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Home My WebLink About08-09-2006_Board_Meeting BONNEVILLE JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT #93 3497 N. Ammon Road Idaho Falls, Idaho 83401 August 9, 2006 I. Call to Order 7:30 p.m. II. Roll Call Board Members present: Chairman, Craig Lords, Vice Chairman, Annette Winchester, Wendy Horman, and Kip Nelson. Also present: Superintendent Dr. Shackett. Excused, Treasurer, Randy Haws and Board Clerk, Jamie Smith; Acting Clerk, Valerie Messick. III. Prayer Bruce Roberts IV. Welcoming of Delegates –Chairman Lords welcomes the following to the meeting: Guy Bliesner Brian Hansen Michaelena Hix Tom Hunsaker Alisha Passey Susan Searle Scott Miller Roger Hill Jill Starnes Sue Kindred Lyndon Oswald Carol Roberts V. Consent Calendar A. Minutes of the previous meeting(s). July 12, 2006 Regular Meeting July 19, 2006 Special Meeting July 21, 2006 Special Meeting B. Accounts Payable 1,321,878.09 C. Resignation(s) and Terminations Cynthia Strong – Ammon PE & Music teacher Carol Jones – Fairview 1st grade teacher John Dennis – Social Worker Cody Jones – Fairview custodian Ashley Mackay – RMMS special education aide Nola Steinmetz – Assistant in the GATE program Kathy Mitchell – Hillcrest Resource/Special Educator/Teacher Heather Brush – Rock Mountain Special Education Aid D. Transfers Jayma Rutt – LHS fulltime Even Start Childcare to Hillview fulltime custodian Candice Blom – SMS custodian to Woodland Hills head custodian Nancy Killpack – Ucon kindergarten to Rimrock half time kindergarten teacher Clarice Miller – Woodland Hills 4th grade teacher to Title One Specialist E. Proposed Contracts, Appointments & Assignments Breanna Tinsley – Hillview 2nd grade teacher Linda Bate – Iona 6th grade teacher Monica Lewis – Iona 3rd grade teacher Cornelia Lewis – S. S. speech pathologist Rebecca Jones – Tiebreaker 4th grade teacher Charity Brown – Tiebreaker 3rd grade teacher Andrea Haws – Tiebreaker 5th grade teacher April Jones – Special Services part-time pre-school teacher for the Early Intervention Program Adrian McCraken – Telford Academy teacher Gail Kisling – Special Services speech and language Jalayna Hammer – Fairview 1st grade teacher Kari Atkinson – Ucon 6th grade teacher Allison Clary – Ucon kindergarten teacher Shelly Thiel – Woodland Hills kindergarten teacher Items to be added to the Consent Calendar V. Consent Calendar C. Resignation and Terminations Nola Steinmetz - GATE assistant Kathy Mitchell - HHS resource/special education teacher Heather Brush - RMMS special education aide D. Transfers Clarice Miller - Woodland Hills 4th grade to Title One Specialist E. Proposed Contracts, Appointments and Assignments Jalaya Hammer - Fairview 1st grade teacher Kari Atkinson - Ucon 6th grade teacher Allison Clary - Ucon kindergarten teacher Shelly Thiel - Woodland Hills kindergarten teacher VIII. Committee, Curriculum and Administrative Reports Susan Searle - Bonneville Youth Council - 40 Assets Survey Roger Hill - Construction Update and Rimrock and Woodland Hills start dates MOTION: Annette Winchester made the motion to adopt the consent calendar. Seconded by Kip Nelson. All in favor. Motion passed. VI. 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. Brian Hansen from Blackfoot: Investment Kids Proposition 1 on the ballot in November. Bonneville School District 93 could receive 7 million dollars from the initiative. Asked for endorsement from the District. Asked for volunteers to support by phone banking etc. Gave information to Chairman Lords who will distribute it to the board members. VII. New Business 1. Emergency hiring in special education – Marjean McConnell requested to declare emergency hiring in the area of special education. This will allow the district to meet the State Department of Education requirements for Alternative Authorization. Individuals are certified but not in special education. They just need an endorsement. The teacher hired will be certified. MOTION: Kip Nelson made the motion to accept the emergency hiring in special education. Seconded by Annette Winchester. All in favor. Motion passed. VIII. Committee, Curriculum and Administrative Reports 1. Policies for Initial Consideration – Assistant Superintendent Dr. Roberts presented one policy, ten procedures, and eleven forms for Board review only. Thirty-day review will stay where they are until next month. We will look for sufficient feedback before they come before the board. Need to get parent input. 2. Alisha Passey - 40 Asset survey results – Idaho Youth Council Drug use and juvenile crime has gone down in our county. BYDC will look at lowest areas and then target them. Worked with the elementary and middle schools this last year. They gave away 58 bikes to students in need. They sponsored the Extra Mile Youth Award that was very successful Community Values is one of the assets that BYCD will target this year. They were active in gathering items for tsunami relief. Don’t be a Dummy skits were also presented to area youth. The BYCD website is available as a resource for the community. Chairman Lords thanked Ms. Passey for all their help and for the work she is doing. BYCD only presents county information; the District is responsible to do what they want with the results of the District’s surveys. A copy of the survey results for the County, District, and each school along with executive summaries for each were given to Board members. 3. Roger Hill facilities report: RMMS projects are almost complete and will be finished before school starts. BHS auxiliary gym entry will be finished before school. Sidewalk from parking will be complete. Metal building for the auxiliary gym is on site and will be erected next week. The gym will be completed June 30, 2007. HHS classroom roof system is ready to be erected. These will be completed June 30, 2007. The fence is up. Sprinklers are ready to be installed. He is coordinating with tennis courts and baseball field projects so they won’t have to redo the fencing and sprinkling system when they are put in. Chairman Lords emphasized the need to get a commitment from the City of Ammon to install a pump. The City hopes that the French drains will drain the area within 72 hours. Chairman Lords asked Roger to talk to Doug Nelson, the district’s attorney, to see what the process is to require the city to install the pump as they promised. The concern is that the drains may not be a permanent and long lasting solution to the problem. There was concern that the pump should be installed before the sprinkler system. Roger reported that we might need to do sod to keep grass on the slop instead of hydro-seed. He also reported that the City of Ammon also agreed to plant 20 – 30 trees. But, they haven’t approached us yet. Elementary schools – They are laying asphalt and carpeting the classrooms this week. Next Monday furniture can be placed in the classrooms. The architects will be available to do the final walk through. The library will be used for a staging area. The contractor will continue to work to finish the building while we are moving furniture in and the teachers are setting up their classrooms. They just need to be careful to stay out of the way of the workers. Teachers can be in their classrooms on Aug 28. Plan to start school on Sept 5. Information regarding the late start of Woodland Hills and Rimrock will be in public announcements, the Beacon, Post Register, Channel 6 and Channel 8. New school students will register at Ammon and Hillview. Bussing schedules will be distributed by the transportation department. Superintendent Shackett asked “What is the point of no return for changing the starting date?” We are pretty well locked in at this point. The District will receive a certificate of occupancy prior to the September 5th start date. The city of Ammon is willing to work with us. The playground on the hard surface and the soft fall equipment will be available when school starts but the hydro-seed won’t happen for a while. Sports complexes specifications will be put together by the end of August and will go out to bid. We will bid all projects separately. Chairman Lords asked about plans for an official opening ribbon cutting ceremony for the new schools. He feels the patrons who sacrificed should be recognized and given a chance to walk through the new buildings. IX. Call for Agenda Items for Upcoming Meetings Next week board will review Work session scheduled September 1 at 11:30 was changed to September 8 at 11:30 X. Adjournment MOTION: Kip Nelson made the motion to adjourn. Seconded by Wendy Horman . All in favor. Motion passed. Time 8:38 p.m. APPROVED: Chairman ATTESTED: Clerk DATE: