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
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!
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Regular School Board Meeting May 9, 2011
Here is the agenda for the upcoming regular school board meeting. I'm assuming that "RIF" means Reduction in Force and the rumors have it that the calendar will include a 4-day school week.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
SPECIAL Board Meeting Scheduled for Tomorrow
There is a Special School Board meeting scheduled for tomorrow (Thursday, May 5, 2011) at 1 p.m. Sounds like they will be discussing budget issues and resignation incentives.
Here is the agenda.
Here is the agenda.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
School Board Meeting April 11, 2011
To hear a podcast of this meeting, visit http://cmsbears.podbean.com
The agenda for the meeting is here.
The Green Energy Works brochure and the Bring Energy Improvements to Your Schools brochure were handed out during the visitor's portion of the meeting.
Here is the article that I wrote for the Daily News.
The agenda for the meeting is here.
The Green Energy Works brochure and the Bring Energy Improvements to Your Schools brochure were handed out during the visitor's portion of the meeting.
Here is the article that I wrote for the Daily News.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Podcast for School Board Meeting of February 14, 2011
Sorry this is late, but the podcast for the February 14, 2011 school board meeting can be heard at http://cmsbears.podbean.com
Sunday, February 13, 2011
School Board Meeting February 14, 2011 - Agenda
Here is the agenda for Monday night's meeting. I am out of town so there may not be a podcast or newspaper coverage unless I can find someone to cover for me...any volunteers?
Friday, February 4, 2011
New School Board Members
Congratulations to the new School Board Members voted in on Tuesday. And kudos to all of those who braved the nasty weather to vote!
Doug Porch will return to the school board, along with new members Arlan Ponder and Gerold Green.
Here is the article from the Alamogordo Daily News.
Doug Porch will return to the school board, along with new members Arlan Ponder and Gerold Green.
Here is the article from the Alamogordo Daily News.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Meet the School Board Candidates
You can listen to a podcast of Thursday night's "meet the candidates" forum at http://cmsbears.podbean.com or search for the podcast on ITunes.
Here is the article covering the meeting which ran in the Alamogordo Daily News.
Here is the article covering the meeting which ran in the Alamogordo Daily News.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
School Board Elections
There are three school board seats open in the upcoming election:
1) the seat currently held by Doug Porch...Doug will be running again and is unopposed.
2)The seat currently held by Terry Butram...Terry has opted not to run again. There are three candidates running for this position: Dulaney Barrett, Gerald Green, and Denny Schilling
3)The seat currently held by Ed Woten...Ed will be running again. Arlan Ponder is also running for this position.
There are several opportunities for you to meet the candidates, ask them questions and become an educated voter:
January 11 at 7pm at the Mayhill Community Center
January 12 at 7pm at the Weed School Gym Kitchen
January 13 at 7pm at the Pinon Extension Building
January 18 at 7pm at the Timberon Community Center
January 20 at 6:30pm at the Cloudcroft High School Commons
I am truly impressed and appreciative that the candidates are making such a concerted effort to appear throughout the district. It's a lot of driving and and a lot of time, and shows a lot of commitment on their part. I might add that these dates were not set at the last school board meeting. In fact, it was one of the candidates, Dulaney Barrett, who set up all but the January 20th meeting and had the information published in the Mountain Monthly. There was some discussion about this at last night's meeting, (you can listen on the podcast, http://cmsbears.podbean.com, under the Superintendent's Report section). The school board, after this discussion, set up the meeting at the school on January 20th.
So, the candidates are out there. If you have an interest in Cloudcroft Schools, surely you can make the time to visit with all of them, ask them their position on key issues, and make an educated choice in the upcoming election.
Early voting has already started, or you can vote in person on February 1, 2011.
1) the seat currently held by Doug Porch...Doug will be running again and is unopposed.
2)The seat currently held by Terry Butram...Terry has opted not to run again. There are three candidates running for this position: Dulaney Barrett, Gerald Green, and Denny Schilling
3)The seat currently held by Ed Woten...Ed will be running again. Arlan Ponder is also running for this position.
There are several opportunities for you to meet the candidates, ask them questions and become an educated voter:
January 11 at 7pm at the Mayhill Community Center
January 12 at 7pm at the Weed School Gym Kitchen
January 13 at 7pm at the Pinon Extension Building
January 18 at 7pm at the Timberon Community Center
January 20 at 6:30pm at the Cloudcroft High School Commons
I am truly impressed and appreciative that the candidates are making such a concerted effort to appear throughout the district. It's a lot of driving and and a lot of time, and shows a lot of commitment on their part. I might add that these dates were not set at the last school board meeting. In fact, it was one of the candidates, Dulaney Barrett, who set up all but the January 20th meeting and had the information published in the Mountain Monthly. There was some discussion about this at last night's meeting, (you can listen on the podcast, http://cmsbears.podbean.com, under the Superintendent's Report section). The school board, after this discussion, set up the meeting at the school on January 20th.
So, the candidates are out there. If you have an interest in Cloudcroft Schools, surely you can make the time to visit with all of them, ask them their position on key issues, and make an educated choice in the upcoming election.
Early voting has already started, or you can vote in person on February 1, 2011.
Regular School Board Meeting January 10, 2011
Here is the agenda for this meeting. Sorry this didn't get loaded last week, but life got in the way!
Please listen to the podcast of this meeting at http://cmsbears.podbean.com/
The Alamogordo Daily News article covering this meeting.
Please listen to the podcast of this meeting at http://cmsbears.podbean.com/
The Alamogordo Daily News article covering this meeting.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Regular School Board Meeting December 13, 2010
The podcast for last night's meeting is available at http://cmsbears.podbean.com
The article covering this meeting can be found here.
The article covering this meeting can be found here.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Agenda for School Board Meeting to be held December 13, 2010
Here is the agenda for Monday's meeting.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
School Board Meeting November 8, 2010 *Updated with Article*
The podcast of last night's meeting is available at http://cmsbears.podbean.com/
Among the items discussed were proposed policy changes to the discipline policy. I have included a link to the documents that were provided to the Board members.
Here is a summary of the meeting from the Alamogordo Daily News.
Among the items discussed were proposed policy changes to the discipline policy. I have included a link to the documents that were provided to the Board members.
Here is a summary of the meeting from the Alamogordo Daily News.
Monday, November 8, 2010
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