001Good evening and welcome to the Brooklyn School District public hearing for petition warn articles. Um I'm Gina Bergsuk, superintendent. With me here I have Allison Manion, chair and Lyn Powers, school board member. We're here to receive input on certain warn articles that will appear on the sher's ballot. Article six, open enrollment. Shall the Brookline School District vote to adopt an open enrollment school program designating both RMMS and CSDA as open enrollment schools pursuant to New Hampshire RSA 194D for the purpose of enabling the district to admit up to one non-resident student to RMS or CSDA under the provisions of RSA 194D with 100% of its eligible resident pupils permitted to attend RMS and CSDA and 0% of its resident pupils permitted to attend open enrollment schools located outside of the district. Estimated tax impact is
002zero. The school board recommends this article 5000. Open the floor for public public comment at 6:36 p.m. Any testimony in favor? Any testimony in opposition? >> Any testimony in favor? Any testimony in opposition? >> Can I ask a process question? Yeah. >> How long do we have to keep public comment open for? Is this like is just until the beginning? Okay. Correct. >> I just didn't know if it was like it has to be open for >> I'm going to close input at 6:30 6 p.m. and move on to >> Don't we have to wait for the next one though because wasn't the other one noticed for 6:40? >> Yes. I didn't realize we noticed them separately. We typically notice them in order. >> Yeah, we noticed them separately. >> Let's sit for four minutes
003and chat. >> Fabulous. Uh so I will chat about all these articles. Um we did discuss them at our first public hearing which was January 15th. We discussed them again at um deliberative session. Um but we are legally required to hold a public hearing um a certain number of days prior to the vote which is March >> 14th. March >> Oh March 10th is the vote. >> 10th 10th is vote. 14th >> March 10th. And so we are holding this additional public hearing to be compliant with the law. >> And if anybody joins us in the next three minutes, we will invite them to speak. >> Get here fast. >> Okay. >> Did you see they did postpone the the other? >> Yeah. Till Thursday. Let me just make sure our live stream is working
004since I have three minutes. >> Mhm. >> Great. I like that color on you. >> Thank you. It's one of the few shirts I've ever bought that like I actually spent a little bit of money on, you know, like, you know, like usually I just buy whatever's cheap and deal with it. It's like a real Jay Cruz sweater, not a factory sweater, you know, like big time. >> It was like, yeah, but I liked it for the same reason. I was like, it's pretty color. >> When is the co-op meeting is what day? >> March 19th. March 19th. >> I just went through all these dates last night with my dad who was in >> March 17th is almost tomorrow. Is there >> I told him public hearing. >> Yeah. He didn't know about those.
005So >> he did not. >> What goes through his PO box? So >> that shouldn't like be the easiest one. That should be the easiest one for him to get. Right. >> He was surprised. I was surprised. That's right. >> Do you think they'll like the town meeting this year? Do you think they'll stop it after a certain number of hours and carry or do you think that it'll just our town meeting? >> Yeah, because like it's usually at night, right? So, it'll go from like 6 until Go ahead. Oh, that was pretty late then. Okay, fair enough. >> One minute. >> This is the longest three minutes ever. I know. >> It's like when you're watching water boil. >> Yeah. >> Okay. It's 6:40. Moving on to article 10. to establish a budget cap
006submitted by petition. Shall we adopt the provisions of RSA 325E and implement a budget cap whereby the school board or budget committee shall not submit a recommended budget that is higher than $100,000 per pupil cost times the average daily membership in residents of the school district as of October 1st of the year immediately preceding the proposed budget year, plus an annual increase for inflation using the CPIU for the Boston, Cambridge, Newton, Massachusetts, New Hampshire area published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics as of October 1st. Requires a three-fifth majority of the school district. The estimated tax impact is $0 per thousand. The school board does not recommend this article. 500. The finance committee does not recommend this article 2110. I'd like to make a note that during the February 4th deliberative session, the article
007was amended by replacing $25,000 with $100,000. I'd like to open the public floor for comment at 6:41. I'll accept testimony in favor. I'll accept testimony in opposition. Second chance at testimony in favor and testimony in opposition. I'll close the public hearing at 6:41. We'll start the next one at 650. >> Oh, we really planned a lot of time, huh? We typically don't do that. So, is the reason we're doing this He does it'll be good. >> Great. Thank you. And it is 650. So we will move on to article 11. Adopt a tax cap in accordance with RSA 325B. Shall we adopt the provisions of RSA 325B and implement a tax cap whereby the governing body or budget committee shall not submit a recommended budget that increases the amount to be raised by local taxes,
008this year's tax base, that is higher than the prior fiscal year's actual amount of local taxes raised, last year's base, adjusted for inflation using the inflation index, CPIU, for the Boston Cambridge Newton Massachusetts, New Hampshire area published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and the change in population in accordance with RSA 325B 1B estimated tax impact is $0. The school board does not recommend this article 5000. The finance committee does not recommend this article to one. Opening the floor for public comment at 6:51 p.m. Any testimony in favor? Any testimony in opposition? Any testimony in favor? Any testimony in opposition? I will close the public hearing at 6:51 p.m. Thank you so much.