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Minutes of Regular Board Meeting of Tuesday, January19, 2016 7:30 PM
Members Present: Kara Harder, Terry Miller, Tami Schwartz,Harmon Smith and Mike Stubbs
Members Absent:
Administration Present: Doug Curtis, Jeff Pietila, Karen Fleury
Flag Salute
Approval of Minutes
The minutes of the regular board meeting of December21, 2015 were approved as read.
(Schwartz/Smith)
Welcome Audience and Other Comments
Sandy Martin, Wendy Fleming
Consent Agenda
6A Coaching Contracts (Stubbs/Smith)
Sandy Martin, Head JH Girls Volleyball,
6B Supplemental Contracts (Stubbs/Smith)
Jeffrey Gates, Running Start
Communications to the Board
7A Board Reorganization:
Terry Miller – Chairman (Smith/Stubbs)
Mike Stubbs – Vice Chairman, WIAA representative (Smith/Harder)
Harmon Smith – Legislative
Tami Schwartz – Auditor (Stubbs/Smith)
Kara Harder – Director
7B Graduate Profile – postpone to February 2016 (Smith/Schwartz)
7C Capital improvement updates:
Engineering for HVAC systems – Have contacted Schneider Electric to review our options and needs. David Palmer will be providing a report for the next board meeting in February.
7D FFA – Recognition at the community level for our National Marketing Team winners. Need ideas from community.
7E Sports COOP – meeting on February 18 at Kahlotus at 7:30. Scheduled a work session on February 5 at 5:00 to further discuss athletics.
7F Eastern Washington Quality School Coalition –Consultant Marie Sullivan, will be reporting to the coalition all legislative actions being taken this session. Currently 26 districts have joined.
7G Class of 2016 Hawaii trip – Don Kemper and Codi Titus will be chaperones.
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Minutes
January 19, 2016
Student and School Programs
8A Principal Report
Coding Camp – The first computer coding camp for 6-9th graders will be on Wednesday, January 20. The class is sponsored by the Whitman County Library.
ASB – I will be taking a group of 5-8th graders to a middle School Leadership conference on February 10.
The new semester began today and students may make changes to their schedule in the next three days.
We are beginning to review the current textbooks we are using. I will be surveying the teachers for current textbooks and materials. Then we will begin to determine if new textbooks and materials may be warranted.
Friday, January 22 Codi Titus and Jenessa Klaveano will be leading a field trip for all of our female students in the 7-12th grades. It is a leadership conference at EWU called the Inland Northwest Female Summit.
Finance
9A Financial Report
9B Approval of Payroll and Bills
December accounts payable,Decemberpayroll and Januaryaccounts payable were reviewed and approved. (Stubbs/Harder)
Certifications were signed by the directors for:
#12604517-12604533 in the amount of $13,792.02DecemberP/R checks
#12604534-12604547 in the amount of $52,055.09December P/R A/P checks
#12604548in the amount of $6,008.91DecemberCAPA/P checks
#12604549-12604550 in the amount of $142.26DecemberASB A/P checks
#12604551-12604567 in the amount of $13,410.71DecemberA/P checks
#12604568 in the amount of $247.43January CAP A/P checks
#12604569-12604572 in the amount of $512.57January ASB A/P checks
#12604573-12604594 in the amount of 12,855.57January A/P checks
10A Meeting adjourned at 8:55 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Approved: ______
Chairman of the BoardDoug Curtis