Manatee County School Board Regular Meeting Results, April 25, 2011

Manatee County School Board Regular Meeting Results, April 25, 2011

AGENDA AMENDMENTS
1. Agenda Amendments - pg.5

ATTENDANCE
2. Attendance - pg.6

CALL TO ORDER
3. Call to Order - pg.7
4. Invocation - pg.8
5. Approval of Orders of the Day - pg.9 (Unanimously approved)

STUDENT CELEBRATION
6. Braden River High School Student Demonstrates the Power of Never Giving Up - pg.10
Braden River High School senior, Leo Leonardo Daniel Leal Guerrero, overcame tremendous obstacles, including being homeless, without food and school supplies, and almost being sent back to Mexico as an illegal immigrant.  Because he never gave up, and never lost focus on his dreams, Leo has been accepted not only to University of Florida, Fordham University in New York, Brown, Northwestern, and Williams College, but also Stanford and Harvard.  He has been offered a free ride to Stanford, but wants to visit both Stanford and Harvard before making a decision.

PUBLIC COMMENTS
7. Public Comments - pg.12

APPROVAL OF MINUTES
8. Approval of Minutes - pg.13 (Unanimously approved)

RECOGNITIONS
9. Middle School Students Recognized By National Geographic Society as Florida Geographic Bee Semifinalists - pg.14

Each year thousands of schools in the United States participate in the National Geographic Bee using materials prepared by the National Geographic Society. The contest is designed to encourage teachers to include geography in their classrooms, spark student interest in the subject, and increase public awareness about geography. Schools with students in grades four through eight are eligible for this entertaining and challenging test of geographic knowledge.
 
School-level winners take a qualifying test which they submit to the National Geographic Society. The National Geographic Society invites the students with the top 100 scores to compete at the state level. 
 
Alisse Palmer from Braden River Middle School, Max Conoley from King Middle School and Anay Patel from Nolan Middle School has been selected as semifinalists to compete in the 2011 Florida Geographic Bee on April 1 at Jacksonville University.  These students have demonstrated enthusiasm for learning and goal setting.

REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS
10. EdVantage Update - pg.15

PUBLIC HEARING (Withdrawn)
11. Public Hearing for Consideration of Adopting New Policy 4.20, Field Trip Policy - pg.16

CONSENT ITEMS
Approval of Consent Agenda
12. Approval of April 25, 2011 Consent Agenda - pg.17 (Unanimously approved)

Purchase(s) Bids $100,000.00 and Under
13. Approval of Renewal (2) on Custodial Equipment and Parts, MCSD No. 09-0083-MR - pg.18
14. Approval of Renewal (2) on Water Treatment Services, MCSD No. 09-0089-MR - pg.19

Purchase(s) Bids Over $100,000.00

15. Approval to Purchase iSeries and EVA Storage System - pg.20
16. Approval of Renewal (1) on the Use of the School Board of Sarasota County Bid for Security Systems Installation, Repair, Parts and Consumables, MCSD No.11-0011-MR - pg.22

Contracts and Grants
17. Approval of the Contract Between the School Board of Manatee County and NCS Pearson Inc. for the 2011 - 2012 School Year - pg.24
18. Approval of the Contract Between the School District of Manatee County and Learning Focused Solutions, Inc., for the 2010-2011 School Year - pg.26
19. Approval to Renew the Agreement between the AVID Center and the School Board of Manatee County for the 2011-2012 School Year - pg.28
20. Approval to Apply, Accept and Expend the New U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History Grant, Teachers as Historians, in the amount of $980,804.45,

Finance
21. Approval of Non-Sufficient Funds (NSF) Check List for Collection via Automated Recovery Systems (ARS) - pg.34
Attachment: 4.25.11 Feb 2011 NSF Write Offs.pdf

Human Resources
22. Approval of the Appointments, Change of Assignments, Deceased, Promotions, Reappointments, Reassignments, Recommendations for Professional Service Contracts, Resignations, Retirements, Terminations and Transfers - pg.35

Miscellaneous
23. Approval to Accept the Chinese Guest Teacher Application Award for the 2011-2012 School Year - pg.36

INFORMATION
Leaves
24. Leaves for April 25, 2011 Board Meeting - pg.38

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
25. Appointments - pg.39

OLD BUSINESS
NEW BUSINESS (Discussion Items Pulled from Consent)

Finance
26. Approval of the Budget Amendments for February 2011 - pg.32 (Unanimously approved)
A review of budget adjustments made in the month of February 2011 showed the following:

General Fund
1. A slight decrease in budgeted revenues (.02%) due to a reduction in expected transfers in from other funds.
2. Budget amendments in all functions other than Instructional Staff Training and Maintenance of Plant were less than 5% of the previous month’s budget or a difference of 1% of the approved expenditure budget.

• The Instructional Staff Training function was reduced by 28.92% or approximately $1.14 million. This reduction was a result of moving K‐12 Reading Plan categorical funds out of this function to the Instruction Function.
• The Maintenance of Plant function was reduced by 7.36% or approximately .79 million as a result in the reduction of the transfer noted above.

3. There was no change to ending fund balance.

Debt Service Fund

1. There were no budget amendments in the Debt Services Funds with the exception of the State Board of Education fund. This fund is managed by the Department of Education that provides the District with the required information to make the amendment in its accounting records. This amendment reduced fund balance by $10,637.59.

27. Acceptance of the Year to Date Financial Statements through February 2011 - pg.33
Attachment: FS Feb 2011.pdf (Unanimously approved)

NEW BUSINESS (Non-Consent Items)
28. Discussion of Budget Strategy for 2011-12 - pg.40
The board discussed new budget strategies to deal with the health-care deficit.

BOARD COMMENTS
29. Board Comments - pg.42

SCHOOL BOARD WORKFLOW
30. School Board Workflow - pg.43

SCHOOL BOARD ATTORNEY COMMENTS
31. Comments by John Bowen - pg.44

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT
32. Comments by Tim McGonegal - pg.45

ADJOURNMENT
33. Adjournment - pg.46