001Good evening everyone. With the time being 6 o'clock p.m. on Tuesday, April 14th, 2026, I will call this meeting of the Webster School Committee to order and ask that we stand for the pledge of >> allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Before we get underway this evening, I want to acknowledge that it's been a really heavy couple weeks here in Webster. Um we've experienced some significant losses both with the passing of uh Kelly O'Brien Hartnett, one of our teachers at Bartlett High School, and Marley Gua over the weekend, a student at Park Avenue Elementary School. I would ask that we um hold a moment of silence for each of them before we begin. It's
002times like these that I think we all remember the importance of those of us around us, whether it be our community at large, our school community, our colleagues, and all the loved ones that we have in our lives. So, um I know that both Kelly and Marley touched many lives here in Webster and beyond. and our thoughts and prayers are with their families and friends as they mourn their passing. The first item on the agenda for this evening this evening's meeting is the discussion and approval of the minutes from the March 24th, 2026 meeting. Is there any discussion around those minutes? Hearing none, I'll entertain entertain a motion to approve them. >> Second. There's a motion and a second. Uh, I will pull the committee. Member Calleros, >> yes. >> Member Adamopoulos, >> yes. >>
003Member Millet, >> yes. >> Members Griglia, >> yes. >> And yes from me. Motion passes unanimously. >> The next item on the agenda is the superintendence report. Uh, good evening. >> Oh, our executive session minutes. Thank you. So, uh, before we move on to that next item, we'll, um, entertain a, well, see if there's any discussion first around those minutes for the executive session meeting that was also held on March 10th, 2026. >> Hearing no discussion, I'll entertain a motion to approve them. >> So, move. >> Second. >> There's a motion and a second. Um, I'll pull the committee. Member Calleros, >> yes. >> Member Adamopoulos, >> yes. Member Millet, >> yes. >> Member Scriggia, >> yes. >> And yes from me. Motion passes. And now the next item on our agenda is a superintendent
004report. Good evening, Mrs. Pranchley. >> Good evening. Thank you. And just as we uh start, it has been it has been a difficult uh week or two for our students and staff in Webster. Um, but as you said, uh, so often when tragedy strikes, uh, community really comes together and I just like to take the opportunity to thank our community partners. Um, we've had a lot of, uh, nearby communities reaching out to us asking if we need additional support. Um, our police station provided um, uh, reached out to other communities across and provided four comfort dogs for us to come in. uh we had our local EAP and everybody was just so responsive um to supporting us. So I just want to say thank you to to all the communities around us for their um
005supporting words, kindness, and coming in and help us get through these difficult times. So I just wanted to say thank you and acknowledge our other community members and thank our local police department. Um then moving on to the superintendence report. Um, under a personnel update, uh, we have no new retirements at this time. Um, I did h have a new hire this past week, a Samantha Hook. She is an ABA at Parkav. Um, we also did receive a resignation, Miss Katrina Roman. She is a par profofessional at Park Gav. Um, moving on to our instructional updates. This past Wednesday, um a team from Webster attending the scheduling um department of education um e and student and e with students with disabilities um convening. This was the third and last in-person session from this cohort. Uh
006we started that in the fall and the purpose of this cohort is to give us an opportunity to work with other districts or like districts um to really dig into our schedules to see um if there is a better way in our scheduling process to service our our L's and our L's with disabilities. Um, as you know, scheduling can be very difficult and uh, we had a good opportunity between the middle school and the high school to really dig in and have some outside help and bounce ideas off other communities and work through this. So, there are being there are some minor changes that are happening at the Webster Middle School. We've gotten some good feedback on our high school schedule. Um so it was uh it was a very productive um convening and we
007took a lot out of it. So we'll be finishing that up and you'll see those um changes reflected in our schedule um for the upcoming year. So I appreciate the time. It was um really nice to have you know when you're in district and you're working sometimes there's so much distraction around it's hard to really focus with your team and get things done. And this was an opportunity to really dig in. We took the a schedule of an L. What does it look like if you're an L student in Webster? What does their day look like? How how do we best service them? Um what what can we give them the most? So um it was great. It was productive. And I look forward to um making improvements in our schedule so we can do
008a better job in servicing our students. And then on Thursday, March 26th, um, and th uh Thursday, April 9th, we continue our learning walks across the district. Um, and as you know, there is MCCAST happening in multiple buildings. Um, it's that time of year. Um, so we are rescheduling a park walkth through. Um, it was scheduled for this week, but then we postponed again with everything happening, so we'll probably pick that up next week. um there's been a lot of juggling going on, but we will make sure that we continue then because they're so beneficial um to go in and actually be a part of what's happening and seeing what's happening in the classrooms across the district. Um moving on, recently uh I had spoken to you about our professional development day and expressed some
009concern about some of the PD that we had in the district. um Miss Rivera, our curriculum director, and I were meeting with the um company that provided the PD, and I'm happy to say that we will be receiving a credit um for the services that were performed or lack of services that were performed on that day. Um so, you know, it's time we can't get back, but um we are pleased that uh you know, our concerns were heard and acknowledged and that they were willing to, you know, work with us on that. So, we're happy about that. And then on Friday morning, I attended our Southern Worester County Collaborative meeting. Um, at a previous meeting, I had uh shared with the committee that the collaborative was showing slow enrollment and was in increasing um anticipating
010a decrease in revenue from their original projection for this year. Uh in the last month, they have received 10 new students um which will help close the gap in re revenue shortfall. So, um you know, there's still some time left in the year. So, it's it's definitely helped um improve um the revenue at at the collaborative. And then, um on a good note, on a happy note, um as you know, we've had a lot of reviews that have been scheduled over the past year. Uh we uh the TFM at the state level had reached out to us and asked if we would like to postpone um they offered postponing our TFM for our special ed and L to the 2728 school year. Um so we are going to take them up on that offer and
011accepted the postponement. That'll give us a little more time. We already know what they're looking at and what they want. So, it's just more time to make sure that we have all our ducks in a row and that if there are any deficiencies that we know that we are fixing them and improving them and getting ready. But we um we appreciated the conversation with them and thank them for that opportunity. Um are there any questions? >> No. U moving on to other updates. Um on Wednesday, a couple weeks ago, Miss Neves and I took Nathan Cole um to the superintendent's lunchon at Holy Cross. Um it is always inspiring to see what accomplishments of so many of our young adults. Um and it was with great pride that I was able to see Nathan receive
012his recognition. It's a wonderful event. They do a great job um putting that on. Uh they certainly feed the kids like they're kings, which is always appreciated. Um but it's just uh wonderful to hear the accomplishments as students get called up. Um accomplishments are read about things they've done in school and uh they're just I'm always in awe when I sit and see the amazing students that we have across Massachusetts and so happy to see Nathan is one of them. And then on Thursday, this past afternoon, uh, last week, we were able to take the high school staff on a walkth through se uh, section B. Um, staff seemed excited to be able to walk through. I'm sure Mrs. Neves might have a little bit more of an update. Maybe not. I don't know. But,
013but staff were excited to get in the building. It's very different um, once you get in there and you look around from what it was in the in the previous build. So, um I think we're all going to need maps um to navigate our way around, but uh it was exciting and it was nice to see staff excited to be in the building and I'm sure you're going to hear more about the project uh when Miss Ktos gets a hold of you guys in a minute. But that concludes my report. Is there any questions? >> Thank you for your updates, Mrs. Pangley. Any questions from the committee? >> No. Um, I just want to thank you and and the rest of the team for the leadership as we navigated our these losses that we all
014experienced over the last couple weeks. I know it was a lot of effort um to coordinate resources for staff whether it be through the EAP or even our own counselors that were helping their colleagues through these losses. So, thank you to the central office team and and the whole team out in the district as well. >> Thank you. The next item on the agenda is the business manager report. Good evening, Mrs. Ktos. >> Good evening, everyone. Going to start with the Bartlett High School renovation project and the completion of phase two, which is extremely exciting. So, phase two official substantial completion date is targeted for tomorrow. I will share with you that the building is in very good shape and is ready for us to move in. There are a few minor AV items that
015they're wrapping up and we do expect those AV uh the majority of them should be completed by tomorrow. There is one that will go into next week that we're not concerned about and we actually approved it being done next week. The architectural team is working on some more administrative items that's required for substantial completion. So, they're working with their um third parties on getting through the individual affidavits that are needed for the architects to actually issue those. Those are still under review, but we do consider that purely administrative in nature and not something that would hold us up from moving into the building. So, very, very exciting. Um, the other thing that I've been working on is we put the boilers that are in section C. And now these aren't the boilers that were there
01640 years or 40 plus years ago. They are some of the newer boilers that we had to put in uh because we had some failures. Put those um as uh disposal surplus items out to bid. I did receive several inquiries. However, only had one that followed through with the inspection. So I will know tomorrow by noon if we will get some bids for those boilers to be taken out the week of April 27th. What's really been keeping people busy is preparing for the move. So, lots of packing is underway. So, if you walk through central office or if you walk through the classrooms, you're going to see lots of boxes everywhere. Um, so packing is just one part of it, but there's a lot moving, particularly out of this office. Our back storage rooms are
017moving. There's a lot moving. We've been working on what those layouts will look like in the modular classrooms as we convert them into shared office space. We've been working on uh just logistical items and all the things that actually have to happen from now until next Friday. So, we have some pretty detailed lists about um who's doing what, when, when their target completion date is. In fact, we will start some of the work with the IT team this Saturday. Monday, our movers um start with the move activity. So, that's actually a holiday. staff are not working, but we will be here to facilitate the move with the movers. Uh, and then we have um, you know, just a variety of activities that'll happen from that point forward to get everything um, situated. Um, on Friday,
018um, hopefully I'm not stealing your thunder. Um, we are going to offer um, tours in the morning for students if they want to come in and kind of get a feel for the layout of the building in advance of coming back next week. In addition to that, staff will be offered an optional if they want to come in and start getting unpacked. Uh, and just a lot going on. Um, too many lists, but I think we're doing a really good job in coordinating that and making sure we know um, what's going. I think overall we have 61 people moving. So that means that's either offices, classrooms, and storage areas that are moving. So there's a lot of move activity going on. We have determined that our move order will be anything that is coming out
019of the modular classrooms will come out first. Once that's out, we will move the main office from Bartlett High School into their new location. Then third on the list will be getting the district office moved into the modular classrooms and then all remaining areas will move after that. So that's kind of the highlevel move order and how we will tackle that. So this will be your last meeting in this room. So we'll memorialize that this is the last one for at least nine months until we move back. Um we will be doing the school committee meetings from the media center in Bartlett moving forward. Let me pause and see if there's any questions for the chair. >> Member Adamopos. >> Um I just want to say I was able to walk through the space last
020week. Um it's very impressive. It's actually quite impressive to see what we've been able to do with that space. Um, I don't think it looks anything like what section B look like and it's it's really interesting to see how they were able to utilize all that. I do think all the teachers and staff will be very excited to get in there. Um, but I also want to say to all three of you, um, you guys have been able to handle your day-to-day duties. I think at times we forget that you're also handling this huge project behind the scenes and it's probably taking up a lot of your time. So I just want to say thank you. Um because we're what 67% 68% through this now. Um so I just think we should acknowledge that all
021three of you been able to handle this building your typical duties while also balancing this huge project behind the scenes. >> Thank you. It's a good thing we like one another because we've been spending a lot of time together. >> Um, and I think you're right. I think when the community sees the building, what you'll notice is that um, C-section and eventually Asection will still resemble some appearance of what it looked like to some extent, whereas Bsection is probably the most transformed of all. >> So, we're really excited. I think we're ready. Um we're really going downhill now is the is the fact is we're on the downhill now. Um and phase three is a much smaller phase. Hopefully a smooth phase is what we're hoping and then we'll get into phase four which is
022all external. So we are over the hump. Yeah. Which is very exciting to say. >> We were ready. We came in yesterday and we're like let's get it done. Let's let's move. Let's move. We're ready. >> Y. >> Okay. >> Mr. condos, just a quick clarifying question. After today's school committee meeting, our future meetings are going to be in the media center at Bartlett starting when? >> In May. >> Amazing. >> That's great. Okay. >> Yeah, we're excited about that. It'll be a nice way to show off the space as well. >> For sure. >> Yeah. Great. >> And I'm sure she hasn't quite committed to it, but I know she's going to do it is we probably will have a video of section B that will also be posted like we did of of
023section C. >> Great. So, >> I will do my best. >> Okay, I'm going to move on to other updates. Um, we just had a DESIE audit. Webster was selected for an onsite fiscal DESIE audit which actually took place for full two days last week. We had um an audit of the title grants, so all four of them as well as one of the adult education grants. So, it was very much focused on federal grants that they were auditing. So the compliance team uh from DESIE is obligated to go out and monitor how districts are spending money so that if the federal government comes in and monitors the uh audits the state of Massachusetts, they can demonstrate that they know that we're actually managing this uh money appropriately. So there were three uh general focus
024areas. There's actually internal controls, financial management, and allowable cost. So over those two days um it felt a little bit like the book if you give a mouse a cookie. Um because it wasn't just your pure financial audit and just looking at numbers, make sure it was hitting accounts. It actually went deeper than that. So if you were paying people, did you have the right job posting? Did you have a job description? Did you have appointment letter? So it went pretty deep in terms of what they were looking for. But I'm really happy to say that verbally we were advised that we had no findings, but we have not yet received the formal letter stating that. So, I think it went well. Um, and audits are always very helpful because you learn something from them.
025And I know I took some good key takeaways um that I'll bring back as a result of the conversation that I had, but again, happy to report that it was favorable. Any questions? >> Great news. >> The other item I wanted to share with you is MASBO conducted, so MASBO is the Massachusetts Association of Business Managers. They conducted an insurance survey recently. They did this because they were looking to create a professional development session for business managers to start educating us all more about insurance plans, how they're constructed, you know, what are the different options available. But in addition to that, they were looking to collect data points because they are aware that many towns and districts are facing rising insurance costs um and what strain that is putting on our budget cycles as we
026move forward. So in your packet, I gave you the survey results if you're interested in in looking at it as well as the full uh presentation from the professional development session. But I wanted to just share some key points from the professional development session to be aware of. So across the hundred um responses that they received, so a little under a third of all of the districts responded, 57% of districts cover between 71% and 80% of employee health care costs. 59% of the districts have seen health care costs increase between 11% and 30% over two years, the last two years I should say. 45% of districts, so almost half have had to reallocate instructional resources and 31% are experiencing structural deficit pressures. Those are terms that we've been hearing um Tim Bell use as well
027as uh Rick Lefon when we've been having meetings whether it's the with the finance committee or the tri board committee. Um and these are some of the things that districts are doing and what kind of foundational educational tradeoffs that are being made to fund health care. 51% are reducing staff or delaying hiring. 45% are tapping resource reserves. 42% are reducing spending on instructional materials and technology educational programs and supports and 28% are deferring maintenance and/or postponing capital projects. So I think with the intent to provide this professional development, I think it also solidified and just validated what we're feeling um here in Webster as we approach this budget cycle. But if you're paying attention to any news reports or if you're on Facebook and you're seeing other districts, you're seeing that, you know, we're we're
028not alone in what we're experiencing. So, um, not that there's comfort in that, um, but I think it's just sort of underscores again that we have a challenge that we're facing um, across the state. It's, you know, driven by inflation, right? Inflation is a big piece of that across many things that we're we're experiencing. And you know, with just local funds increasing at 2.5% and not getting increased funding from the state, it's just adding that pressure that we're all experiencing. So, any questions? Okay, that concludes my report. >> Thank you, Mrs. Ktos. I just want to remind folks it's 6:23. So, Miss Neves, I know we're going to be moving into you shortly. At 6:30, we're going to call the public meeting to order. Um, so I hate to have to stop you, but just
029at least you'll you'll be anticipating it if it happens in the next seven minutes. So the next item on our agenda is the principal report and joining us is uh Miss Navas from Bartlett High School. Good evening. >> Good evening. Um, I have one thing that I was going to bring forward and one a second quick thing. >> Um, since our last meeting with me, we did receive our CSDP report and the findings were much like the middle school. Um so this report the the obser this is the observations part. It was performed by AIR which is the American Institutes for Research and we had two observers conduct 20 observations in a sample of classrooms across all grades 9 through 12. Um they they used a rating scale that goes one to two um for
030a low range, three, four, and five middle range and six or seven are the the higher range. Overall, there's four areas that they look at. They look at emotional support, classroom organization, instructional support, and student engagement. Our overall ratings, um three of the four fell within the middle range. instructional support, emotional support, and student engagement. And then in our high range was our classroom organization. Breaking those apart a little bit more, we received high range for our productivity in the meaning the classrooms run very smoothly. Teachers provide a steady flow of activities for students so students do not have downtime and are not confused about what to do next. Routines are efficient and all students know how to move from one activity to another and where the materials are. students understand the teacher's instructions and
031directions. And then the other one that we were in the high range for was negative climate, which means there's no display of negativity that's occurring. No strong expressions of anger or aggression are exhibited by either the teacher or the students. Um, and if something does take place, it's contained and does not escalate. The teacher does not issue threats or yell to establish control, and there's respect throughout the classroom. So, those are our two in the higher range. um everything else with the exception of two falls within that middle range. So our in the way we speak to students, the feedback that we give to students, positive climate, content understanding, student engagement and instructional learning formats, the sensitivity from the teacher and behavior management all fell within that middle range. We have two on the lower
032end which are analysis and inquiry and that um looks at engaging in higher order thinking skills and the regard for student perspectives um meaning that it's it appears to be more rigid in the teacher's plan and um not as you know flexible to kind of veer from that plan. Um so overall that's where we fall within this report. We're going to we waiting on the second part. So, I'll bring that second part when we get that. Um, and these fall right within what we're already, you know, moving forward with our plan and lined up with the district plan as well. Since that report, I'm happy to say I brought the NEAS report to you last time. This is not on the agenda, but I wanted to share real quick. Um we did Mo and I
033received an email a night ago, two nights ago that says we have um received the accreditation from NEASK from the report. So that was happy to to receive that email. So that felt nice. That's the end of my report. >> Thank you for sharing that information. Questions or comments from the committee regarding um any of Miss update? >> The chair? >> Member ClariS? Um I'm just wondering how are you going to disseminate that information to the staff and you know talk about game plan for how you're going to move forward just in those areas and we'll congratulate them probably all the really great areas of >> right we will um as we as we're tearing apart all of our priorities right now we're in the middle of writing our school improvement plan we'll bring all
034of these pieces into the right the right places and and reference this throughout all of them >> great and I guess going off of that will you be sharing some of that back with us with regard to how you'll continue to ex like be in the high range on some of these really great areas and then how you'll address some of those things. Um, of course analysis and inquiry and the regard for student perspectives, but the other two that were kind of on the lower end of the middle range would be the instructional dialogue and the quality of feedback as well. >> Yep. As we as we go into the work, I'll bring back >> Okay. >> where it's going and who's doing what and how we're doing it. Yeah, >> those are the things
035that we've continued to work on all year long. These are instructional priorities. These are the things that we keep re reiterating. This is what our PD is around that high order questioning, getting that um discourse going in the classroom. These are the things that we've we've seen on our walkthroughs that we're trying to encourage and work on work on and provide. So, um, there was some validation to the work that we're doing. When you have outside people who haven't been in your district before come in and spend the day and walk around and then say, "This is what we're seeing." We're like, "Okay, we we know what we need to work on." You know, we've just got to continue doing that. And I'll say the same thing I said to Miss Peterson very similar was
036you have all the building blocks to get to that next level because you can't do that higher order thinking and the deviating from the plan unless you have the positive climate the behavior man like all of those things you need to get to that next level because what they're looking at is you know those higher order things and so you have all the steps and so it's almost nice to see that all those are in place and that's your next logical step and you're already working on it >> cooperative. Thank you. >> Great. Thanks. Any other questions or comments from the committee? >> That's a good timing. >> Okay. Well, with yes, with at 6:29, we'll start getting things set up. Um, Miss Navas, while we continue setting things up, anything else you wanted to
037share with us or does that conclude your report? >> That concludes my report. >> Okay, great. Well, thank you for sharing this information. Um, happy to to see that what you all expected to come out from this report has been validated and it sounds like there's some plans in place for operationalizing some of the feedback. So, looking forward to hearing more. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. And with the time being 6:30 p.m., we um I'll call this public hearing for the FY26 budget um to order. We're just waiting for it to come on up. Um, okay. Thank you. >> As it warms up and start seeing it on the screen, put my microphone off before I get the door open on me here. So, this is the start of our formal public
038hearing. We're going to walk through the fiscal year 27 budget. I know for the school committee, this will be a repeat of information that you've heard. Um, however, we do have people that are watching from home, people here. Um, so we will present this fully. Um, school committee members is as we go through it, if there's anything you have questions on that come up throughout, just please pause and and let's um answer those questions as we go. So, let's get started. So, here we are as planned at our public hearing. Our next step following the public hearing will be our annual town meeting. And of course, in both directions, I can't read because of my eyes. I think it's the 11th. >> So, we're looking at uh Monday, May 11th. And actually, I'll point out
039we are having the town meeting here at Bartlett High School. So, we'll no longer be at Park A. We will be using the auditorium this time around. So, um we'll be working on what that looks like logistically because of course the stage and in front of the stage is a little different than it was when we previously used the auditorium. So, let's go through some of the budget versions that we've already talked about since January through February when we were required to um submit our budget to the town administrator. So, what we started off with in early January was just looking at salaries alone. And when we looked at salaries and did a level service budget everywhere else, that equated to a 4.64% 64% increase. So a little over 1.2. Then what we did was
040layered on some additional items beyond salaryonly increases. And the next slide will actually break down in more detail what those items are. Um and that brought our budget up to an overall increase of 9.41%. And again, these increases that I'm talking about are increases over fiscal year 26. And so that was the base salary that we talked about with the 4.64. Then layered on top of that was what we call our departmental need. So the way in which the district approach building our budget like we feel strongly that we should is that we go to our departments and we ask them to submit in their needs, right? And then we have conversation from there and that is what was put into that. Then we subsequently um did reduce from that budget down to a 6.62%.
041So that was a reduction of draft 2. Um and actually let's move on to the next page because I think that more clearly lays out what composes those items in the various versions. So again, in the salaryonly budget, as a reminder, what that did include was we included six new sped positions that were added during fiscal year 26 and approved by the school committee. Those were four instructional assistants, one ABA and one speech assistant. Then above and beyond that included our contractual obligations. So step lane changes any stipens all of those things that we have negotiated those additions of new position >> done due to compliance and needs from IEPs. >> Thanks for clarifying that. Then as we moved into the next version that was tuition so special education tuition as well as supplies and
042the only staffing change that we brought forward was transitioning from a school year administrative assistant supporting the special education office to a full year. One thing that we've seen over time is there's a lot of moveins over the summer. there's a lot of activity with uh registration and things that have to keep um special education IEPs moving forward and not having a full year really puts us at a disadvantage. The other item um and you may recall this is we put the school resource officer into the budget. There was some discussion in the prior year about not having it, but as we went back and worked with the chief from our memorandum of agreement, instead of it being budgeted in both places, it should be in the school budget and not in the town's budget.
043So, we of course corrected that coming into this year. And then the other items are as we look at cost of living increases across other items, we're seeing things, you know, whether it's software or utilities, um increases are happening everywhere. You know, with electrical, for example, supplier charges are going up. All of those things continue to increase as we moved into the the version that we presented at the end of February, but is draft three. Um we did make some reductions. We reduced legal services. We felt that we could make some reductions in that area um because we did not have any plan negotiations going on, contract negotiations. We actually increased the use of circuit breaker and then we made some additional adjustments. We moved our lunch monitors into our food services account. We flattened
044some costs with respect to curriculum and software. And what I mean by flatten costs is we often um enter into three-year contracts for some of these items. And so looking to make sure that we're flattening those costs out over three years rather than having to pay for everything upfront. That did take with some of our curriculum vendors some formal processes that we had to go through with their finance departments to get approval on those. Um, we also made adjustments to what we were budgeting for staff who were retiring, right? Trying to adjust those a little bit lower, um, if we could and then making decisions to not backfill to positions that we knew that were leaving the district. So, that's where we landed from the versions and that was the version that was approved and
045went down to um, town meeting, I mean to the town administrator, sorry. Let's jump into um chapter 70 aid. You may recall we were pretty excited when chapter 70 um aid was released. We did get more than we were anticipating and these are the key factors that drive the formula for chapter 78 under the student opportunity uh improvement SOA. Um and the key ones are enrollment. So our enrollment went up by 50 students from October 1 till the next October one. So an increase in stu students and enrollment is a key driver. Two other things increased from fiscal year 26 to 27. That's the wage adjustment factor. In fiscal year 26 it was 6.13% and it increased to 8.29%. So that was a 2.16% increase. And then inflation, the factor for fiscal year 26 was
0461.93% that went up to 2.76%. So that was a 83%. So those three changes were really um important with respect to how that impacted us and what we get from a local contribution side. We didn't have as much change there. We're not seeing that level of change on property value or income or any kind of municipal growth that would be notable from that standpoint. Let me pause. Any questions? All right. So, I talked a lot about enrollment. This again shows you our historical enrollment over time. And you we do see within fiscal year 26 that that slight increase that happens. So that again retention of students, students wanting to stay in the district um not only is good for the town in terms of just overall pride and and being happy to be part of
047your your town high school and school district um but it also impacts us financially. So this is showing our chapter 70 increase. It's a little hard to read on this page. So let's advance sail and this is the actually before we move ahead anyone that's watching at home or here this is the breakdown that we get from the state that shows how that chapter 7 aid is is somewhat calculated. It doesn't do the full calculation but it gives you the breakdown and this is what we receive when the chapter 7 aid is released. The next slide actually is just a little easier to read and you can see that we're getting a 13.56% increase in chapter 70 aid. So that two point almost 9% um increase from the state really was um a life vest
048for us right in terms of getting that extremely helpful. Okay. So the number we have in front of you is so I just want to point this out. We actually have an item later in the um agenda to approve this number formally, but this is the number that we intend to bring forward to town meeting. This is the number that was discussed at the finance committee meeting recently and also at the tri board meeting at the end of last month. This includes the compliance mandates that we talked about, the six new positions that we added in fiscal year 26. All of our contractual obligations are increases in special education ranging from outof district tuition supply increases as well as the change in the administrative assistant from a school year to a fullyear um position as
049well as curriculum renewals, any updates in curriculum that we need to make this year as well as our school resource officer and um any colar adjustments across key items like supplies, software, utilities actually. And the one other thing I wanted to mention, I'm sorry. So, how did we come up with this number? I think that's important for me to mention. Um, so after we submitted the budget to the town administrator, we often the superintendent, myself, the town accountant, as well as the town administrator actually meet independently to review items. and as they were working through their budget, getting updated numbers, being able to tweak that, and we had a clearer picture of where we were, um we used that as the basis for looking at what we could do. So, in that case is we
050um we made um changes because we were able to get confirmation from our external party for a bright position that we have Webster Middle School and they were able to grant fund um a portion of that position at $30,000. We also made a decision to reduce um our family liaison position um due to attrition at um Park A. Um and we adjusted extraordinary maintenance at the high school because we felt that given that we're going through this renovation project, we're on the last phase. This section, which has been problematic to us, um would be under construction and we wouldn't be at risk for any type of activity that we would actually have to use that extraordinary maintenance on. Okay, that I just wanted to review. We reviewed this very early on. This breakdown just gives
051an idea of the overall budget. Close to 81% is salaries, right? Out of district tuition is um just a little over 10% maintenance, including salaries for maintenance. Custodial staff is a little over 6% and special education is 35.35%. So that's kind of the makeup of this overall number on where our spending goes. So what is particularly challenging in some in these years where uh budget constraints exist, we have rising costs is that all things outside of this, it's hard to keep squeezing those, right? We can only squeeze some of those things so much and that's where it gets very challenging. So uh just wanted to remind us of where we were with that. And then just again we talk about special education costs rising. Just want to just show this once again. We talked about
052this in early January, but this is showing across a number of areas where those rising costs have been been. So if we look at how much we've been spending in tuition, out of district tuition and we're showing this as a combined what we've spent directly out of LEA and how we've used our circuit breaker. Um you can see that rising cost. Um we ran a tuition average. So you can see if we just do some basic average. Now again some are lower, some are much higher, right? We didn't give you the ranges. We didn't give you any standard deviations here. But our average tuition um if we just did it very basically is 121,000 almost close to 122 per student that we place out. And then also showing what that tuition inflation factor is. So,
053uh, what happened, we've talked a little bit about this, but in 2004, OSD did a major adjustment on out of district tuition, which they looked at several factors. And back in 2024, we we not we alone, Webster across Massachusetts without a district tuition faced a 14% increase in rates. So, that's um really hard to catch up from that. And then this is just more of an overall view of the cost broken down by you know the line itself is overall total but broken down by our contracted services the variety of tuition that we have whether it's instate collaborative non-public or out of state and then our use of circuit breaker. So that kind of just piggybacks on the previous slide to give you a sense of where that spending has been. And uh it's important
054to note that a big increase you see in 25 for sped contracted services, a lot of that was um nursing medical needs for students. So we were paying contracted services um for nursing services for students. As you know, this year we've hired a couple additional nurses because it was more affordable for us to hire than to pay the um contracted service rate. >> Right. I think that's a good point. when we when we have challenges in hiring and we still need to continue to provide those services, we have to switch to a contracted services model while we're trying to actually hire positions if we have them. And this is just a very high level overview of how our revenue and our shared costs work. This is much more simplistic than Tim Bell might give you.
055Uh but we have revenue that comes into town. So we have our education receipts which is considered which is chapter 70. Then there's general government aid. So that's some of the other areas that come in on the cherry sheet. And then we have our own local receipts which really comes in the form of property taxes, excise taxes, some fees across other items. That whole revenue pool comes in and then with the town we share costs, right? There's some costs that we share with the town. um crossing guards, health insurance, transportation, regional school assessments, uh road improvements, Medicare taxes, snow and ice, general liability insurance, unemployment. All of that gets divvied up and then what we have left, we go with a 7030 split. So we've had a sort of a unwritten agreement over time with
056the town that when we when we get through all our shared costs that what's left gets split 7030. So we can open it up for questions. See if there's any questions and if we want to drill down any deeper in anything that was discussed. >> Any questions or comments from the committee? I just want to comment if you don't mind. I would just like to thank the town. I'd like to thank Lisa and the admin team for all their work. Um and our process is a very collaborative process. We are working closely together. We discuss things together. We have um very deep discussions about our community and how we're going to withstand in future years about looking at the budgets. We approach this from a needs base. What do we need? There are certain things
057that are out of of out of our control. Um, if you ask me what I would like to do for this district, there would be so many more things. I know we would like to add positions at the high school. You know, we've talked about potentially bringing, you know, a couple years ago, we reduced an art position knowing we had the construction going on that we weren't going to be able to house a second position and we were in intended on bringing that back. Um, we're not able to bring that back this year. We, you know, we were hopeful that we could do that next year. We're moving into this beautiful building that was built with two art rooms and currently we have one art teacher. Um, and just different things like that. So there,
058you know, there's not a lot of new in this budget. It's mandates. We are, you know, we have to pay for our special ed tuitions. Those are non-negotiables and we have to provide our contractual obligations to our staff. So that is pretty much what the increase of our budget is. There's not a lot of um fluff or any fluff or extra in this budget. Um, but I appreciate the town for their collaboration. I appreciate um, Lisa and the administration for all their work because a lot of effort goes into this um, putting this together and planning and making sure that we are presenting something that we feel proud of, that we feel confident in, and that we feel that it's in the best interest of our community. >> Yeah, thank you for saying that. And
059I was thinking about some of the positions that we've cut over the years. World language at the middle school level comes to mind for me. The band um teacher, I know we have banned, but uh we have Mr. Carney doing double duty over there at the high school to >> world language at the high school was reduced. A history teacher was reduced. Our class sizes went up. So, we have we have been chipping away and making reductions and we're at a point that we we can no longer do that. um we can no longer do that because our class sizes are getting higher. They are high at the high school. Um and you know, we've been managing at the middle school. Um but the more we take away, the less opportunities we have for our
060students and that's not okay because those are the things that some get some of our kids to school that they enjoy to happen. So um you know we are very mindful when we put this together but uh we're we're um you know the future concerns me >> agree I I couldn't have said it better when you thanked the town um our partners in on the municipal side and also um our administrative staff over here Mrs. KTOS and the whole team all the collaboration and I know that the um budget workshop that we all attended recently answered some questions that many of us had on our minds about how um how we proceed. So um I know that Webster is fortunate in that we have a very collaborative leadership team here in the school district and
061also across all of our boards and our town government. Not a lot of towns can say that. Mhm. >> So, I'm really proud to be a part of this community and I understand that there there was we we were trimming things that we didn't want to be trimming here and um I think that we're at a place where we're giving the best possible experience to students under some very challenging financial times. So, any other questions or comments from the committee? Right. I think that concludes our public hearing on the budget. Unless there's any other questions or comments. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Ktos. The next item on our agenda this evening under old business is a monthly report on fundraising applications. As a reminder, it is the role of school committee to review fundraising applications, but
062we don't approve them. They're approved at the building level. So, we have a number of fundraising activities that are happening. Um Webster Middle School band and chorus is selling uh double good popcorn. Um the Kudoba fundraiser for the class of 2027. Um the tattoo a teacher, that's a new one at the middle school. Um NJHS is putting that on. And then we also have the another crispy cream fundraiser which is those are so delicious and so dangerous. Um, >> there's a few calories out there. >> I know it. They're like half air, though, so that should count for something. Um, but thanks to all of our staff and students that are putting on these fundraising activities. Any questions or comments from the committee regarding fundraising? Hearing none, we'll move on. The next item on the
063agenda under old business is the FY27 budget update and approval. >> Yes. So tonight, um, as you see, we just presented the and I unplugged, so I'm sorry. No, we saw it back up. So you can read the number if that's helpful. >> Um, as you know, we've changed our number since February when we sent it down. So we are looking for approval of the 29,747025, which is the number we have agreed upon with the town. >> Is there any discussion around this hearing? Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion to approve the proposed budget for the Webster public schools in the amount of 29,747,025. >> So moved. >> Second. >> There's a motion and a second. I'll pull the committee. Member Claros. >> Yes. >> Member Adamopoulos. >> Yes. >> Member Millet. >> Yes. >>
064Member Skigglia. >> Yes. >> And yes. Motion passes unanimously. The next item on the agenda under new business is the discussion and vote on 2026 to 2027 school choice. >> We can do that. I was going to ask if we could take Miss Vodet out of order. She's the next item and bump her up because she has been patient. >> I think we can do that for us and I know she's the one at home. So, >> so moving a little bit out of order, the next item that we'll be discussing is the discussion and potential approval of an outofstate and overnight senior. This is not a senior field trip. This is this junior field. Oh, it will be right. Thank you. Senior field trip for next year to New York. >> Good evening, Miss
065Podette. >> Good evening. Um, so we met previously to discuss the class of 2028 field trip for Puerto Rico. Um, the junior class expressed an interest in having a senior field trip for themselves as well. Um, so in speaking with the class officers, we've decided to put forth a New York trip for them um, just to stay within a certain budget. Um, the trip itself is going to be three days, two nights in New York. The students will have the opportunity to go to um a walking tour of Midtown, United Nations headquarters, the Chrysler Building, Grand Central Station, Bryant Park, Rockefeller Center. Um they'll see New York skyline at night. They have a New York City Harbor boat ride. They're going to visit the Statue of Liberty, the Ellis Island. Um they also can see
066they have guided sightseeing tours of New York um with includes Greenwich Village, Soho, Chinatown, Little Italy, Times Square, and Broad and a Broadway show. Um, and then the last day in New York, we're looking at doing the 911 memorial museum. Um, and then there's a 911 tribute association survivor le tour that is also a possibility in the trip as well. Um, the trip itself involves a train ride from Providence. Um, so all that would be included in the trip. We also included the cost of lunch to make sure that that was the kids don't need to bring any extra um, funds for that. The only thing we would do on our side is fundraising to make sure that students um can apply extra funds towards their payment of their trip and to play for pay
067for the bus ride to get to the train station. Um the current cost right now for the students if we are able to get 30 to 40 students would be 1,668 or $132 over 12 months. Um that price does range though if we have less students the price does increase. um 20 to 24 students would be $13 more per month um compared to 20 to 25 and then 30 to 34. So it does range from like $168 per month and it can get down to 132 right now and if we get more than 40 that price will decrease as well. Um so it really just depends on the interest from the students which we will find that out if once this is approved a letter will go home to parents to see who's willing to
068register. Um, questions on that? I spoke really fast, so I apologize. >> No, this was great. This was, I think, all the information that we need to know. This trip would take place in April of 2027. Is that right? Like around >> April vacation. Um, the students decided they'd rather go during vacation than end of June. So, >> right, that makes sense. Okay. >> You're the chair >> members there. >> So, is it what's the like student to chaperone ratio? you think like because 40 30 40 that's would be great to have that large of a number but that is a large group of students. >> So with this trip um EF does require a 10 to1 ratio. Um so if we were outside the 10 to1 ratio there will be a cost associated with
069any additional chaperon but 10 to1 would be a free chaperon for every 10 students. So, just to clarify, it sounds like what you're saying is the tour company requires us to have at least one chaperon for every 10 students. If we wanted to go above and beyond that, we would need to pay additional money. Yes. For those chaperons. >> Yeah, that makes sense. Okay. And as far as fundraising, it's hard to predict. It's been a while since we've done a trip of this nature, but are we anticipating some opportunities for students to be able to fund raise to offset this cost of 1668? So, my plan as soon as we have the interest and parents are signed up is to set up a parent committee to work with parents on setting up fundraising opportunities. Um,
070it's very similar to what we do with the senior class with our activities and setting up a parent committee and working with parents together to get fundraising costs down. >> So, as soon as this up and running, the next step. >> Yeah. Okay, great. >> And this would be in addition to their current senior activity. So, nothing is getting taken away. in addition to >> and that other activity that you're describing is now at a new place, but it's a park in Connecticut where they spend the whole day there. Is that right? >> Um, yes. So, we're going we're going to Brownstone Park this summer. Well, yes. Summer, spring. >> Um, so yeah, we're looking forward to that and I hope that the students really do enjoy that so we can make sure like make
071it an ongoing thing. Great. >> Great. Any other questions or comments from the committee? Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion to approve this outofstate and overnight senior field trip to New York City. >> So move. >> Second. >> There's a motion and a second. I'll pull the committee. Member Colleros. >> Yes. >> Member Adamopoulos. >> Yes. >> Member Millet. >> Yes. >> Member Scaria. >> Yes. >> And yes. Motion carries. Um this sounds very exciting. So, thank you um for bringing this to our students. It's always I know I said this to you earlier before the meeting began. Anytime we can get our students out of their hometown, their home state, and allow them to see what's out there in this world is a great opportunity. So, um really appreciate all the time and effort
072you put into putting these together for our students. >> Thank you. Have a wonderful evening. And then uh moving back to item A under new business, it's the discussion and vote on the 2026 to 2027 school choice information. >> Thank you. Thank you for taking that out. >> Yeah, of course. >> Um so annually we approve our school choice numbers that we submit into the state um every April. Um in your packet you'll see what our projected enrollment. There's two columns. The first column is what our current enrollment is and the 2627 is what our projected enrollment is to be in that grade level. And then if you look down below, it is the recommended cap for 26. So for example, um Park a has a 140 class size cap. So if you look at
073top if any of those with ash asterisks, I'm sorry, stumbling over my words. That was a tough one to get out. um then we are already at capacity for that grade level. So you can see grades K and one are at capacity, grade two um we are under and then grades three through six we are at capacity and then seven and up we have room for um growth in those schools. So we need school committee approval. >> Thank you for explaining that. Are there any questions or comments from the committee regarding the numbers that have been presented this evening? >> Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion to approve the school choice numbers as presented. So move >> second. >> There's a motion in a second. I'll pull the committee. Member Calleros. >> Yes. >> Member
074Adamopoulos. >> Yes. >> Member Millet. >> Yes. >> Member Scrigglia. >> Yes. >> And yes. Motion passes. The next item on the agenda is um related to food service. It's our spend down plan. Okay, I'm going to kick this off and then I'm going to turn it over to Kelsey as we dive into this just as a reminder. Um, um, so we had an audit that was completed for the fiscal year 25 year end and it's our standard financial statement audit that is done across the town of Webster. What we found and one of the findings within that audit was an excess of school lunch balances. So our school lunch fund approached 1.4 4 million and under the current school regulations your balance or your net cash resources cannot exceed three months of your average
075expenditures. So that fund has grown um to approximately 12 months of our average expenditures and this is a trend however that is not isolated to Webster. This is something that auditors and across the state, we've been seeing this across the Commonwealth that's attributed to some of the awards that were given out during the CO 19 pandemic. So, under federal guidelines, we are obligated to develop a written plan for how we're going to remediate those funds with this surplus and how we will spend that down. And so, Kelsey's been working extremely hard on this to pull together a plan. Um, and she has a detailed plan in your packet. However, she's just going to give you a high level overview of where she's landed in terms of how this will be approached. >> Thank you. Yes.
076So, this is from the year- end audit for 25. As Miss KTO said, um again, our net our net cash resources cannot exceed that three-month average of expenditures. And the purpose of this is to reduce the purpose of our spendown plan is to reduce the school food service fund balance to compliant levels while improving meal quality, operational efficiency, and student experience. um the starting balance looking at the fiscal year 25 ending balance we were a little under um 1.3 million and our target is that $350,000 to not only spend down to that but to maintain that going forward. So we're looking at in excess of $946,000 that um can go into our school meal program and so then we can in essence be in compliance with that. So this is a again a high level.
077Um in your packets there's more detail on the expenditures and specific line items and costs but the main categories we focused on um were meals and meal quality, staffing, staff training and professional development, service and engagement, nutrition education and equipment. We broke down our strategy into one-time investments and enhancements um that are going to take place and are currently taking place. I should add that this has already kind of the wheels are already kind of moving with purchases and as well as the planning. So for this year into fiscal year 25 with the other category being um ongoing expenses or additional expenses. So, the one-time investments, we're estimating about $315,000. And you can see a lot of that, the majority is going to be equipment, equipment upgrades, and improvements. Um, and then the ongoing expenses,
078they'll be spent down. Um, the ideal is three to three to five years. um including the maintenance of the compliance funds of maintaining that level like I said and working on the initial spend down to get to that three-month target. >> And if I could add just tying this back to one of the budget comments that we made, one of the areas that you'll see in the increase in staffing was the move of the lunch room monitors into the food services. So that's also helps in both sides, right? And it's allowable. So, this chart um is kind of a representation of what the three-year projection would look like. Um this is the target of the plan, but again, it is going to be a fluid plan. Um things could change, costs could go up and
079down. We might have to adjust, but it is in our plan that we are going to analyze it quarterly in detail if things need to be changed or adjusted going forward. and go to the next page. So, essentially this is a strategic combination of one-time and ongoing investments to get us to where we need to be in maintaining that level. Um, we put our focus on the student benefit and satisfaction, general operations and program compliance with that goal of the three to fiveyear actionbased plan. And so, what's next? Um, we had to finalize our procurement details for one-time expenditures and sort of do the fine-tuning and ironing out all the details, implementing the additional ongoing expenses, coordinating the proper people, the who, the what, and the why that needs to keep the action-based plan going.
080And again, as I said, monitoring it quarterly and adjusting as needed. So, that is sort of the overview of the direction we're going to spend the funds. Um, and it's beneficial that we have the funds because it's just going to go towards improving our school meal service, nutrition education, um, benefiting the students, all those subcategories that were listed. And I will definitely be back along the process to inform the school committee and, um, everyone of where we're at, what's going on, if changes are needed. But that is where we are at the start of our target for our spendown plan. And there's some exciting things in there. If you look at the details, you know, a greenhouse for Park A, >> you know, expanding the beds that they have. So, there's some real creative thinking
081that's gone into it. If you look into some of the details that are attached or >> Yes. Yeah. We're hoping a good amount under that nutrition education um umbrella includes like our farm to school initiatives. So, we're hoping to have farm field trips, um, farmer speakers at the school level, really including that connection of the classroom, the gardens, your food systems in the cafeteria, like making that whole link with the schools. Um, and having the funds to do so this time around. We're also getting more equipment at other schools. Obviously, Bartlett has the best of the best now, and we love that kitchen. Um, we're hoping to get uniform, not hoping, we are getting uniform equipment across the schools. So, that'll be easy for training, for consistency of quality. Um, so I'm really excited for
082that. I know staff at Middle School and Park are very excited for updated equipment and that just goes into increasing quality. um ensuring food safety and ideally better meals means more participation and we already are seeing the numbers climbing with school participation um as we've talked about in the past. So this is just a great opportunity to hit all the facets so that uh food services can get involved in and increase and give back for. So I'm really excited about that. We have the the farm to school stuff, the equipment um more wellness initiatives. Um, I'm really excited for that too to again you can tie all the things together with it with the cafeteria, the classroom, school wellness, um, having more events at night related to food services and then those subcategories of wellness
083and farm to school. Um, these are just themes that are constantly in my brain and how can I connect them and having the funds now um, there's a lot we can do with it >> and you know food service isn't just not merely just an operation to feed children during the day. that is you know one aspect of it but the integration that it has within the educational aspect right I think that's what's more important here and really introducing foods to students giving them the ability to select you know rather than just serve and so all of these things to educate students continue to keep our staff um educated as well I think it really I don't know if you have a chance to follow the Facebook page but there's always pictures of the meals
084that are being served served and those aren't the meals that I got when I was in school. So, um they're extremely appetizing maybe as an adult, but um I think it's great to introduce the types of foods and all of the food that they're um building from scratch, you know, like there's a lot of scratch cooking going on and that's exciting as well. They do a great job. >> They're very good at getting back from the students. What do you like? What do you want to have? Trying new things. Um the ladies work very hard. um put quality food on the table. So, we appreciate that. >> Thank you. >> Any questions? I know it was a high level. Um there's information in your packets that's a little more indepth, but I am very excited
085to start getting this, you know, already putting in POS and getting the nice equipment coming in. I'm very excited to kick this off. >> Yeah, certainly. I think what stood out for me, of course, the equipment, but also more procurement of local meat. I I understand that we're already procuring local seafood, but um more more focus on local meat and um produce and that kind of thing. I know that the farm-totable piece has been something that's been very successful for us for many years now. Um and it seems like, you know, the try it days and things like that are also things that we've done historically. I wonder if even student focused groups to get some ideas from them about what they'd like to see more of or, you know, gathering feedback about what they
086like or don't like already. I mean, I hear great things from my kids about about the meals that they're served, but I'm sure there's always always room for gathering feedback, you know. So, um, but great and I think the amount of scratch cooking that we do across all of our kitchens is really unique and something that should be celebrated and anything that we can do to get equipment to make that a little easier considering the number of meals we're making every day uh, makes total sense. So, >> and I think that that's a great plug that I'm going to save for later is we do the student based feedback surveys and we get such good responses that specific focus groups that would just take it to the next level. So, thank you for that. >>
087Yeah, sure. >> And I'm glad you brought up the local procurement because we are looking to put it comes out to about 10% increase in our funds into local food sources. Um, better quality. So, if you're at Walmart getting the the big brand name versus the Great Value brand, um really and then with the taste test, we can have a day say just as an example, we're having roast beef sandwiches. Here's this brand, this brand, and this brand. Which one did you like better based on a vote? And then when that gets served on the line, you know, the students feel a sense of responsibility and inclusion. And um I will just give one quick note that's my favorite story is at Park A. Um they were having a medieval day and they asked if
088we could do um this was straight from the the students um from Mr. A if we could do chicken drumsticks cuz they wanted to eat you know drumsticks medieval right and now I think it's every two months or so we have those chicken drumsticks on the menu and the same kids are still like we did that and you know just the inclusion the opportunity for education and teaching about the food system and nutrition. It's there's so much you can do within that cafeteria and the social aspects. I could go on and on, but I did have to tell you about those chicken drumsticks because I love that story. >> Yeah, I heard about that actually too from folks at Perav. That's a really neat thing. And I you know, even dialing it back to the
089ser the um results of the I can't remember what it's called, but the survey uh Miss Nevice that you presented, the CSDP report. One of the pieces that we could stand to improve on across our schools has to do with the regard for student perspectives and I really feel that that extends to all aspects of a student's learning day and not just the academic piece or the extracurriculars but also what they're seeing in the lunchroom. So, so that's great. Good deal. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions or comments from anyone on the committee here? >> No. Um, I will entertain. Do we need a vote on this plan or it's already been approved by the three of you? >> Yeah, we checked this out and it doesn't appear that we need school committee votes,
090but we want to present it. It was an audit finding, so we want to be aware of >> that we got it done. We have a plan and now we're going to monitor and execute on that plan and continue to refine it as we go. Right. >> Great. Well, thank you and thanks for all the time that you put into not only serving our students but also being creative about how we're going to nourish them. So, thanks. >> Thank you. >> All right. So, the next item on our agenda is uh some surplus items. So, we have I believe it's biology books and athletic mats from the gymnasium. Is that right? >> That is correct. Um as you know, we replaced our um biology curriculum here at the high school. We have purchased open sad.
091So we have our older books, the Miller Lavine books that we need to dispose of or get rid of. And then we also have some um very old um athletic gymnasium mats from when we open middle school. So we have since new mats. >> We're retaining two of four. >> Okay. Sounds good. Any questions or comments from the committee around these disposal this surplus items? through the chair. >> Member Millet, >> if these what I thought of with these um gymnasium mats, are they in a good condition? >> So once you vote on the the surplus of them, then now I work to see how I can see if I can sell them. You know, I'll start at that level putting them out there. I'll go out to the uh business managers to see if
092there's any interest in any of the school districts. Uh then we take other options, right? So we sort of start there to see if any other school districts need them and then we come up with a a price to sell them. >> Well, I was thinking of two places. Both the library and the senior center do exercise different exercise classes from yoga to and different exercises that maybe they could use some of them. >> Sure, we can certainly inquire. >> Are they heavy? >> Big and bulky and heavy though. That will be the only thing. I know that's what I would say, >> but we can certainly we can ask that. So, it's it's worth it's worth to inquire. So, I appreciate the suggestion. >> Yeah. >> Mhm. >> Good thought. >> Any other questions
093or comments about this? Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion to declare surplus items, including miscellaneous biology books and athletic gymnasium mats from Webster Public Schools and direct the superintendent or the business manager to auction off, donate, or otherwise recycle or dispose of these items in conjunction with the provisions for Mass General Law 30B. >> So moved. >> Second. >> There's a motion and a second. I'll pull the committee. Member Calleros, >> yes. >> Member Adamopoulos, >> yes. Member Millet. >> Yes. >> Member Scaria. >> Yes. >> And yes. Motion passes. The next several items on the agenda are final readings of policies. Mrs. Panguli, what are your thoughts on taking these in a group? >> I think we are good. Unless anybody has any concerns, >> I'll take them individually and then um we'll do
094the motion as a group motion if that's okay with the committee. >> Okay. So, the I'll just run through each policy and give folks an opportunity to comment or anything like that. So, the first policy is policy BBBABB, school committee member qualifications and oath of office. Questions or comments? Next is policy BC, executive sessions. I'm pausing for comments after each one, so please jump in if there are comments or questions. Policy B E DF, voting method. Policy G CF, professional staff hiring. Policy G C I A, philosophy of staff development. Policy G C R D, tutoring for pay. Policy K B A, non-custodial parents rights. Policy K B, Relations with parent and booster organizations. Policy KBG, parent advisory councils. Policy K DB, public right to know. Policy K E, public complaints. Policy K LG E,
095Memorandum of Understanding. We're going to delete that one actually. Policy KLK, relations with local government authorities. Policy LDA, student teaching, teaching and internships. Hearing no questions or comments about these policies, I will entertain a motion to approve all of them as presented with the exception of policy KLGE, which will be deleted. >> So moved. >> Second. >> There's a motion and a second. I'll pull the committee. Member Calleros. >> Yes. >> Member Adamopoulos. >> Yes. >> Member Millet. >> Yes. >> Member Scarigia. >> Yes. >> And yes. The next item on our agenda is the review transfer signing of Warren's bills, payroll, and vouchers. We do have a transfer request in the amount of $19,619.68 and that'll be from the Bartlett High School activity savings account to the checking account. Is there any discussion around
096that? Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion to approve it. >> Second. >> There's a motion and a second. I'll pull the committee. Member Calleros. >> Yes. >> Member Adamopoulos. >> Yes. >> Member Millet. >> Yes. >> Member Scaria. Yes. >> And yes, motion passes. I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> So move. >> Second. >> There's a motion and a second. I'll pull the committee. Member Calleros. >> Yes. >> Member Edmopoulos. >> Yes. >> Member Millet. >> Yes. >> Member Scarlia. >> Yes. Meeting adjourned. Good night, everyone.