Lisa and Gordon are both roughly correct. The state first sets minimum contributions for each town that cover a “Foundation Budget” for LSRHS. The minimum contributions are in theory adjusted by wealth factors in each town (based on property values and income) but in practice both Sudbury and Lincoln are sufficiently wealthy that these factors have no impact, and the minimum contribution is pretty much a “per pupil” kind of number. Last time I was involved (FY21), the minimum contribution represented about half of the total assessment to the Towns.
By our regional agreement, the other half, the “above minimum contribution”, is assessed to the two towns based on the rolling average of the last three years of enrollment. Again, pretty much a “per pupil” kind of calculation, albeit with the rolling average involved. In terms of the split between Lincoln and Sudbury, Lincoln’s share has been dropping along with our enrollment. It was around 15% in the FY13-16 period and has since dropped to around 12% in FY21. One issue we’ve had in the past is uncertainty about exactly what the split will be as each town goes thru their budgeting cycle, since Lincoln has its Town Meeting earlier and typically tries to generate its budgets in Nov-Jan, before the Governor releases the state budget, usually not until late Jan or early Feb. As a result, in 2019 when I was on Fincom I wrote a spreadsheet to accurately predict this split in assessments between the two towns based solely on Oct 1 enrollment and past year information. For the six years I tested (FY15- FY20), the error in these predictions of Lincoln’s assessment was less than $10,000 in each case. I did this partly to dispel the notion that some change to the regional agreement was needed due to this uncertainty in split of assessments. It is not. So like Sara, I am curious what motivates this year’s concern about the regional agreement. I’d happily volunteer to participate in any discussions requested by Sudbury, especially regarding any finance or budgeting related concerns. Jim Hutchinson From: Lincoln <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Lisa Putukian via Lincoln Sent: Friday, March 18, 2022 3:01 PM To: Gordon Woodington <[email protected]> Cc: Lincoln Talk <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LincolnTalk] Question about contested 2022 Lincoln races My recollection is that there is a state mandated minimum contribution irrespective of percentage of students from each town (15%). In the 1970’s Lincoln represented 15-20% of the LS population. As recently as 5 years ago Lincoln represented less than 15% (perhaps 12%)? Someone closer to the facts can correct me. Perceptions (both in Sudbury and in Lincoln) can often take a very long time to adjust. Lisa (born and raised in Sudbury, living in Lincoln longer than those « formative » years). Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse typos! On Mar 18, 2022, at 2:20 PM, Gordon Woodington <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Simple minded; is cost split proportionally based on number of students from each town? Obvious that would then fluctuate on a year basis or so?? Gordon Woodington On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 1:59 PM Sara Mattes <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: There is a long history of Sudbury feeling the agreement should require a larger payment from Lincoln When I was on the Select Board, it was very a hot topic. We had a local study committee to look into other potential regional options. There were none. I would be curious to know where the push to revisit the agree is truly coming from. Sara Sent from my iPhone On Mar 18, 2022, at 1:25 PM, Louis Zipes <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Michelle, Personally for me the biggest thing, for the LSSC (LSRH) races, is how each candidate looks upon the Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School Agreement. As I understand there might be a clamoring from Sudbury residents that Lincoln is not 'paying its fair share' and they want to re-open the agreement. Apologies if I'm mischaracterizing this but apparently there was a committee that was formed to look at this question so we should have some wariness about this and seek to clarify their positions on this. Keep in mind that at certain points in our time in this long compact we may have thought we were getting the short end of the stick so I would defer to people with longer institutional knowledge to give some historical context here. I second that the evening was a great way to meet and hear from candidates from some of the boards that get less visibility. Hurrah for all of the people putting themselves out there to help our community. - Louis On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:31 AM Michelle Barnes via Lincoln <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear LincolnTalk, I’m wondering whether the candidates challenging incumbents in the two 2022 town elections, or anyone else for that matter, might be able to shed any light on why they’ve entered the race? From the candidate forum I did not get a strong sense of that. (Rightly so, in order to keep the discussion civil, the parameters around the evening would’ve made that conversation difficult. The moderators, Carol Casper and Rob Stringer, did a truly superb job of pulling that evening together and moderating it, and I’m so very grateful to all the candidates for putting their hat into the vital ring of public service. We are so lucky to have so many super talented, capable, caring and committed people in our community, wow!) Our daughter will be entering the eighth grade this fall, so I am particularly interested in (and mystified by) the LSRH school committee race. From the candidates forum, on the face of it at least, stated objectives and values were reasonably similar across the incumbents and those challenging the incumbents although styles were clearly very different (for both contested races). This leaves me wondering what I am missing? If you’d like to, or are at least willing to, discuss this with me privately, please email me back and I’ll give you my personal contact information so that we can discuss it by phone or meet for coffee at the Twisted Tree or whatever is most comfortable and convenient for you. It might be good for all of us to learn the answer to this question directly from the candidates challenging incumbents though. Thank you very much, Michelle Barnes S. 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