1. Opening Activities

1. National Merit Scholarship Program Commendation 2. National Merit Scholarship Program Finalist 3. Key Club Leadership Conference 4. PA State Farm Show, 3rd Place Winner 5. Eisenhower Middle/High School Marching Band 6. Student Helpers 7. New Employee Recognition

The mission of the Warren County School District is to educationally empower all students to think critically and solve problems through a rigorous curriculum that will provide them with the skills necessary to graduate and pursue a career of their interest.

In order to maintain a free and strong country, our civic obligation to the community, commonwealth, and nation is to maintain free and strong public schools in the United States of America, without surrendering our responsibilities to any other person, group, or organization. Accordingly, the community should be provided with information about its schools and be engaged by the board and staff to encourage input and support for the school system.

2. President's Statement

1. I.U.5 - Mrs. Donna Zariczny 2. PSBA Liaison - Mr. John Grant 3. Career Center Advisory - Dr. Paul Yourchisin and Mr. Michael Zamborik

3. Superintendent's Reports and Recommendations

4. New Business - Consent Agenda

This is the normal process for a purchase request for property that is not on the tax rolls due to non-payment of taxes.

Citrix is infrastructure software that the Technology Department uses to deliver applications and desktop images to students and faculty. It provides a platform that delivers access to resources 24/7 to internet connected devices as well as district owned equipment. The Citrix Education Program is modeled after the Microsoft Campus Level agreements allowing us to use licenses much more flexibly than in our past agreements.

When we implemented our last major upgrade, we were asked to cut some funding out of the project. We did so and as a result, we re-purposed some existing servers. These servers are stationed in each building to facilitate the streaming of computer operating systems to our teachers and students. That strategy worked well until this past summer, when we started having hard drive and motherboard failures. We foresaw those failures and had extra drives and servers hardware to serve as replacements. Unfortunately, we have used up our stock of replacements on maintenance equipment, and have run through all three of our spare servers during the week of September 16th. Two of the spare servers are below the suggested specifications, but have been able to keep us limping along. Many of the servers in the other buildings are showing similar signs of failure. Failure of these particular servers in our buildings is a major concern, resulting in computers either not starting up, the start-up process taking several minutes, and/or frequent freeze ups. We have requested quotes from GovConnection based on COSTARS state contract pricing to replace the servers in question. We currently have 7 servers of 8 that are in desperate need. The attached quote represents some attractive pricing. Ordering by the 26th of September allowed us to lock in these prices. We had these overnighted, so that we can start the replacement in late September or early October rather than waiting until after the board meeting in October. Doing so saved a few weeks of heartache and stress on our teachers and students.

The WCSD Kindergarten and First Grade Progress Reports needed to be revised to reflect the implementation of the PA Core Standards. Kindergarten and First Grade teachers reviewed the new standards and assessment anchors to determine what changes needed to be made in their curriculum, instruction, and assessments. In addition, the teachers requested that the progress reports be created as an electronic template.

The Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School, a cyber school, has a student that would like to attend the Warren County Career Center. A purchase order from the charter school to the District for services in the amount deemed appropriate by our administration is attached for Board and Administration only as the document contains personal information about the student. The administration is asking for the Board's approval for this to occur.

The administration is asking that the Board approves an agreement between the Warren County Career Center (WCCC) and Jamestown Community College (JCC) that will establish a dual enrollment partnership through July 2018. The agreement is attached. The fees for the manufacturing course that is being offered in the 2013-2014 school year will be $55.00 per credit, or $165.00 for the three credit course, plus the cost of any required textbooks. Scholarships may be available to some students. The only prerequisite is one year of high school Algebra.

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With the installation of these additional tools, all core subject classrooms at BWMS will have a SMARTboard.

5. Items Removed for Separate Action

6. Future Business for Committee Review

7. Other

The administration drafted revisions to Policy 10613 with input from the district's Nurses Department Head and the solicitor. The final proposed revisions are attached.

Administration has received various feedback from the Board regarding this policy and is recommending that the Board approve the attached version of Policy 9744, titled "Class Rank/Honors Credits - Class of 2017 and Beyond.” Honors, AP, and Dual Enrollment Receive Weight; Final Grade determines weight. A student will only be Eligible for Recognition if full-time in the district for both their Junior and Senior year; Physical Education counts toward the GPA.

8. Closing Activities