001seven budget presentation. All right. Well, I'll just I'll review quickly the the handouts that you have our budget version B, which was presented at our March 9th meeting. And you also have a presentation that's available here that was from our April 9th presentation to the finance committee. The the main you know, the main thing we started with a budget version A. Oh, sorry. We started with a preliminary budget. We reduced that budget by 1.2 million for budget version A, which we came up with in February. Then and once we got the governor's number we kind of made that sort of our target, the state's number for um chapter 70 increase and the the required local town contribution increase. And so we use that as a target number. We reduced budget version A by an additional
0021.5 million to come up with budget version B. Budget version B as far as the for the town's portion, the general fund, is looking for the request is for 33,880,898 increase of 1.964 million or about 6% of that about 1.1 million would be in chapter 70 aid from the from the state. So basically we're looking for is an additional thousand dollars above the state aid. We went through and explained that to actually get to that number, we did a lot of work. Our salaries account all our total salaries are only increasing by 1.63%. That includes all the contractual increases. We did that by eliminating 11 positions. So, there will be 11 less positions next year. A lot of those we were able to do through attrition, but there are some that are not. The main
003driver of the increase in our budget was our special needs tuition at 1.5 million as an increase. Primarily, the driver for that is three residential tuitions that we picked up in within the last year. That was a total increase of $988,000. So, that's that's kind of the the main takeaway. So, essentially what we're asking for is increase from the town of $862,000 above the Chapter 78 to make our budget work. One thing we did talk about is how when you look at minimum contribution, the town is over minimum contribution. But, typically what we've been doing the last few years is normally the amount that is budgeted to the school has been like our Chapter 70 allocation. But, to actually keep up with net school spending, the reason the way the town has kept up with
004net school spending is also through the indirect costs, which the biggest driver of that is actually health insurance increases. So, this year there there shouldn't be health insurance increases. If anything, health insurance will probably go down for us because of the reduction of positions. So, what we're saying is it's kind of um still sort of the same financial commitment the town has been making to kind of keep up with that net school spending. It would just be allocated a little differently. So, we talked about that, some of the other you know, sources of funding and those types of things. But, there are three sort of warrant articles that we brought up that I'd like to talk about cuz this is a little bit new. Um what three of the things that we said were Um
005oh one of the things that has sort of uh made its way out there is that I feel like the the town seems to have um uh some money in free cash. I don't know the exact amount, but it seems like there's some. So, what you can do with free cash a lot of times is you can use it to offset expenditures, but you don't want to you want those to be primarily like one-time expenditures because you can't uh sustain free cash in like a year-over-year operating expense, right? So, what we proposed were two warrant articles that would basically be reductions to our request for the budget. Uh one was $100,000 for technology and textbooks. That's the sort of the the term that had been used historically, it's sort of a catchall. But the main
006main things we'd be doing with that would be funding some things like um our portion of like a server upgrade project through E-Rate. It's uh basically it's like a $360,000 project. We get 90% reimbursed, so that 36,000 of that 100,000 would be for that project. Um but that's not like a year-over-year expense. That's a an E-Rate opportunity. There's some other sort of technology type upgrades that aren't a part of like a year-over-year refresh cycle, um but we think we could that 100,000 is enough to kind of get those bigger chunks without cutting in uh into any major um ongoing operating refresh cycle. The other one is uh special education out-of-district tuition. We asked for uh an article and said you could maybe reduce our budget by $250,000 by giving us $250,000 in a warrant article
007to help offset that out-of-district tuition. The reason for that is it's the way Chapter 70 reimburse sorry. Circuit breaker reimbursement for special education works, you get reimbursed the following year for your claims from the previous year. So, you're sort of chasing your uh your initial payment. So, that 250,000 would help us get through next year because but our costs are going to be higher next year because these new tuitions we're going to have paid the entire year. Which means the following year we should get a higher circuit breaker reimbursement cuz it'll be reflected there. So, it's kind of it could be a one-time fund to sort of bridge that gap until those all hit the circuit breaker claim. Um So, we're hoping that that's a way to make those uh asks a little more palatable
008um by kind of not adding them directly to the to the uh recurring sort of budget and having being sort of like a basis for next year's budget, but looking at them as these are sort of things that if we can get them for one time, we can probably make it work. Um and then the third one is um you know, we have been having to with these uh new tuitions, we have had to dip into our circuit breaker a little bit. Typically, I would say circuit breaker's kind of like a 3-year window, right? You you make the expenditures one year, the next year you kind of get the reimbursements for them, and then we typically try to do is then budget cuz you have a year to spend that money, you budget what you
009got that year for the following year. So, you try to keep that cycle. But if you run into something like an The reason you want to keep that cycle is cuz if you run into an unexpected tuition, you can you can dip into that amount you're getting this year, but it just means you won't have it the next year, right? So, you're creating that hole, but you have it so you don't have to like lay off staff mid-year or anything like that. We've had to do that a little bit uh with this new tuition, and that number is kind of shrinking. So, one of the things that we've talked about in this board is a special education stabilization fund. What that would do is it's a place that you can put money uh so that
010when we do get these unexpected tuitions, we can there's a mechanism to try to access some funding without going you know, prior to like a town meeting. Um so that we don't need to make like mid-year corrections of like laying off teachers or something like that in January cuz all of a sudden we have a new uh district tuition. Uh so that needs to be established through a warrant article. So we did put some language in for that. Um so those are probably you know, the main changes. Um you know, I uh I guess at this time, I don't know if there's any specific questions for a budget public hearing or I know you guys have kind of heard this now a few times. So I don't know if you guys have any questions for
011me or not. Steve, was there an addition was there like a I I see the the warrant article to create the stabilization fund. Was there an amount of money we would expect to put in there as seed money or we would is our goal just to establish the fund as exists? So we have like a a blank placeholder in the article language for how much they might want to put into it. Um it can't exceed more than 2% of our net school spending uh which I think is like 800,000 if you look at next year. Um so I think I think actually Mr. Connelly threw out 500,000 at the hearing as what he was recommending as some sort of uh uh you know, if they have it to to put that as as a seed
012seed money for that. Um different towns have done it differently. Some have started with smaller amounts and they've done some things like then tried to um look at different things um as like how do they contribute to it each year almost like some you know, sort of like the way uh maybe towns are doing OPEB and that kind of stuff. Sometimes I've looked at like the the always sort of semi touchy subject of like Medicare reimbursement and how you know if we had that that reimbursement there's always sort of that argument of like the schools It's a reimbursement on the school services but it goes to the town. I mean I know it's all one big pot of money but sometimes it's one of those things where maybe that's a a way of saying those
013were specialized those those reimbursements are from specialized services. That's what and specialized medical services but they so then we can we could look at you know is there a portion of that that you just use as sort of a ballpark to say okay we're going to try to put that portion of that into the fund to kind of build it up. But eventually hopefully if we don't need to use it it'll eventually get close or at that cap and it wouldn't be something you have to do forever. It would be there until we need it so. Mr. Chairman if I may but that topic of how much I advocated for the 500,000. Free cash isn't free and everybody's competing for the for those funds for different one-time expended expenditures but it's a healthy account this
014year and it's there's no guarantee and I think the guarantee would be it's not going to always be there and I would advocate for the 500,000 because just another year like this year you could wipe out 250 and then we're struggling and against a more difficult economy trying to put more money back into it on an annual basis and if we were able to get the 500,000 we'd have something there that could skip a year if it had to and and I we would defer to the finance committee as to whether or not they would honor it but I'd make the request for the 500 and they can always reduce it. You can't ever get more. But I think it makes fine good financial planning sense to not just have a minimal amount in there
015or enough for one year's payment and then exhaust that. Yeah, cuz when that surprise comes around and you're obligated and you've got a domino effect, right? That can be tough to chase. And in future years it's free cash won't be there like it is And that's the thing you'd hope that we wouldn't need this in the in the next year or two or three, but like if another type of this situation happens where we get hammered with those and then you don't have any circuit breaker to go on. Now now you get in those dire straits where you do see, you know, mid-year course corrections which are a lot harder. And that's what that's the part that you want to just avoid with this, so. All right. And would the appropriation article for that be
016a separate article after the creation article? See, I I'm pretty sure that's how it would work. I think it can be vote to accept the provisions of mass general law, establish a special stabilization fund for the purpose of reserving funds for unanticipated or unbudgeted special education costs and further to appropriate and transfer fund from to said fund the sum of whatever or so looks like it can be all one. I mean I'm sure that talk to them that can be two, but >> do it in all all in one is one vote, one article, one vote. Cuz it still doesn't mean we couldn't vote. I'm sure that amount could get amended at town hall if it needed to, so. But so All right. So there any any public questions or Hearing none. All right. We're
017spending millions of dollars for the folks. >> [laughter] >> We'll close out the budget portion. Yeah. All right. And then we can start start the Pledge of Allegiance with the Yeah, Pledge of Allegiance. Yep. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. If you could please remain standing for a moment of silence for Valerie Braille, mother to Richard Braille, teacher at the Clinton Middle School. Thank you. We'll open up our School Committee meeting for Monday, April 13th. Entertain a motion to approve the bills. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Questions? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. We entertain a motion to review the approval of the minutes from the March 23rd School Committee meeting.
018So moved. Second. Any discussion? Questions? All in favor? Aye. I will abstain. I was not here. Any public comment? No public comment. Student rep? I'm not seeing one. CTA? Do you have anything? Nothing to report. Thank you. Thank you, Brenda. PTA? >> [laughter] >> Sorry, we have some swag. You didn't tell me to bring my awards. >> Well, we cleared we cleared house. This is tough to carry. Okay. All right. Thanks. >> [laughter] >> I'm going to go on your level. It's pretty low. Yeah, I know. All right. I'm going to give those out to those guys, those guys, and those guys. Okay. It's two pages now. I'm sorry. No, this is exciting news. >> It's exciting news. Um so, we currently have 105 members. Our latest member is the National PTA President Yvonne Johnson,
019which goes to show how everyone from anywhere can support your local PTA. She called it out in the meeting and said nobody has asked me to be on their PTA. And we jumped up and gave her a bookmark with the QR code on it. >> [laughter] >> And within 20 minutes, we had a new member. So, successful convention. >> [laughter] >> Um on April 2nd, we held our meeting and had great attendance to vote and approve fund requests for after-palm grade two, kindergarten, grade eight, CES, and grade one. Yes, great. >> Thank you, Tina and Matt, for voting. Thank you very much. Um so, updates from the Massachusetts State PTA convention over the weekend. It took place at the Rosebrook Rosebrook Event Center at Town Place Suites by Marriott, um actually overlooking cranberry bogs, which
020some of us have never seen before. Um don't even with that. Yes, it's fine. Um a special thank you to Autumn Farrell, CES CMS and CES staff mom and PTA member for helping us be outfitted in brand new board t-shirts, um an additional Clinton gear from Emotions. We all went down and scored some of those $5 deals they had last week. Um and a special thank you to the Item because I don't know if this has ever happened before, but if you noticed Dr. Meyer was above the fold on the front page. >> [laughter] >> And then, on the inside, he was also on page What is this? B2? With Ava? So, I thought that was kind of cool. He got double duty in the paper that week. Ava got it, too. She was in
021there. Is she really? Is she in there for softball? Oh my god. I saw her today in the hall. I said, "We own the paper up here." [laughter] You were on four of the eight pages of the item. And we may have sent all of these. Jan has all the professional photographs of us receiving awards and our group photo our group photo that is the serious one, not the silly one. Even though that's the better one. Um during Friday's presentations one of the highlights was that we got to hear from Steve Gross who's the chief playmaker and founder of the Life is Good Playmaker Project and we'll definitely be in touch with each of the school's administration to off to talk about professional development courses that they offer. He was a lot of fun. We
022did an entire conference room full of rock, paper, scissors. Um and we laughed and we joked and realized how much how important it is to play. And as adults, especially moms, parents, teachers, we all forget that sometimes. So that was a lot of fun. Um in addition to Becky, Jess, Cat, and myself attending the conference and staying down the Cape for three full days. On Saturday attendees included Dr. Meyer, Tina, Jay, Roy, Justin, Sherry, Jody, and Liz. Future PTA leadership included Clinton High School student Phoebe and Clinton Elementary student Sydney and Ryan. And you can see our large group photo there. Tina, I'm so sorry you missed the picture. We should move Nathan Pierce from Lifetouch the whole weekend and he was all over us. So that was great. We have some great shots that
023we've already shared with Jan for that. Some great action shots of Dr. Meyer and his little spiel. Everybody was so impressed when he walked in taller than everybody in the room in a suit and like >> [laughter] >> I think people were a little apprehensive once he got there and everybody was so serious. >> [laughter] >> As we laughed with him at our table in the front. Um and so speaking of which PTA volunteers were recognized for the following awards. Outstanding Superintendent of the Year for Dr. Meyer, the Spirit of PTA Award to our secretary, Kat Strickland, another Spirit of PTA Award to Jess, our treasurer. I was a recipient of the Outstanding Communications Award, and Becky received the Carol Woodbury Leadership Award, which she had no idea it was coming, neither do we, and
024we found out that one of the board members for the state had nominated her for that. The Unsung Hero Award was also awarded to Jay Tallis, and he is actually his picture's around there, too. He's in there. >> [laughter] >> I couldn't face the love thing. My apologies. I'm sorry, Jay. Um the um >> a lot. There was a lot. There was a lot. Um Becky was also officially installed as Massachusetts PTA President-Elect, um and will work closely with uh the president who will continue to support a smooth transition and advance the mission of the PTA. The convention gave us an opportunity to meet additional contacts from some of our supporting partners like Booster, the Massachusetts Teachers Association, AIM Insurance, and Lifetouch Photography. Um we actually took Brittany, the AIM Insurance rep, out um to
025dinner with us when we realized she was staying at the hotel alone and came from Dallas. So, we took her out and we had a good time. There's a photo of that in the collage. She was super nice. Um and we did learn that AIM is a small, family-owned company that we get our insurance from to support PTA, and they go all over the country, and that's 90% of their business is working with other PTAs to ensure they're getting the right insurance. So, that was pretty pretty impressive. Um we learned a lot at the convention. There's always a ton of more things to do. A lot of us were very much inspired, um and moving forward, we will be focusing on quote succession planning, volunteer recruitment, and bringing in the next generation of PTA board
026members and volunteers. Which I will learn more at Nationals, which I just learned is fully paid for by the state. Oh, wow. Awesome. You made an impression over the weekend. >> [laughter] >> And she may or may not have bought an entire Kelly green suit on Sunday. So, she will very well represent us at at National. Um coming up in May, we are looking for volunteers for a few things. Um the extravaganza is going to be at CES and we're hosting an evening book fair. Um teacher appreciation week, we'll have some errands we'll need some help with and the book fair itself during school hours May 4th through 8th and then an evening May 7th we'll also have a book fair night. Um membership drive has not yet kicked off. We thought we'd do more
027work over the weekend than we did. Um we enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. Uh next meeting is May 14th and that is actually 2 weeks into May because of all the stuff that's happening at the beginning of the month. So, if anyone has any questions? I don't have any questions, but I'll I'll comment that I was also at the the last PTA meeting and watched these folks fund tens of thousands of dollars in programs for you know, a dog, for field trips, for after prom and I think we all know how hard it is to raise money regardless of what you're involved in raising money and coming up with funds is a hard thing to come across let alone get the human capital of folks wanting to do it. So, I mean, the work you guys have
028done in a short amount of time of what 2 3 years is uh commendable. You represent Clinton well and it's awesome to see us branching out getting recognition outside of 51510, so congrats to you and thanks for all you guys are doing. Thank you. Thank you. Peace. We were a powerful force. I think it was a little uh What do you mean were? No, no, no, like over the weekend like to see like the green shirts like slowly walking in and then he was like everybody outside for a photo and we were like it's not that many of us. And then you realize how many people are actually in the room. >> the room and we were like >> Compared to how many of us were there and then we were pretty impressed. So Yeah,
029it was it was it was definitely humbling when they were like How many more green people are walking in the room? And and and why are you having a conversation with your superintendent? Yeah, I think that was the most humbling and most amazing feeling I guess that we have a great rapport like not only you but everyone when the national PTA president kept saying, you know, try and get yourself in front of your school board school committee and we're like We have a meeting every two weeks. We're here. We're the only ones who come and talk at the agenda every time. >> [laughter] >> You can do that and we're like, we do do that. We're here. They we They're our friends. Like we talk with them, you know, we it's we have we have
030dinners with them at tri-council meetings and and this is a foreign concept to other people. So from us to you, thank you for letting us be at the table with you because we had the ability to go, we do that. We do that. So, thank you. So, this is a great partnership and we have a lot of fun. These are actually for you. Oh, thank you. And like I said when I was down there it was you guys, I mean, you might have given me an award but it's because of all the work you guys do and I just try to be where I'm told be where be where I'm told and stay out of your way, you know. >> [laughter] >> When I when I followed up with that, I found out who actually
031nominated me for my award because it it was a pure surprise. Everybody got letters that they were like, hey, you got an award. I didn't. I showed up and found my name on the agenda. And I was like I looked at them and I was And then we had to be like, we didn't do that. >> [laughter] >> I was like, I don't know what that's about. And yeah, I found out and I'm We did good. And and Kat thanks you all for the partnership as well. I know she's not here. Um but we spent a lot of time this weekend. So Nice. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, congratulations guys. Thanks so much for the For sure. Anything from CPAC or LPAC? Talk to Myra over to you. All right. Um so staffing update. I just
032have the press release I probably shared it with you already about uh Alyssa Pier Mariney uh has been appointed as the new middle school assistant principal. She'll be returning to us after uh spending a year with the state. Um I think it's uh uh exciting opportunity. I think especially with fourth grade going into that building, it'll be nice to um kind of have that that lens uh sort of bridging that elementary to middle school gap. She's worked in both buildings. Um so we're excited uh to have that. So that's our only real staffing update. Um Funding and finance, I have some things on here. Basically, these were just not going to go over these a fourth time. They're just here for uh in case there was any um discussion that came up at the public
033hearing that we needed to address. Uh but budget version B, the um I did try to put a like a two-page summary in here that just shows what the accounts look like in budget version B as originally presented. What the accounts would kind of look like if you move the 350,000 to warrant articles, and then sort of examples of what the warrant article language would be. And then sort of as we talked about in the public public hearing, um what I'm hearing is that looks like that blank line in special ed we might want to throw in 500,000 for now, and we'll just see how that number goes over. So that's how I am. Just to clarify, I know I talked to you about this. It's uh uh So, with with those warrant articles by
034moving that the total money you're asking from the town is still the same. Yep. Yeah, so what I was saying is that if you if you fund it through these are things that I think won't create that amount of money I don't think it'll create a long-term hole in our budget because they're either going to like one-time things or we're going to get an increase in our reimbursement to cover it. So, the following year. So, if we move that to one-time funds, I think it helps everybody. Yep, but it's the same amount of money. That's why I said there's a that that second page is the what the accounts would look like reduced um if they went with the warrant article option. So, I don't think we need to take any formal vote on this
035yet. I think what we'll do I think I have that as a May 4th agenda item. Uh actually uh if you want to I think the if you wanted to vote for me to present the warrant articles, you could do that because uh I think the I think it's April 15th we're supposed to get them officially. Yeah. So, if you guys are if if there's anyone wants to vote to approve the warrant articles >> So moved. I'll second. Any discussion or additional discussion or questions for Dr. Meyer on the two warrant articles? Three, I guess. You're just going to You're You're not putting the amount in right now, though, right? Are you asking to put the amount in now? I don't care either way. I'll probably send the the recommended amount, but we'll make the
036note that it's So, should we should we vote? Yeah, do we want to say with the with $500,000 for now? Okay. Yeah, yeah. No. So, do we We'll we'll amend or clarify that, yeah, $500,000 is the amount. Yep. And I'll second that. Okay. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Come on, good. Thank you. All right, so I will get those um and I'll make sure that it's clear that these are not in addition to other budget. These would be uh an adjusted budget if they were to pursue if they were to endorse the warrant articles. Great. All right. The next thing is that time of year for school choice. Um very similar to last year. Uh we're going to try to keep the pre-K to four, sorry, pre-K one, two, three, and four closed. Um some
037separate programs closed. Uh grades five to 12. Uh it we only went we went we we capped some of those at like three last year depending on the numbers, but with the large senior class graduating, uh basically we're saying five slots per grade for five to 12. And then grade for K, we're saying four slots available. It is based on the sibling preference survey that we gave out. So, uh we would anticipate that those would be those are those were approving because we know that um we know of that kind of interest in there. So, um and that just to clarify again, this is only goes to new school choice students. Once you're accepted school choice, you can stay uh you can just remain in the district. So, this is only to for accepting new
038students. Um so, that's what I would recommend. Uh we need we need to make take a vote on that if you're comfortable with it. Can you put it on the >> So, I'll make the I'll make the motion that we um open school choice only to grades five to 12 at five slots per grade. And K for the four slots. Sorry. K for the slots available for the siblings. Yep. Second. Discussion? Questions? Hearing none. All in favor? Aye. All right. Thank you. We have to report that to the state, and then we will get the um we have a newsletter going out that will get that It's already It's already typed in anticipation ready to get that information out, and we'll have the uh uh application available on the website. So. All right. Uh just
039trying to um button some things up. I kind of typed up a little memorandum of understanding and just had uh Sharon, our legal counsel, review it, Sharon Siegel, uh real quick, but this is just a um we have, as you probably are aware, I think we talked about a little bit, the fire protection officer is uh using a space in the basement of our building. Um happy to work with another department in town. I don't think that's any issue. Just wanted to at least put some clarity uh guidelines around it though, just so that you know, 5 years from now there's not a question of like, what was it what was that agreement again? And da da da da da. So, this just kind of um tries to outline it. Basically, shouldn't cost we're not
040charging them. It shouldn't cost it shouldn't be anything that costs us money. Um it's a little bit easier to do this in the sense that basically it's the facilities department kind of running the cleaning of it, so it's a you know, either way, but the um um so, if there's any questions on that, otherwise, if you're comfortable with it, I'll sign that. You can see uh I sent it to Chief Lutz, he signed it already. He was fine with it, so. Uh any questions or concerns on it? So, is it So, how does this relate to the schools other than they're just using our space? Are they're not No, it's just kind of like, no, it's just >> activities with the children or anything like that. >> No, it's basically just that we're providing them
041an office space so that they can do cuz he's doing like the permitting and that kind of stuff, so he might have to like meet with someone to do uh go over plans for a development or something like that. So, it was just they didn't really have a good space for that in the existing fire station. So, um so, we were they asked if there was any space. We did have some space, so like I said, it's just kind of clarifying that. Just trying to get, you know, I guess I have no problem helping them out. I think it's fine. We have the space. It's just sort of trying to get something in writing so that we know down the road it's not hey you you said we were going to get three things and
042you said that we could have internet access or whatever, right? So we just have all that there. And did they land on us just cuz of close proximity to the fire station or were we all out of space at town hall or do we No, I think it was just because it was >> sense. It's right there, right? As far as I know it was just because it was right across the street and yeah, yeah. Very good. >> [laughter] >> Just keep that in mind. The town owns the schools. I know. No, I'm good. Do you have to do you have to vote on this or just say go ahead and sign it? I don't know. I I mean I think I can probably it's up to you. I mean I can probably just enter
043into it if there's no objections. If you want to vote, you can vote. It's fine with me. Um all right, so I'll sign that and we'll take care of that. Uh end of year logistics, so we'll keep updating that. This is just trying one of these things you could probably rip out of here and put it on your refrigerator or something if you need to just so you kind of we try to highlight some things like some of the bold things are things that typically you know, like the school committee meetings or the graduations like those are things that typically um school committee members are you know, go to. Um some of those other ones are a little more if you can make it, that's great. Um so we just tried to kind of separate
044that and then some of the end year end of year athletic stuff is in there. So just more of a FYI. The uh senior celebration for baseball I believe is at Fuller Field at 4:00 p.m. Cuz we don't have a baseball field at Fuller. I mean I'm sorry, at Vail Street. There's not a full baseball field, but I think they're playing that game at Fuller. Which one's that? Was it uh Uh senior celebration for baseball. I think their senior day. Oh, it says Vail. Yeah, it's just it's just if people want to know if they're looking at this. It's at Fuller Field. I'm pretty pretty sure. All right. And uh oh, there it is. NHS That's an early one. The NHS induction. Yeah, that's that's after That's then Tuesday after Well, we have our next
045meeting is Monday the 4th and then that Tuesday is the NHS. >> NHS, okay. Cuz normally we have a presence at the NHS induction, the academic awards, um step up, baccalaureate. I mean Yeah, I mean, that's why I put them all on there. I just think that the But I don't think typically those ones um They're not musts. Right. I think the other ones obviously school committee meetings there's a quorum. The other ones I think school committee actually has a speaker typically, right? Someone from the school committee actually speaks at the Cal graduation, the eighth grade recognition, and the graduation. So, that's why I just kind of bolded those because we we have to have someone there. >> [laughter] >> Okay. All But yes, the other ones is normally that's the ones are not musts,
046so. Okay. All right. Thank you. Um and we'll try to continue to update that. We'll probably update that in >> Yes, I noticed the community scholarship isn't on it, but normally that's more or less minute. Yeah, it's your the the selection meeting. Yeah. Yeah. Um so, we'll try to keep updating that as we get those. Uh let's see. Building project. Did I put anything? I don't think I put anything in here from the building project. Uh I did share some of those pictures in the finance committee thing the other day, so it's starting to gets a little more real every day with the down to starting to get some of the framing up for the walls and that kind of stuff, so um I said I'll I'll be walking the site tomorrow around uh by
04711:00 after our 10:00 construction meeting and get to get a chance to see uh how it looks today now. Great. So, I didn't get to walk last Tuesday. I was dodging the hail. The hail last week 80° this week, right? All right, so I think that's all I had for this report. We probably have one more order of business under the advisory committees. Um as far as advisory committees go, I think we either have next meetings or have had recent meetings. Is there anything specific to any of the subcommittees that the board has any call outs for or So under the policy we did have a policy meeting in March um to review the um wellness and the animals in school and artificial intelligence policies. We did send those to our legal counsel to get
048revised um or just to get proofed. So at this time there's a revised school wellness program um that basically just incorporated the changes from our triennial assessment of the policy just to make sure we are compliant with the law. And then there's a revised animals in school policy um and as you alluded to and we'll talk more about in the next meeting but I know the elementary school is working to bring a facility dog uh into the building. It's I'll it's slightly different cuz of the organization that it's a facility dog not a therapy dog. Our previous policy was very specific to language around therapy dogs. So essentially what we did is kind of broaden this this language to incorporate uh both of those. Um and like so we did have it reviewed by our
049legal counsel and she made some changes and that those changes are reflected in here. And then we do have a new policy, the artificial intelligence policy. Um that one is still pretty new uh even when she when Sharon reviewed it she said it's kind of light for a policy but we she understands that we're everyone's just trying to start getting a framework together. So um so what we're would recommend if you're comfortable with them is to approve uh policy ADF and IMG as revised and maybe to approve policy IJNDA as a first reading. Pleasure of the board. So moved, Mr. Chairman. Second. Any questions? Discussion? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Great. Thank you. I think we'll be voting on the uh changes on the AI policy quite often. As this thing gets off the
050ground. It'll be twice a year type of We'll just start having it write its own updates. >> Yeah, that's it. You have to look at the expectations but we um you're on the top of it and you know what I'm saying. >> [laughter] >> That was a hot topic. Yeah. Okay, um anything under old business? Sure. Just to keep everyone updated, uh I talked to Bryce Farrior. He met with the both athletic directors and Shobha was along with the parks and rec director last Thursday down at Fuller. They went over things with the football game and whatever, the Thanksgiving game. It seemed really, really well. She sent out something I I didn't open the email but they're going to meet again in April and she said um I think it was Janet uh the athletic
051director here was going to invite the police chief or a police lieutenant to go over the parking and all that. >> Yeah. But if anyone has any suggestions they can either email me or Bryce Farrior or Steve or anything so that we can kind of keep this moving. But Awesome. it gets it's going to be awesome. Good. That's great. It'll be fun. Keep me updated. And I know we talked we've talked about I know parking's been a concern but I know one of the things we talked about is I'm sure we would provide a bus to take our team from the locker room here down there. Um which if I'm I'm sure if I'm paying for a bus to take them down there and bring them back >> Yeah, right. Bus cost. >> having a
052couple extra miles to do some shuttling up here for for fans wouldn't be uh uh you know, any >> have a parade down like we used to do back in the >> Parade, yeah. Shut it down. Run Chief Cronin, we'll shut the whole street down. We'll run a Actually, that's >> Run like a 5K race. You run a 2.5K watch the game. Run that up. It was It was It was a It was a shorter walk. >> Yeah. I know one of your coaches is not going to walk from here to the field. >> [laughter] >> Used to be a Friday night tradition. High school was closer. Walk [laughter] to the high school to Fuller Field. That's awesome. Band and everything. No buses. >> [laughter] >> But this is for Thanksgiving Day. Yeah, just just
053one one one game every 2 years. Well, that's great, Bernie. Good for you for getting that off the ground. I think that's awesome. That's all I got. Uh Yes. Please >> I may I just I want to express my personal appreciation and and the uh Board of Selectmen's appreciation for the efforts that Dr. Meyer and really Kelly put into the uh manager, town administrator, sorry. Um They Some people thought it couldn't be done the way it was done and it was awesome. Thank you. I actually had that on my list to bring up, too, tonight because um I I kind of had heard about it and then, you know, realized after I thought about it, I said that's just such a testament to, you know, what you do for all the schools that another town
054department is saying, "Hey, you know, let's let's get this level-headed impartial, you know, um just very balanced decision-maker that you are." And I thought I don't know, I was proud that they that they chose you. And I know that was a lot more time that was above and beyond, which shows how committed you are to Clinton. Um I I wanted to say thank you very much. Well, it's a big, you know, it was a big decision and I know there was a lot going into it, so we was uh happy to happy to do it. >> Yeah, and sitting in those meetings, the committee felt the same way, too. They were very happy with the organization. It flowed. It was They had everything they needed. They had the outlets for feedback and it I think
055it all worked out well. So, it was a great feedback from the committee of I don't know, 10 or 12 folks, too. So, it's good. Thank you. Anything under new business? You know, Dr. Murray, you got a bullet point here, looks like. >> Yeah, I just put that there, but they they talked about it plenty, so you don't need to rehash it. [laughter] Oh. So, you got an award, is that what I heard? Yeah, that's great. Check the newspaper. And that's [laughter] a statewide award. No, awesome. Very good. No basis for Okay, great. Well, I will entertain a motion to adjourn. >> Second. Okay. All in favor? Thank you, everyone.