Board of Trustees Meeting
The Board of Trustees from Rockwell High School held a meeting on:
Date: Thursday April 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
Virginia Bowser
Jenny Foss
Jenn Maroney
Mary Lifferth
Absent: Darren Beck
Others in attendance:
Angie Rasmussen
Cindy Clyde
Roland Astorga
PollyAstorga
Kathryn Hughes
Jennifer Lovellette
Barry Lovellette
Gregg Driggs
Bobby Colson
Stephanie Colson
Jen Tillotson
Michelle Evans
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
Approval of March 22 minutes
Review committee progress
3. Open comment by the public
Discussion held during Open session
Motion: Motion made to approve minutes from March 22, 2008. Motion approved.
Motion: Motion made to table approval of xpressions clothing until the next meeting as we are running over time on other board business. Motion approved unanimously.
Motion: Motion made to ratify Darren’s process of hiring. Motion passed 4 to 2.
Motion: Motion made to ratify the following as per Darren’s intent to hire these individuals.
Virginia Bowser –approved 6/0
Mike Smith- disapproved 0/6
Nathan Powell- approved 6/0
Shellene Young- approved 6/0
Brenda Park- approved 6/0
Debbie Wilkins-approved 6/0
Julie Haux- approved 4/2
Alen Howard-approved 6/0
Lyndee Hudson- 5 and 1 abstain
Enrollment
Please refer to attachment from Jen Maroney
Furnishings
Virginia has compiled several bids. The lowest by far is going through Varitech. Virginia and Jenn Tillotson will send us a list of all the stuff the require and we will decide which category it will go under (e.g.: technology, curriculum etc.)
Thanksgiving Point
Currently they are hiring one person to run their educational programs. They are also looking into grants from their end to help run the program.
Building
Bobby announced that they will be painting the junior high wing in two weeks. The windows are late . This fall there will be no green fields and if we hit our 550 enrollment we can have some of our capital back to install Astroturf which will be approximately 600-$650,000.00.
Curriculum
Mary is working a partnership with a drivers ed school.
Library
Follett software was recently purchased.
Grants
Suzanne has applied for a character education grant offered by Sprint. The proposed program would consist of training for the director and selected staff member on character education, after which they would be certified to teach the rest of the staff. There would be a series of seminars provided by the Power in You program and an extra-curricular club which would plan and execute a service project over a semester's time.
Also, Suzanne will contact Superior Water to see if they would give us a free filtration system and she will contact Fresh Values to see if we can register our school.
Sports/Extra Curricular
Julie has made contact and is waiting for survey from the charter/private school league for the 10-12th graders.
Suzanne has contacted PonyExpress Lacrosse League and is finding out if it is fesiable for our interested students to join them rather than form our own team. (You can keep the rest.)
Technology
Redge is meeting with CISCO next week.
Budget
All implementation grant monies need to be spent by June 30th.
Dress Code
Julie wanted the board to add wording that would include stripes and designes on collored button shirts. She mentioned that a petition was going around and felt like the change would prevent a lot of upset. Suzanne said she would revisit the dress code in one year but not now. Redge encouraged the petitioners to come but he did not want to change the dress code.
Volunteer Coordinator
Board will email Julie how the coordinator could help their individual committees. We will draft a ‘job description’ and discuss at the next meeting.
Virginia officially resigned from the board. Redge officially thanked her for her time and effort.
Review of Applicants
Jennifer Lovellette and Greg Driggs addressed the board and audience. Board will appoint the new member next meeting.
Tom Gleason- Disc Jockey came and told us a bit about his business.
Heather from Xpressions Clothing came to show us a sampling of her school uniforms and plaids.
Julie wanted to make a public notice that she had drafted a policy to present to the board which states that a majority of the board members would have to approve a candidate for a staff position or they wouldn’t be hired. Board did not agree with this policy as written.
Jenn Maroney will re-send the Director’s Duties spreadsheet for re-evaluation and for final submissions from the Board.
Public Comment:
Mr. Lovellette stated that he wanted the board to know who the director was hiring and what credentials they have because we are ultimately responsible for who is hired at the school.
Mr. and Mrs. Astorga as well as Jenn Tillotson echoed those comments. Stephanie Colson encouraged the board to adopt a hiring policy and encouraged the board to oversee and have say on who is hired for the school. She also asked if we were hiring a full time librarian and media specialist and if that was in the budget because she thought it was supposed to be one position.
Polly Astorga was concerned by hearing at the registration meeting ‘if we get the school opened’ and asked us to watch how we address the opening of the school.
Mr. Lovellette wondered what type of phones we were going to use.
After the public comment, the Board said they would reconsider having a hiring policy but wanted to ratify the candidates that Darren had already presented. The first motion was to approve the ratification process. There were 4 yes votes and 2 nay votes with Jenn Maroney and Julie McNair voting ‘nay’. Additionally, there were two candidates that did not receive unanimous approval- Mike Smith and Julie Haux.
Please email me if you would like to add anything to the next meeting agenda. Thanks. –Julie McNair
Next meeting scheduled for April 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.