So, that is just over five million. So 24% of our um budget goes to general education um needs in the district. Again um tuition like I said 23% almost a quarter of our budget just over $5 million that pays for our tuition to Pine Hill that pays for our out of district tuitions. Um that pays for our students that attend Camdi County Technical School. Um it's all there um charter school placements and things of that nature. So, um, again, just over $5 million of our budget goes to tuition. Um, special ed, we're looking at 14%. Again, that's teacher salaries, uh, instructional supplies, occupational therapy, and physical therapy, as well as our, um, speech therapists here. Our child study team falls under special education, and our extended school year program, um, that runs over the summer for our special ed students. And again, 14%, just over three million in our budget.
Because you know it's not me. Oh, I got this. I got it. Yeah, I got it. Yeah, because I got my stuff. Thumbs up right here and it's not sent. I got the thumbs up and no send. I'll do it now. I just give you some time. I'd now like to call up Sheriff Anthony Carotenuto to swear in Mr. Adrian Diaz. I'll keep an eye on him. Hey, come on. No, no problem.
Jaden's story is a reminder that progress doesn't always happen quickly, but with patience, supports, and determination, it always happens. Jaden, we are very proud of Where's Jaden? Jaden, we are very proud of you, not just for how far you've uh you've come academically, but for your courage and your effort every step of the way. And I think tonight we can all agree that this tutoring pass has officially done its job. >> Congratulations, JADEN. >> CONGRATULATIONS. Come on up. Everybody get a good picture. We're okay. >> Everybody group picture >> look over there first. >> Ready over here. >> Awesome. Good evening everybody. Um, today it is truly an honor to stand before you and speak about a student who represents the very best of what we hope to see in our school community. When we think about what it means to be a leader, we often imagine someone who stands at front, gives direction, and achieves success.
Butler grant $8,500 renewable for four years. [applause] Madison Mlan Murray State Trustee academic achievement $10,000 renewable for four years. Donald J. Lich Memorial Scholarship for a th00and and the crown scholarship for a thousand. [applause] Maya McTurnan Tiger Border County award level one 21,500 renewable for four years. Jame Myers ISU Jesse W. Fel Scholarship for $9,000 and the ISU civic engagement scholarship for 2,000. >> [applause] >> Abby Meny, Redbird Academic Scholarship, $6,500 a year. [applause] Owen Meny, Pcker Construction NextGen Scholarship for 500 and the Maroon and White Award. [applause] Olivia Mercer, Simo Marching Band Scholarship, 725. Simo Monroe County Alumni Scholarship 3,000. The Simo Copper Dome scholarship 5,000. [applause] Genevieve Najenko Iowa academic award 6,000, National Scholars Award 10,000. Henry B. Tippy Undergrad Business Scholarship for 3,000. [applause] Elliot Nelson, Tiger Border County Award, $22,000 renewable for four years. [applause] Gabe Nelson, the groundbreaking scholarship. [applause] Jace Nelson, Cougar Pride Scholarship, $4,000 a year.
>> We'll work with them on on staging area. It might look a little bit different for that. Um they might stage some of the materials on top of the building itself on the roof. They'll have to and stuff like that. But we'll make sure there'll be, you know, safe a safety barrier and all that separate contract for kids or athletes. We don't want we got we still have to go on. The nice thing is we have that service lane back. >> Yeah. >> And I mean, you may have already brought it up. I may have missed it. If we decide on this today, when you I would start. >> Yeah. Um so I'd give them the notice proceed tomorrow morning and then we'll have a just like with we actually have another meeting with the contractor once we award it. We talk about those things the staging area we talk about kind of estimated time uh to begin certainly they have to procure the materials first.
My name is Adam Schuster. I am the town moderator. The moderator is elected by ballot for a three-year term at the annual election of town officers to preside at all town meetings during their term of office and is authorized by Mass General Law Chapter 39 section 15 to regulate the proceedings, decide all questions of order and make public announcement or declaration of all votes subject to the bylaws that Ashlin has enacted to regulate the proceedings of town meetings. The moderator, as part of our statutoily authorized ability to regulate town meeting proceedings, reserves the right to amend, alter, and or wave any portion or all of these rules as the circumstances warrant in the interest of fairness to all parties. All rulings of the moderator are final. Besides serving as the presiding officer of this legislature, I believe that my job is also to ensure that those here in attendance understand what is going on.
and I will turn it over to Lisa Grahamling. >> Well, good evening everybody and welcome to the 19th annual HR recycling poster contest. Um, it is a pleasure to have all of you with us tonight. I'm sure some of you are coming from that amazing concert that I heard about and now you're here to celebrate with us. So, we are very grateful to have you here. So, thank you for being here. Um, just a little background on this. There's uh 14 towns that participate. Um Brookfield this year we had um a hundred participants or 100 Yeah. and six regional winners. And that's pretty good. You should give yourselves a round of applause BECAUSE [applause] a lot of people from the HR ask how what we do to get Brookfield students involved in this. So it it's it's real. you guys do such good work and I'm so glad that we could recognize you for that.
>> Second. >> All right. Uh any questions on the warrants? >> I I guess I have the questions tonight. Anyway, on page two, we had a lot of non-energy work done by PG& and I wondered if that was had any connection to our sewer issues that we've been having. You mean at the bottom where it said non-energy for $4.49? >> Is that the on page two at the bottom? >> That's just a regular charge that's on our bill every month that we pay for being being hooked up to solar. So you'll see that charge always on the Lawrence month. >> That had nothing to do with We're not seeing any bills yet on the uh >> for the sewer. >> Yeah, we had a sewer biggest sewer bag out there. Yeah, we have a temporary pumping system in place and they have um ordered the parts and nothing's um nothing's been installed yet.
Do we want to just let it flow? Just freefor all. I mean, just let it rip. >> Why don't you start with that? >> Yeah. You know, I mean, listen, I know this is new for all of us, right? And we haven't sat in this room together like this before, especially with me sitting over here. So, I mean, I just, you know, want you to be able to let it go. >> So, should we perhaps um just look at one section at a time just so we can kind of keep the conversation somewhat focused? Would that is that? >> Yeah, absolutely. >> Yeah. >> We just start with section one. >> Sure. All >> right. Anything they want to say about section one of the board or >> So, are you talking about this this Oh, >> the self. Yeah. >> The board section one of the board.
employee benefits, um, health insurance, pension, social security, workman's comp, um, student accident insurance, tuition reimbursement. Um, all of that falls under employee benefits. Just over three million, close to $4 million. 17% is all of that. And as you remember, our insurance was projected to go up really, really high. Still going up pretty high at 16% or so. Um I think it was 18% is kind of like the overall package around that number. Um but we were looking initially at 30% per prescription alone. So um we were able to finagle and change some plans with the same service. Um but still 17% of our budget administration central services. So this is um administrator and clerical clerical salary. So that's going to be your principal and principal secretaries. That's going to be superintendent's office. That's going to be business administrator's office. All of them fall within um administration and central services supplies also communication system.
>> [laughter] >> Good evening everyone. We're going to do the oath for a Mr. Adrian Diaz. Congratulations. And repeat after me. I, state your name. I, Adrian Diaz do solemnly swear or affirm do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and the Constitution of the State That I will bear true faith. And allegiance to the same. To the government established. In the United States. And this state. Under the authority of the people. So help me God or affirm. I, repeat your name. To solemnly swear or affirm. That I will possess the qualification prescribed by law. For the office of member of the Board of Education. And that I will not disqualify and I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant to.
But real leadership, the kind that leaves a lasting impact, is quieter, kinder, and deeply genuine. That is exactly the kind of leader we see in this remarkable student, Marilyn Valenuela. She is in every sense a big sister to her classmates, not because she has to be, but because she chooses to be. She looks out for others, notices when someone feels left out, and steps in without hesitation. Whether it's inviting someone to join a group, offering a kind word, or simply being present, she creates a space where everyone feels they belong. Her kindness is not conditional. She treats everyone with respect and compassion regardless of who they are. In a world where it it can sometimes be easier to judge than to understand, she consistently choses empathy. That choice makes a difference every single day. Inclusion comes naturally to her. She doesn't watch or second guessess whether someone fits in.
[applause] Mason Nabolski Gold Scholarship 5,500 University Missouri St. Louis $3,000 a year. [applause] Hannah Noah Red and Black Scholarship $4,000 renewable for four years. ACT Excellence Award $1,000 renewable for four years. And residency scholarship 8,900 renewable for four years. [applause] Megan Olirri Black and Gold Border County award 21,500 a year [applause] Kale Reigns Brevard Engineering Scholarship 5,000 STEM major NR scholarship $2,000 a year academic merit NR18 $18,760 a year dean scholarship $10,000 a year and and the Columbia PTA 500. [applause] Isaac Range Cougar Pride Scholarship 3,500 a year. Explore Engineering Day 500. [applause] Melania Melena Robertson 1880 scholarship 225. Swick top 10 scholarship $7,500 a year. >> [applause] >> Kai Sanchez, merit-based scholarship, $34,000 a year. [applause] Booker Schmidt, Blackburn academic scholarship, $9,000 a year. [applause] Hope Schwarz, Old Miss merit scholarship, $9,000, renewable for four years. Columbia PTA scholarship 500. A ladies auxiliary of the Columbia Turner Gymnastics Association scholarship 500.
Um, so I don't anticipate starting obviously until school's out, graduation's done. Um, but they'll be able to start to kind of work on a schedule for us. >> Nice. And you have color. >> Yeah, we're going to go we're going to go with the gray, the light gray that was spec. We're going to power wash those nice panels that are on kind of on the peak to cover the penthouse. So get some of that algae algae growth off of it. And then we have several different we'll end up using somewhere colors of metal.
I'll do my best to explain anything out of the ordinary. If at any time you have a question about something, please ask there are likely others with the same question. I'll be guided in in running town meeting by the fourth edition of town meeting time which is published by the Massachusetts moderators association and is generally recognized as the authoritative guide to running town meetings in Massachusetts. Joining me in front of auditori front of the auditorium in no particular order, members of the school committee, members of the select board, members of the finance committee, town council Lisa, town council Lisa me, town manager Michael Herbert, assistant town manager for administration and operations Katherine Bird, assistant town manager for community development and community affairs Beth Reynolds, finance director and treasurer collector Cindy Sinata, Ashlin Public Schools Superintendent Jim Adams. With me on stage are town clerk Cindy Livingstone, and deputy town clerk Chris Sullivan.
So, um, so the process starts in October where we hand the templates out to the students and it has a theme every year and this year it was don't trash textiles. Not an easy theme, but we had some great entries. And then uh in November um the students turn their artwork into the buildings um and then they're judged locally. So the first, second, and third place winners by grade get sent up to central office and at that point we take the first place winners and we send them off regionally to be judged and that takes place in um March. And then in April, uh, the HRA has their annual, um, celebration of all of the regional winners and Superintendent Fareseia and myself and first selectman Dunn were, um, able to attend that on Earth Day on April 22nd. So that was a a lot of fun to participate in.
They're probably going to have to wait till school is out to repair that. >> We'll be seeing that. >> Yeah, you'll be seeing that later. But this is just a um it's part of the uh being hooked up to solar, you get a non-energy charge and we've had that for um ever since we got the solar in 2018. It's usually a monthly charge. It fluctuates from around 2 to 400. >> Okay. Thank you. >> I had a few questions. Um, my computer is acting up and so I had to restart my computer. Um, let's see here. I asked on I mean, okay, I asked on page six, the special education Q interactive overage tests. I was wondering what those were. >> So, we're those are another item you regularly see on the warrants. there um the assessment uh booklets and tests that the psychologists use when they're doing various different assessments for IEPs or students who are not on IEPs.
>> Yeah. >> We had eight metrics there. Keeping the district focused on learning and achievement. Communicating common vision. Operating openly with trust and integrity. Governing in a dignified professional manner. Governing within board adopted policies and taking collective responsibility. Evaluating our effectiveness and ensuring opportunities for a diverse range of views in the community to inform board deliberations. Any of those stick out to anybody? >> This is the one that Gail mentioned. Number four was in there. Yeah. >> And I'm still trying to to find what you're looking at. Tom, >> Greg sent out email to you. >> Yeah. No, I >> No, I was a piece of this. >> Perfect. >> But I forgot to give you >> wonderful. Thank you so much. >> Yeah. I mean, I found it online, but it's >> Sorry about that. Right there in front of me. >> Thank you, Erica.
So um telephone bills um all cell phone bills all go through that administrative services. All of our legal services, our solicitor, all of that goes through central and administration, our auditing services, and anything for the board of education if we do the annual workshop, which we haven't done much of that, but things of that nature all fall under um administration and central services, just 3% of the budget, about 740,000. Uh maintenance and transportation. So obviously this is maintenance and custodian um salaries uh custodial supplies our utilities so gas and electric fall under that uh maintenance and then supplies and services. All of our transportation falls under here um whether it's in-house and contracted. So obviously we contract for students that are out of district. We contract to take them um to and from their school. And then we do all of our other in-house uh transportation.
RS 19:4-1 nor disqualified due to conviction of a crime. Or offense. Listed in. New Jersey state statute. 18A. There we go. And that I will faithfully. Impartially. And justly perform all the duties. Of that office. According to the best of my ability. So help me God. Congratulations. >> [applause] >> And I would now like to call up the honorable Louis G. Aloia. He will swear in Shawn D. Redzio. >> [applause] >> Okay, make it easy. Yep. Want you to go on this side. And this way so the pictures look good. Okay? You ready? Ready. Please repeat. I I, Shawn Redzio do solemnly swear do solemnly swear or affirm or affirm that I will support >> that I will support >> of the United States >> the Constitution of the United States >> and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey >> that I will bear true faith that I will bear true faith >> and allegiance to the same and allegiance to the same and to the governments established And the governments and to the governments established >> in the United States in the United States >> and this state and this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people so help me God.