englanders the new englanders in all seriousness we're going to move as expeditiously but i think you know we should be thorough as we can tonight to get through some topics that needed to be discussed and decided this month so that's why case anyone's wondering why we're out in the storm that's why we thought it spirit i think i can hear her voting from the distance very glad that you're back and well but tonight's agenda we're going to amend it i'll read what was publicly posted but i agreed to amend it for sake of time i don't think we have visitors we will approve minutes we're going to skip teaching and learning highlights tonight are we going to do or a mass preparatory program for international students were then going to quickly look at the proposed twenty fifteen twenty sixteen bucks for a high school program of studies which i know only has a couple changes i know important to the public in to us is then the approval of the twenty fifteen twenty sixteen school calendar which is one of the items we felt important to still come in tonight to discuss we will vote our recommendation on the full year sixteen budget public hearing and voted recommendation not expecting too many members of the public here tonight for that but will vote are not a recommendation as we will with the capital improvement plan to get a quick if wife dene budget program for international students yet and so you will see that you have at your table tonight's power point presentation which the public will be able to see at home as well and in your package there was some information  into marketing materials for the program that i thought might be of interest as well so where for us we're calling this our international student program and that means that it's the beginning of what we're going to do with global education it's certainly a big which was voted by this committee last spring really included a new emphasis that the data and the people in the street planning committee felt very strongly about which was to expand our opportunities for global connectivity of various critical thinking creativity communication and collaboration and foster high levels of achievement for all students by preparing them to be responsible global citizens so that idea of how do we help prepare our students to be global citizens really begins with how much exposure do we give them to global experiences global education students from other countries so one specific strategy identified under that objective specifically states increase opportunities at all levels for students and faculty to participate in global learning experiences so this is definitely a worthy challenge but as the committee can probably appreciate it's it's not simple so we started after the plan was approved we started last summer talking especially at the high school level with our older students what does that mean global global connections global learning experiences so one of the things we have been interested in and have since pursued go to the next slide is our participation in a global education program that brings international students here so there are a couple that do this and we have investigated a few of them starting a few years ago actually and the one that really interests us the most that we have had several meetings with is the massachusetts preparatory program and that is through cambridge education i know that when we had the emea see the school committee conference back in the fall i know that tina and betty and we had a chance to talk about a little but you actually visited the education this outfit to talk to learn more specifically about it so the message preparatory program is run by the cambridge institute and the goal of this program was to increase the participation of international students in american public and private high schools and also to enhance the profile of american education you know across the world and their motto is expanding human perspective and world harmony through education and that motto i think one thing that really spoke to us so that was definitely a compelling reason for us to participate in this particular program is that's what we want for our students to expand their perspective and to and with the goal that the more and are standing there is across the world and they appreciate that they'll be more prepared for what's ahead of them college career in the workplace they might do something that's more international in nature almost every company nowadays has or i will say vast majority have some type of global connection either through manufacturing or something so to the next slide why is this a good opportunity for us so i put together three different ways that this is a good opportunity for foxborough please stop me when you have questions i know what i know in the interest of time i don't want to be rushing so what does it do for us students definitely builds cultural understanding so think about bringing international students here and the students associated with this program a pretty much from china they could be from south america however and occasionally you may get one from another asian country other than china but the vast majority right now are coming from china into the public schools in massachusetts so little build their cultural understanding expand global perspective and their understanding of world issues promote greater interest in world languages foster personal connections with international students it will increase diversity and prepare students for college and career i think i've already mentioned them how does it benefit our families and you might be surprised to see this on the slide but there are families who are interested in helping their children get a more global experience to prepare them for the world ahead of them beyond you know the our little town of foxborough this program does involve host families so the company will be working with foxboro establish host families they call it the home state program they do have a branch of their company so cambridge institute is the umbrella company cambridge institute for international education they work with it's called  homestay g p sorry g p homestay which is the side which is a partner company and they work to select interview and screen host families so it's not i don't want people to worry that it's just a local decision that we make they definitely screen the indigo federal screening so this is a pretty serious process but that is all coordinated by the g p homestay sister company to cambridge education the host families would provide a bedroom two meals a day that would be breakfast and dinner transportation and a nurturing home environment for the international student the host families are paid to provide this nurturing and nurturing environment so the current rate cambridge education in the mas pretoria program pays is a monthly stipend of a thousand dollars the total of ten thousand dollars for a ten month united states educational experience and the host oh i already said that they're screened so we're only looking to bring a small number of students here in the first year and we really have to get going now because a lot of work that has to be done to become a district that is eligible for accepting international students and to work with them you can imagine the logistics the involved so that's one of the reasons i didn't want to put this off to another school committee member so that we could get going we're looking to only bring up to five students in the first years of we're going to start really really small and sort of see how this works for us how does it benefit our district the local school district and in addition to it's helping us meet our our goal through the street through the strategic plan and through the high school principals own high school goals which is global education one of which is global education it's helping us achieve that but in beyond that that is the main benefit beyond that our local school district working with cambridge institute sets its own tuitions for international students so i don't know what that tuition rate will be because it depends on our marketing materials and what they think would be the draw so i'm not even going to give a range but it's in the range of our per pupil expenditure but not exactly but it's in that range so we s that we agree upon and the families of the international students pay the tuition directly to the school district all right so this is just a little bit of background on the cambridge institute it was founded in two thousand and nine it's corporate headquarters on wall fam we also like that they were a local company out of massachusetts they have ten locations in four countries they are one of the fastest growing companies in the united states those are the two sister companies explained homestay knowledge link actually once we get involved with this program through the homestay program knowledge link actually provides short term cultural exchanges and experiences that you know could be there at our choice so other other types of global experiences that it could be other students coming from other companies for only a week to experience a little glimpse of education and that's what that  sister company does they currently have over two hundred fifty public and private partner schools and thirty nine states massachusetts only has roughly twenty twenty one partner school districts now and they really only want twenty two so we actually will be the  last public school district public or private school high school that they are partnering with because the capacity in the marketing and all of that that's pretty much where they want to cap so i just spoke to them today we're actually the last district they're looking to partner with which is great they place more than two thousand international students annually and if you go to the next slide another reason that we preferred this company is that there were two retired superintendents of local districts so dr jack failon who is actually in the picture is the former superintendent schools long serving in hopkinton massachusetts he's the arming contact person i know jack very well and mcguire who is the retired superintendent long serving from medfield massachusetts so these two retired superintendents are the leadership team at cambridge institute for international education and they both as superintendents many years ago brought this program to their high schools so they have personal experience with receiving international students through cambridge institute and they were one of they were two of the first public school superintendents in massachusetts to bring them here and the students who come on f one visas which limits them to one year of an american education so it's not a four year commitment by host families  one year commitment so that also gave us confidence in this program over some others where the where we don't have known people with a track record working with this company so what would cambridge institute do for our school district they would help us achieve a certification which is you have to be certified to receive international students on f one visas they would help match local families with students provide ongoing program and host family support this is was also important to us so i list this as the third most important reason so they have a key person from their company that will that is the main touch point for the academic progress of those students th company came the mass preparatory program provides economic tutoring for those students we don't so they provide all of the supports that will be needed the g p home stay aspect is a key point person for foxborough that will have continued ongoing communication with the host families so they actually do all of the supports around the families we just are responsible for their education when they come to school they will help us create additional pathways for global school partnerships which includes possible short term exchanges and student educational travel and obviously it generates revenue for us our next steps are to sign a contract with them apply for the c of a certification and they will send somebody out to help us get going all the demise is familiar with that from her former employment until she's actually already gotten started with that they will work with us on marketing materials begin the recruitment when we are ready and that is only after the marketing materials and all the other logistics are set up and then our personal goal is to involve in roll up to five maybe fewer than five but it would be more that so that is the road we have been down in the last several months to help meet our goals without a g s on the speech plan we don't want to treat that lightly but it does take some serious work to do it so questions i think it's an exciting opportunity i did think so back in november when we met dr failing at the mass conference and i mean i think it's great i mean i'm understanding that this isn't going to cost boxborough public schools any money it's an opportunity for us yes but it will cost in the in the next six months it will cost because you have to apply for a c v certification which includes federal background checking so there is that one time cost to come see this certified which most school districts now are because they have some some component of international education going in the they would need to be so again we're not in the forefront most high schools in the so sure have international students or do something with on that on that nature so yes there is a an initial cost to become serious certified and bill and i have talked about that that we how we would go about paying for that in the in this first year how much is there we know it's it's a little over twenty thousand dollars so we have it i'm going to use the word cobble together so it's probably what it will end up being here in there in but this is to put us in good stead so if you think forward it would it would cover the if we get to students we would recruit that cost because if we had two students in the first year would we who immediately sat like a one time cost yes so that would be any additional no well i'm going to say not that i know of now i'm not sure if th ongoing you know a lot of these sort of relation things might have an ongoing membership i'm really i'm not it's a very complex process they were actually supposed to come tomorrow to explain a little bit more detail but now with the storm we won't be seeing them until monday or possibly tuesday but we're trying to work on a time for monday so i would have known that if today have been a storm day because that was my questions but i never got to connect with those people so you're not looking for a vote and i think i think to respect them i think whether you call i think a vote is nice important it's big we've never had international students here so i think this is something as i said to to tina and to be at the conference i think this is something that we can do together so i like this idea because it's something we're going to work and provide and we're not just saying to the high school you know hurry up and get your global education and your global connectivity going because that's that's not what we were about and that's not how we operate so i think this is something that between administration the committee this is something we can do together so i would certainly appreciate the vote of support because they do think this is a collective effort if anything ever does you know i also think working worth pointing out in the marketing materials is why messages at school other students and families in the other countries and you can see that what they're touting really is that massachusetts has one of the most robust public education systems including higher education in the country so they view massachusetts as a destination that foreign students should want to come here american education has its beginnings in massachusetts we have the oldest existing school the united states and the oldest institution of higher learning in the u s which is harvard so they also talk about science and engineering readiness index which is massachusetts is at the top of the states and they give an example of the top five and we misuse it stands and the fact that greater boston is home to over one hundred colleges and universities is definitely a selling point because some of the students want to come for just a year of an american experience and to become familiar with the culture and all of that but many of them are coming with the hopes of getting into an american college or university so the fact that they will go to massachusetts is a big drawing point because we're the the hub of higher education if you will and it lists many of the national universities that are in the top fifty massachusetts has seven of them in three in the top ten of liberal arts colleges so this is of great interest to students particularly in the asian market because they want to get into those colleges and universities and then they have an example of the schedule because they don't they're not that familiar with the american education system and they do have three options for students who could be the college preparatory track could be the english language preparatory track with their goal is to become more fluent and then this diploma preparatory program so we actually have a lot of leeway in terms of which students we would like to mark a point on marketing to and we probably wouldn't mind it towards the students who want to improve their english because we don't have a huge english language learner program here so we actually don't have the courses for them to come in roland but we would certainly be interested in taking students who are on the college preparatory track and those who want a diploma so they would come for their senior year the majority to come for their senior year and get a diploma think other things comments or questions  was one of my questions also discipline issues health checks and how much of our faculties time if any will be taken leveraging with the tutors ok can you give those to me one of the time sure is there any liability that we have to cover for the school next week and look at how the contract is i'm sure there is more beyond that and so i would say they're probably double covered but that's my guess but i will know more when i see them break and then i asked about what if there's discipline issues my wife did this my wife worked with world teach through a college and she was in thailand for a couple years and went through an extensive health check yes i imagine that will be covered by you know cambridge or  my cambridge they actually we vet all the students and we have an opportunity though to interview the students get all the materials oh really yes ok so that is all controlled but so the students we are marketing our educational experience then and then the company turns around a market to the families the international families and then they apply and we have a right to look at their their profile and decide ok so they are interviewed thank you and my last one was will any of our faculty be required or if there was we monitor how much collaboration they do with the tutors under the cambridge umbrella for a student question these students will enroll in our classes like any student  what the academic tutoring is strictly the purview of the cambridge education now that being said archer is a good at communicating with anybody this private tutors that exist with foxboro families and they communicate with them so that it's really no different superintendents have we talked to other districts with their experience has been has there been any you know their experience has been extremely positive and i think because of the confidence we have in the cambridge institute vetting everyone involved in how much support they bring to it so if you if you think about it if you can imagine how this actually happens so that the host the family of origin is not only paying the tuition here they're also paying that company for all the support that's provided so our tuition here is not the only fee that they pay so there's a lot of oversight everyone has had great experience with the oversight of the program was at least ten years in these districts with the superintendent so it wasn't just a one time thing for the rich it's a longstanding program that i have always been interested in and i have a lot of confidence in this company in fact dr failon said he's traveling this week but he said he'd be very willing to come back in another meeting once we get started to answer any questions you have about his experience he just couldn't be it tonight but he would be more than happy to once we get rolling or even a month from now to come back at the leaf february meeting in disk and talk a little bit more about the program of the committee would like not really sure we already talked a little bit about marketing but i would say some of the unique things that we have that our strengths like there are arts programs would be of great interest because some of that is actually what a lot of the international students are looking for because in their country there may not be an emphasis on the arts and they really want that experience so i really think that we have will have some strong marketing materials i really do i agree with you especially having read the district report card that was in  as well i think so i just was curious about the length of the contract or that's a really that's a really good question i don't know why would i would think it would be on an annual basis like bruce said so that you could evaluate how the experience legally binding are we going to have our attorney review it is ok i mean we we do so contracts off the time so we're pretty used to reading them i just didn't ask for one ahead of time because i want the consensus support in the bonus school committee and then didn't want to go too far ahead with without that i mean i think it sounds like a great idea again just want to make sure legally we're protected yes no i agree or lack of a better word and i appreciate the superintendent's commitment to try to make unity exposed to as culturally diverse environment because zero thank you so much i can't wait to get started i suspect this is one mrs laura has probably five zero zero i'm sure she's got two hands up right now if she's watching at home moving right along the proposed his school program of studies yes so i'm going to boil this down to the memo that you have that says as opposed as compared to last year's program of studies do we have you will see four new courses added for two thousand and fifteen sixteen and none of them are really only one will be probably a surprise so a p studio art drawing a piece studio in three d design so if you remember you approved a new a p course in studio art and we've got so many students now in the in the visual arts that are ready for a p courses that they're going to be two different one stories in three d design which is tremen so i have some photos of types of artwork but i didn't think he would need if that's something we've been talking about but i do have a tell your question the department had sent over some things that we've seen as to construe but i don't think that  self the third is elective physical education if you remember the junior and senior classes take aleck different programs to sue wherever they are developmentally in their wellness and there is a new elective physical education course in yoga so that is great for students who want the individual fitness and to achieve lifelong fitness something will be of interest the yoga class was designed after students provided feedback and input to the wellness teachers as to what they were most interested in adding to their choices so good for our students the last is an elective physical education program a course called warrior teammate worry a teammate is  collaboration between regular and special education staff which creates a special learning opportunity for both regular and special education students students with disabilities and their teammates will work together on their physical education as well as vocational academic and social skills i think this is a terrific proposal from the high school you know we have so many students who are interested either in education or in supporting their peers in the high school and they do so many different ways already and this is just one more way that they can partner with those students for the own wellness credit and also as role models and mentors to have the students in partnership changes to the program studies with the exception of these four edition that is correct if you do recall we were talking about hoping to add a computer science this course of study we have spent a lot of time this fall trying to find an actual curriculum that changes  is it's really challenging so there's something coming out shortly from the university that we partnered for the engineering and we're hoping that will meet the need but it's not out yet for a review so that seems to be like possibly a good option for us but we're not sure because they don't have the units yet if not that that is going to be something else that is not yet on the horizon so we're working on that and unfortunately for me since my goal does that for september we would have had to have this course of study now and we don't so that might take us another year before it's implemented so surprising i felt this where you saw this last meeting so surprising to me that there is not good curriculum out there and such a important timely subject i think what it is is just like the engineering which we struggle you know we luckily i found that one but i think those are two content areas that that change in real time and there really has to be a professional organization or professionals that develop a curriculum that is live that can be updated all the time it's not static not that anything else is static but everything else is more static than these two areas so i think that's the challenge is there really isn't somebody there are pieces of it out there there's a there's a really interesting computer programming curriculum that is entirely based on gaming and it actually has deliverable units and lessons but it is only gaming so that is really just a small part and we're worried a little bit we do actually have a few people who want to look at that myself included but we're worried that if we offer that as computer science that it gives the impression that that's all computer science and so we need we're looking for more introduction to computer programming a computer science that in that includes other things in the computer yes motion to approve i will make but you have to you know i will do whatever you like is to cheer would you like to start that well i'll start to put you on the spot i'll start and if you want to add you go ahead that's one so i think i think everyone at the table knows and i think a lot of the public knows now that we've been entertaining three different options for the school calendar based on the lateness of labor day and where that falls and that's you know the september's calendar and i think we've done a thoughtful job in trying to acquire as many opinions and desires on that counter as possible and i this is one of those topics where on the one hand we've said publicly that we're glad this is our biggest issue on the table at the moment because it could be far worse on the other hand we know it's a sensitive want but we are certainly interested as a committee always to do the best toward that that we can just in terms of factory minders i know that the superintendent recommended the early start from an educational perspective the benefit of getting students in and prepping them for the test that go up goes on as well as the rocket emma program and i believe the foster teachers union felt the same they did and we were also worried about avoiding a june twenty ninth and the school year yeah and we should just state that for anyone who's wondering if i can put my hands on but we boil that down to two of the options initially the first one would be a more traditional start of september eighth after labor the possible last school day if there is snow which we can see tonight there's a good chance that in this climate could last possible school they could be as late as the twenty ninth of june so the concern there of course is being into school so late in june the buildings get hot the students get distracted they want to be outside not in school but the advantage of course is we get the traditional start and i know that there have been some families who were caught by surprise by this possibility of us starting before labor which is the second option starting before labor day beginning on the first having three school days and then a long weekend so you can still enjoy your labor day i thought that was a nice design with the final possible last school day being the twenty fourth so we're still wait into the month we're not quite as late but we're still late into the month so that's how i would set the stage just for the vote if you want to add anything to that or even on add anything to that  private notation and the biggest the most outstanding input i got from people that want to have the traditional start which i have to say i agree with there that what they're talking about is that the focus is on the the time with the family as i understand it though our job is to do what's best for the academic in the in the institution so i'm probably going to have some flat tires on my car after tonight but i'm i'm in favor of going before even though it there's many a few people that i've talked to that really don't want it for both personal reasons and also familial reasons but i completely agree with there for melian r two reasons i'm going to to ask that we go for it before an early start date if you want to call it that is that i like that we get back to back to back professional  development and i think the input from the from administrative staff and subject matter experts is that is that a three day professional development schedule is important and good and well received and provides value for the d taxpayer as well as the grip of the subject matter for the professionals taking professional development it does keep us away from a long summer if if we do get  lined up what came into the central office with with what i got as well as the input from the teachers union and the administrative staff numbers that were collected and the scale just goes to an early start for me and i'm comfortable voting with him and every spec the professional opinion of the administrative staff and what we want to do but that's where my spaces rate hike is and my apologies to the world if i've ticked anybody off but there it is maybe one of the comments that that reminds me that we can also make and i know you researched for this topic was the m i a start date you want to comment yes so the m a a sets its start date for you know the double sessions and so that everybody has an equal shot at you did we august twenty seventh regardless of what calendar you set so it's so many days before labor day so they've already put out their policy that governs next year and i think even goes the year after as the earliest debt any school district can start so regardless of when students return to school august twenty seventh is the day does need a by m i a so that does not matter it won't want to factor one way or the other so students returning to school has nothing to do with when those sessions can start it how much before labor day so the early start calendar as we discuss this is curiously almost exactly like what happened this year if you take the idea of labor day out of the equation teachers are coming back with it within one calendar date of when they did this summer in august kids are coming back within one calendar day of when they did this year the only difference is we have to wait a week to get labor day and i think that's what causes i think steve used the word sentiment which i like i think this is definitely a sentence you know i have a sentiment about it and i know that people talked about the time with the family but to me the time of the family is either then or it's at the end of the year so the students are going to be in school one hundred eighty days when i'm adding a week to the school year so it's almost like take your time now or take your time later on that i don't think there's a right way but the calendar itself except for the fact that labor day is late is almost identical to what happened this year with the august returned it for teachers at a september first return date for student is just that labor day ended up quickly so i get how people feel i guess i should i want to apologize to for the dilemma but it's the calendar the sun  forward the decisions they have to make the only way i know to avoid that is for me to not vote the chair doesn't have to vote by robert's rules of order on topics the chair can vote when it helps make a decision but in this case if my my voting could potentially result in a stalemate so i'm going to offer my opinion and then see if we want to offer more opinion i'm happy to entertain more discussion before we get to the motion and then of course by robert's rules we no more discussion after the motion i'm just going to offer my opinion which is that initially i was inclined to support the early days as well support the superintendent school of the union i do think it is our job to do what's right  best for the majority of the students academically but mike mike partic my personal opinion has been swayed by those families who have made plans without knowledge of this first hand and families who might make plans on the back end in june would be less impacted they have more time to react than the families who've made plans at the start of the year so i'm torn too i'm conflicted as well i can see it both ways if i was to you know support those that i've heard the most from i've certainly heard from more who said they'd prefer a later start so for what it's worth that's the input i can put on the table mrs lord did ask me to also provide independence and she can't be here tonight this is not her vote she cannot vote she cannot  by proxy and she cannot vote by remote participation we reviewed that again of mr cutler this morning but she did ask that i express her opinion and as an educator her opinion was go back early because she knows what it's like in late june trying to maintain the students focus so for what it's worth that's more information on the table i'm just trying to put as much thought on the table as we can actually have at it we only heard from about eleven people in central office so i would say about a little more than half felt one way and a little less than half another but roughly half and half and i think the people who i feel one way or the other every passion we have we heard from eleven people so i was a little surprised i expected a resounding stampede of opinion on this issue and i think while i totally knowledge the reasons and the passion for one way or the other and no one's wrong and no one's right we didn't hear from a lot of people so i don't i think there just are a lot of people just waiting to find out when the think my vote will speak for itself i did talk about it the last meeting so i did want to be sensitive to obviously you know this issue because it is you know certainly families have come to discuss it and and way yeah and  you know i'm trying to make my decision based on the educational component for the majority of the students and when i view it that way that it makes it pretty clear for me based on the recommendations from the teachers association from our administrative staff and from the realities of students at the end of the year who are trying to succeed and do well on certain standardized tests and just get as much learning as possible throughout the year aside from the standardized tests that it appears that makes sense to not go late into the year so that being said i can certainly appreciate you know families and twenty sixteen and i correct your option three with the earliest return date with the traditional calendar we still have three professional would have three professional development days either calendar is going to give our kids the benefit of the three days but a little more school would say right now but i think we took that off the table last time i mean i know of the the post labor to start would provide that i don't know i've lost a lot of sleep over this fire really have there are people that i respected meyer who have vastly different opinions on this and in my heart i just don't want to start until after labor day i don't i know we have heard that it's educationally advantageous to start after labor day but it is just three days in  grand scheme of things and i think our students are going to get one hundred eighty days of an excellent education whichever way we go tonight so i'm going to vote with my heart tonight maybe not my head well not reminds me of mr dri visit last week just to remind the committee even though this comment was well i think he personally favored the later start this year as i recall his primary concern was that this not become a tradition that we start before labor day yes and we did reassure him that was right so i again appreciate how much the committee is is struggling on this one it's because our community is struggling i think unfortunately we have to make a decision and we won't make everyone  happy but we will do what we think is right and that's why we're here so we have a motion to go with the early start we have a second we have any more discussion just again to reiterate this is for twenty fifteen twenty sixteen school calendar if you know i think that i think there might be more work the committee can do we do know that there are families who did make a decision on the schedule before they knew the schedule no intended fault of their own i know debbie you've expressed you know the for might be something the teachers and staff can do to help those students recover from the break so i think you know now that we've made the difficult decision now maybe we can turn our attention now we help those families that this does  impact and no fault of theirs no fault of ours or just the way the calendar fell so i think as always because believe it or not we as mr mccarthy pointed out we have due to family plans that could be special family events that go on all throughout the year  we do have students that miss cool at various times during the year because of family obligations so i would say no different from all those other instances if this is going to impact you contact the building principal do it before the end of the school year if you know for sure and or if it's a high school work with guidance and let them know in advance and people will take care of whatever is best for your child but i think it is a case by case basis and so has everybody circumstances are different and things  truly is done on demographics and economic conditions on your community and it is a rating system that the state does that has a total and based on where we happen to fall into this year which is the first time we have the fall on th side of the line and we were just what we could tell just over the line we got the additional funding so it's very easy to imagine that we could fall back to the other side of it so that being said what we had done was basically say  you know we would take the chance that in the first draft of the budget was to take the chance that worst case we'd end up with two and a half like we have this year best case based on your additional funding in the budget we'd end up with the full three one l one mass specialist preliminary school  e basically asked us to consider doing it based on a guaranteed version of the three so what we did do is go back in your draft your secondary draft but it does that the only true way to accomplish it is because the three mass spec list were fully accounted for in the original budget the difference was whether or not the chapter one and what it would cover it was to reduce to chapter one funding assuming you're not going to get it so we drop the chapter one back to the f y fifteen level and obviously if it comes in it will be you know additional funding is available to the school district at that point and if it doesn't come in you have fully funded the three positions what that means to the budget process into what would be requested from taxpayers is a  thirty two thousand six hundred forty two dollars increase in the budget tax funded portion of the budget which would bring us up to four point one six percent and the total budget thirty one million seven hundred thirty three we gave to town hall back in early november correct so we're still under the budget number that was projected by threats important to now i think because people here in this edition they may think it's going to be over what so just remind the puts and takes and been over this for a few meetings but f t e changes one full time equivalent technology integration specialist edition one full time equivalent elementary mass specialist effort which might be funded by title one point for meeting with with bill and it was i i was very happy to hear about all the work that went into the analysis and final budget presentation of this fed budget i know that that requires a lot of effort and time and and care but with the students who we care very much about and i'm very satisfied with that budget number and appreciate the work that was done by you and the rescue team good thanks a lot i'm going to say however the motion was worded last year but you know it's i think case was perfect vote to recommend the v whatever it is the version january twenty sixth twenty fifth  correct for f y sixteen budget for total of and then the number that's on the last page fact and november of putting it together i mean the principles of the department and steady bill it is so much work is goes into this and you know i have a lot of confidence in the numbers that you worth it we're very transparent i think that's what i'm most proud of is that we can tell you everything that's in the budget in my past and very in a very transparent fashion as as well cooperation with time top aides a lot of back and a lot of people don't know that ok second to last topic approval of the f y sixteen capital improvement plan ok we are going to make any changes to the original draft that you saw the one i had a concern about potentially was the turf field lighting contacted to try to secure a discount for the town on it the project still has to go out to bed so i just want to be very clear on it's you know what he's done for us basically is almost assure that there will be at least one low bidder  that gives us a very high quality product there some would like to match or cedar you know obviously beat that product and it really would be suspect on the must go is the standard that almost anybody wants to put in that's what put in just recently  it is the highest incomes in twenty five year warranty is on everything down to light bulbs i mean it's it's really what you really want to me as a community now have to to maintain that said they gave us  local vendor that does their installations of the bases of the things for very large bases there three feet in diameter they go eight hundred feet into the ground and then the poles need to be fastened and install on top of those i met with the  one of the owners son actually the son and father team that own it and talk to him explain what the process was here what you know what the obviously the name of the field and the reason behind that they came out they looked at the field and basically they made the offer that it's the moscow lighting project that moves forward they would do it for nothing it's a thirty five thousand dollar expenditure that would be on our side typically in this process what that gives us is a little extra  affectively in putting together what's going to have to be a building to have the lighting controls and stuff like that because obviously we won't have the concession stand however i will say if the boosters come together fast enough and actually look like they  you know enough money i would put that money towards the single structure and try to blend the two together and obviously use you know that to kind of support that project a little bit as well so i'll do what i can but i know at the minimum i need a structure to talking about this is totally on me to get the boosters gathered and started so you haven't heard about it that's right i will get you going in the next couple of weeks and so stay tuned so other than that everything else we're  time that we do a five year c f p so there's a series of funds that we are looking for over the next five years so it's no surprise with randy and the the town side as to what our needs are obviously all the town boards do the exact same thing continuation of our switch project and as i told you what aaron has been able to do for us between the aggressive discounting he got on all of our switch gear was to instead of having it be a three to four year project  ended up being a one year project with the school committee putting a little bit more money in up in the first year we went from one hundred fifty six to one hundred sixty eight and it accomplished the entire switching up to the ten game switch network so it was amazing we were able to draw fit within the kinds of confines of what we had kind of thought we were going to do anyways all of the other things that are on our c f people are pretty much standard items that the town has kind of supported in the past obviously the buses t recycling system because they've they've got themselves into the same jam that the schools were in years ago which was trying to come in for a large chunk of money because you weren't doing a regular cycle thing and it becomes very shocking when you have to do it that way so there you go also going to kind of  presentation where they basically will support a fund obviously not as large as ours the amount of computers we have compared to them but a way of rotating their stuff as well so that everything can kind of be more normalized for the taxpayer rather than these big jumps up  so again unless there's any particular questions on the other side within the c i p o i as i said this would be the only one that is kind of a one off and what we're doing is phase two what now looks like it will be about a four phase process and i yeah well yes and again that's you know the turf field already is two years old the other big advantage of the sliding part of it which actually has a  revenue stream potentially to it and that is that we really are able to get in the men's leagues women's leagues in adult leagues that want to rent it nights during the spring summer and fall because we can't keep the the hours available on the field itself obviously we're going to use it for our athletics youth athletics has a time frame in which they want to use it so it really in order to start to build that pool that we talked about that would replace the term in the ten year time frame this is the piece that does that the bleachers don't do that for you the back doesn't do that for you but the lighting does so it really is why it's phase two of this process and that was one of great interest to me was creating a revenue stream right yes and again and again it is i t is not in my opinion not a rush to face to it's been two years two years in the rearview mirror on the ownership of this town why voted very important asset to the community you know so out here because we're in central massachusetts and they want to be able to show it off with the you know we've done a good job and say you know kevin does a great job as far as maintaining a keeping it clean and keeping it growing again that's critical when you have any of these fields that you stand top and if you don't that's the first where you're on a loser and so far the kids in the you know everybody using those fields have been very respectful of the field which is very critical because you know the quickest damage happens just by people doing things that they really are supposed to  so if we can keep that up a i think we have a great asset to the community long term and be you know will get to the point where you know the full complex on the campus side will be felt  yes any other questions or so just to summarize computer software printer upgrades replacement one of the two fifty integrated security system funding which we've talked about for meetings which is exciting  grateful for having had the opportunity to serve on the foxboro school committee serve the citizens and students of fox for over the past nine years i want to thank the citizens of fox bro who have supported me since two thousand and six when i was first elected to the box for a school committee you put your faith and trust in me to serve the town of foxborough and it's really it's truly been an honor and a privilege to do so over  terms i've served there have been many changes to the school district and i've had the good fortune to be a part of this change i've met many many caring citizens that i otherwise would not have had the opportunity to know during my nine years of course i include my fellow school committee members debbie tina bruce and steve the strong leadership team of debbie bill and amy and impressive force of administrators teachers and staff who every day make this district such a special learning environment and who work together to put our students first i am lucky i have been a part of it so i wish you all the best and i know foxboro will continue on its trajectory of greatness my last official meeting will be next monday february second and i will be resigning because when i came on as the new guy you were here and help me and we work together i think a couple times as chair was chair and you really did a great job i know this isn't of your choice but it's something you need to do yes and we will miss you so thank you for emotional thing because katie you know has served for nine years and has always advocated for the highest quality education possible for all the students and sometimes when she's come by the office she's asked me some difficult questions that really made me think as you all do it i've always appreciated that in every person and i appreciate that and she's always had the best interests of kids in my she has always been thoughtful and i can honestly say in those seven and a half years that i've been back she has never once come to me with a personal agenda once so i think that's really what public service is all about and i think you have really served well for nine years and really represented the community in that way so i think you  i remember when you came to the taylor school p t o in two thousand and six when you're first running for your first seat and my son jack who is now a freshman in high school was a first grader and i was a brand new  and i was so impressed with you then i said she's a powerhouse of a lady and i am so glad that i've had the opportunity to work with you on the school committee and i will miss you and your expertise and probably  well from both of personal and professional level personal coming i knew you were so welcoming to the new person coming on board and you made it really easy and from a professional i just think about all that you do in your own work and that the conversations that we've had thank you for your kind words you know fox was a wonderful town so many great memories and it's been a wonderful experience can't describe it any other way so i've received so much from messy about where they're going to be was supposed to be tomorrow that will be happening so yes the patriot place folks are having a local pep rally on friday night and i'm sure they'll be putting out their own information but our high school band has been invited to be part of that and  it's i think it's terrific so the great go patriots nothing else does so i mean just wanted to announce that next week on wednesday february the fourth we will have a par eric presentation at the herd middle school from six thirty the seven fifteen we had one at the elementary level and it was really well attended we had over eighty parents that were there and so this one next week will focus on secondary