August 14, 2017 at 7:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

1. Call to Order

2. Roll Call

3. Flag Salute and Moment of Silence

4. Public Discussion

4.1. Steve Brinson and/or Totsy Manning to address the Board of Education

5. Instruction/General Areas/Special Superintendent Items

5.1. Recognize Reyna Helms for nineteen years of dedicated service to the students and patrons of Western Heights.

5.2. Vote to approve or not to approve the Certified Negotiated Agreement for School Year 2017-2018.

5.3. Vote to approve or not to approve the Gifted and Talented Education Local Advisory Committee for School Year 2018.

5.4. Vote to approve or not to approve the school site statutory waiver/deregulation application for the Western Heights Academy for School Year 2018.

5.5. Vote to approve or not to approve the Estimate of Needs as presented by Kerry John Patten.

5.6. Hear an update on the SIG Grant from Beth Steele.

5.7. Capital Improvement update from Pete Parker

6. Consent Agenda

6.1. Approval of Minutes of the July 10, 2017 School Board Meeting

6.2. Treasurer's report

6.3. Vote to approve the following fundraisers:

6.4. Vote to approve Use of Facilities and Equipment requests, which are subject to changes due to administrative scheduling.

6.5. Vote to approve or not to approve recognition of the following support groups

7. School Finance and Business

7.1. Vote to approve or not to approve the following encumbrances for the previous month

7.2. Vote to approve or not to approve a list of Activity Accounts for School Year 2017-2018.

7.3. Vote to approve or not to approve an agreement with Red River Community Corps to serve in the area of Healthy Futures.

7.4. Vote to approve or not to approve an agreement with Francis Technology Center to reimburse for transportation costs.

7.5. Vote to approve or not to approve an agreement with Marilea Wall Johnson to provide RID CI/CT services for School Year 2018.

7.6. Vote to approve or not to approve an agreement with OCCC to provide certain college level courses to eligible concurrently enrolled high school students at Western Heights.

7.7. Vote to approve or not to approve an agreement with Teach for America.

7.8. Vote to approve or not to approve an out of state trip for NJROTC.

7.9. Vote to approve or not to approve unusable items as surplus for auction.

8. School Policy and Personnel

8.1. Vote to approve or not to approve the employment of the following certified personnel for school year 2017-2018

8.2. Vote to approve or not to approve the following transfer of non-certified personnel for School Year 2017-2018

8.3. Vote to approve or not to approve the resignations of the following certified personnel

8.4. Vote to approve or not to approve the resignation of the following non-certified personnel

8.5. Vote to approve or not to approve the transfer of the following certified personnel:

8.6. Vote to approve or not to approve the transfer of the following non-certified personnel:

8.7. Vote to acknowledge and accept the services of additional substitute teachers, volunteers and/or lay coaches.

9. Executive Session

9.1. Vote to convene or not convene in executive session for the purpose of:

9.2. If executive session is authorized by a majority of a quorum of the board members present, convene in executive session to:

9.3. Acknowledge the end of executive session and return to open meeting.

10. Information and Possible Voting Items.

11. New Business: Superintendent

12. New Business: Board Members

13. Discussion and possible Board action to accept any resignations received to date.

14. Adjournment