EMPLOYEE NEWSLETTER
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VOLUME XXIII July, 2007
Number 1 |
REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, JULY 12, 2007
The Board of Trustees:
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Approved minutes of previous meetings.
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Heard concerns regarding the Columbia High School Musical.
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Adopted the FY 2008 Budget.
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Approved the transfer of interest earnings from Sixteenth Section Funds
to the District Maintenance Fund.
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Approved the claims docket for payment of current accounts.
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Received monthly reports on bus repairs/expenses and the use of school
buses for special events.
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Approved requests to dispose of the following equipment that is beyond
repair: printers, tag #s 3432, 3823, 3030, 1176, 3479, 3031, 1178, & 4803;
computers, tag #s 4403, 4609, 2577, 1177, & 770; desk, tag #218; document
server, tag #3818; television, tag #4654; cabinet, tag # 868; audiometer, tag
#2053; freezer, tag #885; air filter, tag #774; overhead projector, tag #3435;
and router, tag #1660.
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Approved a request to destroy the following special education records:
federal projects through the 2001-2002
school year, correspondence and general files prior to 2002, records on former
students who were ineligible for special education, records on former students
who are deceased, and records on former students who were eligible or
ineligible for the gifted program (retained for five inactive years).
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Approved requests for permission to travel out-of-state.
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Approved requests from district employees living out of the district
for their children to attend
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Accepted a cash donation from Hattiesburg Coca Cola Bottling Company in
the amount of $15,000.00 to be used toward the purchase of the new football
scoreboard.
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Accepted students released from
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Authorized the expenditure of district improvement funds toward the
purchase of the new football scoreboard.
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Accepted the bid submitted by Buffalo Services, Inc. for transportation
fuel for the 2007-2008 school year.
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Gave first approval of Teacher Support Team/Intervention Strategist and
Instructional Technology Strategist job descriptions.
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Gave first approval of revisions
to Sections A (Organization), B (School Board Operations), C (General School
Administration), and D (Fiscal Management) of the District School Board Policy
Manual.
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Approved the recommendation to continue to provide school psychology
services through the
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Approved the cooperative agreement between the
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Authorized the purchase of EZ test data scanners and software from
Educational Materials Specialist, Inc., the sole source distributor.
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Accepted employment resignations submitted by Shirley Porter as a
special education teacher at
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Approved the employment of the following persons for the 2007-2008
school year: Donna Bass as a teacher/flag guard coach at Columbia High School;
Anthony Woody as a teacher/coach at Columbia High School; Marshall Wall as a
seventh grade reading teacher at Jefferson Middle School; Dana Phillips as a
third grade teacher at Columbia Primary School; Kenneth Lumpkins as assistant
boys basketball, 8th grade boys basketball, and 8th grade
assistant football coach; Edward Corker as 8th grade girls
basketball coach; T.J. Jackson as a CHS assistant football coach; Brenda
Shields as assistant girls basketball coach; Darren Smith as 8th
grade assistant football and 9th grade assistant football coach;
Carol Davis, Wanda B. Powell, Jeanetta Burrell, Brandy Sorrell; Michelle
Johnson, and Elizabeth Waters as teacher assistants at Columbia Primary School;
Annette Taylor as a custodian at Columbia Primary School; Angela Jefferson as a
custodian for the central office and central office annex; Lela Cox and Sophia
Bickham as student council co-sponsors at Jefferson Middle School; Rena Toney
as a special education teacher assistant at Jefferson Middle School; Shelly
Segalini as Teacher Support Team/Interventions Strategist; Kim Stringer as Instructional
Technology Strategist; Sheila Edler as a special education teacher at Columbia
Elementary School; Andrea Brown as the Day Treatment teacher at Columbia
Elementary School; Julia Long as a fourth grade teacher at Columbia Elementary
School; Renee Riley as a fifth grade teacher at Columbia Elementary School; Malia
McCarthy as a special education teacher at Jefferson Middle School; William
Frazier as band director at Jefferson Middle School and assistant band director
at Columbia High School; Janette Pigott as a special education teacher at
Columbia High School; Dameshia Reese as an English teacher/Jazz Catz Sponsor at
Columbia High School; William Thompson as a part-time assistant band director
at Columbia High School; and Alan Fortenberry as a twelve-month custodian at
Columbia High School.
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Heard a report from the Superintendent that included Mississippi Ethics
Commission Statement of Economic Interest; School Board Training; Austin
Fountain, a student at
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Discussed confidential legal matters in executive session.
