Gorham/Randolph/Shelburne Cooperative School Planning Board

Minutes of the Meeting

Thursday, April 7, 2005 at 6:30 PM

Gorham Middle/High School Library

 

 

Attendees:     

Mike Waddell-Gorham Vice Chairperson

Carol Gagnon-Randolph

Tuesday Willow-Shelburne

Leona Guay-Gorham

Charles Brown-Randolph

David Carlisle-Shelburne (Arr. 7:50pm)

Wendy Niskanen-Shelburne

 

Others:

Gregg Marrer-Recording Secretary

Pauline Plourde-Business Administrator, SAU #20

Keith Parent-Principal, GMHS

Dave Goyette-Maint./Trans.

Jean Tremblay-Gorham

Katie Kelly-Randolph (Arr. 6:50pm)

Members of the press and public

 

1.                  Call to Order:

                  Meeting was called to order at 6:35 pm by Mike Waddell.

 

2.                  Approval of Minutes: March 24, 2005:

                  Leona Guay motion to approve minutes

                  Charles Brown Second to approve minutes

                  Discussion about some changes to minutes being incorrect.

                              Strike out—Section 4, line J

                              Change wording—Section 4, line D

                              Tabled discussion—Section 7, line A, item 4                            

                  Leona and Charles withdrew their motion.

 

3.                  Communications/Written

                  Superintendent Patrick Low sent a letter to the Coop Board

apologizing for not being able to attend this evenings meeting so he could attend to “Dad” duties and referenced all assignments for the meeting were attended to providing for a successful meeting.

 

4.                  Public Comments:

                  None

 

5.                  Communications—Staff or guest presenters:    None

 

6.                  Legal Opinions:

a.                  Discussion about operating responsibility:  the Board will be issued a certificate of formation dated May 25, 2005 in which it is recognized as a legal entity and empowered to conduct business, i.e. appointing a Building Committee.  However, the operation of the school will remain under the direction of the Gorham School Board for the 2005-2006 school year.  The Coop will assume responsibility July 2006.

b.                  Nepotism Policy: lengthy attorney response on file; local policy can’t supercede State policy.

c.                   Cooperative Policies: the Coop board can begin the process of officially adopting Gorham’s policies after the May meeting.

d.                  Three month gap of operations: current school board members whose term is due in March of 2006 may need to run for a 3-month period.

 

7.                  Legislative Hearing update:

                  None

 

8.                  Financial Report:

                  No change from last month.

 

9.                  Superintendent’s Report:

                  To-date all five boards/comm.s are on “the same page.”

                  April 19, 2005 joint board meeting. (G, R, & S boards)—

                  No decision yet.

 

10.              Organizational Meeting—May 25th, 2005:

Logistics – supervisors of the checklist from each pre-existing district will be distinctly set up to hand out ballots and receive them after each group is announced to assure proper residency.

Voting— White ballots will be used for Articles 1&2 for all districts.  Color coordination of official ballots for election of school board members (Articles 3 – 10):

                                                Blue-Gorham

                                                Green-Randolph

                                                Salmon-Shelburne

                        Warrant Articles--#’s 1 through 10 in regards to voting. 

Warrant Articles—#’s 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, & 16 discussed, which included salaries, official name, operating responsibility, operating funding, building needs/improvement committee and other business.

                                                           

Motion to accept article #11 to set the salaries of district officers

                                    Made by Charles Brown

                                    Second by Carol Gagnon

                                    ALL IN FAVOR---Motion Passed

Motion to accept articles #12 voting of official name of the Cooperative District & #13 date of operating responsibility

                                    Made by Charles Brown

                                    Second by Wendy Niskanen

                                    ALL IN FAVOR—Motion Passed

 

Motion to accept the order of voting for the Gorham school board members ballot voting (articles 3, 6 and 9) as follows: three-year / two-year / and one-year terms respectively.

                                    Motion made by Charles Brown

                                    Second by Leona Guay

                                    ALL IN FAVOR---Motion Passed

   

11.              Building Committee:

Motion to include $15,000 for the Building Committee’s work into the main Operating Budget (article 14) for a grand total of $38,247.  (Article 15 no longer needed)

                              Motion to accept by Carol Gagnon

                                    Second by Wendy Niskanen

                                    ALL IN FAVOR---Motion Passed

 

12.              Old & New Business/Topics:

                  None

 

13.              Other:  The following will be used to build the next meeting’s agenda

                  Logistics and Public Relations

                  Update from the Building Committee

                  Update on Legislature

                  Update on new School Name

 

14.              Next Regular Meeting:

                  April 20th, 2005 at 6:30 pm GMHS Library.

 

15.              Adjournment:

                  Meeting adjourned at 8:35 PM

 

 

 

 

 

Meeting Minutes Respectfully Submitted by

Gregg Marrer, Recording Secretary