An unofficial summary of discussions, presentations, and actions of the Columbia County Board of Education

May 8, 2007

BOARD COMMENTS:
Board members congratulated students and parents and recapped many end of year events that were attended the past two weeks, HHS-Grease musical, honors nights, and the CCBOE retirement reception.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION:
There was no public participation.

BOARD ITEMS:
The Board ruled to uphold the Disciplinary Hearing Appeal Case No. 06-07-373.

NEXT MEETING:
The next scheduled Board meeting will be a Study Session on May 22 at the Board of Education in Evans at 5:30pm.

The agenda for the next BOE meeting can be found here and is updated by the Friday before the next BOE meeting.

BOARD APPROVALS
Consent Items.  The Board gave final approval of items: minutes of 3/27/07 and 4/10/07- March Financials, employee travel, fundraisers, camp, and requests to state for variances of the Georgia High School Graduation requirement.
Budget Amendments/Transfers. The Board gave final approval to the following General Fund or Special Revenue Amendments/Transfers: Budget Amendment No. 52 - Budget additional funds donated by the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce/Industry Partnership ($15,000); Budget Amendment No. 53 - Budget Title IID funds ($73); ;Budget Amendment No. 54 -Budget funds awarded to the 5 Title I Distinguished Schools ($2,625); Budget Transfer No. 8 - Transfer funds for Lewiston Elementary in the K-8 reading & math grant;  Budget Transfer No. 9 - Transfer funds to reimburse Lakeside High for athletic charter buses.
BOE Policies.  The Board gave final approval to: Policy JN - Awards and Scholarships; and Policy BE - School Board Records. All BOE policies can be viewed by going to: http://www.ccboe.net/boe/policies/home.html.
Bid Results-copy paper. The Board gave final approval of bid results and awarded contract for multi-purpose copy paper to Ricoh Corporation ($166,566). 
Bid Results-fire alarms. The Board gave final approval of bid results and awarded the contract to the two lowest bidders - Southeastern Systems Technologies ($122,250) and TriTec ($125,261).

BUILDING PROGRAM
Project Update.   Mr. Price updated the Board on the various building projects going on within the county: painting at GMS & GHS;  Twelve classroom additions at Lewiston and River Ridge; Cedar Ridge Elementary in Grovetown (view progress);  the New Middle School #3 on Blackstone Camp Road (view progress); and the New High School #1 on Chamblin Road to be completed July 2010.

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT
Change of Early Release dates for Fall 2007.  Mr. Price notified the Board that due to ITBS and GHSGT testing dates, the early release for parent conferences has to be changed from 9/20/07 to 9/13/07.
Event Calendar.  Mr. Price reminded the Board of a few dates:

• High School Graduation Ceremony - May 19:
  9:00am - Lakeside High
  11:30am Evans High
  2:00pm - Harlem High
  4:30pm - Greenbrier High
• Tax Digest Hearing Dates:
  July 10, 7:30am, CCBOE
  July 10, 5:30pm, CCBOE
  July 17, 10:30am, Savannah Rapids
• Set Millage Rate:
  July 17, 10:45, Savannah Rapids

PERSONNEL RECOMMENDATIONS
On the recommendations of Superintendent Price, the personnel recommendations were approved as presented.   

Robbie Jarrell was named Assistant Superintendent of Student Support, creating a vacancy for principal at Riverside Elementary.

Cathy Barber, lead teacher, was named assistant principal at Evans High and will replace Ja'net Bishop.

This newsletter is produced by the Superintendent's Office.  Any questions can be directed to
Karen Ribble at karen.ribble@ccboe.net