NORTHEAST (WEBUTUCK) CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

Board of Education Business Meeting

Monday, January 23, 2011 Webutuck High School Library

7:30 P.M.

AGENDA

1. CALL TO ORDER

2. PRINCIPALS’ REPORT K. McEnroe: WES BET Update

J. Curtis: EBIS BET Update

3. PUBLIC COMMENT

4. STUDENT REPORT Brian Christofel

5. PRESENTATION: Robert Meade: BOCES Report

Craig Trachtenberg: Technology Committee proposal to update the District’s website

6. CONSENSUS AGENDA VOTE

A consent agenda is a single vote, which approves all asterisked items. Board policy (#008a) prohibits discussion of consent agenda items. Asterisked* items can be pulled from the consent agenda for discussion by any one Board member.

7. DISTRICT CLERK’S REPORT

*A. Approval of Minutes for January 9, 2012 Board meeting.

*B. Acceptance of Financial Reports as submitted:

Treasurers Report for the month ending November & December.

Comprehensive Budget Status Report ending November & December.

Comprehensive Revenue Status Report ending November & December

Warrants 32-39

C. Delegations

8. PERSONNEL

*A. Amendment of Temporary and Substitute Support Employee Rates

Upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, BE IT RESOLVED, that Board of Education of the Webutuck Central School District amends the following Temporary and Substitute Support Employee Rates to include the Substitute Cook at a pay rate of $12.43 per hour for the 2011-2012 school year.

*B. Substitute Support Staff Appointments

Upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Education hereby approves the following substitute support staff appointments:

Gazella LeJeune Substitute Cook

Effective: January 17, 2012 Salary: $12.43/hour

Rudolph Eschbach Substitute Courier

Effective: January 24, 2012 Salary: $13.36/hour

Joseph Murtaugh Substitute Courier

Effective: January 24, 2012 Salary: $13.36/hour

*C. Substitute Instructional Appointments

Upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Education hereby approves the following substitute instructional appointments:

Brittany Bush Substitute Teacher

Effective: January 24, 2012 Salary: $85/day

Jill Peters Substitute Teacher

Effective: January 24, 2012 Salary: $90/day

*D. Approval of Tenure Recommendation for Teacher

Upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Education does hereby grant tenure to the following teacher:

Teacher Tenure Area Effective Date

Lee Stowe Music February 1, 2012

*E. Leave of Absence

Upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Education hereby approves the following unpaid medical leave of absence:

Louis Simmons Bus Driver

Effective: approx. January 3, 2012- Feb. 2, 2012

E. Other

9. SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT

A. Client Survey

B. Other

10. CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION

A. Professional Development activities scheduled for January 27, 2012.

B. Update on Instruction Council Activities

C. Interim Assessments and Textbook Proposal Updates

D. Other

11. BUSINESS AND OPERATIONS

*A. Approval of Budget Transfer

Upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Education approves the attached budget transfer schedule #6 over five thousand dollars ($5,000) per Board resolution dated 7/5/11.

*B. Authorization for Tax Adjustments

WHEREAS, by Judicial Hearing, Charles Devin, Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Dutchess, dated January 6, 2012, in the matter of Small Claims Assessment Review for the 2011 assessment year were adjusted in favor of petitioner, Deborah Thomas& James Sherry, for property owned in the Town of Northeast, in the Webutuck Central School District, Tax Parcel

No. 133889-7268-00-145734-0000, said reductions in assessment.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that pursuant to the terms of the above referenced Order, the School Tax Collector is hereby authorized to issue a refund for the 2011-2012 school year, said taxes should be based on assessed value of $434,300 instead of $455,800. The taxes levied were $5,308.59 and should be $5,058.19.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Business Administrator is hereby authorized to correct the 2011 assessment to reflect such valuation reductions, with a notation in the margin, opposite said entries that the corrections are by authorization of the above-referenced Order; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that pursuant to the terms of the above referenced Order, the School Treasurer is hereby authorized to refund any overpayments of school taxes for the 2011-2012 school year, said refund in the amount of $ 250.40.

C. 2012-2013 State Aid projection – Mary Grden

D. Millerton Land Purchase Proposal – M. Grden

12. BOARD OF EDUCATION

A. Policy Committee (recommendations received from NYSSBA)

B. Finance Committee

C. Facilities Committee

D. First Reading of #4000 series, (Instruction)

E. Other

13. PUBLIC COMMENT

14. EXECUTIVE SESSION (To discuss the employment history of a particular person or persons).

15. ADJOURNMENT