Council Members were welcomed and the meeting started at 1:05 p.m.
The School Improvement Plan is due soon. The Schools Accreditation is up in the next school year.
The review is on schedule and should be held March 4-5, 2010.
The Scoliosis Screening is on track. The addministration reviewed the movie on Scoliosis that
will be shown.
The Public Education budget will be cut 1.6% this school year. It is not known where the cuts will be
made. The cuts for the 2009-2020 school year will be 5%. If any teachers/staff are to be moved or
"RIFED" they must be notified by Friday Feb. 20th. This could mean an increase in class size from 25
students to 28.
Core Testing will open on the begining of April. Mont Harmon will start its testing on the 2nd week of
April. Testing will be done online with some exceptions for accommadations.
The Region Science Fair is on schedule and the students will return late Friday March 27th.
There will be approx $25,000 to $27,000 in the School Trustlands budget for the next school year.
We must use the balance of this year's money ASAP. It was proposed and approved that we purchase
three LCD projectors to have an extra on hand. We will purchase five DVD/VCR players. It was discussed
that the school could buy equipment to convert VCR tapes to DVDs. Mr. Berensen will discuss this with
Mr. Cha. One classroom size PA system will be purchased and placed in Mr. Morris' room because they
put too large of a system in his room. Then the large PA will be placed in the cafeteria. Mr. Fincher attended
a technology conference last week and they demonstrated a program where students could answer test/quiz
questions on a machine then text the answers to Mr. Fincher. We will purchase a machine for $2,700 so that
we can see how the system will work. Whatever balance is left will be used to purchase Smartboards and
replacement printers.
There is a $6,000 balance in Capital Outlay for this school year. Mr. Jensen recommended that this money
be used to extend the grass area on the football field. There have been many students injured this year
because of the gravel area. Castle Valley Landscaping gave a bid of $5,300 to increase the grass area. It
was agreed that this should be done.
It had been discussed by the district to replace the MH building. It's been decided to keep the
excisting building; but some major improvements will be made in the next 5-7 years. Such as a new
roof with heating and air conditioning units. To move the maintence building and the football field area
in order to make a better bus loading and unloading zone. The High School will be left where it is but they
will build a new one behind this one and make it a multi level facility.
The next meeting was set for April 21st at 2:00 pm.
Meeting Adjouned at 1:45 |
