001e e for our mission our mission is to prepare and support all students within a culture of Excellence to do their best and to be their best so that each can be a successful contributing citizen able to adapt to change and to successfully respond to the Future to the rsu16 school board welcomes you to this meeting and appreciates your attendance um this evening's agenda is focused on the approval of a revised 2425 school budget we'll have a public comment period um following the presentation of the proposed revised budget and before any action is taken by the board we will have the the public comment session uh if you haven't signed up and would still like to sign up um please do that with with Lauren um I'm kind of kind of review our process so
002far um then Todd Sanders our superintendant and Stacy field our business manager will discuss the proposed revisions and how those cuts are reflected in the budget and how they are reflected in tax uh impact so kind of a review of where we are and what has gotten us to this point is as you know the school budget approval process is a two-step process which starts with The District budget meeting which takes into account the individual warrant articles and then the referendum vote which is a yes no vote on the budget so that District budget meeting was held on May 21st um it was approved with one adjustment to the proposal uh the referendum was held on June 11th that budget vote failed by 177 votes there were 736 votes for and 913 against so that
003requires us to start the budget process over again um with some added pressure in terms of of timeline uh if there is an approved board budget this evening The District budget meeting will be July 10th and there'll be a referendum vote on July 30th which then would allow our communities the time that they need um to develop their tax uh assessments on the approved amount um following the budget failure on June 11th a community survey was distributed uh we got 124 responses while many indicated strong support for the budget more than 30 people um made comments and expressed concern about the tax burden that it would be uh various ideas ideas on that survey were shared regarding changes that might be made uh in the budget the budget committee did meet again as we had
004to start that process over again we met last week on June 20th attending were the five board members that are part of that committee and our community members uh Lisa Cesar from minet Maryanne Hawks from Poland and Paula STS from Mechanic Falls and also attending was as our superintendent and business manager there was one recommendation um from that budget committee and the recommendation um that was supported unanimously was to lower the tax impact for all three towns to under $200 per 100,000 of property valuation uh so as a budget committee and as a board um none of these discussions have been easy uh the of the reductions and the cuts will be deeply felt um as the letters the emails and the conversations in the past uh recent days have certainly confirmed um we are
005talking about cutting positions that we have fought hard to include in our school budget because we know they're needed um it will leave needs unmet um it's not a place right now that we want to be but it's unfortunately this evening uh a place that we have to be so Todd and Stacy are going to review the proposed revisions within the budget um and then that presentation will be followed by an opportunity for those that have signed up for public comment then the board will have a discussion um and we'll decide uh what action we need to take okay um it was actually mons ago that we started having some of these uh difficult conversations when the Ed 279 was released and it was apparent that we had received a significant reduction in state subsidy
006three4 of million dollars as well as knowing that we couldn't carry forward the 1.5 million that had been carried forward last year so we knew we were already looking at at a one over a million dollar um impact so we had to have some uh difficult brainstorming sessions um in the event and we assumed that was a possibility that the budget might not pass um and I I also want to remind people that prior to this decision and remind the board um we also had Esser funded positions that we did not bring into the budget so it doesn't show it didn't show us a reduction but we did lose positions um with our initial budget proposal by not including those e Sr funds uh funded positions in the current budget um once the uh the
007positions were identified at that level um once we knew the budget had failed and we knew the uh number of votes it had failed by the the first challenge we had was to identify what we thought would be a target number um that would be acceptable to taxpayers and we settled on a half a million is what we we started focusing on um the positions that got us to that and the uh the amount was shared with the 18 following the fail budget vote at The District budget committee meeting as Mary said held on the 20th uh these positions were discussed and the impacts were sh sh with the members of that committee um at the conclusion of that meeting as Mary also shared the directive to uh us was to come in with a
008proposed budget that would bring that um amount of impact to $100,000 home to taxpayers down to under $200 in each of our our towns which actually U took us beyond that that initial $500,000 number I will say there not one administrator supervisor who will say that the identifi positions will not be impactful to this school or to the district as a whole while some of the positions would be considered those that do not work directly with students the services support and professional development they provide to Educators parents Guardians and our community certainly does have a direct impact on our students these positions uh that do directly interact with students will be greatly missed and will create inequities or changes to current instructional practices these positions were not identified lightly however to accomplish the directive from
009The District budget committee positions were were the only way to achieve this you can't get to the numbers that we needed to get to um on supplies and um it's not just positions as you're as you're aware um John Holly also put up some CIP money and we know that that's been a discussion all year long about how that's always been an area that's targeted but he did identify over $100,000 in uh things that can be put off for a year and again we know the discussion we've heard it before um you've all have received electronic correspondences and hard copies of um the public and staff's concerns and I understand the concerns about the positions that that were being talked about so you have that information you've seen it it's going to be reinforced undoubtedly
010by the people who speak here this evening the board has to make a difficult decision uh this evening and we have a very short timeline in which to uh to act upon this Mary's already given the dates for the District budget meeting in the referendum vote so um it's not an e easy decision I realize that and none of these conversations were pleasant would you like to walk through the impact of those positions I'd like to start with the revenue sheet that you all have and I want to thank Joe parent for his great idea of just adding The Columns to the existing ones we used to working with so that it's very clear where those changes are the first thing is we did get Tod and I received a letter from the state we
011received $4,498 in additional State subsidy for this fiscal year FY 24 that money was a result of us meeting the threshold of what we have to pay for outof district placement students and so once we exceed those costs we get reimbursed from the state I did look back on the warrant articles from The District budget meeting last year and the voters voted for 100% of any additional subsidy received to be for tax impact and so on your second page you will see that we added that amount of money to the fund balance because that's subsidy coming in this year and it was voted on last year at the meeting it does not have to go through the audit process because we know it's additional funds so we were able to add that to fund balance
012which in return reduces the additional local that we have to raise and so that is a savings for taxpayers the second thing on the revenue sheet um also on page two you can see the total all revenue is a reduction of 431,000 and so I'm on the second page right near the top the first amount in parentheses um that result is from the changes we made to the expenditure budget which I will go over as soon as we're done with the revenue sheet um Todd mentioned the CIP reduction that was $113,000 and so between the reduced expenditures the CIP and the additional Revenue received the tax impact savings is $699,000 I do want to mention that that 154,000 additional subsidy we received We cannot put back expenditures for that that has to be used for
013tax reduction which is what the voters voted on and that's why that's in the fund balance it was not used to offset anything put back into the budget with those amounts it makes the tax impact per 100,000 valuation in Poland $199 remember the goal was to be under 200 for each Town Mechanic Falls comes in at $157 and mine it at $129 and then moving on to the expenditure changes uh the first section was regular instruction if you look all the way over to the right to see the fy2 adjustments that was 32775 there were some insurance changes and budget benefit changes for some individuals in that cost center and so that's what that reduction is further down under p PRS prhs regular instruction which is for the high school that 78811 was for twoed
014Tech positions the next page under student and staff support is 86899876 on that page it is a net difference of $2,846 and what that is is bringing a curriculum coordinator position into that cost center and removing one of the coach positions on the next page under MCS Library there was a 0.5 FTE edte position removed under system administration board of directors there is a reduction of $847 we did receive our renewal for our insurance coverage we had budgeted 15% because as you all know insurance rates have been going Skyhigh it only came in at 12% so there was some reductions for our liability insurance under School administration again that was just some insurance benefits for 4,133 transportation there's a reduction of $4,422.29 is the insurance it is the insurance for the bus coverage thank you
015Amy y that is a big one uh SK right over system administration um so right I talked about insurance and then I skipped the superintendent's office that is where we we removed an assistant superintendent position and also an administrative assistant position to the superintendent for a reduction of 22,170 and then down to facilities maintenance all the reductions there are because of the insurance for the property insurance again going from 15% down to 12 for a total of $1,420 in that column and so you can see the total reduction of 431,000 673 that is also reflected on the revenue budget just a word about the insurance renewal uh it did come in lower but what has happened is our deductibles are increasing and that's happening Nationwide if we have any hurricane damage there will be a
016$50,000 deductible any wind and hail storm damage will carry a $25,000 deductible and any water damage which would include broken pipes like we had this past year is a $25,000 deductible okay well we'll move on to our public comment um we would ask that speakers uh that are need to be recognized um and I have the list here of people who have signed up we would ask you to come to the microphone um and to state your name and the town of residence um individual comments if we can we'd like to limit them to three minutes um do we have the on screen okay so we do have the on screen timer which will will provide a notification at two minutes and will'll indicate when the three minute limit has been reached um ask you
017if you have questions to address them through the chair so um Katie toer can you guys hear me um I'm Katie toothaker I'm a resident in Mechanic Falls I'm also a employee at minet Consolidated School um so it's really easy to feel emotional about these changes that are being made and so what I figured I'd do tonight is I'd just keep to the fact so our library position it transcends Beyond just checking in and checking out books students access the library all week long our librarian AIDS teachers and curriculum support supplementing research books about our units and it also serves as an intervention Aid in our building our intervention is right now is being moved to the classroom due to comparability stuff with Title One funding um and classroom needs needing to be built uh
018prior to that position and so the loss of an interventionist but also losing the interventionist need Aid of our um librarian is a huge thing for our building um so you guys said at the start of the meeting part of our mission statement was to prepare and support each student towards success and um tonight I'm just going to ask the board to think a little bit about the word Equity um Equity means being provided enough resources specific to our needs to be successful and um our students at minet they deserve the equity of resources to have full-time access to our library um our other schools are going to have that our other elementary schools our middle school and our high school it's unfair to our students to cut just the Min at position down half
019time and that's all thank you thank you ktie thank you and also thank you Katie for the messages that you have shared with the board in the last week we appreciate that uh Gina Molton good evening I'm Gina Molton I'm the library at Tech at minet school for the past 20 years I'm here to address that position being cut recently I've written to all of you regarding the numerous reasons why a school library should be open to the staff and students full-time now I would like to tell you some examples from my personal experience is as it relates to being a librarian that you probably don't know and why this position is so important to me and to my students I love reading I love my students my number one goal is to instill that
020love of reading to them I do this in many ways book talks read alouds summer reading programs book challenges and contests are just a few sometimes the energy and time I put into these can be overwhelming sometimes I wonder if it matters to anyone but me but then there are other times when a student stops me in the hallway and asks me what the next summer reading challenge is going to be and that they can't wait to get started that by the way happened about five times a day in the last couple of weeks of school while waiting in the breakfast line they look at my bulletin board where I posted new books and asked me if I will hold that book for them so that they can check check it out they share with
021me how nervous they are to be participating in the battle of the books that's coming up but they are so excited that they get to participate this year when they ask me if I have any books about Taylor Swift or tractors and I have to look at them and say sorry we don't but the smile on their face when they show when I show them that I ordered those books and they can be the first one to check it out and they say to me you ordered that from me and I say of course that's what you asked for that's what you would like when a student asks if they can stay in that recess to help me at the library when a parent texts me late at night with a video of her child
022reading her first book all by herself apologizing for it being so late and then that child comes to see me the first thing the next morning to ask me if I saw her mom's text and I get to tell her how excited I was to hear her read an entire book all by herself and I am so proud of her when another parent messages me a pick of her son reading and thanks me for introducing this new series when the public librarian asks me how do you get so many minant students to the public library during the summer and the school year to check out books when the older kids come to class and ask if there's anything they can do to help me and then when I hear one of them say to their
023friend I just love coming to the library I want to be a librarian someday these are just a few of the things that make me proud to be their librarian and these are just a few of the things that happen when a school librarian is in the building fulltime thank [Applause] you and thank you Gina we I appreciate the the messages that we've also gotten from you thank you Joe Matthews good evening I am Jill Matthew the current technology coach and I've been in RSU 166 for 10 years I'm here to encourage you to remove the technology Coach position from your list of proposed cuts that you approved this evening and I'm not asking to do this for me I'm asking you to do this for our kids the students of RSU 16 um right
024now I'm the only technology coach for all five buildings and um many schools have one per school or sometimes they're split between two schools but I do serve all five schools um this year I had 145 direct meetings with teachers whether it be oneon-one modeling um holding PD sessions meeting with teams um I taught in 32 classrooms reaching over 500 students which is many more than I could have reached as a classroom teacher um when I see Kids in the Hall they'll ask me when I can come back to their class or they'll remember me as being the elf that taught them about coding at Christmas time um many many Great Encounters with students um I'm supposed to be leading an AI integration for ouru 16 this year in the fall and in the age
025of AI it's not going away we would be doing a huge disservice to our students to allow them to fall even further behind without this initiative AI will be a part of our students future we have to help them be Future Ready be trained and to learn pros and cons our teachers also need to know the pros and cons and be trained and know the f Copa compliance and data safety um AI will also be need to be integrated into our policies and I PL to lead all that in the fall I am the district admin for many platforms panor Panorama our data dashboard is k6 and was supposed to expand to 78 in the fall um clever was a game changer for K2 used to take them 10 minutes to get into their computer
026type in their password but now they just hold up a badge and they're able to get right in save time to instruction instructional time every time um I implemented coap which was a gifted testing program um I ready I set up report groups for intervention groups progress monitoring summer school I'm a lead chair for district professional learning Council which has been integral in moving professional development forward in rsu16 hopefully you had a chance to look at the link of the library of the courses available to our staff where they can earn their certification hours for free of charge um I serve on the new teacher cohort math leadership team and I oversee the digital citizen curriculum pay 12 um and I also am appoint person for the Geo um Outdoor Learning for rsu16 in conclusion
027the instructional technology Coach position is vital for the continued technological instructional advancement of our district the extensive contribution this role has to support teachers student learning increase student engagement and motivation carry out platform Administration curriculum integration and professional development highlight the IR this position would undermine our District's commitment to leveraging technology to enhance education and prepare our students for the future I request that you remove the technology Coach position from the proposed cuts that you consider this evening thank [Applause] you thank you Joe Whitney buer Whitney king buer um minet resident and parent U I can just say from knowing Gina since my boys were little at minet that um her heart and is huge and to hear the boys say coming home you know boys that my boys that are not like diard reader
028fans but I tell you when they say Miss Molton with the book club Miss Molton found these books for us and to hear now that my boys say when we go to mechanic Fall's Library uh to miss Peterson's that we that they say my favorite author and I'm like to hear that out of their mouth after struggling for boys you know my boys that aren't big fans of reading in general to hear my favorite author come out of their mouth I'm like that is something and I'm like that is like hard work from a village so what I want to just say is that one of the library position at minet it is critical essential educator you know not just because they are a teacher per se but they are an educator in our school
029and critical Learning Resource especially for those that are struggling and I find that it is a full-time position and it all of the reading programs that they do through for the children is is it just shows that when you go to those Min at Mustang um Awards and everything like that just to see how excited the kids are about these reading programs so I just want to say um especially postco and all the learning that we are trying to catch back up with um to the library position is a critical resource for full-time so thank you very much thank you Whitney uh Caitlyn Brown my name is Caitlyn Brown I'm a resident of minet parent and principal of minet consolida school I'm here to discuss my deep concerns about reducing our full-time librarian position to
030half time our librarian is more than just the keeper of the books Beyond managing the library and providing enriching reading activities she plays an integral role in our academic intervention system current she provides classroom coverage enabling our teachers to deliver highquality targeted tier 2 interventions to students who need additional support MCS does not qualify for Title One funding which typically supports such Staffing in previous years we added an interventionist position but this caused comparability issues within our elementary schools forcing us to mortgage classes within one grade level with increasing enrollments for the coming year we are now compelled to repurpose the interven his position into a classroom teaching position as our current enrollment numbers demand an additional classroom teacher for this group of students this leaves us without a dedicated staff member for tier two
031and three interventions placing more strain on our overextended teachers cutting the librarian position would worsen the situation making it harder to support struggling students additionally our librarian's role is also an edtech position with already already low wages a halftime positioned would likely push her to find full-time employment elsewhere attracting a qualified candidate for halftime would be nearly impossible risking the end of our library program which would be a huge loss for our students our P our per pupil spending in RSU 16 is already lower than the state average and even more so at the elementary level further Cuts would only deepend this Gap the decision-making process seemed rushed with no thorough discussion at the aam level about the impacts of these Cuts we need more involvement from the remaining District administrators who will be dealing
032with the long-term impacts I urge you to reconsider this proposal our Librarian Is is crucial for our students and teachers cutting her position would harm our interventions reduce education quality and strain our resources even more let's take time to consider the broader impacts and find solutions that support all of our students I want to also Al address the proposal to reduce the assistant superintendent position to a curriculum D director and eliminate the superintendent Administrative Assistant role both are vital while I understand the need for budget cuts we must ensure that changes don't weaken our leadership Amy hetar is capable of stepping into the superintendent role but cutting both the assistant superintendent and the administrative assistant positions at once could disrupture transition and the district stability RSU needs strong consistent leadership it's wise to prioritize changes
033rather than make them Sim simultaneously I'd welcome the opport in any of these issues should any board members have any additional questions thank you for your time and consideration thank you Kaitlyn Julie pie evening I am the librarian here at the middle school and the high school and as the only certified librarian in the district I also support our elementary library edex um but before I speak about that I also want to kind of piggyback a little bit on what Jill Matthew was saying I'm in stand up for her position a little bit as well she talked a lot about everything that she does for students but I cannot even begin to tell you what she does for staff she is our go-to person for all kinds of Technology things we have a great it
034department but they are not the ones that help us with AI and with all of these different tools and things that we can use with our students and um things that make our lives easier she has helped out students I've directed her to a student that needed help with her senior celebration and she worked with her and helped her um I just can't tell you how many times so many of us say how I do oh I'll ask Jill she'll know how to do it so I just want to uh you know talk in favor of that position as well it's a very important position and with the way technology is now and with the Advent of AI we really need a position like that in rsu16 um but also back to the library position
035at minet school um there is people have talked already about the love of reading and what Gina does for our students um but there's so much more to these Elementary library positions than teaching those Library classes if this position is cut to Hal time there will be very little if any time for all of the other responsibilities of running the library now don't get me wrong teaching those classes is a very important and timec consuming part of that position but they also need time to checkin books and Shelf books and process new book orders and new Supply orders plan those lessons and activities that they're going to be doing with all of their classes not to mention things like pulling books for teachers when they come in and say I'm doing a unit on astronomy
036can you pull all the astronomy books for me to take to my class and organizing the library straightening up the library keeping the library circulation system uh up and running and and accurate um there's so many different things that need to be done dealing with chasing after overdue books doing an inventory there are so many other responsibilities that this position has and if it's only a halftime position there isn't going to be time to do any of that stuff um there'd be no time for those extra things the battle of the books that Gina does Main student book award and chicky award programming Book Fairs that put books into students hands and and uh you know bringing a lot of money to the library but they're very timec consuming and they're a lot of work
037um and all of this would adversely affect our students and um we're also going to lose that Equity I mean in the years that I've been here Equity has been a big topic of conversation and if we only have a halftime Library position at minet and full-time in the other schools which we desperately need not finally I want to say that according to the main effective School library program standards which is the document that was created by the main Association of school libraries and was endorsed by the main library commission and the main State Library our elementary libraries barely meet the standards of developing even with a full-time library edtech in each school without a full-time Library edtech mine at school will not meet even the lowest criteria on the main effective School library program
038standards rubbert so I truly hope that you'll consider reinstating that position and when you look at it on paper it's a position but when you look at Gina and you see everything she does for these students it's much more than just a library position thank you thank you Julie uh Mary Wallace hi I'm Mary Wallace um I'm a resident of Poland I also am the school nurse at minet Consolidated School um I just want to Echo the same things uh that was said about our librarian um as a Poland resident I can tell you Equity yes is very important for everybody we all need to be able to have a school library and we should all be able to take advantage of it um if you cut this position down to a halftime Min it
039will not get that same advantage that the other schools are getting um and I know a lot of money is based on the title one um and we do not qualify that for minet but I've seen over the years as a resident and a parent of kids that went through PCS how little minet ended up getting throughout the years um so enough on that I will also go to another position that I am concerned about and that is our head nurse position um I know that cuts have to be made I totally understand that but I do want to say that we were pretty much um our team was in distress before covid hit then of course covid hit and Co added to our stress like no other we got that head nurse position we
040were all on the same page there was no fighting there was no bickering everybody was doing the same thing and as that person with the least amount of traffic to her school nurse office I've gotten fooled to other schools and I can tell you the difference after having a head nurse has been amazing I was able to walk into the right here to the high school and work knowing that we're all doing the same thing could not say that before we got Dody baggley in here um and our Department of Education in their wisdom keep bringing on new things for us to do we have Naran we now going to have to have glucagon and all these other things in our safety bags that Dy has been implementing and getting a hold of and getting
041all the information and working with our um doctor to be able to have that um protocols in place so that and policies in place so that we can use those and know what we're doing and be safe taking care of our children and our staff um so I am sad to see that position um if it goes I'd be very sad I would at least like to see it a halftime position I know I'm reaching for the stars um my other things I'm a little bit hesitant about curriculum coordinator I feel like our principles and our teachers know what to do with curriculum they can handle that I would rather see like an admin post to the person to help Amy get through there and thank you thank you Mary uh Jackie Harmon did you
042want to speak I am Jackie Harmon um I am a kindergarten teacher at mic Consolidated School um I just want to First say thank you I know that none of you want to be in this position and it's a difficult position to be in um I first would like to talk about Gina's position the school librarian um I want to reiterate everything that Julie pretty said all the things that Gina does outside of her her job um but in addition to that this year something was really spectacular that Gina did was her mystery reader um as a kindergarten teacher it is really easy for me to see this fun being slowly sucked out of teaching and learning and I do my best to shove it all back in there and that's my job and put
043a kid smile on the kids faces every day but the biggest Smiles that I saw in their faces this year was when Gina put together the mystery Reader Program um she had a group of for those of you who don't know she had a group of teachers read books she recorded it they listened to it they guessed who they thought it was and then they all came in to the auditorium when all of the students were sitting there and they were dressed in blow up chicken and shark and animal costumes and it was absolutely hilarious they unzipped the costumes they revealed who they were and it was one of the mo happiest I have saw the kids all year so thank you Gina for that um in addition I would also just like to comment
044on the tech Coach position um Jill has been a huge help to me and that is coming from somebody who feels pretty comfortable with technology but I don't have to use it quite as much I'm not using Google Classroom I'm not using as much apps with high school or middle school students per se but at the beginning of the year the hardest thing for me to do is to get all of my students logged into their computers if you could just put yourself in my position for a second with 12 fiveyear olds and imagine trying to get them all to use a this clever badge at first it's pretty funny but it's also a lot and it takes hours of work for me to do on my own and Jill comes into my classroom we
045figure it out we troubleshoot how to get new students logged in and get their those codes working as quickly as possible and get those kids on so that they can do the things that they need to do um that our principls and district is are asking um she also helps me figure out Tech things all year long and comes in and does dresses up as an elf and we do coding with the students and it's a really important position that's just coming from one person out of all of the people who work in this District I'm sure if everybody could speak you would be blown away at all of the things that Jill does for us thank you thank you Jackie and and as I look out there I know some of you also sent
046us letters and I want to say thank you for that um you need to know that they were shared with our budget committee and that each of us uh received those letters that we have read them and we thank you for that thanks um so we are going to move on to our board discussion and questions so I'm sure the board must have some questions around this for the um budget committee for Todd for [Music] Stacy there it is um I actually wanted clarification about the MCS library because I personally was under the impression in that meeting that we were cutting to half to make it Equitable but based off what everybody's saying here tonight is we're now going to be the only school that doesn't have equity for a librarian so if somebody could
047just clarify that yeah the initial discussion and I apologize because I miscommunicated some of that information um when we origin originally had these discussions we were talking about bringing it into alignment with some of the other specials which are shared between two buildings and that was the initial conversation that we had at this point it's making that a halftime position now what kind of ripple effect will that have what kind of reconfiguration might end not just this change but any change necessitate moving forward it's it's tough to say right now because we just don't know and we've got things like rifting that could impact as well so there's there's a lot of layers to the onion um but you are correct questions I'll share continue that just looking at the budget numbers for the three
048Elementary School libraries I'm trying to understand what each school has because the numbers are very different so I would like to know what that represents because it looks like PCS which has almost twice as many students also has a if it's not part I I don't know it's much less for the salary so so there's a salary scale that we have to follow for positions and the PCS edtech is the newest person in I I don't know what step they're on I don't have that off the top of my head but there are different benefit packages and based on that that um that contributes to the cost yes yes based on what we've done here that wouldn't be something I could no other discussion Randy Todd could you clarify again because that was my understanding
049too not that it would have been ideal but we would have had to been split in the librarian between the two schools and that's yeah when we when we started those discussions at central office level there was talk that positions are shared between buildings now um and that was we were talking about the possibility of that happening currently that's not that position is not they are full-time positions at all three schools sorry they're currently all full-time positions at all three schools those positions unlike some of the other special positions do not are not shared you got it buddy okay so I'm gonna say publicly that I don't support that now then because I was under the impression that we were then going to be sharing um and then we would be Equitable I didn't realize
050we were going to be cutting her to halftime I thought we were going to be sharing her halftime in our school and then halftime in Elm Street um so I as a minor rep I do not support that cut anymore other questions or discussion Melanie I'm just it's a question to the to the budget committee um seems like we're we're cutting a lot of personnel what were some of the other things that that we were looking at um this time around that could be cut because I'm thinking we may have room in athletics and some of the other areas I just wondering why we're cutting St when what other situations did you look at Capital Improvement plan took it there's $113,000 that was taken from capital Improvement um and a lot of this was under
051the recommendation and I don't know what kind of discussions happened with admin that happened before the budget committee meeting but there was an outline that was brought to the budget committee that I was under the impression that admin felt comfortable with and that was kind of where we started I don't think adme feels comfortable with any of this I mean and get to those numbers Ed to the budget committee was that the conversations had happened with admin prior to the budget committee meeting and this was what they were bringing to the budget committee as options maybe they weren't comfortable but this was the best that they could find it certainly wasn't the budget committee picking out positions no that's not the budget committee's responsibility um to get to the number that we were directed to
052get to it has to be positions yeah I would say that other other things that we discussed were not going to get us to the place that we needed to be so as Todd said it ended up um being a discussion about positions um and the the CIP of which uh all of those were things that we were reluctant to look at but it's the only way we can get to a number that um we asked our our three Community people to be involved in the conversation um we also asked our community through a survey and what we heard overwhelmingly was if we wanted a budget to pass that we needed to make some reductions um and that's what we're sitting with now is these are these are hard decisions and um it involves the
053programming that were the programs that we provide for our kids and Personnel that we care deeply about um but the message that we got clearly from our communities was that we needed to look at tax impact because we need a budget moving forward even prior to our first but like the first budget we brought for we we looked at supplies now to come back to your question too if you remember we we had some unfilled positions in our RSU 16 that have gone on field for a number either this year or two years so two and a half positions were cut from the even the first round of the budget and then we also had 30,000 in technology supplies that moved out of that budget that were one-time purchases into Esser funds we also then
054looked at the Improvement of instruction line which is the PD courses not courses but uh registrations for our staff and move 40,000 out of the local funds and then we'll Target that using our title four and Title Five funds that we received and then we also moved $155,000 from our literacy Grant uh literacy uh supplies that are in our local lines into our literacy grant that we received uh this spring so we had made those cuts to those supplies prior to to bring forward a a budget that we could feel like we could present to our our our communities even for the first round question is Stacy do we know what the tax impact would be if we add back the halftime librarian I mean I'm looking at the line item and it it can't
055be more than $ two yeah so it would go from Poland 199 to 2011 uh Elm Street or uh Mechanic Falls residence 157 to 159 and uh mine it to I can't remember what there but I mean that's not going to say pennies but uh pretty much for a very very important person in the district so I will tell you that at in the budget meeting we did get down to $195 in Poland that was the highest town so we did add back that's when we added back an RTI teacher at the high school and one of the coaches and that's how we got to the 199 when we looked at adding other things back we were up to 202 and the discussion was we needed to keep it under 200 and that's why we
056back down to the 199 just for the history of how that uh Jess did you have something hi I just wanted to thank everyone for coming tonight and for speaking we really appreciate all your letters and emails I am on the budget committee and we spent hours talking about these decisions and they weigh very heavily on all of us so I regret any cuts that we make and I would encourage anyone on the board that would like to add that they need to figure out where else to cut because we tried very hard to balance this because the community told us what they want and they want Cuts reductions in the budget not positions so please if anybody's going to propose that I recommend you make a suggestion of what else we could change to
057balance the change someone on the operations committee I would I would rather take 22,000 out of the CIP than take 22,000 out of the library Melanie provide us with the same information for the um can you provide us with the same information you provideed Patrick with the um technology coach how much that would add into I do not have my laptop I cannot culate any there's a lot of work in culating the numbers because addition local changes in each town and then we have to go to the TaxACT so it's not something that can be done in a couple of minutes I I would have to have my computers and I would have to know EX what numbers you want me to change I'm just asking that you said that there was a how that
058would impact the taxes for each Town Le two or three doll for yeah Patrick Patrick figured that it would be about two so I don't I didn't do that okay we don't so no one we don't have that information that is a larger position it would be a more significant increase then any other comments questions from the board he's getting the mic on um I also want to say that this was I was a budget Committee Member also and it was very grueling and um emotional you know because as a mom and a taxpayer you know all of the board members I can speak for uh were not comfortable with making any Cuts not even a part-time position there's a reason why we voted in the budget that we did and we supported it and
059we believed that there were many positions that we didn't even get to put in there that we wanted in there for our kids because at the end of the day we are devoted to our kids first and the taxpayers second we are all taxpayers we feel it we're paying it too um so I just want to reiterate that this was not easy for anybody but at the end of the day unfortunately it was the people who came out to vote they voted and we we heard them and we're trying to meet them in that space because it you know needs to be realistic um with all of that being said I do like um and I am also on the operations committee so as uncomfortable as it is if it means making us inequitable in
060the library area because I know what that contributes personally and educationally as I have kiddos there I would um agree with that but I would also like to ask the question again as I did in District bud or excuse me the committee budget is what do we have for unfilled positions and how long have they been unfilled because that would be my next space is if we haven't had them filled and they're still not filled then I want to cut even though we need those positions in the future I would rather look at making those cuts than the physical bodies that we have now when we're already working with the skeleton group I could find that out I can't take out my head but I can say some of those positions are necessary to fill
061even just because we haven't filled them doesn't mean they're not necessary um but I would have I can't tell you right at the top of my head what is or isn't um Patrick you made a suggestion or you at a point where you want to make a motion uh I think I'd like to continue discussion a little bit uh the next discussion I have is um I'm wondering because Ed techs are notoriously hard to fill districtwide Statewide Countrywide how many of have we ever been at a point where we have all edtech positions filled because say we have I don't know I I can't even spit out a number but say there's always two or three that are open I would be find eliminating one of those because if we're never going to be at
062full capacity for edex why do we even budget for that if we're cutting an edtech librarian position I mean we can go back and look at that uh primarily I would say special ed is where our edtech shortages are and legally we need to have Ed teex even if we can't again I'm going back to if we have positions that can't fill I mean can't fill them we can't fill them doesn't mean they're not necessary or legally needed we did have three special eded Tech open positions that we did not fill for this budget and we did take them out when we put the first round of the budget together Joe uh so I want to start by respecting and appreciating the folks that are on our budget committee both on the board and also
063community members and other uh staff that were involved in that that's not an enviable role I also want to appreciate the folks that are on our operations committee and the folks that were on the uh steering committee that talks about the heating and cooling of the elementary schools so I say that with respect and I also want to put on the table maybe a few more dollars from the capital Improvement plan and so I'd open it back up to Patrick you the chair Jess Jess no uh operations chair yes yes J chair your chair your chair of operations okay uh either you or maybe Mr Holly on the spot I'm just looking at some more dollars pulling it it's the hardest thing I've been serving on boards school boards in the in our three towns
064for a long time and it seems like as a community we have a and this is just an opinion it seems that we have a a greater proclivity to support things that we can touch and when it comes to supporting the difficult instructional curriculum that are human beings we are kind of okay with that as a and I'm talking about a voting population so with that perspective I am asking us to consider putting more dollars back on the table for some of these key positions that would come from our Capital Improvement line John would you like to address that um and I would just say as John is coming up and and Jess may want to add to this is that you know one of the things that we have um we've taken a lot
065of heat from uh is the fact that we have kicked the can down the road year after year in terms of our buildings um and this year we did ask for some more in Capital Improvements um because we can't continue to do that and have a learning environment that's safe um and so so it's that constant and and we've had lots of conversation about it and Amy has led lots of conversations with us about finding that balance um I don't know where it is um but there just aren't enough dollars and so we continue to do that and um and something suffers because there just aren't enough dollars whether that's our building or that's our programs um so John tell us talk to us about the impact if if we took more money from and
066John just so you're aware the the amount for the specific position that that Patrick uh referenced is $22,800 from there and of that Capital Improvement plan that was created I would Fair say that less than 15% of what was supposed to be allocated for the condition of our buildings was actually spent so this past year as part of the um the task force um the school board commissioned another assessment and um that assessment took into consideration all of the things that haven't been completed from the initial assessments back in 2011 based on that assessment to complete and redo well to bring our buildings back up to the condition that they need to be that dollar amount was $15 million it's a big number but realistically we can never get there and we're probably never going
067to get there that's just uh the the way we run our facilities and our buildings um with the budget amounts that we have is just not sustainable we're going to have to make some hard decisions in the future as to what we're going to do with the conditions of our buildings one of those hard decisions that we faced this year was the possibility of closing a school and diverting those funds to better the other facilities that we were going to keep but of course we you know took the opinion of the public and we have opted to save that school but part of the agreement to save that school was also to fund it and make sure that it was maintained the $113,000 cut that was proposed to the budget committee is actually the second
068cut that we've already made this year the initial operations the initial CIP budget that was proposed was actually 600,000 was uh one $1.2 million and we were instructed to bring it down to 600,000 and the plan was is to take that 600,000 and hopefully fund the CIP budget at 600,000 over the next 10 years now all the math Wizards in the room can tell you that still doesn't get us to the 15 million but it is a far bigger step than what we've been taking for the past 13 can we cut 22,000 from the current budget absolutely I could get you down to zero if that's what you're truly want but you have to weigh the importance of our buildings um and I don't I am not diminishing the value of our education folks I
069but we're all in this together I don't have them if they don't have me and vice versa so yeah we can make 22,000 [Applause] work yeah I think the another thing that um you that Stacy is um concerned about is that if if we are gonna sort of make a change of one amount for another it pretty much has to be exact and precise right otherwise you're going to have to re redo everything and to have you have to have it done by tomorrow right meet our deadline yeah so any changes that affect any of the cost centers will change the warrant articles that we have ready the warrant articles have to be posted for 14 days before the District budget meeting which right now is scheduled for July 10th so we do have to
070post them tomorrow so if we do make changes I could get that done tomorrow morning but then I have to have a majority of the board coming in to sign the so they can be posted the other thing is the referendum is not until July 30th so we could move the District budget meeting further into July if we needed to if we needed to make some changes if you needed more time for discussions okay Randy my live okay uh I I had some questions about the technology coaching job which was not even a position I was familiar with till I started getting flooded with emails exactly what this person does and i' I've got I guess looking at it my concern is that cutting it would might actually cost us money as well not just
071uh in the long term but like just the amount of time it seems to be saving staff just to a to have this person on call to sort out whatever it is they're dealing with and I guess my question is you know it sounds like you guys just kind of came with a you know a short list of possibilities how did that one end up on there I just um I've got we've gotten a lot of feedback in defense of that position so I'm kind of curious how we settled on proposing that one get cut as I said when we started those discussions at the central office level we started looking at first we looked at central office because we knew system administration was the one article that was voted down at the District budget
072meeting which is why you see the two big hits there that was the first thing we looked at and then we we went to our coaching positions acknowledging that they provide a valuable service um but we were trying to look outside of the classroom as much as we possibly could that being said I said earlier they have an effect in the classroom they trickle into the classroom any of these none of these positions are desired that are on this on this list um but when 85 to 90% of your budget is salaries and benefits to get to the number that we were direct to get to those are what we have to look at but I go back to what I said none of these are are positions that we want to see on this
073list we we need them all but we did start with the coaching positions and as Stacy did say the literacy we had another coaching position on there that was put back in after discussion with the District budget committee we had a literacy coaching position too it wasn't just the technology coach um has it been any conversation about how we going to address what like the role that that person plays or is it just gonna any of any of those discussions are going to have to take time over after decision are made um you know could it fall under the curriculum coordinated perhaps but I mean they're already going to have a a Bo hopeful of work to do so um I mean any of these impacts are going to have Ripple effects and they're going
074to be they're going to be felt and you my I think askes too but we don't have any numbers as what that would look like in or outside of the budget like if it was tried to add back in we don't know what that number looks like no can't it's like they just too too many intangibles to just say you cut 75,000 here it's going to add5 more do we know with that but um benefits and everything what is that position not allowed I was curious what well with benefits and everything what that position is costing us the teaching coaching or I'm sorry the tech coaching 111,000 111 all right thank you I would I would like to know what it would look like for us to look at an unfilled position like what is
075the Dynamics of that behind the scenes I understand it's necessary and we need it but we do need again speaking from Ops committee that we do need that budget and 20,000 can go a long way John's good at that so what does an unfilled position look like like what does that look like if we say we'd rather cut an unfilled position tonight as opposed to taking more money out of CIP how does that work well that's obviously going to have to be discussed in whatever whichever building it impacts we'd have to have discussions with those administrators we'd have to see what the position is how can it it can it possibly be covered with existing staff because that's what in essence you're asking us to do um for positions like that we usually budget about
076middle of the if if we're talking a teaching position we budget middle of the of the uh scale and we budget for full Family Insurance just to cover ourselves um so it's it's tough for me to tell you right now what what about an edtech position is there zero unfilled edtech positions in our entire District we may sell some ones but I'm not I'd have to not have to get that information I know the special ed has been filling some positions by I have a stack of paper on my desk I haven't got to them yet because I've been doing the budget and the audit and every year end so I know that um she filled some we cut some when we did the budget but there are some open edtech positions um the when
077we started the budget process and we looked at open positions one of them was a halftime PE teacher that shared with mine in Elm Street I know that was filled so the last time I looked at a an open list there were custodians and bus drivers and we desperately need those so and in conversations with administrators as the year was closing um they indicated that they were in pretty good shape with Staffing so I don't think there's going to be an awful lot of vacant positions out there other than what Stacy just mentioned I can speak to her there's five open teacher positions and they're all in special education the first one is the applied academics teacher at Poland Regional High School the resource teacher at woodier Middle School resource room teacher and the social
078social emotional k6 programming uh at minet does have our k6 programming there and our PCS functional life skills K2 teacher that is housed at home Community School our five openings right now uh I'm not sure where where joee and Kim are with hiring and applicants for those positions I know that the they had a pool that they were interviewing right before the last uh week of school there um but they are on vacation right now so I can't speak to where they are um I'd like to hear from my Board Mates about that what are you guys all thinking where are you all at is everybody on the board more comfortable just cutting another 20K from CIP or do we want to try to look harder at an unfilled tech ed Tech position or position
079in general like where is everybody with that yeah I'll be honest as much as it's our job to make the difficult decisions I don't think that we have enough information to determine which roles should be cut which should be saved I'd rather determine what's the amount of money that we're looking to achieve to save some roles and let the administrators make those decisions so Angela if you're ready to make motion um it's like pin drop um I'm gonna kind of echo Ed in the sense of I feel like even though and let me speak to this because we all left the budget meeting feeling like we had a plan but I think there's quite a few of us here that have like learned new information and I think it probably would have been helpful in
080that meeting when we had you know the time to dialogue and dissect like we did with the information we were given um so we could be more prepared um with that said I'm not comfortable saying because what what I'm hearing is that we don't have the ability to crunch numbers but we have to give a solid number to decrease from the budget is that how this works well I also heard Stacy give us some flexibility if we were to move to move our District budget being out by a week that would give us a window to make some Discovery so if I make a motion to add back in $ 22,8 to the budget does that work or is that putting us in a pickle because us move move unless everyone can go in and
081sign tomorrow a another board meeting like Recon I know we have one on July 8 schedule tentatively scheduled that is that correct Mary we have one scheduled for July 8th um we scheduled it in case we because what I'm thinking is I know that we could have done better as an A team was the the if you think about the timeline there the the process that led up to that was we knew that these conversations were coming we were hoping they weren't right we always have that hope that the budget would pass the budget failed on the Tuesday of the last week of school uh we met we had the board meeting on Wednesday at 18 we paused there to see what would come out of that and then Thursday we met and you know
082you're you're working on a fried brain as well as what is really happening what do really next year look like so my wondering is if we could have some additional time to co come back as an A Team I could call the 18 together to say okay let's look at this because I think that's one of the key parts that I think you're not maybe not saying is like what's the 18's recommendation and maybe that's what Emily and Jess were saying too before as to you thought that that the list that was presented was a recommended list and that was just a brainstorm list at that point in time to really being able to hear from the 18 team as to how do we how do we get to that that 200 uh um tax
083impact um below is so Amy when you you say that are you suggesting then that we stick with the same uh recommendation from the budget committee that it also is within that um $199 is that is that what you're suggesting that you go back to the at with I I guess I would like more conversation here that's a it's a big step I don't want I of course like the budget committee I saw Maryann walk in I'm not sure if Paula is here uh or Lisa I didn't see Lisa here so I don't want to overstep so I would look for the budget committee because I I feel that we asked our our budget committee to to get together we asked our communities to provide feedback and um I think if we move forward within
084that recommendation otherwise I would feel like we would need to get our budget back together because in essence we're not following what was a unanimous uh I would like to make a motion to table um this this item to uh July 8th send it back to the budget committee for actually bring in the 18 because looks like from what I saw they had really no idea what was being cut and what was being saved um so actually bringing them forward and having that conversation and let letting them digest and provide feedback uh would be critical and crucial so yeah I I guess Patrick is are you suggesting that we um not stick to the 199 or you I I'm moving to table it so there can be more more discussion um on July 8th when
085but the budget committee would need to get together before that if that's that's what you're saying that's a a tight timeline okay I just want to be clear about what you're saying I think it would be a good guideline that we're seeking to maintain that because we want to make sure we maintain all of our stakeholders are importance even though we're working in different groups that the 18 come back together and really say okay we're looking to maintain that 19 below 200 for all three of our towns how do we get there what I'm hearing Patrick say is something different I'm hearing you say that you you think the budget committee should get back together yeah and and have a better concrete plan of what we're going forward and what we what open positions are
086actually open and what we haven't filled and actually have the raw data and have the understanding of okay we can move money here there based on based on the whole board's conversation tonight it seems like no one's really Bally the role of the budget committee is the kind of recommendation that came out of it not this specific of it I I don't think the budget committee had enough information when they went in to have the meeting and I could be totally wrong and but it sounds like Angela at least was misguided during the budget committee meeting um and so not everyone on the budget committee is on the same page when they make a recommend recommendation I don't take that in full truth I have a question um for I'm not on the budget committee
087but um is it so let me ask this if because I strongly encourage the 18am involved in this and again I thought they were um and that's what we were judging is is their professional opinions so if you guys like what Amy was saying stick with the parameters which was what was strongly encouraged and enforced not only by our surveys from our community members by the bo the town reps on the district committee and by board members also to stick within that keep it under the 200k is what they were advocating for their towns as the town reps if we C if you can go and talk with 18 members convene again meet those same parameters does the budget committee need to meet again since that was what we kind of were walking away with
088not if they're going to stick with the recommendation that was made if we're not if the intention is not to stick with that then the budget committee needs to I think get the other again um we're gonna we're gonna honor that recommendation and just find some other ways to to do that or recommend some other ways to do that um then I would think that they would not need have that so I'm just G to do a point of order I don't think that Patrick's motion has a second so I'm going to Second Patrick's motion now I'm going to add my voice voice to actually kill it I vote that we kill it because I think the first best step is to is to do what Angela just described which is to ask The A
089Team to take the guidance rally we'll come back together on our meeting SCH sated for the 8th of July and go from there and and Stacy um latest possible date for a District budget vote we have to post for 14 days before the District budget meeting okay so you as a board have to approve a budget you have to sign Warren articles and then those has to have to be posted for at least 14 days before we can hold a District budget meeting from your meeting on the 8th between the date that the town wants the referendum is only 23 days so I'm very concerned about that timeline all right so we should try to be as tight as possible still Yes okay all right okay so Patrick's motion uh and we have a motion
090and a second you want to restate that pck my motion was to um table this um agenda item to the July 8th uh meeting will allow for more communication for the a team and the uh budget committee to get back together second yeah just say one more time reluctantly second because I I don't want the budget committee to have to get back together I just want us to follow their guidance so I'm encouraging my peers to vote no on Patrick's motion we have a motion and a second any questions or discussion Melanie has a question um everybody on the board who's going to be involved in that when you come when we come together uh on the eth that we have some line item financial information you know 22k for the the library tax that
091information I think is is pretty pertinent and we need to be ready if we're going to be ready to make some decisions that day we're going to need more specific information I believe Steve right right now we've got a motion on the floor if that if we have a motion on the floor right now if that motion fails then we would entertain another motion so the librarian is under the Min Consolidated School librarian which is in student and staff support so if we add 22,000 there and take it from the CIP that's two different warn articles that I would have to change which I can do that tomorrow morning and then if the board can come in and sign things but I'm hearing you want something different anyway so but um to melony as far
092as having numbers provided on the eight we would need to do that before then because we have to be able to sign warn articles on the 8 or else we're not going to make the timeline and the timeline was the towns the towns agreed to do the referendum on July 30th so if we want to talk to them see a date in August and that's up to you I'm just letting you know how tight the timeline is okay so we have a motion on the floor and a second any other discussion Steve please help me understand are we voting on numbers only budget only are or are we voting on uh changing which U jobs we eliminate also or just just budget just jobs or budget and jobs what exactly are we voting on we're
093voting on tabling it so that it can go back to the administrative team to provide some guidance in terms of positions thank you yeah with the 9 as the the max for any taxpayer to pay on $100,000 so I'm just look okay so I just want to get some clarification on what it means when we're voting yes and no and I want to really understand what Amy's intention is when we send you guys away to talk to the A Team because it sounds like I think not that any of the positions aren't important but I think the mass misinterpretation was off MCS library at te position which is why I think a a few of us have mentioned it so would the intention be to go back and try to get 22k moved around in
094the budget so that when if we convene if we vote Yes to table this 18 meets we come back on the eth are we going to be supplied with numbers on that 22 is back in or what does that look like because if we're pushing us out and it's pointless then I do want to make a motion that's going to make us productive and if that means shooting this down and taking it out of CIP which if if my Board Mates are comfortable y'all are like crickets tonight but then that's what I want to do for us to be productive I appreciate the productiveness to Angela it comes down to uh looking at where the where the cuts are like the positions if it's if the board is leaning towards the 22,000 for the halftime
095MCS librarian then yes you could you could look to take that out of CIP and be done with that tonight but if you do want us to go back and take a look at uh as other other people brought up the technology coach uh and other possible areas for cuts then we could also rather than cutting the technology coach then we can look at those components too to see where as long as we come back with something that is under the the 2003 so yes you have to think about and you're right your your your team needs to talk about here as to what direction to give to give us okay so we are Rand you had a question I just kind add to it I guess I guess if I if my preference is
096to have the 18 take a look at this and then how am I voting you would be you would be voting no against Pats all right okay um question Melanie yeah I guess I'd be hesitant going out after the CIP tonight I'd be very curious to see if we have other options I me we all are aware that we were kind of ignoring that for a while and then here we are just like people told me uh we're going to go over that first um my preference would be maybe get some other eyes on it and see if we'd miss something the motion so that we all understand can can I can I just start throw something out there what if uh the motion and the second rended and we take a straw vote on
097both scenarios because if motion and second resends then it's the T the motion doesn't we have a motion in a second we need to take action on it do you want to read what it is Eric to table the discussion until July 8th and it was and it's seconded by Joe and to table the motion to July 8th to go back to the administrative team and keep it within the less than 200 is that accurate Patrick I would not say that's super accurate because if restate it um they can do whatever they want with the recommendation I mean I would love to see the librarian back and if it pushes it 20 20 200. 01 cents I I'm not going to restrict myself SED that number all right so it is without that number so
098we have a motion and a second all those in favor all in favor this is the table this is Patrick's motion Patrick's motion which is to table it and till our next meeting and go back to the administrative team and not adhere to the99 and we had a second all those in favor oppos so that that motion does not carry so do we have another motion yeah I'd like to take another shot at passage motion and just make it a little bit less restrictive and so the motion is that we table this until our next scheduled board meeting for July 8th that will give the administrative team another chance or a chance perhaps for the first time to come back with some recommendations and I would request that those recommendations stay within our current guidance
099that we got from our budget committee which removes the need to reconvene the budget committee and enables us to be super efficient and make our timelines so that we can please the town for the V vote Eric how' you do we have a second for that motion and a second from Mike so we've got a motion and a second any discussion see none all those in favor have figure that out oh are we are we using yeah have come back to you you're do you have any you want us to do the again so that you I have I'll just read the four and to make sure numbers I have four Mary Martin Steve Turner Angela swensson Mike Downing Sarah Robinson Christine DS Joe parent Melanie Harvey Rand that would be against Andrea win Jessica
100Smith Patrick Irish Steve to to the posit the four vote for is 640 and against is 221 so that motion carries um so Stacy the other two pieces of our agenda we we can't do um warrant tell us what our next steps are right so there's no warrants now to approve because the budget was not approved but if we are still going to hold the budget validation referendum on July 30th as the towns would like in order for us to get assessments to them in time for their tax bills then we can still vote to have to call the budget validation referendum and I have the paperwork for the board to sign for that so if um on July 8th we have a proposed budget to move forward where within that timeline we still have
101the July 30th referendum and our also our district yes the referendum just has to be within 30 to 45 days of the passing of the budget so we'd be well under that so tell us what you need us to do now it's just the motion to the motion to call the July 30th budget validation referendum yes so do we have a motion so move okay and a second and second Mike motion Joe Mike discussion all those in favor anyone oppos so we do have all these that have to be signed everyone has their own line there's two for each town and one original for us to keep everybody has a line sign correct you're not signing Warren articles Mike you're just signing to call the budget validation referendum because then the Selectmen also have to
102sign these and then they get posted by the towns I've got three this way I would um make a motion now and we will sign these while we're here I would make a motion to enter into executive session regarding superintendent's contract discussion pursuant un one MSA 456d second any question all those in all those in favor you have a question Jess so all those in favor going into executive session that motion carried so we will enter into executive session thank you very much we appreciate you being here