Custodians

O'Brien asks where the cuts are coming from
Looking at secondary levels (it will be split; half a person at each of six secondary schools)
Monfredo asks how those schools will be impacted
there may be things that don't happen as often; it will happen at schools that have five or six people now
asks about the addition of two in utility crew: addition from the print shop
Mayor echoes the concern about cleaning
Boone speaks of "using data more effectively...efficiencies as we do the job"
Mayor asks if we've considered more positions and less OT : does it make sense to have floaters? to have more fulltime people for less OT?
Allen says they can look it and come back with recommendations
Mayor asks if there's a layoff or if it's attrition: one layoff, two attrition (so far)
points out how much it costs to cut positions; at some point it isn't worth cutting a position due to the amount that we spend consequently on unemployment
Biancheria: speaks of OT, can we use grant funding to support any of the OT for grant events?
Yes, we do that (Allen)
Mullaney asks if we've approved the custodial account yet.
asks why the amount budgeted for is less than we will spend this year (it's $972,422 versus 915,679)
Allen says we had a small number of snow days this year; usually we spend more than we're spending this year
Mullaney asks if we can take the risk
Allen says it's hard to predict, he'll defer to the school committee
Foley cautions that if there's money left we could spend it to buy supplies for FY12, which is going to be much worse; cautions that this is a two year budget process
Allen points out that the health insurance savings pays for the unemployment
Mayor asks for clarification
The schools don't pay for the health insurance of those we lay off; that money works out to how much the city pays for unemployment.
Motion to approve custodial account (with three cuts)
Motion to cut custodial OT account by 5000