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Part 1 (Video ID: WQ3xXkKqGEc):
- 00:03:54: Meeting Called to Order, Connectivity Issues Addressed
- 00:05:02: Tabulation of Election Results Read into Record
- 00:07:04: New Committee Welcomed, Citizen Comments Period Opens
- 00:07:55: No Public Comment, School Committee Protocols Reviewed
- 00:09:19: Superintendent Report: FY27 State Budget Analysis and Projections
- 00:12:16: Discussion on Supplemental Funds, Chapter 70 Commission
- 00:15:11: High School Art Show, Upcoming Events, Teacher Appreciation
- 00:17:04: Consent Agenda Approved Unanimously by School Committee
- 00:17:56: Discussion and Presentation: Potential Field Trip to Ecuador
- 00:27:13: Questions and Discussion: Ecuador Field Trip, Scholarship Funds
- 00:29:48: Motion to Approve Ecuador Field Trip, Unanimous Approval
- 00:31:12: School Committee Reorganization: Nominations, Elections, Positions Filled
- 00:38:40: Subcommittee Reconfiguration: Communications Point Person Discussion
- 00:40:13: Continued Discussion: Communications Subcommittee vs Working Group
- 00:50:34: Communications: Working Group Needed; Motion Made & Approved
- 00:54:04: School Committee Subcommittees: Interest, Discussion, Assignments
- 01:07:47: Liaison Assignments Completed, Retreat Dates Proposed, Email Follow Up
- 01:11:47: Financial Forecast Presentation: Year End, Quarter 3
- 01:35:51: Financial Forecast Presentation: Summary, Analysis, Questions
- 01:39:20: Motion: Transfers for Deficit DESI Categories
- 01:40:26: Motion: Prepay Fiscal Year 27 Out of District Tuitions
- 01:44:05: Motion: Approve and Pay Prior Year Invoices
- 01:46:59: Committee Reports: Capital Finance, Policy, Negotiations, Secretary
- 01:48:37: Reminders: Superintendent Evaluations, Strategic Plan, Future Meetings
- 01:53:33: Motion to Adjourn into Executive Session


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That's not There we go, Brooke. >> And then I would try to just answer. >> Thank you. Uh, good evening. I call to order the meeting of the Hamilton Regional School Committee on Thursday, May 7th, 2026 at 7:03 p.m.

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Um, and um I just before we get started, we're having a little bit of an internet connectivity issue, but I think everyone's so let me know if you need to

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stop if you're not able to. Um, so you do have everything. This is we do have one copy of everything printed out. Um but you can fight a little bit with that. And um okay. Um so first order of business um

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our regional agreement um states that we the school committee will tabulate the election results in a meeting. Um so I will turn that over to Amy to read the tabulating of the results.

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Um, so the tabulator results of the >> Is it Is your mic on? >> My mic on. >> No, this one. >> Um, okay. So, for the three-year

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um seats, the following the following are the results. Uh, Dana 1,157 votes. Jeffrey Austin, 588 votes. Kristen Nune, 1,188 votes. 11 writeins,

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674 blanks for a total of 3,618 votes. for the two-year seats, which we had two of. Um, Janet Bert 738, Carl Iberger, 458,

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David Pledo 915, Thomas Reed 777, 13 writeins, and 717 blanks for a total of 3,618 votes. For the two questions, uh, question one, regarding the override,

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there were 1,247 yes votes, 511 no votes, 51 blanks for a total of 1,89 votes. For question two, the debt exclusion, there were 1,374

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yes votes, 374 no votes, 61 blank votes for a total of 1,89 votes. back. >> Uh, no. >> No, the mic. >> Oh, the mic. Yes. Sorry.

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>> All right. Thank you. Um, and so that being said, uh, the new committee is here. Really excited to have a full seven member committee. Welcome to Tom. Um, welcome back to David and

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congratulations to Kristen joining us >> and to you >> and to you Dana Dana. >> I'm happy to be back. Um, next up is an opportunity for um, citizens comments.

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Um, before I give my spiel, we'll just see is there anybody on the Zoom link that looks like they're interested in offering a citizen's comment? Can we get on? Can >> Like I said, we're having a little bit of an internet problem. Oh, >> we're on. Nobody.

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>> Nobody. Okay. Is there anyone in the room that's going to offer a citizen's comment? Okay. Seeing none, I will spare you all my um spiel about today's comments and we will go ahead and close the Zoom. Um

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All right. Uh and citizens comments are closed. Um next up we have a portion of the school committee protocols. Is that you Kristen? >> Yep. As elected members of the Hamilton

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Winnham Regional School Committee, we including the superintendent accept the high honor and trust that has been placed in us to ensure that the students of the district receive the best education possible. To that end, we hereby commit to the following in the

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conduct of our business. Members will refer constituent concerns and complaints, including issues relating to district personnel, to the appropriate person within the district chain of communication. >> Thank you. Um, next up is a portion of

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our schools of district operations. >> Thank you. Uh next up is Mr. Tracy with superintendent report. >> Great. Thank you. Um very straightforward report tonight. Been uh

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really try to keep an eye wide open on the FY27 state budget and the shifts that are being made. Um people may know I last time I reported out we we reported out on the house uh results and that the house had improved many of the

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areas that we were looking for improvements. Um Senate Ways and Means just finished there uh view of the FY27 budget and just looking at chapter 70 um alone it's up uh the difference from the

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House to the Senate is $62 million. they generally don't uh give us all of it. So, I'm assuming we'll come somewhere in the 200 to $300 million increase overall. It's a $7 billion pot of money. So, um and as we

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all know, every district is trying to get more state aid. Uh same thing with circuit breaker. The circuit breaker is uh something that almost every uh group, the governor, the the House, and the Senate Ways and Means came to a similar

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number, which is about 653 uh million. It looks like they're planning to backfill it with supplemental funds from the millionaires tax. Um so that that's what they did last year. And it's good if they do it with circuit breaker because then we have the

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money that doesn't automatically drop to END. If they don't if they do it with chapter 70, we don't touch the money. They give it to us at the end of June and it goes right into excess and deficiency. And then regional transportation is also showing an increase of about $50 million uh

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comparatively. So some good numbers coming up uh through the house right now. I mean through the uh legislative right now. And we'll continue to watch it and figure out what uh what the final numbers are. I just always want to caution people. you you never know till

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till the end because uh the supplemental funds are one piece of the puzzle and there there's quite a bit of money in there from what I understand. The secondary piece of the puzzle is that uh we are currently tracking in April $1.5 billion which is about 4% higher than

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the target uh for revenues for the state of Massachusetts. So that speaks well as for for uh opportunities too to to put they they'll fund your ear marks with some of that and they'll also use it for some of the the supplemental side. So um

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we'll keep tracking that again 1.5 billion dollars is is a is a healthy place to be above uh the same period of last year. Um and it's a it's it's 4% above what they had targeted for this period this year. So we're looking good on state revenues. Right around now is a

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nice time to be able to see where the where the money is starting to fall. So, I'll keep you in the loop on that. There are um several more stages. We won't really have any final numbers till probably the third week in June, second week in June. Um but I'll I'll bring them forward as soon as I can get them.

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>> Um does anybody have any questions? Because I have one. >> Does anybody else have questions for >> I just have I had one, but go first. >> Go ahead. No, go ahead. I think I also saw maybe it was in Senator Tar's Facebook page that there is some motion about create or some activity around creating a commission to study chapter

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70. Correct. But that does not impact whatever the award will be for next year's budget. They're still trying to increase chapter 70 funding even if they're also studying it basically. >> Yeah. One of I think one of the things the state legislators heard from all the superintendents, city

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councilors, select board, everybody was that we were all in trouble. everybody is is teetering. So that I think they're doing the work. They've heard it. They understand it. Uh where the money comes from is really I think the the conversation. There is uh language on a commission that has been agreed upon in

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both the House and the Senate. Um that would still have to go forward and be approved if not vetoed by the the governor. But I don't think that would happen given that Desi is working on um has been working on that for a year now. um and they're supposed to come out with

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their final report in the next couple of weeks. So that should coincide with language that establishes that committee. >> So yes, that is true. >> Okay. >> Yep. >> Yep. Um, so my question was I just want to make sure I understand about because I did understand previously about the

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supplemental funds if we get supplemental funding in June say that it's we would need to spend that supplemental funds in our FY26 year and that's almost impossible because >> if it was chapter 7 >> well that was my question. So explain to

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me cuz that was my understanding entirely but it sounds like you're saying that circuit breaker is different that we if we get circuit breaker supplemental or funds is that because we normally get the circuit breaker is like retroactively >> it's also a different account setup.

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>> Okay. So what happens if we get funding in June >> for circuit breaker? Yeah. >> So both circuit breaker and transportation are revolving accounts. So money can go in there directly and be used into the next school year. >> So we could use it >> unlike chapter 70. Chapter 70

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automatically there's no uh revolving account for it. It just go it comes in and drops into END almost automatically. So that last year if you remember they did that they doubled the uh due to the S SOA they they doubled from $75 per

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student to $150 per student. That money basically just dropped to END for us. We technically can't spend it because it would be an amendment to the budget and we would have to increase the budget. Yeah, technically you can't. >> But circuit I just So I guess I just didn't understand that circuit breaker

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is different. So >> yeah, the revolving accounts design that's allowed in circuit breaker and transportation allows you to put money in there and leave it in there and use it. uh which helps us offset like so for next year it will be helpful to have some extra monies in those accounts to

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offset some of the the we're seeing some pretty dramatic increases over the last month and a half of special ed costs. So >> we'll probably need it. >> All right, thank you. >> You have more. >> Uh just one quick one. Just want to say congratulations and thank you to uh last

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night they had the concert and the senior art show at the high school. Um, if you have not been through the art exhibit, I've I've been here now 13 years. It was unbelievable. The work that the kids did was is amazing. It's still up. It'll be up all week. It just

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blew me away this year a little more than usual. It's always great work, but um there are some really really strong uh strongly skilled artists that we have in this group and and so I know several of them are going to off to school, so that's exciting too. Um and a great concert. So just and then we have next

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week we'll have the middle school concert. We have AP exams going on. We have MCCAST exams going on. So this is as I've said in previous meetings, this is a messy time of the year where there's all kinds of stuff happening. This is also uh teacher appreciation week. So thank you to all of our

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teachers and our teaching staff. Um it was nurses day uh school nurses day on Wednesday. >> Bike to school day tomorrow. >> What's that? >> Bike to school day. >> Bike to school day tomorrow. Something >> something. That's what I mean. Like May all of a sudden there is something

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happening every single day. So um just some some notes and really appreciate the work everybody's done because in the past week it's been kind of everybody's day. It was principal's days last last Friday and I just you know just make sure that people understand that this is uh this is the time of year when it's

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it's fun to celebrate these things with the kids and all the work that everybody's put in. You can start to see the culmination of of all the work at every single level. So, thank you to everybody. >> Thank you. Anybody else have any questions for Eric?

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Okay. Um, all right. Uh, next up is the consent agenda. Typically items on the consent agenda are those things we don't anticipate that there will be um any discuss or they're non-controversial. Um, does anyone have anything they'd

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like to hold from the consent agenda? No. Julia, >> I move that we accept the consent agenda as presented on in the exhibits. >> Second. >> Second by Jen Carr. Um, all those in

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favor. That is unanimous and the motion passes. Okay. All right. Next up um is a potential um discussion of a potential new field trip. uh to Ecuador and the Galapagos

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Islands. I understand we have a presentation. >> There is presentation. >> We have Stacy Pawson who's science teacher of the high school. With her is also the curriculum leader for science department, Regina O'Neal. I think Stacy's going to present. Gina's >> cheering. She's the cheering section. Okay. Okay.

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>> I'm going to pass out a copy of the itinerary. There are there was a slight change in the price. And then I also I added a QR code. Um there is a short

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promotional video at the start of this that is not necessary for you to to watch but that is on the next slide. So I don't know. Yeah. This this >> you want to skip it. >> I mean it's cute. It's got It's cute,

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>> but it's not Heat. Heat. You have the time to learn. You get to be hands on things. You get to learn things with your friends and you get to actually see what you're learning in class in real life.

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Okay. So, this is the um why of why we want to do this. Um this is a once in a-lifetime opportunity for many students to go somewhere that they've heard

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since, you know, middle school, probably elementary school. We've talked about Darwin and evolution. and now they get to go to this very special place and see these organisms in their natural habitat. So, it's just it's an amazing

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opportunity for them. Um, this is I'm just going to take you through the itinerary really really quick. Um, we would depart on the Friday before spring break. uh we would um need that day for travel because it is a long

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travel day. It's a very long travel day. Um the next day we have here, this is the itinerary that you're looking at in front of you, um we are hoping that when we meet with our rep um next week, provided that this is a go um to swap

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out some of those activities for something a little bit more STEM. So that museum there would take the place of these two activities here. That is the museum at the equator. It's um talks about how the Incas determined the

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middle of the earth and has a lot of really cool science experiments that you would only be able to do at the equator. Uh this is the first day that we would fly over to the Gopagos. So, we start

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off on Santa Cruz and we would be going to the Scalicia Forest, which is a really important habitat in that area and features all kinds of different organisms, but most notably to

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the students that would be of interest are the uh number of the Darwin finches. uh we would be able to view these lava tunnels that um are going to be able to kind of showcase the volcanic nature of

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the island. And there are also very special habitats in these tunnels that you wouldn't be able to find other places for cave dwelling organisms and very unique species. From there, we would go to the turtle

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ranch and that is a tortoise refuge. So that's all in that one day. Um the next day we would be headed over to the Darwin. Go back. Want to go back one. This is the Darwin

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research station. And um here we would be able to, you know, look at some of these incredible specimens that they have on um display there and really kind of learn a deep, you know, deeply explore uh the

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research that we have there. And then we would be headed over to Tortuga Bay. And Tortuga Bay is a um breeding site for the gap. Oh, no. I'm sorry.

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This is the breeding site for the black sea turtle, which is an endangered species. So, it's a very unique experience for the kids to have there. Um, this is day five. We would transfer to San Crystal Island. Again, keep in

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mind that these islands have very unique distinct tortoises on each of the islands, right? So that's something they've read about in textbooks and now they get to see firsthand. Um so we would be visiting this um turtle

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breeding facility which would be really really exciting for them because this would be a time when all of the turtles are are hatching and they would get to see all the little babies. Um we would be taking a hike um to Eljuno Lake which is a volcanic crater lake and we would

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be able to snuggle. This is the beach where we have the goalpost sea lions. They have um breeding area there. Uh we would also have another full snorkel day at Kicker Rock. Kicker Rock

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is a very unique um it is a 500 ft volcanic cone and in the center of that there is a very deep region where you have nutrient upwelling. So, you get to see a number of really interesting, unique species.

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And in addition, you have nesting colonies for the um the blue-footed boobies there. Then it's back to keto where again, this is a travel day, so they have a little bit of downtime. And then

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we get to go to another ecological reserve just outside of Keo. This is a um 1.8 million acre reserve and it is a very important spot for the endangered

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um Andian condor. Then we are headed home. So um this is what we would be showing the parents so that the students know what to expect. And here is our price. So, this is a little bit different than what we have

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in the original dock because we asked if we had more students, could we increase it and that would decrease the actual private fee that they had us down for before. So, this is our cost based on 36

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participants. Um, this is your payment plan that we would be presenting to them. So it would be um enrollment $99 monthly fee of $538. Um and this is our eligibility. So we would be offering this to our AP science

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students, to our dual enrollment students. So that's environmental science and we have now a dual enrollment anatomy. And to our fab students, this is a slide talking about the safety

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aspect of this, which leads us to our protection plan. Again, this would be recommended for all students. And then this is just a slide about fundraising. This last slide, this is the QR code that you have on that itinerary that I

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gave you. This is just a Google form that the kids can go to and fill out for interest. And thank you so much for having me here and your time with us. >> Thank you. >> Wonderful. >> Do people have questions?

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Um, is there any way to have some scholarship funds for students who can't afford that price tag? Because that's a lot. >> It is a lot of money. And we have talked even about potentially

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fundraising as a science department to help cover some of those costs. >> I agree. It's a once in a-lifetime trip, but I would hate to have a student who qualifies on all other accounts miss it because they can't afford >> it. We generally make sure that that

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that happens. I mean, we we work closely enough with kids and the staff works with the kids to know where the need is. So, we do set aside monies um for things like that. We do it for every field trip that we offer with some that has some

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cost to it. Um, and can it just um I know you mentioned the um risk the travel insurance. So that is something that's >> offered to families. >> It's offered >> through World Strides. Correct. World not

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>> it's not the district is not >> Oh no, this is through >> they have to opt in on that. So that's that would be an extra fee for them but guarantees that if anything were to happen and like last minute the kid can't go for whatever reason that they

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get fully refunded. That is through World Shrides. Yeah. And they have very good um I mean this is a this is who the Spain trip used and so this is a very respectable reliable company. They take care of everything.

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and they have their normal coverage of travel insurance. This would be on top of that. >> Have you done Gapagos before? >> We have not. So, this is this would be brand new for Hamilton. Um, our students, they have such great

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experiences when they go with the language departments on these wonderful trips. And um you know, I just had a brainstorm one day of why why don't we do something for science? Like this would be a great opportunity to get the

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kids out in the field and doing some real good hands-on science stuff. >> Other people. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Um love that. Okay. Uh Julia, do you

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have a motion diapers? Oh, man. Uh Julia, do you have a motion? >> I'm not sure what the motion would. >> It would be to approve the field trip. >> Okay. I move that we approve the Ecuador

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field trip as presented. >> Second. >> Second by Jen Carr. Um does anyone have any further discussion, questions? Okay, looks like we're ready to vote. Y um all right, all those in favor

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that is unanimous of the unanimous and the motion passes. >> Thank you very much and thank you for your work and thank you for your time to come. Um it's exciting. >> We want you to stay and watch us. >> Yes. Yeah. Keep it up till my son in high school

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>> isn't qualified for this yet. My son's in fifth grade, so just kind of keep it keep it going. >> No, I And I mean, I'll just say it's a neat thought like to think about that like it can be science-based rather than language based. Like that's a >> I love that thought.

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>> Maybe English could do, you know, the English department could do a field trip. >> Yeah, >> Rocco is the cooler of the two. >> Um Um All right. >> Thank you.

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Um, so next up, uh, we reorganize the committee once a year. I'm going to turn the chair over to Eric. >> Got to do it once. >> You have to do it. I love it. >> Do it once a year. >> Um, thank you. Uh, we'll move into the

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next section of the meeting, which will be school committee reorganization. As we know, we have, uh, several duly elected members. This time of the year is when we reconstitute the positions. Um, and then this portion right here, I uh will begin the process by taking

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nominations for the chair. And then once the chair is nominated and finalized, we'll hand the gavl back. So I am taking nominations for the chair of the this current um group of the school committee member for the 20 rest of the 2026

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school year. Um, I nominate Dana Alara to be the chair for the rest of the school year. >> Any others? >> Dana, do you accept the nomination? >> But accept the nomination. >> Okay. >> We're lucky to have

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>> We're yet for running again. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Okay. Do I Yep. >> All right. So, uh, do I have a motion? I move that we appoint Dana Aara to the

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chair position on the school committee. >> Thank you, Julia. >> Second by Amy. All in favor? >> Okay. Any opposed? >> Unanimous. Dana is now the chair of the school committee. >> Welcome back.

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>> Thank you. >> Happy to do it. Um >> big shoes to fill. Uh, next up, uh, do we have nominations for vice chair? >> I would like to nominate Kristen Moon as vice chair.

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>> Do is there a second to that nomination? >> Second. >> Second. >> Okay. Second by Jen and Julia. We'll give it to Jen. Um, is that nomination something you would accept, Kristen? >> Yes. >> Are there other nominations for vice chair?

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Okay, seeing none, uh, could we have a motion? >> I move that we appoint Kristen Nune to the position of vice chair on the school committee. >> Second. >> Second by Jen Carr. Any further discussion? All those in favor.

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That's unanimous. Congratulations, Kristen. >> Thank you. >> Yay. >> Um, so next up is the secretary position. Um, does anyone have any nominations for

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secretary? >> I nominate Tom Reed for secretary. >> Oh, the bus >> right into it. >> Um, is there do we do we have a second? >> I did a second.

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>> Okay. Second by Julia. Um, is that so I should just warn you that often times oftenimes new members are asked to be serve as secretary. It's a good learning experience. Um, >> so is that something that you would uh a nomination that you would accept? >> Uh, yes.

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>> Okay. Um, thank you. Do we have any other nominations for secretary? >> All right. >> I move that we appoint Tom Reid to the secretary position on the school committee. >> Second. Uh that is uh seconded by Jen

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Carr. All those in favor that is unanimous. Unanimous. Um congratulations Tom. Um >> it's a good opportunity to fire. >> Exactly. Um it's good opportunity to learn you know the Robert's rules and that kind of thing.

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>> I I was a former secretary. I can bring you up to speed. >> Thank you. >> Yes. Exactly. Um which brings us to the vi we call it's vice secretary is listed here. I think it's technically assistant secretary, but it's always good for us to secretary >> for the secretary of the secretary.

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Exactly. It's always good to have um two because in case someone's not here and also as Julia just said to help. Um uh so do we have nominations for the vice secretary? >> I love to be the warrant signer. >> Can I nominate myself?

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>> We're not there yet. >> Oh, I thought that was the same person. Vice Secretary and Warrant Signer. >> I want to be the Warren Signer. Do we have a nomination for vice secretary? Anyone? Anyone? >> I nominate Amy Kunberger as vice secretary.

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>> Second. >> Second by Julia. >> I accept that nomination. >> Okay. Can we have a motion? I move that we appoint um Amy Kunberger as vice secretary. >> Second. >> Second by Jen. All right. All those in favor?

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That's unanimous. Thank you, Amy. >> You second. >> All right. Does anyone have a a a nomination for warrant signer? If anyone has any nomination >> um is there a nomination? >> Uh I nominate Julia as >> second.

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>> Julia, are you interested in that position? >> Yes. I just like hanging out with Vinnie. >> Here you go. >> Um >> you brought some >> um uh motion. >> Motion. I move that we appoint Julia

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Campbell as Warrant Center. >> Second. >> Second by Amy Kberger. All those in favor and that is unanimous. Um thank you Julia. Um so couple things. So for our new members um the warrant signer is a really important position um in that

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uh each week uh the warrant signer needs to come and sign all to allow the district to pay all the bills. And so it's really important. Um, we typically also need to, it's not listed on here, but we typically have authorized, and

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I'll leave it to the committee, but we have typically made a motion to authorize any member of the school committee to sign the warrants in the event that the warrant signer is unable to because as I just mentioned, it's essential that the warrants get signed. So, in an emergency, um, we've typically

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allowed that any member so that Vinnie could chase down any one of us. Do I need to make a new I need to make a new motion. >> Uh well, I mean that motion is is valid that you are the warrant signer, but separately I think we should have a motion that >> if needed,

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>> I move that we appoint any available school committee member as designated warrant signer in the event that the warrant signer cannot >> the warrants >> um sign. >> Second. >> Second by Amy Cumber. Is there any

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discussion on that? All right. All those in favor and that is unanimous. Um, excellent. Thank you all. Okay. Um, I was very focused on that and realized I didn't really take proper notes, but I

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will I got it. I I got it. Um, okay. Um so next up is our um reconfiguration of our subcommittees. So,

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one thing I sort of thought about um and conferred with uh Amy, our vice chair at the time about um was we have on here appointing school committees, you know, um school committee subcommittees and we

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also have a separate item E is discussing whether or not we want to have a communications point person. Um, so I just want to look to the committee because I I think those are sort of linked in terms of determining who might want to serve on

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which committees. It might be important to know whether we're looking for a point person or working group or if we're creating another position. It might be helpful to discuss that first before we put people in positions. I don't know. >> So I guess I'm just looking to take it

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out of order. >> When you say point person, what do you mean by that? So, um, well, before we get to that, I guess I'm just asking whether everyone's comfortable sort of taking that out of order and talking about the subcommittee communications idea before we >> Yeah, sure.

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>> I think that makes sense. >> Okay. >> Can we even have a communications person based on the campaign finance law? >> So, >> yeah. >> Yes. Um, >> we should have a whole communication subcommittee, >> right? We could have a subcommittee. We

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could have a point person. We could have a working group with which would be two people. Um I um I know I've done a little bit of research. I know that Amy's done a little bit of research and I I don't know. Kristen may have done some when

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when the two of them were working on um communications around I'm not sure. I don't want to. But um I'm just going to be it was I'm the one that put this on here originally and I'm just going to be out there and say um I've

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sort of noticed I'm sure there are lots of examples out there in the world, but I you know um Melrose had a just a horrific tragedy this just recently. Um,

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so it's awful that it's under that. However, one of the things is is that I was really curious about I noticed that many of their communications actually came from the school committee and I felt like they were able to quickly provide um accurate and appropriate

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information and I did sort of a little bit of looking at their communications and it it made me sort of realize how challenging that would have been for us to produce um given that we aren't haven't really authorized any one person

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or any two people or whatever to speak for us in the event. We always have to meet together. So anyway, that's just a part of why I felt like well that was really good information for me to sort of see a school committee that's doing it differently that um so um I'm going

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to leave it at that and see what people are thinking in terms of whether we need that what it looks like whether people are thinking it should be a subcommittee a point person two people what are the people thinking >> I feel like I don't think my >> is working the right way I have to press the button but I have to like keep my

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finger on it Um there you go. I just have to hover over it. I just um I feel like it would be hard to have a subcommittee. It would >> sort of defeating the person >> be the same issue, right? Like we would have to meet um and it wouldn't be as

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nimble as a working group or an individual person. An individual person I've had concerns with because what if that person isn't available and something happens? Um, so my I would be a fan of a working group for a communications

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effort. I feel like also if I was asked a question, I would always defer it to Eric, right? Or to you. So we do have that kind of chain of command when something happens. And I'm very comfortable with that. like

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if you know not making a comment on my own until things simmer down or making a comment just as a private citizen. But um I don't know like if there was something that happened and a reporter called me I would say no talk to Dana

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Eric on on my behalf. Yeah, I think um I think we um well I I don't know other people have responses to that. >> Can I think I think >> Dana and I talked a lot about this and I

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>> look at it from not just the tragedy perspective but just general communication in the community. That's the one thing that came up over and over and over in the last 6 months about communication and transparency and all the different things that we should do. This is probably a good opportunity for

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the committee to have an individual who could work with um an outside agent to craft weekly or monthly communications like here's the school committee recap that that could go out um and not have to bring it back to a meeting, word smith

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it, have it approved. It would just be this kind of constant flow of information that comes from the school committee, which we don't have at all now. It could even be, you know, a column in the superintendent's weekly or or something that that goes out that people see. So, I think look at it from

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just an opportunity to be um to put more information out into the community, >> right? and and and I I yeah I mean Eric and I have talked about this and right I think it's um I think Julia's point is really important that very often the

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message would be particularly in the current working environment that we have right now this school committee with this administration I think that the messaging would often times be very very similar and coordinated there might be

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times however that there might be a message that needs or should come from the school committee. It could be something that's going on on the school committee that it should come from the school committee. Um or you know an action that the school committee took um

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you know voted to do something not to do something that it's more appropriate that the school committee comments on it. Doesn't mean that it wouldn't nec we wouldn't it's not that we would be leaving Eric out of the loop. Um, but there just might be times when the when the messaging

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>> um could be important that the messaging could come um >> more outgoing information, not necessarily like field questions like you're right in that if we receive a question and we would do it the same way it would go to the rest of the committee and Eric and then

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>> although >> to be clear you are all allowed to answer questions from the press. I mean that is totally you're allowed to um but yes um >> so Dana just to follow up on that just to make sure I understand that this either point person or working group

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would basically be authorized to speak on behalf of the body as a whole like with these outgoing communications um through whatever channel >> and I and my vision is that it might be useful for us

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and My vision is that it would be if we decided to either make let's just say a working group or a point person that it might be on that person or those people to do a little research and come back to us and say this is how some other places

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>> do this. Um because yeah they would have to be authorized to speak on behalf of the committee. Um, we all know, you know, we've all sort of been trained in like the rules that you really can't speak on behalf of the committee unless the committee has spoken.

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>> Um, so, you know, it does, you know, but those are things that we're going to vote on. So, you know, if it's justformational, these are the things that occurred, this is what, you know, this is, um, this is what's upcoming, like these are what's going to be on the

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agenda, these are the dates, those kinds of things. Um, I don't know. >> I think it's worth trying because I agree with Eric. I think we heard from a lot of people that they didn't feel that they had the information that they needed to make decisions. So, I think

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this is worth trying, which I think ties into my second question that if for say we try the working group thing and I know we have other things on the agenda to talk about like retreats and different things like that and like say we get to October and like it's not working. Can we make a change or are we

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sort of locked in for Okay. >> Yep. I mean, it's always I mean, in other words, and and it's a great question. In other words, if in if even one person on the committee felt like they wanted to revisit it, they would just request that as a topic for future

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meeting. It would be on an agenda and we would discuss it. Um and we could certainly revote or you know and yeah >> if we're gonna do it as a working group would it be worthwhile to just make it the chairs of a group made up of the chairs of each committee

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>> because that way all the information from all the committees is coming into the same working group. >> Uh yes except except that would be three people but that would be three people >> which we don't want. >> So then two people >> right? So two is the maximum

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>> for a working group. working, >> but we have people who double committees, so we could still cover it with two people, I bet. >> That's a Yeah, that's a that's a thought. Um, yeah, which we haven't figured that out yet, but yes, like >> Yeah, that's interesting.

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>> Yeah, that is an interesting thought. I I think that having done this before when I first came on the board um or the committee that this is the first subcommittee I was actually on um we we pushed out a lot of information

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back in the day and it got really draining. Um and and and that's sort of why I think it fell off. Um, I like the idea of sort of having this for, um, you know, especially for sort of that

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emergent state. Um, you know, it is God, God forbid something happened, but excuse me. um you know to to to sort of piggy back on what Chris was saying a little I don't think it needs to um come in

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like hit the ground running you know it sort of just sort of uh be there and then sort of see where their need really is. I I think it it's obviously, you know, great hearing. Um just just trying to sort of re-emphasize the the

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transparency of the of the board and and and push that information outward. Um you know, but that doesn't just because somebody else on the table says it doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be heard by the people who are then going to say, "I still didn't know about

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it." Oh, yeah. So, you know, I I I don't think this is going to be a a a you know, be all end all type of situation, but but I do I do think it is valuable and it takes some pressure off of you personally, you know, which I really

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like because like pushing everything to you just isn't fair. >> Um well, thank you. And also I I mean I will just say that a much as people know social media is not my forte. And so if

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any of this >> I'm really I'm great on social MEDIA HAPPENS. I am so clear >> on social media Dave. My god. Um >> but I I don't think we necessarily need to Well, I think that we're we're

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getting in the weeds here. So like I think a working group should be should create >> okay >> where we're saying things what we're saying. >> I actually heard from >> how often we're I heard a couple things and so let's just see if I heard I I'm sort of hearing

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people interested in potentially the idea of a working group. I heard both Kristen and David expressing an interest in sort of maybe testing it out by maybe deciding who's actually going to do this and maybe the first thing they do is kind of come back and say this is what I'd like to do,

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right? not necessarily today in this meeting, but like maybe the first thing they do is say like I've kind of looked around and this is what I'd like to do. Um or we'd like to do if it's um so I guess I'm wondering that I'm open to other people's ideas, but I

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would like to sort of think about first off, do we want to create something? And if so, is it a working group or do we think it's best to be a point person? I didn't hear a lot of interest in having it be a subcommittee. Was that accurate? >> Yes. Yes. >> Subcommittee takes too long.

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>> Right. Well, right. And I just So then we have to post. >> I'm going to just say right between two and three is three people. You need to have a posted meeting 48 hours in advance open to the public. Um so it makes it difficult to move swiftly.

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Well, I I'd be interested in working in a working group with with another person where we can say do some research, look around, talk to Eric, see what's needed, um see where the gaps are, kind of do like an audit

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almost first and then do like, you know, say the the then come back to the full committee and say these are the things that we think are needed. That makes the most sense to start there because there's a lot of vehicles that already exist. Yes. >> That we can piggy back onto like Eric's

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superintendent update. Every principal has a weekly. There's a lot we can just inject into quickly >> and and make this very very simplified to get information out. >> Yep. >> Um >> I allowed to say this is something I'm interested in doing also. >> I think Julia just said it was something

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she was interested in doing too. So interesting. >> Interesting. >> Um All right. So I guess the first thing I I do we want to try to craft a motion there around creating a

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>> working group. >> Working group the new guy. >> Do we >> All right. Oh yeah. >> Do we have to have a motion? >> Um >> to create a working group. >> To create a working group. Yes. Um and then I guess what I'm thinking is if then the committee were to do that then

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we're moving into the next section where we're going to fill all these buckets. So, >> Mhm. >> Um, >> same page. >> All right, let's look at Tom, who's our new secretary. >> That's right. >> Oh, I should make the motion. I don't have to make the motions anymore.

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>> The most difficult part of the job. Making a motion on the fly. >> So, uh, I make a motion to create a working group for information and communications out. >> Second. Sounds good. >> All right. Second by Amy Converter. Um,

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anybody have any further question, discussion? >> No. >> All right, looks like we're ready to vote. All those in favor? That is unanimous and we have created the working group of communications working group. Okay.

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So, next up we have we're going to look at all of our school committee subcommittees and if you're okay with it, I'm going to throw the communications working group into there. Um, I heard back from most of you. I'm looking at you, David Pledo.

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>> Um, I I'm sorry. I did not read, but I know exactly what I want to do. So, >> okay. So, are you willing to just shout it out about what you what subcommittee you'd like to be on? >> That's negotiations. >> Surprise. Okay. Um, >> because I have to leave negotiations.

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>> Okay. So, I'm gonna just um So, everyone I'm gonna just throw some things out there. I So, what I did was I took what people um said they were interested in. Oh, well, I guess I should say I heard I don't want to put words in people's mouth, but I heard two people say they

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were potentially interested in the communication working group. I heard Julia and Amy. Is that accurate? >> It's accurate. >> Is anybody else interested in that? >> Okay. >> A hard no. >> I am I am very much not. Okay. I'm going to just read you what I have.

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>> Our work. Nope. >> Um, either I'm going to read you what I have and I'm going to just sort of let you know people, not everybody, but some people let me know things they were really wanting, you know, that that was their top sort of choice. I'll let you know those. So, I heard capital finance people that said they were interested in

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being on capital Finance was Jen, Tom, and Julia, and Jen expressed that that was her top choice. Is that accurate? Um, I heard on uh negotiations uh Dana, Kristen, Tom, and David. And I

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know it sounds like that's David's top choice, and I know it's mine, too. Um I don't know whether you expressed that was your top or not, but I think that was the only one. So, yes. So, yes. Um and I know Tom had expressed flexibility

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around different um policy. I heard from interested Amy, Jen, Julia and I also would be willing to serve on policy and I think Amy had expressed that as a favorite and then again communications

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I've heard Julia and Amy. Does anyone want to? >> Well, I would say my my two top choices are cap capital finance um and the communications working group. >> Okay. >> And then if I need to be on another committee, I I >> Right. I had you in policy without a

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star like >> right like I'm interested in policy, but I mean if someone else is very very interested in it. >> Um okay. Um I know that was a lot of kind of information. Um, I will just say like I'm looking at my it looks like it

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could just kind of fall into place if um my question I guess I'm looking what I'm looking at I have a question which is uh we usually have two people that serve on two right you're >> Julia and me

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>> right now Julia's on right okay so Jen >> you can pull me out of policy >> well no I'm not trying to get you kind of policy. I'm just asking you like you've been on two for a long time. >> Yeah, I wouldn't mind going back to one >> like Yeah, I mean I know that's been

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>> a while. So, um Okay. >> And she is the chair of capital >> of capital finance. Um okay. Um so let's let's start with capital finance because that seems really easy. We have three people interested in that.

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>> So the three people that expressed interest in capital finance were Jen, Tom, and Julia. So, >> so capital finance can get crazy around budget season, but other than that, it's pretty laidback, but around budget season,

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we're meeting quite frequently >> in the fall. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> And part way in the spring, too. >> Um, usually we meet Mondays during the day, but we could re-evaluate that if it doesn't work for you, Tom. And you all

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typically meet on Zoom. >> No, we meet in person. >> We meet in person. >> Okay. >> Yeah, that that works. I'm work from home, so it's very flexible >> for the most part. Yeah. >> Okay, good. Yeah, I work from home, too. So, and but Jen teaches, so >> Okay. >> It's kind of based around her Yeah.

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schedule. >> I don't have classes on Monday, which is why we do it on Monday. >> Um, all right. Do we have a motion on the capital finance subcommittee? >> Uh, yeah. Yeah, I make a motion to approve the capital finance subcommittee

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members of Jen, Julia, and Tom. >> Second. >> Okay, I heard a second by Jen. All right, all those in favor. That is unanimous. And the motion passes. Nice. >> We don't have we don't have our next meeting set yet because we were waiting

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for our third committee member, >> right? Um, Jen, were you willing to continue to schedule that and then you all can regroup once you're there and >> absolutely >> vote for a chair? >> Huh? >> And vote revote the chair. >> The chair and all that. Yes.

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>> Um, okay. So, um, negotiations. Um, so we have, uh, Dana and Kristen who are currently on the committee. Julia who is on the subcommittee. Julia who is

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departing the subcommittee um and uh David's interested and I know Tommy you had said you're open to that. >> One's good for my first year since you just made you secretary. >> Nice light lift >> and yeah negotiations is a lot. It's

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going to be Yeah. Um upcoming will be um All right. Do we have a motion? >> Yeah. put a motion for for uh Dana, Kristen, and David to be on the negotiation subcommittee. >> Second. >> All right. All those in favor?

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That is unanimous and the motion passes. All right. Policy. Um so Amy is expressed interest. And it looks like Julia and I could fight about who wants to have the second spot or the or no,

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Jen. If we don't have Jen, then Julia would be you'd be on two. >> She'd be on three cuz she has >> I'd be on three if I'm on communications. >> All right. So, that's too many. Okay. So, >> well, I'm only on Well, if I stay on policy, I'm on two, but if somebody else

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really I mean, I'm happy to do two. >> Okay. Well, so >> have to really. >> All right. Well, I'm just saying. So, I I just wanted to acknowledge that Jen has literally been years on two committees. Um, I have been only on negotiations for a long time. I haven't

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served on two in a long time. >> And you're the chair. >> I do some other things. Um, >> but, >> um, Julia is looking, we haven't voted it yet, but you're looking to be on the communications and Amy is looking to be on You can't be on policy twice. Um, >> I'll try.

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>> Um, so I mean, I'm I'm willing to do it, but we do need another person. So >> I I'll help. >> Okay, that'll put you on two. >> That's fine. >> Policy is not that that's kind of a

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heavy lift for Tom like just being on policy >> and his first year capital. Um I trust me, it's not that you can't. I'm just looking out for you. >> Um like I said, I could I could do it. >> Um >> I can do it, too. I don't mind.

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>> No, no. It's I I'm just I'm not a for whatever reason I was just never a fan of the policy committee. Been on it on and off. >> I think it's like really valuable. I don't understand. It's just >> I mean the good thing about policy is that it

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doesn't usually have something that's like oh my gosh we have to get this done. >> Well that's the problem. I was on policy when we were shifting >> right >> over. I'm just saying unlike things when they come. >> Yes. Un unlike Right. Yes. Exactly. And

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and um All right. So I heard >> I heard I appreciated Tom's willingness. I do think you have a lot on your plate. Perfect. >> Um I heard David um >> and so are we is anybody Nobody's fighting him for it. >> I'm there.

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>> All right. So it looks like uh I have Amy, Dana, and David. Is that what we think? >> So I motion to put on the policy subcommittee Amy, Dana, and David. >> Second. >> Second by Jen Carr. All right. All those

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in favor. It's unanimous. And the motion passes. >> Um that was honestly just to save you from >> No, I appreciate it. Yeah. I don't know what I don't know. So I'm appreciate it. >> No. >> Yeah. particularly during budget season, you aren't going to have a ton of extra bandwidth.

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>> Perfect. >> Um, all right. And now that leaves us with the communications working group, which we discussed, and it looks to I mean, it looks like Julia and Amy, unless people are fighting them for it. Um,

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right. >> Okay. I motion for the communications working group to be Julia and Amy. >> Second. >> Second by Jen Carr. All those in favor >> t-shirts >> and that is unanimous and the motion passes. Um

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and uh I just make sure I think we have somebody in each group that so Jen will organize the first meeting of capital finance. I with negotiations we already have meetings on the schedule. We will um update you David and the rest of the

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committee in executive session tonight. Um and then um policy. >> We don't have a meeting on the calendar. So >> So are you willing to take that on and because you'll have to revote on who's the chair, but if you're willing to take that on. >> Yes. >> Um and then Julia and Amy, can the two of you just agree to have a conversation

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and maybe we can talk at the next meeting about where you what direction you guys want to go. >> Okay. >> Um Okay. Okay. I'm normally much better at notes. I don't know. I'm not taking good notes. Okay.

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Um, next up, um, we do have some liaison. >> Oh, yeah. >> To discuss. Um, I don't want to take too much time. I know Vinnie's got some important I want to hear Vinnie's presentation,

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but um we have a couple of things that are vacant and then we also might want to do a deeper rearrange. I I don't know how the committee feels about maybe just doing the vacant right now and then >> that's fine

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>> rearranging kind of later. Mhm. >> Um, >> might make sense in the fall >> is that right now the school year is just sort of so we really just have two vacancies. Cutler and the capital improvement plan. >> I'll jump on the capital improvement plan. >> Okay.

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Anybody else want that one? No. Um, and Cutlers. Anybody have any Cutler connections? No. >> Nope. I live right down the street.

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>> My children went there 20 years ago. Um >> did you used to say what a liaison does? >> I mean the it depends on what the um particular group is that you're liaison liazing to.

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But for the elementary schools I mean >> the friends >> mostly it's really just connecting with the friends group. Um during budget season, we usually try to have at least one um sort of opportunity to go into the school. Um

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but it's not a heavy lift. Um so I mean any >> I'll take it if nobody want. It's fine if it's not a heavy lift. >> No, it's not. >> No, it's more just like connecting with certain friends between now and the end

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of the year. We might regroup in the end now the end of the year. I don't know if there's a friends group meeting. >> There may there may be literally maybe nothing but the end of the year. Um so beautiful. >> Yeah. >> Um so >> I usually just sign up for like the friends group email if it's a school

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that I'm not already having a relationship with and then you kind of get the sense of what's going on. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And then um talking about the the budget when it comes up, >> right? Which is >> which is a long time from now. So >> a long time from now. >> Okay. No problem then.

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>> Okay. Um All right. So I heard uh Tom at the Cutler liaison and David at the capital improvement plan. If you want to make a motion, Tom. >> Can I make a motion for both in the same? Beautiful. >> Absolutely. >> So I make a motion for David to be the capital improvement plan liaison and Tom

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to be the Cutler liaison. >> Second. >> Second by Kristen. Um all those in favor? That is unanimous and we got it done. All right. Great job. Um, all right. Um,

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>> first time in a while we've done it all in one night. >> I know. I It didn't It didn't seem so ambitious when it was, but now it does. Um, all right. We're going to just quickly try to talk about retreat dates. If we can't do it tonight, one of the >> most important or things I bring up all

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the time is the one thing you can talk about as much as you want to outside of a meeting that doesn't violate open meeting law is scheduling. So, we're going to try to talk about a retreat date, but if we can't figure it out right now quickly, we can do that over email because that's something we can

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talk about. We can even argue about it. Um, all right. Um, so ideally, I would love to have a retreat day sometime between August 3rd and August 10th.

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In my dreams, someone would pick a day and all of us would say, "That's perfect. From when and when? >> August 3rd. August 10th. >> I mean, is this an evening event or an >> Oh, I'm away. >> Doesn't matter. She's away. Um, it's usually

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>> I'm away August 3rd. August. >> It's a pretty like all day weekend on Saturdays, right? We could do it on a Saturday. We could do it during the week. It's like So, sorry. >> Jen just said no. >> Julia, two already. >> He said no also.

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>> Okay. I will send you all an email. We will >> The next week could work the week after. >> The 10th. >> Yeah. >> No. >> Monkey. It is. >> But not the 10th. >> But not on the 10th. >> You couldn't do the 10th. >> Oh, maybe. Could you do the 10th? >> I could do the 10th. >> Um, the whole

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>> I could actually do the sixth or seventh, too. >> Oh, well, why didn't you throw some of these days? >> No, I can't do that whole week. >> The whole first week of August. >> Well, the >> But I could do the 10th. I could do the 10. >> I could do the 10th >> for sure. Or I can do the 10th.

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>> I could do the 10th as well. >> David, >> I'm going to put a hold on my calendar right now. >> Yay. >> Okay, >> Tom. >> This is Looks open so far. >> Something is wrong. My god. >> Something in the universe. >> Oh, I'm busy though. Oh, okay.

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>> I actually have my annual physical that day. I think that's I'll reschedule. Um, >> I know. It's tough getting a doctor. >> Got it in. Um, >> my calendar. Okay. Um, so silly. >> Well, so we will Wow, that >> Yeah, I'm suspicious.

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>> Yeah. Um, so please block it out. We typically have done I can't remember what we've done. 8 to 2 or 9 to three, but >> 8 to2 9 to three. Yeah. >> Yeah. Like >> six hours. >> Good lunch. >> 8 to 3 >> and um >> Awesome. All right. That was amazing.

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>> Um me out. >> No, you. >> Okay. Uh to you, Vinnie. Oh, excuse me. Sorry, mics are rough tonight. >> Staying uh Thank you guys for joining us

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tonight and letting me uh present. I'm here to uh show you our FY26 year-end financial forecast as of quarter 3 uh ending March 31st, 2026. Uh before I get into the bulk of the

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presentation, like I normally do, I'd just like to take a second to go over the exhibits. Uh some of them are a little daunting. Uh the first exhibit linked to the agenda is this PowerPoint presentation. Uh it's the summary version of our year-end financial

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forecast. Exhibit number two is a detailed PowerPoint presentation. Uh this presentation is broken down by school or district-wide department uh and is further broken down by the department of elementary and secondary education's expense categories.

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Uh this is the most detailed exhibit of the four. Uh this is really where we break down um the complete year-end forecast and where all of those funds are coming from. Uh exhibit number three is the account detail behind uh exhibit

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number two. It is the full detail of all roughly 450 of our general ledger uh expense accounts. This is an Excel document. It lists out uh prior year budgets, how much we spent in these accounts last year. It also lists out

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the current budget for this year. Um any amendments or transfers the school committee has approved. It has all of our year-to-ate expenditures. It also has a column for our incumbrances. Those are monies that uh department heads have put in uh purchase orders that they've entered that we know we're going to

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expend at the end of the year. And then it has our current balance, which is where we stand today. And then the last column is our projection. That's where I work and try to figure out where we're going to end the year. Um, so if you're reviewing that, really go to the column all the way to the right to see what we

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are projecting for our year-end balance. And then number four is kind of the summary of all of our major uh changes from budget to actual that are either bigger or less than $5,000. If I had to point out to you guys which one you

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should spend your time on, uh, if your time is limited, I would really go to exhibit number four. This is really where you're going to learn the most on what our actual variances are compared to our budget to actual. Um, and then if you have more time and you want to get more in depth, I would definitely go to

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exhibit number two that really in captures everything that we've done all year uh and what changes in the budget. And if you really want to geek it out, you can go to exhibit number three uh and start looking at all of the excels and start and try to um extrapolate some

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of the data. Uh so to go over our agenda tonight, we're we're going to review our uh FY26 year end forecast from three different perspectives. We're first going to do it from the school or department perspective. Uh then we're going to move

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into the desi categories. is then going to try to give you kind of my own perspective on where these funds come from. And then the last two items, we're going to take a vote on the prepayment of FY27 special education out of district tuitions. Uh and then take a uh

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vote on budget transfers. Uh so presented here is our financial forecast for year end. At this time, I'm predicting uh that we're going to end the year around $440,000. Just to give you perspective, this is about 1% of our budget. So, we really

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are coming in uh just about 99% accurate. There are a lot of changes, but in terms of a whole dollar amount, um I'm predicting we're going to have somewhere around 1% left over at the end of the year. Um things could change from now till then, though. Just as an

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example, um, in our year-end forecast, uh, we have encumbered funds to do a lot of window work around the district, mainly at Buer and the central office. Uh, this was going to be done in June. However, some things have arose at Winthrop School that we might have to go

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and remediate. Uh, if that occurs and we can get that done this year, we would probably uh, put the windows aside and move those funds over to the Winthrop school uh, to solve the issue that arose over there. as long as we can do it by June. Another thing that could change,

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my financial forecast, uh, where we're estimating $400,000 is, uh, is built in the fact that all of our department heads and all of our five schools are going to spend their supplies and materials and contracted services funds.

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Uh these funds although not as large as payroll um it is a good chunk of our budget and it is where the principles and department heads have a little more discretion on what they can buy and what they can do uh with their contracted services funds before year end. I have incorporated that they spend all of

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those funds. Historically they do not. There usually is a residual balance at the end of the year. If that happens again this year that would increase my number you see here. Um there is a deadline for them to encumber these fund and enter purchase orders. It's the end

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of this month. Uh as you can see there's still one more month after that left in the year, the entire month of June. So when May 30th comes, uh I will run another analysis. If there are a large increase of unexpended funds that they turned over, we might look at doing both

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things. Replace the windows and remediate at Winthrop. So it really depends on what happens uh over the next 3 weeks and how much money um the schools and the departments have left over at the end of the year. Um the last thing that could change uh is our

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prepaid tuitions. Uh so we are predicting that at the end of this year we are going to prepay funds. Uh those could change depending on our enrollment, depending on where students are out of place and what those costs are. So those numbers could change. Uh right now I do have an estimate in

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there. Uh but right now if you look at it, there really are three major uh categories that have large balances. There are benefits and fixed charges, our capital and fixed assets, and our special education district-wide department. I'm going to briefly talk

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about those three and what is um causing those deficits or surpluses and it's not working. So just to talk about the first one, benefits and fixed charges. what's included in that number. So, it covers

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all of our payroll taxes. That's our social security and our Medicare. It also covers our property uh and casualty and liability insurance. It covers all of our unemployment benefits. It covers that $1 million payment we make to Essex County uh for our pension system for our

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some of our employees. and it covers the health insurance for all of our active employees as well as all of our retirees, whether they're on basic plans, whether they're on Medicare. All these expenses uh fall into our benefits and fixed charges categories.

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So, at year end, I am predicting that we're going to have $375,000 left over in this category after all of our transfers that we've conducted through quarter 1 and quarter two. It's really broken down into four major areas. It's our health insurance, which is the biggest one. As a lot of you

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know, uh, health insurance is our second biggest line item in our budget. Um, and there's a lot of things that go into this number. We have to predict what the premium rate increase is going to be, uh, that Harvard Pilgrim applies to us. We have to predict what our change in enrollment or participation is going to

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be. And then we also include any uh, vacant positions. We include full health insurance for the entire year when we go to set the budget. When we set the budget last year, we had eight vacant positions. So, we budgeted health insurance for all eight vacant positions. That budget alone for those

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eight people was $183,000. So, depending on what they enrolled in is why you're seeing a bigger balance here because a lot of them did not enroll in our health insurance. Um, we also have roughly $50,000 left over in unemployment because the usage of unemployment is a little lower this

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year. not as many people um have been asked to um leave or were let go. Uh we also have $22,000 left for our sick day buyback. Uh this balance is here cuz although we have five retirees this year, two of them have pushed their

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retirement dates off into September or October of next year. So we budgeted to pay out their sick day buyback, which happens after they retire. Uh but because they're now not retiring until the beginning of FY27, we can't pay that with FY26 funds. So, we have funds uh

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remaining for the sick day buyback payout. Uh last, we are seeing a balance for our crossing guards. Uh we have about $12,000 left over and this is mainly because of vacancies. Uh and this seems to happen every year and it's because crossing guards is a very unique

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position. It really uh takes a certain individual that has a certain lifestyle to do this. It's a 2hour a day position and it's not like it's two straight hours. It's 1 hour in the morning and one hour at the end of the day. So, you pretty much can't go anywhere for 10

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months of the year. And then you can't go anywhere too far during the day because you got to come back here by 2:00 uh to help kids cross the street. So, we're going to try to figure something out over the summer. I did do a poll of surrounding towns. It looks like we do pay a little bit less than

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the surrounding areas for our crossing guards. So, we might need a salary adjustment for next year. I'm not sure how much that's going to help with our vacancies, but hopefully uh there's a promising outcome for that next year. Uh moving on to our capital and fixed

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assets. Um here is where you would find any of our capital stabilization fund transfers. Uh this is also where we contributed about $1.6 million to the turf field project to help pay down that borrowing. Uh you would also see funds

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to repair or replace any of our aging equipment. uh if we needed to replace any of our vehicles, uh this is where they would be purchased out of and any major big bulk technology purchases are also uh budgeted under our uh capital

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and fixed assets category. So for this I'm projecting that we are going to at the moment end the year in a deficit of about $300,000 and again that's after all transfers and this is because of the Cutler water man. So, for those of you uh who have heard, or Tom,

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if you're not aware, uh this year was the second year in a row that the water man going into Cutler uh broke and started leaking. We had an emergency repair uh and it's been decided since it's the second time that the rail needs to be completely replaced. So, right

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now, we're estimating uh about $300,000 to replace uh I'm sorry, for the whole project is $300,000. So after we replace the water man, we really are digging up majority of that parking lot. And that parking lot is already in pretty bad shape. So after we dig up the water man,

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we're going to lay down a new parking lot. Uh it's estimated that the repaving of that parking lot and the replacement of the water man uh will c cost roughly $300,000. This has not been put out to bid yet. It goes live um next week, I believe on Monday or Wednesday. bids are

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due back the first week in June and the project will probably start the last uh the last week in June. So, we'll have more accurate numbers in about 3 weeks from now, but working with our engineers and estimators, uh they predicted to at least set aside roughly $300,000. Uh next is our district-wide special

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education department. Um within here there are roughly 10 FTEEs. It is 3.88 uh special education administrators and 6.0 0 FTEES of district-wide uh special education teaching staff. The special ed

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department in total accounts for about 92 FTEES, but the district-wide special education department only covers roughly 10 of those FTEEs. So if an individual works at one school, we budget them under that one school. So if you go and

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look at Buer, there's a section for special education. Every school has their own special education section. However, when a teacher or any staff for that matter starts working at more than two schools, so three or more, we place them in the district-wide department.

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Um, so right now we have six instructional staff members who teach in more than three buildings. So they're at the district-wide special education um DAC. So the other 80 roughly 80 FTEES in

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special education staff are spread out amongst the five schools. Uh 10 of them again in here. So it does not cover the entirety of the special education department. Again it's only the district-wide ones. So at the end of this year, I'm predicting we're going to have roughly $352,000

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remaining. Uh the bulk of this comes from tuitions and transportation. Uh so the net result of the out of district prepayments we made in FY25 uh we did that to help pay for the replacement of the high school boiler that broke over

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the winter. Uh after we paid for that and after we uh plan on prepaying again for next year, we're left with roughly $260,000 left over which is adding to the bulk of that $350,000. In addition to that though, we are at

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the moment projecting to end in a deficit for this year. If you look at our budget uh to actual expenditures for out of district of roughly $137,000, uh this does incorporate three new outplacements that we are currently

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under mediation with. They might not go out, but they uh also might before the end of the year. So, we are reserving those funds just in case they go out uh by the end of the year. You've heard us speak about this before. The superintendents on the Northshore all came together uh to come up with a

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plan to help reduce our special education out of district transportation. Uh and all the districts came together and decided to have the Northshore Education Consortium be the head of this regionalized transportation. Uh that result of bringing all the communities together uh

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saved Hamilton Renham Wenham roughly $132,000 in our out of district uh special education transportation for this year. In addition to that $132,000, we are also realizing that $90,000 credit that Dar's Garage uh gave to us

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when we initiated their contract last summer. Uh and then we are realizing it through a reduction in our uh special education transportation that they provide to us. Moving on into the Desi category, uh it's that same number. So now we just

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break out that $441,000 to the way Desi wants us to report it. Uh if you're looking at it again here, there are still three major categories that have uh larger balances than I would like. Uh they are our pupil services and again our benefits and

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fixed charges and our capital and fixed assets. So just briefly, our capital uh and fixed assets and our benefits and fixed charges, those are the only two um DESIE categories that are represented on the district-wide department. So when

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you either way you look at our budget, whether you look at it by DAC or by school or location or whether you look at it by Desi, these two categories are exactly identical. So we already went over those. I'm not going to bore you and go over it again. So, if you just circle back and you look at the only other one, it's our pupil services, uh,

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coming in at roughly $318,000 left over. And when you look at this, it's almost the same thing cuz transportation falls under pupil services. So, the first two items you see here are the first are the same items we just went over, the NEC regionalization and DR's garage credit.

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In addition to those two items, we are also realizing an additional $48,000 in athletic user fees. Um, so this year our participation rate increased with our athletes more than we had realized. If someone had to take a guess on why that

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happened, my guess would be because of our new facilities. So we're seeing an uptick in our athletes. We didn't uh anticipate that large of an increase. Uh, so we took in a lot more revenue than we had anticipated. That means the district's uh user fee match or the

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reduction we set to user fees is lower because that fund uh has taken in a lot more money than we anticipated. Approximately 44,000 I'm sorry uh $48,000. We also have some vacancies around our lunch uh and recess monitors. And this

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is really similar to our crossing guard situation. Again, it's only 2 hours a day. The difference here at least that two hours is together. It's not split 1 hour in the morning, 1 hour at the end of the day. Uh it's 2 hours anywhere between 10 and 1:00 depending on uh what

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building you're in and what time they serve lunch. Uh but again, taking a poll of other districts, it seems like we are a little bit low on our lunch and recess monitors. We're paying them uh the same we pay our crossing guards uh just like most district districts do. So we'll

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probably uh look at that for FY27 to help the schools um fill their vacancies here. Uh we also have about $18,000 in unutilized stipens. Uh these are stipens that we put into the budget that just ended up not being used. A great example

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is our new teacher mentors. Uh in a historical year uh we have anywhere between 15 and 25 in a very bad year uh of new teacher hires. We have to give them all a mentor and then there's a mentor stipen associated with that. This year we did not have that many new

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teachers. Uh so those stipens went unfilled and unutilized and uh are there at the end of the year approximately $18,000. Uh last we have an increase this year on our additional late bus that services

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the middle school and high school. Uh that's costing roughly $30,000. Okay. So when I went over this, I said to myself, I I really wouldn't know what anyone was really saying that to me if they told me. So I just tried to take a different direction, a different approach. And if someone just came up to

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me in town and said, "Why? I just saw your presentation yesterday. Can you give me a kind of quicker example of or a quicker explanation on why you have uh $400,000 left at the end of the year?" Um what I would explain to them, I wouldn't use the numbers you see here. I

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would really just tell them what happened. I included the numbers here for you guys so you guys can match those up as well. Um, but to start really what you have to do is rewind back to FY25. At the end of FY25, we prepaid $1.4

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million in out of district tuitions for FY26. If you just look at that alone, that means in FY26 we freed up $1.4 million. So, if everything else hap happened as it should have, we would have ended this year with the 1.4 million because we

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prepaid. However, a lot of things happened and good thing we did prepay cuz we had two major emergencies this year that those funds were used for. So, when I look at out of district tuitions and prepayments, to be honest, I hate prepaying out of district tuitions. uh

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it causes a lot of accounting headaches and a lot of explanation to the auditors and on our end of year report and I really don't like to do it but to me there's two reasons you do it the first thing is to cover a future deficit that has occurred so if for whatever reason

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you passed in our instance uh we passed our 26 budget um we for out of district tuitions after the budget was passed we found out there might be three additional out of district students uh that means that there's going to be a budget deficit the following year because we didn't budget for those out

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of district students. Uh so if a good thing to do at that point if you can would be to prepay those out of district tuitions so the following year you don't have to make uh budget reductions based on that increase in out of district tuition. So to me the very first thing you would use your prepayments for is to

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cover your future deficit. The second thing is is any major emergency whether capital related that might have happened. Well, we had a $1 million uh boiler failure. It was actually three boilers failed at the exact same time. Uh we lost the complete

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heat up at the high school. We had to come in and bring in emergency heating system uh to keep the building heated. To replace that system, it cost just over $1 million. Uh so from those two items alone, we almost used our entirety of that prepayment. But then we had

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another emergency. As I just stated, the Cutler water mane broke. Uh so of that $1.4 million we used roughly $270,000 to fund the Cutler water man. It cost roughly 300,000. So again right there we would have ended the year in a deficit

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of roughly $61,000. However, everything else that happened this year obviously happened. Um we have our health insurance. This changes in health insurance all the time just like we realized we had lower participation rate than we did. Uh the district tries to be conservative when it sets its

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budget and tries to have a little bit of reserve funds on hand in case anything happens. Well, with everything that else happened this year, we didn't need those reserve funds. So, those are still there uh to access at the end of the year. This year, we had a little bit larger than normal staff turnover. So, we're

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realizing almost $260,000 in savings just from staff turnover. That's that's us hiring um younger or um less educated staff members and um more seasoned higher educated staff members

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either leaving, retiring uh or exiting for whatever reason. Uh we also have a lot of vacancies this year. Now, dollar-wise, it's comparative to last year. However, position-wise, it's not. This is only three positions. One of them makes up nearly half of this entire

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balance alone. So when we don't have a vacant position, it causes a lot more headaches from everyone else. Somebody has to make up the work, but the district is saving money because we're not paying out that salary. Uh so we realized a lot of savings from those vacant positions. And then we had a lot of change in our transportation this

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year that gave us almost another $200,000. So these are all surpluses uh in balances that we had left over at the end of the year. However, we do have some additional expenses this year. If you look at our operations and maintenance budget alone and you compare the original budget to where I'm

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estimating they're going to end the year, we are already $280,000 over budget and we still have uh 3 months left of the year after this uh forecast was made. We also had some things occur with our 27 budget uh and had to make up

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some of those things this year related to to technology uh and some other uh the broken curtain at the high school middle school. Um some other major things this year uh the federal government and the state government lowered the federal uh lowered the

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grants that they give to us. Uh they dropped in about $43,000. We pay for salaries out of all of our grants. Uh that means the district had to come up with $43,000 to cover that reduction in the grants that was passed on to us. We also had the additional late bus because

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of greater participation up at the high school. Uh and then we do have six more school choice kids that are deciding to go to a different public school system uh that do live in Hamilton. Uh and then lastly, we have the prepayment that we're going to apply to to FY27. Even

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after I read uh wrote all this, I still said to myself, it's still probably too long. I should still probably summarize it for somebody. But I thought at least showing it maybe this way um might help instead of doing it by the desi category and by the data. Um so I do have uh a

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request to transfer uh funds to cover those deficit desi categories and then the prepaid motion, but I will stop and take any questions. >> Thank you. Why is the school choice out 29 and on 30? >> Uh there is a special education

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increment in there. So it's not exactly $5,000 per person uh per student there. It's could be anything uh greater than that depending on the services they receive. Also, if a student goes to the tech teka,

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>> uh it is not $5,000. I believe that's like 7,650. So it's not 5,000 even for everyone. >> Yeah. But that that's a choice out. >> That's a choice out. So it's a Hamilton Wenham resident who's deciding to go to

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another public school or the virtual school. >> Yep. That's not kids coming in. It's it's our kids going out. >> Yep. >> Oh, I'm sorry. >> No, no, it's okay. >> I I just had um the three new out of district um what level are they at?

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>> Gray level. >> Yeah. Elementary. >> Elementary. >> Yeah. >> Where? Where? >> Say that again. >> Never mind. I I don't want to get too deep. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Um my question just if and I know you've reviewed it before, but if you could

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remind me how we were able to prepay 1.4 million in out of district placements, like where that 1.4 million effectively. >> Oh boy. You're going to have to rewind like 5 years ago and D situation. Okay. >> No, it's co Co. Okay. All right.

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>> I mean, just I'll try to make it as short as I can. When COVID hit, the buildings closed and we stopped spending money. At the end of that year, we had a large balance left over and we decided to prepay then because we thought the next year when everyone came back, we

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were going to have a large uptick in services that we were going to have to provide. But the year they came back, they were half remote and half in person. we had even less expenses than we originally anticipated. >> So, it's kind of been a rolling thing that we keep kind of prepaying that

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money. That's part of the reason I don't like doing it cuz as soon as you stop doing it, >> all that money is going to fall to >> Excuse me. >> fall to E and D and >> uh make it three times as large as it is right now. >> Yep. Okay. >> Yep.

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>> Got it. So if you got to kind of keep going with that cycle until something large happens um usually either out of district placements or some sort of capital item. >> Yeah. >> Okay. But wasn't 1.04 million of that

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previous paid tuition we paid it because we wanted to free up money for the boiler which didn't come in last fiscal year. It came in this fiscal year. >> Uh correct. Yes. Yep. Yep. Just talk me out.

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>> Anybody have anything else? Okay. Um, so you're looking for >> a motion, >> two separate motions, though, because I correct. >> I think I actually do have a question on the the next one, but not sure. Yeah. >> Yep. Uh this first one would transfer the funds to uh bail out the deficits

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that I'm projecting at year end. >> Okay. >> Um right. Do we want to torture Tom and make him try to read do this as a motion? >> Just this one isn't too bad. >> Yeah. So you just want to start with I

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move that we and then read all of that. I move that we transfer 14,000 from other teaching services to guidance counseling testing. Transfer 300,000 from benefits and fixed charges to capital and fixed asset improvement. Transfer 35,000 from benefits and fixed

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charges to installation materials equipment and technology. Transfer $145,000 from pupil services to operations and maintenance. >> Second. >> Second by Dave Pledo. >> Are there any further questions? No.

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>> Is there discussion? Okay. All those in favor? That is unanimous of the six members present and the motion passes. Um >> next time you should bring a latte if you're going to call it a coffee house.

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>> Bring a latte. >> That's a good point for everyone. >> Mine will need to be decaf. Uh so this next one is seeking approval to use uh current year funds to prepay our f some of our FY27 out of district tuitions.

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>> Um so I have a question. I don't know. >> Of course. >> So I don't know. I did ask Eric this. Um I feel like in the past when we have done this that there's been a specific amount here.

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>> Uh there has not. this is the exact language we've used before. >> So I'm wrong. >> Yep. >> And the reason I can explain why. >> Well, I think I understand why, which is just that it because we don't actually know how much money is actually going. I mean, this is a forecast. It's not the

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final. Yep. >> Right. So, I assume it's because the amount could actually be more or less depending on >> correct. I literally will not know the exact number until the last Friday in June after the last payroll warrant is posted. So I guess my >> 59.

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>> So but my question is >> there is a legal limit though and that's >> what you're saying. I cannot exceed the legal limit, >> right? You're not as you the So tell me more about the legal limit. >> Uh so you're allowed to prepay the first

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three months of a student's tuition. So I'm making it up. A student even if a student starts in August and it's only the last week I count that month. uh you technically could go further but it it I don't >> and I actually think I think I knew like that I think you've explained to us what

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I really am not quite in other words it's not to ex is it the entirety of >> the entirety of their tuition the first three months >> is it the entirety of the um like balance in other words if we ended at 441 would you be paying 441 if

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that were allow if that as long as that were >> No I would still aim to end at one roughly 1% %. So that include the 441 already takes out the prepayment. Uh so I would still aim to end in that general

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area. >> Okay. Regardless of >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Other people have questions. >> All right. Um we need a motion. >> Yeah. Uh, I motion the Hamilton Wum

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Regional School Committee authorizes the assistant superintendent of finance and administration to prepay fiscal year 27 out of district tuitions with fiscal year 26 funds not to exceed the amounts established by the Massachusetts General Law Chapter 40 4E chapter 7171D.

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>> Second by Julia Campbell. >> He's pretty good. >> Yeah. >> Um, all right. Anybody have anything else? All those in favor? That is unanimous of the seven members present and the motion passes. >> So, one thing I just wanted to clarify

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as he read that the you're allowed to pay the first three months of a student's tuition that goes to a private school. If they go to a collaborative, you are allowed to prepay the entire year. >> Um, I see. >> But either way, it will still be the

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dollar amount. But >> just to clarify, >> I think that's everything. >> Right. And the amount and obviously the amount will get reported to us when you >> at the end of the year. >> Yep. >> All right. Thank you. >> Yep. Thank you guys. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Vinnie. >> I think I still got one more, right?

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>> One more. >> Yeah. >> So much work. Then I definitely the prior year invoices. >> Oh, prior year. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, it does not bring me joy to ever bring these in front of you guys. It usually means we miss payment on something. Uh someone ordered something without a purchase order. We do have uh

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specific uh policies that says you're not really supposed to order anything until you have an approved purchase order. Uh but some of these items were still on a purchase order. Uh the problem is the state has specific rules that you cannot roll over a purchase order than December 31st. So if December

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31st comes and you still haven't paid it, you have to close the purchase order uh and then go through this process of bringing it forward. Uh, two of these invoices did happen at the end of FY25, the last week or two. Um, it was obviously a chaotic time at the end of

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June. I think these were just small items that were overlooked. Uh, the elevator inspections, again, they happened at the end of the year and I think they were just overlooked. The other two items, however, um they were put in, they were recorded, uh but the services we received, uh the budget

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holder was not satisfied, uh and they would not release payment until the company uh remedyed the situation. Uh a few months went by, back and forth. They eventually agreed that they could not fix uh what happened. Uh and we

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requested a new invoice reducing it to exclude those services. uh the company took a little longer than we wanted. That's why they weren't on the prior uh request that I brought to you guys, I think in December. Uh so these were kind of left over from December.

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Um but we're seeking your permission tonight to um use our 26 funds to cover these four invoices totaling uh $2,47364. >> Oh, it's not up. Sorry. Oh, do you have a

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>> It's two screens, so I got to >> All right. Uh Tom, do you want to give it a shot? >> We can help. >> I motion to pay uh from our fiscal year >> 26. 26 budget elevator engineering $150

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elevator engineering $260 RB Allen and Co. $1,465 Power Products $598.64 for a total of $2,473.64. >> Second. >> Second by Kristen. Anybody have anything

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else? All right. All those in favor? That is unanimous and the motion passes. >> You guys appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Okay. Um I'm going to run through the committee reports, but I don't

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anticipate that we have a top at this moment. Um capital finance. >> Um we met on Monday and we went through what Vinnie just went through. >> Great >> with you guys. >> Awesome. >> Boring.

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um policy. >> I need to schedule our next meeting. There's a bunch of policy updates that came through from MASC that we probably need to talk about. Great. Um negotiations. We are continuing to negotiate with the ESP union and we will

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update the committee in executive session. Um and we do have a scheduled meeting and I don't have my calendar up. It's Thursday. The third, what did you say? 14th. 14th. Yes. On the 14th, um

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the secretary report, just not to terrify you, Tom, you're first of all not in charge of taking any notes. We have a secret recording secretary who's doing that. Um and typically the secretary report would just let us know which um which subcommittees have outstanding minutes. Okay.

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>> Um do you know whether we have any information on out? >> No, I don't think we do, but I'll I'll let you know. >> Excellent. Um and then also just to take me um notes at the executive session. >> Yes. Okay. >> Yeah. >> And submit those to Janelle. >> Yes. But but this meeting we have a

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recording secretary who is watching this. >> Yep. >> And she does an excellent job. >> Um >> uh in our inboxes. Do you have anything, Amy? >> I don't have anything for that. >> Okay. Um All right. Um

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I um just have a couple reminders for people. Um so superintendent evaluations um the due date is May 17th. Um those

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need to be delivered to Julia. Um that is for the five of us who are here for that. Um, if you have any process questions, please feel free to reach out to myself

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or any other member. Um, happy to talk about that. I am um I did speak to Kristen because she's really the only new member that's trying to write a evaluation. She and I set up a time to do a little bit of um training

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on just the process. Um, but if anybody else wants to chat about that, we can have you join if that's something you want to do. Um, >> we'll just review the schedule again. So, they're delivered to me by May 17th. And when am I getting >> discuss it? It's on um on the June 4th meeting.

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>> Okay. So, when should I have >> it by the Friday before? Um, ideally um you would deliver it uh to to get it on the agenda by May 29th. um legally required to be on there by June 2nd.

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>> Okay. >> Um does that make sense? >> Yes. >> Um uh we had discussed that at that meeting we would discuss and provide feedback with an anticipated vote on the 18th. Um but that's of course at the will of the committee. Um I did I

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already alerted Janelle. I don't know if anybody else has started to do it. I did find something a little wonky in the um form. It was much better than in the past, but I did send it to Janelle because I don't know if it's just me.

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So, um, I'll let you know if she if she figures it out. >> That's awful. >> Um, yes, it's much better. But I did find one thing that I was wrestling with. Um, I did just want to let you know we all got invited um to the senior

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symposium at the high school on May 13th. um from 9:16 to 10:16 a.m. Um I just wanted to I am not able to attend at that time and I know that's a challenging

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time. Um but I will just put a plug in if any school committee members can go. It's a great um it's really cool to meet and see what our students are achieving. It's a combination of some students do detailed research projects and they

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present them and some students do internships and they present them and you get to just walk around and talk to individual students about their work and I'm sure anyway if I'm just putting in a plug if you're able to go I would highly recommend um and I'm sad that I'm not able to go this year. Um

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and I think that's all I have unless anyone has some questions for me. >> Can I just add one? >> Yeah, of course. >> Just going back to my evaluation. I have one document coming out to the five people to give you a better outline of the uh strategic planning because that's

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>> when the evidence was due, there was not a lot of information in there at the time. So now we've had we got meeting number seven coming up. So I'll give you a breakdown of what's happened over those seven meetings. >> Be great. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Um does anyone have a topic for future meeting?

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>> Uh communications. Yes. Oh yes. We'll have some sort of Does it proposal feel like >> that you want that on the next meeting? Do you want to let me know? Do you want to >> You want to talk about it and then let Dana know

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>> when is the next meeting again? >> Um our next meeting >> the 21st. Two weeks. >> Okay. Uh >> you want to do two >> two weeks? >> I think two weeks. >> Two meetings. Yeah, we do two meetings for >> So we'll look at look at the fourth. >> Thank you.

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>> Okay. Um, anybody else have a topic for future meeting? >> Strategic plan draft will probably be in front of the committee June 4th as well. >> Okay. It's going to be a busy meeting. >> That's our target date. >> Okay.

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>> Right. Anybody have anything else? >> Do we know next steps on changing school start times? Um that is also coming but probably not till the last meeting in June. Okay. >> Going to do a survey with the kids

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before I bring it forward. So >> right. Um >> and MCCast time is the worst time to do a survey with the kids. >> Yeah. Um All right. Are we all ready? Because I'm going to >> Mhm.

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>> Okay. I move to adjourn into executive session under general law chapter 30A section 21A number three to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining or litigation with the ESP union if an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining or

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litigation position of the public body and the chair so declares and not to return to open session. >> Second second by Amy. So this is a roll call vote. Uh David, >> yes. >> Jen, >> yes. Yes. Julia, >> yes. >> Amy, >> yes.

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>> Tom, >> yes. >> Kristen, >> yes. >> D is a yes. And we are adjourned.