Live reporting - Action items

4. Action Items
a. I recommend approval of the Budget Transfers as detailed.  recommend to accept, passed 7-0


b. I recommend acceptance of a check for $1,000.00 from Natalie Brunelli for the John A. Brunelli Memorial Scholarship at FHS.  recommend to accept, passed 7-0

c. I recommend acceptance of a check for $50.00 from Elaine Costello for the Class of 1960 Scholarship at FHS.  recommend to accept, passed 7-0

d. I recommend acceptance of a check for $50.00 from Mary Ann Bertone for the Class of 1960 Scholarship at FHS. recommend to accept, passed 7-0

e. I recommend acceptance of a check for $1,000.00 from the Franklin Country Club for the Franklin Country Club Scholarship / Hall of Fame Award at FHS.  recommend to accept, passed 7-0

f. I recommend acceptance of a check for $1,700.00 from the Shayne Cabino Foundation for the Let Us Never Forget LCPL Shayne Matthew Cabino Memorial Scholarship at FHS.  recommend to accept, passed 7-0

g. I recommend acceptance of a check for $100.00 from Lonnie Grillo for the Class of 1960 Scholarship at FHS.  recommend to accept, passed 7-0

h. I recommend acceptance of a check for $2,000.00 from Franklin Youth Lacrosse for a Space Camp field trip for Horace Mann students.  recommend to accept, passed 7-0

i. I recommend acceptance of 3 checks for $50.00 each from Mr. Lima, Mr. Folan and Mr. DiLorenzo for the FHS Scholarship Fund.  recommend to accept, passed 7-0

j. I recommend acceptance of a check for $3,000.00 from the Horace Mann PCC for in-house enrichment.  recommend to accept, passed 7-0

k. I recommend approval of an increase in athletic fees to $450 for Hockey, $175 for Track, and $200 for all other sports.  recommend to accept, passed 6-1  (Glynn no)


l. I recommend approval of an increase in extracurricular fees to $50 annually.  recommend to accept, passed 7-0

m. I recommend adoption of the FY11 budget of $49,875,000 as detailed.  recommend to accept, passed 6-1  (Cafasso no)


Budget discussion
The foreign language changes are budget neutral. The only significant changes were to the reduction of the collaborative services where we believe we can insource those positions and save money.

There are reductions in the seven elementary and eight middle school teachers, the retirees are factored in in that others were able to keep their positions.

BICO - (BiCounty collaborative) occupational therapy, speech therapists, we believe can hire at a savings, we have hired six OT thus far, we will still need some services contracted out but we can see savings this way. The savings thus far are about $58,000 or the equivalent of another position. The people we have will be working on our schedule.


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