f y fourteen budget public hearing and vote of recommendation discussion and approval of the twenty thirteen twenty fourteen capital improvement plan recommendation for increase in substitute nurse ok first reading of policies other matter and after that we will go into executive session for the purpose of discussing negotiating strategies with non union person now the food service employees the committee after that will now return to open session all right first of all would you like to introduce our wonderful  order january seventh for the executive session an three of the students who have made it into the finals for the jazz combo in the very famous charles on this competition and we have three of the students here so we have you were left to right we have recording engineer anyway and they were selected from the country as one of the three finalists in the category of public high school because there's another category for like regional competition and university sponsored regional split for single schools that they were selected among the three so it's a very prestigious achievement and they did it on themselves above themselves so they should be committed to that and instead of playing what he played we put our own ideas into it with a fork in the usual tubes we're playing to go there we're playing together in one room so you're up against two other jazz combo regions yeah so it's kind of there i don't know exactly what their reasoning is but they're just changing you know and that festival is you know not just public high schools as any groups including fine arts high schools consortium high schools like regional thirty six people but for me it is a thrill to be sitting in the audience and watching some of my former students being in the audience then in the fo during a former student who her son was this and one of the inductors are the new people coming in and i can't remember everybody's married name but jackie wallace but and you know when another former student day oh wait door is mentioned as being a leader i mean we live in a wonderful community justice by her name she was named one of three hundred seventy finalists in the intel science talent search for two thousand and thirteen and go on line to fox report and read all about her quite an unbelievable young scientist and we'd love to have her come to a future meeting to tell us about her project because that is beyond what anybody expected by school student she she's quite she's quite a scientist so i think that to be wonderful to hear about i didn't want to and tonight is the one thing you take a vote on the bottom line budget but you may have questions in the interim you know we had our first hearing in december when we had our that was our public hearings and then again in january early this month discussed our budget priorities and we're here today to discuss the overall budget any remaining questions you may have or the idea of the budget priorities which we follow the same process as last year we just started turning over the  i wonder from bill you might just open with maybe some summary comments for the public at home week for us i know we've been on this is the recent few times but do you have any kind of you know it's off the cuff but you know what you know first of all this is we've said week they further cut theirs back so now i believe it's a little over two hundred thousand to the good and good for the conversations obviously with them you know the priority list came up so it's you know one of the items that you need to actually moving forward on the seller's we'll on the stuff scale based on educational achievement and you know develop what the cost is going to be next year for that as you also know we're in a social issues here so we we have to develop how we buy textbooks and supplies a lot more is going towards the technology side because that's the world we live in so we've had to reallocate some of the funds that we've used in other directions we've also added a little bit of additional funding on the expense side just year supply in its original purchase we're now in the third year so there are consumables there and then obviously we do have to be tough and replace but we have a team that are looking at that right now so they don't just buy they're going buy what they need and what they feel that we use that in quantity obviously if we can buy things outside the program that that meet the same need we'll do that to keep the cost down but again that's been built into this budget as well so i think we've we've accomplished down we have to go down but you can't go up with you know talked about that many times in the past so i think we have to put it out there and show the public what it takes to educate a child here in foxboro or what the wants and needs are and you know technology is going to be a huge huge thing in the future if they change them cast on line if we're not ready and able to do that we're going to be in serious trouble so you know when you talk about some of the other communities in that they don't have the technology i don't know what the name of god they're go me to say we don't have to worry about that but i think we need to be prepared here from mexico because it is going to happen so if we don't if we only have one or two computers for thirty kids to take a test on we're not going to be able to do this so you know we have to stand up to technology we have to make sure the teachers are educated and feel comfortable with it and that the students really have access to the equipment so it's not something that we can ever slack off and i think that's good you know one of the biggest points that you know double speak to this part of it but we are putting it having fused a lot of technology into the schools over the last few years and we continue to tell whether it's interactive whiteboards you  been in the classroom themselves in a few years are getting introduced to a lot of stuff very quickly here and it really we want to be successful to your point we need going to want to teach them how to use it as efficiently as they possibly computers in that classroom so we have to make them come through well versed in what they're doing is the stuff to be used to i think all that's a good point because we talk about teachers being content experts but what's happening now in education last few years and certainly going forward is that sun up to be an expert in such an area you have to know how to leverage technology to help kids learn more effectively so it's becoming more and more that technology is helping kids and then teachers keep up with the content be able to town is out looking and you may turn into that front secondly we're roughly within one percentage point increase of what we were a year ago year to year so i don't think we're doing anything too dramatic and again i i offer that for the public who may not have seen prior meetings that we televised or may not have in front of them the documents we have from year to year percentage increase from not doing anything to do terribly driven dramatic thirdly we've built in the idea of this cost increased weren't dissipated for staff as you reference and this is the year that we have to take that into account in the fourth and finally one of the things i think about which may be a simplistic but not meaningful to me is every one of us at the table i guess with the exception maybe of amy you know sits here not only as a superintendent in business administrator and also as a taxpayer so i know we all think about this we're in both sides of our hat and and so i feel comfortable personally with where we are in the budget we've spent a lot of time if anyone wants more information everything else flat because that seems to be where we're shifting and what we thought we could do without increasing we certainly did as you mentioned this is a are coming here so it's a little bit you know trickier to make sure all your needs are met but we feel that we've really been responsible and we do meet regularly with the townsite folks and they do have a goal to achieve terms of financial management going into the future with their revenues that they're projecting and we do take seriously our part not contribution so i think we're all investing in education but i think we still all have to be mindful who's been before and i think we're that will be in past years because we have collaborated with the town it's not well it's cut and dry this is what we em in this budget and i share its concerns obviously about moving forward where where the money's going to come from but i mean i think it's it's very clear from your presentation what the needs are to move forward and you know we've been talking about technology for several years and we've been trying to in char way there every year you know getting closer to to getting the things that we need but i think it's just obvious it's becoming more apparent with each year what we need to do as a district to ensure that we are giving that kind of education and support to our teachers to our students and that's the way it  that's not something that even existed when we started this project so it is something that you're going to have to gradually but you know it's no different than when you start to deploy the the whiteboards or you know that everything or take a little bit time we're not going to be like the private sector where they can go out and do everything big chunks you know we have to  pizza anything that helped us get started with some of these things but i think we all need to understand that when when the foundation or whatever invests in the educational system it's with the idea that we are going to carry a gun that they're not going to you know sponsor it from you know and that's right and i think we've been very receptive that when something is put in place if it works we buy into it and try to extend it i think it's a little bit short sighted on our part to say we need these things and then walk away from i think need to put them in there and if we have to back down on the numbers some will back down according but this is a technology integration specialist especially with we're going to have to change our whole format for testing and everything that's of it and get we have more of a data the problem which to employ technology in your classroom she said help you once every five days so it is it's ineffective in that i think that's why the basic understanding and then what happens when you don't have access to that resource your way well not only do you wait what you know the whole process of what you were going to be doing with that technology gets stalled so you know my early able to confer with that person and say i'd like to it is quite inefficient the way we have it now and we could leverage it to a much greater extent if we could choose two people of them five schools with all the constraints of  budgeting i would like to see yes if i have a vote i would vote to just the technology integration specialist ahead that is prioritized it is number one it now at this point i know what both kevin and randy would like to get to he's a similar number to last year but the four hundred thousand range again with the idea that they would finally get the stabilization fund up to the level that is five percent of the operating budget  with an idea that they would have to turn to the more money you put away into a c f p fund for this year or something that's a longer term you know portion for that so in and i think you know that's taxpayers all of us should be looking at that as a as a positive as to how they're rolling this thing forward so there is some upside you know possibilities here and i guess that's the only thing where i come comfortable with potentially bring something forward  is that what is going on with the governor's budget right now you know whether that will make it through the house and senate i don't know but the you know the reality is for any of those to exist means tax cuts so we won't know there really to be honest with you until we do get to number one priority probably is very reasonable and then maybe not even likely to make it to the end depending on how the the the the revenue comes forward but at least you would have had you know the opportunity for something as a  for our budget so i do hope you know this is the year to be taking on more since we that's right now with no future in terms of our country so can she keep it going forward cost of mind until i think it's a little bit easier maybe next year if we let's say we're successfully negotiate a three year contract we have more of an idea exactly what we are and would be able to at that point maybe take a little bit more of a risk with it look pretty and i think we have a we already have some risk but i would like to see i would like to see at least at the top priority be added to the final months and months that will and this is the end price this for is prioritized by personally i think you know we're we're splitting hairs a little bit because this is these are all thing things that we would all love to have so it's a question of what do we want to ask or what do we think the climate will support i guess if i was just trying to listen and form a consensus make a motion that we approve the budget as presented in the approve it sounds like the technology integration specialists request we are first priority and my motion would also include we fund the point to school psychologist because it is a lesser cost and i make that motion and based on the understanding that there are two more priorities we'd love to have but they do total near a hundred thousand dollars sometimes more so in light of the support we've received for the turf field and other things we've asked for maybe this are third fourth are two buses we had replaced two of the seventy seven passenger buses last year if we stay on about two bus on the seventy seven level we keep the fleet relatively current that means every kind of what we're looking at and making sure no one's going beyond that point the minibuses we run within the district for a couple of things but most of it is for to service our state program whether it's all the way from old versions of those two just like there are the clip from building to building as we're doing work on the building so we have one that's really kind of touching this would be a good replacement so i won't be looking to trade that one in holland but the other two hundred seventy seven passengers we will be training those and we wait for your secret password and you don't get anything so we don't know what they're looking at so many things that's a little bit discouraging because you know just really this is supposed to be this brand new today way of numbers is so this would entail basically deploying close to seventy hot spots throughout the school to be one hundred percent the point that you should be able to get you know the right everywhere throughout the building and it would also be deployed  the next topic i just think it's important to note that you know making the high school by it is very important to us certainly is important to me and something that i really like to see happen is that we are kids learning one of the few high schools that doesn't have a while subject but i don't want anyone to think that we're going to probably know to include something like this because a lot of high schools were mobile wireless five years ago i think that's another example something that could have been in the original post but because it was considered a repair project you know that's a whole new system it may not have not an expert but it may not have qualified as one of the action items under every payer project or not repairing an existing wireless system so i have a feeling it probably didn't qualify but if it had been a whole you know renovat renovation and when you look at all these new high schools that we talked about have all this technology so they weren't renovations they were from the ground up that they were so you know that's why we didn't have this and again we were trying to keep costs down we were trying to take the  contracts that are out there that other communities are doing cost typically run the speed tween two hundred seventy five three hundred ten dollars a day per bus that you're putting out there assuming you're doing three levels three tier system three elementary middle and high school when i did the calculations against our own things that basically we were running in almost the exact same dollar range but the pinch to us is we weren't paying for the extra services for think just the flexibility at the same cost is tremendous and to the point you both making the fact that the the you know they're so well known within the community and they work with their principals you know it is an issue with the on the prostate they have no problem talking directly to the i don't think that you can minimize the importance of relationship sampson and that's what we have with our bus drivers and they have it with us and we have it with them and you know you can't put a dollar figure on that because it's and you already done that you know benefit cost analysis but you know people just can't sit here and if it provides the security and the investment that they have with us that we have with them truly great but sometimes there is the to this you know we did it i think it made a very smart move i think it's working very well for us and after what's happened with the whole nutritional side of things we need to be reductions of the food service companies are actually didn't hurt pretty badly right now because they're not making the money that they you know we produce millions of companies year supply and so you know the number of machine obviously within each building i mean this building alone has a seven copiers to make it convenient for the discussion to have and it would be replacing all if we go that route and so far what i've seen on it is if you could manage the program the way we're doing it right now we're probably better off because they're obviously making money on how they're doing that they c actually got kind of pieced together with different levels of people or different level of control wiring different controllers and over thirteen years and a lot of kids learning how to operate the stuff the equipment actually got be pretty bad luck keys no longer work probably the controls no longer works a teacher can listen to individual students as they're coming through or groups of students to be basically asked to go and you know plug right into their device  are the controls where a teacher can basically set people into groups so if he wants to listen to one two three or four ten for the whole class at the same time the control would allow them to execute do that and also get the students there's actually music libraries in which they are able to go after and pull in a so as they're playing something they can have the background music and stuff like that to play along with them under our current technology can't do that under this technology rick and so there's there's a number of advantages and again being one of the projects in which to remember not every project makes it through they do do a priority requirement they do look at you know what what projects you've done even though we just finished high school project my school project really is a five year old project so it may not play against us gets better so i think some of the projects instead of better chance of going to the renovation versus the whole new building which is like you know phenomenal compared to what we were asking for money  sitting on the other end of b i'd be looking at this i think in a day and i think you know kudos in town a lot of ways fred as far as keeping up buildings we have basically come forward with the schools with every one of the buildings being a renovation and where a to support i don't know on their side and that is the replacement of the phone system currently we have five different switches within our schools and the town has ten in total including her five but they're all in and we will tell you and the other part of that is it's under we're currently under a centric system which we pay as a town fifty thousand dollars a year and the the beauty of going to this newer system which would be obviously through an internet connection w our fiber that goes through up to district house so we actually would have the ability whether any town building whether it's the library the d p p whatever that all the extent it's off to the system so we could virtually you know just had to come through each other and then talk it would greatly improve the communications within the buildings relative relative to the intercom system and the ability to do that for emergencies role as well as regular communication can get a fifty thousand dollars centrex versus one hundred fifty thousand dollars estimated cost right  now you know you're talking about a three year payback there's almost nothing we do on the public side that seem to have a payback at least as it does so i think that's kind of the way we're looking at this one and i think the you know actually tomorrow randy and i  very tight i think would be to be lucky to have the same funding that we had last year and a lot more issues you know i mean it took about five hundred sixty thousand last year now again without the the girl that we're we're fairly comparable to you know i don't see anything here really that's a luxury maybe maybe the keyboarding maybe the wireless buildout although i agree with you deb i think that's a priority for me personally but fuss is copters really need all this stuff i just current rate for substitute nurses is sixty dollars a day so as a side bar considering it's a six and a half to seven a half hour day for a school day you know that's less than ten dollars an hour for a professional certified nurse so we're we're we're we're the lowest yes i don't i think there's somebody ten dollars above us but we are the lowest of all of them no nobody gets down to sixty dollars range so it's no surprise that we can attract subsurface i would say that all districts are challenge to by attracting substitute nurses but sixty dollars a day is not going to help us so after a lot of discussion with that over the last couple of years it really is time to bring it before the committee this is not something that we you know that that would be fine so i really find it hard to believe if you look at the other countries that they employ any substitute there is greater than forty days and if they do they only go up five dollars a day so it didn't seem like that was worthy of put some of the children that we the special needs children and the nurse and care that they need i just don't want anybody taking care of those and if it was one of my children i'm going to know that we had a top notch person in that position and i think we all need to respect that and with th you know in order to attract somebody to these positions who are well qualified because sometimes it's like being a new york nurse taking care of these kids right i want to know that the person we have in your school for actually want to put in a further plug for our nurses and the ten to change is minimal the content and more of the labeling more or reducing legal references so as i went through these i think are minimal changes some of these i feel very comfortable with the car procedure we want  even though it's like a lot of large print because that is the requirement that we were given back in august that we had to deliver the plan by the way up to exactly as it was then then the last but there are some very some of the very last one also have very little gender identity and then also just you know cross reference and they just just the e s c regulates if you take those one separately that sea change would be in the parts like seven after paragraph number six the paragraph following paragraph number six the inclusion of the words gender identity  shall be excluded from or discriminated against in admission to a public school of any town or in obtaining the advantages privileges and courses of study of such public school on account of race color sex gender identity religion national origin sexual orientation or disability if someone has a complaint or feels that they have been discriminated against because of their race color sex gender identity religion national origin sexual orientation or six five amended to include two thousand and eleven strike nineteen ninety three seventy six sixteen strike chapter six twenty two of the act of nine hundred seventy one strike board of education chapter six twenty two regulations pertaining to access to equal educational opportunity six twenty four seventy five as amended ten twenty four seventy eight strike board of ok the next one is nondiscrimination on the basis of sacked by a c a and this is changed just in the legal references strike board of education chapter six to two regulations sure ok corey requirements file a d d a strike criminal history systems or replace with department of criminal justice information services  i in the first paragraph continuing after that of prospective employees volunteers include or subcontractors and then continuing on in that paragraph to include after employees some crap subcontractors as well generally in this one i just an aside and i know what reading them but we were placed in every instance replace criminal history systems board with department of criminal justice information services in the acronym and we included that term with requirements for prospective employees and volunteers were placed print we struck struck the principal so it says the superintendent or they designate other certified as it needs show periodically but not less than every three years obtain all available criminal offender record information from the strike criminal history systems ordinance d c j i s on all employees individuals who regularly hide school related transportation to students including taxi cab company employees and volunteers who may state law all current and prospective employees include some contractors volunteers and persons regularly providing school related transportation to students of the school dress districts shell's sign a request slash acknowledgement  certified to obtain information under this policy says joe prohibit the dissemination of school information for any purpose for the day and to further the protection of school students in the next paragraph or just replacing criminal system history systems  request slash acknowledgment for the next paragraph it includes the second sentence the applicant shall be provided with a copy of the criminal record the facts were public schools cory policy c information concerning the process in correcting a criminal record advised of the parts of the record that make the individual unsuitable for the position or license and given an opportunity to  in the next paragraph the first senate strike the words or volunteer form and in the last sentence of that same paragraph include the word subcontractor the next one is cory requirements file a d t a dash r and just in the first paragraph replace criminal history systems board with department of criminal justice information dash dash won first paragraphs which criminal history system board as b with the department of criminal justice information services d c j i s same switch with the senate the chairman or in his her absence the presiding member will state the purpose for the executive session by stating all subjects that may be revealed without compromising the purpose for which the executive session was paragraph to the next paragraph two says the discipline or dismissal including the hearing of charges against a member of the community a school department employe student or other individual the individual has certain rights enumerated in the law including requiring the committee to hold an open session should the individual so request the next  inclusion of the second and third paragraph in their entirety i will read them the school committee chair and the superintendent will review executive session minutes for possible declassification on at least a quarterly basis and if necessary will consult with legal counsel the school committee chair will bring minutes recommended for declassification to the school committee for either as part of a consent agenda or for individual action in either case there shall be an announcement of the declassification of minutes when a specific set of executive session minutes not yet declassified is requested by a member of the public the school committee shall render a decision on declassification at its next meeting or within thirty days after the request whichever occurs you have a question about this so this is basically those minutes that have not been released because of some meeting the criteria that that's set forth and so that c we're going to include start beginning with the fourth paragraph new information the superintendent shall develop in consultation with the school nurses school physicians athletic coaches trainers and local emergency medical services agencies and emergency medical response plan for each school in the district each plan shall include one method establishing a rapid communication system linking all parts of the school campus including outdoor facilities to local emergency medical services along with protocols to clarify when mass and other emergency contacts will be called to a determination of e m s response times to any location on the campus  list of relevant contacts with telephone numbers and a protocol indicating when each person shall be called including names of experts to help with post event support for in math or to efficiently direct him as personnel to any location on campus a new building the location of available rescue equipment five safety precautions to prevent injuries in classrooms and on the school campus six a method of providing access to training in c p r and first aid for teachers at coaches trainers and other school staff which may include c p r training for high school students provided that school committees me opt out of instruction and c p r pursuant to section one of chapter seventy one and seven in the event the school possesses one updated in case of new construction or other physical changes to the school campus legal reference m g l sixty nine eight sections three six three of chapter one fifty nine of the  student transportation file and the first paragraph changed the word pupils to students and under eligibility the first paragraph again changed pupils to students we're going to do that throughout actually the next paragraph bus routes and stops bus routes are established under the direction of the superintendent designee in order to provide authorised bus stops within a reasonable walking distance of the at noon separate transportation will be provided for all students in half day kindergarten in his the parent legal guardians responsibility to notify the transportation supervisor a minimum of two weeks prior to the start of the school year if the student's regularly scheduled stop is different from that associated with the home address all requested pick up and drop off locations must be within the student's assigned school district parents may request with a minimum of one weeks prior  written notice a change of pick up or drop off location only if said location is on the same bus route the student was assigned to exception to the same bus route and school district requirements is for elementary aged students who attend before or after school programs at the y m c a and foxworth and then after and the paragraph under administration of the program change people's just shouldn't and the last paragraph on the page paragraph one subscribes to the fullest extent to the principle of the dignity of all people and of their labors and will take action to ensure that any individual within a fox from a public schools was responsible for the hiring and or personnel supervision understands that applicants are employed assigned and promoted without regard to their race creed color age sex gender identity national origin disability military or sexual orientation every available not every fail opportunity will be taken in order to assure that each applicant for position is selected on the basis of qualifications merit and ability the foxboro public schools the shore's equal employment opportunity in recruitment programs for all st positions programs will be administered without regard to race creed color sex or gender identity full consideration be given to disabled or handicapped persons in work that they are qualified to perform we pledge ourselves to  licensed employees hiring file g c paragraph one will be no discrimination in the hiring process due to age sex gender identity creed race color or national origin disability sexual orientation or place of residence paragraph three include as the left senates for those positions where the hiring authority rests with the school committee a representative screening committee established by the school committee or the school committee may direct the superintendent to establish a screening committee to assist the superintendent in making his or her recommendation to the school committee and then under  zero zero and forty four instructional materials by i j paragraph they must provide for all students in affective basic education that does not discriminate on the basis of race age color legin national origin sex gender identity physical disability or sexual preference and include under legal references b as a regulations six o three c m a r twenty six zero zero  for people educational opportunities file j v in the first paragraph a second senates should read it will also it also will offer careful consideration and sympathetic understanding of their personal feelings particularly with reference to their race color sex gender identity religion national origin sexual orientation or physical and intellectual differences in the next paragraph going to strike the old name the old name ok i think i should just read the sentence to accomplish this the post school committee and its staff will make every effort to comply with the letter and spirit of the massachusetts equal educational opportunities law and strike the parent that a call that says known as chapter six to two of the acts of one nine hundred seventy one which prohibits discrimination in public school admissions and programs and the law has been a include the words gender identity after sex and before religion in the next paragraph and then under legal references strike board of education chapter six two two regulations pertaining to access to equal educational opportunity adopted six twenty four seventy five amended ten twenty four seventy eight and straight board of education chapter seven six six regulations ten seventy four amended through three twenty eight seventy student to student body harassment filed j p a in the second paragraph should read harassment prohibited by the district includes but is not limited to harassment on the basis of race sex gender identity creed color national origin sexual orientation religion marital status or disability and under legal references strike board of education and include b file j c a we're going to strike the paragraph that reads special permission may be granted for the following reasons i'm striking all of this strike paragraph one if the change involves an exceptional student hardship case or if there are medical considerations strike paragraph two if the administration deems that is it is in the best interest of the student of the schools and for disciplinary an administrative reasons strike paragraph three if the legal residence of a student changes from one attendance area to another during the school year special permission may be granted for the student to remain in his former school permission will not extend beyond the current school year and strike paragraph four to permit secondary school students to take courses not offered in their eyesight schools so that this entirety of the section will generally students will be required to attend school in the know that we will continue to follow really without any changes but this is a original link which came from me i see it regionally and if you look at number four secondary students take courses and offer their science schools that's for a district that has more than one high school and example we do allow students to stay in the school for the fourth grade here with say you will for the in the third grade year we don't want to any transition so we wouldn't want the child to transition to school for one year and then go to her and so we do have certain circumstances we follow as a practice and we try to be very consistent with that so that families don't perceive that we're treating people differently if we have different rules of having them where you live where you know we very consistent with how we apply do so except but to be honest at least once a year you get an exception that we never not discriminate in the admission of any student on the basis of race color religious creed national origin sex gender identity age sexual orientation incest three athletic performance physical handicap special needs academic perform emergency response book as required by law which shall be utilized by foxborough public schools personnel for handling emergency situations in addition principals will maintain and follow the medical emergency response plan strike the words or the paramedic assistants unit of the fire department and include or the local emergency medical services agencies in instances when the strike paramedic assistance unit and include each and as is required every effort shall be made to provide the unit with the student's emergency card which lists any allergies or diseases the student might have under legal preferences tell you remember really school it will start at doors open at six it actually starts at six thirty in the on the korean with a very brief overview and parents have the opportunity to register on line for three different sections that will run twenty minutes apiece and they really are focusing on innervated technologies that teachers are using in their classroom to enrich their classroom instruction many of the sessions are being repeated from last year because there were great feedback f parents that they wish they could have attended more so we're including many of the sessions from last year and we've added other sessions as well so please register by the link right on the front page of the foxboro website in babysitting will motion of the second by roll call and then a roll call vote to go into executive session for the purpose of discussing negotiating strategies with knowing your personnel the food service employees we will