April 3, 2019 at 6:30 PM - Regular Board of Education Meeting

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

Please take note of the April enrollment report. We have a total of 1280 students enrolled (one less than last month).

Per policy 6270, I will report a donation from Ring's End Lumber to LOLHS in the amount of $2,188.62.  Jon Goss was able to coordinate this for us.

Mark, Noah, and Rachel Carion presented at the New England League of Middle Schools (NELMS) annual conference in Providence, RI.  They shared our version of an advisory program, "Pursuits".  This was a nice honor to have the opportunity to do this.

We held our second Open House of the year on Friday.  We had six families attend.  All seem interested in attending next year.

We have been closely monitoring our Kindergarten numbers for next year.  Right now we have 42 students registered at Mile Creek and 26 at Lyme.  While these numbers are not that much bigger than what we currently have, the location of these students' homes may necessitate an additional section at Mile Creek.  This will result in some other changes in specials areas as well.  I will review this impact.

As you can see, we are recommending Thursday, June 13 as the date for graduation.  The PTO's have unanimously requested that we consider dropping the last day of school, which would be Monday, June 17 to allow school to end on a Friday.  If the Board is interested in considering this, a motion to add this to the agenda would be needed.

I will update the Board on our goals for the year.

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

Rationale:  Michelle Dean will review the updated high school graduation requirements.

Rationale:  Attached please find the details for a proposed trip to  China for LOLHS students in April 2020. This requires Board action.

Rationale:  Section 10-16l (Establishment of graduation date) of the C.G.S. states, “Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes to the contrary, a local or regional board of education may establish for any school year a firm graduation date for students in grade twelve which is no earlier than the one hundred eighty-fifth day noted in the school calendar originally adopted by the board for that school year, except that a board on or after April first in any school year may establish such a firm graduation date for that school year which at the time of such establishment provides for at least one hundred eighty days of school.”  Per statute, I am recommending the Board vote to establish June 13, 2019 as the firm graduation date for the Class of 2019.  This requires Board action.

Rationale:  As is annual practice to ensure compliance with state statute, and in accordance with Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-151(b), which gives authority to the Superintendent to determine whether a non-tenure teacher should be offered a contract for the subsequent school year, I am recommending the non-renewal of all non–tenured teachers. This requires Board action.

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Per policy #2420, the Board is required to set a tuition rate for non-resident students by May 30.  The current tuition rate is:

A) Tuition Student Rates
• Grades 9-12 - $19,000
• Grades 6-8 - $17,000
• Grades K-5 - $15,000
• Grade PreK - $10,000

B) Students attending under Attendance Agreements (unless a multiple-year agreement to provide education facilities is entered into with another Board of Education)
• PK-12 $19,000
C) Children of current staff members will be charged 50% of the applicable tuition.
D) Children of active military parents will be charged 80% of the applicable tuition.
E) Foreign students attending under an F-1 visa as required by SEVIS will be charged 150% of the applicable tuition.
F) Multiple students from the same family attending together will be required to pay the following amounts:
• 1st child– 100% of the applicable tuition
• 2nd child– 75% of the applicable tuition
• 3rd child– 50% of the applicable tuition
• Any additional children will be charged 50% of the applicable tuition.

This requires Board action.

Rationale:  The policy committee is recommending the inclusion of the attached policies to our policy book.  These are the required policies that were missing based on CABE's evaluation of our policies.  This is a first read and does not require Board action.

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Background:  The school district is expanding the PreK program starting in the 2019-2020 school year. This project will create three additional PreK classrooms in the Center School, each with access to a bathroom. This project was publicly bid and bid results are listed below.

COMPANY NAME	BID AMOUNT $
Noble Construction	$113,500
Frank Zaino & Associates	$87,437

Both a scope review and reference check of Frank Zaino & Associates were performed. Frank Zaino & Associates is recommended to perform this project.

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Background:  As part of the five-year facilities projects plan, the Middle School media center is scheduled to be reconfigured to match current educational programming. This project is was publicly bid and results are listed below.

COMPANY NAME	BID AMOUNT $
Noble Construction	$43,800
Hartford Building Company	$59,000
Frank Zaino & Associates	$28,992

Project scope was reviewed and reference checks for Frank Zaino & Associates were completed. It is recommended that this project be awarded to Frank Zaino & Associates.