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President: Jason Bandy
Vice President: Jack Horner
Secretary: Sharon Newsom
Treasurer: Russell Lengel
Director: Bart O'Dwyer


Unofficial School Board Minutes:


Unofficial Febuary 2010 Board Minutes:

MINUTES OF BOARD OF EDUCATION - RE-4J

KIND OF MEETING MEETING PLACE TIME MONTH DAY YEAR
Regular High School Library 7:00 p.m. February 15 2010

Roll Call:                              The regular board meeting was called to order by President Jason Bandy at 7:00 p.m.  Roll call reflected that all Board Members were present.    

 

Mission Statement:            Jack Horner read the district mission statement.

 

Agenda:                                Bart O’Dwyer moved and Sharon Newsom seconded the motion to approve the agenda for March 22, 2010 as presented.  Motion passed unanimously. 

 

School Officials:                Scott Vratil, Joel Albers, and Chris Selle

 

Audience:                             Kim Trujillo, Craig Bailey, Terina Ensign, Janet Bailey, Doris Corbin, Brett Corbin and Les Layton

 

Minutes:                                Russell Lengel moved and Bart O’Dwyer seconded the motion to approve the Regular Board Meeting Minutes of February 15, 2010.  Motion passed unanimously.

 

Executive Session:             Russell Lengel moved and Sharon Newsom seconded the motion to approve the Board of Education to go into an Executive Session in accordance with CRS24-6-402(4)(h) at 7:02pm.  Motion passed unanimously.  Russell Lengel moved and Jack Horner seconded the motion to approve the Board of Education to come out of Executive Session at 7:24pm.  Motion passed unanimously.

 

Audience Participation:   None

                                                 

Financial Reports:             Russell Lengel moved and Jack Horner seconded the motion to approve the General Fund and Insurance Reserve for February 2010 in the amount of $285,097.95.  Russell read the breakdown.   The motion passed unanimously. 

 

 

Education Reports:            A.    Elementary Principal Report (stated report was in the packet)

                                                Mr. Albers highlighted items from his report in the packet.  Enrollment is at 170 but we will have a new 2nd grader starting tomorrow.  The attendance rate is at 95%.    The last few weeks have been busy getting all the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade CSAP testing done.  Summer School will be July 12th through July 30th.  He has 4 teachers interested in teaching summer school.  Last year there were 5 but with the number of students attending the last couple of years we may only need 4 teachers.  Kindergarten Round-Up is set for Thursday, April 15th.  There are an estimated 30 kindergartners for next year.  Joel asked Kathy Winkelman to provide some information about the 4th grade I on Health project.  He’s excited about the amount of attention this project that was piloted in Limon last year is getting.  Kathy will be going to Houston to present at a conference named “Uniting Against Childhood Obesity”. 

                                                B.     Secondary Principal Report

                                                Mr. Selle highlighted items from his report in the packet.  There are currently 269.5 students in the secondary.  Attendance rates are steady in both buildings.  This week will be spent on prep and review for the CSAP.  Testing will begin next week in the mornings only.  Numbers seem to be falling on the warning and failing list.  Preregistration will begin right after CSAP so the master schedule can be made.  They’ve had some interest in the Spanish teaching position.  Some of the neighboring schools would like to share this teacher which would possibly make this a full time position instead of part time.  Using REAP money they have been able to purchase ACT prep software.  It is internet based so students could possibly access it at home.       

C.  Accountability Report

Joel included the minutes from the January meeting and the agenda from the March meeting.  This was more of an informative meeting. 

D.      Staff Report (none given)

E.       STUCO Report (none given)

F.       Athletic Department Report (stated report was in the packet)

Don highlighted items from his report in the packet.  The boys basketball team had a very good season.  Nicole O’Dwyer, Matt Brown, and Jerome King were chosen for all conference, all league basketball.  There are 26 out for high school tract and 28 out for baseball.  They’ve already had to postpone 1 track meet and 2 baseball games.  Nicole O’Dwyer was named on the Coaches Association All State Volleyball team.  Jason stated that the Limon Pee Wee Wrestling tournament is on April 3rd starting at 9am. 

G.      Custodial Report

Les Layton reported that they have finished the fire safety project and have been approved.  They finished remodeling the high needs special ed room.

H.      FFA Report (stated report was in the packet)

Chris Selle stated that they have two Limon students as FFA district officers.  The Banquet will be on April 22nd and all are invited.  They have offered the school to host the State FFA convention which would bring in significant money to the Limon community. 

 

Board Reports:                   None 

 

Superintendent’s Report:  Mr. Vratil highlighted items from his board report.   The projects he has chosen for the BEST grant are gutters on the elementary, cement on the east side of the elementary, and some roof top heaters.  He is writing a separate grant for each of these projects.  He believes the gutters are our best bet.  Since this is a money matching grant he asked the Board how much he should ask for.  They stated that they would like all the older roof top heaters replaced.  After some number crunching, we will not be signing up for the Vnets.  It was asked how we would share the Spanish teacher.  Scott stated that they would go to BOCES to teach these classes, which is what Janet Bailey currently does.  Scott stated that we will not need to change policy to limit the professional days for staff.  We just need to let staff know that we will only allow Friday conferences or conferences that will pay for a sub.  If we do share a Spanish teacher next year we may need to look at our spring break schedule.  Deer Trail takes their spring break later so they can get all of their CSAP testing in.  We still have one more reading on the calendar so we can make a change if needed. 

 

Audience Participation:   None

 

Action Items:                       2nd Reading of the Calendar

Bart O’Dwyer moved and Sharon Newsom seconded the motion to approve the 2nd reading of the 2010-2011 School Calendar as presented.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

HeadStart Contract

Russell Lengel moved and Jack Horner seconded the motion to table the action item to approve the 3 year contract with HeadStart for Special Education Services until the next Board Meeting.  Scott stated that he is still waiting to get approval from Christi at CDE on the contract.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

Early Dismissal

Jack Horner moved and Bart O’Dwyer seconded the motion to approve the early dismissal of school at 1pm on March 11th because of the boys’ basketball state game.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

Robert Yoder

Sharon Newsom moved and Russell Lengel seconded the motion to accept the letter of resignation from Robert Yoder, bus driver trainer.  Jason read Robert’s letter.  Scott stated this was for health reasons.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

Josette Gallegos

Russell Lengel moved and Sharon Newsom seconded the motion to accept the letter of resignation from Josette Gallegos as Cheer coach.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

Coaches

Bart O’Dwyer moved and Jack Horner seconded the motion at approve the amended action item 13.5 to approve Bo Randolph and Jason Bandy as volunteer assistant baseball coaches and adding Sherry Bandy as volunteer Jr. High boys track assistant coach.  The motion passed with four ayes.  Jason Bandy abstained from the vote.

 

 

 

Executive Session

Russell Lengel moved and Sharon Newsom seconded the motion to approve the Board of Education to go into an Executive Session in accordance with CRS24-6-402(4)(f) at 8:05pm.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

Out of Executive Session

Russell Lengel moved and Bart O’Dwyer seconded the motion to approve the Board of Education to come out of an Executive Session at 9:15pm.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

Future Business:                 Next Regular School Board Meeting – Monday, March 22, 2010 the meeting at 7:00 p.m. in the High School Library

                                                                                               

Adjournment:                      At 9:16pm Jack Horner moved and Jason Bandy seconded the motion to approve the Board of Education to adjourn the meeting.  The motion passed unanimously.