Notes from Board of Education Work Session, 5/23/16

The Board of Education Work Session on Monday, May 23 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 – 5 p.m.  - Pledge of Allegiance

Public Forum (names may be misspelled)

• Christa Falls - Transgender bathroom policy.  Against new policy.  Privacy and respect issues.
• Phyllis Lately - 4 daughters through CCPS.  Against new transgender policy
• Theresa Shutters - Against transgender policy
• Rose Age - 5 children; 2 @ LPHS.  Against transgender policy; daughter doesn't feel safe

Work Session

• FY 2017 operating budget - BOEapprovedbudget_report item.(3).pdf (418 KB)
• Kelly - requested information of teacher mentors and substitute buses.
• Lukas - 2015 audit, assigned and unassigned fund balance.  unassigned will be driven to 0 by 2018.
• Sotomeyer - assigned fund balance is for insurance etc. Gap basis = recognize expenditures of the entity during that fiscal year.
• Palko - purchasing 14 new buses because we are required by law.  (buses cannot be over 15 years old and in service)
• Crawford - risk of federal money on not following the federal transgender policy
• Policy 6000 revisions - Board Revisions_Policies6000.pdf (693 KB)
• Abell - Asked for the Chair to consider a consensus of the board to delay policy discussion until the next work session due to the needed executive session still this evening.  Approved.

Adjournment