These are unofficial notes of the Board of Education meeting held on Monday, June 2. Meetings are broadcast live on the district’s YouTube channel.
Agendas, meeting materials, minutes & video
Attendance: Pamela Walsh - President, Brenda Hastings – Vice President, Cara Meeker - Secretary, Liz Boucher, Jess Campbell, Jim Richards, Sarah Robinson, Sarah Sadowski, student representatives Van MacIver and Aryn Bernardo
Absent: Barb Higgins
CALL TO ORDER - 6pm
APPROVAL OF AGENDA – Approved 8-0
CONSENT AGENDA – Approved 8-0
Regular Monthly Meeting (May 5)
Communication & Policy (May 12)
Instructional Committee (May 14)
Finance Committee (May 19)
City & Community Relations (May 19)
Executive Committee (May 21)
CELEBRATION: Beaver Meadow School
Seven students from Beaver Meadow shared their experience with the CLiF grant, a year-long $25,000 grant for books and literacy events
RECOGNITIONS / REPORTS
Student Report: Van MacIver and Aryn Bernardo – the Board thanked Van for his service and leadership
Superintendent’s report: Kathleen Murphy
o Retiree and Distinguished Educators Celebration – the Board and district celebrated Distinguished Educators and 24 retirees last Tuesday
o Revised General Assurances – Superintendent Murphy reviewed an updated General Assurances from the New Hampshire Department of Education
o Legislative Updates – Superintendent Murphy reviewed several proposed bills
o International Society for Technology in Education
MEMORIAL FIELD UPDATE
Jim Richards provided an update on the work of the committee
GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP Q&A – Great Schools provided a brief update on the ecosystem review process
FINANCE
Business Administrator Jack Dunn reviewed the finance report
Finance Report
ASSESSMENT PRESENTATION
Chris Demers, Kaileen Chilauskas, Tim Herbert and Kimberly Yarlott shared results from spring assessments
SAT Test
SAS Performance Testing
INSTRUCTIONAL COMMITTEE
Brenda Hastings provided an update of the last Instructional Committee meeting
NEC Partnership – CHS seniors are able to take undergraduate courses for free at New England College on a space available basis
Career Connected Learning at CHS – the recent career fair was organized by six career clusters for students, providing an opportunity to connect careers to classroom experiences
COMMUNICATION & POLICY
The Board reviewed several policies.
Policy 528, Accommodation of Pregnancy and Related Medical Conditions: Students (2nd read)
PUBLIC COMMENT
There was no public comment
VOTES
General Assurances – approved 8-0
Policy 528, Accommodation of Pregnancy and Related Medical Conditions: Students (2nd read) – approved 6-2 with an amendment
PERSONNEL
New Teacher Nominations – approved 8-0
OTHER BUSINESS
Monthly Enrollment reports - The district has 3,685 K-12 students, 143 preschool students and 707 CRTC students
PROPOSED CALENDARS OF MEETINGS – Upcoming dates were reviewed. Approved dates are posted on the website.
NON-PUBLIC SESSION – None
ADJOURNMENT – 8:13pm
Notes by Terry Wolf, Director of Communications