The Town of Webb UFSD Board of Education held a meeting on Tuesday, March 4, where it took the actions summarized as follows (not official minutes).
Approved the Minutes of February 18, 2014 meeting.
Approved the Warrants and Claims.
Approved the 2013-2014 spring sports coaches: Volunteer to Assist the Varsity Baseball Coach – Patrick Perkins; and Volunteer to Assist the Modified Baseball Coach – Mark Johnston.
Approved election inspectors/poll watchers for Budget Vote on May 20, 2014:
Dora Burnett, Pauline MacDonald, Mona Lincoln, Joan Spring, Betty Draper, and Anne Hasby. Alternate Election Inspectors – Carol Clark and Janine Phaneuf.
Approved the Town of Webb Union Free School District Board of Registration shall meet in the schoolhouse of said district located at Main Street, Old Forge, New York on May 15, 2014 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. for the purpose of preparing the final voter registration register of the school district for the Annual Budget Vote and, that a Budget Hearing be established for May 5 at 7 p.m. at the Big Moose Fire Hall, and on May 7 at 7 p.m. at the Woodgate Free Library, that the Annual Budget Hearing be established on May 13 at 7 p.m. in the Town of Webb UFSD gymnasium, and that the Budget Vote be established May 20 from 2 to 9 p.m. in the Town of Webb UFSD gymnasium.
Approved the 2014-2015 Fuel Oil Bid at the fixed price $3.2031/gallon – Mirabito Energy Products.
Approved the 2014-2015 Propane Bid: fluctuating price at $2.95112/gallon Suburban Propane.
Approved the Resolution regarding elimination of The Gap Elimination Adjustment:
Special Topics included:
• A review of the Special Education Statistical Update as prepared by Mary Starring.
• Review of the 2nd Draft of 2014-2015 Budget.
Principal’s Report:
Our staff were trained by Model Schools last Tuesday morning (2/25) on the use of Google in their offices.
Mr. Bradish and the Material/Transportation class traveled to the MVCC Transportation Center for a field trip on Friday, 2/28.
Our 25-week marking period ended on Friday, 2/28 and our progress reports will be emailed out on Friday, 3/7.
The Junior Class kicked off their March fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. he K-12 class that raises the most money will be rewarded by the Student Council with a pizza party.
PARP kicked off on Friday, 2/28 with a camping celebration in the Aux gym to go with our theme of ‘Read S’More Books!’
The kindergarten and second grade classes hosted a Dr. Seuss party on Thursday night (2/27) to celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday. This was a chance for parents to read with their students, meet their child’s buddy reader and enjoy some cake!
C. Hamlin, R. Sessions, A. Kelsey, and M. Murphy worked with our elementary students in 4H to put on a Speech and Presentation Skills workshop after school. egan Plumley and Michael Cunningham also helped students create these presentations working alongside Jennifer Hartsig as a 4H parent volunteer.
Tonight (Tuesday, March 4) there is a college preparedness workshop with Mrs. Griffin and a representative from FMCC.
Individual finishes from the Nordic State Skiing Champion-ships: The girls skied 7.5 k’s and M. Greene finished 9th, A.Brosemer 21st, E. Greene 24th and O. Phaneuf 35th. he boys skied 10k’s and T.Williams finished 38th.
Tuesday was a 3 X 2.5 k relay in the classic technique. .Greene had the 12th fastest split, O. Phaneuf 19th, E. Greene 26th and A.Brosemer 30th. As a result of the entire competition the Old Forge girls ended up as the 3rd team in NYS!
Individual finishes from the Alpine State Skiing Cham-pionships from Bristol Mountain: Girls SL - . Barkauskas 34th. Girls GS - . Cooper 30th, C. Barkauskas 31st, M. Gaffney 38th. Boys SL - . Barkauskas 7th, C. Lawrence 9th, C. Glasser 31st. Boys GS - . Barkauskas 10th, C. Lawrence 17th, C. Down 22nd
Superintendent’s Report included the topics:
• O&M has met and created a beginning list of items that need to be taken care of on our campus and in our buildings.
They have looked at this from a short term and a longer term perspective and have also added some wish list items.
The group is in agreement that we need to look at a project to take care of these items rather than continue to do them piecemeal as the budget allows as we have done for the last couple of years.
We will be looking to gather input from constituent groups to better formulate a list before bringing in the architect to look at things through their lens.
We have received a proposal to do a full building survey to further assist us in the process as we look to repair, maintain and possibly improve our aging facility.
• Having just spent the last couple of days in Albany has yielded more questions than answers in terms of where we are going with Common Core and Teacher/Principal evaluations.
From the Commissioner and Board of Regents we are hearing that we are proceeding as planned with the 19 changes made last month and keeping all other components as they have been written.
They do however acknowledge that legislative action is very possible and may further change the landscape of what we are currently doing and how things will continue to be used and implemented.
• One great topic of conversation was the idea of “opting out of testing or data.”
It was stressed by the Commissioner and attorneys in several sessions that there is no option to opt out as the testing written in law and is part of the prescribed educational program.
Students in institutions of public education can’t choose to opt out of any of the required program.
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On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 @ 6:30 p.m. the next meeting is scheduled in the Library.
*Approved minutes can be found at www.towschool.org
