September 17, 2013: Special Meeting

Louisa Middle School

SBDM Special Meeting

September 17, 2013

Minutes

Meeting opened with Bill Hammond, Anita Cantrell, Chad Williams and Tom Castle present.

Chad Williams made a motion, Bill Hammond seconded, to approve the agenda.

Bill Hammond made a motion, Anita Cantrell seconded, to approve the minutes from the July 19, July 25 and July 29 meetings.

Chad Williams made a motion, Anita Cantrell seconded, to approve the budgets moving $725.00 from 694 to 0810.

CSIP I & I addressed.

Council reviewed Big Rock (45 day) plan.

Council developed interview questions for vacant position.

Bill Hammond made a motion, Chad Williams seconded, to enter executive session for personnel as per KRS 61.810 (1) (f).

Chad Williams made a motion, Bill Hammond seconded to return to open session.

New Business:

            10/21 – 10/25 Character Counts Week.

            Language Workbooks $1552.20

            Social Studies $500 8^th grade

            Science $500 7^th grade

            7^th grade candy and flowers

            Book Fair

            Yearbook: Ads and Old books

            Fall Break

            Grandparents Day

            Community Movie

            9/24 Explorer

Chad Williams made a motion, Anita Cantrell seconded, to adjourn.

July 19, 2013

Louisa Middle School

SBDM Special Meeting

July 19, 2013

Minutes

Meeting opened with Bill Hammond, Anita Cantrell, Tonya Burket, Chad Williams and Tom Castle present.

Bill Hammond made a motion, Anita Cantrell seconded, to approve the agenda.

Anita Cantrell made a motion, Tonya Burket seconded, to approve the minutes from May 7, 2013.

Council elected Bill Hammond Co-chairman and Secretary for the 2013 – 2014 SBDM Council. Chad Williams made the motion, Tonya Burket seconded for the Co-chairman position, Chad Williams made the motion, Anita Cantrell seconded for the secretary position.

Council set the second Tuesday of each month at 4:00 PM in the Louisa Middle School Library as the date, time and place for regularly scheduled meetings.

Bill Hammond made a motion, Tonya Burket seconded to approve the school schedule.

Tonya Burket made the motion, Chad Williams seconded, to approve the Professional Development Plan.

Tom Castle made a motion, Anita Cantrell seconded, to appoint Carmella Rose as the ESS Coordinator and hire Nancy Perry, Phyllis Waller and Brian Akers as ESS teachers.

Tom Castle made a motion, Tonya Burket seconded, to appoint Carmella Rose as GATE Facilitator.

Council developed criteria for the vacant Social Studies Position.

Council developed Interview Questions for the vacant position.

Chad Williams made a motion, Bill Hammond seconded, to approve the budgets.

Anita Cantrell made a motion, Tonya Burket seconded, to approve the principal’s combined budget.

Council reviewed the CSIP.

Council reviewed the Program Review.

Bill Hammond made a motion, Tonya Burket seconded, to approve policies on: 1. Consultation, 2. Homework and 3. Principal Selection. (with amendments)

Chad Williams made a motion, Bill Hammond seconded, to enter Executive Session for the purpose of discussing personnel as per KRS 61.810 (1) (f).

Bill Hammond made a motion, Anita Cantrell seconded, to return to open session.

New Business:

Council was presented with an option for copier purchase / leasing. Council does not anticipate the addition of a copier this school year.

LMS would like to continue the community movie night and to purchase the necessary license at a cost of $375.00 per year.

            August 13 is the district wide open house.

            July 30 is the open house for Louisa Middle School.

August 8 is the meeting for school councils at the Community Center. This meeting may be used as credit for three hours training for experienced members.

Curriculum Associate Books to be purchased for Math and Reading for all three grades at Louisa Middle School.

LMS SBDM Council’s next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, July 25, 2013 @ 4:00 PM at the Louisa Middle School Library. Interviews will be conducted at this meeting.

Tonya Burket made a motion, Bill Hammond seconded, to adjourn the meeting.

August 9, 2012

Louisa Middle School

Minutes – SBDM Special Meeting

Aug. 9^th, 2012      

Meeting called to order at 4:30 PM with Tom Castle, Chad Williams, Tonya Castle and Anita Cantrell present.

Tonya Castle made the motion, Anita Cantrell seconded, to approve the agenda.

Chad Williams made the motion, Tonya Castle seconded, to move into Executive Session- Personnel as per KRS 61.810 (1)(f).

Anita Cantrell made the motion, Chad Williams seconded, to return to open session.

Council consulted with Principal after interviewing for Instructional Assistants position.

Council recommended the hiring of Keary Ratcliffe as head coach of boys basketball team (8th grade) and Joey Hardin head coach of boys basketball team (7th grade).

 Council recommended the hiring of Phyllis Waller and Nancy Perry as ESS daytime teachers.

Chad Williams made the motion, Tonya Castle seconded to adjourn. 6:18 PM.

December 4, 2012

Louisa Middle School

Minutes – SBDM Regular Meeting

Dec. 4th, 2012     

Meeting called to order at 4:08 PM with Tom Castle, Chad Williams, Tonya Castle, Mark Clevenger and Anita Cantrell present.

Anita Cantrell made the motion, Chad Williams seconded, to approve the agenda.

Tonya Castle made the motion, Anita Cantrell seconded, to approve the minutes of the October 18^th meeting with the following amendment- policy updates for 1^st reading approval should include: Extracurricular Programs, Program Appraisal, and School Day and Week Schedule.

Chad Williams made the motion, Tonya Castle seconded, to approve the budgets.

Anita Cantrell made a motion, Tonya Castle seconded, to approve for a 2^nd reading the Alignment with State Standards, Curriculum, Discipline, Extracurricular Programs, Program Appraisal, and School Day and Week Schedule Policies.

Council reviewed the 1^st of 3 checks of the Program Reviews.  Program Reviews are done in Arts & Humanities, Practical Living/Vocational Studies, and Writing.  Based on these reports, the council agreed for the need of an Art position.  Mr. Castle mentioned that he had written Mr. Armstrong a request for an additional position to be used for art instruction but had not received a response at this time.

 Council reviewed the 2^nd Quarterly Report.  The areas of math are still a major concern.  Mr. Castle mentioned that since their last meeting, students had been placed in an ALEKS intervention program to help address this.  He also, mentioned that AmeriCorp has began its tutoring program on the area of Reading, utilizing the program Marie Carbo Pro.

New Business

         Mr. Castle mentioned to the council that LMS walkthroughs were Dec. 10^th.

                  Mr. Castle discussed trends from his bi-weekly walkthroughs.

         The LMS Christmas Bazaar is scheduled for Dec. 7^th.

         The LMS Band and Choir will perform their Christmas program for the student body on Dec. 19^th.

         January’s SBDM meeting will occur on Jan 8^th due to New Year’s Day.

        

Tonya Castle made the motion, Chad Williams seconded to adjourn. 5:18 PM.

June 21, 2012

Louisa Middle School

SBDM Special Meeting

June 21, 2012

Minutes

Meeting opened with Bill Hammond, Tonya Castle, Tom Castle and Chad Williams present.

Bill Hammond made a motion, Tonya Castle seconded, to approve the agenda.

New Business – minutes were amended from the previous meeting to reflect  the following:

All staff hired for 21^st Century program as needed in addition to Steve Blevins and Amy Hall.

Bill Hammond made a motion, Tonya Castle seconded to enter Executive Session for Personnel as per KRS 61.810 (1) (f).

Council returned to open session.

Approved the transfers of Joe Halfhill and Donna Turner.

Bill Hammond made a motion to adjourn, Tonya Castle seconded.