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February 4,
2004
School Board Meeting Minutes
In Attendance:
Board: Amy Brown, Barb Nagle, Patty Nordahl, Suzy Schweig,
Nina Simonowicz, Alan Stone, David Parsons
Others: Terry Nagle, Nick Parsons, Nora Livesay, Kathryn
Nelson-Pedersen, Fritz Sobanja, Michael Stone
Taking Minutes: Mica Harju
4:10 Call to Order
By Barb Nagle
Welcome; Reading of the Mission by David Parsons. The board
welcomed guests.
4:14 Approval of Agenda
Motion: David Parsons moved to
Approve the Agenda; Alan Stone seconded. Ayes all.
4:16
Approval of Minutes
Motion: Nina Simonowicz moved to
approve January 14 meeting minutes with 2 changes: The spelling
of Ralph Lathum was corrected, and a correction about how to
publicize school closings. Alan Stone seconded. Ayes all.
Motion: David Parsons moved, Patty
Nordahl seconded, a motion to approve January 28 minutes. Ayes
all.
4:20 Web Site
Nora Livesay will work on the website on a volunteer basis.
Suggestions to Nora about the website and logo will be due at
the end of February. Students are encouraged to submit suggestions
as well. If color scheme is to be changed, now would be the
time to do it. The Board suggested that Nora collaborate with
Kathy Hellner on logo development.
4:34 Student Council Report
Teachers are collecting permission slips.
3:00 Set up
3:30 Student arrival and name tags
3:45 Announcement of activity
4:00 Movie for K-2
4:30 Buses leave
5:00 Pirates of Caribbean movie
6:00 Dinner, Movie cont'd , Organized Activities
Barb will donate paper products for party.
4:45 ACNW
The dates for the school visit to Audubon Center are March 3,4,
and 5. The educators and Mica need time to prepare details and
information for families.
5:05 Bus Repairs Update
Fritz Sobanja will have Roger Hansen look at bus ASAP and give
GES an estimate of cost. Fritz and Alan Stone will bring a recommendation
back to the board. The board authorized an expenditure of up
to $500 dollars at this time.
5:39 Treasurer's Report
Federal Grant - Barb and Nina will meet with educator to discuss
how to spend the remaining money in Project 1 and Project 3.
Motion: Nina moved to approve bills
to be paid. David Parsons seconds. Ayes all.
Motion: Nina moved to pay several
additional items. Suzy seconds. Ayes all.
Nina noted that based on a contract with School Business Solutions,
GES had received an invoice.
Motion: Nina moved to pay their
invoice. Alan seconds. Ayes all.
6:01 New Business
Rob Johnson has resigned as of February 13. Deb Dwyer has resigned as of February 4.
Motion: Alan moved to reword school
policy regarding weapon possession. Suzy seconded. Ayes all.
It now reads:
(Section IV CONSEQUENCES FOR STUDENT WEAPONS POSSISSION/USE/DISTRIBUTION)
The school district and the school takes a position of "Zero
Tolerance" in regard to the possession, use of distribution
of weapons by students. Consequently, the minimum consequence
for students possessing, using or distributing weapons shall
include:
confiscation of the weapon
parent or guardian notification
and may include:
out of school suspension
notification of police
recommendation of the Director for dismissal for a period of
time not to exceed one year.
Email address update: the email address the school will use
in public documents is
learn@greatexpectationsschool.com
for business, vendors, state reporting and other reports, it
will use
frontdesk@greatexpectationsschool.com
6:20 Old Business
Wednesdays and Fridays
Fritz is willing to continue on with the writing sessions on
Fridays, starting 2/13
Potential for play, dance, art and DI for this Friday ñ
Feb.6.
Barb will contact Patsy Ingebrigsten, our project manager, to
see if she can take on role of coordinator for Wednesdays and
Fridays.
Alan Stone will oversee 2/6, Patty Nordahl 2/13 and Nina Simonwicz
2/11.
6:40 Adjourned
Motion: Alan Stone moved to adjourn,
David Parsons seconded; ayes all.
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