And back to the budget...

We're through the regular agenda, coming up on ten pm, and we're going back to the budget. We'll be hitting the big accounts now, including health insurance and the teacher account.




Instructional materials:
we're funding instructional materials at $63/pupil, which is not enough
pays for copiers, "consumables" (like paper and pencils), and technology
expenditures are made at the school level, decided by principals
exchange here around copiers being rented by PTOs, inequality in system
O'Connell asks about the money stashed here for Abby Kelley Foster's transportation due to the state budget
passes

Misc Ed OM
question about moving all Fanning Learning money; we're now doing that in house
Biancheria: audit fee to review all student activity accounts
Allen: required every three years
audit is in F&O
lost a nurse state grant that paid for software

administration: motion by Foley to approve
O'Connell notes that there is .5% increase (which is shifted around and consolidated positions)
passes

IA passes

health insurance: we have a list of reallocations due to contracts being settled
we're taking $7.2 million out of this account and putting:
$5.5 million to teachers salaries
1.07 million to IA
58,240 to bus monitors
$154,7800 custodians
31,910 to school plant
61,540 administrative clerical
63,298 ed secretaries
58,240 bus drivers
12,944 parent liaisons
108,343 nurse salaries
27,000 therapy assistants

all to salary accounts to settle contracts, bring back positions,
request a class size chart for the meeting prior to school opening
some of our class sizes are large based on lack of space to split AND school choice
(we don't decide to send kids elsewhere to balance class size, as some districts do; parents decide)
as many tutors working on the first day of school as possible (for those larger classes)

Teacher account: approved with additions (from health insurance and from unemployment)

O'Connell reviews the transfers made: and now THE WHOLE BUDGET
Voted unanimously