Subcommittee reviewing goals, Supt suggests to add Portrait of a Graduate as it wasn't part of the prior set; #sccr0217 Apr 27 'only' possible date for Forum due to calendar requirements of panel, discussion on how to handle, timing of info, etc.
Forget the 27th, previously booked negotiation session, now looking for other dates; stay tuned. #sccr0217 discussion on proposed questions for panel for Forum, dividing between short term, longer term;
They are working through the questions submitted by the community, some Qs are good, some are less so; #sccr0217 (audio recording may not work so well for this meeting to share)
Summary set of questions for the panel to be sent in advance of forum, share answer to prepare and build interest, other set 4 questions held for the night of the Forum #sccr0217
Shifted to discussion for coffee at Library, (3/19?), date for Birchwood and Intermission being worked; #sccr0217 next meeting Mar 23 5:30 PM - Lily asks about promos for Forum, interest expressed
motion to adjourn, second passes 3-0
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Real time reporting underway for the School Committee budget subcommittee meeting tonight. #scbsc0217
Meeting agenda to follow along -> agenda-bsc_2_17_2022.pdf #scbsc0217
Supt Ahern providing overview of status, budget books not ready yet, still working toward presentation to full SchCom March 8, enrollment continues to decline, budget projected to increase due to student service requirements #scbsc0217
policy review (policy on page 2) proposing to remove the open space accounts as CPA is available. Req to adjust the enterprise accounts indented under the Enterprise account header (water, sewer, trash) #fincom0209
hotel fee getting hit with COVID effect and thereby less revenue, keep as a local receipt into the ops budget for roads (wouldn't do much on it's on - under the circumstance) - incorporate marijuana sale tax revenue into ops budget (rather than capital budget) #fincom0209
Q on host community agreement - what it is and how long it lasts, $300K / year (not to exceed 3% of gross sales) - currently set at 5 years for Franklin #fincom0209 this completes the review of the policy, motion to approve, via roll call 8-0
Citizen comments - D Videra speaking to committee having recently endorsed Sen Rausch, apparently in violation of their own policy; confused about masking as well as vaccine #schcom0208
Districts having a bench is a good thing, about 1/3 of hires are from within, rather than going for a search. #schcomss0208 public process of hiring, posted agenda, quorum of committee, them up to the committee to do so;
If you are transparent, say what you want and then do it, that works; problems arise when you don't follow through #schcomss0208 the public needs to follow along without getting surprised
Underway about 15 which may not be all of them; #schcomss0208 no dwindling of applications for open positions, some in central admin didn't jump last year, some are this year. Position here wouldn't see the competition other open spots have, geographic/size district etc.