CLC Board Meeting – August 24, 2004

Present: Heidi Fletcher, Barbara Bliss, John Tucker, Linda Bergeman

Absent: Beth Shirey, Morgan Ilgen, Darlene Fink, and Denise Kochersperger

Attendees: Pat Hunt, and Tanya Pakutz Greenland

The Board meeting was called to order at 6:25 P.M. As there was no quorum, no matters were voted upon.

Review minutes of the previous meeting. March, 2004 through July, 2004. Corrections to be presented and reviewed on 9/15/04.

Old Business: Elections. This issue was tabled until the next meeting for discussion, as there was no quorum.

Nominating Committee: No new report.

Facilities Committee: No new report.

Personnel Committee: No new report.

Governance Committee: No new report.

Fundraising Committee: No new report.

Library Committee: No new report.

Reports:

Business Manager Report

None submitted for this meeting.

EC ECO Report

Pat reported that Mark Toci, Heidi Fletcher and she appeared for the school’s presentation to the SCASD School Board. The presentation went well. She reported that Mark discussed the peer review that is done by the staff at CLC. This is considered a cutting edge philosophy that went very well at CLC. Orris Knepp, CLC;s attorney, will meet with Pat, Rachel and Linda to discuss special education from a legal perspective. There will also be special education training for staff by PATTEN on August 31, 2004.

New Business

The Board members present talked about the grievance process at CLC. Pat stated that the staff had discussed this and come up with a solution. This is tabled until the next Board meeting.

The Board discussed job descriptions in general and the need to separate the CEO job description from the ECO description. Pat said she would work on this for the next Board meeting. In addition, the need for the job description for the Head Teacher position was requested. Pat indicated that due to the busy beginning of the school year this could not be done at this time, but would be provided in the future.

The Board discussed the schools attention this year to how we teach writing. This would include content, focus, style, organization, etc. Linda will be working this year with all remedial reading. Barbara posed the question of having reading buddies to assist her efforts. All agreed this would be a good thing; however, nothing was finalized.

Linda asked if we could promote reading in October as Teen read week was scheduled for that month. Nothing was finalized.

John Tucker passed out a hand out of information he had found regarding codes of conduct. The Board members present could read and we could discuss at a later meeting.

The Board discussed Back to School night. Tanya Pakutz Greenland offered to pick up and deliver drinks for the school. The staff will discuss how they will handle the classroom discussions. Pat handed out an agenda.

As there was no further business before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 7:30. The September meeting is scheduled for September 15, 2004 at 6:30 p.m.