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Attending:  Lauren Poster – chair, Andy Reichsman – vice chair, Gussie Bartlett – Sec’y, Francie Marbury – Principal, Steven John – WCSU Superintendent,

The meeting was called to order at 3:37 pm.

The purpose of the meeting was to review the Supervisory Union budget as it affects the Marlboro School District.  Superintendent Steven John went through the budget to clarify changes and explain the rationale behind the budget.

The big change is that the Special Education assessment is now pro-rated by IEP caseload versus head count in the school building.

We came up with two questions for Frank Rucker:

1.  Would there be any adjustment in Sp Ed numbers (IEP head count) based on actual (after the fact) IEP’s or does the SU budget estimate stand?  (If 4 kids moved out of town, do we stick with estimate?)

2.  This year, did all districts count their pre-K’s in the prorating of the Supervisor’s assessment?  What about last year?

The meeting adjourned at 5:03 pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Andy Reichsman

Pay Orders:                          #11            11/20/09            $262,538.40

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