Draft Highlights of Board of Education Meeting

October 23, 2012

PUBLIC COMMENT

Eleven District patrons spoke during the Public Comment section regarding the Race to the Top Grant item on today’s agenda.

CONSIDERATION OF RACE TO THE TOP GRANT

Pat Gillman with State Fair Community College was in attendance to answer questions from the Board regarding the Race to the Top grant proposal.  District representatives were also on hand to answer additional questions.  Board discussion was held and questions were answered regarding the grant.

The Board moved unanimously that both participating districts, Camdenton and Knob Noster, have a Board of Education member serve on the Consortium Governing Advisory Committee of the Race to the Top grant.

A motion was made to approve the Race to the Top grant application.   Roll call vote:  Besancenez – nay, Schulte – aye, Martin – nay, Masterson – aye, McElyea – aye, Barbour – aye, and Beckett – nay.  Motion passed.

DISTRICT REFINANCING OPTIONS

At the October Regular Board meeting Dick Bartow from George K. Baum presented refinancing options for the District’s debt.  Superintendent Hadfield is working with Ken DeSieghardt of Patron Insight to conduct a telephone survey on refinancing.  This will take place in mid-November with preliminary results expected in December.

ACCEPT CONCRETE BID  (Moved ahead on the agenda.)

The District received one bid for concrete for the LCTC building trades project.  The Board approved administration’s recommendation to accept a bid in the amount of $45,825 from Clark’s Concrete Construction Company.

CURRICULUM/DATA COLLECTION

Dr. Henry reviewed the District's curriculum revision process and highlighted that previously the District had not adhered to the prescribed curriculum revision cycle and after noting this issue, Dr. Henry renewed the cycle last school year and teams are currently working through the phases of the process.

 Dr. Henry shared a rationale for District data collection on pre- and post-common assessments, which are built on the district power standards for language arts and mathematics. In addition, he shared documents regarding direction given on collecting the data and the need to eliminate the practice of giving all pre-assessments at one time. Also, the Board and administration discussed the need to improve the technology in this process and eliminate the duplication of effort involved in data collection.

DISCUSSION REGARDING BOARD DOCUMENTS

It was suggested that documents pertaining to Board meetings be displayed during Board meetings.  This agenda item allowed for discussion in an effort to reach consensus regarding expectations.  The Board moved to display as many Board documents as possible as linked items at Board meetings and have them available online for the public.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

The Board moved to amend October 8, 2012, regular session minutes to reflect discussion was held and questions were voiced about the Race to the Top grant.

EXECUTIVE SESSION

In compliance with State Statute 610.021 (closed meetings and closed records), the Board moved to go into Executive Session for the following purposes:

1.        Lease, purchase, or sale of real estate (610.021)(2).

2.        Hiring, firing, disciplining, or promoting particular employees (610.021)(3).

3.     Scholastic probation, expulsion, or graduation of identifiable individuals, including records of individual test or examination scores (610.021)(6).

4.        Individually identifiable personnel records, performance ratings or records pertaining to employees (610.021)(13).                     

5.        Records which are protected from disclosure by law (610.021)(14).