Notes from Board of Education, 9/24/12

The Board of Education Meeting on Monday, September 24 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.

Call to order – 6 p.m.


Pledge of Allegiance

Public Forum

Work Session

Opening of St. Charles High School - See report for additional development figures
According to officials from the developers of St. Charles:

--Sheffield is built out and includes about 1,300 housing units (apartments, townhomes, and single family.)
--Gleneagles North and South will have about 1,700 housing units.
--Fieldside will include just under 500 housing units.

Gleneagles North is largely complete. The first unit in Fieldside settled this month. St. Charles is still finishing lot development in Gleneagles South, but expect the first homeowner early next year.

This illustrates St. Charles' immediate plans around St. Charles High School. Of course, there are future neighborhoods that are still in planning and are not depicted on the map. After these units, the development agreement calls for approximately 10,000 more housing units, in the area between St. Charles High School and Radio Station Road/La Plata High School. At 300 units a year, those units would be built over 33 years.

The following is the link to the four options for opening St. Charles High School:
http://www2.ccboe.com/parentscomm/stcharleshsopeningoptions.cfm

• Wade - requests Richmonds opinion
• Richmond - doesn't recommend moving seniors

Motion to accept Option 2 for opening the St. Charles High School with grades 9,10,& 11;

Second by Bowie

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

Bowie - Costs involved

Balides/Richmond - $18M to run a new high school....no seniors would be less; based on our decision tonight they will produce a more detailed number.

Adjournment