things will come to order boom uh resident's report so uh one one report that I would like to make for the public mostly but also for the board to be aware of in our April 29th meeting we will be approving our final budget uh
and so in in the spirit of doing so with presentations that we generally do we would like to make clear to all members of the district and and citizens of the town who are the taxpayers who wish to attend you will have an opportunity at that meeting to come see the
presentation and then ask questions regarding items concerning that budget all right so right after the fact if there are any questions that we cannot answer at that time we'll take down your information and we will get back to you there are certain things that that may
not be immediately available but in the spirit of so I would like to make very clear that that is happening we're also taking the liberty of sharing this on the appropriate social media outlets to make the district aware uh and so this is an announcement regarding this so that all of uh the public who are
listening here are aware so tell your friends it's exciting stuff uh but it is important to the district right it is very important to us to have an informed taxpayer base who understand what we are doing here as a district when we are uh voting on and approving these
budgets you feel like I missed anything i would like to just add that we're going to do that at the 700 p.m meeting thank you and we are going to hold the time would be important to tell the stairs here in this room yes we're going to relocate our workshop thank you so we will host that down here and it will be
at 7 p.m we are bypassing our normal structure uh for work and regular meetings so we'll be down here in the auditorium for that purpose at 700 p.m on April 29th correct and then at 8 p.m we will have student recognition and our regular voting meeting but the
discussion the presentation the questions all at 7 p.m 7 p.m meeting any comments or questions from the board regarding that wonderful superintendent report Mrs welden okay thank you i have a few
announcements um the the New Jersey Department of Education released the school performance reports uh last week and we have them now up on our website much of the uh assessment data is information you have already seen in
presentations by Dr morgan uh over the you know summer fall winter as we've as we've uh as scores were released however it does have a a bit of other information about our district and our schools and I encourage you to visit our
website you also may have received my letter um which has links right in there for to uh get to the performance reports recording also we have a right there yep yep there you go perfect sorry no problem okay we have a group of
students from our intermediate school working with Miss Edson their teacher we've had Miss Edson here before to recognize her for the work she does environmental work that she does they are working collaboratively with the shade tree commission on a project for the
municipality and they are going to present to the town council this Thursday night and I just wanted to make everyone aware of that that that was taking place and we I wish the students and the teacher uh the best of luck as they uh present out their project
findings today the New Jersey Association of School Administrators hosted their women's leadership conference i'm so proud to say that six of our female staff members were selected to be presenters at that conference and
presented today amy Stean who's our special education coach and Emily Keys our supervisor of elementary special education pre presented shifting the paradigm to inclusive practices michelle Shapiroio and Cecilia Villa two of our
supervisors presented Equity is a how not a what and Miss Erin Ley and Gina Hagermanerman presented NextGen Learning: How AI and CTE Open Doors for All Students uh I think that was wonderful that they were able that they
were selected and that they went to the conference to represent our district so proudly excellent presentations here and hopefully in the coming months we'll have them here to the board of ed to show you their presentations as well and then we have a number of upcoming events
at all of our schools tomorrow night at Wayside School they have their spring chorus concert 700 p.m tomorrow night also the OTHs varsity fashion show is at 700 p.m thursday night the OTHS coffee house
is at 6:00 p.m in the cafeteria tois is hosting its fifth and sixth grade social this Thursday night at 700 pm all district schools are closed next week Monday through the following Monday
and we will reopen on April 22nd and then as soon as we return we have our district-wide innovation night Wednesday April 23rd at the intermediate school it's districtwide event but we host it at the intermediate school it's
at 6:30 p.m and that Friday after we return April 25th Wayside is hosting its Wayside Masked Dancer at 6 p.m at Wayside so a lot of great events coming up i encourage everybody to go out and see what our students are
doing this concludes my report thank you Mrs walden our school business administrator's report Mr hastings thank you Mr president um as the board is aware we approved in February um preschool construction grant
uh the bid is out for those uh uh projects uh the preschool expansion grant uh will pay for 40% of the project cost uh we're putting uh preschool bathrooms in uh uh let's say six
classrooms that do not have those we're doing three at Wana Massa two at Wayside and one at um DAO so uh that bid opening will be when we come back from our break uh and we look forward to getting those projects underway uh as soon as we shut
down for the summer and uh get those completed and ready to open uh when we reopen uh in September um I also want to touch on the budget uh started to get some emails today on our draft budget that was submitted to the county uh so we're beginning to look at that and get
some feedback on the budget um administration is continuing to look at the budget and look at the expenditure side of our equation um we've talked about uh in previous meetings capital projects uh that we're
not going to fund for next year such as uh heat curtain at the entrance of the high school or a new turf field for our stadium we've looked at technology items that we're not going to fund going forward uh including some large monitor requests uh some large room ceiling
mounted projectors and microphones uh that we're not going to fund for next year uh and then some personnel reductions that we've talked about in terms of retirements and and resignations andor vacant positions that we have now um we've looked at all these
things to bring our expenditure side in line with what we approved in our tenative budget for the tax increase uh the tax increase included a waiver as well uh for our health care costs and a portion of our bank capital um so the
key was to look at the expenditures and see how we can reduce those to bring those in line um so uh we've looked over uh looked over at 27 positions uh 14 of those positions were already vacant uh
so those positions are not going to be filled uh we looked at another 11 positions where we've had staff retire and resign and evaluated those positions to see if those needed to be filled or if uh we had folks that could be
transferred in uh perhaps uh where needed uh so that's 14 vacant and 11 that are retirees andor resignations uh so that leaves us with about three uh positions that may actually impact
personnel so again we're looking at 27 spots but only three positions that are actually uh potentially going to impact uh staff now it's only April it's the beginning of April we still haven't gotten all our retirements or
resignations uh for the year uh so we're looking hard at at um what our makeup is and where potentially we could help these people uh be placed so that they don't lose a position uh going into next school year
uh in looking at the breakdown uh of these positions we're looking at about 2/3 of our professional staff versus one-third of our support staff uh so again we're working through these uh um trying to have minimal impact on staff
uh as uh president noted our presentation for the public will be on April 29th uh and it will reflect the same budget 10 of budget that was approved uh last month uh with no changes in terms of of the um request
for taxes and and on our revenue side so uh that concludes my report thank you Mr h for that comprehensive report we appreciate that any comments or questions from the board regarding either report from the superintendent or the school business
administrator wonderful public comment the board of education recognizes the value of public comment on educational issues and the importance of allowing members of the public to express themselves on school matters of community interest public comment is not a question and answer
session specific questions can be directed to the administration the superintendent's contact information is on the podium and also available on the district website we encourage you to contact her with any questions you may have public participation shall be governed by the following rules each
statement made by a participant shall be limited to 5 minutes in duration no participant may speak more than once on the same topic until all others have had an opportunity to speak on the same topic presiding officer may request any person to leave the meeting when that
person does not observe reasonable decorum since we do not have anyone from the public president Mrs conway is there anyone in the queue who would like to comment no Mr president there are no commenters in the queue thank you
we have no minutes can I Okay thank you just want to confirm personnel Mrs mcgovern sure move to approve items 8.1 through 8.8 eight as discussed second Mr aces would you call the role sir 81 through 88 mr brady yes mr
dalton yes mrs dam yes mrs gilman yes uh Mr mcgovern yes mr schneider yes mr stevens yes uh Mr telerico yes mr mccarthy yes items carry thank you Mr hings uh financial management and
resource services mrs d move to approve 9.1 through 9.5 and then discussion 9.6 through 9.8 i hope uh Mr weinstein and uh Mr hastings do you have anything to add to
these discussion pieces um thank you M stam i'd just like to acknowledge Wegman's uh and Wawwa Vulkers they're um donating items a $200 gift card to Wegman's and a uh uh soft
pretzels from Wawa uh for our preschool community resource fair and then I'd also like to acknowledge Chick-fil-A who's uh donating $75 worth of food uh for the Ocean Township Early Childhood Advisory Council meeting um so that's terrific we appreciate
that and um yeah no other comments on items but I'd be happy to answer any questions 9 uh 9.8 school lunches no change to what our students are paying yes there is
please answer the question Mr jesus yes so 9.8 is the renewal of our food service management company contract with Sedexo we are we'll be entering year three I believe of five potentially five the prices reflected here are the prices
that Sedexo charges us uh as the uh contractor uh or contract um these do not reflect what the student prices will be those will be approved uh probably in May or June so as of now no changes correct thank you and any change would
be for next year thank you uh Mrs same and these increases to us we we have that in the budget already these numbers uh yes and no because the contract is a break even contract with Sedexo so will
make us whole uh for any losses the food service may incur I had another question Gilman have they continued to make modifications to their food choices based on what we've
discussed as a board do these increases I'm wondering do they reflect maybe some of the changes that they have made in their selections no the increases reflect basically CPI uh the consumer price index increase uh so it does not
reflect any change that we may have asked or discussed with them in terms of what they're providing however they are and have been uh providing a greater variety of foods uh the menus are are a little bit more dynamic uh there is the availability for nutritional information
on the website um and we're also working um uh hand inand for the unit lunch uh at the high school next year as well so we'll be adding staff uh without additional cost to us uh to service that program as well so we're excited about
that we'll be getting new equipment in to help service that uh unit launch concept so uh we'll be doing some decorating and and some improvements of the facility so we're excited about that any other questions for members of the board regarding that and I apologize i
went a little out of order here so we have a motion on the floor to approve 91 through 95 do I have a second for that second thank you Mr hings would you call the RO this is for 91 through 95 mr brady yes mr dalton yes mr stam yes skilman
yes to all recuse from the baseball wrestling USA baseball fundraiser and the youth wrestling camp yes to everything else thank you Mrs mcgovern yes mr schneider yes mrs stevens yes mrs terico yes and
Mr mccarthy yes items carry instruction Education Student Act go ahead yeah can I just ask one more question please go ahead u Mr hastings thank you for letting us know all those new great things going on with the food um not to put more work i don't know exactly the right way to go about this but would it
be possible to get a presentation of every all the great things that are happening with the food so the parents and we can all get a better understanding of all the changes that are being made would that be possible i don't know if I need to put a motion in for that or so so this is a request of
the administration that the the board can agree to or deny i think maybe it'd be good for the board to kind of scope out what specifically you would like and then the board can decide if a majority of members would like that presentation to be given to us so to clarify you just
want an update on what is being provided to the students of the district in in line with what we've received previously or additional yes and just I think you called the unit the unit lunch yeah what that entails so that's part of that high school redesign when Mrs kazubo came to
present on how the high school lunch would be organized okay around the schedule i'm not sure okay if you want to know more about the schedule and and how the lunch will be functioning or the food offerings more the food offerings
right so the unit lunch is basically going from serving kids over multiple periods to serving kids during one period that was the unit lunch concept okay um the food offerings are not going to change other than the changes we're going to request just in general but
nothing related additional locations to get your lunch got there more to it than Okay i think there's more to the the way it's set up and structured and staffed but not necessarily right so currently we serve lunch to a smaller number of
students than we will next year next year the entire school is going to eat at the same time so this year uh students come to the cafeteria in groups they go through the lines and sit and either sit in the cafeteria or sit in the outside sort of annex area where we
have picnic tables that they could choose to sit at under this new schedule and new concept um everybody's going to come we'll have the kids have an option of of eating in different places i understand there's going to be sort of a senior's uh area as well that will be
outfitted uh the gymnasium will open some bleachers in there as an option uh the cafeteria will still be available obviously and we may set up a station somewhere else within the building uh but we're trying to balance um options for kids and places for kids to eat uh
that are close to their lockers or classrooms or where they're going to be at next period versus cleanliness and you know keeping the debris and food u uh trash uh tidy and cleaned up so um that would be sort of the main difference everybody's not coming to the
cafeteria and just sitting in that one room got it but I apologize i thought it was more to like the food with that with what you were talking about thank you so M do you feel your questions yes I do wonderful okay Mrs gilman that sounds like quite a challenge having everybody
eat at once so maybe when things get up and running you can kind of give us a recap of where the kids are eating so we're going to in the gym you know that was always math to bring food in there so it's hard for me to imagine the kids
eating in there having them clean up and then having a gym class come in i'm sorry I interrupt no that's okay i believe Mrs kazuba made that part of her presentation to us where it's a portion of the gym perhaps other areas um but I
certainly can get a list you know if you want to she yeah she mentioned the library too like a bunch of different like common areas so it is it would be interesting to see how it all it will be interesting to see how it all works out so maybe
after it's up and running an update so would the majority of the board like that an update after we uh initiate this new unit launch in October or November in October or November all in favor can I get an I okay mr would you please make
a note that in October November you can update us on the status even launch absolutely be especially entertaining just have the videos of the holiday of everybody over here all right moving on instruction education and student activities mr dolan yes Mr mccarthy uh
for this evening uh motion to approve items 101 through 10 second do we have any questions on 101 through 104 go ahead question about the um amended school calendar yes does that reflect the calendar committee that was
put together i was just wondering now this is not next year's calendar so this is this is this year's calendar because we did not use two snow days we have two extra days built into the calendar and traditionally we have taken those days off the end of the year so that is the
only change that you're seeing on this agenda item thank you you're welcome any other questions for 101 through 104 mrs skill just to confirm then graduation will be held for 8th grade and seniors on the 19th if this is approved this
evening by this board then yes that is correct mr schneider did you have a question no i thought I saw you raise your hand okay no other questions mr hastings would you call the role this is for 101 through 104 mr brady yes mr
dalton yes mrs dam yes mr skilman yes uh Miss McGovern yes mr snder yes miss Stevens yes mr telerico yes mr mccarthy yes thank you negotiations m yes we discussed upstairs
no need for approval tonight we'll move on to the next meeting we'll have the second reading of that thank you presentation of policies mrs gilman yes President McCarthy uh 41 excuse me 12.1 the first reading of revised policies that deal with tuition fiscal planning
which is a new name for budget and the athletic fund collection of funds any questions from the board or comments discussion surrounding any of the policies that have been presented mrs terrio thank you i'm sorry it took a bit to bring it up but um my one question is
in the original policy it talks about uh bringing in uh the public for comment and discussion i'm looking for it i wrote it down before but I don't have it right in front of me but then the new policy
doesn't discuss any of that regarding public and having their uh voice heard in this i was just wondering how we're going to have that happen you're referring to policy 6120 for fiscal planning yes
so again just to clarify this is part of the policy update the board has asked us to do of outdated policies um correct so that was Strauss's new version i'm sorry i don't want to cut you no no not at all that was a 19 we had a 1990 version that was updated to
Strauss's newer uh policy um and I think in terms of public comment um public comment in terms of the budget is in the form of our public uh meeting which we discussed earlier when we approved the budget um and that's the primary uh
vehicle other than uh folks contacting you or or asking questions of the superintendent myself okay any other comments or questions regarding policy mr schneider I do like the uh changes made to the uh fiscal
planning policy was that from our our legal requests or is that something that we did yes so just as a point of information we have had uh and and this has been cycling through we've had a large amount of policies that we identified a few years ago that were out of date in terms of when they were last
reviewed so uh sorry not last reviewed in in accordance with Strauss Esme's updates uh who is an outside agency that we utilize to update policies so the administration is just cycling through those policies to get them up to date and up to speed so there's no le I don't
believe there's any legal um in input on this from other than what Strauss Esme which is a firm that does this professionally is doing uh but no other outside support it's just our district keeping good administrative practice and
moving through things yeah so it's it's just modernizing our policies essentially the one on the fiscal planning is not I like it because it includes long range planning at a very comprehensive level so I just thought that was pretty interesting thank you Mr chair for sharing any other comments or
questions regarding policy wonderful we'll have our second reading at our next meeting where we can vote to approve these policies old business would any members of the board have like to discuss any old business mrs gilman u Mrs mcgovern you had your hand up first go ahead um I was
just going to say um because we brought up high school I wanted to talk about this include but um I know we've had since we've had a couple delayed openings um you know to have our staff be ready for the high school new schedule do you have any um input on you know how that's going if it's if people
are getting excited about it if you know any sort of just I think I don't have I don't have something prepared but this is what I will say I think that with any new endeavor like this it is daunting and that we're in a place of what will this
feel like and I can remember that when we went to block scheduling it's a very common thing to say that you know what will this feel like I think there are absolutely members of that staff that are very excited and think that the schedule we have now needs a refresh and it's time for a redesign so they're
excited about that and also nervous about how will that feel suddenly I've only had three classes for a very long time now I'm back to having six classes at once um you know so there are some things in there but I think uh there the trainings have been great they have done
some site visits they are uh getting more comfortable with the idea you know again this is this is sort of my take on the situation i appreciate the two-hour delay i think that that was a an innovative way to get our staff to
be able to not have to give extra time or you know have the students be out more time to kind of get them up to speed and ready for it i just wanted to say like I think that whether that was Dawn's decision I'm sure it was a collaborative decision but but I just think that that was a good way to um
kind of open it up to try and make people feel as comfortable as they can going into the unknown yes so just so you know when the board start when the that began when the high school went to block scheduling the board afforded the high school staff four delayed openings then when the intermediate school went
to block scheduling the board afforded the intermediate school staff four delayed openings and it is also contractual so whenever there's any major scheduling change like this and an entire staff needs to reddesign lesson plans pacing guides curricular documents
things like that um we will provide them that time because we think it is very important in order to be ready and prepared to start something new like that so thanks i appreciate you letting me put you on the spot sorry no problem any other old business members of the
board mrs you mentioned uh our staff member Megan Edison the latest issue of Community Magazine features her and Community has been featuring several uh each month u one of our staff members is recognized
but she was featured and so um kudos to her as well as our innovation night there was a nice article about I was going to say there's another item in there featured yes that was very nice and um a thank you to Mr tastings because I saw Little Shop of Horrors at
the high school last Friday that was a the spring production and it was it was fantastic and for a while I wasn't sure it was going to happen so whatever lighting and audio that you provided I know it was kind of makeshift to just you know until we get things repaired no
one would have known no one if if we didn't know on the inside that it was you know put together lighting and audio they did a fantastic job so thank you well thank you but kudos to our staff at the high school and to our maintenance
and and custodial folks as well yeah absolutely absolutely so hopefully that will be completed the the new lighting and Yes so audio most of the non-electric uh
repairs have been done next week they'll replace the wood paneling on the outside and that should take care of most of the uh non- sound non-lighting repairs uh we um challenged the appraisal for the replacement costs of some of the sound
and light equipment um so we're looking at that and we're waiting on a uh second opinion if you will from the insurance carrier on terms of what they're going to offer terms of a settlement uh and we are looking at uh perhaps using some of our maintenance reserve to upgrade at
the same time so to combine some of the funds that we get from the carrier as well as some maintenance reserve to to do some upgrades so great so it's pretty packed auditorium on Friday night so it's great to hear it was good it was
fun any other old business for members of the board any new business mr schneider Mr i'm not sure where this exactly fits but I wanted to bring this uh to our attention i I think with all the challenges we have with our fiscal
consideration to try to you know budget our our district's needs and against the tax levies I think it if we have an opportunity to maybe assess where the the facility fees are i'm not exactly sure how often that is i'm not exactly sure if it's going to warrant any additional changes but something I think
that it comes up a lot we could just take a look at and see if there's any uh opportunities there maybe we don't do anything but not exactly sure if it's a motion or something that we could do so is your request specifically to just have a a larger presentation on what our facility fees are
and just clarify a working session where we could go through the fees see how much they uh see how material they are see if there's any changes we want to make because I'm not sure would we see CPI increases there's changes constantly and and uh it costs maybe it's time to reassess our fee structure and see if
there's anything we want to change to it so I'm not exactly sure if it's a presentation versus like an audit working session i'm not sure that I totally understand what you're requesting so I just want to make sure that I do before I I direct it so when you say facility fees are you
talking about just our utility costs and any fees associated with running the building okay okay and is that something that you just want us to evaluate as a board has a board yet see if there's any changes but like look at the programs and what we've
charged them over the past five years and see there's want to change so that request can be brought to the board at any point and the board can decide if we would like to reevaluate our facility fees um so we have someone on the board who
would like to consider a re-evaluation of our use of facility fees by uh members of the district who are using our fields and our schools and things like that correct the district and outside the district yes yeah the whole the whole gather outside of the district
meaning um our use of fields elsewhere no anyone anyone that's using our fields at all yeah yeah okay sorry thank you for clarifying do we have anyone in the board who uh would like to speak against an evaluation of that i just had a question is this is this
something that substantially impacts the district budget i would say substantially but um if I could offer we're continuing uh to review our policies uh as we go through facility fees are in the 7,000s um so
that would be uh potentially a policy and regulation that we would review at that time so perhaps we could fold that into our regular review and uh in the meantime we can do some comparables across other districts i know my counterparts in other districts look at
this on occasion as well so I can see if there's information out there that's current in terms of what other districts charge for use of facilities you're saying we're getting close because we're at the 6,000 right right it's coming up it's a good time i said it's coming i was going to say it's a better It's better through policy to to discuss it
that way i don't know mrs teringo you had a comment i do have a comment so two years ago the finance committee met and discussed all of this where are the results from that i wasn't on it then go ahead Mrs
mcgovern the results um got we had we had a change of staff at that helm of doing things some things got didn't get put in some things did we were kind of at a standstill of things because I think there's a certain point
when you discuss this policy that you realize that the people that are using our fields are our taxpayers that are paying in other ways and our own students and our own kids so it has been in years i've been on it many times it's been in years past you know and I and I
know people will say "Well I would pay X amount of dollars to whatever club that then puts this on." And many people have been on many sides of it where you pay X amount of dollars but if you're going you know like that if the fees go up too much that then the fees then go back to
the parents who are also parents of our kids that are also taxpayers already so that's one reason why it hasn't gone up very much but the exact conversation that we had and and some of the changes that were going to be possibly made that where we got um they stopped with a
former a former employee who left the district and they were not left behind or or they were not they were it left it it stopped being talked about because someone was no longer here where the discussion had taken place and it that's where it stopped and
it didn't get picked up by this board because there there were conversations about picking it back up and there were conversations in I'm not against bringing it up and talking about it but I'm also somebody who's also not against raising too much for our own children
and our own students i can and I and I'm also somebody who sees other opportunities of bringing outside groups come in that our fees are actually high sometimes in some in some cases not in all not saying everywhere but there are some things that I think we lose because
they call our district and ask for fees and then they call a district neighboring us and their fees are you know thousands of dollars less than ours and so they'll go there so I think that there's always a balance that you have to keep on it but I think that you know Miss Wald and Mr hastings are correct that when the policy comes when it gets
within if if it's close if it's not going like if if you guys are able to say well it's based on it it's not going to be up until next October or like you know a year from now then maybe we say okay we want to bring it up earlier i would think that if you're going to do
it if you're going to bring it up that it needs to be brought up so that it's in place for the August September like if we're thinking about that then we have to tell people that we've already approved you know I'm just saying that there's a possibility it could change i don't know if that I don't know if when the approval goes out
it says there could be changes to these fees after approval like we've already approved things through next December you know so so to say things are going to change before PE people that have already been approved on whatever fees they are you know I don't know so what we had done in the past at one point was
say the board in the coming months is going to speak about this if there are changes made before your use your fee may go up we've said we've put that that was in the document somewhere um so people knew i don't know if it's on the document still i haven't looked at it in
a while um or if we even want to put that on the document but my personal opinion is if you're going to do it that you do it before a season starts you know or before approving certain seasons thank you Mr mcgovern mr
goldman so listening to everyone this is always a complicated matter right so um I'm hearing questions one of the questions I'm hearing is is what is the impact on this on our budget right like if we're going to get into a deep discussion on this I think it would be helpful when we get there i say when we
get there that we understand how much we're bringing in how much we're you know it's costing us and things like that um I do think there's a philosophical issue here that needs to be discussed because when you look at policy and regulation 7510 it gets into
the different types of users and what we as a board might feel our philosophy is around who are we charging and how are we charging them so you know I I respect that when we get to that policy we look at that my suggestion feel like a
teacher now um is that we all take a good look at both policy and regulation 7510 in advance of that because it is a little bit longer um and it was modified um the policy was modified in January of 22 and the regulation was modified in
March of 20 um and you know it it it's one of those things that you have to really think about um the groups their ability to raise funds and who's ultimately paying for it is something
that we need to consider that said do we have rising costs right i know some of the school districts that I saw in the news this week had exorbitant uh increases in their utilities cost and if we're all watching the news in New Jersey um both electric and gas rates
have been severely impacted for homeowners and and school districts um so I think you know it it's going to be in my estimation a longer conversation because I think we need to understand the history of like what are we bringing in and what are we paying out in our
costs and then what is our philosophy when we look at these different classes of users they're usually referred to as different classes nonprofits and things you know of that nature um but these are very long and need a lot of reading and thought thank you Mr dolan so uh I
believe what I'm hearing from the board is a request for a presentation of total impact to the budget of facility fees currently uh as well as comparables with other districts um is that what I'm hearing is that is that a good synthesis of what
we'd like to see is there anything that the board would like to add to those two items that I brought up just uh just to add to that maybe it's included in it's just what uh Mr dalton said so where where we understand like the level of service that's in the
policy the fees associated with it's in the regulation all of that information is in there so current current policy will be read by all board members they can they can review that at their leisure but but the additional request is what the total
impact is in relation to our annual budget as well as a comparable to other districts when possible of equal size additional comments or questions mrs talico I just want to know if we can get that information from two years ago
because that's really what they were looking at so either way we can work on what we have in front of us right now i think we can get this information right now i don't I don't know that what happened two years ago is very much pertinent and we would have to look at these things
anyway because of how much has changed okay um unless is there something that I'm missing that whatever went on two years ago but there were multiple meetings is what I'm saying and at that time when that person is no longer here
we were about to get a presentation do you know if it was on the agenda if there was anything there i don't know it was never on the agenda and it was in it was in emails that were not committee didn't have understand mr dton did you have an additional thing to the two items that I presented no no i The only
thing I would say is is um out of respect to the administration we need to get through this year's budget before we Understood are there any additional items that people would like to see regarding those things i don't know about additional items Mr
mccarthy but it it always troubles me when we see everything going up utilities food costs that we would as Miss McGovern say especially for our town people and our town groups pass
this along to them uh but evaluating the the policy and regulation and looking at uh companies or whatever that use our facility that maybe come from outside i would certainly think that would be
worthy of a second look but uh for our current taxpayers and uh their use of our buildings I think we need to be very cautious moving forward so once again I want to put the question out very clearly to the board if we are asking
for information we can add comment however we would like are there any additional items aside from a total impact to budget and comparable to other districts that we would like to seeformationally from our district before making any decisions regarding this is there anything additional that
the board would like to see i I would say no there isn't anything additional and I I agree that we need to start with the uh the policy revisitions thank you Miss Stevens and anything else that the board would want to see can we just focus on that point very quickly
informationally no okay thank you Mr hastings how much time would you need okay go ahead yes please i thought I heard an ask for a list of everything we've approved over the last year or so like the type of users did he say that i did
not hear that okay i'm sorry i Mr how long do you think it would take you to to gain that information i think uh we could perhaps provide something at the May meeting at the May meeting yeah would that give you enough time to worry about your budget currently or would you like to extend that potentially to the first meeting or
second meeting of June i think June would be safe okay uh depending on what the state decides to do with the budget as we know last year i think we passed our budget at the end of April and then all of a sudden there was a last minute change so June would
buy us a little extra time okay is the board okay with that time frame with us reviewing this sure in one of the June meetings yes thumbs up from from everybody okay wonderful and we all as a majority would like to see this information yes anyone opposed no okay
so that will give us opposed no just so that will give us an opportunity as a board to debate and discuss this topic at that time we can we can bring it put it forward on the agenda and have a deliberate approach to this i would ask that all board members review this
policy between now and that time period if there are any specific questions that you have regarding that policy you can direct that to the administration okay for them to clarify and we will go from there does that make sense yep good any other comments at all about anything
regarding this topic that was brought up tonight okay any other new business from the board i I just have a comment for consideration um you know I've only been on the board for four months um however during our work meeting and our regular monthly meeting our starting our regular
monthly meeting at 8:00m it's so wonderful to see how many awards um that our staff are receiving that our students are receiving but I I'd be negligent in in not saying that I'm noticing there are little there are little students that are here at 8:00 p.m um it seems to be um you know fairly
late for some of them to be here um and receiving awards at 8:30 so I realize the schedule is what it is for this year um but maybe perhaps next year when we're redoing the schedule we can consider as a board perhaps moving the meeting up um from our executive session
to 6:30 to 6:00 p.m to try to get some of those elementary awards um you know for the little ones out and done so that those kids can go can go home and that's just something for consideration in the future would anyone for the board like to
comment on that topic i think it's worth considering because it it's true that it could be a late night for many of our younger students that come in for spelling be awards or whatever awards they're getting um I have no problem with pushing things back
half an hour i'm not sure people who commute or or you know have a longer workday might be able to but it's something that we certainly should consider going forward any other comments wonderful any other new
business for the board can I have a motion to adjurnn motion second meeting is adjourned thank you