r we're the teachers the largest composition of your staff actually is going to rise most of the salary increase and salaries are going up about one point six million dollars with our benefits ok partly because on the first page under here where is it linear algebra curriculum writing and materials and the same for financial literacy when you say technical services shows an increase of fifty two thousand one hundred twenty this is primarily in addition an additional contracting technician for having a really hard time with one technician covering their needs purchase software under a perpetual license where we pay for a one time and it's paid for until we don't use it anymore and we've also been trying to take advantage of the discounts by purchasing a three year subscription new equipment i really tried to trim this down as much as possible because of at the urging of the building principals and some other ministers we developed a four year hardware replacement plan b two thousand and nine ten and when we were forced to reduce our budgets we abandon the hardware replacement plan in year three so that means that the bulk of our computers right now i should five years old between five and seven years old so you see the huge increase in replacement equipment that represents a replacement that aging doesn't it doesn't give us anything in addition to what we're delivering curriculum with now this is only to replace computers  laptops projectors that teachers are currently using in their classroom and we want to place those aging things because we're spending more and more money to fix broken owns we're losing more technician time and troubleshooting things that are five years old counterproductive chase or tell with in any other environment you were at home you would throw the stuff away you wouldn't try to fix it so that's why in the replacement plan for the replacement equipment section you're seeing an increase of over three hundred thousand dollars that represents over sixteen hundred devices being replaced in a four year lease so we would get this would be approved we would receive fifteen hundred computers and three hundred projectors this summer to be deployed for next week so what tell me  years four years and so there's a little over one point two million over a four year terms we are where the aging of but move is we're not there yet but uniformity so for example in a computer lab a teacher can dictate a lesson from flowing into the computer to the time you know click on the next go to pages e and so on whenever the students general questions and trying to reduce their the like the per unit cost of computers i have asked the question could we instead of buying a hundred dollar windows based us top could we buy a three hundred dollar tower device have to in order to move away from the windows based desktop computers the group you want to support in the curriculum we have to say you use a web based device that doesn't need windows that's a big when you're talking about a computer per device cost windows is the most expensive part i'm not a very technologically advanced person but that seems like the tail wagging the dog to me it seems that you know i was going to ask yeah i think that so are you working toward a more high school that has programs that can work that aren't locked into just apple or just microsoft or newer device wouldn't that argue against spending any money on buying any desktop woman still was and we all know that's why i'm not making any up statement here there is only now that's going to be earth shattering as to how to how to invest our money in the wisest way to get that longevity the speed of the computer resources available to the computer or dictated by a server somewhere else so very slow seven year old computer could perform as a two year old  cause i don't see any immediate savings in any technology ever but a wise investment could be the best thing we could we could do right now i just don't i just don't know about  back to what you said about the virtual desktop if i could correctly a seven year old computer might be able to operate at the speed and efficiency of a two year old so if we're spending three hundred thousand dollars a year per year for the next four years how is if it does i mean if you can crossover and then do both environments then maybe the b y o d starts to become valuable heart actually everything should be taking care of those who get the file yet in respect to the winds that reach our buildings that will be covered with the finest conversion but thank you very much me i ask you how about how many students are you talking about the life skills this is killing the number at the top here increase in special it is four hundred twenty six thousand change and then down at the bottom you talking about the eye you cost is that an additional four hundred thousand ok over the state liquor stores are fine some of this money back into the web but just like the grant that i spoke to you about that's not passed yet so we don't really know what's going to happen but has been approved that's because we have to do things for a certain time you know maybe the state isn't going to so that everybody understands it's still working and waiting and trying to find out what getting th some green for teachers which is going to require opening up contracts right and i just i can't see how we can do this without them and i am not saying that that's what we need to do in this sure is hard to even talk about need right now but i don't know how we can do without that i just i just don't know and i know that can bring in open up a lot other doors and maybe the board doesn't want to go in that direction and maybe great idea i don't think we've ever reached out to community and said this is our intention you know we build a backbone through building with the hopes that it will just save us money i think we took the right steps to keep making another step forward and try to get  high join bates mc mary i have a question and forgive me if i should know the answer to this if it was discussed at a previous meeting but i'm trying to follow along i find the budget process to be the most important process that that you guys go through so i'm trying to follow along and i don't have any of the information that you're looking at so my first question is where can i see what you guys are presented with the may meeting the made for finance meeting will be so heavy you guys had in depth conversations that i might have i might have missed in terms of what you were thinking in terms of taxing to the index that has been set at one point seven so your conversations that you're having today are you trying to for make up shortfalls or make the cuts that are necessary in order to tax to the one point seven or are you shooting for another target we're i will say that we are very interested in we as parents in the community in the p t a to have a better understanding when you get to that conversation point when you charge the administration let's say to show me what we will look like if we go to a zero percent increase and then if we go to one percent and if we go to the to the cap at one point seven what are the cuts that would be necessary to reach each one of those benchmarks like a tier one tier two tier three type of scenario we would love to see that outline to be part of the conversation to perhaps you know give our input and direct where we think some of these savings could could be found ok and then my last question is a quick one when you had mentioned earlier i think dr limburger that there was a data warehousing tool that you're looking at and is that you is that will that be compatible  ok and then as we bring up now and this was something there was a lot of conversation about this at the high school and i just want to make sure before decisions are made yes or no to that will really know that there be a full understanding that program it's an invaluable tool that's used extensively in many school districts across this state and in new york it's maybe more heavily used to out east than it is here but it's something that i'm very familiar with it's an incredible tool both for the parents and as a user of it i could say i don't know how i could have navigated the college process with my older child without that tool but i know from a guidance department side as well it's an invaluable tool that once they were up to speed and learning how to use it it ultimately should reduce paperwork and time spent on some of these some of these tasks so if anybody does want more interest if you need more information before you make your decision about now advance i just ask that good evening my name is dave looney i'm from peters i just had a couple questions and i just as you're going to consider something called not beyond and most parents don't know what that is and we've we've negotiated college quite well so before we start spending a lot of money on on pet projects let's let's rethink that very clearly so i appreciate the idea that we want to look at something like that but let's examine it very closely carefully just a couple of things if we're looking at placing the bulk of our computers because we're losing technician time was the reason given one of the reasons why are we adding technicians it seems like you're going to add tech then you don't need to replace if you're going to replace you don't need to add a tech that's just something to consider and just just turn these on not for answers now just to consider but this study island what are the statistics on that we're using it in our school district now and what what are the actual advantages of it not what are the perceived advantages but does it really have an real effect they can even look at daily scopes so they can provide immediate action it sounds like micromanaging of the teaching process and i think our teachers are paid quite well to teach and to handle the teaching process so those are all things to consider thank you very much ok and you said salaries and benefits are up three point four million or twenty thirteen twenty fourteen and you said one point eight million is of that is in benefits