May 1, 2013 at 6:30 PM - Regular Board of Education Meeting

Rationale: 

Please note the personnel report as you will find updated employee information reflected in it.

Please take note of the May enrollment report. We have a total of 1476 students enrolled. We are continuing to include the ADM (Average Daily Membership) breakdown in this report to allow better tracking of the budgetary impact to the towns.

We are continuing to monitor the number of people who enter our schools.  As our system is still quite new, the data is somewhat scattered.  I will report on our initial findings which have not produced any recommendations for action.  Instead, they have suggested the need for further data collection. 

I will report to the Board on the progress of our Professional Development sessions in terms of the new evaluation plan.

Rationale:  Ms. Warren will provide a year to date budget status report as well as a contingency fund report.

Rationale:  Dr. Borden will present the second part of our two part presentation on the proposed new teacher and administrator evaluation plans.  The submission date to the CSDE is May 3.  Therefore, the Board will be asked to vote on these new plans. 

Rationale:  A number of field trips for next year need approval to begin coordination and/or fundraising.  The Robotics trip discussed at last meeting is not included in this proposal as we are still discussing and evaluating the points raised last month.  This requires Board action.

Rationale:  Mrs. Russell, in coordination with our French visitors from this fall, is proposing an exchange trip to Paris next spring.  Details of the trip are included as an attachment.  This requires Board action.

Rationale:  Mr. Rhodes will present our proposal for the purchase of Destiny library management software.  This was previously budgeted for but has not yet been purchased as we were originally told that we would need a new server to use this program.  We have since found a solution that will not require the use of a new server. This requires Board action.

Rationale:  I have again included the draft of next year’s District Goals for discussion purposes.  I would like to formally adopt these at this meeting.  This requires Board action.

Rationale:  In our two previous meetings we discussed the inclusion of personnel Policy #5165 Medical Marijuana Standards.  Some additional questions were raised at the last meeting.  The policy committee has reviewed CABE’s responses to our inquiries and is recommending adoption of the enclosed policy.  This requires Board action.

Rationale:  Please share written minutes and/or oral reports as necessary.

Rationale:  I need to discuss a personnel matter with the Board.