2017-11-16-Regular School Committee

Georgetown School Committee

Thursday, November 16, 2017

 Location: Town Hall – 1 Library Street

3rd Floor Meeting Room

Regular Session– 7:00 PM

A G E N D A

1.   Call to order:      

2.  Consent Agenda:

            a)         Approval of Minutes  

                        - Budget and Finance Meeting of 10/26/17*                                                  [VOTE]

                        - Governance Meeting of 10/18/17*                                                               [VOTE]

                        - Regular Session Meeting of 10/12/17*                                                         [VOTE]

            b)         Acceptance of Warrants:  #23V18, #22P18                                                  [VOTE]

            c)         Communications:                                                                                           

3.  Student Representative: Chloe Martens

4.  Audiences:

            a)         Public Comment

            b)         Public Agenda Items

            c)         Other  

                        - Georgetown Parent Teacher Organization, Jenna Connors

                        - Georgetown Education Foundation, Kristen Machiavelli   

5.  Administrative Reports:

            a)         Superintendent’s Report        

                        - Shared Maintenance Proposal*                                                                    [VOTE]

                        - 2017-2018 District Improvement Plan Action Steps *                                [VOTE]

                                - Boston Magazine Ranking for Best School Districts in Boston*

                b)         School Reports

                        - Penn Brook School Improvement Plan, Principal Margaret Maher*            [VOTE]

                        - Middle High School Improvement Plan Principal Peter Lucia*                  [VOTE]

            c)         Department Reports

6.  Superintendent’s Information for the Committee:

            a)         Georgetown Record Articles*

            b)         Summer Sports Camp Survey Results*

            c)         Penn Brook Outstanding Design Article*

7.   Financial Report: 

            a)         Line Item Transfers*                                                                                       [VOTE]

            b)         First Quarter Financial Report*                                                          `           [VOTE]

8.  Subcommittee Reports:

a)         Budget and Finance/Barbie, Michael

            b)         Governance/Cheryl, Barbie

            c)         Negotiating/Pam, Michael

            d)         Public Relations/Suzanne, Cheryl

            e)         Safety/Pam

            f)         Start School Later/Barbie, Suzanne

            g)         Supt. Evaluation/Suzanne, Cheryl

            h)         Other – School Building Committee/Pam

i)          Other – SEPAC/Pam

9.   Old Business:

            a)         Approval of the MHS trip to Canada*                                                           [VOTE]

b)          Items Not Reasonably Anticipated by the Chair 48 Hours In

             Advance of the Meeting

10. New Business:

a)         Approval of Policy IJOAA-R-1 Field Trips *                                                [VOTE]

b)         Acceptance of Athletics Donations*                                                             [VOTE]

c)         Acceptance of Donation for School Lunch*                                                  [VOTE]

d)         MOA for the Gymnasium Scoreboard at GMHS*                                         [VOTE]

e)         Policy IJNDC-R New Website Guidelines and procedures for Approval*   [VOTE]

11. Executive Session Chapter 30A §21

12.  Adjourn:

SCHEDULE OF UPCOMING SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEETINGS

SCHEDULE OF UPCOMING SCHOOL SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS

Budget and Finance Subcommittee                Tuesday, November 21, 2017             10:30 AM

Public Relations Subcommittee                      Tuesday, November 28, 2017             3:15 PM

Governance Subcommittee                             Wednesday, November 29, 2017      11:00 AM