coen Posted January 8, 2007 Report Share Posted January 8, 2007 Proceedings of the Board of Trustees District No. 2, Yellowstone County High School District No. 2, Yellowstone County Billings, Montana January 3, 2007 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 Wednesday, January 3, 2007. The meeting was called to order at 12:00 p.m. and Chair Malcolm Goodrich presided. Roll Call Those attending were: Trustees Malcolm Goodrich, Rachel Stagg, Joel Guthals, Mary Jo Fox; Superintendent Jack Copps, Clerk Leo Hudetz, Scott Anderson, Kathy Olson, Thomas Harper, Dan Martin and Nancy Hines. The Chair presented a draft of the proposed Board meeting scheduled for January 15. The Superintendent’s evaluation will be discussed at that time as part of the public meeting. The results of his evaluation will be discussed with him prior to the meeting. Following the evaluation discussion, there will be an action item for contract renewal for one year, with no salary change, but there will be a clarification of other terms on his existing contract. The proposed contract will be available for review. There will be a report on potential facility use adjustments which is based on enrollment adjustments. The Superintendent explained that there are changing demographics which will bring some of the elementary school classes over standards by a small number. A decision needs to be made whether to stay with the neighborhood school concept or to begin bussing to control class sizes. By staying with the neighborhood school concept, it is estimated it would require an additional ten teachers at the elementary level. The Superintendent’s recommendation is to stay with the neighborhood school concept. We need to think about a new school on the westend and reopening Beartooth, regardless of kindergarten status, or talk about other arrangements to maximize class size. At the high school level, the Career Center is at maximum capacity at this time with the West High Academy there. To allow more students at the Career Center, the West High Academy could be moved to Lincoln and administration moved somewhere else, possibly downtown or at Lewis and Clark. The Chair stated that we would like to use existing facilities if we can. The Chair and Superintendent have met with a group of business leaders who will support our mill levies. They will advertise and be strong supporters of the levies. They will be the spokespeople of mill and bond issues. Preliminary budget projections will be presented using different scenarios. All scenarios should be noted as preliminary. Trustee Fox asked about the salary projections and would like to have this presented in the Gazette even though it is preliminary. The goal is to have negotiations completed by February 1st, both certified and classified. There will be a special meeting on Monday, January 8th at 5:15 p.m. to approve bargaining team membership and to authorize the teams to negotiate on behalf of the Board. Trustee Guthals mentioned the challenge of funding and the ability to pay for increases negotiated, even COLA. If we don’t get the dollars, we need to cut staff. We will have passed the resolution for the mill levies before the legislative session ends. Trustee Fox sees a need to address steps and lanes and work on salary compression. Dan Martin informed those present, that by contract, if you wait to negotiate after June 1, staff is automatically rehired. There will be a special meeting on January 19th at noon to discuss the following items: 1) termination of staff member; 2) Jerry Hansen policy 1700 appeal; 3) meth survey; 4) possible other. Visuals should be presented at the meeting on the 15th, perhaps even maps of those schools affected. There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 12:55 p.m. _________________________________ Malcolm Goodrich, Chair _______________________________ Nancy Coe, Recorder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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