Notes from Board of Education Meeting 2/10/15

The Board of Education Meeting on Tuesday, February 10 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, Thomas Stone High School JROTC

Superintendent’s update - See Report

Correspondence/Board Member updates

• Palko - BYOD visited several schools to see in action
• Marshall - wants to discuss Teachers Academy of MD with teachers; volunteered to serve on MABE Federal Relations Committee
• Kelly - Art Fair & Science Fair; Daughter of American Revolution Results
• Crawford - SECAC Meeting
• Abell - APFO Subcommittee Update; MABE Budget approved; Alternative Education Committee Update
• McGraw - Scholarship Committee

Education Association of Charles County update
- See report

Student Board Member update - See Report

System goals - See report

• Marshall - one hour lunch - discipline concerns?  no
• Marshall - Counselor in all schools not just for at risk students
• Marshall - cultural competency training for staff same as diversity training
• Marshall - wants BOE to help CCPS at public forums
• Marshall - lots of our job shadow students questions, couldn't keep up with them all
• Kelly - Homegrown teacher recruitment
• Kelly - marketing county in recruitment
• Abell - C.C. Special Ed students 3rd fastest growing in state, why?  We are good at what we do
• Abell - Diversity in teacher recruitment should still be a goal even though we are above the state and national average and should be stated as a goal

2015-16 Code of Student Conduct - See report

CIP update -see report

• Portables Update - See report
• State owned portables have a flat roof; local owned have a sloped roof

Overview of transportation department - See Report

• Palko - Camera cost?  $1,800 per bus...all new buses hav cameras and any old bus routes with a possible issue can be fitted.

CCPS maintenance presentation - See report

Flipped classroom demonstration

Legislative update -

• $4.6M budget cuts at state
• GCEI index cut in half for Charles County
• HB28 - requiring school resource officers in every school in state; to be funded by the state
• HB135 - school construction excise tax rates - increase in $1.2M
• SB183 -HB215 GCEI - Mandate the formula
• HB344 - Special Education due process; who has burden of proof
• HB389 - Labor Day Bill - School Start after Labor Day
• SB595 - Amend Charter School Law to make it easier to start chart schools

Teacher separation update - See report

Unfinished business

New business

Future agenda items

• Abell - Request for the percentage of students in our system using waivers to avoid immunizations.

 

Recognition – 4:30 p.m

• Students - Haakon Berglund, 5th grade, Academic Achievement, Berry Elementary School, Principal: Melissa Logan; Kailyn Pratta, 5th grade, Personal Responsibility, Dr. Thomas L Higdon Elementary School, Principal: Kathleen Morgan; Cheyenne Toma, 5th grade, Academic Achievement, Eva Turner Elementary School, Principal: Orlena Whatley; Camdin Edge, 8th grade, Career Readiness, Piccowaxen Middle School, Principal: Wendall Martin; Jessica Foster, 12th grade, Career Readiness, La Plata High School, Principal: Evelyn Arnold
• Staff - David S. Johnson, Building Service Assistant Manager, Berry; Betty T. Horton, first grade teacher, Higdon; Laura M. Birchfield, fifth grade teacher, Turner; Sara T. Keener, Language Arts teacher, Piccowaxen; Kevin D. Barry, Social Studies teacher, La Plata
• Resolutions Read Across Charles County: Accepting:  Sahana Venkatesh, 6th grade, General Smallwood Middle School; Linda Forrest, Reading Resource Teacher, General Smallwood Middle School, Rajan Venkatesh, 2nd grade, Gale-Bailey Elementary School, Diedra Barnett, Reading Resource Teacher, Gale-Bailey Elementary School
  Women's History Month: Accepting: Dr. Sonya Ford, Chairperson, Charles County Commission for Women
  Fine and Performing Arts: Accepting: Timothy Bodamer, Specialist, Fine and Performing Arts; Madison Meiser, 7th grade, Piccowaxen, Middle School, Orchestra

Public Forum – 6 p.m.

• Deb Vahle - bus drivers are now receiving school closing notifications  by 5, thank you
• Shantiqua Wheeler - Princ. Wade overstepping her authority.  teachers are being told they are giving out to many A's and to stop.

Action items

• Minutes

Motion to accept the Minutes by Abell; Second by Lukas

Yes = Abell, Crawford, Kelly, Lukas, Marshall, McGraw, Palko

Motion to amend the Minutes by Kelly; Second By Crawford

Yes = Abell, Crawford, Kelly, Lukas, Marshall, McGraw, Palko

Amendment was made to reflect there wasnt a no vote for any candidate for the offices.

• Personnel

Motion to accept Personnel by Abell; Second by Kelly

Yes = Abell, Crawford, Kelly, Lukas, Marshall, McGraw, Palko

• Superintendent’s proposed FY 2016 operating budget

Motion to Amend remove the PASS program from the budget by Kelly; Second by Crawford

Yes = Kelly; No = Abell, Crawford, Lukas, Marshall, McGraw, Palko



Motion to accept the Budget by Abell; Second by Lukas

Yes = Abell, Crawford, Kelly, Lukas, Marshall, McGraw, Palko

Adjournment