SAUGUS-Superintendent Richard Langlois said he was warned not to make any major changes in his first three months on the job.”I think I waited three days,” he said.Langlois presented the School Committee with a lengthy report Thursday outlining the observations, intentions and determinations made in his first four months on the job. Some are positive, most are weaknesses.Langlois spent his first weeks meeting with approximately 275 staffers and reading every document pertaining to the School Department that he could find.”I met people before I read the documents because I didn’t want to be tainted,” he said. “I just wanted to listen to people.”He said his objectives were to build relationships, examine protocols and procedures, clarify roles and identify key issues.He also met with town officials, attended meetings and forums, such as Finance Committee meetings, to essentially figure out how the town operated.What he learned is the district is lacking in many areas – but not all.Langlois had high praise for principals and teachers.”I am most proud of the people I work with,” he said. “The teachers and administrators, they’re driving the bus . . . they are working hard and going above and beyond.”He said the district was lucky it had six principals dedicated not only to their jobs, but also to supporting each other.”They’ve kept this system moving,” he said.Langlois’ most notable criticism was the fact the town only funds the school budget at 40 percent.”Forty percent is inadequate to run a school system of this size and the town has to realize that,” he said.He said it also surprised him that the central office was basically run by three people, that only the high school had curriculum that is fully aligned to the state frameworks and that there is no foreign language at the middle school or fine arts in the elementary schools.”Saugus is a system of schools and not a school system,” he said. “Because of the fiscal situation you have, schools competing against each other for resources and some are offended. We’re beginning to turn that around.”Langlois said the district is also weak in technology and he is concerned that students could actually reach the high school level without knowing how to effectively use a computer.”Neither teachers nor students have any great access to technology in K-8,” he said.He noted there are also two elementary schools on the edge of having to face restructuring for failure to make Adequate Yearly Progress on MCAS, that there is no joint planning or strategizing time for teachers, full day kindergarten is needed in all schools and there is no preventative maintenance plan in place.He said fixing the problems is going to take a team effort, which will include developing action and strategy plans, going after grants and having the community come together to support the School Departments efforts both figuratively and financially.”You’re getting a lot of mileage out of great people and it’s a great foundation to move the district forward,” he said. “I’m proud of that and we’re looking at drawing on it.”