We did have and I know uh Mr. Galashaw is back there shaking his head. his head was shaking in a different way earlier this the today because we did in fact and Mr. Olive Oliver you'll appreciate this we had a bit of a technology malfunction on the internet >> I did see the email >> you did see the and I bet you were feeling some empathy for Mr. Galashaw this morning and for all of our schools because the capstone presentations were scheduled for today and again challenges happen but in our field we know we have to be flexible and it's okay what are we going to do next and I would say that uh people uh responded appropriately and there's a plan in place and the senior capstone uh presentations will go on they are something that we're really excited about and we've started them I think you remember last year or the year before and uh and now it's becoming something that Dartmouth High School is is truly embracing.
So, I wanted to get to that point. >> Thank you, Sam. You What I just heard you say is you've had a conversation with the teacher's union about this. >> Yeah. Do you need to have a conversation with the administrators union about it? Well, we've already shared that Yeah, we had a conversation about them, too, and we've shared it the um job description with them and asked them for feedback. Uh because what goes through my mind is as soon as this position gets put in place, there's a demand to make it an administrator. Well, does that like does that mean anything? Or is it we already talked to the two unions and this we believe is right. >> Yeah, I think this Yeah, in talking to both groups, this um is that line between, you know, being a teacher and an administrator, much like our RAM positions are, and um that's why I went to the RAM position, cuz this one doesn't have any teaching responsibility.
>> a compelling argument. You know, I appreciate your points. And yeah, I'd love to see the other one. Okay. Make a recommendation to end the meeting? Motion to adjourn. Second. All in favor? Okay, now that we have a full board
So with that, I want to thank you again for this opportunity and we are happy to answer any questions that you may have. I'd like to start just by saying I really appreciate the the renaming to to strive. I think that's just such a wonderful more specific name, and I really like the focus on readiness for success and independence moving forward. I think it's really important for students to feel like yes, they can, and I think this new name really kind of drives that home. So I I really really appreciate that. Thank you for the work you did with getting the community involved and parents. That's wonderful. And I think that comment goes throughout your presentation. I think it really shows how much how important it is to you as a department to make sure that families are involved in all these decisions moving forward and things like that.
And we believe that if we can get kids to school, we can get the kids to school on time, what our data shows is that kids will be at school. And uh we just need to hyper-focus on that. And then when teachers see trends in other periods of the day, they always do follow up. So, are there indicators in the Infinite Campus system where, let's say, math is not my jam. And so, I get to school and I tend to miss this one class. Some of that is true. >> Is there right? So, is there alert? Is there some kind of a I mean, it's it's a system, right? So, in Infinite Campus, what does it look like? That That's where we have the unaccounted for report that's run. So, every period that's being run. So, if a student is in the building, they're having checked into class, then that report is ran and we sweep the building and take them back to back to class.
This you saw last month at the last meeting, the net assessed value annual projection. This comes from our partners at Policy Analytics. We're looking at I don't have my glasses. It's about 6.6% I believe for 2027. And then that will continue to be a negative growth until 2031 when the changes of SEA 1 are fully implemented. Some stories from around the state. We aren't the only ones facing this. MCCSC, large reduction in staff. School leaders warning property tax reforms are destabilizing public education. Just Johnson County schools face revenue shortfalls. Sorry, Erin. Noblesville schools to cut staff. Um two different mornings last week watching the morning news, there were stories Indianapolis public schools and HSE, uh Hamilton Southeastern third largest school district in the state. They're looking at cutting, I believe it was 4% of their teacher staff. And just on and on with the realities of what we're going to be facing.
Need to, you know, keep them in line. But, uh, definitely want to thank, uh, those who help our, uh, traffic in and out in the morning and specifically off. uh just tonight to um three individuals that have been here my entire tenure on the board of 22 years. That's Barb Merrill, Marian Buckle, and Bill Derilla and the lives and contacts they've made of students for their long tenures here, the Crown Point School Corporation. So, uh yes, there is retirement lunchon tomorrow and they'll get their just due and welld deserved, but I want to make sure to public that those individuals touched two of them touched elementary students for plenty of years. If you think about, you know, 550 to 700 kids every year in the elementary school, times that by over 25 years, that's a lot of kids. And Bill doing the same thing in the athletic department with that high school enrollment growing from um low 2000s to now 3,000 kids in my 22 years here.
There [clears throat] will also will be a um dewatering remedial general permit required for this project uh on the same um concept you will also get a copy of that permit which will um identify our final dewatering activity and plan for the site. Um but I can tell you in um in in general terms, our approach to storm water management is as shown on this plan is we're going to uh use the existing retaining wall um with some environmental controls in front of the wall to help containerize storm water runoff. Um as Chris said, all the outlets to the Sudbury River will be plugged and then blocked. And then that water after a rain event will get collected in the low points, will get pumped to our dewatering treatment system, which is the frac tank associated with the different type of filtration process. System will get treated to appropriate standards and then discharged either back in the storm drain system or back into the into the canal, option A or B.
And what's exciting about it is in if you're looking at some of the guidance that's coming out of DESIE, the capstone uh is one of the I I would say the cornerstones of some of the guidance that's coming out around the uh CDs, the certificate of determination for high school diplomas. And so we're ahead of the curve there. Uh looking ahead on Friday, May 29th, we have three teams from Dartmouth Middle School and two teams from Dartmouth High School. They'll be participating in the regional civic showcase hosted at your alma mada, Chair Beck with University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Uh we appreciate the support of the school committee and the select board members who are serving as community adviserss. Um on June 3rd, one team from Dlo School and two from the Dartmouth Middle School will attend the invention convention at Bridgewater State University. Again, that partnership is really uh strengthening.
Um so, I think it is feathered between the two. Okay. Um you know, it's kind of a camel of the two. It's not really an administrator, it's not really just a teacher kind of thing. Um it it is that blend. Uh and we don't want to overwhelm the person and put too much on their plate. So, I you know, again, I appreciate what Ann Marie is saying. Um but and that's why I think we use some qualifying language, like assist in the implementation of ongoing development and accreditation efforts. Not wholly responsible for. Mhm. Um we need we need administrators, you know, ultimately responsible for that, but this person, because they live in that space full-time every day, needs to have a significant voice in that process. Um So, are there other folks with this specialist title? No. >> Literacy specialist. Oh, yeah. Math specialist. Um Yeah, we had the two with the elementary degrees.
So I really appreciate that work and how it's it's a lot. So corral us parents sometimes, so I I appreciate it. I would just add though that that outcome is better because we had their input. I think we ended with a better result than we initially started with for sure. Awesome. >> [laughter] >> I also wanted to comment on I appreciate your focus on professional learning moving forward because there are as you know as educators in this room know, there are many ways to co-teach and to co-plan and I think that's important for um everyone to kind of realize that there are different ways about this and there are some ways that could be work out better than others depending on what's going on in your classroom and who you're co-teaching with. So I I appreciate that as well. I had one more thing and then I'll stop.
So, >> [clears throat] >> that that is being done on a on a daily by period. >> Okay, that's really nice to know. Yep. Right? But they could but Okay. All right. Any other questions? Can I say something about the first period absences? So, from my opinion and from what I've seen from the students around me, it's generally not the first period teacher's fault or the subject even that the student is missing the class. From what I've seen, it's because the student has a big test later in the day. Like, they think, "Oh, I have a big test fourth period. I need to skip the first three periods to study." That's often what I see, which is really hard to fix because I mean, the first period teacher can't force it and if they want more time to study for their test later in the day, it's it's a really hard fix.
Uh this is from the state legislative agency showing a decline in estimated revenues for 26, 27, and 28. Uh 2 million, 2 and 1/2 million, and almost 3 million. The uh county's uh financial partners, Reedy, did an estimation and for us over that time period, it's closer their estimate is closer to a $10 million reduction in revenues. For 2026, uh we discussed a little bit during the finance first quarter report. Um and Dr. uh Bozeman again mentioned last month the education fund. Uh we're looking at uh decreasing expenses of about 800,000 by reviewing uh staffing, administrators, classified staff, technology, across the board. We're looking at ways to save funding. Uh in the operations fund, it's about 450,000 with reduction in custodial and business office staff, technology hardware, supplies, softwares, etc. Our targets for 2027 in the education fund, uh reduce expenses by about 1.3 million.
So kudos to them. Congratulations. Wish them nothing but success in retirement. >> Miss Bas. >> Yeah. So I wanted to start by echoing Mr. sentiments about uh Mr. Rodriguez. We've been very privileged the last three years. Um I've had students in that building and um getting to watch him as a leader when I'm picking kids up in the middle of the day or uh volunteering for something uh in the building or just in drop off and pickup line. Watching the way that he makes an effort to authentically connect with each of his students in that building um makes a huge effort to connect with all of his staff in the building. He is truly a phenomenal leader. So, I'm I'm very pleased to see that he was able to be recognized tonight. And as you can see by the speech he gave, you couldn't ask for a more humble servant leader um than Mr.
Well, from experience on construction sites, if that event happens and it will, it's not a question if, I guess. You're going to have a hell of a lot of sediment to contend with. And your filter system is going to get overwhelmed very quickly. I can guarantee it. Um even if you use a you're proposing an 18,000 gallon frac tank. That's I'm assuming that's what that our purple square is. Yes. I mean, I've seen sites with 40,000 gallon frac tanks get overwhelmed. So, I We can revisit this when we get to storm water. >> No, it's well, it's a question of contamination because that that contamination is going to get distributed back out to the river, I think. Now, in your in this plan, there are three circles connected by a dotted purple line. They're purple circles, ovals. It says IP. LP. LP. Or I'm sorry, LP.
It's something that we have seen a lot of excitement around and um you know for the past two years Dartmouth teams have won the convention and so we're are a little comp not a little we're a lot of competitive and we look forward to seeing how our participants uh do this year under safe and supportive schools Miss Redlon and Mr. Kylie along with building principles have been meeting with fire chiefs of districts 1 and three to review and strengthen evacuation procedures across all of our schools. Again, part of a greater district strategic plan related to uh updating our safety uh and security protocols. Under family and community engagement, there's no shortage of celebrations happening across across Dartmouth. We do um you know we're approaching the close of the school year but at the same time you know there's this sense of excitement that happens in schools around this time of year.
>> specialist. Well, that was different. Yeah, it's it's Yes, the [clears throat] technology specialist, but that position is Yeah. evolved way beyond it what it ever was. It was somebody who was just coaching teachers when we first started that like 15 years ago into like now you're responsible for an insane amount of software in the district and data. No, I just didn't want to make another new title. But since we use specialist >> have specialist, do we? And the math thing and reading. And the early childhood, too. We didn't want to go with RAM, reading and math Yeah. Yeah, specialist. Um I guess we called them specialists, but that title is kind of We called them RAMs. Reading and math specialist is what it used to be, you know, but that's kind of evolved. And I would just add at the end, too, other responsibilities as directed by administration.
Could you uh oh, yes. the guided the guided coalition guiding coalition also two thumbs up, no notes. Um and the last thing I'll say is can you explain um to the room, I guess, um what student-centered service delivery means? A student-centered scheduling. >> Yes. So, it's a it's a process and a lot of times districts will um and this is just true, it's a beast addressing a master schedule in a building. Um and a lot of times and I think historically you might start with what the special schedule is and then build in a schedule around it and you end up with inefficient scheduling process, particularly for special educators. Um so, this is a process that we went through, not perfect, um but a process I think that gets us closer to where we want to be where first uh team members talk in general about the students and their needs and think about like, you know, you know, how much time do they really need to be pulled out of the gen ed environment?
But that's just what I've seen in my opinion. Yeah, we also, you know, see people that's their their parents dropping them off late or rolling in with their Starbucks. Like, there's other things that get in the way as well. So, there are things that, you know, [clears throat] like a first period teacher talking to a parent about like what is Why is this a pattern? You know, what you know, if get them to school 10 minutes like leave the house 10 minutes early, right? And hearing consistently from that same teacher that can kind of draw the through line we think is more effective than kind of the scatter plot that we've had right now. And then as a teacher you're responsible for that 22, 24, 28 students. Um I mean obviously you're responsible for all your kids throughout the day, but in the rest of the periods you're looking at just big patterns in like a kid that misses a lot of time or has been missing a bunch of time in your class or consecutive days, those kinds of things that we always as teachers are on the lookout for.
Operations fund, a million. And uh Dr. Bozeman presented uh a preliminary budget of a reduction of a 900,000 in the operating referendum. Very tiny up there. I apologize, but hopefully you were able to look at this. For 2027, we're anticipating revenue to drop by approximately 1 and 1/2 million over 2026. This drop is led by the growth of the property tax cap credit and a reduction in estimated indirect costs and interest income in 2027. As seen on the previous slide, we have a target of $1 million in reduction in expenditures for 27, and this early estimate shows a 1.1 million reduction, and I'll get to the details in the next slide. Our proposed savings here, salaries and benefits are expected to drop by approximately 380,000 through realized reduction in staffing levels or attrition. Through continued examination of contracted services, we're targeting a reduction of just over 130,000.