August 2020 Regular Board of Education Meeting

Mr. Calhoon explained that there were no major changes to the handbooks, and that only a few items were added due to COVID-19.

Mr. Hope asked about the changes to the calendar and Mr. Nickoli explained the only changes that have been made are moving 2 professional development days to the beginning of the school year and moving the start date for students to August 24.

No more questions or discussion.  Sent to vote.

Treasurer Schumacher reported not much has changed in the past two weeks.  It has been quiet, but very busy.  We are well into the GAAP conversion.  We began work today with the auditors with a Zoom planning meeting and discussions of happenings in the past year.  Appropriations are almost ready to go.  I have been waiting waiting on the initial FY21 Certificate to come from the Auditor’s office.  It finally arrived today in the mail.  I was hoping to have the appropriations ready for this meeting, but with the certificate arriving today, we could not get it on the Agenda, so we will be approving those, as usual, at the September Board meeting.

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Superintendent Nickoli reported as flollows:

It goes without saying that this year is very unusual. Our maintenance staff is finalizing the cleaning process for the year and the Administrative Staff has put together what I believe to be an outstanding return to school protocol.  If school were to open today we would have students in session on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday with Wednesday being a fully online day.  We have adjusted our Student and Employee Handbooks to reflect changes in State and Federal Mandates and to reference our Reopening Plan.  We are in the process of preparing for Welcome Week, a week of Staff Professional Development and the start of the school year.  While it won’t look like it usually does, I believe that our students are in for an outstanding year.

Our Professional Development plan is being put together by Mr. Kowalski, Mr. Calhoon, and Mrs. Sprang.  Mr. Calhoon, as the Chair of our Health & Safety Committee is coordinating all Covid-related safety training for staff and students.  Mrs. Sprang, with the help of our Career-Tech Supervisors, is planning all of the Curriculum & Instruction training as we fine-tune our lesson delivery for this unusual year.  Finally, Mr. Kowalksi planning the training for all of our annual mandated trainings.  Much of training early in the year will be tailored to the individual needs of each instructor.  

We need to select a date to generate our Board Goals for the 2020-2021 School Year.  I have contacted Tom Applegate to serve as our facilitator once again.  I would like to conduct the session in the Community Room so that our Administrators can participate even though we will have other activities taking place in the building.  It was also discussed to be held at the Kehoe Center.

I am asking that the Board rescind and replace our Blended Learning Plan with our Remote Learning Plan.  This will allow us to meet all eventualities we may see this year as it relates to the various teaching and learning models included in our re-opening plan.  Remote Learning Plans are a result of recent legislation and while Board approval isn’t required it is a recommended best-practice.Personnel Items  All items are common for this time of year.

•             August 17            - Returning Teacher Day
  • August 18-21      - Professional Development Days
  • August 24            - 1^st Day of School for Juniors
  • August 25            - 1^st Day of School for Seniors

No questions or discussion.  Sent to vote.

No questions or discussion.  Sent to vote.