Over 62 people attended last night's meeting, where the 4-day school week was approved, along with a RIF (reduction in force) plan. The meeting lasted almost 5 hours! Here is the Alamogordo Daily News article.
There were numerous handouts at the meeting:
New School Calendar
Recommendation to Implement RIF for the 2011-2012 Budget Year
Proposed Changes to Offset 2011-2012 Deficit
Changes in the Administrative Staff 2006 - 2011
A podcast of the meeting is available at http://cmsbears.podbean.com
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
Special School Board Meeting Held May 5, 2011
A podcast of the entire meeting is available at http://cmsbears.podbean.com.
There were multiple issues discussed at this meeting, all of which revolved around how to reduce $407, 000 from the school's budget...or about 11% of the budget.
The most heavily discussed issues were a RIF (reduction in force) and bringing the transportation in-house. Both of these issues will be addressed at Monday's regular meeting, along with approval of the school's calendar which reflects a 4-day school week.
I will post the Alamogordo Daily News articles as they are published. The first one is here. The second article, covering the 4-day school week and transportation is here.
I strongly suggest that you listen to the podcasts!
There were multiple issues discussed at this meeting, all of which revolved around how to reduce $407, 000 from the school's budget...or about 11% of the budget.
The most heavily discussed issues were a RIF (reduction in force) and bringing the transportation in-house. Both of these issues will be addressed at Monday's regular meeting, along with approval of the school's calendar which reflects a 4-day school week.
I will post the Alamogordo Daily News articles as they are published. The first one is here. The second article, covering the 4-day school week and transportation is here.
I strongly suggest that you listen to the podcasts!
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Regular School Board Meeting of May 10, 2010
First, mea culpa for not posting the agenda last week! But I did make it to the board meeting and you can find a complete podcast of the meeting at http://cmsbears.podbean.com.
There were 2 visitors at the meeting. Mary Lutz spoke to her concern that the budget restrictions could remove teachers from the younger children. She wanted to see the classroom sizes kept small in the K-3 ages and, if teachers had to be moved and class sizes increased, have that done with the older grades.
The second visitor was Steve O'Connor. He spoke about the 5th and 6th graders going to Honor Band in T or C and how well they did. He also cautioned that 2011 and 2012 budgets could be worse than this years and that everyone should plan appropriately and get input from the community. He said he would like to hear some kind of summary of the budget committee meetings at the school board meetings.
In action items, the board appointed an Audit Advisory Committee as required by HB227. Board President Buttram received two letters of interest...one from me and one from Denny Schilling. He asked if anyone else would be interested and Jim Maynard threw his name into the hat as well. So all three of us will serve with board members Doug Porch and Bill Denny on this committee.
In other action items, the board approved the Elementary Art Program Application (the program will pretty much be the same as it was this year) and the Title I and Title II Applications.
The board also approved the 2010-2011 Budget. In the podcast, you will hear Sharlotte refer to a phone review with PED where they went over "the analysis." She also provided handouts of the budget.
The board approved the transportation contracts for Mr. Taylor in the amount of $35,960 and Mr. Swope in the amount of $202,617.
With school drawing to a close, there were numerous upcoming events announced in the information items.
There were 2 visitors at the meeting. Mary Lutz spoke to her concern that the budget restrictions could remove teachers from the younger children. She wanted to see the classroom sizes kept small in the K-3 ages and, if teachers had to be moved and class sizes increased, have that done with the older grades.
The second visitor was Steve O'Connor. He spoke about the 5th and 6th graders going to Honor Band in T or C and how well they did. He also cautioned that 2011 and 2012 budgets could be worse than this years and that everyone should plan appropriately and get input from the community. He said he would like to hear some kind of summary of the budget committee meetings at the school board meetings.
In action items, the board appointed an Audit Advisory Committee as required by HB227. Board President Buttram received two letters of interest...one from me and one from Denny Schilling. He asked if anyone else would be interested and Jim Maynard threw his name into the hat as well. So all three of us will serve with board members Doug Porch and Bill Denny on this committee.
In other action items, the board approved the Elementary Art Program Application (the program will pretty much be the same as it was this year) and the Title I and Title II Applications.
The board also approved the 2010-2011 Budget. In the podcast, you will hear Sharlotte refer to a phone review with PED where they went over "the analysis." She also provided handouts of the budget.
The board approved the transportation contracts for Mr. Taylor in the amount of $35,960 and Mr. Swope in the amount of $202,617.
With school drawing to a close, there were numerous upcoming events announced in the information items.
Monday, December 14, 2009
School Board Meeting December 14, 2009
Click here for an agenda for the meeting.
There was one member of the public addressing the school board. Eva Hale spoke against the school's suggestion to eliminate the feeder routes (agenda item 7D). She said that this showed a "lack of respect," that they (residents of 16 Springs) were being "slapped again" and this would cause their property values to go down.
When the feeder routes were addressed by the board, there was strong support for and against the them. Board member Doug Porch was strongly against eliminating the feeder routes, pointing out that the school board had been told "it's a wash" in terms of the effect the budget cuts would have on the school and that people in 16 Springs used to have a bus route. Bill Denny spoke just as passionately for eliminating the feeder routes, saying "if you want to live out there that's part of living out there" and stated that "the school shouldn't have to pay them to get to school." Transportation director Mike Richline addressed the board saying that if he had to cut 4% from the transportation budget that there wasn't much room to cut, since most of the budget was for contract expenses and contract rentals. In his opinion, the only areas to cut were maintenance, fuel or feeder routes. It was pointed out that these feeder routes were also in areas like Russia Canyon and Pinon. Superintendent Hancock's comment was that maintenance and fuel were not places that they could cut costs. No action was taken by the board on this item.
Due to the power outages and school cancellations of last week, the Financial Reports were not prepared, so items 6A and 6B of the agenda were not addressed.
In action item 7A, the board approved policy advisories 67 (GCCB) and 68 (GCCD) in their "second reading." Since these policy advisories were never read to the public, nor made available to the public at the meetings, I do not have the wording of these policies. Nor was I able to get copies from the Administration. I have been told that when they are updated they will be available on the school's web site. I have asked that "readings" of future policy advisories either be read to the public or a copy be made available to the public.
The board also approved several waivers for graduating seniors. These waivers dealt with NM History and competency testing. Two students that transferred their senior year had not had NM History since it wasn't required at their former schools.
The board approved Title I application amendments. It also received a packet for its annual evaluation of school superintendent Tommy Hancock. School board members are to turn their evaluations in by January 4th.
There was one member of the public addressing the school board. Eva Hale spoke against the school's suggestion to eliminate the feeder routes (agenda item 7D). She said that this showed a "lack of respect," that they (residents of 16 Springs) were being "slapped again" and this would cause their property values to go down.
When the feeder routes were addressed by the board, there was strong support for and against the them. Board member Doug Porch was strongly against eliminating the feeder routes, pointing out that the school board had been told "it's a wash" in terms of the effect the budget cuts would have on the school and that people in 16 Springs used to have a bus route. Bill Denny spoke just as passionately for eliminating the feeder routes, saying "if you want to live out there that's part of living out there" and stated that "the school shouldn't have to pay them to get to school." Transportation director Mike Richline addressed the board saying that if he had to cut 4% from the transportation budget that there wasn't much room to cut, since most of the budget was for contract expenses and contract rentals. In his opinion, the only areas to cut were maintenance, fuel or feeder routes. It was pointed out that these feeder routes were also in areas like Russia Canyon and Pinon. Superintendent Hancock's comment was that maintenance and fuel were not places that they could cut costs. No action was taken by the board on this item.
Due to the power outages and school cancellations of last week, the Financial Reports were not prepared, so items 6A and 6B of the agenda were not addressed.
In action item 7A, the board approved policy advisories 67 (GCCB) and 68 (GCCD) in their "second reading." Since these policy advisories were never read to the public, nor made available to the public at the meetings, I do not have the wording of these policies. Nor was I able to get copies from the Administration. I have been told that when they are updated they will be available on the school's web site. I have asked that "readings" of future policy advisories either be read to the public or a copy be made available to the public.
The board also approved several waivers for graduating seniors. These waivers dealt with NM History and competency testing. Two students that transferred their senior year had not had NM History since it wasn't required at their former schools.
The board approved Title I application amendments. It also received a packet for its annual evaluation of school superintendent Tommy Hancock. School board members are to turn their evaluations in by January 4th.
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