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School board meeting 7/16/08  APPROVED

Attending:  Lauren Poster – chair, Andy Reichsman – vice chair, Gussie Bartlett – Sec’y, Francie Marbury – Principal,

Meeting called to order at 1:48pm.

Lauren moved that we accept the June 26th Minutes.  Gussie seconded.  The motion passed.

We had a discussion about e-mail.  We looked at guidelines about e-mail usage as regards School Boards. There was a suggestion to use a School Board blog at the MES website for our correspondence.

We discussed the school painting situation and reviewed where we felt our process went wrong.  It was felt that determining paint colors is not a school board decision, but that we should have seen to it that there was a process utilized that would have allowed knowledgeable community members to contribute to the decision.

Gail MacArthur joined us to discuss her proposal to find ways to utilize the MES buses to benefit the community.  We agreed to a 6 week trial in the fall, allowing Marlboro residents to ride on the afternoon high school run to be able to shop at Price Chopper and return as Jackie takes the high school kids to MES.  We also agreed that Marlboro families could ride the bus on routes in Marlboro if they so desired.

We reviewed and revised our School Board Norms.  See attached.

Francie took us through the results of the Marlboro School Survey.  Over half of MES families responded.  Most areas were rated positively by the respondents.

We reviewed our tuition policy and accepted the latest draft.  It will be posted on Thursday July 24th.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:50pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Andy Reichsman

Pay Orders:       7/4/08        $77,495.07

Future Meetings:  Monday, July 28th, 5:30pm; Monday, September 15th at 7:00pm.

Marlboro School Board
Meeting Norms for 2008-2009

We will keep to the agenda.
The chair will estimate the amount of time necessary for each item and act as timekeeper during the meeting.
Every voice is heard as discussion goes back and forth.
Decisions will not be made hastily.  We will ask ourselves, “What other information do we need in order to make a thoughtful decision?”
Decisions/discussion will be recapped before moving on to a new item.  Items requiring action will be identified and we will note who is responsible for each action item.
Follow through will occur before the next meeting.
We will use e-mail judiciously to communicate between meetings.

Implementation guidelines:
Meetings will be held on the second Monday of each month with the fourth Monday kept in reserve, if an additional meeting is needed.
The chair will send out the agenda the Thursday before the meeting.
The meetings will start at 6pm and go no later than 9pm.