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2018-2019 School Year Meetings
MONDAY, May 13, 2019
7:00 p.m.
SOUTH PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL - LECTURE HALL
AGENDA
Revised
Call to Order
Roll Call
House Johnson Kirk Matthews Perkins Wiesendanger Tipton
Student Representatives Gailey Turner
Pledge of Allegiance
Opening Statement
Report of the Secretary
1. Approval of the minutes from the Regular Meeting held on Monday, April 8, 2019.
Report of the Chair
1. Announcement of the next Board of Education Regular Meeting: Monday, June 10, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. in the SPHS Lecture Hall.
Report of the Superintendent
1. Announcements/Recognitions – Mr. Kunin
2. Resignations and Retirements – Mr. Kunin
Resignations: Daniel Schwarz, School Psychologist, District
Erin McNeill, Kindergarten, Dyer
Retirements: Cecile LaPlante, French, SPHS
Susan Donovan, Math, Memorial
3. Report on Enrollment – Mr. Kunin
4. Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Update – Ms. Welter
5. Report of the Director of Community Partnerships – Ms. Eberle
6. Report on New Business – Mr. Kunin
Audience of Citizens - Topics on the Agenda
Citizens in the audience will be privileged to speak to a topic on the agenda. Such privilege is to be limited to one presentation per citizen of not more than five minutes.
Report of Committees
1. Report of the Finance Committee – Ms. House/Mr. Perkins
2. Report of the Buildings & Grounds Committee – Mr. Matthews/Ms. Kirk
3. Report of the Policy Committee – Ms. Tipton
Policy KEB – Complaints About School Personnel (First Read)
Policy KHB – Advertising in the Schools (First Read)
Policy JKE – Expulsion of Students (First Read)
Policy JKE-R – Expulsion Guidelines (First Read)
4. Report of the Middle School Building Committee - Mr. Matthews
Correspondence
New Business
1. Consideration and action to authorize that $21,742,852 be expended for Regular Instruction.
2. Consideration and action to authorize that $9,944,148 be expended for Special Education.
3. Consideration and action to authorize that $0 be expended for Career and Technical Education.
4. Consideration and action to authorize that $1,090,052 be expended for Other Instruction.
5. Consideration and action to authorize that $3,278,162 be expended for Student and Staff Support.
6. Consideration and action to authorize that $1,557,093 be expended for System Administration.
7. Consideration and action to authorize that $2,640,644 be expended for School Administration.
8. Consideration and action to authorize that $2,356,238 be expended for Transportation and Buses.
9. Consider and action to authorize that $4,735,654 be expended for Facilities Maintenance.
10. Consideration and action to authorize that $4,488,157 be expended for Debt Service and Other Commitments.
11. Consideration and action to authorize that $498,520 be expended for All Other Expenditures.
12. Consideration and action to authorize that $38,310,236.14 be appropriated for the total cost of funding public education from pre-kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act and that $31,582,956 be raised as the City's contribution to the total cost of funding public education from pre-kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act in accordance with the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 15688.
Explanation: The City's contribution to the total cost of funding public education from pre-kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act is the amount of money determined by state law to be the minimum amount that the municipality must raise in order to receive the full amount of State dollars.
13. Consideration and action to authorize that $3,898,699 be raised and appropriated for the annual payments on debt service previously approved by the voters for non-State-funded school construction projects and non-State-funded portions of school construction projects in addition to the funds appropriated as the local share of the City's contribution to the total cost of funding public education from pre-kindergarten to grade 12.
Explanation: Non-State-funded debt service is the amount of money needed for the annual payments on the City’s long-term debt for major school construction projects that are not approved for state subsidy. The bonding of this long-term debt was previously approved by the voters of the City as follows:
SPHS Auditorium/Cafeteria Construction, approved by voters on November 8, 1994.
Elementary Schools Construction and Renovation, approved by voters on November 6, 2001.
South Portland High School Addition and Renovation, approved by voters on November 2, 2010.
14. Consideration and action to authorize that $8,585,988 be raised and appropriated in additional local funds, which exceed the State’s Essential Programs and Services Allocation model by $8,585,988 as required to fund the budget recommended by the Board of Education.
The Board of Education recommends $8,585,988 for additional local funds and gives the following reasons for exceeding the State’s Essential Programs and Services funding model by $8,585,988.
Co-curricular/athletic costs not recognized by EPS
Maintaining/Staffing two small Middle Schools rather than one
Staffing for Nursing Services greater than acknowledged by EPS
Maintaining/Staffing five small Elementary Schools rather than four
Class Size Targets less than State standard
Lease payments for six Type C school buses
Lease payments for SPHS iPads, 6th grade iPads, SPHS staff laptops, and interactive white boards/displays
Capital Improvement Projects for Mahoney, Memorial and SPHS approved by voters on June 9, 2009
Explanation: The additional local funds are those locally raised funds over and above the municipality’s local contribution to the total cost of funding public education from pre-kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act and local amounts raised for the annual payment on non-State funded debt service that will help achieve the school department budget for educational programs.
15. Consideration and action to authorize the Board of Education to expend $52,331,520 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019 and ending June 30, 2020 from the municipality’s contribution to the total cost of funding public education from pre-kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act, non-State funded school construction projects, additional local funds for school purposes under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 15690, unexpended balances, tuition receipts, state subsidy and other receipts for the support of schools.
16. Consideration and action to authorize the City of South Portland to appropriate $25,000 for Adult Education and raise $25,000 as the local share; with authorization to expend any additional, incidental, or miscellaneous receipts in the interest and for the well-being of the adult education program.
17. Consideration and action to authorize the City of South Portland to raise and appropriate $490,000 in additional local dollars in support of the food service program.
18. Consideration and action to authorize the Board of Education to expend such other sums as may be received from state and federal grants or programs or other sources during the fiscal year for school and/or adult education purposes provided that such grants, programs or other sources do not require the expenditure of other funds not previously appropriated.
19. Consideration and action to authorize the Board of Education to use all or part of additional state subsidy received, if any, to increase expenditures for school purposes in cost center categories approved by the School Board, increase the allocation of finances in a reserve fund approved by the School Board, and/or decrease the local cost share expectation, as defined in Title 20‑A, section 15671‑A(1)(B), for local property taxpayers for funding public education as approved by the School Board.
20. Consideration and action to approve the addition of a kindergarten teacher position at Small School per the Superintendent's memo.
21. Consideration and action to accept the donations/grants:
· $750 in donations (3 checks/$250 each) from Walmart to the SPHS Robotics Program.
· $150 donation to the Brown School Food Pantry made in honor of Elizabeth Stehle Giroux.
- Donation In-Kind of services totaling $4,550 which included a photo shoot, digital post production and poster design for the SPHS production of Newsies, from Mr. Irvin Serrano of Irvin Serrano Photography, Biddeford, Maine.
*Audience of Citizens - Open Discussion
*Citizens in the audience will be privileged to speak on any educational topic. Such privilege is to be limited to one presentation per citizen of not more than five minutes.
Adjournment
March 19, 2019 Budget Workshop Meeting
March 11, 2019 Regular Meeting/Budget Presentation
February 11, 2019 Regular Meeting
January 14, 2019 Regular Meeting
January 8, 2019 City/School Budget Guidance
December 10, 2018 Regular Meeting
November 14, 2018 Special Meeting and Regular Meeting
October 10, 2018 Special Meeting and Regular Meeting
September 10, 2018 Regular Meeting
2017-2018 School Year Meetings
2016-2017 School Year Meetings
| July 10, 2017 | Regular Meeting | |
| June 12, 2017 | Regular Meeting | |
| June 12, 2017 | Special Meeting | |
| May 8, 2017 | Regular Meeting | |
| April 10, 2017 | Regular Meeting | |
| April 10, 2017 | Budget Workshop | |
| March 30, 2017 | Budget Workshop | |
| March 28, 2017 | Budget Workshop | |
| March 23, 2017 | Budget Workshop | |
| March 21, 2017 | Budget Workshop | |
| March 13, 2017 | Regular Meeting | |
| March 6, 2017 | Workshop | |
| February 27, 2017 | Regular Meeting | |
| January 23, 2017 | State of the Schools | |
| January 9, 2017 | Regular Meeting | |
| December 14, 2016 | Regular Meeting | |
| December 5, 2016 | Inauguration | |
| December 5, 2016 | Special Meeting | |
| November 14, 2016 | Regular Meeting | |
| November 14, 2016 | Workshop | |
| October 12, 2016 | Regular Meeting | |
| September 26, 2016 | Workshop | |
| September 12, 2016 | Regular Meeting | |
| August 29, 2016 | Regular Meeting | |