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Board Meeting Minutes – Feb. 26, 2008
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Idaho Falls School District No. 91
Board Work Session Meeting Minutes
February 26, 2008
District Office Board Room
Idaho Falls, ID
12:00 PM
Present from the Board of Trustees: Present from the Administration:
Jerry Wixom, Chairman George Boland, Superintendent
Mary Ann Smith Guy Wangsgard, Director of Business Operations
Ernest Jensen Gail Rochelle, Director of Secondary Education
David Lent Karla LaOrange, Director of Elementary Education
Cindy Ozaki – via conference phone Caroline Meagher, Recording Secretary
Chairman Jerry Wixom called the board meeting to order.
The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Ernest Jensen.
I. ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA:
Mary Ann Smith motioned to adopt the agenda as written. David Lent seconded the motion. Motion
passed.
II. ACTION ITEM:
a) Student Travel Request:
Superintendent George Boland explained to the Board of Trustees that both high schools had already
included the trip that they are currently requesting permission to travel to, into their softball schedule.
The trip request is to travel to a tournament in St. George Utah. The Skyline trip will occur prior to the
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board meeting on March 11 and that is the reason for addressing this action item in this work session.
The Administration recommended that if the Board of Trustees approves these trips, they do so under
the condition that the high school softball teams not plan trips in the future to tournaments so far away.
The cost to the parents is very high and the students end up missing two full school days to travel. The
administration believes that there are plenty of tournament opportunities within the state.
David Lent questioned why we would limit a teams request to travel. If the parents agree with the trip,
why would the administration not approve such a request?
Cindy Ozaki motioned to approve the travel request under the condition that this is the last request to
travel such a far distance. Mary Ann Smith seconded the motion. Four Board members voted in favor.
David Lent voted Nay.
b) Emergency Closure:
Mary Ann Smith motioned to declare an emergency closure for Idaho Falls School District #91 on
February 7, 2008 due to inclement weather conditions. David Lent seconded the motion. Motion
passed, all in favor.
III. WORK SESSION:
a) Go-To-Meeting Presentation:
Camille Wood, Director of Technology Services, presented a new tool that the district has been using
to conduct meetings to building principals, or to attendees who cannot be present. This tool has proven
very useful to our Directors for Webinar presentations. With this service we can reach principals and
teachers and not require them to leave their buildings.
For this meeting, Cindy Ozaki was invited to log on to the site through a simple email invitation.
Cindy was able to view the same PowerPoint presentations as the Board through this tool.
Board Meeting Minutes—Feb. 26, 2008
b) Logo Review:
Kelly Coughenhour, Principal at Longfellow Elementary school has an art background and started
working on some Logo ideas. The administration met with Kelly and reviewed many of his
suggestions. Rene Miller, Communications Specialists has been working with Kelly to refine
suggestions to the Logo proposals and they felt it was time to share them with the Board of Trustees.
The Board was very pleased with the options and would like to see some the suggestions implemented
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and presented again in the March 18 work session.
c) Legislative Update:
Superintendent George Boland was in Boise last week for the Annual Superintendent’s Association
Conference. During the conference he learned that:
1) The ISTARS proposal is losing segments of the bill and it seems to be not well supported.
2) Election Consolidation Reform is a bill that has a high price tag for the counties to implement and
it has not been posted yet. The Legislature wants to present it this session and it seems that they
are waiting until the last moment to release it.
3) The bill requiring commissioning on all new buildings was killed in the Senate.
4) The legislation to permit cooperative services agencies to run elections as a region is still in the
planning phase.
Ernest Jensen motioned to adjourn. Mary Ann Smith seconded the motion. Motion passed.
Meeting adjourned.