001Okay, welcome back everyone. Uh, call the January 5th, 2026 Oh, thank you, Peter. Constituent [clears throat] School Committee meeting to order here at 601. And we'll begin with public comment. Not seeing anyone remotely or in person for public comment tonight. Uh, we'll move ahead with our student report. >> All right. Um well to start uh 124 students are going to represent DECA uh this Thursday and Friday at the Quinsey Marriott. Uh they do DECA every year. I did it last year. It's a really great competition. Um but this is the largest number of students from Situit High School ever to attend which is pretty wild. Uh so we're all wishing them good luck. >> Um also I know we briefly touched on it um I think it was last meeting about the dual enroll enrollment
002courses through Quinsey College. We talked about the Spanish dual enrollment, but um they've added anatomy and physiology, physics, chemistry, Shark Tank, marketing, advanced journalism, pre-cal, and investing in personal finance to those courses for dual enrollment through Prince College as well, which is exciting. New advancements, >> um Mrs. Dre and Mr. McCarvis um brought 23 students to UMass Dartmouth for a full day on campus. I know this is something they did last year, but um they it was led by a member of the admission team at the welcome center and students took part in a tour where they were able to explore the campus um hear from students and ask a bunch of questions. Uh so they ended up having lunch in the cafeteria and I think students really loved being able to see that campus.
003>> Um also Situate High School hosted Ray Nicks from Boston University CTE center on Friday. This was also something that I know happened last year as um kind of just took a presentation and I was able to attend which I feel like was a really cool opportunity. I didn't go this time but um he's the founder of the brain cutting program and I just think it's a really unique opportunity for students to see like in-depth like um not coursework but like real world um professions and I know it opened my eyes to a whole new world of science and inspired [clears throat] me to like want to continue with that. So, I think that's a really good thing that situates been hosted. They do that again. >> Um, there were a few sailors of the
004month for December. Um, it was Jenna Jenkins, uh, Shay Neri, Autumn Leverne, Mackenzie Gilmore, Penny Murray, Anthony Lugo, uh, Kylie Sarosino, and Sarah Tropsler. Uh, so we'll just shout those out, too. Um, and also just as always, I know we say it every meeting, but the college decisions for seniors just keep rolling in. And I know a few more decision decisions have come. I think AJ Rimals to University of Southern Maine, which is exciting. He's playing lacrosse. And then, um, I know some other applications for January 15th deadlines are around the corner, so students are just wrapping those up as well. >> Um, other than that, I feel like we all had a great break. [laughter] Uh, and we're sort of gearing up for midterms now. It's nice having the week beforehand to sort of
005get back in the swing of things um and prep beforehand, but um yeah, it's good. We're excited to be back, I think. >> Great. [laughter] Thank you so much. >> Yeah, of course. >> Anyone have any questions for preps tonight? >> All right. Thanks so much. Okay, we have a few action items tonight. uh approval of our minutes from December 22nd, our last meeting. Any questions or anything there? >> Not. I'll take a motion on those. >> Motion to approve the school committee minutes from December 22nd, 2025. >> Second. >> Thank you. All in favor? >> I. >> All right. Um, and we have our out of country field trip to Quebec, appendix A1, two, and three, which is a vote. >> Hello. >> Good evening. Happy New Year. >> Happy New Year. >> Uh,
006I'm here tonight to request approval uh for our students in the French class to attend their annual overnight field trip to Quebec City in Canada. Uh again we are planning to partner with Jump Street Tours which is uh the company we've used the last three years which has been uh very reliable and has provided a remarkable experience for our students. The dates we're proposing are May 14th through 16th which is a Thursday through a Saturday. Um and the cost per person at this point is $750. Similar to last year, we are looking to partner with Cohasset because the more students we have, the uh cheaper that the trip is. Um we have 20 students who are committed, ready to go once the trip if the trip is approved and then at that point we contact
007Cohassid and they typically add on between eight and 10 students to join us. >> It's a great like it gives the middle schoolers a little taste of what's to come opportunities. That's always great. >> Questions about this one? Anyone? [clears throat] Okay. Make a motion on that field trip. I'll make a motion that the school committee vote uh to approve the uh Quebec trip May 7th, 2026 to May 9th, 2026. Sorry, just that was 14. >> Oh, it's different on the 14th. >> That was our mistake. >> Uh, I make a motion that the school committee vote to approve the Quebec City Trip May 14th through May 16th. Second. >> Okay. All in favor? Thank you, Mr. Thank you. We have some presentations this evening. First is uh welcome to Michael Loch, executive director of
008Sunshare Educational Collaborative. >> Good evening everyone. Uh first, thank you so much for the time this evening. Uh before we get into the business ahead, really as committee members, I just wanted to make you aware uh really what an influential impactful district situ has been. Michelle is an absolute uh really great advocate for the collaborative who gives us some really great feedback as a part of the advisory council. Uh and we very much appreciate Dr. Rap jumping in uh to the position and being in the interim. He literally, you know, I think was maybe a week into the role. I was already at our board meeting and really, you know, participating and asking some real great questions uh for the collaborative and having our best interest. Uh and then secondly, thank you all for being
009committee members. I'm a committee member myself. Uh and as you probably all are well aware this is you know one of the more challenging free time activities we have to [laughter] take. So thank you all. But the two things we have before you tonight. One is our quarterly update. Uh this really just gives you kind of a a insight into the collaborative and how things are moving and going in all different directions. Everything from teaching and learning to facilities uh to school culture. Um and just you know overall our enrollment has been very stable. Library is moving in the right direction. um have been really increasing our districtbased services, home services, which is a new arm to the collaborative. Um and overall, like I said, we're moving in a positive direction. We want to keep
010that going, of course, into our wonderful budget season that's approaching all of us. Uh second on your agenda here, uh really one of the primary reasons I'm before you is to take a vote, uh really to looking to get approval to start a capital reserve fund for the collaborative. Uh the purpose of the capital reserve fund is so that we're able to save funds from tuition. We have a very good year uh really to be able to afford uh paying for capital projects if we have to move into a new or we have to uh acquire more property. Um we need approval through that process period districts uh in order to start this fund as part of their process. Um and really all any and all funds that would go into this account goes through
011the budgetary process which requires board approval. Um and it's solely through tuitions. Uh you know we have a good year we're above census for keep our spending alone. We end up with a surplus. We then have the ability through the budget process to allocate funds to this account to save for future projects. Uh we're currently uh about eight years left in our lease in our current location which we absolutely love. Um but we do have to come to a time where we determine, you know, is this the best place for us? It's a triple net lease. Uh so we're responsible for everything under that roof. We imagine we will have some large scale projects coming up or potentially a move. Uh we decided that's really in the best interest of the collaborative. Um right now,
012like we said, uh this is solely just would be through budgetary uh and tuition based. So really no impact to the district. That's what we're ultimately trying to avoid. A lot of collaborives when they do go and open a new space have to appeal to their member districts to help them financially and that's something we don't have to do. I want to open up for any questions. >> Questions? >> I have a couple questions. Yeah, thanks so much for coming. I think you know every year we approve the uh collaborative budget and so on and we I don't think we've ever had representation. This is my ninth year. So I appreciate you coming. Um so have a couple questions. Um, right now what is the process if you have excess funds that I that I
013assume is rare, but if you do, what is the process now? Where are those funds go? >> It really just goes into our general account uh there which doesn't of course get us higher interest rates. It doesn't give us ability to kind of build that account naturally. Um, I kind of like to compare it to our retirement where our retirement account builds because it has a higher interest rate. We have less fees on it. Um, and you know, we get some natural interest building on that. um this would allow for the same purpose whereas it goes into just to our revolving account. Um it goes towards salaries, it goes towards whatever expenses we may have at the collaborative. So this is the opportunity to hopefully build and kind of have some natural gains that account
014as well. >> And um I guess over the last five years kind of what types of annual deposits would have been made into this type of stabilization fund had there been one. Um, you know, I think it really depends on our year-end number and how much enrollment is above what we projected or if it, you know, if it is below, it's a different situation, of course. Um, you know, looking I can really comment on last year. This is my first year. Uh, this my second year in the collaborative. Uh, we probably would have allocated around 200,000 into that account. Um, I think we want to aim between two and 400,000 per year. Uh, the account has a max of 4 million that can be allocated into it. Um, we think that, you know, we've kind
015of based that number off of enrollments of other collaborives and what they have the max rates count. Uh, we have high student enrollment and compared to many. Uh, so that's why we went with the 4 million amount. Um, but really, you know, on average, we're looking at a significant chunk to really continue building that case and also to afford any large scale projects. An HVAC unit goes, it's going to it's going to be tough. >> Yeah. Um, which buildings I'm sorry, which buildings you guys currently utilize? >> Yep. Right now we're located at 75 Aington Street in Hangingham, which is right at the back of the industrial park. >> Uh, at this point in time we probably about 240 students that location and then we also rent from Hall Public Schools at their Memorial Middle
016School, uh, which is really just SSC at this point. And then we have two classrooms at the high school. >> Atwood High School at Hall High School. >> At Hall High School. Yep. You said you enrollment is stable for you and you haven't seen much fluctuation. Are you looking to or do you project that that could be increasing? Any >> I mean we always love when it increases because you know that makes things easier for everyone. Um and frankly we know we're serving more kids that way and that's our goal and our you know obligation to all of you member districts. Um as of right now we've consistently seen you know solid growth January through June. Um, this is our probably busiest time of the year programmatically. Um, so right now I think we're about
017296. We anticipate hopefully ending around anywhere between 310 and 315. >> Um, last question is the I know you mentioned 4 million is the max. Is that is that formula based? Like I know that our district we can only have whatever it is 4% of something into our stabilization fund. Is that the is it a sample calculation or just a kind of a number you came up with? >> It is not formula based. Uh but we went around to all of our fellow collaborives to see kind of what their max for ones that did have this account were uh and we saw kind of trends in terms of enrollment numbers and properties. Uh and that's how we came up with four million. Uh we saw a lot there were a lot less amount of students.
018Um so we went with a higher you know cap on that account because we knew potential new properties they were going to cost more. So we're going to have to put be fit more kids in there. Um, and you know, frankly, we want to make sure we're getting lower interest rates. We do have to go for a mortgage on it um in those pieces. So, and that was kind of a a safe amount we thought to be have in that account. Do need to move to a new location. >> All right. Thank you so much. Does require a committee vote tonight. So, Y >> the creation. >> Yeah. >> I'll make a motion that the situ public schools school committee vote uh to approve the creation of a capital reserve account um at the Southshore
019Educational Collaborative. Second. >> Okay. All in favor? >> Thank you all so much. She had a great >> next we have uh Tammy Rundles private chair school counseling [cough] program of studies. >> I do have to mention before Tammy begins Mr. Landrew couldn't make it tonight. He has an illness in the family that he had to attend to. So he wanted to be here and he was really upset to >> the season going on days. Yeah, [laughter] that's true. >> Says our medical professional, >> right? >> Hi everyone. Thank you for having me. I'm back again um for the first reading of the program of studies 2026 2027 [laughter] school year. Can't believe I'm back already. Um so there are some changes to the program of studies. Not a lot of changes. Uh the first
020thing that we did was we updated the language for the competency determination. um that um we're aware of. In business education, we have included a number of um there's a dual enrollment credit option for honors investing in personal finance. There's also um they added this year an advanced placement business with personal finance class. So, that'll be the first AP um program through the business department, which we're really excited to have. Really excited about that. Um and then we removed the entrepreneurship and business leadership course because it was redundant to business. Um and then we moved the adulting 101 independent living class from business education to health education which you can see on the stage two of the executive summary. Um and we um paired it with the uh physical education competitive net field games. So
021students will have the option to do the uh adult thinking 101 with a uh phys class in English. They updated some of the wording for filmless literature. Uh they added a statement of interest that stu that class tends to be uh extremely popular for our students. Um, and so one of the things that they put in there was that if there's an overabout of students that want to take it, they may have to do a statement of interest as to why they want to stay be in the class. Um, and then they added advanced journalism for dual enrollment in Quinsey College. I know the students have already talked about the dual enrollment, so I appreciate that. Um, fine and performing arts and music um, and fine arts. There were just minor changes to the prerequisite
022language. Um I already reviewed the health education changes minor wording updates to history and social studies um in mathematics uh dual enrollment through Quincsey College is added to uh accelerated pre-calculus and honors pre-calculus and then there was some minor changes to the course descriptions. And then in science, dual enrollment again will be offered for um honors chemistry, honors physics, and honors anatomy and physiology, which is great to hear. Um and then we just changed the appropriate course names for project lead to make sure that that was um designated correctly in the transcript. Um and then they added a prerequisite for AP environmental science where students need to be currently uh enrolled in pre-calculus because they were finding that students were um having challenges with the math concepts um in that for that class. And then
023in world language they're adding a global media activism and youth culture in the franophony world. Uh that's would be a course elective that would help support the global citizenships pathway. And um in terms of the French four and five culture through film um which they offering this year and usually they switch it with franophony now and one 21. I spoke to Kate Tula and they are changing it to add a uh culture through film class too for both um for both disciplines because the students were really saying they really enjoy the film through culture through film classes. So they got some awkward feedback from the students on that. >> So those are the highlights. Um department chairs are here to answer any of your curriculum questions that you might have if you have any. >>
024Thank you. >> Anyone question? >> I have a question. I feel like I should know the answers, but and I know that our student reps mentioned it, but can you explain a little about dual enrollment, how that works and what it looks like? >> Yeah. So, so if students um go to say they go to Quincy College and they have a copy of our our transcript and they pay us a fee, I think it's like $200 and I could be wrong on that fee. Um they can earn college level credit for a class that they took in high school. It's another option to students who take the advanced placement um exams where they can earn college tuition, college credits for um the exams depending on how they do on the scores. So, it's a similar
025program. Um, >> do we have students that attend Quinsey College that ultimately attend Quinsey College? >> Students would have to would be it would be a Quinsey College credit, >> right? Has said you had historically sent any kids to Quincy College. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Um, a few, not um, not too many. Um, but there have been a handful of students in the past that have gone. >> Just to be clear, it's credit from Quincy College. So, the students could carry that name. credit from >> you can transfer to another university. >> So do they pay >> so if I want to take one of these course if I want to take one of these courses I >> take it pay college whatever it is to make it college credit and then that could be
026eligible for transfer to wherever you end up but that's at the discretion of wherever you go >> it's usually like a maximum number of credits that they accept what you need. >> Yeah. >> Okay. based on the course the student takes here. And so our teachers have submitted the course syllabus to Quinzy. They've approved it and that's why we keep adding them. >> That makes a lot more sense. Thank you for clarifying that. >> So So when do they pay the fee? >> Did you mention they do they pay $200? >> Do you guys >> they I think they pay when they um when they connect with the Quinsey College admissions office. >> So they don't pay anything to us. that came to Quinsey College >> after they graduate or before during the class when
027they >> when they finish the class they can apply for that >> because it has to be on our high school transcript once we they complete the course here then they can apply for that >> and then they get the credit >> thank you for clarifying I just had to figure that out in my mind >> um >> but it does beg the question like I am curious sort of the followup to Peter's question is is that advantageous like our stu even with the explanation Carrie gives >> how it plays out at other schools like is this something that Citroen High students have taken advantage of and find useful and >> we're finding that they're starting to okay because we only had a couple of class couple of courses that were um dual enrolled certified
028but now we were we're expanding that so I'm assuming that we're going to have um a larger >> increase it's a it's a nationwide trend and part of it is like just this college is so expensive expensive, but this is a way to >> And how do you actually attend these classes? >> They take them here at the high school. They take them they take them here. >> It's just the syllabus. [laughter] >> It's like regular class. >> Let's have our students explain it. >> I actually don't know. [laughter] >> I was just wondering how is it like um comparable to AP classes? like is one better than the other or like are they similar in like how you take the classes or because they're a similar structure and like equal credits or if I
029was to submit to like one school would like a dual enrollment course look better than an AP class would like regarding different subjects. >> I wouldn't say it would look it would look better. I think it would be up to the individual colleges how they're going to assess that. >> Right. Okay. Um, >> I I just want to say like I love the idea that um you can take sort of a college level business class. Um because like I want to do something in business um and I'm always looking for like the most difficult classes to take. So I think that you know being able to take a college level class in something that I'm interested in um is really great and I think that it does also look good for colleges um you know
030because it is a college level class you're taking it through Quinsey College. Um, so I think, you know, it looks good on your transcript, uh, which I think some kids really care about. Um, you're getting the credit for it and, um, you're sort of studying what you want to study at the highest possible level, which I really like. >> And those classes are highlighted in our Situate high school profile that we send to colleges. We send a copy of the students transcripts. We have a list of the um, the courses and kind of what they represent. >> Yeah. Um, so it's like a like a sheet a cheat sheet for college admission. >> I think to Nicole's earlier comment, I think as you expand the program, it would be awesome to get data that shows,
031you know, students took the business and and 50% of them were able to transfer or were interested just so we have a sense, >> you know, what that looks like. >> Perfect. Sure. Take care of that. And I think if it's an AP class or one of these classes, I mean AP you have to pay for the test. This you have to pay for the certificate, but either way it's cheaper than >> taking an opportunity. >> Yeah, that's great. >> Um, so I just had one more question. So you mentioned um that DECA would be a dual enrollment class and you were getting rid of um or the Shark Tank >> uh the honors investing and personal finance class. >> Yeah. Um, is that still going to be offered at the honors level or is
032it just switching to dueling? >> It's it's honors. It's honors. >> Oh, as well? >> Still honors. Yeah. >> Okay. Oh, great. Sorry. >> So, [laughter] you got to bring the bring the right in from the bullpen here. >> Um, so I think the first dual enrollment course we had was our DECA class. So, when we first uh we were exploring, I remember pretty vividly was at the end of June one year. uh we're were um basically we took the Quinsey College syllabus so for their marketing 202 course and I did a crosswalk to our um DECA and marketing course all the standards correlations one of the things that benefits us quite a bit is typically it's a semester course which is 16 weeks half a year all these courses are a full year course
033so for example we recently uh got approved for the investing and personal finance course for dual enrollment. Quite honestly, I think our course is far more comprehensive and has much more depth than the Quinsey College semester course. Uh which is why I don't think they hesitated for the approval. Plus, we did crosswalk frameworks make it basically uh put into a situation where they can't say no. Uh um there was some really really good questions. you have to let the um Quincsey College know by April 1st if you want to pursue the dual enrollment so they can get the transcript generated by the end of you know by June. We've had several uh students uh actually all the dual enrollments are filtered through Lisa Kirk so anybody that wants to pursue the dual enrollment credit she
034keeps a centralized clearing house of students applying for that so that they can get access. just it's better. Um the department chair has worked with Lisa to filter that uh request. Phenomenal value, you know, it's I think it's $350 for three credits. It's absolutely a differentiator on a college application. And my daughter as she was applying to schools, she's a senior now. They asked specifically, have you taken dual enrollment courses? Um secondary benefit it's coded is it it's coded as a uh rigorous course with desi coding. So there are benefits for newspaper reporting by having a course that we run also have dual enrollment. So there's a win for the district. Uh the relationship with Quinzy is great because they don't insist that their instructors teach the course. So there's no collective bargaining or issues.
035They want to see the resumes and uh of the individuals teaching the course to make sure that they have, you know, substantial background in the content they're teaching. Um >> are there other colleges that locally that are doing this? >> So we've I've pursued others and um a lot of it comes down to potential challenges with who's teaching the course. But oftentimes they would want their instructors to potentially teach the course which potentially could take away teaching positions from teachers here. So by having our educators endorsed by Quinsey um with the curriculum, it really takes any of the potential uh grievances out of it of staffing issues. So it's it's a it's a really good fit with us in Quinsey. And um is >> there a benefit to teachers to being endorsed by Quinsey? as
036a profession. >> That's a great question. I don't know, maybe they be attracted to be an adjunct professor there at some at some point. Um, >> but I I haven't asked that. I I just looked at the benefit for our kids. Um, but we actually at the DECA competition last year. There was a former alumni that was uh helping out with our group. Uh, he actually took the credits and applied it for credits at the school that he went to. Um, oftentimes they'll apply it to general studies credits or uh electives. Yeah. um so they can free their schedule up for other courses. >> Um >> yeah, I wouldn't recommend foregoing a business class in college. If you took one of our I would say you're in a better position to succeed in college, but
037I wouldn't you might have it uh one of the general studies electives if you can forgo that to open up your schedule in college. >> I would also say the other benefit because a lot of dual enrollment programs at least in other states require that the students go to the college. So that creates all sorts of logistical transportation. So it's also really beneficial, not just that our teachers are teaching it, but the students are in our high school doing it as opposed to going to the institution. >> And the list is extensive. I mean, I can share with Ryan and I can filter out to you all. Like the the the receiving schools that accept Quinsey College credits is pretty extensive. When I um I should have remembered to bring the list, but it's >>
038it's impressive. >> Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Yeah. You're welcome. >> Okay. Um, any other questions about the program of studies in general? >> Great. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Right. Dr. R update on pushing. >> Thank you very much. Just a very quick update. I spoke to the OPM today and they're certainly committed to coming back to a meeting in the future and doing a more, you know, comprehensive update. But if you've driven by the site, um the foundation is actually going to be finished uh this week or early next week. They're really almost done digging. We've had uh decent weather. It's been cold, but for digging foundations, it's actually worked out well. So, um they've done a lot of work mitigating the runoff and the rain and
039different things like that. They're working very closely with the town to make sure that everything stays environmentally appropriate. Um, so most of the excavation is done and the next big thing is going to be the steel. The steel should be coming in the next couple of weeks and that takes about two months. So things will start to look like a school very quickly. Um, when the next two months or so you'll start seeing up to look like a school. Um, we're targeting that topping off ceremony for early March. over. That's when they finish the steel and we have that final ceremony. We'll invite um members of the community, students to come and sign the beam before they put it up there. It's kind of a fun ceremony and that'll be um sometime in early March.
040And the other thing is there's a lot of underground retention systems. You know, that site is quite anybody who's been by there. Part of this project has been some underground water retention systems and they're putting them [clears throat] in this week. So, they've worked really hard to keep the water on the site. everything required to do so, but they've also that's been a major focus of the architect and all the drawings as we were talking about them and they're starting to see that stuff work. So, just a brief update. Um, and they're certainly committed to coming back either our next meeting or meeting in February to give a more comprehensive update. But everything's moving on time, under budget, and probably faster. >> And under [laughter] the digging portion completed, [clears throat] >> great. Thank you
041so much. Right, report on teaching and learning, Mr. Lynch. >> Sure. >> Good evening. I just um have a quick update about our uh leading strategically professional development experience. So um as Dr. RA mentioned uh for the superintendent schools on the 22nd. Uh we have a team from situ participating in uh leading strategically and what that is is um it was based on a workshop series at the mass association of school superintendents by run by Elizabeth City and Rachel Curtis and um the city wrote uh another text called strategy and action and it's just about in a really specific um type of work like in schools how to drive educational change and so uh Dr. Rab and I brought a team of eight um you know situate leaders, our elementary curriculum coordinators, two department chairs,
042an elementary principal, secondary principal um and ourselves to participate in that and it's uh three full day workshops, four virtual sessions and we've also arranged for uh Liz city to come down to situ for two half days to to work with our team. One of those is January and the other date is in March. So, we're excited about it because it's not sort of um a new thing that you need to do. It's more about how to implement and achieve your goals. It's not a what, it's kind of a how. And so, um we have a big picture goal that we're working on and um you know, we're excited. They give you like a framework. um or actually we'll do one tomorrow with one of our leadership teams, but assessing the strength of your team
043and then trying to look at areas that your team can improve. So that's one way. Other techniques like being very conscious of uh the history of implementation and things like that, school culture. Um so it's been a good start. Uh we'll definitely keep you um informed about our progress. Of course, if it's a the goal of the superintendent, there'll be more evidence as we as we conclude, but we've had our two full inerson sessions. We have one more and then our follow-ups with uh list. So, we're excited and um if there's any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. >> It reminds me a little bit of um when we talked about the um the circuit board. >> Yes, [laughter] absolutely. Um, and just how like our job feels like we're over here on this
044side and just watching hoping that the circuit board is lighting up and but we're not able to touch it, right? That's your job. Um, and so it's it's reminding [laughter] me, >> do you want me to pull it? Just >> you want the No, but one the two examples you gave um it's making me think that there might be things that you guys are learning that's helpful for us all. And so I was just thinking if as you're going through this you guys are coming across little nuggets of wisdom that you think would be helpful for us. I think we're in the same boat obviously. Um and just you know those two examples you gave I don't know to me I was like oh yeah those sound like good lessons for us too you know.
045Um, and so it just kind of reminded me that um, if there's some type of a little cheat sheet from the book or article like version or something like that, it could be something interesting for us to think about reading >> maybe next time. >> Yeah. Right. Helps us understand >> Yeah. better. And also to kind of speak the same language around some of that system change. I think it's helpful. Absolutely. else. >> All right. Um we are we do not have any reports uh from policy subcommittee just given >> we've not done vacation day of school that [laughter] happened since the last >> I know right I'm sorry guys >> totally off and nothing was to be voted on anyway so um no discussion needs to be had uh report on business and finance
046>> okay so uh appendix E was missing you may have noticed if try to click on it. So, if you check your emails, I just sent an email to everybody >> that does actually include the document. Um, there isn't too much to say other than we're tracking pretty much as we would expect. We're now halfway through the year. You'll notice that I said proforma, you know, for December 31st. Uh, not much happened after, you know, the December 24th payroll. Um, but I made sure that I waited until that had cleared because I wanted this to be as close to a full, you know, two quarters end of the year as I could. And like I said, we're tracking about where we'd expect to for halfway through the school year. >> Fantastic. >> Uh, just a
047couple. Um, obviously utilities. We're holding utilities. You know, the interesting thing about the utilities is we may or may not end up a bit over budget. We always encumber, as I've been told, the full amount right away just to make sure. Uh the hope is that we get to the end of the year and, you know, perhaps have not overspent it and may in fact have a few dollars left over. We do try to budget conservatively knowing that this is New England and it can get really cold and it gets dark, you know, so you have to put the lights on a lot. Um, but I I think we'll be okay. I can't make any promises because I don't have enough history, you know, avail. It's available. I haven't had a chance to look at
048it yet, but um, it should not be doubling. Agreed. We typically come in at budget, but we >> we go worst case scenario right now. >> We'll go worst case scenario. >> That's >> so technically, yeah, it's the year's half over through this report. >> Yeah. Now, a little off like for example, teacher salaries >> uh will look a little off because [clears throat] they're backloaded versus frontloaded. Whereas other things like admin Yeah. >> are running, you know, we we just get paid every two weeks, you know, exactly the same starting July one all the way through June 30th. >> Whereas the teachers, you know, start getting paid in September. >> Yeah. >> But then they don't finish on June 30th. You know, most of them will get paid quote I say quote through August
04931st. So again, it distorts things a little bit, but everything else is real time. The utilities are real time. Again, we're six months through a 12-month year. Um, little bit back loaded on those two because your colder months are January and February. So, you know, the heat's really started to kick in November, December >> until we get air conditioning one day. [laughter] >> Right. >> I told you my dream. No fluctuation with any out of district costs. I'm sorry. What? No fluctuations or unexpected with out of district cost shifts or changes? >> Uh, no. No, we don't have any um big changes for this year that I know of at this point, but that again can change >> Yeah. >> overnight when somebody walks in the door and says, "We just moved in." >> Right.
050[snorts] What's the tuition to mass public schools? >> Which way will the tuition to mass public schools? >> Okay, so that is let me just remember this quickly. >> The vote. >> I'm sorry. The vote >> tax. All right. The the agricultural. >> Okay. that's picked up through the initial forecast, right? >> Some of it is, but not all of it. So, to try to balance things with the town to >> That's right. >> Yeah. >> You know, the agricultural schools are a little bit different because a student can choose to go to any school in the state. um they typically try to choose the one closest to their home, but they don't have a set district the way that the regional vocationalists do. So, it's very rare that a student would go to a
051vocational school other than the one you are a member of and it would only happen if there was a program you wanted that was not offered by your quote home regional vocational. >> I didn't realize that. That's interesting. So, the agricultural schools operate Just so few of them. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> But it says so we have what? How many students? Three. >> I was I was guesstimating that. >> Three students. >> One or two. >> Yeah, that price to me looks like >> Yeah, looks high. Well, I just don't I don't know. I didn't know if it's the incumbrance is >> if it's dumber is doubled up or if it's just >> I will double check but I believe that we pay in halves. So you pay up front half and then later >>
052I mean that's got to be [clears throat] >> whereas the regional which we don't pay the counties that's done quarterly portion >> a piece of >> it's 70 well 74,000 so it's at least two of >> maybe it's I don't know two plus transportation deal >> yeah we'll find out yeah >> you know we're going to ask money what the negatives Yeah. [laughter] >> Goes to anybody else question. [clears throat] All right. Good stuff. warrants and um subcommittee reports. Uh still working on less and subcommittees and working groups. Oh, I did vote make a little document um a little table of potential working group hours and then partway through seeing if we can get the library reserved for those times. So once I have that done, I don't want to advertise until we have space.
053Obviously, >> this is office hours. Once I have that done, I'll know. >> I do need you to go back one agenda item to warrants. >> Um I do have three warrants from Cindy to read in. One of them is left over from the summer. The other two are from early in December. So the first one would be the warrant number is S250821 and the total amount of that warrant is $594,76.88. Um and almost half of that was for the building project, the new building project. And the date on that one, which is baked into the number, was August 21. And then the second one is warrant number S251204 in the amount of 139,2183. That was just a number of various things which you know I have copies of. And then the last one is
054warrant number S251218 in the amount of 5 million14,36.95. And of that 4,592,26421 uh was the building project. Okay. Um, anything else for this evening? >> Um, make a motion to adjourn here then. >> Motion to adjurnn at 6:46. >> Second. Hey. All in favor? I >> I