001hello there how you doing good all right I'm going to speaker phone we got one no that was 2011 okay just put your on speak all right good evening it's 7:00 and I will call the meeting to order at 7:00 please rise to the pledge Al iedge Al to the flag the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation go indivisible liy and justice for all all right so welcome to our Board of Education meeting on Monday March 10th and we have Kim rwit um calling in um from home so I'm sure he's on speaker phone all right we'll go ahead and we'll ask for a uh motion to approve the minutes on February 24th from Shane in the second from JT all right Corrections additions all right all
002those in favor all right and against four extensions abens one exstension and Kim yes yes Kim say yes all right I'm going to turn it over to you thank you and good evening the big news drum roll that we have is U proud to say that SCS um is the Connecticut Association of schools elementary school of the [Applause] year I want to commend the SCS team the leadership the staff the students and and parents uh when a visiting team uh comes to do a site visit they tour the building they actually look for the evidence that was put in the application so you can't just put it in the application and then not be able to prove that what you wrote down and sent in is not happening so that was able to be substantiated
003by staff students and parents so that's a a big it's a big honor uh there were over 200 schools that competed for this uh event and I just want to commend um the SCS staff so we own the title in two different weight classes and I will say it every opportunity um this is a special district and I think we're just starting to show people outside of this town what what we're capable of um moving on at MBA I do want to publicly uh congratulate Nathan sedan Demi who is the state spelling be Champion state right so the next step for him is to go to the National Spelling be in Washington DC and that will take place in May so here we have this this school district with roughly 1,300 students like making a
004mark right making a Mark um and moving on to the high school um I want to commend the the students um ma Krauss Jessica Wolf and the parents supported the production of The Descendants I was there Friday night and it's just amazing to watch students uh run their lines uh I can't tell you how many different dances it was just amazing you know I isol at certain times I isolated on on certain characters and they were each student was fully immersed in playing their their character and I just tells you that they put in a lot of time a lot of effort and and there was a lot of parent support around and Community Support as well so that was great um the Juniors Switching gears the Juniors will take the SAT on March 27th
005they have continued the SAT prep classes on Saturdays so hopefully um we do well with that tomorrow night I'll be at the board of Finance meeting at 700 p.m. to present our 5.68% budget to the board of Finance I will take a moment to uh update the board and community on on some of the athletic accomplishments our students are engaged or or being recognized for in wrestling uh I said it a little bit earlier um William mccy is the state Open champ for the 113 lb weight class um and he finished third in in the New England and that's no small seat right small District but amazing things are coming out of this small District uh boys hockey TR town is traveling to danburry I wonder how they doing I spoke with the ad on
006his way down there they're uh going against number 12 ranked um Danberry no we are 12 and dber is ranked five so we'll see how they make out girls hockey um their season is done um they lost Saturday 4 to the derian uh girls basketball still still in the mix but they headed to planville high school tomorrow for the semifinal matchup against the Morgan school they're from Clinton game time 7:15 the winner will go to moan Suns so could you IM could you imagine right if there's a repeat there that would be really great uh All Conference athletes girls basketball Sydney Cassidy Maya galski wrestling uh William and Harrison of course he I said it earlier I would not want to run into to them on the wrong side of them in a dark alley
007like it twisted up like a pretzel indoor track Stephanie uh bsky boys basketball Andrew zinsky and all state wrestler uh wrestlers as I said William and Harrison All State um there's a little bit of everything School of the year we have plays going on we have the state spelling B champ um and tomorrow I'll be at the board of Finance so that concludes my update pending your questions wow awesome and the girls basketball team beat the number one seed we we talked about that they were number 16 and they beat the number one so they're still going they're still going so season's not over all right and now [Music] Stephanie budget report okay so just some things to touch on um just to draw your attention to um this month um I touched on it
008last month that you would see some movement in the salary line that's due to some leaves of absences that are now becoming unpaid absences um usually that's maternity leaves and such like that they get their six to8 weeks of maternity paid maternity leave and then they go for another four to six weeks of unpaid um FMLA and so that comes off our books but then we have to pay long-term Subs so what you see in the teacher salary line is that we have a $211,000 balance right now but then under other instructional which is where all of our substitutes live is 65,000 so we'll do a transfer evolve that in April when we do our quarterly transfers um the other thing that that impacts is also our social security line so teachers do not pay
009into Social Security they pay into trb instead the teachers retirement board at the state but our long-term Subs pay social security so um that means that there's an employer contribution to to um Social Security because of that um which we normally don't have to pay um so again we'll use some of that salary money just to offset that benefit um then the next thing that I did want to talk about was our the special ed update I'm sure that all of you have heard about the $40 million that the um legislature proposed to the governor which he initially vetoed um there were some language changes um from what I'm hearing it's just about where the 40 million was coming from which is what he was vetoing so they changed some language where the money is
010coming from it's now what some savings that they are recognizing in this year's budget they were just reallocating to special ed expenditures he okayed that and two days ago he signed off on that so what that means for Summers is that instead of getting a 60% is reimbursement where're we should see about a 78% reimbursement and I'm expecting an additional $54,000 to come into our excess costs that's an estimate based off of our initial submission of special ed expenditures um we just did our um final one for this current year in March I do a final final one in September but um the one that we did in March reflex where we really think that we're going to end in June and So based on the numbers they expect us about 54,000 so I'll see
011that in the end of April beginning of May and I'll report to the board as soon as I get that that fure um but that will put more money into this that I have not reflected into this report because this is the February report and I didn't really know where that was going to land so I have not estimated that 54,000 additional into this budget um I think it is is important to note that in November right before Thanksgiving I did freeze the budget because we weren't sure where everything was going to fall as of uh February 27th I unfroze the budget so now the schools are starting to buy all their spring purchases um that they had not purchased as of that date um we were not holding back if it had to do
012with curriculum and they if they did not purchase then it would impact units we approved those going forward it was more of the oh this is a nice to have it would be nice to have extra construction paper for bulletin boards and things like that that it was held um that's a pretty minimal example but those kinds of things were just held back a little bit um but now we have opened it back up and staff can purchase what they feel is necessary for their programs and their curriculum in their classrooms it goes to a process of approval um but that is open right now so this number will change the 154 at the bottom will change and we'll have some adjustments for for March you'll see that those are the two biggest things that
013I want to make sure three biggest things I want to make sure everybody knew about questions I have one apologies if it's a repeat from months past or years past but sand and salt had a little heavier winter this year do we um do we share that resource with the town like we do Fuel and oil no um so I'm not sure exactly how Todd goes about getting his sand and salt deliveries I know that we order pallets of salt for sidewalks and right um the town does come through and they do our vision Boulevard so I'm not sure I know that they are responsible for sing insulting that part of the roadway but as far as the parking lots go I can reach out to Todd and find out if um collaborating on that
014would Mak sense I just yeah there's something I thought it's a good question I haven't even thought about that I will find out for you okay thanks okay I think we're good thank you you're wel all right opportunity to add or delete any agenda items then we'll take a motion to approve the consent agenda so okay from it and second from Dar any discussion questions all those in favor I okay Kim said yes so unanimous all right no old business no new business committee reports curriculum uh will be me meeting on April 28th at 6: p.m. okay and policy is on hold we may be meeting the end of March but we'll see uh planning Finance any report Kim no we're on vot for now it's well um depending what happens over the next couple
015weeks okay uh sing negotiations we're on hold no meetings on I think we probably got ranky break right so okay and anything from CRA uh next meeting is March 19th okay I'll have an update all right next meeting the 24th nothing for the state department um SCF Shane uh no update I wasn't able to attend the last meeting okay but we have an April date yes of April 26th April 26th it's I believe on the sign on Vision Boulevard now for everyone to see but they're calling it The Spring Fest this year but it's essentially the same setup as last year great fundraiser event if you can make it okay and Mike's not here for Comm All Right audience to Citizens staff and students questions or comments we're all good all right we will then
016take a motion to adjourn second from Jam all those in favor okay meeting adjourned at 7:14 and we may see you tomorrow night at 7:00 at the board of Finance meeting