Avalon School

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

September 8th, 2009

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Avalon School

President:  Dawn Van Ryn                                    Board Members:

Vice President: Carrie Bakken                    Monessa Newell

Secretary:  Skip Olsen                                          Jo Sullivan

Treasurer:  Walter Anastazievsky                         Regina Goldner

Agenda

Call to order: 6:01 p.m.

Secretary’s Report/Approval of the Minutes: Approved

Approval of the Agenda: Approved

Accountability

Finance

Treasurer’s Report

1. Last year’s “hold back” money from the state has started to arrive. While this year’s “hold back” is greater than last year’s (10% and 27% respectively), Avalon’s financial position is not dire because we have money saved in CDs, checking and savings. Dean suggested that we look at the budget next month in light of the state funds continuing to come in.

Wire Transfers Approved:

4075    8132009         8/31/2009        Wells Fargo                  $ 79.15

4075    8152009          8/24/2009        PERA                          $ 441.04

4075    8202009          8/31/2009       Wells Fargo                  $ 54.70

4075    8282009          8/31/2009        Wells Fargo                  $ 79.15

4075    8312009          8/31/2009        Wells Fargo                  $ 300.00

4075    81320091        8/31/2009        Wells Fargo                  $ 33,390.20

4075    82820092        8/31/2009        Wells Fargo                  $ 33,363.98

Personnel

The Board approved the contracts of Brittany Perry and Jessamay Thompson as EAs for Special Education.

Academic Performance

State Compliance/Policies

Cooperative Hopefulness

Old Business

New Business

Open Meeting Law update: We acknowledged that we need to be careful with emails to each other so as not to violate the Open Meeting Law. Agendas will be posted on the website. We also expressed a desire to have students attend board meetings.

Board Training: MDE will post opportunities for Board training. We’ll talk next month, once the schedule and topics have been posted.

Review Strategic Planning Goals: Carrie reported on the Strategic Planning Goals Session that the staff had. She presented a document, “Program Challenges for 2009-2010″ that was developed by the staff. The goals identified in the document were similar to our discussions last month.

Approve New Strategic Planning Goals: The Board approved the Strategic Planning Goals as identified in the document noted above.

Adjourned: 6:54 p.m.

Next Meeting:  October 13^th, 2009