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| BOARD OF EDUCATION Minutes for Special Meeting - Open Session August 28, 2006 |
Doyle Administration Building 545 West Dayton Street Madison, Wisconsin |
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Special Meeting of the Board of Education was called to order by President Johnny Winston, Jr. at 5:05 p.m.
MEMBERS PRESENT: Carol Carstensen, Lawrie Kobza, Arlene Silveira, Shwaw Vang (arrived 6:17 p.m.), Johnny Winston, Jr.
MEMBERS ABSENT: Lucy Mathiak, Ruth Robarts
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE
PRESENT: Jacinth Sohi
STAFF PRESENT: Sue Abplanalp, Mary Gulbrandsen, Pam Nash, Roger Price, Joe Quick, Art Rainwater, Barbara Lehman-Recording Secretary
OPEN SESSION
1. Approval of Minutes
It was moved by Arlene Silveira and seconded by Lawrie Kobza to approve the minutes of the Special meeting in open session dated August 14, 2006 as distributed. Motion unanimously carried by those present.
2. Public Appearances
There were no public appearances.
3. Announcements
There were no announcements.
Items 4 and 5 were taken up together.
4. Plan CP2a relative to boundary changes that will be necessary if the referendum to construct an elementary school on the LindenParksite fails
5. Plan CP3a relative to boundary changes that will be necessary if the referendum to construct an elementary school on the LindenParksite passes
(Packets included the plans and accompanying data sheets and a draft segment on school size and the appendix from "An Evidenced-Based Approach to School Finance Adequacy in Wisconsin." Copes are attached to the original of these minutes.)
Both plans were adjusted to reflect the smaller remodeling and addition project at Leopold.
DISCUSSION:
· Difficulty with projecting capacities too far in the future.
· Accounting for the new developments.
· Developments south of the Beltline are all built in - McGaw Park, Oak Meadow, and Swan Creek.
· Equity issues with small low income population on the West side and small class size.
· Declining enrollment at Allied Drive.
· Plans are based on last year's numbers.
· Adopting the plans and communicating to the public.
· Waiting to finalize the plans until the Official Third Friday Count in September.
· Difficult to get around these issues without doing something like pairing.
· City very segregated by income.
· Considerations for the Equity Task Force; coming to the Board with interim report on September 18.
· Adopting something conceptual subject to changes in enrollment and policy changes.
· Task Forces looked at moving children for purposes of balance.
· Cannot move across the isthmus for distance reasons.
· Board needs to discuss these issues before the budget; issues cross many committees.
· Principals working on plans - there are concerns about the numbers for Chavez and Leopold.
It was moved by Carol Carstensen and seconded by Arlene Silveira to adopt Options CP2a and CP3a as conceptual plans of what will happen if the referendum passes or fails, subject to new enrollment projections and future Board of Education policy changes. Student Representative advisory vote was aye. Motion unanimously carried by those present.
FOLLOW UP: Provide school capacity projections with the changes. Put the plans up on the web site and rename them.
6. It was moved by Lawrie Kobza and seconded by Carol Carstensen to approve the following resolution:
WHEREAS, the School Board of the MadisonMetropolitanSchool District(hereinafter the Board) authorized the Administration to proceed with constructing and equipping an addition and remodeling of the LeopoldSchoolproject (hereinafter, the project); and
WHEREAS, the Board placed $291,983.75 in the MadisonMetropolitanSchool District's (hereinafter the District) 2006-2007 budget to fund the project; and
WHEREAS, if the November 7, 2006, referendum passes, the District will not need to use all of the $291,983.75 that the Board placed in the District's 2006-2007 budget to fund the project;
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that if the referendum passes, the Board, through a budget amendment, intends to place in the District's contingency fund of the 2006-2007 District budget, the $291,983.75 that is in the 2006-2007 district budget to finance the project less the expenses the District incurs relative to the initial financing of the project.
DISCUSSION:
· Refinancing for other projects will not free up funds because the monies will already have been committed by the time of the referendum.
· If the referendum passes, it is the intent of the Board to take the Leopold project money, minus expenses to finance the project, and move it from Business Services debt service into the district's contingency fund. The Board would have to take action to decide where that money will be used.
· Five votes will be required to move the money and to expend it. If it is not used by the end of the school year, it will go toward the budget shortfalls.
· Questions and answers will be provided for the public.
Student Representative advisory vote was aye. Motion unanimously carried by those present.
Mary Gulbrandsen referred to the draft document on school finance that was part of the packet as informational. It is an excerpt from a larger study that is supposed to go to the Legislature at the end of this year. Mr. Rainwater explained the research involving school size. Ms. Carstensen indicated that the Long Range Planning Committee would be taking up these issues.
FOLLOW UP: Provide information from the larger study on class size K-3. Provide a hard copy of the entire report once it is finalized.
7. Other Business
There was no other business.
Recessed at 5:42 p.m.
Reconvened at 5:49 p.m.
THE MEETING CONTINUED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION
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