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Anita
Osterman, President, led the Pledge of Allegiance.
#4787– Motion by Jim Featherstone
and seconded by Ed Wosinski to
approve the minutes of the Board meeting of August 27, 2007. Ayes – 6; Nays – 0. Motion carried.
#4788– Motion by Phil Harmon and seconded by Jim Featherstone to approve the agenda for
tonight’s meeting. Ayes – 6; Nays –
0. Motion carried.
John Kingsnorth,
Superintendent, introduced Dawn Tubs, new Special Education Supervisor at
NC RESA and Ed Cook, Telephone
System Technician at NC RESA. Dawn
came as part of a college class she is taking. Ed Cook
gave an update and review of the problems and progress on the telephone
equipment at Daisy Brook and Pathfinder.
He currently has 16 phones working at Daisy Brook and the rest,
hopefully, will be September 12.
There is a possible insurance
claim from SET/SEG to deal with lightning damage to phones, cables,
etc. Bing Hanson
Lake is working on
that.
The energy presentation by
Rose Stariha (FPS Energy Manager) and Rod Bunker from Energy Management,
Inc. was tabled to a future date.
Dr. Kingsnorth reported on
the consolidation efforts of a meeting at the FACF with superintendents and
local bargaining teacher reps; they have come up with a three-year “common
ground” calendar for Newaygo
County schools. “Common ground” means that it is a basis
on which to negotiate.
Dr. Kingsnorth also informed
the Board that we would be sharing the services of Sharon Folkema, RN as
school nurse with White Cloud Public Schools. We would each share her cost.
Superintendent Kingsnorth
requested that three board members each attend the Strategies for Student Success S3 with Dr. Olga Holden (Michigan
Association of School Boards)
September 19 noon luncheon at NC RESA and the evening presentation
(6:30 p.m.) at Fremont High School.
The drawings of proposed
Fremont Public Schools traffic plan (Plan J) were distributed and
discussed. The proposed turnaround
will be coming from Sinking Funds.
Phil Harmon from Finance reported on the plan as well. The consensus of the Board was to place
this item as an action agenda for the September 24 Board meeting.
Also discussed was Board
member attendance at the MASB Fall Conference November 1-4, 2007. Board approval for Linda Blais and Matt
Hendrie or anyone else planning to attend one or more of this conference’s
activities will be on the September 24 board action agenda if possible to
meet registration deadlines for the conference.
President Anita Osterman
described some of the last Policy Committee agenda (moving to October 3
meeting). The Board also discussed
the consideration of a policy service (MASB or NEOLA) at a special policy
committee meeting and then a recommendation to the FULL board. Board member Phil Harmon requested any
Board action to wait until after student count day, Wednesday, September
26. Board consensus was for Policy
Committee to consider which policy service to recommend and bring to Board
for action.
Jim Hieftje, Director of
Curriculum and Instruction/Quest Principal, was absent (ill) from the Board meeting.
Bing Hanson
Lake, Director of
Financial Services, informed the Board that the Workman’s Comp audit will
produce over $20,000 refund (per White Agency).
She informed the Board that
Wednesday, September 26 is student count day and we still have not heard
from the State regarding school funding.
#4789 – Motion by Jim Featherstone
and seconded by Phil Harmon to approve the consent agenda item
(disbursements for August) in the amount of $3,505,499.94. Ayes – 6; Nays – 0. Motion carried.
#4790– Motion by Phil Harmon and seconded by Jim Featherstone
to approve the resolution to borrow money for school operations from
the state school aid fund in the amount of $1,500,000. Ayes – 6; Nays –
0. Motion carried.
#4791– Motion by Jim Featherstone
and seconded by Phil Harmon to approve the recall of Kathy Korstange,
Kindergarten teacher, to Pine
Street.
Ayes – 6; Nays – 0. Motion
carried.
This is a formality as Kathy
is already teaching at Pine
Street this year. This agenda item produced some discussion
on class size throughout Fremont Public Schools (e.g. Kindergarten numbers
are down at Pine Street-- now at approximately 158). There is concern at 3rd grade
with class sizes at 29 and at the middle school with some classes over 30.
BOARD COMMUNICATION:
·
Memo from Denise McDaniel regarding changes
in Food Service
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Updated 2007-08 Goals for John Kingsnorth
with no
changes from
Board members at the table
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Distributed to Board members:
1.
2007-08 Internal Phone directory sheet
(summary of current staff)
2.
Revised 2007 Staff School
Calendar
3.
Revised 2007-08 Board Committee Assignment
sheet
4.
2007 Fall Sports Schedules
#4792– Motion by Jim Featherstone
and seconded by Phil Harmon to adjourn the meeting at 8:00 p.m. Ayes – 6; Nays – 0. Motion carried.
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