Notes from Board of Education Meeting, 9/11/12

The Board of Education Meeting on Tuesday, September 11 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 – 12 p.m.

Call to order – 1 p.m.

Pledge of Allegiance – Henry E. Lackey High School's JROTC unit

Superintendent's update to the board - see report

Maryland Association of Boards of Education (MABE) update  - see report

Correspondence/board member updates

• Bowie - Encourage reading your calendar, wealth of information
• Wade - 911 remembrance; worse than Pearl Harbor
• Pedersen - Update on classroom sizes; flex program in middle schools and middle school schedules
• Cook - Bannister Neighborhood Association looking for used books to use as awards for their one-on-one tutoring program
• Wise - Commissioners' meeting on the 18th; Reaching Out Now hopes to provide Wal-mart gift cards as well as monetary donations to schools; Letter from Commissioner Kelley asking for a joint committee to study school capacity.  Abell & Pedersen volunteered.  Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Summit

Education Association of Charles County update - see report

Student board member's update - see report

Opening of schools - oral report; uneventful

Capital Improvement Program (CIP) update - see report

• Construction of high school has begun; March 2014 completion
• F B Gwynn Center renovation update

Report item: FY 2013 Comprehensive Maintenance Plan - see report

Gifted and talented education policy - see report

• Pedersen - questioning validity of 'flex time'
• Wise - Annotated Code of Maryland states that students are identified by a qualified individual; who identifies our students?
• Bourasso - Committee of teachers and staff

Gifted and Talented Education Month resolution - see report

Policy #5171.1 – Epi-pens - see report

Unfinished business - none

New business

• Resolution for MABE

Motion to accept the resolution by Abell; Second by Cook

YES = Abell, Bowie, Cook, Pedersen, Wade, Wise; Absent = Lukas



Future agenda items - none

Recognition – 4:30 p.m.

• Truth Chapter No. 19, Order of the Eastern Star, Prince Hall Affiliated

Public Forum – 6 p.m.

• Roseman Diaz - Davis to Henson redistricting; students love it but it is extremely crowded.  Already 70 students overcrowded.  Additional developments being built.  Here to advocate for the students and ally with the board.
• Lourdes Sagun - redistricting; students love school; class sizes are still 27-30 students; wants to be involved and on the committee for the high school redistricting

Action items

• Minutes

Motion to accept the June 5 meeting minutes by Pedersen; Second by Cook

YES = Abell, Bowie, Cook, Pedersen, Wade, Wise; Absent = Lukas

Motion to accept the June 28th teleconference by Cook; Second by Pedersen

YES = Abell, Bowie, Cook, Pedersen, Wade, Wise; Absent = Lukas

Motion to accept the August 14th minutes by Abell; Second by Pedersen

YES = Abell, Bowie, Cook, Pedersen, Wade, Wise; Absent = Lukas

Motion to accept the August 14th executive session minutes by Cook; Second by Pedersen

YES = Abell, Bowie, Cook, Pedersen, Wade, Wise; Absent = Lukas

Motion to accept the August 6th & August 14th executive session minutes by Cook; Second by Wade

YES = Abell, Bowie, Cook, Pedersen, Wade, Wise; Absent = Lukas

• Personnel

Motion to accept the personnel by Wade; Second by Personnel

YES = Abell, Bowie, Cook, Pedersen, Wade, Wise; Absent = Lukas

• FY 2014 CIP state and local CIP program

Motion to accept the CIP by Cook; Second by Wade

YES = Abell, Bowie, Cook, Pedersen, Wade, Wise; Absent = Lukas

• Redistricting policies

Motion to accept the redistricting policies as amended by Abell; Second by Pedersen

YES = Abell, Bowie, Cook, Pedersen, Wade, Wise; Absent = Lukas

• 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; Charles County Teacher of the Year; Employees Retirement; and Washington Post Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award.

Motion to accept the recurring resolutions by Cook; Second by Bowie

YES = Bowie, Cook, Pedersen, Wade, Wise; ABSTAIN = Abell; Absent = Lukas

Adjournment