CSC Feb 8 2010
Meeting Minutes
- Committee Attendants
Chet Seward, Mike Freeman, Jann Englestad, Joe Zieglar, Anne Christy, Judy Hill, Chuck Raisch, Jill Corcoran
- Approval of minutes from last meeting
Approval of notes postponed until next meeting.
- Open issues
a) Presentation of Proposed Budget for 2010-11 – presented by Chuck Raisch.
For complete documentation of proposed budget contact Chuck Raisch,
Number of students for all of Stapleton has been planned based on 2009 neighborhood census. According to census 325 kids would need seats in a school between BR and WCE only 225 can be accommodated. Thus, 100 kids will need seats.
Currently the numbers say WC is under projected by 19 kids, but Chuck and Jill foresee that we will have these numbers and this will increase our budget.
Questions: Should budget be separate or together for WC and S3? If the numbers for S3 do not occur, then what is the approach?
All classrooms need to be in WC budget, district will pay for S3 principal.
Budget based on the following.
Stapleton 3 Applications: To date 9 ECE, 12 K, two of these are children from Phillips.
Choice Applications: School does not have totals yet.
New Classrooms for WC in 2010-11:
Projected Additions
- 1st grade will have 4 classrooms
- 4th grade will have 3rd classroom
We will pickup 11 rooms from Odyssey. We will add 11 teachers. The Budget must account for this.
- Two special ed classrooms.
With these additions we will need 13 new classrooms in Odyssey (there are only 12).
New for Faculty Positions Added and Changes to Current Positions for WC:
Mild Moderate will add another interventionist.
ELA went from .5 to 1.0.
All specials moved to a 1.0 – in current budget proposal
The district is now requiring that the schools pay for substitutes.
Stapleton 3 Administration:
S3 principal would serve as WC assistant principal for one year, then WC will have funding for an assistant principal next 2011-12.
Other Funds Towards Budget:
Mill Levy/Bond Funds will go to library, textbooks and some technology
Additional aspects to consider when approving budget:
Parts of budget that cannot be changed, expenses for para, office, supplies, technology, library, textbooks, teacher subs, students service days
Budget $120K over as presented – the addition of 19 kids is planned and will help with short fall – and fund raising by PTA will help cover short fall.
Considerations for CSC when looking at how budget will be spent:
- providing benefits for paras
- splitting paras between two rooms to be able to offer full time positions
Contact Chet Seward if you have feedback.
b) S3 feeder rooms and Configuration for S3 and other schools
This will be addressed further by DPS and as the S3 administration is put into place.
- BR wants to maintain their current k-8 configuration, – the pros, BR k-8 their community stays in tact. – the cons, no room at BR for 5th grade from other schools. If BR stays a k-8, WC 5th graders will not have a place to go.
- S3 as a E-3 6-8 could be administratively challenging
- JPC did not make a recommendation to DPS – they could not come to consensus,
- Moving forward from WC – needs to continue to be collaborative
- New Business
c) CSC to meet Feb. 16 to review final budget
d) Specials – Community interest in adding more specials, like Spanish.
e) Safety – Doors in middle of building and at front – center (cafeteria) doors will be locked except for drop-off and pick-up times – enter through front door
f) Technology proposed purchases with bond money – technology committee (Darcy Kilkenny, Ms. Cirkus, Ms. Barrows, Ms. Jackson, Ms. Woodard, Joe Zieglar)
Total technology budget is $34,000 (total in bond)
- $13,000 in building budget for technology hours in library, which reoccurs every year
- $22-25K to buy other equipment (requested items below)
- Promethean board, interactive white board, would have full integration on computer – this would be used for training
- One laptop per classroom – computers for kids – 13 set-ups,
- Suggestions for supplementing technology budget, Look at grants – Ray Ann will look into Scholastic funding a Promethean – laptop to go with instruction
CSC voted and approved technology proposal
For complete documentation of request, contact Joe Zieglar or Chuck Raisch
Other discussion about technology:
Volunteers needed to bring computers up to speed in library and to move keyboards
A Protech position is suggested as a key role to support school’s technology
h) CSC will Review SIP – next month
- Adjournment