September 9, 2020 Board Meeting Minutes

MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR WAYNE SCHOOL DISTRICT ON WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9th, 2020 AT 6:00 PM at WAYNE HIGH SCHOOL.

THOSE PRESENT:

Absent: Jeffrey Chappell

Conducting: Curtis Whipple

ADMINISTRATION

Curtis Whipple called the meeting to order. 

Pledge of Allegiance.

Shawn Davis offers the reverence.

Shawn motions to approve the minutes from August 12^th, 2020.  April seconds the motion. All in favor.

FINANCIAL REVIEW

Tyler mentions that the audit is finishing up and should be completed within the next couple weeks. He discusses a proposed budget amendment for FY21. The budget passed in June was not intended to be the final budget because the Legislative Estimates had not yet been received. The plan is to amend the budget in next month’s board meeting. There is some discussion about which revenue sources may provide additional income, including some lobbying for specific funds in next year’s legislative session for security upgrades among districts.  The proposed budget includes steps and lane changes for all eligible employees. 

Cory makes a motion to pay the bills.  April seconds. All in favor.

CITIZEN COMMENTS

Shawn thanks those in attendance.

INFORMATION ITEMS

Superintendent’s Report

Superintendent Shelley reviews the USBA Fall Regional Meeting schedule. 

He then reviews the UHSAA by-law change. This states that the coach will be penalized if an ineligible player participates in a sport.

Jeffrey Chappell arrives.

Randy provides a report on preschool. The enrollment was fairly low prior to school starting and then increased significantly at the start of school. The preschool teacher has been asked to separate the class at Loa into groups and has additional help during portions of the day. They are putting a plan in place to do pre-registration in the spring so we can better allocate staff next year. 

Superintendent Shelley reviews some calendar items.

BOARD TRAINING

Randy suggests that the school board should do a book study as well as the USBA Powerup program. He mentions that the administrators are doing a book study beginning this week. Both groups will be reading Leadership and Self-Deception. Dr. Chappell will lead a discussion next meeting. 

BUSINESS ITEMS

Salary Schedule

No changes to the salary schedule. 

Policies

Policy DAB – Employee Licensure was discussed. The format will be modified but the content will remain the same. Curtis asks if this will conflict with other policies in place. Superintendent Shelley replies that he does not think it will. The purpose of this is to address LEA-specific licensing. 

Cell Phone Reimbursement

April makes a motion to approve the cell phone reimbursement. Shawn seconds. All in favor.

New Hires/Separations

Cory makes a motion to approve the new hires pending background check. April seconds. All in favor.

The following new hires were approved:

Ann Lee Averett – Cook at Loa Elementary

Ashley Blackburn – Substitute teacher

Tracy Chesnut – Math Aide at Wayne Middle School

Charity Finch – Substitute teacher

April makes a motion to approve employee separations. Cory seconds. All in favor.

Other Items

Mary Bray comments that we have a shortage of substitute teachers. There is a brief discussion on how to address this. 

Cory asks if we are seeing sick kids in the schools. Mary responds that 11 kids were gone today. Lance Peterson says he thinks there are fewer sick this year. Cherie Blackburn says she has more teachers gone and possibly more kids. 

Randy mentions school board site visits. Cory suggests that the administrators come to board meeting and encourage their staff to come to board meeting that night rather than doing a visit during the school day. The board decides to hold the meetings at the regular time. 

Shawn asks about enrollment numbers. There is some discussion about which schools have had their numbers increase or decrease. 

April asks if there are some who have left the school to do an online program. Each of the schools have a few kids doing online programs. 

CLOSED SESSION

Shawn makes a motion to go into closed session per Utah Code Annotated Section 52-4-205(1)(a) at 7:26 pm. Jeff seconds.

Open meeting resumes at 9:25 pm.

Curtis adjourns the meeting at 9:26 pm.