The Shelton School District Board of Directors met in regular session at 6:00 p.m. on October 11, 2005 in the Board Room located in the CHOICE School.

 

Board members present:  Chairman Bill Freund, Holly Sharpe, Sue McCausland, Ross Gallagher, Julianna Miljour and student board representative Amy Thornton.

 

Staff members present:  Superintendent Joan Zook, Jackie McGuire, Alison Nutt, Sheryal Balding,

 

Others present:  Jeff Green, Dedrick Allen and KerryAnn Cockrell.

 

CALL TO ORDER

Chairman Freund called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. and led the Pledge of Allegiance.

 

ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA

There was one addition to the consent agenda, which was to discuss a personnel matter in executive session as Item 12.02.  Holly Sharpe made a motion to adopt the agenda as amended.  Julianna Miljour seconded the motion and the motion passed unanimously.

 

Chairman Freund read the district’s Mission Statement.

 

REPORTS AND RECOGNITIONS

6.01 – Presentation of funds to the American Red Cross:

Sue McCausland presented a check in the amount of $1,115.71 to KerryAnn Cockrell from the Mt. Rainier Chapter of the American Red Cross.  These funds were raised by our students and staff during the past month to help those affected by Hurricane Katrina.  KerryAnn presented Sue with a certificate of appreciation from the American Red Cross and asked Sue to let her know the names of the schools who participated so the Red Cross can provide them with their own certificates.

 

6.02 – Report from the Special Services Department:

Ed Born, Director of Special Services, reported on his response to the recent WASA Management Review as it relates to special education in the Shelton School District.  Special education currently serves 14.4% of the Shelton School District’s total population, serving ages birth to 21.  The state average is 12.3% and the district is funded at 12.7%.  The district will be applying for safety net funds this year.  The state requirements for eligibility for safety net funding have been changed to make the funds more accessible to local districts in need.  Ed also shared data comparisons which included Mason County schools, regions by county, similar sized districts by school building, WASL reading results, disability categories by district and state, and level of local funding support.  Ed complimented our building administrators and staff members who serve a challenging clientele in terms of social and economic need and coming to school each day ready to learn.

 

 

 

 

DISCUSSION ITEMS

7.01 – Further discussion on the Maintenance & Operations Levy:

Further discussion and planning is needed regarding the upcoming M & O levy, as well as further discussion on what to do with the remaining bond funds due to new options available to the district in terms of state matching funds.  Chairman Freund suggested holding a special board study session on Wednesday, October 19th at 6:00 p.m. in the Board Room.  Everyone except Sue is available to meet at that time and we will try to keep the meeting to 1 hour.

 

7.02 – Proposed out-of-state travel for Bordeaux staff members:

Carey Murray requested approval for five Bordeaux staff members to attend the Success For All Experienced Sites Conference in Anaheim, CA on January 24-29, 2006.  Travel expenses for Carey Murray, Sharee Waite, Michele Evans and Cathy Crane will be paid by the Title I Academic Achievement Award that Bordeaux received last year.  Caryl Maas will pay for her own registration and airfare.  Carey explained that this will be the 5th year staff has attended this conference since Success For All was implemented at Bordeaux.  She said the conference is focused on exactly what the staff at Bordeaux are doing and those who attend the conference come back with so much valuable information to share with other staff that they are able to put to use immediately.  Holly Sharpe made a motion to approve the out-of-state travel and Sue McCausland seconded the motion.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

7.03 – Report from student board representative:

Amy Thornton reported that the Shelton High School band is traveling to Yakima this Saturday for a one-day band competition.  She has received both positive and negative feedback from students regarding the first late start day.  On early release days, high school students can leave campus when class is over if they don’t want to eat lunch at school, so the late start days seem longer because students are on campus during lunch.  But, being able to sleep in or do homework in the morning on late start days is a plus.  Superintendent Zook commented that the district is collecting data on attendance for late start vs. early release days.  Amy also thinks the way in which the teachers react is important – if teachers continue to have tests or quizzes on late start days then students will come to school.  Sue McCausland thought that students on the Shelton High School campus appeared to be more awake than normal on the late start morning.

 

CONSENT AGENDA

There were no comments or concerns on the consent agenda.  Holly Sharpe moved, seconded by Ross Gallagher, to approve the consent agenda as presented.  The board:

 

·        Approved minutes of the September 27, 2005 regular school board meeting.

 

·        Approved overnight travel for Gerry Apple and three Shelton High School SADD Club students to attend the Regional SADD Conference in Spokane, WA on November 18-19, 2005, paid for by the Washington Traffic Safety Commission.

 

·        Approved the revised salary schedule for the position of Director of Transportation.

 

·        Approved General Fund Voucher Nos. 102011 through 102013 in the amount of $17,240.76.

 

·        Approved Capital Projects Fund Voucher No. 1564 in the amount of $23,371.14.

 

·        Approved the personnel report as submitted and as follows:

-         Hired Roger Dittmar as a Special Education E.A. at Shelton High School beginning 9/26/05 through the end of the 2005-06 school year only.

-         Hired Dana Kuc as a substitute Food Services worker beginning 10/3/05 as needed.

-         Hired Dianne Lenning as a Title I Literacy Support Para Tech beginning 10/4/05 for the remainder of the 2005-06 school year only.  (7 hours a day for 74 days only.)

 

 

SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT

9.01 – Report on the Chief Executive Officers Safe Schools Forum:

Joan Zook reported on the Chief Executive Officers Safe School Forum that she and Shelton Police Chief Terry Davenport recently attended in Alexandria, VA.  She shared with board members the action plans she and Terry came up with at the end of the two day training.  Joan said the training was excellent and she came back with lots of resource materials to share with our school resource officer, counselors and principals.

 

9.02 – Budget status report:

Jackie McGuire gave a brief preliminary budget status report for August 2005.

 

BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS

·        Amy Thornton said the Shelton High School band traveled to Spokane last weekend to participate in a band competition and they will be traveling to Yakima this Saturday for another competition.  She also said the half-time show being planned for next Friday’s homecoming football game is going to be awesome.  Superintendent Zook said she would like to see James Hong, the student board representative for next year, start coming to board meetings.

 

·        Julianna Miljour has been spending most of her time recently doing training in the county schools at the 7th and 8th grade levels, through her work with Mason County Drug Abuse Prevention, and also did training on drug education signs and symptoms for the bus drivers in the North Mason School District.

 

·        Ross Gallagher survived two 17-hour trips to California and back; said he enjoyed last night’s meeting the members of the Skokomish Tribal Council; and mentioned the recent passing of elected official Martha Reed.

 

·        Holly Sharpe also enjoyed last night’s dinner meeting with Skokomish Tribal Council members and gave kudos to our food services staff who prepared a delicious meal.  She also reminded everyone of the Citizens for Shelton Schools meeting tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. at the Timberland Library.

 

·        Sue McCausland said she was encouraged by the conversation that took place with the Skokomish Tribal members and is looking forward to meeting with the Squaxin Tribal Council.  She also commented that it is SADD week at Shelton High School and they have invited a speaker from the spring SADD conference to speak to the students about making destructive decisions.  Girls’ swimming is also having a big away meet this week.

 

·        Bill Freund commented that he has been busy at work writing supplemental budget requests.

 

FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDER

Swearing in of newly elected board members will occur at the 2nd board meeting in November

 

EXECUTIVE SESSION

At 7:35 p.m. Chairman Freund announced that the board would take a 5-minute recess and then enter into a 20-minute executive session to review the proposed bargained agreement with the Teamster vehicle maintenance employees and to discuss a personnel matter.

 

The board returned to regular session at 7:55 p.m.

 

ACTION TAKEN AS A RESULT OF EXECUTIVE SESSION

Holly Sharpe made a motion to approve the 2005-07 bargained agreement with the Teamster vehicle maintenance employees and Sue McCausland seconded the motion.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

ADJOURN

Chairman Freund declared the meeting adjourned at 7:56 p.m.