SEEM Annual Report (10 minutes)

Transcript (~4 min @ 27:43)

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▶ 27:37 Speaker 2: that went into that superintendent um you have the same annual report as you know is required under the regulatory guidance for belonging to a educational collaborative collaborative that yearly we must present the report to you as well as their audit report and what you have in front of you is their annual report i would call your attention to pay packet page 11 which outlines the collaborative objectives and just a brief discussion as I have said to you before we have been very fortunate in Kathy Lawson as the executive director of SIEM because she has listened to the 10 member communities that we want SIEM to be about more than special education and to that end she has added services and opportunities for general ed as well they have taken the lead on training such as the sheltered English immersion training crisis intervention training and other important opportunities for our staff and that is a cost-saving and a resource for us some of the services we that they provide us or ones that it would just be too expensive for us to manage on our own or to contract out on our own assistive technology hearing and peer peer consultation visually impaired consultation all are provided by SIEM we do not avail ourselves of their transportation because as you all know we have our own mini fleet of vans that we use for special education but occasionally we do contract with North reading and seam acts as the agent for north reading transportation when we need to contract with them the other important thing is as you read this and I hope you all read it you do remember we lease two buildings to seem at the BB and the Ripley for two very important programs and they are very full at both

▶ 29:46 Speaker 2: buildings the last thing that I would quickly point out to you is page 29 of their of their information which shows you what it costs for a scene program as opposed to some of the out of district programs that we may use for similarly diagnosed children and again the purpose of a special education collaborative is to help districts control costs we currently have nine children at seam or did at the end of last year one of their programs that is more fluid is their assessment center it's a 45-day assessment center that when we have a child who has particular challenges social emotional or behavioral and we're having difficulty getting a handle on underlying causes we will place a child there with parents permission for 45 days so that they can do more of a wraparound analysis than we can do in our buildings and then they provide us with recommendations so again that is the same annual program you have the audit the audit again is very good I just want to again draw your ears vision to one particular thing that scene board did and I acting as your representative as we all know within the state in the pension boards there is a vulnerability and we have all been charged with beefing up our pension savings for public employees last year the scene board made a decision to join a trust fund to manage those monies to hopefully grow them at a better rate and the scene board transferred a large sum of money approximately $500,000 into the trust fund so I believe it shows up in the report as a negative but we have been audited and we are compliant with all regulatory requirements questions

▶ 31:49 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: for the superintendent on the C manual report seeing none next on our agenda is