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And it's it's called number three, create a narrative. Um this is a lesson I learned from Lynch and Moses and it's the key focus of our reading call. So, first of all, it sounds like they're having calls. And I don't even know they're having calls, but anyways, I'm just going to read this. As a specific example, talking about a 2 million deficit and this was in September 2025 after the talk for the override started like 8 months earlier. As specific example, talking about a 2 million deficit seems a lot less scary when you potentially have over 4 million in additional tax revenue coming from new developments, including 340B projects. And that was one of the story lines of our most recent call. Okay, so we are being told we need an override cuz we don't have enough new growth when right here it says we have potentially 4 million.
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They're only putting 900,000 in the budget and I've a couple of people not only just me, other people have gotten up and said we've got these apartment buildings all over the town coming in that have been approved. So, I'm I'm really to me this is the most glaring contradictory message. We've got apartments, we've seen them, we know they're coming, but we're being told we need an override. So, are we supposed to do an override and then all of a sudden, whoops, uh there's another 2 3 million. So, then it's not like we're going to be able to It's going to be really hard to go back and get an under ride. Um So, oops. Sorry. Oh, I cannot waste your time. All right. All right. So, is there anything you want to say? We're We're kind of at the end of our our time here.
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Uh is there anything else you want to add? No, I'm sticking with Ben Franklin first responsibility to question authority and we'll keep that up and asking residents to do the same. Yes. Uh and we want to thank everyone that listens to the podcast. And uh we had a very nice article in the local pages on page 17 and the painting was in there. And if anyone wants to contact us, we're at [email protected]. So, we will see you in a month. Thank you. >> [music]
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Dr. Sister First is absent. Mrs. Wilson? Here. Dr. Soltero? Here. Uh Mrs. Ervin? Here. Mrs. Pote? Here. And Miss Venezuela. Here. I will make the motion to approve the agenda. I'll second. All in favor say I. I. I. Motion carries four to zero.
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At this time, I'll turn this over to our finance financial consultant, our finance consultant, uh, Mr. Tyler Moore. Mr. Moore, do you have the floor? >> Good evening. >> Do you have the presentation or do I need to share my >> Yeah, if you can share your screen because it always comes out wonky on on our side. my screen. >> Yes, it was my it's my error. There we go. Go ahead. I switched speakers and then so the warning didn't go off. But if you share your screen again then we should have it. All right. There we go. All right. So yeah, uh as Dr. Slo um mentioned uh this evening we alo much like all districts need to have a revised budget prior to May 15th. Uh this is the first opportunity for Aaho um prior to the May 15th deadline to revise their budget.
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Mr. Hopkins >> [clears throat] >> I am present Mr. Guthrie, Mr. Persich He's out of the facility doing something. Mr. Wilson, here. Dr. Mrs. Aaron Cohn, here. Mrs. Kotek, here. And Ms. Venezuela, here.
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Thank you so much. All right, we wenardes. Good afternoon to everybody here here tonight. It is 4:01 p.m. and we're going to go ahead and get started with our board study session. I'm going to go ahead and do a roll call. We do have Cororum, Miss Erys is present, myself, and we have Miss Gibson McClean online. Um and just to give us a little bit a background, the framework for student outcomes focused governance is built around six research informed competencies that describe schoolboard behaviors and the degree to which which they create the conditions for improvements in student outcomes, vision and goals, values and guardrails, monitoring and accountability, communication and collaboration, unity and trust, and continuous improvement. And with that, um, we're going to be going over some different things. We're going to go ahead and get started with our item B, which is evaluating board time.
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I will call >> All right, it's 6:30. Julie, would you mind calling the roll, please? >> Of course. Cara Caston? Here. Katie Courtney? >> Here. >> Ken Dawson? >> Here. >> Chris Respinosa? >> Here. >> April >> Here. >> Don Runner. >> Here. >> Michael Risky. >> Here. >> Ryan Enright. >> Here. >> Romina Papaverga Gonzalez. >> Here. >> Thank you very much.
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Okay. We're going to start our >> [clears throat] >> work session on budgeting. So, we're going to turn it over to Tracy. I'll shut that. No, it needs to be on. Um So, we're just going to go over the packet that I provided to you guys and go um over the education operations and then talk about the debt service also. So, the first one um is what I want to talk First one I want to talk about is the education fund. This first page is just, you know, for your information. You guys, you know, know what the expenses are for the education fund. You know, our main source of revenue is the basic grant, which is, you know, driven by our student enrollment and student count. Uh and it's currently being supported by the referendum fund. Um and then these are the projections that I used, the assumptions that I used for my projections for the education fund from 2027 to 2031.
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All right, everybody ready? Yeah. River School Corporation School Board of Trustees to order. Roll call. President Duckworth, we have a full board present. Thank you. As is a custom, uh first of all, we want to welcome you all.
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Hey, welcome everyone. I'd call the order and have the pledge of allegiance. Here you go. I'm going to go ahead and say the mission statement in unison. Uh, next I'm going to ask for a unanimous Excuse me, unanimous approval to add the resignation of Diana Hall, Max High School math teacher, to the agenda under the personnel part A. Any objections? No objections. We'll add that to the agenda under part A. Thank you. All right. Uh, adoption agenda. The chair will entertain a motion to adopt the agenda for the May 4th, 2026 regular meeting as presented. Do I have a motion? Motion. I have a second. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Item five, minutes from the April 6th, 2026 regular board meeting and April 20th, 2026 executive session. I have a motion. So Adam has motion. Is there a second? I'll second.
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We are live. >> Good evening everyone. Welcome to our first inaugural edition of Tea with Dr. Z. A space where we come together as a community to have open honest conversation about our schools, our students, and the work ahead. I am Dr. Earra Herman, superintendent of Ammeris Pelum and Ammeris Pelum Regional Public School Districts, better known as Dr. Z. and I'm grateful to have you join us in this wonderful space of connection, conversation, and community. This series is is grounded in a simple but powerful belief. When we commit to teaching all our students, we must be willing to meet every student where they are and ensure they have what they need to thrive. So, tonight's conversation reflects that commitment. We will be focusing on how we support our multilingual learners across our district. and I am joined by none other than Miss Celia Synowski whose expertise in this work guides how we serve and uplift our students.
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Welcome everyone to the May 4th, 2026 Ashland Conservation Commission meeting, which I'm calling to order at 7:00 p.m. There is a quorum of the commission, and this meeting is being recorded. This is an off-cycle meeting where we address only 40B applications, and it is being held live at the Select Board Room at Ashland Town Hall. This meeting is also being recorded on WACA cable, and if there is any interruption in the broadcast, the meeting will continue. It's also a hybrid meeting where we have this open to Zoom, and I will address the Zoom part of the meeting with a with a protocol. Under Governor Baker's March 12th, 2020 executive order, public boards are allowed to meet remotely. This order was most recently extended until June of 2027 by Governor Healey as part of the supplemental bill budget bill signed in March of 2023. Please follow these procedures for attending and participating.
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Heat. Hey, Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. I call to order the school committee meeting meeting of May 4th, 2026. If you are able, I ask you to stand for the pledge of allegiance. I >> aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Miss Gther, can I ask you to take the roll call, please? >> Best Coughlin >> here. >> Chris Oliver >> here. >> Kathleen Emerald >> here. >> John Nunes, yep. >> Mary Beck >> here. >> This meeting is being recorded. It will be rebroadcast on DCTV and may also be streamed on their YouTube channel. We have allowed 10 minutes for public comment from the audience on any topic on this evening's agenda. Seeing none, we will now move to tonight's agenda.
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Mhm. >> Welcome everybody to tonight's match up as East Longmeadow play host to the Agawam Brownies. Spartans are 7 and 4 and currently on a four-game winning streak beating Pope Francis on Friday night 18 to 4. Kenzie Whitmer is leading is leading all scorers in Western Mass with 60 goals and seven out of her 11 games this year. She's scored at least five goals. Agawam has a record of one and 10 losing their last game to Longmeadow 19 to 1. When these two teams faced off earlier in the season East Longmeadow came out on top 17 to 6. East Longmeadow has won six in a row against Agawam outscoring them 100 to 17 during that stretch. But before that stretch before that the Spartans were only one in 25 all time. Only scoring 133 goals while giving up 416. It must have been tough for Liz.
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Any discussion or questions from the floor? >> [clears throat] >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. To the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Amen. Do we have any public comments at this time? Sorry. I will First item of business is the 2025 to 2026 budget review. Yes, uh Uh Mr. President, um in accordance with Arizona statute ARS 15-905 and 15-910, by May 15th, the board may revise the school [clears throat] district annual expenditure budget after notice has been given and a public meeting has been held. Attached is the district annual budget expenditure budget revision. Your approval of the 2026 district annual expenditure budget revision is recommended. Okay.
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So I'll cover cover the uh revised budget highlights. Um this is our first revision since the board adopted this budget. So, you're going to see some larger changes um than you typically would if if we have already did a budget revision. Um I'll cover the MF budget changes, the capital budget changes, and then talk about next steps as we look towards fiscal year 27 budget. So, as I mentioned, the 26 budget highlights this revision reconciles um everything that we've done uh to close out the last fiscal year. Um so, again, the board adopted uh the current budget that we're operating under in July 7th. The AFR and all the year and reconciliation items took place um in October. So again, you're going to see quite a bit of change uh just because of that discrepancy in timeline and that's that's an annual thing. Um what this budget does capture is all the onetime funding.
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And I will hand it over to Dr. Ramos to go ahead and get us started. >> All right. Well, good afternoon everyone. It's good to be back with you again. Um, first want to start with a heck of a lot of kudos of meetings from your workshop in February. Conversations about budgets, conversations about aligning work, uh, conversations about the progress that's been made. We are towards uh what I would say is almost the end of a coaching platform or coaching journey from my end. Excited to revisit the conversation of how to codify your board meetings. um really good and really helpful for the leadership team as well to watch and learn how exactly we have been tracking minutes. Um and we're also going to revisit the conversation about submitting smart and strategic questions uh from the board side so that that can help and support the leadership team.
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>> Having a quorum, let's stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right, I'll turn it over to Hank for student recognition. All right, I will turn it over to Anne. >> Good evening, everybody. I'm so happy when we have students to celebrate and tonight at South, um we're celebrating three different groups of students. I'm going to start by introducing Chris Blum and he is going to be celebrating our IHSA short film entry, which won fourth in state. >> [applause] >> Hi there. Um >> [laughter] >> You know, we'll just pull it. Hi there. Uh my name is Chris Blum. Um I wear many hats in this district, um but one of my uh that I'm very proud of is sponsoring these amazing young people in creation of their short film entry for IHSA.
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Um so, we included salary increases for all staff, you know, maintaining the current benefits, put in annual increase for insurance premiums, and then um estimated the textbook curriculum adoption costs. And you'll see in um some of these other pages that uh those costs fluctuate each year because it depends on the subject that we are adopting. You know, like PE doesn't cost as much as like reading. Um so, you'll see that fluctuation in the numbers in the years depending on when we're doing those adoptions. Um and then I just maintained basically our current supply, travel, the tutoring that we're spending um and like summer school expenses just kind of maintained those expenses at the current levels. Uh with the projections for the revenue, I uh put in a 2% increase assuming the state gives us a 2% increase in state tuition support each year, and then a 1% decrease in our enrollment.
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