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School Board Meeting Briefs
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BOARD OF EDUCATION
Meeting was called to order at 7:00 PM by Vice President Brown.
Board members present: Brown, Freebairn, Means, Young. Absent: Hutchinson, Kile, Patchett. Others present: Superintendent Acklin, Principal Hettmansberger, Gary Henry, Terry Sullivan, Barb Board
Vice President Brown welcomed everyone to the meeting.
Board approved the following Consent Agenda items:
§ Treasurer’s Report
§ Activity Report
§ Resignations of Sheryl Lawless, Sue English, and Michelle Wise
§ Fall Canoe Trip, October 7-8, 2006
Board approved the regular meeting minutes of July 17, 2006, as corrected. (Cost of Feasibility Study cost of $1,450, not $14,050.)
Board approved the payment of bills as presented.
Administrative Reports: Principal’s Report – Mr. Hettmansberger
Newman Grade School and Shiloh Elementary School have been recognized as Illinois Spotlight Schools. In order to receive this recognition, schools must have, for three years in a row, 60% of students meeting or exceeding in reading and math the ISBE Standards, 95% participation in State testing, 89% daily attendance rate, and 50% free or reduced students. Our schools are the only schools in Edgar County to be recognized and very few schools in our area were recognized. This speaks volumes for our exceptional teaching staff.
Derek Evans has been elected as Section FFA Officer. He will represent our Section at various FFA events around the state.
Reviewed ACT Scores noting that we are showing improvement each year. Our ultimate goal is for our composite score to be more then the state composite score: we are closing the gap on the state scores.
Kile joined the meeting at 7:26 PM.
New dismissal time for town students at Newman Grade School. These students will be dismissed at 3:00. This change will not result in any loss of academic time. It is hoped that setting the time at 3:00 rather then 3:05 will encourage parents to pick their children up in a timely manner as a few parents have been repeatedly late causing supervision problems and staff having to stay late.
New arrival time for Shiloh building staff. Time of 7:55 has been changed to 7:45 with no violation of the contract. This gives staff time to prepare both mentally and physically for their first class.
Shiloh Walk-thru was cancelled as there were already many activities scheduled for tonight. The walk-thru was mainly for the 3rd grade classes but since the 2nd grade (this year’s 3rd grade) visited and toured the Shiloh building last spring there was no need to repeat the process. Elementary Orientation will be next Tuesday giving staff time to prepare.
7th and 8th grade evening Orientations were cancelled as the structure of orientation is changed this year. These students are already familiar with the building. The first day of school will begin with a 7-12 assembly followed by smaller breakout session which will address discipline, extra-curricular sports and co-curricular activities.
Approved purchase of a Maintenance Truck from Allerton Supply. Truck is valued at $10,000 but they have offered it to us for $3,000 and a letter of accepting donation for the remaining $7,000 value.
Approved a Feasibility Study for installation of a Corn Burning Furnace.
Approved changing the September meeting date to Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 8:00 P.M. to meet the requirement of having the Tentative Budget on display for 30 days.
Board approved the FY07 Tentative Budge and set the Budget Hearing Date and Time of September 21, 2006, at 7:45 PM.
Announcements and Discussion: IASB Convention Pre Conference Workshop information was included in the Board packet.
Corn Burning Furnace – Freebairn update the Board on events to date. Issues being researched are: Dust from corn dropping into the furnace – allergies. Looking at a cyclone exhaust system with bag. Odor control – working on getting more information
Advanced Manufacturing Grant – Grant has been written and processed. Will be October before anything is known for sure.
Golf Team – Consensus of the Board was to continue with the golf program this year and work hard to get a co-op going for next year. Superintendent Acklin noted that Heritage had hired Jason Conn, whom Shiloh has recently hired as a P.E./Health teacher, to coach the track co-op. Heritage is the administrating district of the track co-op. Principal Hettmansberger spoke to the success of the across the board Salt Fork Co-op between Catlin and Jamaica.
Executive Session occurred at 8:47 PM.
Return to Open Session at 9:00 PM.
Approved employment of Nicole Mazur as LD Resource Teacher and Assistant HS Volleyball Coach, Tracy Flesner as Bus Driver, and Dana Bogle as Assistant Transportation Direction.
The meeting adjourned at 9:01 PM.