A G E
N D A
Board of
Education
District Office
Business
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1. Business Meeting Called to Order by
Board President
1.1
Roll Call
1.2 Pledge to Flag
2. Board
President Comments
3. Visitors
Comments (30 minute maximum)
4. Board
Remarks
5. Presentation:
Refining
2006-07 Budget
6. Agenda
order:
6.1
RESOLVED, to approve the following
additions, deletions/changes and order of the agenda as presented.
The Items
with a * are items the Superintendent recommends for the consent agenda. If any Board member wishes to remove an item
from the consent agenda, please do so at this time. A consent agenda is one vote which approves
all asterisked items which have NOT previously been removed
6.2 Approve
Consent Agenda: RESOLVED that the Board of Education accepts the following
as the consent agenda:
8.1 Resignation(s)
A. Music Teacher
B. School Bus Driver
C. School (playground) Monitor
8.2 Leave Request(s)
A. Family Medical Leave - Custodian
8.3 Appointments:
A. Extended Substitute Physical Education
Teacher,
B. Student Teachers
C. School (playground) Monitor
D. School (playground) Monitor
E. Teacher Aide
F. Substitute Teacher(s) for the remainder
of the 2005-06 school year:
G. A Deputy District Clerk to act in the
absence of Board Clerk
8.4 Reduce Teacher Aide Position and add
Typist Position
8.5 Approve Administrative Internship
8.6 Tenure Recommendations
9.1 Accept Donation
10.1 Accept Individualized Education Plans
11.1 Grant Permissions for Employees’
Children to Attend Pawling Schools
11.2 Approve Late Transportation Request
7. Minutes
7.1 Approve
Minutes: RESOLVED
that the Board of Education approve the Minutes
of the following meeting:
8. Personnel
* 8.1 Resignation(s)
A. Music Teacher
B. School Bus Driver
C. School (playground) Monitor
* 8.2 Leave
Request(s)
A. Family Medical Leave - Custodian
* 8.3 Appointments:
A. Extended Substitute Physical Education Teacher,
B. Student Teachers
C. School (playground) Monitor
D. School (playground) Monitor
E. Teacher Aide
F. Substitute Teacher(s) for the remainder
of the 2005-06 school year:
G. A Deputy District Clerk to act in the
absence of Board Clerk
* 8.4 Reduce
Teacher Aide Position and add Typist Position
* 8.5 Approve
Administrative Internship
* 8.6 Tenure
Recommendations
9. Financial
* 9.1 Accept Donation
10. Committee on Special Education
* 10.1 Accept
Individualized Education Plans
11. Board
of Education
* 11.1 Grant Permissions for Employees’
Children to Attend Pawling Schools
* 11.2 Approve Late Transportation Request
11.3 Approve
Pawling Central
11.4 Direct
District Clerk to Give Notice of the Annual Public Hearing on the Budget,
Annual
Meeting,
BE IT RESOLVED, THAT THE Board of
Education of the Pawling Central School District, Dutchess and Putnam Counties,
New York, hereby authorizes and directs the District Clerk to give notice to
the qualified voters of the School District of the Annual Public Hearing on the
Budget, Annual Meeting, School District Election and Vote as attached,
including the following propositions:
RENOVATION
OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL,
INCLUDING
ROOF, FAÇADE AND ENTRANCES
RESOLVED,
that the Board of Education of the Pawling Central School District, is hereby
authorized to (1) renovate the Elementary School, including Roof
Replacement, Repointing of Façade, and
Exterior Entrance Repairs at a cost not to exceed $2,600,000, which is
estimated to be the maximum cost thereof, (2) expend such sums for such
purpose, (3) levy the tax necessary therefor, to be levied and collected in
annual installments in such years and in such amounts as may be determined by
the Board of Education, taking into account state aid received, and (4) in
anticipation of the collection of such tax, to issue bonds and notes of the
District at one time or from time to time in the principal amount not to exceed
$2,600,000, and to levy a tax to pay the interest on such obligations when due.
BUS PURCHASE
PROPOSITION
RESOLVED,
that the Board of Education of the Pawling Central School District, is hereby
authorized to (1) acquire school buses and school vehicles at a cost not to
exceed $273,157, which is estimated to be the maximum cost thereof, (2) expend
such sums for such purpose, (3) levy the tax necessary therefor, to be levied
and collected in annual installments in such years and in such amounts as may
be determined by the Board of Education, taking into account state aid
received, and (4) in anticipation of the collection of such tax, to issue bonds
and notes of the District at one time or from time to time in the principal
amount not to exceed $273,157, and to levy a tax to pay the interest on such
obligations when due.
See full resolution
attached hereto
11.5 Second
11.6
Old Business
A. Discuss
various sample policies regarding Meals and Refreshments at Meetings
11.7
New Business
A. BOCES
Annual Meeting,
B. BOCES
Budget Vote,
Board meeting)
12. Administrative Reports
Superintendent
Elementary Principal
Middle School Principal
Dean of
High School Principal
Asst. Superintendent for Curriculum
and Personnel
Asst. Superintendent for Finance
Director of Special Education
Dean of Students H.S./Athletic
Director
Director of Facilities and
Operations
Supervisor of Transportation
13. Visitors’
Comments (15 Minute Maximum)
14 Executive Session
14.1 Executive
Session: RESOLVED, that the Board of
Education enter
Executive
Session to discuss specific personnel issues and legal issues. Time: _______
14.2
Reconvene to Open Session RESOLVED, that the Board of Education
reconvene
to
open session for the purpose of adjournment.
Time: __________
15. Adjourn Meeting: RESOLVED, that the Board of Education adjourn
this meeting.
Time: ____________
Dates
to Remember
REMINDERS:
All transportation
requests for private schools and day care are due in
the Transportation Office
by April 1st. If you need a
form, call the bus
garage (855-4640) or
go on our website pawlingschools.org.
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There will be two open seats on the Board of Education this year (2) positions
for three (3) years). If you would like to be a candidate,
petitions are available
on our website, pawlingschools.org., at
Board meetings and in the District Office.
The last day to file a nominating
petition for election to the School Board is
If you need additional information call
the District Office 855-4600.
Also, there will be a
To
be attached to Board Agenda:
LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC
HEARING, BUDGET VOTE AND ELECTION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
a Public Hearing on the proposed 2006-2007 Budget for the Pawling Central
School District shall be held in the Multipurpose Room at the Pawling
Elementary School, 7 Haight Street, Pawling, Dutchess and Putnam Counties, New
York, on Monday, May 8, 2006 at 7:30 p.m., Prevailing Time. The budget will be available for review for
at least seven days prior to the hearing at all
AND NOTICE IS
FURTHER GIVEN that the election of a candidate to the Pawling Central School
Board of Education and the budget vote will be held on Tuesday, May 16, 2006
between the hours of 12:00 noon and 9:00 p.m., prevailing time, in the
Multipurpose Room of the Pawling Elementary School, 7 Haight Street, Pawling,
Dutchess and Putnam Counties, New York, at which time the polls will be opened
to vote by voting machine on the following items:
1. To elect two (2) members of the
Board of Education for a three (3) year term, commencing on
To vote
upon the adoption of the Budget of the School District for the 2006-2007 fiscal year and to
authorize the requisite portion thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable
property of the School District.
To adopt the following propositions:
RENOVATION OF ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL,
INCLUDING ROOF, FAÇADE AND
ENTRANCES
RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the Pawling Central
School District, is hereby authorized to (1) renovate the Elementary School,
including Roof Replacement, Repointing
of Façade, and Exterior Entrance Repairs at a cost not to exceed $2,600,000,
which is estimated to be the maximum cost thereof, (2) expend such sums for
such purpose, (3) levy the tax necessary therefor, to be levied and collected
in annual installments in such years and in such amounts as may be determined
by the Board of Education, taking into account state aid received, and (4) in
anticipation of the collection of such tax, to issue bonds and notes of the
District at one time or from time to time in the principal amount not to exceed
$2,600,000, and to levy a tax to pay the interest on such obligations when due.
BUS PURCHASE PROPOSITION
RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the Pawling Central
School District, is hereby authorized to (1) acquire school buses and school
vehicles at a cost not to exceed $273,157, which is estimated to be the maximum
cost thereof, (2) expend such sums for such purpose, (3) levy the tax necessary
therefor, to be levied and collected in annual installments in such years and
in such amounts as may be determined by the Board of Education, taking into
account state aid received, and (4) in anticipation of the collection of such
tax, to issue bonds and notes of the District at one time or from time to time
in the principal amount not to exceed $273,157, and to levy a tax to pay the
interest on such obligations when due.
The Board of Education gives
further notice that personal registration of voters has been adopted for said
School District and that no person shall be entitled to vote at said meeting
whose name does not appear on the register of the School District and/or is
registered under the provisions of Article 5 of the Election Law for general
election purposes.
Said Board of
Education gives further notice that the Board of Registration will prepare the
register of said School District and any person shall be entitled to have his
or her name placed upon such register provided that at any meeting of the Board
of Registration, he or she is known or proven to the satisfaction of such Board
of Registration to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at the School
District Meeting for which such register is prepared so long as the registrant
votes at least once in four years.
Said date,
time and place of the meeting of the Board of Registration is as follows:
and will be
held at the
Please take
further notice that the register prepared pursuant to Section 2014 of the
Education law shall be filed in the Office of the District Clerk; that such
register shall be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District,
on each of five days prior to the day of the election, except Sunday, May 14,
2006, and that the hours during which such register shall be open for
inspection shall be from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Prevailing Time.
Please take
further notice that applications for absentee ballots for election of Board
Members and voting on the budget and propositions may be applied for at the
Office of the District Clerk. Completed
applications must be received by the District Clerk at least seven (7) days
before the election if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter, or the day
before the election if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the
voter. A list of all persons to whom
absentee ballots shall have been issued will be available in said office of the
District Clerk on each of the five days prior to the day of the election except
Please take
further notice that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will
be required by the ensuing year for school purposes, exclusive of public
monies, may be obtained by any taxpayer in the District during the fourteen
days immediately preceding the Annual District Election except Saturdays,
Sundays or Holidays, at each School Building between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and
3:00 p.m., Prevailing Time and also at said District Election.
Please take
further notice that petitions nominating candidates for the office of Member of
the Board of Education to fill two (2) expired terms of three years must be
filed with the District Clerk no later than the thirtieth day preceding the
Annual Election of
AND FURTHER
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to a rule adopted by the Board of
Education in accordance with Sections 2035 and 2008 of the Education law, any
referenda or propositions to amend the budget, or otherwise to be submitted for
voting at said vote and election, must be filed with the Board of Education on
or before April 24, 2006 at 5:00 p.m., prevailing time; must be typed or
printed in the English language; must be directed to the Clerk of the School
District; must be signed by at least fifty (50) of the qualified voters of the
District; and must state the name and residence of each signer. However, the School Board will not entertain
or place before the voters any proposition if its purpose is beyond the power
of the voters or is illegal, or any proposition requiring the expenditure of
moneys which fails to include specific appropriations for all such expenditures
required by the proposition.
AND BE IT
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the School District Clerk shall cause the Notice set
forth above to be published once each week for four (4) weeks within the seven
(7) weeks preceding the Annual Meeting, Election and Vote, the first such
notice to be published at least 45 days prior to the Election and Vote, in
accordance with Section 2004 of the Education Law.
Dated:
_____________________________
District
Clerk
FINAL ANNUAL NOTICE WILL
CONTAIN THIS BUDGET PROPOSITION
2006-2007 BUDGET PROPOSITION
RESOLVED, that the Board of
Education of the Pawling Central School District, Dutchess and Putnam Counties
is hereby authorized to appropriate the estimated expenditures of $
_______________ for the ensuing 2006-2007 school year in accordance with the
statement which has been presented by the Board of Education under Education
Law, Section 1716, and raise the necessary taxes thereof.
BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of Education present a contingent budget of
$ _____________ as required by State law, which will be required for school
district purposes for the year
The
Property Tax Report Card be accepted as presented, and
BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of Education direct the District Clerk to
amend the Notice of the Annual Public Hearing on the Budget, Annual Meeting,
School District Election and Vote and to give notice thereof.