Board Present: Doug Bergstrom, Dan Harvey, Ron King
Administrators:
Phil
Higgins, Frank Calano, Flora Hurteau
Others:
Wendy
Larose, Transcriptionist; Cyndie Bourgea, Videographer
1. Call
to Order
The meeting
was called to order at 6:08.
Minutes:
The minutes from September 20th and October 4th
were presented.
Reports:
Reports
were presented by principals, Flora Hurteau and Frank Calano.
ACTION:
Dan
Harvey moved to approve the minutes and reports, seconded by Ron King. The
motion was approved unanimously.
There were no public comments.
a.
Approve Audit
Dan asked Chris Sumner if she saw any
unusual aspects of the audit. There
were no surprises.
ACTION:
Ron King moved to approve audit as presented, seconded by Dan Harvey.
The motion was approved unanimously.
a.
Special Education
Adrienne
Fisher submitted a report on Special Services to the Board.
She gave an overview of the report, which included the Board’s Policy
Role for Special Education. There
was discussion of the Medicaid billing process.
Frank noted that they are trying not to use the resources from Medicaid
for personnel, but for resources for the students.
b.
Service Plan, Child Find, School
Board’s Role, etc.
Adrienne
highlighted the Childcount report included in the report.
Dan Harvey asked why, if Childcount is increasing so minutely, are
expenditures increasing so much? Where
are the increases coming from? Chris
said it was from outplacements. Adrienne
review additional outplacement costs for high school students.
These costs are above the cost of the base tuition.
Adrienne reviewed guidelines for Temporary Support Assistants.
The goal is to have the students be as independent as possible.
c.
Community Relations Team:
Community Relations Team Report:
Flora gave report. Team met last week. Edmund
Wilcox joined them for the evening. Offered great points on getting seniors involved in the
budget meeting. Discussion on how
to get seniors in building other than at budget time and many options were
suggested. Community Volunteer
Coordinator will work on senior database in addition to student.
Phil gave an overview on what administration recommends in the budget to carry out action plan. Doug would like to set up a separate meeting next week to go over budget in more detail. Doug wanted to go over some new ways he learned at VSBA on how to deal with the budget. Meeting is set for Thursday, 10/27 at 6:00 p.m. Flora distributed a copy of a memo that went to teachers about how to prepare for the budget. The middle school dealt with a similar process. The middle school is more departmentalized, whereas elementary is more grade level. Chris Sumner reviewed school budget assumptions that have been set for the 2006-2007 school year. Chris passed out a preliminary budget of which Flora and Frank gave an overview. Flora’s review focused on the full day vs. half day kindergarten program. They propose implementing two full day and three half day sessions. Flora will bring back more information on a long-range plan for the K program.
ii.
Student Surveys Policy – 2nd Reading
iii.
Transportation Policy – 1st
Reading
Next
Regular Meeting: November 1st, 2005 at 6:00
PM, Georgia School Library
9.
Adjournment