School Board
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.
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