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Carteret
County Public School System
March 2, 2010 Attending the meeting: Chairman Cathy Neagle, Vice Chairman Al Hill and Board members Bill Blair, David Carr, Adele Collins and Shelley Sylivant. Board member June Fulcher was sick and absent.
Others attending included Superintendent Dr. Dan Novey, Assistant
Superintendents Dr. Ralph Lewis and Jeanne Huntley, Board Attorney
Neil Whitford, Communications Director Tabbie Nance, principals,
parents, community members, employees and members of the media. WELCOMEChair Cathy Neagle welcomed those in attendance. Mrs. Neagle gave the invocation and led the Pledge to the United States flag.
CONSIDER APPROVAL OF
MEETING AGENDA
Shelley Sylivant
provided the second and all members voted aye.
CONSIDER APPROVAL OF CONSENT AGENDA The
Consent Agenda items were: B. Field Trips;
1. Croatan High School, FFA Competition C.
Personnel Matters;
Al Hill provided the
second and all members voted aye.
GOVERNED AND SUPPORTED BY 21st CENTURY SYSTEMS Al Hill made the motion to approve extending the school system’s waste disposal contract with Waste Industries for three years to include the recycling program. Bill Blair provided the second and all members voted aye.
CONSIDER BUDGET REVISIONS # 16 and #17 Budget Revision 16 – This revision amends the Capital Outlay budget for changes in the bond projects requested by the Board of Education and approved by the County Commissioners. The total of the changes is $3,488,383. Budget Revision 17 – This revision adjusts the school system’s state and local budgets for a transfer of principal and assistant principal positions in state funds to funding for teachers. This transfer, allowable under State regulations, allows a school system to transfer principal and assistant principal months of employment at the state average salary plus benefits to be used for hiring teachers. So any state paid principal or assistant principal whose salary is below the state average generates more dollars than their actual cost. By moving these dollars to pay for teachers, the school system can then move local paid teachers to state funds using the dollars generated by this transfer. Then the local money freed up by moving the local paid teachers to state funding will fund the cost of the principals and assistant principals with a savings of $68,536. This savings will be used to fund the cost of dues for staff development purposes, an extra-curricular supplement, the cost of the new recycling program and additional funding for heating fuel and electrical costs due to the colder than usual weather. Al Hill made the motion to approve Budget Revisions 16 and 17 as presented. Adele Collins provided the second and all members voted aye.
CONSIDER APPROVAL OF 2010-2011 BUDGET REQUEST
Operating Budget – Bill Blair made the motion to approve the 2010-2011 Operating Budget request as presented. Shelley Sylivant provided the second and all members voted aye. Capital Budget – Dr. Novey said the school system’s 2010-2011 Capital Budget request is $2,805,920. He said this budget emphasizes safety, accessibility, security, preventive maintenance, and HVAC and energy management. This request is slightly more than last year’s request but close to the school system’s 2008-2009 funded capital budget of $2,800,900. The Capital Budget document indicates high priority items and includes the addition of HVAC and Energy Management category. The budget document notes another change is renaming the category Equipment/Building & Grounds to now be called Equipment & Small Capital Items. Dr. Novey said the contingency section was broken out to emphasize that there were requests listed for the 2010-2011 budget that would require funding that will simply not be available because of the economy. He noted should the systems fail they would need to be replaced. Dr. Novey added that the school system is trying to include as much of Morehead City Elementary School’s capital needs in the QZAB, which predated the bond effort. Al
Hill made the motion to approve the 2010-2011 Capital Budget as
presented on Page 1 and Page 2.
LEADERSHIP WILL GUIDE INNOVATION IN SCHOOLS
RECEIVE MAINTENANCE
UPDATE
The Newport Middle
School roof continues to leak. The contractor continues to work
under warranty on the leaks.
RECEIVE BOND UPDATE
He noted the Croatan
High School auditorium has received its occupancy permit. The first
ceremony will be a Ring Ceremony for the junior class. The
ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place at 9 a.m. on April 14. Superintendent Dr. Dan Novey shared a number of comments with the Board. He noted that Read Across America was a huge success across the county. Positive Behavior Systems (PBS) programs are taking place in schools across the county and that ties into the bullying prevention programs. He said programs focused on treating each other with respect and on the impact of their actions. Dr. Novey said bullying is not acceptable and should not happen. Efforts are being made to try to raise money to fund the Twilight Program at East Carteret High School and West Carteret High School. The SACS accreditation team is reviewing West Carteret High School this week and are very complimentary of the professional team there. He complimented Principal Carolyn Heller and the staff, students and families of that school.
COMMENTS FROM BOARD MEMBERS
Chair Cathy Neagle invited Board members to make comments. She issued congratulations to Croatan High School’s wrestling team and the Broad Creek Middle School wrestling team and girls’ basketball for conference wins. Mrs. Collins congratulated the county’s All-District Band students. Bill Blair – Mr. Blair urged support for the budget and not letting the educational programs lapse. Shelley Sylivant – Mrs. Sylivant is excited about the completion of the Croatan High School auditorium. David Carr – Mr. Carr congratulated Bobby Bittner of West Carteret High School on his state championship swim meets. Cathy Neagle – Mrs. Neagle noted that no final budgeting decisions have been made. The decision tonight was to address one of the funding sources – the county. She noted that only when the funds available from all three sources (county, state and federal) is known can the final budget decisions be made.
REMINDERS The May Board of Education Meeting will take place Wednesday, May 5, instead of on Tuesday because the meeting room is used by the county as a polling place.
CLOSED SESSION Al
Hill made the motion to convene in closed session to consider closed
session minutes from previous meetings.
ADJOURNMENT Bill Blair made the motion to adjourn the meeting. Al
Hill provided the second and all members voted aye.
APPROVED PERSONNEL MATTERS – MARCH 2, 2010 Licensed EmployeesTransfersAllison Ballou, Fr Assistant Principal, West Carteret High SchoolTo Curriculum Specialist, Central Services (Change of start date from 03/09/2010 to 2/1/2010)ResignationsJanet Tremblay, Special Ed Teacher, Broad Creek Middle School (03/17/2010)
Non-Licensed EmployeesNew HiresVirginia Baysden, EC Teacher Assistant, Morehead Middle School (02/04/2010) (Temporary) Frances Dipietrantonio, P/T Cafeteria Assistant, Morehead City Primary School (02/09/2010) Stephanie Jones, EC Teacher Assistant, Morehead City Primary School (02/15/2010) (Temporary)
TransfersWendy Simpson, Fr Teacher Assistant, Morehead City Primary School(08/14/2009) To Teacher Assistant, White Oak Elementary School
ResignationsKawana Neal, Teacher Assistant, Morehead City Primary School Change of resignation date from 2/26/2010 to 2/12/2010 RetirementsDelores Alger, Teacher Assistant, Morehead City Primary School 6/01/2010 Margaret Lewis, Teacher Assistant, White Oak Elementary School (03/01/2010) |