Special Meeting Minutes
A
Special Meeting of the Board of Education of the Scotia-Glenville Central
School District was held in the Cafeteria of the Middle School in said district
on April 3, 2006.
President of the Board of
Education Margaret Smith called the meeting to order at 7:01 p.m.
Present: Ahnert, Bradley, Carbone, Carpenter, Conlon, Crisafulli, Smith, Superintendent Swartz, Director of Curriculum and Instruction Kavanaugh, Business Administrator Nolie and District Clerk DeLong.
Absent: none
HEARING/PRIVILEGE OF THE FLOOR
Superintendent Swartz presented a
revised Budget proposal to the Board. The revised priority list
included the following:
Superintendent
Swartz explained to the Board that some of these items were a reduction of what
had previously been presented to the Board. She also explained that several other items included
in the revised budget had no financial impact due to the fact that they were a
reallocation of existing resources.
The final revised budget would be $41,945,901 as presented, with an
expenditure increase of 4.71%. Ms.
Swartz explained to the Board that although it is difficult at this time to
calculate the increase in the tax rate due to the uncertainty of the impact of
the property reassessments, she believes the estimated increase in the tax rate
would be approximately 2.54%. The
Board discussed several items in the revised budget proposal. The Board stated that they would like
to see some of the funding put back into the budget for the following items:
á $15,000 into Facilities and Equipment
á $5,000 into Field Trip funding
á $10,000 into Staff Development
á $25,000 into the Exploratory Foreign Language Program
for 6th grade
President
Smith asked the Board to please vote on these items. All were in favor with the exception of Mr. Crisafulli who
voted no on the Exploratory Foreign Language Program, but was in favor of the
other three proposals.
The
Board also discussed the proposal set forth for a 7th grade ELA
honors course, in which qualified students would be pulled from tutorial for an
ELA enrichment opportunity.
Several members of the Board stated that they do not agree with this
concept and would like to consider other options. The Board discussed the
option of adding funding to the budget for the equivalent of a .2 teacher for
the creation of an ELA honors course for 7th grade. The Board will consider this issue and
revisit it at their next meeting.
President
Smith concluded the Budget discussion by thanking Superintendent Swartz for
her revised budget
presentation.
MOVED by Conlon that the Board of
Education approve the following two items under Routine
Business:
ROUTINE BUSINESS
a.
Staffing
1) Approve the revised Salary Lists for 2005-2006 for
the following, as submitted:
Teacher Aides
School Monitors
(This salary list is contained as Appendix A to these
minutes).
b. Placement of
Children with Disabilities
Approve the Placement of
Children with Disabilities as recommended by the Committee on
Preschool Special Education at
their meeting on 3/24/06 and by the Committee on
Special Education at their meetings
on 3/15, 3/16, 3/17, 3/20, 3/8, 3/9, 3/13, 3/15, 3/23, 3/24,
3/14, and 3/23/06.
ROLL
CALL
AYES: 7
NOES:0
MOTION CARRIED
OTHER
BUSINESS
The Board discussed rewording the Audit Committee
Charter in regards to the issue of other Board members attending
when the Audit Committee goes into Executive Session.
MOVED by Carbone that the meeting be adjourned.
ROLL
CALL
AYES: 7
NOES:0
MOTION CARRIED
The meeting adjourned at 8:32 p.m.
____________________________
Bobbie
DeLong, District Clerk