Elementary School Principal

Doug Bergstrom called the School Board Meeting to order at 6:10 p.m.

A. Regular Meeting – March 15th

A. Two pieces for executive session.

A. No public comment.

A. Principals:

appears to be a need to look at continues the program yearly. Stanfords being held. Staff for 5-8 met

today and discussed the trimester system. They are not satisfied and would like to go back to a

quarterly system. They feel it’s too long for the middle school students to go without assessment.

Teachers have moved to goal setting with students and found that by the time students sat with

parents, the goals seemed to be forgotten. They would like to go back to the quarter semesters. Dave

Montreal and then jet boating on the St. Lawrence River. Jet boating is an option for students.

Parents are welcome to attend but they must pay for themselves.

paperwork and growing daily. Including preschooler’s looks like the number will be around 60.

Parent conferences just occurred and went well. Staff is taking an online survey that will give

administrators information on what they feel the district needs. Students have been randomly chosen

to participate in a computer survey that will tell administrators how well they are doing. Community

new bus company. Calibrating of DRA reading assessment, portfolio assessing and calibrating both

happening. Stanfords are given to 3,5,6 and 7 on April 5,6 and 7. Placement process is beginning

shortly. Parent feedback will be solicited. Dave passed out a list of budget needs and requests.

agreed to continue and just have a couple of extra copies on hand at the meeting. Chris Sumner,

Business Manager, will have financials available shortly. Phil recommended canceling the April 19th

board meeting due to the upcoming school vacation. In May, there will be presentations on

curriculum and information on the nearly achieved students. Contracts are out and are required to be

back to April 15th. There was discussion on how long the contract extensions should be and in past

do that.

temperament. Primarily daycare providers attended. Materials were excellent and she passed along

information to Dave Young if the school wanted to host a presentation. There are speakers available

for the fall. They are free and she thanked PBS for sponsoring.

reflections of them as much as she is concerned in general about how many assessments are being

required.

A. No old business.

transportation committees. There was discussion on what worked this year, what didn’t. Main consensus

them on the routes. Chris Mitiguy and Ron King are in favor of looking at an amount on the books to

reimburse Mathieu Transportation of about $1500.

Projected general fund balance is a little over $100,000, not including capital budget. Recommended

doing floor scrubber and mower and para educator. Both mower and scrubber will free up staff time, as

each will take much less time to do.

Doug Bergstrom had concerns that the $30,000 proposed on curriculum were cut out of the budget this

year. He would rather not put them back in if it had been taken out of the budget. Ron King stated the

fund balance shows we can do this item. If we continue to buy down with additional fund balances, it

tends to come back and hurt us in our tax rate in the long term. He supported spending the funds that are

available on curriculum materials.

Ron King wanted to add an allocation for Todd to spend up to $20,000 on building and grounds smaller

projects not intended to be in the bond. Total dollars including this additional item would be $78,000.

Doug Bergstrom would like discussions to happen with other department heads on what other needs are

out there. He’s concerned there is quite a bit of money being spent in areas not supporting students.

Doug wanted to collect all the information and present the options at the first May meeting.

A. Selection of Instructional Materials Policy – ACTION – minor changes. Hold until next meeting, as final

changes were not available.

B. Selection of Library Materials Policy – ACTION - minor changes. Hold until next meeting, as final

changes were not available.

C. Head Lice Policy – Review – Doug Bergstrom inquired as to why item #6 was removed. A re-entry

check is not required, but it is a practice that is followed. The nurses felt it should not state "will." The

school nurse will be invited in to discuss the policy.