Middle School Principal’s Conference Room
7:00 P.M. Meeting Time Date: November 16, 2005
I. Call to order 7:10 pm
Present – Sandy Venner
Maureen Moran
Mary Harada
Bill Darke
Bonnie Collins
Bob Sinibaldi
Absent – Glen Kemper
Tom Atwood
Citizens - Nick Tarzia
Mary Jacoby (Groveland Citizen at large waiting Selectman approval)
II. Agenda - Motion to approve Agenda made by Sandy Venner seconded by Bill Darke
III. Correspondence
a. Verbal request from Wendy McGrath, to have a task force member update the PDPC on the progress of the 2005 RA Task Force
b. Email from Jeff Wulfson, Associate Commissioner, Department of Education
IV. Minutes (approve)
a. Oct. 19, 2005 – motion to approve minutes by Bill Darke and seconded by Mary Harada. Unanimous vote.
b. November 2, 2005 – need to add attendee list and remove the word Agenda from the top of the minutes – will vote minutes at next meeting tentatively scheduled for November 23rd
V. Old Business
a. Status on receiving Triton’ most recent regional agreement – Glen Kemper was not at the meeting, but last time Bonnie checked with him, Glen did nto have a copy yet.
b. Status on enrollment numbers to define PRSD enrollment vs. Foundation Enrollment (Bonnie) – there is a know reason of why the PRSD enrollment is different from the foundation enrollment. First, pre-school enrollment and half-day kindergarten are represented at 50% for foundation enrollment. Second, the number of regular education (non tuition) pre-school students is limited to twice the number of special education pre-school students. It appears that for the first few years of the SIMS system the foundation enrollment included all the pre-school students (including tuition students) As of ’06 the system reflects the proper number of preschool
students.
Motion
Bonnie Collins made motion and seconded by Mary Harada to use State prior October 1 foundation enrollment numbers, to be verified by the Business office using a formula later determined (foundation enrollment worksheet attached)
Vote: Unanimous
Absent from vote: Glen Kemper and Groveland citizen at large
Note: Need to discuss how intra district pupils are handled
c. MGL on revolving accounts from Maureen –Maureen left in car will distribute at meeting on November 23rd.
d. Vote to determine which assessment method the task force would recommend to the three Board of Selectmen.
Motion
Bill Darke made a motion and seconded by Sandy Venner to use the prior years Chapter 70 percentage breakdown by town of the current years Chapter 70 dollars as the Task Forces recommended assessment method to the three Board of Selectmen.
Vote: unanimous
Absent from vote: Glen Kemper and Groveland citizen at large
e. Discuss assessment method to use for capital items – need to discuss at future meeting
f. Identify other areas of the agreement to address by the December deadline – Refer to the July 27th meeting minutes for the list of areas. These areas were summarized these areas during the August 24th meeting into the following groupings: Budget and assessment, leases and building maintenance and all others
Action items
1. All task force members are to review the budget and assessment methods so that at our next meeting we are prepared to discuss the assessment of capital items and any other budget related items.
2. Bill Darke is going to contact Greg Lebrecque to get copy of schools leases and minutes from Lease subcommittee and ensure they are in sync with the regional agreement.
3. Sandy is going to prioritize what we termed as ‘all other’ areas of the agreement
VI. New Business – below items will be added to the next agenda
a. Review Calendar
b. Discuss how to communicate progress made by the task force. Newspaper articles, etc.
VII. Wrap Up Session
VIII. Adjournment – 9:15 pm
Motion made by Bill Darke and seconded by Mary Harada to adjourn meeting
Vote: unanimous
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