Posts made in September, 2014

Board Meeting October 28th at 7:00 PM

Posted by on Sep 25, 2014 in Board Meetings

Date: 10/28/2014

Start Time: 7:00 PM

End Time: 9:05 PM

Location: Mountain View Academy Middle School Classroom

Attendees: Julie Valencia, Beau Garner, Laurie Cardwell, Jake Plahn

Agenda Items

  • Call Meeting to Order
  • Schedule next meeting
  • Adoption of Agenda
  • Approval of Minutes
  • Decide on picking up the employee PERS contribution.
    • We will stop picking this for December payroll – unanimous consent
  • Graham activity fee refund
    • We will refund $200 – unanimous consent
  • Utilizing sports teams for marketing purposes
  • E-School seminar
    • $75 – 1 day seminar – unamimous consent
    • We will pay her for the time spent at the seminar – unanimous consent
  • Purchase 1 more projector
    • $399 – unanimous consent
  • Purchase 2 more document cameras
    • $400 – unanimous consent
  • MAP testing
    • $4,500 entire staff training
    • $1,500 annual for under 100 kids
    • The deadline is November for the first round of tests. We don’t feel that we can get ourselves ready by then. We will review this again when budgeting for next year.
  • Teacher Evaluations
  • Overnight field trip
  • Review September Financial Reports
  • Adjourn
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Board Meeting September 24th at 7:00 PM

Posted by on Sep 9, 2014 in Board Meetings

Date: 9/24/2014

Start Time: 7:00 PM

End Time: 9:10 PM

Location: Mountain View Academy Middle School Classroom

Attendees: Jake Plahn, Julie Valencia, Beau Garner, Laurie Cardwell

Agenda Items

  • Call Meeting to Order
  • Schedule next meeting
    • October 28th at 7:00 PM
  • Adoption of Agenda
    • approved – unanimous consent
  • Approval of Minutes
    • approved – unanimous consent
  • Review budget
  • Utility Addendum to Lease
    • approved – unanimous consent
  • Review student hours
  • Sign funding
    • approved – unanimous consent, $250 one time payment, we will revisit again in the spring and see if we have funding for another payment.
  • Bus transportation
  • Additional aide- 2 hours
    • Proposed schedule (from Laurie)
    • 8:00-8:10 in the morning, help Dana get kids to class
    • 8:20 – 9:45 reading
    • 9:45 – 10:00 help supervise recess with Dana
    • approved – unanimous consent, but we want this position to be filled by a licensed teacher.
  • Activity fee policy
    • approved – unanimous consent, to create an official policy that includes a refund.
  • Potential pilot program with departing student
  • Discuss hiring committee
  • Create self medicate policy
  • Policy for meds
  • LOCS membership $100/year
    • approved – unanimous consent, that Laurie will purchase a LOCS membership.
  • Parent volunteers
  • Teacher contracts
  • Policy for student enrollment for next year.
  • Adjourn

Action Items

  • Jake will discuss bus transportation with Walt and finalize by 10/8.
  • Jake run the numbers on reading teacher from 8:00 – 10:00 $20/hour and email them out
  • Create activity fee refund policy from ACE
  • Email parent asking for activity fee refund
  • Jake will post hiring committee to web site and FB and teachers (pool).
  • Jake will post medicine policy recommendations to web site.
  • Jake and Laurie will write the new enrollment policy
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Board Meeting September 4th 8:00 AM

Posted by on Sep 5, 2014 in Board Meetings

Date: 9/4/2014

Start Time: 8:00 AM

End Time: 8:15 AM

Location: Lundy Elementary

Attendees: Beau Garner, Jake Plahn

Agenda Items

  • Opening Suislaw bank account with Jake Plahn and Kelly Harris as signers
    • Approved by unanimous consent

Action Items

  • Open bank account
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