Orders from Committee

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▶ 9:26 Monica C. Medeiros: please thank you I have a hopefully brief school committee report as the liaison to the school committee we've recently had an update the big item on the agenda of course is the BB school and the future of that building for programming etc so just some updates is that we have the superintendent recently reported that we had as of the end of last month in the system just under 4 000 students and last year for instance our 80 percent of the kindergarten class got the first choice for their placement for kindergarten the bb school the update of course they're looking for an option that's going to be sustainable for the next seven to ten years no matter what the model that's chosen there's going to be some increased costs and including for instance the building needs to be brought up to date in including needs to be wired for Wi-Fi and all those kinds of things there's going to be DPW operating costs which are going to be estimated about two hundred thousand dollars per year that's using the horse man as a reference point which is similar in size there's going to be need for additional staff of crossing guard nurse principal secretary special education coordinator so right now the school committee has been presented two options which have been presented to the public one is the K through five option which is estimated would cost an additional 1.7 million dollars in addition to the cost of referenced above there would need to be upgrades and staff in order to be equivalent with the other elementary schools that we have that are k-5 and we have a challenge of repopulating the