Minutes for the Pelham School Committee Meeting of June 2, 2011

                             Pelham School Committee Meeting Minutes
                                  6:30 PM, Thursday — June 2, 2011
                                        Pelham Community Room
1. Welcome Present at meeting: Debbie Gould, Kathy Weilerstein, Annemarie Foley, Maria Geryk, Lisa Desjarlais, public
A. Call to Order 6:32PM
B. Agenda Review
C. Approve Minutes: no minutes to submit yet.

2. Announcements and Public Comments
New Select-person, Linda Michaud will be representative at school committee meetings.

3. Superintendent’s & Principal’s Update:
See handout for Superintendent’s details

• Lisa will put the superintendent's updates in the Pelham Press to keep parents and community informed.
• There will be a picnic on June 24th at 5:00PM at Mill River for district staff and their families.
• Lisa is seeking teachers for the fall in Art, Computer, PE .2 and a full time Special Ed. Kathy asked that Nora be kept in mind to help interview art teacher.
• The “Art Shoe” will be installed with concrete slab and landscaped by the donor.
• Afterschool children were kept safe during the storm warnings on June 1. District is looking at safety during school hours if this scenario happens during school hours.

4. New and Continuing Business
A. Committee Reorganization: Debbie motioned for Kathy to be chair, Annie seconded. Kathy motioned Annie be vice-chair, Debbie seconded. Both motions passed unanimously. Kathy and Debbie will remain as representatives on the regional committee. Annie will represent school committee on negotiation team for teacher, paraprofessionals and clerical.

The decision was made to cancel visioning meeting for June 8 until after the public forum. Maria is bringing tape recorder to future meetings so that Debbie Westmoreland can write the minutes. Adjourned for 15 minutes to attend the Pelham School Chorus concert in the school gym, restarted at
7:43.

B. Public Forum
Discussed possible formats and agenda:
Kathy will do welcome and introductions and agenda.
Debbie will discuss what a region is and why we are considering it and the scope and process time.
Maria will do norms and bring the chart paper.
We will include the questions “What do you see as the benefit of regionalization?” “What is important to maintain?” “What are your biggest fears about regionalization?” Beth Graham can facilitate the activity as a neutral party.
Lisa will write take away points synopsis to share with parents.

Revisited the agenda for scheduled next meeting on June 27th at 6:30 to cover the following in depth
        School improvement Plan, Paraprofessional Report and School Survey Results
        Lisa gave out a draft of School improvement Plan, a Paraprofessional Report
        and the School Survey Results.

C. Accept Gifts: no gifts

5. Subcommittee Reports
A. Visioning Subcommittee
B. Budget Subcommittee
C. Policy Subcommittee: They talked about roles and responsibility
BBBCA Prolonged absence of a member Draft Policy. First read no comments. Next meeting it will be voted on

6. School Committee Planning
A. Calendar Review
Items for upcoming meetings: Possible Preschool and World Language program. Not at the next meeting but maybe in the fall. MAP (Measures of Academic Performance) and PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports). Results of the forum.

7. Adjournment
Kathy motioned meeting adjourned at 9:27PM
KW