and what I have been able to learn while I've been here, I think this is an outstanding effort on your part and I want to thank you and commend you for doing this.
And I'll go, "Oh, okay." So, but that's what we've got right now. >> Okay. All right. Great. I just wanted to make sure it's still I'd really like to have that on this town meeting. >> Oh, yes. It's on it's it's on as a we've got it as the notice of intent for a placeholder. Okay. So, if we hold a public hearing for it anytime in April, that's more than sufficient time. Okay. And we only need one public. >> You only need one public hearing. >> Okay. And it's just a small ch. Okay. All right. I'm just going to keep I need to keep an eye on that housing. Okay. So, housing production plan. Um that's that's the thing we need to um go through. Um >> can and Paul um you are sitting at the airport. It was great that you were here for this that public hearing, but if you need to like actually get home.
It's probably it's the second most difficult thing I've had to do in my entire career. We can see that Let's say we board. I I I've got something to say here. Um, this is coming come to me as sort of a shock. Okay. And I'm not good at making decisions in shock mode. Um, this is a if a big if, right? Mhm. If we tabled this, gave us a little bit of time to digest it and then had a special board meeting, say next Wednesday, early morning or what whenever time we would have sometime next week to approve it. Would that would there be anybody who could not do that? I'm occupied out of state most of next week. Most next week you're out of state and Monday and Tuesday I'm double. Could you phone in? I could phone in. Yeah, I'm three hour time difference, but could phone in.
>> Um, please feel free to do so. >> Yeah, no worries. I'm good for now. I'm good right now. >> Okay. Um, uh, because you you were there for the the really important part that we needed you there for. So, okay. Um, so, housing production plan. Um, I'm going to uh don't mean to throw anyone under the bus, but I don't think anyone submitted any comments back to the housing produ housing production plan except >> comments from yourself >> except for me. Um, so as we go through these um, and I think it I've been kind of going through them and comparing it uh to the draft I sent, they really took care of uh picking up a lot of comments. I didn't I didn't go through all of them. Um, but mostly I think we can just scroll through and I can explain a little bit about things I had um found or noted and and they're not all my changes.
Yeah, I'd have to phone. What do What do you think? What are you talking midm morning like? Whatever morning whatever morning we would have, you know, but we need to get it done so that she Dr. Stewart can finish her job. Can we do it after like say 10 o'clock? I have an appointment at 9:15. So, well, I just made up Wednesday. Would Tuesday be better for you? Would Thursday be better for you? Wednesday would be best for me. I believe the 17th. Yeah, Tuesday. I I think that um I honestly don't know how I would I don't know if there's much approach. and and come up with any kind of other ideas or thoughts. I mean, obviously, Dr. Stewart has spent three months developing this through blood, sweat, and tears. Um, and I'm I'm not quite sure that postponing the decision that obviously is going to have to be made.
I don't know why the whole I think just the paging changed there. So, it's just page numbers >> um >> or you know and maybe it's not even worth going through. I could go through. I could like say so much. >> Like your version is cleaner to to look at. I wonder if we can put yours on screen. >> Why don't I do that? Why don't I pull up the version that you sent them? Is that better? >> But I know people should know that. Yeah, but you can they can look at the red. >> Yeah. I don't >> Well, what's the best way? Do you think? >> Well, we're supposed to um we either need to vote on this tonight or we need to be on their meeting for April 1st, >> right? >> no, they're not meeting April 1st. >> No, I guess their next meeting.
Uh, I'm not sure that postponing the decision is going to really change anything. Um, I could be wrong. Been wrong before. I remember once I thought I was wrong and I really wasn't. But seriously, I don't I don't really know that postponing is going to change anything. Do you? Honestly, the only thing I can think of is that we now have this meeting out in the public and that somebody from the public might come through with a million8 $18,000, you know, and I'm donation a donation. Um, no, I'm being facitious when I say that, but you know, there might be something that somebody says in the community in the next four days or three days that would give us a whole new light on the situation. I agree with you, Fred. This is it's got to be made. The decision has to be made and this right now looks like the best recourse and Dr.
>> Who's not meeting April 1st? Don't we have a joint meeting? >> We have a joint meeting on April 1st about um >> Albert's plan. >> I did. I'm sorry. I was thinking of the fourth of this month that they didn't meet. I'm No, there's there's another meeting they were supposed to have that they didn't have. But >> so it would either be this or the first. I mean, you could you don't have to meet with the select board on it. So you could vote on this on the 26th when you're there because you're just voting to make your recommendations to JM Goldson. So you don't have to wait until the first. >> Okay. >> I thought that's what uh JM told us the last time that each board could do it individually. >> Right. Exactly. So you don't have to do it wait until the first to do it with >> it was just it was just about wanting the timing.
Stewart has spent hours on it and days and months. And I'm just wondering that because we haven't had really a whole bunch of community input. I just wondering that if there's two more days of the public knowing I don't know. I don't know. That's certainly a good point. Give it would give the public an opportunity. Um I honestly I hadn't considered that. So that's I think that's a very good point. Um whether or not they come up with a suggestion, probably not. But you know, it's sort of the same vote as getting a million8 by donation from somebody. So what day are you proposing? I'm Charlene says Tuesday. I don't care. I can do Wednesday if it's a little bit later in the morning, you know, like late morning. Barb, you're you could phone in, right? Because I know you're going to be out of town, too.
I guess let's go with that because I don't think we're going to have time to go through everything. Let's assume we can do that and then we'll we can always call off. >> Do you have a lot of changes? >> No. Well, it's important to understand that I submitted my changes, but other people did too. And so >> board did as well. >> So the red lines that you've gotten are some of >> I mean >> my changes and then some are >> other people's changes, but you should probably you can probably see where they make sense. I guess you can see what they were questioning. >> Um, so if we want to go through mine, mine are almost >> Yours are just yours. >> Mine are just mine and they're more more related to planning board, right? And from planning board perspective. Do you have a copy of mine?
Yeah, I'm going to be out of state, too. So, I I could do Monday Monday or Thursday. Tuesday and Wednesday both are kind of unless it was Wednesday afternoon around after 1:00. I could do that. Or Tuesday in the afternoon, I could do that. But the my mornings, Tuesday and Wednesday, are kind of already spoken for. Well, how the rest of you guys feel? Does anybody want to table this for two days or three days? I think it's a good idea that hopefully there's somebody out there that heard something that maybe they can chime in. I mean, I think it would be good to do that. Um, I'm hoping there's somebody out there that has some ideas. Barbara, you want to chime in? Yeah. I unfortunately we've been here before. I can remember there were many years back in the 90s that we didn't even get step raises because of the way things were and stuff.
>> I do have a copy of yours if you would like me to share that one. I said I can give me just a moment. Sorry. I can. >> And who were the other individuals who made changes? >> I don't know. We sent it to the select board and they either would have sent it directly to JM Goldson or through Susan. So I wouldn't have been privy to who it was just you and the select board that were offered to make comments. So it would only be from you and the select board at this time. >> So yeah. So if we're doing that, I think we can go for through very quickly and then if people want to go through on their own, they'll be like, "Oh yeah, Trisha talked about that one or >> and can I get an understanding like lately the materials I get for the meetings like for example for today there was an attachment with documents but that draft is not in there.