You have Harmony, Powers School, Skyward, and Infinite Campus. Okay. They they all four do the same things. >> We were on Harmony years ago. >> Yeah. You guys know you guys in the last 10 years have been on Harmony, Skyward, and Power School. Yeah. >> Um and so um it it's it's >> I would I don't I wouldn't quote myself on this. Years ago, I was at another district. Skyward was always the most expensive. Power School was kind of next. Harmony was next. Infinite Campus is a relatively smaller player in the state of Indiana. Um at one time, like, and I don't know if this is still true, but they had the entire state of Kentucky. So, they're huge. They're just not big in Indiana, right? Um they all four do the exact same things. They just have different bells and whistles and different pieces to it.
They're not they're not going to feel anything. It's we're we're we'll have additional money in the CPA >> uh account basically because we'll have things that are paid off. Thank you. >> Exactly. >> Okay. >> All right. Moving moving right along. We we get into the fun stuff in the uh in the budget. Um our benefits and insurance. Um, so just to go through all these line items for employee retirement, it's going up 352,00045. Our workers compensation is going up $20,000. Our unemployment compensation is going up $35,000. Our group health insurance is going up $774,400. and our property and liability insurance is going up 2600. The total for the benefits and insurance going up this fiscal year is 1.207445 207445. And um just as a comment because you know we have everything subtotaled out. our subtotal just this is like this I think this is um a huge a huge point that um just boggles my brain sometimes when we talk about the entire amount that our town pays for benefits and insurance for this upcoming fiscal year we're looking at 15920,17 which is just about 20% of our budget of of of the entire general fund.
Schreiber has got to lock in here. Bottom of the lineup here for Holliston. Rebello just gave up the lead on the mound, has a chance to tie it back up with a base hit. And he's showing bunt and it's foul. So it's nothing and two. So what do we have? Two freshman starters out here? Two freshman starters, Grady Clark at second and Ryan Passalacqua behind the plate. They both looked very solid today. 0-2, swing and a miss. That ball gets to the backstop and Rebello is going to reach. And down to third base goes Snyder. So it doesn't count as an out. A strikeout and a and the batter reaches. And now Schreiber in some trouble here. Chris Baker, another freshman. Did not know he was up. No batting gloves. That's interesting. We'll see how that goes for him. He's 0 for 2 so far.
I love days that he would come into the wrestling room and coach because he was always encouraging a patient, even on his fifth time having to explain a move. This last season, I was talking to some of my coaches about a particularly tough win against a girl I thought that I had no business beating. But Bixby chimed in with, "I'm not surprised that you beat her. I knew that you could." That alone was so refreshing to hear because going into that match, I had such little confidence, but he had believed in me all along, more than I had believed in myself. He's also just an amazing man to just talk to. My junior year, we had a duel at last and I sat shotgun with him on the way there. The entire two hours, we just talked. He told me story stories about his time in the Marines, and he gave me countless pieces of advice.
>> Thank you. Uh for this item, just to make a note, um we do have a revision to the attached salary schedule. There was a uh two errors that were caught. So we do have a replacement schedule that has been provided here for our public and will be attached in our minutes. Um but we do recommend uh that the board approve the contract language changes. Um and the teamsters a this one ten in the I'm sorry, the tenative agreements with uh California School Employees Association chapter 364. Um I also I I know we've had our public hearing and you've had other um action items in regards to this uh tenative agreement and I just want to thank um our CSEA partners in working with us and reaching this agreement for their members. Thank you so much.
Um, it just went on and on. There were There was a Foley catheter design. And I I left going, wow, these kids are going to invent things. It's like they I It was It was mind-blowing what what they were doing. And um, the young woman who uh talked about a new uh uh design for the Foley catheter and trying to eradicate a biofilm. Uh, she the teacher asked her, "What do you have a a walk a walk out um, you know, song?" And she says, "You know, for coming in or for leaving?" And he goes, "I don't know, for coming in." And she said, "Yeah, Thunderstruck." And I thought I thought that's perfect because after her presentation, I was thunderstruck. >> [laughter] >> It was amazing. >> I I will add to that too. I'm I'm sure Tom will as well, but it was when Tom said, "Hey Gail, you should go listen to them." And I thought, I don't know if I'm smart enough to listen to them.
So, thank you very much. So, um, I just wanted to say autism is not only about recognizing challenges, it's about celebrating diversity. And absolutely none of this would be possible without the staff who show up for our students every single day. They're the rock stars, the muscles behind the work, the ones who bring patience, compassion, and dedication into every classroom every single day. They're the true heroes of this program and they really deserve to be recognized and celebrated, which is why I invited a few of them here. I wanted to say thank you for EVERYTHING YOU DO. DON'T BE SHY. TEAM. >> ONE, TWO, and three. >> Thank you. And ready. Perfect. One, two, and three. Big spot. And last one. One, two, and three. One more. I'm so sorry. Ready? Um, one, two, and three. >> Awesome. Then I would just Yep. Perfect. >> Okay.
Right. >> That's exactly what So, from what we use it for, we don't need all the bells and whistles and and some of the things that we don't use. So Sam um had put together a spreadsheet of all the different aspects that we don't use >> in power. So yep, I can share that with you. Great. So um there are a lot of things that were like, "Yeah, it's nice, but we don't need it. It's nice, but we don't need it. It's nice, but we don't use it. It's nice, we already canceled it. It's nice, we already canceled it." Um >> as far as what the teachers use, again, I've taught under both different systems. You're putting your grades in there and you're taking attendance in there. That's all you're using as a teacher. in the like on in the office side, that's where you're building your master schedule.
So, um just I want to make sure people understand just, you know, we're seeing these huge increases in that amount. Um and it's already a big amount and a big percentage of our budget. So, >> and I think the other point, you know, too with that is that the two and a half% that we can raise our levy by is 1.3 million and $1.2 million of that is eaten up by the benefits and insurance. So gives you >> I mean there there's >> $100,000 left to >> to spend on >> a lot of things >> on everything else. Yeah. >> So, it's uh really >> challenging >> and and believe it or not, folks, um I you know, as as much of an increase as it is for our health insurance, uh some of the some of the horror stories out there um in Massachusetts are it's even worse.
Strikeout and a groundout. And Coach Messer looked to have a word with his pitcher. He's denying the gloves. He doesn't want the gloves. His bench wants to give him the gloves. He does not want them. He's going old school. Maybe it's a superstition thing. 0 for 2 with the gloves. Going without him. See if that works for him. He muted it. Oh, yeah. Both of us? Oh. I'm going to pinch. On Kevin Judge. Wow. That's how he's going into the game. Mentioned him earlier as being one of those glue guys along with Jackson and Cooper, but he's getting his first action of the season. Should be interesting. Coming in behind the plate, replacing Passalacqua. The student section's going crazy behind us. Milo Bussinger is the pinch runner for Holliston. He takes out Rebello, so his day on the mound is done. >> he got batting gloves.
I enjoyed that ride there more than I did wrestling that day. So much of my confidence in wrestling came from his belief in me even my freshman year. For context, I didn't win a single match. I was not very good. [laughter] Despite my terrible record, he continued to help and encourage me because he saw potential in me. A potential that I rarely saw in myself, even through to my very last match. Countless times I've told myself that Bixby saw some enough of something in me to try and aid in my success as much as he did. There must really be something there in that sport. I grew so much as a person and Bixby is responsible for part of that growth. I absolutely would not be the person that I am today without his guidance and support. I am saddened beyond words that I will never again get to experience being in that wrestling room or out on the mat being coached by him because I so dearly value his advice and his coaching and his utmost most faith in me.
Any questions or a motion? >> So move to approve the recommended contract language with the with the revised salary schedule as published. >> I'll second. >> All right. All those in favor? >> I. >> Thank you so much. Next up is C2 for teams. It is recommended the board approve the contract language changes in the tenative agreements with Teamsters Local 150. And again, I'd like to reiterate our um gratitude and thanks to their leadership and their negotiating team for working with with the district uh to collaborate on this agreement that you have before you.
>> [laughter] >> The things that they researched and followed through on through, you know, phone calls and emails and frustrations with their with their project, um, it was spectacular. I can't wait to do it again. >> Yeah, I won't belabor the point too much, but I got to sit on the panel with Mr. Kerris who, you know, does a lot of statistics for the for for the district and yet one of the um um things we listen one of the presentations that we listened to was about um or I'm going to read a numerical integration approximation methods for sinusoidal functions of AC voltage. And I was like Okay, I you you beat me. I can't do that. Um you know, it was they really it's so great to see the things that these juniors and seniors are becoming and who they're going to be and how they're going to affect the world.
Ready? One, two, three. And two more. One, two, and three. And And that should be good. But one more. One, two, and three. >> Karen, I had a question though. You might want to go to the microphone to answer so they can hear you. >> Karen, the the uh the communication boards on the I think you called them communication boards, the one on the playgrounds, how does how does that work? So those are um so the core that's so they are the same core communication boards that are on our student AAC devices that they use. So they have the most common words like go more. Um so the the words that are really mostly used swing, stairs, up down things like that >> and the students point and so they point right. So in there they have it in the classroom. They carry it with them.
That's doing your discipline records. That's where you're um doing your state reporting for in school suspensions, out of school suspensions, things like that. You're um you're doing your nurse piece in there. You're doing your um oh, trying to think what other major you're doing your um just documentation in terms of situations that may be a concern that we something we may have to report to other state or government agencies, things like that. It's just a great log place. Um, but again, they all four do the exact same things. They just do them differently a little bit, right? So, I guess it's if you were going to put something in Excel or Google Sheets, it's the same thing. It's a spreadsheet. It's just maybe this one you go click here instead of you go click here. >> Be a learning curve. >> Oh, 100%. >> Been around 20.
Um believe it or not. So, I mean, we're talking about 20%. Uh I was just talking to the town administrator in Rockland. um you know they're seeing like 25% um through their consortium. So you know and and the point I I want to emphasize with that is that we have done a lot to work on controlling costs already and there's just not there's not much room on that side of the ledger anymore. there's no room on that side of the ledger if you know what I'm if you know what I'm saying in terms of like cutting things. Um we've already found a lot of the efficiencies that we're going to find in that uh health insurance line. >> So that's all I have on the budget. >> Anything to hit the the major spots? >> Yeah. I know Brandy, thank you very much for walking through that and you hit a couple of >> questions that I had and >> yeah, >> thank you.
And yeah, Chris Baker has decided he will use the batting gloves. Probably a wise choice. Does hurt without batting gloves to make contact. Set him. It's a big spot for Kevin behind the plate with a runner in scoring position. A pass ball could tie this game. Got to keep everything in front of him. And here we go. The freshman and Schreiber will Oh, he got the runner at first. He's out. What a play by Schreiber. Oh. They called him safe. Coach Messer is not happy. Schreiber with a fake throw to third and then he caught the runner in a almost no man's land out there at first, but they called him safe. That would have been a huge first out for Schreiber. And now he will do it the same thing again. Bussinger's back in. Didn't fall for it that time. Here comes the first pitch to Baker.
Despite that, I will always be keeping his lessons and advice in my mind because they along with the memories that he's given me are incredibly dear to me. Thank you. [applause] >> Hi, my name is Maddie Steel. I graduated back in 20120 from West Valley and got the opportunity to play for Melissa my last two years of high school. Um Melissa's not only just a knowledge knowledgeable coach who knows a lot about the game and um is just great for players, but uh she also is just a great role model for her athletes and how deeply she cares for each of their well-being. Um and she just encouraged me not only to be just the best volleyball player I could be, but also the best leader and just to grow in my character. Um which is something that I've taken with me as I continued to play in college.
>> Any questions or a motion? Move to approve the contract language changes in the tentative agreement teams as local 150. >> I'll second it. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Thank you. Next is C3, resolution 2518. >> It is recommended the board adopt resolution 2518 to issue final layoff notice to the affected classified employees for the 2627 school year. I'll move to adopt resolution 25-18 to issue the final layoff notices. >> I'll second that. >> Okay. And this is a resolution. So we have a roll call vote. >> President H. >> I. >> Trusty Nuin. >> I. >> Trustee. >> I. >> Trusty Brewer. >> I. Trusty Boak. >> I. >> Thank you. And the resolution passes. Next up is resolution 2519. >> It is recommended that the board adopt resolution 2519 to provide affected employees notice of termination or reduction in assignment for the 2627 school year.
It's really um it's fascinating and really kind of breathes a lot of life into what we do. So yes, this is the end point we're trying to get you guys to where you can go out and actually make it, you know, even as a senior in high school, make a change in the world and do something nobody's ever done. Um it's really fascinating. >> Yeah, and it made me feel like anybody who is worried about um the direction of our district, um I felt very confident that we're doing we're making great steps in the right direction. So it was awesome. Thank you for inviting us. Thank you and I apologize for skipping over announcements. Um did anyone have any other announcements? Okay. Okay, let's jump up um to consent calendar. >> I'm so sorry. Can I make a quick announcement just cuz it was in our email, but I want to announce it to everybody that um once again, it's becoming almost wrote, the House of Blue um won the state championship again for their uh digital media production class.