001We are live. So why don't we go ahead and get started. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the November 6, 2025 joint meeting of the school board and members of the budget committee. The intention for tonight is to have one of our first two nights budgets. Definitely this is a collaborative session where we welcome questions, comments as we go through it. Just as a reminder for budget committee members, the school board has not had a formal presentation on the school budget. This is our first time as school board going along with you. Uh so there's been no voting, no motions, no action of the school board as yet. What we're looking at tonight is the superintendent budget proposed to school board and definitely looking forward to a collaborative couple days. With that, I'm going to kick
002off the meeting and begin to stand for all. >> All right, great. And just to get things started tonight, I'm actually going to turn it right over to the superintendent. Uh we have a presentation for this evening to go through several uh So I'm just going to start with the team real quick here just so everyone's familiar with each I'm superend. >> [laughter] >> Um, so we'll get started here. So, we're going to present our FY7 school budget here this evening. We're do this in two parts tonight. We're going to focus overall picture and then our school buildings and our staffing next. Um, so just a reminder on our goals, we're cycle right now. Last year was this first cycle. These are goals that kind of guide us through the budget process in the district
003we've had for your own interest later on if you're curious some key factors as we put this budget here. One, it's really nice that we're all in the second year and they can say you it's very helpful for those who recall four of us superintendent business administrator services were all brand new this time last year. So putting together a budget about a month and a half into the school year was a challenge. So I think you'll see that reflected in this budget. We have a strong respons negotiation cycle with teachers union currently making progress on that front and then we've been looking at options to address some facility needs at GMS and what that could involve. So um we have community forum about that November 18th. I'll do a quick plug for that. Uh we
004just had a meeting prior to this the subgroup that's kind of working on that. We're making progress in that as well to hopefully have both of those items um as cost items in March as well. And then the big thing is because of those kind of two significant cost items, we want to make sure we developed a budget that was fiscally responsible, right? U we can't be asking for millions and millions of dollars if we're going to be asking it for other places and for other needs. So we tried to really focus this budget on our needs, not even our wants, but what our needs from the district standpoint. That's what that's the key of this budget is. Um quickly, I'll just go over enrollment projections. Um it's pretty similar to what it's been in
005the past. I will zoom this up so you can see it on the TV. Um, we adjusted our formula um, this year. I went over this at the bud at the school board meeting last night. So, I'll just briefly go over it for others. Um, we were off on our kindergarten number last year from our projection. It came in lower. So, we made some adjustments to our formula to to project out next year's kindergarten group, which actually lowered what we had previously for the 2627 projection. Um, to reflect the the true birth rate in town and coordinate it with the school year. and we used a median um calculation rather than a mean calculation. We were looking at projections for doing that kindergarten number and then our retention numbers were pretty solid. We went up
006through the different grades so we maintained using that. We expected school district overall to be about the same size next year. Uh relatively speaking right now at this exact moment we reported out on October 1st as a school district with uh 195 kids. Our projection has,97 kids last year. So we're looking at about the same size um from a student population. Um again the elementary school being about the same size. October 1st was 373 projecting uh excuse me 405 uh was our pres when we include preschool October 1st 410 right now. Next year middle school about the same and the high school about the same. So not a ton of change in enrollment projected for next year. Again you can go into more detail here on the links at your leisure. Our proposal this evening
007includes our fun 10 accounts. That means um our school and SAU budgets. Um it will include the LMS lease payment. We're still paying that lease off. So, that is part of this fund 10 account. Um, and it's going to include some reductions of staffing and we'll get more into that later on, but there are some reductions of staff in this budget proposal. What is not in this proposal, we will present about food service um at a different time, but it's not in the fund 10. When we say an overall number, that's a separate account of food service stuff. Like I said, the two big ticket items potentially, the LEA agreement and the GMS project, they're not included in the numbers that we're going to show you this evening. All right. Overall, fiscal year 26, that's
008the current year we are in right now. We are in a default budget. Um, our budget is a little over $27 million right now for for the school district. Um, we have proposed this evening a budget um called the superintendent's budget at this point before the board attacks it. Um, at a little bit higher than that, 27,410,57. Uh that's an increase of about one and a half percent or a little under $400,000 is our increase that we proposed this evening. Again, we focused on our needs. Um we've kind of taken out other options and what do we really need to operate the school district, which is why it's so similar to the default budget that we're currently in, which reflects the needs of the district year-over-year. Uh there's three significant drivers of that increase. Um
009there's the health insurance. We've spent a lot of time talking about health insurance recently. Um we have uh we will not know fi final figures until the week of November 14th, the 10th through the 14th. Um but we have projected a 15% increase um in that interest rate for the time being and we'll update as we get a final number for that. Uh we see uh a large severance number. Uh for those who don't know, teachers when they they retire, professional staff when they retire um get a significant [clears throat] payment as part of their severance. Um true in the collective bargaining agreement that we have. Um, and that first year when they retire, especially if they've been in the district for a long time, is a significant amount of money. We have to budget
010for that money. If they retire, they get it. If they don't retire, we shift it pending warrant article into the reserve fund um related to benefits. So, we have to generate that revenue the first time someone makes that request. We have three new requests is a significant amount of money. And then my friend Brendan here, sorry. [laughter] um technology and we're going to talk focus on the non-personnel side of things. Uh we have some projected increases on that. Uh to maintain um the well-being of of our I will not go into great detail. I will leave that all to him. But to maintain some of our technology and to ensure that it's going to be safe, secure, and running properly, we need to address some some some issues related to it. To quickly touch on
011each of these, like I mentioned, health insurance 15% increases our estimate right now. The total net increase, and I say net because there's moving parts. We're reducing by some positions and moving all sorts of different things around. The total net increase there of 372,832. If you remember a couple slides ago, our increase [snorts] was 397,000. There's the bulk of it right there in health insurance um is what we're projecting. Severance again is contract obl obligations that were committed to salary, social security, and retirement. We see a significant increase from FY26 to FY27. We are bound to do this if people put in the request. Factoring all three of those components of it together, it's about $115,000 increase uh just related to seance. And then lastly, technology. We're focusing on the hardware and the software with
012technology. When we talk about these numbers, moving salary separately. Um big jump of almost $90,000 when we're looking at all those items that we have in our proposed budget right now. So summarize these three big drivers. The total increase of these three big. We have other issues that go up and down, other lines that go up and down throughout the budget, but these are the three most significant drivers. Total increase of those is about $577,000. Like I mentioned, our increase proposal for this is 397. So that means if you just remove those drivers, if I could just focus you on this, just remove those drivers for a second. We've decreased the budget. It was a default budget. We managed to decrease it. We amazing. Pat ourselves on the back. [laughter] So, but we are there
013are some things that the point of that is there are some things that are out of our control that we have to factor in for our increases. And uh we've tried with everything else in our control to really focus and be responsible with what we're budgeting for that. So, at this point, I'm going to pause and see if anyone has any preliminary questions before we jump into the schools. >> I do. >> Yeah. [laughter] >> Anybody else first? No. Okay. So you you had made a comment about severance payments being a key part of the budget. Yeah. Understand. I see that in the budget, right? You had mentioned three. I see five. Any why why the difference? >> Yeah. So two of these. So we have five employees and um for confidentiality reasons I'm trying
014to speak in vague vague terms. So we have five employees that have have requested uh to potentially retire at the end of the school year. They don't have to tell us to the spring if they follow through on that retirement. Two of those five have made that request in the past. So when they made that initial request, um both of these people were prior to me being here, they had their significant payments put into the budget. Excuse me. [clears throat] Obviously, they didn't retire. So at the end of that year, that let's say that was three years ago, they made that first request and let's say those requests were $25,000 a piece. there was likely a warrant article in that March year that allowed you to transfer that money if they didn't retire into your
015benefits reserve account. So, you didn't have to re raise that huge amount of money every single year for their separ. Right? So, those two employees have had that that money raised for them. It's been put in the reserve of fund. When they do choose to retire, like we've done in the past, we'll have to have a public hearing, take that money out, and pay those employees. We've had three new employees who have not made the request to potentially retire in the past. So this is not a guarantee that they're going to retire. In fact, I wouldn't be shocked if none of them retire, but they at some point have to start asking us to raise this money for them. So we raise these significant values for these particular people. Um they range in payments. One's
016over 33,000, one's over 39,000, and one's over 23,000. So they're big chunks of change. To compare that to the people who are have returned, we've already raised their first significant um payment. The first one of those is a little um it's $1,800 and the second one is about $2,200. So once you get that first huge payment out of the way, you just have to to raise smaller amounts afterwards if they continue to work for the district. So that's why you're seeing those big numbers there. >> Got it. So the the the two that have a much lower dollar amount, it's because money's already put out. >> Correct. Yep. >> Thank you. >> Um in addition technology, uh just kind of can you go back to the slide that you were just showing for technology for
017a moment? When we look at technology, is this specifically based upon function code technology services? >> So, this is based upon things in the technology. I'll tell you specifically. So, make sure I see it right. So, in your binders, it's the technology section which includes the computer instruction uh values at the three schools. So, two um 2225 account >> and then services. >> Yes. Ant services which is 2840. Um we did remove like this is f such as the supplies that kind of talk along that hardware and software. We're kind of focusing with with the budget. So this is since I had to create this initially about Just a note in any of my notes, if you notice that Please. So replacement um It's in it shows in science educ See science skills enrichment technology
018just increase that appears there is 2000 expense there rules have changed and there set is going to really enable us to get the students what they need. that with we're looking to try to kind of line up our spending with actual spending which gets me conf the kind of like I said questions for my presentation. A significant increase. floor. So, I'm looking at cycling in three this prop on my desk every time. We also have our custodial staff and Joe is the idea of when it comes to big presentations at the school day whether it's ceremonies we don't have to be able to have a ceremony in our borrow from GMS And the four gentlemen end up taking Come together. going down. Just You'll increase that'll significant increase to our transportation budget. Um, if you
019recall, uh, last spring and this fall, our recision that was to disallow our soccer team from playing at our lacrosse team from playing at DRA. Well, as a result of that, we now have to figure out how to get our kids from LMS over to Smill, which is not a quick easy job over that way, and it's not a place they could take the regular school bus route to Campbell, disembark, and walk over there. So we have to increase by each sport boys and girls soccer and boys and girls lacrosse transportation to and from sawmill which is significant increase that is our largest area of increase in our budget but it is something that our hands are tied. We need a place for our kids to play. We have championship team that do a great
020job. We're really proud of them and we want to make sure that they have some place to play and they can get to those practices and it's available to all. some of the decreases that you'll see there. Uh we had put in a kil repair for every year and in conversation with our kil repair person he said that that could be shifted to a two-year cycle [cough and clears throat] of next year's budget. We've decreased because we have no languages. So those have come out of our budget. We've decreased our music software and equipment. Um in our science budget we've removed obsolete program such as project leadwers because of the training change of our staff and some different robust curriculums that have come into place for our students. Um our reading has decreased to our
021purchasing needs. Our co-curricular has dropped down to reflect robotics buding for and our athletics um line decrease in the area of officials because we went from $100 down to 75. So we did have a lot of ups and downs but I think all of our ups and downs are very explainable based on um what we have in front of us and it is really thinking about putting forward a very effective and efficient budget but based on as said based on what we need we understand where we are as a community not >> transportation right the big elephant in your budget is the transportation cost right so what I see is $12,000 thousand increase item $12,000 increase taxpayers, right? These decisions are kind of made I think in their own vacuum fashion, but now guess what?
022It has a dollar and cents impact, right? So I think we need to a broader conversation against other with other members of other boards. >> I think that's great. We have Tony and Dan um by email we've gone back and forth commission several times to kind of try to persuade why we need that space and why it's important. Um and when we went through um for a student to get that for how much it was going to cost to do those runs to and from not to and from just two that's only one direction >> with respect to the tables. >> Yes. >> [laughter] >> I guess my question is why you're doing a four years. Are there some that are in >> there are some that are in slightly better shape than others? Um
023Brian, our school custodian is a rockar. Heensteined the table together from another broken table that we have in the corner of our cafeteria to kind of replace the bench to wash the floors. Um so I think we'll be able to manage with what we are proposing here. It's not kids risk. I think that we can you know shift in and shift out. Um, and you'll also see that we are proposing going from the long rectangular tables to round tables, individual seats, they're a lot sturdier and a lot less likely to >> I just wanted to say maybe we could make a note for that as well. This is a great opportunity. I agree it's a good thing to have in your budget. We're asking for things that I the board cons supply kits expire, which
024sounds really silly, but for example, when I came in five years ago, and we inst long long, Um, we did put things like uh candies in the bag so that if kids were in a ship to a location where we didn't have snacks, we didn't have drove over to Campola, batteries, stuff like that. It's just a, you know, you go through and you check and make sure batteries and sometimes you have to just swap them out. So, it's really just a it's a revolving amount that just basically make sure that you can maintain make sure the bags are >> and how many bags are each school approximately >> uh at >> I would guess uh it's one per classroom area. So, you're talking >> about 45, >> right? So, it's a significant number of items
025that need to be circulated. >> So, another example is in emergency bags there are bandaids and you have a for a walk to the nursing bag and it's not cycles through that you're looking at 15 bucks a bag 16 also expires right so you're >> it's a summer project so as part of their summer checkout it's one of the things they turn in our conference room is filled with all the bags and then more one or more summer project she goes through she opens all the bags goes through inventories fills them all up and then when they come back when they come back in August one of the things that's lined up on the stage is their bag so they know that they can start [clears throat] My next question. I don't have when they
026were lasted, when they're due to be replaced, >> when they were you scan that next year. >> So, August of 2026 is girls volleyball, girls soccer, and boys soccer. Um we're trying to get on a cycle and this again was with um Tony girls soccer boys soccer in 2023 but we're trying to get the same sports on the same cycle so that we don't get into the same problem as last year. >> Absolutely. >> Okay. Any other questions for middle school at the moment? Is this the first Spanish. [cough] So we had a saga of Spanish has spanned my five years. So when Senor went up to the high school when they couldn't find Spanish teacher at the high school, we spent a year without Spanish teacher. Then we bumpers that we were able to
027put in basic number of teachers that we had um those teachers were here for a year and a half and we didn't have Spanish we had to hire and try to hire Spanish and actually look across the state and I think there were 27 open positions last and when I talked to my colleagues across the state they were having very difficult especially middle school positions. >> It's getting to that point. It is not 100% there, but it is definitely getting to that point. Um, what we have offered for our students is the opportunity or it wasn't our goal, but it is the reality of what we Any other questions? >> First time going. Here we go. >> Yeah. Um, super easy. So, there were a few increases in the lines. Um, and there were there's
028so many lines in the Campbell High School budget as I'm sure you've seen. So, um there were a couple little increases of like under $100 here and there. Um but I really just wanted to focus on the bigger increases. Um and I'm sure this is just sort of now a theme with the transportation. That's one of our biggest line item increases is in um two of our transportation lines. Um there's also an increase under the athletic training service contract. So, in order for us to participate in New Hampshire sports through the NHIA, we have to have athletic training services um at our all of our games. Every single game has to be covered. Um where it's a liability, we have to have it. Um and so we um contract have a contract and um that
029that's increases every year. It just it's one of those kind of contractual things. Um so, and then the athletic transportation. And so what I did This year's contract with per student was about $68 per hour. Um, next year we they told us Julie's shaking her head because it's a problem. It's going to be over $72 an hour. So they're doing almost a $5 increase in the hourly rate. Um, so that alone um even if we were just going down the road is a is a pretty big increase to budget for. Um, I linked in here some of our D3 destinations and um, you can look at it at your leisure, but the ones that I listed, I only listed um, six of the different locations that we do go to from the likes of Claremont
030to Berlin to Alton um, they average 110.5 miles um, one way. So, it's it's just a costly part of our budget um, to support our athletic programs. Um, we also support our overall co-curricular um program. So, if you kind of scoot down um I'll skip over the library for a minute. That line also went up. Um and everything is listed out there. So, in the notes, you'll see all the specific events that that will cover. Um but because again of the increase from the 68 to the 72, we if we want to continue supporting um the programs that we're currently supporting and the staff that are still going on these events, um you know, we have the field trips is tomorrow. Um that's listed here um for our EAGV students. So you know these are
031all the the active things our our students are participating in. Uh we have to account for the increase. Um the library went up and that's again an increase in um mostly the the toner and the ink cartridges for colored printing. It's nice for our students um when they do and our our kids do still make good oldfashioned like posters and visuals and really stuff that they print out. Um they spend a lot of time on um I know in forensics they make like a middle model like a mini model of a a crime scene and they print out little colored things and um there's a cost to that. So that has increased over over time. Um so I will say though despite all of those increases we are still down uh 29,000 um across all
032the other departments. So again I really um teachers um a little, you know, um they were great about it. It was really productive. I think it really made them plan and and think about again like what do we need? Um and they did a fantastic job uh helping me put uh this big budget together. Um so everything else um we were able to to make some decreases. questions for athletics and what the cost and number of participants for each of those. I have a lot of data from last year already because I was looking at it just curious like what do we actually spend um so I can give you what we did last year um what we've done to date the number of students participated might be rough last year like field trips might
033beeally elementary school, middle school. >> So, what I did, um, one of the things I, um, actually called, this is one of my phone calls to Julie and I said, "Hey, I have all these different maintenance lines." So, if you'll notice in each individual all of the maintenance lines are are zeroed out. However, I have a general ed maintenance and I said, "Well, I would rather just put all my maintenance and repair money, including the kil, um, including money I would put in case anything breaks in the kitchen in case anything, you know, any of the equipment things that we have need to be replaced just in one place." because I would rather do that and just have the money there in case anything in the school were to need an urgent repair or even
034if it's a yearly maintenance um versus if I put money for the, you know, a stove just because it might break because it's 10 years old and I better, you know, budget to repair or replace or have money there and then nothing happens. Then I have to ask to transfer that fund to a different account if I need to use it in the band because one of the you know symbols busted or what have you. Does that make sense? So I wanted to kind of concentrate the repair um money so that it's still all there. It's just in one place >> sooner or later is every single year it's thousand some point be able to see okay you know what this program needs to be reevaluated or something because it's basically sucking all your maintenance
035money but I would just be concerned of what's too expensive to keep offering and repairing of being able to do good maintenance on >> right and I think that's where the teachers are so important in here because they know you know I walked through the whole room I mean I asked you know about how is all your stuff in here and we kind of came up with what would be reasonable if something were to break we would want to be able to fix it right I the onlyception that is I did actually keep the instrument repairs separate because I think that's important and it's a little bit different than like you know if a stove were to break um because in some cases the district owns the instruments um in some cases the students own
036them um so it just would depend you know if we needed to repair so I'll definitely and this is my first year I did look at last year's and they did spend most of their music you know money. So I felt that it to >> this is the maintenance on the one that we still have. like the middle school presented trying to get to a two-year rotation on them. So the middle school's off question on the miscellaneous lines. So this is up $2,000 this year. Just curious what's that increase? >> So that is graduation cost. So rentals um and stuff in that line that has gone up even like flowers and things that we support to make that day what it is. Um it's the cost um has increased and all those items. Um so
037that's where you're seeing um but that is where when it says miscellaneous that is where we cover the cost of graduation. budget increase. different websites pick up our advertisements that pay for additional things and um one of the school administrators associ as employees are participating in that program and an increase in software based on actual cost for our vector software and um our tech plus software which is our Here we go. >> All right. Salaries and benefits. The total increase of the salaries and benefits budget alone is $488,231. When you look at the salaries salary lines in this budget, um you're going to see the increases for the second year of our support staff contract. If you look through and see lines for salaries with a zero increase or a small increase that is our
038teachers we are in the next year's budget they are currently at their salaries for this year as we are up in negotiations um in March non-unes you will see those in the line of the person however I just want to point out because we were in a default budget what you're seeing in that line like double what an employee is getting because last year or this current year's budget there were no reason um so non-un employees comprised of our all of us in this room our administrators directors um school psychologist social workers um tutors anyone that doesn't fit under our support staff or teachers union We budgeted 3% in there for administrator staff and 4% for our support staff. Um total increase in the budget for administrators is 53,000 and support staff is roughly as
039well. There's many contractual things in the budget that you see as part of um admin contract, sport contract, teacher contract such as um the severances that we talked about earlier um co-curricular and athletic salaries changes [clears throat] a teacher can go from say bachelor to master degree sideways um longevity vacation buyback different things like that. Brian talked about that earlier. Again, you'll see three new seances. That's just the first time they've been put in the budget for a total of 16,320 and two updates to salaries. So, they've been in the budget before. The money's gone to our benefits fund. So it's just a minor cost much smaller $5,000. The total for the seance increase in the budget is 121,337 health insurance we have estimated increase at 15% we should hopefully have rates by the end
040of next week. Um when I did an actual cost to cost for employees so from last year's budget to actual the increase is actually $452,000. However, in the budget, um talked about earlier that 372832 is what you see in the budget and that is less than the actual cost because we do have some positions that we're looking to cut. So, we cut health insurance with those. You have changes from budget to budget and employees and elections and insurance. Um so, we did see a savings in that. Our dental rate came in at an increase of 44% which is roughly $8,684 when you look at actual people. But if you pull in this year's budget just the dental lines, our dental line actually cutting looking to cut some positions and then actual people to people from
041year to year. We had some um life and disability runs depend on start plan. They told me to estimate about 5%. Unfortunately, we don't get rates from them till right at the start, but even with that, that's a fairly cost effective um benefit plan for roughly an increase of $2,000. Um we do give buyouts to our admin staff and our teachers for those that don't take our health insurance. Um so these are actual costs here for um teachers at 49,500 and nonun We do have a health reimbursement account as part of our teacher contract prescription reimbursement that is budgeted at $5,000. Our unemployment insurance 5% $632 New Hampshire retirement luckily we're in year two of their rate changes. They change their rates every two years they look at rates so we don't have a change.
042However, you will see increases in um line the retirement line due to salary because so this year for positions um we are not we did not are not asking for award or anything for any additional positions we are actually looking to reduce some positions from the budget as we're really you know health insurance and the three big drivers [clears throat] of technology we're really looking to see where we can cut some costs unfortunately position. >> So right now the total um decrease in the salary and benefits budget for the positions that we're looking to reduce is $333,000 um 464. We are looking to cut three pair of professional positions. Um it could vary depending on what we need at each school, but for the budgeting purposes, you will see one reduction of a position at
043each location. We are also looking to cut our two um mental health positions. One of those is at the middle school and one is at the high school. We were looking to basically make that more uniform around all the schools. Our school would then have two counselors. Um we have a psychologist now at the elementary school and one that splits between the middle and high school and a social worker at each school and we are looking to we currently have two vacant special education teaching positions at the high school. One is fully grant funded. One is in the budget. We are looking professional as always. >> I just kind of keep history every year as we go. Um we we saved um $24,000 in attition this year besides that we did do and I think
044that's why you see some decreases in some of the dental budgets that you have So that attrition is so unclear and bring on somebody else at a lower salary and that's the net difference. Not that you would ever [laughter] >> matter. One kid, six kids. >> Okay. Questions >> Vegas. I wish >> we currently just started today. >> [snorts] >> I think our biggest >> I can only speak for GMS Paris tend to sit vacant all of it custodial we tend to get these like shortterm bill we'll get custodian and they're great for 10 weeks and then they get a better opportunity and then we hire someone and they're gone in 10 weeks and like so like we're hired and then they're gone and they're choosing to leave you know so they will get filled
045and then they'll be gone just as as quickly whereas the par vacancies will sit long. So the ones we are hiring the few and far between we're hiring the ones whereas janitors there with occasional blips down >> occasion but in fairness Right. For the contracted services, the board is using those funds to offset contracted services that we do have to provide. Right? So that money is going to use. We prefer to go to a position right control that. But that money is going to >> it's not overspending but we are combining you know that our custodians are part of you can't really just Like with contract service, we ask them because rightel [laughter] >> I would love to For some reason, it's just been like this forever. We have that salary split over the three
046buildings. It would be great. >> But yes, drives me nuts because insurance. [laughter] >> Okay. Thank you very much. That's all we have for tonight. We're s the directors here and staffing tonight next week. So, we'll take any questions about anything or questions you want to prep the directors for. Something uh you're thinking more about bring them or even the schools. Great question about the uniforms getting that schedule out to everybody following up on the transportation line with that. So, any thoughts or suggestions or information? >> Is there any to have a warrant for GMS. >> Yes. Yes, [laughter] >> we are. Timelines are tight. We've been saying that all along. There's no question about that. We talked about timelines last night meeting now that the superintendent and others have met with this administrator have
047met with bond council getting that process going. We have a better picture of what those timelines look like. We have a plan to get us there, but it's an aggressive plan. >> Are you We're trying to So, the board talked about warrant articles briefly last night. If um you want to start to get an understanding of what those are shaping up to be vaguely um way earlier in the process than we ever have, by the way, which is fantastic. >> But that being said, right, we're really trying to keep our warrant articles limited this year and really to those that are too You'll see the ones for like transfers to the reserve account. You're going to see obviously an article. What happens if the contract fails, right? you're see your budget that you flashed up
048here so far's left [laughter] by this pass. Any idea as far as when we vote? Yeah. I'm hoping that number is >> present a number. Optimistically, I'm hoping we can present a number in the next two weeks. >> So, we're waiting for the right and then once that happens [laughter] [cough] >> negotiating. judgement. [laughter] >> Yep. >> Uh I think we're excited to share with you. >> Okay. Um what else? >> Just in terms of questions that I have for the administration. Uh I did submit 10 or so questions to the district. Uh I haven't had response to those yet. I'll let you guys to review those. >> Yeah, I was gonna let [laughter] them read them. >> We're going to circulate it. the contract school. >> Uh so school care is a continued conversation
049at the board level. Um, you know, one of the things that we continue to talk about is reducing our risk, right? And this obviously this process this year has raised a lot of awareness about insurance that I think more of us care to [laughter] like but at that point yes to answer your question directly we are open to options. We're considering options but that being said to negotiate providers >> yeah it's going to be getting through contract process again for some reason. >> Yeah. Look, there's a lot of other things that the administration's working on this year. >> When we look at health insurance, if we're gonna There's really been two ways like there are little tiny once in a while but it's usually right and I think people just none of us are really
050health insurance the risk that comes with that is it's very new uncharted road for us the school district, right? We don't want to accidentally appreci we going to save us in the long run. How can we account for that in the immediate to ensure that we're not hurting ourselves from a financial standpoint? Whether that's looking at how we utilize those reserve funds or other aspects of that. So, it's all piece of that pie whether we would have anything done for this budget cycle. It's it's a lot just because we're in right now, you know, to change gears on that would be revisiting it. The revisiting all this stuff We want to be certain when the decision is made. Our next option is just one of the opportunities in these other is that one of the
051opportunities, right? That allows us the flexibility to say hey if there is a premium spike for health insurance but I have a reserve account then anyway question what Well, like I said, I already have 10 questions out there. [laughter] >> Okay. Um, with that, I would like, we have a community member in the audience. I would like to take an opportunity just to say, Mr. Do you have any questions you'd like to ask tonight? appreciate the opportunity. One thing that is concern was to meern the current budget must be very second year in a row previous school department on things that they decide they want to spend. I find that extremely disingenuous tax I've been ask why they would accept allowing a budget that has great potential for in fact what irritated me on this
052note was that last night in the schoolboard discussion you talking about what things that you would potentially go for award and what things you leave out for funs you're anticipating and to me that means there is a lot of excess in the budget that we have present. What's been presented so far is about $400,000 more than the 21 million. 2% increase before we get any increases for the major labor for I think that's unacceptable knowing where history and I raised this with the budget committee back this spring and I raised it with the school board several times Again, one of the things I find very difficult to understand and comprehend is the curriculum in the schedule at Camp High School. Based on the information that the superintendent supplied on last year's schedule, the average class
053size is 16.3 students. Your target is supposed to be 23 truthfully if you brought back the average 23.5 teachers. What's interesting is you go through those facts and I sent this information to the budget committee in the school department. So I'm just going to read off some of the highlights that are kind of interesting is that at high school there's 124 in a day. Only nine of them have 23 or more students. There are 51 that have 15 or less 41%. There are 13 classes that have 10 and there are seven classes that have eight. Quite truthfully, I reviewed this with some people that are in private school and this is private school matrix. This is the type of class sizes you see in private schools. I've said this before, there needs to be a
054curriculum adjustment at Campbell High School. There needs to be a reduction in number of staff. I also believe at LMS there is a situation where the teachers cannot teach to their contract for five instructional periods per day. Yes, they do. >> Well, I'd like to see it because >> there's lots to debate here. We're not going to entertain debate. We're just entertaining. >> I would like to entertain some discussion about it. That's fine. So the other side of that equation is how does that affect the situation coming up with GMSifications? As I think everyone in this room knows I'm opposed to substantive modifications either high school or GMS for addressing our current needs. I agree fully that something needs to be done particular heating ventilation system which has caused problem 50s and 60s building for
055over 30 years as I mentioned before was highlighted in 2002 by the superintended pushed The reason that I think it's so important is one of the things you're looking at as an option high school is moving seven up there. Campbell High School has capacity 550 students. According to the information squad by the superintendent, the typical work period average is around 270 students out of the 350 of them CT. So that's the other reason why the average class is the class size and the class size brought up so I should say the number of classes reduced you brought it up to 23 that would reduce your space need by 40%. So any notion that you present that we have to have a big expansion at Campbell High School to support additional classes is a huge fallacy
056in my mind. The other thing that irritates me again looking at how to space things around this spring Mr. Mitchell has identified that there are three additional classrooms in the need when we had this year's kindergarten we so now we're down to two that we need what I find extremely objectionable noting that based on the information inventory there's at least eight empty classrooms period at LMS with the exception of one that had seven easily supported by moving simply fourth grade LMS. I understand that option to use LMS is eliminated and specifically told that we can't consider that. >> My point being appears that low cost solution to the space needs in the force future. I will conclude by saying one of the things that I find also completely erroneous or even laughable is we're going
057to make a decision or we're going to be asked to make a decision on future needs for enrollment at GMS based on the assumption that next year we're going to see a There's a fallacy in the 69 that you've seen there is what happens. It makes no sense. So there's my two cents. I appreciate your voice. >> Great. Thank you very much. I would welcome you to join the community forum November 18 where redistribution is going to be highly debated. Uh and other options for GMS are going to be talked about at that time. And additionally we have some budget committee questions and items. So I welcome you to join meeting next Thursday. >> All right. Excellent. Before we conclude uh any other comments this evening? >> Okay, hearing none. Uh with that I would
058love to see I think this last year together of classes that students request and can't get because there's not a teacher available to teach them. I know having had two kids go to the school the last six years trying to get AP classes is very very hard because they're out there single and most if possible I'd like to see students. >> All right with that concludes tonight's meeting. We have another uh joint budget session next Tuesday. Uh vice chair Ames is going to be facilitating that. Uh and with that motion, >> second and third, please say I carries 5. We are