This session shares the Franklin, MA School Committee Budget SubCommittee meeting held on Tuesday, Jan 9, 2024. The meeting was conducted in the 3rd floor training room. Remote participation was enabled for this session that no one took advantage of. 

Chair Dave McNeill opened the meeting. School Committee members Dr Paul Griffith and KP Sompally participated. Superintendent Lucas Giguere and Business Manager Dr Bob Dutch also participated.

Quick recap

• Ready to live report on the FPS budget subcmte mtg about to begin, a short one before a workshop and then the full regular School committee meeting, so a busy night. Follow along with the agenda doc https://www.franklinps.net/sites/g/files/vyhlif4431/f/agendas/1-9-24_agenda-budgetsubcom.pdf  
• Supt Giguere provides an overview of the capital budget process for this new group, Dr Dutch to walk through the details of the requests. This is preliminary to the FinCom meeting Weds night, and then to Town Council capital budget subcmte before final Town Council approval
• Special ed van, middle school math curriculum,and then technology (Chromebooks, laptops, etc) among the items on this request in priority order
• Have an existing 4 year plan for capital requests, looking to add the 5th year to make it formal at 5 and roll forward from that
• Discussion on options, lease vs buy, choice of extended warranty vs. purchase, at some point these will come due, period
• Motion to approve capital request as discussed, second, passes, 3-0 Motion to adjourn, second, passes 3-0

The show notes contain a link to the agenda and to my notes.

The recording runs about 27 minutes, so let’s listen to the Budget SubCommittee meeting of Jan 9, 2024.

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Budget SubCommittee agenda

https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif10036/f/events/fps_budget_sub_comm.pdf 

FY 2024 Budget information -> https://www.franklinps.net/fy24budget 

Capital budget doc for Finance Committee 01/10/24

https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif10036/f/uploads/_2024-01-05_memo_fy24_capital_program_fin_comm.pdf 

My notes in this ThreadReader PDF -> 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18tMUBEmIEbKBdO93pMSBl5OgVHJWW0HT/view?usp=drive_link 

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