001Okay, everybody, welcome. This is East Tatam Board of Education Business and Planning Subcommittee. It is January 7th, right? I have that right at 50:03 p.m. And uh we're going to get started. Tonight's objective is the 2026 2027 uh school budget presentation. Um, so if we go start, well, actually, so tonight we have exits right here on our left and we're going to just start with the pledge of allegiance. I >> aliance 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. >> All right, so we got a long night tonight, so we're going to hand it over. We're going to be going over each school uh presentation. We're going to be starting with the elementary school, going
002into the middle school, going into the high school, and we will be going line by line uh for you of those at home. Um so, we might as well get started. So, >> good to go. >> So, our presentation in front of you and up on the board actually goes in a little bit opposite direction. It starts with the high school, then goes to middle school, then finishes with elementary. So that's our role. >> Okay. >> All right. Um my role, I drew the short straw um as the introduction and kind of the just overall process of how we got here. Uh just summarizing each of the buildings things. So here is our introduction, how we received or how we arrived to what we presented to uh to the board. uh each building established and
003communicates clear internal budget uh timeline to staff. We ask for them to start talking to their class uh their their teachers and identify their needs for next year and then present those to their leadership team, the IF team and those then would those departments would then bring them to the administration and we would uh review each of the proposed budgets from each of the content areas. And now it's a little bit different with grade levels in middle school and elementary, but at the high school, I had all the English teachers submit to the English if that's the first filter, instructor facilitator, and then that person met with me individually to talk about the overall English budget. And we did that through all subject areas. And I'm sure the elementary and the middle school is very
004similar. Um, and then we met. So after I received all of the budgets, if there were any reductions or adjustments, then I went back to those individual teachers and had a discussion with why I made a reduction or an adjustment to the budget. Um, and I'll give you an example very quickly to make sense of that. Um, if over the past five years when I do a look back, if you have used $400 for classroom supplies in your classroom, um, but this year you request $1,000, uh, then we have that conversation. You know, over the past couple of years, you've only used 400, what's the difference? Um, is this a need? This is a net want. What specific items are you looking to um, uh, to purchase for your classroom, for those for the kids
005in your classroom? And then we come to an understanding between the teacher and the administrator whether or not there remains in the budget or we make a reduction back to the five-year average that we've seen over the past couple years. Does that make sense? Then that gets put into an overall budget and then we meet with Dr. Drito and um Miss Bourne and we go through the budget and make additional reductions from there. Okay? And then then then the finalized proposals provided to you. Make sense so far? All right. So, if I got anything wrong, make sure you jump in here. All right. So, in terms of the overall high school budget, I'm going to just I'm going to go through uh each individual line um after I go through some quick summary. So, last
006year's budget, the 2526 operating budget was 486,000 um excluding salaries. Uh so, this is just classroom operations, just building operations items. This year's proposed budget is down 172675 which is a reduction of.35%. I think it'll be consistent, you'll see within the presentations that we've done our due diligence and being fiscally responsible to present to you uh the board a budget that is at or below what it was last year to the best of our ability uh given the the rising cost. So some of the things that we will go through line by line but you'll see I wanted to highlight in terms of the high school's budget uh a couple of increases. Now, the way I've organized this presentation is um each of the tabs in the high school budget are titled art, athletics, business,
007custodial, so on and so forth. So, I've gone in order of that. I identified some of the increases and some of the decreases so that you see a when you look at the spreadsheet, there's going to be a percentage changed. And uh if it's gone up, I explain why. If it's gone down, it'll be in parenthesis. And again, I kind of rationalized >> question just >> um nope, just a statement for everyone else. Uh inc uh percentage increases. Just want to be careful on that because sometimes not just look at the percentage but look at the dollar because if it goes up 100% there's a $50 item then uh it's might not >> It's a very very good point. I appreciate you saying that. >> Yes. >> Since we're before you get into your into
008your groove while he asked a question, I'm just curious. I have in front of me a copy of the 2425 budget >> 425 >> and >> yep and I'm looking at the uh numbers for 24 and 25 and they're a little bit different and so I'm just curious when you say the high school number specifically is that is that what was approved at referendum >> the 2425. So if you're looking at the 2425, that's not the number I I presented to you. Okay. >> 252 current operating budget. >> Okay. >> 256. >> 2526. >> What we're operating right now. >> Okay. All right. All right. Thank you. >> Appreciate that. >> All right. So in art, uh, when we get to that section, there'll be an increased cost for some supplies. That class or in
009that subject area goes through supplies very quickly. and the cost of those has come up. There's also technology in that classroom um that we are hopeful to replace. Um there's a projector that our teacher utilizes something along the lines of this where it's a big screen and it allows her to interact with her students and it's camera uh on a down angle but she's also got the access the ability to work from her desk and um it's a very interactive tool but that's a part of a new project or a new request that you'll see. Um, we've got technology inside of the art classroom that requires uh specific laptops and we're hopeful to replace the batteries for those laptops rather than the actual laptop costs. The laptops themselves are excess of $15,000 for the replacement
010of the overall, but if we can suffice with battery uh replacements for a time being, uh there is software that goes along with those uh laptops that aren't accessible on the student Chromebooks and thus that's why we're asking to keep the uh the maintenance of those laptops available to us. Um then they go on field trips. You'll see there's a common theme for the high school budget. uh there's large chunks uh or large areas. Our budget is really heavy in field trips, opportunities to to leave our school, leave our building, experience new things. Uh it is heavy in athletics there. That's a very large portion of our budget. Um and field trips, athletics, and then opportunity. I say opportunity when I get to school counseling area, you'll see what I mean by opportunity. Um so
011art, you'll see some increases. athletics like I just talked about there's an increased cost anticipated for transportation. I know that we're bus situation is is it is what it is but we don't know those costs but we still have to somewhat anticipate a possible increase in the cost for trips. Um and the fees for all game officials which are the referees on the court are on in the the umpires on the diamond. Those fees get established by the CIA and we have to u budget for those next season. uh business. We've got uh FBLA, one of our clubs goes uh to a national organization field trip. Um they didn't get to go this year and we anticipate trying to go next year. And the location is TBD, but I have a sneaking suspicion it's going
012to be Anaheim. Um so, you know, wait to to hear the official news on that, but um that'd be kind of fun, right? You're not chaperoning us. uh there uh in business you also see a reduction in printing materials. We have we have sufficient inventory. We've talked uh at length about that and we're good with the reduction there. Um there is a law in Connecticut that moving out to custodial. There was a law established in Connecticut to provide feminine products to uh in all bathrooms and we have um sufficient inventory there as well as we've done an analysis on the use and we have enough inventory to suffice for next school year. Um you'll see a reduction as well in custodial. Last year um we purchased a floor scrubber and we don't need to purchase
013that this year and so that's obviously going to be a reduction in cost. Um earlier I spoke that we are heavy in areas and counseling department you'll see is one um we have for the last few years I believe the last eight years um we have financially the board has financially supported students taking AP exams. Uh the board has generously decided to support any students exam that takes an AP uh test. All right. And those co cost ranges are 95 to $150 per piece or per per uh exam. Um we have about 70 students uh taking AP exams. Some take one, some take three, some take four. And so that cost uh is extensive. and you'll see the line item when we get there as well. We do anticipate an increase in number of tests
014as well as an increase in number of students taking APs for next year. So this year we budgeted for 140 total assessments that that was 72 kids. We anticipate that number both numbers going up the number of kids that are taking it and the number of assessments needed to be around 170. That's going to be our anticipated. We don't know that answer until the students register, until they get into the AP classes, and then until we start the school year next year and get through the ad drop period, even into September. We don't know the official number. We're anticipating a 170. It's a little hairy there, the timeline there, but if you've got questions, I'm happy to explanation. Um, you'll also see that uh SATs and PSATs are uh support financially supported by the board
015as well. We do uh PSATs for grades 9, 10, and 11 in October. Uh we have done in the past senior fall SATs. Uh that has since removed since the number been removed from the budget as the number of participants taking the SATs as a 12th grader in the fall has tremendously decreased. We started out with almost 85% four years ago coming out of COVID and it has dropped year after year to this year we had 12 participants. So we're no longer will pay for that. With that said, every student is provided an opportunity to take SATs in their junior year. And so 11th grade students will take SATs um on school day SAT they title it in the spring of their junior year. What we were doing is adding a second SAT in the
016fall. Okay. Uh engineering tech, we've got 3D printer supplies and maintenance contracts that'll be included in there. Uh also TV studio is would like to add in a field trip to uh University of New Haven to visit there on campus TV studio. There's a connection between staff member and um staff member at University of New Haven and they want to bring them in to experience what it what it looks like. Um shameless plug, we we kind of have a cool thing happen at the high school tomorrow. Um, I'll send a notification out after it happens, but um, WTH is going to come and visit tomorrow to do a story on our a science program titled uh, what's great with schools and they're going to highlight Miss Carbury and the work she does with our a
017science animal classes. So, shameless plug. Uh, I'll send out the link soon as that's all established, but um, that'll be cool tomorrow. So, awesome. That was good timing, actually. I just sneak that in. You're welcome, Discover. All right. um ELA uh field trip transportation to Newport mansions uh aligns with uh aligns with uh one of the the books that they are reading our library. Uh there was a uh innovation grant that they were the beneficiaries of last school year and there was a piece or a part of the furniture that wasn't uh inclusive in that grant and so we're hopeful to fulfill the the whole layout of the library. uh it's a bookshelf that will divide the space and allow for a little bit more instead of a full open library. It would kind of
018give a little bit more separation and allow for sections of classes to visit or groups of students to visit and not you know be all part of one. So actually picture of it right there. Um let's see in math you'll see a a very large reduction. Uh last year we purchased uh new calculators for all math classes to make it available to any student that need them needed them. And that's around a $10,000 purchase last year that's now no longer needed. So you'll see that that has been removed. Um there still is software that supports student centered learning that'll be inclusive in the math budget. Um as we move on to the principal's office uh NAS there'll be a cost reduction uh for the proposed budget of next year because our collaborative conference visit is
019anticipated for this April and so I don't need to budget for it. So NAS has two visits. One's a collaborative conference and then two years later they'll come back for a dsentennial visit. And so we'll be budgeting for that visit, that second visit in two budgets from now, but we won't have to budget for anything related to NASC other than the U membership into it for next year's budget. So you'll see a reduction there. Uh there is an increase in the rental items that we have for graduation. Uh we rent stages. We rent um uh audio visual equipment uh that syncs it up with our YouTube live stream. We uh rent chairs for for all things. We rent uh backdrops in case we're inside, so on and so forth. So all those rental costs are
020going up there from the quotes that we've received. All right. uh science. We've got increases in the instructional supplies costs, but we've removed the Peabody m Peabody museum. Actually, if you're from Mass, you say Pebb, right? So, we have Peabody Museum field trip. Uh but we've added in a physics field trip to uh Six Flags. Uh social studies department, there's transportation adjustment. There's a large field trip that goes to the uh model UN. Um, and the way that they utilized transportation last year was on bus only. Bus down, bus around New York, bus back. That was a disaster. And so they're going to take the train in and it will save. There'll be some cost savings as well. Uh, traffic was the disaster, not anything tragic. Let me rephrase my wording. So, there was a
021lot of traffic. All right. Uh, student activities. Uh we've got a couple of clubs that are inclusive in there and you'll see field trips for those events as well. Uh and that is my quick summary of different things for the high school. So one of two ways at this point in time in past what we've done is gone through the high school budget kind of line by line while it's fresh or I can pass the clicker. >> Okay. Stay with the high school one at a time. Just walk that back >> so it's not on the middle school. >> All right. So, in years past, I've just gone through each of the tabs that I have. I just want to make sure that my order of book matches your order of book. >> I have
022art for first. >> Yes, >> I have health service. So do I. >> Okay, perfect. >> Okay. >> Um, so >> big on the big side. So, I'm going to be going through this. This shows me >> we have folded sheets. We have other sheets. >> So, what what is this one? >> So, we're going to start with Yep. >> Skip to the >> So, what is this overall? >> The overalls. >> Yep. >> Okay. I just want to make sure I understood that. >> We're going to skip this handful. >> This one. No, this hold this one right there. >> Fold it right over. >> Can I just ask how this all correlates to this sheet? Like I I am a trust but verify person. So I'm going to look at this and then
023I'm going to go back and try and find it. So tell me how this all all of these different sheets correlate to each other. >> So um I don't have what you have at the beginning. My understanding is the do you want to explain the first ones and then I'll talk about you will be able to do that because just one page above where he's going to start, you actually have a cover page for the art department. But when you go back to these other pages, it actually for the high school has all the description of the departments and you'll be able to see any notes that were there, what it was for 2526 revised budget, what's requested. This is just being requested tonight. That's all they're doing. So, you've got backups for everything. >>
024Okay. Okay. Thank you. >> And what I'm looking at this longer form with the green up top. Um, I've asked teachers to be specific as possible about the items that they're purchasing and provide some justification and rationale. >> And that's the last column that I'm looking at. >> Okay. Great. Thank you very Dr. was saying that that's the overall summary that you could see change as well inside. >> Thank you very much. >> All right. All right. So, art as described earlier um you're going to see four or five pages of instructional supplies of materials. These are uh consumable materials that that get replaced every year. Clay, paper, glue, paint, um you name it and they go through it and it's a very very popular class. So uh there are many things that go that
025you get utilized. Um the projector is identified in the area of uh object um instructional equipment. It is the projector that hangs from the center of the screen like I said um or center of the room. It's a replacement for what we currently have. The battery replacements for the laptops are also identified in the instructional equipment. And then the field trip is listed under the object field trip at the very bottom. Transportation to the neck there. >> Second. >> Where are salaries in this? >> So my budget is only the operating expenses. doesn't include salaries. >> Oh, okay. >> so where >> right here, right, the front section of it, Nathan Hellray High School by object code, you see salary, certified, non-certified, custodial, like all of that. >> So, when I see this screen and
026it says a.35% reduction, that does not include salaries or French benefits. >> That's correct. Okay. >> Only classroom operation expenditures. questions on art. >> Everybody okay? >> Yeah. >> Athletics would be the next one. >> I'm just going to keep checking to make sure we're on the same page. Same order. I don't want to talk. It >> doesn't hurt. >> All right. Um just going to start with the memberships that we have. have the Connecticut High School Coaches Association, the Connecticut Athletic Directors Association, um the CIAC, the Class Act Leadership Council. There's many things that we are athletic departments are memberships members of. Um we talked about instructional supplies, those are for sports that those are all the pieces of equipment. Those are all of the uh basketballs, baseballs, bats, uh you name it. And
027so those would be instructional supplies. They're separated out by season. On the second page, it identifies the sports officials. And again, those are the object sports officials. Those are the individuals that are officiating our games. Um, and we pay through a platform titled Arbiter Pay. Um, so we don't write physical checks, but we have a software that does that for us. um and then transportation costs. At the very end, you can see that um we we're not looking for any pieces of equipment. So, it's uh there is a reduction there. Um our total athletic budget is down $920. I just have a quick question. Has has any of our teams changed? We're still offering the same amount of opportunities for both boys and girls even with this reduction. >> That is correct. >> Yes. >>
028Thank you. >> Can you tell me what crowd control is? >> So, all right. So, some events, uh, depending upon our competitor, require additional adult support to be with our student population to ensure that they're adhering to the class act behavioral guidelines of an athletic event. Uh, there are certain things that you can and can't do during an athletic event. And so, we ask that an additional staff staff either home or away uh, attend the event, be with the student body, and adhere ask them to adhere to the behavioral guidelines. Give an example. Um, in a volleyball match, uh, you can cheer, cheer, cheer loud as you can at the the top of your top of your breath, top of your voice, but the minute they go to serve, it should be quiet. And so,
029um, re-establishing those expectations with our student body, the crowd control that we utilize. >> So, when I see the I see 25, does that mean 25 hours? >> Events. >> 25 events. Right. Okay. >> And so, so we've got volleyball, you've got boys and girls basketball. Um we have home and away events and we utilize that a lot in the tournament play for shoreline tournaments and state tournaments and uh when if we have the opportunity where you play in a state championship game they ride the bus and with the kids and >> so I just want just want drill a little bit deeper. So, when I $70, are we uh uh giving somebody a stipend or some sort of benefit of the $70 per event and that's how you're getting to your total? Am I
030reading that correctly? >> Correct. So, uh just want to be uh consistent with language, not a stipend. Um it's it's inclusive in their um their their salary and so they get it gets added to their if they're a board of ed employee, it gets added to their check. Okay. All right. I have I'll have more questions about that. I just >> Thank you. >> Any questions about athletics? >> So for the um athletic trainer so just now would that be covering just for high school or for middle school? >> So the goal would be ultimately the goal is you know ideally would be to have someone here um as an athletic trainer full-time. Um the the data supports a person being here for the majority of their day or all of their day. Uh it
031would not be holistically or only for the high school. It could be for high school and middle school athletics. There's that would be the goal. Um, traditionally, unfortunately, we haven't been able to uh secure that position and uh but if we could, it would be tremendously beneficial for the for the athletic program. >> Actually, I actually agree. The reason why is cuz I was at a basketball middle school at the middle school basketball game last night and one of the one of the kids got hurt. Fell pretty hard hit his head. Look, everyone calling for a trainer trainer. Nobody was there. Nobody was there who had any kind of training at all. And and it was a pretty scary moment for the kids. So, >> and the option there is to call 911, but >>
032yeah. >> Right. So, the first thing >> So, I just want to put up. So, we don't currently have an athletic trainer. When's the last time we did have an athletic trainer? >> Uh, let's see. So we've we've perdm hired athletic trainer uh as recent as all right we two different things. So an individual we hired per DM rate three years ago and that's when it ended. Now we uh now we pay a service that distributes an athletic trainer to an event um at a perdm rate when they have the available bill available trainer to send us and so sometimes we're at the the mercy of that organization that we pay to give us an athletic trainer for an event and sometimes they're there sometimes they don't have one. >> Okay. So, I would say
033three years ago was when we had the most consistent athlet athletic trainer participation in our at our events. >> So, you're budgeted for 50 grand for a potential um person to contract with per day. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Just real quick, that the that 50 grand that's not budgeting. Is that budging to use the same service or is that budgeting to get an athletic trainer? >> So, ideally it would be the same person. Um, in the event that we can't secure a person, we will have to resort to utilizing those funds. I think in the past budget it has been make sure I'm accurate here. >> 40 >> 48 48,000. So it's relatively consistent between what we would spend for the service to an individual consistent person. >> So it's either one or the
034other, but we would hope to use that. >> Okay. Just just curious. Thank you. >> Anybody else have any questions on athletics? >> All right. Moving to AV. uh that this is replacement costs for cables, transmitters, adapters, things around our building that um that are not IT level but are building level. Um we do budget for uh replacement monitors and whatnot in here. There was discussion about moving that to it. That's perfectly reasonable as well. Um we have it currently in our budget just in as it has existed in the past couple of years. questions for AB business. All right. Uh in terms of business, you see an increased cost for a field trip. Um and that's the FPLA field trip. Um it's anticipated cost again. So the the location is not provided to the
035FBA organization until the spring for the fall and so it's very difficult to budget for next fall without knowing the exact location but like I said a little birdie did share that it's anticipated to be Anaheim and so I'm hopeful that that's the case. So these are numbers associated with those those type that event um a reduction in overall instructional supplies. Uh there's a a printer that's no longer um in use inside of the business department and so we don't need to uh budget for printer heads or latex ink. And so that's been removed and there's a a cost savings there. questions for business. All good. >> Custodial. All right. Uh custodial, you'll see the um the supplies for feminine products is listed in the top. Uh we had discussion around moving the school furniture
036from the custodial location into general education location. Um but it's currently still living on in this area. Um that's for desks, uh bookshelves, uh you know, furniture that that students access on a daily basis. Um and then you'll see batteries for the vacuum and um chairs, staff chairs in the budget. The floor scrubber was removed and then there was a reduction for the the need for feminine product as well. And so overall reduction around $6,000 for that budget. Questions for custodial. All right, we're rocking and rolling people. School counseling. I'm going. I'm sorry. Schools. Uh, school counselors. Uh, this is where >> engineering of tech. >> All right. All right. All right. >> Um, where do you have counseling office? Do you have is maybe guidance? >> Yes. Make it. I can. >> We're going
037to go in. We're going to go in your order. I'm going to go engineering tech and then we'll go to guidance when it pops up. >> All right. Engineering tech. >> Pardon me. after that family and consumer science. >> All right. When we get the guidance, just let me know. I'll go back to it. >> EFG. There we go. Good. Where is my Anyway. All right. So, in engineering technology, you'll see a VEX robot kit that's um for our robotics class and club. Um the the robotic challenge changes every year. And so, the VEX uh kit allows us to participate in the next challenge for next year. Maybe it's lifting up a ball of three shelves or um stacking books. It just changes from year to year. And so the kits allow us to participate
038in that new challenge as well as provide us additional materials needed for those things. Um so we are budgeting for one additional kit. Um let's see some software for each of the classes. the CAD softwares, the chief architecture softwares that are used in our tech head classes. Um, uh, we have a, uh, we have the inventory for our Chesapeake Peak boat project. Uh, and so we don't need to budget for that next year. Um, we did budget for supplies for a 3D printer. We've got two large 3D printers, three large 3D printers in that space. And so we did uh request the budget for that. And then we've got field trips um associated with the Electrathon in the fall and the spring. And that's the Electrathon is where we race our solar powered or battery
039powered vehicle at Limerock and have been very successful over the past couple of years actually past 25 years in that program. So we budget for the those trips as well. Uh this budget is also supported by the rate board. Um and so that is a separate budget than the board of education budget that its process is much later. And so um there'll be additional components in that Rayboard budget that you'll all get access to that support this um this subject area as well. You're part of those meetings today as well. All right. >> Yes. >> So um How much money does the raid board annually provide to offset the taxpayers in East Tatam? >> So each year they give us a number um that seems to very fortunately have been increasing over the past couple
040of years. Um and this year's number is $365,000. And is is the Ray board members from the board of ed and the Ray board themselves, are they the ones who who decide how the $365,000 is spent? >> Uh how it's spent? It's so it's kind of um similar to this fashion. So we start with a number instead of ending with a number like the board event, right? So we start with 365,000. Um I then start with a process by removing the salary components uh the the yearly salary compensation or offset um to each in each teacher. Then there's uh scholarship uh items, there's summer work items, there's um let's see, I'm trying to think of other things. There's summer work, there's uh scholarship, there's graduation expenditures, there's um a number of items that I cut
041off the top because those are consistent from year to year. And so our 365,000 will then be reduced to close to $80,000 because of the consistent amount from year to year. Then we take that $80,000 and I go to the teachers and ask, "Okay, what is on your wish list?" And then they create um wish items for their classes. agricultural science, technology, um specifically specifically those four teachers create individual budgets uh that equal the amount and then I take that and bring it and present it to the Rayboard and then they determine whether they support or they don't. Um, I'm not sure Sean or Ted if you are in that meeting to review the budget for with >> uh I think he went over it. Let No, I think you went over it last time
042and then because we're there for like half of the meetingish and then we leave. >> Sorry. >> Okay. So, at the end of the day, it's an $80,000 investment to the community in some way, but it's teacher driven. It's not board of ed driven. Is that correct? >> It so I would say it's in conjunction with the board's vision. So nothing that the teachers um request will be out of line of anything that's been accomplished. >> I understand that. I just I just I'm just I'm just trying to understand who is who is directing the the um allocation. And what I'm hearing you say is that it's the teachers. So and that's fine. And is it just at the high school that the ray board contributes to? Nothing at the middle school. >> Correct. >>
043Okay. All right. Thank you. >> Yep. You're welcome. >> Other questions for Tech Ed. >> Any questions? >> Okay, Jessica. >> Yeah. Family consumer science. >> All right. Uh again, consumable costs. You've got everything that goes into making your delicious items at home go into the delicious items at school. Um this is the one subject area that I could never teach because I would eat all the product. So uh there are many many different things um purchased and a lot from stop and shop or other locations around town. Those are the biggest uh chunks of the budget there. uh they are they we do allow our students or or provide the students an opportunity to become safe ser uh certified and so we support their exam for achievement in that um we had a number
044of students do that the both the handler and the manager exam so we had a number of students um accomplish that this year and so we're hopeful to do that again questions around consumer science >> um I just have one quick question so if I'm following your your explanation. Am I to assume that 42 students uh took the safe serve? Is that correct? Am I reading that correctly? >> We anticipate 42 taking it. >> Okay. So, that's the students. And then is there any other followup to find out if these students actually became employed and were able to utilize the certification that we're paying for? >> No, but that's a great idea. >> That is a very good idea. >> Thank you. Other questions? >> Yeah. >> Now we're in guidance. >> Gee, we're going
045back. All right. Perfect. Thank you. >> See, I have it this counseling. That's right. >> which is now the new term, right? School counselors. All right. All right. in the school counseling budget or guidance. Um we've got a budget for again we I talked about the AP test fee increase. Um we've got Apex Learning software. Um we've got some students that um lose credit due to a number of academic struggles or attendance struggles. And uh we currently utilize we've been utilizing the software. Apex has been provided to us by the state. They're no longer providing that software to us to support the credit retrieval or credit recovery. And so we're hoping to continue to utilize that software, but we now have to pay for it. And so that's in this budget as well. Um, in
046the conference room, we've got older, worn out chairs in our school counseling conference room, and my hope is to replace those uh those items. And you'll see that in the non-instructional equipment area. And then we take our our school counselors take our kids on field trips to um college fairs. There's a an ex a large expo at the University of Wesland um inside of their hockey rink. It's a tremendous tremendous um activity for our kiddos and to take a field go there. Um but the biggest portion of this budget is the uh the opportunity for students to take the AP tests the uh in the assessments through College Board questions there. >> I have a couple questions. Um, my first question is, uh, the AP, by the way, I just want to say it's so
047great that we offer this virtual high school platform. Even my daughter who graduated back in 2013, uh, utilized uh, it traveled around the world and did things because of the opportunities for virtual high school. So, I love it, but my I was surprised for you to say that we we pay for everybody. So, I'm just curious, do we is there a minimum grade point average or a minimum in order to attend and have those courses paid for? >> All right. So, um just want to be consistent with what your question is. So, you're talking DHS. Yeah. >> All right. So, VHS is the online platform like you shared that your daughter takes. It's not um it if a student wants to take a course that we don't offer that doesn't fit into their course load
048that's a senior and I want to take something additional that's where VHS will come in. >> Right. But um what I'm saying is are we making sure that we're not overstressing our kids so we're not saying hey you're you have a C I don't know if we even use A B C and D anymore. I hope we do but if we don't Okay. So, if you have a C, if you have a a a kid who is biting off a little bit more than they can chew, let's say, and they they have a C average and they're trying to attend this virtual high school program, is there any kind of entry way like, hey, you have to have this in order to take that or we say, hey, you can take it and we're here
049to support you if you need help, but you're really on your own when you take these classes. >> So, it's more towards B than it is A with the prerequisites. With that said, we do have open enrollment. So if a student wants to take VHS or any AP exam, AP test, AP class, they can. With that said, we do have layers of conversation. So the first will start with the teachers. We'll have conversations around the teacher recommendation, you know. So Sean's my math teacher. >> That's all I need to know. So there is a recommendation. You don't need to go down that part. I don't want to take a lot of time. So there is a recommendation that goes with it. So that's good to know. And then my second question on this is I
050I see we're paying for the professional membership uh uh fees for our counselors. >> That's correct. >> I'm surprised to see that why why why why wouldn't the person pay for their own credentiing? >> That's something we've traditionally done year budget after budget. Um and you'll see that in many areas of the budget. So, our athletic directors, our coaches, um our school counselors, our administrators, um our associations like the National Principles Association, we are we the district based >> that's not for their licensing. >> Not for their license. >> That's not what you meant. >> Not for their certification. >> I'm that when I read this, it says professional membership and state dues. So is it just to belong to an organization or is it their licensing? >> Not their certification, not their licensing. It's
051toart to be a part of the counselor's organization. >> Okay. Thank you. Thanks for that clarification. >> What was the wording that um that you were identifying? I want to make sure that next year that >> it's my wording. So it was my wording. So don't and that's why I appreciate the correction. Are there questions for school counseling >> or guidance? >> I go to health. >> Yeah. >> All right. Let's go. >> All right. In health, you'll see that students receive um in their uh 10th 11th grade year, all students will have the opportunity to take uh CPR first aid to get certified. Uh so they can leave with that certification. Many kids, many, many, many kids sign up for the course just for that opportunity. Um and then we have an online textbook
052license that we'd like to renew. And there's the health budget. There are there are required to take health, right? >> They are one full credit. >> You said sign up. >> It seemed like it was an option. >> Sorry. >> Okay. >> Well, >> they could choose to not be CPR certified. Is that what you meant? >> They can choose to not take um CPR certified, but they have to take two semesters or one full credit of health. And so they can take health in 9th and in 10th and satisfy their graduation requirement. the the CPR first aid class is offered in the 11th and 12th grade level. >> Okay. So, they could choose at 11 and 12 to not do it because they did nine and 10. >> That's correct. >> Gotcha. >> Does
053that happen schedulewise? Not all the time. You know, they do take 910 and then 11 12. It's strongly encouraged to do that because there's different subject area, different content cover. So, >> questions about health. >> All right. language arts, >> health office, nurse. >> Oh, I skipped it. I skipped. I skipped. You're right. Health office. Our nurses station. Um, so this is consistent with what we've had in the past. These are nurse supplies, band-aids, cotton balls, um, tongue depressors. Is that what nurse? No, I'm just kidding. Ice >> packs. Ice packs. Ice bags. Yep. >> No change in the budget there. questions about nurses location. Now we're online. Yes. Okay. So, we have a few um adjustments in instructional um supplies, the the books being read. Um there's the Newport Mansion tour that aligns with
054The Great Gatsby. So, we'll read that and then go visit the Newport mansions. And if you haven't never been, you should. Amazing. Um, so you'll see that trip there. Uh, and the the real difference in cost is the change in the the bus budget. Um, and the admissions for that. The building was not included in last year's budget and now it is there. questions for language arts. Okay, going to go to library media. All right, library media. Um, again, uh, the big area for this was the the double-sided bookshelf. uh that's located on near the object non-instructural equipment. Um there's also periodical subscriptions uh that our library library media specialist uh coordinates with. So um instructional supplies there, all the stuff that goes up into the library to repair books. There's also a 3D printer
055that's up in the library. And so there's some supplies that are located in the instructional supplies area for that. >> Did you ever get some new furniture in the library? >> Oh, we did. Oh, we did. Absolutely. >> Or a Did I include a picture? I would love that. That's >> beautiful. >> We used to meet there. I mean, I I miss the good old days >> where when you um shared the career center location, you take a picture like I think it captures some of it, but you can certainly Yeah, >> we'll make sure we do that. >> Feel like I put took it somewhere. >> Yeah, I thought you put it in. >> That's what it is. >> Yes. Yes, >> I can read it. >> Not a recent one. It's all good.
056It's all good. >> Next year. >> All right. Library media. Any questions there? hearing. None. I'm going to go to math. Okay. Just waiting for thumbs up. Sean's up. Yep. >> All right. Math budget. Uh like I shared earlier, the big difference is the budget for the calculators was in last year's budget. Um excuse me. There is an increased cost in MathMetic uh which is an online software that supports uh individualized planning for uh math teachers with individualized students individ individualized plans for students. Um there are a few online uh interactive resources that they've asked for the subscriptions too. Um and then we go to an annual math or math club field trip. Um, and that's an annual math competition that's also inclusive in their budget. Questions for math. The second music. All right. Uh
057music increased cost to the field trip. Um there is a decreased cost um from uh instructional equipment that was purchased last year. And so we're not purchasing that additional item or pieces of equipment. That's a reduction of about $1,000. Um, but what you'll see in the budget is some I don't know you're you're the person I lean to here, right? So, what is >> what is that? >> Con compensating. >> I rely a lot on Miss Rosemary to uh help me understand what these things are. >> She has a very detailed description. >> Yes. Because I would not be able to do it justice. It's a brass instrument of some kind. >> There we go. >> Compensating euphonium. >> Yes. You know what that is? Do you play that? >> Oh, I just >> Well,
058it says it's a critical it's a baritone or euphonium is a critical part of the band. Uh, actually that's all it says. >> It says >> it's 25 years old. So, >> you sent it out twice for soldering jobs. So >> how well it plays >> detailed explanation. >> I believe her >> $1,700 to that >> for a new one. >> Correct. Instead of the >> Okay. >> Oh, no. No. again. It was 25 years old when Miss when Rosemary Evans got to the school. So, it's got to be >> No comment. No comment. >> Well, I don't think >> it's only 26 years old. >> Wow. Okay. >> And then a couple of field trips are listed at the end of the budget there as well. Um overall reduction of around $500 there. >>
059Questions for music? Thank you. >> All right, Biz. Okay. Decreased cost overall in terms of instructional supplies. Um there are a few things to make to have replacements. Um indoor soccer balls, wrist roller for the weight room. There is a piece of equipment uh a leg curled leg extension machine for the weight room. Um, it does seem to be a piece of equipment that is missing from the weight room. Uh, there's plenty of other pieces to, but this would kind of complete the overall offering. We do offer strength and conditioning as a class and um, I would support that. >> Have a quick question on the weight room. What is the policy on usage of the weight room? >> So, during the school day or outside of the school day. >> Okay. So during the
060school day, it's only open to the students that are um supervised by our physical education teacher in the classroom. All right? So strength and conditioning courses, um some uh fitness for life classes that will access that uh location. So that's it. During the school day after school, we do have a stipen position uh for a strength and conditioning coordinator. uh that person does need to come to the table with a lensure for a personal trainer or a strength and conditioning coach. They need to come to the table with that. Um and then they could coordinate open gym if you will or coordination with teams. Um outside of that, if a coach wants to take their team in, then they have access to the weight room. Um there is no open gym, if you will, without
061supervision. There is no >> not even for staff. Uh actually it is open for staff if they want to key in and utilize that in that capacity. It is open to them. Y no staff that I'm aware of utilize it while kids are there. Um I'm positive of that. Uh but they do actually I do know the staff in the morning that take care take utilize uh the treadmills in the morning. So >> Okay. >> I wish myself could be in there a little bit more often. questions for fizz. >> All right, principal's office. Uh, this just to be clear, it's not just what happens in my office or in the main office. It's things that are associated with whole school. So, this is like the NEAS affiliation for our um for our high school.
062It's the the Cass affiliation, the NASSP affiliation. And so, those are me, it's the building. Um, let's see. It's uh it's graduation. Um, it's um there are supplies associated with it. Um, the printing and binding of graduation pamphlets and booklets. Um, again, like I identified earlier, we do have a reduction in the NEAS portion of it. Um, we do have an increase, however, in the Connecticut rentals uh for graduation. Um, there's a number of things that are listed in here associated with graduation. The big event we host Shorland principles meetings at the high school member of that group is the host both for kids and for staff. Um, >> I have a question. >> Yes, ma'am. >> What does NASSP stand for? >> All right. So, it's National Association of Schools. Secondary >> School Principles.
063Yes. Thank you. I knew the secondary was in there. I wasn't sure it was first or second. >> And so, I have to be honest, the cost of the Shoreline Principal Association seems to be pretty pretty high. >> $3,000 to me for a smaller association, what is the benefit that your school is getting or that the taxpayer is getting with that sort of investment and membership? >> So that uh membership goes to our students ability to participate and um offset the cost of athletic events um throughout the shoreline, at the championship events, at the tournament events. Um so it's A portion of it goes towards the shoreline athletics. Um that's not CIA athletics. That's different. Um a portion of it goes to our um our shed competition which is the the the writing competition. A
064portion of it which is a shoreline competition. So the events that we have as a shoreline conference are >> as a principal association not shoreline conference. So the >> activity >> the well shoreline conference >> shoreline conference has one side of it which is the shoreline con conference of athletics but the shoreline principles association are those same member schools that do more academic oriented things together. >> Okay. >> Um >> is it a fairly new organization? >> No, it's been around for so I've been here for 10. It's been here for at least 10. Um it's been here many many years uh before I I've been around it also. So uh the Shoreline principles uh band concert where they take all the Shoreline schools and they have all of the kids come and that they
065believe it was at Valley Regional High School this year and so we bus there and we part we have kids that participate in that concert. So, this isn't this isn't a shoreline principal association organization that is only open to shoreline principles. >> Correct. It's it's >> you can see why I'm asking this. >> Yeah. No, that's a great question >> because it the title of this organization would let you to believe that it's an advocacy group for principles. >> That's totally cut to the chase. That's exactly Listen, I totally appreciate your transparency. So, uh, no, it but it it's in order for us to be affiliated with this group, there is a fee that allows our kids to participate in all of the extracurricular academic oriented activities. >> Thank you for that clarification question. >>
066Not for me. >> All right. Reading. That's an easy one. >> I hope we're reading. >> We We are those uh many moons ago, that area of the budget supported um additional uh level reading components that now have been into the special education department's um budget. So, we no longer have that, >> but our students need >> All right. Thank you. >> Uh regular ed. Regular ed. This is where all of the teachers basic supplies come in. Um if they've got needs for markers, pens, highlighters, uh notebooks, either the student need or a teacher need, it's all associated with this. Copier paper for the school, copier paper for um color copier, white paper is all in this area of the budget. Uh teachers create a uh a supply list at the end of the spring.
067And what happens at the end of the school year is our administrative assistant Annette who's tremendous um she works through the summer to uh prepare those orders and then put them into teachers classrooms so that we are ready to roll once school starts. And so that's where that uh budget item is inclusive. >> I just have a quick question on this. Do we recycle I would assume uh all through our district? So you know is there a blue bin and you're throwing in recycling all the time? >> Yes. uh paper, plastic, cardboard. Uh certain cardboards doesn't get recycled because it's printed on or it has like a pizza box you can't. But yes. >> Okay. Questions for regular ed science. All right. Lot of instructional supplies there as well. Uh a couple pages. uh it
068tends to be the larger ones me being the dissection uh area of anatomy and physiology. We were just doing some dissection in Miss Lun's class today. You walk in and you see hearts on the table. It was uh it was pretty cool. I'm a science background, so I was I was into it. um a lot of consumables with gloves and chemicals and um items all safe for classroom, all safe for storage by our chemistry teachers and our and all. But um they do go through we do dissect cats, we do dissect um pigs. Um so it's a really good learning experience and if you've never had the opportunity to and you're into it, it's >> it's amazing. Uh, do you have to do you do kids? I >> do. We don't dissect children. >> No,
069but I remember as a graduate of Kel Ray, we we all had to to take the class unless we had like a personal objection. So, I'm just curious uh is this how many kids are taking these classes? >> So, anatomy and physiology, it's an elective. >> It is. Okay. >> Correct. And so, each year we would have, don't quote me, I don't have the number. >> 20 to 30 kids take the class. Um, today, uh, no names ever, uh, but there were a few students that were a little, uh, queasy with the dissection of the heart. So, there was a digital component for those students that didn't couldn't do it physically. They'll watch the video, they'll interact with the virtual dissection. And so, they'll still get that virtual experience, uh, but not the the hands-on
070of the actual heart dissection. I know >> it was cool. >> Questions for science. Okay. Social studies. All right. Social studies. The largest portion of this budget is their trip to um United Nations headquarters. That's a trip that they take each year. They have their experience in the entire 10th grade. And so we take every student in grade 10. Um it's a collaboration between social studies and English for a large unit. And then we take a field trip to um the United Nations. And then uh very close in time from that day, they actually participate in a hands-on experience where they act out a situation in our gymnasium. We set it up. It's a it's a great day. I'll make sure I send out the invite to the word. Um, but it's it's pretty it's
071pretty neat that what they do. They relive what the the UN does, the model UN does. That's the largest portion of their budget there. Like I said, there was a decrease in cost because they were not going to take a bus. >> Quick question. I see a uh subscription to New York Times. Do we subscribe to our any Connecticut newspapers? Is this specifically for the UN? Is this why it's a New York Times? >> It's a large portion of it. Uh >> we don't have any subscriptions to Connecticut affiliated newspapers. Uh we do have East Adam news does get delivered. >> I was just curious. >> Yeah. >> Other questions for social studies. All right. Student activities. Uh student activities. This is you see an increased cost in the debate club trips. Um not previously
072budgeted for. So we're going to budget for them this year. National Honor Society dues, Connecticut Youth Forum, the bus for debate club activities like I said. um National Honor Society events, artworks, dinner, so on and so forth. This is a lot of clubs and activities or organizations. This is where their budget tends to live for their events. Our openhouse budget there, our hair experience budget for that great orientation night. Can I ask what materials to promote positive school climate, school spirit? What's >> uh let's see. So, we have done um we've done positive uh bracelets or kindness cards or um we've done like positive stickers on our IT department doesn't like it but on the back of our Chromebooks. And so when kids get shouted out on like a um every Friday we highlight two
073students and we throw that in the news newsletter. Uh there's a necklace that they wear and there's also a certificate that they get and there's a couple stickers that they get. We get heat transfer um pens, you know, the pencils that you hold, they change color uh to kind of support some of the good things kind of caught doing something good or positive interventions like, hey, you know, you did a great job with this. You're student of the month and here's your certificate and here's a gift with that. You know, you've got bees are better program. that the our ninth grade started it last year. >> All all of this spending is materials, not stipens, not salary. Correct. So when I look at the stipen list, which I reviewed the other day, and I noticed
074we have a number of stipens on there. This is doesn't include any of that. >> Correct. Those stipens represent the advisor for a program like NHS. It doesn't represent the costs associated with the NHS. >> So when I see the June K. Thomas award and I have a lot of classmates who remember uh uh that teacher. Is it just an a like the plaque? That's what that is. That's what I'm looking for. >> Um the plaque is separate but that cost is actually the scholarship you get. >> Got it. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Where does the debate club go? >> So the debate club this year went to Limeold Lime and >> Oh, other schools too. Okay. >> Correct. >> Other questions for student activities. All right. World language. All right. Uh let's see.
075uh reduction from some software that they requested last year that we're not renewing those um those asks this year. Um instructional supply reduction and reduction of field trips for one of our uh teachers this year. Some memberships to online software is inclusive in there. Some some French associated text subscriptions to uh Rosetta Stone. That's only offered to students that want to take an add a language outside of Spanish or French. Student wants to take French or Spanish, they're in the classroom with the teacher. We offer Rosetta, which offers 24 additional languages on top of Spanish and French. >> So for $3,600, we have we could have an unlimited amount of students taking alternative languages. >> No. So for $3,600 we receive 30 licenses for students to take. >> So 30 kids could have the opportunity.
076And so what happens when only 15 students uh take it? Is this somehow how does how does money get reallocated within your school system to another purpose if you're over budget in another area? >> That's a big question. But in terms of Rosetta, um, we haven't experienced the I've got extra money there. We've actually spent that and asked for more in years past. >> Um, yes, and we started with a license of 20 and now we've gone up to requesting for 30. That seems to be a very popular class. >> It's a wide variety of foreign languages. Um, >> and is it limited to seniors only? No, you said >> no. Any 9 through 12? >> Correct. So, do you have a situation where you have some kids who started nth grade and they're taking
077four years of say Mandarin like my daughter? >> Yes. Okay. >> And it would continue to be advancing, advancing, advancing. The Rosetta is is like a mastery based program. So, you don't get to the end and it's over. That continues to challenge you with new and further advancing >> and that investment. There's no additional salary component because it's individualbased learning within the system. >> Correct. We ensure that we do have a staff member overseeing >> that that but we don't have a Rosetta Stone teacher per se. >> Yeah. >> And they get a grade for that that shows up on a transcript. >> That's correct. Four years of >> Mandarin. That's correct. >> That's awesome. That's great. >> Okay. >> It's 36 of them well spent. >> Other questions for world language. I think we
078did it. >> Uh I think we got other tabs for like field trips. I think it's all inclusive there. Any field trip requests, they're not separate of they're pulled, they're copied basically from the subject area and now just on one list to see it all together in terms of field trips. Um, >> so when I see this notation that says French class three and four for cultural exploration, where is that trip? Is it >> um that was on the back page of world language >> should be down here. >> The next page is >> No, I understand that. I'm asking a question specifically the French three and four. It says cultural exploration. I'm just curious what that field trip is. >> Yeah. So, in years past, they've gone up to Yukon to participate in the
079French uh challenge. >> So, they're not going to Quebec >> unfortunately for some unfortunately. That would be awesome. >> For some students, >> don't we include that? I can rewrite. >> All right. I will cher. >> All right. Thank you. Um, >> so there's I think that's is that >> there's the field trips in the back. There's the things we've already seen. So smart wars professional development. So we've gone through >> the field trip total here 36,559. Is that I just want to understand is that an increase over what was before or is that the total budget for all field trips at the high school? That is the requested total for all field trips at the high school for school year 2627 next year's budget. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Additional questions for the high
080school budget. >> I'm so sorry. >> Question three questions. You want go ahead. Um, you might want to double check your science trip. I'm not sure they're uh all inclusive of your bus and admission. >> I had a question on that. Like I see the bus fee but not the admission fee. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Yeah, I see no admissions. Good catch. Okay. from last time. >> There you go. >> Thank you very much. Thank you. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Uh just one quick question. Um sorry, sorry. Premature class. >> Sorry. >> This is the time >> the class of 27 is going to be required to complete the FAFSA. Do you expect any change to the budget for accommodating that for all the kids to be required to do that? >> It's going
081to be a challenge. All right. So some uh it's about perception with FAFSA in some cases that they don't feel the need to do so. Uh right now uh the encouragement or the goal of our school counselors is to try to get to 100 uh% is going to be reliant upon them to continue to follow up with them. >> So we don't see like any need for you know >> a person >> like not a person but like an event. So, we do celebrate um and you'll see this coming up in a new FAFSA date is like February 2nd or 7th uh one of those two. We will be celebrating FAFSA signing. I'm actually I have a costume that I'll be wearing and I'm excited for that. It's a dollar. Um so anyway, uh >>
082something you need to see. >> Yeah. Um, but we will be celebrating the kids that complete their FAFSA by the deadline to try to encourage the participation. And if I feel if we can get the ball rolling now, it'll be easier next year. Um, but we're always going to run into that area of FA requires participation both in with the student and the families at home. Um, and not everyone sees the need to fill out a FAFSA depending upon their path outside of >> Yeah, I was just wondering if there was admin additional administrative kind of burden or cost because it's going to be required next year where it wasn't >> this year and years prior. >> Well, we will we do have uh it'll be tasked to our school counselors and um you know,
083so there'll be additional burden there. Anything else? >> Okay, all set. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> Sorry. You >> did great. You did great. You had the open flight, too. So, it took, you know, the extra two minutes. >> Yeah. >> Thanks for checking. >> Oh, no. You can't go back. >> So again to clarify, this is not inclusive salaries for the middle school. This is our operating budget. So um the difference from last year to this year is less six oh more than $6,000. So a reduction of 2.68%. So similar to Chris, I'm going to highlight some of our changes. So, in the principal's office budget, um, speaking of principles, Dr. North's at home with baby Tristan. She did so much work for this budget and
084so I'm, um, all of this is really because of Raina's work, but she is watching us still with Tristan. So, um, we adjusted the principles, uh, budget to better reflect the actual resources that we use by moving some categories. So you'll see in some of those that it looks like there's increases or reductions, but it's really to really delineate more of the of what we're doing in the principal's office. Again, not just in reign of term, but we really um include all all of our activities in the principal's budget, which includes veterans days, our noise makers, um national junior honor society, eighth grade promotion, uh math team, and whatever leadership conferences we can send our kids to. um athletics similar to the high school, an increase in cost of officials, transportation, and supplies. Um and
085additional startup materials as we have our new track team this year, and we have registration fees that we added for next year's budget for events. Um in our math and ELA budgets, um you'll see that there's a general increase um to support our schoolwide subscription. Um we've it was a request from last year but subscriptions increase every single year and so that um is an increase as well which is a tier one. So tier one every student uses um which is that individualized realtime diagnostic for all students that creates individual pathways capitalizing on strengths and um addressing weaknesses. Um, you'll see a major change in increase in general math supplies because we took our illustrative math curriculum workbooks out of our math interventionist budget and put it in every grade level. So, you can see
086sixth grade workbook, seventh grade workbook. So, that will be an adjustment. It's not um an increase, it's just reallocating. So just some of those percentages look alarming. So um again for our math and ELA intervention the state mandate is that there is an MTSS procedure and K through 12 which requires benchmarks and progress monitoring tools. So our subscriptions for Ames web and I Ready are in there as well. And then um our major field trip um is our two seventh grade experiences where all of our seventh graders go to the Boston Freedom Trail and the Stonington Lighthouse um directly connected to our curriculum taught by Mr. Ricko, the Stonington Lighthouse um directly connecting to Adventure Smith um former um president of East Tatam. Um and then in our unified arts programs, um there is an
087increase in our music uh budget. Um Miss Blair, if anyone went to the concert, the collaborative concert at the middle school and high school, you got to see our sixth, seventh, and eighth graders perform. They were phenomenal. And on January 28th, we have to kind of move our fourth and fifth grade concert because of our board of ed meeting. um they will be performing again, but um Miss Blair is really focusing on updating our um coral library to make it more culturally re relevant and differentiated for different um levels of skills for our singers. Um enrichment is added to our budget this year. It was previously in the people services director's budget. So that supports mock trial, national history day, quiz bowl, family expo nights, and other community service. and enrichment um is open to
088all of our students um not a select few. >> Where was that again? Where was it? >> It used to be in um people services. >> When you say enrichment, >> so it used to be uh gifted and talented. So we changed it and it's enrichment for all. >> So do we have a true gifted and talented segment of our student population anymore? >> Yes, we do with identifi identification. Yes, we absolutely do. but we also have broadened that to provide enrichment opportunities at every grade level. So, and then finally, project lead the way. Um, we're hoping to add an additional program called medical detectives, and I'll talk about that a little bit. Um and it really connects to the pathways that are happening in the high school um with um biomedical science where they
089learn data analysis um taking vitals they do um working up to dissections um but really focusing on that pathway for health healthcare careers. So those are our like major changes for middle school questions before we dive in. This one's prettier. So, our structure is a little bit um a little bit different. Um you have the salaries in the front. You then have connected to that you have um the changes from 2526 to this year. And then you have the overall uh descriptions um into those categories. few pages of that. Just want to make sure we're all on the same page. We have um the cover sheet that is the requested object totals, which is the two separate tables, yellow and green. >> Yep. Question. Sure. So, I was interested in understanding the salaries of the
090high school. I found that page now and I can see that number. When I look at the middle school number, it's much different. Am I I just want to make sure I'm correct when I'm looking at this. So, at the high school level, it looks like it was a reduction of 233% in salaries. At the middle school, it's an increase of 5.33. Is that right? >> Absolutely accurate. I believe you lost a position. We um and we did some hiring and we hired teachers who um have experience a lot of experience um >> which meant a higher a higher salary. >> Okay. Can I can I just say that um I I may want to go back to the high school and talk about salaries because that is the biggest part of our school budget.
091So to skip over that and just talk about operating, I'm glad that you pointed that out because we need to have a holistic uh you know holistic viewpoint of the budget and the salary portion is probably easily 60%. So I appreciate seeing that up front. So they also hear about it tomorrow when I present. It's in the systemwide salaries. So it's here by school but then it'll be a part of mine. Okay. Okay. Go into that detail. >> Okay. Thank you. All right. Good to know. >> So, what page are you on? So, I want to So, um I don't have the tab like Chris says. I apologize. Um we have the two tables regress requested object totals and or totals. And then right after that, we will get into the principal's budget. >> I'm
092in the wrong place. >> Yeah. >> One second. I I know >> it's just one page and that's where we're starting >> on the larger back line by line it'll be after that. >> Anybody on that? Yep. Okay, we're all on the same. >> All right, so those are our totals. It has all of the information. Um the high school has um one of these for every uh subject area and the middle school does not have that. We have a total because ours is a little different. We as our grade levels are four and five they have a math, science, social studies and then we have um six English, seven English. Um so it's just structured a little differently. So uh the first page would be the uh principal's office budget. Um here we have
093um supplies, uh printer, fax, cartridges, envelopes, all of the things that happen in our office that um go on every day. Um we also include um refreshments for events um whether it's band and chorus um or other um events. This also includes our eighth grade promotion supplies um and our noise maker um funds as well if anybody is free tomorrow is as a takeover day. And so from 1 to 2 you can see the noise makers in action if anybody's available. So if possible volunteering at the elementary school that exact time and I are >> so um one of our takeover days is there. So um we have our our feed for Kendrick Moore who is our motivational mentor. Um we have um the materials for the takeover days. Um there's a series of activities
094that are happening tomorrow with the focus focus tomorrow on kindness and gratitude. Um that is our theme for tomorrow. Um and then part of what the students receive when they um are accepted into noise maker is their noisemaker t-shirt. So um we um supply that as well. You'll see also here um the uh bus for uh our CAS middle school leadership conference um to attend um that as well. Again, transportation costs being that. Um on the bottom we have a budget for um our scholar leader banquet where we have two eighth graders who are selected to attend. They take their um family members and then they also get to select a teacher that has been impactful to them. Um so that is usually uh 10 to 12 people for that. We have supplies for student
095of the month 8th grade class night. Um our other student leadership conference this year um we collaborated with the um high school and we sent um students to a women in leadership conference at CASS. Um we also have budgeted for our for our veterans day activities. Um we get so many generous donations for from our families but there's a lot of things that we have to supplement as well. Um because we also not only pay for breakfast the we have breakfast we also have lunch and other supplies and activities for that day. >> I have a couple questions. >> Yes. Uh the first is I see the water cooler rental. My recollection when I was involved in the 48 middle schools, we did have a water issue there. I don't know if it ever got
096solved. So, is this replacing portable water or is this a separate water cooler? >> This is a separate water cooler. So, we have no issues with water at all right at the middle school. >> Okay. >> Um, and so I'm just >> What does this mean supporting students when they are upset? >> I don't understand what that >> in our school. It's in our school counseling office. Okay. >> Um and there's not a water fountain in the general area without having to go and walk to classrooms. So if we have students who might be emotionally disregulated and they need a drink, we don't want them out of the sink. >> I see. >> So we have them use the water the the >> spot from the cooler. >> Okay. >> Instead of just Yep. >>
097And then um >> Kendrick Moore, I'm not familiar with this person. Why is it important to have this person come to speak? What what what value do they bring to the school system? >> So, uh Kendrick Moore is um our mentor for our noisemakers program and he really becomes our lead and ties in all of our leadership activities. He is kind of our guiding mentor for that. So his curriculum that he provides for the students every year helps to form and develop their leadership skills. And so he attends um noisemaker takeover days. He does workshops with the kids and all of our noise makers and actually delivers instruction on how to be a public speaker or how to interact or how to be um a kind leader, how to mentor academically. >> So does he
098own noise makers? Is it so you created it? created it and he's just a consultant that comes in and speaks about empowerment. >> He's like a prof he's a professional development for our students. That's kind of the way I >> And then I go back >> a whole big school assembly every year. >> We do a whole school assembly where he does it and he actually uses our program when he tours nationally. He uses our activities that he does with us, images of our kids, our program. Um he kind of brags about our program. um as well. >> Okay. So, >> and then when I look at the top line, $5,000, it talks about a lot of supplies, but buried in there is professional development materials. So, that is um so we moved to um
099we started building thinking classrooms last year and we had to have our math team attend the professional development for that curriculum and for that cooperative learning. So, we pay for that through the principal's office. >> Okay. um instead of allocating it definitely to the math department because we're not sure where where that will be. >> Okay, thank you. >> Anything else? >> We'll jump to the second page of this. We um Dr. Northcut has brought National Junior Honor Society to the middle school. So, we have um our renewal for our um admittance into that program. We also have a career day that our school counseling department puts on um which supplies lunch for all of our um career day speakers. Um in this is also our math team um budget when we attend uh the
100math count math counts competition. When we travel to Yukon, um we also travel to a Shoreline school to compete. We have Shoreline, we have schools come to the middle school to compete. That is actually next week. We'll have our math team competition at the middle school if anyone wants to come and see that. Um and um this is coordinated by Wendy McNeel on a volunteer basis and she's amazing. Um recently when we went to Old Lime two weeks ago, our two sixth graders took first place and second place. So they're doing a phenomenal job. Um we also have um line items for um supervision for um speakers trainings and workbooks for noise makers. So that may be when the kids um need to have purchase extra material or they um pick a theme that um
101gratitude and kindness and we need to pro provide materials or PD to help them develop their own lessons in the classroom. we'll provide those materials. And then um under student activities game supervision um that is similar to what happens at the high school when we have um staff members who will come to games and help supervise um or attend track meet uh or sorry cross country meets and help supervise and travel when we need to. especially when we go to the giant um cross country meets and we need extra um supervision. Um >> can I just ask a quick question on that? Is that is that allocation up to anyone? Meaning is it only for teachers or parents also would be paid as a game supervision? >> We try to use board of ed employees
102first. >> Board of employees first. Yes. And is there like a, you know, I think about my husband's uh uh job and they have they keep an overtime list and there's everybody knows who's got an extra hours. Is this some something similar where people are like, "Hey, I I want I want >> you try to be as equitable as possible." Yes. In the beginning of the year, we say, "Who would be interested in things like this?" Um there's a line item in here um for um we only have one gym. It's a beautiful gym and we are very grateful for the boys and girls basketball team. So, one team has to have early practice and one team has to have late practice. So, we have a study hall. Um, and I send out a request
103to everybody and say, "Who's interested in supervising?" I had five people. We came together. We said, "Okay, there's 25 dates. Everybody picks five." So, I we try and do it as equitably as possible. >> Thank you. Anything else for this budget? >> Okay. Um, next section is the nurse's office. Um, this is actually a large reduction because our uh feminine products were actually included on our nurs's budget last year, not the custodial. So, we've removed that for the same reason is that we have adequate supplies and they don't need to be purchased. Um so we have um our purchase um purchase order that we have with nutmeg to um purchase medication, Advil, Tums, Benadryl, those kinds of things as well as miscellaneous um supplies. Okay. Um next is our custodial bud budget. Um this um
104includes um the biggest purchase um a new washing machine. Um the washing machine that we have um arrived with the building. So um it is time for an upgrade. Um we use the wash machine to clean um all of our uh custodial supplies, but we've often used it for kids um items as well if they need them. So >> questioning is anybody else set? >> Um under athletics, very similar to the high school, our major increases being um transportation as well as referees and officials. Um we do have um an added um line for our trackmate fees. We're very excited for those to happen this year as well. Um you'll also see that last line item that study hall that I was just talking about um before basketball. This is also our unified sports team
105is incorporated into this um as well um including the uh events that they uh attend and um their uniforms. I see that transportation is just one line item. Um h how do you guys manage that throughout the throughout the school year? It seems difficult. >> It it is and Mike does a really good job of trying to manage that and um at the middle school um we um I most middle schools in the shoreline when the girls team is home the boys team is away. So we try to be really fiscally responsible in in that so that there are you know in the basketball season there are only 12 times the bus is running. So in the middle school it's probably a lot easier to project than the high school because that is um the
106the method that the shoreline uses >> and there's is there there's no wait room or anything like that at the at the middle school? >> We do have a wait room um but right now it is not utilized. just >> just uh as far as like the sports uniforms like 40 4,500 bucks. I was just curious on like do we have an idea of are we replacing uniforms? Uh >> so m Mr. Bosworth has like a cycle of uniforms and and which teams are going to get uh uniforms like so if girls basketball got it in 2025 they might be in a four-year cycle and they'll get it in 2029. So, um that's the general estimate um of the uniform needs. We also with middle schoolers, we have a tendency to lose uniforms and so
107we're often replacing them or they get bleach on them because they attempt to do the laundry or it's Yeah. So, there's some some things that happen with our uniforms, too. So, >> the reason why I say that honestly is because again was at the middle school basketball game last night game, >> but I saw three types of uniforms on the same on our same team. Well, I'm in full transparency, there's a lot of teams who are wearing uniforms that have been not renewed for a while because we things get c cut, transportation costs go up and so it's >> it transparency uniforms are usually the things that get cut >> and and at that point I know like for instance the Hasslam foundation has donated unbelievable >> absolutely And I know that they did uniforms
108recently. >> They did at the high school. Correct. Yep. Um and we um our cheerleading team had all kinds of donations >> like Yes, we had there. We try and go through every avenue we possibly can to support that. elections. >> Uh, next is our school counseling budget um with uh Miss Netty um Miss Katzus who is our um secretary and uh Miss Knox. Um so you'll see here um we have a large line item and that is for our fourth grade orientation. So, all of our third graders come to the middle school um in May and we do um a series of activities. Our noise makers actually lead that. We then have a June family night um where they do a scavenger hunt in the middle school, but then when they um set up
109their lockers, we have a bag for them with supplies and their fourth grade t-shirt. So that um that line item um encaptures all of that. >> Can I just ask a question? >> All these fidget >> what what is going on? What why what's what what do we need? What is this for? >> So the fidget tools are there's many um IEPS and 504s who have fidgets as part of an accommodation. We have a lot of times when kids come down to school counseling when they might be emotionally dregulated and they need to play with something or it allows them to decompress. Um it's sometimes it's the needles, sometimes it's like a a spatial game. It all depends, but it allows them to keep their hands busy. And we find that when their hands are
110busy, they're actually they're they tell us more. Um, but things break, kids might be really, really upset. Neato get squished. And so, >> again, needles. >> Yes. >> Do you remember my >> I know. I know. Um, >> I have older children. My children are in the process of building a house. We're not here. So, this is all new terminology for me. >> There. And it's not like >> squishy ball. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Like a like a stress ball. >> Like a stress ball. like a stress ball, but they're like gel now. >> Okay. >> Mhm. >> Very minimal. But just that first shilling neato nice cube says quantity of two. The unit price is $22.99, but it just didn't >> Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> for school counseling. >> Good.
111>> Okay. Um, next is our math intervention um, budget. Um, and here we have um, the biggest line item being the I Ready, which is the benchmark tool that we use in grades four through eight where we administer the benchmark assessment three times a year. That benchmark assessment then gives us individualized progress monitoring um, for our students. so we can determine the supports that they need. Um, and that tool also allows teachers to dig into individual students data and break down areas of strength and weakness so that they can tailor um, instruction and programs to build students capacity. How old? >> Um years seven, six or seven years. >> Six, seven years. Is it still a thing? Is it still >> It's not a thing. Um but the the state mandates that we use a
112benchmark diagnostic tool. Um we were actually um in the process of um helping students understand their data and reflect on their own data. And so we're we show them their I Ready scores and we talk about their growth and how they've improved and look at these strengths and and using and so it's not just teachers who are looking at that. Um we use parent teacher conferences to share um successes with our our families and to um explain why we are doing the instructional practices that we're doing. The major reduction here from last year is all of the illustrative math workbooks for all the sixth, seventh, and eighth grade was in this budget. So, they're now in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grade math budgets. So, that would be the major um production. >> Gotcha. >>
113Next, we have >> um why is this number different or is there going to be another math section based on a different grade? She's looking at the requested or total um probably because it includes all of the math supplies from the grade levels. >> Yeah, but we we can check that D for sure. >> Yeah, you're only in remedial map right now, >> right? I'm just looking at remedial gotten right. You haven't gotten there yet. because it's always including remedial math and then every grade level math. But we should still check the number and make sure it all >> there's two different >> Yeah, >> I have to practice my reading. >> Okay, no worries. >> So, next is our reading interventionist. Um here we have um >> yeah, reading. Um there are three pages
114for Tina's budget. Um we have um added morphine magic um as a um tool for vocabulary acquisition um prefixes, suffixes, roots and Greek combining words. So that is a training, a professional development that um our our ELA teachers are going through right now in order to best support um learning for all students and and vocabulary acquisition. >> How many yellow uh teachers do we have at the middle school? >> We have uh we have two in fourth grade uh two in fifth grade and three six seven eight. So, >> thank you. >> You're welcome. >> What the fourth and fifth grade for combinations, aren't they? Technically, that's not >> right. Yeah, but they teach but they are required to teach the ELA curriculum, >> right? But I think Melissa used to do that. So, they're
115not the >> So, in fourth and fifth grade, >> a teacher will teach ELA and social studies and then the other teacher teaches math and science. But that one teacher for fourth and that one teacher, the two teachers in fourth and the two teachers in fifth are required to teach ELA. So I'm training two people in fourth grade and ELA working magic. >> Okay. >> As well as um special educators. Um the other pieces of Tina's budget um are the um curriculum and the programs that she uses for her small group intervention blocks that are targeted for student needs. Um you'll see on the second page the Ames web plus complete um that is our ELA benchmark um and progress monitoring tool like our I Ready for math. So that is our ELA um where
116we do the same thing. It's administered three times a year. Um we use it for parent teacher conferences to determine um what students need um supports and interventions and students um also look at their own data and um their um as web scores and improvements. And then finally on the last page um one of the other major resources is the megawwords which um is another tool that is used for our ELA um intervention programs um which connects to the work that we're doing um as a district in science and reading. Questions about our intervention budget >> to clarify with both math intervention and reading intervention. Although it's one teacher, one teacher for each, they advise and support all students in grades four through eight and all teachers in 4 through eight. So the resources that
117we provide for them are in every ELA in every math classroom in the school. >> And they're the for those departments, >> correct? Yes, they are the for that department. Okay. So, next we're going to get into our grade level section. So, we'll do our fourth grade teachers, our fifth grade. Um, but what our fourth grade does is they parse it out by subject. So, even though Grace Adams teaches both math and science, she's responsible for the science budget. So, it doesn't just cover Grace's students, it also covers Jenna D. Martino's students as well. So, it's the entire fourth grade. Um so general supplies are included here as well as their um access to mad science which is the curriculum we use for science in fourth grade. I just want I had a quick question
118on the uh the instruction you were just talking about. Do we have a lot of kids who are taking remedial classes in that area? >> So it's different. It's intervention. So um we have students who um might um score poorly on their Ames web and we'll see that it's been a pattern and they might be struggling in um in uh fluency and so they'll go into intervention for six to eight weeks and we'll have do intensive support we'll take data we'll talk about their progress and then with the goal of that they're exiting that. So, it's not um a remedial course that they're in for the entire year. It's the goal of really specific, targeted, intensive, small groupoup instruction to build those skills and then so that they can apply them into the classroom. >>
119Are you seeing the trends of having less children needing that sort of intervention or is the trend the opposite where you're seeing more kids are requiring that sort of intervention? Um, I think it's changing. I think we're seeing different needs. We're seeing comprehension come through and then we're seeing fluency come through. So, the quantities might kind of adjust a little bit, but it's actually the the type of um skill building that's required is changing. Um but what what's also wonderful about our interventionists is that um they provide the resources that they're doing in their small intervention to the other classroom. So they'll practice the same um um vacuency um strategies and they'll teach our um classroom teachers so that they can model it as well. Um, our intervention program has worked so hard in the
120last three years and I really feel like they are right where they're need to be and we're picking up speed with our data collection, with um our programming, with our curriculum and um I we are seeing kids exiting more now >> when they get to the high school there's hopefully or wherever they end up going hopefully there's not a need for them to take those medial courses or whatever. The goal is that and the research shows that those foundational skills have to happen in the elementary and middle so that when they do get to high school that there is less need for that and then you know it flows up the ladder because at the state level we are spending a lot of taxpayer money on remedial programs for kids in college and so I'm
121glad to hear that there's a pathway to not just keep them in the constant intervention but you know the goal is to get people you know moving into that next tier or so >> and not to teach intervention like you're saying in isolation. It's we're teaching it intensively in certain areas but also teaching the teachers how to intertwine that intervention when they see a disluency happening in the classroom. Um so that's our fourth grade science. Next we have fourth grade math. So this is where you'll see that last line item. This is the illustrative math is the workbook which is our math curriculum in grades four through eight. >> You say workbooks. >> It's literally a work I >> It's the same kind of workbook that Yep. 100%. Yep. >> I'm starting to I'm starting
122to feel a little >> Yeah. No, it's the same kind of work. >> Yep. Their number is off on that line. >> 21 the bottom. >> Yeah, I see that too. >> 3000 looks. >> So, I'm not sure if there's some like a a formula kind of >> happened here. Yeah. >> 2100,000. >> Correct. Um, last line under D. Martino, >> fourth grade, >> the Kendall Hunt. I have everything marked, Christine. So, >> 3,184 is correct. Yes, that that total is correct. But these numbers in our subtotal and total amount 21,000 really is 2,100. >> Yeah, 2,100. Yeah, >> the workbooks the last >> year. It must be a formula error because it should Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah, >> the bottom right number is correct. >> Make an error. Uh, next we have fourth
123grade social studies. Um, so interesting. Um, our fourth grade team did a lot of work on our social studies curriculum last year and across the state there is not a structured fourth grade social studies curriculum that elementary schools use. Like there's not really a guide book. It's kind of like they put everything together and you can use the frameworks, but there's not really um a structured curriculum that people are really happy with, which is very interesting. That was our fourth grade team's whole um research project last year. Um so the the supplies you see here are um Scholastic News, their map skills, all tools that they have identified that students need in order to be successful as they move through the rest of the social studies curriculum question. And then finally for fourth grade is
124our language arts. And our major um line item here is which is a tool that is used for everyday practice for all students. That is a tailored program. It is a computer program where students can practice their ELA skills, their vocabulary, their sentence structure, their comprehension. Um, our fourth graders, all of our our teams do a lot of station work where students will be working on multiple things and they might rotate through a station. Um, tailor individual um lessons um for each um child. You'll see that um in all of our ELA budgets. Any other questions for fourth grade? >> Okay, next page is Amy Garish and that is our fifth grade um ELA budget. Um we continue to use um Scholastic Story Works which um really pushes our need for non-fiction um reading support.
125Um and then a lot of our uh materials and some replacement um books. All set. Okay. Next page is our fifth grade math. Our first line item being those um IM workbooks again. 2100. Um and then as well um is used for both math and ELA. So it is put in fourth grade budget and fifth grade um budget in one place. And then um supplies that um are needed. Um these are really based upon um building thinking classrooms and the supplies that we need for um that cooperative um interactive collaborative um instructional practice that um we brought to our fifth math team last year questions. Okay, >> I've got a question. >> Yes, ask. >> I'm sorry. >> Ask >> um can you ship these together? The shipping cost on these workbooks is pretty expensive.
126>> So we So it is one order. We will do one order but we wanted it was such a large item in the intervention and there was questions about who's using which workbooks. So when we do put the IM workbook order in, it will be one shipment. >> We'll say 75 grade five, however many grade four, it will be one shipment. >> I'm just trying to save every dollar there. >> Yes. Yeah. >> Thanks. >> So is the shipping the 294 total or is it that and the other one? >> 294. 294. 294. every grade level. >> Correct. So Kira is saying we don't need to do 24 five times. >> Right. So that was my question. >> Yeah. So it is in here five times. >> But it is only one. >> We will
127do one order. We will do one order. >> Okay. That was my question. Whether you were just splitting it up by five or that's >> So that's a that's a definite thing. You'll do that. So >> absolutely. Yep. Absolutely. Yeah. Sure. >> Um and hers has gone to the second page, but again that's more building thinking classroom resources. Again, this is for all of fifth grade because we do have two math teachers. Um next is Lauren Fulton's and that is uh social studies. We have um digital resources um for video clips that accompany our social studies um curriculum as well as the discover online magazine um that students use um to support vocabulary text comprehension but in the non-fiction um realm which as our research shows is where we need to improve. non-fiction and a
128lot of supplies for other projects that they do um in fifth grade in social studies. >> I'm just curious an overall question. I see a lot of supplies. It is there any is there such a thing as where it used to be you would wait and see a supply list for your student. You'd go out and buy the things you needed for each grade. Ask are those days gone? We don't ask families to do that. >> We We supply all >> Wait a minute. So, are you telling me that at the beginning of the school year, I'm a parent, I'm not going to get a list of the supplies I need to buy for my child? >> When did we stop doing that? >> Years ago. I mean >> I mean my children like I'm
129looking here pencil like you'll have pencils. We we purch >> but pencil cases like I remember. >> Oh no. >> It's coming. >> So when a child so when they go back to school shopping we have a tax-free they don't have to buy You are telling me a parent does not have to buy one pencil. >> Nope. >> And their child has all of the supplies. your home. >> There's a certain thing. Yeah. >> Yeah. Like we'll say if you're buying a backpack, it needs to not have the wheels because it won't fit in the locker. And if you want to purchase this, but we can't expect parents to do that um for equity reasons. And you'll see like there's a line item for 45 headphones. Although we might have 75 students like we some
130parents can and but it's never mandated that people do that. We and we always have families that say what can I purchase for my student and we will say pencils. They'll go through a million pencils and maybe a trapper keeper. Um but we don't send out that list. >> Okay. Um next um is Ryan West. He has our science budget here. Um we have um supplies for um building thinking classrooms which not only do we use in our math classroom but that we use in our science classroom as well as well as other supplies um to support the classroom. >> Um sixth grade Here we are with sixth grade math questions about any of the supplies. We have uh the laminator um machine with laminator paper. Because we our students in sixth grade do a
131lot of work um kind of on their pieces of their workbook become kind of dry erase so they can do some over and over again or their math wheels um for math practice. >> What is their math field trip? What is that? >> So in sixth grade you'll see in every teacher um all four teachers will put a line item for $200 for a field trip. >> So it's a placeholder. It's a placeholder. Um they like to take them to um Six Flags or another um kind of lake comp lake compound. Sorry, Lake Compounded. We're getting the same. >> Yeah. Lake Compounds as a end of sixth grade from high school. >> Sixth grade. Sixth grade celebration. And that's just to pay for um the transportation. Um and we ask families to pay entrance if
132they choose to go. Um, next is U. Miss Micho um for ELA. Um, notebooks um says round cakeboards. They do a lot of um it's a a series of projects they do when they have their um reading circles um to show character development. We have a lot of replacement books um here as well. and then you'll see her line item for um field trip as well. And then you have Mr. Miller's science budget. We have a lot of his supplies. Um they use interactive science notebooks. um which when I was teaching at the high school teaching senior English, I talked about the middle school when I was going there and they were like the best part about middle school was Mr. Miller's science notebooks. So he uses a lot of supplies to really help them
133capture and they are really interactive and they're these big creatures of notebooks. Um, so a lot of his supplies um are there. Um, following that um is our AV budget. Um, Mr. Miller includes this as he is the AV coordinator. Um, and so here we have uh supplies needed um to continue um with um our AV needs. So replenishing there is no um new items added to this. This is just to replenish supplies. >> Next we have um Miss Braza's budget for social studies. She holds the LL license. Each grade level has that. She also uses Scholastic News um as well because we have subscriptions per grade level. She has a line item at the end for the DBQ project. Um, and it doesn't have um, >> It costs nothing because um, she was holding
134it as a zero, but we just talked and she's not going to do it. So, it's not an included cost. So, we can just cross that off. Okay, moving on to seventh grade. Um the biggest um in Mr. Ricko's budget um he holds the two field trips. So his that's why his budget is so is so large. Um he has the Datco transportation to Boston. Um because we're going out of the state law requires we use the motor coach so the more expensive not a yellow bus. Um and then um admittance also to the Freedom Trail. We then have the transportation the the the yellow bus quote from DACO to go to the Stonington Lighthouse Museum as well. Mr. Ricko has added earphones to um his as um the TCI curriculum that they use in
135seventh grade has a has a huge audio component and for equity he wanted to make sure that everybody had the headphones that could use and connect to our Chromebooks. Um a lot of kids have headphones that are Bluetooth and it becomes just um a problem sometimes. So just everyone having the same chro uh headphones is quiet. >> Yeah. correct price little foam thing. Nobody wants to use 55. >> Yeah, I mean they're very5 membership >> 40 bucks for 85 cars. Um, yeah. >> Um, do they do they um I don't see I I'm looking at this for the Native Americans. Do we not um bring our kids to the Peekquat Museum locally in Connecticut? >> We don't. >> They do at the younger >> such a it's in the elementary school curriculum. >> Good. Good.
136Good. Thank you. >> Um, next we have Matt Hopkins who is our ELA um, teacher in seventh grade. Um, he also provides um, headphones. He got them as one price is a pack of 25. Um, and then other uh supplies that are needed. >> Um, I'm just curious the last item for this. It says a variety of fiction, non-fiction books. >> Um, so what he does is they do um like an independent reading. Um, this is this is Matt's first year in seventh grade ELA. So, he's working through the curriculum and he's noticed that there needs to be more access to different genres. And so, he's getting information and surveys from the kids of what they would like to read as they do independent reading. And so, he didn't want to put exactly what books
137were there because he wants to be able to take an inventory for the kids and say, "What are you interested in reading?" And I just as a as the perview of the board of ed, I'm just curious, you know, I I know it can be a very uh uh controversial um sometimes for different parents to see different different types of books. I'm just curious when he chooses the books, is that something that goes through the superintendent through a board ed approved curriculum? Is it just you know what? It's it will be included and the genre type will be included. He also consults with Mrs. Rafala who is our um library media specialist to make sure that >> it's following all board of education. Yep. All board of education guidelines. >> Developmentally appropriate. >> Yep. And
138developmentally appropriate. Um >> he also um might say what what genre are you looking for? I'm really into um Napoleon. And so then he'll go from there and find something as opposed to like a book title. >> Okay. >> And is he using the Scholastic dollars to supplement or something? >> Always. We always I mean Empac lovingly donates so many books to us. Um but this will happen before we get there. So um yeah, for sure. Um next we have uh Mr. Mayhew is our seventh grade math. Um, and we have our IM workbooks here. Um, as well as other general supplies. And then finally, um, we have the Sullivan Science 7th grade DLA. Um there's a slight increase here because um she has to um replace a lot of her glassware in her beakers
139that have seventh grade hands on them that break sometimes. Um and some of their her cylinders um so and she also uses EdPuzzle often as a differentiated tool. So that's another piece that is here. Moving into eighth grade, uh, Mr. Anderson, eighth grade ELA. Um, again, that placeholder for books is the same idea where he'll get the inventory of the books that have been received. So, outsiders, he started with 85 copies, now he only has 65 usable copies. Um so a lot of that um is really dependent on um what is returned and in what condition it is returned. He also has expanded his library. Um um our current eighth graders are really avid readers and he is just constantly purchasing more books. It's wonderful. It's so great. Um so really promoting that. Um, I
140think that has a lot to do with our our reading initiative as a school and that that desire to continue to push that. So, >> the scoreboard there, >> our reading scoreboard. >> Um, finally, uh, not finally, sorry, sorry, me, not finally. Um, Caitlyn and Nino, um, eighth grade math. Um, our IM workbooks are here as well, as well as, um, other materials that are needed. And then we have Mr. Bachelder's eighth grade social studies basically supplies. Um Mrs. Harris um eighth grade science These are materials um needed for building thinking classrooms. Okay, next we have Miss Dilia. She is one of our two world language teachers and we only have Spanish at the middle school now. Um there are a lot of uh garbanzo and flangu are online platforms um that we really help
141tailor individual instruction for kids um as we are seeing um major gaps um in where students are entering with their language acquisition especially now as we've lost our elementary school world language program. So, um, this supports all students in grades four through eight, Miss Dillio and Miss Romanics. Um, budget. >> So, is this the Garbanzo and the other I'm not going to pretend that I >> Yep. >> Um, they're on both. is that they each get a subscription or >> they have so that yes because it's by number of kids in their classes and they don't overlap kids. >> So it's every student for for a total so they did their total number of kids. So they would both need it because they have teacher accounts too to look at the data. >> Yes. So
142they would both need it. Any questions for Miss Dilius? Okay. And so we have Miss Romatics who is also our world language teacher um Spanish teacher 4 through eight. questions. >> Okay. Next, we have Mrs. Tu's bud uh budget which includes health and PE. This budget includes supplies um needed for health curriculum and health activities as well as materials for one of the volleyball units. Next we have uh Miss Ventress, our art teacher. Um these are supplies um that are used every single year um in grades four through eight to glue to clay to paper questions from Mentress. >> You guys all set? >> Okay. Mr. Pernell, um he has the majority of the PE budget. Um and these supplies are for cooperative games that are used in grades four through eight. questions for Mr.
143Pernell. Okay. Next, we have uh Miss Blair. She is our coral teacher and I talked a little bit about um that this is a budget increase because we are expanding our coral library um to include culturally relevant music as well as differentiated music to address all skill levels. Um so this is an increase from last year but Mr. Blaine's music budget reduced to help support um Miss Blair's budget. I have a question. >> Yes, >> I was gonna say. So, what was it? Net >> Yeah, it was Yeah, there's a slight increase um like I think 2% increase. Um let me look. >> Yep. It was a overall it's a negative 2%. between the both of them. But just moved. >> Yeah, >> just moved. >> Yeah. >> So, I just was going to say
144there's a lot here. >> Like a lot. >> I I question, you know, that um I also question the stipen for concert accompanied for $1,000. You know, like I I like to understand again it's for me it's the value to the taxpayer >> and I'm concerned when I see that >> um and then can you tell me a little bit about what this subscription is to Soundtrack? >> It looks like it's a new subscription. >> It is. Um she's teaching students to compose music. Um so our coral students composing and it's a digital online tool to help them build music um which supports the high school um music program as well. She's really trying to build um our middle school music program to help complement the high school program. And then we do have um
145in here um the bus to the Goodspeed for um for the workshop and to attend the matinea. So Goodspeed always welcomes us um and does a special day for us. >> This is crazy. >> Yeah, it's so it's so unbelievable. It's so cool. I would encourage with whatever happens with our transportation that you ask that they will sometimes give buses for free when in town. >> We I ask all the time and they do and and they do. Um but I always can't guarantee it, but I do. I ask all the time for sure. >> I'm just Yep. >> And the amount of money dollars sometimes it's um they will do that. >> Right. So that bus to the high school that last line item that 200 this year they did provide that for us
146but I I I can't guarantee >> you know yeah again I'm saying sometimes they will do it for >> questions about music. Um, and next is um Zach's music um budget um that has a lot of replacement reads um stands um software that is used for music creation as well for regular band, jazz band and percussion. Um we have transportation for Eastern Regionals. um our Coast Guard trip um that unfortunately we didn't attend this year because of the shutdown. Um we also um budget for when they when our band goes to the high school. Um we need two buses for them. Um so we put that in as well. Um as well as our bus for the jazz band competition and the jazzberry jazz festival. Do our kids still bring their own instruments to band?
147>> Okay. >> Yes, they do supply right now. >> We do supply We do We do supply some as well. Yep. >> Um, next is Mr. Fala's library media um budget. Um, the major >> I'm sorry, there's a second page. >> Sorry. Um, that's okay. I'm just There's a lot of festivals. One's a new festival. Are these things that we've gone to before? So, the only one we haven't gone to is the Glass Mary Jazz Festival. Um, so our um our students are doing exceptionally well and Zach is trying to provide every opportunity um to provide different places and spaces for them to play with other musicians. Um, and we work really closely with Rosemary and she kind of advises us what what she's seeing that she needs and what would be other opportunities that
148we could go to so to support her program as well. >> So when I'm looking at um Mr. Blaine's programs versus the other, >> what is the differentiation between them? Is he >> Great question. So he teaches band. So he >> Yeah. band um jazz band and she is the chorus and general music teacher. So our fourth and fifth grade students have general music. We also start band in fifth grade. So students could have general music and they take band. Okay. >> And then in sixth grade they could take chorus with Miss Blair but also play an instrument with Mr. Blaine. So there's a lot of students who kind of work through both programs. >> Okay. So, so it we're not talking a lot a lot of kids then and like a is this a
149jazz like sometimes I remember there was two tiers of bands. There was like a general band and then there was a select maybe that was chorus. I can't remember but it was chorus but there's also jazz band too. Yep. It's also also that as well. >> So is when I read these field trips and I see something that says jazz versus something else. Do we have multiple different bands that are that he is? >> Yep. We have our we have our >> we have our fifth grade band. We have our sixth grade band and we have our seventh and eighth grade band. Then we have our jazz band. >> Okay. >> So, yeah. So, there's a different opportunities for different Yeah. >> Next, we have Mr. Rafal's budget um which is the library media center.
150Um we purchased the nut the yearly nutmeg books um as well also the replacing any dated or damaged material. um the licensing fee for um our discover online searching um program that kids use to find books in the library. that um subscription went up as well as our subscription for vocabulary which um is used by all teachers and that is a vocabulary acquisition tool. >> When we buy a subscription at the middle school, does it also go to the high school or is it schoolbased? So like vocabulary, >> It's school based. Oh, yep. >> Okay. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. It's Yeah, >> we talk about it every year because there's a lot of money we spend in like subscriptions and stuff and they they pigeon hole it to be that like that address, that physical
151address. >> Thank you. >> So, I know fourth grade goes to the library. How do the other five through eight utilize the library? So, fifth grade goes to the library on different days, too. They go to the library. Um, they don't go as regularly as fourth grade. And then the other grades go in for research and they go in for project based. And so, they'll um social studies will go in and they'll do projects in library or um every time there is any kind of research, Mr. Follow will go into a classroom and provide the resources. teachers will come to Trish and say, um, I'm doing this topic coming up. What do you have for resources? And then she'll buy more if we need them. Um, so she kind of supplements our curriculum in our
152research skills. Study halls exist still for >> questions for Trish. Um next we have Shayen Thod's budget. Um this um is our Shayen teaches STEM but she also supports our project lead the way. Um, this is where you'll see that new course, that medical medical detectives curriculum and the supplies needed for that. >> Is that only for one year? >> Well, it's yearly. >> It's yearly for that grade. She's starting up, but she's going to continue. It's not just like a one and done. >> So, there's that was my question. Like a program that you get once and then you have it or it's like an annual subscription? >> We No, we get it. So, it's like a course that we create and there's like like the first level of supplies and then you'll have
153to refresh supplies, but you won't need that first bulk of supplies every year like to when you start a new course >> is the um subscription in Mr. >> Podal. You'll get a treat this month because Mr. Badala and Miss Thod will be coming toward and they presenting on project oceanology. So you'll get a treat. >> Questions for Shayen's budget? Next is Lauren Merson. This is the enrichment budget that wasn't previously in the middle school budget. Um, and again, this program supports students in grades four through eight. um as well as the individualized programs that she runs from um mock trial and um other community service programs. She collaborates with the high school and um the um straight from the heart. She works with town organizations to support their programs, but a lot of her
154curriculum is based upon her grade level needs um as well as entry fees into competitions. Odyssey of the Mind, um, Quiz Bowl, um, which are other opportunities for our students to participate in academic challenges. >> Realize Odyssey of the Mind was still around. I didn't >> I was telling you about it this weekend with my brother. >> That's great. She also has um family expos um three times a year. Um we have a family expo next week uh next Wednesday at 6 PM if anybody wants to attend. So you can see all of our enrichment projects on display. Um we also um our project lead team is there as well um as well as our train club. Um Is it Thursday? >> Is it Wednesday or Thursday? I forgot. >> I have Thursday. I chose
155Thursday. >> You're So, you're right. I'm sorry I didn't scare you. I've also thought today was Tuesday. So, yeah. So, next Thursday. >> Yep. >> And they stick to that six to seven, but it's really fun to see. >> Yeah. It's really great. So, if anybody can come, that would be awesome. Do we um this isn't a budget question, but I'm just curious like this is an opportunity for seniors and other people who don't have kids in the system to come and check it out. So just curious if there's a communication to the senior center or somebody so that we can get all of our residents, you know, to support our school system. Seems to me that would be a really good way to do that. >> Sure. Especially when there's food involved. Yeah. Um,
156and our last is Mr. I don't have that copy in my book. Our last is Mr. Medala's budget. Um, which is, um, our Project Lead the Way budget. Um, and a lot of his are um, consumables that have to be purchased every single year for our 3D printers and our other supplies that he uses, our Beex kits, for our robotics, and um, a lot of our um, a lot of our programs. Um, Joe and Shayen are masters of grant writer grant writing. So, they they do a lot of work to try and get um, as many uh, as much financial support as possible. So, um, and there were some things that we didn't purchase last year that are included this year as well, >> which Joe, sorry, go ahead. >> What is PLTW stand for?
157>> Project Lead the Way. It's um an industry standard engineering program that is offered K12. >> Thank you. >> It's a class that students really look forward to. Yes, they do. >> It really is >> very much so. >> Unbelievable. >> From coding to to robotics to it's unbelievable. >> And the STEM STEM >> Yeah, the STEM program as well. >> One of the reasons why I asked is because In the notes it says that um that the fee of $1,000 had been paid by a grant previous not this year. >> But he's hopeful. >> We're hopeful. They Joe does a and Shay lane they do a lot of research and try to get as many as possible. So So this is the first time I'm seeing this um notation. This item was unable to
158be purchased in the 2526 budget due to the budget freeze, but remains a necessary resource for inclusion. I didn't notice that note on the elementary school. Are we going to see that note? Uh, is that a common I hadn't noticed. I just noticed it now. I'd be curious, maybe this is a question for you. I would be curious to see how many of those items have that notation so that I can have a total of what that looks like. >> It's actually an error because there was no freeze. >> That's why. Yeah. Okay. >> So, I'm glad you brought it up because there was no freeze. What was budgeted once the budget passed was there? >> These items were put in the budget last year and they were not purchased >> and they weren't purchased
159because of a freeze. But now that but but I'm confused. It's just lingo. It's not like it wasn't a freeze. It was that, you know, there wasn't enough money in the budget to purchase those >> and they were removed from the budget. >> Okay. >> Were they removed from the first to the second time because we did go to reference twice. >> So there was no removal from central office is what I can say. So I think there's some confusion with that because there was never a freeze. It was just a delay in making purchases until the referendum passed. And once the referendum passed, it passed. No money was taken away from the schools. >> So that would be I would go back to find out what happened there. >> I I still would like
160to have a tally of wherever I I missed the notes. Um you said that they were >> I've seen them in a few I would be I would be just to see I just I'm not going to find them now because I'm looking for it. >> But I did see it a bunch of times. >> All right. >> I saw it one more time and I underlined the word. >> I've seen it. No, I'm not remembering exactly where, but >> thank you. Thank you everybody. >> Is that is that like torture for you? I can see that. Oh my god. >> Yeah. I just have to work in That was the first picture. >> All right. Will you have the um We'll have to Yeah, I'll have to talk to Christine about that. >> All
161right. Thanks. >> I should have made him call technically >> go back. >> No, you can't. No, you have to go back. I have to go. >> Sorry. Good. Yeah. Do you have a snack? >> Oh, I didn't bring the snack. >> Okay. >> Elementary school. All right. Listening my presentation. Um, no. So, same kind of format as every as everyone else. My system when we get to the book is similar to Chris because Chris's assistant trained my assistant. So, our model is very locked step and very similar. So, you we'll be back to to the the format that we started with, but our original operating budget or our ending operating budget for this current year was $169,97 and this proposal is 158,295. So that's a decrease of $11,612 or a reduction of 7.08%. And
162as Chris mentioned, you know, we start at zero every year. So we start with a clean slate and our teachers and our educational um specialists build the budget from the ground up based on the students that we have in front of us and what we project we're going to need in that following year. So for the elementary school, really it's instruction first. This budget is direct support for teaching and learning. So, the proposed budget prioritizes core instructional materials and classroom supplies that directly impact student learning. Funding is concentrated in general instructional supplies, regulared instructional supplies, and resource media. Um, resource media being some of those digital subscriptions that we use across a variety of areas. And these ensure that teachers have the tools they need to deliver high quality standards aligned instruction. So you'll see
163like our resource media is up a little bit from this current year because our mystery science platform which is the main platform we use to deliver our phenomenonbased science instruction is purchased or has been in the past purchased every two years. So last year we didn't have to purchase that subscription, but we're back to a year where we do have to. So you'll see that go up. Um, Amplify is the platform for our universal screening and progress monitoring tools for reading and math. Dibbles 8 is for reading and McLass math. So, we use those three times a year as a benchmark. And then we also use them for progress monitoring along the way to make sure students are making the kind of progress that we want to see based on the instruction that they're getting.
164Again, these are statemandated tools that we need to use. It was originally grant funded for the reading portion of it under the right to read grant monies that we received a few years ago. We were able to get a couple year subscription, but now we've hit that plateau where we now need to absorb the cost moving forward. So, we were able to work with the company and get the best deal possible, but you'll see that as an increase. Um, we did remove our SecondStep digital license, which we've had for the past couple of years. Um, we're transitioning a bit from our SecondStep social emotional learning curriculum to the choose love, which is completely free and accessible to all of us online. So, our teachers are working with both the Second Step this year and the
165Choose Love to kind of merge um the instruction to meet the needs of our kids, but we're going to remove that digital platform because we were not utilizing it in a way that was really, you know, having an impact. We have physical resources for the second step in each classroom. Um, but we took that off of the resource media. General supplies, cost of items to support learning are up. Regular ed instructional supplies, again, cost of those items, pencils, pens, glue sticks. Glue sticks are ridiculously expensive. If you've never looked that up, you should do that because they are very expensive things. Um, and then investments that in our budget support language arts, math, science, social studies, and our essential arts. That's what we call the specials. So, art, music, PE, we call them essential arts.
166um maintaining equity across all content areas and grade levels. Um you'll see a big chunk for field trips. Um big chunk relative to you know what we do, but our students don't have we don't have clubs and we don't have sports and things like that. So we like to in try to find other ways to enhance their learning. Um and so you'll see a big chunk in field trips for science, social studies, art, and PE. Um and then as I mentioned before in English language arts the purchase uh no sorry in English language arts p purchase services. So that's professional development to continue to build our capacity to deliver high quality instruction and elevate our student learning. And then in math a change um to help create continuity and consistency. That's a lot of C's.
167Continuity and consistency with curricular resources bringing our bridges math resource down to the prek level. our pre-K teachers were seeking um a curricular resource to help with that early numerousy and so they've been working with our math specialist um and would really like to try to utilize those bridges math resources down at that pre-k level for our teachers so that our students are getting that experience the language the modeling um and having that as they then head into kindergarten. So that's the gist. Um again tal talked about the universal screener um for progress monitoring and benchmarking in reading and math. Um we just did our midyear benchmark so we're diving into the data to make instructional decisions moving forward. Our mystery science is uh standard aligned engaging investigations phenomenon driven. There's assessments experiments and things
168that the children engage with at each grade level. Um, the bridges math and prek's playful and play-based to designed to engage children through the use of contextual themes, games, stories, mysteries, and intriguing problems, manipulatives, and visual models. It's also logically sequenced around well-ressearched developmental progressions to allow depth and focus as children progress in knowledge and skills. They'll do things like counting, sorting, patterns, comparing objects with attributes, size, length, weight, capacity. So, there's a lot of opportunity for hands-on learning there. And if you've never engaged in a Bridges math lesson, you're welcome to come down to the elementary school. One of the the features that we love the most is our number corner, which is a a really all-incclusive part of the curriculum. We're doing calendar. We're doing counting the number of days in school. We're
169turning that into tens and ones. We're um you know manipulating patterns and looking at different things within the calendar itself. Um, and so there's a lot of learning that spirals throughout the curriculum, not just the, you know, many lessons that the students receive during math class. There's this whole other layer that's a part of it. Um, health office supplies, you'll see that's, I think it doubled from, you know, $900 to $1,800 because we have a lot of children that health office. Um, and we were finding that our our nurses were budgeting the bare amount of band-aids and ice packs and things like that and we were hitting that pretty quickly um, in the past few years. So, we expanded that so that we would have supplies to last us throughout the school year. Um, and
170one reduction within the principal's office budget is removing the fee for uh, cast member school. >> And that >> um, the Connecticut Association of Schools. So, if you're a member school, which is a a $1,500 fee, you can access some of their professional learning at a discounted rate. Um, but it we have so much going on on a regular basis. It's not something we're utilizing, so it's not something I would continue to to move forward with. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. Here's our field trips at a glance. Um, so something that we're doing this year we have not done yet is um in art the Lyman Allen Museum. So, our our arts uh instructor, Mrs. Cryan, had wanted to try a field trip within that art domain. So, our first graders will be going this
171year. Um she's worked with the curators, I guess you call them, um at the museum and looked at the different programming options and decided on first grade. So, she already put it in the budget for next year, anticipating that it's going to be a huge success. But that'll be a fun thing for our first graders. Um, and they also go to Cold Spring Farm connected to their science curriculum, um, with farming and animals and all sorts of fun things that they do in the spring. Our kindergarten also has a field trip. They go to the ray of light farm connected to their science um, around life cycles and animals and plants. Um, it's exciting. We started doing field trips at the kindergarten and first grade level just a few years ago. Previous when I came
172only second and third graders had the opportunity of field trips. So it was always such a special experience when I was a kid. Those are those things you remember riding the bus and the places you went and and the things you saw and experience. So we really want to have those opportunities for our kiddos. Um disc golf for PE. U Mr. Kelly has arranged this. He takes our second and third graders now. The first year it was just third grade. Um they go to the course in Chester and I always get the question about why not the course in our town. Ours is a little bit too challenging for our young friends and their throwing abilities. So, we use the Chester course because it's a little bit better. It's still very challenging, but it's a
173little bit more accessible to to our young students. Um, so they get to put all of the skills they've been practicing throughout the year into that that fun experience. Second grade um is goes to Matt Matamudas State Park. Um, and that's both a science and a social studies connection. Um, and then the Connecticut Museum of History and Culture, I believe, is the the new name for the Connecticut Museum Connecticut historical society has been renamed. Um, and that's their field trip to connect to their social studies curriculum. And there's also a significant um amount of resources in our bookworms curriculum at the second grade level around um, Native American tribes. The students do a lot of learning around that. So, that's also connecting with that. And then in third grade, a heavy focus on social studies.
174So they are making a change, a recommended a change for next year for um they were going we went to Bushy Hill the last couple of years and I'm missing one on the top of my brain, but they're going to switch and go to the Capitol and the Connecticut Museum of History, I think is the name of that one. Um and that that's actually a great experience. It's connected again to our revised social studies work, curriculum work that we're doing as well as our language arts. They do a story, a non-fiction text about the constitution and some other um thing, excuse me, things related to that. So, they're going to combine that field trip around the language arts and social studies. Um, and then they're going back to the Peekquat Museum. They had done that
175years ago and again that had been switched out for some other trips, but connected again to our new social studies frameworks that made a lot of sense. And so our our third grade social studies group decided they wanted to um bring that trip back. And then we also go and work with our Easttown Historical Society to talk about this land that we're on now in the past and the present. So that's our big our big field trip experiences. >> So you're not going to do the travel around East Town field trip in third grade? Um so the again the where the frameworks for social studies and the focus like who's focused on the community we're in versus our state versus you know the broader area has shifted. So we're in the process of taking the
176frameworks and revising our social studies curriculum at each grade level K through three. This year we're rewriting as Bridget mentioned a few minutes ago. There's no curriculum provided to us. It's the frameworks and then you develop the curriculum around that. You find your resources and your experiences that are connected to it. So third grade used to be the community that you're in, but that's now shifted. So in in years to come, we'll see that come back where it fits in with which grade level. >> Okay. >> So So you're not going to the historic I mean it look >> we are going to the Eastam Historical Society. Our social studies instructional facilitator has been working with members from the historical society here in East Tatam to help develop curriculum resources and experiences for our third
177graders. So, they're going to continue to engage with that. >> Do we engage with Ken Simon or any of his videos on Mudus and Buddhist history, for example? >> I Yeah, that's good. I I I just you know it would be he is a wonderful resource of uh history in our town and um is a former teacher himself and he has wonderful videos that are online already about our town. I'm curious disc golf why is that a field trip? So it's connected to our PE curriculum. So students um learn some of the skills related to playing disc golf connected to throwing and catching and aiming and Mr. Kelly has better language around the locomotion and all of those pieces related to movement. >> We have a pretty unbelievable disc golf here. >> We were just
178talking about that when you stepped out for a moment. It's too challeng no it's too challenging for our young students. Um they don't quite have the skills to manage that that level course. So, we go to the one in Chester, which is a little bit more accessible to us at this point. >> The one in Chester is very flat. I you I don't know if you've done the one field. >> That's rough. >> I have. I just like the height. I'm not I don't really care where I'm >> That's a lawsuit in the making for second. >> Miles in the woods, right? >> And cliffs to jump and everything else. Well, that's big. That's it. >> Chester Park. It makes sense. So that's the end of this part of my presentation. Um and we will
179dig in um to the the lovely pages and line items. So my first chunk of pages are again you you've seen some of them. So we have our requested function totals and how our budget has compared to the past few years and what's being requested this year and whether it's under over. But um we're going to dive into the specific content areas first and we can always go back to that but it's all represented in what we're going to speak about. Okay. So I would start with art which is pages back >> the title pages like presses. >> I have I just my first one looks like audio visual. Hold on. I'll see it for Oh, wait. There it is. I think Y. >> Goodness. >> Okay. >> Um, and so again, you know, the
180art budget is mostly representative of the instructional supplies used to teach art for preK through third grade. um all of the different physical resources that are used um in the art studio. And then we have the Lyman Allen field trip in there again um for next year. So it looks like the the cost for transportation is slightly more than the cost to go to the museum, but the trip is for the first grade class. Um it's a two-hour program with a dosent le tour, an art activity. Um, they can also have lunch there as well. Um, and it's introducing students to art in the real world outside of what they they learn about in the art studio in the classroom. And again, um, Melissa, when you stepped out, this year will be the first year
181we're doing that trip. It was in the budget for this current year. So, we're very hopeful with the collaboration that Mrs. Cryan has already had with the museum that it will be a success and so we've budgeted for it for the following year. Um, and then the instructional equipment is just um some of the frames that are used. If you haven't been in our school, again, I welcome you to come anytime. Um, but Mrs. Cryan frames student artwork and it's all around the school and students can write reflection statements to to talk about their piece that people can can see when they're visiting. So, overall, it the budget is only slightly up by $196, but it's pretty pretty flat from what it was this year. Any questions about art >> audiovisisual um so these are
182you know the resources we need to um engage with some of our equipment in the building. So we have a poster maker um and so there's some supplies in there for the poster maker. We also, similar to the the middle school, we have headphones available to students so they connect to the devices in the correct way and they're comfortable and appropriate for our young students. So, we will um purchase additional ones for our incoming kindergarten. Our goal in the last few years has been to purchase them at the kindergarten level and then they're labeled and bagged and they follow the student um with the exception of the ones that don't quite make it from from grade to grade. But our intention is that we're not purchasing them all the time every year, but that that
183student gets gets a a good pair and then they can follow them through the grade levels. Um and then the areas at the bottom are audio equipment for concerts. Um we have um our students sing at our Veterans Day assembly and then we also have a winter concert. Shameless plug, next Friday uh the 16th, we have a 10 a.m. show and a 2 pm show. I always recommend the 10 a.m. show and we're a little more fresh, but um please come and and enjoy the the tribute to the Beatles this year, which is really exciting. Um but just navigating between phones and our PA system and the speakers or amplifiers, they're just some connected devices there to help us out. But overall, this budget is down significantly from the previous year because we had um
184purchased a bundle of resources for our poster maker and we have not um gone through those. So, we didn't need to replace those. Um, so that was a big savings there. Any questions about AV? Right. Custodial. Um, overall, our budget is down a little bit here, $500. Um, most of this is just the cleaning supplies that we need to keep our schools safe and clean. Um, there's some, uh, a line item in here for keeping the equipment, you know, working correctly. So, in the summer, we're stripping floors. We're using all these different machines to strip and wax and do all of those things. And sometimes things happen and they need to be fixed. So, we always put something in there to to help with any of those incidentals that might occur. Um, and new dollies
185for the garbage cans and mop buckets. It's very exciting. Um, but that's pretty status quo. Usually there's there's a big chunk there that's primarily for the cleaning materials and supplies that we order throughout the year. >> They do a fantastic job keeping that school clean. It's old and it's >> my beautiful girl. She's so good. >> She does. She looks good. >> I'm always impressed for elementary school. It's very clean. >> Mhm. Mhm. Came back from break. Floors were all shiny. >> Team effort. >> Buffing goes a long way. Um, so I have a question regarding the I assume the PO is a purchase order. It's a blanket purchase order. Is that what that means for 26,000? >> Um, do we is that is this typical amount? Is it more? Is it less? Like if
186you were to look at the last few years, >> um, I think it is pretty typical. Look at >> We looked at what was spent the last few years to come up with those numbers. Yeah. Okay. >> It was I mean the overall was um 26,000 in fiscal year 2025, 30,000 for fiscal year 2026 and 295 for >> and NextGen is the vendor. What is What is NextGen? Is that a generic? Is this is this like we're ordering cleaning supplies? >> Yeah. From that company. >> From this specific company. >> Are they on the Connecticut um bid list? Do we know? Like I'm just I've never heard of them. So they are >> okay. >> Thank you. >> All right. Next up is health and this is specifically our health office or our nurs's office.
187This is where you see we are at 1887. So that is up from last year but as I mentioned we always super conservative with what we were getting and finding that we were spending through it um a little bit too quickly. So we asked them to be a little bit more liberal with their purchase of bandaids etc. Um, but these are these are just the everyday supplies that are being used to address the the health needs of our students. Any questions about that? Okay, next up is language arts. Um, and this is inclusive of requests by the grade levels for language arts resources and materials, also by our reading specialist who provides our intervention services. Um and she also over she's our instructional facilitator for reading. So she's she's looking at sort of the needs
188of the whole school as well as the needs of our students that are receiving intervention. So you had seen on the previous budget for middle school there was a remedial reading um section and then and then language arts or reading at each grade level. Ours is mostly combined in this one area. Um so overall this budget is down my eyes are not working um pretty significantly and the reason being is that we had put in a line item last year for curriculum um because at the time that we had to budget last year we were not sure at that point what what language arts curriculum would be adopted um and so we had a we had resources that had been purchased through grant funding and not knowing if we were going to move forward with
189those, we had put in a line item for the a different program if that's the direction we went and that's why it's it's so significantly different there. Um but you can see these are resources for our phonics programs, foundations or Wilson um you know things we need for regular um our our dibbles 8. So, we have the Amplify platform for entering all the student data, but we also have hard copies for the students to have in front of them as they're doing their assessment. So, they're they're looking at that physical resource rather than a screen when they're doing those. Um, other things here are some additional decodable readers for our students who are working on specific decoding skills. um some you know resources to house all of our amazing books that we have um the
190professional development that I mentioned before to continue to expand our teachers ability to deliver this instruction um with all of the resources that they have in their possession now. Um the resource media is there for the MClass Dibbles 8. Um and then some subscriptions to help support teachers. So Heggerty is our FMIC awareness program that we use specifically in preK and one. Um and there's a teacher resource that they can access additional materials to support the learning for students. And then the fun hub that is connected to our foundations phonics program that we use. Again, it's another platform for teachers to be able to access additional resources outside of the manual and the physical pieces that we have. Um, and then Lexia is another um program that's used sometimes for students who are receiving intervention
191services. It will target specific needs for their foundational reading skill development. They'll take a little placement assessment and it will give them a pathway of skills to work on to um address their specific needs and areas that are at a definite that time. So we use that sparingly for students that need additional layer resource. >> I have a quick question. >> Um um again trying to parse out salaries professional development that's in the overall budget. I heard that earlier. Why would we see professional development here in this budget? Now, >> so our teachers or our our instructional specialists, if there is a need for professional learning in their content area, they put it in their budget and then usually at some point it's pulled from the school budget and brought to the district level. So
192go ahead. >> So I guess my question is for Dr. Drio. So you mentioned yes uh earlier that we would be having our meeting tomorrow. We would see salaries. It would be statewide. >> Is professional development not districtwide? Is professional development not included in your presentation tomorrow? Is it broken out specifically today only? >> No, it's broken out by school, but then you will see it districtwide. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Okay. And so it it just seems like a lot of money, $10,000. I just I'm a little surprised to see that. So it's only for this your English this this core cohort of teachers. It's not for your entire school. >> No, it's for everybody. It's for everybody. Yes. Yep. It's for all of our K through third grade teachers. >> Okay. But because
193the the language the reading specialist oversees all of the curriculum for reading and writing school, it's reflected on her budget for >> Okay, that makes more sense. Thank you. >> Can I ask you a question? >> I thought we would to add additional reading materials to the classrooms to offset where the rigor doesn't currently exist. So, as you're going through each unit, >> how to supplement, >> right? So, we're in the process of teaching all of those units, like truly teaching them for the first time. We had piloted some of them, but as we're doing it, teachers are noting >> areas where we need to make replacements, where we need to add things, where we don't have them. Our teachers do have pretty significant classroom libraries. Some of them need to be updated. Um, we
194also have some resources that we were using before in interactive readalouds. We have literacy resources connecting to social studies content. So, we're figuring that out right now. We didn't budget for it yet because we don't have the information. >> You're only on unit two and you're you're capturing all that. So, yes, >> I know you get money like the scholastic dollars like middle school. I just don't want to see you short-handed if you need to expand the classroom libraries. That's my concern. I >> No, we're we're we're teaching it. We're living it. We're figuring out what we need to do moving forward, where we need to supplement or add additional resources so we can make really purposeful decisions. So, it it isn't in this budget right now. >> Okay. >> Don't forget it. >> I
195won't. Oh, my teachers will not let me forget reading resources. They love their books. They love them. >> So do our kids, right? Any other questions about the reading? Okay. Um so what we do also it's a little confusing I apologize. So we have again the overall school resources that are needed and then grade levels I had mentioned before might also request additional resources within the content area. So those are the pages that follow. So for example prek is looking for another set of interactive readalouds for one of the prek classes that doesn't have that resources and those are um stories to help you know teach particular life lessons. They're culturally relevant. Um, and we've been using those in our other prek classes. They've been sharing them. So, they had asked for >> those are
196in your line items though. These are the breakdowns. >> These are the breakdowns. Oh, okay. Yes. So, you can see p like grade level by grade level what each person helping with that budget has recommend or has has requested. So, next up we have Nath. And again, overall math is up slightly. Um, there was a bit of an increase to our the MClass math resource that we use for our benchmark and our progress monitoring. We were we did purchase that last year. The cost went up a little bit. So, you'll see that reflected there. Um, the purchase services again is that professional development. We we use the Bridges math program and so we work with a coach who comes and works with our groups of teachers to help them continue to refine their instructional practices
197um as we see areas that students might be struggling in more. This person helps give us access to additional ideas and resources and tools that can help address some of those areas. And so um we've been working with the same person for a few years and she's phenomenal. She's actually going to be coming back in on February 10th to do a math night workshop for families, which we're super excited about. So, we want to extend that learning so our families really understand what we're teaching, how we're teaching, so they can best support their students at home and engage with them. Um, again, a lot of, you know, instructional supplies, general supplies to help, manipulatives to replace some of the things within our our math program, things wear and tear. we we you know things need
198to be replaced after different periods of time. Um I also mentioned before that we are hoping to bring our bridges resources down to the prek level so that they have a consistent resource that they're using to help develop those early numeracy skills for our youngest learners. So that is also reflected um in here as well. There's also some of the grade levels use the student books. Some grade levels don't because they're able to print those offline and they print off the ones that they are regularly using and didn't feel like the workbooks made sense whereas other grade levels really use those more regularly. So you can see some grade levels are replacing some of those um workbooks there as well. And so overall up a little bit um but hoping to support our foundational skills
199with our prek kids. Any questions about math? Awesome. Moving along. Library media is next. Overall, this is up a little bit and most of that is from the software that's used in the library for um research development for our students as well as um you know being able to access different um resources to I just said that research re research resources. So in our library program which is part of our essential arts group, students not only engage with literature and read some phenomenal texts and learn about different places and people. Um they also our library media specialist teaches those early inquiry skills for our students, how to research different things and how to to access the resources not only in the library but that you can access digitally to to learn more about topics and
200things like that. So all of those those things have unfortunately gone up a bit. >> Are just curious is there is there an overlap with teaching kids that young AI or anything like when they're doing research? I'm just it's just I'm just curious like what is what is somebody doing research in first grade? Like what are they researching? Um in first grade they actually do animal research projects in the spring. So they learn about they choose a different animal that they want to learn about um and they do research and then they present to their classmates. They'll do maybe a poster or a brochure or some kind of a visual presentation of the things that they've learned. >> So in the me in the library it's books. They're not going on the computer and researching
201anything. >> It's books and then they have a small set of iPads that they use as part of their rotation to do some of that early research work. And so we interact with things like Epic. Um, and I'm I'm blanking on the other one that Mrs. Clowski uses regularly. Epic's a really good one for young kids um because it's very age appropriate, student friendly. Here's a picture of an owl. Listen to the owl. And then here's some sentences about the owl. And it will also read it to the student so if they're not yet a strong enough reader to read that research. >> So it's really focused. It's really, it's not here's a here's an iPad kit. Go figure it out. It is >> go Google it. >> Yeah. And I'm gonna teach you I'm
202going to do a mini lesson and teach you how to do this and like let's pick something we all want to learn about. >> Yeah. >> So that they start to learn that process. >> No. Um, anything else about library? >> All right. Music. Um, I think overall it's up just $66. >> Okay, thank you. It's hard to read the red. Um supplies replacing different resources that are being used. Um nothing kind of out of the ordinary here. There's things to continue um the music program. He he purchased a good amount of um music and resources last year. He was working on expanding the the world music piece of his curriculum. So he has purchased over time like some different instruments, digy do, you know, things like that to bring in these different experiences for
203kids um so they can see them, touch them, hear them and um interact with them. But overall, not a not a lot going on out of ordinary here unless there were some things specific you wanted to. >> I guess the foam headphones don't cut it for Mr. Sally. I've said one so all right um the office and the principal's office again similar to what you've heard before this isn't just what's happening in my physical office these are things that support the school um overall so um things connected to our PBIS or soar program are reflected in here so um as well as our restorative practices and tools tools and incentives that we may use for our students there. Um, we have brag tags that students get when their sore tickets are selected from the bin
204each week. Um, and they collect those proudly on their backpacks. Um, general supplies. There's usually a little bit in here for any like emergency recess replacement things. Our PTO also does an amazing job of helping keep our little sheds um full of of things to help keep our kids occupied who are not um using the playscape at the time. Um staff recognitions we do throughout the year to support culture and climate. Um our family volunteer or community volunteer breakfast that we do in the spring. Um we have a Go ahead. Can you uh elaborate a little bit more on the staff the support improvement for culture and climate? What do you focus on? >> Um so we we acknowledge the um what do we call them? Can't even think of the words right now. So
205parent appreciation, teacher appreciation, law enforcement officers day, um OT, PT. So, so we we try to bring in things to recognize our staff on on those sort of national recognition opportunities. So, it could be cup of coffee, could be a raffle, it could be something where we do um uh sometimes for the PBIS for staff that award the most store tickets in a month, they might get to pick a gift card out of a hat, something like that, just incentivize and kind of support the work that they're doing to support our kiddos. Um, so again, family volunteer breakfast that we do in the spring. And then we also do a a large Veterans Day celebration. And part of that is a breakfast for all of our veterans and their family to attend our assembly. Um,
206and then memberships to some organizations to support administration. >> What is is Goldfish literally Goldfish crackers? I'm on uh the last page under Amazon. >> Yes. So, we have um we have emergency kits in each of our learning spaces or spaces that students could be if we were to be in an extended emergency situation and maybe that that class or those students hadn't had lunch yet, but yet they're not able to access that. So we have bottled water, goldfish, things like that to sustain. >> I get it. I just want I'm just >> So that second page are more of the office supply paper and laminate and all the fun stuff that we use every day at the school level. Okay, any questions about those? All right, next we're into PE. Um, overall it's up.
207Oh, no, it's down $164. Um, you know, just replacing different supplies that Mr. Kelly might need for um the different units that he instructs on. Um, we have the field trips in here for the the disc golf that we talked about. Um, so that's that's so it's like $1,500 for a disc golf field trip. Am I am I looking at that correctly? >> For two grade levels to go on two different days. So the transportation is really the most expensive part. So you can see the the cost for two buses, which takes all of our second graders. The actual um park rental is $100 each each of the two days. So that's the admission, if you will, is $200. It's the transportation that costs the most. Um, and then there's a couple organizations that offer
208professional development specific for PE teachers that Mr. Kelly attends and brings back his new knowledge and new ideas and is always reinventing and revamping his curriculum to um, give our students that best opportunity. >> What is the Hamden PD? So that is a a regional professional development. It's held in Hamen. That's why it's it has Ham there. >> Hampton Public School System. >> So they offer different workshops for um PE teachers throughout the day. >> Yeah. >> Is it possible to have a some sort of a spreadsheet on all this isn't a question necess? >> I have one at the front of my book that you do have access. Yeah. So again, like from these, we pull it all out so you can see all the field trips in one, all the professional learning. >>
209Great. Absolutely. >> Awesome. >> Next up is prek. Um, and so some prek resources you'll or some prek budget items you'll see in uh Wendy McCabe's special ed budget. So some things are specifically purchased um on that end. And but these are resources and things specific to um what they need in the classroom. again, a lot of regular supplies for instruction, things that they're using regularly um within their learning centers to engage kiddos. Um their budget is uh is down 278, so a little bit lower than last year. >> I'll bring it back to you after Okay. So, we're just your front page where it has office of the principal. Even though it says here $36,967, the front page only says $6,570. So, there's 30,000 not accounted for. >> I think that's I think that
210is in the general supplies under regular. I think it ended up in the wrong spot. So right here >> when you look at your grand total for off of the principal >> is after we're going off of that grand total here >> says 36,000 on your seven >> fell under I think it's under >> so it's just maybe >> fell in the wrong spot >> I think it was a regular program >> and not >> because I was looking at that before we were presenting and I was texting my assistant I'm like why is this number >> so we just need to know that the regular programs really isn't 46,000 when we go and look at it >> to put it in the right spot. >> Okay. But I don't think it changes any any
211>> wonderful wonderful. >> Thank you. >> It should not. >> Okay. >> I got to circle back with you for a loaded question here >> on the goldfish. What about what about kids with I mean obviously if it was a life-threatening situation and they had to snack on goldfish. What about kids with food allergies? >> No. No. The food service director checks with the nurse to make sure that we have the alternative in those classrooms. Okay. We already Yeah, he definitely took care of that. >> It's the safest of all kids snacks, but yes, if there was a specific need on for a specific child in that location, >> we do that. That's something I started last year, we do it every year. >> Thank you. >> Is that for all schools? Yes, every single
212school has um a supply of water and snacks and um a little sort of wet. >> Yeah. If they need it if there was ever a true emergency and they were stuck in the same spot for hours on end. So, yeah. All right. So, the next is um things that don't fall into any of the other categories that we talked about. So, regular education supplies. Um, again, sometimes I think it's the way we code. Some things people might code as a language arts supply and somebody else might code it as just a regular ed supply because we use pencils for all things. So, I think sometimes there's a little bit of a a strangeness on how things might fall out. But, these are just other supplies um that are broken out here that are considered
213regular education supplies. holders, crayons, glue sticks. >> It's It is the majority of of what we we have a >> big chunk of slid in there. >> We just want to make sure it gets correct. We will absolutely do that first thing tomorrow. >> Um and then Science is next. We talked before about that resource media. That's the mystery science platform that we use across all of our grade levels K through three. Um the other resources that are here on the science budget are specific for those experiments and those different lessons. So, a lot of them require really specific um resources to utilize paper bags, cardboard, hole punches, food coloring, and they're all connected to the um the phenomena that each each grade level is engaging with. Um there are also I went out of
214order. So, the STEM budget is first. So, we have STEM as part of our essential arts groups. So, Mrs. Miller is our STEM educator. So STEM and science are under the science umbrella. So I I apologize. The STEM was the first one and that is up slightly. Um I think bas just the cost of resources. Um Mrs. Miller has also attended some of the project lead the way training this year which um you heard from the middle school mentioned and Dr. Dr. Drio mentioned that it is a K12 um opportunity and so she is looking at how she's incorporate going to incorporate some of those lessons units I don't know what they're called modules >> into the work that she's already doing. So you'll see she has a project lead the way resources line down
215there to be able to to get some of those additional resources as she's revising her curriculum. And then the science is right after that. And again, as I mentioned before, um these are specific resources to engage with our science curriculum, but you'll also see the field trips listed on here that are specifically connected to the science content, which are the ray of light trip for our kindergarten, the Cold Springs Farm trip for our um first grade, and I think M yep, the trip to Makamotus is on here as well. And another fun connection with that is they engage with community members who are really familiar with the the land there and take our students and families on the tours for the trails. And so it's connected to sort of the history of the land, but
216also they have a science unit on um the plant life cycle and things like that. So they do some some of that science work there as well. >> I have a quick question. At the top of this page, uh there's directions that say, "Please be sure to add 10% to your line items in case of any cost increase." What is that? >> Because usually the new school year, calendar year I should say, January 1st, prices go up. So when they're trying to put this together in the previous school year, they don't account for that. And then there aren't enough funds because >> that was not adjusted. So, h how many how many of our schools have the direction to add 10% to their line item? >> The same sheet for the entire district. >> For
217the entire district. >> Yeah. So, >> Okay. >> So, it's only $5. They might, you know, obviously have to add 50 cents to that. Yeah. >> But you're just doing it arbitrary without knowing for sure what the price is. So then once the budget gets a little bit further in development phase and that price increase doesn't pan out, do you pull that 10% from the line item or is it left there as padding? >> It wouldn't be padding, but if it's not used, it's left there. >> It's a practice in all districts. And so is the 10% added to every every single line item in the operational side of the budget? >> Yeah. >> Some of them they know what the price is. >> Some of them they know what the price is. >> Okay.
218>> But some of them they don't. So they have to put that buffer in there because they do come in at higher prices. >> School specialty that vendor in particular new calendar year there will be differences in the um materials and cost. because we're looking at the prices in October. >> No, I hear you. I just >> July and after and we were >> I just want to make sure that >> we don't leave an in we don't I I don't want to see inflated line items when when we know we're getting it cheaper. And so I was just curious how deep this instruction was um and what it was for. So you're saying it's not for everything. It's just for things that you haven't gotten a quote on. >> Yeah. And you can see
219comparing last year to this year that it's minimal. >> Okay. >> And that is on the top. >> Awesome. Did they say cheaper? this. Okay. Um you'll also see um science spin which is scholastic resource specifically for um our kindergarten level kiddos to enhance you know some of the the science opportunities for them. And then the scholastic news um for under the science category in first grade. So they use those as well to enhance their science instruction. Any other questions about science materials for K and first she's the science editor. So it's just she's just doing it for everybody. Yeah, it looks like she consulted with her team and she put together all the science resources. So Sweenie also is doing it for first. So I just want to make sure I'm not sure why
220she did the K one. >> Maybe she was helping out that grade level specifically. >> Yeah, cuz she did some of the second grade. Overall, this is down um about $2,000. And as I mentioned before with the field trips, the Capitol and the Connecticut Museum of History um that those are free for admission. So that decreased some of the cost um overall to the social studies budget. Um, again, you've got some some literature resources, but the primary amount of the social studies budget are the field trips. There's also scholastic news there for social studies instruction for second grade. And then let's find out is another Scholastic reader um around the social studies content. And that's for kindergarten. >> Are these like what I would think of like a magazine? Yeah. The physical magazines. Yep. >>
221I like the titles of some of these like the little resources. >> Personal finance economy, right? >> Yes. >> Well, and it's what's fun, too, is our kids in >> money reading. They get an introduction to little critter in kindergarten in the reading curriculum. So they're familiar with the characters. So then they bring it forward with with this content and knowledge world knowledge. >> I'm really I'm very very serious. Sounds great. >> And I think adults that need to write. >> So that's that's the gist. Um, and if you were unless you were asking before about the kind of pulling them all together towards the front, you'll see the field trip page. You'll see the PD page for the elementary requests. Um, >> first couple pages, >> the long the long sheet, >> and then
222the the software or the resource media page where it's all pulled into one spot. >> Well, thank you everybody. Thank you very much. >> Thank you everybody. >> Great presentations. >> Yes. Thank you. >> All right. >> Yeah. Appreciate that. >> Thank you. >> Dr. Drito, >> can I clarify the comment about the freeze? >> Please do. Yes. >> Because um those comments are written in by the teachers when they make their requests. Correct. Those >> correct? >> Okay. Um I looked back at the individual lines that we were talking about. That would assume that there was a freeze this year because it's next year's request. What I think probably happened was they were told to tow the line. And so the first one, the language arts instructional supplies, they had reached their max in
223the prior year and they have the funds this year. The world language purchase services, they did not have anything last year. They have that amount for this year. um world language general supplies. They over spent um by $12, I think. Um the field trips were not budgeted last year, but they are this year. So, I think they're mirroring what they're what's going to happen this year, and that comment didn't come out. They probably had a a directive for a flat budget, which they termed a freeze. Um but there was no district freeze on spending. um technology. I'm looking at that one now. They had a significant increase this year. So, there is certainly no freeze in their ability to spend the money this year. >> I appreciate that because you know that kind of kind
224of language is sometimes um can cause people to get very upset and so I I saw it repeated over and over again and that's why I was like, "Wait a minute, what's going on?" So, I appreciate I took a look at the individual lines to make sure that there was a a reason for that. It looks like the non-budgeted ones then that amount was put in for this current year and they want to continue it for next year. And so that dialogue probably stayed on the spreadsheet um not meaning anything. >> Thank you. >> Okay, great. I'm going to go around the room just to see if uh anybody has any last minute questions. I don't have any questions, but thank you all so much. You put a lot of hard work into >> definitely
225appreciate the the presentations, the thoroughess of the information that's in here. Uh, you know, residents around town ask us every year to look pencil by pencil and that's what this is. So, I definitely appreciate the the thoroughess with this and all of your hard work. Thank you. >> So, I would certainly echo those comments. I guess as a a new member, I'd like to know what the process uh really is. Um you know, are we going to reconvene as a subcommittee and go back through it and make recommendations or like what is the process? So we have you have the operating budgets for the three buildings. Tomorrow we're going to get the actual overall budget so we can see that's the way it's I understand it. what is the process between now and um board
226of finance? >> So you'll also get special education through services tomorrow evening as well and then I take any input that you have. I work on creating the superintendent's budget which then will be presented to the board next month and then the board will deliberate and determine um a final budget amount to be adopted and that's what then is presented to the board of finance. >> Okay. So this subcommittee has an opportunity to uh reflect and make suggestions or anything else but we don't do it come back as a subcommittee and do it in talks amongst ourselves. We have to provide that recommendation to you individually. Is that >> individually? It could be tomorrow evening. It could be at any point. We don't typically have another meeting after we have meetings for the presentations and
227then there hasn't been like yet another meeting. >> So if if if members of this subcommittee wanted to forward to you Dr. Drito a question or a recommendation what is the deadline for us if we wanted to do that before you >> this month >> pro provide your proposal this month. So by the end of this month, if you have any additional suggestions or questions, >> this is the time. Yes. >> Okay. All right. >> This is unprecedented. We've never expedited like this. We've never come from >> a break and within a couple of days present. We usually take the entire month of January. >> This is new for me. So I'm really trying to understand what is the problem. So when it was determined that the tri board was going to be next week,
228it just accelerated everything and otherwise we'd be going and we wouldn't really have a full in a full representation of what has come forward and where we are initially. And so we've tried very hard to be as prepared as possible with like a pretty challenging timeline. >> So is it your expectation, Dr. Drito, that you would be presenting your superintendence recommendation in February? Yes. Okay. Okay. >> Okay. Thank you. I just wanted to understand the timing of everything and how it comes together. So, um, so we've got some work to do over the next couple of weeks to really if as a subcommittee member to really understand. >> Sure. >> And do we have that look back that I had asked for a few a few weeks ago? Like we have it compared to last
229fiscal year, but do we have the previous like a three-year or we just have in our documents last fiscal year? So, I provided you with two years. Okay. I could do the third year. >> Okay. I I don't I'm just curious. So that's So the way it's presented right now is it's just as >> 25 26 and then new request. >> Okay. So it is the third year would be the 26 27. >> Okay. Great. >> Thank you. I'm good. >> All right. No questions for me. Thank you so much. Great as always. Um K questions. I do have to say I echo Dr. statement and that this was expedited because we used to do the whole month of January. Thanks for your patience. We used to do like meet at the elementary school and
230do their presentation, then do a night at the middle school, then do the night at the high school. But we did I thought it'd be a great idea to have you got to have some kind of number for the tri board meeting. And the tri board meeting used to be the end of January. and we weren't we just were told a date and so I think we should come to the tribe board meeting with some kind of preliminary number. >> Thank you. >> And just lastly I just wanted to just for everybody at home eventually this will all be online >> by line of the board's adopted budget will go live. Yes. >> Right. So, not beforehand, but once we do adopt that, this will all be online line by line. Every little bit that
231we've gone over will be online for everybody to go and view. So, all right. With that said, um, can I get a motion to adjourn? >> So, move. >> Second. All right. >> Thank you everybody. >> Thank you so much. Oh yeah, we don't