September 11th - Minutes
Minutes (Prepared September 12, 2006, approved October 2, 2006)
Meeting Date: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2006 Ð 6:00 P.M.
Meeting Location: MOHAWK MIDDLE SCHOOL
Committee Attendees: David Purington (Chair), Paula Consolo, Cindy Smith, Tom Lively
Committee Absentees: Susan Flaccus
Guests in Attendance: Michael Buoniconti (MTRSD Superintendent)
Agenda
- Review/Approve meeting minutes from 8/28/06 meeting
- Review status of assigned action items
- Review Task Force Progress of Options Selected by Steering Committee and define our reporting status for upcoming steering committee meeting
- Review New Action Items assigned
- Review upcoming meeting schedule
- Confirm Task Force membership assignments
Meeting ran from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.
Minutes were approved.
MBuoniconti reported that his research of state regulations indicates no requirements to upgrade elementary facilities (i.e. laboratories) to accommodate 7th and 8th grade students. Did not report on SBAB loans.
Reviewed four different financial modeling scenarios, including Union model (white copies), K-5 at BSE (pink), Consolidation as 4 individual closings (purple) and K-12 Regional (yellow). In general, discussions were limited to understanding the basic assumptions and to identifying major points for refinement in advance of the upcoming Steering Committee meeting. Major assumptions include 6% increases to base budget from FY-07 to FY-08, -09, and -10, adjustments for transportation items and building renovation items not made in models. Requested that student-counts be verified/recalculated and associated changes made as-needed to staffing assumptions. Requested that mothballing costs increase in all models where being considered.
General agreement that each model requires careful scrutiny and challenges to assumptions, but that this task would be deferred until after the Steering Committee meeting, when we had better understanding from other task forces which models were being carried forward and what key assumptions were also being made by others.
At end of meeting, agreed to maintain currently scheduled meetings (Steering Committee on September 14th and another task force meeting on September 25th at 6:00). Confirmed appointments of Lively and Smith as permanent members of the Task Force.
Action items assigned included for MBuoniconti to report back on SBAB, for MBuoniconti to work with JBlier to revise certain items in each of financial models, for MBuoniconti and DPurington to confer on these revisions in advance of the Steering Committee meeting, and for DPurington to develop a status report to present to the Steering Committee.
