Congratulations to the Franklin Food Service Team for being the recipient of the Hockomock YMCA’s Red Triangle Award! We are so proud of the work you do each and every day!
Shared from -> https://twitter.com/DrTinaRogers/status/1658970253244653568
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| Franklin Food Service Team recognized with Hockomock YMCA’s Red Triangle Award |
FM #995 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 995 in the series.
This session of the radio show shares the Finance Committee meeting and second of three budget hearings for the FY 2024 budget year. The meeting was held on Wednesday, May 10, 2023.
All 9 members of the Finance Committee participated; 7 present in the Council Chambers, 2 remote. Town Administrator Jamie Hellen, Comptroller Chris Sandini, Treasurer/Collector Kerri Bertone.
Norfolk Agriculture & Tri-County covered their budgets and answered questions followed by the Franklin School budget.
Quick recap:
John Martin, Superintendent Norfolk Aggie; John Wallace, Business Manager, Norfolk Aggie
Norfolk Aggie, 365 acres, inc in 1916 first campus in Weymouth #fincom0510 four courses of study, explore frosh and soph year then choose major for junior and senior studies
Animal science is the most popular of the four studies, about 560 total, 16 students from Franklin this year, 3 seniors, applications are open for next year
40 students from Boston making it the largest sending community. There is demand for the programs, they do have a wait list
Karen McGuire, Tri-County Superintendent, presenting along with Dan Haynes, Business Manager
Should hear in June about the final cost of the proposed building replacement, and then in August on what MSBA will provide for reimbursement, assuming they do. At that time, the 11 sending communities have 120 days to vote to approve the building proposal
How the individual communities fund the cost is up to them, cost allocation based upon sending students
Franklin’s budget was presented by Supt Lucas Giguere, Business Manage Miriam Goodman, School Cmte budget subcmte Chair Dave McNeill
The meeting recording runs about 1 hour and 55 minutes, so let’s listen to the Finance Committee meeting May 10, 2023.
Audio file -> https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-995-finance-cmte-budget-hearing-2-05-10-23--------------
Meeting agenda document -> https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif10036/f/agendas/_2023-05-10_finance_committee_agenda_2.pdf
FY 2024 budget information -> https://www.franklinma.gov/town-budget/webforms/fy-24-budget-materials
My notes -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gsupUzfumR385d7qcgklxMfI7enZjmVU/view?usp=share_link
Link to Finance Committee => https://www.franklinma.gov/finance-committee
YouTube recording => https://www.youtube.com/live/1-4GwOsbRNc?feature=share
Photos captured during the meeting can be found in one album ->
For Tri-County slides -> https://photos.app.goo.gl/6akR6TvwSyrYvkFh6
For FPS slides -> https://photos.app.goo.gl/2WYTBKhpxisJFUuT9
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The music for the intro and exit was provided by Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley". The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana" c. Michael Clark & Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission.
I hope you enjoy!
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| Tri-County budget is very similar to Franklin's in regards to salary & benefits as percent of total budget |
i. 395 Norfolk County Agricultural School FY 2024 budget ->https://cms5.revize.com/revize/norfolkcountyma/FY24%20Norfolk%20County%20Budget%20V3%204-12-23.1.pdfii. 390 Tri-County Regional Vocational School District FY 2023 budget -> https://tri-county.us/budgets-financial-documents/iii. 300 Franklin Public School District -> FY 2024 ->https://www.franklinps.net/fy24budget
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| one slide from the Tri-County update to the FinCom on Weds |
a. Education:i. 395 Norfolk County Agricultural School FY 2024 budget ->https://cms5.revize.com/revize/norfolkcountyma/FY24%20Norfolk%20County%20Budget%20V3%204-12-23.1.pdfii. 390 Tri-County Regional Vocational School District FY 2023 budget -> https://tri-county.us/budgets-financial-documents/iii. 300 Franklin Public School District -> FY 2024 ->https://www.franklinps.net/fy24budget
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| Finance Committee - second of 3 budget hearings - May 10, 2023 at 7 PM |
FM #986 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 986 in the series.
This session shares the Franklin, MA School Committee Budget Subcommittee meeting held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. The meeting was conducted in the 3rd floor training room. Remote participation was enabled for this session.
Chair Dave McNeill opened the meeting. School Committee members Dave Callaghan and Denise Spencer were present. Superintendent Lucas Giguere and Business Manager Miriam Goodman also participated.
Quick recap
Business Manager Miriam Goodman provided the recap of Superintendent budget recommendation that went before the School Committee, they increased it, the Town Administration released the budget allocation as only $1M over prior budget so they are preparing to reduce by $2.3M accordingly
Proposal before the subcommittee was in five categories:
Reducing investment initiatives
Reducing services
Reducing positions
Shifting some expenses to grant funding
Increasing some revenues
Discussion ensued by turn, around the subcommittee members, to clarify points on each of the five categories, and specifics within each
All of this is preliminary as the Finance Committee hearings (Schools on May 10) may result in changes, and or the Town Council hearings (May 24 & 25) will lead to the final number needed to adjust
Notifications of personnel reductions would need to be made before June 15, more likely to make them before that (i.e. mid to late May)
One adjustment finally made was to increase the use of circuit breaker funds by $20K to avoid raising the bus fees, as the bus registration process commenced this week
Next meeting set for June 6 at 5:30 PM to review and prepare for full committee meeting on June 13 at which point the final budget needs to be approved
The show notes contain a link to the agenda and to my notes.
The recording runs about an hour and 40 minutes, so let’s listen to the Budget Subcommittee meeting of May 2, 2023. Audio file -> https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-986-school-cmte-budget-subcmte-mtg-05-02-23
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Budget Subcommittee agenda
https://www.franklinps.net/sites/g/files/vyhlif4431/f/agendas/agenda-bsc_5_2_2023.pdf
FY 2024 Budget information -> https://www.franklinps.net/fy24budget
My notes in this ThreadReader PDF ->
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NqQcbDBh_wrg0PYqDajgFmKgu9LKK-Ya/view?usp=share_link
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We are now producing this in collaboration with Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) or 102.9 on the Franklin area radio dial.
This podcast is my public service effort for Franklin but we can't do it alone. We can always use your help.
How can you help?
If you can use the information that you find here, please tell your friends and neighbors
If you don't like something here, please let me know
Through this feedback loop we can continue to make improvements. I thank you for listening.
For additional information, please visit Franklinmatters.org/ or www.franklin.news/
If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com
The music for the intro and exit was provided by Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley". The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana" c. Michael Clark & Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission.
I hope you enjoy!
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You can also subscribe and listen to Franklin Matters audio on iTunes or your favorite podcast app; search in "podcasts" for "Franklin Matters"
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