PALOUSE SCHOOL DISTRICT #301 - GARFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT #302

JOINT BOARD MEETING - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2001

Palouse board chairman John Leendertsen called the meeting to order at 7:35 p.m.

Present: Garfield board members Pam Shelden, Warren Neal, Mike Cronk, Roger Pennell and Bill Broughton. Palouse board members Mike White, Jerry Schwartzman and John Leendertsen.

Also Present: Principal Beverly Fox, Business Manager Patsy Dunning and Recorder Cindy Kimberling.

Guests: Debbie Anderson. Shaney Moore, Kathy Pinter, Craig Cochran, April Pfaff, Cheri Renstrom, Tim Boone, Alli Bennett, Kurt Kimberling and Patty Kent.

Excused: Palouse board members Dave Tharp and Paula Echanove.

The revision of the July 24, 2001 minutes were tabled until later in the meeting because the Palouse board did not have a quorum.

Each board chairman signed the correspondence.

The regular meeting went into executive session at 7:39 p.m. to discuss personnel evaluations.

The regular meeting reconvened at 9:12 p.m.

Mike White entered the meeting at 9:12 p.m.

Jerry Schwartzman moved to rescind the motion from the July 24, 2001 meeting to approve the administration reorganization pilot proposal. Mike White seconded it. The motion passed unanimously. Jerry Schwartzman and Mike White moved to accept the revised administrative reorganization one-year pilot proposal as presented by the Administration. The motion passed unanimously. Pam Shelden moved to accept the revised administrative reorganization one-year pilot proposal as presented for the Garfield Board. Roger Pennell seconded the motion and it passed unanimously.

The board will conduct a progress review of the pilot project in November. A copy of the administrative structure follows these minutes.

Mike Cronk's motion to approve the 3.7% pay raise to be distributed among the districts' classified employees utilizing the funded amount for those employees should have included supervisors and administrators. Jerry Schwartzman and Mike White moved to include the supervisors and administrators as well as the classified employees for the above mentioned pay increase. Mike Cronk and Warren Neal made the same motion for the Garfield board and the motion passed unanimously.

There being no further business the meeting was adjourned at 9:20 p.m.