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School Board Meeting Briefs
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BOARD OF EDUCATION
Mar 17 , 2008 Regular Board Meeting
The Regular Meeting was called to order at 7:00 PM by Vice President Hutchinson.
Board members present: Brown, Hales, Hutchinson, Young
Absent: Freebairn, Kile, Means
Others Present: Superintendent Lewis, Principal Hettmansberger, Gary Henry, Dr. Alice Jacobs, Vickie Miller, Terry Sullivan, Barb Board
Kile joined the meeting at 7:01 PM
Dr. Jacobs, President of Danville Area Community College, spoke to the Board about Dual Credit classes, affordability of DACC tuition vs a four year college, and possibility of high school students earning college credits before they graduate. Four current DACC teaching faculty members have earned national awards. Have completed several renovations on campus and welcome all visitors. DACC is hosting the National Jr. College Basketball Tournament this week.
Freebairn joined the meeting at 7:10 PM
Superintendent Lewis commented that while he was at Westville two seniors graduated high school and went right into DACC as sophomores as a result of the Dual Credit classes.
Board approved the following Consent Agenda items: Treasurer’s Report, Activity Report, resignation of Brooke Kile, HSBB Cheerleading Sponsor.
Approved the regular meeting minutes of the February 11, 2008.
Approved the payment of bills as presented.
Vice President Hutchinson noted that President Means sent his apologies for not being at the meeting. He is out of the area and could not get back in time for the meeting.
Principal Hettmansberger: ISAT’s are over! Testing was more stressful this year as there was an ISBE representative sitting in on the testing.
Congratulations to Erin Downey for being named to 2nd Team Associated Press All State Basketball Team
Thank You Student Council for their dedication and hard work making 113 Linus blankets of the 300 made by the entire KDASC.
February 26th was Freshmen Orientation. The evening was a real success with a great turnout of 31 out of 38 families.
Student Council sponsored blood drive resulted in 50 units of blood donated, a Shiloh record, on March 11. This is another great outreach provided by the Student Council.
FFA Banquet was March 14. The evening offered a very nice program and was well attended.
Parent/Teacher Conferences will be from 4-7:30 Tuesday, March 18, and 8-12:00 Wednesday, March 19.
LOVC Band Festival will be Wednesday, March 19, at 7:00 PM.
Dave Tingley, High School Girls Basketball Coach, was named Illinois Basketball Associations Coach of the Year.
Beginning with the 2010-2011 school year, Shiloh Jr. High (gr. 5-8) will be part of the Three Rivers Conference.
Newman Woman’s Club held a recent meeting in Ms. Minott’s classroom where she demonstrated the technology used by her students.
Superintendent Lewis: Looking at buying a used bus for next year.
ThinkLink will be used next year. This will build right off the Dibels testing in Kindergarten.
Is keeping in contact with Paris about a co-op high school. Maintaining an ongoing dialog will keep the door open should the district consider this option in the future.
Brown commented that a co-op high school would have to offer our students more academically for him to support a co-op. Right now he’s more impressed with what we have here.
Young commented that with dual credit options we can offer even more.
Superintendent Lewis will keep the board current on what’s happening with the co-op high school discussions.
The E2T2 group will present at the National Conference again this year. Conference will be in San Antonio, Texas.
ISBE will be here in April to visit the E2T2 classrooms.
Presented the option of a paperless board packet distributed to members on flash drives. Superintendent Lewis will verify with the attorney that this is acceptable.
Young suggested that lunch bills be emailed to parents to save postage.
When announcing a school cancellation or early closing the AlertNow option will be used to send the message to all numbers and emails provided not just the primary number.
Approved Outstanding Contribution Award Recipients.
Reviewed the proposed 2008-2009 School Calendar. Discussion of starting later in the August, using waivers to attend on more holidays, changing the proposed date of spring Parent-Teacher Conferences.
Reviewed the 2008-2009 Fee Schedule. No changes were discussed although Brown asked to see the figures of what our cost is per school meal.
First reading of the Newman Grade School Discipline Chart occurred.
Brown opened a discussion of possible ways to handle an emergency of someone on site with a weapon.
Freebairn requested to see the total cost of heating the Shiloh building for this winter season.
Board entered into Executive Session at 8:02 PM and returned to Open Session at 8:18 PM.
Approved Reduction-in-Force of Certificated Employee.
The Shiloh CUSD #1 Regular Meeting of March 17, 2008, adjourned at 8:20 PM.