Agenda Preview: April 29th Finance, Operations & Governance and May 2nd School Committee Meetings

proposed cell phone policy, current school year deficit, budget prioritization for next school year

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April 29 Finance, Operations and Governance (FOG) Standing Committee Meeting.
The next Finance, Operations and Governance meeting is scheduled for Monday, April 29 at 4:45pm at the Durkin Administration Building. There are four topics for the meeting:

• The third quarter budget report projects a deficit for the end of the school year of -$250,000.  Health insurance, out of district transportation, and out of district tuition continue to have the largest deficits. There is a new $1.5 million projected surplus in instructional materials and in the report it explains that once the district realized the deficit, they put a freeze on some accounts which “did not result in any loss of materials for students and grant sources were utilized.” The administration is proposing the following transfers:

• A proposed cell phone and airpod use policy.

• Review of the service animal policy.

• Review of the student handbook to make changes for next year.

The full agenda is here.You can watch it via zoom (the current link on the agenda isn’t working, but it should update by meeting time) or Facebook live.

May 2 School Committee Meeting.
The next school committee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, May 2. Executive session starts at 5pm and the regular meeting is scheduled to start at 5:30pm. See the agenda here. You can watch it via zoom or Facebook live. Spanish translation is available on zoom.

This meeting’s Report of the Superintendent is on “Budget Prioritization 2024-25: Prevention, Efficiencies, Coherence.”

Since there was a meeting last Thursday, there’s just 3 items on the agenda for this Thursday:

• Member Jermaine Johnson (district F) is requesting a report on the new elementary language arts curriculum, CKLA, since this is the first year of implementation.

• Member Sue Mailman (at-large) is requesting a report on the demographic data for Early College programs.

• Member Maureen Binienda (at-large) is requesting a funding and programming report for the summer credit recovery programs.

That’s it. Have a good week! If you have feedback you can always get in touch: aislinn.doyle@me.com