The Town of Webb UFSD Board of Education held a meeting on Tuesday, March 6, where it took the following action [This capsule does not represent approved board minutes]:

• Approved the Minutes of February 21st Meeting

• Approved the Warrants and Claims

• Approved the Committee on Special Education Recommenda-tions.

The Board also approved the Spring Sports Coaches for 2011-2012, as follows: • Mark Johnston will return for a second year as the Girls Varsity Softball coach with a salary of $2,129. Girls modified softball will be coached by Kristen Armendola for the fourth year running. Her salary will be $1,916.

• The Boys Varsity and Modified Baseball coaches will be Douglas Riedman and Nate Smith, respectively. Riedman who is in his fifth year as coach will earn $2,981, and Smith, as a fourth year coach, will receive a salary of $1,916.

• Coed Golf will be coached for the eleventh year by John Ehrensbeck who will receive a salary of $2,555.

• Girls Track will be coached by Don Allen, and Tim Leach will return as coach for the Boys Track Team. Both will receive salaries of $2,981.

Volunteer assistant coaches were also approved as follows: Golf – Don Haehl; Baseball -Patrick Perkins, Robert Fountain, and Greg Clark; and Track – Caitlyn Goodwin.

• Accepted the bid from MacDonough Excavating, LLC, 114 Hays Road, New Hartford, NY 13413 for Sitework Construction – $49,500.

• Accepted the bid from Central NY Construction, Inc, 8828 State Route 28, Barneveld, NY 13304 for Sealcoating – $8,190.

• Approved the 2012-2013 instructional school calendar.

• Approved the 2012-2013 Fuel Oil Bid @ the fixed price at 3.7822/gallon – Adirondack

• Approved the 2012-2013 Propane Bid @ the fixed price at 2.0990/gallon – Griffith

• Approved the 1st reading of Board Policy 701.01. – District Credit Card.

• Approved the Pitney Bowes mailing system as surplus.

Special topics of interest were also discussed at the meeting:

• Dave Leach presented the spring sports update which included listing of coaches and numbers of students participating in each sport. Also, indoor track participants qualified for the state meet and the parents paid for their own accommodations for the two day event.

By consensus the board decided to reimburse parents for their accommodations and expenses for this event as it is normal practice that rooms are paid for high school teams that go to state competitions.

• The academic calendar was reviewed with two options discussed. Option one includes a conference day at the end of June, and option two with a conference day in August.

The board agreed that having a conference day at the end of June would be a better choice than an August date and approved the instructional calendar.

• District Credit Card Policy was reviewed. Member felt this was a good idea so that the district could benefit from discounts and ease of ordering goods. The safeguard and use of the card was carefully reviewed with recommendations to be made prior to the next meeting.

• A preliminary review of the Master Schedule for 2012-13 is giving us insight into some of our normal areas of concern with the number of singletons we have in our schedule. We will need to look at some of the issues with our singletons and the acceleration of students.

• At the last Superintendent’s Conference day, February 21, the staff filled out evaluation forms that gave a lot of good feedback regarding the day’s activities.

Reviewed the Administrative procedure that outlines how we award credit in Regents classes and states:

“A Regents examination is included in the average but does not by itself carry course credit. To receive credit for a course, the student must receive a grade of at least 65% on the Regents exam and a minimum final course grade or 65%.”

The board did not want to change the current procedure.

•“Dignity for all Students” related anti-bullying policy samples are being reviewed.

• Received over 100 applications for the Principal position. A committee has reviewed the applications and interviewing six candidates between Wednesday and Thursday of this coming week.

• Board Review of 4th Draft of 2012-2013 Budget under Development. Board gave feedback regarding the need to maintain fiscal responsibility while realizing and discussing the programs we will face with future budgets based on current decisions.

The next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 21 at 6:30 p.m. with the continuation of the 2012-2013 proposed budget discussion.