All
persons interested in attending the Regularly Scheduled School Board
Meeting for Collinsville Public Schools, Independent District I-6, should
make plans to attend the meeting at the following date, time and place
to wit: Date: Monday Nov. 5, 2007
-- Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: Education Service Center, 1119 West Broadway, Collinsville OK
74021
1) Call to Order and Roll Call of Members.
2) Record of Members Present and Absent. -- all
present
3) Presentation by the Constituency. -- none
4) Reading of Minutes - Oct. 8, 2007 Regular Meeting. --
approved
5) Approval of Purchase Orders and Payment of Purchase Orders - FY2008
General, Building Funds and FY2007 General and Building Fund Reserves
and All District Funds - Approval of Budgets, Reports, Allocations and
Investments. --
-- approved
6) Discussion and Vote to Approve Activity Fund Fund-raisers. --
19 approved
7) Discussion and Vote to Approve Election Call Resolution. --
approved Feb 5, 2008 election for school board position #3 (currently
held by Wendell Johnson). The filing period will be Dec. 3-5, 2007 (eligibility
& press release).
8) Appoint Personnel for OSAG Designated School Representative Authorization
Form. -- Superintendent approved as representative
to insurance group.
9) Resignations: -- approved
--a) Shannon Warren, HS Math/Science
10) Hiring of Personnel: -- approved
--a) Charles Anglin, HS Math
--b) Nathan Pelton, HS Custodian
11) Accept Bids for School Property,
1001 West Oak. St., Collinsville, OK. -- The high
bid ($180,999) by the Collinsville Church of Christ (in the same block)
was accepted. The church indicated plans to expand to the former ECC
building which was originally a church. A youth center is one possibility
for future use of the building according Don Witten.
12) Discussion to Set Priorities for Spring 2008 Bond Issue. --
no vote was taken and more options will be discussed at the next board
meet when priorities will most likely be
set. Preliminary candidate projects discussed for the ~$6 million potential
spendable dollars from a likely bond election in March 2008:
Estimated
Cost |
Potential
Projects Discussed 11-5-2007 |
$1.467
million |
8
new classrooms (w/ restrooms) at Herald Elementary |
$1.8
million |
6
new classrooms (w/ restrooms) at the high school + canopy to main
bldg + brick exterior of the then 12 room remote bldg. + Commons
refurb in main CHS bldg |
$300,000 |
3
new 77 passenger school buses + security cameras for all buses.
(Option for 1 van also if buses not air conditioned.) |
$350,000 |
Textbooks
& Technology |
$690,840 |
Artificial
turf for Sallee (football) Field (which would also be the band practice
field, soccer field, youth football field, ...) |
The estimated projects above totaled ~$4.5 million and additional topics
(e.g. next phase of track development with stands and rest rooms, etc)
will be presented at the next meet. I have lots of additional notes from
the presentation of each topic above but will keep it simple now pending
actual approval by the board. A few photos of potential designs are at
right. -- Ted
13) Declare Surplus and No Longer Needed by the School District, One
(1) Wrestling Mat.
-- approved. The mat is about 20 years old and
has been repaired many times.
14) Assistant Superintendent's Report. -- Terry
Due's report:
- Had
meeting with Trane about energy assessment but not proper time to
pursue
- City
will put up lights at track soon
- Atlus
Construction still working on a drainage issue at new ECC
- Some
of ECC playground equipment installed but not the biggest item
15) Superintendent's Report.
-- Pat Herald's report:
- Presentation
of a plaque for Wendell Johnson for continuing his school board certification
to level 4 which is reached by very few board members statewide. The
presentation was made by State Representative Earl Sears (a former
educator). (Previous Coverage)
- Thanks
to Trey Keith for the Cardinals
on the new ECC message board posts. Also thanks to Reasors for
help with funding the ECC playground equipment.
- MRSA
staph infections continue to be reported at many local schools (and
there have been cases in Collinsville in the past). Precautions and
disenfecting actions were already in place here. Bill Rule has been
tasked to meet with the school nurses to look for other agressive
actions to take and information to provide to students & parents
16) Announcements.
17) New Business (if any, of an emergency nature or that was not known
at the time the agenda was posted): -- none
18) Adjournment
Posted Nov. 1,
2007 2pm at the door of the Education Service Center at 1119 W. Broadway
-- Ted Wright's comments added in purple
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