good evening thank you all for coming I'm going to call the order this here aretta here I am uh this meeting is being recorded by local scene anyone intending to make an audio or video recording of this meeting
should notify the chair at this time okay seeing as none uh first on our list we have to hear any visitors do we have anyone that would like to speak this evening hi um my name is Barbara gild and I from 20 Crescent Street I have kids in KES and
kis so I wanted to get up and speak today primarily to thank the school board for continuing to support our schools and for passing budgets that advocate for level funding I spoke at the last committee meeting uh asking that the school board passed that level funded budget and when it passed I
definitely congratulated myself on a job well done and looked forward to voting for it at the town meeting so it turns out I have a lot to learn about town Town politics um I had no idea that it would be necessary to um that there would be
extra steps necessary to get a budget on the town warrant I didn't realize that budgets could be sent back so all of that was new to me um today I understand that we may learn about additional resources to apply to the school budget so I'm hopeful that
the Lev level funded budget will require less than originally anticipated from the town um I've also seen committee members suggest that the timeline for making budget decisions needs to change so that we'd have all that Revenue information available so that we're not
constantly playing fire drw so I would definitely support changing that um so regardless I'm here again to pledge what I pledge at the last meeting which is that the community is rallying in support of the school budget and that we will continue to do so I along with some other Rockstar moms from the
community launched a Facebook group for parents who wish to learn how to advocate for the school budget and is over 300 individuals join that this school board understands the importance of investing in our schools the school board understands that is short-sighted to underfund education this school board
understands that not providing the appropriate support for our students just leads to additional economic consequences for the town um our property values would decrease because our schools are weak and the price of Education would continue to rise anyways
as students who are underserved in our underfunded schools require ever more expensive Services through individual education plans or outplacement schools are expensive and Kingston has Revenue issues do I want my taxes to go up
no how however the answer to the lack of Revenue in this town is not underfund education our kids should not pay this price their Futures should not be the cost of a smaller town budget and I will be saying the same thing at the selectman meeting later this week and I
will continue to advocate for a level funded school budget and I'm not going to be alone at that meeting either so you guys do your jobs and we will do our jobs thank you thank you is there anybody else that would like to speak hi everyone uh my name is Jackie Jo
janangelo of fron Lane first I want to thank you again for everything that you are doing for our schools um we really appreciate it um I quickly just want to re um Echo bobber sentiments um we've been hard at work over the past month um plus Gathering the parents of the Town
um to the Facebook page we created to ensure that parents are um as many parents as possible are aware of the budget concerns um I myself I you know I'm newish to the town I've only been here for four years now my son's just going into K so we're learning as we go
right um we are hopeful that we'll hear tonight um that additional funds have been found um we hope that moving forward um changes can be made regarding timelines for when the budgets are due in order to have more complete information at the right time the more information we have at better time
really is going to we're all still going to engage but we've really um lit a fire um and which is great right um but we don't want to cause Panic if we don't have to so I appreciate everyone's time today and looking forward to hearing
what everyone has to say thank you thank you would anyone else like to speak online yes thank you Jim go ahead sorry can you hear me nope hold
on can you hear me now can you hear me now oh I have no audio can you hear me now oh yes you can okay great now we can okay sorry about that well just let me
know if I if I drop off um my apologies I can't turn my camera on I think that's probably a web n thing this um Kim emberg 214 Indian Pond Road I'm a member of the board of Selectmen and I just had a couple of questions I know you guys can't respond in this
moment but hopefully when you talk about the budget maybe you can address some of these um questions one of them is when I look at and I know you have new numbers in front of you tonight so maybe some of this is irrelevant at this point but
when you look at fiscal year 25's budget and compare it to the fiscal year 26 budget for local schools it appears that there is a significant increase in professional development lines at both KES and kis it looked like it was about
$100,000 at each School of an increase so I was just curious if you could speak to that and it could be that maybe funds got recategorized into a different account so it just doesn't look the same but if you could speak to that when the time comes that would be great and then
the second question I had was related to um it looked like a speech therapist potentially two full-time positions were added to the fiscal year 26 budget and I don't know if that's correct or if that's just again a different
categorization but it appears that there's an increase of nearly $300,000 for two speech therapists so if you could speak to that as well that would be really helpful and um lastly I just would say I know we're we received some additional funding
from the state regarding some of our folks that are staying at the Baymont and I would just caution against using that funding for an ongoing Revenue item so in other words we're only going to get that Revenue probably once assuming
that what I'm hearing from the state is accurate and that hotel will no longer be used for temporary housing come the end of this year so I just want to be careful that we don't use um a one onetime Revenue source for our ongoing
budget year to year so those were the only things I wanted to mention and ask and I thank you very much for your time and for everyone's dedication thank you okay is there anyone else any
online Okay um oh one more okay Amanda hi there can you hear me yes uh good evening Amanda Robbins 24 Pinebrook
Drive uh sorry I couldn't be there in person but I just wanted to sort of reiterate things that Barbara and Jackie said and thank you for your support um and all that you've been doing to move this budget forward and get us the things that we need for our kids to have
the most effective um education um so we just wanted to add that um you know we are really proud of the work that we've done for you know getting the parents to come to the table um with the Facebook page and keeping folks informed um and we hope to see some additional Folks at
the selectman's uh meeting on Thursday um but o overall again just want to put out our support for honestly anything Dr Whipple requests we know that she works really hard to make sure that um the school runs at at its timal at its
optimal level um and we just want to show our support um for her and for all of you moving forward so thank you thank you okay is there anyone else online okay okay I think we're
okay okay um next up we have the approval of our regular minutes from February 3rd 2025 uh recording secretary is not here tonight and I know there were a couple of just small changes um do we want to hang on to those till next month just so we
can clarify that with her that's good make a motion that we table the February 3rd minutes until next month do the recording secretary's absence second that all in favor hi okay um I would actually like to make a motion that we take something out of order and that we
jump to the budget presentation since that is what everybody is here for tonight and we do have good news report which is very exciting so um I will make a motion that we move the budget presentation of the
superintendent report out of order all in favor I I excellent okay tonight in your packet you will see some a presentation which highlights some updates um I would I would note that um
what we have presented is a level Services budget not a level funded budget budget a level funded budget if you were to advocate for that would actually result in reductions and force um so uh just to be careful of of that I just wanted to note that this was a
level Services budget uh secondly we did have some notification about the emergency shelter funds which will be discussed tonight as to what that may or may not mean and in terms of timeline there are some things that we have no control over so whether or not we are
eligible for certain um funding sources sometimes we don't find out until very late uh in the budget process even by our own standards so we begin presenting a preliminary budget in January uh and into February and also
the total amount the total cost of education is also influenced by decisions made at Silver Lake which also are reliant from um information from the state that doesn't come out until late January sometimes even later into February in
some circumstances so those are things that we don't have control over um so tonight is not so much about found money but as much about some some changes and some uh new possible Revenue sources and
I'm going to pass it over to Sarah thank you superintendent sorry I was can someone put it up on getting answers questions um are we allowed to answer the questions from public comment Trisha could you
help me with the increase in PD Dr Clifford I meant y there can you hear me yes um there are several things that are listed under um outside professional development providers um so there are a few things the first thing
is math professional development and as I've been speaking about previously this year we are looking to implement we are looking to oops okay we're looking to implement a new math program next year so a piece of this will be professional development
that needs to occur for teachers so that's a piece of the professional development another thing is um Orton Gillingham training for special needs teachers in order to provide specialized instruction to students that are on IEPs who have reading difficulties another
aspect to that is also what we call classroom Orton Gillingham which is giving um providing professional development on um the science of reading for all teachers um another piece is the hill for Literacy for next year um implementing year two with them I've
talked a lot about this in the past so far this year about A needs assessment and then a literacy plan which we're going to be creating and then also um some training that needs to happen in order to facilitate that um that uh literacy plan there's another course called um
RBT High expertise teaching which is another um sort of addition to studying skillful teacher and then some summer work that um I wanted to be able to provide to teachers to help with um several of the strategy for district Improvement um action steps that we're
trying to implement so it's it's professional development and also in the past and maybe uh Dr PL pu can speak to this a little bit um when I started here in August I had no no line items so meaning no budget line
items usually in a district an assistant superintendent will have four or five line items professional development will be one of them assessment textbooks things like that um summer work these kinds of things thank you yes I could I could add that for a number of years we've um
we've spoken with school committees about the danger of only funding your professional development through the um title 2A uh lines in particular and the needs based upon the literacy needs and the math needs are at a point
where Kingston has to consider its own professional development needs in addition prior to the restructuring we were treating all of the grant money as if we were fully regionalized and we can't do that so part of the restructuring is that we can no longer treat that grant money like
we're fully regionalized and so that means that Kingston's amount and Clinton's amount uh and Halifax's amount are all based on that one single District it can't all be lumped together as Silver Lake and floated to
the schools as needed I'm going to go yes thank you so much I apologize we're having technical difficulties okay yeah I think that's the right one sorry yes the one says updated updated
revised uped I just have a couple questions Sarah yes sorry before you start the presentation um actually just has a question for Dr um so when I was looking at the numbers on on um between
FY 26 and 25 Dr pu started out saying this is a level service budget so those items were Newby items so that's not technically level service so I don't know if there's a number that's rolls up to this is how much PD we have this year
versus like last year and then second to that is um you know diff go ahead so it is level service in the sense that Kingston has enjoyed professional development paid for by grants that were
incorrectly structured at the State and at the district level okay so so to to eliminate that would mean that your schools would have no professional development or little to none right no it's just that's a great great
explanation it's just hard to understand that in the context of like what what we're doing I I I think also what occurred previous to this August was that um there was one um title Grant written for you know title one two and
three one Grant in August I wrote four one for each individual town and each individual Town had to have one written for Title 1 2 3 and four so the title money that um Kingston would receive is based only on that one District so title
two money is generally spent to help um pay for the induction program the mentors that Mentor new teachers and the induction program that happens for new teachers in August so that's that's now a a fairly smaller sum of Mone money um
individually for each district so would you say in the past it was like four times that for the Kingston District or are we have we like been getting the same I I'm just looking for that I mean there were was about $40,000 in Kingston for PD it looked
like so money for the grants was uh allocated okay and I would say that we benefited by pretending to be fully regionalized I can't give you an exact number without doing a complete analysis and that would
be extremely timec consuming to go back and some of them quite frankly because of the special education funding and revolving accounts would be next to impossible to recreate but this year we're looking at like $40,000 okay yes
Dr um does that have anything to do with us moving the curriculum coordinator from the shared cost budget to the Kingston budget a couple of years ago also does that have anything to do with the professional development surrounding the new programs okay okay are we ready for the
slideshow so on Tuesday January 28th the Kingston select Ford approved an elementary school budget of 15,590 that was a 7.1% increase over FY 25 so if you recall the uh Town had asked us to have a 4% increase over FY
25 and then when the governor's budget came out in January there was additional money for Kingston in the Chapter 70 funds and that money the town allocated to the elementary school so that's why
the select board voted the 7.1% increase the Kingston Elementary current budget for FY 26 is17 m565 n6 which is a difference of$ 1, 14597
N2 could we look at the next slide please so the current budget is a decrease from the budget that was presented back in February it is a
decrease for several reasons there was a special education program that was an ad that was put into the budget um that has been taken out thank you and there um there was the adjustment to the shared cost budget
that was voted last week also in the um budget document there was anticipated revenue for the rental of the integrated preschool I removed that that was actually in the budget as a negative in expenditure I've moved that out of the
budget and put it into um Revenue which is why it shows up on this slide here so that $645 se1 will be paid to Kingston from Silver Lake for the rental of the integrated
preschool there is 553,000 for anticipated circuit breaker and the 240 Grant and then last month we talked about the 180,000 in the emergency shelter grant which we
received in January after those offsets the Kingston Elementary budget is $661,000 of the amounts that were received so in January and may last year Kingston received 100 a payment of
$1,848 and a payment of $248,700 those that funding was used to offset the FY 24 budget deficit I don't know if you recall at the end of June well in June last year we had a budget freeze
because of an issue and that money money went to take care of that issue in August there was a payment received of $251,800 49 155,000 of that is being used for
salaries in the fy2 budget leaving 96,4 49 of that payment in January of 2025 we received a payment of 338,000
$70.25 of which we talked about allocating 180,000 of that towards salaries in the FY 26 budget leaving $8,250 125 available from that payment
and we have been told by the state that we are going to potentially receive an additional $555,500 in those emergency shelter funds um so I would recommend at this
time using $255,100 74 of the existing fund that is actually on deposit with the town of Kingston and um and $
46,2 26 Cents of the anticipated estimated potential payments can you read those numbers again yes if you look at the screen um the payments that we've received already the $96,000 1840 and the
8,270 that are remaining from those two payments that's $255,100 74 she's fine she's [Music] reading and then the other amount was for
6,127 26 which would be um from that 555 from the 555 and those two numbers together bring us to the difference between the 661 yes
thank you um I don't know if now is the time that you want me to bring it up but there is still potential Levy left over from Silver um as you know the town allocated 4% um
Silver Lake balanced their budget last week using e and D funds for less than 2% and if my math is correct that's around $400,000 um it's above 335,000 so it's somewhere between $335 and $400,000 of
Levy space so I understand um you know Kim made a comment earlier about cautioning against a onetime revenue Source but there is approximately 400,000 still to the levy from what the town allocated towards educational expenses and what we have currently been looking at in terms of our it
doesn't cover the full 661 but it covers a lot of that so if we were to be looking at um using any of that money which is reimbursement money um there's potentially still going to be money that's left over to the town once we do receive those last two payments
so understanding where she's coming from I think that it would be wise of us to go ahead and balance our budget today using the sources that you just put forward but keeping in mind that we're not going to be maxing out the levy um for educational expenses because to be fair
when the town communicated with me last week I was getting emails saying there's this funding and this funding and this funding coming in for the shelter nobody sent me an email and said there's this extra money right well in the no because that wouldn't have you know been cycling
through that but that's just the way that the town had allocated it and we had spoke about it last month when we talked about how the total Lo Cost of education does include obviously what Silver Lake determines in their meeting and then what we determined in ours and thankfully Silver Lake came in under um
what was allocated so there is still that money that's going to be left over to Levy so um one of the things that we were cautioned against last year was um settling that budget with the understanding that we would be pushing the levy again this year and um I just
want to make it clear that we're not at that point I believe after today's meeting we will not be asking the town for an override so um to go ahead and capitalize on what Megan was getting to that is the good news we're not going to need an override to settle our budget tonight
so just I just want to respond to Genie's comments about the money left over from Silver Lake you know versus using the shelter funds personally I would be more inclined to want to use the shelter funds and not ask the town my reason for
that is in theory that leftover money would go to police who are also in a situation of potentially needing an override and maybe everybody can get what they need without any override being asked of from the town's people and I mean yes we will still have
financial difficulties in a year we know that we have a year to hopefully try to address that but you know I don't wouldn't want to ask for it I just want to clarify that I tonight we should definitely go with obviously s plan but an answer to the town is that we're not
using just a onetime revenue source that we do have potential Levy space available from Silver Lake so it's not as though we're trying to use all of this money from the state without um keeping in mind that there is still money in the live but I think Mr Pike
has a question about that or maybe a comment would you like to come to the podium thank you I just like to correct the difference the difference is around 200k not 400k your the budget from last year's
assessment was 16 million plus 4% versus 2.8% which is the assessment now 1.2% difference and that's why we have a difference of approximately 200k from what's coming in
the assessment not 400k that number's changed about four times since the last meeting so if we could all get on the same page that would be great so I hope we are now I would hope
so Sheila call so right now we still have what we believe to be another $555,000 coming in this year so how I feel about it is that I don't want to go
without the town for an override when we believe and has essentially come in this year for $600,000 and I really don't feel comfortable going and asking like like you say the police need things we need things and we have $600,000 we believe
are G is going to come in it's just like to me I feel like this is money that's going to be allocated for us and it's going to be coming in I do not feel comfortable going to the town and being like well what if it doesn't come in in I mean it's proven that it's come in we've gotten these payments before from
the state and yes it is difficult if they don't pay us but I I do believe that I would feel more comfortable going and saying we're going to have this and having other people be able to have a piece of the pie as well like the police but also that we have the $600,000
that's going to be coming in so I don't want to go and ask for any type of override if we believe that we're going to be able to cover our own costs because it's just getting out of control in the town and the way that people are talking and it's like it's not the fact
is as we've said I thought 150 times that is a walking document is the the Kingston budget is pretty much you know difficult to assess as we go forward because there's money coming here and there and everywhere and so when you have to lock down lock down the the what
the first budget is it's consistently changing until pretty much we get on the floor so I just I just don't feel comfortable I feel more comfortable using this money and there like Kim said it's not for the overall operating budget this it can be
used for what it's supposed to be used for we're not going to be using it for other things it's really for what is what is costing us the most amount of money which is these students so thank
I I agree that we should use the funds because we have it but I think we need to be cautious that like Kim said before this we're not going to have this money next year so we're going to have $800,000 that we need to come up with for next year's budget so I think that
you know the idea I think last time you mentioned having a working group of folks on the board to to look at the budgets we need that ASAP because we already know what we're starting with next year for the next budget so um although do agree you know we we know
what we have now let's use it um we need to be aware that this is a huge hole for next year and we're just kicking the can down the road so hopefully things could change over the next year we could get growth in town and
hopefully get you know make a little dent in this but it it's uh it is a a large number that we need to to resolve essentially Genie um I just wanted to clarify that um we were actually told
about those funds from our state representative so we weren't we weren't just saying that we saw it in the newspaper somewhere that we're going to be receiving those funds the State Rep um told us those amounts and she also emailed the Town Administrator who shared it with our school committees um because Silver Lake is also um
benefiting from those funds um but I agree Mike that we understand that once again um we're in a precarious situation of banding our budget again this year um and we're not alone in that we're definitely not a unique District um
Jason Frasier presented last week for Silver Lake to let us know that there's there were approximately 80 overrides um in towns um across the Commonwealth last year and about 40% of them were passed the rest of them failed which leaves um
towns in even worse situations this year um in Handover their override failed tremendously last year um it wasn't even close the boat was even close and this year their their schools are absolutely just completely they're they're in need of another override um duckberry is
looking at about a $5.8 million um education override and deficit this year um Hansen I believe I just saw in the Southshore news is also looking at an override we're not in a unique situation we're just in a better situation than even our um other school in District
here Halifax is in a much worse situation than we are but I still stand by if we don't fund our budget with what we have then we're just going to be paying more in contractual services and later on um you know you guys were spoton with um the way that we see things going you cut one thing it it
compounds the problem and it becomes an even larger cost the following year so um of course I think we do need to keep in mind obviously the one-time Revenue Source understanding that next year's budget is going to be starting in a deficit but something that I do want to
say in regards to what Sheila had said regarding the money that's coming in for the shelter it still needs to be allocated to the school budget like it's not that we can just take that money and give it back to the town and say you know what we we're not going to use it because it's still
money that we can use towards our budget so that's what I think we need to do and um although I think it's going to leave us in this situation next year I think that that's something that we can kind of um hopefully figure out solutions to
over the year um over the years but um I appreciate both um Barbara and Amanda and Jackie also bringing up the timeline um that's something I've been stressing since we saw our preliminary budget in January our budgets are incomplete if we don't even know what the state numbers
are um last year if everyone remembers our budgets went into a tail spin at the end of January when the State numbers were released like 4% lower than what we were anticipating and everything went into a tail spin and we were accused of mismanagement with funds and um it set
off like a public crisis on our budget and just for this year we benefited from that $470,000 and then also just the um Firestorm that you know um thank thank goodness there's people in town here that created Facebook page and got
everyone actively involved because that's the only way that we're going to be able to do this if we were to need an override but it's unnecessary Division and stress that's been caused because of a timeline that does not work with the school's budget and we can say that until we're blue in the face but I've been on this committee now for eight
years we've never been able to look at a draft before January and then we've never been able to really settle a budget I think the first time we passed a budget in February was February of 2020 and we all know what happened the following month so um I think that that's something that we will work with
our continue to work with our Selectmen they've been very responsive to our budget this year and Eric we appreciate that I know I can speak for me but I think our entire committee um appreciates the collaboration this year but um going forward so as to not incite unnecessary fire and stress we do need
to be more aware that um the timeline does not work with the numbers that are coming in from the state and our preliminary drafts so sorry that was long-winded no I agree with you I mean in the end a lot of people were very upset at the thought of a
$967,000 override as they should be that is a lot of money and here we are a month later able to have firmer more numbers you know and say oh we do not need that and it just it stinks that people were really upset about it for the last month when it was unnecessary so hopefully that's something maybe we
can try to work towards next year and not ending up in that situation um I know you have a couple more slides do you want to I I do so the next slide asks if you have any questions and then the slide after that
is a potential motion um one thing I just want to bring up in our previous meeting we had voted to add in a third El teacher since then we have received notification that the shelter students um should be relocated by August so I wanted to ask the
committee is that something that you'd still like to move forward with or would you prefer to wait on adding that third teacher knowing that if they didn't leave there would still be shelter money available that could be used to fund that position if it is
necessary is that position um filled right now it is not no but we had approved that was the proposed position that was approved at the last month's meeting correct and Megan I actually agree with what you just said there um there would still be money left over if we needed to fund the position but I
think in good faith to the town we should not allocate a new position that we may not necessarily need um for $65,000 and that will decrease our budget by that much more and allow us to move into the next year with potential
um I don't want to say money left over but shelter funds available should anything arise between now and the start of the school year um right I mean without including that there should be about $150,000 left if we were to use you know
all the available money that we're looking at so I have a question if we don't use all the funds and um we're never we're not having any of the students still in the school are we able to still use
whatever's left over it's re okay so want to make sure it wasn't earmarked for certain uh programs or not so in the letter that comes to us from the state it says that the funds are allowed to be carried over okay so if you were to say
$65,000 for this teacher and then not use the 65,000 it would still be there and would carry over until it was spent all right thank you is anyone interested in making a motion to not add a new El position for
FY 26 I will make a motion that we remove the added El teacher for the FY 26 budget um keeping in mind that we can still add it if necessary at later time I second that okay roll call vote Sheila
Von yes Michael shicane Yes Genie Coleman yes pcia aretta and I'm a yes okay so that is another 65 back in um yes Megan may I mentioned one other
thing and I'm sorry it might be in another portion of the meeting so I apologize if I'm jumping the gun on this Sarah are you mentioning year six of the bus contract is that something that we're talking about tonight in our meeting that only needed to be voted by Silver Lake and by The
Joint Committee Okay the reason I brought round it up is because there was there's been a lot of talk over the last month that um this committee did not consider the um potential revenue from busing students and I just wanted to mention that one of the things that we did vote the other day in the shared
cost budget was um exercising year six of the First Student Bus contract which is actually a very good deal for us and going to save us a lot of money from having to go out to bid and um starting a new contract um we also have a potential year seven but from what our
business manager shared with us at the last meeting um those costs could be extremely expensive for um settling a new bus contract so um I would just like to address the fact that I think that waiting on potential revenue from um
charging for busing students might be beneficial if we were to look at increased bus costs due to um a more expensive contract down the road but right now where we should not need that Revenue um I think that that would be um
unnecessary to add that today but that would be something that might be a consideration down the road when we go back to bid for busing Dr BR there was a question about an additional two speech language pathologist in the budget for 300,000
and I was wondering if um we could address that before any budget is voted and I need to speak to HR about that because the salar spreadsheets were given to me um could that have been something that was moved over from the silver L budget
to Kingston it could possibly be because we didn't from the in oh do you mean service to student at the integrated preschool that perhaps moved into
KES are you aware of any new speech positions no no okay um having not seen exactly what Kim is referencing I'm not sure um I know You' mentioned there was something special education related that
had gone into the previous version of the budget that was not part of level service I don't know if that that's not it that's not she might be referring to the K there's an esy professional staff
you know Kim is still on here Kim can you just let us know where you saw that I can tell you budget Lin you just to make it easier if she's sorry I've been having trouble with my computer can
you hear me yes so I pulled the whole PDF spreadsheet and put it in an Excel do like an Excel sheet and then compared it with information you guys have been publishing so I I don't know exactly how to point
you to it okay I mean I could share it I could share the Google sheet with you I I don't I don't know how to get it in front of you I guess no that's okay I just didn't know if you what she's I know exactly what she's looking at you it's information that gets given to me
okay and without our HR Director here can't say where did this number come from okay so um we'll have to Circle back to that she's not here so okay thank you
thank you all right um keeping that in mind is there a motion to vote a new budget do we need to vote to use the
shelter funds yes primarily all right do we have a motion to allocate the shelter funds towards the FY 26 budget do we have to anticipate the
$555,000 reimbursement first so I keep using the phrase estimated potential because that's what was in the email from representative l ra um what I will s say about that
estimated potential is that that is the $14 a day per student and that is days of membership so if you take into consideration that the last payment we received was from August to December
those students have actually been in membership for the entire month of January and February and I estimated out using the number of kids and the $104 a day that's an additional 180,000 so the I I know that we I said
in the presentation that it was 555,000 anticipated projected estimated potential whichever words you would like to use but out of that 555 we're certain of
180 okay but if we're planning on allocating 406 plus 255 right but that's included in money received so the 406 was out specifically out of the 555 right I guess what what is the best way for us to vote
this um sorry let me go back to my slide um using $255,100 74 of the existing okay and $ 46,2
726 of anticipated minus the 65,000 that you just removed so we should probably remove the 65,000 from the 406 right y that would make the most sense yep hang on to 341,000
right I think my map is good okay I agree with your math my spreadsheet agrees with your math that's good because I think that was first grade math sorry all right would anyone like to make a motion
for the use of shelter funds I will make a motion that we allocate the first $255,100 74 to the FY 26 budget second all
right roll call Sheila yes Michael Shan yes Genie Coleman yes TR aretta yes and I a yes okay and I will make a second motion that we allocate anticipated $341,000 126 of shelter reimburse ment
to the FY 26 budget second okay Sheil Von yes Michael Shan yes Genie v n Genie I said that to you before Trish aretta and I am a yes just mix you guys up I don't know okay so now that we have that
do we have we will need a motion for new budget but I think we need some updated numbers so if if you look at that motion slide um the first number stays the same the 15 million $96,400 792 becomes
$1,394 792 okay the anticipated circuit breaker stays the same the grants and revolving becomes $1,148 n with the grand total being $
6,991 596 got it I'm ready all right you want want to make this motion I love doing these I I used to do move that the Kingston school committee approved 15,590
184 as the fiscal 2026 local education budget operating budget and further that the total appropriation of 15,590 is in compliance with the education Reform Act of 1993 and recommended by the superintendent of
schools and further the school committee directs the superintendent to allocate the following additional funds sources with a total of 1,394 792 FY 26 anticipated circuit breaker special education reimbursement of of
$253,950 and anticipated FY 2026 Grant and revolving account funding total of $1,148 n for the final approved expenditures of the school will be6 m9915s okay roll call vote Sheila Von
let me get my breath yes Michael Shan yes Genie Coleman yes Trisha arota yes and I am a yes us like to thank everybody for their support of our budget and thank trying to help us get this level service budget moved forward
we're very happy to say that we no longer need to ask the town for an override so so now everybody be thinking for next year the next three slides are about the assessment so um the king Kingston
assessment for uh the Silver Lake assessment this is the operating assessment plus uh the exempt capital for FY 26 is 17 m173
78636 that is a 2.8% increase over FY 26 I'm sorry FY 25 2.6 I'm sorry did I say I need reader glasses um the next slide
please so the budget for KES and kis that you just voted it actually says voted in the parentheses there because it was already voted by the select board but now it's voted by the select board and the school committee1
5,596 184 that is a 7.1 % increase over FY 25 and on the last Slide the total cost of education for Kingston which is the Silver Lake assessment plus the um
Kingston operating budget 32 m775 19036 which is a 4.7% increase over last year question Genie are those numbers accurate to what we just voted yes because you vote voted
the operating budget and the changes we made were to Grants from a revolving fund so the the total budget is going to be money from the operating budget money from the total expenditures for the schools will be operating budget plus
grant plus revolving funds and we made changes to the revolving which is doesn't show up on here okay and then one more question if I may that 4.7% total cost of Education that does not include the
$470,000 additional um chap Chapter 70 funds because that was directed to the town is that correct yes okay it that's part of the three slides but
the the slide number seven that's part of the 15 million I'm sorry the yellow the slide with the yellow on it that that $471,000 was part of that1
5,596 184 okay that the town select board approved thank you thank you can you ask Mr Pike if you ask any questions before we close and out and I don't know if that's
appropriate but just he's been I don't know go you're moving I don't know just cuz he's doing the M Carl Genie wouldd like me to ask do you have any questions does this all make sense to you does that sound good excellent thank you okay that makes me
feel a little bit better thank you thank you okay just wanted to make sure our math math so okay and that concludes our budget portion of this evening back to our regularly scheduled meeting teachers Corner make me feel a lot
doing that I KCK it thank you Megan I kicked it out I kicked it off I kicked it off it's my fault believe or not care what he thinks I know don't put me in stuff why am I over here so bad let me turn this
off hi I'm Kristen pishkin co-president of the Kingston Teachers Association and second grade teacher at KES today the students of Kes were treated to an enrichment program today Ned's mindset I think I I remember correctly and they really enjoyed it it was a very
engaging um program before vacation the students all shared the books they loved the titles were displayed across the school and will be shared out with families to encourage reading and give suggestions of different genres and titles that they may not have chosen if
they were choosing books on their own the reading department is going to be beginning their reading incentive program um of reading Madness this month when the March Madness Tournament begins the book fair is beginning next week so they'll be able to stock up on great titles to prepare for that the
kindergarten has been very busy they are learning their letters and are blending CVC words writing sentences and working on numbers into the teens first graders have been working on and sharing their timelines they will be celebrating Beach day on March 10th it's always the
favorite time of the year they get to wear shorts in the winter if I remember from um second grade is going to be starting March picture book Madness with 16 new picture books facing off in a bracket type format with classes voting
on their favorite to get a final winner um and we're hoping to also after that do a teachers's favorite book bracket again that we did last year um with some different teachers in the school all grades this week are also doing our first writing assessment of the year
which was was um created by teachers during our PD days last year and Mr Karen is going to share what's happening at k um I'm Joseph curan grade six teacher at Kingston Intermediate School uh so for the fifth grade they have uh
welcomed back to north south river Watershed Association um to uh help with field lessons and uh in-class lessons on herring and uh they will be having their uh field trip to the New Bedford whaling
museum and they also hosted representative Kathy lanatra to help them learn about uh state government um in third grade they are working on uh getting a better understanding of fractions and they're using our work to
help them uh with that as well as traditional methods uh in fourth grade they're also doing a uh reading incentive program uh reading Bingo where students are encouraged to read at least four books from different
genres and they'll get rewards for reaching Bingo and an even greater reward if they fill up the whole bingo card uh by reading 16 different books um the student council the fifth and sixth grade student council uh is excited to
host their fifth and sixth grade family trivia night uh that's on March 13th uh for $2 and families May sign up for a whole team of eight players or join
another team um bash's village is uh going to be working with them to provide concessions um so it's going to benefit them as well um and as a request the uh sixth grade is seeking
permission for an event at the Bridgewater State University Observatory uh we've done this in the past um some years we've run into challenges with covid or scheduling with Bridgewater State University um but we would be able to uh schedule something for for March
of this year um Bridgewater would be able to give our families a chance to use their telescopes and their professors and their students would be available to kind of help them find things in the night sky um and they also would do an activity with
them this one would be about using light and how it's used to find different objects in space and it kind of fits nicely with our open sighted unit on connections to the sky um the the flyer that we're hoping to get approval to distribute it makes clear that it's run
by Bridgewater State University and that families are responsible for for supervising their uh their students um parents in the past have have car pulled to the event to to make it accessible um so we're looking for uh permission to
distribute a flyer um and ask your permission to do that um we we aware that that Kingston doesn't allow outside towns to do this but it's it's sort of a unique event so so we're hoping that that's that's agreeable to the um to the
council you guys have done this before yes that's the event that we had done before as I said sometimes it's hard to put it together but but we are able to to coordinate with them this year um so that's great do you need a date approved uh so
we have two two dates for them we have the 17th of March and then we have a rain date of the 24th and I do have a flyer here if you wanted to copy it I think the flyer is separate in our packet for an approval but I'll was it
it just says flyer under Mr Mata but oh right got it I thought you meant to like look at I will make a motion that we approve the sixth grade um po um plan thank you thank you so much I loved it last
time I loved it it was great to Bridgewater State um on either the 17th or the 24th and approve the flyer to go home second all in favor hi now I can say thank you thank
you it would have been cool to see the parade of planets the other night that was on Friday night I don't I can't difference additionally at kis all this in all the specialist classes Mrs Carol and the students worked on a
collaborative project and the other teachers worked on a collaborative project to design a cookbook recipe um page and the PTO has graciously volunteered to um for every student that contributed to the cookb print the cookbook and distribute it to the
students so it was a tech um art Library um all work together to um design and collaborate with the students on all aspects of the cookbook so that was a great um cross-curricular project that was done in at kis um on May 6 um the
kta is sponsoring a tech recycling drive next month we will have more information and details for it um we will be putting in uh um requests to use the parking lot for people to drop off but there'll be computers and um TVs and all of those
types of things that are all in our basements that we want to get rid of um and the money will go to our kta scholarship um Additionally the kta would like to thank Administration Town leadership school committee and all the
families working hard to score to to secure a level service budget um that will meet the needs of our students we know it has taken a lot of effort on everyone's part and we will continue to work with Administration school committee and our legislators to
advocate for a long-term solution to some of our budget issues so we appreciate everyone's hard work and sleepless nights and and and the teacher sleepest nights too because a lot of them were very worried what their classrooms would look like and their jobs would look like next year so we
appreciate everyone's support thank you thank you this carol she wants a cookbook Carol okay uh principal reports Dr rippo PTO oh PTO oh did I skip by PTO quickly um PTO has been feverishly
working to raise funds for the students for all of their enrichments programs and we desperately appreciate that uh ongoing projects right now are the cupcakes uh guilty Bakery cupcakes are coming up they're being delivered on March 19th and 20th and then very
exciting at the end of March is the Harlem Wizards event um showcasing on the 31st those are always you sold out quickly right okay sorry about that good evening everyone I'm Carrie
Whipple the principal KAS um so just some updates for us um but also just want to say thank you for the whole Community for always supporting the schools it's amazing and something I constantly brag about to my friends who are also administrators and they get very jealous so thank you um they tell
me to stop talking about it um so curiosity is our value of the month for March and teachers are helping students to understand what it's like to be more Curious and have more wonderings and um expand on their learning um we do have a big event coming up it's very exciting The KES Has Talent it's our first talent
show that we're going to have it's going to be hosted at kis um I want to say thank you to Tony Thomas and Elizabeth oconnell who have taken this on we've been trying to make this happen for a few years um the staff act did have their very first practice it's going to be pretty amazing guys so I'm excited
about that we're excited to see the kids get up there and show their talents there's like an array of um different talents they're going to be showing and I think we have about 17 students so far so um You probably seen I've resent the school culture survey out a few times I'm sorry but if people can fill it out
that'd be awesome um I just looked and we're up to 80 responses but we have like 520 students so I would love to get more feedback so that really helps Drive um our processes our procedures our school Improvement plan and just to continue to improve culture the book
fair has arrived the books came today so your students will be heading to the library uh sorry to the NPR room with the library computer teacher to get books if you want to set up the online count I find that very easy as a mom to do um but we're excited about that on March 10th you'll be receiving another
survey for me about parent input for placement so that's another one important um to fill out as placement processes begin in March uh Mrs DA's class think she's over there they had a first grade Dragon parade that went throughout the whole school and they learned a lot about the Chinese New Year so the kids really enjoyed
that um I think I had mentioned last time that Mr G was having Community meetings and we were going to have data meetings for grade levels with teachers um and it was awesome because we got to really celebrate some some great increases in student outcomes um and now currently I meet with teachers oneon-one about their data
we had Ned's mindset Mission today which was like really awesome I loved it it was um it's about all about growth mindset persevering showing grit which has been our focus and uh PTO help us set that up it's a pay it forward so it means you have to maybe buy some yo-yos sorry um but that pays for the next
school even if we only sell 10 yo-yos like that money goes to the next District to be able to bring in this awesome program the kids were phenomenal it was really engaging um definitely something I would do again and again um and then our playground Banner so thanks to uh KF and KP with the banner just
went up um to thank all of our sponsors so that was incredible kids are still loving the playground and we have so far 97 kindergarten students registered for K so we're we're getting there but there any questions for me did you see the date of the talent
show did I miss that it is March 24th Monday it's a Monday right yeah it's GNA be great so awesome thank you yep thank you guys Mr Mata good evening Andy matna principal
at K thanks for having me tonight some updates for kis uh March 4th we will be able to appreciate the NED Show for all of our grades in two different showings we're looking forward to um what the Ned program has to offer after hearing all
the good reviews from KES thanks again to the PTO for helping set this up uh we have the PTO Book Fairs happening March 5th through the 14th at KES and um staff will have an opportunity to go look at the books and
pull some books for their uh classroom libraries so if anybody's interested in buying the staff uh some books you can check out make sure to check out the book fair over at KES to support your classroom te teachers Mark March 6th coming along we
have a half day at March 6th for some professional development um staff all of our staff members are going to be offered different opportunities to um of professional development on the 6th March 14th is Pi Day 3.14 mark it in your calendars please
for all you mathematicians it's a very special day I'm looking forward to it I can't wait uh March 20th is a half day for conference put that in your calendar too half day for conferences on the 20th uh March 21st is our spring picture
day at kis so get those haircuts done this month busy month a lot of days in March busy month um and then finally I have here on the uh on my agenda are the mcast dates posted for April and um in May please
emerge in the community take a look at these dates make sure your kids are in school for these days they're um split apart for two sessions for ELA two sessions for math for each grade level um it's important we have our kids in
school working on these assessments so please uh take note of these stes moving forward for April and May that's my update for kis any questions any question all right thank you thank you thank you very
much um don't before we move on because we have flyer update as part of our principles um I know that there's at least there's a one flyer in your folder for Girl Scouts Girl Scouts and then did you receive anything from baseball by
any chance somebody emailed me about a flyer the head of baseball he emailed me about sending home a flyer so I directed him yeah and we were just send home not parents squ right but did he send you a flyer to
present it just closed the other day though so oh it might have been too late between the meetings okay but I want to say because it's a Kingston sport it only needs your approval it wouldn't need ours anyway only PTO and KF can send directly home the way we only s
elect P okay everything else can go home gu approve oh sorry can I apologize they can approve the the sports if it's in Kingston not a nonprofit yeah so just KF
and PT are the only ones that go out electronically it used to be other sports but we had asked to kind of limit it because it was like constantly sending messages to families okay but so we just approve any sports ones don't go through you guys as long as it's not for profit so that was the hard part I think
we were having trouble determining what was profit what's not that's been a sticky situation I think what we have determined because we've had the conversation before if it's like Kingston Recreation or Kingston youth those kinds of things I want to say like kbsl football cheer um
and they're all at specific times of the year um soccer things like that as long as it's something that's through Kingston itself it's probably not out through the rec department so because none of those things are specific to the wre Department they're all separate
organization if you have a question about whether or not something is for profit we can bring it to the school committee for consideration many times camps for example are for profit okay thank you um so to Circle
back your flyer that you have is for Girl Scouts which is a not for-profit because I did check on that I they knew that was an issue which would with an informational meeting that would be in Kingston and this is open to preate a second grade for all three
of the district towns I'll make a motion that we approve the the Girl Scout flyer um second on in favor I I okay okay so Sarah you're you're back again
financial report thank you madam chair um the financial report that was in your microphone the financial report that was in your uh digital packet on page one about 3/4 the way down the page you can
see that um there's a special ed legal line previously only there was only a legal line for the district and we're separating out the regular Ed and special ed expenses so we can more accurate accurately record special ed
expenses on page two at the top both Kingston Elementary and Kingston intermediate long-term sublines are overspent and there's now a deficit of about 300 thou uh $30,000 in all substitute lines I'll keep an eye on this and update you at
the next meeting about where that is um I'm sorry I forgot to say at the beginning there are I have a long list of everything but I'd like to only read to you what's new since we last met on page two the Kingston Elementary
School tuition reimbursement line is overspent but that is absorbed within the category on on page SE uh page seven the special education expenses so if you
recall the uh tuition transportation and contracted Services line for special education those are paid um out of three funds out of the operating budget the uh 240 Grant and the circuit breaker
revolving account so the special ed bookkeeper updates me prior to every meeting and so at this time those expenditures coming from those funding sources there's currently a surplus of
approximately $222,000 in those accounts and that concludes the financial report unless you have any questions any questions no okay um the
second item grants donations and awards acceptance I don't have anything new this month for you um the last thing I'm going to talk about is the adult meal price increase this has absolutely nothing to do with any budgetary issues
or non-issues um the director of food services and I um met with the Department of Education they did an audit of the food service and the adult meals so what's being charged to
teachers does not follow the federal um formula for adult meals so in August of 2025 we must increase the price of an adult meal from currently which is
$3.74 or $4 with tax up to $525 and with tax that will be $562 do we have to vote on that change or that I I don't think you need to vote on
it I me sorry all right thank you all right Dr Clifford okay I just have a few things tonight um the first one is as part of our strategy for district Improvement our evaluation working group will be
meeting tomorrow afternoon this is a group that's met in the past to look at the educator evaluation system tomorrow will be our first meeting we'll take a look at um some of the changes that were put in place this year another piece is
the um District literacy Plan update um on March 6 we'll be meeting um as a group to create the uh literacy plan so a little bit more in March 6 that group will be meeting I'm been working with the hill for literacy to create the literacy plan the case through six
teachers will be working on educ climber an online session to review basic functions of that platform Specialists will review grade level speaking and listening standards to implement these throughout their classes par professionals will be taking part in the Desi online professional learning and modules specifically designed for par
professionals and at the high school and middle school and departments teachers will collaborate to refin Andor develop common assessments analyze student data and make instructional adjustments the math curriculum review continues um will be meeting on March 18th with hmh we met
at early February with Publishers from I and we'll be uh making a decision on one of those um math programs um in early April and also tiered Focus monitoring survey to families faculty staff and students only in grades 7 through 12
these surveys that are going out are part of our tiered Focus monitoring um we need U feedback from families feedback from teachers and then feedback only from students in grades 7 through 12 I've completed all this month I will complete all of my entry meetings um
which has been a wealth of information for me and really a great opportunity for me to get to know the teachers which has been great and then I'll be providing an mcass update to uh the high school in um April and June we have mcast regular mcast updates but as Mr
Mater said mcast is coming up and just a reminder to take a look at those dates on calendars for families to just to make sure do some planning and all of those pieces and thank you to the school committee for supporting the budget so thank you that's it that's all I have
thank you okay Dr PR so in your package tonight you will see two views of the of the same calendar um I'm going to ask the Kingston school committee to look at the proposed dates for next year so that we can get those on the calendar also uh
Karen has checked with the um the town to make sure that this venue is available for those evenings and I am looking for school committee approval for the Kingston school committee meetings only this evening if it's
possible the second uh version shows you what that looks like um Kingston meetings are highlighted in green on the monthly calendars Megan can I just point out that um once again our budget hearing will fall February 2nd that's um goes
along with the timeline that we've always followed um and I just think that it's important that we announce that to the public now that that's in our calendar every year that's how we anticipate our public budget and they're always in February they've always been
in February is that a state typically no just wondering typically wait because we get the information from the state at the end of jary okay no I just wanted to ask okay thank you um does anyone want to make a motion to approve the dates for the
Kingston school committee for FY 26 I'll make a motion to accept the Kingston school committee meetings as presented uh by Dr PR second all in favor I I thank you thank you and thank you for supporting the school
budget all right um report of standing committees admin review it was part of um Union 31 this month and it's all right bylaw nothing Plymouth area
collaborative Sheila you got anything February we're not meeting actually this month but we did the superintendent microphone I am so loud how can you not hear um right try to make things funny
right so we met with we met and did uh the superintendent evaluation uh if anybody knows dipna she's amazing and she got a glowing evaluation cuz she's awesome aome and we are doing the treasures as well and I'm sure he'll get a great one too and then the audit
passed really well so next up is budget so we can't wait thank you thank you all right Union 31 we had a um joint meeting last week and we do have a meeting scheduled in April which will be put out to the
committee and we approved the shared cost budget we did approve the shared cost budget thank you yeah negotiations we are in negotiations right now with our support staff budget advisory I believe we just covered that facility
oversight anything to report no okay policy Mike you're up so last month I uh came with the 13 or so policies and we waved the first
read um now that we've had time to review them I want to see if there is a motion to wave the second read there was one question yes that you had Megan I did uh last time about I think it was B yes uh and if you're allowed to if if
that um the Char limits you from yeah sharing information it doesn't limit you so you can share the information but there's no that's I just want to make sure like sometimes it's hey no discussion or anything right okay exactly okay because it doesn't say that so that was why I was wondering awesome
thank you you so that answers that question did anybody have any questions or comments regarding any of the other policies one of which is updating the um flyer policy which is yeah one of the last ones khb I believe oh advertising
and distribution of notices do either of our administrators I think have any questions about that because it's actually kind of contradicting what we were just talking about during the flyer um discussion it's it's saying that you all will not put out any flyers and ex I think except PTO and KF
except PTO and KF I'm not even sure KF is necessarily I don't think it's in there part of that so it' be discretionary but I know that this this actually did spark a little bit of debate online because people were saying that some sports the only way that families are finding out about it is
through the backpack Flyers so I would actually kind of agree with that to an extent I I don't think it should be going out electronically I think that should be reserved for school information and your discuss but I do agree that um there are some families that if they if their kid didn't come home with a flyer they're
not going to know about it cheer was one of them that I remember um really heavily relies on their Flyers so I I don't think everybody gets social media so I don't think that if you don't have the backpacks I don't I think kids would be at a disadvantage for not knowing
about programs um so just to put the because it's simple Waring the distribution of notices policy proposal is distribution of notices by non-school organizations or on non-school matters shall not be permitted period
soow no Girl Scout so even that flyer that that's grandfathered in though because we already approved it correct right depending on this vote well it happened before the vote so yes right I would not an effect right now thought that went through but I don't know the feelings of the committee on like like I
said last time this is in line with other districts right to just be uniform in not having any wiggle room and just there are other means um I understand that folks may only get it by getting a
flyer in their child's backpack but um there's other advertisements that folks can make social media or in the newspapers or some word of mouth so I I think um the other part of the um concern that had come up regarding it
was the amount of time that it takes the office staff but it's been my experience is that if you go in with Liars you're putting them in there so it's not it's not asking your secretaries to then first of all I know that anytime you bring in Flyers into the office they better be already separated by their piles of 25 with their paper clips on
them and put into all the teachers mailboxes so I would say you know I I'd request that we um not approve that policy I understand about the uniform to the district but we do have other policies that are not uniform across that just because I do
know of people that heavily rely on those flyers to know about dates and possibly now that you mentioned baseball maybe that's why their numbers were so low as of the other day because they didn't get a flyer home from school and I I will I will also second that um because parent Square gets excessively
used parents have turned off notifications on parents Square because I can say as I have three children in the school system you get overrun and you just stop watching all that stuff and so when I do get a flyer but I'm also Jed X I put it on my French so I
mean I I think it depends on the on the generational kind of stuff too but I mean I do believe and maybe it's because all these years I've been doing this I think the Flyers get out of control a little bit too so it is very difficult to know as we were talking about what is educational what is not what is Town
what is not and I don't want the principles and everybody and we were saying that like the superintendent getting overrun with everybody asking you for Flyers all the time too so it is very difficult to have to De with that and I and I get that but it's also sometimes the only way that some of us
actually get our information still which is kind of crazy but because parent Square just gets overrun parents have turned off their notifications so maybe a reminder to turn them back on again I mean I I would challenge that I'm like today I got notifications for um for
parent meetings if I don't have notifications I I know I'm not going to show up to a meeting I mean as as a parent or Guardian I think we need to just be aware of these messages from parents Square even if it's coming electronically I there's a ton of information it could come sent out
weekly we could change the frequency but um I I I personally think as a parent that you know we should monitor parent Square I know this is not a parent Square thing I was going to say this is about parents this is a policy and I think that the work in progress with
parents sare notices and how to get that right amount so all the information goes out and parents read it without being overloaded I applaud you for your work to try to balance that out I know that's not easy but then conversely if if we
don't adopt this policy now every flyer could be up for debate as to whether is this warranted to be sent out why is the school Comm allowing this one but not this other one well we have our existing Pol that just we revert back to our existing which I actually want to
say I read the policy manual so we are the only out of the four districts for this purpose we're the only one that says Flyers other than um the school where they have to come before the school committee the other ones all give
building admin ability to approve those kind of Flyers just wanted to throw that out there too disc um I would not not be in favor of this um policy just because I like I do think that there's all kinds of different communication Pathways and
I think that having people have to bring uh Flyers towards the school board filters it out and if that's not enough I feel like you know you heard Carrie earlier talk about how the parents in this organization in our in our community support the school system support our kids anything that's coming
through this board is subject to like us deciding whether that's in line with our values and it's an extra filter it's an extra filter so I just think cart blanch saying hey it's our policy then we don't do that I think it's a disadvantage to that people putting forth effort and trying to organize people and get things
put put out to the communities I would actually go as far as saying I think there could be a lot of wasted cost over the next several months until like if we were to adopt the policy because the policy would be unknown for so long until they've already spent the money on advertisement that can't go into the backpacks I want
to say printing costs for like one notification is like over $200 or some things so that could be a lot of um upset people not aware that the policy was implemented so um okay are against it for that reason are there any other
policies that anyone has any um discussion about or objections or do we want to vote these in a batch except for that one and then vote that one PC for my motion it's the last one make that easy
of course all right sorry Mike that it's the will of the committee would you like to make a motion then I will make a motion let me just get my list up here say start your alphabet all right so make a motion to wave the second read of the following policies
acab the handbook language acab Title 9 B DB oh B I'm sorry AC those are older ones right right acab and acab Title 9 both should have been
um removed from this agenda this evening so I'm going to ask that you not include those two because we're reverting back to the old 2020 version of Title 9 okay so I withdraw that previous motion sure and I make a new motion to wave the second read of the following policies B
DB b h e e FC e f d e h a a eh HB GB e e i j n d c j i CJ K DC K
DCB and khb is there a second all second all in favor I and just a reminder that we do have a link on the slrsd website under Kingston school committee with the policy manual and they're all available
there easy reference and then does someone want to make a motion for policy khc I will just make I'm sorry I was going to say we're not passing it do we have to make vot because we we don't even need to we don't need to vote now
okay never mind I take that back great okay next up technology any updates no unfinished business new business okay uh approval of the bill
schedule single signature warrants our meetings are currently outs sync with the town's Bill schedule so on February 10th there were nine vouchers totaling $842,000 19 they went out digitally as a single
signature warrant and then were submitted to the town the next warrant is due to the town on March 10th so that will also come out digitally great thank you other matters unforeseen at time of post posting okay would anybody like to make
a motion to adjourn I'll make a motion to adjourn second all right roll call Sheila Von yes Michael shaane Yes Genie Coleman yes Trisha ARA and I am a yes thank you very much
everybody thank you