The Shelton School District Board of Directors met in regular session at 5:30 p.m. on May 22, 2007 in the board room located at CHOICE High School.

Board members present: Chairman Julianna Miljour, Marty Crow, Holly Sharpe, Sue McCausland and Peter Boome (arriving at 6:16 p.m.).

Staff members present: Superintendent Joan Zook, Linda Arnold, Jackie McGuire, Alison Nutt, Debbie Wing, Sandi Thompson and John Johnson.

Others present: Jeff Green and a number of Shelton High School seniors.

CALL TO ORDER

Chairman Miljour called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. and led the Pledge of Allegiance.

ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA

There was one addition to the consent agenda which was a new Item 9.09 – supplemental personnel report. Holly Sharpe made a motion to adopt the agenda as amended with the addition of Item 9.09. Marty Crow seconded the motion and the motion passed 4-0.

Sue McCausland read the district’s Mission Statement.

PUBLIC HEARING ON THE I-728 EXPENDITURE PLAN

At 5:33 p.m. Chairman Miljour opened the public hearing on the I-728 expenditure plan for the 2007-08 school year. Debbie Wing outlined the administrative recommendation for the 2007-08 allocation in the amount of $1,994,890 as follows:

1. Class Size - $1,170,528: Salary and benefits for a total of 19.5 teachers.

2. Extended Learning - $87,930: Includes summer school, after school programs and credit recovery.

3. Professional Development - $433,801: Includes district and building level staff development dollars for reading, writing, math, science, assessment, Literacy Team, Math Team, Coaching Cadre training and continued development of classroom-based assessments training, as well as curriculum development and support of our 4 full-time literacy/best practices instructional coaches.

4. Early Childhood - $86,637: Continues to pay for 1 teacher and 1 EA for bilingual preschool.

5. Indirects @ 5% - $90,994: Pays for heat, lights and all other costs associated with the programs described above.

6. Planned carryover at end of 2007-08 - $125,000.

Hearing no comment from the audience, Chairman Miljour closed the public hearing at 5:41 p.m.

REPORTS AND RECOGNITIONS

7.01 – Annual review of the Affirmative Action Plan:

Linda Arnold spoke briefly about the district’s 5-year Affirmative Action Plan which goes through the year 2010. This plan was presented to OSPI last year by Marcie McKaig but is still awaiting approval from OSPI. Linda also distributed an Affirmative Action Summary sheet and said that the numbers reflect voluntary information only because applicants and employees are not required to provide this information to the district.

DISCUSSION ITEMS

8.01 – I-728 Expenditure Plan for 2007-08:

Holly Sharpe made a motion to approve the I-728 spending plan for the 2007-08 school year as presented by Debbie Wing during the public hearing. Sue McCausland seconded the motion and the motion passed 4-0.

8.02 – Olympic Middle School’s School Improvement Plan:

Holly Sharpe made a motion to approve the School Improvement Plan for Olympic Middle School as presented by Eric Barkman at the May 8, 2007 board meeting. Sue McCausland seconded the motion and the motion passed 4-0.

8.03 – Transportation Vehicle Fund levy discussion:

The Transportation Vehicle Fund levy election on May 15, 2007 did not meet the 60% mark, failing with a 59.23% final yes vote. Joan Zook recommended the board not run the levy again immediately because we need to focus on the upcoming M & O levy and also because the Citizens for Shelton Schools has depleted their campaign resources. With that in mind, Jackie McGuire and Sandi Thompson have put together a viable option for us to purchase buses until we can run the TVF levy again so that we don’t fall further behind.

Jackie then presented a bus purchase financing plan where the district would borrow $450,000 from the state local program with a 5-year payback at 4.03% to purchase 5 buses and then run the TVF levy again in February 2009. After some discussion amongst board members, Holly Sharpe made a motion to approve the bus purchase financing proposal as presented. Marty Crow seconded the motion and the motion passed 4-0.

Peter Boome arrived at 6:16 p.m.

8.04 – Criteria for the Community Partners for Kids awards:

Sue McCausland and Holly Sharpe shared the written criteria and nomination process they have developed for the board’s Community Partners for Kids Awards. They are recommending that awards be given twice a year – in May and December. Board members will e-mail Holly and Sue with any comments they have on the proposed criteria and nomination process by the first week of June, with board adoption at the June 12 regular meeting.

CONSENT AGENDA

Holly Sharpe made a motion to approve the consent agenda with the addition of the supplemental personnel report as a new Item. 9.09. Sue McCausland seconded the motion and the motion passed 5-0. The board:

· Approved minutes from the May 8, 2007 regular school board meeting.

· Approved overnight travel to the Olympic Park Institute in Port Angeles, WA on June 10-13, 2007 for students in the CHOICE Natural Resources, Biology and Earth Science classes.

· Approved overnight travel to Central Washington University of June 16-17, 2007 for the Shelton High School varsity volleyball team to participate in a volleyball tournament.

· Approved out-of-state travel to Canby, OR on June 15-17, 2007 for the Shelton High School football team to attend football camp.

· Approved out-of-state travel to Burnaby, British Columbia on July 6-8, 2007 for Shelton High School football players to participate in a passing tournament.

· Approved overnight travel to Wenatchee, WA on July 22-26, 2007 for the Shelton High School football team to attend team football camp.

· Approved overnight travel to Nachotta, WA on August 16-19, 2007 for the Shelton High School football team to attend pre-season camp.

· Approved the regular and supplemental personnel reports as submitted and as attached. (See Attachment #1.)

SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT

Joan Zook distributed copies of a school impact fee paper that will be used at the May 30^th community meeting with the city and county regarding the collection of impact fees. The Mason County superintendents will also be meeting with the Mason County realtors this Thursday on impact fees.

BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS

· Sue McCausland is looking forward to Senior Awards Night this Thursday evening when the board will have the opportunity to award their Drake Scholarships. She also sent condolences to the family of Sheila Rogers, a former Shelton High School teacher, who passed away last week.

· Holly Sharpe was in Vancouver, B.C. last week and will miss the June 12 board meeting because she will be attending a graduation ceremony in Minnesota.

· Peter Boome is also looking forward to Senior Awards Night.

· Marty Crow said he appreciates all the work from the administration on the budget development.

· Julianna Miljour said she did not know if was the lack of seating in the board room, but it has been very hard to hear one another and to conduct business with all the talking and text messaging being done by the high school students in the room.

FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDER

· June 6 at 6:00 p.m. in the Olympic Middle School library is the second Mason County school boards joint planning meeting.

· Shelton High School graduation is June 14 at 7:00 p.m. at St. Martin’s. Julianna and Sue will be on stage to hand out diplomas.

· CHOICE High School graduation is June 15 at 7:00 p.m. at the Civic Center. All board members will be on stage to hand out diplomas.

ADJOURN

Chairman Miljour declared the meeting adjourned at 6:33 p.m.

Chairman, Board of Directors

Secretary to the Board