CHATEAUGAY CENTRAL SCHOOL BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING MINUTES - MONDAY, 3/28/11 CALL TO ORDER: The President called the meeting to order at 7:30 P.M. KIND OF MEETING: Regular MEMBERS PRESENT: John Swanston, John McCormick, Sue King, David Roach, William Wood, Scott Henderson MEMBERS ABSENT: William Harrigan OTHERS ATTENDING: Dale Breault, Superintendent of Schools, Loretta Fowler, Elementary Principal/CSE Chairperson, Donna André, High School Principal, Terri Janisewski, District Clerk WELCOME OF VISITORS: Mary Jones, Jonathon Monfiletto, Debbie Recore, Connor Hesseltine, Tyler Patnode, Kristin Farrell, Kevin Defayette, Jacob Powers, Jason Lawrence, Caleb Layton. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: On motion by Scott Henderson second, John Swanston, minutes of March 14, 2011 were approved. Yes -6 FINANCIAL REPORTS - Financial reports for February, including Budget Control, Revenue Report, Treasurer s Reports, and warrants (for information) were approved, as submitted, on motion by Scott Henderson second, John Swanston. CORRESPONDENCE: THANK YOU - A thank you note was received from the Chateaugay Fire Company and Rescue Squad to the Board of Education and Administration for their donation in memory of Russell Tolosky. Mr. Breault received a notice from Michael C. Nuber, Inspector from the NYS Department of Transportation, stating he was here to do the inspection of the Transportation Facility. He stated that Mr. McCormick and Mr. Woodward were very helpful and informative and the inspection shows a 100% pass rate.
Mr. Breault received a notice from Mr. Shafer, District Superintendent, informing him that the Franklin-Essex-Hamilton BOCES Annual Meeting will be held on April 4, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. at the Adirondack Educational Center in Saranac Lake, NY. Mr. Roach and Mr. Breault congratulated both the boys and girls basketball teams and the cheerleaders on an outstanding year. They also congratulated Courtney Yando for winning a bronze medal in the USA Luge Junior National Race in Lake Placid, and to Ben Trombley for having an outstanding hockey season in Malone and receiving the Section 10 scholar athlete scholarship. UNUSED EMERGENCY DAYS: Mr. Breault stated that there was an unforeseen problem with scheduling an unused emergency day for June 24 th due to testing. Therefore, on recommendation of the Superintendent and on a motion by John McCormick second, John Swanston the board rescinded the previous action of having an emergency day on June 24 th and approved scheduling one unused emergency day for May 27 th and holding one emergency day in reserve. MANAGEMENT ADVISORY GROUP SERVICE: Mr. Breault explained to the board what the Management Advisory Group was and how it could help Chateaugay Central School. He stated that the group does an audit to see if there is any state aid money to recoup. He also stated that if they do not find any money then we do not have to pay for their service. The board authorized Mr. Breault to contact the group for a proposal. 2010-2011 BUDGET: Mr. Breault explained that a tentative agreement has been reached on the state budget, but state aid figures will not be available until Wednesday or Thursday of this week. He also stated that he s still researching ways to save money and also explained the issues of consolidating duties to eliminate positions. Mrs. Fowler spoke about how the only potential areas to cut further in the elementary program would have to involve Pre-K and Kindergarten. Mrs. Fowler spoke about how devastating cuts in those areas would be to our educational program here at Chateaugay Central School. Mrs. André then gave a presentation on what every academic department in grades 7-12 would look like with one position cut. Mrs. André spoke about each department s offerings, what difficulties would be encountered with a cut in staff and the educational ramifications of each.
Mr. Breault handed out a budget worksheet that showed areas that could be cut and that would have the least amount of impact on the students. Mr. Breault suggested waiting until state aid figures were released before making a final recommendation. On recommendation of the Superintendent and on a motion by John McCormick second, William Wood the board approved holding a special meeting on April 4, 2011 at 4:00 P.M. PERSONNEL: No - 0 Motion carried a) TEACHING SUBSTITUTE APPLICATIONS: The Chateaugay Central School District has been unable to fill teaching substitute positions, which existed despite good faith efforts to fill such a vacancy in a manner, which would have allowed time for clearance or conditional clearance by the Commissioner of Education. Therefore, upon recommendation of the Superintendent, William Wood moved, second Scott Henderson that the following emergency conditional appointments in the non-teaching substitute area on the effective dates indicated be approved for the 2010-2011 school year under terms permitted by Education Law: TEACHING SUBSTITUTES: Jeffrey Parker Brett Ouiment No - 0 Motion carried b) NON-TEACHING SUBSTITUTE APPLICATIONS: The Chateaugay Central School District has been unable to fill non-teaching substitute positions, which existed despite good faith efforts to fill such a vacancy in a manner, which would have allowed time for clearance or conditional clearance by the Commissioner of Education.
Therefore, upon recommendation of the Superintendent, John McCormick moved, second Sue Jones-King that the following emergency conditional appointments in the non-teaching substitute area on the effective dates indicated be approved for the 2010-2011 school year under terms permitted by Education Law: NON-TEACHING SUBSTITUES: Rebecca Wunch Regina Miller Jeffrey Parker Richard Decosse Jr. c) On recommendation of the Superintendent and on a motion by John Swanston second, William Wood the board approved a personal leave request for Liz Harrigan on April 8, 2011. d) On recommendation of the Superintendent and on a motion by John Swanston second, William Wood the board approved granting four extended hardship days to Tim Seymour as per the teacher s contract. EXECUTIVE SESSION: The board entered executive session at 8:52 P.M. on motion by John Swanston second, William Wood for the purpose of discussing CSE/CPSE recommendations, Administrator negotiations and CSEA negotiations. Yes 6 No 0 Motion carried. REGULAR SESSION: The Board reconvened regular session at 9:30 P.M. CSE/CPSE RECOMMENDATIONS: On recommendation by John McCormick, second Sue Jones-King, that the Board of Education has no objections to the recommendation of the Committee on Special Education and approved the authorization of funds to implement the Special Education programs and services for students: #000003267, #000003396,#000003213.
OPEN DISCUSSION: A further discussion was held on ways to save money on the newsletter. ADJOURNMENT: A motion of adjournment was made at 9:36 by John Swanston second, Scott Henderson. Yes -6