School Allocation Subcommittee Documents from 3/27/13

Please see the below links for documents distributed at the March 27th meeting.  I'm still waiting on two more of the presentations (the one presented by Mr. Groth and the list of Allocations recorded but not yet built) and will update this post with those documents once received...stay tuned.

If you have questions on these, please let me know.

Financial Analysis

School Allocation Expiration List

Public Forum on The School Allocation Process and School Funding

Public Meeting on the School Allocation Process

 April  10, 2013 at 6:30 PM

Thomas Stone High School

Come let your voice be heard.

The School Allocation Committee has has been meeting and discussing all the current revenue streams and allocation processes for school construction and school seats.  (Excise Tax, DRRA's, etc.) We are looking for YOUR input and collaboration on solutions for funding the costs of construction not reimbursed by the State, and funding for the operation and other additional costs associated with opening a new school.  Please join us and be part of the process and the solution.

School Adequate Public Facilities Program & Funding Review Committee Agenda, 3/27/13

The School Adequate Public Facilities Program & Funding Review Committee is scheduled to meet tomorrow evening, Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. in the Charles County Commissioners Meeting room at the Charles County Governement Building. The meeting is open to the public.  The agenda is open to the public.  The agenda  is listed below.  The DRAFT Work Plan can be found HERE.

Review and Approval of the Meeting Minutes of March 13th

Update on the April 10 Public Information Meeting

Review Revised Work Plan

Discuss the Approach to Problem Analysis and Solution Development

• Committee Identifies the Issue or Problem
• Committee/staff identify potential alternatives
• Staff prepares an analysis of the alternatives
• Committee evaluates and selects the preferred alternative

Review Charles County Experience in meeting the Objectives of the APF requirements

• Power Point Outlining the School APF Program

Status of the School Allocation Progam

• Outstanding Allocations and Expiration Dates
• Review of the Potential Future Impact from Development
• Use and Occupancy Permit History

BOE Staff Presentation of Requested Information

• Enrollment Projections
• School Needs Analysis (Step Charts)
• School Maps

School Allocations for St. Charles

• Explanation of St. Charles APF Mitigation by Proffering School Sites
• Commitment of School Allocations based on Mutual Agreements
• Historic Use of School Allocations by St. Charles

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

 

 

School Adequate Public Facilities Program and Funding Review Committee DRAFT Work Plan

School Adequate Public Facilities Program and Funding Review Committee

DRAFT

Work Plan

Charge

The Committee shall evaluate the County’s approach to ensuring adequate public acilities for schools in the development approval process to determine if the current policy is achieving the stated goals. The Committee should also develop solutions for addressing the timing of providing adequate school facilities to match the planned growth in the County. The Committee should work with designated staff to explore the feasibility and make recommendations on the best method to work through the issues related to school redistricting, school capacity allocation, and the timing and methods of school funding and construction.

 

Membership

2 Board of Education Members

2 County Commissioner Members
3 Citizen Members
2 Building Industry Members
Staff Representation

Committee support will be provided by County Government Staff and Board of Education staff. A member of Charles County Government staff and Board of Education staff will co-chair the meeting.

The following Agency Representatives and designated staff will constitute the Technical Committee and will be brought in on an as needed basis.

• Director of Planning and Growth Management
• Director of Fiscal and Administrative Services
• County Attorney
• Board of Education Staff (Recommended by the BOE)

Schedule

March 13 – Organizational Meeting

Refine work plan; Establish Dates; Determine need for guest speakers and adjunct staff. Brief Review of School Allocation Program and DRRA Mitigation.  Status of 2014 School CIP for new school capacity. Issues identification.

March 27 – School Adequate Public Facilities Regulation Experience

Review Charles County experience in meeting the objectives of the APFO including the DRRA mitigation program; Status of the School Allocation program; review of school allocation commitments.

April 10 - Committee Conducts Public Information Meeting #1

April 24 – Debrief on the Public Information Meeting

Review the comments from the Public informational meeting and adjust the Work Plan as necessary.  Continue discussion about APF experience including the use and computation of Student Yield Factors.

May 8 – Impediments to School Construction

Identify impediments to school construction to meet growth demands; Review alternative approaches to school construction funding such as forward funding including the total costs associated with start up; staffing limitations; program demands on facilities such as all day kindergarten and special needs programs; adequate State and local funding. The evaluation will include a presentation by the BOE staff on the steps required for school construction.

May 22 – State School Construction Funding Program

Review the role of State School Construction Funding in providing adequate capacity in time for planned growth. Includes a discussion of the IAC formula.

June 5 – Existing County School Funding Sources

Review the experience of the County in collecting Excise Tax Revenues and DRRA Mitigation payments. Begin identification of alternative revenue sources.

June 19 - Alternative Funding Sources

Evaluate alternative funding sources to supplement the school construction excise tax including but not limited to impact fees, APF Mitigation (DRRAs), transfer tax, recordation tax, property tax and cost saving measures.

July 3 – Review alternative APFO approaches Statewide

Role of relocatable classrooms in providing interim capacity; Role of relocatable classroom in other jurisdictions; Role of redistricting in meeting APFO objectives.

July 17 - Review of Alternative APFO Approaches Statewide

Use of alternative capacity measurements; Treatment of growth areas versus conservation areas.

July 31 - Review Committee Findings and Decisions

Review Committee findings and decisions and provide final direction to staff for preparation of the draft report.

August 14 - Review Draft Report

 

Staff provides a preliminary draft report based on discussions. Review draft report and direct staff on refinements.

August 28 - Finalize Draft Report

September 11 – Committee Refines and Approves Final Report

Committee considers public input and refines draft as needed. Approval of final draft for recommendation to the elected boards.

September 25 – Presentation to a Joint Meeting of the County Commissioners and Board of Education.

Commissioners Adopt Recommendations and Direct Staff to proceed with Implementation Measures.

Note: Additional Public Outreach Meetings may be scheduled at the direction of the Committee.

Notes from Board of Education Meeting, 3/12/13

The Board of Education Meeting on Tuesday, March 12 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 Reports of officers/boards/committees - See Report

 

Correspondence/Board Member updates -(computer difficulties prevented me from getting all of this section)

 

Education Association of Charles County update - See report

 

Student Board Member update - See report

 

Student Services update - See report

 

CIP update - See report

 

Telepresence - Fabulous...see report

 

Policy #6000 - See report for suggested changes

 

Sadlier Grammar Workshop and SpringBoard reading and mathematics - See report

 

School year 2014-15 calendar - principal, teacher and parents surveyed wished to move the January semester break as suggested last month but moved to keep the in-service date February as is.

 

Legislative update

• HB229 - alter the formula for county wealth which would determine how much state funding we would receive
• HB103 - require design documents to include solar technology
• HB139 - each public body to have one member receive online training on open meetings act
• HB??? - increase penalty per person on open meetings act violations
• HB833/SB 740 - College Readiness and Completion Act; mandate a college prep class into the curriculum....national push.....major discussion and heartburn over this bill ensued

Revision of student transfer rule #5126 - see report

 

Unfinished business - None

 

New business - None

Future Agenda items

• Cell Phone Policy; staff has made revisions to the rules

Recognition - 4:30 p.m.

• Students - Keara Woodland, 5th grade Personal Responsibility, William Diggs Elementary School, Principal: Sandra Taylor; Kritchanan Yampai, 5th grade, Academic Achievement, JP Ryon Elementary School, Principal: Robert Opiekun; Cayla Riddick, 8th grade, Academic Achievement, General Smallwood Middle School, Principal: Kathy Perriello; Rickee White, 12th grade, Career Readiness, Thomas Stone High School, Principal: Michael Meiser
• Employee - Sarah Milman, kindergarten teacher, Diggs; Alexis Howell, teacher, Ryon; Van Conner, pupil personnel worker, Smallwood; Cynthia Harrison, pupil personnel worker, Stone
• Resolutions: Month of the Young Child and National Student Leadership Week

Public Forum – 6 p.m.

• Marshall Oliver - Consider allowing families that are slotted for redistricting be permitted to enroll in new school prior to Aug 2014
•  Ms. Marki  - Berry Elementary- scheduling of special classes; 6 day rotation of art, music, and gym, one teacher to 900 students; volunteering for unpaid position with 2 other parents
• Andrea Anderson - Berry Elementary - read goals of CCPS; wants an answer to petition sent.

Action items

• Minutes Executive Session 2/12/13

Motion to accept by Cook; Second by Pedersen

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



• Minutes Regular Session 2/12/13

Motion to accept by Pedersen; Second by Cook

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

• Minutes Joint Commissioner Meeting 3/5/13

Motion to accept by Pedersen; Second by Cook

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

• Personnel

Motion to accept by Pedersen; Second by Cook

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

Superintendent Search Narrowed

The Board of Education of Charles County has narrowed its field of superintendent candidates to three. Finalists are Kimberly Hill of Charles County Public Schools, Jeanice Swift of Colorado Springs School District 11, and Carey Wright of District of Columbia Public Schools.

The Board is selecting a new Superintendent of Schools to replace long-time Superintendent James E. Richmond, who has announced he is leaving at the end of the 2012-13 school year.

In August, the Board hired consultants from the Maryland Association of Boards of Education (MABE) to assist with the search, which was advertised nationwide. The Board received 24 applicants for the position, screened all applications, held two separate interview sessions and selected three finalists. The finalists will now participate in a series of focus group interviews the week of March 18. The Board will select and announce Richmond's successor on April 9 at its regular monthly meeting.

The following is biographical information provided by each finalist.

KIMBERLY HILL

TITLE: Principal, Charles County Public Schools, North Point High School for Science, Technology and Industry, Waldorf, Md.

EXPERIENCE: Principal, North Point High School for Science, Technology and Industry, Charles County Public Schools, Md., 2007-present; Vice Principal, North Point High School, 2005-2007; Coordinator, Charles County Career and Technology Center, Charles County Public Schools, 1998-2005; Vice Principal, Maurice J. McDonough High School, Charles County Public Schools, 1993-1998; Social Studies Teacher, Maurice J. McDonough High School, 1986-1993.

EDUCATION: Ms. Hill earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science and history from High Point University in North Carolina, and a Master of Education in Educational Leadership from the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a doctoral candidate in Educational Leadership and Policy at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

JEANICE KERR SWIFT

TITLE: Assistant Superintendent for Instruction, Curriculum, and Student Services, Colorado Springs School District 11

EXPERIENCE: Assistant Superintendent for Instruction, Curriculum and Student Services, Colorado Springs School District 11, July 2011-present; Executive Director, K-12 Schools, Colorado Springs School District 11, 2009-2011; Principal, Charles M. Russell Middle School of the Performing Arts and Science, Colorado Springs School District 11, 2004-2009; Assistant Principal, Charles M. Russell Middle School, Colorado Springs School District 11, 2002-2004; Literacy Resource Teacher Coach, Jenkins Middle School, Colorado Springs School District 11, 2001-2002; Middle School English Teacher, North Middle School and Jenkins Middle School, Colorado Springs School District 11, 1998-2001; High School and Junior High Teacher, English and Spanish, Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District, Bedford, Texas, 1984-1991, 1995-1998.

EDUCATION: Dr. Swift earned a Bachelor of Arts in Education, with a major in English and a minor in Spanish, at the University of Texas, Arlington. She earned a master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Colorado and a Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Leadership at the University of Denver.

CAREY M. WRIGHT

TITLE: Chief Academic Officer, District of Columbia Public Schools

EXPERIENCE: Chief Academic Officer, District of Columbia Public Schools, 2010-present; Deputy Chief for the Office of Teaching and Learning, District of Columbia Public Schools, 2009-2010; Associate Superintendent for the Office of Special Education and Student Services, Montgomery County Public Schools, Md., 2003-2009; Director of Special Education and Student Services, Howard County Public Schools, Md.; Principal, Elkridge Elementary School, Bollman Bridge Elementary School, and Waverly Elementary School, Howard County Public Schools, Md.; Principal on Special Assignment to the Associate Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction, Howard County Public Schools, Md., Teacher, Prince George’s County Public Schools, Md., 1972-1976.

EDUCATION: Dr. Wright obtained her Bachelor of Science, Master of Education and Doctor of Education from the University of Maryland, College Park.

School Adequate Public Facilities Program and Funding Review Committee

Is looking forward to beginning my work on this committee which will begin Wednesday evening, March 13th at 6:00 p.m. in the commissioners meeting room atthe Charles County Government Building and is open to the public.

Mission
The Committee shall evaluate the County’s approach to ensuring adequate public facilities for schools in the development approval process to determine if the current policy is achieving the stated goals. The Committee should also develop solutions for addressing the timing of providing adequate school facilities to match the planned growth in the County. The Committee should work with designated staff to explore the feasibility and make recommendations on the best method to work through the issues related to school redistricting, school capacity allocation, and the timing and methods of school funding and construction.

(Althought i have an issue with the redistricting statement in here)

Contact
Planning and Growth Management, Jason Groth 301-645-0689

Members (i guess Pam & I got stripped of our titles)

Jennifer Abell	Regular
Reuben Collins, II	County Commissioner
Rosemin Daya	Regular
Jason Groth	Charles County Government Staff
Glenda Harrison	Regular
John Hayes	Regular
Candice Kelly	County Commissioner
James Lorenzi	Regular
Doug Meeker	Regular
Pamela Pedersen	Regular
Sarah Sandy	Charles County Government Staff

Agenda for 3.13

Committee Member Introduction
Administrative
Bill 2011-08, Code of Ethics

• Copy to be provided to all Committee Members
• Brief Review

Resolution 2012-70, Code of Civility

• Copy to be provided to all Committee Members
• Brief Review

Oath of Office

• Copy to be provided to all Committee Members
• Oath Taking
• Certificate handout

Acknowledgement Form

• All members of the Committee must sign and return to Sarah by the end of the meeting.

Chairman and Vice Chair

• Nominations
• Voting

Meeting
Overview of the Purpose of the Committee
Review Meeting Dates and Frequency
Discuss/Establish Public Participation Policy
Review Draft Work Plan and refine
Brief Review of School Allocation Program and Policies
Brief Review of DRRA Mitigation Program and Policies
Status of 2014 School CIP for new School Capacity
School Redistricting Policy
Identification of Additional Issues

Board of Education & Commissioner APFO Joint Straetgy Session, 3/5/13

Here is a link to a video of the meeting that took place.


[10:30 a.m.] Joint Meeting with Charles County Board of Education - Winter 2013 School Allocation Cycle (Mr. Peter Aluotto, Director of Planning & Growth Management/Charles County Public Schools & Board of Education)

School Allocations Presentation

No action was taken pending further information requested by Abell on allocations awarded but yet to be developed.

[11:30 a.m.] Strategic Planning Session w/ Charles County Board of Education (Government Building Conference Room)

Letter from BOE Wise

REMINDER: Board of Education Meeting, 3/12/13

The Board of Education's next monthly meeting is Tuesday, March 12, 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 student and staff recognition starts 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. The meeting is also streamed live on the Charles County Public Schools website. Visit http://www2.ccboe.com/boe/live/ to watch the meeting.

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 Reports of officers/boards/committees

• Correspondence/Board Member updates
• Education Association of Charles County update
• Student Board Member update
• Student Services update
• CIP update
• Telepresence
• Policy #6000
• Sadlier Grammar Workshop and SpringBoard reading and mathematics
• Budget update
• School year 2014-15 calendar
• Legislative update
• Revision of student transfer rule #5126

Unfinished business

New business and future agenda items

• New business
• Future agenda items

Recognition – 4:30 p.m.

• Students
• Employees
• Resolutions: Month of the Young Child and National Student Leadership Week

Public Forum – 6 p.m.
Action items 

• Minutes
• Personnel

Adjournment