The SAC/Management Team met on
People in attendance or submitting proxies were: Lea Kitchener, Veronica Robinson, Angie Craft, Kathleen Powers, Susan Lomas, Susan Meyer, Phyllis Frederic, Jan Komara, Beth Bourbeau, (Proxies) Aundria Shootes, Nicky Bitheris, Dave Niederpruem, Terri Chivington
Budget – New additions to staff discussed. Third behavior teacher will help out with the afternoon crunch and functional behavior assessments. We would like to keep the current average of 8.3 classroom population. We will need two more classroom teachers and two aides as we are expecting 30 more students. Our current population average is running between 388-393. We expect a high of 420 to possibly a low of 375 next year. Our monies will be based on the 10 day count. If they are lower then budget funding will be taken away. We would like to have a “cushion” in case of lower enrollment. Our margin of error is somewhat different then that of other schools in the system; ours is about 10%. We also need to allot for extra duty days, conferences, temporary duty elsewhere and light duty days, as we are responsible for these payments. The ESE Dept. (Mike McHugh) would like us to have an additional speech teacher. We were also encouraged by them to have a job coach for the students. This person would help students find jobs, coach on applying and help monitor students in the positions. This job will be an A3. The job coach will be full time and work with Transition, High School and Pro Teams. Transportation may be difficult. People transporting have to have special insurance and specific types of cars. If, at the ten day count money is taken from us, Mike McHugh guaranteed that he would fund this position with federal monies. The majority of our aides are A2 (discussed requirements for being an autistic aide classification). The two teachers will go to the Pro Team and the Elementary/Middle Team (intensive reading or functional living for those with lower IQs). Jane Closs may be full time with the LATS Team. If referendum does not pass next time we could lose up to 10 people or more. We also will be working on developing the custodial lounge into the staff lounge as space is at a crunch.
Kathleen Powers made a motion to approve the proposed budget.
Lea
Budget approved as presented.
There was a discussion and decision to merge custodial and
other staff lounges. Jan mentioned that we may be at a population of 497 by
06/07 school year.
Discussion regarding how high schools need to change, accountability through testing and parent concerns about poor teachers (not being able to fire due to health and legal issues). The District’s NEXT teacher program was discussed.
Minutes respectfully submitted by Beth Bourbeau.