Board of Trustees Meeting

The School Council from Rockwell High School held a meeting on:

Date:  Thursday  January 10, 2008
Time:  7:00 pm.
Place:  The Ranches Academy
7789 Tawny Owl Circle

The following directors, constituting a quorum of the full board were present:
Redge Hudson
Suzanne Burdick
Julie McNair
Angie Rasmussen
Jenny Foss
Jenn Maroney
Mary Lifferth

Others in attendance:
Gregg Driggs
Rita Bowers
Virginia Bowser
Cory Thorson
Tamera Buchanan
Bobby Colson

The chair called the meeting to order and opened the session:
Motion was made to adopt the following agenda for the meeting:
1. Approval of Minutes
2.  Approval of Agenda (agenda is attached.)
3.  Open comment by the public

Discussion held during Open session

Review of committee progress:

Fundraising/Grants-Have contacted Daniels fund (who is a philanthropist) and will submit application for a 2 year start up grant with the possibility of subsequent grants.  Spoke with Mr. Farley who is in real estate and they’ll donate portion of sales commission to NPO’s. 

Enrollment- 42-9th graders, 65-10th graders, 41-11th graders, 12-12th graders
We have 1000 names from the mailing list we  purchased.  Lottery will be held 3rd week in February.

Cory Thorson presented himself and his products (embroidered polo’s, caps, jackets) and asked if we would consider him an official vendor.

Motion: Motion made to have Thorson Embroidery as an approved vendor.  Approved unanimously. 

Julie will forward all resumes to Darren.  He would like to have all of the staff hired by the end of April.  We will ask Christine Ishmael if she will serve on that committee. 

Policies- Executive policies are almost done.  Student policies are being collected from other schools so we can see what we want to use.  We will ask Gary Ishmael to serve on this committee.

Library- Asked that everyone would keep an eye out for books.  She will email the Board the ‘bare bones’ list of books that she is requesting in the amount of approximately 20K.  We will solicit other members to join this committee.

Curriculum- Director of art institute at Thanksgiving Point is really excited to work with us.  Mary and Darren will visit sometime in February.  Mary will look into a private company to do drivers ed. 

Scheduling- Committee is discussing pros/cons of RENWEB and SIS

State reporting- Bobby has attended training and has all of the packets and forms.  Jenny will serve as the board member over that committee.

Finance- We will know if we received the loan from the state in March.
Joel will get us a letter this week which says we’ve applied for our 501(3)(c).

Building- Footings will start pouring on Tuesday.  We’re either on budget or below budget so far.

Please email me if you would like to add anything to the next meeting agenda.  Thanks. –Julie McNair

Next meeting scheduled for January 24, 2008 at 8:00 pm at The Ranches Academy.
Please call Julie McNair 331-5229 if you want to add anything to the agenda.