March 6, 2019 at 6:30 PM - Regular Board of Education Meeting

Please note the personnel report as you will find updated employee information reflected in it.

Please take note of the March enrollment report. We have a total of 1281 students enrolled (3 more than last month this time).

We are preparing the budget edition of the Focus to go out in the mail. We are also in the process of presenting our budget to the BOF's in both towns. 

At our April meeting, we will have an official vote to set a date for graduation as prescribed in statute. Assuming no more closures beyond the two we have already had, the last day of school will be June 17, 2019.  

I will update the Board on the Next Generation Accountability Report which came out on February 22, 2019.

I will update the Board on a number of legislative items that could impact our district in the future.  Specifically, the various regionalization proposals and the shift of a portion of TRB payments to our budgets which would result in the following costs for our towns going forward.

OLD LYME

74,966

154,812

224,898

LYME
19,260

39,774

57,780

I will update the Board on our annual goals.

The month of March is Connecticut Board of Education Member Appreciation Month. I will take a moment to recognize all of our Board members for their dedicated service to our communities.

The Middle School roof replacement was successfully completed during the summer and fall of 2018.  The completed project cost is $399,316.05 excluding reimbursement.

The Board of Education approves the Mile Creek fuel oil tank replacement project as complete and accepts the school building project herein identified for public school purposes and certifies that:

The High School switches were installed in 2011 and are ready for replacement. These replacements are part of the network infrastructure maintenance plan. All the equipment was bid through the Federal eRate bidding system. This equipment is eligible for eRrate grant discount of 50%. Only one quote was received which met the bid specifications. All of this equipment will be supplied and installed by Connecticut Computer Services, our network services contractor.

Total cost is with the 2019-2020 school district budget.

The Facilities Committee, along with an Ad Hoc committee, had previously advised the Board of Education to install a supplementary irrigation water system on the Lyme Street campus to reduce the strain on the potable water supply. This project was publicly bid with results listed below.

References and qualifications of the Winterberry Group have been verified. This project is within the estimated value and will be funded from remaining 2018-2019 funds.

This purchase is part of the annual computer replacement program.  These new Chromebooks will replace the existing six-year-old student laptops in grades K-8. In addition, this purchase will establish a grades 4-8 1:1 student computer program. 

The proposed action is based on a four year computer lease. Lease pricing is based on the State of Connecticut Dell pre-bid contract pricing. The base equipment cost is $171,304.00. The total expenditure following four annual lease payments is $184,199.76.