CLC Board Meeting Minutes
8/24/00

Glenn Johnson, Mark Toci, Josephine Pirrone, Ann Bolser, MJ Hogan, Liz Kisenwether, Brian Rowan, Theresa Shay, Leandra Troughton, Brad Slonaker, Giles Driscoll

I. Approval of the Minutes

• There were a number of spelling errors that were identified. Upon change of these errors minutes from the previous meeting were approved.

II. Personnel

• There are a number of interviews scheduled for the Spanish and Performing Arts positions. We are agressively still looking to fill the Physical Education position.

II. Program

• Review of the Annual Report: The annual report has been completed and has been shared with faculty and staff as well as the members of the SCASD school board. The CLC will be reporting to the SCASD next Tuesday evening at 7 pm. We will have 5 minutes within which to speak. Liz Kisenwether has agreed to speak at the meeting. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

• Recharter Application A letter applying for rechartering will be submitted through John Sheridan to the SCASD board. Liz Kisenwether has acquired names and addresses of the board members of all of the participating school districts for parents to write letters during the time frame when rechartering is being considered in each of the participating school districts.

• Mandate Waiver Application Josephine shared with the board a draft of the application that was written for submission to the PA Department of Education (PDE) for the purposes of waiving the requirements of PDE regarding teacher certification. Upon consideration of the issues related to the certification dilemma that we face, and the manner in which these have been addressed in the draft, a few minor revisions were suggested. The board recommended that the Mandate Waiver Application be submitted to PDE.

• Test Score Report to Parents A significant number of errors were found in the scoring of the CAT 5 tests. These errors were dramatic enough and frequent enough so that they warranted the entire set of tests to be sent back to be re-scored. As soon as the scores are obtained they will be shared with parents. We apologize for this slow response. Our intent is to be accurate and complete.

• Facilities and Technology Updates An update of the technology and networking status was provided by Mark. When all of the students arrive - this will be the ultimate test of the technology. There is much construction that is currently taking place in the Herlocher building. This includes windows, electrical, plumbing and other items. All of these tasks need to be completed soon. We are extremely pleased at the turn out of parents and students to help during this past week. At this point continued progress has been made this summer.


III. Financial

• Business Report Ann Bolser has been working on an annual financial report which will be ready next week and policies and procedures that are evolving. An anonymous donor has come forward. This has prompted the possibility of initiating a matching fund-raising program. Ann is looking for feedback regarding timing, focus and other aspects of how to begin a program of this type. Please forward to Ann any suggestions that you might have.

• Authorization of Payment The board authorized the payment of the bills that have been accrued to date.


IV. Other Business

• The CLC is currently looking for the services of an attorney. Should you know of anyone that would work well with our school please contact Josephine.

• The CLC-CLA grant to Verizon has been submitted. This grant focuses on providing assistance in developing foreign language exploratory programs for after school.

• Glenn raised the issue of adding a search engine to the CLC web site as well as adding elements to the CLC homepages to make our site easier to find. This issue will be brought up in parent, student and faculty meetings in the near future for discussion.

The next regular meeting of the Board will be on 9/21/2000
First Parent Meeting of the new school year - Curriculum Report - 9/21/2000