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In Thursday, February 11, 2010 issue
Clinton County Board of Education, meeting with two members absent due to illness, took several actions at its regular session Monday night. The meeting lasted an hour and 20 minutes with three board members on hand.
The board first recognized some 23 Clinton County Middle School Academic Team students on their accomplishments. The local team recently won the district competition and the Future Problem Solving team as well as some individual team members will be competing at the upcoming regional competition to be held this Saturday. (A separate photo and list of the team members can be found elsewhere this week).
ECC Principal Julie Daniels and other staff at the Clinton County Early Childhood Center then presented the board with information on progress and programs going on at the school for preschool age children. Several on-hands programs have been presented throughout the year and the school is also using computer technology to teach the youngsters in the basic areas of reading, writing and math.
After approving an extended medical leave of absence to Kimberly Fitzgerald to the end of this month, the board approved between meeting disbursements and voted to pay claims and bills.
Superintendent Mickey McFall then gave the monthly personnel report, which included the following: Certified hired--Jamison Miller, assistant baseball coach at CCHS; substitute teachers--Betsy Beaty, Adam Davidson and Michial Conner; and transfer, Rodney Byers from ECC aide to CCHS aide.
On a motion by board member Junior Cecil, they approved adding one instructional school day to the calendar, that being next Monday, Feb. 15 (President’s Day) and making January 11 a professional day.
As of Monday, some 11 total days had been missed this year and barring no further missed days, the final day of school could be as late as June 1 with CCHS graduation on June 4. Supt. McFall said they would know more about the situation and be able to make more permanent adjustments in the 2009-10 school calender by the March regular meeting.
The board then approved first reading of an amendment pertaining to language clarifying guidance on student lunch charges. After a lengthy discussion, they voted to set a maximum of five days that a student could charge school lunches per month prior to the lunch bill being paid.
Chairman Ned David then made a motion to purchase 300 student desks for Albany Elementary School at a cost of $34,551 from School Specialty, which is an AEPA approved vendor.
The new desks will be used for third and fourth grade classrooms and purchased at the state contract price.
The board also approved a revised BG-1 financial page for the AES roof replacement of $141,650 to submit to the Kentucky Department of Education. The revision, according to Supt. McFall, was to correct a clerical error on the original BG-1 that had been submitted on the project.
On a motion by board member Paula Key, they voted 3-0 to declare four ovens from the middle school as surplus property and sell as scrap metal at the highest quote. The school recently purchased four new ovens from grant funds.
A trio of overnight trips were then approved by the board, including a trip to Richmond Feb. 18-20 for the Honors Band students and an overnight trip for Study Island students to Cincinnati May 20-22.
The board also approved a trip to Bowling Green for the CCHS varsity cheerleading squad on February 19 to compete on Feb. 20 in the state KAPOS competition.
The board viewed via the Internet the local cheerleaders’ routines, including their pom pon routines, that won them first place last Wednesday in the regionals.
On a motion by Cecil, the board approved an agreement with Food Services pertaining to disclosure policies about students who receive free and reduced lunches. Supt. McFall noted that new federal guidelines now make it more difficult for any information regarding those students to be obtained, even among school principals and administrators.
The board also applied for two federal grants, one being the Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Program grant competition. If received locally, funds would be used to add a second counselor at both Albany Elementary and Clinton County Middle School. However, the three-year program will see only 44 applications nationwide being approved and funded.
The second application is for the Teaching American History grant. Supt. McFall said the Kentucky Historical Society was backing the application and would allow school districts to teach more state history.
Clinton County, which would be the lead entity and fiscal agent for the grant if approved, is applying jointly with four other school systems, including Cumberland, Wayne and Clay counties, as well as Monticello Independent schools.
Director of Pupil Personnel Joe Summers gave the monthly attendance report for the fifth month of school, which ran from Dec. 3, 2009 through January 19 to this year.
In comparison to the same month last year, overall enrollment in the district continues to be up by about 27 students, from 1667 to 1694; average daily attendance (ADA) is up from 1552 last year to 1585 and the most positive news was the percent age of ADA for the month, at 93.79 percent, up from 93.18 percent the same month a year ago.
The next regular meeting of the school board is scheduled for Monday, March 8 at 6:30 p.m.
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