Board Notes

Frederick Board of Education

Special Meeting

Frederick Elementary School Library

12:00pm. August 13, 2009

Felisha Crawford called the meeting to order. Board members present were Felisha Crawford, Brad Benson, and James Heap. Staff members present were Tony O’Brien, superintendent, Randy Cottrell, Business Manager, and Glenda Longacre, Minutes Clerk.

The board approved the consent agenda which included:

Approval of Minutes of Regular Meeting of August 3, 2009

Source of Funds for 2009-10

Agreement with CADC/Red River Transportation for service in 2009-10

Collaboration Agreement with CADC Head Start for the 2009-10 school year.

Service Contract with Tillman County Medical Service District for ambulance

service at home football games.

The board heard possible solutions to repair the bleachers at bomber bowl. After hearing the solutions they voted to ask the superintendent to get a professional engineers opinion concerning the safety of the bleachers prior to allowing any activities in the facility. Once the opinion is rendered then activities would resume and possible solutions would be considered at a future meeting.

The board heard information concerning the announced 5% budget cut across all state agencies with no action taken.

The board received the Oklahoma District Accreditation Report with no deficiencies reported for any schools. They also received the formal notice of accreditation from Advanc-Ed/North Central for five years.

Superintendent O’Brien reported to the board the recommendations from the Center for Educational Law concerning the destruction and retention of school records. The board will be given a formal policy to adopt at the next meeting.

The board retired into executive session concerning personnel issues.

After the board returned to regular session, they approved the resignations of Jill Smith Barnes and Andrea Winstead and then approved the employment of Patrick Mitchell as temporary secondary Spanish, Linda Lambert as temporary elementary, Rebecca Stevens as teacher assistant, and James Stewart as high school football lay coach. The board also approved administrative staff stipends and salary raises.

Superintendent O’Brien presented financial reports and the board approved encumbrances within the 2009-10 general fund. The treasurer’s report was presented and then the meeting was adjourned.