Regular Meeting
Odyssey Charter School
6510 Zane Ave. N.
Brooklyn Park, MN55429
November 16, 1999
6:30 P.M.
| CALL TO ORDER | A regular meeting was held on Tuesday, October 19, 1999 in the Social Studies Room at Odyssey Charter School. The meeting was called to order at 6:45 p.m. and facilitated by Beth Becker. |
| ROLL CALL | Board members present
consisted of Stephanie Dess, Patti Demopoulos, Beth Becker, Bill Disch,
and Diane Scholten. Absent Board Members include Lyle Clemmenson.
Administration present: Marilyn Thompson, Mary Beth Frank and Anne Lindgren. Guests in attendance were: Trina Love, Steve Dess, Mary Thome, Joni Anderson, Jacqui Robinson, Sarah Newberg, Jim Rosengren, Tony Spears, and Bruce Jandry |
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CONSENT AGENDA |
Motion by Bill Disch, seconded by Diane Scholten to approve.Motion carries. |
| ACCEPTANCE OF AGENDA | Motion by Diane Scholten,
seconded by Bill Disch, to accept the Agenda, with additions to include:
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| OPEN FORUM | Community Comment was received from two parents and Steve Dess. |
| REVIEW OF MINUTES | Motion by Patti Demopoulos
to approve the minutes from meeting of 9/21/99, seconded by Stephanie
Dess. The changes are to include:
Motion carries. |
| OLD BUSINESS | |
| NOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORT | Waiver approved and sent to Board today. We can proceed with the Board elections. |
| BUSINESS MANAGER REPORT | Mary Beth Frank provided a
balance sheet with a fund balance (as of 6/30/99) of $55,805.08. See
attached sheet. Financial Team to redo/propose a new budget for next year. There is a need to determine a policy on how to "pay" teachers (current pay schedule goes through 6/30).
Motion by Diane, seconded by Stephanie that the change needs to happen and that staff should be contracted through 8/14, with the new contract to begin on 8/15. Mary Beth to follow through. |
| FACILITIES CLEANING | Harold Roberts offered a bid of $2,200/month for the cleaning of both areas. We will obtain more bids. Patti motioned that this item be tabled to the next meeting. |
| NEW BUSINESS | |
| ADMIN. REPORTS | Anne Lindgren reported that there are Federal dollars allocated to schools willing to adopt a plan for student achievement (up to $50,000). Information about Federal Start up Grants due November 30. Board unanimously moves resolution of support of Federal Start up grant application and plan. |
| EVALUATION & ASSESSMENTS | Cheryl Lange will be giving
us a revised proposal - when finished, it will be given to the Board:
Dave Glick met with Anne Lindgren and Marilyn Thompson re: grad standards and what to focus on. Odyssey needs to provide 24 standards (6 per year). Dave Glick will be at a staff development meeting on January 7th. |
| SITE IMPROVEMENTS | The kitchen and office buildout will be turned over to Kelly Sweigert. |
| POLICY REVIEW | We have the MSBA policies, need to start process of Board review and revision (as necessary). |
| TRAININGS | MACS will be holding a Board training February 11-13 |
| OSSEO BOARD MEETING | Postponed until the December 7th meeting - Odyssey to get some students to speak. |
| CURRICULUM TEAM | Discussed with
parents/teachers/staff/community the amount of time that is spent on
math.
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| BENEFITS | Possibility to offer Extended Day as a benefit to employees. This will be sent to the Task Force and tabled to benefit/contractual review. |
| MEDICAL POLICY | Sarah Newberg proposed a policy. It will need two readings before the policy can be adopted. |
| CLOSED SESSION | At this point the Board went into closed session to address matters subject to attorney-client privilege. |
| ADJOURNMENT | Motion by Patti Demopoulos, seconded by Stephanie Dess, to adjourn the meeting. The motion carried unanimously. |
Next meeting set for Tuesday, December 14, 1999 at 6:30 p.m. at Odyssey Charter School