October 7, 2015 at 6:30 PM - Regular Board of Education Meeting

Rationale:  Jim Wygonik and Nancy Johnston will present our 2015-2016 Teacher of Year and Non-Certified Staff Member of the Year.

Rationale: 

1. Please note the personnel report as you will find new hires reflected in it.  

2. Please take note of the October enrollment report. We have a total of 1371 students enrolled.  I have requested updated enrollment projections from both NESDEC and Peter Prowda and, upon receipt of those reports, will review them with the enrollment committee. This new information will be examined as it relates to our official enrollment count of October 1. In addition, our October 2015 enrollment report indicates that 79.3% of our students are from Old Lyme while 20.7% of our students are from Lyme.  This is a shift of 0.2% from last October when 20.9% were from Lyme and 79.1% were from Old Lyme.  Our billings to the towns are based on an average of the October 1 and April 1 student counts. 

3.  On October 21 we will be participating in the Governor's Emergency Planning and Preparedness Initiative Exercise with the support of our emergency management teams in both towns.  Students and parents will not be involved but administrative staff may be required to respond to various fictitious scenarios.  This will be yet another opportunity for us to practice our emergency preparedness response.

4.  As mentioned last month, if you have not signed up for the CABE/CAPSS Convention through Jeanne, please do so.  We have traditionally had a good turnout as it tends to be an interesting and inspiring event.  It takes place this year on November 20 and 21.

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

Rationale:  Mr. Wygonik will present our annual high school achievement report.

Rationale:  See attached backup on a request for approval of an overnight trip to Harvard for a Mock Trial. This requires Board action for approval

Rationale:  The music department at LOLHS would like to get approval for a field trip request to Hawaii so that students can participate in the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.  This requires Board action for approval.

Rationale:  The Finance Committee has established the budget calendar for this year.  It is attached.  While this item does not require action, please review the calendar to ensure your availability for all meetings.  This item is informational only.

Rationale:  The Policy Committee is proposing an update to our student records policy.  Attached are our current policy, CABE's revised version, and a red-lined version that combines both our current policy and CABE's revised version.  Thank you to Beth Jones for showing us the feature in MS Word that allows us to more easily review policy changes.  This is a first read and therefore does not require Board action.