| Executive Committee Minutes 5.26.10 |
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ApprovedExecutive Committee
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Board Members Present: Charlotte Hanna Bassage, Chair; Jan Aldrich, Vice-Chair; Chris McVeigh, Clerk; Ginny Burley, Matthew DeGroot, Vera Frazier WCSU Administrators Present: Robbe Brook, Superintendent; Carole Freeman, Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment; Jen Miller-Arsenault, Early Education Coordinator; Lindy Johnson, Literacy Coordinator; Jeff Arey, Director of Technology. Guests: Jennine Poulin 1.0 Call to Order: Charlotte Hanna Bassage called the meeting to order 6:29.
1.1. Agenda Revisions: None
1.2. Public Comments and Correspondence: Robbe introduced Jennine Poulin as the new Senior Accountant.
2.0 Consent Agenda: Jan Aldrich motioned to approve the consent agenda. Matthew DeGroot seconded. The motion passed unanimously.
2.1. Approve Minutes of April 28, 2010
2.2. Approve Board Orders
2.3. Appoint Senior Accountant
2.4. Approve Blanket Authorization for WCSU Treasurer
2.5. WCSU Financial Report: There was not a lot of change this month.
3.0 Superintendent’s Report: Robbe updated the board on the U-32 driver incident. WCSU will need to look at how special education students are transported for the future. Robbe highlighted some of the items in her report. She spoke about the meeting with Marge Lipson and the goals for literacy for this and next year. Marge has attended a faculty meeting at each school to review the literacy audits. Members from the Literacy Steering Committee and the Principals will present the audits to the boards. Marge, Jen and Lindy will be teaching a literacy course this summer. All of the principals will be taking part in this course. Lindy has been available in each of the schools modeling teaching and team teaching with them around literacy. We have had a very successful year this year. The literacy work this year ties directly into our strategic plan.
Robbe highlighted the legislative review and how it will affect WCSU. Carole brief explained the Grant Summary. She explained that the state gave us the wrong numbers. Charlotte explained that as Executive Committee members the board is responsible for this money. Ginny expressed concern about the grants becoming competitive as we do not have grant writer. Robbe also spoke about the VSA/VCSEA conference she and Nancy attended. The Administrative Team attended two of the workshops on Thursday. Everyone was required to attend Michael Giangreco workshop on Rethinking Special Education Personnel Utilization: Issues, Research and Alternatives. 4.0 Discussion Agenda
4.1. Central Office Facility Update: Chris reported that it was good to bring in Mike McCardle from the State. LN Consulting provided the serial code. Manosh Well Drilling got the piece but a few numbers in the serial code were off. Ginny, Chris and Lori will get together and finish this piece. Robbe reported that on May 12th contractors were here to fix the variable frequency drive. At the end of the day, Avonda Air and Temperature Controls of VT answered question and reported about how things were. They explained that the inconsistency in heating is caused by the lack of carpeting under the thermostat in Zone 1. There is a concern about the amount of water runoff from the geothermal.
4.2. Early Education Office Space – need to renew for 1 more year: Berlin has been very gracious to let them stay. Preschool needs a space about the size of a classroom. After the Executive Committee approve the lease, then Berlin will then need to take action, and then it will need to go to the Berlin Zoning Board.
4.3. WCSU/MSD Update: Charlotte reported that the WCSU/MSD Finance Committee have met with Nik Rockler and the committee explained to Nik what it is exactly that they wanted and gave him a deadline of June 1st to get the information to them. What we would want to do is get the spreadsheet from Nik so that we can run our numbers. They have asked for this by June 1.
4.4. Schedule Date for Executive Committee Retreat: The meeting will be at 5:00 Wednesday, July 21st.
4.5. Schedule New Board Training: Tabled
5.0 Action Agenda Jan Aldrich motioned to approve action items 5.1 through 5.5. Ginny Burley seconded. The motion passed unanimously.
5.1. Approve the 1-year Lease Renewal of the Early Education Facility at Berlin Elementary
5.2. Authorize the Superintendent along with an Executive Committee representative to award the propane bid. Charlotte is the Executive Committee represntative.
5.3. Authorize Superintendent to apply for and accept Consolidated Federal Grant and ARRA Funds for Year II
5.4. Authorize Superintendent to apply for and accept IDEA-B Grant and ARRA Funds for Year II
5.5. Authorize the use of Medicaid Funds
5.6. Adopt F8 Reporting Child Abuse Policy: The Board agreed to amend the policy by taking out “absent extenuating circumstances” in the last sentence from the implementing section. Chris McVeigh motioned to adopt the F8 Reporting Child Abuse Policy with the amendment. Ginny Burley seconded. The motion passed unanimously.
6.0 Executive Session for discussion of negotiations, personnel or legal matters if needed: Tabled
7.0 Adjourn: The meeting adjourned by consensus at 8:20. Respectfully submitted,
Michelle Ksepka
Recording Secretary |