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Attending:  Lauren Poster – chair, Andy Reichsman – vice chair, Gussie Bartlett – Sec’y, Francie Marbury – Principal, Michelle Holzapfel arrived at 7:20pm. Frank Rucker  – WCSU Business Manager arrived at 7:30pm.  Tom Simon arrived at 8:12pm.

The meeting was called to order at 7:10 pm.

Lauren moved that we approve the Minutes of 12/10 and 12/17/07.  Gussie seconded.  The motion passed.

See attached Principal’s Report.

Winter Workshops started last week.  Junior High is working on their I-projects already, to avoid end of the year crunch.

Ellen and Judy are doing a mid year literacy assessment of kindergarten and primary students, because their skills develop so rapidly.  They use the results to regroup the kids into their proper level.

Enrollment:  78 students.  A home school student will be participating in some specials at the school.

Ellen will be beginning her cross country fund raising bicycle trip immediately after the winter break.  Good luck Ellen!

Healthy Snack Program is off to a great start.  Over 40 kids are participating in the program.

A MASP survey went out with Friday notes.

Francie proposed making the Monday before Town Meeting a school day.  The Board endorsed the idea.

School as a Community space.  Michelle Holzapfel presented a brief review of the history of MAAC.  As mentioned in last month’s minutes, the All Abilities Program room is becoming available.  What activities are waiting in the wings for a space at the school?  Marlboro Cares may want to have a monthly Senior lunch. Paid coordinator?  Paid through fees?  Townsfolk feel like they have paid for the school space already, so charging a fee for usage feels like double billing.  We decided that it would be prudent to move slowly on allocating the available space at MES, see what groups are interested in using the space – a sign-up system, perhaps – and monitor how such use impacts students and teachers.

Energy discussion with Tom Simon.  Tom here as a member of the Marlboro Energy Committee and the Windham Egergy Group.   Interested in getting kids involved with energy conservation and energy awareness.  Basically offering help for any energy related curriculum.  Additionally, regarding the building, Tom is offering to be a liaison between S.B. and Marlboro Energy Committee.
Francie felt that recommendations of people to provide services that we are ready to implement would be very helpful.

In a budget discussion, we reviewed our proposed 2008 – 2009 budget and  finalized it in preparation for Town Meeting.

We were hoping for an update on MASP’s debt to MES, but it wasn’t prepared in time for this meeting.  We will expect an update at our February meeting to be able to prepare for Town meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at 10:10 pm.

Future meetings: Feb 4th at 7:00pm, March 10th at 7:00pm,

Respectfully submitted,

Andy Reichsman

Pay Orders:
#13:    12/21/07            $122,993.54
#14:    1/4/08            $  45,612.93

Marlboro School Board
January 14, 2008

Principal’s Report

Student Learning
Winter Workshops
Junior High I Projects (independent study)
Primary presentation of insect reports
Mid year assessment of kindergarten and Primary literacy skills

Policy or Regulation Implementation
New policies to consider?
Revisit tuition policy?

Buildings and Grounds
Playground safety – sledding run and hay bales
StanTech Report – progress re recommendations

Finance/Accounting

Enrollment/Staffing
78 students
Home school student attending specials
No changes in staffing – Ellen starts leave after Winter Vacation

Continuing items
Healthy Snack program update
MASP update – survey, current balance sheet
New – calendar question