June 6, 2007 at 7:00 PM - Regular Meeting Template

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Rationale:  The Killingly High School Golf team has had a great year this year.  They are 21-1 overall and 10-0 in the conference. They finished 3rd in the ECC Open Championship.  The CIAC Division III State Tournament will be held on June 5th.

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Rationale:  Dan DeLorenzi, our school security consultant, will present his report and recommendations based on his two day visit to the district last month.  A discussion/possible action item, based on his report, appears later on the agenda.

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Rationale:  A brief update on the status of the high school project.  Fletcher Thompson will be ready to report to the Board toward the end of July, the point at which the design development phase of the project will be complete.

Rationale:  Brad will update the Board on planned summer programs at the elementary, middle and high school levels.

Rationale:  Several months ago, Brad briefed the Board on the Career Pathways model used at David Douglas High School in Portland, Oregon.  As part of the efforts at KHS to re-engineer our career pathways, he and a team of high school teachers visited David Douglas HS to observe the model in action.  Brad will update the Board on the visitation and its impact on our thinking about our students' school experiences.

Rationale:  Joe Fleming and his staff will update the Board on scheduling redesign efforts at the High School, and planning for professional development opportunities for staff to facilitate implementation of a new schedule.

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Rationale:  Bonnie Brouwer, Marilyn Oat and the special ed team at KMS are requesting a staffing change for next year.  They visited an elementary program in Windsor to observe a model that used many fewer IA’s than we do, but had a larger special education teaching staff.  They anticipate that this may be a way to significantly reduce our IA numbers as we move forward, consolidating many of the 1-to-1 functions we now provide for students.  The team's suggestion for next year is this: replace two sp ed IA’s with one new sp ed teacher. 

From a budgetary perspective, this has no significant impact.  Our placeholder for new teacher’s salary and benefits is $56,469.  The cost for a sp ed IA with salary and benefits is $26,593 (for two IA’s the cost is $53,186).

Rationale:  Assuming that the successful budget referendum is not petitioned in the time between the construction of this agenda and our meeting, the town budget becomes official on June 7. 

Attached are two documents:

• a summary System Object Budget showing those changes; and
• a more detailed System Object Budget showing  the detail of those changes.

An explanation of recommended adjustments to the March 15 BOE approved budget to meet the funding level adopted by the Town Council and approved by the public (reductions totaling $556,792) will be sent under separate cover.

It is appropriate at this time for the Board to adopt a line-item budget for 2007-08.  If there is a need to make further adjustments we can do so; meanwhile, this will allow the business office to proceed efficiently with end-of-year closeouts and direction to building and department administrators for planning for next year.

Rationale:  Based on Daniel DeLorenzi's presentation earlier in the evening, the Board may want to discuss the report further or adopt some of the recommendations made in the report.

Rationale:  Attached is a recommended increase of 3% for the Goodyear and BASP fees for next year.  As you know, the programs are not  self-sufficient and are supplemented by BOE support.  This small recommended increase will keep fees competitive with other local paid pre-school options while generating some additional revenue to offset increasing costs.  It will not cover all increases, however.

Rationale:  After discussion in Executive Session to review proposed collective bargaining agreements, the Board may ratify those agreements presented.

Rationale:  The Ad-Hoc Textbook Approval Committee (Robby, Alexis) approved the purchase of the following textbook proposal:

Biology (Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 2008)
Grade 10