the session for i believe it was nonunion negotiation but the minutes of the executive session said that there was discussion also regarding the technology support for the town of by school personnel or and what i wanted to understand from from what i know  is stated in the motion to going to executive session has to be what is discussed and no more and i don't know if that discussion of support technology support was complies with the ten purposes of executive session it was that it was allowed or not so i just wanted to understand if now if that was how you see it was that done properly apply but i appreciate that i just wanted to provide you were my concerns in writing and then you know we just model it for the community what to do so  policy that then went to the school committee subcommittee the subcommittee which is has commenced can order and we what did you craft a new language that was a little bit more specific than the old policy under gibbs that we've been working on the second area is guidelines for food and beverages school campuses that there are new requirements in food service or new state laws so we want to make sure that we are in compliance with encouraging healthy food choices on a that's one thing i'd like to point out on page two it's under two new guidelines for foods and beverages on school campuses quicker if you count up five from yes it says food safety issues related to food allergies are here to for all served in school the question was raised should we have anything about allergies if we get it wrong it is  is focused on all these areas i thought it was well worth i know coming seen the policy in action i know the kids enjoy the visit i know the visit staff the great job you know well this continues to be a focus here so i can i think this is a better protect students they want to limit one on one contact in terms of any kind of electronic communication so that has been rewritten and i'd like to believe that i would make sure everyone is comfortable with it and it will be all written forms of electronic communication by employees and we put in parentheses teachers coaches and staff because you want a reporting structure and we didn't want to make it you wanted to would not just athletes but music across all extracurricular gauge students fourteen members except for messages concerning medical or academic privacy matters in which case messages will be copied to the school principal department head or off work to record so we think that will take care of your concern and again it's you know on electronic on the cell phone as jimmy carter pointed out you really don't have to worry because they will you know it says earlier we're not going to be you're not going to be doing business by that and it's an emergency will use a password that i read that just struck me as odd that employees should not use a password that we mean for certain things other times when employees might have a password on our our network i would in order to access a computer  then the second observation i had just read through it page two hundred internet usage first paragraph this talks to the employees building to access the internet second sentence says well internet usage is usage is intended for job related activities we permit incidental and occasional brief personal use within reasonable limits i'd agree with the intent of the spirit of that i think it's a hard thing to prohibit that and i don't know that we need to i'm just questioning how that's worded in the forms any way to word that more effectively or if we if the committee feels a need to do so to me that we permit incident only occasional brief personal usage within reasonable limits i think that's what we need to say i just wonder if we should say as per something or you know such an it doesn't impact job performance or it to me it's just leaves and maybe loses ok i just wanted to bring it up for discussion and obviously our goal is to help prevent that situation from arising so i think you know without reading this publicly i think the public should feel comfortable that it was just as a nice job i think summarizing a lot of the scenarios and saying does not an authorized user make so i just question if that term needs to be put in there some of us work in the nerd world some of us don't but administratively that's a pretty strong and easy and clear stuff but is there any management of bandwidth using so if someone streaming audio or video that may bring down another service that another department is using for other purposes you know bandwidth management stuff that  a blanket statement you might put somewhere that that addresses that well i'm not a lawyer but or you know make a policymaker but i would at least advice that a plan review that the term authorized user and then maybe even the definition of what an authorized user is and who is the party that authorizes an authorized user so that there's a buck stopping somewhere that you know so if there are times when of course somebody throws a password of course you can get into the but that community task force and the work that has been done since the spring since artemas created the task force in the spring has been really enormously helpful when this required we came out to create a bullying prevention intervention plan by the school district so as you know we and i are the ones that pretty much worked on most of the plan too so it would really have a place that we're doing folding information from lots of resources and i want to thank them for their time so you can see it's a pretty comprehensive plan and does acknowledge the work of the task force and those and what the timeline will be for those tasks but that would be helpful as we go forward a lot of details about what our training in professional development has been and again you know was updated you about this before but tonight we have the coaches and actually all of details about parental involvement and at the end we have definitions of all the terms that are being used now currently in the media world in which case about the definitions for all the terms we using one of the things i thought of this morning is that we didn't use the words bystander and egger you know the kids who might be a on the activity but not me being the perpetrator themself we do use that in this way and so we would like to add the definitions for a bystander or a witness for when would be the best timing and do we have it in there for instance neatly corrected we say what if you could if we don't then assume that we would do it sometime next december or january but in the educational here what would be the most documents try to figure all this gaps here and there might be other some gaps here that are not allowing us to respond in the way that we want to research occasion whether it's you know disciplinary procedures  d regardless of what the states as we should say ok let's see if this is working how many how many instances do we have and it can be done in terms of i'm not saying that we do it i'm saying that you know if you're a poor people you have to give some kind of report because i think that what i love about this is that anybody should open it and they can just think they understand the play and it's just so reader friendly and i think it's just got so much information so i have to kind of echo what everybody else has been public schools website on the front page and the other thing that i wanted to bring up with regards to the superintendent school search is that i wanted to post this to the committee  because in retrospect i realize that i'm on several committees and i think what i would like to propose is another member of the committee taking over my place on this search and i love it if mass association of school for mideast website today and it's with mixed emotions i report that our opening is indeed there we are listed away to several other districts other looking for superintendents and we're certainly not going to be the only ones but it's posted it's up and people are invited to to make applications so more submit interest so we are moving forward their very important business it was a very successful it was in work very well so that's why it's a good thing i guess that only just to bring you up to speed on what we're doing with concussions i like to think we've been kind of at the forefront of this with our league and we're in our second year now instituting what we call impact software which if you've you know even watched the news or read the papers it is pretty it's in the news with the you know the bruins and the patriots and even in the big time college football it's software the state of the art that we're fortunate to have that we had planned on purchasing initially and then with the partnership that we've developed with brigham and women's mass general health care center pitcher place and the last couple years they've decided to donate that software to us and not only us but the entire league so it's yeah it's you know it's been tremendous that partnerships been great what it's allowed us to do is it just gives us another tool  s software isn't the be all end all but it is another tool for training staff to use to better assess our kids basically they're all baseline tested at the beginning of their seasons when they're healthy and then if and when they do just seeing sustained sort of impact it gives us the chance to go back in and retest them to see what the differences in their in their memory in their reaction time to get a better sense more finite sense of of how they are health wise we've been working now with  training staff because on the first of the year this coming year we need to have a protocol in place this is a state a proposal by the m i a to have some sort of protocol we've been working with the health care senate to establish that and and who has been helping us a lot over there once and we're setting up another meeting the next week or so it's a kind of finalize what we're going to do they've been tremendous you know we've been using we've been using burton we need to and certainly no parent is under the obligation to use him or anybody at the health care center but it is a resource where there are times when we've been all been in the situation where you're trying to get an appointment to be seen and you know and it's not necessarily you're not able to do so quickly and with them they've been able to accommodate us in some and in some cases where we might not get an appointment for you know a couple months to do it in three days which is really unique  i think so far the feedback has been well received and i think initially when we started it was what is this now you can't turn on a t v or radio without hearing about it and literally was other day picked up a sports illustrated and it was you know emblazoned across the cover so i mean it's something that it's it's a it's a topic now that is it's very much a hot button topic but it's not one that's going to go away and i think it's it's it's might sound off the off the topic but it really isn't the talk in the n f l now when did all the things that are going on with the with trying to change that culture and it's difficult when those athletes have built up such habits over a number of years the protocol that we end it and will we're trying to establish now is it a physician or is it a neurosurgeon you know in terms of well i don't know just special energy i'm sure he injury you know you hear about kids who play her brain and i you know until they get hurt on a medical history form it states that you need to if you go to see a doctor for whatever it is i could be a common cold or a broken thumb that we need to have a notice saying that you are healthy and ready to participate in our training need to have them on file and certainly we've seen ourselves in situations where people said i'm fine he's fine she's fine and you just i'm not going to accept the onus of responsibility because i'm not the medical professional you know and that's why you know we're we're on the same page nice to know that in this regard we were head of the curve not just this year but the year before this is this is an exciting program when you think the one thing athletics has a link to student achievement but it also works if books now the biggest inhibitor is through injury that can in fact impact on athlete ability their ability to learn could be some of these injuries particularly concussion in there there's new research on the brain and what not so the fact that we already have this and we have the software having a son that actually just use the software because this is college level stuff and the fact that we have that here for our students is just really very exciting and that we can protect them in this way because they take the baseline test then if there's any question they lose consciousness or the training or think there is anything they immediately have to go back and do this again they have to be seen because you can actually keep it learning quite a bit there's you know in terms of causing attention deficit and causing all kinds of other problems that can interfere with with with learning so i'm really thrilled that you've been so comprehensive even coach martelli has said to me it's one of the first things where kids are actually asking him questions on now whereas before i mean we've had things pop up before but this is really a topic that i don't want to just get to be scared you know certainly but i want them to be aware just in the spirit of always open communications i want to let the committee know in the public to know that craig and i met with a representative of the craft organization today just to continue to build the connection between them and not just foxboro schools but also our athletic teams and with the support of dr marcus we just had a casual lunch with dan murphy and we all know dan and the graphs do a great job supporting our school system but it was a very exciting lunch i think for greg and for me because we talk specifically about how can we leverage not only having them in town but there their pursuit of excellence in the organization from the owner to the head coach to the quarterback to the rest of the team and how we would model or transition some of that in  there in that stuff is worth its weight in gold so that tend to then that might be a small thing but to us it's huge and i think i can talk you know all day long but to have someone like that community think it has an impact with a kid so those are the things in it and even even for myself and i coaches i i said to him you know we didn't invent coaching you you learn as you go i would love to draw upon any experiences they've had you know from the franchise that had struggled in the past to what they are today is three miles from a building so that was kind of the in that show where the conversation and what i appreciated from it was i saw for the first time personally craig's focus on leading our athletic teams to be the best they can be and so i want to commend gregg publicly for that and for his good job he's doing on behalf of our our teams and we look forward to helping you do that thing to prove as successful as you can scal year twelve and that we're concerned about that so having said that i'll walk through what we're going to try to get to without going into a tremendous amount of detail budget request addresses the following areas what we're trying to do is maintain our current level of offerings and i will say this many more times i'm sure over the next few months the difference between the level funding which would be our current budget number for f y eleven and level service which is a little bit of a growth number as you'll see which means that we have a geisha that we need to meet that we'll talk about in the slides and that will continue to work on over the next few months but with what we would like to do is our goal is to maintain the current level of offerings that we have across the board staffing programs all of th is continues our curriculum review process that i think airs as you've noted each one of our meetings recently that has really pushed us ahead and is allowed us to talk about the academic achievements that we've been most proud  of over the last couple of years maintains reasonable class sizes and that's something that we'll get into in the next meeting paul has put together some projections that are in your budget book we're really not going to get into the budget book tonight we just put it in front of you and would like you to digest it over a few weeks and you will start the process as we always do in much more detail from program to program but it does maintain the reasonable class sizes it funds all of the present the present special entry quietness that we know north as of today so all of the students that require programming in the budget maintain supplies and materials and i think we'll probably have somewhat of a debate about this because we  right now we have to project that retirements are included in this plan and i'm not sure that they've made those public yet so it is just trust me you know we have we have those we have no projected resignations and that's not unusual in december budget request twenty seven million five hundred forty nine thousand and forty four dollars which is an increase of five hundred ninety six thousand three hundred fifty one dollars or two point two one what the next life gives a budget comparison as we go right back to f y zero four and we talk about the what we've ended up with that it would be in town meeting appropriation these are all the time meaning appropriations what the difference was detect other band you know some some work at the high school that i'm going to talk about in just a second our numbers are going down at the high school basically because the numbers are going out kind of pushing through although the middle school of the last few students come back at grade flies through eight so that's a roll up number and i write elementary number even though and this is confounding us a little bit we're going to continue to do some work on this the number of when you start projections particularly for kindergarten if you look at births five years before that and not birth numbers have been down in foxborough far for the last couple years but are in rome and numbers have been pretty steady in kindergarten so we're trying to figure out what that trend did so that maybe people moving into the community is probably the first and best guess at this point in time we did notice you know this past so the couple of years of full day kindergarten even though we have a fear tach to it maybe something they will have to look at as a as a possible trend so that may be why i've kinda got numbers are going down compared to months you know some may say well your high school number is down you know over the last three years it's down by you know seventy students seventy two students you know we haven't seen any staff reductions there and i think one of the things that this committee and what we've tried to commit to is really making sure that we don't diminish the program offerings you know there's a reason there are s a t s scores are trending upward and there's a reason there are a number of students going to college in each of our last three graduating classes that's gone up to our high right now of ninety three percent at least our recent so i'm reluctant to pull that apart in any way at this point in time if it doesn't mean it's not a substantial savings but it's still want to take i mean if this if we get to a point where we really have to have some of those difficult conversations you know that's that's an area that someone would look at i think i look at we've had these conversations internally and say you know are there some areas that we might be able to take a reduction of cut back a little bit in the department but right now you know we're very pleased with with our numbers are achievement data as as we're moving forward and we think that we have a very nice balance of good program offerings opportunities just in this room here of ritual high school which is a cost and you know some of that or other more advanced placement courses those kinds of things so anyway that's a up again in from zero five and then started to come back down a little bit no eight so we're still you know we're still we've been over a fifteen or sixteen year period we're still pretty solid in terms of in terms of we're asking for any new positions in this budget here and the other big piece to this is there's no cost of living increase as we've mentioned on a number of occasions and i mentioned a town meeting last year our goal for this year and has been out all over the last two or three years is to line up all of our contracts so that they will all expire at the end of this academic year and we did that purposely because we're worried about what the economic forecast would look like so we have some hard driving to do we know there but at the same time we didn't believe we could put any cost of living adjustment in this budget and be able to maintain what we're hoping to maintain so there's no there's no there's no major components so i think this is where this is a driver for us as we know we have our biggest driver in terms of increase is step in lane changes we have we've been hiring man the last couple of years and this is just expenses for a team to come in for a week we have to put them up and that's typical i actually built budgeted many feel like this and budgeted framing it like this and it's about the same price  heard yet and we put in a number last year just so that you know what the public knows and we are estimating that there will be an increase i think some of you may remember the legislature last year froze the out of district placements in terms of that's not something that we may have a little claim we put a number of last year we will pull it out because we knew that the legislature was the governor actually in his budget that advocated that there was that with a freeze tuitions our overall transportation same amount of money within seventeen to take something out of dollars but the difference is that we believe that the state is not going to fund the circuit breaker as much but we're we're doing well in our tuition revolving account your ok and then finally our next steps as i mentioned earlier we will continue to review this is a work in progress but i think it's a it's a good place to start monitor available revenue changes i mean obviously we're we're working with the town to look at you know are there some areas and then revenue where you know going back to the bargaining table and we want to have some conversations with unions about  helping us with some of the revenue side of this and we'll continue to work with the town there are some areas that i think we're going to have some you know more in depth conversations about over the next month month and a half so here's here's what i here's what i'm recommending in terms of the change school committee review of budget i'm suggesting that we get our program people and our principals in the room on the third of the twenty fourth to have more detailed discussion about this and those are two regularly scheduled meetings so i'm also suggesting get past all talk about the second skipped out of the last bullet that's not a meeting date that we have but i'm suggesting we want to go as far as we can and by my town charter we can go to the last the last date of january and that happens to be coincident with the last day so i suggest that rather than try to approve the budget on the twenty fourth give us another week we know the governor will be coming out with his budget right around that time and so that'll inform us a little bit more about we've taken a four percent cut in chapter seventy and all local aid in the town's projection i agree with that that's what we're hearing that's who we're hearing across the state we heard even a little more dour forecast from mike would know when we were when we were at the conference in hyannis a month ago and so i think that's prudent but that may not happen with we're seeing some of the revenues some of the state revenue trending up and i want to point rate is down in massachusetts and so hopefully you know we're moving in a better direction but it may be too hopeful maybe too hopeful for this but that's right that's i guess what i worry about so i would  since we're going to have a meeting next week with our strategic planning working group we're going to meet at the rec building so we can have a working session after six o'clock and then we don't have a meeting on the twentieth because we actually won't know anything more about the budget under some between you and i don't think that we know today so we did that last year i think it was a good process so we're going to have a meeting on the strategic plan next week and then we'll have my suggestion if that makes sense to the school committee my suggestion is we get right back to this in january and we schedule three meetings that are not just here budget but will be focused some of somewhat focused on budget but we'll also have some other items that we know we have planned teed up to talk about  be advisory committee two nights later on february second to make a budget presentation to the advisory so we'll have you voting on a budget on the thirty first and then we'll present to the advisory committee on  s second we invite you to continue to come to these meetings as we discuss this and what detail as well we appreciate you appreciate all the good conversation we have back and forth there have been no communities this year that have joined the g i c the statewide insurance the government insurance commission and partly because they made a switch and they c to change plan design right here so he changed co pays but to change plan design so look at different not not ok that is the wrong word not the split between what the employer pays and what the to pays but what is the plan design how much do you pay to go to the doctor's office how much to pay to go to the emergency how much do you pay for prescription drugs how much do you pay you know so that's all collectively by good continues to be collectively  statute in massachusetts and we've been saying that that's a big area their terms of relief that would be a big area in terms of really so i will continue to advocate it hasn't wor yet but it doesn't mean we should continue to go back the other part i think with the that i read or that i knew a little bit about the g i c is that you need a seventy percent approval from the union membership in order for  look at a larger plan and quite frankly that's difficult to do so there has been some legislation that's been it's been drafted to have it as a fifty fifty you know something so i think those that you know that's a big area another area that will will advocate that you saw on the slide is that because the continued lack of support for the circuit breaker and special education you know we you know i was involved in that legislation you know ten years ago eight years ago and you know we were advocating that they fund the full seventy five percent and as our costs are going up are the people expenditures are going up still for time so that number gets gets larger and the state is right actually contributing less so the percentage now is to forty two percent and it's never actually ever gotten to seventy five percent i think seventy two percent was the highest well it got during you know three  ur five years ago during a better budget cycle so those are two really big ticket areas that if we knew that if we knew that we were going to be able to put given the number that we use last year still if we knew that we were going to be able to use four hundred fifty thousand versus two hundred seventy thousand my budget looks a lot better and so it is a tough budget by the way because we share all the revenue and all the deficit so you know there are some areas there are some big do need to try to track their people back to our system we're not going to the charter schools are i mean it's their choice certainly to do what they want but when you look at the number of students who are outsourcing to china what it's costing us which in you spread them over the school system you took that money group you would have in my problem if they were all in fact coming here we have probably ironically enough have a surplus so i think we have to do what we can do best and that sell unfairly to them to subsidize the charter school and i think had it been and had it really been made clear a town meeting how the funding was i don't think this town ever would have passed it because it's more of a saying that you know a million or on to first lego league northeast of bed at the worcester polytechnic institute on saturday december fourth eleven potentially future engineers from the hern middle school competed in shrewsbury along with forty seven other teams for one of twelve golden tickets from the region to move on to the first leg of a lead role but not a cut of that to be held on saturday december eighteenth first when the league is an international program for children ages nine to fourteen created a partnership between not put up part of the team so they will be on december eighteenth they will be with a total of sixty four teams competing in a day one of it it was to politics so i emailed them back this afternoon and said we would like to have year so we're talking here we're not talking about the stamp issue you know this the science technology engineering and mathematics things that we're trying to push and you know the engineering here in robotics we have to tailor last year of course taylor so we're really trying to having copied the order meet in the last train that kevin pecos had done for the last four sided we've been talking and we've just for our audience at home we've had a lot of training and i would imagine that we'll have some and especially with the new law so just to rest i'm keeping my subject up and i would like to just say i am very blessed and thankful that this is such a collegiate board and i want to thank each and every member this is the place if we truly believe in continuous improvement this is where we never argue because we're much more courteous than that but we have a great disagree and you know if i use the word disappointed in martha saying that and she has her point and i support her ploy and i'm just so thankful that i have  discuss things and already discussing this that we can agree or disagree and if we're all respectful and everybody's heard and i just want to see thank you for that and i guess we should all wish everyone happy holidays wonderful recreation happy new year if we're not having our meeting on on the twentieth who are not but we have a meeting next week w personnel and to discuss strategies with respect to collective bargaining if an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining position of the public body we will not be returning to open session so we need to rol