The Shelton School District Board of Directors met in regular session at 5:30 p.m. on September 11, 2007 in the board room located at CHOICE Alternative School.

 

Board members present:  Chairman Julianna Miljour, Sue McCausland, Peter Boome, Marty Crow, Holly Sharpe and student representative Daniel Glenn.

 

Staff members present:  Superintendent Joan Zook, Alison Nutt, Gail Straus, Margo Otto and Pat Cusack.

 

Others present:  Dedrick Allen, Jeff Green and two high school students.

 

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 were two additions to the agenda:

1.      A new Item 7.03 – Approval of the Title IIa and Title V grant applications for 2007-08; and

2.      A new Item 8.07 – Supplemental personnel report.

Holly Sharpe made a motion to adopt the agenda with the addition of Items 7.03 and 8.07.  Sue McCausland seconded the motion and the motion passed unanimously.

 

Daniel Glenn read the district’s Mission Statement.

 

REPORTS AND RECOGNITIONS

6.01 – Report on WASL scores:

Margo Otto reviewed the district’s WASL scores over a 5-year period of time, from 2003 to 2007.   She shared district-wide results by grade level and also by individual school building. 

 

6.02 – Report on the Career & Technical Education Program:

Pat Cusack, Director of Career & Technical Education, gave an update on the CTE program. 

The district offers over 70 different classes in the areas of Business Education, Family Consumer Science, Technical Education, Natural Resources and Agriculture Education with over 1,900 students district-wide participating in those classes. 

 

DISCUSSION ITEMS

7.01 – Proposed 2007-08 State Transitional Bilingual Grant:

Gail Straus gave a brief overview of the contents of the proposed 2007-08 State Transitional Bilingual grant application in the amount of $211,415.00.  The purpose of the grant is to help support instruction for students in grades K-12 who qualify for services in the state funded State Transitional Bilingual Instruction Program.  Holly Sharpe moved, seconded by Peter Boome, to approve the 2007-08 State Transitional Bilingual grant application.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

 

7.02 – Proposed awarding of the 2007-08 dairy bid:

David Westermann recommended awarding the 2007-08 dairy bid to Dairy Fresh, the only bidder, in the total amount of $108,484.80.  Holly Sharpe made a motion to award the 2007-08 dairy bid to Dairy Fresh.  Marty Crow seconded the motion and the motion passed unanimously.

 

7.03 – Title IIa and Title V grant applications:

Debbie Wing requested approval of the 2007-08 Title IIa and Title V grant applications.  For Title IIa, Debbie is expecting a similar allocation as last year, which was $216,385.  Title IIa funds are designated by the federal government for teacher and principal professional development.  The Title V grant for 2007-08 will be approximately $7,000 and is used solely for intervention programs for at risk youth before, during and after school.  Holly Sharpe made a motion to approve the Title IIa and Title V grant applications.  Sue McCausland seconded the motion and the motion passed unanimously.

 

CONSENT AGENDA

Holly Sharpe made a motion to approve the consent agenda with the addition of Item 8.07.  Peter Boome seconded the motion and the motion passed unanimously.  The board:

·        Approved minutes from the August 28, 2007 regular board meeting.

·        Approved General Fund Voucher No. 108592 in the amount of $9,713.43.

·        Approved General Fund Voucher No. 108593 in the amount of $131,936.52.

·        Approved General Fund Voucher No. 108594 in the amount of $380.95.

·        Approved Capital Projects Fund Voucher No. 1687 in the amount of $23,500.00.

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

 

SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT

9.01 – Peacock Ridge:

Joan Zook has had 2 meetings with the developers of Peacock Ridge to-date.  Their plans are developed to the point that they have a proposed drawing showing a development of 150 town homes, 650 single family homes and some small commercial development.  They have set aside 10 prime acres in the center of the development for an elementary school site.  If everything goes according to plan, they are projecting to begin building 80 single family homes in summer of 2009.  The developers plan to make a presentation to the school board at their September 25 regular meeting.  The Oakland Bay Estates development, which we share with Southside School District, is also beginning to move forward.

 

Joan said we will have to decide soon about running another bond measure.  She also said that we will eventually be looking at redistricting our elementary school boundary lines as well as board of director boundary lines. 

 

Chairman Miljour thanked the superintendent for all her work with the developers.

 

 

 

9.02 – New graduation requirements:

Superintendent Zook briefly reviewed the new graduation requirements for the classes of 2008 and 2009. 

 

BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS

·        Sue McCausland heard motivational speaker Bruce Brown’s presentation at Shelton High School today; said she is unable to attend the WSSDA Legislative Assembly on September 21-22; and said she took her son to college at Pacific Lutheran University two weeks ago.

 

·        Julianna Miljour enjoyed the all staff gathering on September 4th and thought the keynote speaker touched many staff members.  She also spoke about the significance of today being 9/11. 

 

·        Holly Sharpe commented that her husband was in New York City on 9/11 on his way to a meeting across the street from the Trade Center and fortunately was running late that morning; said her 9th grade granddaughter made the varsity volleyball team; said her stepson came home from Iraq last night; and said she had a wonderful time in Ireland.

 

·        Peter Boome said it was nice to see students in the audience and said he was at the site of the World Trade Center last December and it was very moving.

 

·        Dan Glenn said that his Running Start classes start soon at South Puget Sound Community College; he does not have any classes at Shelton High School this year except for ASB meetings; and said he and his family just returned from a trip to Alaska and brought home 200 pounds of halibut.

 

FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDER

·        Joan Zook was successful in getting Allan Jones, the Director of Transportation at OSPI, to attend the joint board meeting on September 19th to present on the state transportation study and what we can expect in the way of state funding in the future. 

 

·        Holly Sharpe invited everyone to attend the Citizen’s For Shelton Schools Chili Feed on Friday, September 28, before the start of the homecoming football game.  KMAS will be broadcasting live and they are trying to get an old time car show organized at the same.

 

ADJOURN

Chairman Miljour declared the meeting adjourned at 6:51 p.m.

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                           

                                                                                    Chairman, Board of Directors

                                                                       

Secretary to the Board