| NOTICE | |||||||||
| There will be a meeting of the Cape May City Board of Education on Thursday, | |||||||||
| January 10, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. in the Library of the Cape May City Elementary School. | |||||||||
| The Board will hold a work session open to the public at 6:30 p.m. to discuss agenda items | |||||||||
| and any other items which Board Members may raise for discussion. No formal action will | |||||||||
| be taken at this work session. | |||||||||
| It is anticipated that the Board will adopt Resolution #72-08 at this work session to go into | |||||||||
| executive session to discuss personnel matters and the result of this discussion will be | |||||||||
| disclosed in open public session provided the need for confidentiality no longer exists. | |||||||||
| Agenda: | |||||||||
| I. | Call to Order, Opening Statements, Flag Salute, Roll Call, Announcements | ||||||||
| *indicates roll call vote required | |||||||||
| II. | Recognition and Presentations | ||||||||
| A. | NJSBA Board Member Recognition Month | ||||||||
| III. | Receive comments from the public on agenda items only in accordance with the Board's | ||||||||
| policy on participation at Board meetings. | |||||||||
| IV. | Items for Board Action | ||||||||
| A. | Resolution #73-08 approving line item transfers totaling $574 made | ||||||||
| in December 2007 for the 2007/2008 school year. | |||||||||
| Classroom aide to special services aide | $ 74.00 | ||||||||
| Café salary to B&A school program (temporary) | $ 500.00 | ||||||||
| * | B. | Motion to approve the Board Secretary's and Treasurer's Reports for the | |||||||
| 2007/2008 school year through November 30, 2007. Pursuant to NJAC | |||||||||
| statute, the Board Secretary certifies that as of these dates, no budgetary | |||||||||
| line item account has obligations and payments which in total exceed the | |||||||||
| amount appropriated by the district Board of Education, and the Board | |||||||||
| certifies that as of that date, after review of the secretary's monthly | |||||||||
| financial reports and upon consultation with the appropriate district officials, | |||||||||
| to the best of our knowledge no major account or fund has been overexpended | |||||||||
| and that sufficient funds are available to meet the district's financial obligations | |||||||||
| for this fiscal year. All revenues have been recorded and received as | |||||||||
| anticipated. The Board Secretary and Treasurer reports are in agreement. | |||||||||
| C. | Resolution #74-08 to approve authorizing the submission of capital projects | ||||||||
| (entrance vestibule, security control and upgrade of ADA hardware and | |||||||||
| signage) and to acknowledge that the district will receive no state aid for the | |||||||||
| projects. | |||||||||
| D. | Resolution #75-08 to accept the NCLB funding as approved by the NJ | ||||||||
| Department of Education. | |||||||||
| E. | Resolution #76-08 to approve the Early Childhood One Year Operational | ||||||||
| Plan for 2007/2008. | |||||||||
| V. | Committee Reports | ||||||||
| A. | Curriculum and Instruction | Myra Kurkowski | |||||||
| B. | Facilities | Mark J. LeMunyon | |||||||
| C. | Finance | Sharon Lee Kustra | |||||||
| D. | Legislative | Joseph McKenna | |||||||
| E. | Personnel and Negotiations | Edward Connolly | |||||||
| All motions are on the recommendation of the Chief School Administrator. | |||||||||
| 1. | Motion to approve upon satisfactory completion of State mandated | ||||||||
| background checks, the following substitute list for the 2007/2008 | |||||||||
| school year: Sharon Laffey, Classroom Teacher | |||||||||
| 2. | Motion to approve the following workshops: | ||||||||
| a. | Jay Eppenbach and Ann Griffith to attend Conference for Third and | ||||||||
| Fourth Grade Teachers in Atlantic City on January 24. Cost will be | |||||||||
| $567 registration paid through Title II, travel and substitute teachers. | |||||||||
| b. | Joan Maurer to attend Childhood Orthopedics Workshop in Cherry | ||||||||
| Hill on February 13 at a cost of $174 registration paid through Title II, | |||||||||
| travel and substitute. | |||||||||
| c. | Christopher Langford to attend Black Seal License 12 week course | ||||||||
| at Cape May County Technical School, Tuesdays 6:30-9:30pm at | |||||||||
| a cost of $97.25 plus textbooks and travel. | |||||||||
| d. | Victoria Zelenak to attend Mindfulness Education Teacher and | ||||||||
| Parent Training at The Brown School in Schenectady, NY on | |||||||||
| January 9, 10 and 11. Costs to be paid by trainers. | |||||||||
| e. | Revise Terri Nowotny OSHA workshop from Sewell on January 18 | ||||||||
| to Mays Landing on February 29. Cost to be $20 registration plus | |||||||||
| travel. (new location added by NJSBAIG) | |||||||||
| 3. | Motion to approve School Nurse job description. | ||||||||
| 4. | Motion to approve Sharon Laffey as classroom aide 29 1/2 hours | ||||||||
| per week, $10 per hour, no benefits. (Replacement for Heidi | |||||||||
| Gerolstein who declined same position as approved last month.) | |||||||||
| 5. | Motion to approve reimbursement to Patricia Burns for 2005/2006 | ||||||||
| through December 2007 for salary step increase. Mrs. Burns has | |||||||||
| been paid one step below where she should have been for this time | |||||||||
| period. Retroactive placement would result in a payment of $5,483. | |||||||||
| 6. | Additional personnel items received after the agenda preparation. | ||||||||
| F. | Policy | Roberta Townsend | |||||||
| 1. | Motion to approve revised policy 3240 Tuition Income on first | ||||||||
| reading. | |||||||||
| G. | Public Relations | Linda Loughlin | |||||||
| H. | Education Foundation | Edward Connolly | |||||||
| I. | Shared Services | John W. Lord, III | |||||||
| VI. | Chief School Administrator and Business Administrator/Board Secretary items for Board | ||||||||
| Approval: | |||||||||
| A. | Staff Monthly Reports | ||||||||
| 1. Cafeteria | |||||||||
| 2. Guidance - not submitted | |||||||||
| 3. Enrollment | |||||||||
| 4. Nurse - not submitted | |||||||||
| 5. Special Education | |||||||||
| 6. Curriculum | |||||||||
| 7. Facilities | |||||||||
| 8. Before & After School Program - not submitted | |||||||||
| *B. | CONSENT AGENDA: | ||||||||
| The following items are believed to be items of a routine nature requiring no discussion and | |||||||||
| which are to be voted upon a single roll call vote of the Board of Education. Any single | |||||||||
| member of the Board of Education may have any of the items on the consent agenda | |||||||||
| removed and placed on the other part of the agenda for discussion merely by so indicating | |||||||||
| prior to the vote to be taken on the consent agenda. *indicates roll call vote required | |||||||||
| *1. | Approval of payrolls: | ||||||||
| November 25 - Dec 8, 2007 | $80,231.18 | ||||||||
| December 9 - 22, 2007 | $85,269.36 | ||||||||
| *2. | Approve payment of bills from General Fund ($__________) and | ||||||||
| Food Service ($1,207.07) to December 31, 2007. | |||||||||
| *3. | Approve minutes from the following Board of Education meetings: | ||||||||
| December 6, 2007 | Regular Meeting & Executive Session | ||||||||
| December 13, 2007 | Special Meeting & Executive Session | ||||||||
| *4. | Approve Blast Termite and Pest Control for services from February | ||||||||
| 2007 to February 2008 at a cost of approximately $624. | |||||||||
| *5. | Approve Cape May County Audio-Visual Aids Commission 2008/09 | ||||||||
| budget at a $2 per pupil assessment. | |||||||||
| VI. | Consideration of additional items which may have arisen after preparation of the agenda. | ||||||||
| VII. | Items for Board Awareness and/or Board Consideration | ||||||||
| A. | School Board Candidate Kits are available in the Elementary School Office. | ||||||||
| The deadline for filing petitions is 4:00pm, Monday, February 25, 2008. Three | |||||||||
| full term (three year) positions will be on the ballot. | |||||||||
| B. | The South Jersey Cooperative for food service has changed its name to Garden | ||||||||
| State Cooperative. | |||||||||
| VIII. | Correspondence | ||||||||
| The Department of Education has issued a draft Long Range Facilities Plan | |||||||||
| approval letter. It appears correct. If no comments are made by us, the final | |||||||||
| approval will be issued in 30 days (draft dated January 2). | |||||||||
| IX. | Old Business | ||||||||
| A. | Resolution #69-08 to adopt insurance waiver plan for State Health Benefits Plan. | ||||||||
| Employee participation is optional. | |||||||||
| X. | New Business | ||||||||
| XI. | Receive comments from the public in accordance with the Board's policy on participation | ||||||||
| at Board meetings. | |||||||||
| XII. | Adjournment | ||||||||