Unapproved Minutes
February 25, 2008
Attendance: Jim Lovinsky, Ed Karp, Jamon Renaud, Tami Furry,
Hannah Bellavance, Monty Shatney, and Patrick Flood.
Administration:
David Ford and Elaine
Laine.
1. The meeting was called to order at 6:00 pm by
Chairperson Lovinsky.
2. Monty moved to approve the agenda,
Jim added an executive session for an update on negotiations. Jamon seconded, agenda approved
unanimously. Jamon then asked, since
there is now cell phone service in town, the school’s policy on usage. Elaine said it would be the same as the
existing electronics policy.
3. Monty moved to approve the consent agenda
including the minutes of February 11, 2008, accounts payable for February 15,
2008 of $ 123,273.22 and payroll for the same period of $80,094.44. Jamon seconded. The comma between Jamon’s first and last
names in the attendance portion should be removed and “Submitted by Tami Furry,
Board Clerk” be added at the end. The
motion with the changes to the minutes passed unanimously.
Appreciation gifts were
presented by the Chairperson to Patrick and Tami for their service to the
Board. This will be their last meeting
as Board members.
4. There was an ends policy revision discussion
that included feedback from the forums perviously held. David will incorporate suggested changes and
bring a cleaner copy to the March 11 meeting.
5. The draft ’09 budget shows a 3.38% increase,
which doesn’t include the energy upgrades presented by the students at the last
meeting. Some of the $ 100,000 in line
item decreases include $10,000 in instructional
services, which included new course costs for last year; a para position was
deleted; a part time custodian was moved to fulltime; and the field trip and
equipment budgets were tightened up.
Act 130 is fully in place
for the first time and generated a local tax rate of 1.3846. This sets the rates for
6. Monty moved to approve the Mandatory Policy #
024 – Parental Involvement. Tami seconded,
motion passed unanimously.
7. Patrick moved to go into executive session at
8:09 pm for an update on negotiations, Monty seconded
The Board came out of
executive session at 8:30 pm with Patrick making the motion to authorize the
Superintendent to offer an early retirement incentive package to the teachers as
agreed with Hazen Union Teachers’ Association.
Monty seconded and the motion passed unanimously.
8. Monty moved to adjourn at 8:35 pm, Patrick
seconded, motion passed unanimously.
Submitted by Tami Furry, Board Clerk