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School Board Meeting Briefs
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BOARD OF EDUCATION
Nov 20, 2006 Regular Meeting
Meeting was called to order at 7:00 PM by President Patchett.
Board members present: Brown, Hutchinson, Kile, Means, Patchett, Young.
Others present: Superintendent Acklin, Principal Hettmansberger, Gary Henry, Bill Payne, Amy McClain, Kendra Carroll, Melanie Dauderman, Dave Fraley, Terry Sullivan, Barb Board
President Patchett welcomed everyone to the meeting.
Board approved the following Consent Agenda items:
o Treasurer’s Report
o Activity Report
o Resignations of Shirley Newcomer, Bus Driver, and Dan Niemerg, HS & 5th Grade Volleyball Coach
o Employment of Darcy Church, FY08 Guidance Counselor, Jacob Roskovensky, Bus Driver, and Amy Kincaid, 5th Grade Volleyball Coach
Board approved the regular meeting minutes of October 16, 2006.
Board approved the payment of bills as presented.
Correspondence:
o Thank you from Pam Julian for flowers
o EIEES notification of approval of FY07 Incentive Funding Grant for Agriculture Education for $2900.00
o Illinois FFA Alumni Association notification of selection to receive a Remodel Your Agriculture Department matching grant of $940.00
o Burger Boat Company letter commending Mark Smith and two students for their knowledge of the woodworking industry through the WoodLINKS program
o Thank you from Glenda Bequette, ISBE, for inviting her to see the TECH-IL classrooms and see her vision for the program being implemented.
o Thank you from Natalie Bomke, ABC News Channel 15, for letting her to visit the schools.
Friend of Education Awards were presented to:
o Patterson Office Supplies: for donating several hundred dollars worth of paper supplies, stickers, and other items to the Shiloh District and delivering them to the school. Melanie Dauderman, a product developer at Patterson Office Supplies accepted the award.
o Allerton Supply Company: Sale to the Shiloh District of a 2001 Chevy truck for $3,000; having a retail value of $10,000, with the remainder of the value as a donation to the district. Dave Fraely accepted the award.
President Patchett thanked Mrs. Pollock’s High School Art Class of sophomores, juniors, and seniors for the tessellations on display in the board room.
Audience to Visitors
Amy McClain thanked the Administration and Board for providing her with the opportunity to attend the conference for English teachers and shared some of the highlights of the conference.
Kendra Carroll explained how the program “Writing Across the Curriculum” has been implemented under the guidance of Ms. McClain and how successful it is.
Terry Sullivan recognized Ms. McClain as becoming the central Illinois Moodle expert. Other schools have sought her input and she will also be presenting at the LTC Conference in St. Charles in March.
Kendra Carroll thanked the Administration and Board for supporting the science program by allowing three staff members to attend and present at the Illinois Science Teachers Association Conference.
Administrative Reports
Principal’s Report – Mr. Hettmansberger: Noted that Shiloh Elementary Citizen’s of the Month and 1st Quarter Honor Roll recipients were included in the board packet.
Congratulated Emily Joines as a Sectional Cross Country qualifier.
Preliminary PSAE scores look as if the district will meet Annual Yearly Progress.
Freebairn entered the meeting at 7:28 PM.
Shiloh students who served as Election Judges in Edgar and Douglas Counties were: Mason Wood, Meta Partenheimer, Ben Carroll, Paige Farris, Danielle Glenn, Ben Harbaugh, Hanna Hawkins, Briana Mattingly-Kincaid, Rachel Roberts, and Kayla Snyder. He commended Mrs. Belobraydic in her leadership and the students for having the sense of civic responsibility to serve.
Booster Club Basket Night held November 3rd was a great success.
Family Reading Night at Newman Grade School included a storyteller who did a wonderful job. Reading Night was held in conjunction with the Book Fair.
Commended Matt Davis for spotting the fire in Hume last week and calling the authorities.
Superintendent’s Report – Mr. Acklin: Learned on November 13th that Shiloh was not a recipient of the Advanced Manufacturing Grant through the Department of Labor.
Noted that Glenda Bequette, ISBE, is working to bring Barak Obama to Shiloh to see the results of the E2T2 Grant and the IT program.
Corrected special education qualifying numbers from 34% reported last month to 25%. This is still a significant number above the state average of 14%. The ~$350k difference between what is spent on special education services and what is reimbursed through state and federal funding reported last month for FY06 is accurate. Administration is working with the special education co-op about over-identification and controlling costs.
Board approved the following:
o Field trip to Indianapolis, Indiana
o IT Industry AutoCAD Class
o Tentative FY06 Tax Levy
o Superintendent’s Performance Goals
o Final reading of School Board Policies:
5:170 General Personnel - Copyright
5:300 Educational Support Personnel - Schedules and Employment Year
5:320 Educational Support Personnel – Evaluation
6:30 Instruction – Organization of Instruction
6:70 Instruction – Teaching About Religions
6:80 Instruction – Teaching About Controversial Issues
6:150 Instruction – Home and Hospital Instruction
6:210 Instruction – Instructional Materials
6:220 Instruction – Instructional Materials Selection and Adoption – Deleted
Announcements and Discussion
First reading of the following school board policies occurred:
6:230 Instruction – Library Media Center
6:280 Instruction – Grading and Promotion
6:290 Instruction – Homework
6:330 Instruction – Achievement and Awards
7:80 Students – Release Time For Religious Instruction/Observance
7:90 Students – Release During School Hours
7:220 Students – Bus Conduct
7:310 Students – Publications
7:340 Students – Student Records
8:40 Community Relations – Spectator Conduct and Sportsmanship for Athletic and Extracurricular at School Events
IASB Convention: Superintendent Acklin – the two most valuable sessions were on collective bargaining as we have negotiations coming up this spring.
Brown – also attended the collective bargaining sessions and felt there should be one designated person to take notes at the meetings. Was also impressed with the dairy product vending machines and feels the district should look into this.
Young – new consolidation law that a co-op high school agreement is locked in for twenty years. Attended a session of the School Wellness Program and asked where we are with that. Superintendent noted that our policy is in place, we have community members who have volunteered to serve on the committee. The hold-up now is finding time for a meeting.
Kile – was frustrated to find that most of the vendors were geared toward much larger districts. Was disappointed that no transportation vendor had a program for rural districts.
Freebairn – found an engineering firm out of Bloomington that is interested in the corn burning furnace project. Learned that some schools are offering a program for math credit for Ag classes.
Means – visited with vendors of playground equipment. Attended the delegate assembly as a visitor and encourage the Board to send a delegate to this each year.
Hutchinson – attended the IASB delegate assembly for the District. Several resolutions were passed. Also strongly encouraged the District to send a delegate each year.
Patchett – attended an interesting and frustrating session by Representative Eddy and retiring State Superintendent Dunn. Encourage members to continue to attend the convention.
School Board Election – Petitions can be picked up in the Shiloh Unit Office on any school business day between 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM.
Co-op High School Update: The feasibility study agreement is currently being circulated for the six district superintendents to sign. The study must be done by June 30, 2007, to take advantage of state funding. The study can be limited to just a co-op high school or can requested that other options be considered also.
Athletic Co-op: At a recent meeting between administrators and board members of the present co-op Shiloh proposed extending the current co-op of football, baseball, and track with consideration of the addition of volleyball. This would bring us only two sports away from being across the board. Heritage could be the administrating district for football and any other sports they choose as long as both districts were in balance. All coaching positions would be opened up.
Heritage does not appear to be interested in any co-op that doesn’t address the needs of Heritage which are football, track, and baseball. They want a winning football team now and felt that they could field their own team. Once football is fixed maybe they might then look at adding other sports. Heritage feels that when they co-op sports they have less participation.
Basic philosophical differences appear to be that Heritage feels that football will save the co-op and Shiloh feels the co-op will save football.
Board entered into Executive Session at 9:17 PM.
Board returned to Open Session at 10:00 PM.
Board directed the Superintendent to explore options that could potentially lead to an across the board sports co-op.
Board meeting adjourned at 10:10 PM.