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School Board Meeting Briefs
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BOARD OF EDUCATION
Mar 15 - REGULAR MEETING - 7:00 PM
President Means called the meeting to order at 7:03 PM.
Present: Freebairn, Hales, Hutchinson, Kile, Means, Young Absent: Eads
Others Present: Superintendent Hall, Principal Hettmansberger, Gary Henry, Jacob Roskovensky, Lesliea Palmer, Dorene Boland, Bill Benner, Nelson Starkey, Wade H. Hales, Amy Hales, Paula Coffer, Kendra Carroll, Casey Long, Sue Miller, Patsy Barnett, Beth Harbaugh, Terry Sullivan, Barb Board
President Means welcomed everyone to the meeting.
Board approved the following: Treasurer’s Report, Activity Report, regular meeting minutes of February 16, 2010, and payment of bills.
Communications
Teacher Presentation: Ms. Kendra Carroll and Ms. Sue Miller presented information regarding Dual Credit classes for juniors and seniors. Ms. Carroll currently teaches a Biology II dual credit class in which students earn 3 college credits. This is provided at a very low cost to the students. The option next year is to add an environmental biology class.
Ms. Miller will offer Strategies for Success, a 2 hour credit class, next year. This will be a blended class with part in-class work and part online work.
Ms. Coffer, guidance counselor, commented that transferrable credit classes must be taught by a teacher in the field who has a master’s degree.
Eads joined the meeting at 7:10 PM.
Ms. Miller took a moment to brag on Alex Snook, an exemplary student in her web design class who always does more then what’s required. Recently he created an outstanding animated graphic which Ms. Miller explained to the Board.
Audience to Visitors: Wade Hales questioned the status of PreK funding; when will the Board make a decision about PreK for next year; and when PreK screening would be held.
Superintendent Hall responded that the state is saying they will fund PreK next year. PreK screening will be in May. The best guess is the Board could possibly make a decision in early July. Prediction is for a loss of $200,000 to $250,000 in General State Aid next year.
Administrative Team Reports
Principal Hettmansberger: Shiloh Elementary received recognition as a 2009 Illinois Spotlight School. This recognition is based on 70% of the students meeting or exceeding the pervious years ISAT scores, percentage of free and reduced students, and having achieved AYP the previous 2 years. This shows the students and staff are doing what needs to be done in the classroom.
National Honor Society Induction Ceremony was held March 9. Congratulations to the new members: Kris Barth, Stevie Davis, Jon Dye, Alisha Kirkley, Hannah Dunn, Taylor Horn, Jordan Landeck, Larissa Moses, Katrina Reed, and Hilary Rhode
Annual FFA Banquet was March 12.
Thank you to the PTO for providing snacks for the ISAT testing.
The 3rd quarter elementary honors assembly will be March 26 at 8:15 AM in the Shiloh multi. All board members are invited to come and support the students who have achieved honors.
Ms. Dorene Boland spoke about the Shiloh Student Councils accomplishments at the district level. The Kickapoo District Association of Student Councils is comprised of 12 active schools. During the 18 years she has been serving as Student Council Advisor, Shiloh has had at least one district officer each year except for one. For the coming year Jessica Richardson was elected KDASC President and Hilary Rhode was elected District Secretary. Larissa Moses won for her Hall of Ideas project display. Alisha Kirkley and Ashley Young gave discussion groups and will also take these to state.
Freebairn commented that he heard on the news that NCLB was being revamped and basically NCLB is gone. Superintendent Hall has not received any word on this as yet. Principal Hettmansberger commented that even if the federal government does away with NCLB the state will probably have it in some form or other.
Superintendent Hall briefly discussed the Horizon Windfarm meeting held recently at Shiloh. They are proposing windfarms in Jamaica, Heritage, and Shiloh districts with 50-60 windmills each. Based on taxes each district could receive $9-10,000 per windmill. The district would have the potential for a nice windfall except that he has also heard the federal government is talking about making them tax exempt as part of the green movement so the schools would end up with nothing except 50-60 windmills.
Board approved:
Tenure of Certified Staff: Jacob Roskovensky, Laura Rudder, Jason Conn, Sonya Johnson
Overnight FCCLA field trip to Springfield, IL, April 8-9, 2010
Resolutions of Non-Renewal: Mark Hidalgo, Maegan Golloway, Ashley Jamison, Leslie Hornaday, Wendy Ericksen
Set date and time of Public Hearing for Waiver of State Board Rules for Non-Resident Pupils of April 19, 2010, at 7:00 PM with regular meeting to follow immediately after.
Final Reading of School Board Policies:
2:20 School Board: Powers and Duties of the School Board
2:40 School Board: Board Member Qualifications
2:110 School Board: Qualifications, Term, and Duties of Board Officers
3:40 General School Administration: Superintendent
4:20 Operational Services: Fund Balances
4:30 Operational Services: Revenue and Investments
4:40 Operational Services: Incurring Debt
4:100 Operational Services: Insurance Management
4:110 Operational Services: Transportation
4:140 Operational Services: Waiver of Student Fees
Announcements and Discussion:
First reading of Amended Shiloh CUSD #1 School Board Policy Manual occurred.
High School Track and Baseball Fields: Superintendent Hall received a quote from Charlie Adams for limestone on the track at cost of $4,000, trucking not included. Feels this can be coded to Life Safety Funds. Second option is have dirt hauled in and plant grass seed at a cost of $500 plus cost of seed.
For the baseball field Kile had received a quote for crushed red brick with a drying agent or the suggestion to scrape off the infield and redo the field with a mix of black dirt and limestone.
Possibility of using ground up road surface as filler for the track was discussed. Superintendent Hall will check into availability and pricing.
Board went into Executive Session at 8:02 PM. and returned to Open Session at 8:25 PM.
Board approved Executive Session minutes of February 16, 2010
Board tabled release of Executive Session minutes.
Board authorized the Superintendent to destroy the audio recordings of Executive
Session minutes of May 13, 2008, and prior.
Meeting adjourned at 8:30 PM.