Sauvie Island Academy
SAUVIE ISLAND ACADEMY
SCHOOL BOARD MEETING
04/19/2017
ATTENDEES:
BOARD MEMBERS:Matt Mahaffy, Robyn Mann, Casey Jolissaint, Mark Doyle, Bob Kessi
STAFF MEMBERS:Darla Meeuwsen, Sam Olson, Amy Taylor, Nancy Fisher, Marike McCartney
COMMUNITY:Mike Bradley, Berenice Mejia, Guadalupe Silverio, students: Yeleni Vasquez-
Mejia, Jazmin Torres-Martinez, Jonah Lucey, Gus Donnelly, Sylas Christopher,
Malia Jacobsen, Vince Angelo, Jasper Christopher, Scarlett Christopher, Myles
Erickson
1.0CALL TO ORDER:MATT MAHAFFY
1.1PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE:
Matt Mahaffy opened the meeting at 4: 04pm and led the Pledge of Allegiance
2.0COMMENTS FROM VISITORS:
2.1Mike Bradley introduced himself to the attendees. Mike is a long time Scappoose
Resident, retired contractor and is running for the Scappoose School Board position 3.
He came to our Board meeting because he feels Sauvie is a vital part of the Scappoose
School District and he wanted to visit and see it for himself.
3.0CONSENT AGENDA:
3.1APPROVAL OF MINUTE:
3.1.1REGULAR MEETING 03/22/2017
3.2APPROVAL OF BILLS:
3.3PERSONNEL:
Casey Jolissaint moved that the Consent Agenda be approved. Mark Doyle seconded
the motion and the Consent Agenda was approved unanimously.
4.0GENERAL REPORTS (1ST HALF):
4.1STAFF/STUDENT REPORT:AMY TAYLOR (ELD Teacher)
Amy Taylor introduced herself as the ELD teacher at SIA. She spoke about the different
forms of writing that her students are working on. She then presented two of her
students and they read the papers they have written. Jazmin Torres-Martinez read a
biography she had researched and written about Sir Edmond Hillary. It was wonderfully
written and read and included many unknown to most facts about him. Yeleni Vasquez-
Mejia read an expository writing about the Willamette Valley. She talked about the
cities, the river and the various agricultural uses of the area. It was very informative.
Both students did a great job. Darla noted that Yeleni was also on the OBOB team that
did so very well in competition this year.
4.2PTC REPORT:MARIKE MCCARTNEY
The Sauvie Island Auction is in a mere 2 and one half weeks. Marike reported that she is
busy collecting donations, selling raffle tickets and admission tickets. All tickets are
available both online and here at the school. Classroom projects are in the works as
well. Marike and the PTC are happy to take any donations up through April 31st. She
was delighted to let the Board know that the Auction has two new sponsors this year.
5.0RECOGNITION:
5.1BUS BARN CLEAN-OUT SALE:DARLA MEEUWSEN
Darla wanted the Board to recognize Mr. Larry for his Bus Barn Clean-Out sale. Larry
knew the bus barn needed cleaning out from years of accumulation, and instead of
throwing it all in a dumpster, he took it upon himself to hold a Clean-Out sale on his own
time and energy. He still has some sales pending and some items out on Craig’s List so
he does not want to yet reveal the amount of money he has made, but suffice it to say,
he is excited about how it turned out. Thank you Mr. Larry for your time and effort on
behalf of SIA!
6.0CONTINUED BUSINESS
6.1SCHOOL NAME CHANGE TO SAUVIE ISLAND SCHOOL:PAT WILLIS
Pat Willis was not in attendance to present, but Robyn Mann moved to change the
name of SIA to Sauvie Island School. Bob Kessi seconded the motion, and the motion
passed unanimously. It will be further discussed just how to commemorate the name
change once it is found out how long implementation (legalities, etc…) will take.
6.2ADOPT 2017/18 PROPOSED BUDGET:DARLA MEEUWSEN
Darla reported that there has not as of yet been any change in the rhetoric of the State
Budget for education funding. She is glad that SIA built their budget off of the proposed
7.8% the State proposed since it looks like that is what we will be working from. If the
amount of the State budget changes, we can always revisit our budget. At this point in
time, we are pulling $53,000 out of our contingency fund, and removing 3 aide positions
and Beforcare.
Mark Doyle moved to adopt the proposed SIA 2017/18 budget. Casey Jolissaint
seconded the motion and the proposed 2017/18 Sauvie Island Academy budget was
adopted.
6.3SD LONG-RANGE FACILITIES PLANNING (May mtg.)DARLA MEEUWSEN
Darla and Casey attended the last Scappoose District Long-Range Facilities Planning
Meeting . At the meeting, people were divided into groups and asked to decide in their
groups how they would distribute Bond funds for SSD. Casey felt that at her table, SIA
was approached as being a part of SSD. Darla’s table discussed a new Mid-School
housing 6-8th grades, changing Warren to an alternative High School, and taking care of
all category 1 items on the proposed list.
The next Long-Range Facilities Planning meeting will be held on May 25th, 6pm at Grant
Watts. Darla feels it is important for SIA to have more of a presence and is encouraging
Board members and parents to become involved in this.
6.4SIA BOARD POSITION OPENINGMATT MAHAFFY
We are still in search of a 7th member for the School Board. Matt would still like to have
it be someone outside of the school community. He has asked the Board members to
come up with a name or two so that the Board can talk to them. A discussion ensued
about what is best: parent, not a parent, school familiarity, outside the reach of the
school, no kids? All are still on the table.
7.0NEW BUSINESS (Policy 7.1-7.11 first read):DARLA MEEUWSEN
7.1EFAA – Nutrition & Food Services (conditionally required)
7.2EFAA-AR – Reimbursable School Meals and Milk Programs (conditionally required)
7.3GCL – Staff Development – Licensed (Optional)(is Verson 1)
7.4GCL – Staff Development – licensed (Delete)(Version 2)
7.5GCL-AR – Licensed (Optional – see new revised GCL-AR)
7.6GCPD – Discipline and dismissal of staff (Version 1 or 2)(New Optional)
7.7GCPD-AR – Discipline and dismissal of staff (New Option)
7.8IKI – Academic Integrity (New Optional)
7.9ING – Animals in School Facility (Optional)
7.10ING-AR – Animals in School Facilities )Optional)
7.11JOC – Legal Names of Students (New Optional)
7.12SIA Draft (1) Calendar for 2017/18DARLA MEEUWSEN
*This is the first read on all of the above items.
8.0GENERAL REPORTS (2ND HALF):
8.1TREASURER’S REPORTMARK DOYLE
Darla went through the cash flow report
8.2EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS REPORTDARLA MEEUWSEN
-Darla suggested to the Board that we ask the parents to send in a ream of paper to
their classroom for teacher appreciation week.
-Darla thanked Casey Jolissaint for presenting to the Senate Education Committee for
Senate Bill 915. SB915 did NOT move forward unfortunately.
-the Portland Business Alliance dinner is coming up and Darla has a few people
attending with her. She feels that this is a great opportunity for making connections. So
far, along with Darla attending are, Dorie Harned, Matt Dierdorff and Branda Jurasek.
Casey is thinking that she will be able to attend as well, but it would be great to have
even more SIA folk there.
-Darla brought to the Board the Attendance letters, Excessive Absence letters, and
Planned Vacation Absence letters for the Board to look over and give feedback on.
-State testing is going great, and Marike has done a fantastic job with it.
-We have a new Special Education teacher from SSD. Tracey McWhinny is very
organized and doing a good job.
-We also have a new Speech Pathologist. She began this week and has had to hit the
ground running. Since our speech students have lost so much time due to changes in
SSD staff, they are now offering outside speech during the summer.
8.3FACILITIES REPORT
8.3.16TH-8TH CLASSROOM CONSTRUCTION PROJECTDARLA MEEUWSEN
The permit process for the new classrooms has made it through the county, and
now we are in a 20 day waiting period before the next step. The question is, do
we send in the plans to the county and the city at the same time, or wait for
county approval before submitting to the city.
9.0ANNOUNCEMENTS:
9.1REGULAR SCHOOL BOARD MEETING 05/17/2017, 4PM @ SIA LIBRARY
10.0ADJOURNMENTMATT MAHAFFY
Matt adjourned the meeting at 5:30pm