Notes from Board of Education Meeting, 8/14/12

The Board of Education Meeting on Tuesday, August 14 will be re-broadcast on Comcast Channel 96, Verizon FIOS Channel 12 and is available via webstream at http://www.ccboe.com/ . 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.
Executive Session – 9 a.m.

Call to order – 11 a.m. - Pledge of Allegiance

Superintendent's update - See Report

Correspondence/Board member updates

• Wise - MABE committee member requests

Education Association of Charles County update - See Report

Student Board Member update - See Report

Opening of schools, athletics update - See Report

• Impact testing for athletes.  Computerized test at start of year gives a baseline.  Students will take the test again after an impact/injury.  Will tell doctors whether a students is fully recovered and if they can return to play.
• All coaches required to take a test and have an emergency plan in place
• Cook - impressed with information given on sports night for her son.

CIP update  - See report

• Richmond - why does it cost $200,000 to hook up three schools
• Wise - letter from the board

FY 2014 CIP state and local CIP program - See Report

Redistricting policies - See Report

• Wise - issue with 'desireability to limit the movement of a high school student after initial enrollment
• Abell - change 'limiting' to 'minimizing' in both sentences
• Cook - against having a board member select a person to the committee
• Abell - change wording back to original just with more explanantion about pool of applicants and random drawing

Change of gifted education policy - See Report (Policy 6411.1)

• recommended changes to align county policy with revised state (COMAR) policy

Staffing update

Recurring resolutions: American Education Week; American Freedom Week; African-American History Month; Career and Technical Education Month; National School Counseling Week; Read Across America; Women's History Month; Fine and Performing Arts Month; Month of the Young Child; National Student Leadership Week; Teacher Appreciation Week; Administrative Professionals Week; Child Nutrition Employee Appreciation Week; National Physical Education and Sport Week; Washington Post Distinguished Educational Leader; Washington Post Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award; Charles County Teacher of the Year; and Employees' Retirement

Unfinished business

• Pedersen - any follow-up on a date to meet with the commisioners
• Wise - new policy in place; we cannot call and request a meeting, have to log online and submit a request; process didn't work; printed and snail mailed.

New business - None

Future agenda items - None

• Wise - Study on high school start times; still working on it
• Bowie - Common core and the waiver and the affect on us; staff working on it
• Pedersen - Safety report form Sheriff Coffey; October meeting

Public Forum – 3:30 p.m. - None

Action items

• Minutes

Abell requests to hold the Exective Session Minutes

until the next meeting since we never received a copy.

Motion to accept the Minutes from 6/14/12 by Lukas; Second by Pedersen

Yes = All

Motion to accept the Minutes from 8/6/12 by Cook; Second by Bowie

Yes = Abell, Bowie, Cook, Lukas, Wade, Wise; Abstain = Pedersen



• Personnel

Motion to accept Personnel by Abell; Second by Pedersen

Yes = All

Adjournment