coen Posted February 5, 2009 Report Share Posted February 5, 2009 Proceedings of the Board of Trustees District No. 2, Yellowstone County High School District No. 2, Yellowstone County Billings, Montana February 3, 2009 Call to Order The Agenda Setting Meeting of the Board of Trustees of School District No. 2, Yellowstone County, Montana, and the High School District, Yellowstone County, Montana was duly held at The Lincoln Center, 415 North 30th Street, Billings, Montana on Tuesday, February 3, 2009. The meeting was called to order at 12:10 p.m. by Chair Katharin Kelker. Roll Call Those attending were: Trustees Katharin Kelker, Sandra Mossman; Clerk Leo Hudetz, Scott Anderson, Dan Martin, Nancy Hines, Dave Williams and Kathy Olson. Trustees Joel Guthals, Malcolm Goodrich, Mary Jo Fox and Kathy Aragon arrived at 12:15 p.m. Chair Kelker presented a draft of the meeting agenda for February 16. There is a study session scheduled to review the Broadwater and McKinley Schools designs. Kathy Olson will provide new maps and information on new subdivisions and city planning. The Superintendent’s contract is up for approval. Mr. Copps has asked for some changes in language in the disability portion of the contract, and has agreed to a one year contract only. Trustee Goodrich will provide information on the Budgeting For Results Committee. He encouraged other members of the Board to attend the meetings to hear information presented by staff on programs and budgets. The BFR Committee is meeting twice a month to hear budget presentations. This process will continue through March and maybe into April. Mr. Goodrich will provide a detailed report to the Board. Trustee Aragon stated that the Broadwater Task Force is not ready to present to the Board. There will be a discussion and decisions on levy elections, whether or not to hold an election, in person or by mail ballot. The County Election Department would like to use mail in ballots because there is greater participation as well as less expense. The Board can appeal. There was a lengthy discussion on the Calendar Committee. The committee is proposing a change to the approved 2009-2010 calendar to move two days from February to the week before Easter and move two days in March. Trustee Fox stressed that this committee is not a Board committee. She and Trustee Mossman were not against the proposed changes and feel moving the spring break to after testing is good. This group has been allowed to bring back proposals to the Board more than two times without going to a Board committee. Trustee Fox also feels that December 23rd should be a holiday, and does not feel that school absolutely has to be out before Memorial Day weekend. Trustee Mossman suggested moving spring break to March 30-April 3 and move the parent-teacher conferences which are scheduled the first week of April. Trustee Fox stated that no group should be allowed to take a decision that has been made and take it back to the Board. The Board should decide on new procedures because everything should start with the Board. This would have to go to an ad hoc committee because the School Community Committee is not a working committee at this time. Issues need to go to committees first before going to the Board. The Calendar Committee was supposed to be made up of members of the Board, parents and staff. Dave Williams asked what the Board would like the Calendar Committee to do and asked for direction. Trustee Fox asked that the approved calendars be presented to the Board, the latest proposal from the committee and the language from the BEA contract regarding the calendar. Trustee Mossman asked for a copy of Superintendent of Public Instruction Juneau’s proposed budget. The Superintendent will be asked for an explanation of the federal stimulus funding, and if we get all or part of the proposed funding, how would that affect our budget? Trustee Fox asked that the Policy Committee look into specific signage on the handicapped parking spaces. She believes that full notice of fines has to be present on the signs in order to ticket someone parking in a handicapped spot. She is requesting that each school have at least one of those signs. Scott Anderson believes that is an administrative decision, and with direction will request that such signs be placed at each school. He was directed to do so. Trustee Guthals stated that the Board needs to have a plan for the federal stimulus funding and a way to review and decide on projects for funding. The Energy and BFR Committees are ready for recommendations from COLT to make joint recommendations to the Board to prioritize. A special meeting of the Board will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, February 9th before the BFR Committee meeting. There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 1:00 p.m. _________________________________ Katharin Kelker, Chair _______________________________ Nancy Coe, Recorder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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