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HomeMy WebLinkAbout12-08-2004_Board_Meeting BONNEVILLE JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT #93 3497 N. Ammon Road Idaho Falls, Idaho 83401 December 8, 2004 I. Call to Order II. Roll Call Board Members present were Chairman Craig Lords, Vice Chairman, Annette Winchester, Treasurer, Randy Haws, Kip Nelson, and Wendy Horman. Also present, Superintendent Dr. Chuck Shackett and Jamie Smith, Board Clerk. III. Prayer Ken Marlowe IV. Welcoming of Delegates and Visitors Chairman Lords announced that tonight is not a public meeting for Taylor’s Crossing Public Charter School. The Board has not received a formal petition from TCPCS and until then can not hold a public meeting. Chairman Lords also announced that the media, newspaper and flyer notification was not done by the District Office or School Board. There are guidelines that need to be followed when submitting a petition. Ken Marlowe Bob Marchus Shay Wallace Heather Lassle Krish Eldridge Camy Rish Erica Radford Terri Porter Susan Nielsen Cary Nielsen Guy Bliesner Linda Holt Gary Jones Paul Wallace Carol Roberts Tom Hughes Rebecca Bohman Marc Bohman Susan Searle Tom Hunsaker Tamara Cox Anita Ogden Kaylene Craig Iva Butler LaVon Butler Galen Williams Gordon Jones Jennifer Buckley Jill Starnes V. Consent Calendar A. Minutes of the previous meeting(s). November 3, 2004 – Regular Meeting November 18, 2004 – Special Meeting November 29, 2004 – Work Session B. Accounts Payable 1,586,409.00 C. Resignation(s) and Terminations Connie Eck – Hillcrest part-time teacher will be going back to school. Christina Nelson – Food Service just quit Wendy Jones – Food Service just quit Ron Hale – Transportation Lisa Belnap – BHS part-time cook D. Retirements James Prince – LHS Assistant Principal will retire at the end of the 2004-2005 school year. Mr. Prince has been employed with the district for 19 years. E. Proposed Contracts, Appointments & Assignments Darla Gavin – RMMS part-time cook will be replacing Christina Nelson. Syliva Clements – Iona classroom aide. This is a new position due to class overload. Heather Plain – Falls Valley part-time cook will be replacing Wendy Jones. Carleen Geyer – Ammon Computer lab tech. Ammon PTO is paying for this position. Lisa Anderson – BHS part-time cook will be replacing Lisa Belnap. Joe Angelo – RMMS part-time custodian will be replacing Travis Lake. Timothy Urrutia – HHS Custodian will be replacing Gary Darrington F. Transfers Wendy Jones – Falls Valley cook to Tiebreaker custodian Gary Darrington – Hillcrest Head custodian to Ammon Head custodian MOTION: Annette Winchester made the motion to accept the consent calendar. Seconded by Wendy Horman. All in favor. Motion passed. VI. Old Business 1. Policies Adoption – Dr. Bruce Roberts asks for a motion to adopt the policy adoption as presented. MOTION: Randy Haws made the motion to adopt the policy adoption as presented. Seconded by Annette Winchester. All in favor. Motion passed. VII. Public Input Policy # 204.10 - Public Input will provide an opportunity for any Board Member, administrator, staff member, student or patron to raise issues of interest. The Board will receive such input without comment, except to ask germane questions of those speaking. Comments should be limited to 3 minutes. The Board will take no action relative to any items during the meeting, but may direct the Superintendent to consider such an item at a subsequent meeting. Galen Williams, 3754 E 97 N. – compliments the board and superintendent on the passing of the bond election. This is a learning experience for us. Well thought out strategy. Chairman Lords – expresses gratitude for the farm bureau luncheon. VIII. New Business 1. Canvassing of Bond Levy Election – Chairman Lords reviewed the Bond Election Resolution and ask for a motion to accept the results. MOTION: Annette Winchester made the motion to adopt the Bond Election Resolution. Seconded by Kip Nelson. All in favor. Motion passed. 2. Student Recognition – Chairman Lords recognized students from BHS volleyball and swimming that took state. Also recognizing Guy Bliesner and Dave Albiston as coach of the year 3. WPCS Audit Presentation – Anita Ogden reviews with the Board WPCS Audit with changes that will be made to page 19 to show advertisement schedule and will get an updated copy. This was rescheduled from the November board meeting. Board Member Haws – updated copy, source of other local revenue? Is it legal to operate with a negative fund balance? Anita Ogden – Karen Fisher, CPA is updating that and will include page numbers. Donations, we are a nonprofit organization. Land payment due June 20 and was paid on July 5 which was agreed between us the land owner. We had a line of credit we could draw upon, but we didn’t need to us it. This year we will end up with a surplus. Board Member Nelson – is the line of credit from the Federal Grant? Anita Ogden – No, we do have a balance that went forward. The grant is for three years and this is our third year. Grant is from October 1 to September 30. The school will be awarded $150k and we have to show a budget that is due November 26, how we were going to us the money. Category of equipment is non consumable materials. Technology, supplies and materials, we have to have as a non consumable piece. Some is set aside for NWN for onsite visit, staff development, travel expenses, building upgrade. Large portion went to that to meet code requirements. Superintendent – since the land payment was postponed from June to July, does that mean you will have 13 payments? On page 19 it shows a deficit is 63,202, why? Anita Ogden – no we actually make one payment. This is an error that Karen Fischer caught and did not change. She did include it in the original amount and liabilities the total land. Board Member Haws – what is the land payment amount? Anita Ogden – 20k, which is on page 10. Board Member Nelson – on page 19 land purchases – payment made July 5 is reducing the balance? Anita Ogden – there is interest in that. Chairman Lords – has the district been provided with all financial reports? Anita Ogden – Karen Fisher is making the changes and you will have a complete packed on Monday, December 13, 2004. Board Member Haws – this report was originally due Oct. 15. Anita Ogden – explained that she has updated her accounting system. Next year will be better. Board Member Haws – do you not have to provide this years budget, and the trailers, when will they be gone? Anita Ogden – I will bring this one in. The trailers have one more year to go. We have selected architects and are looking for donations. Board Member Winchester – as WPCS enrollment increases, will you be offering bussing? Anita Ogden – yes we will. We have made a commitment with the city of Ammon. Board Member Nelson – what happens on your budgeting if you don’t receive the federal grant? Anita Ogden – we were allowed us with this federal grant to offset start up cost. We no longer anticipate start up expenditures. We only anticipated the three years of the grant. Chairman Lords asks Mrs. Ogden to report back with a full Audit at the January 12, 2005 regular scheduled meeting. 4. TCPCS – Marc Bohman 6410 E. Sidehill Lane. Introduce TCPCS Board: Shay Wallace, Legal Committee – Heather Lassey, Education Committee – Camy Rish, Budget - Terry Porter, Policy. Marc Bohman submitted to the Board TCPCS proposal as their charter. The proposal is an alternative to public schools and will we hope to expand to the 12th grade with gifted classes; provide less stress – fewer tachers. Board Member Haws – why is this any different than our schools? We are missing the boat with charter schools, not buying the political part, why is this unique? Marc Bohman - choices in our schools, I believe the competition makes both parties better. Why we are unique, we will teach the Harbor Method Board Member Winchester – why do you think the rest of the schools have to adopt the Harbor Method now? Marc Bohman – I think it will catch on and introduced their curriculum director to answer questions on the Harbor Method. TCPCS Curriculum Director – let me explain the Harbor Method – I have bachelors in elementary education. I have visited Liberty Charter School and saw the video of wonderful things they have done and I have looked at their test scores. Saxon math will be taught and Spalding for Language Arts. We will have consistency, zero tolerance and the kids feel safe, test scores show that. Boil it all down and the kids know that they are valued individuals. Superintendent Shackett – were is the video, do you have it so we can see it? TCPCS Curriculum Director – no, it is tied up in litigation. Board Member Haws – how do you carry this out? TCPCS Curriculum Director – we will stop class in the middle of activity. It is a calm environment – that’s were the magic comes in. It will be a controlled environment, this not a military type school. We are fortunate to live in this area. Board Member Haws – this sounds like our alternative high school. I’m still grasping for new and unique. TCPCS Curriculum Director - So am I. There will be only one class per grade. Teachers will know the students. Superintendent Shackett – number of parents wanted that at WPCS and they wouldn’t adjust that. Marc Bohman – we do have children at WPCS Superintendent Shackett – did you and other parents present this notion to WPCS and what is the controversy from Nampa? TCPCS Curriculum Director - there are rules; the kids can’t speak in the halls. Military types, can’t speak for that. Marc Bohman – controversy has been misleading in Nampa. Harbor is a non-profit organization. We do not have anything to do with that – it happened 8 –9 years ago. Board Member Winchester – is the cost to you for the Harbor Method, 50-55K for teacher, administrative instruction, having them going to training. Marc Bohman – Yes, but we are on board with the Harbor Method and 100% on board with Nampa instruction. Superintendent Shackett – is the founder related to Becky? Marc Bohman – No Chairman Lords – appreciate your input and we will take this into consideration. We have 30 days from today and will post that as a public notice. We will inform you of that. Next board meeting is January 12. Thirty days is the Friday before the 12th, would like to shoot for the first week in January, 4 or 5. Marc Bohman – discussed the timing of the 30 day period for hearing. TCPCS felt 30 days from submittal to District Office determined date and wanted to schedule December 30 as hearing date. Chairman Lords clarified that TCPCS petition was formally and officially received and accepted this evening by the School Board for consideration. Chairman Lords in communication with Marc Bohman then set and agreed upon the TCPCS Public Hearing date for January 5th at 7:00 p.m. here in the District Office Board Room. Chairman Lords again further clarified that despite fliers published by TCPCS; tonight’s meeting was not a Public Hearing. Certain posting requirements must be met and a hearing determination is made only by the School Board. Marc Bohman presented the Board with a handout on the Harbor Method. 5. PEAK – Kaylene Craig appreciates the time to be here. The PEAK program was created in 1996 in health district one and is throughout the state. PEAK is a mentoring program for high school students to teach the 6-7 grade kids about teen pregnancy and how to resist alcohol and drugs. PEAK wants to reach kids when they are young. PSI curriculum is from the Grady Health Institute of Georgia. Health teachers will be involved and in classrooms and is done with parental approval. There will be no financial burdens to District No.93 for this program. Board Member Winchester – is there information on programs not taught by teen mentors? Kaylene Craig – we do have information on other programs which none are funded by the state. Board Member Haws – this is based on social science not religion Kaylene Craig – This is strictly abstinent only. Chairman Lords – the Board has some concerns with the start date and mentor application. We like to turn this task over to the superintendent or administrative team. Kaylene Craig – we would like to start in the spring and the mentor application in January. Students who will not be taking class will have an alternative place to go. Board Member Nelson– is this a full semester of teaching? Kaylene Craig – no, six weeks. Board recommends to administration team to get the word out. IX. Committee, Curriculum and Administrative Reports 1. Policies for Initial Proposal – Dr. Bruce Roberts presents to the Board 23 policies. We are comparing our current manual with the current ISBA manual and the lawyer in Boise. I don’t see any controversial policies. You have 30 days to look them over. We can pull off ones that you have questioned and in January we post the remaining ones to carry on. X. Call for Agenda Items for Upcoming Meetings Work Session Wednesday, January 5, 6pm. Special Meeting, TCPCS Public meeting, Wednesday, January 5, 7pm. XI. Adjournment MOTION: Kip Nelson made the motion to adjourn. Seconded by Annette Winchester. All in favor . Motion passed. Time 9:03pm.