In Attendance: Suzy Schweig, Patty Nordahl, Kathryn Nelson-Pederson, Susan Miller, Amy Brown, Alan Stone, Barbara Nagle
Others Present: Mica Harju and Tom Resek

4:00 p.m. Call to Order

Reading of the Mission: Mica Harju

Approval of Agenda: Patty Nordahl moved to approve the agenda. Suzy Schweig seconded. Ayes all.

Approval of Minutes
Patty moved to approve the minutes from the October 27, 2004 meeting. Alan seconded. Ayes all.

Educator’s Report

Susan said the project fair will go ahead on Nov. 19. Each class will present their projects to the other classes. Parents will be encouraged to attend and the project fair will continue after the conclusion of classes that day.

Suzy suggested the planned ½-day off on Thursday, Dec. 16 be moved to Friday, December 17. Teachers conferences will be held that afternoon (and also earlier in the week, as needed).

Middle school students would like to plan an overnight activity sometime before the end of the 3rd learning block. The student council is doing the planning in conjunction with Kathryn.

New Business
Barbara suggested the next regularly scheduled board meeting (Nov. 24) be moved to the day of the school’s annual meeting (Nov. 30). In planning for the annual meeting, a nominating committee of Suzy Schweig and Kathy Hellner (to be asked to serve) was named and asked to consider possible nominees. Alan Stone moved to change the Nov. 24 board meeting to Nov. 30 at 4 p.m. Patty seconded. Ayes all.

Patty Nordahl moved to supply Nina Simonowicz with a full equipped, compatible computer for her use in working on Great Expectations material.. Suzy seconded. Ayes all.

Patty reported on a grant application made to the North Shore Health Care Foundation for materials and training for school staff.

Committee Reports

Personnel – Barbara reported on plans to hire a para-professional to ride the bus with a student; the potential need for a back-up para-professional; and plans to advertise and hire a part-time office person. She also noted that during Learning Block 4 (Jan. – March), the school will need a temporary special education person and a kindergarten – grade 2 teacher. Suzy moved that the school pay ½ of Amy Brown’s salary and continue to pay her health benefits during the 4th learning block while she is on maternity leave.

Facility -- Alan and Barbara led a discussion on how to use some of the new, donated equipment and also discussed building cleaning.

Adjourn
Alan moved to adjourn. Suzy seconded. Meeting adjourned at 6:10 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,