Board of Trustees Meeting

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

Date:  Wednesday June 28, 2007
Time:  4:00 pm. Open session
Place:  The Ranches Academy
7789 Tawny Owl Circle

The following directors, constituting a quorum of the full board were present:Suzanne Burdick
Julie McNair
Stephanie Colson
Karen DeWeese
Jennie Foss
Christie Buxton
Absent:
Others in attendance:
Redge Hudson (cast vote by email proxy)
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.  Vote on by-laws
3.  Assign committee heads
4. Discuss facility management bids

Motion:
Motion made to add addendum to by-laws to allow absentee/email/conference or cell phone votes.  Majority approval. 
Motion made to restate treasurer position as follows: instead of being in charge of preparation of all taxes taxes, treasurer will oversee preparation of all taxes. Majority approval.

Discussion held during open session:
Jenny Foss needs copy of charter.
Julie McNair will change typos and wording in by-laws to reflect approved motions. 
Stephanie will check to see if new founding families can still be added.
Implementation grant needs to be filled out by mid-July so committee can make sure it is approved before submission on August 13, 2007
All board members need to read charter and by-laws and become familiar with their specific job responsibilities as a board member.
All information and correspondence regarding Rockwell High School must first go through the board and have board approval if necessary.

Board discussed committees needed for high school and assigned committee heads as follows:
Curriculum: Karen
Furnishings: Julie
PR: Suzanne
Enrollment/ Recruiting: Suzanne
Executive policies: Stephanie
Technology: Redge
Library: Adrienne Burdette
Student/ teacher policies: Christie
Financial: Jenny
Building/ Land: Redge
Extra curricular/ Arts/ Student Government: Julie
Sports: Not filled
Implementation Grant: Stephanie

Discussion held during closed session:
Board deliberated over two facility management bids presented previously by Sage Management and Hi-Mark.  As noted previously, Wasatch Diversified never showed up with their proposal and would not return phone calls.  Stephanie Colson recused herself during this portion of the meeting because one of the bidders is related to her. Board discussed pros and cons of both companies’ bids.

Motion:
Motion made to retain Hi-Mark as our facility management company for Rockwell High School.  Majority approval. 

Please call Julie McNair 331-5229 if you want to add anything to the agenda.