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NOTES: Board Meeting, 1/13/09
The Board Meeting Tuesday, January 13th will be re-broadcast on Channel 96 on Wednesdays at 6 p.m.; Fridays at 9 a.m.; and Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. . To view the full agenda and the various reports, please visit BoardDocs.
The below notes are my personal notes and are not intended to be all-inclusive or official minutes for the Board of Education meetings and are provided as a request from my supporters and the general public in a personal effort to be more transparent. Although I have diligently tried to make these notes as unbiased and accurate as possible, I am only human and do make mistakes.
CHAIRMAN WADE WAS ABSENT FOR THIS MEETING. MS. WISE PRESIDED.
NOMINATIONS FOR CHAIR (WRITTEN)
Wade - 3
Wise - 3
VOTE FOR CHAIR (WRITTEN)
Wade - 3
Wise - 3
VOTE FOR CHAIR (WRITTEN)
Wade - 4
Wise - 2
VOTE FOR CHAIR (ORAL)
Wade - 5
Wise - 1 (Abell)
NOMINATIONS FOR VICE-CHAIR (WRITTEN)
Wise - 4
Pedersen - 2
VOTE FOR VICE-CHAIR (WRITTEN)
Wise - 6
SUPERINTENDENT REPORT
- Incidents over past week
- FY10 Budget Proposal $304.6M; increase in funding of $5.1M (1.7%) over FY2009.
BOARD MEMBERS
- Pedersen - Scrabble tournament cancelled
- Pedersen - Diversity Forum 2/28
- Pedersen - Possible legislation's
STUDENT BOARD MEMBER
Student Health Curriculum Review
EACC
Read report
CIP UPDATE
- Barnhart - Addition complete
- Gale - Bailey - Just started
- TC Martin - to be completed by the 09/10 SY
- Housekeeping & Technology Presentation
PROGRAM OF STUDIES
- Bailey - financial literacy
- Abell - dual enrollment - (will get back to me)
- Abell - Life Skills Curriculum - (will get back to me)
HEALTH CURRICULUM
Report item; action next month
BUDGET UPDATE
Read report
COMMUNICATION UPDATE
- quarterly report sent via mailer through private company free of charge to system with advertisement fliers
- Pederson - concerned about ads included (no controversial ads will be included)
- Abell - Fast Facts button added to website (will check into it)
- Abell - Possibility of adding an incident "ticker" on our web-site (future agenda item)
FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS
- Pedersen - letters Col Wade writes included in mailer
- Cook - wants to change board times
- Abell - incident ticker on web-site
- Abell - Student Code of Conduct - consequences changed for sexual assault
- Abell - Board notification of Incidents
- Bailey - Financial Literacy
PUBLIC FORUM
No one
ACTION
- Minutes - Cook Abstained. Abell, Bailey, Carrington, Pedersen, Wise APPROVED
- Policy 8000 & 9000 Changes - Unanimously APPROVED
- Personnel - Unanimously APPROVED
BUDGET HEARING
No one
1 comment:
The quarterly report sent via mailer, with advertisements, free of charge to the school system, with assurance that no controversial ads will be included?
In this economy, advertising dollars are tight. I find it hard to believe that a company thinks it could sustain its production and mailing costs through such advertising. Further, who at Central Office is going to be tasked with guaranteeing that no “controversial” ads will be included in the mailing? And to whom would the quarterly report be sent? Only to parents with children enrolled in the public school system? I hope not.
With regard to Ms. Pedersen’s request that “letters Col Wade writes” be included in the mailer – would it not be more accurate to state “letters written for Col. Wade’s signature?”
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