Monday, May 11, 2009
Regular Board Meeting
Warren County Career Center
1. Opening Activities
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1.1 Call to Order
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1.2 Pledge of Allegiance
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1.4 Reading of the Mission Statement - Mr. Lockett
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The mission of the Warren County School District, where today’s student is our future, is to equip all students with the educational skills necessary to achieve their unique personal potential.
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1.5 Appointment of Secretary Pro Tempore
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1. Opening Activities
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directs appoints Suzanne Turner as the secretary pro tempore for the Regular Board meeting of May 11, 2009.
Motion & Voting
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Motion by Kirsten Turfitt, second by Donna Zariczny.
Yes: Katherine Oudinot, Kirsten Turfitt, Jeff Lockett, Donna Zariczny, Jack Martin, Thomas Knapp, Kimberly Angove, Arthur Stewart
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1.6 Agenda Adoption
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Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves the agenda dated May 11, 2009.
Motion & Voting
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Motion by Jeff Lockett, second by Donna Zariczny.
Yes: Kirsten Turfitt, Arthur Stewart, Donna Zariczny, Katherine Oudinot, Jeff Lockett, Thomas Knapp, Kimberly Angove, Jack Martin
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1.7 Recognitions & Presentations
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1. Opening Activities
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1. PMEA All-State Chorus & Band - Mr. Kelly Martin
2. PMEA All-State Orchestra - Dr. Darrell Jaskolka/Ms. Cindy Scheid
3. 2009 Technology Competition - Mr. Gary Weber
4. Student Poet/Writer - Mr. Gary Weber
5. Sheffield Area Middle High School JETS - Mr. James Evers
6. Golden Apple Award Winner - YEMS
7. Maching Shop NIMS Certification exceeding PDE recommendations - WCCC
8. Environthon Students - Mr. Toole - WAHS
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1.8 Public Comment
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1.9 Approval of the Minutes - April 13, 2009
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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1. Opening Activities
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves the minutes of April 13, 2009.
Motion & Voting
That the Board of School Directors approves the minutes of April 13, 2009.
Motion by Katherine Oudinot, second by Donna Zariczny.
Yes: Katherine Oudinot, Jeff Lockett, Jack Martin, Kimberly Angove, Arthur Stewart, Donna Zariczny, Thomas Knapp, Kirsten Turfitt
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1.10 Approval of the Special Meeting Minutes - April 29, 2009
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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1. Opening Activities
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves the Special Meeting Minutes of April 29, 2009.
Motion & Voting
That the Board of School Directors approves the minutes of April 13, 2009.
Motion by Jack Martin, second by Katherine Oudinot.
Yes: Katherine Oudinot, Kirsten Turfitt, Donna Zariczny, Arthur Stewart, Thomas Knapp, Jack Martin, Jeff Lockett, Kimberly Angove
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1.11 Financial Reports
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1.12 Audit Reports
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Recommended Action :
"That the Board of School Directors directs that the 2005-2006 Final Audit Report be filed with Board approved minutes of the April 9, 2007 Regular Board Meeting; and that the 2006-2007 Final Audit Report be filed with the Board approved minutes of the April 10, 2008 Regular Board Meeting."
Motion & Voting
"That the Board of School Directors directs that the 2005-2006 Final Audit Report be filed with Board approved minutes of the April 9, 2007 Regular Board Meeting; and that the 2006-2007 Final Audit Report be filed with the Board approved minutes of the April 10, 2008 Regular Board Meeting."
Motion by Jack Martin, second by Katherine Oudinot.
Yes: Arthur Stewart, Katherine Oudinot, Donna Zariczny, Jeff Lockett, Thomas Knapp, Jack Martin, Kimberly Angove, Kirsten Turfitt
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1.13 Hearing Officer's Report
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1. Opening Activities
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves the Hearing Officer's report dated May 11, 2009. (cases AA, EE, FF)
Public Content
Case FF will be posted on Friday.
2. President's Statement
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2.1 Reports & Information
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2. President's Statement
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1. I.U.5 - Mrs. Donna Zariczny
2. PSBA - Mr. Thomas Knapp
3. Career Center Advisory - Mr. Jeff Lockett
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2.2 Important Dates
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2. President's Statement
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2.3 Audit Report 2007-2008
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2. President's Statement
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2.4 Announcements
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2. President's Statement
3. Superintendent's Reports and Recommendations
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3.1 General Comments - Dr. Robert Terrill
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3. Superintendent's Reports and Recommendations
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3.2 Informational Report
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3. Superintendent's Reports and Recommendations
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3.3 Committee Reports
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3. Superintendent's Reports and Recommendations
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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3. Superintendent's Reports and Recommendations
4. New Business - Consent Agenda
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4.1 Consent Agenda
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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4. New Business - Consent Agenda
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves the consent agenda as presented.
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4.2 (4.2)2009-10 Perkins Grant - CIT - Dr. Jack Martin
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4. New Business - Consent Agenda
Recommended Action :
That the Board of Directors instructs the administration to submit an application to the 2009-10 Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Grant to support programs and activities at the Warren County Career Center.
Public Content
See attachment.
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4.3 (4.3) 2009-10 PA-Pact Grant - CIT - Dr. Jack Martin
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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4. New Business - Consent Agenda
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors instructs the administration to apply to the Pennsylvania Department of Education PA-Pact Grant to support a variety of programs in support of education in the Warren County School District.
Public Content
See attachments.
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4.4 (4.6) Tax Incentive Rebate Program with Ellwood National Forge - CIT - Dr. Jack Martin
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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4. New Business - Consent Agenda
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors instructs the administration to apply to Ellwood National Forge for a portion of the tax rebate monies it designates for local use in Warren County. Any such rebate would be designated to support Warren County Career Center programs.
Public Content
See attachment.
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4.5 (4.8) Job Training Equipment Grant - FIN - Mr. Jeff Lockett
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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4. New Business - Consent Agenda
Recommended Action :
Motion: That the Board of School Directors approves the district going to bid for a mill and lathe for use by programs at the Warren County Career Center, as outlined in the 2008-09 Job Training Fund Equipment Grant.
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4.6 (4.9) My Lunch Money.com - FIN - Mr. Jeff Lockett
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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4. New Business - Consent Agenda
Recommended Action :
Motion: That the Board of Directors approves mylunch.com as the online lunch money accounting system to be implemented on July 1, 2009.
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4.7 (4.10) License Agreement Rouse Children's Center - FIN - Mr. Jeff Lockett
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4. New Business - Consent Agenda
Recommended Action :
Motion: That the Board of School Directors approves (renews) the License Agreement with the Rouse Children's Center for Summer Playground use per the attached agreement.
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4.8 (4.12) Certificated Personnel Report - PACCA - Mrs. Kirsten Turfitt
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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4. New Business - Consent Agenda
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approve the Certificated Personnel Report.
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4.9 (4.13) Support Personnel Report - PACCA - Mrs. Kirsten Turfitt
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4. New Business - Consent Agenda
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approve the Support Personnel Report.
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4.10 (4.14) Athletic Supplemental Contracts - PACCA - Mrs. Kirsten Turfitt
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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4. New Business - Consent Agenda
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves the Athletic Supplemental Contracts
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4.11 (4.15) Co-Curricular Supplemental Contracts
PACCA - Mrs. Kirsten Turfitt
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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4. New Business - Consent Agenda
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves the Co-Curricular Supplemental Contracts.
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4.12 (4.16) Non-Athletic Co-Curricular Supplemental Position
PACCA - Mrs. Kirsten Turfitt
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4. New Business - Consent Agenda
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves the new Non-Athletic Co-Curricular Supplemental contract position of Wellness Coordinator
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4.13 (4.18) Cooperative Agreement - PACCA - Mrs. Kirsten Turfitt
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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4. New Business - Consent Agenda
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves the Cooperative Agreement Between Sheffield Area Middle/High School and Abraxas for football.
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4.14 (4.19) HIPAA Form - PACCA - Mrs. Kirsten Turfitt
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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4. New Business - Consent Agenda
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves the HIPAA form.
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4.15 (4.20) Highmark Healthy High 5 Challenge Grant - PPF - Mrs. Donna Zariczny
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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4. New Business - Consent Agenda
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors instructs the administration to apply to the Highmark Healthy High 5 Challenge Grant for $9,500 for the construction of a outdoor basketball court at Youngsville Elementary/Middle School.
Public Content
See attachment.
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4.16 (4.22) Sugar Grove Borough - Flashing Light Request - PPF - Mrs. Donna Zariczny
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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4. New Business - Consent Agenda
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors directs the administrations to provide a letter of support to the Borough of Sugar Grove for their grant application for flashing speed reductions signs at Sugar Grove Elementary School.
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4.17 (4.24) Policy Number 2345, titled - Minutes and Records - POL - Mrs. Kimberly Angove
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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4. New Business - Consent Agenda
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves on first reading Policy Number 2345, titled - Minutes and Records.
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4.18 (4.26) Policy 9742 - Class Rank/Honors Credits-Class of 2011 and Beyond and Policy 9743 - Class Rank/Honors Credits-Class of 2008, 2009, and 2010 - POL - Mrs. Kimberly Angove
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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4. New Business - Consent Agenda
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves on second reading the proposed revisions to Policy 9742 - Class Rank/Honors Credits-Class of 2011 and Beyond and Policy 9743 - Class Rank/Honors Credits-Class of 2008, 2009, and 2010.
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4.19 (4.27) Policy Number 10613, titled - Administration of Medications - POL - Mrs. Kimberly Angove
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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4. New Business - Consent Agenda
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves on first reading the new Policy Number 10613, titled - Administration of Medications.
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The administration and nursing staff would like to propose that the Board of School Directors considers the adoption of a medication policy to clarify the position of the Warren County School District with regards to students and medications.
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4.20 (4.28) Policy 10465, titled - Student Participation and Coaches Needed - POL - Mrs. Kimberly Angove
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4. New Business - Consent Agenda
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves on first reading Policy Number 10465, titled - Student Participation and Coaches Needed.
5. Items Removed for Separate Action
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5.1 (4.4) Proposed 2009-2010 Classes of Fewer than 12 Students - CIT - Dr. Jack Martin
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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5. Items Removed for Separate Action
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves that the attached listings of classes with fewer than 12 students be offered in school year 2009-2010.
Public Content
Attached are listings of the courses which have fewer than 12 students scheduled, both individual courses and combined classes, that the administration feels are of great enough value to the students that they be offered in the 2009-2010 school year.
Motion & Voting
That the Board of School Directors approves the consent agenda as presented.
Motion by Donna Zariczny, second by Katherine Oudinot.
Yes: Thomas Knapp, Kirsten Turfitt, Jack Martin, Kimberly Angove, Arthur Stewart
No: Jeff Lockett, Katherine Oudinot, Donna Zariczny
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5.2 (4.5) Request for a Budget Line Item for Technology Requests - CIT - Dr. Jack Martin
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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5. Items Removed for Separate Action
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors directs the Finance Committee to consider a $250,000 line item in the 2009-2010 budget in support of staff members’ requests for new technology in their classrooms. No more than 10% of the budgeted amount could be used for staff development.
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In connection with Board Goals 2 and 3, it is recommended that the Fianance Committee develop a line item in the 2009-2010 budget to be utilized for technology updates that are requested by WCSD teaching staff members. The requests will identify how the technology would fundamentally change the way they teach or change how the students react, and how the impact of using that technology will be measured after it has been in use for six months to a year.
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5.3 (4.7)Summer Playground Program - FIN - Mr. Jeff Lockett
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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5. Items Removed for Separate Action
Recommended Action :
Motion: That the Board of School Directors approves the attached License Agreement with the Commissioners of Warren County for the 2009 Summer Playground Program.
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5.4 (4.11) Copy Paper Bid - FIN - Mr. Jeff Lockett
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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5. Items Removed for Separate Action
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves the copy paper bid per the attached document.
Motion & Voting
That the Board of School Directors approves the consent agenda as presented.
Motion by Jeff Lockett, second by Katherine Oudinot.
Yes: Arthur Stewart, Thomas Knapp, Donna Zariczny, Kimberly Angove, Jeff Lockett, Katherine Oudinot, Kirsten Turfitt, Jack Martin
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5.5 (4.17) Staffing Information - PACCA - Mrs. Kirsten Turfitt
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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5. Items Removed for Separate Action
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves the new positions of Itinerant Music Instructor (1.0 FTE), Itinerant Spanish Instructor (1.0 FTE), .5 Home and School Visitor/Social Worker (0.5)FTE and place the funding for five (5) Itinerant Elementary Instructor positions in the contingency fund.
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5.6 (4.21) Salvation Army Youth Program - PPF - Mrs. Donna Zariczny
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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5. Items Removed for Separate Action
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves a License Agreement with the Salvation Army Youth Program.
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5.7 (4.23) Sugar Grove Elementary School Window Replacements - PPF - Mrs. Donna Zariczny
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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5. Items Removed for Separate Action
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves a general contract to Architectural Window Concepts, in the amount of $382,400 for the project known as "Sugar Grove Elementary School Window Replacements," WCSD Project 0903.Base bid #1.
Motion & Voting
That the Board of School Directors approves the copy paper bid per the attached document.
Motion by Donna Zariczny, second by Arthur Stewart.
Yes: Donna Zariczny, Jack Martin, Katherine Oudinot, Kirsten Turfitt, Arthur Stewart, Thomas Knapp, Kimberly Angove
No: Jeff Lockett
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5.8 (4.25) Policy 3221, titled - Records Management Policy - POL - Mrs. Kimberly Angove
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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5. Items Removed for Separate Action
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves on first reading Policy Number, 3221, titled - Records Management Policy.
Motion & Voting
That the Board of School Directors approves the copy paper bid per the attached document.
Motion by Arthur Stewart, second by Donna Zariczny.
Yes: Kirsten Turfitt, Jack Martin, Kimberly Angove, Thomas Knapp
No: Donna Zariczny, Katherine Oudinot, Jeff Lockett, Arthur Stewart
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5.9 (4.29) Business Administrator Contract
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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5. Items Removed for Separate Action
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors renews Mr. J. Petter Turnquist's contract as the Business Administrator for the Warren County School District under the terms of the employment agreement as presented.
6. Future Business for Committee Review
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6.1 Future Business for Committee Review
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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6. Future Business for Committee Review
7. Other
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7.1 Appointment of Board Secretary - PACCA - Mrs. Kirsten Turfitt
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
Recommended Action :
BOARD SECRETARY APPOINTMENT
Huck, Ruth A.: requests approval of the appointment as Board Secretary for the Warren County School District for a term of four (4) years beginning on July 1, 2009 with a supplemental salary of $5,796.40 for the 2009/2010 school year. A salary increase of 3% will be given in each of the following three (3) years of the term and that the Board of School Directors further approves the bond amount of $25,000 for the board secretary.
Motion & Voting
(not specified)
Motion by Donna Zariczny, second by Thomas Knapp.
Yes: Thomas Knapp, Arthur Stewart, Katherine Oudinot, Donna Zariczny, Jeff Lockett, Jack Martin, Kimberly Angove, Kirsten Turfitt
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7.2 Appointment of the Board Treasurer
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors appoints ____________ as the Treasurer for the Board of School Directors for the 2009-2010 fiscal year.
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7.3 Repository Sale
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves the Tax Repository Sale per the attached document.
Motion & Voting
(not specified)
Motion by Katherine Oudinot, second by Arthur Stewart.
Yes: Katherine Oudinot, Thomas Knapp, Donna Zariczny, Jack Martin, Kirsten Turfitt, Kimberly Angove, Arthur Stewart
No: Jeff Lockett
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7.4 Stimulus Funding Applications
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors authorizes the administration to submit Stimulus Grant applications for Basic Education Funding, State Fiscal Stabilization Fund, Title I Funding and IDEA Funding.
Motion & Voting
(not specified)
Motion by Jeff Lockett, second by Thomas Knapp.
Yes: Jack Martin, Kirsten Turfitt, Katherine Oudinot, Jeff Lockett, Thomas Knapp, Donna Zariczny, Kimberly Angove, Arthur Stewart
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7.5 Athletic Trainer Agreement
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
Recommended Action :
That the Board of School Directors approves the Athletic Trainer Agreement with Warren General Hospital as presented.
8. Closing Activities
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8.1 Public Comment
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8. Closing Activities
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8.2 Executive Session
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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8. Closing Activities
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8.3 Adjournment
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May 11, 2009 - Regular Board Meeting
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8. Closing Activities