12/12/1995 SCHOOL COMMITTEE Minutes

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MSHPEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS JOINT MEETING BETWEEN SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND FINANCE COMMITTEE December 12, 1995 Minutes Attendees: School Committee -- Chair Janice Mills, Stephen Paxton, Kathy Lynch, Theresa. Cook. David Consalvi was absent. Superintendent of Schools Dr. Lincoln A. DeMoura was also present, Finance Committee -- Chair Marcia Ding, Juan Bacigalupi, Sidney Golub, Daniel Goggin joined the meeting at 7 :35 p.m. Absent were Alec Watt and Tony Gallo. Mrs. King called the meeting to order at 7 :05 p.m. in the Selectmen's Meeting Room at Town Half.. She introduced Dr. DeMoura who presented several chants depicting special education vs. regular day per pupil. expenditures, pie graphs showing expenses vs. salaries F,"or F95 and F `96, and the Draft #4 of the high school. budget. He has proposed a $2 .5 million dollar high school budget for F97, most of which includes new one-tune start-up costs that will not increase substantially in the future. Dr, DeMoura explained that regular day per pupil expenditures have decreased. In F 93, the figure was $3,966; in F 94, $3,646; and F9 5, $3,543. However, special education per pupil expenditures showed a dramatic increase from $5, 663 in F 94 to $7,934 in F 95. Upon completion of discussing the graphs, Dr* DeMoura suggested holding off discussing the entire budget until he reviews it with the School Committee. High School principal John Williams was invited to the table to discuss the high school budget and presented a cost projection if the students were remaining at Falmouth High School. For F9 , he estimated a budget figure of $3,239,657; foar F 99, $4,010, 839; and for F2000, $4,449,248 . Mr. Goggin asked if there were any optional. mems" included in the high school budget that could be eliminated* Dr. DeMoura said all of the items in the budget are important at which time he discussed the hiring of a network administrator to oversee the Lovell network, however, Mrs, King said the town is also considering hiring a network administrator and suggested the town and school department jointly fund one. Mrs. Lynch noted that increases have not been able to keep up with the population growth in the schools which is eight percent. Mr. acigalupi said the town does not have the money available to fund an eight percent increase. Mrs. King said that with Proposition 2- 1/2, the school department should not be receiving three- to s3'-.X-