Wavell,

I would delete "$12.26" from the section dealing with Lauren's contract.
Though this is public info, if someone is interested they can request it.
Other than that the minutes look okay to me.

Kent

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From: "Wavell Cowan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 1:46 PM
Subject: Minutes


> Copy/paste and attached are draft minutes for last nights meeting.
> Please send me proposed changes, deletions, additions, etc. before the
> end of the week.  Thanks ..... Wavell
>
> MINUTES
> MORETOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BOARD MEETING
> Tuesday, April 10th, 2001
> 5:30pm in the library of Moretown Elementary School
>
> DRAFT
>
> Present:
> Board members - Kent Holden, Wavell Cowan, Karen Horn, Deb Hunter and
> Amy Kuzio
> Principal - Roberta Barone
>
> Meeting called to order at 5:30 pm by Chair, Kent Holden
>
>
> Executive Session :
>  On a motion by Amy, seconded by Karen and unanimously approved, the
> board entered executive session at 15:31 pm for the purpose of
> discussing legal matters concerning the Harwood assessment.  The board
> came out of executive session at 6:10 pm on a motion by Deb seconded by
> Karen and unanimously approved.
>
> Harwood Assessment Problem:
> Based on legal advice from the board lawyer, Elizabeth Grant (Liz),
> presented in a Memorandum dated April 9th, 2001 (attached), together
> with assurances given by Liz that the recommendation in respect to the
> retroactive resolution of the Harwood illegal assessments proposed by
> the Commissioner of Education and supported by the Attorney General, has
> sufficient legal weight to give the Moretown school board the authority
> to accept this proposal without requiring an affirmative vote from the
> Moretown community as implied by 16 V.S.A. §706n, therefore:
>
> It was moved by Wavell, seconded by Deb that in accordance with
> Commissioner David S. Wolk's June 30, 2000 opinion, that the Moretown
> Board of School Directors agrees that the Moretown portion of the
> Harwood Union assessment will be recalculated for FY 2000.  As a result
> of this recalculation, the Moretown portion of the Harwood Union
> assessment will be adjusted as follows:  FY03 $10,813 credit, FY04
> $10,813 credit. And further, also in accordance with Commissioner Wolk's
> June 30, 2000 opinion, that the Moretown Board of School Directors will
> not contest retroactively the Harwood Union assessment rates established
> for FY 98 and FY 99.  Contingent upon this solution also being accepted
> by all other school boards in the WWSU, this motion was unanimously
> approved.
>
> It was further moved by Wavell, seconded by Amy that the chair be
> authorized to sign on behalf of the board the Settlement Agreement
> between Moretown School District and Harwood Union High School in
> regards to the FY 2000 Assessment (attached).  Contingent upon this
> document being accepted by the Harwood Union school board, and the
> proposed FY2000 reassessment measure being accepted by all other town
> school boards in the WWSU, this motion was unanimously approved.
>
> Board Orders:
> Upon a motion by Amy, seconded by Deb, the following board orders were
> unanimously approved for payment:   Board Orders #39 for $39,613.13;
> #40 for $38,806.96;  #41 for $51,788.91, and #42 for $291,429.80
>
> Bid for Auditor of Accounts:
> Upon a motion by Karen, seconded by Amy and unanimously approved, the
> selection of the bid for auditor of accounts by Angolano & Co. for $1800
> was approved.
>
> Field Trips:
> Board approval for the following two student field trips was moved by
> Kent, seconded by Amy and unanimously voted:  Grades 2/3 and 3/4
> students for a day trip to the Biodom in Montreal; and grades 5/6
> students for an overnight trip to Boston.
>
> Contract for Lauren Cammann:
> It was moved by Wavell, seconded by Amy and unanimously approved, that a
> contract with a pay increase of 2 1/2% (equal to the negotiated increase
> for staff contracts) to $12.26 per hour be offered to Administrative
> Assistant, Lauren Cammann.
>
> Staff and Cammann Contracts:
> Moved by Wavell, seconded by Deb and unanimously approved that the chair
> be authorized to sign staff contracts, including the contract being
> offered to Lauren Cammann.
>
> WWSU Motions:
>  A discussion of the Moretown motions that are on the agenda of the WWSU
> Executive Committee (Excom) meeting scheduled for next week (April 17th)
> led to the following board concensus:
> That we should support an effort to ensure that the WWSU Excom:
> 1.  Establish clear strategic goals that relate to the employment of the
> new Special Education
>      Coordinator and the proposed new Curriculum Coordinator and that
> such goals should
>      relate specifically to improving the quality of the delivery of
> educational services and/or
>      to the improved cost efficiency in the delivery of such services.
> 2.  Propose a new formula for assessing the Harwood budget to
> participating towns using
>      the proposal developed by the New Governance Committee as a
> starting point.
> 3.  Request the superintendent to develop a coherent plan, as a
> priority, to move all the
>      school districts of the WWSU into a single staff and teacher
> contract.
>
> Adjournment to the Warren School:
> Moved by Kent, seconded by Deb and unanimously approved to reconvene the
> meeting at the Warren Elementary school.
>
> Science Curriculum Presentation:
> Moretown board members joined other WWSU school district board members,
> teachers and administrators, at Warren school, to hear a presentation by
> the science curriculum committee headed by Waitsfield principal, Carol
> Hosford.  After an introduction by Carol Hosford science curriculum
> presentations were made by Brenda Hartshorn (K-3), by Lee Van Dine
> (4-6), by Barbara LaPointe (7-8) and by Pat Phillips (9-12).
>
>  Adjournment:
> After a brief get-together in the Art room of the Warren School at which
> it was agreed that the chair would organize and schedule a further
> special meeting of the Moretown board to complete the articulation of
> Board goals implied by discussions at the recent Board retreat, and also
> to develop a response to the proposed adverse rules being suggested by
> the DOE for distributing the discretionary funding for Sp.Ed., on a
> motion by Kent, seconded by Karen, the board meeting was adjourned.
>
>