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Page 25 January 31, 1976 Mr. Brown suggested that a single line item budget could be used PROFESSIONAL for the area of professional development. This professional develop- DEVELOPMENT ment account would include a certain monetary figure which would in- clude summer workshops, leadership, sabbaticals, etc. Mr. Spiris re- plied that it was a good idea but he felt that the timing was not good due to the contractual problems. He said staff would be applying under one contract, and if new rules and regulations were going to be in- cluded in another contract, the inconsistency would present problems. He suggested that this be reconsidered in the future. Mr. Spiris reviewed the financial status of the proposed budget. He said that the recommended increase in the Personal Services Budget was $222,000 or 1.8. increase. The School Committee 's additional re- ductions of $92,900 brought the increase to $129,151 or 1.1. increase. He noted that the $129,151 contained one major item of $78,000 for sabbaticals. Mr. Spiris presented the Expense Budget to the School Committee EXPENSE BUDGET and suggested a page by page review. He said it reflected the school department 's priorities, however, there were other requests that were not granted. An example used was a request for band uniforms. The request for five band uniforms was not approved which meant that five youngsters would not be able to march in the band next year. He felt that the School Committee might wish to put some items back in, de- pending upon their priorities. A complete list of the requests were presented to the School Committee. Mrs. Berchtold and Mrs. Swanson questioned the requests for the large number of filing cabinets again this year. Mrs. Berchtold said this reinforced her idea that a central inventory was needed. It was difficult to make decisions on such re- quests not knowing the amount or where items were. Mr. Maclnnes said the files were mainly for classroom teachers and not just for clerical aides. A page by page review of the expense budget began. Dr. Rotberg questioned the inclusion of monies within the accounts 2500t and 2800-4. He said that as a result of the November 24 testing meeting, he felt the School Committee should delete a substantial amount of money in those accounts. He noted that everyone seemed to agree at that meeting that the WISC should be eliminated with a minor amount of money being left in for WISC testing if essential. He suggested a figure of $10,000 be elimi- nated from this account. He asked Dr. Monderer to submit other items that could possibly be deleted from this and other accounts for testing. Mr. Spiris interjected saying his understanding was that he was to make a recommendation to the School Committee after the Testing Committee had met. The Superintendent said the testing committee was preparing a re- port and hopefully by next week he would present it to the committee. They agreed to discuss the testing program next week. Account number 2300-5b was discussed briefly. The School Committee DRIVER EDUCATION requested a report be presented on driver education. Mr. Spiris said this report was now being prepared.