Summary of Regular Board Meeting Held on July 19, 1999

Regular monthly meetings of the Board of Education are close captioned. They are shown again on Tuesday evenings with captions for those unable to watch on Monday evenings.

Recognition

The Superintendent described the Goodman Rotary Senior Fitness Program which began in 1994 through a partnership with Bob and Irwin Goodman, the Rotary Foundation and the MMSD. MSCR Director Lucy Chaffin distributed information and introduced a group of seniors and their teacher who demonstrated two square dances.

Public Appearances

Lapham Title 1 Reading Teacher Sandy Blume invited the Board to hear a lecture by Dr. G. Reid Lyon from the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Washington DC.

Board President's Announcements And Reports

Mrs. Carstensen announced:

• Big 8 school districts met with Congressman Ryan about federal funding for special education and held a press conference. A similar meeting will be held with Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin in September to focus on the state's commitment to its share of costs for special education.
• the Board agreed to put before the voters the proposal to provide funding for long term maintenance in a way that does not increase the tax burden but allows the district to recapture the money it has been paying in long term debt. Funds would be under the revenue cap to pay for maintenance in the form of a five-year referendum to provide $10 million. Referendum decisions will be made at the August Board workshop.

Superintendent's Announcements And Reports

Mr. Rainwater announced:

• Memorial Senior Luxme Hariharan was elected Governor of the 1999 Badger Girls State. This is the second year in a row that a Memorial student has been elected Governor.
• Madison students had a higher proportion of students scoring in the highest performance category of "advanced" proficiency than their state peers on the Wisconsin Student Assessment System Knowledge and Concepts test.
• Madison third graders surpassed their state peers at the "advanced" level on the 1999 Wisconsin Reading Comprehension test. Most notable was the performance of students in the SAGE schools. Both Mendota and Glendale improved their scores in the top two proficiency ranges.
• Entering Memorial Senior Louis John Janowski was one of only two Wisconsin students and only 29 students nationally to receive a perfect score on the American College Test (ACT). He credited Memorial teachers Geraldine Vale, Art Camosy, and Bill O'Neal.
• Hamilton Middle School "International Future Problem Solvers" finished fourth in competition with over 50 teams from 42 states and other countries in the junior division. Teacher Barb Widder coached the sixth grade team - Diane Wu, Jake Brower, Dylan Mathieu, and Max Rosen. A second team (Emily Triggs, Anna Ficken, Laura Cullenward, May Kerman) won the state competition in April and placed in the top ten in the junior division. Seventh grader David Kaiser competed on a mdidle division team that placed third. He was coached by Hamilton teacher Lynn Buckmaster.

Committee Reports And Action Thereon

Performance & Achievement: Recommendations from the Selection of Program Materials Committee were approved.

Budget and Finance: The 1999-2000 Budget was approved with an expenditure level of $253,025,758 and a tax levy of $167,251,963. Recommendations were tabled that the administration provide options for helping finance new playground equipment for Sandburg and providing information on how many schools are facing similar situations and would be expected to make requests for funding. The recommendation was tabled to approve expenditure of $14,000 to finance playground equipment for Sandburg. Bids were approved for boiler room pipe insulation at East, asbestos abatement at Midvale, materials and labor for a replacement switchboard at Midvale, greenhouse replacement work at East, and burner replacement at West.

Human Resources: No report.

Long Range Planning: No report.

Partnerships: No report.

Board of Education/Common Council Liaison Committee: No report.

Legislative: The committee reviewed possible legislative priorities and received an update on state budget deliberations. Citizen members George Young and Anare Holmes will be leaving the committee.

Auditing, Purchasing, Transfers & Other Financial Transactions

Auditing: Interim and Building Fund bills were paid.

Purchasing: Bids were approved for art supplies for Central Stores, for the lease of a Xerox DocuTech for the Printing Department, and for singlefold and roll paper towels for Central Stores.

Transfers: $4,038 was transferred from the school formula account to support staffing of a 0.24 Family Community Liaison at Lapham Elementary School.

Other Financial Transactions: All donations and grants received since June 7, 1999 were approved. A resolution was adopted to authorize the temporary borrowing of $7,000,000 and a bid accepted in this amount. The 1999-00 budget was increased by $100,000 to support the Middle School Technology Project: "Mightier Than The Pen: Writing to the World."

Human Resources Transactions and Reports:

All personnel items were approved.

Reports to the Board:

No reports.

Other Business:

Changes were made to the Madison-Verona boundary agreement. An addendum was approved to the Madison-Middleton boundary agreement. A resolution and order was approved detaching certain land from the MMSD and attaching it to the Middleton-Cross Plains School District. A resolution was approved ordering the attachment of the Doerfer Annexation to the MMSD and the detachment of it from the Verona Area School District and an order was issued altering school district boundary lines. A resolution was approved ordering the attachment of the Hanzel-Maurer annexation to the MMSD and the detachment of it from the Verona Area School District and an order was issued to alter school district boundary lines. Resolutions were approved ordering the attachment of part of the Hawk's Landing annexation and the other part of the Hawk's Landing annexation to the MMSD and the detachment of them from the Verona Area School District and orders were issued to alter school district boundary lines. A resolution was approved ordering the attachment of the Midtown annexation to the MMSD and detaching it from the Verona Area School District and an order was issued to alter school district boundary lines. A resolution was approved ordering the attachment of the UW land north and south of Mineral Point Road and West of County Highway M to the MMSD and the detachment of it from the Middleton Area School District and an order was issued to alter school district boundary lines. A resolution was approved ordering the attachment of Elver Park and the Menard's Development east of County Highway M and immediately north of Holy Name Catholic Center to the MMSD and the detachment of it from the Middleton Area School District and an order was issued to alter school district boundary lines.

Forty-six students were granted diplomas. The auditorium at Memorial High School was named the Thomas E. Buchhauser Auditorium. Hearing Examiners were appointed to hear expulsion cases for the 1999-00 school year: Howard S. Bellman, Norma Briggs, Richard Cates, Cheryl Furstace Daniels, Joseph D. Hill, David B. Nance, Henry E. Sanders. Citizens were appointed to serve on the MSCR Advisory Committee: Donald J. Dean and Neil Howell.

Old and New Business: Two new appointees to the MSCR Advisory Committee were carefully chosen and will do a great job.

(A complete copy of these minutes is available from the Board of Education Office, 261-9000. This summary may have been published before the minutes were approved by the Board of Education. Please call to check on any changes.)

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