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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2013_02_13 Board MinutesBOARD OF TRUSTEES -- BUSINESS MEETING DISTRICT OFFICE BOARD ROOM -- 6:15 P.M. 690 JOHN ADAMS PARKWAY FEBRUARY 13, 2013 Chairman Lent called the meeting to order at 6: 21 p.m. Trustee Brian Hillman made a motion to move into Executive Session. Trustee Deidre Warden provided the second. A roll call vote was taken: Chairman Dave Lent—yes Lisa Burtenshaw -yes Deidre Warden — yes Larry Haws —yes Brian Hillman—yes EXECUTIVE SESSION The Board of Trustees and Superintendent Boland met in Executive Session pursuant to Idaho Code §67- 2345 (1), (b) regarding a personnel matter. Trustee Burtenshaw made a motion to return to Open Session. Trustee Haws provided the second. Motion carried 5 ayes, 0 nays. The Board reconvened in Open Session at 7:00 pm. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Compass Academy Student Representative Andrew Guadarrama. Present from the Board of Trustees: Dave Lent, Chairman Lisa Burtenshaw, Vice Chair Deidre Warden, Treasurer Larry Haws, Clerk Brian Hillman, Trustee 2/13/2013 D91 Board Minutes Present from the Administration: George Boland, Superintendent Lisa Sherick, Assistant Superintendent Trina Caudle, Assistant Superintendent Carrie Smith, Director of HR & Finance Gail Rochelle, Director of Student Achievement & School Improvement Debbie Wilkie, Recording Clerk Page 1 of 5 SPECIAL ORDERS OF THE DAY a. Emissary of Excellence Vince Howard, Eagle Rock Middle School Principal, introduced teacher Cathy Owen as this month's Emissary of Excellence. Mr. Howard shared that Cathy was recently awarded the Idaho Journalism Teacher of the Year Award. Mr. Howard, along with other staff members from Eagle Rock, recognized Cathy for her professionalism and leadership. Assistant Principal Shelly Smede stated that Cathy always keeps the students at the center of her focus and that her students love and respect her. Chairman Lent congratulated Cathy and thanked her on behalf of the Board and the District for the great work she is doing. Cathy was presented with a certificate and token of appreciation. b. Volunteers of the Month Fox Hollow Elementary Principal Lance Lindley introduced volunteers Jessica Leavitt, Sara Hibbert, Joan Webb and Susan Bergquist (Susan and Sara were unable to attend tonight) as the Volunteers of the Month. Lance shared comments and thanked them for their help with the Boxtops and Campbell's Soup label fundraisers. Joan stated that since August they have collected over $2,000 dollars in Boxtops and enough soup labels to get more P. E. equipment. Trustee Burtenshaw thanked Joan and Jessica on behalf of the Board and the District for their services and presented each of them with a certificate and token of appreciation. c. Business Partner of the Month Skyline High School Leadership Advisor Gregg Baczuk introduced Dan Dreffs, and Josh, with Nicholas Moving Systems and recognized the company as the District's Business Partner of the Month. Mr. Baczuk stated when the Souper Bowl canned food drive started 7 years ago they collected 5000 cans which he hauled to the food bank in his pickup. The second year 20,000 cans were collected and he knew it would take more than his pickup this time. Gregg and the student leaders contacted Nicholas Moving, a local company, to help transport all of the food. Mr. Dreffs has willingly donated the trucks, the manpower and time to take the food to the food bank every year since then. Mr. Baczuk figures they have moved around 350,000 cans over the past years. Gregg thanked Dan and expressed appreciation from everyone at Skyline High School for their support. Gregg stated the best thing about this is the great partnership they have formed over the years in helping the community. Mr. Dreffs stated that it's always fun to do and with the help of the P.E. classes it only took about four hours this year to load all of the cans. Chairman Lent thanked Dan, and everyone at Nicholas Moving Systems, for caring enough about the district and the community to do this every year and presented him with a certificate of appreciation for their contributions. Page 2 of 5 2/13/2013 D91 Board Minutes Trustee Haws made a motion to adopt the agenda as presented. Trustee Hillman provided the second. Motion carried 5 ayes, 0 nays. a. Student Reports —A written summary, if provided, is attached. i. Emerson High School Student Representative John Kane reported ii. Compass Academy Student Representative Sydney Borek and Andrew Guadarrama reported. iii. Idaho Falls High School Student Representative Caitlin McNamara reported. iv. Skyline High School Student Body President Josh Wood reported. b. Patron Input— no comments received. c. IFEA Reports — Mitzi Ellingson, IFEA President, and Angela Gillman, IFEA President -Elect, reported. Written summaries, if provided, are attached. d. Education Foundation Report— Marge Foster, Executive Board Chair reported, a written summary is attached. e. Superintendent's Report Superintendent Boland stated there has been a lot of coverage in the media recently with regard to the Senior Project and the different ways that students are exploring post -high school endeavors. Supt. Boland introduced Ana Blancas and Kyle Thomason, Emerson Alternative High School students who have completed their projects, to share an overview of what they may have found challenging while working on their project, their likes and dislikes, what they may have benefited from as a result of the process and what advise they would give others that have this looming in their future. Both Kyle and Anna stated they liked the hands-on experience of the Senior Project better than just writing a paper. The students worked with their mentors through emails and phone calls since neither lived close by. Kyle stated it definitely helped him know for sure that being a gun smith is what he wants to pursue as a career. Anna had thoughts of owning her own restaurant but through her Senior Project work decided she would rather focus on being a chef and let someone else take care of the business. Kyle and Anna shared advice for underclassmen telling them not to slack off just do it, it's not that bad. The students Page 3 of 5 2/13/2013 D91 Board Minutes answered questioned from the Board. Supt. Boland thanked them for taking time to come tonight and share their experiences with the Board. CSIQL I:IIL i rXCIIL 1�7�1 Trustee Burtenshaw made a motion to accept the Consent Agenda as presented. Trustee Hillman provided the second. Motion carried 5 ayes, 0 nays. Items approved include: Meeting Minutes: January 2013 Payment of Claims: Matching Funds January 15, 2013 Business Meeting January 29, 2013 Work Session $3,464,145.65 Ethel Boyes Elementary Technology $ 6,492.00 Edgemont Elementary Technology $12,360.00 Taylorview Middle School Technology $ 2,535.00 Total Matching Funds requested $21,387.00 a. Adopt Resolution to Hold Trustee Elections Superintendent Boland reviewed in order to meet the February 15th deadline for Bonneville County to prepare for the elections being held in May the Board would need to adopt a resolution calling for a trustees' election to be held in Zones 1 and 2. Trustee Haws made a motion to adopt the resolution calling for a trustees' election to be held in Idaho Falls School District No. 91, Bonneville County, Idaho, on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 for the purpose of electing trustees for Zone 1 and Zone 2 as presented. Trustee Warden provided the second. Motion carried, 5 ayes, 0 nays. b. Renew/Non-Renew Supplemental Contract for Employee 2012-2013D Trustee Burtenshaw made a motion to post the position associated with the supplemental contract previously held by Employee 2012-2013D and renew the supplemental contract for Page 4 of 5 2/13/2013 D91 Board Minutes said employee contingent on their selection as a successful applicant. Trustee Haws provided the second. Motion carried 5 ayes, 0 nays. Superintendent Boland indicated a need to return to Executive Session pursuant to Idaho Code §67- 2345 (1), (b) personnel. Trustee Warden made a motion to reconvene in Executive Session. Trustee Burtenshaw provided the second. A roll call vote was taken: Chairman Lent—yes Lisa Burtenshaw— yes Deidre Warden — yes Larry Haws —yes Brian Hillman—yes Trustee Warden made a motion to return to Open Session. Trustee Burtenshaw provided the second. Motion carried 5 ayes, 0 nays. Trustee Hillman made a motion to adjourn. Trustee Haws provided the second. Meeting adjourned at 8:50 p.m. Page 5 of 5 2/13/2013 D91 Board Minutes SYLVU_� r�O(Ztlk C a wkr ckkc (\ ccwb 11y In our BioHealth class, which is a combined class of Biology & Health, our current project focuses on various types of cancer. Since February is cancer awareness month we will have be holding various cancer -focused activities during the last week of February, including a Carnival, an Awareness Fair and a Dance, all at our school and all with the goal of increasing awareness of cancer in the community. This project incorporates the District 91 vision statement in the following ways: Instruction that Engages: • Students have chosen Awareness Fair topics—each group has selected one cancer topic • Students also chose what activities they would do to support the activities – like: Advertising, Carnival preparation and management, Raffle tickets, Dunk Booth, planning a Dance, Talent Show • We are being graded on the success of our Awareness Fair Night and if we complete our other tasks. We are responsible for getting people to attend. Technology that Enables: • Without access to our computers, we would not have up-to-date information on cancer because it is progressing fast • Using our computers to create the presentations and brochures we need for the fair Culture that Empowers • By doing this fair and other activities, we are raising money for the St. Jude's Hospital • We are bringing awareness to the community on different types of cancer The dates of our activities are: Carnival: Feb. 26th Cancer Awareness Fair Day: Feb. 28th Dance: March 1St " Q__aj� f - f 0AM11P!A\\,SS �\cCA\DlEI��I[Y LEARNING REDESIGNED Cancer Awareness Week Please come to our Cancer Awareness Fair on Thursday, February 28th, 7:00 - 9:00 PM where the sophomore Bio -health class is giving the community information about different types of cancer. All three classes of Bio -health student will be presenting information about the cancer topic of their groups' choice. We will also be holding a community -wide Carnival on Tuesday, - February 26th, 4:00 - 9:00 PM and a community -wide Dance on Friday, March 1St in the evening. The carnival will have kid - friendly games as well as a raffle and a dunk booth and the dance will be open to the other high schools. We hope you will attend at least one of these events and all the proceeds from all of them will go to St. Jude's hospital. Compass Academy -- Idaho Falls School District 91 -- 955 Garfield Rd -- Idaho Falls, ID 83401 208-525-7720 Wilkie, Debbie -D91 From: Gillman, Angela -D91 Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 5:23 PM To: Wilkie, Debbie -D91 Subject: IFEA Board Report IFEA Board Report for February Infrastructure with technology: there are times that are not good times to get online across the district with high usage times with the high schools. We have high usage at lunch but 1:00 lag time begins and network gets bogged RIF policy @ elementary: teachers are being told not to worry about possible RIF because of the flexibility of assignments and the rise of students enrollment; teachers are thinking they should be concerned because the word RIF is being used to complete evaluation paperwork in case there is a RIF; we need to consider opening up the Rlf committee Computer Breach: we have heard from many employees and parents who are concerned about personal information that could be accessed through Skyward or other programs on the district webpage. George has assured that things have been taken care of and that such information with SSN and payroll has been secured and is safe The last count we have heard is up to 4 million $ in cuts in our district for next year: process includes directors meetings with principals about possible cuts, principals meeting with groups to identify cuts as people try to build the "stack of cards" to meet a lower dollar amount of money spent in the past. Concerns with this process are that it is possible that groups could be invited to sabatoge these meetings; some groups may not realizing impacts that other groups need, Ex. High school teachers and parents not realizing the impact of kindergarten aides. Safety Survey: this suggestion came about from association members after the Sandy Hook incident so members wanted a survey put out. The survey has been a slow process and now will to be brought up the exec board again as to the validity at this time. It will be discussed at the next Exec session. Budget Committee: we have requested to have a committee sit down and look at the budget to see where money is at. As you may recall, we had this budget in the past but it has since dissolved with the loss of our negotiated contract. We would like to see it come back to help with transparency in budget spending and needs., as Mitzi said we would like to set up some meetings with Carrie Smith and help inform us so we may better inform our members as to what the budget is Levy allocations: we would like to know what the plans are for this money that is designated for buildings Negotiations are currently stalled with legislation, we are discussing ideas among our team and we have met a few times already. The team is planning for the first official meeting with the district in March. School Saftey: surrounding districts have looked into putting in gun safes and/or arming certain teachers at school with guns. It is our understanding that the school boards have the right to implement these procedures. What does our school board plan to do? Smarter Balance: what does the school board plan to do with the results? One of our biggest questions is what will be the accountability for teachers with the new assessment? With the new legislative laws coming forward with 14 sections of proposition lbeing brought forward nearly word for word, many are very discouraged, ourtraged, distraut that the propositions they defeated are coming back. They feel as if they haven't been heard. We thank members of the school board and George for being willing to meet and discuss so that we very clearly understand both sides of the issues and feelings of these laws. We feel we have a board that is sincere and eager to find solutions that help everyone and the appreciation is deep. I would love to see more of those kinds of conversations taking place across the state and in the legislature. We thank you on a local level for you willingness to work with us! Are you able to answer any of our questions tonight? Angela Gillman IFEA President Elect Angela Marge Foster n: Bunnell, Tonya -D91 <BunnTony@d91.kl2.id.us> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 5:25 PM To: <marge.foster@century2l.com> Subject: Ed Foundation News 1. The Chamber Leadership Class is working with the foundation to raise money for mini teacher grants. The grants will be awarded in June when the Leadership class graduates. The official date of when the grant applications will be available will be announced the first of April. 2. We continue to raise money for the ODOB program. To date we have raised over $13,000. It takes approximately $18,000 to purchase the books. We have heard nothing but good news regarding the recent kickoff. 3. We have kicked off the H&R Block program this month. Tonya visited every school with H&R Block representative, Misty Darrington, during the past couple of weeks. Schools were given their appointed code and information to send home with students, post on their web pages and posters to hang in their schools. Basically ANY NEW CLIENT (not limited to a student's parent or anything like that) who goes to H&R Block with a code will earn $20 for that school. Anyone in the US can participate. It is not limited to Idaho, and it costs the patron ZERO. In May, H&R Block will send the Ed Foundation the school checks. This is a great way for a school's general fund to raise money. Information, as well as all school codes, can be located on our website. 4. The "Your TOYOTA Ride" raffle has raised over $16,000 so far this year. Schools should be getting posters with charts -'"Acting raffle sales next week. January sales have been quite slow compared to previous months. It could be due to eather. 5. We have been updating our logo and branding with the help of IE Productions' graphic designers. We are excited to have a fresh look to welcome in the spring season! Thanks, Marge. Tonya Sent from my iPad Alo /1 -3 � J D q / R U� ry LF