Deer Creek-Mackinaw Community Unit School District #701

Board of Education Meeting

Agenda

Thursday, May 15, 2008	District Office
7:30 p.m.	401 E. Fifth Street
	Mackinaw, IL 61755

I) Regular Board Items.

A) Call to Order

B) Roll Call

C) Introduction and Acknowledgement of Guests

D) Communications from the floor (limited to 15 minutes)

E) Presentations – Driving Skills for Life

II) Joint Consent Agenda Items.

A) Approval of Minutes

(1) Regular Meeting held on April 17, 2008

(2) Executive Session held on April 17, 2008

(3) Special Meeting held on April 29, 2008

(4) Executive Session held on April 29, 2008

B) Acceptance of Financial Reports

(1) Treasurer’s Report

(2) Activity Account Report

(3) Financial Report

C) Bills and Imprest Funds

(1) Approval of Accounts Payable

(2) Imprest Fund Reports and Reimbursement Requests

III) Action Items.

A) Personnel Items – Joint Consent

(1) Resignations

(a) District Library Media Specialist, Melanie Tevis

(b) High School Assistant Basketball Coach, Abe Zeller

(c) High School Custodian, Becky Magarity

(d) Intermediate School Head Volleyball Coach, Mary Schamberger

(2) Employment

(a) District Assistant Principal, Michele Jacobs

(b) High School Math Teacher, TBD

(c) High School Family and Consumer Science Teacher (part time), TBD

(d) High School Head Cook, Collette Hill

(e) High School Custodian, TBD

(f) High School Clerk, TBD

(g) High School Assistant Volleyball Coach, Mary Schamberger

(h) Junior High Language Arts Teacher, TBD

(i) Junior High Assistant Softball Coach, Lucy Gilbert

(j) Primary School Early Childhood Education Teacher, Kara Prohaska

(k) Primary Summer School Speech Pathologist, Alyssa Moore

(l) Primary Summer School Special Education Teacher, Sarah Coots

(m) Intermediate School Music Teacher (part time), TBD

(n) Intermediate School Cook and Crossing Guard, Sarah Kensil

(3) Volunteers

(a) High School Assistant Softball Coach, Lucy Gilbert

(b) Junior High Assistant Softball Coach, Natalie Putney

(4) Termination

(a) Junior High Assistant Softball Coach, Bryan Hoffman

B) Adopt Resolution DCM07-08:09; Authorizing a Cooperative Agreement with Tremont for Summer Transportation

C) Adopt Resolution DCM07-08:10; The Authorization to Abandon the 1914 High School Structure for the Purpose of Demolition

D) Approve Athletic and Activity Camps for Summer 2008

E) Approve Construction Change Orders

F) Approve Athletic Code Change: Petition for Reinstatement to Extra Curricular Activities

G) Approve Time, Date, and Location of Regular Board of Education Meetings for July 2008 – June 2009

H) Approve Substitute and Miscellaneous Rates for 2008-2009 (second reading)

I) Approve Student Fees for 2008-2009 (second reading)

J) Approve Board Policy changes: 2:20-E2, 2:220-E3, 2:220-E4, 2:220-E5, 2:220-E6, 4:70-AP, 4:110, 4:150, 4:170-AP4, 4:170-E4, 4:170-E8, 5:190, 5:190-AP, 5:190-E1, 5:190-E2, 5:190-E3, 6:30, 6:50, 6:90, 6:170, 6:210, 6:240, 6:240-AP, 7:10, 7:15, 7:30, 7:100, 7:165, 7:190, 7:250-AP1, 7:280-E1, 7:300-E2, 7:300-E3, 7:330, 7:330-AP, 7:330-E, 8:25-AP, 8:30, 8:30-AP, 8:40 (second reading)

IV) Informational Items

A) Reports: Enrollment; Financial and Investments; Food Service; Fund Raising; Administrative Reports

B) Student Handbook Changes (first reading)

C) Athletic Code Changes (first reading)

D) Coaches Handbook (first reading)

E) Establish Board Committees and Meeting Schedules (first reading)

F) Construction Project – Bill Lamb to discuss relocation of classes for Phase 1

G) Board and Administrator Publications

H) Open for items not known at agenda preparation time

V) Executive Session

A) Executive session for the discussion of personnel, negotiations, litigation, and/or student discipline

B) Motion to return to open session

VI) Upcoming Meeting Dates

A) Regular Meeting – Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in the District Office

VII) Adjournment