03/20/2000 SCHOOL COMMITTEE Minutes

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JOINT MEETING SCHOOL COMMITTEE, HOAR of SELECTMEN AND FINANCE COMMITTEE iITT MARCH 20, 2000 y Minutes Attendees: School Committee - Chair ox an Kathleen. Lynch, Janice Mills, 'Theresa Cook, and Stephen Paxton. Maryanne Macdonald was absent. Also in attendance were Superintendent of Schools Sherwood Fluory and business Administrator Russ McCown. Board of Selectmen - Chairman Kenneth 1 larsters, David Leveill , Fred Blythe, John ah l n , and Wayne Taylor. Also in attendance was Town Administrator r F ob rt whritenour. Finance Committee - Chairman Dean Arden, Nancy Jo Goulart, James Morgan, and Jeffry Arnold. Absent were Steve Cashman, Sidney Golub, and Charles Sheehan. The joint meting was called to order by Mr. Marsters for the Selectmen and Mrs. Lynch for the School Committee at 7-00 p.m. in the Town Hall Selectmen's Meeting Evora. Tonight's meeting was the third joint meeting called to discuss the school department's FYo 1 budget. Mr. whritenour introduced Mr. Flu ry who began his presentation by thanking the Selectmen for declaring 'Thursday, March 23, 2000 s "Falcon Day." A ceremony will be held on 'Thursday at 1:00 p.m. in the high school gymnasium. Mr. Fluory explained that at their regular meeting of March 15, 2000 the School Committee approved an F o J budget of 14,13 1,000. This figure reflects a reduction of $219,000 broken down as follows: Transportation $100)000 Bid savings Special Education o,000 Expenditures towards first quarter payments for FYo 1 Non-returning teachers 157000 No impact Secretarial savings: Reorganization 1 }000 one secretarial position through attrition $2193,000 After much discussion and questions asked by both the Selectmen and Finance Committee, a motion was made by Mr. Blythe, seconded by Mr. Cahalane, to recommend $1 ,o o,o0o as the F o 1. school department budget figure. Mrs. Lynch noted that the proposed "Possible Budget Reductions, FYo 1" does not necessarily reflect the recommendations by the School Committee. Also, she mentioned the figure in the Omnibus budget under "School," "FY2001 Dept t F equest" is incorrect ($13,800,000) and should read instead "$14,075',000." Discussion then followed on the duties ofcurriculum chairpersons. Mr. Cahalane withdrew his second of the above motion. Mr. Blythe withdrew his motion.