jacqueline mon is an autism inclusion specialist systemwide she couldn't be here then i clare murphy is an e s l teacher at the high school the bourne is a grade seven english teacher at the generally cream because i'm sure you noticed that we didn't have quite enough i was worried we're going to run out so and i know that franklin tucker is here somewhere and will want us there and will want to group photo so how about if you all go congregate over there for the group photo and thank you very much meeting i'm calling a tall order is seven o four pm and our first opening business will be a pledge of allegiance should we always have a portion of our opening business agenda with some space for citizens to share any ideas or concerns that they have is there anyone in our audience even who would like to share any concern saturday the fourteenth and sunday the belmont public library will have its annual book sale saturday from nine to four sunday from one to four and one of the most delightful aspects of this sale is the opportunity for educators in the district to go on the friday before the sale and have an opportunity to help themselves to folks that have been donated and are being discarded through the sale so we think the friends of them a public library think about what public library staff for all of their work and the opportunity that it provides for educators and the community the halloween mastery concert will be held at the high school on october twenty fifth from seven to eight thirty pm there is a snow day it listed for the twenty six and i don't know if it was to be spooky or what but when i saw that i include snow date in october i sure hope that's not needed but that will be happening october twenty fifth so that was a joke if it worked and speaking with halloween festivities the fifth annual halloween window painting contest will be held at sponsored by the belmont center business association if anyone's had family or friends participating in it it's a real fun opportunity how often do you get to paint wonderful partner to the education system here in belmont and speaking of the foundation for bellman education the annual spelling bee is scheduled for saturday nov fourth at general we've talked about this a couple times already and registration is open for all students grades kindergarten through grade six again it's a wonderful community event every year draws a very big crowd so if anyone is interested the competition is really not the big feature of that it's really the participation that seems to be most fun and there evening everyone we are happy to report out since our last school committee meeting i believe we wanted to make sure the people were aware that the belmont high school building committee finishes today visioning work with over seventy educators community members and students we will be posting that information for all folks to see we just received a rough draft of the outline of that information from the design architect who are excited to share that with the public one way to get that information and more information about the belmont high school building committee work are the upcoming engagement opportunities for our community friday october thirteenth which is this friday at one fifteen pm in the afternoon we will be at the beach street center for all folks to come in here build a vial of myself and meet the design architect in the order project manager and also saturday october twenty eighth at ten am at belmont high school that presentation will be partnered with a tour of the existing high school  with principal tin richards and all the folks in the community members around around the school encourage you to get engaged and keep your eye out for all belmont high school building committee news and information we had a big announcement this week principal a spangler has notified her staff and her parents that she will be retiring from her job as principal at the wellington she will be joining her family in the west coast and retiring a little bit early i think she could work for another ten plus years with the full energy we were sure well she will be with us until december then we will be announcing the plans in the timeline for her replacement for this year as the next few weeks progresses lots of quick school community news at the burbank students and families enjoyed square dancing in line dancing at a p t a fall social on september twenty second at the wellington they had a wonderful picnic on the twenty sixth of september at the wellington i mean at the underwood park and at the wynn brook and at the butler there  back to school family events as well we have an upcoming fun run at the butler which will be this friday that too october twentieth october twentieth fun run at the butler school so we encourage all to take place take to participate  quick save the date we have about more public schools in basic parent lecture that will happen on november fifteenth it's called managing things are the school and home strategies to interrupt the worry cycle we like to thank the folks at basic and generous for so we're very thankful to have city side subaru partner with baker and in richard's city side super has been a partner with the foundation for belmont education for many years they also support the brenda grant foundation i believe in other know all these acronyms they are an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of sciences and really excess ability of those programs to everybody and a publish a journal which is the science books and films and that journal basically reviews all the material specific for all sciences all different types of sciences and all of the troops so kindergarten all the way through college and so they're kind of considered they are ready to die if you will so that educators can make informed decisions about what the best material is to have their classrooms and their libraries so so you know we partnered super partnered with a few great organizations to be able to make these books possible and so as far as the city site is concerned subaru has a lot of promise campaign which is basically a pledge to do right by the communities in which we live and park and city sites you who's an active participant in those programs and the learning to love learning program is one of those in which we can make program so as the imagines we have a number of books that we brought as a selection just to give you an idea of the types of books that will be donated there are one hundred fifty of them and i'm so we will make that delivery drill like directly to the school  hopefully in the next week or so and we're really excited to be able to bring those directly to the students and to the staff so that's something that i'm specifically looking forward to and with that kind of background on the donation i just thought i'd classroom level elementary middle  average at one hundred five students a year can use that to then increase what we project for twenty twenty two years from now this is only the students that are k twelve students in our school does not include our our students who are educated out of district placements or either through lab in the schools or lab in other districts or private placements those are students are not included if you include those students and you include our pre k students we have forty seven hundred give or take all together belmont students in different places that we responsible for the interesting thing about the net number is that when you look at the number of students choosing who left the district for in the last year and particularly in the last summer since the last day of school last year until now and you look at the number of students who came in part of that shift is than the three hundred or so who graduated in the three hundred new who come in course it was a smaller number and i'll show you on the next slide the smaller number the graduating the larger number the common and that's been our experience for several years now but we also have another three hundred or so who come in and two hundred or so who leave so that's where you get the hundred twenty three so we're welcom the district in addition to three hundred twenty kindergartners another three hundred students and their families to the district and the man and woman power that goes into first just the registration process and then welcoming them into the schools and the class at the classroom teacher level and all of the support services it's really something that that if you look at the number one hundred twenty three you may think oh ok you know that's a big number but it's one hundred twenty three spread across six schools and it really is it represents a lot of big a much larger number of students coming in so that's that's the big picture and here you can see it in the ice chart and thank you to tony who took all of the numbers i had and turn them into these charts with excel you can see that it's like a stepped step ladder going up you know every every year is a little bit and just as our general population is increasing so we're seeing similar increases in the two categories of student services one is that students who are not english speaking are english learners and also students and i p's who receive their services throughout a district schools so i have a few charts to show you the information for those groups of students for english learners as of october one and this number is probably already changed we have three hundred forty english learners in the district that's up from two hundred eighty one last year at this time we also that number three hundred forty does not include the thirteen pre k english learners that we are now required to screen that is a new requirement this year we are not required to do pull out english language development instruction but we are required to have the instruction extra support for that which frankly in a pre k and even a kindergarten classroom is kind of how language is taught for everybody there's a lot of visual there's a lot of of supports to understand the language and what they're learning so it makes sense not to pull them out of a pre k classroom but to keep them there and learn with alongside their peers looking at that number of three forty in each of the schools you see that there are forty seven students at burbank sixty two at butler seventy four at the wellington seventy eight it when brook fifteen and twenty one at the high school at wellington and when brooke the numbers have gone up just a little the high school has gone down just a little bit and fortunately we have a staff of p s l teachers who many of whom are certified across multiple levels so as we are experiencing an increase in rome and we're able to to make shift says we need to to keep the teacher caseload an appropriate level we also did hire another e s l teacher this summer and that person was hired to be at burbank and butler part one school part the other we have already a full time teacher at butler and a full time t trip burbank and that split is shifted just a little bit at which we have a full time teacher and we had a part time teacher who was split with the high school but with the high school numbers down a little bit and the windbreak numbers up a little bit we're probably going to shift her back to winthrop full time so we have two full time teachers at the end of that kind of flexibility is really important because you never really know what the students are coming in and you have to group them in a way that's appropriate so that you're not having beginner kindergartners with fourth beginner fourth graders and  i think we're in a pretty good place with that but as i said this is the number as the day that lindsay sent me the email with the numbers students are enrolling all the time and english learners are rolling all the time and just by way of comparison you another way to look at that and a comparison is the change from year to year the percentage change from year to year in two thousand and ten seven years ago we had one hundred fifteen and now we have three hundred forty and gives you that except for one year where we drop by four students every year since and we've increased and increased quite substantially in the last five years one other way to look at the english learner and roman just to see what's the percentage of our total population our total enrollment in two thousand and ten our total enrollment was three thousand eight hundred seventy seven we had one hundred  eighteen english learners that was three percent of the total now and twenty seventeen with three hundred forty that's seven point five percent of our total population at schools so we see more than double what we had seven years ago students are are making good progress our data has been strong and we hope it will continue to be that way and we are very fortunate to have such an amazing group of students and their families here it really adds a tremendous amount to in a positive way to our schools so i think it makes for a wonderful learning environment in and when you have the appropriate levels of staff you need to teach them all and it works out nicely so we're excited about that s and then the six year historical trend so if you turn to the next page you can see in twenty seventeen eighteen we have two years of data and two years two months of data use lab programs in other school districts lexington arlington bedford and burlington we have some students and other collaboratives in master's of public schools and as well private placements so the total in september was one hundred nine in october was one hundred seven as you look at the next slide for all of last year you see every month and you see that there are some fluctuations and with the high point in june of one hundred eleven see increases in these special population and this slide just shows you the same information with darker after a c increases over time so there when you look at these big slices of overall district in rome and for this school year we'll talk a little bit about well what are the implications at the school in a classroom where as you know we have in the last two years added six modular classrooms to the high school all of which are used fully throughout the day six modular classrooms went online here to china in the middle of last year and again in use all day at burbank bottler and when brooke space was reallocated to accommodate three additional classrooms this year in addition to two classrooms that were added last year so that's five additional classroom stations across those three schools in the last two years and also as you know four modular classrooms are slated to go online pending the town meeting approval for the funding for september of two thousand and eight the three additional classroom says here you can see on the under the district wide list of kindergarten a first grade and a fourth grade those were part of the five positions allocated for this third year of the override budget originally those are facing we made the decision and i'm awfully glad we did to add these three classrooms because when in the next few slides when you see the class sizes across the elementary level if we hadn't added those classes it would really be quite challenging the levels of numbers   porton add that his would have been very challenging to provide those services without it additionally we sometimes we need to also remember that in addition to being in classrooms all of these students also get instruction in  music in p e they are there and supported by the nursing staff by the guidance staff and all of those pieces you can you can add little bits and not not have it be felt as much but we're not in the little bit anymore we're adding a lot so we added some additional art music and tea at some of the elementary is in the middle school we wanted to make sure that especially the schools that were what we're having for classes of every grade or of some grades where before they had only three and the wind broke there's the fourth grade is that there's a fifth fourth grade at the whim broke so each of those extra number of classes average your graduation cohort size is now three hundred forty nine the range from kindergarten to twelfth grade of our existing cohorts is from three hundred three students to three hundred this is another look at those numbers you see in the first column on the left where each of these these rows are in terms of their grade this year they're your graduation and the grade they're currently in so as you go across the row the next column in from the left is the twenty sixteen what was the size of that you're that cohort in twenty sixteen what is the size now twenty seventeen so if you start at the bottom across to twenty thirty and i just have to note the class of twenty thirty is our group of kindergartners just came in we had there were zero of them in october of two thousand and sixteen because they weren't in kindergarten yet and now there are three hundred twenty so the difference is a plus a three hundred twenty at the top of top row you have your class that graduated in two thousand and june twenty seventeen were two hundred ninety that was our last class under three hundred so that's a minus of two hundred  ninety and then you see for each grade below that we had a small drop in the current twelfth grade small drop in the current eleventh grade small increase in the current tenth create a small increase in the current ninth grade the bigger impact in our show and a difference why the increase in the high school is really the difference between the class that graduated and the class that came up to the ninth grade that's the bigger difference the  middle elementary school we saw some increases in fourth grade again so glad we had that extra fourth grade class in third grade we are had already added two classes a third grade to the year before when they were second graders we added we didn't add anything to second grade and were able to hold our own and the first grade in kindergarten we added a class to each of those grades to get our total of one hundred twenty three so that's why your graduation this slide shows you overall the increase in elementary middle and high so last year in elementary had one thousand seven hundred eighty five students this year one thousand eight hundred twelve for an increase of twenty seven at the middle school they win the prize on a piece of sixty two fifth grade six create an eighth grade about evenly split those three grades at the high school again  the class there's an increase of thirty four largely due to that smaller graduating class and the larger now all of the grades of a high school are over three hundred so just back to this slide again for a minute our largest  cohort is our current grade three for three hundred eighty eight and our smallest is up there at the top our grade eleven is three hundred three and the average of all of those grades is three hundred forty now another slice down looking at so what does it feel like in the buildings k through four if i was a kindergarten teacher last year versus a convict and teacher this year kindergarten actually with their additional class we actually and you'll see in a in a future supply of that we we did a pretty good job keeping to our class size guidelines and having nice class sizes a kindergarten thanks to the additional kindergarten that we added a grade one look at that increase from three twenty nine to three seventy three is it's good that we added another first grade grade to the total went down from ninety nine last year to three forty eight this year that number that group of three ninety one was the class that we had at the two the two classrooms to one it were big but it butler and those grade two classes moved up to grade three so we have so here is a chart of our class size guidelines for the elementary school the range for kindergarten is eighteen to twenty two we had quite a few classes outside of the first grade classes range from twenty one to twenty five our second grade classes range from twenty to twenty four those class size guideline for third and fourth grade goes up from to twenty to twenty four  see that our third grade classes are within the range twenty to twenty four our fourth grade classes we do have a class that's twenty six it's not quite as good we have seven classes within the guidelines and nine had exceeded the guidelines in second grade nine within the guidelines six and six exceed third grade ten within the guidelines seven exceed and in fourth grade twelve are within the guidelines and four exceed the guidelines so as a comparison for last year last year forty two percent of all of the  classes exceeded the class size guidelines for their grade this year it's thirty five percent i wish it were zero percent but it's moving in the right direction and again just thank goodness we added those three class and you'll see in the next slide that that is the grade that has the that does the least well in meeting class size guidelines grade six also an increase in great also an increase  social studies and those teachers that were on team this six and seven there was a change from teaching four sections and a team time to teaching five sections so that helped lower the class size among those classes but we still had high art music in peak classes you'll see in the coming charts that the that the increases we see in this page have have increased those class sizes across all of the different subjects both the specials and  so that's two slides for each of these this is the average class size in l a foreign language math reading science and social studies and then the next slide is that the range because averages are averages they give you  one data point but the range shows you what's the low what's the high and that's another important thing to look at the average that is the worst is grade five  t twenty six and that means there are significant numbers of classes that are above that and not very many that are below that class size guidelines guidelines for grade six seven eight actually go up to twenty six i think we could argue that twenty six is not a great number as a top number two for those that age student but be that as it may that's the range that we have right now when you look at the range in each of the grades last year this year and then the number of sections that exceed the guidelines in twenty seventeen eighteen we have fifty seven sections of those subjects for grade five and forty nine of them are above the guidance so very few classes that fifth graders are in where they're  within twenty to twenty five the numbers or a little better in grade six seven eight but we are still seeing increases in those when you look at art music physical education health and technology engineering averages and ranges again you see the grade five even when they're in those classes they're still at very high numbers and the averages are higher for these classes for grade six seven eight then they are in the other class other subjects range for these classes three five hundred twenty eight grade five classes of these subjects twenty four of them exceed the guidelines and then the numbers are a little bit smaller for grade six seven and eight but still high and you see in grade six  then the average is here our fire department and it's broken out by the different levels one of the things that that the directors and principals try to do is they're allocating sections is to look at college prep versus honors advanced placement and if they have to make a choice which class to make smaller and which class to to make a little bigger they tend to try to keep the college prep classes a little bit smaller those are students who benefit from a lower teacher student ratio and the presumption is that students who are in honors or advanced placement can mean  as well in a class as larger although of course i would argue that any class where you're where you have so many students it makes it very hard to have to create that it makes it harder to create that climate where students feel safe learning to know each student well enough to create having said that the averages from last year to this year are are not significantly different they were able to absorb the  increased number of students i would say relatively well looking at the averages that isn't to say that there aren't some classes that are large so this is english foreign language math and physical education and here you see the same thing for science social studies and visual and performing arts so not not huge differences one number up or down and similarly when you look at the ranges for all of the different courses in the in the departments you see that  have more departments right that have numbers over thirty english math physical education science and social studies and this is not include any of the large ensembles like the band in the chorus those are not included in these numbers so there are some large classes no question about it and then just to summarize here are the total number of sections last year and this year and where they fall broken out by fifteen or fewer students sixteen to twenty twenty one twenty six twenty seven to thirty and classes with more than thirty students and that percent of the total for each of those those levels we do have  we see a decrease in the number under fifteen which is good it's better if you can if you can create sections that have larger numbers that serve more students i would say sixteen to twenty six is  sixteen of course is on the low side but twenty to twenty six is really sort of that sweet spot of class size and that's that's seventy eight percent or about three quarters of the classes at the high school but we still have twenty two percent that are twenty seven to thirty and of various and a small number that are over thirty and next year and their their next model is a class of three hundred three and they're juniors so in another couple of years they'll age out of it and if our new average is three fifteen well that helps explain why we need a new building and i'm happy to answer any question but you might just say something about those guard line ranges just layman's terms when you see twenty to twenty four for a grade five because that really means i think sometimes you can look at twenty four  six or seven years ago the school committee decided because there there were no guidelines part of that that there needs to be and you can be some guidelines created to say so that we have our kindergarten classrooms here we have an assistant in each of the classrooms so those students are very well served especially this year with the numbers where we lie people to keep them first grade is harder when you have you have over twenty four students or twenty five students and you no longer have an assistant in the room and first grade is is a very important year for students in terms of their drama so their number sense and their math and just all of the  social and emotional learning that they're doing at the same time it makes it very hard for the classroom teacher to provide the kind of individual differentiated attention that each student needs and then that that's true of me our middle school students are not done with all the supports that they need in our high school students the summer ali and so the more you the more students you have in the room the harder it is for the teacher to know each student as well as he or she could if there were fewer and the knowing is both the relationship so that the student feels safe and it's also the ability to to know where you are when you come in the classroom as far as your knowledge on the topic that we're working on now the concept and how how to why how do i help you get to that next level of knowledge and skill it just makes it more challenging and when you have particularly in high school if you have twenty eight large young adults and their backpacks in a room just physically moving around the room and most teachers don't have classes in rows anymore they have been in table groups and they have been doing say the other night i had trouble a parent back to school like getting around my daughter's class for me because all of the desks and it was so crowded so you could tell how congested would be with all the students there too but i just had a d e s c website and clicked on roman to just started to figure out where are we you know after you get through some of the larger urban districts we're starting to fall into that line of districts that what you had above forty five hundred five thousand students you really there's really not too many districts that that are of that size so we're getting to be a bigger district for a small town you know we're four square miles and we have a significant amount of students and i don't think government ever thought that they'd be if you go back to first class that f it's significant that we had a seven point five twenty five percent twenty one percent increase in students to which english is not their first language after a little bit of a law last year that that's a big push and that they're now almost eight percent of our student population that's a that's a that's a significant subgroup of folks that we need to pay attention to an idea that we have been able to and i think that we serve the this film as well but it becomes one of under three hundred group believe in graduate last year and introduce now that thirteenth over three hundred groups so all of our classes are over three hundred and the average class cohort size is three hundred sixty two k to four three fifty five at the middle school and three twenty six in the high school so when you put that reverse order the high school is the smallest cold or the average and soon this middle stis elementary middle school we will come up and it's supposed  to put those aside just to put teachers in the classroom and students to come to a certain size so we shifted our our needs based on our needs and and i think that we're going to really have to entertain that again when we look at the fiscal budget for next school year and we spoke this morning at us find its committee about what if something needs that we have right now that we might need to reallocate in this existing fiscal year and we talked about three three or four schools in we've had contact with and trying to support and then what does that mean moving forward into the next fiscal year and so tony and i have been meeting with those marshall and her office on thursday to begin the process for next year and we'll put that list in front of our finance committee next week and to talk about a shift that we can make it out staff for this year and adding staff is not always as easy as just hiring a person in don't want these days as hiring a person you know rescheduling the students a little bit and then finding the space to put the educator in to provide class space to to engage in the program in the structural work so those are the that's the multifaceted approach to how we would try to organize and increase teaching staff for  fifth grade getting so large that there is an absolute need for two teachers at the middle school next year and then we've already talked to mike because the principal trying to find space because we need t so for that created the current fifth grade is three seventy one the fourth grade current fourth grade is three eighty three so we have children all in very large classes at three seventy one there's no space for anymore and it's not it's matches and what we will now do is i have had a slide show going around for the beginning of this year for the the film what is with all the project that had one hundred thirty two which was a draft number for the most and a few folks move up so we will add that number and that number up for tomorrow at the wellington doing a presentation you know on friday i'll be at the beach each other as well and folks should keep in mind that that new average per year now is up to one hundred  fortunate to be in this building program work that we're looking to for some long term solutions for the moment but we have a period of time between now and when that building is decided in terms of what the configuration is going to be and then another period of time before we actually open the doors that will definitely warrant some good thinking around what we want to do is a system to to get our students and teachers in good learning environments between now and text every time i hear it while we just have to get a new one so as we said in different ways these conversations about the new high school and about the superintendent feeling just said what that we had which generally does happen if folks go out on leave during the year whether it's a maternity leave or some other kind of leave at a number of cases those folks don't have time of the books and so they're off the payroll construe that column is revenue minus expenses within the year without regard to the beginning balance you can see a number of accounts were literally all accounts changed and they're right there in the balance a number of small to medium capital imports and to make sure that they're buying those supplies in small ways that we think that they need where we're trying to avoid having to go to the town for any capital needs relate to the school lunch program i know i don't believe  last year the year before the program purchased additional cashiering points made a number of different repeat is units in the in the system and that kind of thing so we were trying to get that system that program to be self sustaining as much as possible and i think we're well away there that that that that's a healthy positive balance that they're in it with you know to go line by line through these accounts then i can say each one of these revolving accounts is really it's only animal in terms of when revenues are received and when the expenses are paid if you look at  necessarily feasible and if we get on the short list of grants we can talk a little bit more about that so we are carrying over funds and some of our grants and i'll just run through those one you can see them on the sheet in the far right hand corner in the  special education i d e a grant we're carrying forward fifty one thousand dollars plus and a policy had to say that of that amount the grants are applied for based on an application and the funds are applied for within certain categories and other that fifty one thousand remaining in this part of me four to five thousand of that is special education and district which and the remainder of that is professional development expenses for special education so almost none of that is ns because the amount that we allocated for tuition is has been expended all except for that four or five thousand dollars that graham you can see the title three grant which is kind of the main title for regret or carrying forward a little bit more than twenty five hundred two hundred forty two dollars that i like to talk a little bit about that part of the reason why we're able to have that balance is we were able to absorb some of the special education not just your tuition over just in our general remember we talked about the general fund a few minutes ago over budget and special education and district wish and the amount of about two hundred thirty seven thousand where we were able to keep one of that through other general fund categories which enabled us in part payment which is released sometime around june thirtieth we received an increase and as they do all the districts that increase was a little bit over seventy two thousand dollars that was i need to support it if someone please to receive that as well quote what they will say about this to carry forward a circuit breaker balances quarter good management practice to eliminate some of the risk associated with unpredictable special education costs and the amount that would carry forward is actually keeps us in compliance with d e s c requirements which limit the amount of circuit breaker funds that any district can carry over to be not more than one year's worth of reimbursement this year were received in excess of one point six million dollars circuit breaker carry for us in addition we conducted a survey last spring among other districts to find out what other districts did about as far as the timing of spending circuit breaker funds and what they carried forward balances  of this circuit breaker funds that they receive in one year and in other words they budget that entire amount for next year and one of the benefits of that is it provides tremendous budget certainty there's no question about how much they'll have in the following year approximately fourteen percent of the districts spend all or nearly all of the circuit breaker friends in the year they received and i can tell you a majority reading through the e mail responses i got many of the districts in that or actually expressed that they would love to be in a position to be able to carry all this circuit breaker money forward into next year to be in that kind of a position there was six percent which is really just two districts reported that they decide how much to carry forward on the basis and i can say that there were no districts that reported setting an artificial cap below the existing state maximum of the carry forward no more than one year's worth of circuit breaker friends in terms of f y a teen i need to notify the committee that we actually received a decrease in circuit breaker funding so last year the final number for a while seventeen was one million six hundred eighty seven thousand six hundred forty four dollars this year circuit breaker is one million five hundred twenty three thousand nine hundred thirteen dollars that's a reduction of i heard sixty three thousand dollars plus from last year which is about a nine point seven percent decrease from what we can tell kind of reading between the lines we believe that the reduction just belmont we expect that is a state wide reduction due to one certainty at the state level as far as what the final budget numbers will be and as i think everyone knows that circuit breaker is an actual specific line item in the state budget we're hopeful that the final allocation  s e later in this year will increase but we cannot know that at this time and that would not be prudent to rely on any amount above what's already been allocated for this use circuit breaker in addition over last year and even this year we've continued with running certain scenarios to estimate what circuit breaker might be over the next few years and actually total out of district tuitions funding and spending and based on projecting out  say most conservative but not really i think it's pretty realistic that want track to run out of circuit breaker money sometime in f y twenty by continuing to receive appropriations every year based on schools it inside that school funding i was once one special education which has been historically the the one piece of advice and that was always reading the thread which fitted up taking money from other parts of the general fund to support that so  tony's analysis is is absolutely correct to say that despite the fact that we have one point one million dollars in circuit breaker which is special education money from the state we can see from our three year plan as we on the general fund budget is going from just thirty percent for special education costs in fiscal seventeen will go all the way up to thirty eight over thirty eight percent of our generals the spite of the fact that we are leading  that that's the account that we will use to supplement the special education funding for the next three years and ultimately if if our projections are right if a circle regulus up by five percent a year which we think it will given the trends here and our costs go up by a point eight percent which they have over body years with the data there's a good there's a natural gap there and this money will be strategically portion each year so we can fund those services for at least eighteen nineteen and then maybe into twenty and that's the kind of spreadsheet that will start i'm packed i don't know if you find his meetings because i guarantee there the work being tomorrow and someone's going to ask what are they going to do with all that money and my very clear statement is we are going to budget strategically to support the needs of our students over the next three years this is not extra money this is money that most  do put aside for the future year to always do all that they'll be to adequately fund it one year ahead and we realize that we can be adequately funded for two years ahead and maybe part of a third so this money is  spending everything in september hoping we have enough in june they were spending responsibly through the year and if we do have a fortunate case where this is we're not spending as much of the substitute or the some folks who take a leave for special going to be a national hard conversation there for the whole town that the schools will be right in the middle of in terms of where that gap going to come from and how we will continue to provide the local services for a growing population not the same of our students was kind of on the ropes will end up getting some piece of that grant it was the same kind of talk coming into f y seventeen but we ended up not getting in i had left it there just to kind of memorialize the fact that we're not receiving that grant anymore i expect beginning  one my reports will have that wind stricken all together around get it done kind of volunteer and he wanted to make sure that we thanked a couple of folks for putting this work on so he asked me to read the statement and i will gladly do it for him in the group of folks that volunteered for that night last year r gray father of courtney phoebe and bridget gray and john came up with the idea to create the perfect community event one that was put on the back to back party games of the voice of the girls while engaging the soccer players from belmont soccer association in belmont second soccer the first attempt to create the english it was their first attempt to create the english premier soccer match environment and it couldn't have been more english as it rained throughout the game washed year it had over six hundred people in attendance last year this year they included the boy scouts in the army god and the girls game and the belmont police department at the boys game sara carson of the cherie middle school course director and gage for classes to sing the national anthem and one hundred students participate palm's the parents of music students who were nice enough to run the concession stand and lastly over two hundred children were either math mascots in the procession or played it have time of the both games the other night in total the rover a thousand people in attendance and some estimated putting it over fifteen hundred all that said john kasich would like to thank the school committee know the know of my appreciation to the efforts that jim davis are thought to try to put into state to make it happen organizing a night like this all comes down to the ability to coordinate other with other high schools to play on that night jim did that it is simply as it sounds it is not a simple task in addition to the night of the adventure and saw the enthusiasm like to think joint carson and all those volunteers mr and mrs gray it was just it was a great night for the town and a great event for the ball more public school community so thank you very much to join in jim davis