REMINDER: School Adequate Public Facilities Committee Meeting, 6/26/13

AGENDA

Meeting #8

June 26, 2013

6:00 pm

Review and Approval of the Meeting Minutes of June 5th

• Review revised meeting schedule

Identification of Potential Alternative Revenue Sources to Fund School Construction

• Brief Review of Existing Sources
• Review Potential Alternative Sources 
• Provide direction to staff for further research on specific revenue sources

Public-Private Partnership School Delivery Option

• Provide direction to staff if additional research is warranted on this approach

Discuss Draft Issue Paper #1:"Timing of providing adequate school facilities to match the planned growth in the County."

• Provide direction to Staff regarding the draft recommendations

The next meeting is tentatively scheduled for July 17th at 6:00 PM in the County Government Conference Room.

*This agenda is tentative and is subject to adjustment at the discretion of the Committee.

Notes from Board of Education Meeting, 6/11/13

The Board of Education Meeting on Tuesday, June 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.

Call to order – 1 p.m. - Pledge of Allegiance – North Point High School's JROTC Unit

Swearing-in of new Student Board member – Amit Patel, Maurice J. McDonough High School

Recognition of high school athletes

Superintendent's updat - See Report

Recognition

• Pat Foerster, Maryland State Governor's office
• James E. Richmond Leadership Award
• LifeStyles – Bill McLaughlin, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)

Correspondence/Board member updates

• Bowie - Thank you to Mr. Richmond
• Pedersen - Thank you to Mr. Richmond
• Wade - Thank you to Mr. Richmond

EACC Update - See Report; Crab feast August 16th

CIP update - See update

Credit Recovery Program - see update

• Grade Recovery program for those students not performing adequately in their first semester. Its purpose is to demonstrate the various steps the schools have taken to help students obtain success in a subject to help keep them on track for graduation, in the same time, providing remediation for HSA exams.
• Success - LP = 92%; McD = 59%; TS = 61%; WS = 33%

 AP Spanish Textbooks - see report; needed for coordination with syllabus & curriculum

 

Budget update

• looking to spend $1M in wireless upgrade & new computers to help with testing issues
• $300,000 on school security to match govenor's funds
• digital radio conversion from analog with GPS and intercom for transportation $600,000
• paving projects
• North Point culinary arts projects
• Lighting retrofit for energy efficiency $676,000

Unfinished business

• Pedersen - quoted documents presented to APFO Subcommittee by The St. Charles Companies regarding Docket 90.  300 homes a year are allowed to be a built a year.
• APFO Subcommittee work review and discussion

New business

• FY 2014 tuition rates - See report- increase in rates

Motion to approve tuition rates by Cook; Second by Lukas

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

Future agenda items

• Cook - Cell Phone Policy
• Pedersen - Board Member Salary compared to other counties
• Abell - Explore BYOD (Bring your own device)

Recognition - 4:30 p.m.

• Outstanding vice principal award
• Outstanding support staff awards
• Resolution – Charles County Teacher of the Year– Mary Bailey, Reading Recovery teacher, Dr. Thomas L. Higdon Elementary School
• Resolution – Washington Post Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award – Crystal Harney, mathematics teacher, Westlake High School
• Employee retirement resolution

Public Forum – 6 p.m.

• Bernard Cundiff - Berry Road.  Son at North Point.  Redistricting will make him move his junior year.  Grandfather him in.  don't know why juniors can't have an exception if transportation is provided.

Action items

• Minutes

Motion to accept the Minutes by Pedersen; Second by Cook

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

• Personnel

Motion to accept the Personnel by Wade; Second by Cook

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

• Educational facilities master plan

Motion to accept the Educational Facilities Master Plan by Lukas; Second by Cook

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

• High school redistricting
• Wise - every board member has children in the school system or has graduated from the school system and every high school in the system is represented by the seven board members.
• Cook - concerned about juniors being moved but doesn't see a way around it
• Weslowski - leaving juniors in would open the new high school with 600+ students and not relieve the overcrowding at North Point.
• Lukas - quotes numbers for leaving juniors at schools and grandfather them in with their own transportation.
• Pedersen - concern with staff adjusting to new curriculum, new evaluation, moves and maintaining the teaching
• Bowie - parents concerns about driving st
• Abell - same concerns as Pedersen about staffing programs and not knowing

Motion to accept the Superintentdents Recommendation, Proposal B by Wade; Second by Pedersen

Yes = Abell, Bowie, Cook, Pedersen, Wade, Wise; No = Lukas

• FY 2014 budget

Motion to accept the FY 2014 Budget by Pedersen; Second by Lukas

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

• Common Core curriculum

Motion to accept the Common Core Curriculum by Cook; Second by Pedersen

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

• EACC Contract

Motion to accept the EACC Contract by Pedersen; Second by Cook

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

• AFSME Contract

Motion to accept the AFSME Contract by Lukas; Second by Pedersen

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

Adjournment

APFO Subcommittee Meeting Schedule

The next meeting of the School Adequate Public Facilities and Funding Review Committee will be on June 26, 2013 at 6:00 P.M. in the Government Building Conference Room.

 

We will not be holding another meeting until July 17, 2013 where we will resume the normal meeting schedule.

REMINDER: Board of Education Meeting, June 11, 2013

The Board of Education's next monthly meeting is Tuesday, June 11, at the Jesse L. Starkey Administration Building on Radio Station Road in La Plata. The public portion of the meeting begins at 1 p.m. and recognition begins at 4:30 p.m. The meeting is televised live on Comcast Channel 96 and Verizon FiOS Channel 12, and is rebroadcast throughout the week. Schedules for Channel 96 are available on the Charles County Public Schools website at www2.ccboe.com/publicinfo/channel96/schedule.cfm.

Executive Session – 12 p.m.

Call to order – 1 p.m.

Pledge of Allegiance – North Point High School's JROTC Unit

Swearing-in of new Student Board member – Amit Patel, Maurice J. McDonough High School

Recognition of high school athletes

Superintendent's update

Recognition

• Pat Foerster, Maryland State Governor's office
• James E. Richmond Leadership Award
• LifeStyles – Bill McLaughlin, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)

Reports of officers/boards/committees

• Correspondence/Board member updates
• Student Board Member update
• CIP update
• Credit recovery
• Budget update

Unfinished business

New business and future agenda items

• New business

- FY 2014 tuition rates

• Future agenda items

Recognition - 4:30 p.m.

• Outstanding vice principal award
• Outstanding support staff awards
• Resolution – Charles County Teacher of the Year – Mary Bailey, Reading Recovery teacher, Dr. Thomas L. Higdon Elementary School
• Resolution – Washington Post Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award – Crystal Harney, mathematics teacher, Westlake High School
• Employee retirement resolution

Public Forum – 6 p.m.

Action items

• Minutes
• Personnel
• Educational facilities master plan
• High school redistricting
• FY 2014 budget
• Common Core curriculum
• Education Association of Charles County/AFSCME contract signing

Adjournment

Northern High School principal to head school administration

Kimberly Hill, Charles County Public Schools next Superintendent, announced her first administrative appointment today, naming Northern High School Principal Sylvia Lawson, Ph.D., as assistant superintendent of school administration. Additionally, Hill said Keith Hettel, assistant superintendent of human resources, is moving to the position of assistant superintendent for supporting services.

Later this month, Hill plans to announce other changes to the administrative team, which she is reorganizing under four assistant superintendents. Assistant superintendent positions include instruction, school administration, supporting services and finance, with different departments placed under the appropriate leadership, Hill said. A number of top-level positions are open due to the retirements of key leaders.

The Board of Education approved the appointment of Lawson, Calvert County's 2011-12 Principal of the Year and a former Charles County Public Schools principal. Lawson served as a principal, vice principal and teacher in Charles County before moving to Calvert County Public Schools in 2007.

"I am thrilled to have Dr. Lawson as a member of our leadership team. She is an enthusiastic, student-centered leader who will have an immediate and positive impact on our school district. Her responsibilities will include working with our principals and vice principals as they carry out the vital day-to-day work of leading our schools. I am confident that under her guidance our school leaders will thrive and our students will reach even higher levels of achievement," Hill said.

Lawson started her career in education in 1981 as a health and physical education teacher at McColl High School in South Carolina before relocating to Charles County as a health and physical education teacher at Maurice J. McDonough High School, where she also served as a head women's basketball and softball coach.

Lawson's experience includes serving 11 years as a middle school principal, at Southern Middle School in Calvert County and Benjamin Stoddert Middle School in Charles County. She also worked as a vice principal from 1993 to 2000 at John Hanson Middle School, McDonough and Thomas Stone High School.

Lawson has a Doctorate of Philosophy in Instructional Leadership for Changing Populations from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. Additionally, she earned a certificate of advanced studies in education from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, a Master of Administration from Western Maryland College, a Master of Education from East Carolina University in North Carolina and a Bachelor of Science from Pfeiffer College in North Carolina.

Hill replaces James E. Richmond, who is retiring at the end of June after 17 years of service as superintendent. Lawson and Hettel begin their new positions on July 1, and Paul Balides, assistant superintendent of finance, remains in his current position. Connie Armstead, executive director of human resources, will manage human resources, which moves under the direction of the assistant superintendent of finance. The school system is advertising for an assistant superintendent of instruction.

Hill said the organizational structure is strategically designed to optimize the efficiency of operations and to fully engage the talents of central office personnel. "Aligning human resources with the finance department provides for an effective exchange of information between human resources, budget and finance and payroll. As the executive director of human resources, Connie Armstead's experience has given her the background and skills needed to lead this department. Keith Hettel's new role as assistant superintendent for supporting services will leverage his ability to build relationships and will serve us well as we continue to maintain and update our facilities. I appreciate the support and expertise that all of our executive staff members have provided to ensure a smooth transition," Hill said. Charles County Public Schools provides 26,700 students in grades prekindergarten through 12 with an academically challenging education. Located in Southern Maryland, Charles County Public Schools has 35 schools that offer a technologically advanced, progressive and high quality education that builds character, equips for leadership and prepares students for life, careers and higher education.