 Good afternoon. I am Bill Hainich here of the Allenton School Committee. This open meeting of the Allenton School Committee is being conducted remotely consistent with the Governor Baker's executive order of March 12th, 2020, due to the current state of emergency in the Commonwealth due to the outbreak of COVID-19 virus. In order to mitigate the transmission of the COVID-19 virus, we have been advised and directed by the Commonwealth to suspend public gatherings and as such, the Governor's order suspends the requirement of the open meeting law to have all meetings in a publicly accessible physical location. Further, all members of the public bodies are allowed and encouraged to participate remotely. The order which you can find posted with agenda materials for this meeting allows public bodies to meet entirely remotely, so as long as reasonable public access is afforded so that the public can follow along with the deliberations of the meeting. 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After they conclude the remarks, the Chair will ask members of the committee if they wish to provide any comment or questions or motions. Please hold until your name is called. I would like to just verify the attendees. Mr. Schlickman. Hello. Dr. Kasey, Dr. Ampe, excuse me. President. I get so flustered easily. Jane, I'm here. Liz Ekston. Here. And myself. Dr. McNeil here and Michael Mason here. At this time, I will ask Dr. Ampe if she wishes to make a motion. Sure. Do you want to hear from Mr. Mason at all first? I will just hear the motion. We'll put it on the table for discussion. Okay. I would like to make a motion to moving to transfer $110,000 into the special education reserve fund. Is there a second to that motion? Second. At this time, I would like to hear from Dr. excuse me, Mr. Mason. At this moment, I do not have anything further to state besides between the memo. If there's any questions from the school committee, I will take that and answer any. Okay. I will go back now. Dr. Ampe, if you have anything you'd like to say first before I open it up to the rest of the committee. Yeah. I just wanted to speak in favor of my motion. I chose, so the memo states that we'll have roughly $225,000 in excess at the end of the school year, where that is a calculated, they've been working hard to calculate this number, but it's not 100% set. Dr. Bodie and Dr. Mason suggested that all monies be returned back to the town because that had been the sense that they had given the finance committee a sense that we would be returning $250,000 to the town back in March. Or that's what I understood. My feeling is that when we did this, I thought we thought there was going to be significantly more in excess than the $200 and $25,000. And to me, I feel I chose the number 110 as splitting the difference where half goes to the town, half goes into the special education reserve, and is for the future benefit of our students. So I was trying to balance my respect for Dr. Bodie and Mr. Mason's thinking as well as my desire to maintain the best funding for our students under emergency situations. So thank you. Since I can't see everybody, I'm just going to call a roll to see if you wish to make a comment. Mr. Schlichman. I support Dr. Allison Ampey's motion. I think that we've made a commitment to the town through town meeting that we're going to try to keep some money aside in the special ed reserve. So if something untoward happens in terms of our special ed expenditures, that we have money there that can be pulled back in without further appropriation. This is a very difficult year right now. We're going into a year following a pandemic, and we don't know what might happen within our special education line items. So I think it's prudent for us to do this split and maintain $110,000 in the reserve and let the rest fall back into free cash. Thank you. Ms. Morgan. Yes, I'll be supporting Dr. Allison Ampey's motion. I think the piece that I want to make sure that we close the loop on because I don't think we did at the end of last year was letting the Finance Committee know what was done with any overage. So is that something, Mr. Heiner, that you would charge the Budget Subcommittee with, or like how are we going to make sure that we close that? I mean, it seems very reasonable that there was, you know, it's the 29th. We have a good estimate of what's going to be left, and we're splitting the difference between the special ed reserve fund, because we're still not at that, you know, that million dollars that Mr. Mason has told us he believes to be the sort of minimum, right, that we would really want to have. So I just want the messaging to be clear because we spent, Kersi, Len and myself have spent countless hours, and Michael, and Kathy, obviously, trying to message and communicate around whatever was left in the budget for the last few years. So I just, I just want to be clear about what we're, whether I'm supposed to be doing anything about messaging that. That's what I need to know. Would you, just to help the old man, send me a brief email of exactly what you want me to charge the subcommittee and Mr. Mason to do? Ms. Morgan. Sounds good. Thank you. Ms. Ekston, do you have any comment or statement you'd like to make? No comment. I plan to support this motion. I think it's important that we maintain funding in a special ed budget. As Mr. Schlickman said, this has been a challenging year, and we're not sure what could come next year. Thank you. I intend also to support the motion. I had a discussion with Mr. Mason earlier this afternoon, and he clarified all my concerns. This has been a tough year for all of us. So is there, Mr. Mason or Dr. McNeill, do you have anything you'd like to say? I do not. Nor do I. Thank you. Hearing no further discussion, I'll call the vote. The vote is to return to the town, $110,000. No, no, no. The motion is to place $110,000 in the Sped Reserve. Thank you, Mr. Schlickman. The motion is to place $110,000 in the special education reserve account. Roll call. Mr. Schlickman. Yes. Dr. Ampe. Yes. I'm Ms. Morgan. Yes. Ms. Ekston. Yes. And I vote yes. I will entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Is there a second? Second. Roll call. Mr. Schlickman. Yes. Dr. Ampe. Yes. Ms. Morgan. Yes. Ms. Ekston. Yes. And I vote yes. Everyone enjoy the rest of the summer. I'll see you all on the 24th of July. Thank you very much.