Notes from Board of Education Meeting, 11/13/13

The Board of Education Meeting on Tuesday, November 13 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.

Not much extra I can offer this month by way of notes.  If you review the reports & presentations on BoardDocs, you're pretty much covered.

Executive session - 12 p.m.

Call to order - 1 p.m.Pledge of Allegiance, Maurice J. McDonough High School JROTC unit

Superintendent's update to the Board  - See Report

Correspondence/Board member updates - none

Education Association of Charles County update - See Report

Student Board member update - See Report

CIP update - See report
  
One-room school house - see powerpoint

Mock trial - see report

Recruitment and retention - See Report; lots of statistics and loads of information

Legislative update - See Report.  State legislation on discipline, keep students in schools as opposed to suspension.  Proposed state changes are in report.  [ ] indicate wording to be removed, italics is proposed wording to be inserted.  Recommendation is to oppose these regulation changes

Unfinished business - None

New business

• Wineland - land transfer (.68 acres) to volunteer fire department to extend parking lot near Smallwood Shopping Center.  Land behind Stoddert.  No vertical construction except a fence.
• Pedersen - Other uses for property, selling, surplus
• Wineland - Other schools too close, can't sell
• Abell - wasn't there a request from Smallwood Association for a park
• Wineland - never a formal request, some interest, they looked at it & not conducive to  their project
• Lukas - 40 acres minus the .68 acres...does that make the remaining land unuseable for anything else for us
• Wineland - No

Motion by Wade to approve the transfer; Second by Pedersen

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

• NSBA Resolution on Federal Funding

Motion by Cook to accept the resolution; Second by Pedersen

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

Future agenda items

• Lukas - Requests a report on the transfers now that the policy has been implemented

Recognition - 4:30 p.m.

• Students - Orianna Eldridge, 5^th grade, Academic Achievement, Dr. James Craik Elementary School; Natalie Chirinos-Deleon, 5^th grade, Career Readiness, Dr. Thomas Higdon Elementary School; Addison Kindrick, 5^th grade, Personal Responsibility, Malcolm Elementary School; Eric Wood, 5^th grade, Career Readiness, J.C. Parks Elementary School; Lauren Holmes, 8^th grade, Academic Achievement, Benjamin Stoddert Middle School

• Staff - Kathleen Reamy, school counselor, Craik; Mary Bailey, reading recovery teacher, Higdon; Jennifer Walsh, speech therapist, Parks; Michele Brucculeiri, first grade teacher, Malcolm; Kevin Wassie, language arts teacher, Stoddert

Public Forum - 6 p.m.

• Latrina Carr - son at J.P. Ryon and one at Stone.  JP. Ryon, Title 1 school, applaud curriculum and teachers.  Effectiveness with 30 students in class at various levels.

Action items

• Redistricting Hearing Minutes 11/5/12

Motion by Pedersen; Second by Cook

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

• Executive Minutes  10/9/12

Motion by Pedersen; Second by Cook

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

• Minutes 10/9/12

Motion by Cook; Second by Lukas

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

• Personnel

Motion by Abell; Second by Cook

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

• Gifted and Talented Education Month resolution

Motion by Pedersen; Second by Lukas

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

• Policy #5171.1 - Epi-pens

Motion by Pedersen; Second by Lukas

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

• 2013 Legislative positions

Motion by Pedersen; Second by Lukas

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

Adjournment