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Lexington Public Schools
School Committee Meeting — October 24, 2005
Central Office Administration Building, 5:30 p.m.
Present for the school committee: Olga Guttag, Tom Griffiths, Tom Diaz, Scott Burson
and Helen Cohen, Chairman
Also present: Dr. Paul Ash, Superintendent of Schools
Dr. Ash recommended that the School Committee request the special town meeting to
appropriate an additional $847,396 to the FY ’06 budget. Dr. Ash indicated that should
the school department end the year with a surplus for any reason after paying for all
currently budgeted items, he pledges to return the surplus to the Town’s general fund. He
shared with the School Committee his plan to absorb up to another $220,000 in potential
special education costs by reducing expense budgets wherever possible.
Scott Burson moved and Tom Diaz seconded a motion: “I move the School Committee
request a supplemental appropriation in the amount of $847,396 to be applied in
operations for Fiscal Year 06.”
The motion passed unanimously (5-0)
Scott Burson moved and Olga Guttag seconded a motion: “I move that the School
Committee instruct the Superintendent that funds received as a supplemental
appropriation for FY’06 be applied exclusively to those payroll and expense categories
projected to be in deficit in the Superintendent’s FY’06 budget — Financial Update and
Projection presented to the School Committee in its meeting on October 18, 2005, and to
the extent any part of said supplemental appropriation is not spent to cover the identified
deficit, the remainder will be returned to the Town as free cash.”
The motion passed unanimously (5-0)
Tom Griffiths moved and Tom Diaz seconded a motion that:
“I move that, subject to advice of Town Counsel, we move zero capital dollars under
Article 6, the intent being to defer equipment amounts under Article 30 of the Spring
2005 Town Meeting that were voted, and to apply those amounts to the identified work
for roofing and HVAC repairs.”
The motion passed unanimously (5-0)
The meeting was adjourned at 6:00 p.m.