September 19, 2006 at Georgia School Library
Executive Session (Student Issue) at 5:15 PM
Board Present: Wendy Larose,
Alice Sturgeon, Dan Harvey, Ron King, Doug Bergstrom
Administrators: Frank Calano, Armando Vilaseca,
Flora Hurteau
Others: Rachel Fightlin, Kristine Jenkins, Megan
Demingware, JoAnn Harvey, Pat Chamberlain
I.
Executive Session (Student Issue)
Entered
Executive Session regarding a student issue at 5:30 PM; exited Executive Session
at 6:35 PM.
ACTION:
Motion by Ron King to support the Superintendent’s recommendation on a
student disciplinary matter; seconded by Wendy Larose, approved unanimously.
II. Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 6:45 PM
ACTION: Motion by Alice Sturgeon to approve the
minutes of the Regular Meeting on September 5, 2006 with changes regarding the
roof replacement update, seconded by Ron King, approved unanimously.
V. New
Business
A. Preschool Presentation – The preschool
team presented their curriculum, staffing which includes special educators and
initiatives. The teachers presented a
video clip of their butterfly project.
A booklet of parent’s comments was passed around for the Board to
review.
C. Standard Weekly Progress Report Sheet – Doug Bergstrom raised the issue of communication
between school and parents in the form of a standardized weekly progress
report. Flora and Frank indicated that
in their experience the teachers are communicating with parents in different forms,
e-mail, phone calls, meetings, newsletters, etc.
ACTION: Motion by
Wendy Larose to direct the administrators to evaluate the current communication
system and report to the board their recommendations by November 21, 2006,
seconded by Dan Harvey, approved unanimously.
D. Protocols – Armando is looking for a way to improve the agenda
items. Armando suggested meeting with
Doug Bergstrom prior to the meetings to review the agenda for the upcoming
meeting.
VI. Policies – Doug Bergstrom mentioned that he would like to review
the policy manual to see if there are policies that can be
eliminated/consolidated.
A. Tuition Payment Policy - Tabled
B. Student
Conduct & Discipline Policy - Tabled
C. Student Suspension & Expulsion Policy
– Tabled
ACTION: Motion by Dan Harvey to table
all policies on agenda, seconded by Alice Sturgeon, approved unanimously.
VII. Other
– There was a complaint on Silver Lake Road regarding the bus. Flora went to Silver Lake Road to survey the
site. The bus backs into a farm field
that is a public road. Flora returned
the call to report her findings and has not heard from them again.
Vermont
League of Cities and Towns has put together a 2007 education finance reform
proposal. They are looking on a plan
that relies less heavily on property taxes and possibly shift it to more income
taxes, control educational spending, statewide appraisal process, statewide
grand list, delineate core educational spending shift to state spending. Dan
Harvey brought up the playground committee presentation from the spring. The fallback plan to not providing any money
toward the playground, would the board be willing to provide a line item in the
proposed budget and support his grant applications by providing a letter from
the board stating that they would do their best to match grant funds. Armando will ask Chris Sumner to add a line
item for playground improvements.
VIII. Upcoming Meetings
A.
Next Regular Meeting: October 3,
2006 at 6:00 PM, Georgia School Library
B.
FWSU Quarterly Meeting: September 27, at 7:00
PM, BFA Fairfax