001e something e hold yes um it is 6: PM and I'd like to call the February 24th 2025 eastline Board of Education public hearing to order to discuss the proposed 2020 6m and I'd like to call the February 24th 2025 East lineation public hearing discuss 6 pm and I'd like to call the I don't hear myself any is really is why don't you try it again he done it twice it's n okay let's try this again it is okay it is uh 6:01 pm and I'd like to call the February 24th eastline Board of Ed public hearing to order to discuss the proposed 25 2025 2026 school budget uh first order of business is discussion item where uh superintendent Newton will walk us through give an overview of the eastline public school proposed budget for
0022526 all right come on up here that way we can uh with thanks okay we put together a few um slides from our other uh other presentations uh specifically the [Music] one back in January we run through a few of those so we can update everyone because there were some changes and adjustments as well based off of the deliberations of the Board of Education as to uh our final um proposed uh budget increase in number going into so um let me just first start um with a an overview again for Community mainly anybody who uh you know has seen some of this for the first time and will be watching uh the reporting at a later time um a lot of discussions have been had about next year's uh proposed budget we've had two workshops
003November 18th December 16th uh we had uh my presentation to the board on January 13th and then the board of AD had held their deliberations on January jary 27th and February 10th talking about uh the uh overall increases and um some minor reductions that we looked at uh going into next year timeline we've adjusted the timeline from tonight moving forward just so everyone can see with our uh public hearing tonight February 24th then we will be presenting to the board of Finance on March 24th and then at the end of April we have the board of Finance public hearing April 28th town meeting on May 12th and the um ultimately the referendum 22nd so this is what's left in uh the coming um three months what will transpire as it pertains to the border of
004and town budget just to review our cost drivers uh as we we shared this slide when we presented to uh the Board of Education back in January uh obviously salaries and and benefits are are two biggest you know fixed cost and big drivers being salaries 47.3 2% of the increase and employee benefits 27 and a half% but I wanted to particularly just note again um you know tuition uh some special education costs and transportation you know we're up fairly significantly for uh for next year so that added to uh that overall that overall increase as you can see the tuition um 5 157,000 Transportation 366 so those were couple of unanticipated costs but factor into next year's budget process um so we started back with the workshops with uh an increase when we rolled everything
005over of 8.26% looking at going into next year the December Workshop um in between November and December we work that number down cleaning uh things up finding duplicates of things uh got it down to 6.99 um that was our proposed budget in January to the board of education and then the board of education has um recommended bringing that down to a 6.72 which will be voted on you know later this evening after any further discussions so that's where we're at the 6.72 um fixed costs we was like to share this slide for our community to ensure that everyone is aware of um you when you have a district operating budget you know fixed costs are you know 96.8% you know it's contracts uh majority of of this 64 million is um is is fixed as
006it pertains to uh our operating costs that small sliver of 3.2 um% for supplies textbook software Etc so uh just a kind of a final recap of where we're at um for everyone um it's a 60 current year is a 60 mil 24675 um, budget um proposed is 64 m574 and that represents going in next year a 6.72% in increase which little bit will um they up this evening we had share this slide as well this just gives that history so we can make sure our community um parents um eventually Board of Finance Board of sing Etc will see uh some some history on our preliminary budgets proposed Board of Education adopted and then our final adopted budget so uh you can see that going back to 2022 23 where those numbers fell um and
007you can see we're still waiting for that final yellow bar at the 2526 to see where are the final adopted budget in the lands so that just gives you a representation of the last few years we share the next two slides are you know the per pupil expenditure we talked some about these how our per pupil expenditure for both area districts as well as the dur um have uh have increased um this is kind of a two-year snapshot 2223 for use in the 2324 school year and then 2324 for use in the 24 25 it's always a year year behind so uh you can see where those numbers have gone where people expenditure has increased it pertains to against other districts our total number and then as well for the durg um where we land
008as it pertains to our district reference group 241s we had shared those slides previously but wanted to just bring those forth again then uh enrollment just want to make sure for our community sake uh get this question a lot what's your are the enrollment the district looking like um we're pretty balanced um as you can see you know we're you know going into 25 26 um probably right around in and 26 27 are the the two uh low points um and then starts to creep back up a little bit not by a lot we're pretty level um going out to 20 uh 2032 2033 where we're um up um 2543 approximately for our total ofal enrollment so not a lot of fluctuation there we do have that bubble that's at the high school right now
009we've talked about that was at the middle school previously but it's up at the high school right now so they have uh a lesser enrollment of students at the high school shared services uh very important slide want to make sure we get out and you know we continue to work with our uh Community surrounding districts um pound and uh sharing services to try and save money so we've done a lot of this over the years um Jamie thank you you pointed out we add it in Salem shared services that's an important one we're providing food services facilities and security oversight for the Salem District um so there's a lot of good things going on that continues to grow uh and support I think I shared that we're looking to work with Waterford on the their
010the automotive program because they have a much more substantial Automotive site than we do uh on on their school grounds so we're looking to maybe send some kids there as they send kids to us for the EMT program so we continue to work on shared services and additional cost mitigation efforts capital he shared with everyone uh or the board members I should say uh about the adjustments in capital from the recommendations of uh the cap the new town Capital committee so that came down to these um these items um which were the most important to us we were able to um push a few off to the following year but the nine exenter roof um the Middle School roof life extension um which we've already done three or four years of two more phases of
011that and that will will ensure that roof is good for another 20 years so much lesser cost in trying having to put a new roof on in the next couple years track and turf uh replacement here at the high school is in for next year as well as um our typical Capital we lowered our capital a little bit usually it's 500,000 we were able to bring it down to 407,000 after some further discussions um in and inside work to be able to lessen that sum to help out with overall costs so uh we have uh a town Capital meeting coming up um that's Thursday I believe the 2 yeah this 27th yeah so we'll be looking at the 10year capital um plan with the town but that is next year's Capital for the board and
012then Staffing we had shared um these items are um at the top still in this 6.72 we are in need of another school psychologist at the middle school case load numbers are High um we need supports there we know that um and that uh position is in um at eastl middle school for next year new position and then we needed to to adjust the family and consumer science teacher um making it a full-time from a point4 up to a 1.0 because of the uh the finance course work that's going on in the high school so those two are in um staff retirements um we uh that actually that two Elementary we just received a a third recently so we have three Elementary retirements and we have um the one technology education teacher at the uh
013school so not a lot um the sense of uh uh individuals retiring um it's a good thing we've got a lot of great veteran teachers who we we like to uh to uh keep and great work that they're doing but um not a lot retir RS going into next year and that's uh that's it that's kind of just a snapshot of uh a lot of the slides Board of V has already seen But for our community I'll point out if any community members they view this they want to reach out with any questions all of your information is on our website so we're always happy to have conversations um share additional information to ensure for uh never being transparent with u our our Budget moving into next year so I'll entertain any additional questions questions
014uh we can turn to uh to public comment I think is the next night anybody have any specific questions thanks everybody thanks Jeff and team a lot of hard work has brought us to this point so appreciate everybody and looking out and the work that you've done to to get us to this point um in the information so the next outter business is public comment relative to the proposed School District budget for fiscal year 20 2025 to 2026 any public comment public comment any public comment okay hearing none I will close public comment and look for a motion to moved a second all those in favor say I I post same great you're going to keep this is rolling yes yes and now on our special meeting okay it is uh 6113 and I'd like
015to call the February 24th 2025 eastline Board of Ed special meeting the the first order of business uh discussion action items Finance is discussion action proposed adoption of the elps budget for fiscal year 205 2025 um any further discussion I have presented I just have a question um have we have have we got any any updates for the insurance from the state is the last time where nothing yet no we hopefully next month or so um but yeah this this will April the beginning of April yeah W it down so we are hopeful that it will come down from the 11% that's currently in the and if I remember the timing of it is Board of finance will probably be in the middle of the liberations of deciding our number when we actually get the
016number so uh and that's why I think it's good that we're you're at the highest point because it's easy to come down it's much harder when they're in the middle of deliberations trying to get numbers down and then something pops in that drives their number up which we experienced a few years ago okay um don't want to make a motion on have to be very specific I'm sorry yeah make motion to adopt the proposed 2025 2026 design public school budget in the amount of m574 a 6.7 6.72 increase over the current Year's budget as presented discussion all those in favor say I I opposed obain okay budget passes unanimously budget and the next order of business is we do have reason for executive session to discuss the The Cooperative agreement contract so does someone want
017to make a motion to bring us into executive session that we executive session should I myself andise Ariana myself Yeah Anna oh my gosh I'm blank very hna get Peter okay anyone else do I hear a second all those in favor say I I opposed then we are now in session