LINDEN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
Regular Meeting
7201W.
(810) 591-0410
December 16, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Members Laura
Starrs, Pam Snyder, Mike Murphy, Steve Murphy, Rick Kursik, Scott Maker,
Present Rob Rossow. Student Reps:
Kaley Holloway and Rachel McCloskey
Members None.
Absent
ADOPTION Moved
by M. Murphy, supported by Snyder to adopt the agenda as presented.
OF AGENDA All yea votes. Motion carried 7-0.
105-09
(P)
Superintendent Koledo reported that he met with Evie
Jensen over lunch and her spirits are high.
She is hopeful to return soon, but may be out longer depending on follow
up treatments.
Mr. Koledo reported that he heard today that Race to
the Top legislation is looking at having districts sign up for the plan. He will be working with the LEA and Board
President regarding the Race to the Top,
to research and come up with a
plan to sign up for the funding.
Mr.
Koledo reported that the State Superintendent is advising districts to sign
onto the plan.
Mr. Koledo
also spoke about the $127 per pupil cut has been delayed by Governor
Granholm.
STUDENT BOARD REPORTS
Kaley Holloway, student representative, talked about
the blood drive that took place on December 4, 2009. The blood drive was successful. She also reported that the Christmas
Express collection at the high school brought in 236
cans of food, along with $873.00 in angel links and they are still collecting
for this.
Miss Holloway said the Green Committee is up and
running. She reported that SADD is
collecting used cell phones and having students make a Christmas promise to
ensure good decisions are made over the
holiday break.
Miss Holloway stated NHS is selling hot chocolate as
well as having an ultimate Frisbee competition with a goal of raising $200.00
per team.
Miss Holloway took several minutes to share names of
students who received academic and sports recognition awards for Volleyball,
Football, Cross Country, and more.
Miss Holloway spoke about ineligible players will be
mandated to attend Eagle Study Table
three days a week after school until their grades
improve and become eligible to participate.
Miss Holloway compliments the teams for their
sportsmanship and complimented Coach Lawhorne for being Coach of the Year.
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Mike
Engelter, Assistant Superintendent gave a power point presentation on deficit
budgets.
Mr.
Engelter reported that at last count there were 42 districts operating in a
deficit budget.
Mr. Rossow asked if those districts were borrowing
monies to stay afloat. Mr. Engleter
replied that they were in fact borrowing from the state pool. He also made comment that the loans are
backed by the state which is a problem.
Mr. Kursik made comment that many of the districts
that are in deficit budget are those who lost 20J funding.
There was much discussion with board members about the
implications of ending up in a deficit budget in the future.
PUBLIC COMMENTS
None.
CONSENT Moved by Maker, supported by Snyder to adopt the
Consent Agenda as presented.
AGENDA
106-09 1. Minutes of Regular Meeting, November 18,
2009.
(P) 2. Minutes of Executive Session, November 18, 2009.
3. Minutes of Board Work Session, December 2, 2009.
4. Invoices for the Month of December, 2009 in the amount of $2,243.015.71.
5. Approval of Personnel Summary Sheet (Attachment A).
Roll
call vote taken.
All yea
votes. Motion carried 7-0.
OLD BUSINESS
Third
New
Policy 8315-
Information
All yea votes. Motion carried 7-0.
Management
107-09
(P)
Third
Adoption of Registry;Criminal Convictions as presented.
New Policy 8470-
Student-Sex All yea votes: Motion carried
7-0.
Offender
Registry;Criminal
Convictions
108-09
(P)
Adoption of Moved by S. Murphy, supported by Snyder to contract
with the GISD to provide before and
GISD
Health or afterschool
programming for students and their families for the 2009-2010 school year at a
Safety
and cost of $21,135.00
Nutrition
Services
Contract-After
School Program M. Murphy raised question about how
this was being paid. Mr. Koledo
explained that Title I
Supervisor money will be used for this program.
109-09
(P) All yea
votes. Motion carried 7-0.
Adopttion of Moved by Kursik, supported by S.
Murphy to adopt the board goals for 2009-10 school year,
Board Goals as presented.
110-09
(P)
There
was a comment from Mr. Kursik that he was happy with the verbiage added to goal
2.
All yea
votes. Motion carried 7-0.
Approval
of Moved by Snyder,
supported by Maker to approve the Human Development Curriculum as
Of
Human presented.
Development
Curriculum
111-09
(P) All yea
votes. Motion carried 7-0.
NEW
BUSINESS
Act-Minimum number of pupil instructional days
to that which the district had in the 09-10 school year. This
Number
of Days topic was for discussion
purposes only.
Instruction
Mike
Murphy wanted to make mention that there needs to be discussions with
legislators to
change
the law.
Pam Snyder commented that
considering seven furlough days to reduce our days may be a benefit. This led to much discussion among the board
members.
Rick Kursik commented that
purely from a financial stand point that as many options as possible need to be
looked at. He also indicated that making
discussions based strictly from a
financial stand point
instead of an educational one is terrible, but something the state is forcing
districts to do.
Board members would like to
see what savings the furlough days would bring to reducing costs.
Adoption of Moved
by S. Murphy, supported by Maker to adopt the summer tax resolution to continue
Summer Tax to collect one-half of the total taxes for 2010 summer taxes.
Resolution
112-09 Rick
Kursik mentioned considering collecting all school tax for the year at one
time. Other
(P) districts
are doing this.
Pam
Snyder concurred with collecting all at once.
Steve
Murphy wants to be sure that when we share townships with other districts that
we are
paying
equally in fees.
Mr. Koledo commented that
switching could be a burden initially on the individual homeowners who escrow
their taxes.
Mike Engelter explained that
moving to once a year could not take place right now. There are several steps that have to be taken
approximately six months in advance. The
summer tax resolution has to be submitted before the end of December, 2009.
All
yea votes. Motion carried 7-0.
Strategic Plan Mr.
Koledo asked for discussion about the updated questions for Strategic Planning.
Questions-
Potential
Revisions Pam Snyder would like to
see question 7 read better. She would
like it expanded on what Linden Community Schools merits can do to reach a
regional community of potential new families.
There was also discussion
about removing the second part of question number 5 (after priorities…).
Mr.
Koledo will make the updates.
Frequency of Mr.
Koledo explained that the frequency could be reduced during the summer and at
some
Lawn Mowing buildings
where grass does not grow as quickly due to soil conditions.
Mike
Murphy stated that since has in the past and may in the future share in the
maintenance
of
lawn service that he had a conflict and wanted to abstain from discussion.
BOARD REPORTS/RECOMMENDATIONS OR
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mr. Kursik attended the high school volleyball banquet
and commended Miss Hopkins on doing such a great job of putting the event
together. Well done!
Pam Snyder attended the weighted grade meetings and
complimented the teacher and parents
on their efforts during these meetings.
Mike Murphy enjoyed the holiday dinner hosted by the
GMASMB in Frankenmuth.
Steve Murphy thanked the board president and Mrs.
Hayes for their efforts and participation in the Linden Follies. He complimented all of the
Mrs. Starrs was pleased to hear from Miss Holloway’s
report on the long list of student athletes who achieved the many academic
awards, athletic awards, and more. She
complimented the wrestling team for their recognition of great sportsmanship.
113-09 Moved by Snyder, supported by Kursik to
adjourn to Executive Session per Section 8(h),
(P) Pending
Litigation, Jason & Brandi Baroni, et.al, Petitioner v Linden Community
Schools, Case
No.
2009-1214, C2787, of the Open Meetings Act at 8:30 p.m.
Roll
call vote taken.
All
yea votes. Motion carried 7-0.
A
short recess was called at 8:31 p.m.
The
regular meeting reconvened at 11:22 p.m.
ADJOURNMENT
Board
President Starrs adjourned the meeting at 11:25 p.m.
Respectfully
submitted,
___________________________
Steve
M. Murphy, Board Secretary