all right so let's get into the budget driv number think we probably will get a few more partnerships the path because if you if you over estimate then you're going to have to decrease those equali pupils in the next year so it would be much more advantageous to have more students and then those pupils are carol in the next year than to go in the reverse so we have a lot of people working together including we have a preschool for a year that's been supporting us who's been doing a lot of outreach that's  requirement through the central office the third is we had estimated a higher service for us than we actually got so we had to adjust the assessments based on that so those are the two there will be some reductions in staffing because by merging the campuses and consolidating food service programs we just we don't need the people power that we have but wonder whether people actually river but i think now it has a lot more media because now they're the same entity down and say what are the what are the priorities what do we want to change that's going to take a world time to figure out and orchestrate that out and then we can realize the cost for this friendship these were the ones where we could just make the change and so you know we had as you know very little amount of time to prepare this budget you know from one the the district was for so you know the administration will will once we get this question of who will then start thinking about what's next what can we do and in that for the next year to include into this budget we'll do anything you know right now that isn't included here that we could just implement for sure next year we've got work to do i goes into the tax rate for n so the equalize pupils for the most of those towns is the two thousand two hundred seventy basically her providing the yet spending by equalize pupils to get and spending per pupil that is up about work next year it will be one point five six soon these numbers all hold which is about a three point nine percent increase from year over year then we take into effect the cent tax reduction which is off that number brings it down to one point four eight and if you compare that to what we are paying or what our estimated what it was also the tax rate is presently it's about  one point four percent reduction so yes the tax rate lower than last year's tax rate all these things come to fruition  certain there's a five percent five cent increase from one point five one to one point five six we sure this three point nine one percent increase also given that you have a calculator in front of you i would assume that you're counting that percentage there so all the back and look at it but it's definitely i sent  about six percent divide it by the same base that i'm out to get that adjustment factor multiplied by the state wide tax rate and that is the one point five four which is just under four percent higher percentage but we will check the version on the website as six point three percent there are some numbers that are different you're showing what we posted online got it right mole or money on what is the amount of money grant that we get for making the right the cost of making the conversion to the merged district or fif of the towns that emerge and not surprisingly i need to ask the same same rate also in most of the towns you can see that the tax rate is going down from what it one each town has a different common level of appraisal that doesn't go away with the merger the other thing is there's so little call throttling with the tax incentive so that if you see both  variations in the town to town and over time that variation will get smaller but they'll always be a different problem levels of appraisal at the top so the other thing we've missed on this information's available on the state web site there and just as an example here is a as a scenario where it's a household income is fifty thousand dollars and the house side is two hundred thousand dollars without income sensitivity just been so what you would pay just based on the property tax rate shown here here's what you would actually do if you took into account and all the income sensitivity prepare one one pagers and calling them for you know some of the information or key changes that are occurring on the buildings this one in particular is for about mansfield your high school we have one for each one of those kids is really the best to just look at the numbers and then the rest of the presentation there's several charts that we pulled from the updated situational assessment that was provided by the law school boards association you can view the whole presentation here but there are several charts that are in the back to go over some of that information which is quite insightful ok so questions where we have my dedication and it is the past in president ford members into the community that has supported i mean school and school district for the last fifty years over fifty years here i think a metaphor that the last piece i wanted to share was that if you go on the web site you're going to find all the budget information that we have and it's understood boards and it's under budget you also find a presentation that kevin showed today if you're interested and one of the new thing that we tried this year is i'm doing two stat presentations of the budget as well we had our first one many and then i'll do another one next week so we're trying to hit all the stakeholders that are part of the system did you did one tonight already or did did one before this i think it went well pretty participation was learning but there are some good questions so i think the point is we're trying and i did have a few people just stopped and thanked me for for offering it and telling them where to find information district so you do this in your early when folks in richmond and in jericho build something whether it's a house or even in addition they paid impact fees and those fees are then transition to the those rare don't need a motion for this this is really signing the document authorizes the transaction be a bunch of different frisbee teams and they compete for a day or two but the funding is coming small amount of funding coming from the student activities and then they're doing fundraising for  going very well and then we did get a report out on volleyball and they've had two seasons and about twelve ten twelve fifteen students they've done scrimmage is with e so they're looking for growth and hoping to progress our next meeting is going to be a from my then we're going to be discussing tech and  discuss in particular which i'm not sure it's up there it is a i've got it on my computer in draft but it didn't get thrown out there and that is the policy i want to inform you guys on is the school choice policy and we're going to be able to create a school choice i will see for our k through eight population and this is obviously unique to the board to the district configuration that we have i don't anticipate that this policy will be cast in stone even though it gets passed because as in subsequent years things may change and we may do different things in pol so i'm just going to read it you because it's very brief it's the policy of the mansfield modified union school district to offer parents guardians school choice within the district the choice of school venue will be guided by the needs of students parents and the district and will adhere to the and you and us articles of agreement and follow a district process and guidelines which will be limited by transportation feasibility and classroom space availability and do believe we've made some technical edits to the hobby hands in there that's the draft that i have available i'm having a hard time finding one that week we cleaned up but that one you know we will have that ready for the board but the basic gist of it is that there will be choice it will be guided by the needs of students parents in the district it will it here to be articles of agreement and that there will be a district process and guidelines which will be you know which obviously world go around transportation feasibility of concert space available if they want to let you all know this so that you could be  community she may know will opt to have younger kids that this may be of interest to them and to be able to say yes there is a school choice policy in the works talk to the superintendent about it and be able to at least have that conversation amongst you know people that you might know who might be interested pre k specifically not in this because the region that we're going to be looking out for their pre k partnerships may extend even further than now then our district may go all the way to burlington vermont here in terms of options for using those values for pre k so they're not part of it and high school is not part of it so it's covered by a different set of rules about high school choice with it for both so basically i just wanted to let you know about that that this was in the works guidelines and they may change depending on where we take the district overall you know because we don't know this is this is just core the next year so that was my decision would be available starting this fall yes also need to be some communication and education around that too right so if anyone had questions about it i would refer directly to the central office john and they're in of the the guidelines that will be written again they change year to year depending on what we have to offer and right now i think there was a focus on seeing what could happen within the kindergarten area but if someone had a pressing need about it you know it's a possibility if the conversations are another whole slew of policies will be rescinded at the board and it's just part of cleaning up policy and making sure that the policies we to our new configuration and that we don't have anything that conflicts you know as time has gone on there's been a lot of changes of legislation that will be going through the three on board that would be something i was going to share with you guys today so the only other thing i had sort of under committees most of the other committee reports had to do with the b s p so i thought i would throw out something sort of  interesting question last night at the vermont school for association board of directors there were many things that were discussed relating to the new legislation that's out there a lot of it is not ready for any one  you so there really isn't much to discuss where they're headed but one topic that they did sort of asked about and want to be able to engage our communities on is the whole vaccination question only because there will probably be a bill proposed and they will often seek to see if the vs be able to sign on to a deal and so there was sort of a general question about have you heard anything what's the sentiment in your communities that people don't want to answer now if they wish to tell me an email with their that's fine but if you i thought i'd open it up if anybody had any particular thoughts about it me that it was a proposal to remove which would mean you'd only have a medical waiver clas and this is part of what happens often with the s b a will say ok we have this group that wants us to sign on to a bill what's the general sense in your communities about this talk to would have gotten a marijuana bil good that we've gotten rid of the diseases that we kept and i have probably everybody knows that fifteen or some are children and sure a lot were found that they've been exposed to tuberculosis which is not something that we also think of looking for so i think that the idea that deserves a big discussion and a big consideration i'm not sure that all you know a lot of interest around it so we'll have to see what the bills that come out bill or bills come out actually say you know that want to just know what's our general s say malls we go to the same sites that we all get on planes that we're all headed you know places soon it's a global society so it's a bigger problem than just saying you know it's your one school but that was done for that  negotiations with the union bills obviously related to structure and governance and education cryonics that's still in the works so there's a lot of stuff that's heating  to make is that we don't meet in march there will be some business that we need to transact around closing bank accounts and some other business to wrap up the end of the year including we're looking into that as well there's doesn't happen a lot so we're getting some mixed information but we may have to do that as well so it is character of the area ok treated i just wanted to come back to the to the question of the work that remains for the board and remind everybody that there are occasions wood where required by law to take certain action for example if there is a student discipline issue we've all been in those hearings this board has to be constituted ready to do that and we've been fortunate that we haven't had to deal with it will be grievances but under the collective bargaining agreements that are in force till june thirtieth or sick or even the have to be available to do that we've had to decide questions of we've actually had to hold votes on stay constituted and available to do otherwise literally something will fall through the cracks so if we can keep that it it would be very helpful gr recommendation we need to it's really the private of as much as anything of the board of people think we need to meet we can't but we don't want them you know but if people are ok with no meeting if we don't have