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Regular
Board of Education Meeting Unified
School District No. 363 May
8, 2006 ~7:30 p.m. Room 132, Holcomb High School |
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Board of Education
Members: Tim Miller (President), Jon
Becker, Anne Jones, Cindy Messenger, Mike Pfeifer,
Jay Powers, Janet Sharp |
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Members Present:
Jon Becker, Anne Jones, Cindy Messenger, Tim Miller, Mike Pfeifer, Janet Sharp
Administrators Present: Bill Biermann, Kristy Ellis, Phil Keidel, W.S. Landis
Others:,
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Anne Jones moved, seconded by Jon
Becker, to amend the agenda to add item 9E, Consider
sale of kiln. Motion carried: 6-0
Agenda
Cindy Messenger moved, seconded by Janet
Sharp, to approve the amended agenda. Motion
carried: 6-0.
Consent Agenda
Jon Becker moved, seconded by Mike
Pfeifer, to approve the consent agenda. Motion carried: 6-0
Items:
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minutes – April 10, 2006
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retirement – Sue
Weaver, bus driver (effective last day of 2006 school year)
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substitute teacher
– Lisa Stegman
Claims
Janet Sharp moved, seconded by
Jon Becker, to approve the expenditures -
$322,942.96 Motion carried: 5-1 with Cindy Messenger abstaining due to a
mileage reimbursement.
Communications
A letter of concern from the board
of education was addressed to Kansas Department of Transportation requesting KDOT
reconsider the current highway 50 bypass plan due to
safety issues. The letter will be mailed
the week of May 8th.
Presentation
Odyssey of the Mind members
presented the group’s problem solving project that won first place at state
competition. The team will compete at Odyssey World
Competition in
Reports -superintendent
Sunflower Electric ground
breaking will be in 2007 or 2008 and project will continue through 2014 or 2015
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staff luncheon May 26th
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board of education will appoint a member to the Holcomb
Recreation Commission at the June meeting
-middle school
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tech lab hardware and software will be installed in June
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seventh and eighth grade boys won the league track meet
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middle school art students were recognized
-recreation commission
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minutes from the April 13th were included in the
board packet
Old Business
Jon
Becker, moved, seconded by Anne Jones, to adopt the recommended K-5
communications textbooks and supplementals. Motion carried: 6-0 Publishers:
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, $60,589.92 - K-third;
Zaner-Bloser (Handwriting), $ 3,096.90 - K-third; Scott/Foresman, $ 7,845.10
- fourth-fifth;
Supplementals, $16,126.04
-Odyssey of the Mind
Due to Odyssey team members
and sponsors remaining at the meeting awaiting the board’s decision to provide
transportation to Odyssey World Competition in
Recess
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-laptop initiative
After much discussion, Jon
Becker moved, seconded by Mike Pfeifer, to accept the bid from Dell for three
hundred-ten laptops,
wireless network hardware and to purchase the web filtering
program for the high school laptop initiative. Motion carried: 5-1 with Cindy Messenger dissenting. Laptop carrying cases will be purchased for
the new laptops. Bids from Apple and IBM
did not meet specs.
Dell Computer Bid: $418,543.40
Web filtering:
$ 17,500.00
Wireless Network: $ 32,841.86
New Business -student transportation
Members discussed the
difficulty in recruiting bus drivers and reviewed possible solutions. Mike
Pfeifer moved, seconded by Cindy Messenger, to increase the hourly rate for all
bus routes, set a minimum of one hour driving time for bus routes 3, 6, and 9 and
waive the out-of-district policy for the children of part-time bus drivers –
effective 2006-2007 school year (currently waived for full-time drivers; motion
does not include substitute drivers).
Motion carried: 6-0
-last day of school
Mike Pfeifer moved, seconded
by Janet Sharp,to approve
the request to change the last day school for students to May 23rd
due to technology training for the high school staff. Motion carried: 6-0
-high
school yearbook
Concerns were voiced regarding
the lack of interest in the purchase of middle/high school yearbooks. After discussion, members decided to table
until a later date.
-cooperative
agreement
Steve Johnson reviewed the
request from
-kiln
Anne Jones moved, seconded by
Jon Becker, to sell the district’s used kiln to the
Action Items -teaching
contracts/transfer
Janet Sharp moved, seconded by
Cindy Messenger, to
approve the new teacher recommendations and the staff transfer. Motion carried: 6-0
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Jerry Johnson - high school social science and high school
head football
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Claudia Boyles –
high school science
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Kelly Kramer –
high school math and high school head girls’ basketball
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Carol Edmonds –
middle school language arts
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Rachael Massoth – middle school/high school vocal music.
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Tamara Parker –
transfer from a third grade position to middle school math
-summer school/driver education
instructors
Mike Pfeifer moved, seconded
by Jon Becker to approve the recommended staff for the summer school and driver
education programs. Motion carried: 6-0
Elemntary : Lisa Bascue, Ann Knoll, Marilyn Ornelas, Martha Symmonds, Tammy Wallace
Middle school:
High school: Linda O’Sullivan,
Paraprofessionals: Amanda Aguilar, Loretta De La Rosa, Rita
Elliott, Lori Lambert, Lupe Longoria, Lisa Medina
Drivers education:
Megan Hudson, Ty Walker
-Books on Bus
Anne Jones moved, seconded by
Janet Sharp, to support USD 457’s Books
on Bus program with a monetary contribution of $571.26 Motion carried: 6-0
The bookmobile will be in Holcomb on Friday afternoons commencing June 9th to July 21st.
-adopt republished budget
Due to increased enrollment,
Executive Session
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rights of an individual(s) and protect the public interest in
negotiating a fair and equitable contract, respectively. The clerk remained in executive and exited a
Additional Business -superintendent’s contract
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Respectfully submitted: Approved:
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Mary Ann Bennett, Clerk Tim
Miller, President