WOODLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 404 DIRECTOR'S MEETING MINUTES
April 11, 2011 7:00PM Regular Meeting-District Meeting Room
MEMBERS PRESENT
Jim Bays, Janice Watts, Bill Woodard, Tina Cayton, Steve Madsen, Mia Patterson-Student Representative, Michael Green-Secretary and Tegan Steen-Recording Secretary
OTHERS PRESENT
Deb Kernen, Stacy Brown, Cari Thomson, Dan Uhlenkott, John Shoup, Asha Riley, Chris Wiseman, Mariah Reese, Joan Huston, Taylor Thomas, Caitlin Brentin, Madison Raymond, Makala Ewert, Josh McNeal.
MINUTES
Tina Cayton moved to approve the March 28, 2011 regular meeting minutes.
Janice Watts yesBill Woodard yes Tina Cayton yes carried
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE REPORT
Mia Patterson said there is an assembly on Thursday for Every 15 Minutes. The prom court will be announced at Opportunity Time (OT) on Friday in the gym.
ADMINISTRTIVE REPORTS
The Board discussed the administrative reports including Deb's information about the new ESL homework club that will run after school 2 days a week at the Intermediate School. The High School also has a homework club that has started 2-3 days a week. Joanne Rooney has been volunteering for this.
Mr. Green asked Asha Riley to give the Board more detail of the information from her report about instructional framework that is used in the Learning Walks by staff. Michael said that this system is a very positive way to gain a common understanding of what we see as best practices in the classroom.
SUPERINTENDENT REPORT
Mr. Green said there was not a lot to report due to spring break. But, staff continues to progress on improving student learning.
CORRESPONDENCE
Citizens Against the Towers Board members received a letter from Citizens Against the Towers to ask that the Board write a letter to Bonneville Power Association to ask that 500 KV lines be situated in the east on unpopulated public land.
Hazard Mitigation Draft In order to be eligible for federal disaster relief funding, the Board must have a hearing and adopt a Hazard Mitigation Plan. CWCOG has prepared the District's plan. The Board was asked to look over the plan and submit any suggestions for amendments. The document will be reviewed and the hearing will be held by June 17.
WSSDA Leg. Proposal Request WSSDA sent the Board legislative proposal request forms. If the Board decides they would like to make a proposal, the deadline is May 27.
Sidewalk ROW Letter
Michael said he received a letter from the City that said they are interested in having the District dedicate about 10ft of property for sidewalk improvement.
Jim Bays said that if Board members didn't feel the need to discuss the Citizens Against the Towers issue, they could let Steve Madsen, keep them updated. Jim said Steve is tracking the issue and will let them know if they need to do something more.
CITIZENS REQUESTS
Mariah Reese said that the Yale students finished the PTO Reading Challenge. They started before spring break and had a celebration on April 1. The program went well and several students' reading has improved.
BOARD REPORTS AND REQUESTS
None.
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
FBLA PresentationJoan Huston, who is in her third year as the Business Ed. Teacher at the High School, was working with Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) when she came to the District. They have since started working with Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA). Students recently did a presentation at Chamber. Joan is working on her CTE administrative internship in Tech Ed. Her project is developing CTE Course equivalencies for three classes. Joan introduced her FBLA students who talked about their success at the State conference. Taylor Thomas, SW Region FBLA Vice President helped plan the State conference. Caitlyn Brentin said she won an award for her role play regarding difficult customers. Madison Raymond said that she participated in business ethics and education pieces and likes being FBLA treasurer. Makala Ewert said that the presentation at the conference had to be totally redone just before the students left for the conference. The presentation made it to finals, which speaks volumes about how great the Woodland team's work was. There were happy calls home from the conference, to the other FBLA students who were waiting to hear about their work. Josh McNeal from La Center HS joined Woodland HS's FBLA Chapter. He was unable to join FBLA at La Center because they had no chapter there. He will be the next SW Region FBLA Vice President and has started a chapter in La Center. He said FBLA has had a huge impact on his life and he is grateful for the experience. The students have done a lot of fundraising and raised $900 for the Make a Wish charity. The following are all the Woodland FBLA finalists: Caitlyn Brentin - 4th place, Client Services
Tessie Biddix, Makala Ewert, & Madison Raymond - finalists, Business Presentation
Bo Brusco - finalist, Impromptu Speaking
Yari Plancarte & Axel Sellert - finalist, Global Business
Jade Denny & Skyler Denny - finalist, Digital Design & Promotion
Jesus Gomez & Kelsey Arnold - finalist, Digital Design & Promotion
Jim Bays thanked the FBLA students for their presentation and said that they were good representative for our community and schools.
Safe School, Healthy Students Grant UpdateAs the Safe School, Healthy Students funds are almost depleted, Mr. Green presented the data that the Grant Primary Investigator had put together showing how well the counseling and support services that this grant provided has helped Woodland's students with substance abuse and bullying issues. Some of the data comes from the Healthy Youth Survey. Michael said that overall, the data shows that bullying, marijuana and alcohol use decreased from 2006 to 2010 in Woodland Schools. He was told that Woodland Schools are doing better than other area school districts in the area in this regard. Cari Thomson is working with Cowlitz County Mental Health to use Medicaid funds to support mental health counseling. Kristina Williams will be at the next meeting to go over the Healthy Youth Survey results with the Board.
DISCUSSION ITEMS
Legislative and Budget UpdatesMichael read that we may see the Senate budget information tomorrow. The House and Governor's budget kept the 180 day school year, froze pay for teachers and had some hidden reductions in FTE. He feels it's more positive than he expected. Michael said we'll know more when all three budgets are out. He said that the House and Governor's budgets don't close the gap in the deficit.
Ten Year RedistrictingMichael received information regarding the redistricting process. The 2010 data census information was received by the company that can analyze the information and provide the Board the information that they'll need to decide if they need to adjust the Board director districts. They can also make decisions as to if they would like to restructure the Board. Michael asked the Board if they had any interest in restructuring and if they'd give him the nod to go ahead and have Sammamish Data Systems provide the information. The Board discussed this. Jim said that he hadn't heard any outcry for a change in the Board structure, but members could consider this while they are waiting for the information. They all agreed to get the work done, since the cost was minimal.
Tour of New TEAM PortableJim Bays recessed the meeting at 8:11pm so that the Board and audience could tour the new TEAM High portable. He reconvened the meeting at 8:21pm.
CONSENT AGENDA
Bill Woodard moved to approve the consent agenda as presented.
Steve Madsen yes Tina Cayton yesBill Woodard yes Janice Watts yes carried
ACTION ITEMS
Policy No. 2110-Transitional Bilingual Instruction ProgramThe policy was unchanged from the last meeting.
Bill Woodard moved to approve the Policy No. 2110-Transitional Bilingual Instruction Program revision.
Steve Madsen yes Tina Cayton yes Bill Woodard yesJanice Watts yes carried
The WSSDA Regional meeting will be in the Commons on Wednesday, April 13th at 6pm. The next WQCC meeting is in the Commons on April 20th.
The Mock Trial has 18 WHS students who have expressed interest. They will compete against RA Long with the same fact pattern as last year. The first meeting will be Friday afternoon. They will meet for the next 3 Fridays. The trial will be held on May 3rd.
ADJOURNMENT
President, Jim Bays, adjourned the meeting of the Board of Directors at 8:26 pm.
ATTEST:
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