>> Okay. >> Um I'm concerned about safety. The the kid, you know, that maybe there's an instructor that's new that's not, you know, watching, whatever. I mean, and then you find out too late. I I mean, I don't know. I'm I'm thinking that way, you know. I mean, [clears throat] I don't think you can just, you know, I don't know. Well, I guess you suppose you can do your all your little interventions there, but I don't I don't I don't know that that's that works. I don't know that that works. >> Yeah, I I think we share your concern with the safety and the equipment and the things that people are doing. So, let me say that. I think they're not little interventions. I think they're very important interventions. [snorts] Um, I think when we're going through to make sure that we're uh communicating and really looking at the whole student and with their families and getting them ready and educated, we're doing that.
Thank you. So, thank you everyone for letting me have a good night. Glad you had the chance to take it all in. Um And again, I would also support what we have going here. And yeah. Okay, thank you. All right, so So, I have one quick question. >> Sure. >> have to be answered tonight? I brought this up before, but uh when we have an end of cycle or life cycle for technology, or like we take a whole grade level to take their Chromebooks. Is there any revenues or or do you don't have to answer that or do they go? Where do we dispose them? We have a third party. Like is there profit we get back? Is there any money somewhere? >> There's not really a profit that can be taken from it because most of the components are non-life with that. What we do do is recycle for some some component that comes back in, but not anywhere close to a return on investment that we get from the Any purchases?
And really, what we're trying to do here is keep the warranties. So, we try to keep all five buses within the same mileage. Buses have a total and they might be going a different distance than at the high school. But, we try to rotate them and keep them within and it's really your 36,000 or 60,000 as far as warranty goes. One of our buses is it's going to buy by the time we trade it in it or sell it it will be over that 36,000 mark. So, that's kind of the goal on all this is to not take a bus so far that it doesn't really have much value. So, we will get I'm estimating it's going to be 30,000, maybe more back as either either a trade-in or a sell outright. That's not a I haven't made that decision yet. I'm just trying to get the best price.
Um, again, I think it takes we have the staff and we appreciate the resources to do it. Um, because we do have options for people to intervene so that when our students do return like they are and can be successful and a lot of places don't have that. they're going back um going right back to school. So um yeah, I I I think we share the same concern for safety and our student body is great. I don't want to, you know, this conversation keeps going on there and and it and it kind of brings you down a little bit. The majority of our students hold each other hold themselves accountable in our best. >> We're very proud of our students >> and and and just so that you know, I mean, I can come in here at different times. >> They're respectful. I don't see chaos in the in the in the hallways.
And any funds that come back from the disposal of assets for the district goes back to the town. Town. Thank you. Okay. All right. I appreciate everybody's comments. I think they were very helpful and wonderful. Um so, I would start by saying this, that um let's take the technology and the administrative staff. We're not going to focus on central office cuz I think we're pretty good there. But, administrative I I think what has to happen we we can't finger the wind tonight and say, "Let's cut more people. Let's cut something out of technology." These things have to be studied and they have to be done thoughtfully. And um so, what I'm proposing what I've said to some of you over the last few weeks is what this board of education has to do when I did it my first term, we called it a brick-by-brick study.
Um, so really if you look at this, you know, take that off and it's you know, it's going to be a 70,000. Yes, it's expensive, but 70 or 80,000 I'll purchase. You can't count that in cuz you're purchasing it and then later or Kelly will get this in the appropriate one and you'll know exactly the value of that that bus. >> you're eyeballing them right now. Yeah. You better get those numbers in. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, before you go to the high school >> [laughter] >> Better train the new guy, just so you know.
Look, there's an awful lot of good that goes on here as you know. I mean, we're here to make sure that that handbook that we put our seal of approval on is followed and it isn't interpreted. And I bring it back to to ordering a Dunkin Donuts. I can order a Dunkin Donuts and say I want a medium to five cream three splendor. The order is correct but it does not translate to the execution of that order. And so therefore the product is compromised. So then I can go in another time and it's a different person that executes. It's got to be consistent. That's what builds trust and confidence that I feel is severely lacking. That's all I'm going to say. Thank you. You guys have been great. >> Thank you. >> Seriously. >> Any further questions? >> One thing I wanted to add though to sorry is um like the education piece about drugs, alcohol, tobacco, not only for the students but the parents, right?
But, what we did was we broke down with a group of folks and the superintendent, we went through every dollar that was being spent that had to be justified and understanding what the effect is to those dollars. So, what I'm saying tonight is we have a $375,000 cut. We have it in place. Seems that everybody's comfortable. What you are doing is you're raising excellent questions. But, those questions have to be looked at immediately after this with the goal of coming up with the next budget to be much less than where we are or where we started this year and where we probably will be ending up. In fact, so my commitment to all of you is we are going to work through the summer and through the fall in getting this down to where the public is asking us to. The The cuts that you're asking us to do right now is very difficult without that kind of stuff.
All right, any questions? You said there's five and the goal is to do one a year. Um one depending on the mileage, but one I would say one or two years and so the kind of you get it's really that eight year type eight to 10 year cycle of all of these to really get the value. The very similar things that I've had it done in the past for the maintenance trucks. Really the mileage, I mean activity buses we put more miles on just because we're going a farther distan- distance, but you still have to kind of figure that spot. And I already know that, you know, these have a value. So, to get that back. But, yeah, five the five activity buses works well. Um There's some days we could use more, but um that seems to be a good thing. We did have four and we increased it to five.
So when they come back, we make sure that they're educated. A lot of these kids, they're buying in on Snapchat. They're not understanding where it's coming from. The parents have no idea what's happening. They're working. They're out. They're meeting their friend at the park and getting and getting the drugs that way. Um, do we have that happening in the building selling? Probably yes, absolutely. Um, it is it it's part of being a teenager. Um, but we don't want, you know, we do our best to make sure that our school is safe and we do our best to make sure that we educate the students um before they're suspended, while they're suspended, after they're suspended, including their parents. Um, >> when she's finished, are you finished? >> Yeah. I want to ask you one last question and and and the only reason I just want to want to know a number, right?
Um but, I will say this and this goes along with this is um and I know we don't want to cut um we talked about teachers and parents. But, we are a public school, and sometimes the fact that we spread ourselves too thinly, that we go a mile wide and 6 in deep, we may be offering too many things. We have to look at those things. We may have to condense in what our offerings are. We may not be able to offer Chinese in the future. We may not be able to offer I know we do sign language classes. We have to look at each one of these and we have to condense and we have to do what we do stay with what we do best. We have to focus in on things academically and some of the other things that this district is being known for.
Well, I think it was probably three or four years ago. We used to only have three when we first started. Yeah. I think it might be informative. Could you talk about like some of the uses of the activity buses? I think are really assisting kids and families the last years that we weren't before, I think. Right. Yeah, laws have changed with us. So, we can use it a lot more. We can use it really when this first started you could not use them during the day. It was only extracurriculars after school and that's it. Now, it's really by level, so you can use them at the high school. Um Again, I don't I don't even know all the different ways, but yeah. Um taking kids to certain things. You know, I know life skills class use them. I mean to go to different programs throughout the district.
Because we all know what's what we smell like. We know what what marijuana smell like. The reality is that the moment I'm driving somewhere, I know the car that is driving right next to it, the guy who smokes it right front right in front of my house every freaking day, I smell it. So my question to you is how many teachers are really reporting the child, the student when it comes right by and gives you that slap with a smell of marijuana that that teacher or that um school member or you know from the different departments are really saying you know what Edison doesn't smell like marijuana today like I know he smells like I don't have to legally like go into his act to know that he already smoked. How many of these incidents are being reported so you guys can address it before they do something or like we said they hurt themselves with an equipment like are you getting phone calls from from different teacher and say you should check on so and so today without throwing the teacher under the bus too because then they want to probably >> you know I don't know if they will try to >> right yeah >> do something against the teacher because they they were thrown under the bus.
I would never cut the music program because we are known not just um not just locally, but we're known nationally now for that program. I mean, so in business you when things aren't going well, you retrench to your core and you fan the things that you do well to get better again. And those are the things in this study that I'm proposing. Those are the things that we need to do going forward. Um we have a track program that is just you know, 90 I think it's 90 kids go out for track or something like that. So, now unfortunately, we only have I understand maybe nine kids out for football. Football may may have to be one of those things that cut and you're talking to somebody that played for 12 years and coached for nine. But, the fact of the matter is we may have to look at that um and we may have to begin to cut that as we go forward in the future because we don't have enough uh students participating.
So, I mean I I don't know that it's that years, but five, seven years ago you couldn't do that. So, that has changed. So, really these buses are used all the time. They're mainly used after school for anything from athletics to music to clubs. And both mainly at the high school level, but at Rotolo as well. Yeah, I was thinking when I was helping coach the play football in the fall these girls would practice till 4:45 and then I think about a half to 2/3 of them would take that activity bus and got a ride home which is I mean I don't know how many there's probably a lot of kids that would not have been able to participate if they didn't have that opportunity. You were actually thinking of the activity bus so that does get confusing but these are our smaller 14 passenger activity buses.
>> Yes, we do. And what another great part about Bridal Lawrence is that everybody wants the school to be safe. Teachers and students. Um so if a teacher thinks a student is under the influence, they'll call us and say, "Hey, they're acting weird, their eyes look weird, they smell, and we investigate. Um you know, we investigate. We we'll look through their stuff. We bring them to the nurse. The nurse will do a check. Um and we figure it out. we figure it out whether it was before school or the night before or um you know the other issue that we have as well is there's edibles which don't smell you don't know you don't know what they're doing they look like gummy bears they look like starburst right so we are fighting all those different things at once in making sure that we keep our school safe and because we are a technical school we hold it even higher and I say to the kids all the It's different than if you went to Lawrence Him through high and over high north and over high where you're just sitting in class.
And those are the things we have to look at uh going forward. So, when when I asked you each if you're comfortable with that decision at 375, I am also comfortable with 375, but I would like to promise uh and commit that next year we are going to we are going to come in uh and really take a look at this budget and it's It's to be it's going to have a different look and a different look next year when we start off. It's not going to be at the levels that we've been starting over the last couple years, but we're going to be down to something much more significant going forward. So, I I'm comfortable with where we are and what we've been asked to do. Um and I think I hear you all saying that you're also comfortable with that direction. So, from what I just said, Jordan, how do you feel?
You're thinking of the activity buses we use through El Moy Central that take you know that take you know students and drop them at specific sites throughout town these side west side sites but yes they're the same name but they're not the same vehicle. >> Okay, thanks for clarifying. >> Those extracurricular buses are the ones >> [cough] >> the big ones that Mark's talking about after practices or um extracurricular club kind of events. Those are the buses that are both funded by the district and BAS donations. They've really helped us engage in getting extra bussing for kids so that they can participate in that work. So those are the regular buses that we use. Thank you. Any other questions? All right, I will entertain a motion to authorize the purchase of one multi-function school activity bus. I'm not going to say it from Midwest [clears throat] Transit Equipment through Sourcewell Cooperative Purchasing Procurement in the amount not to exceed $120,000 even.
Here you're working with heavy machinery. Not only you're going to put yourself at risk, but you could put a lot of other kids at risk as well. So we do take it super seriously. We investigate everything. As soon as a vape detector's gone off, we search if there is a par, you know, a student, a parent, whoever is saying they think a student is under the influence, that also is addressed right away. >> Thank you very much. You're welcome. >> All right. Thank you all. I'm going to call this now. We coaches are ready to drag me down to the gy gym and give me a boxing lesson if I don't get them out of here. >> On a personal note, >> go ahead, Mr. Superintendent. Okay. So, I'm trying. Well, first I want to thank everyone who presented today did a great job. I also want to thank the school committee for bringing up your concerns.
Um I I feel relatively the same. Um I am still okay with the cuts. I am still concerned that there that ref- they will not pass that referendum. Um I like the idea very much so of the brick by brick. I have two questions in regards to that. One is if we find that we're overstaffed somewhere, I'm going to take that analogy because that's what's happening today. If we find we can do without over the summer, do we have to wait until next budget cycle to do something about that? Yes. I think when you're dealing with people and classes already in place, you know, already going on, Okay. I think that would be a difficult thing to do. So, all of our technology staff is teaching? No. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, what what we we have to do is >> the case, I agree. is relative to um riff, for example, we can riff people for budgetary reasons or eliminate people based upon need.