Regular School Board Meeting June 18, 2013

Here is the agenda for the meeting.

Here is a summary of the policy advisories.

Complete Policy Handouts.

Open Meetings Resolution

Vehicles to be auctioned (note that the vehicles will be auctioned separately on the public surplus website.)

Superintendent's Report

There will be an auction of school equipment on Saturday, June 29th at 8 a.m. The public can preview the items on Thursday and Friday prior to the auction and place an absentee bid if you can't be at Saturday's auction. There is a list at the school of the items to be auctioned, but it would not scan so I can't include it here.

There is also a public meeting scheduled for July 2nd at 4:30 pm in the High School Commons to discuss the proposed Facilities Master Plan and give the community the opportunity to make suggestions.

The podcast for the meeting will be loaded tonight at http://cmsbears.podbean.com

Regular School Board Meeting October 16, 2012

The podcast has been posted.

Here is the article from the Mountain Monthly.

Along the lines of "your tax dollars at work," it turns out that the Socorro school district is willing to GIVE us a retired route bus (they have a mandated life of 12 years) which we could use as an activity bus (they have a mandated life of 20 years), but the Public Education Department in Santa Fe won't let them transfer it. Nor will PED let them sell it. So, the ever helpful PED has apparently told Cloudcroft that if we want a bus we have to buy it from a contractor.

Further along the lines of "your tax dollars at work," every 5 years the school is mandated (there's that word again...as in UNFUNDED mandate) that we hire a contractor to do a Facilities Master Plan. Our last plan was done in 2007. The cost to hire said contractor and put together said plan is said to run around $30,000.

And speaking of tax dollars, the other thing that was discussed was adding a 2 mil levy to the ballot this February.

Superintendent's Weekly Report for August 24 2012

Here is the Superintendent's Weekly Report. Superintendent Dempsey also sent a copy of his forthcoming Superintendent's Corner that will appear in the Mountain Monthly, and a spec sheet for the activity bus that was at the last school board meeting.

Regular School Board Meeting of August 21, 2012

The podcast is finally up for last week's meeting. Superintendent Dempsey used a slide presentation during his portion of the meeting. Those slides can be seen here.

I, along with several folks from the meeting, took a ride on a "demo" activity bus that was provided by Zia. Apparently, there is a mandate that a school must retire its activity bus after 20 years. I don't know how long this requirement has been around, but it didn't sound like something recent. Cloudcroft's activity bus is now 20 years old, so must be replaced at the end of this school year. A new bus cost around $172,000. Over the past 20 years, it sounds like our school has set aside roughly $42,000 to purchase a new bus.

The Superintendent has rescheduled his community meetings to Saturday, September 8. If you look at his slide presentation you will see the times and locations of those meetings.

There was one visitor asking what the school was going to do about AP courses, since Ms. Carter was the only teacher certified to teach AP in the high school. While the superintendent discussed AP in his presentation, visitors are allowed to speak only at the end of the meeting, so no one answered her question. I haven't heard what the school is doing about the students that were signed up for AP classes with Ms. Carter.

Here is the agenda for this meeting.

There were also some handouts at the meeting: The NMSBA Training Report and Article 22, School Election Law.