August 14, 2023 at 7:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

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COPY OF OPEN MEETINGS ACT: The Board of Education makes available at least one current copy of the Open Meetings Act posted in the meeting room at a location accessible to members of the public. The Act is posted on the south wall of the meeting room.

ORDER OF AGENDA ITEMS: The Arlington Board of Education reserves the right to adjust the order of items on this agenda.

 

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO SPEAK DURING PUBLIC FORUM: 

Getting Started: When it is your turn to speak during the public forum portion of the agenda, please come forward, sign your name and address on the sign-in sheet and state your name to the Board of Education. 

Time Limit: You may speak only one time and must limit comments to 5 minutes or less.  

Personnel or Student Topic: If you are planning to speak about a personnel or student matter involving an individual, please understand that our policies require that such concerns initially be directed to the administration for consideration. Board members will generally not respond to any questions you ask or comments you make about individual staff members or students. You are cautioned that slanderous comments are not protected just because they are made at a board meeting.  

General Rules: Please remember that this is a meeting of the Board of Education held in public for conducting the business of the Board of Education. Disruptions, offensive language, personal attacks and hostile conduct will not be tolerated.

Rationale:  The requirement added to the legal policy that we approved in June/July did not require the hours our existing policy did.  We will need to revise the policy to include the financial literacy statement, but retain our previously existing graduation requirements.  This should only require one reading, but will require an affirmative vote of the board of education.

Rationale:  This was inadvertently left off the legal policy updates in June/July
The date to approve the resolution and set capacities for the coming year is now October 15.  It has been March 15 in the past.  

Rationale:  Our Conference ranges from $150 per day to $170 per day.  We are currently at $165 per day which is high middle of the average ($157), which increases to $180 for long term after the 9th day.  Some schools are higher on long-term, i.e. $200 per day, or even 1/186th of the base.  I recommend we go up on long-term sub rates.

Rationale:  Last year, this professional worked as our OT through an interlocal agreement with Blair Community Schools.  She is no longer with Blair, so the contract is with a new entity, but is the same OT from our last two years.

Rationale:  We discussed this in June.  Very few districts are still using this Cognia process, many have transitioned to Frameworks.  The process is streamlined, efficient, and more flexible with fewer continually changing platforms.