Regular School Board Meeting November 13, 2012

The podcast for the meeting is available at http://cmsbears.podbean.com

There were numerous handouts that will be forthcoming.

I will also post the article from the Mountain Monthly after December 1. Here is the article.

Please note that the next regular meeting will be held at the Weed Community Center.

Weekly Superintendent's Report November 12, 2012

Here is the report, and here is the supporting powerpoint.

Weekly Superintendent's Report for Week Ending November 2, 2012

Here is the latest superintendent's report. There was no report for the previous week.

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.

Weekly Superintendent's Report for October 13, 2012

Here is the weekly report along with the application that it references.

Agenda for Tonight's Meeting

Here is the agenda for tonight's meeting.

Superintendent's Weekly Summary for October 5, 2012

Here is the Weekly Summary for October 5

Superintendent's Weekly Summary for September 28. 2012

There was no weekly summary for the week ending September 21 since that was the week of the school board meeting.

Here is the Superintendent's Weekly Summary for the week ending September 28, 2012.

Weekly Superintendent's Report for September 14, 2012

Here is the weekly Superintendent's report for last week.

Regular School Board Meeting September 18, 2012

Here is the agenda for the meeting. The podcast is uploaded at http://cmsbears.podbean.com

The superintendent gave a presentation, and I will upload a copy when I get them.

The new school newsletter was also handed out.

A trial version of a new school website was shown. This was created by community member Mike Beckler, of www.cloudcroftwebcam.com renown. They are asking folks to check it out and offer any feedback or comments. I'd address those to Mike or superintendent Dempsey.

Weekly Superintendent's Report, September 10, 2012

Here is the weekly Superintendent's report. Also included are copies of the presentation that the Superintendent gave at the community meetings that were held this past weekend.

Superintendent's Weekly Report: August 31, 2012

Here is the Superintendent's report from last week.

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.

August 25 Community Meetings to be Rescheduled

Due to a conflict with a football scrimmage that has been scheduled for August 25, Superintendent Dempsey has cancelled his planned community meetings and will announce a new date as soon as he can find a time that doesn't conflict with something else.