Budget, Teachers' Contract on Agenda
The Barrington School Committee will hear the administration's priorities for next year's budget and fill out its teacher contract negotiating team at its meeting tonight in Town Hall.
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Next year's budget and contract negotiations with the teachers are among the items on the agenda for the Barrington School Committee meeting tonight, Jan. 17.
The meeting starts at 7:30 pm in the School Committee Meeting Room in Town Hall.
The school board began the budget process at its Jan. 3 meeting when the principals at all the schools made their pitches for highest priority items next year. Members will now listen to the administration's pitch and set their own priorities, said School Committee Chairman Robert Shea.
"It's really our first chance to look at the big picture," Shea said.
Contract negotiations with the teachers' union, National Education Association Barrington, have not started yet, but dates for the first sessions are being set up, he said.
The School Committee first must finish filling out the negotiating team, Shea said.
The team includes so far representatives from Brennan, Recupero, Cascione, Scungio and McAllister, the law firm hired to fill in for the superintendent -- who has recused himself because he is married to a Barrington High School teacher, and Ron Tarro, finance director for the schools, a veteran of several contract negotiations.
Here is the complete agenda for the meeting:
BARRINGTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEETING
Government Center, 283 County Road, Barrington, RI 02806
AGENDA Jan. 17, 2013 7:30 p.m.
A. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
B. ACHIEVEMENT RECOGNITION
C. BPS SPOTLIGHT ON TEACHING AND LEARNING
D. INFORMATION AND PROPOSALS
1. Budget Input (School Committee & Public)
E. GENERAL PUBLIC DISCUSSION AND INFORMATION
F. OLD BUSINESS
Superintendent and Staff
1. Budget Discussion School Committee
1. Strategic Plan – Establish Subcommittees
2. Contract Negotiations
G. NEW BUSINESS
Superintendent and Staff
1. Personnel
Resignations
HS, Boys Tennis JV Coach
HS, Boys Lacrosse Head Coach
2. Approval of Request for Home Schooling
H. DECISION ITEMS
1. Consent Agenda
Meeting Minutes
Open Meeting and Executive Sessions of January 3, 2013
Financials
Monthly Expenditures for December $3,609,433.41
I. DISCUSSION ITEMS (approx. 9:13 – 9:23 p.m.)
1. Discussion Future Agenda Items
2. General Discussion to Guide Future Recommendations
J. GENERAL PUBLIC DISCUSSION AND INFORMATION
EXECUTIVE SESSION
Pursuant to R.I. Gen Laws Sections 42-46-5(a)(1) and 42-46-5(a)(2) for Personnel and Collective Bargaining and Litigation with NEAB, United Steelworkers and BEST.
Manifold Witness
7:59 am on Thursday, January 17, 2013
$47,800 or so just for state & local taxes per family of 4:
The Governor’s budget is $8,200,000,000.
For about a million people.
The Barrington property taxes are approaching $60,000,000.
For about 16,000 people.
That’s an average of $47,800 for a family of 4.
Add federal taxes to that. And don’t forget the additional 2% that’s coming out of your pay for Social Security (every single Democrat forgot to mention that BEFORE the elections, didn’t they?).
The Governor’s budget includes a lot of money to benefit CVS.
It includes millions more for the colleges & universities of RI – probably to subsidize the educations of non-citizens. But that’s okay, because RI citizens don’t need to go to college. There aren’t any jobs for them anyway.
There will be 145 new state jobs (political favors to keep the system greased).
"Taxpayers have already shouldered enough of the cost of government and the delicate recovery we are in today should not be derailed by any tax increases,'' Governor Chafee said in a written summary.
RI is in a “recovery”?! Who knew?
Chafee doesn’t consider this budget to have any “tax increases”?! He says there are no “new taxes”. But the budget is increasing. But he says that’s not a tax increase, apparently. Oy. Politician math is so confusing.
Anyway, thank God for that “delicate recovery”,
and for the rich RI taxpayers who so generously shoulder the subsidies for so many others.
Lorraine F
8:18 am on Thursday, January 17, 2013
You forgot to mention that we also shoulder the highest water rates in the state (and nation), one of the highest electric utility bills in the nation (because of wind farms we have to subsidize). Ugh!
I'm thrilled that our Senate's answer to being at the bottom of the business competitive barrel is their fluffy "Moving the Needle" report, with gems like - "Rhode Island leveraged its small size as a strength".