School Board Minutes October 1, 2007

Present: Monsignor Mank, Jack Holmes, Tim Kusmierczak, Steve Kassing, Julie Keil, Joyce Ray, Peggy Reeves, John Felisky, Simon Griffin, Kathi Henderson, Chuck Stowers, Jacqui Carlson, & Anne List

Absent: Brad Sparkman, & John Ross

Others present: Mrs. Lambert & Mrs. Parker

Call to order: Steve Kassing called the meeting to order.

Opening prayer: Kathi Henderson

September minutes: Approved with minor modifications. PTU section – meets on Tues not Thursday. Misc. section - change strategic plan was reviewed by Springfield to reviewed by NCEA. Motion made to approve minutes by Julie Keil, seconded by Tim; motion approved.

Assignment of prayer for November: Simon Griffin

Corrspondence

A letter of resignation was received from Jennifer Hurley. A letter of thanks was received from Maria Adamick who did the hearing & vision screening.

Old Business

No old business

New Business

A letter of resignation was received from Jennifer Hurley. A letter of thanks was received from Maria Adamick who did the hearing & vision screening.

Msgr. Mank:

No Report.

Principal's Report

Jack talked about the website www.directfourschools.com, where a school can receive $100.000 for any family who signs up for their service.
Jack will be reviewing the school Asbestos report to see if anything needs to be done or updated.
Mr. Bernie Molloy will be replacing Miss Hurley in Fourth grade. He will begin next Tuesday.
The golf tournament made approximately $19,000 this year.
The Mouse Races made approximately $4,300 on first report.
Jack & Mrs. Parker talked about the Field Day for third & fourth grade. All had a great time.
The Technology committee is interested in maybe getting a member from the P.R. committee and/or the school board to help serve on their committee.
Jack asked the board’s thoughts about printing or not printing the cafeteria menu since it is on fast direct. No one had a problem with not providing a hard copy to the parent’s as long as it’s available on fast direct.
Wednesday, the Eighth grade and Mr. Holmes will be going to the Mission Mass.
Next Monday, there is no school.

Teacher’s Report

Mr. Stowers went to a conference on chemicals in school which discussed caring for chemicals & the proper disposal.

PTU

No Report

Finance

The committee has set up a new ladder CD investment to help improve returns and yet stay fairly liquid. Some of money invested came from prepaid tuition.
Steve reviewed the Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss Prev. Year Comparison & Profit & Loss Budget Performance. Tim had a question about the category other income. Steve said most was it is from interest.
Julie asked about the preschool numbers. The income seemed higher than in the past. Steve felt it may be due to parents paying tuition early than usual.
Tim asked about the payments toward our school loans. Steve stated that the committee is working on paying off the high interest loan first, followed by the others.

Buildings and Grounds

Have a few unfinished projects we would like to get help with: cutting/trimming around the fence lines, possibly updating our school signs, develop check sheets for janitors in reference to jobs for the summer, & create a cart for small chairs to make them more mobile. Kathi gave him a person to contact about the signs. He will also contact Joe Gonet for ideas on the signs.
Eleven people showed up for the Fall Clean-up day, but it was very productive. The people who were able to come worked very hard.
Tim has also been doing various paint jobs around the school.

Development

The committee discussed all the fundraisers to gain a perspective of where we are currently and where we want to go with them.
Created a list of chairs for each and would like to develop a list of people who could possibly succeed those chairs in the future.
Discussed fundraisers that are working well, like the auction and a possible new spring fundraiser.
Discussed the Magazine drive and the amount of work and expense due to the large number of prizes and incentives. Could we increase competition and tone down the prizes and incentives?
Discussed the possibility of having a new family orientation/open house for Kdg. Preschool, and new families to the school.

Public Relations

Want to offer $25 gift certificates to any of the SJN graduates who respond to the questionnaire which will be sent out by the PR committee. We are trying to find what they feel are the school’s strengths or weaknesses and how they have done since leaving SJN.
Want to work on an unofficial guide to SJN for new families.
We also are looking into updating the school brochure which is handed out to promote the school.

Planning Committee

Goals:

Review & address any recommendations made by the NCEA upon return of the Five year plan.
Send out graduate surveys in the spring and review results.
Send out exit surveys when needed and review results.

Grants

No report

Policy

Revised our first goal to convert the current SJN Policy Manual to an electronic file and discussed the possibility of putting it on the website.
We also want to check and make sure all the manuals are up-to-date. We also need to get manuals for John, Jacqui, and Kathy.
We are reviewing the handbooks to see if they are compatible across the board.

Miscellaneous:

Steve, Jacqui, and John were lucky to be able to have dinner and meet with Bishop Lucas this Saturday at MPH.
Tim was able to help the MPH booster club at the Italian fest.

Closing Prayer: Kathy Henderson

Next meeting: Tuesday, November 5th, 2007.