Garfield School District #302
May 25, 2006
Regular Board Meeting
In Attendance: Ken Renstrom, Craig Cochran, Rusty Jamison, Paul Hendrickson, Ed Griner, Val Fisher, Kent Keller, Mike White, Mike Dymkoski, and John Leendertsen.
Also in Attendance: Superintendent/Principal Bill LaMunyan, Superintendnet/Principal Bev Fox, Principal Steve Heeg, Business Manager Patsy Dunning, Business Manager Assistant Frankie Swinney, Reporter Neva Kuehner.
Guests: Warren Neal, Michael Rose, Cindy Kimberling, Nancy Fealy, Thinh Nguyen, Jesse Cole, Amberly Kent, Tim Coles, Shawn Buckendahl, Phil Weagraff, April Pfaff, Tricia Orr, and Shelly Slocum
There were no changes to the agenda.
Accounts Payable: General Fund:Vouchers 38410-38458 Warrants 44257-44305 in the amount of $56,019.82
ASB:Vouchers 847-855 Warrants 847-855 in the amount of $1,535.39
Payroll Warrants 44113-44191 in the amount of $99,367.96 Payroll taxes in the amount of $23,173.42
It was moved by Craig Cochran and seconded by Ed Griner to approve the Consent Agenda including the minutes of the April 27, 2006 meeting.
Frankie Swinney read the financial report to the Board. It was moved by Rusty Jamison to approve Resolution #111 which authorizes the positions stated to sign school district instruments on district accounts at the State National Bank of Garfield including but not limited to : Garfield School District Checking Account, Superintendent’s Revolving Checking Account, Advanced Travel Checking Account, Associated Student Body Checking Account. Positions include Superintendent’s Position, Principal’s Position, Superintendent/Principal’s Position, Joint Business Manager, Business Office Assistant, and Middle School Secretary.
It was moved by Craig Cochran and seconded by Rusty Jamison to table discussion of the Superintendents’ contract at this time. Motion passes.
The Board was called to recess at 7:10 PM.
Palouse School District #301
May 25, 2006
Regular Board Meeting
In Attendance: Val Fisher, John Leendertsen, Mike White, Kent Keller,
Mike Dymkoski, Ken Renstrom, Craig Cochran, Rusty Jamison, Paul Hendrickson, and Ed Griner.
Also in Attendance: Superintendent/Principal Bev Fox, Superintendent/Principal Bill LaMunyan, Principal Steve Heeg, Business Manager Patsy Dunning, Business Manager Assistant Frankie Swinney, and Reporter Neva Kuehner
Guests: Warren Neal, Michael Rose, Cindy Kimberling, Nancy Fealy, Thinh Nguyen, Jesse Cole, Amberly Kent, Tim Coles, Shawn Buckendahl, Phil Weagraff, April Pfaff, Tricia Orr, and Shelly Slocum
Board Chairman, Val Fisher, called the Palouse Board to order at 7:15 PM.
Item B under New Business was changed to an action item.
Accounts Payable:General Fund: Vouchers 17788-17838 Warrants 31597 in the amount of $26,403.89 Voucher 17839 Warrant 31648 in the amount of $346.58
ASB: Vouchers 2961-2965 Warrants 2961-2965 in the amount of $1,451.43 Vouchers 2966-2970 Warrants 2966-2970 in the amount of $$3,085.27
Payroll: Warrants 31512-31594 in the amount of $131,905.56 Payroll taxes in the amount of $28,970.16
Capital Projects Voucher and Warrant 122 in the amount of $14,503.61
It was moved by Mike White and seconded by Kent Keller to approve the Consent Agenda including the minutes of the April 27, 2006 meeting. Motion passes.
Business Manager Assistant Frankie Swinney presented the Financial Report to the Board.
Jessie Cole requested the Palouse Boards approval of his Eagle Scout project. Mr. Cole would like to prep and repaint the sports equipment boxcar. Jessie is currently working on getting some of the paint donated for the project. Mike White moved to approve the project. John Leendertsen seconded the motion. Motion passes.
Val Fisher called the Palouse Board to recess at 7:23 PM
The Palouse Board came out of recess at 7:23 PM.
Kent Keller announced his resignation from the Palouse School Board effective in the month of July. A vote on this resignation will take place after Executive Session.
The Palouse Board went into Executive Session at 9:55 PM and came out of Executive Session at 10:50 PM.
John Leendertsen moved to approve Kent Keller’s resignation after the July 2006 board meeting with regrets. Mike Dymkoski seconded the Motion. Motion approved.
The Board was adjourned at 11:00 PM.
In Attendance: Ken Renstrom, Craig Cochran, Rusty Jamison, Paul Hendrickson, Ed Griner, Val Fisher, Kent Keller, Mike White, Mike Dymkoski, and John Leendertsen
Also in Attendance: Superintendent/Principal Bill LaMunyan, Superintendent/Principal Bev Fox, Principal Steve Heeg, Business Manager Patsy Dunning, Business Manager Assistant Frankie Swinney, and Reporter Neva Kuehner
Guests: Warren Neal, Michael Rose, Cindy Kimberling, Nancy Fealy, Thinh Nguyen, Jesse Cole, Amberly Kent, Tim Coles, Shawn Buckendahl, Phil Weagraff, April Pfaff, Tricia Orr, and Shelly Slocum
April Pfaff reserved the right to speak about Board costs. Nancy Feeley wanted to ask about the resignation of Kent Keller.
Item C (Certificated Contracts for 2006-2007) was added under New Business. Item A of New Business was stricken from the Agenda for this evening.
Kent Keller asked for the following correction to be made to the April 27, 2006 Joint Board Minutes:Co-Op Staff Sharing:It was moved by Ken Renstrom and seconded by Craig Cochran tohave the Garfield School District pick up the expense for a High School teachers salary for the 2005-2006 and the 2006-2007 school years. This would bring the staffing expenditure split to approximately 48% Garfield and 52% Palouse. Ken Renstrom explained to the audience that although Garfield does not employ High School teachers the district does get funding for High School teachers. The same formula is true with Palouse. Palouse gets money for Middle School teachers although they do not employ Middle School teachers. See attached revision 5.1.With the above changes made to the April 27, 2006 Joint Board Minutes it was moved by Kent Keller and seconded by Mike White to approve the minutes of the April meeting.
The electives for the middle school 2006-2007 school year have not been solidified as of yet. Superintendent/Principal Bill LaMunyan stated that elective classes will be taught by current Middle School staffing.
Superintendent/Principal Bev Fox presented the proposed transition expenditures of the budgeted $20,000. Plans would include: Para for Sue Redman’s Math (1 hr./day) $2500.00, Para’s to do recess duties $2,500.00, Athletic Supervision (3 seasons) $3,000.00, HS ASB Advisor/Activities Coordinator $2,000.00, Additional Secretarial Time $7,000.00, Extra time for Scheduling, Assess/Unknown $3,000.00, Total $20,000.00
Superintendent/Principal Bev Fox stated that we might have more than one supervisor per sport season depending upon the number of activities in that sports season.
Superintendent/Principal Bev Fox outlined a draft of further spending reductions. The proposal of potential reductions made in the spring of 2006 could have an approximate savings of $32,050.00. Potential spending cuts with a savings of $35,500.00 where outlined for the fall of 2007 only if enrollment comes in under the projected rollover amount. Discussion was held concerning the potential reductions. Mrs. Fox stated that she and Mr. LaMunyan would present a report on the meal program at the June meeting. No actions were taken at this time.
Principal Steve Heeg outlined the HS schedule for the year 2006-2007. There will be one section of Senior English, and 1 section of Current World Problems. This will allow Mr. Griner to then take over the Senior Projects. Mr. Griner will have all the seniors in his first quarter class in order to get them started on their senior projects. Ken Renstrom asked about Mr. Brantner taking on the Athletic Director position. Mr. LaMunyan stated that it is not cost effective to pay a teacher salary for a class period to fill the duties of Athletic Director. Business Manager Patsy Dunning stated that for the class period it would work out to be $5700.00. Mr. LaMunyan asked if this was a cost-shared position. Superintendent/Principal Bev Fox stated that the High School Athletic Director position is under administration and is not cost-shared.
The Joint Resolution to Reduce Spending was tabled at this time.
Superintendent/Principal Bev Fox reviewed the child care survey, comment and summary page. The surveys were sent out to parents of children child care age through fifth grade. Eighteen surveys returned and out of the surveys 17 surveys accounted for having, or have had a children in the center. Several audience members were concerned that the surveys were not sent out to all taxpayers. Superintendent/Principal Fox asked the Board for more time to look at adjusting the food and staffing costs as well as lowering the monthly expenditure for the loan. Superintendent/Principal Fox stated that she did not think they could run without a deficit. She stated that she would like to continue seeing the district run the center versus trying to privatize it. Some steps already being taken include transitioning from the school food service to a program ran by the USDA. The USDA program reimburses on a per meal basis. Mrs. Fox stated that although they are efficient in staffing she feels that the child care center could consolidate some staffing. They will be looking at absorbing cleaning of the childcare center back into the program. They will also be looking at the fee schedule at Little Sprouts. Superintendent/Principal Fox stated that in order to be competitive with the Pullman centers we need to keep the fee schedule lower but the fee also needs to be appropriate. Mrs. Fox stated that we have an excellent child care center with the potential of keeping enrollment in Palouse.
Superintendent/Principal Fox asked the Boards approval to take $12,000.00 for the sale of the rental house and pay immediately to the loan payment on the day care. She stated that this would reduce our monthly payments by approximately $200.00 and would save $3200.00 in interest. It was moved by John Leendertsen and seconded by Kent Keller to apply the $12,000.00 to the child care loan.
Superintendent/Principal Bill LaMunyan, Superintendent/Principal Bev Fox and Principal Steve Heeg submitted written reports to the Boards.
Ken Renstrom adjourned the Joint Board at 9:40 PM