The Friendship Central School Board of Education held its regular monthly meeting on May 17, 2016 in the Board Conference Room. The meeting was called to order by Board President William Ritchie at 6:04 p.m. Pledge of Allegiance was recited followed by roll call.
William Ritchie Present
Craig Plaisted Present
Wendy Blimline Present
James Lewis Present
Richard Stewart Present
Also Present:
Mrs. Judy May, Superintendent
Mr. Micah Oldham, Director of Pupil Personnel/Student Services
Mr. Robert Lingenfelter, District Treasurer
Mrs. Laurie Ellis, District Clerk
Mr. James Greenaker, Teacher
Communication/Commendation
Thank You from the Yearbook Club
District Treasurer Report:
Mr. Lingenfelter explained to the Board that he has a few miscellaneous, Bids will be brought to the board next month for approval.
Mr. Lingenfelter reviewed that the calendar creep language, it was included in the Board packets.
Mr. Lingenfelter explained to the Board how the process of Energy Enterprise bid works.
Mr. Lingenfelter shared that the State Auditors that were here at Friendship are finished. He is hoping to hear in a month or so with the final report. The Auditors focused was on purchasing.
Mr. Lingenfelter explained that the Board needed to deny the physicians bid at this time. We will go back out to bid for this.
Superintendent Report:
Mrs. May updated the Board of Education on the APPR 3012-d to submitted by July 1. Currently working on the TIP (Teacher
Improvement Plan) with the union.
There has been no word on the After School Grant as of yet.
We had State Reviewers here last week to conduct classroom walk throughs in many classrooms. The reviewers spoke with administration, teachers, students and parents. One of their recommendations for us to come up with a Common Less Plan Template to be used in our building.
Mrs. May, Wade Pearsall and William O’Connell have been attending workshops with surrounding schools to come up with a Guidance Plan (ASCA National Model) This plan should be complete by Friday and we are actually one year ahead of the deadline.
Friendship Central has been selected to Field Test Grade 4 Math Computer Based Testing. This will take place on May 23rd. This test is meant to be low pressure. Mrs. May is interested to see what is expected of our students in this format.
Mrs. May and Miss Jaques will be taking the National Honor Society Students on a trip to Riverdance @ Shea’s. Due to some 10-12 grade students not attending, Mrs. May will hold a Lottery Drawing for other students interested in attending from the Junior National Honor Society.
Mrs. May shared that we only have 14 PreK students register at this time. Mrs. May has a call into the State Education Department to see exactly what this means for Friendship.
Director of Pupil Personnel/Student Services:
Mr. Oldham attended training in Albany in March for two days to
prepare Friendship for what would be happening during the State
Review process. Mr. Oldham read to the Board all of the recommendations and expected timeline from the visit.
Mr. Oldham attended another training on May 3 for the CDEP (Comprehensive District Education Plan) and SCEP (School Comprehensive Education Plan that are due to be complete by July 31, 2016. Administration has scheduled a time from July 12-16 to work on these plans. Mr. Oldham is also working with administration on tentative summer professional development.
Mr. Oldham shared that the Prom Theme was “Into the Woods”. Mr. and Mrs. Wes Sortore did an awesome job with the students decorating and set up. Mr. Oldham will share pictures once Mr. Sortore gets them to him. Mr. Oldham said that there was awesome participation this year and the students were very well behaved and had a great time.
The senior trip will be over Memorial Day weekend, and because of school being closed on Friday, May 27, the students will only miss two days of school.
Mr. Oldham was happy that there was an awesome participation from many school districts for the Chess Club competition that was held at Friendship Central on Saturday, May 14. Schools from Rochester, Bradford Catholic, Keshaqua and Hornell just to name a few.
James Greenaker reported that Saturday, May 21 will the the final Denny Amore Scholarship Fundraiser to be held at the Friendship American Legion. On June 3 the High School Student Council will be hosting a school picnic. There is now a spirit scoreboard displayed by the Auditorium.
James Lewis moved, seconded by Wendy Blimline to act upon the recommendation of the Superintendent to approve the following:
To act upon the recommendation of the Superintendent to approve the minutes of the regular meeting held on April 19, 2016 as submitted by District Clerk Laurie Butts.
To act upon the recommendation of the Superintendent to approve the Treasurer;s Report for the period of March 1, 2016 through March 31, 2016 as presented.
To act upon the recommendation of the Superintendent to accpt the warrant reports for the month of March for General, School Lunch, Federal, Extra Curricular and Trust and Agency as presented.
To act upon the recommendation of the Superintendent to approve the Internal Audit report as presented.
To act upon the recommendation of the Superintendent to award Energy Enterprise bid to the lowest responsible bidder, Energy Mar, utilizing the 1 year Option 1 rate of $-0.31.
To act upon the recommendation of the Superintendent to deny the physicians bid process to enable re-bidding.
Motions were unanimously approved.
Craig Plaisted moved, seconded by Richard Stewart to act upon the recommendation of the Superintendent to approve the following:
To act upon the recommendation of the Superintendent to approve allowing Belfast Central the use of Micah Oldham time based on his per diem rate for up to 6 days as a substitute CSE/CPSE Chairperson.
To act upon the recommendation of the Superintendent to approve the following student teachers to begin on September 6, 2016 and end on October 28, 2016:
Kathryn Denimarck – Mrs. Bauer
Samantha Harrienger – Mrs. Layman
To act upon the recommendation of the Superintendent to approve Tammy Wise for an Administrative Internship with Donald Putnam to begin June 2016 and end November 2016.
Motions were unanimously approved.
Craig Plaisted moved, seconded by James Lewis to act upon the recommendation of the Superintendent to approve the following:
To act upon the recommendation of the Superintendent to approve the recommendations of the CSE, CPSE and 504 meetings on the following:
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Motion was unanimously approved.
Wendy Blimline moved, seconded by Richard Stewart to act upon the recommendation of the Superintendent to approve the following items:
To act upon the recommendation of the Superintendent to set the date of July 11, 2016 @ 6:30 p.m. as the ReOrganizational Meeting.
To act upon the recommendation of the Superintendent to approve Elliana Layman-Woolston, daughter of Karen and Jeremy Woolston as an out of District student for the 2016-2017 school year.
Motions were unanimously approved.
Information / Discussion
Calendar Creep
May 25- ACSBA Dinner @ BOCES Olean 5:30, Dinner @ 6 p.m.
Conference and Field Trips
James Lewis moved, seconded by Richard Stewart that the Board of Education move into executive session for the purpose of discussing a particular personnel matter.
The Board reconvened into regular session at 7:14 p.m.
Richard Stewart moved, seconded by James Lewis to adjourn at 7:15 p.m.
Laurie Ellis
District Clerk