approval of minutes teaching and learning highlights and highlights of some summer professional development acceptance of donation turfs committee school committee vote to appoint school nurse back to school update twenty twelve twenty thirteen school district goals the draft f y twelve final budget summary school committees some committee appointments for budget and policy other matters and after that we will go into executive session for the purpose of discussing and approving the executive session minutes of august thirteen and twelve the committee will not return to open session after that our walk through the high school will not be televised when we come back approximately at seven our regular meeting will continue it will be televised there is a problem with comcast we will not be able to see ourselves on the monitor inside this building but it is going to be transmitted to anybody who was good here comes katie  but as has been just said if we walk down the hallway the things you now see actually you can see just the major stuff we've done over the last three years most of them could never even see because of roofs and windows or the rooms stuff like that but now it's we tied everything together with you know one thing leads to some whether it's revising curriculum in english language arts or mathematics are developing curriculum for the new high school health course that will be for made in tenth graders so that work has taken place this summer i mean remember for many conversations that we've had here with the massachusetts new curriculum frameworks for english language arts and mathematics those came to town so to speak at the same time and they brought revisions that needed to take place with the goal really being that the standards and the way they've changed is that students are ready for college work careers so it looks at the research this thing and really what needs to be done for our students to be ready for the twenty first century global citizenship but their college or  rates levels with content they are some minor ships shifts excuse me but they really have some instructional implications with the clarity and the specificity that goes into each grade level as an example in the framework before they were great spans but now it's great specifics of what students should master each grade level and it's based on standards of mathematical practice so you have coherence and clarity across the entire  pre k twelve curriculum so that's one thing that massachusetts did was they added pre k seniors to math that weren't there before so teachers worked really hard this summer in making those revisions that  impacted curriculum as well as the assessments that we give so some of the things that will come in the future will we have our baselines and benchmarks when we have those conversations in the fall we're seeing implications there because of the new standards and what we measure also in english language arts the revisions that you see from the past framework to the new one is a greater emphasis on content literacy and the focus on argumentative writing and nonfiction so as an example by fourth grade fifty percent nonfiction text that you see as a post and more of the neighborhood the story writing and then as you get into high school you see seventy percent being nonfiction very much taking texts or and says and looking at multiple text on the same subject and having students not just compare and contrast that really we've done together and to be able to analyze  teachers working across the carpet including world language as well and really looking at the content literacy standards that are in the english language arts curriculum and how we are ensuring that those curriculum  implications that were ready and i can tell you that we are they've worked very hard this summer and it's great to have crossed apartments and teachers working together so that's been fabulous as well as as i said before with the help curriculum for grade nine in grade ten they say that if you are not learning you're not going well i can tell you that our teachers have continued to grow all summer with many professional development opportunities that have taken place we have three really diagnostician and of course i'm really looking at how we're meeting the needs of kids who maybe aren't thinking a certain way mathematics of why they think the way they do and what do we do kind of it is then based on interventions to provide for students and then we also happen over a courses that were sponsored through alice steele which is our local staff development opportunities were one of thirteen districts that belongs to that group and were able to offer courses through their advantage of that course and there are many other workshops in this to it's just a couple to come to mind we had some of our own administrators and teachers we were able to send a team of five to a massachusetts literacy is  and those five individuals it was sponsored by the department outreach secondary education and they were able to attend that institute this summer and it focuses on online reading comprehension on line reading content and they come  literacy use and technology or however they're using as much as the interactive whiteboards that we just talked about and we had ten different sessions that was a full day institute and we held it at dean college in franklin and it was a great venue we've typically held it in schools in the past that with so many schools gearing up for the school year it was hard in the technology piece so we're very fortunate to use this space there but the most exciting part about that all of the workshops there were ten workshops five in the morning in fact the afternoon teachers were able to go and if you're a member of one of the thirteen districts we have just about two hundred teachers that attend on that day i am out of the ten workshops the five in the morning find in the of the english teachers that was presenting so the entire foxborough english department kate to be there for the session and that just enhanced the growth on their part so it was that way so we are a great place with great dedicated staff so we've had a very good summer a lot has been accomplished i think we often i go for b out think of ok professional development our teachers are going out and learning and so have everything but in fact like to here in this number that are actually part of that actually is trickling over on our third day of staff back in the morning the session in the morning at the high school is all technology and we have our own teachers some of which that presented definitely been a leader in that group and released again saying the obvious is that she's been here a year but she hit the ground running and i have more teachers say feels like she's been here for so really could have straight or if she does everything well and makes it look quite wonderful we had a staff member who recently retired and i'm not going to use names to get to that minute who recently retired she wants to join me for i pads to a very specific program that she worked at while she was in fossil public schools for the benefit of the students and the teacher in that program obviously most of the students and we would like not to mention the name or the program because she wants to surprise them with it so she was going to go personally to make a presentation to the class because she feels so strongly about the students and want to do something wonderful so it's actually for she was originally thinking two white parents and she's actually going to get the classroom with four so i can tell you her name in september but she was like the benefit of going herself to school starts by some class so i asked where are the committees motion to accept our retired one develop a turf field for the community for the benefit of the community team sports activities and also for the schools and they were able to secure a very generous grant from the n f l and it had a time period to it where the high school renovation and everything going on here were able to do it within that time and also the economy took a little plunge they were able to do see if the community had interest in developing a kind of field since that an awful lot about what we can't we can't do so we thought it would be a good idea to use tonight rather i think both he and informally to hear from the committee about what we now volunteer for the turks up and with me karen slaby who also was with turns up and we've got a couple handfuls of people that have been working on it but karen kind of stepped up at the beginning is kind of the marketing person that got a lot of the graphics in got the word out to the community so i asked her to come in and present as well i put together probably about ten to twelve slides just to go back a little because some of the committee members of the tina was in here before me and it's been a while so i just wanted to go back and update so everyone is on the same starting page you want so start off with it with a very brief mission statement in and basically it's to bring fox pro sports business and residential community together to provide a turf field to enhance the safety enjoyment and competition for fox for youth and it's pretty simple and basically turf field is a synthetic feel that has a rubber infill and you can use it really twenty four seven four seasons out of the year back to back so you don't have to let it rest so that's what the mission statement is in this certain benefits someone specific to the school and some of the specific to the community when i say the school high school or the kids during sporting athletics at the school and community community at large or some of the use for it's associated with schools so the community is one turf basically equals four grass fields so you get a lot more bang for the buck because you can go back to back and have a lot of the sports play on it one after another safety consistency reliability moves toward meeting the demand over the years you've got more sports and of more seasons sakis the one season i've got two sometimes three seasons all across football same thing lower maintenance costs for the field plus you get to not spend as much on the grass fields could you not using as much and it's really an asset to the community edition to use for it's now in the next slide bill  practice whether consistency for three or four seasons transportation you're not bringing high school kids over to the ahern over to the pace and road area for the other sports maintenance consolidation in more of a campus and one area management training for the staff and being able to do it in one area the band certainly benefits a lot of the towns that do this the band practice is this a not restricting parking lots and trying to do it  in space that nobody you know can can give up recruiting craig mentioned an interesting thing a lot of times when the kids get towards a school or look at the sports programs and they they may or may not choose high school because of the sports and they may go towards a private school so that was a big concern competition whether some of the sports like playing on turf or grass they're going to be playing other teams that practice and play on turf so when you're playing football on turf you turn differently if you're not used to it you're at the disadvantage in the basically an overall boost to the sports program basically it's a field that we're calling it a multipurpose so this is a field that they didn't because look like that that's what i have in mind you know with the exception i'm not sure how field hockey plays into it walpole doesn't have field hockey striped in the field that they're doing now you can actually power wash the lines to change  a year or so you can power so you can you can change it not like you could before i put this we put the schedule together just to show that it's possible to have the different sports on one field because they're different seasons you know football soccer lacrosse field hockey even baseball people say why would baseball be interested to support it because in the early spring rather than doing pitching and catching in the gym doing it outside over and some of the schools that i've worked with the law actually plow it and they'll have back drops of snow in the heat warms up quicker on a turf eal than they can use it in the winter cheerleading practice on it a lot of these terms are funded afterwards on night games by some adult soccer leagues that they'll actually pay what we did early on into that we were on to the football the soccer crossfield everyone loved the idea but the question is where does it go so we looked at all different sites in the top four different areas around the high school his all grass and soccer fields now over there is on the side where the youth play on soccer so basically if you look at the heard if you put it there it takes up one of the fields if you put it there it takes up all of the fields and it takes up all the fields there we looked over at pa and there's certain places you can put it this is we'll across plays at the old state hospital and since then baseball has put a diamond back there in some areas on the front that you could put a field now if you look at the high school we met with a group of people from the school part michael leary was in it different volunteers that said art would we want to put it and probably the last choice that i had was ended up being the choice that made the most sense so bill if you look at the  next slide this is a composite we looked at this is a high school we are right now so different locations you could put it over with a baseball field is you can kind of kitty corner between the i go on the high school you can put it in the middle w that area with a big pine trees are or you can put it behind and we brought up this location a lot of people behind the school didn't really know how much property the school had used to be the old septic system and if you remember just from the walk through that's the area that michael leary said when they pulled up all the fight to miss for the new parking area rather than pay to bring it off site a given in this plan to show where it could go and not upset a future field and save the money from taking it off site so if you go to the next  slide this is where we're looking so what's below it is the old leaching beds which is all sand and old pipes so we take that all out in this is the plan that we started the fund raising with and everyone looked out for favorably for a couple reasons if you go to the next slide bill the criteria we had is this rated the highest on master planning and when i say master planning there's a benefit to have a field here next to the hersey field in close proximity to parking up at the other fields so for instance on the soccer the tournaments the foxboro cup you know that would be a great swing space to have extra field or maybe the championship high school certainly could use it on the weekends you the youth could use it so location of the high school cation two you've laid it potential if you put lights there and it's not in close proximity to some neighbors which of the other fields are it has a future space for bleachers in track along up in the budget right now it could go there with with with plenty of room it doesn't eliminate a field so by building ness you don't take another field off line construction destruction is a minimum because it's in the back and very easy to get to away from everybody in the cost was comparable to the other fields or last so we put in a grant for a grant and we got a two hundred thousand dollars grant for this and the reason that day one of the reasons they said they gave it to us was it was community based it was not just for one sport it wasn't just for the high school it was for basically the community so we had enough confidence that we could go and do the design so we did a survey and bil colony donated the survey services so the next slide shows what we actually have for land st the high school is up here this is the ring road and this is the person field here so what we did is we slid the field back to the back side of the property we thought wetlands and there's no weapons there which gives a swing space for an extra field here which would be considering grass right now in spaces for one hundred fifty person parking lot in this is the area that is levelled off now we brought up the grades and used all that excess broken up by two minutes to level it off so that if you can picture the high school at the end with the three fields here in a parking lot that's kind of in the back that's what we're ending up with  case for three fields and one hundred fifty foot one hundred fifty space parking so i'm hoping to do is work with the school to see what's important do you do you guys like the idea of the extra soccer field can we go from one fifty down to one ten and move that back up and put a track in do you have a desire for a track you know i don't know the track program if that's something that you guys want to do in the future out of its own you know it's like anything else you have ups and downs but you current school is kind of the open this is behind here so if you say you know i know the track should be part of this i have tells me this needs to be quicker but i don't know if i want people out of here tonight but themselves whatever people get kind and i'm not making any money off this some people who thought that there was a benefit that i wouldn't do the destruction we don't do any of the construction so the paperwork and all the permitting signs were going to we're in the middle of donating the two hundred fifty round numbers is what we have raised to date and when we started this project because it's a community project a lot of people said well why don't you go to some of the big donors or the experience i have is when something is for free and it's just dropped on there's no longevity people that the vandalism is no pride and it goes you know we've done i do this for schools and if it's just there it doesn't last very long but here we wanted to do it with community kind of sweat and in hard work so we're committed to raising two hundred fifty thousand dollars more the problem that we're having is the million dollars that we need at the end is so seems so unachievable people say i'm not going to get ten thousand if it's just go in the year or so so that hundred closer to fifty closer to fifty you want to get comes up to six hundred going to request requesting the school if you wanted to consider five hundred thousand now grid people came we said well when the time for tough the money stopped coming in you could ask people for a big donations when they're out of work or the working two three jobs you can't ask companies for money when they're laying off and this is somewhat on the luxury side than a necessity for a school so the fundraising dried up for a while now it's not a kick in for a lot more comfortable we can get two hundred fifty if there's a base that's over half of it so with the two fifty in the five seven fifty we can finish off the last two fifty now where is that money coming from i don't want to be presumptuous we just did a nice walk through the school is futile there is a lot of money left over and it's not my intention to say can we have it all  even can we just happen the money was voted to the school on a warm day off from work that we're figuring out because it's a new school i mean i'm sorry new field it would may not qualify under that money to begin with so the slide it over from school in additional to new field might not be possible so to ask you for that money even if you want to say yes i think you're going to handcuffed on that but what we are asking is would you consider a war and article for the top for the fall time meeting for five hundred thousand that it goes to the town borders now it doesn't put you on the spot by shifting money over because we could there is a way around this if we put the field over  existing field is that's a renovation and then i think you would have the authority to transfer that extra money from the school project over and you may do it with a clean conscience but it may people are going to say well that's not what it was meant for so kind of a quandary i don't want to and that is another somewhat trivial point i think and i think the other thing we probably should look into jim and i have gone back and forth in the fields and he knows where i stand as far as what i'm to see this whole high school and i  think even if you look at probably the ask when it comes back in they're going to advocate that this should be a solid hit in health facilities which would include some sort of a feel the other thing is we have to realistically look back and think about liability and problems with transporting students continuously from this school to another school getting back here safely and how much is it really cost and how much has a cost us that since we've built this high school and were transported beings and  wired article so that you know we're open and honest with the people we've done the things that we should have done we've done the things that need to be done to this high school we have brought it back to incredible state that will ferris well for excellent years but  i think because of the way the market has voted in all fairness to the town and because i know that being this incredible outcry from a few people because i took slack when i said i wanted to i want to see his walk through this building and s now i think we have to make sure that we have our figures and i want to know how much more it's going to cost for the track to be included because if we got a million and a half and if this town w needs to do this because if there's a million or five and if this town is willing to support making this high school fall that's the route i think we should go out leading up to the people the best decisions have been made and tell me and i always tell know what the schools can get anything they want they just get the parents a combo so if this is what you want for your children and this is your are interested and you have more invested in this than i do at this point granted manship grandchildren walk but you know what get out there and make your voice heard so if this is what we want i really want to see it come back with the top dollar what it's going to cost to make it completely done one time because you know what you start moving heavy equipment in and out here all the time know this area here was not so we can put a price for all that in the well just to go back a lot of you know i do civil engineering for a profession and for twenty years been doing municipal schools and buildings foxborough has been mind boggling that they're not that new but they have been kept up so over the years because foxboro put some money into the schools you didn't qualify for the knock down all of the schools that were working on it school and outside it school  of outside were just in one field or the school to turf fields outside so the people i'm talking to say why wasn't this done in the first place when they did the renovation of the school because it was you know renovation idea so that's how we fell into this category but you're right you know because we maintain a building that's we should be punished we should be held up in high school we should be role models for young people so you know they do listen i think they get it eventually but you know it  raised sixty thousand dollars and when i noticed on the slide was it said school slash tap five hundred thousand dollars on here and and you're coming to us asking us for the five hundred thousand  the economic times given companies struggling to keep a struggling i guess i'm i'm afraid to think about i mean i know you've been working on this for a while and yes a phrase sixty thousand now you're talking about a number  because you know most people on the committee has either lost their job or the work you know just kind of got kind of burnt out last month or so i reached out to many members of the community that you know over the last couple months people said communities important and they kind of said you know it's time to put up so i've got a lot of people that want to help and that kind of help them back a little bit because i don't want to do what we did before and get it when excited and go out recently thousand dollars and get a burnt out you know because if there's a lot of work it sometimes it's discouraging so the first step was to get this chunk and then not to say the least everybody but there's a lot of energy to go out to businesses i've had businesses that want to help they want to know if they can put their name up someplace is there an entrance that they could do you know for a memory of somebody and we have a bunch of a lot of five ten fifteen thousand dollars efforts that are just kind of sitting there so we want to start getting excited about that  asked people bring gifts that he'd like to raise money for charity but he didn't know which one so he asked his mom first if that was an ok thing to do and she said sure what charity so he thought and thought about it and he remembered seeing the feel good question so anyways he just came back to me says you know i think i would raise the money for tour suck so she went out because terse up has been kind of gone you know dormant for awhile she reached out on facebook to find stuff was still viable and sure enough somebody says yeah you know you're trying to get it going again they just got their grant renewed and so she says ok let's do it so we put out the invitation and and then his mother suggested only you know sometimes when people raise money they go to a corporate sponsor they'll often match so he went to his dad called the stat work and he said would you match without write me you know bring in my birthday kits and he said sure so schoolboy griese three hundred dollars in gifts and then his father matched it for three hundred and the father has also said to us that he would like to promote more of this sort of charitable giving with very young people and he we're putting out an application on our website for other children because it's not just going to be one they're going to approve it and we're starting a little effort we're getting kids in town to also contribute and so he will contribute up to ten thousand dollars match up to ten thousand dollars for any youth that will raise funds so we do have this whole new resurgence and i have to tell you though that some of the people that were interested in early on that kind of leave because of the with the economy have said to us well you know what you're doing is great and which by the way we just backtrack one of the main reasons why we got back and felt grant was because of the grassroots marketing and fundraising that we did that's it's particularly why we were chosen because so much of the community was involved in just you know like we said three thousand dollar fundraisers fifty dollars contribution or here we managed to get sixty thousand dollars i think it's pretty impressive for small community like ours so people have said they don't have the confidence of us you know ever moving the needle with them or tight fundraising like that so where will show us that you can get some big money and you were in  they said you know the things that we said we would do we did during the loan conduct we did all the design we did the survey so we kind of went back as we did all the backend stuff first while the economy kind of came back up so they wiped out and actually at the end of the meeting when we were leaving she liked it so much she said it is fifty thousand dollars more for lights that we didn't tap into in the first place the two hundred was for the field so if we came back to them they'd consider another fifty for the lights that was part of the design but not part of the grant so we want to wish when we say community and people get energized and that's you know so and i dissent question i sat down with this group a month ago there's al as much information as we can before we make it into those are also those are all they were talking i was making a lot of you know so what happened to them sort of field is over time it's going to you know you have to do maintenance and maintenance for a year is anywhere from three to five thousand dollars and per year and that's that's an average what we have here and it could be added to a grass field which is between thirty five and forty for the fertilizer and water and manpower so the last thing we want to do is kind of drop a white elephant on the town and turn key and then walk away and the town can't afford it what a lot of towns do is they have that money in escrow on what we're planning to do in perpetuity league money when we when we leave the turnkey field there's going to be a committee that set up that a lot of towns do that schedule so everyone's not fighting over it so there's a there's someone from the wrexham from the high school some from the football sit around and maintain it and work it so the money that is going to go into that is from i be expecting adult leagues one city use it that hey have a league men's soccer night whatever women's soccer has to go into this in this field so after ten years you roll up the turf and you're all another one down the at the end if if if it's a easy feeling just roll it up and there's no damage below it when you roll it back not less than that have you you know i don't know about all the different h craig and one of his party e mails had all that stuff on and i can certainly forward it to you and we have we are well below a lot of the times i think for instance if you look at the sun chronicle the last week out of work is doing a new track a new field on their on i mean i guess the other obvious thing is is you know we've been talking about this money and i know that you know i mean i suppose just in talking about their needs and now we're talking about using some of that money so i  town use for teachers this is bad enough this is badly i don't think there's any question i love the plant life more of the track i want to see the parking lot because i think concern about the parking i think that needs to be there i don't know about the second soccer field but that's my own personal need to know what the bottom line is so that we need to know what we need to put on that wattle to make this happen to go to the town and say i want five hundred thousand dollars and then find out i'm a two hundred thousand dollars shop we have a million and a half that we could reallocate if the town voted it for that you know it's not that you've got to raise anybody's taxes any more than what they are because i'm i was already bought and put out there so money is there it's just a matter of getting the town to reallocate it you know i would get in looking at this realistically i would say i know you've got the two hundred fifty thousand dollars to date and i know that mr kraft was a key component in getting us this and essentially i don't think people realize it but it's  money that came from television whatever that was put into this fund and he really went to bat for this town made this happen because this money usually went to places that were didn't have as much on their plate and needed it more than we did but he felt very strongly that this town should get this because he put this money in there so he really went to bat made this happen my big concern is what you need to raise whether you can raise it or not to make this happen i don't want to go to town and s the escrow account where it should be so at this point i would rather bottom line what's going to cost come back to us to meet with the town try to figure out how to you know you know educate everybody like we did with this project well that's what i was and these questions yes i think these kinds of questions people but i would rather see the money that needs to be raised cap disaster to make sure that you know ten years from now you have to redo the field say oh by the way folks now going to come up with this money so i have to mean if you put it you have to get from it you can't just walk away from it at that point so i think maybe a little bit of maybe i'm not looking at the right way but i would  rather i can't believe i'm saying this because it's almost backwards now but before i came to you i did sit with any scholars of finance director and i have a lot of respect for and i sat with him pecos and he said i'm going to be coming to the school committee to talk about this name and s you know the way that most times work if you put the vote out and you got the soccer moms in the you know all that stuff go to the vers who wants a new town hall for those people it's going to go to this way in the best sometimes not the right thing either so i get we school is useful much more by the community that it is here for us the community uses the pottery and that's pretty much it but typically the high school is a part of the community where people do use the outdoor space you don't see that here and we don't have it you know now we have because there's no other use and so i think even can't really underestimate the fact that the high school would have more of a role in bringing you know give and having people look at it as a recreation area as well and i also think you can't underestimate what you said that we expect to see in the house report which is the entire comprehensive life of students in a high school community typically doesn't fall off students being able to go outside after school and watch their friends for just things for it without having to wait for a trend that you're right not be able to go right or the teams waiting for a bus to walk or if it really is a very fractured track for the old happiness and so that's part of community use it's like a student use and you see anything like that here so if you don't have an official event after school you go home so having experienced something different where community members when from town students or going out afterwards use the field use the track around it and have it be part of essential life you really can't underestimate that because we don't have that we may not appreciate the extent to which that  than two hundred fifty thousand tons through grace is still want to hold it especially in these tough times that's why i don't want to i would love to see the money come in but i don't want to cut it and i don't want to lose this project because the expectation that it's probably going to going to ask and i think realistically what we're looking at on our side is probably seven hundred fifty thousand because the money needs to be there in order to do the project we can always give money back but we can't go out for more de educator license think about all that we've accomplished all you accomplish and we get to oversee is just terrific and really it was very near us and it's been the busiest summer i ever remember going to say that with the  wonderful things and i'm glad you mentioned the text three piece because if people do come into our central office you will notice that there is a new property and we have three different carpets there that are old older in decrepit but the carpeting  heights the company over a space at some point so they quickly cut the counter put two different levels in one counter hate one a little bit higher using all file cabinets we had sitting around somewhere they all still look different i must say silk secondary checkerboard but their plan just spray paint them black so we won't buy any new file cabinets so we have spiffed up with no cost and we we do we're thrilled about that because we want a professional look to the supply of burgers and the place to spend our taxpayer the facilities manager position was ninety two we were around about one hundred when we did food service when we did the principal search we had a fairly good size number there so we're benefiting because people want to be here and when we had the new teachers the other day at a luncheon come when they were getting a lot of descriptions of what's going down stop and i sat with three young guys that basically come to the district to come from other schools and he wants his first job  also basically the same thing that this was something they were striving to get to and that's nice to hear people want to be with where we are so i think that's why we're getting the kind of selection we're getting all the digits on the it's hard because you have to go through all these people to get so we really seen this you know the development of leadership take off a little bit and so i want to mention one more thing about the furniture thing cuz of art of furniture in the central office there are some couple people that are very happy in place it's the only time to make the move to the fourth because you're not going to do it again you're not going to disassemble the entire office like we did over a three week period time we have to shift people within our rooms and remove computers and some of someplace else temporarily so in opportunities for enrichment and challenge i i you know i like i would like us to be more proactive i would like us to say bring forward or propose new or you know what we and we had the cause there you know starting some things in the fall that we want to update you on so that will be something that i mean sometimes we do a lot and then we let you know about which we want to so we want to say monitor progress and continue to present that at our mystery retreat and every school group because it was had to be department heads coordinators so each school group laid out ideas for how they're going to support each of those three strategies and how they're going to carry those out in their school the new way is that they have so everybody is on board and actually all the teachers tomorrow morning are going to get copies of that one page summary of strategy so that everybody knows what it is we're focusing on and it's we believe that we can pursue ou as everything is budgeted but in any given year you have the opportunity for some savings or some additional funding in this particular case we spent five hundred twenty five thousand less in our salary budget line now that's not true we spent one hundred twenty five thousand less we actually spent forty three thousand of it but it was coming from a different source than the town put it so there was more from a grant side it wasn't originally budgeted for which was nice to actually get we have a few less retire extended during the year and obviously when someone goes retire we have all of their compensation and it's part of all the expenses what we say time that they get paid back for things like that so if we don't if they don't retire as many as we expect to we have some savings that  good salary year for us not something we normally would expect and that generated hundred twenty five utilities as is weak talks of all year long were so mild weather wise that savings one hundred four thousand and utilities that's not fifty four thousand and i know that sounds like a lot that's one kid not going to a program they were transporting all year long and that's basically what happened was one fewer kids in our transportation thing there but that can go just as easily as a month later we're s said to me a sinner furniture actually should arrive any day now and that is to basically replace some of the old purchaser but also to give more furniture general for the kids to be able to work in here classrooms we have the wellness the new wellness center actually needs some new will need some furniture for itself plus we have you know some local replacements throughout the building that brought in the new friends a program that you adopted for the last year basically one of the things again a teaching and learning experience we also were able one of the things that came out of our tech planning group was that while we at one point had a number of computers in each room and then we had a few labs they felt that the learning experience was much better in the lab that and we also as you requested we are in the process of the a must be a statement of interest i've seen the first draft already from the architects i need to go through that now obviously kick back on some of the information and get some more work done there but will could as well because i believe the next round with him as he is going to be in january so be really nice to have all our ducks in a row when that opens up and be prepared for the school three three classrooms again one of our goals was to make sure that every first through fourth grade classroom actually had the same level of technology so that nobody was you know have not have situation soak through the tailor and the i go and  they're all they all now have the same every classroom has it and we've been able to track what works with the money we had we had a couple large district items one that you supported in the spring but put it on the list here because it was a fairly good sized ticket that was big platforms this year for really helping to advance our whole cafeteria and food service programs and again that's all been purchased and looking to go online the second week of school  even after that we were able to return to the town's general fund about one hundred nine thousand dollars so i think the school should be very proud of what we were able to accomplish but also the fact that we're still you know that can play with more fruit vegetables and whole grains and less trans fat and sodium and that goes on to do to explain how the u s from tobacco culture has issued its first major rewriting of nutritional guidelines for government subsidized lunches and breakfast in more than fifteen years clearly that's what we've been talking about the wall of the wellness updates we've had of whether you would service director that it's everything is coming together but we do have new guidelines so it's not just fox we're trying to get healthier it's it's everyone that begun using it yourself and this article explained that all but a few massachusetts just search will probably miss a quickly approaching state deadline to implement a new teacher evaluation system that would put significant emphasis on student achievement most districts are making progress in the talks but will probably miss the deadline will only a small percentage have finalist a plan so we're just very happy to have your support and the support of our teachers and the education association because we are one of the few that are not missing the deadline and we do it finalized plans so i really appreciate where i am in the relationships we have and so we are off the radar screen because we have a plan in place and i'm moving forward with training starting this but i have to give all the credit to the school committee who is willing to learn new things and boldly go and have put that it's an but really mostly to our educators who because they are people who while there is some trepidation in changing to any evaluation system that's new they are willing twenty team the notion of change and i think they we have the confidence that whatever bumps we may hit this first year will be a learning experience for all of us and we're going to do it together and we don't expect to be for fic but we do expect to learn a lot about how to do it going in the future so we're eager to start i think it'll take a lot off people once they have the training this week that they can at least understand a little bit better but i have to give them a lot of credit because those trusting relationships don't occur and don't are not in place in most places and we're very lucky to have such professional educators here to work with so i can't say enough about th they get up on the top and it's good to have the community policing ok we are now going to go into executive session for the purpose of