Oklahoma City Public Schools Board Meeting Minutes, 1980 by Metropolitan Library System Oklahoma

MINUTES OF MEETING OF JANUARY 4, 1980

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT

NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY,

OKLAHOMA, MET IN A SPECIAL MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1980, AT 8:00 A.M.

PRESENT:

Paul English, President Mrs. Pat Potts, Vice President Floyd Donwerth, Member Delbert Hamm, Member Mrs. Betty Hi IT, Member Armond H. Start, Member Mrs. Freddye Williams, Member

Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; William Bleakley, Attorney; Central Office staff members; representatives from professional groups; and other interested persons. The meeting was called to order by Mr. English and Dr. Hamm gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Roll call established that all of the Board members were present.

Roll Call

SPECIAL BUSINESS The following persons participated in the Level III grievance hearing for Ms. Gay Littlepage:

Gay Littlepage - Teacher and Grievant

Jim Huff - Grievant1s Representative

Mike Barlow - Grievant's Representative

Deaune McElhaney - Principal, Buchanan School, and Witness

Jim Savage - Personnel Administrator for Employee Relations, and Respondent

Charles Dostal - Witness

Mary Bloomer - Special Education Coordinator, and Witness

Jim Johnson - Director of Pupil Services, and Witness

Betty Williams - Director of Elementary Schools, and Witness

Level III Grievance Hearing - Gay Littlepage

10. Jesse Lindley - Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services, and Witness 11. George Russell - Director of Personnel Services, and Witness Statement of Grievance: (1) Grievant has been reprimanded without just cause. (2) Principal reprimanded the grievant in the presence of others without just cause. (3) Grievant has been assigned outside the scope of her certification. (4) Principal did not follow proper procedure in his admonishment. Provisions of Agreement Violated: Section 0 and 0.1.

Article VI, Section 1 and 3; (b) (Article VII, '

Relief Sought: (-1) Withdrawal of reprimand. (2) Public apology in the presence of the "others". (3) Grievant shall be reassigned without any students below the kindergarten grade. (4) Removal of all written documents concerning these matters from the grievant1s records.

Mr. English established through inquiry that Mike Barlow and Jim Huff would be recognized as individuals representing Ms. Littlepage in the hearing. After Mr. English referred to the timelines and procedures that would be used, Mr. Barlow indicated that they had not received copies, at which time they were provided with a copy of each.

Before proceeding with the opening statement, Mr. Barlow expressed disagreement with the hearing guidelines and time limits as specified. Mr. English responded that the timelines had been adopted by the Board and the hearing would be conducted along those lines.

Mr. Barlow continued: This grievance, first of all, is at Level III because the Opening Statement Superintendent chose not to hear the grievance, at Level .1, As the contract provides,it was - Mr. Barlow advanced to Level III, and that is why it is before you. This grievance stems from the fact that the administration directed the teacher to accept three-year-old students into her class. In effect, they gave her an assignment. The teacher never refused to accept the assignment. She questioned the assignment. She informed the administration (that being the Director of Elementary Education, the Personnel Director, and the Principal) that she did not feel competent; she did not feel

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qualified to teach the children that were being assigned to her. She did argue her point of view with them. She never said she would not do it, but said she could not, didn't think she could, and she questioned. The administration then said we will get back to you, and they did. The principal sent her a letter telling her if you tlon't report tomorrow, I will recommend your dismissal. That is how they got back to her. The next day she was ill. She called in and followed proper procedures for sick leave, and she was out on sick leave. She then received a letter that you did not report as you were instructed, and if you don't provide a doctor's note to prove that you were ill, then I will recommend you for termination. That came from Personnel. She didn't provide a doctor's note, because she felt that was not one of her contractua obligations; that it was invasion. We have a doctor's note here that we will offer into evidence because it is proper in this hearing. She was ill for two days. She reported to work on Monday, and since that time she has been harassed; she has been berated; lied about. The admonishment, reprimands that were written up and threatened with her have been shown to other people, a direct violation of the contract, and that has been part of the harassment. When we went before the principal at Level I to hear the grievance, he refused to say anything except I will respond in writing. He refused to discuss the grievance at Level I. We don't know why. There was no Level II hearing. We don't know why. What this teacher refused to do was to just accept blindly an assignment that she professionally did not feel that she could perform. She did not refuse to accept. She refused to blindly accept the idea that she had to do it, and she wanted to question it. She wanted to discuss it further, and she wanted to investigate it with the State Department of Education, which she was told had sanctioned it. She wanted to find out for herself. The administration said we will get back to you, and they did by sending her a letter saying that if you don't report tomorrow, which was not even 24 hours; it said 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, and she received the letter about three o'clock in the afternoon, you will be recommended for dismissal. Then she had the nerve to get ill; the nerve to get sick. And again, she had the nerve not to blindly hand over a doctor's note just because someone asked for it, because the contract provided that after five days, they could ask for a doctor's statement. It didn't provide for that. Since then she has been harassed over and over again, not only by the administration at her building, but we consider it harassment that at Level I the principal refused to even discuss it; refused to try to resolve it at Level I. We consider it harassment that the Superintendent refused to hear the grievance at Level II, a direct violation of the contract, and that is why you are here today. Honestly, we consider it harassment that whether or not all of her witnesses and all of her testimony is finished in 20 minutes, that you are prepared to make a decision. We hope that you will throw away those rules and listen to the evidence, and listen to the case, and grant the relief sought, which is to remove those reprimands; the principal to apologize in the presence of the others that he showed this reprimand to and discussed this reprimand with, because that is a violation of the contract, and that all of these records will be removed from her file.

Jpening Statement - Mr. Savage

Mr. Savage stated: First of all, I would like to clear up that there was no refusal to have a Level II grievance hearing. I was given the assignment to act as the Superintendent's designee to hold a hearing. At the time this grievance was filed, I had one other grievance scheduled, and with the number of people involved, it was impossible to get everybody together on a date prior to the Thanksgiving holidays. No one wanted to meet the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. By that time, the time limit as provided in the contract did run out. Therefore, a hearing was not scheduled, and then on the 26th, the Level III grievance was filed. It was just entirely impossible to get all 'persons involved in the grievance together within the time frame. We have had this problem before and always we have extended the time. This time we went ahead and accepted the Level III grievance, and that is why we are here today, to determine if the contract has been violated in the manner specified in their statement of grievance. They claim that they were reprimanded without just cause. They claim that the grievant was assigned outside the scope of her certification. The respondent will show that the assignment was within the scope of certification of the grievant, and that the principal did act properly in handling this situation. The hearing was continued with testimony by the various witnesses as they were called.

testimony 1r. McElhaney

Mr. McElhaney's testimony included a response to questions that related to when did Ms. Littlepage refuse to accept her teaching duties; what were her words of refusal; if he had discussed the letter of reprimand with.anyone other than the administrators and Ms. Littlepage; the reason for the admonishment; if he had checked on the certification for teaching visually-impaired students before they were assigned; why did he not accept the fact that Ms. Littlepage said that she was not qualified; if the State Statutes stipulated that a special education teacher must accept children of all ages; when was the letter del ivered:to Ms,. Littlepage; if he felt the correct amount of time had been allowed before recommending dismissal; did he write the reply at Level I or who aided him in writing the report; and other.

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Mr. Dostal responded to inquiries regarding whether Mr. McElhaney had shown him the letter of'September 26 and the information he received about Ms. Littlepage's absence, and the discussion of the dismissal request; his reason for visiting the principal, and other.

Testimony Mr. Dostal

Mr. McElhaney responded to additional questioning as to whether Mr. Dostal was telling Additional Testimony the truth in his:testimony about the letter; if he remembered Beverly Dustin being Mr. McElhaney present; did Mr. Dostal report that he had called the substitute office about verification that Ms. Littlepage had called in; when did Ms. Littlepage come back to work from her illness; if Ms. Littlepage had said that she was ill the two days; the time frame of when the discussion came up about the possibility that she would have preschool children assigned, and other.

Testimony by Dr. Williams included her response to when did Ms. Littlepage refuse to accept the assignment; the discussion that took place between her and Ms. Littlepage; if she had checked with the State Department to see if the certification was proper; by Ms. Littlepage's action did she refuse to take the assignment; the services that are provided to children other than by classroom teachers; are any services provided under PL 94-142 by the school; did Ms. Littlepage ever provide services to any of these children; what did Ms. Littlepage do specifically to make her feel that she would not accept the children; why was the district concerned about providing the services; did Ms. Littlepage ever report to her classroom to teach these children; and other.

Testimony Dr. Williams

Ms. Bloomer's testimony included answers to questions concerning did Ms. Littlepage refuse to accept the assignment-arid, if so, how she knew; was she asked to check with the State Department to see if Ms. Littlepage was certified to teach these students; the date she did the checking; did she think a special education teacher has the background to teach any age child in that area; the preparation required by the State Department for certification in early childhood education instruction; and other.

Testimony Ms. Bloomer

Mr. Johnson's testimony related to how he was involved in the incident with Ms. Littlepage; did he check with the State Department in any way about Ms. Littlepage's certtfication; did he hear Ms. Littlepage say that she had refused to accept the assignment; the number of teachers for visually impaired in the system; did anyone tell him that Ms. Littlepage refused to teach the class; and Other.

Testimony Mr. Johnson

Dr. Lindleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;responded to questions related to whether Ms. Littlepage ever refused to accept the assignment; did he feel like by the action of the teacher that there was a concern about the services that would be provided to the children; did he feel like he had done everything possible to provide services to these children; did any of Ms. Littlepage's actions indicate that she did not accept the children; when was the date of the conference with Ms. Littlepage; did someone state that they would get back to Ms. Littlepage on the afternoon of the conference; and other.

Testimony Dr. Lindley

Mr. Russell's testimony related to whether he was ever in a conference with Ms. Testimony Littlepage; did he have any discussion with the principal after the grievance was filed; Mr. Russell did Ms. Littlepage state in the conferences that she would not accept the assignment; did her action indicate a refusal to accept the assignment; why was her absence considered a refusal to accept the assignment; did Ms. Littlepage call her principal or the substitute desk about her illness; whether a teacher can use her sick leave; his interpretatton of Ms. Littlepage's refusal to accept the assignment; did he feel that she was using sick leave improperly as a refusal to accept the assignment; why did he consider her absence as abuse of sick leave; would he accept the word of a person that they were ill; why he requested evidence that she was ill; verification of his attempt to deliver the letter to Ms. Littlepage; and other.

During Mr. Russell's testimony, Mr. Savage reminded the Board that many of the questions being asked did not relate to the grievance as filed. There was also discussion about the repetition in the questioning. Testimony by Ms. Littlepage included if she had ever accepted the assignment to teach the students in question; did she feel that by any of her actions she had refused to accept the assignment of her students; receipt of a letter regarding her not reporting to work and the recommendation for her dismissal; why she did not give the doctor's statement to the principal; did she feel that she was being harassed by the administration; had anyone told her that Mr. McElhaney discussed the letter with them; after receiving the letter from the principal, did she read in the state law about admonishment as such; did she at anytime refuse to teach any students in her classroom; if she was qualified to teach three-year-olds; what -are the special needs of a three-year-old child; did she ever assist classroom teachers with other students; the kind of degree she had; if she knew how many teachers there were in the system for visually-impaired children; if she was aware that there were courses available for certification in childhood education; what she said to the administration even though she did not refuse; to whom were the students assigned; did anyone ever get back with her after the letter stating that she must report to work; why did she feel that it was unjust for her to be reprimanded; why was she not in the classroom on two specific days; had she been harassed at work; did she state to Mr. Russell that she was ill; was it made clear to Mr. McElhaney that she wanted to settle the issue at Level I; did her certification permit her to teach preschool handicapped children;

Testimony Ms. Littlepage

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if a teacher does not feel qualified, should she. refuse to provide services to the students; who she talked to, to report that she would not be present at work; why she did not explain further about her absence, in view of the circumstances; if she had been at school the two days, would she have taught the children assigned to her; <is it right that since she is certified, to feel and say that she is not qualified; was it her personal feeling about teaching the students for the betterment of the children; her suggested alternative to assist the preschool teacher; did she ever refuse to accept the assignment; and other.

Additional testimony )r. Williams

Dr. Williams gave additional testimony as to whether there were any alternatives considered in the assignment of teachers to afford the services to the students; did Ms. Littlepage offer an alternative in expressing that she was ill,and to work with these children; and other.

losing Statement â&#x2013; Mr. Barlow

Mr. Barlow stated: I would like to go back now. Ms. Littlepage was Ordered to teach three-year-old children. She did not and does not feel that she is qualified. She has gone all the way out of state to become qualified to teach visually-impaired children. As a special education teacher, she did feel qualified to assist a preschool teacher, one that had been trained to teach preschool children, with her skills as a visually-impaired teacher. She offered in good faith that alternative. She continued to question or to not agree with the central administration and her principal that she was qualified to teach. From the testimony that I have heard here today, we have not really heard anybody in the central administration say that she is qualified; they have all just said she is certified. So the question becomes whether or not she refused to accept an assignment, and therefore whether it was proper to reprimand her and to inform her that she would be dismissed if she did not accept the assignment. The only testimony that any witnesses have given that would even hint to a refusal is a vague reference by some of the witnesses that her actions spoke for themselves. But if you listened to all of the testimony that was given, the actions that people are interpreting as the actions of refusal were the actions of questioning; the actions of not saying blindly, if you say I have to do it, I have to do it. The grievant herself has testified that had she not been ill, she would have taught those children. She has testified that she reported on Monday, October 1, and would have taught the children but they were not assigned to her, and they never have been assigned to her. When she was questioning the administration, she wanted to check with the State Department herself. Is that unreasonable not to accept the explanation of the Director, but to check for herself? Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;wariited to consider resigning. Is that so unreasonable? She is in great demand. There are only four. If students are coming all the way from Shawnee to her school, she must be in great demand. If she didn't feel qualified, she had a right to think about it. She never, never, never refused. There is no testimony that by word or by action that she refused to accept andas.signment; therefore, all of the documents, all of the letters threatening her for her refusal stcite in there that these letters are because you have refused. There has been no evidence offered; no testimony offered to show that she did refuse. Therefore, admonishing her and reprimanding her for refusing is not proper, because she never refused. All of that must be removed from her records. In relation to the principal's reprimand in the presence of others, he was very vague in his testimony as to whether or not he did any kind of reprimanding in the presence of others. A parent that cares about his children came to the school and the reprimand was discussed with Mr. Dostal, and that is in the presence of others. The grievance asks that the relief be an apology in the presence of the others, alid in this case, in the presence of Mr. Dostal for discussing that matter. There has been other testimony that hasn't been substantiated, because teachers in the building, some of them did not want to come and testify because of the atmosphere in the building and the feeling, and they have seen the harassment that has come Ms. Littlepage's way, and they just didn't want to come here today. But we did have Mr. Dostal who came and told you that the principal discussed it with him. Mr. Dostal also told you that he checked with Ms. McKenzie at the Central Office, and yes, we think that there has been a great deal of testimony to show you that she called the principal's office to say that she wouldn't be in; She was about to tell him she was sick when he hung up on her; that she called the sub tape, it was the first one taken off at 5:30 in the morning, to say that she would not be in. She did go to the doctor, although it is not required to go to the doctor, the Personnel Director admits. She does have evidence that she went to the doctor, and it is proper for us to present the evidence to you at this point and we have. So any reference to the reprimand should be removed from her files. That the grievant has been assigned outside the scope of her certification, at this point that is a moot question. There are no such children in Ms. Littlepage's room. In fact, none were ever assigned to her that were out of the scope of her certification. So the relief is already granted there that she is assigned only students that are kindergarten grade or above. But at the time the grievance was filed, that was not the case. So the crux of this grievance now comes down to the reprimand, all of this material that is in her file and that is being used against her at this time, and if allowed to remain there will be used against her for the rest of her career. We ask that it be removed.

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Mr. Savage stated: Again, I want to make it clear that we are here to discuss this Closing Statement grievance as filed, which is an alleged violation of the contract in two or three - Mr. Savage______ areas, one of them being reprimanded without just cause and one of them being reprimanded in the presence of others without just cause, and another one being assigned outside the scope of certification. Ms. Littlepage, a teacher, and evidently a very good teacher, from what I have been able to find out, at Buchanan, was informed before the end of school of the possibility of the assignment of some preschool visuallyhandicapped children at the beginning of the school year. This is not an issue that came up on the 21 sth of September, the 25th of September, or the 26th of September. It was something that started last spring before school was out. The district is obligated by law to provide services for preschool partially-sighted or visuallyhandicapped children. We have that duty to follow with the resources that we have available. Because of the situation involving the grievant and in conference with several other administrators besides the principal, some alternatives were looked at to possibly reach a solution to the problem. With our limited resources, no availability of other teachers to do so, we felt like that the only thing to do was to make the assignment of these children to Ms. Littlepage. We made every effort to give consideration to her concerns about not feeling qualified, but there again I state that her certification does qualify her, according to the state, to teach these children. It is the the principal's responsibility by the contract to make the assignments within the building. The contract also says the assignment of the teachers will be based on student needs. The principal has not violated the contract in his assignment of this teacher. We will concede that Ms. Littlepage never did say I refuse. But because of all of the involvement of so many people, and Mr. Johnson, Dr. Lindley, Dr. Williams, and Mrs. Bloomer have all testified that the actions involved indicated that she would refuse to accept the children. She was given a letter of admonishment as provided by the law and, when I say the law, I am referring to as cited in the letter, it is the Oklahoma Statutes. They are not citing the section of the School Code; it is Section 103-13 of the Oklahoma Statutues, which is part of the School Code pertaining to special education programs. She was given a letter of admonishment telling her to report the next day. As far as the time frame involved, she was aware of the situation involving the assingment of these children and the principal felt like, along with consultation of other administrators, that she should be notified to report to work the next day. She did call in the next day and said she would not be there. She made no effort to call back later to contact the principal, to contact Dr. Williams or any other people that she had been in discussion with of this matter that she did want to come back, she did want to take the children, but that she was sick. She called the school again on Friday and reported that she talked to the secretary, but did not talk to Mr. McElhandy. There again she made no . one aware that she was willing to take these children. She did state that had she been there, and if they were given to her, she supposed she would have to take them. But her actions indicated that the services would not be provided as required bylaw for the school district to provide. I think that to have a teacher, and I am talking about any teacher of any subject or of any ;type of student, to say that tfieyi.simply do not feel qualified is grounds for not assigning students to theirclass is putting us in a very dangerous situation that would leave us wide open to set out here all of a sudden for some dayr a group of teachers to suddenly say I don't feel qualified to teach these students, and we would not be able to provide the services to them.if you make the determination based on the statement of the grievant that she was given the wrong assignment because she did not feel that she was qualified. She was assigned within the scope of her certification. As far as the reprimand without just cause, it does not state in the grievance what the reprimand was. I am assuming that since it says that the grievance occurred on the 26th of September, that the grievant is referring to the letter of admonishement by the principal, wherein he followed the law for admonishing a teacher for things that had occurred that might lead to possible dismissal or suspension. He did follow that and had just cause. We feel like in sending that letter to the teacher, there is no statement in here of .where the grievant was reprimanded in the presence of others, unless the grievant has assumed that this letter was seen by other administrators prior to her receiving it in mail. We feel like that this grievance should be denied on all counts, that these written documents related to this incident are very important and should not be removed from the file. We still hold that the assignment was proper and within the scope of certification and that any reprimand given, if the letter of admonishment is a reprimand, was with just cause.

Mr. English asked for comments from members of the Board.

Dr. Hamm stated: I had one question that if the administration had followed the advice and counsel of the teacher not to teach the students because she was not qualified and we had upheld her in that decision, what would have been the possible consequences in regard to violation of the law? Mr. Bleakley - The ultimate consequence of violation of federal law would be loss of federal funds, if we failed to meet our obligation to provide instruction to that student.

Dr. Hamm - And therefore we could not have provided this service to any student if we diidnot have the federal funds to do it with, unless we would provide it from our own operating budget?

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Mr. Bleakley - I guessjyo.u could say that, yes.

Mr. Donwerth - When did Ms. Littlepage offer her willingness to astfst the preschool teacher? Was that prior to the letter of admonishment on the 26th or was that in a ^discussion after that date? I hear that the administration tried to work out a compromise or some solution to the problem. I can personally appreciate Ms. Littlepage s statement that she did not feel like she was qualified. I don't see where she has refused. However, it has been indicated through testimony of others that she felt she was refusing with her reluctance to accept these children; however, we were told that no children had ever been assigned to her and that she continued her assigned teaching duties on the basis that she would not accept preschool students, but still no preschool students had been assigned to her. I don't know why she was being admonished until she didn't accept them. Mr. English - My recollection of the testimony was that I think she said she talked with Dr. Williams about it, and also then in the conference, which both would have been before the 26th. There is a question about whether preschool students were assigned to her or not, but the Level III grievance is that the grievant has been assigned outside the scope of her certification. How could she be assigned outside her scope of certification if she hadn't been assigned students? It seems to me on its face right there, there is an acknowledgmentL of assignment of students because of the grievance over that. That would be my interpretation.

Mrs. Potts - I have a concern that I do think it is important if we want teachers to do the best job possible, that they not feel that they cannot discuss with their supervisor their concerns about any inadequacies they may feel. I think that then the supervisor has the responsibility, where it is possible, to help provide them additional help to increase their ability, but I recognize also that a supervisor often has no choice but to place the person who seems best qualified in a position because these assignments must be covered. It seems to me that we had that very kind of a situation here. It kind of appears to me that is sort of a misunderstanding because there was a lot of things interpreted by actions that were unsaid. I personally lean somewhat toward leaving the record as it is with an addendum stating that indeed the grievant was not held to have actually refused to accept such assignment by verbal or written action, because I think this record could leave it to be interpreted later by someone else that that had happened. I am saying that actions may have led one logically to interpret that she would not accept such an assignment, but it does not appear to me from the testimony that either in writing or verbally she actually refused it. That is why I would lean toward that kind of an addendum to the record. Mr. Donwerth - In regard to the relief sought, number one, are we taking the letter of September 26 from Mr. McElhandy as the reprimand? Mr. English - Apparently.

Mrs. Hill - I think there are several letters here that some could be referred to as a reprimand and others might not. Do any of the proceedings from the Level I and II grievance hearings go into the teacher's file? So, in other words, we are saying then that the disposition in response to Level I would be in her file? Mrs. Potts - All of these materials would be a part of the teacher's record.

Mr. Savage*- After the grievance is settled. Nothing has been done in response to Level I. At Level I part of the relief was given by us saying that the letter of September 26 wouldbe removed from the personnel file. That relief was granted at Level I, but it was appealed. So, therefore, nothing has been done until we go through the final appeal, and everything is still in the file at this point. Mr. Donwerth - So you are saying that the relief sought, number one, removal of the reprimand, has been granted already through the Level I hearing, right? Mr. Savage - That was granted at Level I because we assumed that the grievance being dated September 26, that when it didn't go into details of what the reprimand was, we assumed it had to be the principal's letter because the Level Iwas filed against the principal. So we assumed that the reprimand was his letter of September 26, and we granted the relief sought there in saying that we would remove that from the files.

Mr. Donwerth then suggested that the items in relief sought be considered one at a time, separately. Discussion continued as to what would be included for removal from the teacher's record. After further disucssion relating to Item Number 1 of the grievance, Mr. Bleakley was asked to respond and stated: Her statement of grievance is "grievant has been reprimanded without just cause." And we are taking as the reprimand this letter from the principal to the teacher stating that he feels there are grounds for her dismissal and that she is to report to work. In deciding this first issue, you have got to decide

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if the facts that preceded that letter justified it, provided good cause for the principal writing that letter. That is the only issue to be resolved with the first one. You have got to examine the facts there, decide if the principal had just cause from the transaction of events to write a letter to that teacher saying if you don't show up for work, it could be grounds for your termination. The incidents that followed after that, the basis that she was sick and whether or not that sick leave was honored by the district are not relevant to the issue of did the principal have just cause to write that letter to the teacher on September 26.

Mr. English - So the just cause really is that the action that the principal took was not just an arbitrary, capricious action taken without any basis of belief. Dr. Hamm - But wasn't her absence on Thursday and Friday interpreted as being a part of her" action of refusing?

Mr. Bleakley - You have got two letters; one on the 26th, and this was apparently following some conferences, that says if you don't report for duty on Thursday, September 27, I will recommend your dismissal or nonreemployment. She didn't show up for work on the next day, and he did recommend her nonreemployment. On those two letters, you have got to look at what preceded them, as to whether or not there was just cause in writing those letters, and whether or not she was bona fide ill on those days. Even if she had reported to work that next day, that doesn't affect the just cause that existed for writing that letter telling her to come to work. Whether or not if she had reported to work, or whether or not she was absent, and if she was absent, whether or not she was ill has no bearing on whether or not that principal had just cause to write the letter the day before. That is a fact that occurred after he wrote that letter. The second letter was really a second incident. You look at the facts that occurred on the following day and you decide if the principal had just cause for recommending her dismissal based on the testimony that you have heard from everybody on what happened on Thursday with respect to her reported absence. Mr. Donwerth - You are talking about the letter from Mr. McElhaney that he did admonish the teacher, and based on her refusal, because she didn't show up on the morning of the 27th, that he is recommending her dismissal, nonreemployment. But at the same time in the testimony, Mr. McElhaney said he did check with the sub desk and that she had called in at 5:30 that morning. Mr. Bleakley - You may choose on the basis of that testimony to decide that there was not just cause for the principal to write that letter on the 27th. That really wouldn't have any bearing on whether or not there was just cause. I think those letters should be taken separately, based on the facts that occurred on the 26th, and prior with respect to that letter and everything up to the 27th, with respect to that letter in determining whether or not there was just cause.

Mrs. Williams - Then you are saying don't becloud the issue by letting incidents that occurred after the 26th determine what action that we take on the letter of the 26th?

Mr. Bleakley - The just cause for an act occurs prior to the act and not after with respect to whether or not the grievant was reprimanded without just cause. It looks to me like, with respect to those two letters, you have got two choices or two alternatives that there was or was not just cause for each of those letters. Mrs. Williams' - So' the letter was written on the 26th, and the actions had to occur far before the 26th. The testimony brought out that certain warnings were given before school closed last May about the possibility of students that would have to be assigned.

Mr. Barlow - In the relief sought, we are asking that not only the letter of the 26th be removed, but all of the letters subsequent to that of the 26th, because they all relate to the letter of the 26th. If you look at the second paragraph of the letter of the 26th, it says "you have refused to continue your assigned teaching duties." And that is what we showed here never happened. We would not be objecting to a letter that came to the employees saying be at work tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. to accept your duties. But this one says you have already refused. Mr. Bleakley - That is a question of fact for the Board to decide. Mr. Barlow - The letter says "you have refused." That is why we want this letter removed. The subsequent letters, the 27th and all of them relate to this and say that you are still refusing. We are maintaining that there never was a refusal, and therefore want all of this information withdrawn. Mr. Bleakley - You are dealing with relief, and they have to decide the basis of the grievance first. Like in a criminal proceeding, you don't give the sentence and then decide the guilt. They need to decide what they are going to grant under the grievance, and then they are going to decide what relief is appropriate from whatever they decide. Mr. Savage - I would like to point out that my reference to the letter of the 27th be trig removed along with the letter of the 26th is that the letter of the 27th could not have been written if there was not a letter of the 26th written, because the law provides that you admonish; therefore, the principal did. Now whether or not he had

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just cause to do that, you will have to decide. But if you decide that he did not have just cause to write that letter, then the letter of the 27th would be invalid, â&#x2013; so to speak. Mr. Bleakley - But the Board can, as they have done in the past, deny the grievance and grant the relief.

Mr. Savage - That is correct. In fact, at Level I the principal stated there that he had just cause to reprimand the teacher for not taking the assignment, but that the letter of the 26th would be removed since the services are being provided. But as to the letters of the 26th and 27th, under the law, the recommendation for dismissal can't be made until you have given a written admonishment. And when you talk about what would be removed, that is why I lumped the two letters together. Mr. English - The Board could decide that there was just cause for the letter of the 26th, and not just cause for the letter of the 27th, and we could actually say that both of them could be removed if we wanted to, still saying that there was just cause for a reprimand.

R. #1 Motion Re Grievance be Upheld

Mr. Donwerth stated: I move that we grant the relief for the removal of the letter of the 26th and subsequently the letter of the 27th.

After Mr. English asked for a clear statement of the motion, Mr. Donwerth stated: I move in favor of the grievant for the withdrawal of the reprimand. And apparently to make that motion, I would have to feel that the grievant was reprimanded without just cause. Mr. English - If I understand your motion, it is to uphold the grievance on Item Number 1 (grievant has been reprimanded without just cause) and grant the relief sought.

The motion was seconded by Dr. Hamm. After further discussion, Mrs. Potts suggested that the motion have a statement that the grievant was not reprimanded without just cause but to grant the relief sought with the withdrawal of the letters of the 26th and 27th as the result of subsequent actions of the plaintiff. Mr. Donwerth - In order for me to accept that perfection of the motion, I would have to have someone tell me that the reprimand is not the letter of the 26th, and if We'are taikingrabout something else, we need to'know what it is.

Mrs. Potts - The letter of the 26th was the reprimand, and we are talking about expunging that from the record, that record and the subsequent recommendation for her dismissal, because her actions have since indicated that she is on the job and we can surmise that she would have gone ahead and taught those students had they been assigned to her.

Mr. English -.Mr. Barlow has stated that she informed the administrators that she shouldn't do the teaching of these young people. We also heard that she says she was not qualified to do it. She questioned the certification even after the State Department of Education said that her certification covered these students. She still objected to that. We heard that they had the impression from their discussions with her that she and the other teacher were going to refuse to teach. We heard the talk about the attitude of you make your decision and we will make ours. So I think that the principal was very much justified in writing the letter of the 26th. We could remove the letter of the 26th and the 27th on the basis that after the fact of the letter being written, that now that all of the evidence has come in, that we feel like it would be best that that not be in that person's file in the future. But the question is whether the principal had just cause for reprimanding that teacher. And I, obviously, believe that the principal had the just cause. Discussion continued, after which it was determined, accepted and read by the Clerk that the motion was "that the grievance be upheld on Item Number 1 (grievance has been upheld without just cause), and the relief sought be granted. (Dr. Start departed the meeting at 10:00 a.m.)

On roll call, Mrs. Hill, in voting, stated: I am really confused; the second paragraph, I do not like. Since the principal did agree to remove the letter of September 26, I will vote aye. Mrs. Williams voted nay; Mrs. Potts voted nay; Dr. Hamm, in voting, stated: as difficult as it is to try to departmentalize and segmentize all of this, I still see it as one ball of wax in which everything has implications for everything else; I will vote aye. Mr. Donwerth voted aye, and Mr. English voted nay. Mr. English declared that the motion failed.

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A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mr. Donwerth that Item Number 1 be denied; that the Board hold that the grievant was not reprimanded without just cause, but that the relief be granted of withdrawal of the letter of reprimand (September 26, 1979) and the subsequent letter (September 27, 1979) recommending dismissal from the grievant's file.

R. #2 Motion Re Item Number 1 in Grievance and Relief Sought

Mr. Donwerth seconded the motion.

On roll call, Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. A motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Potts that grievance Item Number 2 (principal reprimanded the grievant in the presence of others without just cause) be denied, and the relief sought (public apology in the presence of others) be denied.

R. #3 Motion Re Item Number 2 and Relief Sought

On roll call, Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye;' Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. R. #4 It was moved by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Hamm that the grievance Item Number 3 Motion Re Item (grievant has been assigned outside the scope of her certification) be denied and the relief sought (grievant shall be reassigned without any students below the kindergarten Number 3 and Relief Sought grade) be denied, although that point was really moot at the time.

After a brief discussion, on roll call, Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. A motion was made by Mrs. Williams that grievance Item Number 4 (principal did not follow proper procedure in his admonishment) be denied and that the relief sought be denied. There being no second to the motion, Mr. English declared that the motion died for lack of a second. Mr. English - Let me share with you that the grievance is filed on the basis of Article VI, Section 1 and 3, and then Article VII, Section 0 and 0.1 in the contract. It is stated in 0.1 - "No teacher shall be disciplined, reprimanded, or reduced in compensation without just cause. No teacher shall be disciplined or reprimanded in the presence of others without just cause." Section 1 of Article VI talks about fair employment practices and the employment of teachers. The section that is involved with admonishment by principal on page 75 of your School law book is Section 99. It talks about whenever a principal, who has the administrative responsibility, believes it is necessary to admonish a teacher in the district for a reason he believes may lead to the teacher's dismissal or nonreemployment, "the principal shall (1) bring the matter to the attention of the teacher in writing and make a reasonable effort to assist the teacher to correct whatever appears to be the cause for potential dismissal or nonreemployment and allow a reasonable time for improvement, which time shall not exceed two months. The nature and gravity of the teacher's conduct shall be considered in determining what length of time would be reasonable. If the teacher does not correct the cause for potential dismissal or nonreemployment within a reasonable length of time, the principal shallmake a recommendation to the Superintendent of the school district for the dismissal or nonreemployment of the teacher." I think the point of the grievance- from the line of questioning that was pursued earlier was that the principal did not follow proper procedure in his admonishment. They have used the word admonishment for the first time, whereas previously they have used the word reprimand. So I think they are really referring us to the law at that point and we need to decide whether there was some violation of the contract because of the reference to the procedure in the law.

Mr. Donwerth - Would what you are saying then be, do we accept a reasonable length of time being from 3:00 one afternoon to 8:00 the next morning? Mr. English - That would be my point, that is a reasonable length of time, because one of the things it says is "the nature and gravity of the teacher's conduct shall be considered in determining what length of time would be reasonable." I think that probably here, the fact the students are without services being provided to them, that had an impact on the length of time.

Discussion continued as to what documents were left to be removed from Ms. Littlepage's file.

Mrs. Hill - But are the letters dated 10/1/79 and September 28 now a part of her personnel file? Mr. Savage - They are now; the memo from the Personnel Services Department dated 10/1/79, is in her file, and also the letter of September 28, where he requested the written statement. This has to do with her absence after the fact.

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Mrs. Hill - On that last grievance we heard, was not one of these letters included in that personnel file? Mr. Savage - That is right. In the grievance previously heard, they asked for relief bought in the removal of that request from the grievant's record. You denied the grievance anddthe relief sought. So that letter is still in there because it pertained to this prior grievance.

Mrs. Hill - So now it looks to me like they are coming back and asking the same thing then. The letter was not removed in the last hearing; so let's remove it in this grievance. Mr. Savage - What is in the personnel file as far as relating to the teacher's absence, the request for verification of the absence is still in the file. It was left there as the result of the previous grievance that you heard where you denied the grievance and the relief sought. Those letters are still part of that based on your decision then. Where they have asked for removal of all written documents concerning these matters from the grievant's record covers a lot of territory. In fact, the grievant's certification could be considered a written document relating to these matters. Mr. Donwerth - I would direct your attention to the contract on page 18, Item D, allegation and anonymous charges shall not be placed in the personnel files. I would read this contract to say that five days didn't expire, and that we asked for a statement from the doctor prior to a five days off because of illness. I don't see why we should leave this letter, because this is an allegation probably that she wasn't really sick. And there is verification that she was sick.

1. #5 lotion Re Item lumber 4

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams - "I move that grievance Item Number 4 (principal did not follow proper procedure in his admonishment) be denied."

On roll call, Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams, voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

Mr. Donwerth - In regard to the relief sought, it says "removal of all written documents concerning these matters from the grievant's records." We don't know what all the documents are. How can we remove all of them? I am in favor of removing two more, but I don't know what is in there. Mr. Barlow - It is our understanding that it is the letters of September 28 and October 1. Mr. Savage - There is the memo from George Russell dated 10/1/79 and a letter dated September 28, 1979 to Ms. Littlepage about her failure to report to duty on Thursday and Friday. Those two letters are in the file.

Mr. Donwerth then made a motion, stating: I move that the letter from Personnel Services dated 10/1/79 and the letter from Mr. Russell dated September 28, 1979, be removed from her personnel file, because I don't see where they really serve a purpose.

Mrs. Hill - The-last grievance we heard left this letter in, and I would think that it would be Ms. Littlepage's prerogative to not add this to her file. I think that on some of the other grievances, that is the way we disposed of them. Mr. Donwerth referred to the letter dated 10/1/79 and the had been presented.

doctor's statement as

Mr. Barlow referred to the 20 minutes that was allotted in the presentation of the case at the last hearing for Ms. Littlepage. Mr. English - You could have presented the doctor's statement during that 20 minutes and you chose not to do that.

Mr. English inquired about Mr. Donwerth's motion and,' there being no second, declared the motion died for lack of a second. Mr. English continued: I guess it is not required to take action on the relief sought when we deny the grievance. The assumption that goes with that is that the relief sought was denied also, unless there is a motion otherwise that prevails.

Mr. English, inquiring as to what Board members could be present at the next hearing which was scheduled on the agenda, it was determined that there would not be a quorum present following a break which he had announced earlier.

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Mr. Donwerth expressed disagreement about the timelines as set up for grievance hearings, after which discussion continued between members of the Board and Mr. Barlow.

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In discussing the grievance hearing to be conducted for Marion Brueggen, Mr. Barlow stated: We will agree to meet with the administration to see what we can stipulate on prior to even conducting the hearing, whenever it is set. Then, we could come to you and say whatever it is that we have agreed to. Mr. Barlow indicated that Ms. Brueggen could not be present Monday night for the hearing, after which Mr. English stated that the Board could take action on Monday night as to when they could hold the grievance. Mr. Barlow stated that this was acceptable. Mrs. Hill - And are we sort of agreeing that the two sides will get together and stipulate some things? Mr. Barlow - We will attempt to.

ADJOURNMENT

A motion to adjourn was made by Dr. Hamm and seconded by Mrs. Williams. On roll call, Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. WfTJiTams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED. (A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the Clerk's office.)

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

I, the undersigned Clerk of the Board of Education of Independent School District No. 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours before the meeting, the date, time and place of the Special Meeting was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. I also certify that at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, notice of the date, time, place and agenda of this meeting was posted in permanent public view at the location of the meeting.

R. #6 Adjournment

12 MINUTES OF MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY,

OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING,

MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M. PRESENT:

Paul English, President Mrs. Pat Potts, Vice President Floyd Donwerth, Member Delbert Hamm, Member Mrs. Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member Mrs. Freddye Williams, Member

The meeting was called to order by Mr. English and Dr. Hamm gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Roll call established that all of the Board members were present.

Roll Call

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of the minutes of January 10 and 17, 1980 as presented. Mr. English noted that the Clerk had called to his attention in the minutes of December 17 under Hearings, Mary Hepp, that it be perfected to say "...be altered so that it would not appear to be very punitive.'^

R. #7 Minutes Approved

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS Dr. Hamm - During the Christmas season I was invited to speak to the U. S. Grant Scierx Club at their annual dinner meeting, which I enjoyed the fellowship with the students and the teachers very much. I wanted to thank them publicly for the nice honorarium they gave me. It was a dog bone. In a more serious vein, in the packets that we receive, there are always many items of information that are not related to our agenda but they are very beneficial and helpful. One such item this week was the Education U.S.A, which is published by the National School Public Relations Association. An article in it describes how one young man graduated from high school last spring and is now a senior at Indiana University. This very unusual accomplishment was achieved by the young man knowing the opportunities available through the advanced placement testing program. I am commenting on this for two reasons. First of all, we will have available next fall opportunities for our students to take advanced placement courses in our high schools for college credit, and we need to make this opportunity known to as many of our young people as possible. The second reason, as a parent of two college students, .I am just glorying in the fact of how much money his parents are saving, because of him taking advantage of that opportunity, in tuition and other expenses.

Comments Dr. Hamm

Mrs. Potts - My comment is related to a report we received about a week and a half or two weeks ago called something like the energy use report, and it was by John Gordon of our staff. It was an excellent resume'of all of these expenses in all of our buildings related to energy use, and it is obvious a lot of careful work had gone into it. I am really hopeful that it will make a difference in terms of the staff in our various buildings being aware of where they can make a difference and how.

Comments Mrs. Potts

Mrs. Williams - In addition to Dr. Hamm's statement about this young man at Indiana University, I thought it was quite significant that it stated that although he did this advanced placement, that he found time for sports, school clubs, chores and all. I emphasize "the fact that we need to let people know what we are doing here in that direction.

Comments Mrs. Williams

Mrs. Hill - Continuing in that light, an article that I was reading this evening was commenting that so many of our college students that we find that do go on to college are involved in that particular activity. So I do think that is something that we need to not lose sight of.

Comments Mrs. Hill

Since our last meeting, I was privileged to hand out the diplomas at our Practical Nurses commencement just before Christmas, and I think that is a very worthwhile program that we have going on there. As most of you remember, in September, I was on

MINUTES OF MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS cont'd Comments 4rs. Hill cont'd

the NSBA committee, "The Purposes of Education, 1980 and Beyond." We do have now the final draft. I have here for you how the survey came out that was conducted by the â&#x2013; committee that I was on. I did not include all of the pages, but some of those that I thought might be of interest to you. On the first page; they did send a questionnaire out to 1300 school board presidents and, of those, 355 responded. When you stop to think about how many school boards there are across the nation, 1300 isn't that large a number to survey, and 355 that did respond. The one that did receive the most importance by the majority, of course, was to demonstrate the competency in basics. That is one of our goals and that is what the other board presidents across the nation thought. Coming in second was prepare pupils for the market. Third was to develop life-long learning habits to develop abilities of creative thinking, to developing abilities of critical thinking. Those were all above 50 percent. The committee was given an opportunity for some final comments that I did send in, in December. But along with the report they did send the statement on the purposes of education, 1980 and beyond, that will be I am sure presented to the NSBA committee and then go on before the school boards in April, if they approve it. I did appreciate the opportunity to have served on that committee.

LEGAL AND FINANCIAL REPORTS

Attorney's Report

Mr. Bleakley reported:

(1)

Lawsuit by Student - We had a lawsuit brought against the district by a student who was injured in a rodeo in 1977 and it is alleging that it was negligence in permitting the students to participate in the rodeo. That suit is being defended by our insurance company, and there apparently is insurance coverage on that particular suit.

(2)

Appeal of Termination Of Judy Boswell - On the appeal of the termination of Judy Boswell, the briefing is complete and oral arguments are set for January 17, and the judge indicates that he will render a decision following the oral arguments.

(3)

Lawsuit by Former Chief of Security - A lawsuit has been brought against the district by the former Chief of Security, Tommy Davidson. The Board will be briefed at its next meeting on the 21st concerning the details of this suit.

(4)

Petition for Reconsideration in the HEIa T Grant - With respect to the petition for reconsideration in the HEW grant relating to the sale of Channel 25, there is a hearing set for January 14 which I am going to ask the National Telecommunications Agency to continue. The reason for that is that we have learned that money is possibly available to the district to be utilized with respect to the cable system that Cox Communications is setting up in Oklahoma City. Cox has informed the district that they will be wiring all of the school buildings with cable TV. Because the administration is exploring this matter, we are going to ask that that hearing be continued until we examine that possibility and present it to NTIA.

(5)

Litigation Lawsuit by ACT - I have a recommendation tonight with respect to one matter-o'f l'itigation, and that is the suit brought by the Association of Classroom Teachers against the school district relating to the Instructional Management Program. We are recommending to the Board that a settlement of this matter be reached on the basis of each side dismissing its lawsuit, its causes of action in that matter, and that the suit be terminated on the basis of these mutual dismissals.

(6)

Legal Matters Re American Federation of Teachers - On the legal matters relating to the American Federation of Teachers, the briefing is now complete on the appeal of the temporary injunction ruling. It is completed on the appeal of the modification of the injunction arising out of the election. The Supreme Court has not moved on the motion to consolidate both of these actions into one consideration, and the Supreme Court has not set oral argument on either of these matters. At this point and time we are unable to inform the Board as to when the Supreme Court will be making a decision on the consolidation and setting a timetable for determination in these appeals.

That concludes the Attorney's Report and I would like to ask the Board to take a vote with respect to the dismissal of the ACT versus Independent School District No. 89 lawsuit on the basis that the Association of Classroom Teachers will also dismiss that lawsuit. R. #8 Aporoval of Attorney1s Recommendation to Dismiss Lawsuit with ACT

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of the Attorney's recommendation to dismiss the lawsuit with ACT.

14 MINUTES OF MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D

Mr. Ladd gave a routine treasurer's report. Clerk's office.)

(A copy of the report is on file1in the

Treasurer's Report

It,,was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of the reports as presented. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #9 Reports Approved

ITEMS PENDING

Information to the Board

Meeting of November 5, 1979 1.

Commission to Improve Education Report

Meeting of November 19, 1979 1.

Study of Security Department Vehicles

(Copy to Board Members)

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT

Dr. Payzant introduced Mrs. Pat Watson, President, the Association of All School Personnel, who gave preliminary remarks regarding Mrs. Betty Hart, Cafeteria Manager, Harding Middle School, having been selected as Employee of the Month.

Employee of the Month

A Certificate of Recognition was presented by Dr. Payzant to Mrs. Hart on behalf, of the Board of Education and the Association of Classroom Teachers. Mrs. Hart responded.

It was moved by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hill to direct the following persons to attend meetings as indicated: At No Expense to the School District

(a)

Jake A. Diggs, Principal, Grant High School; Dorothy Tucker, Principal, Northeast High School - National Association of Secondary Principals Convention, Miami Beach, Florida, January 11-16, 1980.

(b)

Betty Clifton, Curriculum Consultant; Janet Shelden, Coordinator, K-8 Curriculum Criterion Reference Test Strategy Meeting with Boston Public Schools, Administration and Educational Progress Corporation (EPC), Boston, Massachusetts, January 14-16, 1980.

(c)

Janet Shelden, Coordinator, K-8 Curriculum; Betty Clifton, Curriculum Consultant Gould Incorporated Strategy Meeting for Criterion Reference Testing, Del Monte, California, January 23-25, 1980.

(d)

Velda George,' Home Economics Consultant - Leadersip Training Seminar for Membership Promotion for American Home Economics Association, Denver, Colorado, January 27-29, 1980.

(e)

James A. Wallace, Principal, Prairie Queen Elementary School; Alma Schmidt, Principal, Nichols Hills Elementary School; Ancil Warren, Principal, Monroe Elementary School; Dale Reeder, Principal, Southern Hills Elementary School; Neil Ginsterblum, Principal, Harrison Elementary School - South Central Associatio of Elementary School Principals, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 19-22, 1980.

(f)

Thelma Sughru, Consultant - Reading Conference for Administrators and Supervisors, Austin, Texas, February 19-22, 1980.

(g)

Lucille Rozzell, Title I District Representative - National Coalition-Regional IV Planning Meeting, Little Rock, Arkansas, January 10-11, 1980.

(h)

Arthur Boyd, Principal, Parker Fifth Year Center - NAESP National Convention, Miami Beach, Florida, April 18-23, 1980.

R. #10 Professional Trips Approved

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R. #11 President of Board and Superintendent Authorized to Execute Documents

A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Hamm that the President of the Board and the Superintendent be authorized to execute the necessary documents and submit an application for a grant and program as follows: â&#x2013; 4

E.S.E.A Title VII, Bilingual Program

Mrs. Hill inquired:

Did I understand that this did not include fifth year students?

Dr. Payzant - Correct.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

Consideration of Policies on Student Transfers for Action on January 21, 1980

JCA

STUDENT TRANSFERS

The Board believes that on occasion individual students should be granted transfers when it has been determined that it is in the best interest of a

student and/or school.

A transfer is required when a student attends a school

outside of the residential school.

INTRADISTRICT TRANSFERS An intradistrict transfer permits a student to attend a school in an attendance

area other than the one in which he/she lives.

Transfer application forms (JCA-E1)

may be secured from any school or from the Office of Attendance and Assignment,

900 N. Klein.

transfers.

All students have the right to make written application for

An appeals procedure for administrative decisions will be

established with ultimate appeal to the Board.

Transfers may be approved for

the following reasons: 1.

To Attend Special Education Classes Students qualifying for courses in special education not

offered at the assigned school site may transfer to a

school site, space permitting, where the special education class is offered.

To Obtain a More Appropriate Educational Program Students desiring to take courses basic to a course of

study not offered in the home school may be transferred

to a school offering the desired courses.

Transfers shall

. be considered only after all efforts have been exhausted to meet the studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs at his/her home school.

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Family Adjustments Members of the same family may qualify for a transfer,

space permitting, in order to attend the same school with a member of the family who has transferred to a special education

program at that school.

The transfer is only valid as long as

the one family member is enrolled and attending the special

program at that school.

This section is applicable to family

members of students transferred to another school due to health reasons.

To Attend a School Where Sibling is Attending a Preschool Program

Members of the same family may transfer, space permitting, in order to attend the same school with a member of the

family enrolled in a preschool program. Completion of a Full Year

A student changing an address during the school year may be allowed to finish the school year at the same school he/she has been attending. Continue Attendance of High School When Zone Reassigned to Another High School

Students already enrolled in a high school will be permitted to attend their present high school if they so choose, even

if they are reassigned to a different high school.

Senior to Attend Previous School A graduating senier may be granted a transfer, upon change of address, to the school he/she had been attending and

completed the previous year.

Affida-vi ts of Support Students living with someone other than their parents are required to have their custodians sign affidavits stating that they are legal residents of the District; that they

have in their care and custody the student in question;

and that they contribute in a major degree (50% or more) to the student's support.

The student is then assigned

to the school according to the attendance area assigned to the residence of the custodian.

Temporary Transfer Students requesting a transfer to attend a school where they are planning to establish a legal residence must provide

the Office of Attendance and Assignment valid evidence

that a move into the attendance area is forthcoming.

The

transfer should not be for a time greater than one semester.

Consideration of Policies on Student Transfers for Action on January 21, 1980 - cont'd

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Consideration of Policies on Student Transfers for Action on January 21, 1980 - cont'd

10.

Areas With Option to Attend Two Schools

Students in designated areas may attend a school other than the residential school (See Board approved Student

Assignment Plan).

These areas have been designated for

reasons of traffic patterns, barriers to the school,

inadequate sidewalks, and overcrowding in the residential school.

11.

Licensed Nursery and Baby-sitter

Any student in grades one through four attending a licensed nursery, or staying with a baby-sitter located within the boundaries of a particular school residence area may be

transferred, space permitting, to that school.

However, it

may be necessary, depending on space available, to assign the student to another nearby school.

12.

Kindergarten Freedom of Choice Kindergarten students may attend any district school.

13.

Maintain Racial Ratio

A student may be transferred to a school outside his

designated attendance area in order to improve the racial

ratio by complying with the implied intent of the February

1, 1972, Federal Desegregation Court Order.

Transfers

will be granted to permit a student, initially assigned to a school where students of his/her race predominate (over 50%),

to attend a school, space permitting, in which the student of his/her race will be in the minority (under 50%).

student obtaining a majority to minority transfer must honor

the transfer for the full year unless there is a change of legal address. 14.

Court Order/Deci si on A transfer may be granted a student, space permitting, upon a reasonable request from a court of a competent jurisdiction.

A transfer may also be granted a child living in a foster

home or a public or private institution. 15.

Medical A transfer may be granted for medical reasons upon the request of a physician and the approval of a panel of Board appointed

physicians.

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16.

Special Adjustment Special adjustment transfers may be granted to a student

when he/she is failing to adjust to the assigned school. The transfer will not be approved due to preference of school

or efforts to escape desegregation. INTERDISTRICT TRANSFERS

An interdistrict transfer permits a student to attend a school in a school

district other than the one in which his/her parents reside. Students residing outside the district may be granted a transfer to attend a district school provided he/she is in good standing with the sending school. Students are expected to maintain good standing at the school to which they are assigned.

Transfers out of the district may be granted only for the following reasons:

Special education programs not available in the district;

A senior student that is expected to graduate and who attended the school the previous year; and

Catastrophic medical reasons.

Requests for a transfer due to medical reasons will be reviewed by a panel of Board approved physicians for their recommendation for approval or disapproval of the transfer.

)

-Dr. Payzant - As you will recall, the Board approved a policy manual at a recent meeting which was the culmination of over many months of the staff and Board, and at the time you adopted that policy manual I indicated that from time to time I would be bringing you recommendations for modification of existing policies or codification of past practice which should be policy that has never been adopted as such. What you have before you this evening under a recommended student transfer policy is one example. Since it is the first reading, I am presenting it to you this evening for your information., will take questions and comments that you have and I am suggesting action at your neÂŁt Board meeting on January 21. What is represented here is a written statement of past administrative practice with respect to student transfers. I asked the staff to pull these together. They did go over them and they represent our compilation of policies that we suggest you adopt for district direction and guidance in the future. Mrs. Williams - I perked up my ears when I read in the first paragraph - "A transfer is required when a student attends a school outside of the residential school." We are just not attending residential schools now, because one could construe that to mean the school near his residence. Dr. Payzant - That is a good point.

It should probably be the "assigned" school.

Mrs. Williams - That is continued in another place, the word "residential", in Number 1, To Attend Special Education Classes.

Dr. Payzant - We will take another look at that and make sure that it is consistent throughout. Mrs. Potts - A very small matter, on the next sentence after the one she called our attention to, we have a place where it says "permit the student to attend a school in an attendance area other than one in which he lives, and in most cases it is applied that he/she or his/hers, but it was missed there. Mr. English - This is for action on the 21st of January.

Consideration of Policies on Student Transfers for Action on January 21, 1980 - cont'd

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Consideration of Legislative Goal s

Dr. Payzant - The next item on my report is a list of legislative goals which the staff and I have pulled together, and as the result of suggestions made by individual Board members and members of the staff. I would welcome your comments and suggest thatyou make any modifications that you may want to make thisi evening. I would recommend that you adopt the goals this evening so that they can be circulated to the Oklahoma County legislative delegation with the opening of the legislative session this week. In the first recommendation, I would make one additional comment. The staff and I are recommending the average increase in teacher salaries be at least $1600. And to give you some idea about where that figure comes from, the average salary for teachers in the state for 1979-80 is $13,210 and the Oklahoma City average is $13,211. So werare right on the state average. The approximation is that the state average in Oklahoma is about $800 below the regional average which would include most of the surrounding states, Texas, Arkansas, New Mexico and Kansas. The $1600, although it is an approximation, is based on the assumption that there would have to be $800 in average salary added for catch-up, and then an additional $800 which may be less than or about right, or more than what will actually be finally approved as a basic raise for the year. So that is not a precise figure in the sense of numerical precision, although it is a pretty good adjustment of what it would take to bring Oklahoma averages to the regional average, assuming that the surrounding states would add about $800 in average over the next year.

Mrs. Potts - I would like to comment on Number 4 under School Finance, where we have "urge ' the Legislature to fully fund any new educational programs or services it mandates local school districts to provide." I feel that after the word "new" we ought to add "or existing", for the reason that in the past we have innovated new programs and h a/e paid for it out of district funds, and then when the State Legislature has decided that they were very important and should be supported statewide, we have not received funding from the state because we were already doing it. So I think it is very important that adjustment be made. Mrs. Hill - I have a question about the full-day kindergarten programs. I have not heard that much said about a full-day kindergarten program. Where did that come from and what was our rationale?

Dr. Payzant - There has been some tai k in Oklahoma City in our Curriculum Department and among elementary school teachers, principals, Central Office administrators, about a full-day kindergarten program, and also in some other areas of the state. One of the deterrents to considering it has been the fact that even if the district should decide to go with the program because they thought it was educationally desirable, the district would be penalized -and not get the full benefit of a full-time equivalent student for that full-day program. So this is viewed both as an incentive, but also as providing full student count for any district that should decide, based on educational rationale, to go full with such a program. My own view iszas the research that we have available to us, that the importance of early childhood education is becoming more well established with each passing year. I think that in terms of the availability of space that we have in the school district and some of the efforts that we want to make to try and encourage enrollment in some of our schools that have declining enrollment, that this would be a very good program for us to seriously consider, but we have to take into account the additional cost. And if the state were willing to give us full credit for these students, that would be an important step in the right direction.

Mrs. Potts - Under School Finance, what are we referring to more specifically on "A capital outlay assistance program?"

Dr. Payzant - At the present time the state does not provide funding for capital outlay programs, which would be construction of new schools and major renovation or remodeling of existing schools. As the Legislature looks as I hope they will at the reform of school finance in Oklahoma, this is a component that I would hope would be considered, that would win support not just from urban districts such as Oklahoma Cityai d Tulsa who will be faced with perhaps replacement of siome buildings, but more probably with remodeling of existing ones, and also from suburban and rural districts across the state that may be faced with new construction because their districts are expanded. There are many states around the country that do provide substantial capital from the state level for this type of program. Mrs. Potts - What is the level of current financial support for driver education? is the proportion compared to cost, that is met by the state?

What

Dr. Payzant - I didn't bring my figures with me on that one and I am not sure. I think that the State Department is pushing to increase it to $50 or $55 per student. Now I think it is somewhere in the neighborhood of $30 or $35. The $50 or $55 per student is the estimate of what it would take to break even now. That will probably not be sufficient if we have to get into a car-leasing program in a more extensive way in the future, which is probably going to happen if the auto industry continues to have problems.

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Consideration of Legislative Goals cont'd

Mrs. Potts - I have a question under Retirement, Number 2, where we say "support legislation requiring nonclassified personnel working more than one-half time to become members of the Teachers' Retirement System." Dr1. Payzant - It is

now optional.

Mrs. Potts - And for what reason do we want to accomplish this? Dr. Payzant asked Dr. Wallace Smith to respond. Dr. Smith stated: Support personnel now are not members of the Retirement System. The only retirement plan they have is Social Security. This would enable them to become members as teachers, and to require them to become members, I would assume that since part of the teachers' salary increases have been used to pay for their retirement that support personnel would work toward the same end. Dr. Payzant - It is a bit paternalistic, in that it does force somebody to participate. But by the same token it provides them with protection of a retirement program that they do not have. I think someitimes people think that there is mugh higher turnover rate with classified employees, and yet we have a number of classified employees who stay with the district over a large number of years, and then when they get to the end of the line and retire, all they have got is Social Security. Mrs. Potts - Related to this, what about the transferability from one school system to another?

Dr. Smith - You can transfer Teacher Retirement funds within the state. As a member of the Teachers' Retirement, you are not a member as an employee of this school system. You can transfer from one system to another. Mr. Donwerth - Is it true that all nonclassified personnel that fall within this classification would have to participate or that none of them would participate? would be mandatory? It can't be optional and leave it up to the individuals?

Dr. Smith - It is now optional for classified personnel. This says nonclassified, and I should think that it should read either noncertified or classified. Classified now have the option of joining or not joining.

Dr. Payzant - It is a misprint. personnel.

It should be classified personnel, not nonclassified

Mrs. Hili'- Where we pay teachers for part of it, we do not pay for any of the classified? Dr. Smith - No, we do not pay classified for their retirement. Mrs. Williams - I think this is quite good. I have come in contact with several who have retired and have lamented that maybe through orientation or some way they were not really kind of forced to participate. Maybe we were remiss or something in our method of telling them the importance of it and all.

At this time, Mr... English recognized Mary Hepp, who had signed up to speak on the legislative goals.' Mrs. Hepp, in her remarks, expressed opposition of the goal to oppose the last best offer or binding arbitration, and asked the Board to consider the concept of last best final offer arbitration. Mrs. Hepp also referred to the policy to be voted on later by the Board on Part-Time and Substitute Staff Employment, stating that teachers did agree with her that the last sentence of that proposal be dropped (Compensation will only be paid for each student that increases the attendance in the teacher's classroom above the regular enrollment)^ She also asked that the sentence included in the policy on abuse of sick leave be changed to "if teachers abuse the sick leave policy, they will be subject to disciplinary action," if the Board felt it necessary that it be included.

Mr. English - It has been recommended that we act on the legislative goals tonight. A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of the legislative goals as perfected.

Mr. English - Be approved as perfected with the "or existing" on Number 4 under School Finance, and "classified" in place of "nonclassified" on Number 2 under Retirement.

R. #1;2 Approval of Legislative Goals Minus Section on School Operations

Dr. Hamm inquired: Was any thought given to adopting a legislative goal to urge the Legislature that in the public sector bargaining, that the bargaining sessions . be open to representatives of the media or the public?

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R. #12 Approval of Legislative Goals Minus Section on School Operations - cont'd

Dr. Payzant - I have given some thought to that issue in the last few months and frankly I am changing my mind somewhat from what'was a position being opposed to any kind of bargaining in the sunshine to an open mind on considering that. However, I am not as yet prepared to go all the way and say that ought to happen, but I am â&#x2013; certainly receptive to discussion on the point and alternative proposals for how it might be done. The reports from other states are mixed where it has been tried. So it is not something that you go from complete closed open sessions in one swoop and feel comfortable with it. That is why I didn't recommend it. I am openminded on it, but I don't feel so strongly about it that I wanted to push this Board to go for it just yet. Mr. English - Actually, I think under the law there could be open sessions. an option that is left to the local district, isn't it?

That is

Dr. Payzant - Yes. Mr. English - If in establishing the procedural agreement the next time we negotiate, if we and the teachers'group agree that it should be done in the open, then we have the authority under the law to go ahead and have those sessions in the open.

Mrs. Potts - As I understand it, another somewhat stabilizing influence is having the initial proposals made public, which tends to bring both groups more toward a moderate approach, and I think could make negotiations less time-consuming.

Mr. Donwerth - I don't know if I support any type of binding arbitration or last best offer binding arbitration. I do know that we do need some type of a program or some type of legislation to avert a strike with public employees. I feel that when the public employee is back a^iYfst the wall, that they have made the final offer, that is it, we won't go any further, that they are at the discretion of management at that point and they have no step that they can take. However, I dori't know that binding arbitration is fair to the management or employer. I do wish that we could work on some type of legislation that we could support that we could at least have a cooling-off period to avert a strike, to go back to school or just stop negotiations for two weeks maybe, and then go back into it. I don't know what it is going to take, but I know that some way we should try to stop any disruptions in the schools, because the kids are the ones that suffer. The teacher suffers because of the loss of pay; the administration suffers because of the loss of income through ADA, but the real victim is the student, and that is what we are here for. We are here as stewards of taxpayers' money, and to use it the best way we can for the education of the children. The motion was to accept this as presented in its entirety. I am not totally in favor of Number 5 under School Operations, to "seek introduction and give support to legislation permitting school districts to pay travel expenses related to screening, interviewing, and selection of prospective employees." That could be quite costly to the district and that could take in quite an area with teachers out of state who may want to apply for jobs. I would like to vote for this, but I do have some problems with all of the legislative goals. AMENDMENT Mr. Donwerth continued: I would amend the motion to pull out School Operations and vote on the rest of the legislative goals; that we delete School Operations.

The amendment was seconded by Mrs. Hill.

On roll call for the amendment to delete the section on School Operations from the legislative goals, Dr. Start voted nay; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted nay; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the amendment carried and the School Operations section was removed from the proposed legislative goals at that time.

On roll call for the legislative goals minus the section on School Operations, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth vored aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. R. #13' Motion for Approval of School Operations in Legislative Goal s

A motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of the section of'the legislative goals on School Operations. AMENDMENT MADE AND WITHDRAWN

Mrs. Hill moved to amend the motion,which was seconded by Dr. Hamm, to delete Number 5 under School Operations (Seek introduction of'and give suppot to legislation permitting school districts to pay travel related to screening, interviewing, and selection of prospective employees).

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Dr. Payzant - Could I explain why I am making the recommendation? To the extent that this Board may decide for whatever positions that it wants to recruit people outside the immediate area of Oklahoma City, it is both desirable and in my view necessary to provide the opportunity for finalists who are being considered for those positions to come for a personal interview. It is common practice in school districts around the country ancKlin most business organizations to provide travel expenses for people who are coming in for a job interview. All this would do if the Legislature were to adopt such a bill, it would be permissive, then local school districts could establish a budget that would control how much money would be available to the personnel department in the school district to use for this purpose, so that a local board would still by local policy and approval of local budget retain control over the extent to which it wanted to get involved in this kirid of activity. But without the ability to do that, it can often put this school district and other school districts in Oklahoma at a competitive disadvantage in recruiting able candidates for a job in the school district from out of state. That is the purpose of the recommendation. Mrs. Potts - It would seem to me that, if the Legislature were to approve this, a board such as ours could set a monetary limit per trip, for instance, and certainly exclude any expenses such as meals. In other words, we could make it just as limited as we wanted to. I do think it is important for us to be able to be in a competitive posture in terms of recruiting the best people available for positions.

Mrs. Williams - I would like to call the attention of this Board to their memory of past history, and I think all I need to do is just call their attention to it; just remember past history for the past five years that I have been on this Board, and you will know that this is very necessary. And then it challenges our management ability as custodians of a budget to see that it is carried out right.

Mrs. Hill - My one concern is that we have set budget items in our budget. We are already overextended in some of our areas of our budget.

After further discussion, Mrs. Hill withdrew her motion and Dr. Hamm the second regarding Number 5. AMENDMENT A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hill to delete Number 2 from School Operations (Oppose passage of legislation to permit last best offer or binding arbitration for the resolution of an impasse during the collective bargaining process).

On roll call, Dr. Start voted nay; Mrs. Hill voted nay; Mrs. Williams voted nay; Mrs. Potts voted nay; Dr. Hamm voted nay; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted nay. Mr. English declared that the amendment failed.

On roll call for approval of the section on School Operations in the legislative goals, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams votdd aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted nay; and Mr. English voted aye.1 Mr?. Eriglish declared that the motion carried.

LEGISLATIVE GOALS as amended and approved OKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS 1980 Legislative Goals

School Finance

Advocate legislation that will provide additional funds for support

of common schools and vocational education in Oklahoma.

Of particular im-

portance is to provide enough money so that the salaries of Oklahoma School district employees can be brought to the regional average.

This will require

at least an average increase of $1600 in teacher salaries and comparable

average increases for other school district employees. Any new school finance legislation should be designed to reform

Oklahoma's system of school finance based on the following concepts: a.

A balanced, multiple-source revenue system that does not place

an undue burden on any one tax source.

R. #13 Motion for Approval of School Operations in Legislative Goals - cont'd

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LEGISLATIVE GOALS as amended and approved - cont'd

An equalization program that provides for equal educational

opportunity for all children regardless of where they reside in the state and based on equitable distribution of state common school funds.

A student weighting system which recognizes the additional

cost required to educate students with special needs. A weighting system which recognizes the additional costs

of education in urban school districts.

Full state funding of transportation costs.

A capital outlay assistance program.

Support legislation to increase financial support for driver education.

Support legislation to increase state textbook funding above present level.

Urge the Legislature to fully â&#x20AC;&#x2122;fund any new or existing educational programs

or services it mandates local school districts to provide. School Programs

Seek introduction of and give support to legislation that will permit

school districts -to provide full day kindergarten programs.

Provide support for legislation to establish pilot preschool programs

in the state. School Operations

â&#x20AC;˘1.

Oppose passage of legislation that will erode or remove local authority

on matters regarding personnel management, personnel policies, or management-

labor relations. 2.

Oppose passage of legislation to permit last best offer or binding

arbitration for the resolution of an impasse during the collective bargaining

process. 3.

Seek introduction of and give support to legislation for establishing

a specific period of time for decertification of employee organizations that engage in a strike.

Seek introduction of and give support to legislation to recodify the

teacher termination statutes to provide separate procedures for probationary

and tenured teachers.

AJ.s0 amend the statutes to provide separate procedures

for termi nation. .orL the basis of incompetency.

Seek introduction of and give support to legislation permitting school

districts to pay travel expenses related to screening, interviewing, and

selection of prospective employees.

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LEGISLATIVE GOALS as amended and approved - cont'd

Retirement 1.

Support legislation to improve the Oklahoma Teacher Retirement System.

Support legislation requiring classified personnel working more than

one-half time to become members of the Teachers' Retirement System.

It was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Dr. Hamm for approval of a Resolution of Appreciation for Mr. Loyd Elliott, Custodian, Van Buren Elementary School, deceased December 5, 1979.

Dr. Payzant stated: I would like the Board to hear a presentation from a representative of the firm ECOTRAN which has developed this service and had good success with it in a number of school districts around the country, so that the Board would have a better idea of what the capabilities are of the service being proposed and that you would be in a better position to consider action on a specific proposal should the staff and I decide to recommend it to you later this month, or, if not this month, later this year.

R. #14 Resolution of Appreciation Approved

Slide Presentation on Computerized Scheduling of Student Transportation

Dr. Payzant then presented Marc Laffer, Sales Manager, ECOTRAN, Beachwood, Ohio, who gave a slide presentation on a computerized system for scheduling student transportation.

Dr. Payzant reported:

Remarks Superintendent

(1)

Security Vehicles - Dr. Payzant referred to a report on Security Vehicles that had been provided to members of the Board and stated: I will have some recommendations for you at the next Board meeting. I am very concerned about the condition of the security vehicles, and I don't think that we can wait another year before we move ahead and take some action in that area.

(2)

Portable Building to be Removed at Edgemere School - I am sure you read in the paper that the petition for acceptance of the permit to allow us to retain the portable on the location at Edgemere School was denied, and that means that unless we take further action, which perhaps would result in litigation, that we will have, to remove the portable, and unless the Board asks me to do otherwise, it is my intent to go ahead and have the portable removed. That will mean that we will have to "finish out the year then with some crowded conditions and the library being used as a classroom for the ESEA program unless we can explore the possibility of leasing space in churches in the neighborhood. We find that the logistics of moving children to and from an alternate location makes it worthwhile to do so rather than continuing to use the library for other than what is intended The school has also recently received from the PTA, playground equipment, which is all ready to be installed on the school site, and as I understand this most recent ruling, anything that is now done to the site at Edgemere will require a permit and permission from the Historical Preservation Commission. I am going to urge the principal and PTA at Edgemere to move ahead very rapidly to prepare a request to submit to the Commission, requesting permission to install the playground equipment which has been purchased by the PTA. If the Board has other instructions, please give them to me; otherwise, I will proceed along the lines that I just mentioned to you.

Mr. English indicated that he shouTd igo ahead and have the portable removed.

(3)

Scheduling of Level III Grievance Hearing - With reference to the scheduling of the Level III grievance hearing for Marcia Brueggen, Dr.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Payzant suggested the possibility of conducting the hearing on January 14 at 8:00 p.m., at which time Mr. Barlow inferred that Ms. Brueggen could not be present at that time. It was agreed that the administration's representative and Ms. Brueggen's representative would get together and decide on a date that would be acceptable.

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PERSONNEL REPORT

R. #15 Personnel Approved

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the persons listed jn the Personnel Report be employed and that contracts with the teachers listed on the form be approved and executed in the name of the District by the Superintendent or person by him designated; also, that other personnel recommendations and information listed be approved. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. (Personnel listings - pages 41a - 41m)

-PAYROLLS,. ENCUMBRANCESAND PURCHASING R. #16 Approval of Payrolls and Encumbrances

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Potts to approve recommendations #1 and #2 (ratification of December payrolls and authorization of January payrolls) and payment of encumbrances as listed' for December 13-26, 1979. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #17 Items of Purchasing Approved

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Potts to approve the items of purchasing as follows:

Purchase of Glass and Plexiglas

Purchase of glass and plexiglas for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

Acme Glass Company Regal Plastic Supply Company Total

4,590.82 1,136.00

5,726.82

These purchases are to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Purchase of Bleachers Purchase of bleachers for use at U. S. Grant, John Marshall, Southeast and Star Spencer High Schools from Dowlings, Inc., which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $77,314.00, to be charged to Account 1417 (Bond).

Purchase of Musical Instruments

Purchase of musical instruments (tuba, crash cymbals, boom stand, song bells, etc.) for use at Moon Middle School, Star Spencer and Northeast High Schools from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: Rhythm Band, Inc. Wichita Band Instrument Company, Inc. Wenger Corporation

Total

131.44 2,338.00 328.00

2,797.44

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.01.

Permission to Purchase Teaching Aids Permission to purchase teaching aids (puzzles, posters, cards, etc.) for use at Dunbar Center from Flag House (available only from designated publishers and/or distributors). This purchase in the amount of $1,565.36 is to be charged to Account 240.01, Title I, and has been approved on our Federal Educational Grants and/or Programs.

Confirmation to Pay for Services Confirmation to pay for services related to "Leadership Training Program, Phase II," conducted by Jeff Bormaster (Personnel Services) November 14-15, 1979, from the Educator Training Center. This expenditure in the amount of $2,775.00 to be charged to Account G 250.05.

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Purchase of Data Processing Supplies Purchase of data processing supplies (stock paper, labels, warrants, continuous envelopes, cards, etc.) for use by Computer Services from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Hatcher Business Forms Baker Business Systems Uarco Moore Business Forms, Inc. Data Documents Columbia Ribbon & Carbon Mfg. Total

R. #17 Items of Purchasing Approved cont'd

5,642.93 7,165.40 1,786.00 176.26 23,771.25 2,107.50

$ 40,649.34

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 130.17.

Purchase of School Bus Bodies and Chassis Purchase of school bus bodies and chassis (seven - 65-passenger school buses) for use by Pupil Transportation from the following companies which submitted the low quotation on specifications:

International Harvester Company Standard Equipment Sales

Total

$129,577.00 61,810.00

$191,387.00

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 1230.05. 8.

Purchase of Services Purchase of services to bind, stitch, and trim 15,000 copies of the 1980-81 course description (Curriculum Handbook) from Oklahoma Bindery Service which submitted the low quotation on specifications: Oklahoma Bindery Service

2,075.00

Purchase to be charged to Account G 120.16.

Approval of Services Approval of services for a "Leadership Training Program, Phase III," to be conducted for Personnel Services Division, January 9-10, 1980, by Jeff Bormaster, Educator Training Center. This expenditure in the amount of $2,775.00 is to be charged to Account G 250.05.

Dr. Payzant - I do have a comment to make on item 5. I am not sure that it is necessary to bring this item to the Board since you did approve the overall training program for the use of the Glasser techniques. I have listed Phase II of that program in item 5, and item 9 would be Phase III, which is scheduled for January 9 and 10, and this would complete the inservice program that was approved over a year ago for the-Glasser training.

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams to approve the following i terns:

Confirmation and Approval of Change Order

Confirmation and approval of Change Order Number One in Project 18-79, Star Spencer High School roof repair; to remove 575 squares of existing roof and apply one layer of 43# universal base sheet with coal tar pitch. Cost $8,855.00. Contractor, Standard Homes; Incorporated.

R. #18 Approval of Buildings and Construction Items

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R. #18 Approval of Buildings and Construction Items - cont'd

Confirmation and Approval of Change Order cont'd Information ^Itemized Costs of Change Order

Material 575 squares of 43# base sheet @ 6.38/square 25# coal tar pitch @ $3.33/square

$ 3,668.50 1,914.75

$4,583.25

Material Labor

$ 1,725.00

171.8 hours @ $10.00 per hour

$1,725.00

Labor Miscellaneous Expenses

Workers' Compensation 575 squares 0 $ .48 per square Liability Insurance 575 squares 0 .12 per square Social Security 575 squares @ $ .18 per square Unemployment Compensation 575 squares @ $ .12 per square Taxes 575 squares @ $ .39 per square

276.00 69.00 103.50 69.00 224.25 $

741.75

Profi t

805.00

Total Cost

$8,855.00

Miscellaneous Contractor's Profit 575 squares @ $1.40 per square

805.00

Approval of Low Bid Approval of the low bid, which is the base bid .minus alternate number three and the awarding of a contract to Kaiser Construction Company in the amount of $387,600 for the construction of a centralized laundry facility at the District's Service Center. This contract is to be charged to Account B 1418.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; MrJ. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. Information to the Board Central Food Service Statement

The Central Food Service Department Financial Statement as of November 20, 1979 was submitted as information to the Board.

HEARINGS Mr. English called on Mike Barlow, who had registered to address the Board. Mr. Barlow spoke regarding deletion of the statement in the proposed Sick Leave Policy, "the district may require verification and/or make an investigation if it appears a reasonable doubt sick leave is not being used for the purpose specified," and stated that it sets up a negative situation. He also expressed opposition to compensation being paid to a teacher for each studdnt over their enrollment because of an absence of a teacher due to illness.

MINUTES OF MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D

UNFINISHED BUSINESS Dr. Payzant- I have one comment on this item by way of clarification. As the Board requested at the last meeting, I asked that copies of the Instructional Management Prbgram be circulated to the Human Relations Committee, and there was a foul up in communications and they only got to staff people on the committee and not to the full committee until I met with that group last Thursday. In talking with one of the committee members, the question was raised about what our real intent is with respect to monitoring the goals for affective education. Our intent is to have the goals continue in effect, but to stop trying to monitor them using some kind of quantitative measure, and to replace the quantitative measure with teacher judgment, which admittedly is not something that you can systematically compile in a statistical report, but I think at this state as sound as going with a quantitative measure such as the Oklahoma scale which does not dovetail at all with some of the objectives that were laid out under the affective goals. So I just wanted to clarify that the recommendation is not to drop the goals 1 and 2, just to stop the monitoring process with respect to using some kind of a quantitative measure which doesn't exist, but to continue to monitor through teacher judgment and assessment at the school level of the extent to which we are reaching those goals.

Mrs. Potts - I would like to follow up with a question, and this stems from my concern that perhaps the most important aspect for really accomplishing anything in the affective domain comes through the leadership in our administrative staff and our building staff. So I have some real concerns about as we /maintain these affective goals, then what are we going to be doing to see that we are progressing in increasing skills of our staff in this area and then monitoring the progress. Dr. Payzant - I can't give you a specific program, because we don't have one at this point. I think it is important enough that it needs to be built into our expectations for administrators, starting with me and the directors and the school principals, and ultimately teachers, and that this means building it into part of the job' responsibility of all of us to be concerned about these areas, and taking them into consideration during times of evaluation. I am not convinced that there is a system of testing or examining in some quantitative fashion the extent to which we are or are not achieving these kinds of goals, which means that they are going to be much more subjective judgments and less objective ways to get at an assessment about what is really happening, which leaves a lot of room for human error. But I don't know how to approach it otherwise. It seems to me if you try to do the quantitative thing without the good instruments, then you put a lot of people to a lot of work needlessly, and without results that are either reliable or valid. Mrs. Potts - I think the difference is that we are talking here about applying it to students, and certainly the data that we have been furnished makes it appear that what we get is pre-subjective results of testing the students. But if we are talking about the ways that we train our personnel and then the ways we evaluate our personnel, it seems to me that can be made pretty concrete. I guess what I am looking for is some specific recommendations that pull this together in that area.

Dr. Payzant - I think that is part of the larger human relations and staff development program. Here we are talking about student goals, and my own belief is that it is pretty hard to divorce the kind of behavior that a teacher is exhibiting from what he or she expects the student to exhibit. For example, it a teacher or a principal with teachers, or "a director with principals, or a superintendent with directors has a poor self-concept, then that message is going to be suddenly, if not directly communicated to the people with whom that person is dealing. If a teacher is wearing his or her biases or prejudices on his or her sleeve, they are going to be communicated to those kids, or a principal to teachers, or whateveryou are talking about in terms of relationships between people, whether it be adult to adult or adult to children. So I am a firm advocate in modeling positive behavior. I think, in part, you get at teaching these affective goals by having staff at all levels behave in a way that suggests that these things are a positive part of interaction with other people wherever we are. And that is difficult to program. I think you do an awful lot of it by example and by positively reinforcing that kind of behavior. I think you can do that in setting expectations for what adults should do as teachers and administrators, and I think that you can do the reinforcement through personnel evaluation, and I think you can improve attitudes and understandings to some extent through staff development programs. But I find all of that very, very difficult to put in numbers. Mrs. Williams - I am very concerned about this part of it. In fact, I have had/a few calls from my area on it and some from not in my area. I checked with staff and I know that they did not find an instrument nationwide whereby we can measure the affective domain. I am afraid they "threw out the baby with the bath water." We talked about the teacher's self-concept. What about the teacher's concept of the children?

Consideration of Instructional Management Goals and Objectives Evaluation and Suggested Modification for Implementation in 1980-81

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Consideration of Instructional Management Goals and Objectives Evaluation and Suggested Modification for Implementation in 1980-81 cont'd

Dr. Payzant - I am saying that there is a relationship.

Mrs. Williams - You have got the self-fulfilling prophecy and I am afraid of it. Have we contacted the Southwest Center at Norman, and the Consultative Centers to â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;˘see if there could not be something done? Dr. Payzant - The program that you approved fees for just a few moments ago, the Glasser program that works with discipline, a lot of the things that are being addressed in that inservice program deal with the kinds of things that we have included in our affective goals. A lot of the things that we do in staff development have affective dimension to them. Mrs. Williams - I am concerned about the now of this.

Dr. Payzant - All I am saying is that for all of the effort that went into the preparation of the instruments, the logistics of getting them to teachers and students, the time that the kids took to fill them out, and you don't have anything. It was a waste of time as far as I am concerned, and I wasn't a part of it coming in, because you don't have anything in the way of results. I don't want to delude you into thinking that by saying come up with some kind of measurement of the affective goals that we can put numbers together and you will have something in a report that has a great deal of meaning. By the same token, I understand the concern that if you don't have some way to measure whether you achieve a goal, the goal may never be reached or may be rendered meaningless. Mrs. Williams - Or it may not ever be aspired to.

That is the thing that scares me.

Dr. Hamm - It may not even be retained as a goal.

Mrs. Williams - You have got to retain it as a goal.

Dr. Hamm - Whey we try to measure in an objective way, something as intangible and subjective as morals, ethics, behavior, concept of self-worth, I agree with you that you cannot do that. It is absurd really. But yet at the same time, you expressed the concern that this needs to be retained as a goal, and perhaps monitored to see that it is retained as a goal, and not putting it on a scale of ranking but to see. simply if it is or is not being done in every area of administration from this building on down to the school site, that perhaps a model of monitoring is a teacher, is an administrator, even a Board member modeling this goal. Dr. Payzant - I agree with all of that. What I am saying is that once you acknowledge the fact that you are going to work with teacher judgment or administrative judgment, it is much more difficult to pull together a report with some pages that will say, yes, we reached it; or no, we haven't, or we have reached it 33 percent or 68 percent, or 95 percent. It becomes a much more subjective thing and you generalize your observations rather than being in a position to specify in reporting to a board, to the public, with respect to what is going on in a particular classroom, with a particular group of children, or a particular school. You can get fairly specific in terms of observations, and still that has much more subjective dimension than the reporting on achievement of cognitive goals, where the state of technology or measurement is fairly high.

Mrs. Potts - Perhaps the answer to this lies in the Board goals, which we have under Unfinished Business, and number 8, I assume that these goals will be followed by objectives and strategies for carrying out those objectives. So perhaps the logical answer is as number 8 is developed, assuming it is approved, then we will see how some of this could be carried out in the school system. Dr. Payzant - I am preparing objectives for the goals; yes.

Mrs. Williams - Do you know whether or not they ever did contact the Southwest Center at Norman? Dr. Payzant - We have worked with the Southwest Center at Norman on a number of staff development projects. We are using consultants from that group right now on several that are either ongoing or planned in the next several months. We use them regularly.

Mrs. Williams - But we will keep the goal in there?

Dr. Payzant - That is the intent of my recommendation; yes. And if you feel more comfortable in terms of action on this item, to clarify it, under the section it could say "delete goals 3, 4 and 6 from the monitoring process using quantitative measurement." That would really specify it in terms of eliminating the monitoring process using quantitative measurement, and the record would show that we intend to use teacher judgment and administrative judgment for the monitoring of those goals.

/ 30 MINUTES OF MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D

Mr. English - I know the difficulty of judging this human relations aspect that we are talking about, but I can recall a number of years ago when we had a much more, I think, segregated school system and society than what we have got right now. As you say, you can't legislate morals and you can't legislate ethics and this sort of thing, but I jzhink what you can do is set up situations in which it encourages certain actions and certain attitudes to occur and develop, and I think that is probably what has happened in our society. That is what the Congress did in passing some of the laws that they did. And that maybe the way you get at this problem is as Mrs. Potts has indicated, on the Goal 8, in the objectives that follow the,goals that we take a real hard look at the objectives thatare written in the future for that goal, to see to it that we are setting up the situations and providing the kind of training for people that will result in better human relations. But I would not want us to kiss this thing off simply by saying we still have a goal. We still have got these goals 3, 4, and 6, but I am one that believes that if it is not monitored, it won't happen; that it is neglected; it is pushed aside, because it seems to be human nature that if there is not some accountability, then there are too many things that vie for our priorities in life. We have got so many things to do, and if we are not going to be checked on this particular thing, then it slips. It may not be at first that we will let it slip, but later on as the other priorities come in on us, it slips and it is gone. I think we have to have some way in which we continue to seek actively this goal of human relations for the district. When do you anticipate the objectives will be written for the goals, if the Board approves the goals tonight?

Consideration of Instructional Management Goals and Objectives Evaluation and Suggested Modification for Implementation in 1980-81 cont'd

Dr. Payzant - I have a substantial number of objectives already written, based on your approval of the goals at the last meeting. What your action is here tonight is to agree on a priority order. So they are just about ready to go. What you have to realize, though, if you look at your goal list, one of the goals that you are talking about, number 8, which deals with human relations, I think implies the need for staff development. And yet look where your staff development goal fell in your priority ranking. That is way down at 15. When you get through dividing up the resources, my guess is that one of the pressure points is going to be on the funds available for staff development. What you got to do is to begin to look at these things together so that you can't just say we want better human relations and better monitoring of affective goals, which will take improving skills of administrators and teachers, and then not rank very high the funding priority for the staff development programs that will be needed to do it. So there is a relationship there.

Mr. English - So within the next couple of weeks, we would have the objectives? Dr. Payzant - Yes.

Mrs. Potts- I move approval of the recommended goals with the amendment under "Delete Goals 3, 4 and 6 from...;" and insert, "using quantitative measurement in the monitoring process since..." The motion was seconded by Dr. Hamm.

Instructional Management Goals as amended:*1 5 4 3 2 GOALS 1 and 2: I__ ;

Correlate-monitoring process in reading and math to skills rather than a specific textbook program in grades one through five.

Develop a uniform system for reporting mastery of skills and number of skills mastered by students in reading and math in grades K-5.

Results on the Fundamental Math Skills CRT indicate greater emphasis needs to be made in teaching math skills at the high school level.

Efforts need to be madeto increase the number of eleventh grade students taking the test. This would provide more complete data on the number of eleventh grade students mastering the fundamental math skills.

At the high school level, the current practice is to enroll students in grades nine and ten in the Developmental Reading class if they score 4.9 or below on a standardized test. The Developmental Reading course counts as the Language Arts requirement. Eleventh and twelfth grade students may enroll in the Developmental Reading as an elective course but it does not fulfill the Lanugage Arts requirement. High School students, (9-12), scoring between 5.0 and 6.9 in reading currently should be receiving reading instruction in Language Arts classes. It is recommended that students who score below 7.0 must enroll in a Developmental Reading class in the following manner: -Ninth and tenth grade students (below 7.0) would be required to enroll in a Developmental Reading class which would count toward Language Arts requirements for graduation.

R. #19 Acceptance of Instructional Management Goals and Objectives Evaluation and Suggested Modification for Implementation in 1980-81

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R. #19 Acceptance of Instructional Management Goals and Objectives Evaluation and Suggested Modification for Implementation in 1980-81 - cont'd

Instructional Management Goals as amended - cont'd - Eleventh and twelfth grade students (below 7.0) would be required to enroll in Developmental Reading class in lieu of an elective. The Developmental Reading class would not fulfill the Language Arts requirement.

Parents opposed to the enrollment of their child in Developmental Reading must sign a written statement. The parent's signature will acknowledge that they are aware of their child's reading level and do not want her/him enrolled in Developmental Reading.

GOALS 3, 4, 6*:

Delete Goals 3, 4, and 6 from using quantitative measurement in the monitoring process since: a.

Constructing affective objectives for instructional management presents problems not encountered when constructing objectives for the cognitive domain.

Valid measurement of affective objectives is more difficult, more time-consuming, and involves different procedures than does valid measurement of cognitive objectives.

Attitudes about self, attitudes about school, and attitudes about peers cannot be approached directly from an instructional management point of view.

GOAL 5:

Goal five objectives and activities be completely rewritten when a Career Education Program is implemented in the district. All monitoring of Goal Five should be suspended until this program is implemented. GOAL 7:

Currently teacher and student checklists are used to evaluate Goal Seven. Alternative evaluation instruments should be investigated to determine if more adequate measures can be found. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. R. #20 Approval of Cooperative Health Profession; Program

It was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of a Cooperative Health Professions Program involving Oklahoma City Public Schools and the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center as presented in the December 4, 1979 report of the Assistant Superintendent for Educational Services, with authorization to conduct planning activities during the remainder of the 1979-80 school year and implement the program for the 1980-81 school year..

A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Hill for approval of the priority ranking order of the Board's goals. Mrs. Potts asked for reconsideration in priority ranking of Goal 15; that it be moved up and inserted as Number 4, and the other items be moved down.

AMENDMENT

After further discussion and a suggestion by Mr. Donwerth, Mrs. Potts amended the motion to include Goal 15 in Goal 3, by adding, "also, the Board will commit resources to fund a staff development program to help teachers, administrators, and classified employees become more effective." The amendment was seconded by Mrs. Williams.

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Board's Goals for 1980-81 as amended: 1980-81 BOARD GOALS

The Board expects the staff to assess the needs of each child so that appropriate educational services can be provided.

The Board will expect staff to assist each student according to his or her ability to make progress each year in learning and applying skills in reading, writing, and computation.

The Board will encourage retention of quality staff and the improvement of personnel recruitment, screening, selection and assignment procedures and personnel evaluation plans and expect the administration to give their development and implementation priority. Also, the Board will commit resources to fund a staff

development program to help teachers, administrators, and classified employees become more effective. ' 4.

The Board will take leadership through planned cooperative efforts to bring about an active^legislative program resulting in improved funding of public education.

The Board will expect staff to provide diverse programs to meet the different needs of the slow, average, and gifted learner.

The Board will provide equal, appropriate educational opportunities for children with handicapping disabilities.

.7.

The Board will continue to support the development, refinement, and implementation of the instructional management program, graduation requirements, curriculum goals and objectives by grade level and criterion reference tests to assess student mastery of basic skills.

The Board will encourage and support development and organization of activities that promote good human relations, effective communication between and among Board, staff, students, parents and community.

The Board will make the school district budget understandable to an increasing number of citizens and encourage more people to become involved in the budgetmaking process.

10.

The Board will continue to seek ways to evaluate the allocation of existing resources to improve educational services.

11.

The Board will expect the staff to improve the process of timely ordering, purchase and distribution of supplies, equipment, and textbooks.

12.

The Board will encourage a continuity of programs and experiences for students that includes positive transition between and among elementary, fifth year center, middle and .senior high school levels.

13.

The Board will review the District's building maintenance practices and take . necessary steps to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the maintenance program and will proceed with the implementation of deferred maintenance projects using available bond funds.

14.

The Board will encourage staff efforts to increase opportunities for all students to experience career awareness and exploration activities, and to acquire marketable skills prior to graduation.

15.

The Board will seek more new ways, such as, the Adopt-A-School program, to form partnerships with businesses, industry and community groups to improve public education in Oklahoma City.

16.

The Board will encourage the creation of opportunities for children to learn and practice the principles of good nutrition in their daily lives with the intent that the children's response to educational and environmental experiences will be improved with an eventual beneficial effect on learning and intellectual development.

17.

The Board will review the existing use of school facilities and needs to renovate or replace them, the changing enrollment and distribution of the student population, optional uses of school properties, and school consolidation plans and adopt a plan of action.

R. #21 Approval of Priority Ranking Order of Board's Goals for 1980-81 cont'd

MINUTES OF MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D

Consideration of ’olicies on employee Sick .eave, Severance ’ay, Part-Time ind Substitute Staff Employment, md High School Substitute enrichment ’rogram

Dr. Payzant stated: First of all, the intent is that if you adopt these policies, that they would basically become effective with the start of the second semester, January 21, 1980, with these two exceptions, that there would be a phase-in on the assignment of full-time substitutes for the high school over the spring term and into the fall of next year, and that the enrichment program would be implemented in 1980-81. There is one other thing that I would want to call to your attention and that is the severance pay proposal that is in response to a suggestion made by one of the Board members at the last meeting. That really should have underneath the title Severance Pay, in parentheses, Teachers and Administrators. Dr. Start - While Dr. Payzant is talking, I would like for him to comment on the suggestions that Ms. Hepp made on the word "if" in the section on Employee Sick Leave. I would like for you to comment on that as well as commenting on removal of the last sentence under the section Part-Time and Substitute Staff Employment, and also the suggestion by Mr. Barlow about deleting requiring verification that the sick leave is being used for the purposes specified. Would you comment on what you think about that, whether those three suggestions are good suggestions and should be incorporated or changed?

Dr. Payzant - With respect to requiring verification, the interpretation that I place on that sentence goes most to the phrase "appears to be a reasonable doubt." I have no intent of starting January 21, if the Board approves this, with a major campaign to start requiring verification of sick leave for people who are out for a day or two at a time. What this would do is give the administration the right if there is suspicion that sick leave is being abused, and that there are reasonable doubts, to require verification or make an investigation. And that is all it is intended to do. It does not mean that we intend to go out and start a major program on asking teachers who are out for a day to verify their sick leave. It would only be in those instances where we suspected abuse and had reasonable doubts about the way in which the sick leave is being used. Mrs. Hill - Could that maybe be underlined or something so that it would draw attention that that is where the emphasis is?

Dr. Payzant -

Sure, if that is what you want.

Dr. Start - I want to deal with theword "verification," because I think that you really have a lot of trouble with that. I can say I am sick, and you can say Iam not sick; and you can't prove that I am sick, and I can't prove thatI am not sick. We get into all kinds of hassles about that; it has been, a personnel problem faced by major industry from time immortal. If I have a headache and I don't feel good, I can feel sick, but I can still work. I may feel sick and not work, and another person who has a headache may feel sick and work, and it makes an impossible situation. We could sit and argue that, and with personnel managers in every major industry, it is an unresolvec problem. I would like us to say that if we think that it appears to be reasonable doubt, that we make an investigation. I would rather spend the money and hire a private investigator to check out all evidence that that person is sick. I would rather spend the money that way than to ask for some sort of verification, because I can see all kinds of problems developing trying to verify that somebody is sick. If we want to really find out, as it says here, conduct an investigation, pay the $50 and hire a private investigator to go check on that person. If you find that person has shopped that day, if you find that they visited the minister for a private counseling session, really picked up' evidence and there was no evidence of illness, then that is important rather than having the employee provide verification. Can't we delete the word "verification" easily? Mrs. Williams - But it says and/or.

Dr. Start - What I am really wondering is can we say the district may make an investigation if there appears to be reasonable doubt that the sick leave is being used for the purposes specified. Mrs. Potts - I have a problem with that in that I think you can avoid the need for any investigation if a particular employee has substantiation available. Dr. Start - Then the investigation is overwith. If the employee brings a letter from the doctor that they were sick, then there is no need to investigate it.

Mrs. Potts - I wonder if we could deal with this problem maybe by just changing the words to say the district may ask for substantiation and/or make an investigation.

Dr. Start - Then you have got the same problem. Mrs. Potts - The problem is really this verification business.

Dr. Start - That is what I am saying. So let's just forget about it. I trust our teachers. I think the vast majority of our teachers do not abuse sick leave. We have got a few of them out there who really do, and I don't know how many there are, but there are some. I don't want to penalize the vast majority for the sins of the few. And if we have got some people that we think it appears to be reasonable doubt that they are really sick, I would rather investigate them and document that they were not sick and discipline them.

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Consideration of Policies on Employee Sick Leave, Severance Pay, Part-Time and Substitute Staff Employment, and High School Mr. Donwerth - I don't really see how that can work. You could be off a couple of days Substitute Enrichment and not go to a doctor. Program - cont'd Dr. Start - The problem with your approach is that you really have to make your investigation the day that they are absent. You can't wait two or three days and hire an investigator. You have to really nail it right down. Are they at home? Are they sick? Are they out shopping? You have really got to gain the evidence that they are not ill. If you wait until they come back to work and then ask them for verification or request some documentation that they were sick, and then you are going to investigate, you might as well forget it. Dr. Hamm - By the same token, if a teacher is legitimately ill and did not go to the doctor, and so therefore yo.u feel like you may have a reasonable doubt that the teacher may be abusing sick leave, that is your suspicions; are you going to go to the expense of investigating that, when you could just simply requrest verification, not require it< but request it? If you are sick, fine. If that request for verification is not forthcoming, then you could go into the investigation as to the possible abuse of sick leave.

Mr. Donwerth1- I don't really believe that the verification is a real indication that a person has been sick anyway, because you can go to a doctor and get a verification, whether you are sick or not.

Dr. Start - I am interested in what your views really are on this, Dr. Payzant. I have problems with my employees, just like everybody else, and I don't know what the solution is. If one of my employees says they are sick and I don't think they are sick, I am going to get the evidence that they are not sick and discipline them, not ask them to bring me a doctor's letter or something like that, which as some people pointed out, where in some cases are very easy to get. Mrs. Hill - I think Dr. Start has a very good point here. It is true, as you say, I think the principal would probably have that reasonable doubt that day, and the investigation would have to be made that day. I really think that to "require verification and/or" could be deleted.

Dr. Payzant asked Mr. George Russell, Director of Personnel Services, if he had any comments on the discussion.

Dr. Start - While Mr. Russell is coming up, Mr. Russell would have the same problem I would have as a physician in trying to determine if somebody is really sick. I practiced medicine for a number of years and people came to me and said that they were sick, and I have examined them, and I think I am as competent a physician that has practiced medicine in this community, and I could not find tangible evidence of sickness. Who is right and who is wrong? Suppose they thinkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;they are sick and they come to me, and I say, no, you are not sick and I am not going to give you a doctor's statement. Now what? This is a real problem and let's avoid it.

Mr. Russell - I am not sure that I disagree with anything that you have said. The question of verification as it is approached here is more from a management standpoint in terms of being able to monitor and control the use of sick leave. One df the ways of doing that, as approached in some of the material that was presented to you two weeks ago, was through the provision of a form that the employee signs once they come back from any type of absence, indicating by their signature that they are affirming that the use of that leave, particularly sick leave, was in accordance with provisions of the contract or Board policy, and indicating that they recognize that if they abuse that policy that they would be subject to disciplinary action. My view is that if we are going to get in the business of investigating illnesses or sick leave abuse, that then we shouTd be willing, if we say that we are going to take disciplinary action for those persons that abuse it, and we have evidence to indicate that they abused it, that the administration and the Board will have to follow through with disciplinary action to back that up. Otherwise, what we are talking about here is just asking the employee to verify it. One of the ways that we have approached it in trying to do that is by having the employee just say I was sick and I attest to the fact that it was in accordance with Board policy. The only time that there would be any need for a request of verification is when there is a reasonable doubt. Fro example, this Board heard a grievance several months ago where a teacher attested to the fact all the way up through this hearing that they had been actually sick and had not been violating the sick leave provision. But evidence was presented here that the person was in actuality at a hearing of a city board. So how you balance that, I don't know. And as was indicated in the position paper, we are trying to get a handle on it. We are not sure that this is the absolute correct way, and we are willing to try several approaches to try to do that. Dr. Start - And I am not trying to handcuff management. My only response about the teachers is that you are always going to have that kind of person. In an organization this size, you are always going to have those kinds of people that will lie their way up to that point. But why make it so difficult for you as a manager and for the rest of the employees who are basically honest?

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Consideration of -â&#x20AC;&#x2122;olicies on Employee Sick _eave, Severance 3ay, Part-Time ind Substitute Staff Employment, ind High School Substitute Enrichment 3rogram - cont'd

Mr. Russell - Verification only applies to that half of a percentage point that potentially abuses sick leave. Dr. Start - I agree with you.

Then investigate them; bring up the evidence.

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Mr. Russell - But why not offer them the opportunity first to provide the verification, and then if they don't do that, then maybe we have to spend the hundred dollars or so, whatever, to prove, for example, like we did in the other instance, that the person was not home sick like they said, but was in fact at a hearing or somewhere else where they had denied that they were.

Dr. Start - I understand what you are saying, except when we talk logistically, by the time they come back and they don't have the verification, it is almost too late to do the investigation and obtain the evidence that you need.

Mrs. Williams - May I inject here, and I speak from experience, that when certain persons called in sick, these people had to call and tell me as the supervisor, not my secretary, that they were sick. That was a management prerogative that we instituted.

Dr. Payzant - That will be in the administrative rules to go with this policy, that the person is to call their supervisor, if it is their department head or principal or whomever, when they are going to be ill. Mrs. Williams - And my regulations permitted me to say, okay, John Doe, you are on sick leave, bring me a doctor's certificate when you come back.

Mr. Donwerth - The person abusing it, you are claiming that they were sick, but let's not forget how many different items that sick leave could be used for. The person, himself or herself, does not have to be sick. In the part on sick leave, it says that absences occur'due to personal illness or pregnancy of the employee, or illness or injury of the immediate family." And then it explains who the immediate family is. It says "the immediate family is defined as the employee's spouse, parent or guardian, child, brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild." They could be ill. They could be going to visit their grandmother in a nursing home.

Mrs. Williams - These are very viable. forget the "and/or".

I would like to see it stay in, and don't

Dr. Start - I just wanted your opinion about that, whether that we could avoid that issue. Would we avoid it by saying "the district may ask for verification and/or..."? Would that avoid it, rather than the word "require"? Then if the employee doesn't have it, if there is suspicion, to go ahead and investigate it; would that solve the dilemma or would it help? Mr. Russell - Facetiously, the other day I said to the Superintendent that he may have to put in the budget for next year a position for a private investigator in the Personnel Office. If you start talking about investigating every one of these, that may be what you get into. I think that in 99ig percent of the time, you can take the teacher's word that they were sick. It is that one -half of the percent that we are concerned about. Why conduct the investigation if the person can actually bring in something to verify it? I agree with Mr. Donwerth that in 95 percent of those instances, a person can go to a doctor and get a written excuse that they were sick.

Dr. Payzant - The second suggestion was to change the wording of the sentence which begins with "Teachers who abuse..." to "If teachers abuse the sick leave policy, they will be subject to..." I don't have any problem With that change at all. The third point was the question of paying elementary teachers based on the number of students above the regular enrollment, and I can argue that one either way. Mr. Donwerth - I really feel like your objectives of the Board through the Long Range Plan is to lower the class enrollment especially in the elementary school to much lower that it is now. The student that comes in from another class will be disruptive to the class. I feel like it is an additional burden on the teacher to have an outside student come into her/his class. That doesn't replace the enrolled student or the assigned student. I feel like the paragraph "Compensation will only be paid for each student that increases the attendance in the teacher's classroom above the regular enrollment" ought to be eliminated.

Mrs. Hill - As I have mentioned before, our elementary teachers are the only ones that don't have a planning time. They have ho break time during the day. They are probably the only employee that we have that doesn't even have what we call a doffee break. And here we are adding students. I just think that any time you bring in another student, or two or three students from another class, they need to be compensate d for those students. I would agree. I think that the last sentence needs to be del eted.

MINUTES OF MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D Dr. Start - Do you have problems with deleting that, Dr. Payzant? Dr. Payzant - I will be very frank with you. We are going to be back in negotiations one of these days. A lot of this if we were in negotiations, we would be negotiating. We< are not and I think it is important to move forward and get some of these started. If you pull that sentence out now, there is one less thing that we have to negotiate to get something for when we are back negotiating a contract.

Mrs. Hill - But it might save some time.

Let's have some good faith bargaining.

Dr. Payzant - Just as long as you recognize it; that's all. that way, take it out right now.

If you want to look at it

Consideration of Policies on Employee Sick Leave, Severance Pay, Part-Time and Substitute Staff Employment, and High School Substitute Enrichment Program - cont'd

Dr. Start - What is the purpose of that statement?

Dr. Payzant - You would save a little bit of money now if you only compensate them at a dollar a student for those above their regular enrollment. It doesn't cost as much as if you compensate them for every student that is assigned to the class regardless of what the regular enrollment is. Mrs. Potts - Do you have any idea about how much money difference we are talking about?

Dr. Payzant - No, not until we have experience with it. I don't have any strong feelings about it. I just wrote it that way so they would have something else to work with later on.

Mr. English - Yes, because one of these days we will be in negotiations and no one will remember what happened this night. And will we get one bit of credit for tonight; no.

Dr. Start - You won't get any credit for it, but that doesn't mean that I won't remember it. Mr. Donwerth - I have one other thing on this to veri'fyv The first paragraph spells ou\ . absences occur due to personal.il1ness, injury or pregnancy of the employee" and then it says "brother, sister, grandparent, granchild or similar relationship established by marriage," and I would assume that would be an in-law; "through a marriage or person residing in the same household." To me that would say that a roommate's grandmother could be ill and a teacher could have sick leave for it if they went for that reason. I imagine it is saying relationship established by a marriage or a person in the same household of the employee.

Mr. English - This same language is in the present contract, so that is why we have got it in this. Dr. Start made a motion, which was seconded by Mrs. Potts - I move that wd adopt the Employee's Sick Leave Policy as published in the agenda, with the modification of the sentence in the section on Employee Sick Leave, inserting the word "If teachers abuse the sick leave policy, they will be subject to disciplinary action and/or dismissal." That modification plus under Severance Pay, that be designated under there to include (Teachers and Administrators). AMENDMENT FAFLED '

Mrs. Hill moved to amend the motion to delete "require verification and/or". The amendment was seconded by Mr. Donwerth.

In discussing the amendment, Mrs. Hill stated: We seem to be having problems with the verification, and let's try this system and see what happens. Let's try it without verification. You don't always go to a doctor the first day or two that you are sick. The investigation is what we have been doing, and I would like to continue that and not necessarily require. Mrs. Potts - I am wondering if that will make it such that an administrator may not ask for verification then? Dr. Start - If I as an administrator would read that with it deleted, I would start my investigation by asking for some proof that they were sick. That would be part of the initial investigation. I would ask for what evidence can you give me that you were sick? And if it sounded kind of slippery, I would go from there.

On roll call for the amendment, Dr. Start voted nay; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted nay; Mrs. Potts voted nay; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. Engl ish votedâ&#x2013; nayiI Mr. Engliish deciaredr that the amendment failed. AMENDMENT Mrs. Hill then stated: Under the section Part-Time and Substitute Employment, I would amend the motion to delete the last sentence "Compensation will be paid..."

Mr. Donwerth seconded the amendment.

R. #22 Approval of Policies on Employee Sick Leave, Severance Pay, Part-Time and Substitute Staff Employment, and High School Substitute Enrichment Program as Amended

MINUTES OF MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D

R. #22 Approval of Policies on Employee Sick Leave, Severance Pay, Part-Time and Substitute Staff Employment, and High School Substitute Enrichment Program as Amended - cont'd

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted nay; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the amendment carried.

<Dr. Hamm inquired: Regarding the High School Substitute Enrichment Program, if we are going to have an alternative educational program that we will have guest speakers, films and musical presentations, I was wondering what kind of a musical presentation?

Dr. Payzant - One of the reasons that I said that this would be implemented in 1980-81 is that a response to your question could only be a general one this evening, and I want the high school staff, principals, and Ms. Mason to have the opportunity to work out more specific plans for this kind of enrichment program, and that can't be done in time for next week.

Dr. Hamm - My reaction to that would be that I would rather see a study hall there than a musical presentation. But the details will be worked out later. Mr. English - I would hope that they would learn some musical appreciation at that time, rather than a study hall. I am not sure that a study hall accomplishes its goal.

AMENDMENT Mrs. Potts moved to amend the motion to put in the section on Employee Sick Leave, "the district may ask for verification- and/or...", instead of the word "require."

Dr. Hamm seconded the amendment. Dr. Start - I would like to ask Dr. Payzant about that.

Dr. Payzant - That is fine. On roll call for the amendment, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the amendment carried.

Policies as amended and approved:

EMPLOYEE SICK LEAVE (All Employees)

The Board believes that district employees should be protected against loss of

pay when absences occur due to personal illness, injury or pregnancy of the employee; or illness or injury to members of the immediate family.

Irmediate

family is* defined as the employee's spouse, parent or guardian, child, brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild or similar relationship as established by

marriage or a person residing in the same household as the employee.

Other

cases which seem to merit consideration shall be referred to the Director of

Personnel Services in writing for approval. Sick leave is provided in the amount of one day for each contract month and

shall accumulate from year to year without limit.

The cumulative sick leave

allowance for permanent part time employees shall be proportional to the amount of time worked.

Certified employees and administrators will be credited with

their full amount of accumulated sick leave benefits plus current year's allocation at the beginning of the school year.

Certified employees and

administrators whose employment begins after the start of the school year will be credited with sick leave benefits at the beginning of their employment.

Other

employees will be credited with sick leave benefits at a rate of one day for each

MINUTES OF MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D Policies as amended and approved - cont'd

month the employee has worked.

Employees terminating before the end of their

contract duty days, who have used more days of sick leave than their service days

entitle them to, shall reimburse the district for the excess days paid to them.

To remain on sick leave with or without pay for an extended period of time, employees may be required to furnish a statement from a physician indicating

they are not able to work.

R. #22 Approval of Policies on Employee Sick Leave, Severance Pay, Part-Time and Substitute Staff Employment, and High School Substitute Enrichment Program as Amended - cont'd

To return to work employees must have a physician's

statement indicating that they are able to work.

An employee's position will

be held open for an interval not to exceed two weeks after a physician states

the employee is able to return to work.

(Teachers) Teachers who have eighty percent of their current year's sick leave at the end

of the contract year will receive an additional day for personal business.

The additional day will be made available at the beginning of the next school

year.

Teachers will receive one additional sick leave day at the end of each

contract year for every twenty-six sick leave days available.

Teachers who

have not used sick leave equivalent to the annual allocation shall receive $10.00 per day for the equivalent days not used at the end of the school

year.

The district may ask for verification and/or make an investigation if

there appears to be reasonable doubt that the sick leave is being used for the purposes specified.

A nurse may be requested to visit with teachers who are

habitually absent for reasons of illness. If teachers abuse the sick leave policy

they

will be subject to disciplinary action and/or dismissal.

When a teacher has exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave and is absent for personal illness, injury or pregnancy, or illness or injury to members of the

immediate family, he/she will receive full contract salary less the amount

actually paid a substitute teacher for twenty working days.

After the

twenty working days are exhausted the teacher will be automatically placed on sick leave without pay.

MINUTES OF/MEET_ING_OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D

R. #22 Approval of Policies on Employee Sick Leave, Severance Pay, Part-Time and Substitute Staff Employment, and High School Substitute Enrichment Program as Amended - cont'd

Policies as amended and approved - cont'd

SEVERANCE PAY (TEACHERS & ADMINISTRATORS) The Board believes that employees should be compensated for unused sick leave

when they retire or leave employment of the district.

Employees who retire at the age 60 or above will be paid $5.00 per day for all accumulated sick leave at the time of retirement.

Employees who resign after 15 or more years of service in the district

will

be paid for accumulated sick leave on the following basis: % Reimbursed-

Years in System

50% 75% 90% 100%

15-19 20-24 25-29 Over 30

Payment will be at the rate of $5.00 per day of unused sick leave. Persons who are terminated or dismissed by the board for cause will not be

entitled to such severance pay.

PART-TIME AND SUBSTITUTE STAFF EMPLOYMENT (Substitute Teachers) The Board believes there should be a qualified teacher in each classroom. Therefore, the superintendent shall make provisions to provide a substitute

teacher in the event the regular teacher cannot be present and/or an alternative

educational program is not provided for high school students.

Approved methods

for providing substitute teachers include:

Substitute teachers assigned full .time to secondary schools;

Regular substitute teachers assigned from Personnel Services Division;

Standby substitutes;

Teachers at secondary level during planning period; and

Teacher aides assigned to the school.

Teachers assigned full time as substitutes to secondary schools shall receive their regular contract salary.

Certified regular and standby substitute teachers

will be paid at a rate of $35.00 per day and noncertified will be paid at a rate of $32.00 per day.

Regular substitute teachers working more than 45 days in a

school year shall be compensated at the rate of $40.00 per day.

Substitutes

willing to work outside of their immediate residential area will receive an additional $2.00 per day.

MINUTES OF MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D

Regular teachers who are required to use their planning period to substitute for a

teacher who is absent because of illness shall be compensated at a rate of $5.00 per hour.

Teacher aides, substituting for a teacher, shall be compensated at a rate of $32.00 per day or their regular daily rate, whichever is higher.

R. #22 Approval of Policies on Employee Sick Leave, Severance Pay, Part-Time and Substitute Staff Employment, and High School Substitute Enrichment Program as Amended - cont'd

Elementary teachers shall be compensated at a rate of~$l.00 per day per student

for students assigned to their classroom because of an absence of a teacher due to

illness.

HIGH SCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM

The Board endorses the concept of alternative education programs for high school students when the regular classroom teacher cannot be present.

These alternative

programs should be developed with participation of the students at each school.

Approved activities may include but are not limited to: 1.

Guest speakers;

Films; and

Musical presentations.

When it is anticipated that a teacher will be absent for three or more consecutive days, attempts will be made to provide a substitute teacher.

I : D

EXECUTIVE SESSION

! o

A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Hill that the Board adjourn to executive session to discuss personnel and litigation. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #23 Board Adjourned to Executive Session 10:55 p.m.

Having completed its executive session, a motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Potts that the Board return to open session. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #24 Board Returned to Open Session - 11:49 p.m.

MINUTES OF MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 -CONT'D

ADJOURNMENT R. #25 Adjournment 11:50 p.m.

A motion to adjourn was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mr. Donwerth. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

THEREUPON THE MEETINGJWAS ADJOURNED. (A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the Clerk's office.)

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

I, Number before Office

the undersigned Clerk of the Board of Education of Independent School District 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours the meeting, the date, time and place of the Regular Meeting was filed in the of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.

I also certify that at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, notice of the date, time, place and agenda of this meeting was posted in permanent public view at the location of the meeting.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district this <^4^1ay of 1980.

Clerk, Oklahoma City Board of Education

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MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel

TERMINATIONS

Major Classes of Terminations: Voluntary Resignation

Changing employment Leaving Oklahoma City Area Early Retirement Personal Reasons No reason given

a. b. c. d. e.

Mandatory Retirement

Notice of Dismissal

Discontinuance of Employment

a. b. c. d. e. f.

Termination from leave of absence Elimination of position Expiration of employment period Unqualified for position Deceased Abandoned position

PERSONNEL NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations

Bunch, Brenda Burge, Claudette Butler, Bobby

Caldwell. Robin Cheney, Robert

Davis, Mary Deal, Kay DeSpain, Tom Droke, Arnold

Harris. Luke Kuebler, Oeorge

Lampkin, Janet

Rosenthal, Merrleave

Davis ' Primary

Marshall Math

Hoover Industrial Arts

Eisenhower L.D.

Personnel Director Staff Dev.

1-31-80

Shidler Primary

5-29-79

Page-Woodson/Dewey Kindergarten

1-0A-80

Adult Education Director

1-18-80

Capitol 11111 Middle Physical Education

Grant Study Hall

Curriculum Visual Arts Cons.

12-21-79

Marshall Social Studies

11-06-79

Douglass

Harding Home Economics______

1 - L.D. - Learning Disabilities 2 - IMH - Ediicable Mentally Handicapped

Annual

South. Dana

$10695.

B.S. CSU

12-20-79

10695.

B.S. .CSU

Douglass 12-20-79.. LD/EMH

12-21-79

LD/FMH

Eiiployments

1-18-30 11-06-79 1

12-21-79

Elsenhower L.D.

11-20-79

1-18-80

12-21-79

1-03-80

Houtchens. Diane

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MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D ’ersonnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL Terminations Bradford, Mary

Bradley, Rita Campbell, Sarah Corona. Abigail

Cox. Shirley Crawford, Dorothy

Davis, Patricia

Forshee, Linda Henderson, Dianne

Jones, Betty Kitchell. Terry

Linduff, June MelHnperr Sharon 'Moore. Tracy

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

11-30-79

Purchasing Intermediate Secy.

11-29-79

Dunbar Teacher Aide

11-09-79

Westwood Bilingual Aide

10-12-79

External Funding Secretary

12-26-79

Elsenhower P.T. Attendance Clk. 11-21-79

Business Services Accountant

12-28-79

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

11-19-79

Supply Hecord Clerk

11-08-79

Accounting Services Sr. Accountant

1-18-80

Children's Hospital Teacher Aide

12-07-79

Purchasing Senior Clerk

11-02-79

Columbus Secretary

11-16-79

Media Services Audio Visual Clerk

12-07-79

Bnployments

Monthly

Velasouez. Norma

$ 540.

Henley, Judith

262.50

10-29-79

Westwood Bilingual Aide

l?-ll-79.

Eisenhower P.T. Attendance Clk.

Simpson, Raynell

565.

11-19-79

Purchasing Senior Clerk

RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD External Funding - Indian Education Tutors (temporary) effective 11-27-79 - $9.00 per hr

Substitute Teachers Abul-Raheem, Raushanah Adams, Edna L. Agee, Kaye Arnold,’Karen * Ashabranner, Eva B. Berger, Carold Boone, Glenda Cox, Corn rm Fowler, Kathy Haney, Helen L. Jones, R1chard King, Earlene Leckie, Vi rgi -nd a Maddox, Francis Marshall, Bobby Petree, Velma Randall, Janelie Rhoads, Billy Robinson, Harry Shellenberger, Elmer Sneed, Nancy Stevenson, Paula Webb, Cynthia Wright> Leslie

Elementary Learning Disability Elementary Music English Elementary Elementary Psychology Elementary Elementary Elementary Language Arts Elementary Social Studies Vocal Music Elementary Heme Economics Elementary Social Studies Business Elementary Physical Education Elementary Speech Pathology

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MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D

Pe■rsonnel cont'd

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Terminations

Employments

Annual

Additional Allocations

Royse, Jo Young, Kathy

$5874.50

B.S. CSU

10186.

B.A. NLU

11-12-79

Edgemere P.T. Kindergarten

11-09-79

Taft Science/Math

Leaves of Absence

Parental Leave Broadfoot, Pat

West Nichols Hills Kindergarten

12-21-79

Pardue, Suzanne

Edgemere Primary

10-30-79

Professional Leave Central Facilitator

Hester, Dan

1-18-80

Ill Health

Classen Business

---- Al vartl «

11-26-79

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLE Gt

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations

Employments

Annual

Rogers, Bennie

$10683.

PROFESSIONAL OTHER Gilchrist, Barbara

Jackson. Christina

la Id

Rogers ■ Nurse

12-21-79

ExternaJ. Funding Indian Ed, Developer 11-13-79

Dunkins, Ann

M.S. TSU

11-01-79

Health Services Nurse

11-13-79

External Funding Correlator

Monthly Willis. Carole

Presson, Phyllis

$1000.

Additional Allocations

1 - TSU - Troy State University - Troy, Alabama 2 - CAS - Career Awareness Specialist

Owens, Chequita

925.

12-05-79

External Funding CAS

Pettinridge, Sherrill

530.

11-26-79

External Funding Indian Ed. Advisor

Sanders. Susanne

525.

11-26-79

External Funding Indian Ed, Developer

Stubblefield. Harry

925,

11-29-79

External Funding CAS

41d MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 -

CONT'D

’ersonnel cont'd NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations

Employments

Annual

Peterson, Thelma

Beasley, Elizabeth

$12426.

M.S. OU

Sauls, Christine

Brown, Shirley

10186.

B.A. SPC

Alvarez, Hope

Chen, Julia

10683.

M.A. UK

Puryear, Edna

Corff, Mary Susan

5347.50

Mash, Beverly

Dunkin, Mary

Strother, William

Turner, Elizabeth

Underhill, Earl

Williams, Kathy Jrighti. Betty

Northwest Language Arts

11-21-79

Hawthorne Principal

12-18-79

Taft Learning Center

1-18-80

Shields Heights Learning Center

12-04-79

11-12-79

Johnson Physical Therapist

10-26-79

Rogers Reading

11-12-79

Curriculum Lau Language Center

B.S. CSU

11-12-79

Arcadia P.T. LD

12183.

M.S. osu

11-19-79

Curriculum Early Childhood Cons,

Engel. Al

12762.

M. Ed. CSU

11-07-79

Douglass Social Studies/Math

Collett, Teresa

Freeman, Joni

10186.

B.A. OU

11-05-79

Northwest English

Burchardt, Clara

Gordv. Linda

13928.

M. Ed. OSU

11-19-79

Curriculum Foreign Lang. Cone.

Tilsner, Sybil

Hall. Cvnthia

10378.

B.A. CSU

11-08-79

Douglass English

1 - SPC - Seattle Pacific College - Seattle, Washington 2 - UK - University of Kansas - Lawrence, Kansas 3 - LD - Learning Disabilities ~

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATJE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Employments

Annual

Smith, Joann

Hammack, Diane

$11996.

B.A. OSU

11-05-79

Northwest Math

Al exander■ Linda

Leal. Maria

10186.

B.A. swsu

11-01-79

Burbank Primary

Coker, Judith

Perkins, Diane

10186.

B.A. OCU

11-05-79

Northwest Drama/Great Books

Ashlev. Robert

Rose, Madeline

10683.

M.S. HC

11-01-79

Classen Social Studies

Bassler. Vivian

Wright, Betty

10683.

M.S. OCU

11-01-79

Shields Heights Learning Center

Barnett, Ronald

10695.

B.S. NESU

11-01-79

Southeast EMH

Blair, Regina

10695.

B.S. OU

12-18-79

Jefferson EMH/LD

Cooksey, Melody

10186.

B.S. CSU

10-15-79

Columbus Intermediate

Crane. Gary

11996.

B.S. CSU

11-20-79

Jackson P.E./Social Studies

Gattis. Judith

10186.

B.S. mi

10-08-79

Northwest Social Studies .

Martin, Virginia

6080.50

B.S. osu

,1.0-29-79

King P.T. Kindergarten-----

Oakes, Ferrel.vn

10186.

B.S. CSU

10-22-79

Taft Language Arts

Terminations

Additional Allocations

1 - IIC - Hunter College - Manhattan, New York 2 - EMH - Educable Mentally Handicapped

3 - LD - Learning Disabilities 4 - TTU - Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

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Personnel cont'd NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECT VE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL ' t'—‘————--- ——Terminations

Hoover Principal's Secy.

11-30-79

Media Services Media Secretary

11-16-79

Supply Requisition Secy.

11-30-79

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

10-31-79

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

11-16-79

Roosevelt Clerk

11-12-79

Harding P.T. Attendance Clk. 12-06-79

Transportation Senior Secretary

12-14-79

Jefferson P.T. Counselor Aide

11-21-79

Personnel Administrative Secy.

1-02-80

Curriculum Bilingual

11-08-79

Children's Hospital Teacher Aide

11-30-79

Wilson Secretary

12-06-79

Moss, Coral

Myers, Frances Marry, Brenda Ngo, Hoang

O'Bannon, Adlllne

Perry, Betty

Randolph. Sherry Sebring, Sandra

Sewe, Patsy Stinebeck, Yolonda Thavisackd, Phettavone

Toepfer, Terry

Washington, Ruby

Bnployments

Monthly

Smith, Virginia

$ 570.

11-26-79

275.

11-27-79

Bradford, Mary

Acosta, Cecilia

525.

12-10-79

Media Services

West Nichols Hills P.T. Preschool Aide

Children's Hospital Teacher Aide

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL Terminations

Bnployments

Monthly

Pollard, Elaine

Bowen. Opal

$ 565.

12rl4r79

External Funding Secretary

Dewberry, Jocelyn

Brown, Waletha

565.

12-17-79

PR4E Secretary TV

Farris. Cvnthia

Gressler, Renee

525.

11-09-79

Lincoln Learning Ctr. Aide

Mnf.fth. Pnt.T’lr.lA

Heydman, Aline

545.

11-16-79

Special Services Secretary

Davison, Frances

Hill, Annette

530.

12-07-79

Jackson Teacher Aide

l/nflnn. £hnT*lRn

Murdock. Bertha

525.

11-12-79

Nichols Hills Special Ed. Aida

JUBcPih xiuiex

Nichols, Barbara

580.

11-23-79

Rogers Library Clerk

Tomes, Elvora

Orr, Peggy

525.

11-19-79

Grant Attendance Clerk

Roarkj Dianna

Pape, Janet

525.

11-05-79

Garden Oaks Learning Ctr. Aide

Smith, Mary

Patterson, Barbara

565.

12-10-79

Purchasing Senior Clerk

Beardt Wanda

Shanks. Nadine

535.

Northeast 11-12-79.. Teacher Aide-------------

Nlr.hnla. RflrbRra

Spade, Carol

525.

11-09-79

Rogers Library Clerk

Williams, Ruth

210.

11-19-79

Riverside P.T. Media Ctr. Aide

Wilson, Shulah

262.50

11-07-79

Douglass Counselor Aide

Chatman, Erma 1 - PR4E - Plannlrg Research and Evaluation

41 f

MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D ~

Personnel cont'd NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

SALARY

APPROVED EXP.

■

....... .

EFFECTIVE DATE

■"

ASSIGNMENT

■4

CLERICAL

Terminations

Bnployments

Monthly

Eitel, Linda

Young, Nancy

$ 575.

11-04-79

Accounting Services Jr. Accountant

525.

12-06-79

Taft Learning Ctr. Aide

Baker, Rolyn

277.50

11-19-79

Shields Heights P.T. Attendance Clk.

Crawford, Dorothy

267.50

11-20-79

Elsenhower P.T. Attendance Clk.

Dang, Thi Thao Moc

535.

11-01-79

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

Ilanmiond. Wanda

262.50

11-07-79

Page-Woodson P.T. Attendance Clk.

Larkin. Beverly

525.

11-12-79

Classen Attendance Clerk

Lawrence, Virginia

525.

11-15-79

Star Spencer Attendance Clerk

T.lndlev, .Tanquellne

262.50

11-12-79

Taft P.T. Attendance Clk.

Moore, Tracy

550.

11-12-79

Media Services Audio-Visual Clerk

Transfers Smith, Inez

Pace, Zeeramell

Additional Allocations

—---------------------------- ::ii

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL

Ernnlovments

Terminations

Monthly

Additional Allocations Nealy, Claudia

$ 262.50

11-12-79

Tolk/Dewey P.T. Attendance Clk.

Nguyen, Suu Van

535.

12-10-79

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

Pham, Da Thi

535.

10-30-79

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

Randolph, Sherry

265.

11-26-79

Harding P.T. Attendance Clk.

Roberts. Jovce

535.

10-31-79

Bodine Clerk

Roberts. Wvlene

262.50

11-27-79

Roosevelt P.T. Attendance Clk.

Robinson. Jean

341.25

—4

11-15-79

King P.T. Attendance Clk.

Smith. Sharon

.■■26^5-0-

11-07-79

Willow Brook P.T. Attendance Clk.

11-13-79

Jackson P.T. Attendance Clk.

Weatherford. Sarah

PnrAnt.nl T^*ave Mnrv

Computer Services Denartment Secy.

9-27-79

262.50

41g MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

SALARY

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE Tennl nations

Alexander, Rosie Bell, Thelma

Biswell, Juanita Rrop.kf •Mirffljn

la la

le lb

le 4f

Carter, Brenda

Hpphftr, Nancv

la Id le

Helper

11-07-79

Helper

8-28-79

Helper

10-11-79

Heiner

71-07-79

Heiner

8-11-79

Trnvpllniy Mnneper

10-09-79

Helper

10-08-79

Salads

11-26-79

Heiner

10-25-79

Helper

11-30-79

Helper

10-01-79

Helper

10-05-79

Stubbs, Mary

•

11-30-79

Director

1-09-80

---------------- —- --------------------------

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE

Terminations

Walker, Meneal

Bnployments

Helper

Hourly

10-12-79 "Applications Processed

Allen, Pat

"Awaiting Assignment

$ 3.15

11-06-79

Helper

Austin, Linda

3.15

12-12-79

Helper

Baxter, Iva

3.15

11-05-79

Helper

Bennett, Marlowe

3.15

11-20-79

Helper

Blevins, Carolyn

3.15

12-14-79

Helper

Camp, Josephine

3.15

12-03-79

Helper

Carter, Betty

3.15

12-03-79

Helper

Dillon, Patsy

3.15

11-13-79

Helper

Dobbins, Curry

3.15

11-29-79

Helper

Earing, Janet

3.15

z 11-26-79

Helper

Edwards, Doris

3.15

12-05-79

Helper

Ettierre, Felecla

3.15

11-20-79

Helper

41h

MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE Employments

Hourly

"Applications Processed Goldhorn, Grace

$ 3.15

11-09-79

Helper

Hall, Betty

3.15

12-07-79

Helper

Hall, Michael

3.15

11-12-79

Helper

Hall, Thelma

3.15

11-14-79

Helper

Hankins, Dorothy

3.15

11-05-79

Helper

Jackson, Wanda

3.15

11-26-79

Helper

Kimball, Anna

3.15

11-08-79

Helper

Lebhardt, Deborah

3.15

11-14-79

Helper

Linthicum, Jacklyn

3.15

12-10-79

Helper

Mack, Janice

3.15

11-13-79

Helper

Pierce, Doris

3.40

11-15-79

Key Person

Pierce, Pauline

3.15

11-20-79

Helper

Ramsey, Patricia

3.15

11-15-79

Helper

"Awaiting Assignment

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE ;

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE Terminations

Employments

Hourly

"Applications Processed $.3,15

11-10-79

Smith, Judy

3.15

1L=Q2=22

Smith, Patsy

3-15 ...

12-10-79

Helper

Walton, Rosaleen

3.15

11-14-79

Heiner

Williams, Gall

3.15

11-19-79

Helper

Wooten, Sharon

3.25

11-19-79

Cook

Youngblood, Kathryn

3.15

11-09-79

Helper

Dillen, David

2.90

12-04-79

Trainee

Walker, Gina

2.90

11-13-79

Trainee

Shoopman, Elaine

Ha Itjpt

.Helper---------------------

Student Trainees

PURCHASING

Stinebeck, Alvin "Awaiting Assignment

Purchasing Assistant

12-28-79

41 i

MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel cont'd NAME

SUPPLY

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

Terminations

Employments

Monthly

Hawkins, Jesse

$ 615.

12-10-79

WfiTPhmiRA Worker

King, Daniel

Teeter, Ronald

615.

12-05-79

Warehouse Worker

Jackson, James

Wiley, Clifton

615.

10-22-79

Warehouse Worker

615.

10-24-79

Warehouse Worker

11-11-79

Manager of Supply

Harvey, Homer Taylor, Arthur

4f 4f la

Thomas, James

Warehouse Worker

12-03-79

Warehouse Worker

11-19-79

Warehouse Worker

11-16-79

Additional Allocations

Tarbutton. Freddy

Annual

Emery, Patrick

J----------------------------------------

$19255.

----------------------------------------—------------------- -

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

TRANSPORTATION

Terminations Armstrong, Richard

Dryant, Philip" Busby, Donna

Caldwell. Beverlv

Carolina, Walter

Carter, Michael Coffee. Donald

Frost, Don

Huntley, Thelbert

la 4f la

id la la

Id 3

le Jackson, Leroy

Johnson 0’lena Mutz. Thomas

Pickett, Raymond

le la

la le

Bus Driver

11-21-79

Bus Driver

11-19-79

Bus Aide

10-24-79

Run Driver

11-20-79

Bus Driver

11-30-79

Bus Driver

10-29-79

Bus Driver

11-05-79

Bus Driver

11-07-79

Bus Driver

10-31-79

Biia Driver

11-02-79

Bus Driver

11-19-79

Bus Driver

10-09-79

Bua Driver

11-30-79

Bus Driver

11-07-79

41j

MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

TRANSPORTATION BnDlovments

Monthly

Mahon, Jesse

141Q.

11-21-79

Bus Driver

McDonald, Lonnie

r 222x

11-21-79

Bus Driver

Neeley, Lueann

440.

11-20-79

Bus Driver---------------

Owen. Elizabeth

395.

12-03-79

Bus Driver

Phillips, John

410.

11-27-79

Bus Driver

Richmond, Gloria

395.

12-12-79

Bus Driver

Root, Rocer

410,

11-14-73- Bus Driver---------------

Shelley, Maryanne

300.

12-12-79

Bus Driver

Spunangle, Barbara

425.

11-27-79

Bus Driver

UJUtV Xv£»

Ant.wHnA*

(Irttv

‘ Atako, Glory

All Schools CiiRtrOdinl Worker

11-20-79

West Nichols Hills Custodial Worker

11-21-79

West^Niohols Hills

Jones, Willie

621.

12-03-79

Custodial Worker

41k

MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SERVICE

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

Terminations Batiste, Theresa

Beard, Jessie

Coffman. Ruth

George, Stephen Gorden, Nettie Hopkins. Renalda .Toriftf?. T^rrv Knight. Aaron

Mann, David

Martin, Charlie Milton, Dennis Nichols, Mickey OnvphulR. RrnARt.

Preston, Marvin

Employments

Monthly

West, Barbara

$ 605.

12-04-79

Northwest Custodial Worker

11-21-79

Star Spencer Custodial Worker

12-07-79

Davis Custodial Worker

12-07-79

Willow Brook Custodial Worker

11-07-79

Harding Custodial Worker

11-08-79

Smith, Tony

605.

11-19-79

Harding Custodial Worker

Star Spencer Custodial Worker

11-20-79

Field, Joe

620.

11-29-79

Star Spencer Custodial Worker

Northwest Custodial Worker

10-31-79

Nguyen, Cuong

670.

11-08-79

Northwest Custodial Worker

Dunbar Custodial Worker

12-03-79

Rogers Custodial Worker

11-02-79

Smith, Minnie

605.

11-14-79

Rogers Custodial Worker

Star Spencer Custodial Worker

11-07-79

Spriggs, Charlie

605.

11-15-79

Star Spencer Custodial Worker

Riverside Custodial Worker

12-07-79

Snow, Robert

605.

12-10-79

Riverside Custodial Worker

All Schools Custodial Worker

12-07-79

Classen

Star Spencer Custodial Worker

Beard, Jessie

605.

11-16-79

Star Spencer Custodial Worker

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

Custodial. Worker

12-06-79

11-08-79

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

ASSIGNMENT

.. SERVICE Terminations

Employments

Monthly

$ 605.

11-29-79

Rogers Custodial Worker

.Rogers Custodial Worker

11-08-79

Mukes, Marcus

Star Spencer Custodial Worker

11-20-79

Fulson, Herbert

640.

12-03-79

Star Spencer Custodial Worker

Rogers Custodial Worker

11-05-79

Star Spencer Custodial Worker

11-07-79

Davis Custodial Worker

10-31-79

Coffman, Ruth

625.

11-14-79

Davis Custodial Worker

Prairie Queen Custodial Worker

12-06-79

Stringer. Charles

Brown, Donald

605.

12-10-79

Hoover Custodial Worker

Clason. Mitchell

Faulkenberrv. Harold

795.

11-26-79

Hayes Custodian

Townsend. Ruehen

Siler, Donald

605.

11-08-79

Hoover Custodial Worker

George, Stephen

Wynder, Glenda

605.

11-14-79

Willow Brook Custodial Worker

Christian, Helven

625.

11-27-79

All Schools Custodial Worker

Snith, Edna Spriggs. Charlie

Tyner. Jimmie Washington, Shirley

Watson, Benjamin Willis, Calvin

Transfers

Coffman, Dale

41L

MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D ’ersonnel cont'd ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SERVICE

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

Transfers

Employments

Monthly

Patterson, Angelo

Hodges, Debra

$ 605.

11-14-79

Southeast Custodial Worker

Shiferaw. Sahle

Oduah, Felix

605.

11-16-79

Grant Custodial Worker

Terml natl onH-Siibst.i t.nt.ea

Bethany, Robert

Jenkins, Samuel Traywicks, Malcolm

Id la

Washington

11-09-79

Parker

12-14-79

Willard

12-20-79

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

Snployments-Substitutes

Hourly

Cawood, Kelly

$ 3.15

11-14-79

Washington

Richardson, Mark

3.15

12-11-79

Van Buren

Traywicks, Malcolm

3.15

11-26-79

Willard

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Terminations

Employments

Monthly

Kofa, James

$ 605.

Leaves of Absence Ill Health

Finley, Leon

Stand Watie. ' » Custodial Worker

11-02-79

Eisenhower Custodial Worker

11-29-79

Van Buren Custodian

12-05-79

.Tournpvmnn Plumber

11-06-79

Parental Leave Moore, Minnie

Deceased

Elliott, Loyd

MAINTENANCE/ENGINEERING Terminations Tulev. David

12-06-79

Eisenhower Custodial Worker

■

41m

MEETING OF JANUARY 7, 1980 - CONT'D

□

Personnel cont'd NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE < Termlnations-Tralnees

Chestand, Mark

Kirk, Kevin Perry, Vernon

le 4d

Trainee

11-13-79

Trainee

11-30-79

Trainee

11-02-79

Bnployments-TralneeB

Hourly

Allen, Stgve

$ 2.90

11.-12-79

Trainee

Chestand, Mark

2.90

11-13-79

Trainee

Curry, Floyd

2.90

11-19-79

Trainee

Kirk, Kevin

2.90

11-12-79

Trainee

Leake, Donnie

2.90

12-05-79

Trainee

Palmer, Prentis

2.90

11=12=32

Trainee

Terrell, Danny

2.90

11-12-79

Trainee

Wickware, Christopher

2.90

12-03-79

Trainee

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

—0

12-10-79

ASSIGNMENT

CAMPUS POLICE

Terminations

Holman, J. T. Joseph, Maurice Knox, Rondall

Viewins, Lucretia

la Id 3

Stationary Officer

12-16-79

Patrolman

11-30-79

Patrolman

11-13-79

Stationary

11-16-79

Bnployments

Monthly

Sullivan, Jayna

$ 610.

Stationary Officer

MINUTES OF MEETING OF JANUARY 21, 1980 THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, MET IN A SPECIAL MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING,

MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1980, AT 8:00 A.M. PRESENT:

Paul English, President Mrs. Pat Potts, Vice President Floyd Donwerth, Member Delbert Hamm, Member Armond H. Start, Member Mrs. Freddye Williams, Member

ABSENT:

Mrs. Betty Hill, Member

Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; William Bleakley, Attorney; Central Office staff members; and other interested persons. The meeting was called to order by Mr. English and Dr. Hamm gave the invocation. Roll call established that five of the seven Board members were present, entered the meeting at 8:15 a.m.

Call to Order

Mrs. Williams Roll Call

SPECIAL BUSINESS The following persons participated in the Level III grievance hearing for Ms. Marcia Brueggen:

Marcia Brueggen - Teacher and Grievant

Jim Huff - Grievant1s Representative

Deaune McElhaney - Principal, Buchanan School, and Witness

Jim Savage - Personnel Administrator for Employee Relations, and Respondent

Betty Williams - Director of Elementary Schools, and Witness

George Russell - Director of Personnel Services, and Witness

Statement of Grievance: (1) Grievant has been reprimanded without just cause. 7?) Prin c ipal reprimanded the grievant in the presence of others without just cause. (3) Grievant has been assigned outside the scope of her certification. (4) Principal did not follow proper procedure in his admonishment. Provisions of Agreement Violated: and 0.1.

Article VI, Section 1 and 3; Article VII, Section 0.

Relief Sought: (1) Withdrawal of reprimand-. (2) Public apology in the presence of the "others". (3) Grievant shall be reassigned without any students below the kindergarten grade. (4) Removal of all written documents concerning these matters from the grievant1 s' records. Through inquiry, Mr. English established that Mr. Jim Huff would be recognized as the representative for Ms. Brueggen in the hearing.

Mr. Savage distributed to members of the Board a copy of stipulations that had been agreed to by representatives of the grievant and the school district, as follows: 1.

The State Department of Education has cleared up the question of proper assignment within the scope of certification of the grievant.

The grievant did not state "I refuse to accept the assignment of preschool chi 1dren."

The grievant did question her qualifications to teach preschool children.

The permanent removal of any letters or memoranda that make any reference to the grievant's alleged refusal or circumstances relating to the grievant's alleged refusal from the grievant's personnel file in the Personnel Services Office and the personnel file in the Principal's Office.

The citation of Title 70, Oklahoma Statutes, Section 103.3 in the letter of admonishment to the grievant from the principal dated September 26, 1979, is in error. The correct statutory citation should be Title 70, Oklahoma Statutes, 1979 Supplement, Section 6-103.2 which relates to the admonishment of a teacher by a principal and is the same as Section 91.2 of the Oklahoma School Laws 1976 as printed in the negotiated agreement between the Union and District dated August 21, 1978.

Level III Grievance Hearing - Marcia Brueggen

MINUTES OF MEETING OF JANUARY 21, 1980 - CONT'D

In regard to the stipulations as presented, Mr. Huff stated that they were primarily based on the testimony and evidence presented in the Level III grievance hearing for Gay Littlepage, because of the similarities between the two grievances. Opening StatementMr. Huff

Mr. Huff continued: Again, we would express our objection to the time allocations that were presented to us; 20 minutes to present the case, we feel is not complete and adequate time.

Having had a few minutes to look over the stipulations, there remain three issues which we will be presenting our evidence and testimony on this morning; first being tha the admonishment or reprimand of September 26 was made without a just cause. There was no good reason. In stipulation number 2, the grievant did not state "I refuse to accept the assignment of preschool children." Also in number 3, the grievant did question her qualifications to teach preschool children. Her professional judgments were not actions of refusing an assignment. The respondent must prove in some way that her actions were acts of refusal, and we maintain that this cannot be done, because it did not happen. The second issue is that the principal violated the privacy of the reprimand or admonishment. The intent of the reprimand in the presence of others is to avoid any possible embarrassment to the teacher unnecessarily, and we maintain that the principal did this and violated the "reprimand in the presence of others." The third issue, as you see in number 5, the citation of Title 70, Oklahoma Statutes, Section 103.3 was an incorrect citation by the administrator. In addition to that, the admonishment procedure calls for reasonable time to correct alleged unacceptable performance or unacceptable behavior in a reasonable time. The admonishment was given at 3:00 p.m. on September 26. At 8:00 a.m. on September 27 is when further steps were taken to change the teacher's conduct. We believe that this is not a reasonable time. The building principal was attempting to coerce the teacher into ceasing her disagreement with preschool being placed in a completely inadequate program. No answers had been offered to alternatives suggested by the teacher, and we maintain it is not the proper use of the admonishment, a threat of being fired simply to demonstrate administrative power to stop a professional disagreement over the best approach to teaching a student. The district should appreciate the teacher's professional determination. These are the issues that we will be looking at in this Level III hearing. Opening Statement - Mr. Savage

The respondent's position is that the letter of admonishment, whether or not it is considered a reprimand, was proper. It was given after several conferences held with the grievant and administrators trying to reach an agreement on a solution to the problem of the assignment of the preschool children to the grievant's class. As far as the amount of time involved, the Statutes simply cite that the teacher should be given a reasonable amount of time. It was felt that when the letter was given to the teacher admonishing her and asking her to report the next day for classes, that based on her actions prior to that time which began back when the discussion first occurred before the end of school in May, that she was given reasonable time to report to her classroom and assume her assigned duties. The violation of privacy; there is no provision in the contract for violation of privacy. The reprimand in the presence of others; the grievant was not present at the time, if there was a reprimand. We maintain that the administrator's actions in this situation were proper and within the confines of the contract.

Festimony Mr. McElhaney

Mr. McElhaney's testimony included a response to questions that related to:â&#x20AC;&#x2122;how. long he had been a principal at Buchanan School; how long Ms. Bruegtjen had been a teacher on his staff; the copy of the letter of admonishment dated September 26; occasions on which Ms. Brueggen's actions exhibited her refusal to accept the assignment; did he inform Ms. Brueggen that the students would be enrolled in her class; were the students refused by Ms. Brueggen to come in her class; what kind of conference was it that Ms. Brueggen by her actions refused to teach the children; what did he interpret as her actions of refusal; where are the students now enrolled; what led up to the admonishment in the letter of September 26; was Ms. Brueggen in the classroom at the very beginning of school; what specific dates were there that the students were in the classroom and Ms. Brueggen was present; on the conference of September 21, what were the alternatives that were offered in regard to the students that would be assigned to her, and how was she informed about the assignment of the students; when did he come back and tell her that the assignment had been made; did the teacher make any suggestions about servicing the children as an alternative; were any three-yearolds in the classroom when Ms. Brueggen returned to the classroom; in the phone call conversation with Dr. Williams on September 21, what was discussed; how much preparation had been made for teaching the preschool children; was the program ready to go when Ms. Brueggen returned to the classroom; what were the alternatives or suggestions that were submitted by the teacher; what decision was finally made at the meeting of Sepbember 25; what were the teacher's instructions to do at the close of the conference; who made the decision of placing the students; were the children in the classroom with a substitute teacher; on September 26, what transpired at the meeting; did he discuss the letter of admonishment with anyone except Ms. Brueggen; did he feel that the letter of admonishment on September 26 gave reasonable time for the teacher to correct the situation; as an administrator, did he feel justified in

MINUTES OF MEETING OF JANUARY 21, 1980 - CONT'D

writing the letter of admonishment to Ms. Brueggen; was there anything other than his feelings that made him feel justified, and other. At one time during the testimony, Mr. Savage objected to the line of questioning tha't was being presented.

Testimony Mr. McElhaney cont'd

(Mrs. Potts departed the meeting at 9:05 a.m.) Testimony by Dr. Williams included her response to: when was it first suggested to Ms. Brueggen that the students would be placed in her class; on September 18, what was she told about the students being refused by the teacher; in a discussion with Ms. Brueggen on the phone, what did she say to indicate that she was refusing the students; what was done to provide teachers for the visually handicapped children; what were the alternatives discussed in the conference of September 25; when Ms. Brueggen left that meeting, was it her interpretation that she knew what decision had been made; did Ms. Brueggen refuse the assignment in her conversation with her, and other.

Testimony Dr. Williams

Testimony Mr. Russell's testimony included answers to questions concerning: when he was first Mr. Russell made aware that Ms. Brueggen was expressing some concern over the placement of preschool children under her charge; in the meeting when the letter was presented to her, was there any detailed discussion about her actions of refusal; did his involvement come about with the absence which took place after the conference; at what point was he involved in discussing with Ms. Brueggen the letter of admonishment; was any discussion given to him about acts of refusal other than discussing qualifications; was anything presented to him about specific things that Ms. Brueggen had done that were interpreted as acts of refusal, and other. Testimony Testimony by Ms. Brueggen included: what was her certification for teaching learning Ms. disability children; how long she had worked with visually handicapped students; when was she informed that the visually handicapped children would probably be placed in her class; what was she told at the conference with Mr. McElhaney on September 21; was she instructed to set up a program for the students; did Mr. McElhaney ever inform her that the children were her' responsibility; what were the alternatives that were discussed; was there any clear discussion in the conference as to what would take place; what instructions were given to her at the close of the meeting; what was she told by the Director of Elementary Schools'about the discussion that had taken place; under what circumstances was she informed that Mr. McElhaney had discussed the letter of admonishment with a parent; on September 26, did she feel that the time frame was a reasonable time for her to respond; did she suggest that the preschool students be placed in the preschool program as set up by the school system; did she ever refuse to take the students; was there any placement conference held with the parents and the teacher; why was she so firm in her opposition about teaching visually handicapped children; in view of her concerns about teaching the children, did she think the administration gave her due consideration in the conference that was held in regajrd to providing services to the children; were her concerns heard by the administration and were her suggestions given due concern; did she feel that some consideration should have been given to the alternatives that she suggested, and other. Mr. Huff stated: In the opening statement, we equate the letter of admonishment with being a letter of reprimand, teachers being told you are doing something that is so serious, so bad, that you should stop it or you will be terminated. It is the opening steps for the termination of a teacher. We believe the contract was violated because there was no just cause, no good reason prior to September 26 or on September 26 for this teacher to have been threatened with a termination procedure. Everyone has agreed that the teacher never in words said I refuse, I will not do this. There were no complaints by parents. The administrator simply interpreted the teacher's strong feelings about her qualifications to teach preschool students as an act of refusal. In our opinion, it was simply that the administrator did not wish to have a teacher challenge that decision, so consequently it developed into a coercion effort to get the teacher simply to go along with the building principal. We produced additional witnesses who were involved with this decision at higher levels. They gave no testimony about any actions. Again, it was simply an interpretation from an administrative perspective about whether or not the teacher was refusing. No one who has testified has had more qualifications for making judgments on this than Ms. Brueggen. Nothing was produced other than it is the principal's decision to make these decisions and the principal felt like he was justified in doing so. That is not good enough to offer this type of a serious disciplinary action. So we believe that the contract has been violated and that there was no just cause, and we would hope that the Board would agree with this and grant the grievant many of the things which relief sought ha3 already been agreed to, but as far as the grievance itself is concerned, the Board itself has not acknowledged that the grievance was correct, that there was no just cause, and we believe that we have proven that. The principal did reprimand the teacher in the presence of others. It was not a person physically standing there

Closing Statement - Mr. Huff

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Closing Statement - Mr. Savage

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when the letter of admonishment was given a parent, but there was much discussion 4about this particular admonishment with many people who it was not proper for them 'to be aware of it. The intent of the contract, the reason that clause was put in there was to spare teachers the unnecessary embarrassment of decisions made by the ! i administrator, if the administrator felt there was something improper with their conduct. To simply say don't do it in front of people, but go out and tell them about it, that violates the intent and the whole purpose of that clause. The principal to ignore this is simply saying that is acceptable, that the School Board is giving approval to that type of conduct. There are areas in the contract that we could have grieved concerning personnel files. This letter of admonishment was a part of her personnel file and should not have been discussed with anyone other than those who properly should have known about it. We chose what we considered to be the more serious area, the fact that a reprimand was being discussed with some other people who should not hear it. We believe we proved that. The administrator has not denied talking with anyone; he just simply didn't recall talkingwith anyone. The admorr shment procedure calls for reasonable time. The Statute recognizes that if someone has done something improper, they need to be told very clearly what it is and be given a specific amount of time to correct that. And if they don't correct it, then that is justifiable grounds for disciplinary action in terms of termination. Ms. Brueggen was never even given that consideration. At no point was it ever made very clear that her alternatives were totally unacceptable, were not being weighed, would not be considered. She was being continuously told to call back, have this meeting, do this, and we are going to come up with a decision. The ultimate decision was a letter of admonishment. There were no acts of refusal, no situations where the teacher refused to enter the room or refused to service the child. The child was not even there. It is not proper, again, to use the admonishment or threat of termination to simply demonstrate administrative power and to stop a professional disagreement over the best approach of teaching a student. The district should very much want that and should agree that this procedure has been violated, and grant the grievance. We a!re having difficulty understanding denying the grievance and giving relief sought. Mr. Savage stated: The respondent very strongly feels that the first service of the teacher, the principal, administrators, and the Board is to serve the children of the district. This district was under a deadline to begin service to the visually handicapped preschool children. The letter of admonishment was given one afternoon with a notation that the teacher was expected to report for duty the next day to assume her assignment. It is the principal's responsibility to make the assignment of the teacher. It is the principal's responsibility to make the assignment of the children in the school. Based on all of the events prior to the letter of admonishment the principal certainly had just cause to write a letter of admonishment. He followed the proper procedure in giving the letter. The question of time would vary in different cases. In this situation, as I said we were under a deadline to begin services, although it has been stipulated that the teacher never actually said I refuse to take the children, certainly the actions of the teacher would indicate that, in that several discussions, meetings, telephone calls, and conferences with various administrators were held to try to reach some sort of an agreement on the settlement of the issue. When it was determined that the only way it could be settled was for the assignment of these children to Ms. Brueggen's class, then at that time was when she was notified'that was what was to be her assigned duty. The respondent feels like the contract has not been violated; there was just cause for the letter of admonishment if that is to be considered a reprimand. The concerns of other teachers and parents about the children in the school was certainly an important thing to consider. Whether or not the letter was shown to other parents or to other teachers, or discussed with them by the principal is a different matter. The principal was certainly within his responsibility. He was following the administrative procedures in making the assignments as he did. The respondent feels very strongly that there was no violation of the negotiated agreement and that the grievance should be denied. Mr. English asked for consideration of the grievance by the Board.

V #26 A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams - "I move that the Level III Grievance grievance be denied." Denied Barcia Brueggen Dr. Start continued: I don't really think that there has been any violation of the contract. I recognize the fact that there has obviously been disagreements between the individuals involved. It seems to me that the position got into sort of a power play type situation, we versus they kind of situation, which resulted in a lot of games being played, and obviously a lot of games being played back and forth. But the overall thrust of this thing is difficult for me to really emotionally accept. I have a great deal of difficulty when a professional refuses professional service to any child in which they are specifically trained for. A professional when faced with such a problem would move on to another area where that was not required of them. That is my view and I feel that very strongly. In a situation where there is confrontation between individuals, and disagreements, one person's opinion is as weighty as another, and we certainly have differences of opinion. But the point is I don't really think

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Dr. Start cont'd that the contract was violated. There is no doubt that there are disagreements about this issue, but I don't think it is going to be resolved by this Board in the grievance procedure, and that is the reason why I moved that the grievance be denied.

R. #26 Level III Grievance Denied Marcia Brueggen cont'd

Dr. Hamm - I feel like I should make a statement regarding my feelings about this, and that is the admission or the refusal of a special education student in a class in our school district is not an option that is open either to the teacher or to the administration, or this Board. I guess what I am saying in actuality is that the grievance should not have been filed with the Board, but with the Taw that states we have to provide this service. Mr. English - Looking over the testimony here about the two teachers involved, although we are dealing with only one, they were pretty strong in their statements about not wanting to change diapers, the resistance to a placement conference; and then Dr. Williams was talking about being very explicit that the district must provide the services and they needed to start the next week, and that at no time did they indicate a willingness to do this. There is one thing to say I disagree with your professional judgment but I will go ahead. It is another thing to continually leave doubt as to whether or not you are going to provide those services or not. I think Dr. Williams also said that she indicated to the teachers that shd didn't see these alternatives as viable, because of the cost to the district. So there should have been no question at that point that the alternatives were pretty well dead. As far as the reasonable amount of the time, or the notice on this to report to work the next day or else; if I understood this, these teachers were going to do this all along. So there should not have been any problem in coming to a decision on this. This was never really a question to them. If I understood, they were going to serve the children, they were going to do what the final decision was. So when they got a notice that said do this, there is no decision by you, is there? That decision has already been made; you have told us before that this was no problem; yes, you would go by what the final decision was. So as for an amount of a reasonable time, especially when you consider the children aren't being served, they have to be served, I don't see where that caused any hardship at all to give a person this kind of notice, this number of hours of notice, because their decision really was already made at the time. So I think the grievance should well be denied. I think the principal had very just cause for making the decision that he did, and for issuing this letter that he did. I would expect that of a principal, to try and provide professional services for the students of the district. Mr. Donwerth - I believe that part of the relief sought was granted at Level I. that correct?

Mr. Savage - Part of the relief sought was granted in our stipulations, based on a previous hearing. On roll call, Dr. Start voted 'aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried and the grievance was denied. ADJOURNMENT

A motion to adjourn was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Dr. Hamm. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the Clerk's office.)

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

Vice President

Clerk, Oklahoma City Board of Education

R. #27 Adjournment

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THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR ADJOURNED MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION

BUILDING, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M. PRESENT:

Paul English, President Mrs. Pat Potts, Vice President Floyd Donwerth, Member Delbert Hamm, Member Mrs. Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member Mrs. Freddye Williams, Member

Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; William Bleakley, Attorney; Central Office staff members; representatives from professional groups, and other interested persons. The meeting was called to order by Mr. English and Dr. Hamm gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Mr. English welcomed all of the visitors present.

Vi si tors Welcomed

Roll call established that all of the Board members were present.

Roll Call

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS

A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Hamm for approval of the minutes of January 4 and 7, 1980. Dr. Hamm noted that in the minutes of January 7, the section on School Operations in the Legislative Goals, that it be perfected to say Mrs. Potts voted aye and Mr. English voted aye. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. 'COMMITTEE REPORTS

R. #28 Minutes Approved

- BOARD MEMBERS'COMMENTS

Mrs. Hill stated: I was invited to Taft Middle School for their inservice this morning. Comments Mrs. Hill I did appreciate the invitation and being there. Northwest; Eisenhower, Jackson, and Truman, which are their feeder schools, were also there to hear Representative Fried as he talked about legislation and the bill where they are proposing the $1600 raise for teachers. He did discuss that and some of the changes that might be forthcoming during the question and answer period. The President of OU did come and speak, and he was stressing that there is a need for quality education, and this is our goal here. So I think all came away feeling like they did receive a beneficial inservice at that time. It was very good.

I would also like to comment on the legislative packet weekend. I was glad to see some of the bills that are we don't even get a copy of the bills. So I guess Mr. ones to be complimented for getting those to the Board look at them. I did have some calls on some of those.

that was in our folder this there already. So many times Isch and Dr. Payzant are the ahead of time so that we can

I do have one more question. I raised it last time when the Guidance Department met on the Counseling for Potential College-Bound Students. No one from Northwest was on the committee at that time. I was told it would be corrected, and there still is no one from Northwest on that committee, and I guess I want to know why. Two of the high schools have two people on it, but I did notice that Northwest and Star Spencer were not on that committee.

Dr. Payzant responded: I don't know the answer; I will check.

Mrs. Williams stated: I just wish to say that I was privileged to have been one of the Comments 150 plus Oklahomans who spent last Thursday at the White House, and I shall hasten to Mrs. Williams add that it was not at school district expense. For your information, some of the individuals who were there included the Honorable Patience Latting, the Honorable Mazola McKerson, Mayor of Ardmore; Dr. Leslie Fisher, Dr. E. T. Dunlap, and I believe I had the distinction of being the only board member that acknowledged the fact publicly that they were a board member. Of course, as I sat down I heard a voice behind me say "I am going to sit right here and heckle Freddye," and looked back and saw our own Mary Hepp, Karen Leveridge of the State PTA, and Carl Downing of OEA. And not to be outdone, as I was getting ready to board the plane back, who should I see but Mr. Crooks of AFT, and he sent greetings to all. We had: the Reverend W. B. Parker, Reverend Joe Edwards, and up walked John Hall, the youngest son. of the Ira D. and Rubye Hall family. We.also had the Lieutenant Governor, and the unsinkable Gladys Warren, plus many, many others there. The Lieutenant Governor sat on the podium. The program began at 9:45. I got there early so I could see who was coming in the door. Our own Pam 01 sori was there, Tom Boettcher, and Fred Boettcher from Ponca City; Senator Jim Howell and his wife; Representative A. Visanio Johnson, and so far into the night, people you would know and see and a lot you didn't know. It was interesting to note that our presiding officer was Sarah Weddington, who is inchargeof women's affairs, a very competent lady, very attractive, very feminine, and very well in oommand of any situation. She hastened

MINUTES OF..21 â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 1980 - CONT'D Comments Mrs. Williams cont'd

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS cont'd to add that she was a neighbor coming from Texas. We were the 15th such delegation <of various states. Then after I saw who all came in and we were shaken down by security, we were ushered to the room where the President always gives his State of the Union address. The program consisted of David Rubenstein, Deputy Assistant to the Presidentfor Domestic and Policy Affairs; and Charles Duncan, Secretary of Energy. David Rubenstein is such a brilliant young man and he covered the waterfront so thoroughly. There were very few questions, but they opened themselves up for questions We really gave the Secretary of Energy a fit. It is interesting to note that among the flag wavers, that when the hip pocket is involved, a lot of them stop waving the flag and start to seeing about their own intersts. This was evident with certain groups there. We had a coffee break and then heard Dr. Brzezinski, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; quite a well-informed man to say the least. Then we walked to the State Dining Room for a stand-up lunch, and I kept hearing it reverberating through the crowd that this lunch is not paid for with taxpayers' dollars We were greeted in person by Rosalyn Carter. She is still unaffected by her years. I met her when she was here during the campaign; still a very real person, quite unaffected by her enviable position. It was a wonderful lunch. I met so many people. I was personally interested when a young man walked up to me and introduced himself. He is Louis Martin, who is in charge of minority affairs for the President, a former employee of the Chicago Defender, and I seem to be on his mailing list. Periodically, he sends me a list of minority appointments. So I have just been keeping his lists. After that we were briefed by Jim Williams, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture. Quite a few wheat farmers were present. I think you would be \..interested in knowing that Mr. Williams stated that the boycott will not affect food to starving people. This is the wheat that is used for feeding of cattle and such. At three o'clock, just briskly came the President of the United States, and he took much time with us. He explained the situations in Afghanistan and Of Iran. I think a hush fell over the crowd when he stated that of our hostages in Iran, he had never prayed harder, longer, and more sincerely over any single incident in his life, than over the hostages in Iran and the correct resolution of that crisis, and that he feels that we are on the right track and his faith says that we will overcome. Then he was quite nice in answering questions. As we walked out, he said I will stand outside and shake everybody's hand, and sure enough he did. So I on purpose positioned myself with Mrs. Fannie Hill. Mrs. Hill is the widow of State Representative Ben Hill, who was also a minister in my denomination. Mrs. Hill is almost like a patron saint to us in our religious denomination. But another reason is that she is nice to be around, well of wisdom and a true lady. She grew up on the farm next to the Carter farm. She knew Jimmy from the beginning. She knew Ms*. Lillian. She said when there was illness in her family, Ms. Lillian came over to nurse the family. So I knew he was going to see Mrs. Fannie Hill and he couldn't miss me. I presented my hand and said, 'Mr. President, I am Freddye Williams of Oklahoma City." He said,"you are on the school board in Oklahoma City,"and that made my day. I recal led that it was stated at the National School Boards Association meeting in Miami Beach, Florida, that he got his beginning as a member of the school board in Plains, Georgia. As we say so fervently in the black church, I have been to the mountaintop. It was a mountaintop experience, and I suppose a once in a lifetime experience.

Mr. English stated: Thank you, Freddye, for sharing your mountaintop experience with us. We are honored to have had a member of this board who got invited and got to attend such aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;briefing with the President and his top staff. Comments Mrs. Potts

Mrs. Potts stated: I did want to point with pride to two particular things; one of them, Mark Crutchfield performing in Kennedy Center, and, of course, he is a product of our fifth year center string education. The other was that I noted in the material that we had that a letter of commendation went to the principal and the staff of Taft Middle School for the vast difference that they have made in terms of discipline problems of students milling around the businesses in the neighborhood. I think a lot of credit goes To the whole staff of that school for that. The other comment is that I think our first annual report coming from Dr. Payzant, with the Board goals and objectives, is something that I share a great deal of pride in, and I hope that members of the audience will have a chance to read it and be also aware of the many milestones that we have passed this previous year.

Comments Mr. English

Mr. English stated: Since we met last, a mountaintop experience that I had, I went to the City Council meeting and spoke to them about our school zone proposal and our opposition to some of the changes they had in mind. I think you probably read or have seen on TV that they have referred that matter to ACOG, and if it doesn't come back within about three months, they will take it up again. What they would like to do is coordinate, among all of the municipalities in the County, the school zone speeds and times, so that you don't go from Bethany to Oklahoma City, etc., and then change on your times and speeds. So I am not sure< that I have all that much confidence that ACOG is going to get everybody together between now and then. If they do, that is great. If not, it will be back before the City Council. We had a person from Putnam City School District and the Superintendent from Western Heights. Both were speaking and we were all together on this one. They supported our request for a 7:30

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Mr. English cont'd

starting time, and then they threw in a 4:30 ending time on school zones, instead of 4:00. The way the City Council responded, I think that we are going to see possibly an expansion of the time that we have school zones in effect. So I was very, very pleased with the discussion with the City Council at that time. But it will be coming up no doubt in about two and one-half or three more months.

Comments Mr. English cont'd

LEGAL REPORT Mr. Bleakley reported:

(1)

Attorney's Report

Supreme Court's Decision to Not Consolidate Appeals

The only action that has occurred with respect to litigation since last Board meeting is the Supreme Court's decision not to consolidate the two appeals on the strike litigation. We still do not know the time frame in which the Supreme Court will resolve those issues.

ITEMS PENDING Meeting of November 5, 1979 1.

Information to the Board

Commission to Improve Education Report

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT

Dr. Payzant introduced Mr. James Neal, Executive Director, Oklahoma City Beautiful,. Inc., who presented a plaque to the Board for recognition of the Oklahoma City Public Schools' participation in the Oklahoma City Beautiful activities, namely, the Clean Team.

Presentation from Oklahoma City Beautiful, Inc.

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams to direct the following persons R. #29 Professional Trips to attend conferences as indicated: Approved At School District Expense

(a)

Barbara Mitchell, Coordinator of Instructional Management and Planning, Central Office - Seminar on Management Time and Job Stress, Ramada Inn, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, January 21, 1980.

(b)

Mike Pelley, Senior Programmer - IBM Customer Information Communication System/ Virtual System (CICS/VS Seminar), Boston, Massachusetts, January 28-February 1, 1980.

(c)

Frances Mae Jackson, Coordinator, Office Assessment - American Education Research Association (1980 Annual Meeting) to attend Division H, Individual Testing and Law Procedure,'Boston, Massachusetts, April 7-11 , 1980.

At No Expense to the School District

(d)

T. Burns Westman, Music Consultant, Administration Building - National Black Colloquium Competition, Special Invitation to Perform, Washington, D. C., January 12-14, 1980. Confirmation.

(e)

John B. Thompson, Instrumental Music, Webster Middle School - National Association of Jazz Educators Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 17-20, 1980. Confirmation.

(f)

Leon Edd, Principal, Star Spencer High School - Air Force Tour, San Antonio, Texas, January 28-30, 1980.

(g)

Advisors-for, the Teacher Corps Program: Marilyn Oden, Coordinator, School Volunteer Services; John N. Hatifeld, Coordinator; Community Education; Delores Parker, Associate Director, Teacher Corps; Rebecca Case, Community Coordinator; Dale Mullins, School of Education, Central State University; Betty Hwang, School of Education, Central State University; Don Heiberg, School of Education, Central State University; Janice Johnson, Assistant Professor, Central State University Teacher Corps Network Conference on Multicultural and Community Based Education, Dallas, Texas, February 3-5, 1980.

(h)

Pamela Willis, Teacher, Star Spencer High School;-Art Museum Tour of Egypt in Greece, February 13-19, 1980.

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ÂŁ29 Professional Trips Approved - cont'd

(i)

Billie Metheny, Special Education Consultant - Association for Children with Learning Disabilities Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 26-March 2, 1980.

(j)

Robert Condren, Principal, Parmelee; Orgel Ware, Principal, Wheeler; Dick Dykstra, Principal, Linwood; Robert Hays, Principal, Coolidge; Winfred Poemoceah, Principal Putnam Heights - South Central Association of Elementary Principals Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 18-22, 1980.

(k)

Loyce Willett, Consultant, Health & Physical Education; Alice Ann Niemeyer, Physical Education Teacher, Putnam Heights and Wilson Elementary Schools Southern District Alliance for Health, PE, and Recreation Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, February 27-March 2, 1980.

(l)

Orgel Ware, Principal, Wheeler; Winfred Poemoceah, Pirncipal, Putnam Heights; Robert Condren, Principal, Parmelee; Leslie Kelly, Principal, Madison; John Brandt, Principal, Martin Luther King; F. A. Newberry, Principal, Columbus National Elementary Principals Convention, Miami, Florida, April 18-23, 1980.

On roll call,. Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. R. #30 Approval of Resolution in Support of Community Education Consortium

A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of a Resolution in support of the Community Education Consortium for Lifelong Learning as follows: JOINT RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, the greater Oklahoma City metropolitan area has an abundant supply of programs, services and activities, and

WHEREAS, open communications and joint planning can help reduce unnecessary

duplication of service, lower overall program costs, and improve the quality and effectiveness of activities aimed at meeting the needs of the public, and WHEREAS, the signers of the resolution have agreed to provide the necessary

support services and resources to implement jointly planned ventures to improve the quality of life in the community, and

WHEREAS, Community Education involves a defined community in the identifica-

tion of its needs, wants, and concerns and is the effective utilization and development of existing human, physical, and financial resources within and outside the community to satisfy these needs, wants, and concerns;

BE IT RESOLVED that the following signer(s) of this resolution have given their commitment to the creation of the Community Education Consortium for

Lifelong Learning and will serve to make this Consortium an effective mechanism

to help improve the quality of life in the greater Oklahoma City metropolitan area.

Agency or Institution

Date

Signer

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Dr. Payzant - The Board has been aware that from the time that the Long Range Plan recommendations were made, that the school district has been looking at ways to develop programs of community education, and recently adopted a policy on shared use of ^facil ities. Over the past three or four months, representatives from various governmental and private nonprofit agencies in the Oklahoma City area have been meeting to form a consortium that would allow these agencies to work together to bring more community education opportunities to the people of Oklahoma City. The joint resolution, if adopted by the Board , would make the Oklahoma City Public Schools a member of this consortium. I think it is a positive step forward for various agencies in the community to try to cooperate and work together to make the best use of available resources and to eliminate overlap and duplication of effort, and I recommend that you adopt the resolution and authorize us to become a member of this consortium.

R. #30 Approval of Resolution in Support of Community Education Consortium cont'd

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. Dr. Payzant continued: You will recall at the time that I presented the budget to you R. #31 Authorization to last June and July, I included in the budget recommendation, which was adopted by Increase 1979-80 you, a contingency account of teaching positions to enable me to assign additional Contingency teaching positions to schools where additional enrolIment that was not projected materialized in the fall, with the need for additional special education classes that Accounts would occur as the result of evaluation and placement of handicapped students and other unforeseen contingencies. I reported a month or six weeks ago to the Board that I had used up that 45-position allocation and there have been requirements for the addition of a few extra special education classes to meet the needs of our handicapped students. I am recommending that you authorize me to increase that contingency position count from 45 to 49. When the budget was originally presented to me by staff, a similar recommendation was made for contingency position count for eight positions, and at the time we were making final cuts before presenting the budget to you, that contingency count was cut back to almost nothing. Hindsight tells me that was not a very good decision, that there should have been some contingency positions held in the budget for aides. I am asking for authorization to allocate up to six additional aide positions above what were originally budgeted. These additional positions would be funded out of the existing salary accounts. In the past, there has been approval of the Board to do this kind of thing, and I am trying to keep you very much informed about the specific position..numbers in the accounts and intend to approach budgeting in that way. I feel that the administration Ought to be accountable in terms of only filling those positions which are specifically allocated in the budget, and that is why I am coming to you with a request for authorization to add these positions.

Mrs. Hill inquired: You say that these positions are to be paid out of the salary accounts. Where is the money coming from? Dr. Payzant - In the case of the teaching positions, it would be 213.00 Teachers Salaries; and in the case of the aide positions, it would be out of the classified employees' clerical and aide salary account.

Mrs. Hill - Why do'we have some money that we didn't have? Dr. Payzant - In the case of the Teachers Salaries Account, there are still balances that were accrued as the result of the difference between what was docked in pay because of the strike, and what was paid for substitutes, and because of the turnover rate in the classified clerical positions, there will be sufficient funds in that account to accommodate these six positions.

Mrs. Hill - Then the money that we picked up during the teachers strike was not put in the emergency substitutes account? Dr. Payzant - There has been a transfer of funds to the appropriate account to cover the payment of substitutes; yes.

Mrs. Hill - But I thought you had been taking all substitute payments out of that emergency substitute and not the regular substitute account; is that not true?

Dr. Payzant - We made that adjustment with the financial report that you received in your packet on Friday.

Dr. Hamm - Are we establishing these positions from now on or just for the remainder of this year?

Dr. Payzant - This is for the remainder of this year in this budget, and when I present the budget to you for your consideration for 1980-81, I plan to do as I did in the past, earmark an account for contingency positions. The only difference is that this year I intend to leave a contingency account for aide positions as well as teaching positions, and ask you to approve that at the time the budget is adopted.

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It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Potts to authorize an increase in the 1979-80 Contingency Accounts for teacher and aide positions as follows: â&#x20AC;˘4

Teachers Aides

From

Discussion continued:

Dr. Payzant - Just one other point of clarification, when I give you these position figures, I am talking about full-time equivalents, so that when I have four positions, if I have them just for second semester as I would in this case, that is equal to four full-time equivalents, which means that I could hire, if I need them, up to eight additional teachers for special education and other classes that would be added. If I were to add them in September,T would have only four positions for;the .year. Mrs. Hill - And these positions are mainly for special education? Dr. Payzant - Yes, at this time of the year virtually all of them would be for the addition of special education classes.

Mrs. Potts - And these are students that had been in regular classes that were identified through testing as having these special needs?

Dr. Payzant - These are students who have been referred and as they are referred and evaluated, the conferences are held with parents and appropriate placements determined. Then the need for additional teaching staff in special classes is greater as we reach the maximum number that can be enrolled in existing classes.

Mrs. Potts - I can remember in the past that there have been occasions when students were identified as having special needs where there was no special class they could be put in, because they were already at capacity, and so they had to wait for the opportunity. The question is are we at a position now where all students with special needs are in the classes which their need has been diagnosed? Dr. Payzant - No, we are not there yet and we are certainly much more closer to that point than we have ever been before, but I can't say that we now have classes for all children that have special needs. Hopefully, within another year or so, we will be there.

Mr. Donwerth - On this printout that you gave us, on 213.03, Emergency Substitutes, two weeks agoi. that was $200,000; now there is an additional $264,000. Is that the additional money that the contingency slots will be taken out of? Dr. Payzant - This will be taken out of the major Teachers Salaries account.

Mr. Donwerth - Where did we get the additional $264,000 to put in the Emergency Substitutes account? Dr. Payzant. - -That came out of the Teachers Salaries account too. We had set up the Emergency Substitutes Fund to pay persons who were substituting during the strike, but we have not ; made the transfer from the Teacher Salaries account to cover, as on our accounting financial report, the payments that have been made out of that Emergency Substitutes account. It was appropriate for us to do that because the reason for the emergency substitutes was because of the strike. Mr. Donwerth - We were overextended in this account and I see that now we are still overextended some $2,054. Do we not have that money to bring that account up?

Dr. Payzant - There were still some outstanding claims apparently against that account in the amount of $2,000 which were not picked up at the time that the major transfer was made. So we will clean that up in the next financial report. Mr. Donwerth - I could understand putting the $260,000 in that account, because it was teacher pay funds that we accumulated during the strike that we had to pay the teachers with. I can't understand that under the Attorneys Account 110.06, the appropriation was $64,000, and then on the one that we have mow, the appropriation is $121 ,699. I don't know when we put that additional $60,000 plus in there.

Dr. Payzant - We were showing a credit balance in that account because the amount that the Board had spent on Attorneys' fees exceeded what was originally budgeted in that account. We did not transfer it out of the 120.06, which is $136,000 that is specified for the Antitrust Suit, because of the Court requirements to leave that there. But to get rid of the credit balance, we transferred it from the balances in other accounts, and a portion of that also came from the Teachers Salaries account, because much of the activity that generated those Attorneys' expenses were strike related.

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Mr. Donwerth - I don't recall having any kind of meeting of the Board that the Board approved taking money out of the Teachers Salaries account to put it in the Attorneys' account. Dr. Payzant - You did not. As I understand it, the administrative responsibility is to make the transfers within major account areas as long as we do not go over and expend monies beyond that which is approved in the summary categories by the Board. If the Board wants to have a more complete record of transfers that are made, I have no problem in sharing that with you. What I was trying to do was to respond to some concerns that had been expressed by several Board members that there were credit balances in several accounts, and that the transfers ought to be made to get rid of those credit balances.

R. #31 Authorization to Increase 1979-80 Contingency Accounts - cont'd

Mrs. Hill - In other words, you are saying that this came out of the Teachers Salaries account? Dr. Payzant - Yes, that is correct.

Mr. Engl ish - These 45 contingency teachers have been placed, and actually have been placed for quite a while; right? Dr. Payzant - Most of them were assigned back in September. Mr. English I think there was an attempt to probably deceive some people, made by some other people outside the Board and administration here, about what the 45 were all about, and I wonder if maybe we should spread that word among the employees of the district here exactly where these teachers were assigned, so that everyone will understand what the truth is about those 45 contingency teachers.

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Legislative Activities - Mrs. Hill mentioned in her comments about the legislative report that Mr. Isch prepared for you. I would welcome any suggestions that you might have concerning additional information that you would like, to try to give you a weekly update of what is gding on at the Legislature and provide copies of key bills for you. If there are copies of additional bills that you would like, give Mr. Isch or me a call. We also will include in the report a schedule of hearings as we know them to be planned for the following week, and Mr. English and I had talked about the possibility of setting up some kind of a communication system to let Board members know about hearings or events that perhaps we only have 12 or 24-hour notice on. We didn't come to any agreement on what the best way to do that might be. What we will try to do is call you if we get information about hearings that are coming up, or if at any point you have questions or concerns, don't hesitate to call Mr. Isch or me, and we will give you what information we have. If things gear up and there is enough activity to warrant it, we can either call you or have you called on a daily 0? every other day basis,'Or even explore the possibility of putting the message on a codiphone of some kind that you could call in and get the information from. So any suggestions you have, we would be receptive to them.

Mrs. Hill - I am representing District 7 With the State School Boards Association, and I also should be receiving calls when important education bills come up. Should I call Mr. Isch then and relay some of that information or something? Dr. Payzant - That would be helpful, to call either Mr. Isch or me, or Mr. Ginn, we are not available, because that would give us a good cross check.

Mrs. Hill -They are having a workshop for all of the legislative delegates this Saturday, and I will be in attendance at that.

Mr. English - Also, on the legislation, although it is not one of our Board goals this year, we had it last year, and I wonder if maybe we shouldn't pursue it again this year, and that is on the Board of Education itself, reapportioning itself after the census. Right now the way the law is, all of the districts reapportioned themselves except Oklahoma City and Tulsa. There the County Election Board reapportions the school board election districts. I wonder if maybe we shouldn't really ask our Superintendent and staff to pursue that and see if we can't get that changed. The City Council and the Legislature reapportion themselves. But in the case of the Oklahoma City and Tulsa school boards, we get special treatment, the County Election Board gets to do that for us. It seems to me that in all fairness, what is good for the goose is good for the gander, and whichever one of those we are, we ought to get to reapportion ourselves. Then I think, too, we have had last year when they rewrote the election law on school boards, the precinct voting was in there right up to the conference committee, and it was removed in conference committee. That was one of the

Remarks Superintendent

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Remarks >uperintendent :ont'd

Mr. English cont'd things that we had asked for, was to have poll books and conduct this just like a real election, instead of giving it sort of a stepchild status. You would have everybody bt their regular precinct place, so they will know where to go to vote, and there is no question about that then.

Mr. English continued: There is confusion about which school board election district a person lives in. They don't know which election district they are in, and therefore with that kind of confusion, I think there is some hesitancy of people to vote in that first election, because they don't want to go down there and be embarrassed by being told that you don't live in this election district, therefore you can't vote in the primary election. So if.we agree that the Superintendent and staff ought to pursue those two pieces of legislation this year, is there any objection to that, any Board members?

Mrs. Williams - What was the reasoning of the Legislature that we had to be apportioned by the County? Mr. English - I would have to go back to when they wrote the law back in 1970 or 1971, that expanded the size of this Board from five to seven members. Apparently at that time, maybe they didn't trust this Board to reapportion itself fairly, because I think the reason they expanded the membership on this Board was because at that time the Board was not reflecting the makeup of the City. That may have been it, but I would like to think that this Board is beyond that, and that we could reapportion ourselves, and any Board in the future could reapportion itself in a responsible manner. Mrs. Williams - I noticed when I was in Tulsa last week, they are having a school board election on the 22nd of January. I thought they always lumped Oklahoma City and Tulsa together; yet our election is in April.

Mr. English - They always do, but they didn't on this one. thing that happened in the conference committee at the end.

I think that was another

Dr. Payzant continued:

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Interpretation of Board Policy on Unused Sick Leave - The final thing that I have to mention in my remarks is I was contacted by representatives of the ACT this week and made aware of what apparently~is misunderstanding in the interpretation of one aspect of the Board policy that was adopted at the last meeting. I did include in your packet a copy of the interpretive guidelines and procedures for implementation of the new Board policy related to substitute teachers and sick leave, and those guidelines were made available at the end of the last week to principals and people in the schools. The section of the policy that apparently was interpreted differently by different people was the one that dealt with payment for unused sick leave that comes out of the annual allocation. It was my intent in presenting the policy to you that persons would be eligible for a $100 payment if they did not use their ten-day annual allocation in any given year. Apparently, some read the policy to mean that persons at the end of the year would receive $10 for every day of sick leave from the annual allocation that remained unused, so that a person who, for example, would use six days of the teâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;n, wo'uld receive $40, and a person who used eight would receive $20, and the person who used three, would receive $70, etc. If you read the language of the policy, it is easy to read it two ways, depending on which way you want to interpret it. Arid as often is the case with language, hindsight can be beneficial in suggesting that it should have been written more clearly. I wanted to mention that this evening, because my intent was that the $100 would be for ten unused days and not to have it be a situation where it was $10 a day for any day unused. I have two kinds of concerns about the other interpretation which is be.i.rig urged on me by some of the teachers. One is that I think the possible financial cost of that interpretation would be great and, having no experience with itj it is hard to estimate it precisely. On the second thing, as I stated at the last Board meeting, was that in normal times and under normal circumstances we would be negotiating these matters with a bargaining representative at the table. Quite frankly, I would like for the Board to have something to negotiate with in the next round, and if we make all of the concessions now, there won't be anything left to negotiate on this one. So I would call this to the attention of the Board and if your intent was different than mine in adopting the policy, then certainly change the policy. But my recommendation is that it be retained and the guidelines which clarify the intent be used for this year.

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ENCUMBRANCES AND PURCHASING A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams to approve payment of encumbrances as listed for December 27, 1979 - January 14, 1980.

R. #32 Approval of Encumbrances

Purchasing It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of items of purchasing as follows: 1.

Permission to Validate Agreement

Permission to validate an agreement with Inter Collegiate Press which submitted the low quotation for furnishing graduation diplomas (2884 approximately @ $1.69 each) for the 1979-80 school year. This purchase is to be charged to Account G 250.03.

Purchase of Printed Forms Purchase of printed forms (cumulative record envelopes and special report to parents) for use by Supply and Distribution Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotation:

Hatcher Business Forms Baker Business System, Inc.

Total

794.00 1 ,496.20

2,290.20

Purchase of Shower Room Equipment Purchase of shower room equipment for use by Taft Middle School from U. S. Supply Company which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,715.00 to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Purchase of Brass Insulation Strips Purchase of brass insulation strips for door bottoms for use by Maintenance/ Engineering Department (stock) from Big L Home Center which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,294.25 to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Purchase of Teaching Aids

Purchase of teaching aids (filmstrips and color charts) for use by the LPN Program at Foster Estes Vo-Tech Center from Trainex Corporation (available only from designated publisher/distributor). Thispurchase in the amount of $1,106.90 is to be charged to Account 1121.03, Adult Education.

Purchase of Team and Machine Shop Supplies Purchase of steam and machine shop supplies (goggles, cutting tips, air cleaner, fuel tank caps, fly wheel keys, etc.) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

American Electric Ignition Company A Welders Supply, Inc. Federal Corporation

Total

278.90 253.35 2,302.00

2,834.25

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 740.01 BL 5620.05 Total 7.

278.90 2,555.35

2,555.35

Confirmation to Purchase Paperbook Books Confirmation to purchase paperback books for Grant High School from Mid-Continent News. This expenditure in the amount of $2,637.53 is to be charged to Account G 230.01.

R. #33 Approval of Purchasing

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1. #33 Approval of Purchasing cont1d

Purchase of Furniture

Purchase of furniture (chairs, desks, cabinets, tables, desk tops, wall clocks, etc.) for use at various locations from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

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S - K Supply Company Virco Manufacturing Corporation ATD - American Company Thompson Book & Supply Company Dowlings, Inc.

Total

339.50 3,090.00 675.32 15,054.40 519.67

$ 19,678.89

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

G 130.24 G 240.01 G 1230.03 BL 5620.05 *240.01, Title I *1230.03, Indian Education Total

$ 19,678.89

*These purchases have been approved on our Federal Educational Grants and/or Programs.

Purchase of Miniviewer Purchase of miniviewer and cover for use by Educational Services at Moon Middle School from Visualtek (available only from the designated distributor). This purchase in the amount of $1,550.00 is to be charged to Account G 1230.03.

10.

Approval to Purchase Printing

Approval to purchase the printing of 45,000 copies of The School Report, 1980 from AHI Design Directions which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $4,216.00 to be charged to Account G 240.05. 11.

Purchase of Vehicles and Equipment Purchase of vehicles and equipment (trucks, pickups, panel vans, automobiles, and back hoe) for Maintenance and Engineering Department, Campus Police Department, Custodial Services Department, and Superintendent's Office from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

King GMC Trucks, Inc. Arthur Harris Ford International Harvester Company Harvey's GMC, Inc. Jackie Cooper Olds, GMC Company Ditch Witch of Oklahoma Hudiburg Chevrolet, Inc.

Total

$126,926.34

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G-130.22 G 1230.06 BL 6030.11

Total

12.

$126,926.34

Purchase of Duplicator Masters Purchase of duplicator masters for use by External Funding (to be used on special tapes) from Addison-Wesley Publishing Company (available only from designated distributor/publ isher). This purchase in the amount of $3,869.91 is to be charged to Account 240.01, Title I, and has been approved on our Federal Educational Grants and/or Porgrams.

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Mrs. Hill inquired:

On number 10, I am wondering what that report is?

Dr. Payzant - This will be a tabloid type newspaper that will be out about the first of<the month and will go community-wide. It will have 24 pages and will contain a variety of stories and pieces of information on activities in the school district. Mrs. Hill - On number 11, I do appreciate the staff's response, because I was asking about the 15 passenger automobiles that we do have. I found that probably ten of them are scheduled for here at the Board. Are these cars driven home by all of these employees that are listed?

Mr. English -By "here at the Board," I guess you mean here at the Administrative Building.

Dr. Payzant - Some of them are and some of them are not. The ones that are assigned to the motor pool here at the Administration Building stay in the courtyard that is locked out back, and those are available to people in the Administration Building to sign out during the day. The ones that are assigned to Mr. Shepard, Mr. Isch, Dr. Lindley, Mr. Ginn, Dr. Smith, Mr. Russell and tfie, we drive them to and from work. There are several assigned to people at the Service Center - Dr. Stripling, Mr. Randle, Mr. Markham, and Mr. Gordon in the Maintenance Department.

Mrs. Hill - I was wondering what Mr. Gordon's position is. Dr. Payzant asked Dr. Wallace Smith, Assistant Superintendent of Business Services, to explain about the vehicle assigned to Mr. Gordon.

Dr. Smith - Mr. Gordon is acting in the capacity of our energy coordinator for the school district and uses the vehicle to go from school to school to work on such things as utilization of electricity, to work with the principal in reducing the amount used, to listen to the principal's problems so that he can take them back to the Maintenance/Engineering Department, and help to solve some of those problems. He was formerly in the TV studio. He has made the energy survey or coordinated the gathering of that information. When we get out the information about reducing the thermostats to 65, he will be in large demand.

Mrs. Hill - So, in other words, we are providing a car for really all but one person on your executive staff, aren't we? Dr. Payzant - No, that is not so. We don't provide them for the school directors, and there are about a dozen people on my top staff.

Mrs. Hill - But your assistants and most of the assistants too, we are providing a car for? Dr. Payzant - Yes, the ones that I named.

Mrs. Hill - And I assumed then that we are picking up the gas bill and all of that? I knew your contract called for you to have.a car, but I did not realize that all of the other positions also specified a car.

Mr. English --I know that we have had those cars out there for a long time.

Dr. Payzant - This is past practice; I haven't started this. This is exactly what has been the practice in the district, I guess, for some years; the positions that are filled by these people have been allotted cars. I think for the people who are here in the audience, they ought to be aware, too, that most of these cars are surplus vehicles that we pick up from salvage sales in the State Motor Pool, and we are talking about cars that are anywhere from five to ten years old, in most instances, with the exception of two of three. Mrs. Hill - I do agree that on recommendation number 11, that our Security is in need of some transportation, and I assumed this money then will become shifted around in that account, and it is al ready budgeted too, because the Security account does not have enough money at this point to cover this amount. Dr. Payzant -.As a result of the study that we did, it is clear that we need to move ahead right now to do something about those Security vehicles, because some of those cars have 180,000 or 190,000 miles on them, and it is a safety factor that needs to be addressed. Dr. Hamm - Our concern and interest arose over an inquiry Mr. Donwerth made concerning the Security vehicles. Frankly, I was appalled of the status of the Security vehicles. We just installed the Security Alarm System, a very up-to-date and modern system, and then we are using antiquated equipment to get there to really utilize that system. This is a very timely investigation and I hope will be a very timely resolution.

R. #33 Approval of Purchasing cont'd

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Dr. Payzant - It will be a good that we are recommending to you we are presently using, so that Security vehicles, they will be there, too.

investment in another way, too, in that the vehicles will be more efficient on gasoline than the ones that although we are having to spend more money to get new better on gasoline consumption and will save us some

Mrs. Hill - I think Security has felt like they always get the hand-me-downs. So I think they will be surprised that they are not getting the hand-me-downs this time around. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION

T #34 3ids Rejected

Dr. Payzant - The bids were received and opened for the additional facilities at the Service Center for Maintenance and Transportation. As explained in the memo which Dr. Smith sent to me and I copied for you, the bids came in substantially above the estimates that were made by the architects. While in the case of the laundry facility which was bid and presented to you for your consideration at the last Board meeting, the additional cost above the original estimates of the architects could be explained in terms of the one percent per month increase in inflation. That was not the case with respect to the Transportation facility, and the amounts were substantially above what one could explain as inflation. So the staff does not feel that we can recommend to you acceptance of the.se bids, and therefore we had two recommendations; one, rejection of the bids; and secondly, a request for permission to look at alternative construction for that facility at the Service Center for Transportation.

Mrs. Potts inquired about the type of facility that was being proposed. Dr. Payzant - We were doing several things. We were expanding the facility at Star Spencer, and we were adding a facility and doing some expansion at the Service Center for Transportation Services; while in both instances, expanding parking area which would be fenced and graveled. So the total project had three or four different parts, and when we looked at the base bids, they were extremely high. So we are saying reject them all, but allow us to take another look in terms of some pieces of that project and perhaps some alternative approaches to construction. Mrs. Potts moved for approval of the following: 1.

That all bids including alternate bids opened on January 10, 1980, for Maintenance facilities, a garage and other facilities, for the Oklahoma City Public Schools be rejected.

Permission to negotiate with RGDC, Inc., Architects/Engineers, to prepare alternate plans and specifications for maintenance facilities, a garage and other facilities, using metal or other suitable construction material in the design. (This item was later withdrawn from the motion.)

The motion*was Seconded by Mrs. Hill.

Dr. Start - I would like to be assured by somebody that the architect who missed the projected cost of these structures by almost a quarter of a million dollars, that we should pay him more now to design a building that we can build cheaper. In other words, I can't understand how an architect could be that far off. And maybe what this Board ought to do is get another architect. Is that feasible? Dr. Payzant -Yes, that is certainly feasible. The question that you raised was the first one that came to my mind. I think the architects were closer to being right than were the bidders. I can't explain it to you other than to say that the square footage cost that you see in similar kinds of construction for other buildings of this type that are being built right now, is much closer to what the architects' estimates were, than to what the contractors bid on this one. We did some checking on that, and the architects can't explain it; we can't, really, either. It wasn't that we didn't get a good number of bids; we got seven or eight bids. But if you look at the average cost per square foot for construction of a similar nature that is going on right now, it is right in the ball park area that the architects were estimating. Dr. Start - Doesn't it seem rather strange that all of these seven or eight construction companies are all that far over and above a reputable architect's estimate, and they are all that far above and pretty much the same? Something is funny here. I hate to be suspicious.

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Dr. Payzant - I agree and I can't explain that to you other than what I have already noted; that the architects' estimates on the square footage basis are a lot closer to what we found in terms of similar construction projects that are going on elsewhere. Dr. Smith - The architects did a very meticulous takeoff on this building. They costed out the labor and they took everything that was to be put in it and did a very meticulous costing out in order to get an estimate. After the bids came in they went out into the market to talk to the contractors to find out the reasons why, basically they found out that the electrical and mechanical were extremely high. In talking to the subcontractors, they found that the price of copper was only good for two weeks, and the other variables on the market, the Russians invaded Afghanistan, and people were hedging their bets. The only thing they could come up with is the fact that the contractors were making estimates that would cover them in the event of any kind of activity that would cost them money. I really don't think the architects are to be blamed for this. What we are asking them to do is some additional work, and I think the Board would want to pay them for some additional work. They are supposed to get 2^% when the contract starts, but they won't collect that because we are not going to issue the contract. So I think we could ask them to design another building as an alternative, if that is feasible, and to do several things. So I do really think you would want to pay them for that extra work. I don't think you would want to penalize them, because they have done what we have asked them to do, and I don.'t really think it was their fault that the bids came in like they did. The other thing, it was during Christmastime and it made people less willing to really try and win the bid that they might have at other times of bidding.

Dr. Payzant - Another example in terms of one of the alternates; one of the alternates was a bus washing machine. Our Transporation Department independently had priced the bus washing equipment that we could go out on the market and purchase and install in an existing facility if we had it. So we are aware from independent checking about the price of such equipment. The architects' estimates were close to what we found ; independently on that bus washing equipment. When it was bid by the contractors, it came in at twice that amount. I don't know why.

Dr. Start - You are assuring me then that we ought to stick with the architects and engineers. Why don't we go out for bids again? If it was bad timing, perhaps the timing could be better and we could go out and advertise for bids again with a broader spectum? Dr. Smith - Yes, but I would like to hedge our bets by doing something else, in the event that the same thing is true, that the market is actually this at this time of year or this particular time, because of the unrest and inflation, etc., I would like to have some alternatives so that in the event it is that high, that we may want to consider a different kind of building.

Dr. Start - How widely do we ask for bids?

Do we ever go out of state?

Dr. Smith - Not normally; no.

Dr. Start - For a quarter of a million dollar difference, I am quite willing to settle for a Texas contractor. Dr. Smith - They'would have to come in and hire local people. I think it would be more expensive, except for a very large organization, to come in and do contract work. Mr. English - Is there any way to build in a hedge for the contractors against the problems they might see, like on the bus transportation we took care of the increase in gasoline cost?

Dr. Smith - That is possible. I think another way is to so that, for instance, we can put the fence in anytime. with the bus garage. We could take the fencing contract if the thing came in too high, we could take the fencing separately rather than part of the overall contract. Mr. English - What we are talking about is a

have enough alternatives It doesn't have to be put in as an alternative, and then contract out and let it

cheaper building now; right?

Dr. Smith - That would be one alternative; yes.

Mr. Donwerth - My problem is that we are asking for an alternate bid now on a steel building, when actually the culprit seems to be the electrical and mechanical. I can't see where that would be any difference in the electrical and mechanical. Tf anything, it would be higher by delaying it. Dr. Smith - We are looking at the electrtcal and mechanical to see if there is anything that can be done in terms of relighting, or maybe using different kinds of lights to reduce the lighting level. They are looking at all kinds of alternatives. Mr. English - We weren't going for the Cadillac.

Dr. Smith - No, we were not.

Mr. English - Right.

It is a warehouse.

And that is why when you start talking about stripping down a

R. #34 Bids Rejected cont'd

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< #34 Bids Rejected :ont'd

Mr. English cont'd warehouse, something cheaper than a warehouse, I am beginning to like Dr. Start's idea <of sending it out there again. I would like to see us do as much creative thinking as we could on this, like we did on the transportation. What are the ways that we can help the contractors give us a good bid on this? We don't want to break the contractors. I can understand their problem; they have got to make a profit just like anybody else in business, but they don't have to make it all on us in one project. Dr. Smith - That is something that we could pursue. Mrs. Williams - Dr. Payzant alluded to the fact that there are others that are building now in the ball park with the architects' projection. Are they on the list that returned bids?

Dr. Smith- Yes, for the laundry facility, it was the same contractor. Mrs. Williams - But he has built in these defenses against inflation? Dr. Smith - Evidently.

Dr. Hamm - I do realize that the architects designed the kind of building that our staff requested of them, and that the architects and staff seemed to be in agreement as to the projected cost on this. There is one low bidder who, as I understand it, that we did sign a contract with to do some work on the laundry facility. I was wondering that perhaps he is already on the building site on one project, that we might enter into some sort of a negotiation with him, because he would be in a position to best save some money. Mr. Donwerth - I think where we are saving is on the 180 days, because being on site rather than the monies, really we are talking about $10,000 difference between Kaiser and Johnson, roughly. They seem to be the first and second bidder on this. I personally feel that the only lower bid that you are going to receive will be the difference in the type of building and the steel building. Unless we come up with some alternates that we can delete, I don't see where we will come out. I believe we have a good firm of architects. I know the firm RGDC, Inc., is a good reputable firm. I would rather go back to the same architects and pay them to bring us back an alternate bid on a different building, rather than telling them that we feel that they just missed the boat on the base bid. Mr. English - There is also, I am sure, that the architect has done a lot of research in designing this building, and the information that they have gathered will be beneficial in designing another facility, which a new architect, who is going to have to go through that, it is going to be more expensive to get somebody to come in brand new, turn the whole thing all over and take up our staff's time telling them what it is we want. I think it would be better for us that way.

Mrs. Potts - I am wondering if we can't take a two-prong attack and both have them come back with alternate plans, possible specifications, but also leave it open for a rebid on the original plans.

Dr. Smith - Yes, we would rebid this and have the?other one as an alternate. That was our plans. We will also look into what Mr. English was suggesting. Maybe there is some way we can guarantee the contractor that he won't lose money. I don't know what it is right now.

Mrs. Hill - What kind ot time are we talking about, because you know prices go up monthly on this? Dr. Smith - I talked to the architects again today and they are working on it, and I can't give you a time frame until they take a look at what the alternatives might be. Whatever it is, we will bring it back, and hopefully within a couple ofweeks. We will try to make the deadline of your next Board meeting. Mrs. Hill - And then how long Dr. Smith - I think 21 days is 15 days.

will it take to get your bids back in?

what we are required by law to advertise, oreither

Mr. English -Item 2 calls for permission to negotiate, to prepare these plans and specifications, and now you are saying that they would have all of this design work done in two weeks?

Dr. Smith - I have no idea how long it will take them. What they need to do is look at the extent of the problem before we can start negotiating with them on what we would pay them. I would hope that what they would do would be able to be done in terms of words rather than drawings, in referring to the base drawings. It may take longer than that.

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R. #34 Bids Rejected Dr. Smith - I asked the architect that again today, but he had no idea. I think what he cont'd wilT need to look at is how many hours it will take his staff in order to come up with some alternatives. They would have a cost and then we would have to negotiate. Mr. English - How much money do you envision this is going to cost us?

Mr. English - I don't like openended things like that. Dr. Smith - Would you like to set a limit? Mr. English - If we set a limit, sometimes that becomes what it really is, when the other side knows what it is that you are willing to go to. I really wish that the Board could take action on the negotiated contract before we got too far down the road. I realize that the Board doesn't have a meeting for two weeks, and that would delay things for that period of time.

Dr. Smith - Could we get you the information in some fashion, if we could get it from the architects about what the negotiated price might be?

Mr. English - You would get that to the Board and then if Board members or any Board member objects to that price, then we can call a special meeting of the Board and take up that negotiated agreement. Is that okay? Dr. Payzant - I am not comfortable with that. If you would like to be involved in approving the negotiated fee on this one, I think it is better to buy the two weeks' time. What you have got to weigh is whether you want to take a chance on the fee versus the two weeks that you lose and what that might be in inflated cost. But I would rather have you be comfortable with the fee negotiations and take the two weeks now and do it at the regular February 4 Board meeting, if that is your desire. Mr. English - It is just my opinion that it is bad practice to do it any other way, that the Board should approve contracts before the work is done. I trust everybody here, but I just believe that is the best practice there is.

Dr. Payzant - That is why I would rather have you do it at the February 4 Board meeting, if that is your pleasure.

Members of the Board continued to discuss the feasibility of calling a special meeting, and when the negotiations with the architects would be completed. Dr. Payzant suggested that item 2 be deleted from the motion, and when the details were worked out with the architects, that he could come back with a complete recommendation. Deletion of Item 2 of the Motion

Mrs. Potts then withdrew item 2 of the motion, with the seconder's permission.

Discussion continued:

Dr. Start - Did we originally approve this architectural contract? original ly for -a Set price? Dr. Payzant - Yes.

Was it negotiated

It was a percentage of the contract price.

Dr. Start - So what we would have to negotiate is the percentage of the contract price for additional work? Dr. Smith - It was a percentage of the total price. But I think what we are talking about is a standard contract where we give them so much for the line drawings, and so much for the bids, and then so much for supervising construction. So the percentage would amount to a total, and then that is divided up into parts of the total. On roll call for item number 1 under Buildings and Construction, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

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HEARINGS The following persons addressed the Board: 1.

Pat Waits

Mike Barlow

Terry Knost

Mary Hepp

Ms. Waits spoke regarding the truancy problem in the schools, and specifically in the U. S. Grant High School area, stating that students are frequently out of class and parents are not notified; that they leave school and go to a business establishment to play pinball machines. She inquired about the open campus for high schools, the scheduling of students whereby they have intermittent free periods of the day, use of the Do Not Admit List, why students are not placed in study hall with supervision, and other. She also stated that as concerned parents, she and others had been to the City Council seeking help, and were told to address the school board with their problem.

Mr. English asked the Superintendent to respond. Dr. Payzant stated: I can comment on some of the questions, Ms. Waits, and get further information on those that I can't respond to right now. The open campus is confined to the high schools. It does not cover the middle schools, fifth year centers, or elementary schools. In most school districts around the country, it emerged in the '60s and '70s when the high school level went to more elective courses and tried to provide more flexible scheduling for students who were involved in jobs and other activities outside the school day, so that students who were not taking six classes in a six-period day could !come the second period or leave at the end of the fifth hour if they didn't have a class. It also in many school districts was the result of overcrowding, where cafeterias were not able to serve all students at the same hour during the lunch period, and with some students going off campus for lunch, it eased the crowded situation in school cafeterias. There was also, quite frankly, a good deal of student and also educator dissatisfaction with study halls, because they really became more like holding centers, where students were shuffled in for an hour and supervisors tried to keep order, but in fact not very much productive studying was done. Many conscientious students would say to you, if you want me to study, the last place to send me is to a study hall. So it'was a combination of those things, and one factor perhaps had more weight in some school districts than others. As far as here in Oklahoma City, there are some study halls in some schools, but it is not a district-wide practice to require students to be in a study hall when they have a non-class hour. When we can do it, we tend to schedule students who take less than six hours so that they can either come in second hour or leave at the end of the fifth hour, but it may be that the particular courses that a student wants are not offered in the hours to allow them to have a straight schedule without a break in between. In fact, many students will try to arrange their schedule so that they have a fourth hour free, which in combination with lunch, will give them an hour and a half for lunch, so that they can go off campus for lunch, So many students, with the blessings of their parents, will schedule things that way. As far as enrolling students for six periods a day,â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;--that is something that school and parent can agree to when the student's schedule is set. Parents should be signing the student's schedule for the year before it is finalized, so that if you want your son, for example, to take six classes rather than five with a free period, you can insist that that occur, which would mean that he would be enrolled in class and not have to even consider a study hall. How much control do we have over the students? At the elementary level and the middle school level a fair amount, because they are younger students. When you are talking about 14 to 18-year-olds, we believe we cannot watch them every minute of every day, that they are moving toward adulthood, and each can accept different degrees of responsibility. But in a high school of 1200, 1400, or 1600 students, there is no way that we can keep our eyes on each student in the same way that a elementary teacher can with fourth grade students in a class of 26. So even if we have the rules, there is nothing to say that a student can't walk out the door and ditch. On the implementation of the new truancy policy, you should be receiving contact, if not the same day, the very next day. We will work to improve that. We are talking about terrific numbers with respect to individual class cuts. Our first priority, of course, is to checkion the students who are out for the entire day. The second priority is to follow up on students who are missing particular classes, and we will work to improve that. We have hired 27 additional clerks city-wide to help with the calling, but it is no telling that is doing the entire job yet. As far as stores, we have no direct jurisdiction over the stores in the neighborhoods. Occasionally, the administration will check in the neighborhood area and try to clear out the students, but our basic responsibility is on that school campus.

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HEARINGS cont'd

Mrs. Potts - I would like to add a comment, because before you were with this district, we had a situation like that related close to another high school, and the parents got very involved, and as you just indicated, you never saw adults in these places, and of course that is why they get by with that kind of thing. The PTA group at this particular high school organized and they started going and inhabiting this place and it got very uncomfortable for the students who didn't belong there, and it worked. Also, they got involved in a campaign where businesses would put signs up in the windows; saying we do not solicit the business of students during the school hours, or we do not permit students in, and then they listed the hours, and the ones that refused to put that kind of a sign up, then got a lot of business from parents. It really made a difference.

Mrs. Hill - In our packet today we had the letter about Taft Middle School, and I do know that Ms. Wheeler and the staff there did go to each business and visit with each one of these businesses and told them what the policy and the guidelines were, and that they did not want the students there, and if students did come in, to call them at the school and they would come and take care of it. From what I understand, there has been no problem since this took place. So I think it would help if we could get the administrators to go and work with the businesses. So I would agree. I think that the kids need to be in school and we need to take some steps to see that that happens. Mrs. Hill then inquired: On the rest of her other questions that she asked, will you be getting in contact with her or someone? Dr. Payzant - I will be happy to talk with her further, if there were pieces that I didn't naswer; either after the meeting or if she would leave her number, I will give her a cal 1.

Mr. Barlow spoke in regard to the misinterpretation of the policy on pay for unused sick leave for teachers, and asked that it be interpreted as understood by teachers, that $10 per day woul d be paid , for the remaining days of the unused annual! ten-day al looted sick leave, and that this would serve as an incentive for teachers.

Following Mr. Barlow's remarks, Mr. Donwerth inquired: We are saying that a teacher that doesn't use any of the ten days, if they have a full ten days left at the end of the year, they will get $100, and those who have 80 percent of their current year sick leave at the end of the contract year will receive an additional day of personal business, and the additional day will be made available at the beginning of the next school year? Then at the beginning of the next school year, if they do have to use tht one day____ ? Dr. Payzant - That would not count against their ten and they would still be eligible for the $100 at the end of that year if they didn't use their ten. That was one of the intents that we had to get at the issue that Mr. Barlow raised about everybody perhaps having one day a year or two days a year that they would have to use. But if they had built up, because they have not used 80 percent, they would have that extra day. If they hadn't used the personal business leave, they could have two extra days. That would serve as .for most people the day for real sickness, and they would still have their ten that they could apply to the $100.

Mr. Donwerth - And they can continue to build that one day each year, so if they have five days, they could use five days and charge it off for personal, and they can still have their ten left; is that right? Dr. Payzant asked George Russell, Director of Personnel Services, to respond.

Mr. Russell - Actually, if you go by the current negotiated agreement, they could have five additional days, depending on how long they have been in the system, because they get one day additional sick leave for every 24 days they have available. They have got one personal business leave day, if they have more than 80 percent of their sick leave that is unused for the current year, and then they can get up to three personal business leave days that are added to their sick leave for nekt year if they don't use those. So in theory they could have five. Mr. Donwerth - I am wondering about an employee that has 25 or 30 days accumulated at the present time, that would have three or four days sick leave; would they be using the accumulated sick leave that they had from the prior years, or be cutting into the ten days that they have accumulated in this contract year?

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HEARINGS cont'd

Mr. Russell - It would be the accumulated leave for this contract year. The leave i ^that is not used from this year then goes into a sick leave bank. For your information! 'I tried to calculate approximately how much it would cost if we went to the system j that Mr. Barlow proposed. Recognizing that between now and the end of the year, just ! in terms of a total package based on all of the action that you are taking, and if we | include the interpretation that Mr. Barlow is looking at, we are looking approximately | $410,000 between now and the end of the year. That is based on the fact that, first j of all, it is going to cost us approximately $82,000 to $100,000 just for the additional cost of substitutes, based on the raise that we have provided to substitutes! from $28 to $35 a day. But if every teacher averaged seven days that they were paid for at the end of the year, you would be looking at $244,000. If they each averaged eight days, it would be $267,000 that you would pay out. If they each averaged six days, it would be $221,000. So you are talking about a goodly sum of money, just between now and the end of this year, based on the number of substitute days that we have had over the past two years from the second semester on. Mr. Donwerth - If they have reached seven days or averaged three days lost per teacher for this calendar year, that would mean that we would have to have three substitutes for each teacher in the system. Where would we stand on paying the substitutes' salaries for that three days for each teacher? We would be almost at the same place, wouldn't we? Mr. Russell - Except that we are going to use the substitutes anyhow, because you are going to have in addition to that your professional leave activities, your personal business leave days, and those types of things. Part of this is just looking at it based on historical perspective. What would happen is if we did not average the same number of substitute days for the rest of this semester that we averaged last year or the year before, then that would cut that down some. That is why I am trying to give you a range of approximately in the neighborhood of $400,000 to $410,000, including in that approximately $60,000 just for the ten resource teachers that we are talking about putting in the high schools full time for the remainder of the year. Mrs. Potts - What is the calculated or estimated cost when you figure on it as the regulations interpreted where it is only paid if none of the ten days are utilized; what was the cost estimate there? Mr. Russell - If you had ten percent of our certified staff who did not use it, it would be approximately $24,000; 20 percent would be $48,000. Mr. English - Do we have any figure on what the average is, how many people in this district, how many teachers, certified people who actually did not take any of their ten days last year; how many did not; what it was percentagewise?

Mr. Russell - I think it probably ran around 10 percent; that is why we used that figure of who did not use any days. Mr. Donwerth - I guess probably the interpretation could be made either way, because I interpreted it the same way that some of the teachers did, that teachers who have not used sick leave equivalent to the annual allocation shall receive $10 per day for the equivalent .days.not used at the end of the school year. Where it says shall receive $10 per day for the equivalent days not used at the end of the school year, I guess it didn't go ahead and spell out the whole, if you don't use any of the ten days this year, that you will receive $100, but if you use one, you don't get either. Mr. English - They way I read that was the first part is the qualifier. that makes you eligible for the second part, teachers who have not used sick leave equivalent to the annual allocation. That is what will get you qualified for the secorrd half which says shall receive $10 per day for the equivalent days not used at the end of the school year. You have to meet the first qualifications before you can be eligible for the second.

Mrs. Hill - It says they shall not have used sick leave, which would be ten days. So, in other words, if they have not used all of their ten days, is the way I was reading it, then they would get paid for the days that are left.

Mr. Donwerth - I guess probably it was misleading to me, because we talk about teachers who have 80 percent of their current year sick leave, that at the end of the contract year will receive an additional day for personal business. We were talking about having 80 percent of it left and not using all of it, and then we are talking about something different here. I guess it could be interpreted either way, and I am sure that it has been interpreted both ways. Dr. Payzant - There is no question, particularly after you read it several dozen times and when it is called to your attention, that it could have been written much clearer. It really depends on whether you put the weight of the reading on the first part of the sentence, or on the second part, and the two are potentially in conflict with each other. So I think what the Board has to do is decide what its intent is and then we will clarify the policy and act on it.

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HEARINGS cont'd

Mr. Donwerth - Are you telling us what the intent was? Dr. Payzant - I am telling you what my intent was when I recommended it to you, but I am acknowledging the fact that it was not written as clearly as it should have been, which is obvious as the result of the interpretation which varies from person to person as they read it.

Mrs. Hill - Each teacher gets ten days per year. If a first year teacher gets ten days, a second year teacher gets___ ; they pick up an extra what; one day or two days? Mr. Russell - If they don't use their personal business days, they have them converted to sick leave days the following year. Mrs. Hill - But now they have ten days sick leave and two days personal business? Mr. Russell - The contract says that personal business leave days can be added to sick leave for the next year if they are not used. So in effect the person has picked up one additional personal business leave day, and then they have the two personal business leave days for that year, and if they have used none of those, those are then for the next year added to the sick leave equivalent for that year.

Mr. Donwerth - So if they used two days sick leave, they could still get their $100? Dr. Payzant - They could have up to three days of sick leave the next year in that example, and still qualify for the $100 if they didn't use the ten days. Mrs. Hill - So the 80 percent, they gained an additional personal business leave day? Mr. Russell - If the personal business leave day is not used that year, then for the next year, the wording in the contract is that it is added to the sick leave benefit for the next year. The other thing that you will have to remember is that in addition, for every 24 days for ten-month teachers, and 26 days for 11-month teachers, that they get an additional day of sick leave added for the next "year for every 24 days that they have. So a person who has 48 days of sick leave accrued, would get two days added to next year's sick leave benefits. Mrs. Hill - And it doesn't go into a bank, any of these?

Mr. Russell - If they don't use it that next year, then it would go into the bank. bank is what is counted in terms of the number of days that they have accrued. Mrs. Hill - So then they can never accrue over three more days? have what; 13 days of sick leave?

The

So the next year they

Mr. Russell - The three days that are personal business, they can add; right.

Mrs. Hill - Then that goes into the bank at the end of the next year. Mr. Donwerth - It.says teachers will receive one additional sick leave day at the end of each contract year,'for every 26 days available. If a teacher has 52 days, then they would have next year two additional days plus the ten added. Mr. Russell - They haven't cut into their equivalent days for that year, so they would still get the $100. Actually, the longer you are in the system and the less sick leave you use, the more days you can have the following year that will not cut back into your equivalent amount of days.

Mrs. Hill - What would be the most a career teacher, say, of seven years, could have in sick leave and still get the $100?

Mr. Russell - They would have their personal business plus the seven, in the case of a ten-month teacher, divided into 70 days. Dr. Payzant - So conceivably they could get an additional five days a year. Mr. Russell - But they would have to have been in the system for at least three years almost, to start getting those additional days for having 24 or 26 days, because they would have to have been here two and one-half years to get 24 days sick leave accrued.

Mrs. Hill - To me, the incentive is sort of gone. Mr. Russell - You are forgetting about your other incentives, where you get $5 for every day you have got accrued, you have your unlimited accumulation of sick leave, and you have got some severance pay that you can get paid for the number of days that you have accumulated when you leave the system. Mrs. Hill - But that is further down the road.

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HEARINGS cont'd

Mr. Russell - I guess it is a matter of the immediate first or the long term ^gratification; I don't know. Mrs. Williams - When I was called about this particular situation, I never understood it. I went back arid I read and reread, and I can see the ambiguity, but having been in private industry and in the government sector, I suppose I just read into it the way that the Superintendent sent it out, because our sick leave incentives, when I was working, only came for those who had not taken a day of sick leave at all in that calendar year, and that was the incentive. Really, you would be surprised at how many people never took a day of sick leave. I was one of those people for a while, and when I did start using them, it was money in the bank.

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Ms. Knost also spoke regarding parents' concern about truancy and students that frequent places of business.

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Mrs, Williams inquired: Ms. Knost, did you talk with your City Councilman before you went to the City Council meetirig?

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Ms. Knost - Our City Councilman did not seem to care much on the matter. The man sitting next to him suggested that they do not have any pinball machines within, say, three to four city blocks of the school. But right now people around there are saying that is discrimination. Ms. Waits spoke again, stating that she had called many public officials and offices, and had received no information for a solution to the problem, and that they wanted to be told where to start to get it resolved.

Mr. English responded: I admire your persistence. It is out of our category, really, but these are our kids, these are kids that are supposed to be in our schools, and I think we need to work on that to help solve this problem. We have done it at John Marshall. It was an involvement of the school system and the parents of the community, but I think the real key is the parents of the community. Stores listen to such things as dollars not going into their cash registers and that sort of thing. It seems to me that some place within our staff we have some people that could sit down with these people and share the concern and come up with some ideas and strategies for solving the problem. Dr. Payzant also responded: There is no question that we have the responsibility to work on the reporting and communication with you and other parents about students' attendance or nonattendance at school, or at specific classes within the school day. I intend to work very hard on that. When you get into the area of the stores in the neighborhood, then the question of jurisdiction becomes a little bit more complex, and Mrs. Hill's suggestion and acknowledgement of what had been done at Taft was certatinly very appropriate, and through contacts of school people with neighborhood store owners, progress can be made. I hasten to add one thing, and that is that the numbers that we are dealing with in middle school are much less than the numbers that we are dealing with in high school. The way in which the middle school is set up, with the student being expected to be there for the entire day is different too. So we will work with you and where I am going to put most of the energy of me and my staff is in the communications between school and parents, to make sure that you are getting the right information. We will work with you to make initial contact with some of the store owners in the area, but I think our best efforts can be at making sure that our own system of accounting for kids is working, and putting our real effort into improving that.

Mr. Donwerth - It may be a little bit irrational to say that they should be removed from all businesses within so many blocks or so many feet from a school. Maybe that wouldn't be conceivable but the city is the licensing agency for these pinball machines and they can set guidelines and times that they could be operated. I think two years ago we hadi an establishment around Grant High School that ultimately was closed for this type of reason, among others. It was disposed of as a public nuisance. I did receive a letter from the City Attorney's office myself asking about it. A lot of times these things can be handled between the schools and the city and you can come up with some kind of a program where we could do some good on it, closing the machines or at least during the school day. Mrs. Williams - I do recall that there used to be some type of law on the statute books about certain types of business within a jgeo'graphical location, so many feet of a school now. That law must be there, because I remember a certain situation where an individual was trying to construct a foods establishment near Northeast High School. The lady said that this is directly across the street in front of Grant, and that is closer to Grant than where this individual wanted to construct a business.

Dr. Hamm - To underline the assurance of these two sets of parents of the cooperation of the School Board, I would also offer the suggestion to contact Mr. Jim Morrissey of the Grant PTSA, and this would, I believe, help by involving more parents of students at Grant.

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HEARINGS cont'd

Mr. English - I think that when the staff goes down and goes over the possibilities here*, that certainly a review of the ordinances and laws will be made so we will know exactly where we are in this matter. We thank you for taking the time out to come down and appear before us, and all the effort that you are putting into this, on behalf of all of the children, not just your own children. Mrs. Potts - I would like to request that we do have a report back on what kind of resolution is reached on this problem. I think we are all very interested.

Ms. Hepp's remarks were also related to the policy on pay for unused sick leave for teachers and its interpretation. She, too, stated that she supported the interpretation that teachers be paid for the unused days of the ten days allotted to teachers annually. She expressed a desire to not kill the incentive for teachers, and that she had interpreted to teachers what she had proposed. UNFINISHED BUSINESS

A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Start that the following policy on Student Transfers be approved as perfected by members of the Board:

JCA

STUDENT TRANSFERS

The Board believes that on occasion individual students should be granted transfers when it has been determined that it is in the best interest of

a student and/or school and space is available at the receiving school.

Transfers are granted at the discretion of the district.

A transfer is

required when a student attends a school other than the assigned school. INTRADISTRICT TRANSFERS

An intradistrict transfer permits a student to attend a school in an attendance area other than the one in which he lives.

Transfer application

forms (JCA-E1) may be secured from any school or from the Office of

Attendance and Assignment, 900 N. Klein. make written application for transfers.

All students have the right to An appeals procedure for

administrative decisions will be established with ultimate appeal to the Board. 1.

Transfers may be approved for the following reasons: To Attend Special Education Classes

Students qualifying for courses in special education not offered at the assigned school site may transfer to a

school site where the special education class is offered. 2.

To Obtain a More Appropriate Educational Program Students desiring to take courses basic to a course of

study not offered in the home school may be transferred

to a school offering the desired courses.

Transfers shall

be considered only after all efforts have been exhausted to meet the student's needs at his/her home school.

R. #35 Approval of Policy on Student Transfers

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R. #35 Approval of Policy on Student Transfers cont'd

Family Adjustments

Members of the same family may qualify for a transfer in

order to attend the same school with a member of the family who has transferred to a special education program at that

school.

The transfer is only valid as long as the family

member is enrolled and attending the special program at that school.

This section is applicable to family members of

students transferred to another school due to health reasons. 4.

To Attend a School Where Sibling is Attending a Preschool Program

Members of the same family may transfer in order to attend

the same school with a member of the family enrolled in a preschool program.

Completion of a Full Year A student changing an address during the school year may be allowed to finish the school year at the same school he/she

has been attending.

Continue Attendance of High School When Zone Reassigned to Another High Scho'oT Students already enrolled in a high school will be permitted

to attend their present high school if they so choose, even

if they are reassigned to a different high school.

Senior to Attend Previous School A graduating senior may be granted a transfer, upon change

of address, to the school he/she had been attending and completed the previous year.

Affidavits of Support 'Students living with someone other than their parents are

required to have their custodians sign affidavits stating that they are legal residents of the District; that they

have in their care and custody the student in question;

and that they contribute in a major degree (50% or more) to the student's support.

The student is then assigned

to the school according to the attendance area assigned

to the residence of the custodian.

Temporary Transfer

Students requesting a transfer to attend a school where

they are planning to establish a legal residence must provide valid evidence that a move into the attendance area is forthcoming.

The transfer should not be for a

time greater than one semester.

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10.

Areas With Option to Attend Two Schools Students in designated areas may attend a school other

than the assigned school (See Board approved Student Assignment Plan).

These areas have been designated for

reasons of traffic patterns, barriers to the school, inadequate sidewalks, and overcrowding in the assigned school.

11.

Licensed Nursery and Baby-sitter

Any student in grades one through four attending a licensed nursery, or staying with a baby-sitter located within the

boundaries of a particular school residence area may be transferred, to that school.

However, it may be necessary to

assign the student to another nearby school.

12. Kindergarten Freedom of Choice

Kindergarten students may attend any district school. 13. Maintain Racial Ratio A student may be transferred to a school outside his designated attendance area in order to improve the

racial ratio by complying with the implied intent of the February 1, 1979, Federal Desegregation Court Order.

Transfers will be granted to permit a student, initially assigned to a school where students of his/her race predominate (over 50%) to attend a school in which the student of his/her

race will be in the minority (under 50%).

A student obtaining

a majority to minority transfer must honor the transfer for the

full year unless there is a change of legal address.

14. Court Order/Decision A transfer may be granted a student upon a reasonable request

from a court of a competent jurisdiction.

A transfer may

also be granted a child living in a foster home or a public or private institution.

15. Medical A transfer may be granted for medical reasons upon the

R. #35 Approval of Policy on Student Transfers cont'd

MINUTES OF MEETING OF JANUARY 21, 1980 - CONT'D

L #35 Approval of 3olicy on Student Iransfers cont'd

request of a physician and the approval of a panel of

Board approved physicians.

16.

Special Adjustment Special adjustment transfers may be granted to a student

when he/she is failing to adjust to the assigned school.

The transfer will not be approved due to preference of school or efforts to avoid desegregation.

INTERDISTRICT TRANSFERS An interdistrict transfer permits a student to attend a school in a school

district other than the one in which his/her parents reside.

Students

residing outside the district may be granted a transfer to attend a district school provided he/she is in good standing with the sending school.

Students are expected to maintain good standing at the school

to which they are assigned.

Transfers out of the district may be granted only for the following reasons: 1.

Special education programs not available in the district;

A senior student that is expected to graduate and who attended the school the previous year; and

Catastrophic medical reasons.

Requests for a transfer due to medical reasons will be reviewed by a panel

of Board approved physicians for their recommendation for approval or disapproval of the transfer.

Dr. Payzant stated: My recommendation is made based on a thorough review of the proposals from ECOTRAN and the conviction of staff that we will be able to at least equal, if not exceed, the cost of the initial fees in the saving realized from cutting back in contracted service bus routes. You have had as a goal moving away from contracted services because each contracted service bus route is more expensive by $3,000 or $4,000 per route than are the routes operated by the school district, and we believe after careful study that the ECOTRAN service will enable us to move along toward realization of the goal that has been set by the Board.

Mr. English - About the financing of this, where is the money coming from? Dr. Payzant - The portion of.the cost that would be absorbed.in the current year's budget would come from two sources; money that was' budgeted for data processing equipment that will not be purchased, and interest on warrants that will not be needed. The combination of those two sources would provide the $96,000 that would be funded in the 1979-80 school year, and then the amount to be funded in 1980-81 would be included in the 1980-81 budget that would be presented to you later this year.

Mr. Darrel Shepard, Director, Business Management, added: Hopefully, the cost that would be in 1980-81 could be reduced from the amount that would normally be budgeted for contracted services. Mr. English - Would this be ready in time for implementation this fall?

MINUTES OF MEETING OF JANUARY 21, 1980 - CONT'D

Consideration Mr. Shepard - Our goal would be that if we could do ahead and initiate the program of Agreement with now, that we would have the information back in time, in early spring, perhaps as early ECOTRAN, Inc. as June, so we could bid our contract buses knowing what the requirements would be, cont'd which would allow us then to budget for the upcoming year. If we could get started immediately, that would be our initial goal. I am not sure that we can have everythinc completely in line by then, but I do think we would be enough of a step forward that it would allow us to accrue some savings for the next year. Mr. Donwerth - Is that $160,000 initial cost plus $96,000?

Mr. Shepard - No, the initial cost would be $160,000; that would be the amount that would be required to establish the data base and then a rate that would be charged for providing the initial transportation service. In addition to that, if we were tb-elect to continue with that particular agreement, there would be additional cost during the 1980-81 school year plus an ongoing cost or a maintenance fee, probably leveling off around $20,000 a year if we would continue even after the second or third year of operation. What we are proposing is that the $96,000 be taken out of this fiscal year and that the difference in the $160,000 and the $96,000 be taken out next fiscal year, plus the additional cost of what they would be doing in 1980-81 for the ongoing year. What we would attempt to do here, though, would be to take care of what cost we could out of this current fiscal year with funds that we feel will be available, and then hopefully to offset some of the cost that would be involved if we elected to continue to contract the next year with the savings that we would have within the budget, because we could hopefully eliminate some of our contract routes. Mrs. Hill - In other words, we are saying we want $96,000 out of the 1979-80 budget?

Mr. Shepard - That is correct. Mrs. Hill - And then you are proposing for 1980-81 the budget for $149,180? Mr. Shepard - That would be the total amount that would be spent during 1980-81; yes.

Mrs. Hill 1980-81?

Then one of our goals would be to eliminate five bus routes for the year

Mr. Shepard - That is pretty conservative. Actually, we are hoping to eliminate ten. If we can only make ten at an average cost of $14,000 per route, then we will be way ahead of the game, because that is ten routes from now on. That is money that we would normally have to pay every year for those contracted services. We would operate those buses ourselves at $10,000 or $11,000.

Mrs. Hill - You are saying then that the $40,000 is going to come from the data processing rental account? Mr. Shepard - We had budgeted earlier this year $40,000 for interest on warrants. Because of the way that the money came in from the tax revenues, we didn't have to pay any interest on warrants this year, so that money will be available for reassignment. That would be one source of funds. Mrs. Hill - So it is $60,000 that is coming from data processing rental?

Mr. Shepard - Right. $40,000.

Not $60,000 exactly, but the balance of the money over

Mrs. Hill - The statement was then that the data processing rental amount cannot be spent during this fiscal year, and I guess my question is why?

Dr. Payzant - Because of an earlier decision that was made on not to go with a more expensive upgrade of data processing equipment this year which we had budgeted for. That decision was made back in the fall when we were having to make a decision about what to recommend to you for upgrading on data processing equipment. We will be looking at a recommendation in the next year for the next generation of computer equipment, and yet we decided not to put money into an interim step that would be good for just 12 or 18 months, because staff and I felt that the cost involved would not give us the benefits to justify that amount of money. So we are going with a less sophisticated-and less costly interim upgrade of computer equipment, and that is freeing money in the data processing equipment account that was originally budgeted.

Mrs. Hill - As I was reading the literature, it kept talking about the redistricting, in that this process could help balance the student loads and balance the schools, and we will be doing some reassignment of students, but will that not take place before this comes? Dr. Payzant - Yes, and iour major purpose in getting the ECOTRAN system is not to use it for student reassignments, but rather for bus assignments. If the plan that we are proposing to you would be for us to purchase their program after we get a couple of years experience in working with them, and if we get the upgraded computer that would be needed to take their program for scheduling, if that occurs two or three years down the road, then we would be in a position to use that system for scheduling of buses and perhaps a variation on it for assignment of pupils for attendance purposes

MINUTES OF MEETING OF JANUARY 21, 1980 - CONT'D

Consideration of Agreement with ECOTRAN, Inc. cont1d

Dr. Payzant cont'd and put the two systems together. It is not our purpose at this point to ;ask ECOTRAN to do our student assignments for attendance plus school student assignments.

Mrs. Hill - That was in the Long Range Plan, and that was disposed of, so I was wondering if this was the back door to come back to our redistricting. I guess my other question is how is it that this is the first time it is presented to the Board and it appeared under Unfinished Business and not in the Superintendent's Report? Dr. Payzant - We debated about that, but because the report was initially presented to you last time when you had the slide presentation, it had been before you on one round. What I have generally been doing is when I bring something to youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;in my report one time, I come back and put it under Unfinished Business the second time. Mr. English - It was my recommendation. When Dr. Payzant and I talked about where it should go on the agenda, we discussed that we had a lengthy presentation last time. To me it is not important exactly where it goes on the agenda, under Unfinished Business or in the Superintendent's Report or New Business. If we are going to vote on it one way or another, or table it or take action on it, whether it is at the first of the meeting or the last, I didn't see that as important. But if it is that big a deal, I will be more careful in the future about my advice to him. Mrs. Hill - Dr. Payzant said they were thinking about it and considering it and would like for us to see it, and then they might be coming back with a recommendation.

Dr. Payzant - The reason that I have come back at this meeting with a recommendation is because the price guarantees are effective through February 1, and on February 1 their fees will increased. If we are to take advantage of these rates, we have got toenter into the agreement prior to February 1.

Mrs. Hill - I thought I read that it already included an increase. Mr. Shepard - The way it was written, it may have indicated that. But actually what he was trying to say is that these were based on last year's prices and should we elect to wait, there would be a five percent increase at a later time. Mrs. Hill - That is really not what the sentence at the bottom of the page says, is it? Because it says that prices quoted above have been increased five percent for a contrac signed after February 1, 1980.

Mr. Shepard - What they are saying is that those prices will be increased five percent after February 1. R. #36 Approval of Agreement with ECOTRAN, Inc.

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of agreement with ECOTRAN, Incorporated, to provide computerized school bus routing services, including development of a computerized street network, school bus scheduling, routing, consultative services, and other for Pupil Transportation Department. The services supplied by ECOTRAN to be phased over an extended period; the cost of the initial phase not to exceed $160,000 with an expenditure during the 1979-80 school year of $96,000. This purchase to be charged to Account G 520.00. Mrs. Hill then stated: I think it probably is a good proposal. My concern is that we went through a teachers strike in August and September, telling our patrons and our teachers that our budget is committeed, there is no extra money anywhere. The $60,000 that we are going to transfer to this account sort of disturbs me, that we did know all along that in the rental of data processing, we might not really be using this money and this was a place to place the money. Dr. Payzant - There are going to be times throughout the year where if I am doing my job, I am going to be constantly seeking new information that will suggest a better and more efficient use of existing funds. The original thought when the budget was put together was that we would move to an interim upgrade of the computer equipment during this year, which required budgeting those monies. When several of us looked into that in detail and got ready to present the recommendation to you and started pushing, I was convinced that would not have been the best recommendation to make to you to get the most mileage out of the dollars that we had to spend, which then that we did not have to spend the money that had been budgeted in that account, and that is why it is available. There was no way of predicting back in June and July that we wouldn't need to use or to pay interest on warrants. Every year we are going to have to budget that initially as a possibility, and hopefully it won't happen. But if any year it does, we have got to have it available. So no matter how well we predict the budget in June and July, there will be new information that will come along in October, January, and March that will leave some options open to you, because there are better ways to spend it.

MINUTES OF MEETING OF JANUARY 21, 1980 - CONT'D

R. #36 Approval of Agreement with ECOTRAN, Inc. cont'd

Mrs. Hill - You said we saved some money on warrants and we are going to apply it here. Is there additional money there that we have saved in paying interest on warrants and, if so, how much? 4

Dr. Smith responded from the audience.

Dr. Payzant added: So the answer is yes, the $40,000 represents the total amount that is budgeted in the General Fund for interest on warrants, but there is some in the Building Levy Fund for that purpose.

Mrs. Williams - I wish to comment that after the situation where our contract buses came back to us and hit us between the eyes with a much, much heavier cost than we anticipated, I like the idea of trying these alternatives, because we have no insurance that it won't even be twice as much next year, and this was after the fact. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted nay; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted ;aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. NEW BUSINESS

For Consideration at Next Meeting of the Board

Mrs. Hill stated: I would like to see us clean up our sick leave guidelines, and for the rest of this semester I would like to go ahead and pay the teachers the $1:0 for the unused sick leave. Mrs. Hill then continued by making the following motion, which was seconded by Mr. Donwerth, for consideration at the February 4 meeting of the Board: "I move that teachers who have not used all ten (10) days of their annual sick leave allotment will be paid a bonus of $10 a day for each unused day." EXECUTIVE SESSION

R. #37 Board Adjourned to Executive Session 10:20 p.m.

It was moved by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the Board adjourn to executive session to discuss litigation and personnel. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

Having completed its executive session, it was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mr. Donwerth that the Board return to open session. R. #38 Board Returned to Open Session 1:30 a.m.

R. #39 A motion to adjourn was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Start. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Adjournment 1:31 a.m. Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED. (A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the Clerk's office.)

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

I, the undersigned Clerk of the Board of Education of Independent School District Number 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours before the meeting, the date, time and place of the Regular Adjourned Meeting was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. I also certify that at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, notice of the date, time, place and agenda of this meeting was posted in permanent public view at the location of the meeting.

/-dX

Witness my hand and seal of this school district this y day of 1980.

Clerk,'Oklahoma City Board of Education

MINUTES OF MEETING OF FEBRUARY 4, 1980

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY,

OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING,

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M. PRESENT:

Mrs. Pat Potts, Vice President Floyd Donwerth, Member Delbert Hamm, Member Mrs. Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member Mrs. Freddye Williams, Member

ABSENT:

Paul English, President

Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; William Bleakley, Attorney; Donald H. Ladd, Treasurer; Judy Onken, Attorney; Central Office staff members; representatives from professional groups, and other interested persons. In the absence of Mr. English, Mrs. Potts, Vice President, called the meeting to order and Dr. Hamm gave the invocation.

Cal 1 to Order

Mrs. Potts welcomed all of the visitors present.

Vi si tors Welcomed

Roll Call Roll call established that six of the seven Board members were present. Mrs. Potts stated that Mr. English was in Washington, D. C., attending the NSBA Federal Relations Network Conference.

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hill for approval of minutes of January 21, 1980, 8:00 a.m. and January 21, 1980, 7:00 p.m. On Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mrs. Potts voted aye. Mrs. Potts declared that carried.

the roll call, voted aye; the motion

R. #40 Minutes Approved

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS Mrs. Hill stated: A week ago on Saturday I did attend the Oklahoma State School Comments Boards Association's Legislative Network Review. There are 49 members on the committee, Mrs. Hill In spite of the bad weather, there were about 45 that actually came to attend the workshops. They did give each of us a list of all of the Senate Bills and House Bills, some that were held over and the current ones, a brief description of each and where they are in either the House or the Senate. I understand that Mr. Isch probably used this to help him give the report that he gave to us, so that we can keep up with the Legislature and what is going on out there. They will have a number where we can call each evening for an update of what went on that day and what will be happening the next day. So it will be an opportunity for us to call. It was supposed to go into operation on February 1, but the hours were not yet set at the time of the meeting.

Mrs. Potts stated: I want to comment on an excellent report that we got on Comments Standardized Testing in Education; also our School Report which is now out and I think is Mrs. Potts a very good resume' of some of the outstanding activities in the district. I did have a chance to attend the Middle School Instrumental Music Festival. Those middle school students sounded better than most high school students that I have heard. It was quite an impressive presentation.

Dr. Start stated: It is my pleasure to introduce Mrs.-Norma Turner. Mrs. Turner has put together a slide presentation that reflects one of my vested interests, namely, health. Being a member of the Oklahoma Health Education Advisory Council,which vis made up of various organizations statewide, this particular series of slides is meant to show to school boards and emphasize what really needs to happen in our education if we are going to continue to have a healthy population. So I think it is self-explanatory, and with your indulgence, I will ask her to proceed at this time. Mrs. Turner gave a'14-minute slide presentation entitled

"HEALTH: Key To Learning."

As an additional comment, Mrs. Hill stated: I failed to mention the CAMELOT production that they did at Northwest over the weekend. I have always said that we have a good fine arts program in our school system, and I guess that just bore out my feelings, because they did do a very professional play. I think the staff there and the students and all that were involved do need to be commended. In the neighborhood, our group donated $1,000 to their Fine Arts Department.

Comments Dr. Start

MINUTES OF MEETING OF FEBRUARY 4, 1980 - CONT'D

ITEMS PENDING Information to the Board_________

Meeting of November 16, 1979

Commission to Improve Education Report

Meeting of January 21, 1980

Bus Garage and Maintenance Facilities Project

LEGAL AND FINANCIAL REPORTS attorney's Report

Ms. Onken reported:

(1)

Appeals to Supreme Court - As you know, we have two appeals pending before the Supreme Court relating to the previous work action. The first appeal is in regard to the validity of the temporary injunction. In that matter, the record of appeal has been completed and the AFT (American Federation of Teachers) has been given 30 days within which to file their brief. In the second appeal which is in regard to the appropriate penalty under the Statute, there is no current activity. All of the briefs have been completed and oral arguments have not been set in the case and we are simply waiting for a ruling from the court.

(2)

Boswell Appeal - In the Boswell appeal before the District Court, oral arguments are set for this Thursday, February 7, at 1:30 p.m.

(3)

Sale of Culbertson School - A further matter is the sale of Culbertson School. On November 20, 1978, the Board approved the sale of Culbertson to the Department of Institutions, Social and Rehabilitative Services. The title work in that sale has been completed and approved by DISRS, and a Quit Claim deed has been prepared. We are now recommending that the president execute the deed and that the sale be closed in accordance with the terms of the proposal that was drawn up.

Ireasurer's Report

Mr. Ladd gave a routine treasurer's report. Clerk's office.)

L #41 Reports Approved

It was moved by Mr. presented. On roll voted aye; Dr. Hamm Mrs. Potts declared

(A copy of the report is on file in the

Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Start that the reports be approved as call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mrs. Potts voted aye. that the motion carried.

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT employee of the tenth

Dr. Payzant introduced Mrs. Pat Watson, President, the Association of All School Personnel, who gave preliminary remarks regarding Mr. Leroy Hicks, Teacher, Douglass High School, having been selected as Employee of the Month.

A Certificate of Recognition was presented by Dr. Payzant to Mr. Hicks on behalf of the Board of Education and the Association of All School Personnel. Two students presented a plaque to Mr. Hicks on behalf of the Douglass High School Concert Choir.

Mr. Hicks responded. L #42 Professional frips Approved

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start to direct the following persons to attend meetings as indicated:

(a)

Marvin Best, Teacher; Steve Speegle, Teacher/Coach, Capitol Hill High School Kellogg's Coach of the Year Clinic, Dallas, Texas, January 25-27, 1980. Confirmatic n

(b)

Hope Alvarez, Bilingual Title VII Coordinator - Management Title VII Administrative Workshop, Denver, Colorado, February 3-9, 1980. Confirmation

(c)

Maree Tarver, Title I Administrator; Kathy Clark, Research Associate - Meeting of the Management and Evaluation of Title I, Dallas, Texas, February 11-12, 1980.

(d)

Erma Baskett, Principal, Dewey Fifth Year Center; Jeannee Hamilton, Principal, Sequoyah Elementary School; Robert Webb, Principal, Garden Oaks Fifth Year Center; Roy Watson, Principal, Shidler Elementary School - South Central Association of Elementary Principals, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 19-22, 1980.

(e)

Mary E. Burdette, Journalism Teacher, Northwest Classen High School, Texas High School Press Association Convention, Austin, Texas, March 21, 1980.

MINUTES OF MEETING OF FEBRUARY 4, 1980 - CONT'D

Dale Reeder, Principal, Southern Hills; Bill Parker, Principal, Quail Creek; Roy Watson, Principal, Shidler - NAESP Convention, Miami, Florida, April 18-23, 1980.

(f)

(g)

Richard Martin, Leadman Mechanic, Service Center Garage - International Truck Training Institute (Diesel Engine), Dallas, Texas, February 4-7, 1980.

(h)

Jim Johnson, Director of Special Services - State Meeting for Directors of of Special Services, Shawnee, Oklahoma, February 7-8, 1980.

(i)

Marilyn Oden, Coordinator, School Volunteer Services - Management of Volunteer Programs (Advanced Level Workshop), Boulder, Colorado, February 10-15, 1980.

(j)

Odessa Wycoff, Business Education Coordinator - Business Education Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2-5, 1980.

R. #42 Professional Trips Approved cont'd

Convention,

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mrs. Potts voted aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Hamm that the President of the Board and the Superintendent be authorized to execute documents and submit applications for Grants as follows: Program at Middle School Level.

Under Title III ESEA, a Metric Education

Under Public Law 94-142, a State Implementation Grant for an Early Childhood Handicapped Program.

R. #43 President of Board and Superintendent Authorized to Execute Documents

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mrs. Potts voted aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried. SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM

Recommended approval (February 18, 1980) of changes in social studies sequence of required courses for middle and high schools as follows: 6th grade

Physical and Political Geography -- 2 Semesters

7th grade

Cultural Geography -- 2 Semesters

8th grade

U. S. History

(from Colonial Period to Civil War) -- 2 Semesters

9th grade

U. S. History

(from Civil War to Present) -- 2 Semesters

10th grade

Oklahoma History â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 1 Semester Government -- 1 Semester

TIMELINE FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF CHANGES IN REQUIRED SOCIAL STUDIES COURSES FOR EIGHTH, NINTH, AND TENTH GRADE STUDENTS: 1980-81

1981-82

1982-83

8th grade (2 Semesters as 8th graders)

U. S. History (2 Semesters as 9th graders)

Okla. Hi story/Government (as 10th graders)

9th grade (2 Semesters as 10th graders)

(2 Semesters as 10th graders)

10th grade (2 Semesters as 10th graders) In referring to the recommendation as above, Dr. Payzant stated: The recommendation is the result of study by a group of social studies teachers, and these recommendations were forwarded to the Curriculum Department, given consideration there and forwarded to me and my staff. The recommendations that you have before you are those presented by the teachers group. There was one additional recommendation that the teachers group presented that I am not recommending you adopt at this time, and that was to include in the 11th and 12th grade year two requirements for students to take two social studies electives. The rationale behind this suggested change is to get better continuity in the social studies curriculum, good coverage of the U. S. History courses in the eighth and ninth grades, and then to provide students with a Government course in the tenth grade, which replaces the eighth grade Civics course at a time when the students are more mature and ready to not only learn about their government but participate in it. So I will be asking you to take action on this recommendation at the next Board meeting.

Social Studies Curriculum Changes Recommended for Action February 18, 1980

MINUTES OF MEETING OF FEBRUARY 4, 1980 - CONT'D R. #44 Resolutions of Appreciation Approved

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start to approve the following Resolutions of Appreciation:

Rueben James, Floorman, Webster Middle School, Deceased, January 4, 1980.

Mildred Deets Rickard, Retired; Elementary Music Supervisor, Deceased, Janauay 11, 1980.

Sherman Harris, Retired Teacher, Douglass High School, January 15, 1980.

Olah Ethel Hamilton, Senior Clerk, Business Office, Deceased, January 15, 1980.

Agnes Phoebe Allen, Food Service, Roosevelt School, Deceased, January 20, 1980.

Eva Lee, Retired Vocal Music Teacher, Central High, Deceased, January 20,

Irene Rivers, Retired Teacher, Linwood Elementary School, Deceased, January 22, 1980.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mrs. Potts voted aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

Report West Nichols Hills Preschool/Day Care Center

Dr. Payzant stated: Some months ago the Board asked that a report be made soon after the start of the second semester on the West Nichols Hills Preschool/Day Care Center. I have asked Dr. Lindley to briefly summarize the information contained in a memo to me, which you received a copy of, and to highlight several of the administrative changes that we intend to make to improve the program, to look at the possibility of adding at least one more site for 1980-81, and finally the results of our efforts to secure Title XX funds and make our participants in our Preschool/Day Care Centers eligible for them.

Dr. Jesse Lindley, Assistant Superintendent, Educational Services, reported: I am really pleased to be able to report tonight about the financial picture at West Nichols Hills. As you know, it has taken us a while but for this report, I am pleased to be able to tell you that our income exceeds our expenses. That is according to the ground rules we had previously established where we are not counting the capital expenditure or maintenance costs, or utilities, but it does cover the cost of equipment, supplies, food, and salaries. We are very pleased to see it in the black. As Dr. Payzant mentioned, we have made some changes in the program which we think have improved the program and hopefully will have an added impact eventually on the expenses too. One of the two teaching positions we eliminated. This person was reassigned to another job, and we assigned the supervisory duties that this teacher had over | the care-givers to kind of a coordinator. This is a noncertified person who is there when the parents come and- leave and the money, and supervises the care-givers. We feel that it is more appropriate to have the teacher teaching instead of supervising, and the one teacher now can cover the preschool classes. We also, as an administrative change, changed the preschool from a program in the budgeting process to a responsibility center. If you don't know about our budgeting process, that may not make a lot of sense, but each school is a responsibility center and you have programs within a school. When we started we felt that we could handle the monitoring of expenses very well by having the preschool as a program under the West Nichols Hills responsibility center, but experience has caused us to change our mind and now we feel that it would be better to have it as a responsibility center, and have so recommended. Also, we have discovered that there is a need from time to time for the people at the school to go out and secure something from a commercial establishment, so we have recommended that a revolving fund be set up specifically for the West Nichols Hills Preschool in addition to the revolving fund that we have for the elementary school. This is a $100 account that is set up so that they do have some money if they need something or need it quickly, or if it is inexpensive, they can go out and get it without going through the voucher process.

Another change that we are making which we feel is very beneficial is that the care givers are being placed on an hourly wage rather than on a monthly wage. We feel that this will enable us to have the people there when the children are there, and when the children aren't there we won't need so many care givers there. So we feel this will make it more efficient, and also more effective. We have also recommended that the West Nichols Hills secretary be given some additional compensation for the additional work time which is involved. She does keep financial records for the preschool. So those are some of the administrative changes that we have recommended, which Dr. Payzant has approved.

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Dr. Lindley introduced Ms. Mary Dunkin, stating: Ms. Dunkin is our Early Childhood Consultant and, if you will permit me to use.the slang term, she is a real "go getter." She has a lot of enthusiasm, a very nice personality, and many of these changes that are .made are the result of her looking into the situation and recommending some changes. A part of her experience has been as the head of a commercial preschool. So we feel that she has some experience and we listen to what she tells us, and we like what we have heard so far. She has also been given the responsibility for initiating and carrying through on our application to DISRS (Department of Institutions, Social and Rehabilitative Services) to receive Title XX certification, and this is not an easy or quick process, we have discovered. We made application to DISRS which then indicated to us that we needed approval from three agencies -the Community Development Department of the City, the City Fire Marshal, and the City-County Health Department. At the Community Development Department, we were told that we would need a zoning permit and also that the building permit section would have to have an inspection and approve us. After Ms. Dunkin did quite a bit of work on getting an application for a zoning variation, we found out that we don't have to have it. They decided that we don't have to be zoned to have a preschool. We have submitted a set of blueprints to them. They have viewed them and have requested some changes in what we are doing in the structure there. For example, there are cinder blocks in the hallways between the hallways and the classrooms about seven feet tall, and then from there on up it is glass brick,.:, which was put in there to let light come through. The glass brick is not fire rated, so we are having to knock out the glass bricks and put in cinder/blocks all the way up to and through the ceiling. Also, there has to be a two-hour.fire-rated door between the preschool and the rest of the school, which we are in the midst of trying to establish. The electrical outlets have to be four feet from the floor so that the preschool children can't reach them, and those all have to be moved up. There has to be remodeling in some of the toilet facilities. They are just 32 inches wide and the handicapped requirements call for 36 inches, so we are having to remodelsome of those. After we get this work done, then the City Fire Marshal will be willing to come out and make an inspection. We have secured unofficially some information about what he is going to require, and that is each room will have to have an outside exit. The maintenance people have been kind enough to establish those in each room. We had to put those doors to the outside in each room. Also, they will require us to have a smoke alarm in each room, which is quite inexpensive. So that is really no problem. Then the next step is to get the City-County Health Department to come over and make an inspection. We don't know exactly what we are going to run into when they come over to make the inspection, but they cannot come until we get through the Community Development people and the Fire Marshal. As soon as they are through, the City-County Health Department will come, and if and when we pass their inspection, then DISRS will give us certification. So that is the process we are going through. One time Ms. Dunkin told me that we would probably have it within two weeks, and today she tells me that she is hopeful we are going to have it by May.

Mrs. Potts inquired: I am curious about how many similar efforts have been made by school districts in the state? Aren't we somewhat in the area of a model program in preschool education for a public school? Dr. Lindley - Yes, I think we are. I have heard something about a preschool in Lawton, but I don't know the details or particulars of their operation; but other than that, I think we are.

Mrs. Potts - Maybe some of the others can benefit from our perseverance. Dr. Lindley - You might be interested that as of today we have 58 children in the preschool at West Nichols Hills, and 93 in extended day care.

Mrs. Hill - Is that up or down from last year? Dr. Lindley - Up.

Mrs. Hill - The reason I was asking, I guess, because the teacher was reassigned and I wondered if that was an indication that our enrollment was down. Dr. Lindley - Mo, it is not.

It is a realignment of duties that

permitted that.

Mrs. Hill - Was not a lot of this that we are going through, so we could get the Title XX funds that we are still working for? Dr. Lindley - Yes.

Mrs. Hill - And I would assume then that staff feels like that this will be an asset for the preschool there? Dr. Lindley - I am not sure that it is going to be a tremeridous asset there, because as you can see we already have enrollment there. But we feel in many parts of the district, it is going to be absolutely essential. We felt one of the best ways to find out what is required, is to go through it with the preschool we have got and then we

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Dr. Lindley cont'd Report West Nichols Hills would know precisely what would be required in building modifications in order to Preschool/Day ^establish a preschool. Care Center cont'd Mrs. Hill - I was wondering if really the Title XX was that important to that program at West Nichols Hills.

Dr. Lindley - I am not sure that it is, although it would probably help there, but it will be absolutely essential, I think, in most other locations. Mrs. Williams - Do you have a waiting list at West Nichols Hills? Dr. Lindley - No.

Mrs. Hill - Has the Preschool/Day Care Center helped the enrollment at West Nichols Hills to any large extent? Dr. Lindley - At the beginning of the year the enrollment was up, and last year it was up over the previous year. Whether precisely that is because of preschool, I couldn1t be sure. Remarks Dr. Payzant Legislative Report

Dr. Payzant stated: You have a rather detailed written memo from Jack Isch, with an update on the various bills. I won't go into detail on those unless you have questions. \T

Report TO TEST OR NOT TO TEST

Dr. Payzant continued: I do think it is appropriate to bring to your attention a paper that. I- gave/you,.. which is entitled "TO TEST OR NOT TO TEST" and is a staff paper that we have been working on for some weeks now, to deal with the issue of doing a more effective job of screening applicants for teaching positions. I would like for Mr. Russell to summarize briefly for you the content of that paper and some administrative changes that we have made to put into effect as of February 15 to upgrade our screening and selection procedures. These are very consistent with the kind of thing that is recommended in House Bill 1706, which is being considered by the Common Education Committee tomorrow. Mr. George Russell, Director of Personnel Services, stated: It was about three months ago when Dr. Payzant appointed the ad hoc committee to look at the question of testing,, andj.whe the ror not the Oklahoma City Public Schools should pursue a more formalized method of teacher selection. As a task assigned to the committee, which was composed of three persons - Dr. Jesse Lindley, Vern Moore and myself, we were asked to explore the whole question of testing with an eye toward determining whether or not this would be feasible., for Oklahoma City Public Schools or to look at that. One of the first things that we did was to look at what some of the legal implications might be in terms of testing. As the result of that, we were drawn to the more recent court case of the U.S. vs. South Carolina, in which the question of testing, particularly as it applied to some of the Title VII language in the question of discrimination in testing, was looked at by the U. S. Supreme Court. Basically, the case in South Carolina was they were requiring that in order to be hired as a teacher in that state, a person had to attain a certain testing score on the National Teacher Examination, and in addition that the scores were used as a means of determining where a person would be placed on the salary schedule. And it so happened that, as in several past cases, blacks scored lower on the standardized test that was administered through Educational Testing Service, than did whites. The question that arose was one of adverse impact, because the test, even though it had supposedly been validated by ETS and the State Department of Education for South Carolina, whether or not these factors were taken into consideration, it should not be outlawed as being discriminatory. The U. S. Supreme Court, in looking at that case, decided that there was sufficient validation to allow the State of*South Carolina to use standardized tests and to use them in the manner that South Carolina was doing so.

The report goes on to say that even though standardized testing and other means of pencil and paper tests were being used throughout the nation, and since the Griggs vs. Duke case, that there was a lot of skepticism and a lot of anxiety on the part of school boards and other employers about whether or not they could use tests, and the question of validation. But the U.S, vs. South Carolina case seemed to point out that at least in terms of the National Teacher Examination, that school boards could choose to use those, and that as long as the test seemed to have a reasonable basis with relationship to the job, that they could be used. So in looking at that as background information, we did some research and discovered that there had been a previous committee appointed in April of 1978 by this Board of Education, that was appointed as a task force, and that in the report submitted by the chairperson of that task force, he stated that the task force "spent little time on selection criteria," which was the task of the task force that was appointed, but instead, that "the task

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Report force focused on the administrative barriers to quality teacher selection." He noted TO TEST OR N that sophisticated selection criteria,and gave the examples of objective tests, psychological analyses and competitive ranking, would be of little use to the Oklahoma TO TEST cont City School System until the problem of timing was resolved. Some of you may be aware oi that report and some of the issues that were outlined in it. So in looking further into the issue of testing, we tried to identify what were the issues that brought us to the point of looking at testing? We first started by reviewing the type of selection testing that is currently used in the district. We found that generally the testing of applicants for teaching positions consists basically of a review and evaluation of the application form and related materials such as transcripts and references, and an interview by a Personnel or building administrator; that assessment of basic competencies in communication and computation skills is of necessity limited to what could be learned from those sources. Subject area competency is assessed only by an examination of the individual's transcripts or through the oral interview. While we on the committee were in agreement that it was desirable to have a more objective measure of both the basic skills and subject matter competency of teachers, we had some problems in arriving at consensus with respect to what we should be using as a means of measurement. So with respect to trying to answer those questions, we identified some other questions and tried to answer those. First, we tried to identify exactly what was the underlying concern that had sparked this renewed interest in testing? Our conclusion was that the district wants qualified and competent teachers in the classroom; they want teachers who have knowledge of their subject matter along with basic writing and language skills in order that they might communicate better that knowledge to students. Secondly, we asked the question of whether or not there is any evidence to show that a high number of teachers currently employed in this district do not possess those skills? We concluded that there is very little evidencfi.of such, but that scattered and isolated incidents of poor teacher performance coupled with a perception of lower academic skills of students may have led, and particularly have led Board members and patrons to conclude otherwise. Third, we asked the question that if the number of incompetent teachers is small, why should we consider increasing the amount of testing of applicants? The answer that we came up with was pressure, and we decided it was pressure from those who believe, rightly or wrongly, that the quality of teachers and teacher candidates is on the decline, and that the decline in teacher quality contributes to a decline in the quality of education; that the call for accountability, competency testing, and minimum standards is an outgrowth of the feeling that public education is not what it used to be, and that those public educators, boards of education, and administrators who are subject to political whims must respond to the concerns that are raised, and that one of the ways of responding has been through an advocation of more critical'and objective selection criteria; such as, for example, written examinations.

A fourth question then was recognizing that there are political aspects to the question, what then are the major options to us as a district if we decide that written tests are desirable? We identifed that those options range from a standardized test such as the National Teacher Examination, all the way up to some type of locally developed test in which we assess for basic competency in the skills such as reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Our last question was what would be the advantages and disadvantages of using a written examination as part of the selection process? We^concluded that there were more negatives than .positives associated with trying to use a pencil and paper test or some type of formalized standardized testing of teacher applicants. The factors that contributed to that were these: first of all, that it must be considered that other districts in the state and in the region are not currently using any type of stand-;1 ardized or written tests, and that this district is not in a position to require a test when other systems vying for the same applicants are not using tests. The simple fact is that we are already experiencing difficulties in competing with school districts such as Putnam City, Midwest City, and others for applicants. And if we were to be the only school district in the area or in the state requiring any type of written examination, whether it be standardized or localized, that we would only compound our difficulties in terms of attracting quality applicants. We concluded that with respect to the question of standardized testing, for it < to be effective, it would have to be required at the state level and be administered prior to certification of teachers. We talked to various college and university administrators in terms of our committee looking into this area. In conversation with the Dean of School of Education at Central State University, he at that time, which was several months ago, indicated to us that he and a number of his peers had raised the proposition of pre-certification testing of students in education along the lines of what some of the other states, particularly North Carolina and South Carolina, are doing. He also pointed out to us at that time that there would be a move in the current Legislature to do some type of legislation requiring testing as a means of selection in terms of pre-certification for teachers.

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Mr. Russell cont'd In terms of recommendations, we had several, and they were based on the question of whether or not testing would achieve the end that we desired, and that end, of course, Wing more competent teachers and persons who would be teachers, who had the skills that they were trying to pass on to students. While the committee was not opposed to testing per se, we did feel that to adopt such a requirement independently of other districts or of the state would work to our disadvantage. We, therefore, recommended the following: first of all, that the district pursue non-formalized methods of ascertaining the qualifications and competency of prospective teachers. Among those to be considered could be evidence of written communication skills, involvement of subject or grade level specialists in the screening and interviewing of teacher applicants, involvement of other teachers or department chairpersons in interviewing teacher applicants, as well as on-site observation and evaluation of classroom teachers.

We concluded that the district should not at this time attempt to adopt a formalized testing program as a requirement for hiring, and that while testing may be desirable as a method of establishing competency, it was at this time neither feasible nor practical in terms of the other aspects that we mentioned. We concluded that our need now is to attract teacher applicants to the district and not to discourage them, and we felt that by this district being the only one in the area or in the state requiring some type of formalized testing, that iso.what would < occur. We identified and recommended that the district should make better use of and place increased emphasis on the evaluation procedures for probationary and temporary teachers; that there should be clearly established standards with regard to the basic competencies expected of all teachers, and that those should be firmly adhered to and enforced; additionally, that the district should develop and use the resources available through the Instructional Service Center and staff development programs to assist those teachers who are deemed deficient in the basic competencies and/or in subject matter areas, and should help them in developing their skills to the level that is required.

In terms of trying to implement the recommendations, we suggested the following: that all new teacher applicants, starting no later than February 15, 1980, be required to submit as a part of their application a written statement, in their own handwriting, on a current educational issue, and that such statement should be no less than 250 and no more than 500 words in length, and that the statement should be assessed for competency in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, words usage, and sentence construction; that these essays would be included as a part of the application file to be reviewed by administrators who are making selections of teachers. We also propose that as an alternative to the above, that the district initiate what we call a preferential consideration for an employment program for those teachers,who based upon their ability to promote basic skills instruction, to teach in accordance with developmental theory and/or understand and teach students of different cultures, races and ability levels, should be instituted. This, as you may remember, is a part of the long-range goals that this district adopted with respect to what it deemed appropriate in terms of teacher candidates. What we are saying is that teacher applicants who can demonstrate that they have skills and abilities in these areas, who are able to teach-students of an urban background - with different cultures, who have a basic understanding of developmental theory, and who are competent in English language usage, computation, etc., are those who will receive preference in terms of hiring with respect to Oklahoma City Public Schools. We also recommend that we broaden the selection procedure so that more personnel are involved in looking at the quality of candidates. Particularly, we would like to see other teachers involved in the selection process. We would like to see department chairpersons involved; subject matter coordinators, persons who provide an expertise that the Personnel Office cannot. We cannot have a person in the Personnel Office who knows math, who knows science, who knows special education, and we should depend on people in the district who have that expertise, to help us in assessing whether or not candidates have the skills that we are looking for in those areas. We also recommended that the district should support the current push for state legislation that would require statewide competency testing for teacher applicants and work with appropriate groups to implement such testing as a pre-certification requirement/ We also want to develop, through staff development and training, inservice programs or workshops on interviewing skills and techniques for building administrators, supervisors, and other personnel who are responsible for staff selection. We would suggest that working with staff development and other appropriate personnel, we would establish a committee or committees to assess and review the current teacher and administrative evaluation programs, and that while doing that, those committees be charged with considering the following: first of all, a provision that the evaluation of all teachers, especially those on probationary or temporay status, include an assessment of their basic writing and language skills and their ability to communicate

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Mr. Russell cont'd

knowledge to students. Second of all, a provision that when teachers are rated low in those areas, they will be required to cooperate with their principals in developing specific objectives to remedy the deficiency.

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Dr. Payzant added: The decision to bring this to you this evening was made today when we completed the final draft of this paper in staff meeting, thinking that in light of the legislation that is being debated now and your interest in this topic-and several Board Goals which speak to it, warranted your awareness of it at this point, rather than waiting two more weeks. I apologize for not getting it to you on Friday, but we didn't get it in final form until this morning. Mr. Russell continued: I would call your attention to the first page of the attachment, which is called the "REQUEST FOR PREFERENTIAL EMPLOYMENT CONSIDERATION", which is basically a tool that we would allow applicants to fill out in which they assess their own skills and abilities with respect to several areas, and also which provides that there would be several essay questions which they would answer. And you will note that on the front of that test we have identifed areas in which the school district has chosen to give preference to applicants based on the goals and objectives established through the Long Range Plan.

(A copy of the report is on file in the Clerk's office.)

Mrs. Potts stated: I also see a tie-in to prior years. Particularly, last year I recall having sessions on staff development and teachers being involved in these, and their stressing that their inservice should really be relevant to the job that they are doing, and that oftentimes they did not feel that actually happened. So I see a definite tie-in to this. Dr. Payzant continued with remarks on the following:

(1)

Next Step in Designing and Planning Maintenance Facilities, etc. - At the last Board meeting I recommended that you reject blds on construction of a facility at the Service Center for the Transportation Department because of the excessive amounts ja.f the bids which were submitted. The Board indicated that we should go ahead and talk with the architects about preparing alternate specifications for rebidding, and it was left that it might be necessary to have a special meeting to talk with the Board further about the agreement with the architects .for the preparation of additional specifications. At the meeting when we talked with the architects, it was their feeling that they should go ahead and do the additional specifications and prepare the material for rebidding, with no additional charge to the Board since they had agreed to take on the project initially. Since no additional expenditure would be required for that purpose, there was no necessity to come back and ask you for that permission. The architects are proceeding to develop new specifications which will permit bidding of several alternate forms of construction, as well as various parts of the project being bid as alternates, and the proposed timeline is for the new plans and specifications to be issued February 20; bids to be opened on March.11, and bids to be presented to the Board on March 17.

(2)

Evaluation- Report From the State Department of Education on Title IProgram - The report that I gave you this evening is from the State Department of Education, who recently had a team of people in the school district reviewing our Title I program There are a number of recommendations for modifications in our Title I program. We are requested to make a response to the State Department within 30 days. I have given you a copy of the report, forwarded one to Dr. Lindley and his staff with a request for recommendations on a response. A copy has also been forwarded to the chairperson of the Parent Advisory Council for Title I. I will be coming back to you no later than the first Board meeting in March with some recommendations for response to the suggestions made by the State Department for modifications in our Title I program.

Remarks Dr. Payzant cont'd

PERSONNEL REPORT

A motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mr. Donwerth that the persons listed in the Personnel Report be employed and that contracts with the teachers listed on the form be approved and executed in the name of the District by the Superintendent or person by him designated; also, that other personnel recommendations and information listed be approved.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mrs. Potts voted aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

R. #45 Personnel Approved

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PAYROLLS,

R. #46 Approval of Payrolls and Encumbrances

ENCUMBRANCES AND PURCHASING

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams to approve recommendations #1 <and #2 (ratification of January payrolls and authorization of February payrolls) and payment of encumbrances as listed for January 15-28, 1980. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mrs. Potts voted aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried. Purchasing

R. #47 Approval of Items of Purchasinc

A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Dr. Hamm for approval of purchasing item$ as follows:

Purchase of Roofing Supplies Purchase of roofing supplies (brushes, cement, pitch, felt, shingles, etc.) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from Standard Materials Corporation which submitted the low quotation on specifications in the amount of $7,350.20 to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Purchase of Teaching Aids Purchase of teaching aids (filmstrips, cassettes, charts, etc.) for use at John Marshal 1 High School (available only from designated publisher/distributor). This purchase in the amount of $1,209.60 is to be charged to Account G 230.01.

Purchase of Musical Instruments

Purchase of musical instruments (autoharps, tambourines, mini-organs, folk guitars, recorders, etc.) for use by Fifth Year Centers and Middle Schools from the followinc companies which submitted the low quotations: $

Wepco Jenkins Music Company Hallmark Music, Inc.

2,080.00 939.00 765.30

Total These purchases are to be charged to Account G 1230.03.

Purchase of Health Supplies Purchase of health supplies (bandages, gloves, tape, syringes, scissors, gowns, forceps, etc.) for use by Foster Estes AVC-LPN from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

Micro Bio-Medics, Inc. Melton Company, Inc.

Total

2,825.36

These purchases are to be charged to Vo-Ed Adult, 1121.03 Account. 5.

Purchase of Stage Curtains Purchase of stage curtains for Fillmore Elementary School from Capitol Stage Equipment Company, Inc., which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,238.50, to be charged to Account G 1230.03.

Purchase of Hot Water Booster Tanks Purchase of hot water booster tanks for use by Central Food Service Department from Crane Supply Company which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $5,116.80 to be charged to Central Food Service Account.

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Permission to Place Orders Permission to place orders with the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications for concrete, sand, and limestone products to be used by various schools through June 30, 1980:

Murphy & Perkins Concrete Co.

Concrete, Sand, Limestone, Portland Cement and Masonry Cement

The Dolese Company

Limestone and Sacked Material

Purchase of Electrical and Electronic Supplies Purchase of electrical and electronic supplies (extension cords, wiremold, wire, speakers, connectors, cl ips, etc.) for use by Supply and Distribution Department and Maintenance/Engineering Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations: Radio Supply, Inc. Cox Sound & Communications Division Pyramid Supply, Inc. Hunzicker Brothers Emsco Electric Supply Company Trice Wholesale Electronics

Total

6,644.29 333.13 381.73 15.50 72.00 985.50

8 ,432.15

1,920.00 6,512.15

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 240.00 BL 5620.05

Total

Purchase of Vacuum Sweepers Purchase of vacuum sweepers (heavy duty) for use by the Custodial Services Department from Kenny Skaggs Kirby Sales and Service (only quotation submitted), This purchase in the amount of $1,490.72 is.to be charged to Account G 1230.06.

10.

Purchase of Paper Products

Purchase of paper products (bond, writing, onionskin, adding machine, legal pads, envelopes, etc.), warehouse stock, for use by the Supply and Distribution Department and Washington Print Shop from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Graham Paper Company Carpenter Paper Company of Nebraska Oklahoma Paper Company Carpenter Paper Company Western Paper Company Midwest Paper Company Thompson Book & Supply Company Total

182.10 1 ,775.60 5,721.71 687.36 4,256.00 112,722.60 28,457.00

$153,802.37

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: $142,733.17 11,060.10 9.10

G 240.00 G 240.05 G 650.04 Total

11.

$153,802.37

Purchase of Board Policy and Administrative Regulations Binders

Purchase of Board Policy and Administrative Regulations Binders (850) from General Binding Corporation who submitted the low quotation; and inserts (450) from the National School Boards Association (available only from this designated vendor). This purchase in the amount of $5,074.50 is to be charged to Account G 130.28.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mrs. Potts voted aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

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Central Food Service Statement - Information to the Board

The Central Food Service Department financial statement as of December 31, 1979 was submitted as information to the Board.

HEARINGS

The following persons addressed the Board:

(1)

Mary Hepp

(2)

Mike Barlow

(3)

Donna Myers

(4)

David Renfro

Ms. Hepp expressed opposition to teachers being placed in the position of where they would feel that they could not even use one day of sick leave. She asked that the Board not hold teachers to not using any sick leave in order to receive ;the proposed bonus. After distributing a copy of printed material to members of the Board, Mr. Barlow stated that copy was an agenda that would be used at Northwest Classen High School where four State Representatives and two Senators would be meeting with teachers to discuss House Bill 1706, the teacher salary proposal that was in the Legislature, and other bills related to personnel in the school system; that teachers, principals, and Board members were invited to attend the meeting, the purpose of which was to have a dialogue between the legislators and teachers. In regard to the motion under Unfinished Business relating to the incentive program for teachers in the use of sick leave, Mr. Barlow read some figures which he stated were calculations on what it would cost the district to pay teachers a bonus in various assumptions and analyses of sick leave used or unused. He expressed a desire that the policy for a bonus to teachers for unused sick leave be one that would serve as an incentive but yet not make them feel guilty for using their sick leave. Ms. Myers' remarks related to where the Hearings are placed on the Board meeting agenda, lack of supplies for students, the Consortium for Lifelong Learning, binding arbitration, and other. Mr. Renfro asked that the Board support an initiative petition for expanded services of the Oklahoma County Libraries.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Consideration of motion made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mr. Donwerth at the January 21 meeting of the Board:

"I move that teachers who have not used all ten (10) days of their annual sick leaveâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;allotment will be paid a bonus of $10 a day for each unused day." R. #48 Substitute Motion Approved Re Payment to Teachers for Unused Sick eave

Mrs. Hill stated: I would like to make a substitute motion in the place of this one. I realize that there are several options on the payment of unused sick leave, the one that the Superintendent and staff gave in their guidelines at one end I guess; at the other end was my motion where if they did not use any of the sick leave, they would be paid for that. But staff did work out another option and it is one that I think I could support and I would like to compromise. Mrs. Hill continued by making the following substitute motion:

"I move that the current language regarding payment for unused sick leave at the end of the school year be eliminated and the following policy be substituted: Teachers who'.have more than one-half (50%) of their annual allocation of sick leave, (10 or 11^ days), remaining at the end of the school year, will receive $10 for each day remaining. Additionally, teachers who have perfect attendance for the school year will receive a bonus of $50." For further clarification of the motion, Mrs. Hill read the following as Guidelines to accompany the motion: "Bonus sick leave days earned as a result of accumulated days or unused personal business leave days will not be counted as part of the annual allocation, but will be added to the total accumulated days in the sick leave bank." Mr. Donwerth seconded the substitute motion.

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Members of the Board commented:

R. #48 Substitute Motion Approved Re Mrs. Hill - I would like to say in figuring what the cost would be, and we are all doing projections on this, this motion would be sort of a compromise or halfway mark Payment to Teachers for of what staff was predicting and what they were predicting mine would cost. I do think that this does give an incentive. I do not feel that the recommendations and guidelines Unused Sick Leave cont'd that- staff developed, that there is really any incentive there. Mr. Barlow mentioned in his statement that we are looking for a continuity in instruction, and I, too, think that it is very, very important that we do have the teacher that is supposed to be there in that classroom every day, and this is an added incentive. So I would like to see the Board pass this. I have looked at the budget allocations. I have gone over it with most of the staff several times during the day, and I really feel like in looking at Mr. Light's figures which were given to us, the year is half over and we still have not spent half of what was budgeted, that from this account and others there will be money to pay for this.

Mrs. Williams - So your substitute motion is Option 2 as printed in Mr. Russell's memo? Mrs. Hill - Yes. Mrs. Potts - I think this is a real attempt at a compromise over a concern, a challenge that we all face. I recognize that a specific concern I have does not relate to that challenge, but I would really hope that in the future whereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;it is possible, we can look at extending benefits that go to teachers, also to other certified personnel. We are looking at a situation here where we have principals and some other certified personnel who would not be included in this, but for obvious reasons, because they are not in the classroom. That is an ongoing concern of mine and I wanted to register it publicly. Mrs. Hill - I think probably that is a concern of all of us, and something that we need to look at. I am not sure exactly where the principals and all fit into some of this. Mr. Donwerth - I intend to make a motion under New Business. I didn't want to tie that to this motion. Under New Business, I intend to make a motion to that effect, that we do extend this to the principals. Apparently one of the reasons that we want to give a bonus to the teacher for the unused sick leave or for perfect attendance is as an incentive because we feel that there is some abuse. If there is some abuse, I am sure this incentive will carry on and maybe it can eliminate the abuse. However, I feel that we are penalizing the team people by not extending this on to the principals and the other certified personnel.where there is no abuse. I feel that rather than rewarding them for not abusing it or for not using sick leave, that we are penalizing them by not offering them the same bonus that we are offering the teachers.

Dr. Start - I would like to remind each of us historically how this began. You will remember that Dr. Payzant came to us with a real problem and made several suggestions on how we might solve that problem. I think we ought to support our Superintendent in his initial efforts at solving these problems and see what the track record;will be of the initial effort. I think it is wrong to give away the whole store, when you don't really know what is going to happen. Everybody has said these are projections, these are estimates, and those who represent our teacher groups also admit that. I am rather hesitant to vote this when our Superintendent really is saying be careful, we really don't know what all is involved here. Personally, I don't like to see incentives applied to sick leave. In the first place, I don't think it works and,*1 secondly, I hate to see people playing around with their health over a few lousy bucks. I had rather see incentives being used on something other than sick leave, and in my judgment this is a proper subject for negotiations. I would urge us to turn down this motion and stay with the recommendation of our Superintendent.

Mr. Donwerth - I agree with you that Option 2, becadse of the amount of money in the bonus, would tend to cause a teacher to go ahead and come to school sick. However, I believe that the original motion, for the $10 that they would receive in additional pay for every day that they didn't use of their sick leave would keep them in school. I don't believe that they would come to school for the $10, but I do feel that possibly you are right, that the additional bonus for* the perfect attendance, that they would. I don't see the difference in the original motion and the bonus of the $50 making any difference when they ddri't average using over half of their sick leave each year anyway. I believe that when a teacher is really sick, regardless of what the bonus is going to be-, that they are not going to be in school. A teacher told me that some teachers don't have to be under a physician's care to be sick, that they can be mentally sick from it being the Board's or administration's fault for not enforcing or not doing something about discipline, and that this is one thing that makes a teacher sick. Maybe with this incentive they will come on to school. On roll call for the substitute motion, Dr. Start voted nay; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mrs. Potts voted aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried. Mrs. Hill added: And let me personally thank Mr. Russell for all of the hard work and time that I know he and the staff putin on this, and Dr. Payzant.

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NEW BUSINESS For Consideration at Next Meeting of the Board

Mr. Donwerth made the following motion which was seconded by Mrs. Hill, for consideration at the February 18 meeting of the Board:

"I move that the identical Option 2 regarding payment for unused sick leave that we adopted for teachers be extended to the other certified personnel in the district in the same amounts." When Mrs. Potts inquired as to his interpretation of "other certified personnel," Mr. Donwerth stated: other certified personnel besides teachers -the principals, assistant principals and certified administrative personnel.

Mrs. Potts - I think it would be helpful if we had any information that would pertain to this.

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Dr. Payzant - First of all, the way the Board has set up its salary and fringe benefit package, when you are talking about building administrators, they, of course, are certified and they have a salary plan and a fringe package which is separate and apart from teachers, and apart from Central Office administrators. Then you have a Central Office administrators' salary schedule and fringe benefit plan which includes both certified administrators and some who are not certified, but they are on the same salary schedule and get the same benefits because they are on that Central Office administrative salary schedule. So if you were going to treat all equitably, you would be talking about two groups; you would be talking about your building administrators, and you would be talking about your Central Office administrators. As far as the merits, I may be unpopular with all of the administrators, but I do not feel that an incentive plan for sick leave usage should be in effect for administrative or management personnel. If the Board wants to provide a benefit which is equal in some monetary sense for these groups of administrators, I would much rather prefer you to say make that equivalent amount of money available and then let it go into another type of fringe benefit for the administrators, rather than tying it to sick leave. I don't think that administrators and management personnel ought to be rewarded for not using sick leave in that way.

Dr. Payzant asked George Russell, Director of Personnel Services, if he had any comments. Mr. Russell responded: Mrs. Potts called me'today and asked me to do some computation, and we did do that with respect to primarily the building administrators. What we found was that with respect to building administrators, for the 1978-79 year, there were approximately 1,174 days of unused sick leave that they would have been compensated for as building adminstrators in that year. Mr. Barlow, and I think Ms. Hepp, referred earlier to the average that I had given, and I had tried to make clear in the memo to Dr. Payzant earlier this week that the four days average absence was a projection, and I am making that same projection here based on the fact that assuming that there will be some minimal one to two-day decrease in the number of sick days used if we have an incentive program. Based on that, we would project that under the first option which was indicated in the memo, that 50% of the building administrators would have been eligible for the $100 bonus; that is, that they would have been eligible for the $1QO bonus based on the fact of using no sick leave, or at least that equivalent to their annual allocation. On Option 2 we would project that about 90% on part one, and part one being those who have more than. 50% of their sick leave days available, that about 90% of the administrators would be eligible to be paid for each day remaining on that proposition. Then under part two of that, which would be the bonus for perfect attendance, about 50% of our building administrators would be eligible for that bonus. That would cost us probably in the neighborhood, a projection on the basis of the first proposition, of $17,370. Under proposition two, at 90% of the administrators, we had based it on an average of eight days per elementary administrator and ten days per secondary administrator, would be the average unused days per building administrator. So you are looking at $80 and $100 per administrator, depending on the level, and we have 193 building administrators. So that is in the neighborhood of $19,000 for Option 2, where you would pay them $10 for unused sick leave. That does not include the bonus; and then another 50% with the bonus would give you another $8,000 or $9,000. That is just for building administrators. I did not look at Central Office administrators, but based on my experience, I would expect that theirs would either run about the same or higher in terms of average.

Dr. Start - Again, Mrs. Potts, I am going to join Dr. Payzant in being unpopular. I think it is an example of being mildly irresponsible to vote for something that you really don't know what the final effect is going to be economically. We are in a awfully tight budget. You just gave away a lot of money that you shouldn't have, and now you are going to give away some more and I am going to vote against it again.

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Mrs. Williams - I should like to caution this Board, and I would like to be a magnani- For Consideration at Next Meeting of mous character, but I wish to call our attention to our tight budget. We have voted the Board saying,in effect, Option 2 with "tongue in cheek" and we are in a position where we are cont'd let'-jS see what this does by the end of school. I urge that we stop right here with this Option 2. I would like to remind you that all of our employees would like bonuses, and as much as we value our professional staff, there are some other employees around who are faithful over and beyond the call of duty. If we had an unlimited source of money, okay. But why can't we stop with what we have done on this Option 2? Remember when we cut that reserve down to the bone and the voices on this Board that said watch it, your reserve is as low as it can be, don't make it any lower, and we did. Sure I would like to give it, but I think we had better stop here, because I think we have gone quite a distance already. Mrs. Hill - Dr. Payzant mentioned that he might like to see us look at some other alternatives, and I would assume that within the next two weeks we could look at those. Dr. Payzant - My basic position would be that when I come back to you and I am talking salary and fringe packages for administrators for 1980-81, that you remember this conversation, and when I say another $20,000 or $25,000 to tie the package together with this fringe benefit or that, that you not be concerned that it will be unpopular at that time to give the administrators a Tittle something extra, and people will have forgotten what happened tonight, but that is when it should occur. I would prefer that it happen that way, and then it can be budgeted in terms of money for next year's budget, but you are still giving the recognition which I think was the intent of Mr. Donwerth's motion to be fair and recognize other employee groups. I think the same thing would go for the classified employees as Mrs. Williams, I think, was referring in her comments. Mrs. Williams - I think we can even look to the private sector as these things are being studied, and the government sectors to see the types of incentive plans, before we start just turning our pockets inside out. Mrs. Potts - I think it is apparent that the staff and Board are willing to look at various incentive plans. In looking at the figures that were just mentioned, we are talking about $28,000 additional money at a minimum and probably much more than that, because we are only talking about a portion of the group that would be included in the motion. I think that is somewhat of a shaky foundation for us to extend further expenditure at this time.

Dr. Hamm - I didn't speak regarding the previous motion because I knew my feelings very definitely on it and voted consequently that way. I felt that the previous motion addressed a problem in a very specific way that arose over some confusing language that was presented to us, and that the compromise work was a very good compromise that we finally passed. But to take that same kind of rationale and apply it to this problem regarding the building administrators, to me it cannot be couched in the same framework of thinking. A reverse way of saying this would be to say the teachers recognize that the building administrators have many fringe benefits that they would like to have and why not go that way and bring their benefits up to what the building administrators already have7 We can't do that. The proper way to do it would be to do it as the Superintendent is suggesting. So,consequently, I could not go along with Mr. Donwerth's motion at this particular time unless I am convinced otherwise.

Mrs. Hill - I would like for Mr. Russell to put the figures together like he did on the teachers, with two options. Mrs. Potts - We will look for that information and it will be on the agenda at our meeting on February 18.

Dr. Start - I want to caution my. colleagues that our Superintendent gives work assignments to the staff. We do not as Board members assign to Mr. Russell anything to do. Dr. Start moved and Mr. Donwerth seconded that the Board officially support the initiative petition for expanded Oklahoma County Library.services.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mrs. Potts voted aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

R. #49 Board Support for Expanded County Library Services

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R. #50 Approval of Quit Claim Deed on Cui bertson Property

A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the Board give final approval of the Quit Claim Deed on the Culbertson property.

,0n roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mrs. Potts voted aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried. Mrs. Hill inquirted: On the placing of the money from sale of the Culbertson property, are we required to place it in the Building Levy Fund, or is it a certain place that it has to be placed? Dr. Payzant - I will have to check for sure, unless the Attorney has an answer on that. I believe that it goes into the Bond Fund Account.

Mrs. Hill - We have had several explanations on that, and I would like for it to be discussed publicly, because there have been a lot of questions on that action. Mrs. Will jams - We have discussed it publicly before, and it usually goes into the account for which the bonds were floated. Mrs. Potts - I think it would be good for that to be clarified.

EXECUTIVE SESSION

R. #51 Board Adjourned to Executive Session 9:20 p.m. R. #52 Board Returned to Open Session 10:59 p.m.

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start that the Board go into executive session to discuss matters of litigation and personnel. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mrs. Potts voted aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

Having completed its executive session, it was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the Board return to open session. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mrs. Potts voted aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried. ADJOURNMENT

R. #53 Adjournment 11:00 p.m.

A motion to adjourn was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mr. Donwerth. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mrs. Potts voted aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical recording of the open meeting is on file in the Clerk's office.)

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

I, the undersigned Clerk of the Board of Education of Independent School District Number 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours before the meeting, the date, time and place of the Regular Meeting was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. I also certify that at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, notice of the date, time, place and agenda of this meeting was posted in permanent public view at the location of the meeting.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district this/ Aw 1980.

Clerk, Oklahoma City Board of Education

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Personnel

terminations Major Classes of Terminations: 1.

Voluntary Resignation a. b. c. d. e.

Changing employment Leaving Oklahoma City Area Early Retirement Personal Reasons NO reason given

Mandatory Retirement

Notice of Dismissal

Discontinuance of Employment a. b. c. d. e. f.

Termination from leave of absence Elimination of position ? Expiration of employment period Unqualified for position Deceased Abandoned position

JL____________ PERSONNEL NAME

; 1

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations

Athey, Sliaron Baswell, Helen

Bluethman, Randy Burnett. Donald

Cody, Cynthia Daugherty, Cynthia DeSpain, Tom Dugger, Helen

Frederick, Carol Gardner, Michael

Hammack, Deane Huffman, JoAnn Johnson, Judith Nees, Carol

Capitol Hill Middle Language Arts

1-18-80

lb â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Britton Primary

1-25-80

Douglass Science

1-11-80

Hayes Physical Education

Rogers Social Studies

1-18-80

Curriculum Lau Language

1-18-80

Adult Education Principal

1-18-80

Gatewood Primary

North Highland Reading

1-18-80

Northeast Science

1-18-80

Northwest Math

1-18-80

Douglass Math

1-03-80

Capitol Hill High Science

1-11-80

Putnam Heights Reading

1-18-80

12-21-79

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

MINUTES OF MEETING OF FEBRUARY 4, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Employments

Annual

Mills, Linda

Barnhart. Gail

$10186.

B.S. CSU

12-20-70

Parmelee Intermediate

Droke, Arnold

Chlouber, Gary

10378.

B.A. OSU

12-17-79

Capitol Hill Middle Phvsical Ed/Science

Cambor, Velma

Duncan, Mildred

10683.

M.S. Ed. CS 2

12-11-79

Classen Business Ed.

Deal, Kay

Gentry, Hazel

10186.

B.S. UH

1-03-80

Dewey/Page-Woodson Kindergarten

White, J.C.

Johnston, Jerry

12763.

M.E. ECSU

1-03-80

Harding Counselor

Milliren, Betty

Keah-tigh, Lilly

10186.

B.S. OU

12-10-79

Riverside Learning Center

Factory. Fred

Magers, Mildred

18912.

M.A. OU

12-17-79

Belle Isle Asst. Principal

Barnes, Frances

Moody, Jane

10186.

B.S. CSU

12-17-79

Stonegate Kindergarten

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

Terminations

Reeves, Mike Roberts, Cheryl Sloan, Dennis

Stewart, Evelvn

Wood, Gayle

Taft Band/Orchestra

Classen ED

Rogers Math

1-18-80

Marshall Cosmetology

1-18-80

Stand Watie Special Education

1-04-80

1-11-80

3-UH _ University of Houston - Houston, Texas

•ED - Bnotionally Disturbed •CS - Chicago State - Chicago, Ill. NAME

1-04-80

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Annual

Terminations

Employments

Sayles, Rebecca

Moser, Karen

$10695.

B.S. CSU

12-17-79

Glidewell, Donnie

Nedbalek, Melanie

$13946.

B.S. CSU

1-03-80

Star Spencer Horticulture

Butler, Bobby

Roush, David

10186.

B.S. PS

1-16-80

Hoover Industrial Arts

Bailey, Julia

Scheben, Velma

12762.

M.S. CSU

12-17-79

King Reading

Pardue, Suzanne

Shropshire, Lani

10186.

B.S. CSU

12-13-79

Edgemere Primary

Teten, Melody

Smallwood. Chervl

10186.

B. Ed. CSU

1-03-80

Wright, Betty

Smith, Kimberly

10186.

B.S. OSU

12-21-79

Swartz, Janice

10186.

B.S. CSU

1-03-80

McGuire, Lynda

Wilson, Jeanie

10186.

B.S. CSU

12-13-79

Bodine Kindergarten

Bunch, Brenda

Witte, Anne

10186.

B.A. W&M

12-20-79

Davis Primary

Adams, Joyce

11916.

B.S. UCLA

12-17-79

Moon ED

Brown, Blane

10695.

B.S. SWSU

1-03-80

Grant EMIl/LD

Ferguson, Marsha

Madison EII/LD

Prairie Queen Reading Shields Heights Learning Center

Oakridge Reading

Additional Allocations

• 1 - EH/LD - Educable Handicapped/Learning Disabilities 2 - PS - Pittsburg State - Pittsburg, Kansas

J - W&M - William & Mary - Williamsburg, Virginia

4 - ED - Emotionally Disturbed 5 - EMH/LD - Educable Mentally Handicapped/Learning Disabilities

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Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Leaves of Absence

Employments

Annual

Birch, Edwin

$10186.

Professional Leave

Bradford, Conita

Northwest Home Economics

1-18-80

Longfellow Intermediate

2-15-80

Military Leave

Wood, Bruce

1-03-80

Longfellow Intermediate

PROFESSIONAL OTHER Terminations Owens, Chequita

Parker, LaRue

Monthly

External Funding Indian Ed. Developer

12-21-79

External Funding CAS

12-21-79

Lutz, Carrol

Gill, Lydia

Stinebeck, Alvin

Huddleston. Ted

$ 1205.

1-14-80

School Plant Services School Plant Trainer

1405.

1-07-80

Purchasing Services Purchasing Asst.

1 - CAS - Career Awareness Specialist

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Employments

Monthly

Additional Allocations Ard, Naomi

RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD Substitute Teachers

Baker, Martha Bates, Marilyn Benton, Mildred R. Blyy LaJuanda D. Bower, Ysleta E. Colburn, Jaekye C. Hayes, Linda Hir.ey, Phyllis A. Holt, Deborah Jenke, Carol L. Mongold, Chester Pennycutt, LaJean Porter, Denise G. Rollins, Marci Jo Shealy, Floyd M. Smi th, Ola Stewart, Dorothy D. Trattner, Denise K. Villar, Nestor Welker, Patricia White, J.C. Whorton, Felicia C.

Kindergarten Music/Voice Kindergarten Physical Education Language Arts Business Special Education Elementary Special Education Social Studies History Physical Education Business Art Education Elementary Home Economics Elementary Social Studies Elementary Physical Education Social Studies

$ 1250.

1-07-80

Curriculum Nutrition Ed. Spec.

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF FEBRUARY 4, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

SALARY

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL

Employments

Terminations Arnold, Susan

Coursey, Freddy Deason, Renee

Diamante, Rafael Garza, Nell

Hammond• Wanda

Henderson, Thelma James, Sue Johnson, Marylene

Jordan, Barbara Keller, Pat

MacKlllican, Pamela McFarland, Stacey MeDow. Ann

Monthly

Children's Hospital Teacher Aide

1-11-80

Southeast Math Aide

1-23-80

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

1-11-80

Riverside Bilingual Aide

1-11-80

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

12-14-79

Page-Woodson P.T. Attendance Clk.

1-04-80

All Schools Clerk

1-15-80

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

Creston Hills Secretary

1-08-80

Northeast Instructional Aide

1-11-80

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

1-07-80

Curriculum Jr. Secretary

1-18-80

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

1-02-80

Madison Mpdln Aidp

12-28-79

Henderson, Sherry

$ 565,

1-09-80

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

if h NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

. .

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL

Employments

Monthly

Washington, Ruby

Barnes, Cynthia

$ 555.

1-11-80

Wilson Secretary II

Burchard, Marv H.

Burchard, Mary H.

830.

1-07-80

Curriculum Secretary TV

Smith, Sharon

Campbell, Emma

270.

1-14-80

Willow Brook P.T. Clerk I

Joseph, Hazel

Farrow, Mary

270.

1-14-80

Star Spencer P.T. Counselor Aide

Mitchell, Marie

Finn, Peggy

530.

12-17-79

Columbus Learning Ctr. Aide

Terminations

Mitchell, Marie Nealy, Claudia

Newsome, Greta Rodriquez, Esther Sebring. Sandra

Stringer. Elizabeth

Switzer, Ruth Watson, Glenda

Columbus Secretary II .

Polk/Dewey Attendance Clerk

1-10-80

Hoover Instructional Aide

1-25-80

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

1-11-80

Transportation Sr. Secretary

1-18-80

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

1-07-80

Eugene Field Media Aide

1-06-80

Teacher Corps Clerical

1-11-80

‘

1-10-80

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Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL Employments

Monthly

Davis, Pat

Gilmore, Rebecca

$ 600.

1-09-80

Accounting Services Bookkeeper

Washington, Shirley

Johnston, Nina

535.

1-03-80

Star Spencer Hall Monitor

Turpin, Margie

Reynolds, Mary

570.

12-26-79

RpdriQuez. Gabriela.......

55£L

l-14r80.

Curriculum Bilingual Aide III

Stiggers. Valencia

272.50

1-07-80

Harding P.T. Attendance Clk.

Reed, Ginger

590.

1-07-80

Accounting Services Bookkeeper

535.

1-04-80

Rancho Teacher Aide

535.

1-03-80

Longfellow E.D. Aide I

Curriculum Circulations Clerk...

Transfers Zetpler, Jessie

Additional Allocations

Employments

Morehead, Sherrie Murrell, Don

■ 1_____________________________ 1 - E.D. - Emotionally Disturbed EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL Leaves of Ab.sensfi

Parental Leave Page-Woodson Learning Ctr. Aide

Kindle, Paulette

1-OR-rtn

FOOD SERVICE Terminations

Cudjoe, Sarah

Ilibbs, Caroline Holmes, Lenora Humphrey, Ruby

Johnson, Essie

Johnson, Ethel King, Hazel

Lancaster, Betty Laster, Edward

Key Person

11-15-79

Helper

12-21-79

Helper

10-15-79

Helper

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79

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Id le

la le la

Helper

12-21-79

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF FEBRUARY 4, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

â&#x2013;

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE

Employments

Terminations

Muncy, Betty Mustin, Delores Norman, Ruma

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Orr, Ruth

Pickett, Dorothy Pierce, Cora Richardson, Annabelle

Savage, Roberta Smith, Linda

Smith, Ruth

Stone, Ettie Swafford, Carol

le la 4f

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Helper

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79

Heiner

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79 *Applications Processed

Hourly

12-18-79

Boudreau, Hazel

Helper

*Awaiting Assignment

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE Elnplovments

Hourly

Student Trainees

Carter, Evon

$ 2.90

12-01-79

Trainee

McDonald, Marketta

2.90

11-26-79

Trainee

Morris, Lyndon

2.90

11-01-79

Trainee

Deceased James, Ruehen

Helper

12-21-79

Praytor, Helen

Elementary Manager

12-21-79

Warehouse Worker

12-26-79

Warehouse Worker

1-07-80

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SUPPLY Terminations

Hawkins, Jesse Rains, Robert

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF FEBRUARY 4, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE Terminations

Lee, Bettye Leeds, Omena

Lewis, Omena

Linton, Victor

Long, Flossie Love, Zona Mallow. Pearl

McAllister, Alma McCoy, Marilyn

McDonald, Clara McKinney, Constance Miller, Carol

Miller. Denice

Moore, Ethel

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lb le Id le

le lb Id le

le le le

Heiner

12-21-79

Heiner

12-21-79

Heiner

12-21-79

Heiner

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79

Heiner

11-30-79

Heiner

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79

Heiner

12-21-79

Helper

12-21-79

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

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TRANSPORTATION Terminations

Briggs, Mary Burton, Cleoma

Davis, Lawrence Dukes. Kent

lb le la

4f Id

Bus Driver

1-03-80

Bus Driver

12-21-79

Bus Driver

1-18-80

Bus Driver

1-08-80

Bns Driver

1-08-80

Mahon, Jesse

McDonald, Lonnie Mitchell, James

Mohsen, Rahili Nejad Morris, Robert

Phillips, John

Richmond. Gloria Root, Roger

4f 4f 4f 4f Id 4f la

1 07-R0 Bus Driver

1-16-80

Bus Driver

11-21-79

Bus Driver

10-17-79

Bus Driver

11-26-79

Bus Driver

12-13-79

Bus Driver

12-21-79

Bus Driver

12-21-79

Bus Driver

32-14 -79

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

MINUTES OF MEETING OF FEBRUARY 4, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE

Employments

Hourly

^Applications Processed

Bowman, Mamie

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

$ 3.15

1-04-80

Daugherty, Hazel

3.15

1-08-80

Helper

Edwards, Eve

3.15

12-18-79

Helper

Ettierre, Leta

3.15

1-07-80

Helper

Goins, Candis

3.15

1-03-80

Heiner

Hester, Lottie

3.15

1-08-80

Helper

McDonald, Beverly

3.15

1-08-80

Helper

Melvin, Carolyn

3.15

1-08-80

Helper

Redman, Lucille

3.15

12-20-79

Helper

Stringer, Elizabeth

3.15

1-09-80

Helper

Vest, Gayla

3.15

12-20-79

Helper

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Currv. Rosemary

Leger, Jan McPherson, Bill

Mitchell. Marv

Sancho, Jerald Sealey, Velma

Seay, Varetta

Willis, Calvin

Butler. James

Grant Custodial Worker

11-28-79

Stand Watie Custodial Worker

11-02-79

Classen Custodial Worker '

12-25-79

Davis Custodial Worker

12-18-79

Westwood Custodial Worker

12-18-79

Roosevelt Custodial Worker

1-03-80

Southeast Custodial Worker

12-14-79

Wheeler Custodial Worker

12-19-79

All Schools Custodial Worker

1-05-80

Roosevelt Custodial Worker

12-06-79

Employments

Monthly

Wynder, Arthur

$ 605.

1-08-80

Westwood Custodial Worker

Bray, Jay

620.

12-17-79

Prairie Queen Custodial Worker

Farrier, Daniel

650.

1-09-80

Foster, Curtis

605.

12-19-79

Star Spencer Lie. Custodial Worke: Southeast Custodial Worker

MINUTES OF MEETING OF FEBRUARY 4, 1980 - CONT'D .

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

Personnel

PERSONNEL EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

1 APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

$ 605.

12-18-79

Davis Custodial Worker

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

ASSIGNMENT

TRANSPORTATION Teiminations

. JtoBlsyments

Monthly

Coffman, Ruth

Leder. Jan

Onyebula, Ernest

Turner, Asalene

605.

12-26-79

Classen Custodial Worker

Jimah, Lawai

Graham, Fransetta

605.

1-11-80

Grant Custodial Worker

Woods, Linzy

Huckleberry, Billy

640.

1-97-80

Central Custodial Worker

Butler, Linda

Norton, Glenn

640.

1-09-80

Bodine Custodial Worker

Transfers

Bnployments-Substitutes

Hourly

Eddington, Charles

$ 3.15

12-17-79

3.15

1-07-80

Henson, Russell

West Nichols Hills Wheeler

Terminations-Trainees

Harris. Robert Johnson, Steven

Trainee

12-21-79

Trainee

1-04-80

$ ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

de gre e

COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

x â&#x2013; i

TRANSPORTATION

Shelley, Maryanne

Stevens, Ron Whiteside, Jack

Bus Driver

1-03-80

Bus- Driver

12-07-79

Bus Driver

12-17-79

Employments

Monthly

Boyd. Rickey

$ 395.

1-07-80

Bus Driver

Estle, Leo

425.

1-07-80

Bus Driver

Gunns, Jessie

395.

1-09-80

Bus Driver

Killam, Gloria

410.

1-14-80

Bus Driver

Rodriquez, Thelma

440.

1-04-80

Bus Driver

Sangston, Sharon

410.

1-14-80

Bus Driver

Smith. David

395.

1-03-80

Bus Driver

Smith, Vicki

395.

1-03-80

Bus Driver

MINUTES OF MEETING OF FEBRUARY 4, 1980 - CONT'D

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Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Terminations-Trainees

Knight. Gary

Wickware. Christopher

Trainee

12-21-79

Trainee

12-27-79

Employments-Trainees

Hourly

Ballard, Jonetta

$ 2.90

1-03-80

Trainee

Douglass, Ray

2.90

1-11-80

Trainee

Knight. Gary

2.90

1-10-80

Trainee

Leaven of Absence

Ill Health

Star Spencer Custodian

Lewis, Rayford

12-19-79

Deceased Webster Asst. Custodian

James. Ruehen

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

1-03-80

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

MAINTENANCE

Terminations Santos, Tony Simpkins, Kevin

Chandler, Joseph

Foreman

Plumber

â&#x2013;

Employments

Monthly

Tanner, Jack

$ 890.

12-26-79

1-22-80

1-28-80

Plumbing Helper

CAMPUS POLICE Terminations

Holman, J.T.

Anderson, Nanette

610.

1-02-80

Joseph, Maxirice

Carpenter, James

665.

12-17-79

Patrolman

950.

12-17-79

Campus Police

Transfers Rosales, Stephen

Stationary Offficer

Norman, Robert

100

MI NUTES OF JEETING OFFEBRUARY JI, 1980

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY,

OKLAHOMA, MET IN A SPECIAL MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING,

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, AT 8:40 P.M.

PRESENT:

Paul English, President Mrs. Pat Potts, Vice President Floyd Donwerth, Member Delbert Hamm, Member Mrs. Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member Mrs. Freddye Williams, Member

Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Hugh B. Ginn, Deputy Clerk; William Bleakley, Attorney; Central Office staff members and a representative from a professional organization.

The meeting was called to order by Mr. English.

Call to Order

Roll call established that all of the Board members were present.

Roll Call

EXECUTIVE SESSION

R. #54 A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Start that the Board recess to Board Recessed to executive session to discuss personnel. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill Executive Session voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. Having completed its executive session, it was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Potts that the Board return to open session. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #55 Board Returned to Open Session - 10:07 p.m.

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Williams for acceptance of the Superintendent's recommendation to terminate Alfred Hunter (Teacher, John Marshall High School).

R. #56 Termination of Alfred Hunter, a Teacher

It was moved by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mr. Donwerth for acceptance of the Superintendent's recommendation to terminate Karen Richardson (Teacher, Lonfellow Fifth Year Center). On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #57 Termination of Karen Richardson, a Teacher

ADJOURNMENT

A motion to adjourn was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Dr. Hamm. On roll call, R. #58 Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Adjournment Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English 10:10 p.m. declared that the motion carried.

THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

I, the undersigned Clerk of the Board of Education of Independent School District Number 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours before the meeting, the date, time and place of the Special Meeting was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. I also certify that at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, notice of the date, time, place and agenda of this meeting was posted in permanent-public view at the location of the meeting. Witness my hand-^and seal of this school district this/J^day of

1980.;.

Clerk, Oklahoma City Board of Education

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF FEBRUARY 18, 1980 SÂŁ'~:

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY,

OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR ADJOURNED MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M. PRESENT:

Paul English, President Floyd Donwerth, Member Delbert Hamm, Member Mrs. Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member Mrs. Freddye Williams, Member

ABSENT:

Mrs. Pat Potts, Vice President

The meeting was called to order by Mr. English and Dr. Hamm gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Mr. English welcomed all of the visitors present.

Visitors Welcomed

Roll call established that six of the seven Board members were present.

Roll Call

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hill for approval of the minutes R. #59 of February 4 and 11, 1980, as presented. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill Minutes Approved voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS

Comments Dr. Hamm stated: I read the report that was in our packet regarding the high school Dr. Hamm curriculum, some observations and prospects. There was a speech that was delivered by Dennis Gray, Associate Director of the Council for Basic Education, and it was delivered to the House Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education. As I was reading through it, I thought to myself what a tremendous document this would have been for our Commission to Improve Education to have had on hand as they were studying ways to improve our school system. I understand that the Commission is winding its work down and will be coming with a report before too long, but perhaps it might not be too late to include this as information for them.

Mr. English - That is a good idea; I am sure that will be done.

Mrs. Williams stated: I noticed the report that Jim Ki 1 lackey had won the NSBA Journalism Award. Congratulations to Jim; he sits here with us every Board meeting night. I don't know that anyone ever complimented the Superintendent on his Annual Report to us. It is very good; a document that we can use for reference for a long time.

Comments *1rs. Williams

Mrs. Hill stated: I, too, would like to congratulate Jim Killackey on his winning the important award by the National School Boards Association and am pleased that he is here in Oklahoma City and keeping up with our school board affairs.

Comments irs. Hill

In the legislative report that Mr. Isch sent out, I noticed in one of the bills, 1912, they were talking about the expenses of the elections for the Vo-Tech District and 1-89. In the election coming up, will the expenses be shared by both districts?

Mr. Bleakley responded: The election is for the Board of Independent School District No. 89, and it is automatic by virtue of the Statute that you become a Board member of the other. I think it would not be appropriate to allocate the election expenses. Dr. Start stated: I am appreciative of the reports in our packet about the state Comments of our health education programs in the district. I can't really, honestly say that I Dr. Start am pleased with how well we are doing in health education. It is very sporadic, and I would hope that somehow we could increase the amount of'attention to this very important thing in the next two decades.

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Information to the Board

ITEMS PENDING Meeting of November 16, 1979

Commission to Improve Education Report

Meeting of January 21, 1980 1.

Bus Garage and Maintenance Facilities Project

LEGAL REPORT Attorney's Report

Mr. Bleakley reported:

There has not been any litigation activities since the last Board meeting. The hearing on the appeal of Judy Boswell's termination was continued until February 27, because the Judge to whom that is assigned was in a jury trial which extended past the hearing date. Discussion Report on Asbestos

Mr. English stated: I wonder if we could go into the subject of asbestos. There was an article in the paper, and we have a memo from Dr. Wallace Smith about asbestos. When I was in Washington, D. C. recently for the NSBA Federal Relations Network Conference, we talked about asbestos. The House has passed a bill to provide grants to school districts for detection of asbestos and loans for containment of this, but it is now in the Senate and action is pending there. I am wondering that since all that the Congress is talking about is a loan program to help school districts remove asbestos, maybe we should ask our Attorney to look into the liability aspects of removing this asbestos, and see if maybe there is some liability out there that we could be involved in getting some money to help us remove this.

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Dr. Start - Is somebody aware of the fact that this is a definitely established health hazard now? I know there was a tremendous amount of debate and difference of opinion about whether this was even a significant health hazard. Has that been established without question? Mr. Bleakley - I have not looked into it that closely as to whether or not the health hazard aspects of it have been litigated. I think probably your stronger course of action is that if the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) comes in and orders you to remove the asbestos, where the district is damaged by the expense involved in having to either cover it or remove it, then that would invite the basis for the damages, and then you would have to look at some different avenues of establishing liability for those damages. The health aspects of it, you are often forced into going into individual cases, which on a school district basis would be very difficult to do.

Dr. Start, speaking to Mr. English: Did they sound like that has been definitely established now?

Mr. English - There was some discussion of that. In one of our meetings, there was a Board member, who also represents an insulation firm, that was asking questions about whether this had been proven yet or not, and there was a School Board member from New Jersey who gave some responses that in their state apparently somebody has ruled that it is. I don't that much about the health hazard part of it. However, if we are forced into doing something about it by the federal government, then I would like for our Attorney to look into it and see what are the possibilities of us then going back on somebody else and recovering some damages there, so that we don't get stuck with the bill. Dr. Payzant stated: The technical word that EPA uses for assessment of the existence of asbestos and the degree of danger is an algorithm or formula for determining the level danger. The tentative drafts that we have seen to date of the EPA guidelines, there has been care taken to make sure that leaders understand that no definitive quantitative measure can be attached to a level of danger, but they suggest a number of things that you can look for, and suggest that these should be the guides for making decisions .about when you have something that is at a certain danger level and requires treatment. We have received this tentative set of criteria for assessing potential hazards. We will use that to evaluate the areas in our buildings where we have identified asbestos as being present. You recallfrom my earlier report, that we have actually had the Health Department secure samples from material in those buildings where we have asbestos. We are still waiting for a number of reports from the Health Department and they are overloaded, having received requests for diagnosis of materials from school districts and other agencies around the state. One approach to dealing with the potential hazard is to encapsulate the material. It appears that may be a cheaper and the least hazardous way to deal with the problem. There are some who argue that the very process of taking the material down or trying to remove it

103

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Dr. Payzant cont'd

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can stir up more of a potential danger than just leaving it where it is and trying to cover it up or encapsulate it. We are, through our Maintenance Department, beginning to make plans for development and specifications for encapsulating the material that proves to be of such a danger level to warrant that treatment, so that we will be ready to go with those specifications. We will bid them in terms of outside contract to compare costs with what we might be able to safely do with our own expertise using Maintenance Department personnel. We hope to be ready with this kind of information so that we will have some specific cost estimates and a plan of action later this spring, so that EPA demands that the treatment be completed by this summer, we will be on schedule and be able to meet that deadline.

Discussion Report on Asbestos - cont'd

Mr. English - Where you cover the asbestos up, how much permanency is there to that method? How long down the line would we have to face the problem again? Dr. Payzant asked Dr. Smith to respond. Dr. Smith stated: There are a variety of materials on the market. I think the kind that would last would depend on the material. One of the materials that was talked about was a.jbuty.1! rubber, so that you would not lose the acoustical effects of the asbestos, which was one of the original reasons for placing it on the ceiling. I don't know what the lifetime on a! butyl rubber would be on a ceiling, but it might last for? some time. However, if you encapsulate the asbestos, you have to keep watching it to make sure that if it is water damaged or something else happens to it, that it doesn't get back into the atmosphere. If you could tear it out and bury it, then you would be rid of it forever. But, as has been explained, it is a costly process and it is a dangerous process. You have to bury it, and it would have to be done when there is nobody at school, and there are a lot of disadvantages about taking it out.

Mr. English - As I understand, there are a lot of disadvantages both ways on this.

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT It was moved by Dr. Hamm and seconded by Mr. Donwerth to direct the following persons to attend conferences as indicated:

At School District Expense (a)

Phil George, Director, Communications Department - Study the Use of Cable Television, Spokane, Washington, February 20-22, 1980.

(b)

Jim Savage, Personnel Administrator for Employee Relations - Annual Conference, National Association of Educational Negotiators, Nashville, Tennessee, March 15-19, 1980.

At No Expense to the School District (c)

Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent - Council for Basic Education Executive Committee Meeting, Washington, D. C., February 29-March 1, 1980.

(d)

Charles Lewis,'Principal, Shields Heights - South Central Association of Elementary Principals, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 19-22, 1980.

(e)

Alfa Mouton, Assistant Principal, John Marshall - NASSP Frontline Conference, Administrative Information, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 9-11, 1980.

(f)

Linda Fereday, Assistant Principal, Hoover Middle - Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) National Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, March 29-April 2, 1980.

(g)

Alma Schmidt, Principal, Nichols Hills - NAESP Meeting, Miami, Florida, April 18-24, 1980.

(h)

Patrisha Nicholson, Consultant - Close Up, Oklahoma I Program, Washington, D. C., April 20-26, 1980.

(i)

Donna Hicks, Assistant Principal, Telstar - International Reading Association, St. Louis, Missouri, May 5-9, 1980.

Mrs. Hill inquired: In our memo, you mentioned that there was $119,000 remaining on our'NTIA grant. Will you bring us up to date on that? Dr. Payzant - You may recall that when the school district had the television station that it received federal funds to assist with the purchase of equipment and expenses that would help support instructional public television. When the television station was sold, the federal government initiated the claim against the district for about $119,000 in funds that had been granted for the purpose of use in that television station. The Oklahoma City area is now beginning to have installed a cable system.

R. #60 Professional Trips Approved

104

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R. #60 Professional Trips Approved - cont'd

Dr. Payzant cont'd

One of the requirements of cable companies that come into an area is to make channels available for public access to agencies such as public schools. There is a possibility that with an application to the federal government, detailing how we would use a cable channel for exclusive use of the school district for sharing information with the public, everything from broadcasting Board meetings to making annual reports, doing inservice education, to any kind of public information used, as distinguished from instruction for children, that if we applied that $119,000 to that purpose, gearing up to be able to make use of that cable, then it might be forgiven and we might not have to pay it back. Spokane, Washington has one of the most advanced uses of the cable system in terms of a public school district. Phil George will have the responsibility for writing a proposal to the federal government, and it seems to i be wise for him to take a look at what Spokane is doing so that we could have a | better idea of what we might like to do. That is the purpose of the trip. I

Mrs. Hill - But I thought we had already returned the $119,000?

Mr. Bleakley - I would characterize it as being held in escrow by the federal government. The determination has not been made as to whether or not it remains with the district or will be refunded. Mrs. Hill - Isn't this the money that they were saying return or we are going to sue you?

Mr. Bleakley - It is the money that has been returned to NTIA, but it is just for their holding purposes. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. Staff Report Health Education Curriculum

Dr. Payzant stated that an outline of the Health Education activities that are included in the curriculum had been sent to members of the Board, and asked Dr. Alice Houston, Director of Curriculum Services, to present a brief overview of that outline.

Dr. Houston reported: Most of the elementary schools are incorporating Health Education into the Science curriculum, and'in some instances you may find that health is being offered in lieu of Science. As Dr. Payzant has said, you have copies of the health curriculum outline in your packets and you will find that at the primary grades there are four major areas of concentration. They are self-awareness, the development of safety rule practices and community health workers and organizations. At the intermediate level, the major areas are then extended to include four others. In accordance with the Oklahoma State Department of Education's rules, the schools may indeed incorporate Health Education into Science or correlate it with other areas. Topics such as nutrition, drug abuse, body functions, are also within the Science curriculum. On.nutrition, we have, recently altered into a grant from the State Department of Education whereby we do have a pilotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; program going on in four elementary schools in the area of nutrition. The curriculum is augmented by two textbooks by Scott-Foresman.and Laidlaw.

At the middle schools, health is not always taught as an identifiable subject, but rather is interrelated among other areas of learning. The course outlines will give you where it is being taught? You will find that it is concentrated in about nine different topics. Even though we do have a curriculum outline for the middle schools, it is not being taught in a sequential manner. In fact, the only school at present that is offering it as a separate course is Harding. You will find at Jefferson that a health course is taught within each of the academic teams. In most of the middle schools, the majority of the health concepts are taught as a part of Science and, in some instances, interrelated with Social Studies. Again, the basic textbooks there are Scott-Foresman and Laidlaw. The chart that was attached can give you additional information about the integration of the health curriculum into other areas. At the high school level,you will find that the offerings are meager indeed. In fact,they fall in the category of Health Education I, Health Education II, and First Aid. A Took at our course description for the high school can then give you the emphases for these three courses. In Health Education I you will find emphasis on environment, community and consumer health, care of the human body, some nutrition, mental ^health, and basic first aid care. At Health Education II, it is the prevention of diseases, chronic health conditions, accident prevention and, again, some first aid. Within the First Aid course, emergency first aid procedures are taught and also a successful completion includes the American Red Cross certification. Currently, six high schools offer Health Education I and/or Health Education II. These schools are Capitol Hill, Classen, Northeast, Grant, Southeast, and Star Spencer. You will find some of the health concepts also interrelated or taught within General Science, Biology, Home Economics, Family Life Education. There are five adopted textbooks

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Dr. Houston cont'd at the senior high school level, but the two that are used the most out of the five adopted ones are: Scientific Investigation by Houghton-Mifflin, and the book put out by Steck Vaughn.

Staff Report Health Education Curriculum cont'd

Dr. Start inquired: The report did not indicate who taught these courses. Are these taught by certificated personnel who have a minor certificate in Health Education, or is it by the coach or whoever wants to, or what? |

Dr. Houston - I would imagine that all of the persons who are teaching the health courses probably have either a major or minor in Health Education. In most instances, I would imagine it would be by persons who are in the Physical Education area.

Dr. Payzant - That would not necessarily be so at the elementary level though.

Dr. Houston - These are regular teachers at the elementary level. In the elementary curriculum, the elementary teacher is expected to teach it, and within the college courses that he or she would take, Health Education would be covered.

(A copy of the Health Education Curriculum outline is on file in the Clerk's office.) It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Wiliams that the President of the Board and Superintendent be authorized to execute documents and submit grants as follows: 1.

Under Public Law 95-561, Title II, an application for a grant Basic Skills Improvement: Parent Participation Program.

Under Public Law 95-561, Title II, an application for Neighborhood Resource Learning Model in Oklahoma City - Basic Skills - Out of School.

R. #61 President of Board and Superintendent Authorized to Execute Documents and Submit Grants

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

A motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded.by Dr. Hamm that the Board hold a Special Meeting, Monday, February 25, 1980, 7:00 p.m., for a work session to discuss alternative student school assignment plans for the 1980-81 school year.

Mrs. Hill inquired: When will the parents be allowed to give input, or will they just be presented the school assignment changes? Dr. Payzant - I would see a three-stage process at least. One would be a work session which I am proposing here, and then I would present a specific plan for consideration by the Board at a regular Board meeting which would give people the opportunity at the hearings to comment on it, and not request action for that particular plan until two weeks hence, so there would be two different opportunities at Board meetings for parents to comment on the proposed plan. Mrs. Hill - If it was presented, they wouldn't have much opportunity at that first meeting to respond, and we normally just meet twice a month. We have run into this in the past where some parents have wanted to speak and it has been hard to get the notice out. Dr. Payzant - There is nothing to prevent the Board from setting a special session just for that purpose, if you want to.

Mrs. Hill - This would still have to be approved by OCR (Office for Civil Rights), wouldn't it? Dr. Payzant - Yes.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted- aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #62 Special Meeting jf the Board Scheduled

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R. #63 Resolution Approved on Where to Di rect Money From Sale of Cuibertson Property

It was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams for approval of a resolution directing that the money received for the sale of the Culbertson property be placed in the District's Cash Bond Fund Account.

'Mrs. Hill asked the Superintendent to elaborate on the motion. Dr. Payzant - By law there are three options that the Board has. One would be to place the money in the General Fund which would make it available for a one-time expenditure. If it were deposited in the General Fund at this time of year, it would be treated as a receipt, and since an expenditure was not budgeted based on that receipt, it would simply accrue as surplus on June 30 and become part of a possible reserve for use next year. The second option would be to deposit in the Sinking Fund, which is the fund that is used to pay off the debt on existing bonds. That kind of use would result in a slight reduction of the tax levy required to pay off the bonded indebtedness of the district. The third option, which is the one that I am recommending, would place it in the Cash Bond Fund Account, and the Board by a previous action has dedicated the money in that account to undertake an extensive set of projects to get at major capital improvements and deferred maintenance projects of a major kind that have been building up over the years; such things as the replacement of heating systems, rewiring buildings, repair of roofs, and the like. Mrs. Hill - Could this be used to purchase equipment?

Dr. Payzant - If it were deposited in the General Fund, it could be used for a one-time expenditure of that kind. But when you put it in the General Fund at this time of year, rather than as part of your budgeting process, you can't, without doing an amended budget, spend new money that has come in that you didn't plan to have when the budget was adopted last July. You still could purchase major equipment items out of the Bond Fund Account, particularly those that were part of the capital improvement and renovating of a building. Mr. Donwerth - The money could be spent out of the Bond Fund Account for the asbestos problem that was noted? Dr. Payzant - Yes. There is another example, replacement of bleachers, which is a major item that is already a project at several high schools. That kind of equipment would be a legitimate expense out of the Bond Fund, but not day-to-day supplies and materials for general operation of the district or small equipment items. Mrs. Hill - So it might release some money for supplies if we could buy large items as you suggested. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. R. #64 Modification of Policy on Community Use of School Facilities

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Start that the Board Policy, KG, Community Use of School Facilities, be modified by adding one item on page 2 of 10, under Class III - Add -J. "State-recognized political parties for precinct meetings"; and on page 9 of 10 under School Facilities Shall Not be Used For, add to Paragraph C. "except for precinct meetings held by state-recognized political parties.''

At this time, Mr. English recognized Mr. Jim Mauldin, who had registered to address the Board on the item presented. Mr. Mauldin stated that the use of school! facilities for precinct meetings would be for the! purpose of holding 1980 presidential caucuses in Oklahoma in March and.April. Mr. Donwerth inquired: What do we contemplate the charges to be on the ten buildings that have been specified?

Dr. Payzant - The category in which this use would fall would mean that we would only charge our out-of-pocket expenses. In other words, if they were held on a Saturday or Sunday and we had to hire a custodian to come in to open the building and supervise it, and pay for utilities, then those expenses would be billed to the political party that was using it. Mrs. Hill - Would it be the same as in the summer? that were wanting to use a building in the summer.

I have another group, some Scouts

Dr. Payzant - This would be the same application for any civic or community group, Class III as listed in the policy.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

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WTEÂŁ0FJEET I NG 0F FEB RUARY 18,1980 - CONT'D Dr. Payzant stated: In preparation for presenting a recommendation to you on the R. #65 1980-81 School Calendar, staff has done several things. As is traditional practice, Approval of several of us met with heads of the various organizations, the president of the 1980-81 School ACT?< the AFT, the LIU, and the Principals Association, to talk about the proposed Calendar calendar. This year we tried something a little different. In the School Report that went city-wide, we had a survey questionnaire asking people to indicate to us which of four options they would prefer for the 1980-81 School Calendar. You will recall that the first option was to have classes begin after Labor Day, which would have extended the school year into the first week in June. The second option was to use the same pattern that we have this year, having classes begin on the 25th of August and ending the 28th of May with about ten days for Christmas holidays. Option three and four were basically the same except for the placement of the Spring Break, with classes beginning early, on August 21, and ending on May 28, but having a full two-week Winter Break from December 20 through January 4. On the tally of the survey, Options three and four had 67% of the votes. On meeting again with the heads of organizations after receiving these results, we agreed that we should go with option three, which would have the earlier starting time in August, the same ending time, namely May 28, and a longer Winter Break, with the Spring Break coming at the end of the Third Quarter. This will also make next year's Spring Break the same as the Putnam City School District's Spring Break. A motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of the 1980-81 School Calendar: 1980-81 SCHOOL CALENDAR

July 4

Independence Day

August 18-20

Pre-School Conference

August 21

Classes Begin

September 1

Labor Day

September 22

Fair Day

October 16-17

Fall Break

October 24 *

Inservice Day

November 27-28

Thanksgiving

December 20-January 4

Winter Break

January 12 *

Inservice Day

February 16

Make-Up Day (If Required)

March 14-22

Spring Break

April 24

Make-Up Day (If Required)

May 25

Memorial Day

May 29

Record Day

Total Number of Days Classes in Session

175

(*See R.#7? of minutes of the meeting of February 25, 1980.) Mrs. Hill inquired: Our school organizations did qo alonq with this early startinq date; ACT, AFT, and LIU?

Dr. Payzant - Yes. Before we saw the results of the survey which numbered some 900 returned, the consensus was that we would stick with the same pattern that we had this year, the shorter Winter Break and starting August 25 rather than August 21. But on looking at the results of the survey, we felt that if we were going to ask people their opinions, and there seemed to be a clear opinion being expressed, it wasn't a case of the votes being evenly divided, that we ought to try it and if people don't like it, then I am sure they will let us know and we can do it another way another year.

Mr. Donwerth - It seems to me that we are doing away with an important commodity, and that is our ADA (Average Daily Attendance), because quite a bit of our enrollment does not come in until after the Labor Day weekend. It seems like we are inviting people not to enroll in school for two weeks until after that Labor Day weekend. I will vote for approval of the calendar; however, if it were not for the survey, I believe I would have rather stayed with the old calendar or even started after Labor Day and run into June. Mrs. Williams - I have always been of the opinion that classes beginning the day after Labor Day just gives a better continuity, but inasmuch as we are going to start classes on the 21st of August, then you have that full week before Labor Day and perhaps that could be psychologically so that you are in the swing then. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

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Report on Position Paper "Recruitment for the 1980's"

Dr. Payzant stated: One of the Board Goals and specific administrative objectives dealt with the continuing improvement of personnel recruitment and retention of quality staff. Mr. George Russell (Director of Personnel Services) has prepared a position <paper which I would like for him to summarize for you briefly. That position paper has led to several policy recommendations which are included in the agenda, which I would like for him to explain to you. Since it is the first time you have seen them, I am not recommending action this evening, but recommend that you consider them at your March 3 meeting.

Mr. Russell stated: It pleases me to have the opportunity this evening to briefly present to you a summary of the report. As one of the Superintendent's objectives for me with respect to the goal that he just mentioned, that goal being that the Board will encourage retention of quality staff and the improvement of personnel recruitment, screening, selection and assignment procedures, he assigned me the objective that I must fulfill, stating the following: "The Director of Personnel Services will make an annual assessment of the district's recruitment process and report to the j Superintendent by February 15, with recommendations on ways for the district to improve its ability to attract and retain qualified teachers, administrators, and

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classified staff." The report to the Superintendent is an attempt to do that, to meet that objective. I will briefly highlight for you some of the things that this report attempts to do. In the report, I attempted to raise some questions about our ability to attract and retain qualified staff. Some of the questions were: first of all, why should the district recruit beyond that which it is already doing? Second of all, how can we improve our recruitment efforts that they result in the achievement of the desired result? Thirdly, when should we conduct our recruitment efforts so that we might attract the types of applicants needed to fill the vacancies that may exist? Fourth, where will we have to recruit to ensure an adequate supply of applicants to meet our future staffing needs? Lastly, how much would it cost us to provide for a more effective recruitment program?

In this report to the Superintendent, I tried to answer those questions. One of the things that became clear to me in doing the research for this particular report was that not only would the Oklahoma City Public Schools, but that all school districts will find that in the 19801s that one of their greatest challenges will be that of trying to attract capable, well-qualified personnel into the professional teaching ranks in education today. I had expressed to you earlier, at the time we talked about testing, my concern with relation to our ability to attract and retain qualified, competent teachers in the classroom. In this report, I have tried to further elaborate on that and suggest some ways in which we might try to deal with that aspect of our staffing. One of the important sources that I went to was a survey that was conducted by the Association for School, College and University Staffing, which | basically is a conglomeration of college placement officers who deal with staffing, and particularly staffing of educational institutions. I feel there were some important findings which I think should be brought out with respect to recruitment and the future implications for staffing in educational institutions. First of all, they found that on a nationwide basis, the vast majority of placement officers agreed that those candidates who are mobile can find teaching positions. Those persons who are willing to relocate can find teaching positions, even though there may be an upcoming shortage of positions. Ninety-seven percent of the placement officers who responded to the survey conducted by ASCUS agreed that school personnel administrators have a problem in.trying to attract and retain certain categories of teachers. They found that within the Continental United States seventy-three percent (73%) of the respondent! indicated that there is a drop in the production of elementary school teachers, and eighty-three percent (83%) of the respondents indicated a reduction in the production of secondary teachers. Of those institutions who reported decreases, the median decrease in teacher production was forty-six percent (46%) for elementary teachers and forty-eight percent (48%) for secondary teachers. As you might well suspect, mathematics, industrial arts, science, vocational-technical areas, vocational agriculture, some of the special education areas, are those of which we find the greatest demand and those for which the future looks bleak going into the 1980â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Not only did we look at the report ofASCUS, we also did a survey of our local institutions and those from which we generally have in the past tended to recruit our teacher applicants. An example of some of the findings in some of the problem areas; for teachers of mathematics, the number of expected graduates this fall at Central State University is 8; at the Universtiy of Oklahoma, 5 expected graduates in mathematics; 15 at Oklahoma State; and 8 at Eastern Central University. For science teachers, the expected graduates were 1 at CSU; 12 at OU; 31 at OSU; and 6 at ECU. For industrial arts, the expected graduates were 10 at CSU; 0 at 0U; 10 at OSU; and 4 at ECU. We do not have any viable statistics in terms of our vocational-technical and industrial areas because those persons -do not go through'generally ' baccalaureate programs, so that ASCUS and our colleges of education would not have figures with respect to persons who would be eligible for teaching positions in the trade and industrial areas. We have, however, surveyed our own local area with respect to the problems that we have had and are quite concerned about the fact that we have problems in attracting persons to the trade and industrial areas, particularly in having to compete with industry.

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Mr. Russell cont'd

Report on Position Paper One of the observations that I made was that in concert with any attempted expansion of "Recruitment for our<recruitment effort, we necessarily need to take steps to make the Oklahoma City the 1980's" cont'd School System a more attractive and a more desirable place to work, and that the first step in making our system desirable is taking the step that will make working and teaching here a profitable one in terms of providing competitive salaries and benefits for the teachers and the professionals in the Oklahoma City School System. Also,in the report, we identified the fact that I personally felt, and in conversation with many others in the system, that there is a need for a better coordinated, systematized operation of recruitment if we are going to be able to compete in the 1980's for the decreasing resources with respect to teachers particularly in some of the areas that we have talked about.

Without dealing with the recommendations, I want to draw several very brief conclusions. One of the things we found in our survey was that over 38% of the secondary subject area vacancies that we experienced for this particular school year were in areas identified by the ASCUS survey and by our own survey of local colleges and universities as those in which we would experience critical shortages in the 1980's. One of the other conclusions that was drawn was that in other areas, particularly in industry and non-governmental areas, we find that employers are willing and in many cases are able to provide inducements to attract employees with the skills that are in high demand but in low supply. So we looked at that in terms of making some recommendations.

Our final conclusion was that based on the information that is available to us, it appears certain that in the early 1980's the Oklahoma City Public Schools as well as most major urban school districts will find themselves facing stiff competition in the recruitment and retention of well-qualified teachers, particularly with respect to the areas of mathematics, science, vocational-technical education, and industrial arts. Taking that into consideration, I did make some recommendations to the Superintendent. He chose from the report those recommendations which he wanted to expand upon and has brought those forth to you in terms of policy recommendations. You have read the report and know the other recommendations that are provided therein. I would call your attention to Attachment I which is the ASCUS survey. It is called the Teacher Supply/Demand by Field and Region Report conducted in 1979. We have tried to highlight those particular areas in which ASCUS has said there is expected to be, not only at this time but in the future, a considerable shortage or some kind of shortage in these areas. Particularly, we tried to highlight for you the region in which we are located, which is the South Central Region. You will note that in the field of Agriculture they have a blank, which says that they don't have any idea when we will be having people in the area of Vocational Agriculture; Industrial Arts, 5.0, which is a considerable shortage; mathematics, 5.0, a considerable shortage; most all of your science areas, particularly Physics, again a 5.0, considerable shortage, and these are all in the area in which Oklahoma is located; most of your special education areas, particularly the gifted area, a considerable shortage in that area with respect to teachers. We did not, as I mentioned, find the vocational areas included in the ASCUS survey but our own survey and conversations with Oklahoma State University and other higher education administrators indicate- that area is one in which we are going to see a considerable shortage into the 1980's. (A copy of the-report is on file in the Clerk's office.)

Mr. English stated: It is an excellent report and I would like to commend you on a job well done on that. Under the proposals, what is the maximum amount that a person would receive as a bonus? Mr. Russell - Six hundred dollars ($600) per year, paid quarterly, and for a person who is in the system, and that is because vocational-technical and industrial teachers work six hours a day; they don't have a planning period. Mr. English - If somebody signed up with us and worked the first quarter, they would still get their bonus for the first quarter although they might leave us at the end of the first quarter? Mr. Russell - Right.

They would get one-fourth of a bonus.

Mr. English - On the other recommendation, we are going into their experience, people who have not ibeen teaching in our system for a number of years and they come back in at a certain level, what is the purpose of having any number of years in there? Why not let them come back at the number of years that they would really have with us? Mr. Russell - The only response that I can give is that has been the past practice. It is a policy, at least from the Personnel Office, that'has been on the books, as I understand it, for sometime, and maybe Dr. Smith can respond to the history of that particular policy. Obviously, it saves the district money, but beyond that I am not sure what the reason is for it.

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Report on Position Paper "Recruitment for the 1980's" cont'd

Dr. Smith was asked to respond on the policy that after a three-years' absence, a teacher who has been gone from the district would only be allowed to come back in at the maximum on the salary schedule, which would be Step 7.

*Dr. Smith stated: I have no idea the reason for that. It was in the Personnel Policies that were written in 1971-72, long before I became a part of the Personnel Department. I suspect it was an effort to say to people that if you leave us you will have to start over when you come back; what we want to do is keep you here. There are many industries and other organizations that have some kind of penalty for people who leave and come back, and they have to start over. I don't know that everybody starts where they left off, especially if they haven't taught or haven't participated in that particular skill or profession. Mr. English - I can understand the psychology behind a policy like that at that time because we were right into the desegregation and Wanting to keep people with us, and I guess that was one way of holding people in the district. But when you are faced with shortages in certain areas, it seems to me Tike it would be wise to do whatever you could in the way of giving them credit for their past experience to bring them back in. Mr. Russell - I have no quarrel with that at all, especially if their reasons for absence are some of those that were mentioned in the report, or if they have been, for example, teaching in another district and decided that they want to come back to Oklahoma City. There may be things that have changed in the system to attract them back. I know that one of Dr. Payzant's goals in terms of this district is not only trying to attract the students and the parents back, but also trying to attract back the capable teachers.

Mrs. Hill - I was going to ask that same question. Why did we penalize teachers that maybe have been teaching elsewhere and they come back? Mr. Russell - My best guess would be a question of economics and perhaps some punitive measures in terms of maybe the desegregation issues and what was going on at that time as Mr. English mentioned. I just do not know. Mr. Donwerth - I am wondering about, say, a science teacher who would leave the district and be reemployed after four or five years, if they would come back in under the one-time'ibonus of $500.00 to a teacher new to the district; would they be new to the district at that time if they were reemployed or would they not receive this bonus

Mr. Russell - The intent was new to the district. I think that our position would be probably that we need the math teachers and the more experienced ones we can get, and if that is the differnce in getting them and not getting them, probably we would be willing to provide that incentive. Mr. Donwerth - I think they would either have to be new to the district or they would have to come under the $100 per year,/per hour that they teach, one or the other, so that we would either have to call them new to the district and give them the $500 bonus or

Mr. Russell - It would be one or the other without question. Mr. English - It seems to me that when they come back in, they have to start over on their tenure; right?

Mr. Russell - That is correct.

Mr. English - So in that sense, they are considered new as far as tenure goes, and I think that would qualify them for this other part of the policy. Mr. Russell - If the policy were approved, at the time we would write the administrative regulations and guidelines, those would be the types of things that we would need to take into consideration in terms of clarifying who is new to the district and who is not.

Mr. English - Maybe we as a board should set that in a policy so that nobody gets it misinterpreted when it is spread among the other people in the district firsthand, rather than having to come back later and clarify what was meant. It makes it more difficult the second time around.

Dr. Hamm - I would like to compliment Mr. Russell, also, on that fine report and direct our attention to another concern of his. In order to compete with other districts, Mr. Russell mentioned the removal of certain administrative barriers for the selection of quality teachers. I see in this that we have addressed or will possibly address some of these, increasing the credit for the teaching experience outside the district as well as the allowance for reentrance of a previously employed teacher from the three to the five years, and I see in Purchasing, B-9, that we are going to be asked to approve a brochure, but we have not addressed ourselves to that

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Dr. Hamm cont'd imposing barrier of identifying much earlier in the year what they conceive would be available. Late April or early May is the earliest that we offer firm job contracts. â&#x20AC;˘4

Report on Position Paper "Recruitment for the 1980's" cont'd

Mr. Russell - And I am not sure that is a policy question; it is a procedural question, one that which my staff and I would have to consider.

Dr. Hamm - You termed it correctly, an

administrative barrier.

Mr. Russell - I have got some ideas about how we can try to overcome that. Some of that has been discussed in terms of the transfer procedure and trying to streamline the transfer procedure, trying to get a provision in for summer requests so that those can be out of the way and persons identified in the vacancies clearly specified so that we know what positions we have to fill. But also, as you will recall in the report on testing, we indicated that we wanted to be able to hire personnel into unassigned positions early in the year and be able to assign them after we have given them a contract. So those are some of the things that we are looking at, but we do need definitely to streamline the transfer procedure so that those persons in the district can know before school is out, as best we can, where they will be assigned for the following year, and also give them the opportunity to have a shot at those positions that may occur immediately after school is out or during the summer.

Proposed policies for the improvement of personnel recruitment and retention of quality staff members: PROFESSIONAL STAFF SUPPLEMENTARY PAY PLAN GC.BB

The Board believes that it has the responsibility to provide the best teachers possible and recognizes there is a shortage of certified secondary teachers in science, mathematics, industrial arts, vocational trade and industry* and vocational agriculture. Therefore, the district shall:

Pay a bonus of $100.00 per year to teachers who are properly certified for each hour of high school classroom instruction in mathematics, science, vocational trade and industry* and vocational agriculture;

Pay a bonus of $100.00 per year to teachers who are properly certified for each hour of secondary school -classroom instruction in industrial arts;

Pay a one-time bonus of $500.00 to teachers who are new to the district, assigned to high schools and properly certified in mathematics, science, vocational trade and industry* or vocational agriculture and teaching three or more classroom hours per day in one or a combination of these areas; and

Pay a one-time bonus of $500.00 to teachers who are new to the district, properly certified in industrial arts and assigned three or more classroom hours per day of instruction.

*Does not include Interdisciplinary Cooperative Education or Industrial Cooperative Education. Effective Date:

7-1-80

Proposed Policies Recommended for Action March 3, 1980

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Proposed Policies Recommended for Action March 3, 1980 - cont'd

Proposed policies for the improvement of personnel recruitment and retention of quality staff members cont'd

PROFESSIONAL STAFF SALARY SCHEDULE

GCBA The Board believes that students benefit from having a diversified teaching staff and the district should try to attract teachers who can contribute to a diverse educational program. In order to attract experienced teachers to the district, the Board will:

Grant credit on the appropriate teachers' salary schedule for approved teaching experience outside the district to a maximum of ten years, for approved military service to a maximum of five years, and for combined teaching and military experience to a maximum of twelve years.

Place a reemployed teacher, after an absence of not more than five years, at the same experience level on the teachers' salary schedule to which he/she was entitled at the time of separation. Placement on the salary schedule is subject to any general changes in educational level or salary schedule. Substitute teaching in the district in excess of 50 percent of the school year will be recognized as a year of employment, but not as a year of experience for salary placement purposes.

Effective Date:

7-1-80

COORDINATOR OF STAFF RECRUITMENT Recommend authorization to establish position of Coordinator of Staff Recruitment for assignment to the Personnel Services Division, effective March, 1980. Mr. English then recognized the following persons who had registered to address the Board:

Mike Barlow

Mary Hepp

Mr. Barlow spoke regarding the proposed polices as had been presented and discussed by Mr. Russell and members of the Board and asked that they give deep thought to the issues; that what was being proposed would circumvent the negotiated agreement and would be in conflict with the specific terms of the contract, and other. Mr. Barlow suggested that the proposals be submitted and addressed at the bargaining table in negotiations. Ms. Hepp al'so expressed a concern about the proposed policies as presented in relation to whether the credit given to teachers would be retroactive; the need to maintain as well as recruit quality teachers; an indication that some subjects are more important than others; source from which the money would come for implementation of the policies; consideration for the elementary teacher; the need to cease "stop-gap" measures, and other.

Mr. English stated: As I recall, the effective date that is being proposed is July 1, 1980 when we would have a new fiscal year. We are not talking about money from this year's budget at all, lest someone be mislead and it be misunderstood about what is happening here. Mrs. Hill - But on the recommendation for the establishment of the position of Coordinator of Staff Recruitment, are you saying that this person would not be employed until July? Dr. Payzant - No, my recommendation in that instance would be that the authorization be given for employment in March, because if we don't get somebody on base to do some recruiting this spring, we will lose another year. My proposal for funding it relates to the Vo-Tech District as well as this district, and I would assure Ms. Hepp that I have the same concern that she does in not adding administrative personnel. What my proposal will be to the Vo-Tech Board is that the Vo-Tech Board subcontract with 1-89 for personnel services and let the 1-89 Personnel Office handle the personnel matters related to the new Vo-Tech District, and that the money that would be subcontracted for that purpose would be the funds used for paying for the Coordinator of Staff Recruitment. The only money that the district would have to spend this spring would be the salary for Aprtl, May and June for this person when they got started this year. You will recall that you agreed that the Vo-Tech District would reimburse 1-89

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Dr. Payzant cont'd

at the end of the year for a prorated portion of the services provided by 1-89 staff for vo-tech services rendered during this current budget year.

Proposed Policies Recommended for Action March 3, 1980 - cont'd

Mrs. Hill - Does it not have to be some advertising of the position? You are talking about employing someone in March. Action is not recommended until March 3.

Dr. Payzant - Absolutely. As a matter of fact, we would probably not have a recommendation for employment until the end of March or early April. But I can't go out and post a position and advertise it until you authorize me to do so. Employment, at the earliest, would be late March or early April. Mr. Donwerth - We are putting it off until March 3 for action on the Coordinator of Staff Recruitment and the two recommendations on the professional staff salary schedules, but we are approving this evening under B-6 of Purchasing the recruitment brochures. I am wondering if maybe that should be held up until March 3 for approval since they all seem to tie in together.

Dr. Payzant - We can use the brochures regardless, because if you don't authorize the other pieces, at least we have got to have the capability to work with the mails. So that brochure is something that is long overdue and the district ought to have at any rate. Mrs. Hill - Have we not had someone doing staff recruitment?

Dr. Payzant - The limits of our staff recruitment have pretty much been occasional visits to the surrounding colleges and universities, to some extent statewide, but primarily within a 50-mile radius of Oklahoma City. Mrs. Hill - And in that position, what would the person do?

Dr. Payzant - Typically, somebody in the Personnel Office would make the arrangements for a session at OSU or OCU, and perhaps would take a principal or two and go out for an afternoon and talk to potential applicants. Mrs. Hill - Would we be doing away with that position, because they have been doing it?

Dr. Payzant - This hasn't been a separate position for that purpose. This has been done by one of the Personnel Assistants of the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Director of Personnel.

Mrs. Hill - So the job description would maybe be changed for that person?

Dr. Payzant - That has been a very minor portion of the other people's responsibilities

Mr. Donwerth - In the recruitment brochure that we are talking about, I know that it is long overdue and we do need a good one; however, would not some of the incentives for recruitment be some of the bonuses or these things that we are asked to approve March 3 need to be printed in the brochure? Dr. Payzant - Normally, you develop a basic brochure that you can use more than one year. So you donJt. print in the basic brochure specific salary schedule information, but do an insert that can be updated on an annual basis to put with the brochure and mailed with it. Mr. English it seems to me that with this proposed policy, what it is saying is not that one group of teachers is more important than the others, but that these particular groups are important as some others like English and Reading, because we have the shortage. We are faced with the shortage where students will get short-changed because of shortages in teachers in these areas if we don't do something to get teachers in those areas. To me that is not saying that math teachers, or whatever, are more important than anybody else, but it is saying they are as important as others. So you have got to do what you can to bring them into the system for the children.

ENCUMBRANCES AND PURCHASES

It was moved by Mr. Donweth and seconded by Mrs. Hill for approval of payment of : encumbrances for January 29-February 13, 1980 as listed in the agenda. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #66 Approval of Encumbrances

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Purchasing L #67 Approval of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;urchasing

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Hamm to approve purchasing items as follows: 1.

Plumbing and Heating Supplies Purchase of plumbing and heating supplies (filters, pipe, switches, V-belts, etc.) for use by the Maintenance/Engineering Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotation:

Trane Company Federal Corporation Mideke Supply Company Southern Air Filter, Inc. Total

113.00 403.20 190.08 400.00

1,106.28

Carpet for Monroe School Purchase of carpet for Monroe Elementary School from Delta Flooring and Interior which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,020.00 to be charged to Account G 1230.03.

Machine Ribbons

Purchase of machine ribbons (calculators, posting machine, adder, typewriter and printer) for use by Supply Department and Computer Services Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations: The Front Office, Inc. Thompson Book & Supply Company Capitol Hill Typewriter Co., Inc. Columbia Ribbon & Carbon Mfg. Fine Line Ribbon Company J & K Supply Company Total

240.48 53.28 72.00 115.79 927.72 1,194.48

2,603.75

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

G 130.10 G 240.00

Total 4.

19.30 2,584.45

2,603.75

Physical Education Supplies

Purchase of physical education supplies (tennis rackets, basketballs, bases, gym scooters, knee pads, crossbars, plastic cones, etc.) for use at various locations from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Sportmaster Buck's Sporting Goods SBC-Sports Div. of CMG Modi in Recreation Equipment, Inc. Rex Sales Company, Inc. U. S. Games, Inc. Wolverine Sports U. S. Athletic Supply Company, Inc. Total

1,656.60 59.85 1,025.28 500.00 306.05 221.46 42.65 _____ 847.45 $

4,659.34

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

G 240.01 G 250.06 G 1230.03

Total

2,156.14 1,695.56 807.64

4,659.34

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Laminated Plastic Purchase of laminated plastic for use by Maintenance/Engineering Deaprtment < (Furniture Repair) from F. A. Highley Company, Inc., which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $4,781.25 to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

R. #67 Approval of Purchasing cont'd

Teacher Recruitment Brochures Purchase of Teacher Recruitment Brochures (5000) for use by the Personnel Department from AH! Design Directions who submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,828.00 to be charg ed to Account G 130.08.

Lawn Mowers, Edger and Trimmers Purchase of lawn mowers, edger and trimmers for Custodial Services from the following companies which, submitted the Tow quotations:

Moore's Cycle & Supply Forest's Sales, Inc. Total

791.56 2,537.50

3,329.06

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 740.01. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. UNFINISHED BUSINESS A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams for approval of changes in th Social Studies sequence of required courses for middle and high schools as follows:

6th grade - Physical and Political Geography 2 Semesters 7th grade - Cultural Geography 2 Semesters

8th grade - U. S. History 2 Semesters

(from Colonial Period to Civil War)

9th grade - U. S. History 2 Semesters

(from Civil War to Present)

10th grade - Oklahoma History 1 Semester

Government 1 Semester TIMELINE FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF CHANGES IN REQUIRED SOCIAL STUDIES COURSES FOR EIGHTH, NINTH AND TENTH GRADE STUDENTS:

Grade Level 8th grade

1980-81

1981-82

1982-83

1st Semester U. S. History 2nd Semester U. S. History

9th grade

10th grade

1st Semester Oklahoma History

1st Semester U. S. History

2nd Semester U. S. History

1st Semester U. S. History

1st Semester Oklahoma History

2nd Semester U. S. History

2nd Semester Government

On roll call , Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. HEARINGS

None.

R. #68 Approval of Changes in Social Studies Curricul urn

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Motion made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hill at the meeting of February 4, R. #69 Motion Tabled Re 1980: Payment for Unused "I move that the identical Option 2 regarding payment for unused sick leave Sick Leave to that we adopted for teachers be extended to the other certified personnel in Other Certified the district in the same amounts." Personnel

Mr. Donwerth - I definitely do feel that the other certified personnel in the district should receive the same consideration that we extended to the teachers last week. As a matter of fact, I feel that this should be extended to all of our personnel. Since making this motion I have learned that Dr. Payzant will be talking to the administrative personnel and other certified personnel in negotiations the latter part of this month.

Since he is aware of the desires of at least some of the Board members and that he wishes to use this for negotiations, I would move at this time that we table this motion until the first meeting in May (May 5), which will be prior to contract time, and at that time ask for a report from the Superintendent on his success in negotiations Since no monetary exchange can take place until the end of the fiscal year anyway, that still would give us plenty of time to vote on the motion. Mrs. Hill seconded the motion.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion to table carried.

Mrs. Hill inquired:

Do principals now have unlimited sick leave?

Dr. Payzant - Yes, unlimited accumulation of sick leave.

Mrs. Hill - What about personal business leave? Dr. Payzant - They receive two days, the same as teachers. If they do not use the personal business leave, then that is added to their accumulated sick leave. Mr. Donwerth inquired: I would like to ask_a question that pertains to the motion that was made and past last week for the bonuses for the unused sick leave for the teachers. It has been called to my attention by a number of teachers that it was explained in the Board Highlights that any teacher that was absent for any reason, that had nothing to do with sick leave, but for any reason would not be eligible for the bonus. The teachers that called me indicated that they understood it to say this.

Dr. Payzant - I had heard that there was a concern expressed too, but I couldn't figure out how they picked that up from the Board Highlights statement. There is no intention on the part of the administration to include in the count of days used, the days that were covered when people were out for the strike. We aren't going to penalize people in terms of this policy adopted by the Board on that basis. That was not the intent.

Comments Mr. English - When we adopted the Board Goals, you may recall that we modified Goal 8 Re Human Relations to include human relations in the wording, then when the objectives came out the - Mr. English human relations aspect of the objective really dealt with communications. Dr. Payzant and I have talked about this some and I wondered if we can reach some sort of a consensus maybe that in the Board's insertion of the word "human relations" into that Board Goal that we were referring to human relations as it is defined in the Board policy which goes beyond just human relations. If that be the case, then that the Superintendent would go back and really amplify the human relations aspect of the objectives to include the things that are included in the human relations policy of the Board. I am wondering if we can reach some sort of an agreement that on the definition of human relations as we intended it when we approved the modification of the proposed Board Goal, that we not lessen our human relations effort in the district. And in order to do that I think we are going to need to have some objectives that speak to human relations as it is spoken to in our policy. The objectives are really the way that we are going to fulfill those goals, and I think the Superintendent anticipates being evaluated somewhat in the next year based upon those objectives. If there are no objectives on human relations in there, then I think it will be natural for there to be somewhat of a lessening of the human relations effort within the district. I am wondering if anybody has any objection to that kind of a procedure where the Superintendent would draw up some objectives now based upon the human relations policy of the Board? Is there any objection to that, that he would come back and give those to us?

Mrs. Williams - I suppose the history of this school district gives me a goose pimple or two. I think we do need to strongly enunciate and strongly check back on human relations, plus communications which is an aspect of do not forget. We have come a long way and with some of us enunciation of a policy is necessary and a working of a policy.

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Mrs. Williams cont'd I know aS I have observed our Superintendent this past year, I know he means for this to be a very definite part, plus I know that he is going to check back on those goals as our professional hired by this body to administer this district.

Comments Re Human Relations cont'd

Mr. English - The Board Goal says - "The Board will encourage and support development and organization of activities that promote good human relations and effective communication between and among Board, staff, students, parents, and community. Mr. Donwerth - Suppose you just add "to ensure implementation of Board Policy IGAB?" Mr. English - Is that agreeable? Dr. Payzant, do you see that-as, if we agree, that is what we meant? That you could come back with some objectives based on this policy?

Dr. Payzant - Yes. Dr. Start - I think the point is contained in the second dnd third sentences of this policy, and that the concept we talk about and the words we use so loosely must be translated into reality by deliberate efforts by the employees of the district. We still have these problems and we are going to continue to have these problems in a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-disadvantaged society that we have. It seems to me that we have let up a little bit on some of these deliberate efforts that we have made in the past by all employees of the district. I don't mean that we have forgotten about them but we have let up a little bit, and I think it is time that we kind of go back and reestablish some deliberate efforts. It bothers me, for example, to see things develop in some of our social and cultural events, athletic events, etc., all of one race. It bothers me to see almost a completely black band or all black drummers, and all white cheerleaders. I think that sometimes we have to make some specific direction to avoid that sort of thing or we are going back into a segregated type society or segregated system.

Mr. English stated: Under the Superintendent's contract, it calls for an evaluation of the Superintendent before the last day in March, and also provides that unless the Board votes otherwise prior to April 10, then the contract is automatically renewed for the ensuing year. I would like for us to begin thinking about the evaluation. We had an evaluation several months ago of the Superintendent and at that time he came out with a very, very high rating. Mr. English then suggested that following the Vo-Tech District #22 Board meeting at Foster Estes Vo-Tech Center on March 10, the 1-89 Board hold a special meeting that same evening and do the evaluation of the Superintendent, and if the Board would decide to keep the present Superintendent for another year, it could vote on a new contract at that time. Continuing, Mr. English stated: I would like to get the feeling of the Board that we have a committee of Board members to meet with the Superintendent and go over possible contract language and terms, so that then the committee could have that ready for the Board for its March 10 meeting after the evaluation, in case there was a desire at that point to take action on a proposed contract. * Mrs. Hill - I thought we were to come up with an evaluation instrument, because we did not have one the last time. Mr. English - I think that probably what needs to be done is that in the next couple of months we ought to draw up an evaluation form for evaluation in the future, and I think a committee of the Board ought to work on that part of it. We talked about the shortcomings of the present evaluation form but we haven't done anything about that, and I doubt that it is really fair to a person to wait until the end of the year when you are evaluating them and come up with a new form for evaluation. I think that if we use the previous form that we have used in the evaluation, that would be a fair thing for this year, and then a committee could come back to the Board with a proposed evaluation form based upon whatever can be worked out. I think everybody has received a copy of the California evaluation form. I am sure there are other evaluation forms too around that could be used; wecoiild pick the best of what we have got and the best of some others, plus, in the future, I think the evaluations ought to tie into the objectives. Dr. Payzant and I have talked about this and he is in agreement with that. So I would hope that in the next two months we could come up with a new evaluation form. But for this time, I would suggest that we stick with the evaluation form that we have used in the past.

Mrs. Hill - I really didn't like the last evaluation form. I feel like we should have a different one than the lengthy one that we have used in the past. Mr. English - I agree with you and I think a committee could work that out in the next two months so that we would start the next year with a form where everybody knows what the Superintendent is going to be evaluated upon.

Comments Re Evaluation of Superintendent Mr. English

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Appointment of Committee to. Workvwith Superintendent on Proposed Contract

Mr. English then appointed Mrs. Hill, Chairperson; Dr. Hamm and Mrs. Potts as a committee of the Board to meet with the Superintendent and work on a proposed contract, and have the proposed wording to the Board prior to the March 10 meeting, possibly going out with the packet to members on March 7.

EXECUTIVE SESSION R. #70 Board Recessed to Executive Session 9:05 p.m.

A motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hill that the Board recess to executive session to discuss personnel. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #71 Board Returned to Open Session 12:01 a.m.

After completing its executive sessions it was moved by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Dr. Hamm that the Board return to open session. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #72 Motion to Reconsi der Previous Action of Board

It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Williams to reconsider the previous action of the Board approving the Superintendent's recommendation to dismiss Alfred Hunter from employment. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #73 Action of Board Rescinded

A motion was made by Dr. Hamm and seconded by Mrs. Hill to rescind the previous action of the Board approving the Superintendent's recommendation to dismiss Alfred Hunter from employment. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #74 Acceptance of Resignation of Alfred Hunter

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mr. Donwerth for acceptance of the resignation of Alfred Hunter from employment in the Oklahoma City School District as set forth in his letter of February 18, 1980, on the terms therein. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #75 Acceptance of Resignation of Robert Alyea

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Williams for acceptance of the resignation of Robert Alyea from employmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;in the Oklahoma City School District as set forth in his written memorandum dated February 16, 1980. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. ADJOURNMENT

R. #76 Adjournment 12:06 a.m.

A motion to adjourn was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; '

THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the Clerk's office.)

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA ) STATE OF OKLAHOMA

I, the undersigned Clerk of the Board of Education of Independent School District Number 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours before the meeting, the date, time arid place of the Regular Adjourned Meeting was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. I also certify that at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, notice of the date, time, place and agenda of this meeting was posted in permanent public view at the location of the meeting.

1980.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district thi

Clerk, Oklahoma City Board of Education

day of_

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THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, MET IN A SPECIAL MEETING IN THE BOARD CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION

BUILDING, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M. PRESENT:

Paul English, President Mrs. Pat Potts, Vice President Floyd Donwerth, Member Delbert Hamm, Member Armond H. Start, Member Mrs. Freddye Williams, Member

ABSENT:

Mrs. Betty Hill, Member

Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; Central Office staff members; representatives from professional groups, and other interested persons.

Mr. English called the meeting to order and Dr. Hamm gave the invocation.

Call to Order

All of the visitors present were welcomed by Mr. English.

Vi si tors Welcomed

Roll call established that six of the seven Board members were present.

Roll Call

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT Dr. Payzant reported and made the following recommendation: Mr. Claud Todd reported to Central Innovative High School today as acting principal and will be there as such for the balance of the .year, and there is good enthusiasm among the students and the staff at Central for making some modifications in the program and building on the existing strengths and eliminating weaknesses. I think by Board action on a resolution of support, the cloud that has been hanging over the school the last week with rumors of potential closing being in the minds of some, and the conversation of others, can be removed. So I would urge your early consideration of such a resolution at next Monday' meeting:

Resolution Recommended for Action March 3, 1980

Recommend a resolution to continue Central Innovative High School as an Alternative School program. A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Start for correction of the 1980-81 School Calendar, setting Inservice on October. 24, 1980,. and January 12, 1981. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwreth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #77 Correction of 1980-81 School Calendar

SPECIAL BUSINESS

In referring to the item of special business, a discussion on alternative student school assignment plans for the 1980-81 school year, Dr. Payzant stated: By way of background, you will recall that several weeks ago the Board considered and adopted a Student School Assignment policy and at the time the Board discussed that policy, I indicated that the staff would be working in the weeks ahead on some alternative plans for school assignments. Tonight, we would like to present to you three different plans which have been generated by the staff which take different approaches to school assignments for 1980-81. We are not making a specific recommendation this evening for you to adopt one of these three plans, but would like you to take the opportunity to listen to the basic components of each, raise questions about them, make suggestions, and then the staff and I will take the results of the discussion under advisement before coming back to you with a specific recommendation very soon. It would be helpful for the Board to consider any school reassignments early this spring so that we could notify parents early on when they have students who would be affected. I understand that in the past it has often been after school is out or into the summer months before parents and students have known, and that has at times been somewhat of an inconvenience to our parents and students. As you know, although you may approve a specific plan, we will still have to present it to therOffice for Civil Rights, and the pl an will undergo review at the Dallas Office and receive, hopefully, approval 'before we cansgo ahead and' implement it. Dr. Payzant presented Pat Watson, Director, Planning, Research, and Evaluation, who gave a review of the guidelines used in planning the student school assignments. Mrs. Watson introduced Dr. Kathy Roberts, Research Associate, who gave an explanation of the printed materialon the three plans that were presented.

Discussion Alternative Student School Assignment Plans for the 1980-81 School Year

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Discussion Alternative Student School Assignment Plans for the 1980-81 School Year cont'd

Mrs. Maxie Wood, Senior Research Associate, with the aid of maps, presented Plan 1, Plan 2, and Plan 3 as proposed for student school assignments. Mrs. Watson, Dr. Payzant, and the Research Associates responded to1 questions and comments by members of the Board.

(A complete transcription of the discussion is on file in the Clerk's office.) NEW BUSINESS

For Consideration at Next Meeting of the Board Re Pol ling Pl aces for School Board El ections

Mr. English relinquished the Chair to Mrs. Potts and stated: Let me review a bit what the setup is under the law that was passed this last year on school board elections You will recall that for the first time school board members will be in a primary and then a runoff within their election district only. There will not be a city-wide voting on each of the top two candidates in that runoff. If any one candidates receives more than 50 percent of the votes in the primary, there will not be a runoff; the person will be elected. You recall that we have already set up the millage election to be on the first balloting, the April 8 election. On April 8 we will have city-wide people voting that will vote on the millage, and then in Districts Three and Four, they will be voting for the millage and candidates. I am suggesting that since we have in recent months been criticized for not getting a better voter turnout in our elections, that we expand the number of polling places in Districts Three and Four where we have the candidates. Let's do a pilot project, have the voting in the schools, but also have it in the regular polling places in Districts Three and Four, so that it makes it closer to the homes of everybody, and with the sign in front of the polling place, this calls attention to the fact that there is an election on that day. Mr. English continued by making the following motion which was seconded by Mrs. Williams, to be considered at the March 3 meeting of the Board:

I move that this board ask the Oklahoma County Election Board to permit voting at all public schools and regular polling places located within Election Districts Three and Four during the April 8 and May 6 elections, and further that this board ask the Superintendent to publicize the availability of these additional voting sites. Mr. Donwerth inquired for clarification: If I happen to be in this area and I want to vote at Eugene Field on the mill levies and there are also candidates on that ballot, does that mean that I can't vote at "Eugene Field or anywhere in the area?

Mr. English - Yes, you can vote there. It is somewhat like the Republican and Democratic primaries, when you walk in and sign in as either Democrat or Republican, then they switch the machine either Democrat or Republican,where if you are a Democrat, you cannot vote on the Republican candidates that are actually listed on the machine. The same type of thing here. As I recall, there will be two poll books; one for the millage and one for the candidate selection. If you sign both books, then they will throw the machine so you can vote on the candidates and the millage; otherwise, you can sign up for the millage only, they will throw the machine and you are locked out on voting on the candidates and you vote only for the millage. That is my understanding of the way it is set up.

Dr. Payzant - Whatever the Board decides because of the 30-day notice requirement So all of the plans are going to have to Monday night in order to get the 30 days

to do, you have to decide next Monday night with respect to the County Election Board. be finalized and decisions made next before the April 8 election.

Mrs. Potts returned the Chair to Mr. English.

HEARINGS Mr. English called on Ms. Sherri Reagan, who had registered to address the Board.

Ms. Reagan spoke regarding discipline and incidents at Star Spencer High School. Dr. Payzant stated: I talked to Ms. Reagan this afternoon by telephone and she expressed her concerns to me. I talked with Ms. Mason, Director of High Schools, who in turn talked with Dr. Edd, Principal, Star Spencer High School. He has been working on the incident that occurred on Friday most of the day today and with the students involved. I have not gotten a written report from Ms. Mason, but I am sure it will be carefully followed through on the Friday incident. I was not aware of longer-range type problems that Ms. Reagan alluded to here and talked with me about on the telephone this afternoon, and I indicated to her that if she had specific information on other incidents that have occurred, I would be very happy to follow up on them. Mr. English - And there will be further contact with Ms. Reagan?

Dr. Payzant - Yes, and I will get back with the Board, too, and give you a full report of what occurred on Friday and what is happening this week.

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ADJOURNMENT

A motion to adjourn was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Williams. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #78 Adjournment

THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the Clerk's office.)

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

I, the undersigned Clerk Number 89 of Oklahoma County, before the meeting, the date, Office of the County Clerk of

of the Board of Education of Independent School District Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours time and place of the Special Meeting was filed in the Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.

1980.

Witness my hand and seal of this school distri ct this e^/day of

Clerk, Oklahoma City Board of Education

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THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING,

MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M. PRESENT:

Paul English, President

Mrs. Pat Potts, Vice President Floyd Donwerth, Member

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Delbert Hamm, Member Mrs. Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member Mrs. Freddye Williams, Member

Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; William Bleakley, Attorney; Donald H. Ladd, Treasurer; Central Office staff members; representatives from professional groups; the news media, and other interested persons. The meeting was called to order by Mr. English and Dr. Hamm gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Mr. English welcomed all of the visitors present.

Visitors Wei comed

Roll call established that six of the seven Board members were present. was< present at .tbejExecutive Session.)

(Mr. Donwerth

Roll Call

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS A notion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Hamm for approval of the minutes of February 18 and 25, 1980, as presented. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #79 Minutes

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS Mrs. Hill stated: Tomorrow afternoon, Dr. Hamm, Mrs. Potts and I will be meeting to discuss the Superintendent's contract, and I would like to suggest that if any of the other Board members have any comments or input, we would like for them to share it with us this evening before leaving the meeting.

Comments Mrs. Hill

Mrs. Hill continued: I was visiting at Madison the other evening and they were talking about a program they were starting there called "The National Right to Read Olympics." I was not familiar with it before and it sounds like a real neat idea. It is a program that has been put together by our Curriculum Department. It started today and ends on March 25. Six of our schools took advantage of it, and of the six, in addition to Madison, there was Arcadia, North Highland, Oakridge, Quail Creek and Willard. The idea is to read and awards will be given, the gold, bronze, and silver medal, at the end of March 25. They are urging the students to have a current library card', as well as the parent and-the teacher. The students will give reports of the books they read, and some of them could be written, given orally or by pictures. They will be making bookmarks, and newspapers and magazine articles will be used. I thought this was a real nice idea and very timely, since we have been discussing the...01ympics' and we have come up with this. So I will be anxious to see how this comes out. 1

This weekend there is a legislative conference that the Legislature is sponsoring. I received a note from Bob Mooneyham saying that on Thursday evening there will be a cash/bar reception in the Balinese Room of the Skirvin Plaza Hotel, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Dr. Mooneyham said that they plan to use approximately one hour of the allotted time to discuss the positions to be maintained by school board members during the conference and he is encouraging all school board members to attend this conference with other board members on Thursday evening, March 6. I feel like a lot of parents are here because some of their schools may be on the list for closing. At Linwood, a reporter put them on the list to be closed. They are getting parent involvement there. Their Scout Troops have picked up and they are going to be using the building now, :L:do'think this is very good for parents to get involved, because I understand their Scouting program was nearly at an impasse,! and now they have Cub Scouts, Webelos and the Scouts meeting there, which means the parents are getting involved.

Mrs. Williams stated: I was very much impressed with the graduation services at the Service Center. So many of our support personnel and several of us were there from the Board of Education. I had a tremendous time interacting with Ms. Lessie LeSure and the Communications Advisors from all of the high schools at Classen High School last Thursday. I really enjoyed touring Classen. It looks good, and I was just really fascinated by their blue and gold cafeteria. It seems to me that they are exemplifying pride in that school. I really like interacting with the young people and those of our staff who are trying so hard to really get the educational job done.

Comments Mrs. Williams

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COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS cont'd

Comments Mrs. Potts

Mrs. Potts stated: I was pleased to have had the opportunity to be present in the dedication of the FFA facility at John Marshall. Many of you may recall that this is something that has risen from a facility that was inadequate, that was causing some real difficulties for the students and the staff and the parents there, so now we have a facility that I think must be unmatched to anywhere around, there could not be a better facility in terms of what it offers to these young students, and in a program I think where there perhaps is more commitment of parents and students than most any other we run across.

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I was very glad to see that the Professional Black Educators Association had picked up | an idea that we had discussed as a board regarding providing clinic training for ! students who were going to be taking ACT, SAT, and PSAT tests. This started Saturday, February 23, and there will be further sessions, and students from all over this area who are in high school are invited to attend. I was real pleased to see them take that initiative. I want to mention as a point of pride, the fact that we had the Northeast Girls capture the Capitol Conference Basketball Championship, and the John Marshall Girls Track Team just walked away with over double what the next team up did in the track competition that was at the Myriad this last week; two more points of pride for our school system.

LEGAL AND FINANCIAL REPORTS

Attorney's Report

Mr. Bleakley reported: (1)

Co-Counsel Fees in Sale of Channel 25 - In your agenda material you have been provided with a copy of a final statement from the Washington Counsel in the sale of Channel 25 (Sol Schildhause). This was a belated bill arising out of the last minute challenge by Seraphim Corporation to the sale of the Channel 25 facilities. This bill apparently was in process when we were presenting what we thought was the last bill, and this will be the last bill for their services in the amount of $540.10. Under our previous discussions with respect to using this law firm, we were to keep the Board up to date on the amount of legal fees incurred there.

(2)

Appeal on the Termination of Judith Boswell - In the schedule of the oral arguments on the appeal of the termination of Judith Boswell, attorneys met for the purpose of having oral arguments on the appeal, and the judge discovered a conflict in his schedule and had to leave the courtroom. So that has been continued once again to March 14, at which time we hope we will bring this matter to a close.

(3)

No Decisions Issued by Supreme Court Re Various Appeals Arising Out of AFT Representation - There have been no decisions issued by the Supreme Court with respect to the various appeals arising out of AFT (American Federation of Teachers) representation following the strike.

(4)

Antitrust Suit Against Bus Dealers - In the Antitrust Suit against the bus dealers, Judge Daugherty has issued an order in which he has not certified a class action. We will be discussing the ramifications of that order with you in executive session tonight.

R. #80 A motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Potts for payment of final Approval to Pay bill in the amount of $540.10 to Sol Schildhause, Washington Counsel in the sale of Channel 25. Sol Schildhause for Services in Sale of Channel 25 Mrs. Hill - Can this bill be paid from Channel 25 proceeds? Mr. Bleakley - I believe that the previous payments for the services from this firm have been paid from those proceeds, and we can use the same procedure as used for the others.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. Treasurer's Report Mr. Ladd gave a routine treasurer's report.(Copy of report on file in Clerk's office.) The reports were accepted by the Board as presented.

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT

Dr. Payzant presented Mrs. Pat Watson, President, the Association of All School Personnel, who gave remarks about an activity that was sponsored by the ASSP?whereby students in the schools participated in art activities about employees of the school district.

Special Presentation Richard Bennett, a Student

Mrs. Watson then introduced Mrs. Geneva Williams, Gifted and Talented Coordinator at Lafayette School, who, after brief remarks, presented Richard Bennett, a student at that school. Richard read from prepared copy his own definitions of school employees.

Mrs. Watson then gave preliminary remarks regarding Mr. Leon Wright, bus driver for handicapped children in the Spencer area, having been selected as Employee of the Month.

Employee of the Month

A Certificate of Recognition was presented by Dr. Payzant to Mr. Wright on behalf of the Board of Education and the Association of All School Personnel. Mr. Wright responded.

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start to direct the following persons to attend meetings as indicated:

At No Expense to the District

(a)

Albert C. Fuller, COE-Business, Grant High School - Texas State FBLA Leadership Conference, Dallas, Texas, March 6-8, 1980.

(b)

Rebecca L. Davis, Kindergarten Teacher, Polk Fifth Year Center - Central State University Study Tour of England;. March 20-29, 1980.

(c)

Lelend Lemmons, Jr., Special Education Teacher, Rockwood Elementary School Regional Meeting of Special Education Teachers for Gymnastic Demonstration, Little Rock, Arkansas, March 21-22, 1980.

(d)

Howard Morrow, Principal, Edgemere - NAESP Annual Convention, Miami, Florida, April 18-23, 1980.

(e)

June Maddox, Principal, Children's Hospital - National Council for Exceptional Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 21-25, 1980.

(f)

Judy Billen, Reading Consultant - IRA Convention, St. Louis, Missouri, May 4-9, 1980.

At School District Expense (g)

Janie L. Hall, Standardized Test Specialist - Third National Conference on Testing, Washington, D. C., March 13-14, 1980.

(h)

Hallie J. Knight, Language Arts Consultant - 1980 Conference on Secondary School English and English Education, Omaha, Nebraska, March 27-29, 1980.

(i)

Freddye Williams, Board Member - National School Boards Association Ad Hoc Committee Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, March 28-29, 1980.

(j)

Camolia A. Byrd, Lau Coordinator; Edwin L. Keller, Fine Arts Coordinator; Mary Lee Webb, Music Specialist, Comprehensive Arts (K-4); Charlotte BibbHarrison, Coordinator, Comprehensive Arts (K-4); Martha Nell Dodson, Coordinator; Janet Shelden, K-8 Curriculum Coordinator; Earnestine Shaw, Curriculum Consultant - ASCD Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, March 29-April 2, 1980.

(k)

Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent - AASA Southwest Drive-In, Little Rock, Arkansas, March 30-April 1, 1980.

(l)

Loyce Willett, Consultant, Health & Physical Education - Convention of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Detroit, Michigan, April 10-15, 1980.

(m)

John Lockhart, Math Consultant - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Convention, Seattle, Washington, April 16-19, 1980.

(n)

Gary Sperling, Science Consultant - International Science Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota, May 4-10, 1980.

R. #81 Professional Trips Approved

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CONT'D

At School District Expense cont'd

(o) ,

Thelma Sughru, Curriculum Consultant K-8; Betty Clifton, Reading Consultant, Instructional Management - International Reading Association, St. Louis, Missouri, May 4-9, 1980.

(p)

Valeria Turnell, Assistant Coordinator, Curriculum Services; Thelma Jones, Coordinator, Curriculum Services (Media) - American Library Association Conference, New York, New York, June 28-July 6, 1980.

(q)

George Russell and Kaye Teall to attend seminar on Efficient Management of Personnel and Payroll, Dallas, Texas, March 12, 1980. (Automobile travel expense only.)

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hi IT voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. R. #82 President of Board and Superintendent Authorized to Execute Documents

It was moved by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr.' Start that the President of the Board and the Superintendent be authorized to execute the documents and submit an application j as follows:

Reading Is Fundamental Program (RIF) in Middle and High Schools.

Secondary and full-time Adult Vocational Education Program for the 1980-81 school year. CARVER CENTER Vocational Home Ed for the HA Vocational Bldg and Ground MA Occupational Training For The CLASSEN HIGH SCHOOL COE Interdisci plinary Cooperative Auto Mechanics Electronics

U. S. GRANT HIGH SCHOOL COE Distributive Education Body and Fender Repair Auto Mechanics Electricity Drafting Sheet Metal Cosmetology Upholstery JOHN MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL - Vocational Agriculture Vocational Agriculture COE Distributive Education Cooperative Occupational Food Management Auto Mechanics Electronics Cosmetology

DOUGLASS HIGH SCHOOL Cooperative Occupational Food Management Interdisci plinary Cooperative Body and Fender Repair Auto Mechanics Welding Cosmetology Tailoring Upholstery COE

NORTHWEST CLASSEN HIGH SCHOOL COE■■ Distributive Education Child Care - Coop. Occupation Cosmetology

NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL Cooperative Occup. Home Economics Auto Mechanics Welding Cosmetology SOUTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL COE Distributive Education CVET Mechanical Cosmetology

STAR SPENCER HIGH SCHOOL VOE I & II Occupational Child Care Interdisci plinary Cooperative CVET Horticulture Auto Mechanics Carpentry CAPITOL HILL HIGH SCHOOL COE Distributive Education Interdisciplinary Cooperative Interdisciplinary Cooperative CVET Horticulture Body and Fender Repair Auto Mechanics Welding Cabinet Making WASHINGTON CENTER General Mechanics for the Disadvantaged

ADULT EDUCATION CENTER COE Home Economics

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

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It was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Dr. Hamm to give authorization for the administration to send a letter to the State Department of Education describing the district's response to the recommendations contained in the Title I Program F. Y. 80 monitoring report presented to the Board February 7, 1980. Dr. Payzant - You recall that about a month ago I presented to the Board the monitoring report presented by the State Department of Education upon completion of its staff people's visit of our Title I project and programs for the fiscal year 1980. That communication contained six specific recommendations that the district was asked to respond to within 30 days. In the interval of the last 30 days, various staff people, the Title I Parent Advisory committees and others have been reviewing that monitoring report and coming up with various recommendations for us to consider in responding to the State Department of Education. Just very briefly, the six recommendations that the State Department had were as follows: First, they indicated that in some instances at some of our Title I schools we were not in compliance by failing to have the necessary Parent Advisory Councils with the Councils being composed of the required number of Title I parents and other parents. Secondly, they raised a concern about the percentage of the budget and expenses that were going for Parent Council inservice training. Third, they had some concerns about the identification of target areas for Title I schools and the manner in which the paperwork and forms were completed. Fourth, they made some suggestions about the keeping of time records for part-time Title I employees. In the fifth and sixth recommendations, they indicated that..weddil.noit seem-itoie following our own needs assessment with respect to two parts of the Title I program, the Community Guidance Workers and Family School Correlators program,, and in their final recommendation, they suggested that because those two programs did not in their view comply with Title I federal guidelines, that they should be eliminated from the Title I grant application for next year. You have in your packet a draft of a proposed response to the State Department of Education and that response does reply to each of the six areas identified in the monitoring report. I can report to you this evening that as the result of a good deal of work by a number of people, that we have reached compliance with respect to Title I Parent Advisory Councils in all schools except Harding, Star Spencer, and Truman, and hope to within the next day or two have identified persons to serve on those parent councils so those three schools will be in compliance also. The recommended response on parent council inservice and expenses is as recommended by the State Department; also the target area selection suggestions, we are responding affirmatively to those and' with respect to the suggestions made about time records for part-time employees. And finally, we have indicated that the Community Guidance Workers and Family School Correlators program would not be part of our application for 1980-81 fiscal year Title I funds. The Board should know that the elimination of these two programs will affect the jobs of approximately 30 people, and the staff is committed to make every effort to give the persons who are currently serving in these positions a first consideration for any other job openings in the district for which they are qualified, with the hopes that will make it possible for most of the persons who have qualifications for other jobs to be picked up in school district employment in other areas in the months ahead.

Mrs. Potts - I feel the need to comment particularly with regard to the last aspect in two respects; one, that I don't think I have ever received criticism about the kind of job these Community Guidance Workers or Family School Correlators have done. I think that they, have had the time available to actually go to homes and work with families regarding problems of students in the schools, and I think they have done a fantastic job. I see this change with great reluctance. I would want to ask how we propose to fill the gap that is going to be left with their absence?

Dr. Payzant - The basis for the State Department's recommendation is that they do not feel that the focus of those two programs falls within the intent of Title I, and therefore it is not appropriate to continue using Title I funds for that purpose. The only other way that the district would be able to continue that program, if indeed the Board thought it should have a top priority, would be to fund it out of the General Fund budget, and that certainly can be a consideration. Of course, there will be all kinds of competing programs for the resources available as we get into decisions about the budget for 1980-81, but it would have to at this point be picked up by the General Fund budget. Mrs., Potts - Would these people be phased out at the conclusion of this year would be able'to complete their work for this school year?

so they

Mrs. Williams - My concern here is that the duties that were performed by the Guidance Workers and the Correlators will go undone, and I am happy to hear you say that we will place our personnel. In reading the communication from the State Department of Education, they were talking about the guidance function, and these people augmented because they were in touch with the homes and the young people. So I hope this won't get lost some way, whichever way it is. I can understand the monetary considerations here. I don't understand the State Department's decision.

R. #83 Approval to Send District's Response to Recommendations in Title I Program Monitoring Report

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Dr. Payzant - I think their decision is based on what they think is a pretty clear understanding of the federal Title I guidelines, and the focus of that program is to improve the achievement of students in the areas of reading, writing and math, and supplementary subjects such as these, although they may be desirable, do not fall 'within the current intent of Title I. And that is the basis for theirrecommendation. The funds would be put into additional teaching positions to work with young people in the academic areas of reading, language arts and math. Mrs. Williams -

Sometimes the conditions of the home are directlyrelated to

the

ability of young people to learn.

Mrs. Hill - Are there funds that we could apply for from the State for these

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positions?

Dr. Payzant - Not that I am aware of at this point, particularly in the amounts that would be required to fund a program of this breadth.

Mr. English called on the following persons who had registered to address the Board on items as presented in the motion:

Joy Schlesselman

Marge Menendez

Both Ms. Schlesselman and Ms. Menendez spoke regarding the role of the Community Guidance Workers and Family School Correlators,and the value of their job performance to students and the schools. On roll call for the motion, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. R. #84 Date Approved for County Election Board to Conduct Runoff Representation Election for Professional Educators

Dr. Payzant stated: Last-December after Judge Harris issued an opinion in the matter with respect to the certification and status of the AFT, I recommended to the Board that consideration be given to holding a runoff election between the other two choices on the ballot election that was held in October, namely, the ACT and No Representation. The Board authorized me at that time to talk with the leadership of the ACT and to set a date for an election as early as practical. I did follow up and talk with the ACT leadership and the response that I received at that point was the feeling of the ACT leadership was that the Supreme Court would be ruling soon on that case and that there was not much interest in pursuing a runoff election at that point because a decision appeared to be imminent from the Supreme Court. Several months have passed. There has been a good deal of expression from school district employees - teachers, administrators and others around the district that time is fleeing and the normal preparations for negotiations and the beginning of negotiations for 1980-81 contract, under normal circumstances would already have begun. The Board was clearly on record, as was I, that we have full intent of negotiating with an appropriate representative for a collective bargaining agreement for 1980-81, and it is with that in mind and no prospect ofan immediate decision from the Supreme Court that I recommend that the Board respond affirmatively to the ACT request for a runoff representation .election to be held March 18, 1980, and also recommend the approval of the procedural guidelines that were included in your packet of agenda materials.

A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of March 18, 1980 as the date for the County Election Board to conduct a runoff representation election for Professional Educators of the Oklahoma City Public Schools and adoption of "Guidelines and Procedures for Runoff Representation Election for Professional Educators of the Oklahoma City Public Schools." The following persons addressed the Board regarding the motion for consideration at this time:

Lee Graham

Donna Rowlan

Cindy Fravel

Richard Lane

Mary Hepp

David Renfro

Mike Barlow

Each of the speakers expressed concern about the proposed runoff representation election for professional educators, and other. Mr. Barlow responded to questions by members of the Board.

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On roll call, members of the Board stated and voted:

Dr. Start - I would like to explain my vote. There obviously is a great difference of opinion about what this Board ought to do. I think this Board has demonstrated and continues to demonstrate an interest in teachers in the negotiations process and in the teachers being represented. There is no doubt about that. I am not swayed by the rhetoric of organized labor; I think they are insulting and don't know how to behave like ladies and gentlemen on many occasions, and that doesn't sway me at all. What really bothers me is having an election with actually on one choice. It doesn't make a lot of sense to have an election with one choice, and, therefore, I vote nay.

R. #84 Date Approved for County Election Board to Conduct Runoff Representation Election for Professional Educators cont'd

Mrs. Hill - I believe in the collective bargaining process, as I have said. I feel like that this was an issue, as I have told both groups, that was settled back in December and I feel like it is being brought now as a highly political issue, so X am going to abstain. Mrs. Williams - Perhaps I should explain my vote. I fail to see where there is no choice. The choice is that we don't want to bargain or the other choice of the OEA affiliate. One choice says go ahead Board and we will just take whatever you say. I think at issue here is the fact that we are willing to sit down with somebody and discuss a contract. My vote is aye.

Mrs. Potts - I vote aye, and the reason I vote aye is because I feel that we are carrying out the decision of the lower court, and if this decision is reversed by the higher court, I am most willing to stand by that decision, but I think we must act on what is the current court decision. Dr. Hamm - I don't feel like I need to explain my vote other than to say that it is a matter of conscience with me, and I vote nay. Mr. English - I vote aye.

Mr. English declared that the motion carried. It was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Hill to authorize that Howard White, Administrator of Food Service, be designated as the school district's representative in matters pertaining to the National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program and for food commodities donated by the United States Department of Agriculture.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #85 Authorization of Representative in Matters Pertaining to National School Lunch Program, etc.

A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of a Resolution of Appreciation for Mr. Harvey Gene Ogle, deceased February 9, 1980. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #86 Resolution of Appreciation Approved

Dr. Payzant referred to the agenda item -

Remarks Re Recommendation for 1980-81 Student School Assignments

"Recommend further Board consideration of three alternative plans for 1980-81 student school assignments. Recommend action March 17, 1980." As you know, last week you spent several hours in a work session being briefed on three alternative assignment patterns for students to be assigned to schools for 1980-81 school year. Although I don't have a specific recommendation this evening for Plan 1, 2, or 3, since I want to have the opportunity to discuss them with staff in the Office for Civil Rights, I would very briefly like to summarize the three plans and then present the Board with information that you requested at the work session last week, and respond to any questions that you may have so that if additional research or information is needed, that the staff can go ahead and work on it during the next two weeks before this comes up before you at the March 17 meeting. You recall that the first plan proposed to move a number of students who live in the Longfellow Fifth Year Center area and the Polk area to different schools from those attended in 1979-80. The children in grades 1-4 who would be affected would be those in the Longfellow area and children who are of middle school and high school age that come from the Polk area. The total number of students who would be affected by reassignments in Plan 1, of the 1140, 780 black students and 360 other students. The major characteristics of Plan 1 are that it does build on the cluster concept and keeps students together from elementary to fifth year center, to middle school, and to high school. There would be less splintering of students going in different directions than under the current plan. It would bring all of the district schools within the plus or minus 10 percent of the district level averages of black/other ratio. Most of the students who would be reassigned and traveling under Plan 1 are students who were previously being bused to other schools. It is a plan that deals with the total school district and the total reassignment plan with respect to racial balances and not just a "Band-Aid" as I will describe Plan 3 later. It follows the Board policy

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Dr. Payzant continued: on student assignments that was adopted severalweeks ago, and if any of the 12 schools that are being looked at over the next year are closed, it would enable the 'clusters that are assigned to those schools to remain assigned to the same areas. Of the three plans, it provides the best estimate of stability for the future. It does have a major weakness in my view, and that is that it continues to place the major burden for busing on the black community, and more black students would be reassigned than others. It does result in the high schools being about the same size in terms of student enrollment. All of these plans, the fifth year students who are currently assigned at K-5 schools would be reassigned to fifth year centers, with the exception of Arcadia. Plan 2 has an identical pattern to Plan 1 for children who are in grades 1-5. The major difference is at the middle school and high school area where substantial numbers of students would be reassigned from south Oklahoma City middle schools to the central Oklahoma City area, both the middle school and high school level, and some students from the middle part of the city would be reassigned to the north. It would result in smaller schools with smaller enrollments in the far north and far south, and larger school enrollments at the schools in the central city. Of the three plans, it would involve the greatest number of students, 1367, which 536 would be black and 831 would be other. The major characteristics; increased distances for students currently being transported, this plan would place more of the burden on the white community than the black community; it would affect a large number of schools, but it would not maintain the cluster concept or a single pattern that could be replicated in following years necessarily. It is a more complex assignment pattern than in either Plan 1 or Plan 3, and it doesn't bring all of the schools close enough to the racial balances required to enhance the possibilities of stability in the future, and would result in the central city schools being perhaps overpopulated and some of the southside middle and high school and northside middle and high schools also being underpopulated. It would result in the enrollments being small enough at Jackson Middle School, Capitol Hill Middle School, and Southeast High School to warrant possible consideration of those schools for retirement in the near future. Plan 3 is different from the first two plans in that it addresses only those schools that are more than 10 percent above the black/other ratio. There would be no children in grades 1-4 moved,except in two schools a small number of children from Eugene Field to Gatewood, which is an overcrowding situation, and 11 children from Sequoyah to Monroe. It would also have the fifth grade* students from Mark Twain, Columbus and Riverside go to Longfellow; from Shidler to Garden Oaks; and from Ross to Page-Woodson. There are only eight other schools that would be involved; three middle schools Harding, Eisenhower and Taft; five high schools - Marshall, Northeast, Northwest, Douglass, and Classen. Plan 3 has the smallest number of students involved, 505, of which 273 black and 232 other. The characteristics of Plan 3 has the smallest number of students moved. It is a more even distribution of blacks and others moved, only 272 to 232 in terms of those affected. It is more like the short-range plan of 1978 which is an attempt to make a small adjustment now but does not make any guarantees for stability in the future or guarantees against the possibility of coming back and making further reassignments in future years. It does not follow the Board's reassignment policy established a month or so ago and would require an adjustment in the policy and I am npt sure that the Office for Civil Rights would accept it. It primarily affects schools in central and north Oklahoma City, and very few schools in south Oklahoma City, except the schools that were K-5 schools this year would be affected. And not all elementary school ratios would be brought into balance. The cluster concept is not followed with Plan 3.

In terms of all plans, kindergarten is not affected in any of them, and the 12 schools that are being looked at over the next year for possible consideration for closure would not be affected except with a minor from Eugene Field to Gatewood and one small move that involves Sequoyah and Mayfair. That is the only two instances where schools that would be considered for possible closure would be affected by the reassignments. Dr. Payzant then referred to various materials that had been provided to Board members that related to the three plans as presented and information that had been requested by the Board, which included a transcript of a previous discussion, maps, memos, and other.

Mrs. Potts - I appreciate all the work that the department did under time pressures, and I know it took a lot of effort to come up with the additional information, but I think it will be very helpful in adding to our ability to make the best decisions possible.

Mrs. Hill - Why, all of a sudden, are we transferring our fifth graders out of our K-5 schools? In visiting with different people around, it came as a complete shock to them to know that this might happen. I guess I am concerned that there was no warning given to anyone ahead of time.

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Dr. Payzant - We talked about that at some length last week, and there are two basic reasons. One, in the case of three or four of the K-5 schools by removing the fifth gradesand sending them to fifth year centers, we would still enable those schools to be at or just above the enrollment cutoff for possible consideration for retirement, because as K-5 schools, they have a 250 cutoff point; as K-4 schools, it would be a j 200 enrollment cutoff. And in talking with some of the people at those schools, we | got the feeling that there would be a preference for maintaining for another year or two, if possible, a K-4 school, rather than considering the closure of the K-5. Perhaps a more compelling reason, however, was the fact that we are unable to provide for the fifth year students in the K-5 schools the kind of enriched fifth year program that is available, and the focus of our fifth year centers. I have the feeling that those children are getting short-changed on the curriculum and program experience aspect. So those were the two major reasons.

Remarks Re Recommendation for 1980-81 Student School Assignments cont1d

Mrs. Hi 11 - I think we as a Board approve of our fifth year centers, which I do. But as Ihave traveled into the schools, this is what I am hearing, is why can't we have the fifth graders back? So we are talking about money is going to be tight next year. These parents have said I want my fifth year students to stay in these schools, but we are going to add to that busing. Some of these did not really fall under the 250 enrollment. They are within the 10 percent black/white deviation. Their budget is prepared. They have got it planned. I am sure the budgets are due in your office reasonably soon, and they have already budgeted for those fifth year students.

Dr. Payzant - You mentioned the third factor that was considered, and that is whether or not the original reason for allowing some of those stand-alone K-5 schools was that they would be naturally integrated, and was in fact occurring. In some instances, the answer is that it still is, and in another instance the answer is that it is not without moving in black students to those K-5 schools. So that was another factor that was taken into consideration. And I think in the final analysis, although you could justify keeping maybe one or two K-5 schools for another year, the feeling.was . : with the exception of Arcadia, which is really a unique situation, that it would make more sense to put all of those students into a cluster rather than to take two this year and then two next year, and two the year after, and make it part of the total plan. Dr. Payzant continued.

(2) Reports Received 1 - You have a legislative report in your packet of materials and also a report on progress of the Bond Fund projects. Mrs. Hill - Are we going to vote on the student assignment plans on March 17?

Dr. Payzant - I hope to have a recommendation for you on March 17, and your point about the need to move ahead with budgets and other information, everybody involved suggests that we ought to try to go for a decision as early as possible. PERSONNEL REPORT A motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Dr. Hamm that the persons listed in the Personnel Report be employed and that contracts with the teachers listed on the form be approved and1 executed in the name of the District by the Superintendent or person by him designated; also, that other personnel recommendations and information listed be approved.

R. #85^ Personnel Approved

Dr. Payzant called attention to two changes in the report. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. (Personnel listings - pages 144-153.) PAYROLLS, ENCUMBRANCES AND PURCHASING It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Potts to approve recommendations #1 and #2 (ratification of February payrolls and authorization of March payrolls) and payment of encumbrances as listed for February 14-25, 1980. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #86a > Approval of Payrolls and Encumbrances

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Purchasing

1. #86fc> Approval of Wchasing

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of the following purchase items:

Roof Coating

Roof coating for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from Standard Materials Corporation which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $ 1,531.20 to be charged to Account BL 5620.05. 2.

Chalkboards, Tackboard and Map Rail Chalkboards, tackboard, and map and display rail for use by Maintenance/Engineering and External Funding Departments from Thompson Book & Supply Company which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $4,780.00 to be charged to the following Accounts:

BL 5620.05 1230.03, Title I

Total

4,550.00 230.00

4,780.00

Cardboard Boxes and Packing Envelopes Cardboard boxes and packing envelopes for use by Supply and Distribution from the following companies which submitted the low quotations: $ 1,661.15 683.50

Sooner Box Company Graham Paper Company

Total

$ 2:,344-.65J

These purchases are to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Vacuum Pump Vacuum pump for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from Federal Corporation which submitted the only quotation in the amount of $3,120.00 to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Teaching Aids

Teaching masters, Textbook purchase

aids (language visuals, vocabulary games and builders, duplicating etc.) for use by School Operations (Elementary Schools) from National Company (available only from designated publishers/distributor). This in the amount of $1,124.10 is to be charged to Account G 240.01.

Music Supplies Music supplies - strings for use by the Fifth Year Centers from the following companies -which submitted the low quotations:

Inter-City Violin Studios, Inc. Hallmark Music, Inc.

Total

$ $

2,071.20 12.00 2,083.20

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 740.03.

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Paint and Related Items Paint and related items (paint remover, lacquer, brushes, paint, drop cloths, varnish, enamel, etc.) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

BPS Paint Company Cook Paint & Varnish Company PPG Industries Del Paint Mfg. Corporation Anchor Paint Company Southwestern Patin Company

5,613.50 155.80 5,044.02 17,804.20 166.56 14,040.11

$ 42,824.29

Total

These purchases are to be charged to Account BL 5620.05. 8.

Thermostat Controls, Exhaust Fans & Grilles Thermostat controls, exhaust fans & grilles for use by Central Food Service Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: R. B. Akins Company Tuttle & Bailey O'Connor-Oklahoma Company, Inc. Graybar Electric Company Total

1,954.00 4,855.60 616.82 402.36

7,828.78

These purchases are to be charged to CFS Account.

Instructional Supplies

Instructional supplies (stencils, pens, pencils, markers, rulers, tape, rubber bands, staples, flags, etc.) for use by Supply and Distribution from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Standard Stationery Supply Company MacMillan Arts & Arts and Crafts Graham Paper Company Oklahoma Paper Company Carpenter Paper Company Rolee Flag Company A. B. Dick Products of 0. C. Constructive Playthings Rex Sales Company, Inc. Elgin School Supply Company, Inc. Asel Art Supply Company Dowlings, Inc. Favor. Ruhl. Company Thompson Book & Supply Company Total

16,185.80 9,072.60 11,920.00 35,662.45 1,445.00 867.00 18,968.50 4,010.00 598.00 4,113.00 1 ,040.00 9,225.00 221.04 4,509.00

$ 117,837.39

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.00. 10.

Confirmation Payment Permission for confirmation payment to M. R. Equipment Company, Inc., for repair of Model 955 Caterpillar Loader for the Maintenance Department. This expenditure in the amount of $1,835.62 is to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

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BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION

R. #87 Acceptance of Low Bid for Replacement and Modernization of Elevators

Central Food Service Statement - Information to the Board

A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Hamm for the acceptance of the < low bid and the awarding of a contract to Jester and Associates for replacement and modernization of elevators at Central and Capitol Hill High Schools and the Administration Building. The contract in the amount of $108,000 is to be charged to the Bond Fund.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. The Central Food Service Statement as of January 31, 1980 was submitted as information to the Board.

HEARINGS Mr. English called on the following persons who had registered to address the Board:

Karey Sharp

Suzie Liljestrand

Jack Winters

Cherry Williams

Angela Minton

Sally Bentley

Thomas Cox Allen

Donna Myers

Brenda Martin

Karey Sharp, a student at Central Innovative High School, expressed appreciation to the Board and administration for the interest shown in the school,and alternative education.

Ms. Liljestrand spoke regarding the deficit of teachers in certain areas. Mr. Winters referred to various priorities of the Board and the budget.

Ms. Williams, Ms. Minton, Ms. Bentley, and Mr. Allen spoke in protest to the closing of Nichols Hills School. Ms. Myers expressed a concern as to when the Hearings are placed in the agenda. Ms. Martin's remarks related to two policies for consideration in the agenda Professional 'Staff Salary Schedule and Professional Staff Supplementary Pay Plan. UNFINISHED BUSINESS R. #88 Approval of Resolution (Statement) to Continue Central Innovative High School

It was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams to adopt a resolution (statement) to continue Central Innovative High School as an alternative school with programs outlined previously by the Board. h Mr. English - There is no resolution prepared. continue the school is sufficient.

I think probably a statement to

Dr. Payzant- Yes, that is the intent of the recommendation that I made at the last Board meeting, and the purpose for doing so was to clear the air of some rumors that have been circulating that there was a possibility that Central would be closed for next year. I believe that we have made a reasonably good transition at this stage in the past two weeks and look to a good commitment from students, the staff at Central, and the new building administrator there to do some of the things that Karey was talking about in his remarks to the Board about building on the strengths of the program and eliminating some weaknesses and having it continue to provide a very real alternative for a number of our young people in this community, and I would like to see the Board go on record to that effect now to so clear the air that we can get on about the business of improving that school.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; and Mr. English voted .aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

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Mrs. Potts asked Dr. Payzant to comment on some of the changed directions that are being looked at for Central Innovative High School. Dr.< Payzant - Right now members of the staff there are working on a number of things with respect to the curriculum and program.' I see the curriculum and program coming close to continuing the kind of purposes that were established at the time that the school was proposed back in 1975. I think there were two areas in which substantial changes will take place or have already taken place. One is to bring the practices with respect to smoking areas into compliance with Board policy, and the second is to work on the attendance procedures at the school so that we can have the appropriate records of attendance to report as we are required to do so to be eligible for our state reimbursement. I don't mean to overemphasize those two changes; they are often ones that are very important at least at the symbolic level. The real essence of the program in terms of providing a lot of choices for students in curriculum and instruction,:, and in learning activities, I think will be retained and strengthened in that the school will be much stronger both in spirit and its real practices in the months and years ahead.

Remarks Re Central Innovative High School Dr. Payzant

Mrs. Williams - And the lottery will continue as is?

Dr. Payzant - The student lottery in terms of the selection of students; yes, that will continue.

Mrs. Hill - I noticed in the functions of the school, it said that we would provide an opportunity for initiating programs which may be eventually transferred to other schools. Will we start to maybe pick up on some of these ideas that apparently have not come about? Dr. Payzant - My firt purpose and priority will be to help Central become a strong ongoing program for the students who are involved there, and not to focus on transferring basic aspects of that program to other schools. I think that is what really needs the attention now over the next year. Mrs. Hill - How does the cost there compare with otter schools per child?

Dr. Payzant - I will have to get that information; I don't have that.

Mrs. Williams - Will we advertise competitively for the principal ship after the interim? â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dr. Payzant - The appointment that I have made of Mr. Claud Todd is for acting principal for the balance of the school year, and at the time that I made the appointment, I indicated that we make a decision later this spring on what the next steps would be with respect to a permanent assignment at Central. That includes a number of alternatives, opening it up for a selection procedure within the district; opening it up within the district and beyond, and I haven't reached a decision on that at this point. I think he in accepting the assignment recognizes that it is a temporary acting assignment both in terms of what he is interesting in doing next year and the year beyond, and what we might.be interested in having him do. That is the extent of the agreement at this point. Motion made by Mr. English and seconded by Mrs. Williams at the meeting of February 5, 1980, for consideration at the March 3 meeting of the Board:

"I move that this Board ask the Oklahoma County Election Board to permit voting at all public schools and regular polling places located within Election Districts Three and Four during the April 8 and May 6 elections,: and further that this Board ask the Superintendent to publicize the availability of these additional voting sites." Mr. English stated: Since we have been under some criticism from some quarters that we haven't had a big voter turnout in the last two elections, we thought that we should do all we could to improve that, and that by expanding the number of voting places we will be trying to do that, plus we are instructing the Superintendent to publicize the locations of these voting sites.

Mrs. Hill - To those of us who are on the borderline, because my voting district is in Putnam City; to me, I see a confusion that could occur, so I would prefer to leave it as it has been with the Superintndent publicizing the voting sites. Mrs. Hill - I don't recall what the additional cost for the election would be. Dr. Payzant - The additional cost for both elections would be $11,600.

Mrs. Williams - What are the advantages?

R. #89 Approval to Permit Voting at all Public Schools and Regular Polling Places for Election Districts #3 & #4

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Mr. English - I think by having the regular precinct polling places included, you know each time there is an election you have a sign out there in front of the polling place that says "-Vote Here Today", a notification that there is an election there. < It also puts it closer to the voters so that they can go right across the street or within a few blocks of their homes to vote, and I think this is going to result in a larger turnout.

Dr. Start - I would add the thing about confusion that all surrounds every school board election, and it is the only election held 'in the schools. All other elections, you go to your polling place. And every time we have a school board election, I hear say they go to vote and the place was closed. For once now, you can go, at least in Districts Three and Four, to your regular polling place to vote. I think it is a perfect opportunity to try it. I think it is very important that we make this successful, especially in view of that very slim minority in this community who are so exercised about our recent vo-tech election. Mrs. Potts - I think it does give us a sort of a pilot to compare and see what kind of difference we get in votes. For the future, whether we really want to expand and pay the cost for the expansion of more places to vote or if it hardly makes any difference at all in the number of people who turn out to vote, then it seems to me make a case the other way. So it kind of gives us the chance to find out. Mrs. Williams - Some of the polling places are in the schools already.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted nay; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted a>e; Dr. Hamm voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

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A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Potts to approve information and resolutions related to school elections as follows:

A. A Resolution for a nomination election of the School District Electors of Independent School District Number 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, will be held in twenty-eight(28) voting places in Area #3 in said District on the 8th day of April, 1980, beginning at 7:00 a.m. and closing at 7:00 p.m. on said date, to consider or vote upon:

A Member of Board of Education, Office Number 3

POLLING PLACES - ELECTION April 8, 1980 WARD NUMBER

PRECINCT NUMBER

NAME

ADDRESS

Buchanan School

4126 N. W. 18

West Side Lions

4235 N. W. 10

St. Ann's Home

3825 N. W. 19

Kaiser School

3101 N. Lyon Blvd.

Kaiser School

3101 N.

Ridgecrest United Methodist

3629 N. W. 25

Westwood School

1701 Exchange Ave.

Columbus School

2402 S. Pennsylvania

Location Pending

Linwood Methodist Church

3034 N. W. 17

Arts Institute

2517 N. W. 23

Hogue Stone Carpet Co.

2210 N. W. 23

Safeway Store

N. W. 16th & Drexel

W. S. Murphy

2545 N. W. 1

Hawthorne School

2300 N. W. 15

.18

Linwood School

3416 N. W. 17

OSU Vo-Tech

900 North Portland

Sequoyah School

2400 N. W. 36

Sequoyah School

2400 N. W. 36

Madison School

3117 N. Independence

Shepard Mall

2720 Villa Prom

May Avenue Methodist Church

2604 North May

Taft Middle School

2901 N. W. 23

Madison School

3117 N. Independence

Carver Center

2801 S. W. 3

Jackson Middle School

2601 S. Villa

Mark Twain School

2451 West Main

Northwest Classen High

2801 N. W.27

*District owned buildings

Lyon Blvd.

R. #90 Resolutions Adopted Related to School El ections

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A Resolution for a nomination election of the School District Electors of Independent School District Number 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, will be held in twenty-eight (28) voting places in Area #4 in said district on the 8th day of April, 1980, beginning at 7:00 a.m. and closing at 7:00 p.m. on said date, to consider or vote upon:

A Member of Board of Education, Office Number 4 POLLING PLACES - ELECTION April 8, 1980 WARD NUMBER

PRECINCT NUMBER

NAME

ADDRESS

Harding Middle School

3333 N. Shartel

Christian Church Youth Center

3700 N. Walker

Wilson School

2215 N. Walker

Location Pending

Sacred Heart Church

2700 S. Shartel

Capitol Hill Middle School

2717 S. Robinson

Shidler School

1415 S. Byers

Wheeler School

501 S. E. 25

St. Francis Church

1901 N. W. 18

Gatewood School

1821 N. W. 21

Wilson School

2215 N. Walker

First Free Methodist Church

1900 N. W. 13

St. Lukes Methodist Church

222 N. W. 15

Willard School

1400 N. W. 3

Emerson School

715 North Walker

Emerson-School

715 North Walker

Towers Apartments

135 N. W. 9

Emerson School

715 North Walker

Salvation Army

330 S. W. 4

Riverside School

421 S. W. 11

Riverside School

421 S. W. 11

Kiwanis Park

35th & N. Western

University Place Christian Church

♦District owned buildings

2801 N. McKinl

Administration Building

900 North Klein

Central Innovative

817 N. Robinson

Classen High School

1801 N. Ellison

Edgemere School

3200 N. Walker

Eugene Field

1515 N. Klein

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A Resolution for general election of the School District Electors of Independent School District Number 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, will be held in twenty-eight (28) voting places in Area #3 in said district on the 6th day of May, 1980, beginning at 7:00 a.m. and closing at 7:00 p.m. on said date, to consider or vote upon:

A Member of Board of Education, Office Number 3

POLLING PLACES - ELECTION May 6, 1980 PRECINCT NUMBER

WARD NUMBER

NAME

ADDRESS

Buchanan School

4126 N. W. 18

West Side Lions

4235 N. W. 10

St. Ann’s Home

3825 N. W. 19

Kaiser School

3101 N. Lyon Blvd.

Kaiser School

3101 N. lyon Blvd.

Ridgecrest United Methodist

3629 N. W. 25

Westwood School

1701 Exchange Ave.

Columbus School

2402 S. Pennsylvania

Location Pending

Linwood Methodist Church

3034 N. W. 17

Arts Institute

2517 N. W. 23

Hogue Stone Carpet Co.

2210 N. W. 23

Safeway Store

N. W. 16th & Drexel

W. S. Murphy

2545 N. W. 1

Hawthorne School

2300 N. W. 15

Linwood School

3416 N. W. 17

OSU Vo-Tech

900 North Portland

Sequoyah School

2400 N. W. 36

Sequoyah School

2400 N. W. 36

Madison School

3117 N. Independence

Shepard Mall

2720 Villa Prom

May Avenue Methodist Church

2604 North Nay

Taft Middle School

2901 N. W. 23

Madison School

3117 N. Independence

Carver Center

2801 S. W. 3

Jackson Middle School

2601 S. Villa

Mark Twain School

2451 West Main

Northwest Classen High

2801 N. W.27

♦District owned buildings

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Adoption of the following Resolution to the County Election Board, Oklahoma County Oklahoma: RESOLUTION:

R. #90 Resolutions Adopted Related to School Elections cont'd

An election of the School District Electors of Independent School District Number 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, will be held at one hundred twenty-two (122) school buildings in said District* on the 8th day of April, 1980, beginning at 7:00 a.m. and ending at 7:00 p.m. on said date, to consider or vote upon:

(a)

Emergency Levy - 5 Mills

(b)

Local Support Levy - 10 Mills

(c)

Building Fund Levy - 5 Mills ANNUAL ELECTION *P0LLING PLACES - April 8, 1980

NAME Adams Administration Bldg. Adult Day Center Arcadia Arthur Belle Isle Vo-Tech Bodi ne Britton Buchanan Burbank Capitol Hill Middle Capitol Hill High Carver Central Classen Columbus Cooli dge Creston Hills Davis Dewey Douglass Dunbar Edgemere Edwards Eisenhower Eugene Field Fillmore Foster Estes Vo-Tech Garden Oaks Gatewood Grant Green Pastures Harding Harrison Hawthorne Hayes Heronville Hillcrest Horace Mann Hoover Jackson Jefferson Johnson Kaiser Martin Luther King Lafayette Lee Lincoln Li nwood Longfellow Christain Church St. Francis Church St. Lukes Meth. Church Salvation Army Univ. Pl. Christian St. Ann's Home Linwood Meth. Church Hogue Stone Carpet W. S. Murphy Shepard Mall New Parkview Village Laundry

ADDRESS 3416 S. W. 37 900 North Klein 715 North Walker Arcadia, Okla. 5100 S. Independence 5904 North Villa 5301 South Bryant 1215.N. W. 95 4126 N. W. 18 3232 N. W. 65 2717 S. Robinson 500 S. W. 36 2801 S. W. 3 817 N. Robinson 1901 N. Ellison 2402 S. Pennsylvania 5212 South Villa 2240 N. E. 19 324 S. E. 53 3500 N. Lindsay 900 N. Eastern 1432 N. E. 7 3200 N. Walker 1123 N. E. Grand Blvd. 1301 N. E. Eisenhower 1515 North Klein 5200 S. Blackwelder 4901 South Bryant 3401 N. E. 16 1821 N. W. 21 5016 S. Pennsylvania 4300 N. Post Road 3333 N. Shartel 721 Britton Road 2300 N. W. 15 6900 South Byers 1240 S. W. 29 6421 S. Miller 1105 N. W. 45 2401 N. W. 115 2601 South Villa 6800 S. Blackwelder 1810 Sheffield Road 3125 Lyon Blvd. 1537 N. E. 24 500 S. W. 49 424 S. W. 29 1138 North Geary 3416 N. W. 17 1201 N. E. 48 3700 N. Walker 1901 N. W. 18 222 N. W. 15 330 S. W. 4 2801 N. McKinley 3825 N. W. 19 3034 N. W. 17 2210 N. W. 23 2545 N. W. 1 2720 Villa Prom 1255 S. W. 22

NAME Madison Mark Twain Marshall Mayfair Monroe Moon Nichols Hills Northeast North Highland Northwest Classen Oakridge Page-Woodson Parker Parmelee Pierce Polk Prairie Queen Putnam Heights Quail Creek Rancho Village Ridgeview Riverside Rockwood Rogers Roosevelt Ross Sequoyah Service Center Shidler Shields Heights Southeast Southern Hills Spencer Stand Watie Star Star Spencer Stonegate Sunset Taft Telstar Truman Van Buren Webster W. Nichols Hills Western Village Westwood Wheeler Willard Willow Brook Wi1 son Sacred Heart Church First Free Meth. Church Towers Apartments Kiwanis Park West Side Lions Ridgecrest U. Meth. Ch. Arts Institute Safeway Store OSU Vo-Tech May Ave. Meth. Church Dean's Furniture

ADDRESS 3117 N. Independence 2451 West Main 9017 N. University 3200 N. W. 48 4810 North Linn 1901 N. E. 13 1301 Wilshire Blvd. 3100 North Kelley 8400 N. Robinson 2801 N. W. 27 4100 Leonhardt Dr. 600 North High 12000 N. E. 42 6700 South Hudson 4101 S. W. 27 Place 3806 N. Prospect 6609 S. Blackwelder 1601 N. W. 36 11700 Thorn Ridge Rd. 1401 S. Johnston Dr. 10010 N. Ridgeview 421 S. W. 11 3101 S. W. 24 4000 N. Spencer Rd. 3233 S. W. 44 4120 Magnolia 2400 N. W. 36 2700 N. Miramar 1415 South Byers 301 S. E. 38 5401 South Shields 7800 S. Kentucky 8900 N. E. 50 3517 South Linn 8917 N. E. 23 3001 N. Spencer Road 2525 N. W. 112 3105 Sunset Boulevarc 2901 N. W. 23 9521 N. E. 16 1324 N. Kelham 2700 S. W. 40 6708 S. Santa Fe 8400 N. Greystone 1508 N. W. 106 1701 Exchange 501 S. E. 25 1400 N. W. 3 8105 N. E. 10 2215 North Walker 2700 S. Shartel 1900 N. W. 13 135 N. W. 9 35th & N. Western 4235 N. W. 10 3629 N. W. 25 2517 N. W. 23 N. W. 16 & Drexel 900 North Portland 2604 North May 1029 S. W. 29

141

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R. #90 Resolutions Adopted Related to School Elections cont'd

Approval of the employment of the County Election Board of Oklahoma County, and election officials thereof, to conduct the following elections:

held April 8, 1980.

(a)

A Nomination Election to be

(b)

An Annual Mill Levy Election to be held April 8, 1980.

(c)

A General Election to be

held May 6, 1980.

The elections to be held at polling places designated by the Board of Education. Also approval of payment of compensation at the established rate to the election officials and Election Board office personnel helping to conduct the elections, and payment of other election expenses, including the rental and transportation cost of voting machines, election supplies and the printing of ballots.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted nay; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. R. #91 Approval of Pol i cy for Improvement of Personnel Recruitment Professional Staff Salary Schedule

It was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of policies for improvement of personnel recruitment and retention of quality staff, as follows: GCBA

PROFESSIONAL STAFF SALARY SCHEDULE The Board believes that students benefit from having a diversified staff and the district should try to attract teachers who can contribute to a diverse educational program. In order to attract experienced teachers to the district, the Board will:

Place a reemployed teacher at the same experience level on the teachers' salary schedule to which he/she was entitled at the time of separation. Placement on the salary schedule is subject to any general changes in educational level or salary schedule. Substitute teaching in the district in excess of 50 percent of the school year will be recognized as a year-of employment, but not as a year of experience for salary placement purposes.

Effective Date:

7/1/80

After inquiring and discussing the retroactiveness of the plan for. approved teaching experience for those teachers who are already employed, Mrs. Hill moved to table the motion until the Superintendent could bring back information on what it would cost to make it retroactive. There being'!no second to the motion, Mr. English declared that the motion died for lack of a second.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

Dr. Start asked that he repent on his remarks about information being requested by Mrs. Hill on the cost to make the conditions of the policy retroactive, and stated that he would like to encourage the Superintendent to work up the estimate if it didn't take more than eight hours of staff time to prepare an estimate.

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A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and 'seconded by Mrs. Williams for approval of the policy R. #92 Approval of -â&#x20AC;˘Professional Staff Supplementary Pay Plan, as follows: ; Policy for GCBB Improvement of PROFESSIONAL STAFF SUPPLEMENTARY PAY PLAN Personnel Recruitment and The Board believes that it has the responsibility to provide the best Retention of teachers possible and recognizes there is a shortage of certified Quality Staff secondary teachers in science, mathematics, industrial arts, vocational Professional Staff trade and industry* and vocational agriculture. Therefore, the district Supplementary Pay shall: Plan

Pay a bonus of $100.00 per year to teachers who are properly certified for each hour of secondary school classroom instruction in industrial arts;

Pay a one-time bonus of $500.00 to teachers who are new to the district, properly certified in industrial arts and assigned three or more classroom hours per day of instruction.

The bonus will be divided into four equal payments to be paid at the end of each quarter. Teachers who terminate before the end of a quarter shall not be paid the bonus for that quarter or remaining quarters in the work year. *Does not include Interdisci plinary Cooperative Education or Industrial Cooperative Education. Effective Date:

7/1/80

Mrs. Hill - I would urge us not to pass this policy because I do have problems with recognizing maybe one area of teaching, rather than all teaching, and I do think that we do need to work to improve the teaching salaries of all of our employees. I think when we raise the salaries and the working conditions of all, we will not have that problem. So I urge you not to vote for this. Mr. the how you are

English - I am supporting this policy because I believe we are working to improve pay of all t|ie employees of the district, but I am a little lost, Mrs. Hill, on we are going to get the math teachers in and where we have shortages, how are going to attract them in without additional money then? If pay is a problem, how you going to bring them in here?

Mrs. Hill - I think we need to improve the salaries of all teachers, and not just one or two areas. Mrs. Potts - My concern for the passage of this motion is that we really need to be out recruiting these people right now if we are going to get the top people, and this is something that a committee of teachers have pointed out that we need to be in the forefront of those who are out recruiting instead of being in a position to do it before the very end of the hiring period. I think passage of this gives us that little extra edge that may help us get some of the best people as well as get people, period, in these areas. Dr. Hamm - I was speaking to the mother of a math major who is graduating this spring, and she is going to be a certified teacher. She has already received not only letters but visits from some of our surrounding districts. The mother said that she did not want to teach in the Oklahoma City School District. I pointed out to her the possibility of some things that might be happening, and she said that might change her mind; she might consider it. So this is a recruiting tool. It, to me, might influence a person who is going to be a teacher? and they are just trying to make up their mind where they are going to teach,"?- that they would favorably consider our district.

Oh roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted nay; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

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R. #93 Approval to Establish Position of Coordinator of Staff Recruitment

It was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams to authorize the establishing of the position of Coordinator of Staff Recruitment for assignment to the Personnel Services Division, effective March, 1980. Mrs. Potts - Where is the money coming from for that, and how soon would you anticipate filling the position?

Dr. Start - Our treasurer Just invested at 14 percent, and I think that is something that we hadn't anticipated on.

Dr. Payzant - I have made the commitment right along that I am not going to add any administrative positions, and when you see my recommendations for the 1980-81 budget, you will not see an increase in administrative positions. I have four administrative positions that were saved as the result of the reorganization plan that have never been filled, that were being held pending the possible implementation of a subdistrict plan which I did not recommmed and the Board has not adopted. So, there are four administrative positions there to work with. I may even be able to do better than that; you will not see an overall increase in administrative positions in my budget recommendations, and I am hoping that you will see some reductions. Mrs. Potts - We would be trying to fill this position how soon?

Dr. Payzant - If the Board authorizes it, it will be posted in the morning>by. tomorrow afternoon, as soon as the typing can be done.

Mrs. Potts - Then that would be under this year's budget? Dr. Payzant - Yes. Presumably we would not have somebody appointed until the end of this month or early April, so it would be three months on this year's budget.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted nay; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

NEW BUSINESS

None. EXECUTIVE SESSION

L #94 toard Recessed to Executive Session - 10:30 p.m.

It was moved by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the Board recess to executive session to discuss litigations, negotiations, and personnel. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

L #95 toard Returned to )pen Session 2:17 a.m.

Having completed its executive session, it was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Mr. Donwerth that the Board return to open session. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

ADJOURNMENT

L #96 Adjournment 2:18 a.m.

A motion to adjourn was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Potts. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the Clerk's office.)

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA ) I, the undersigned Clerk of the Board of Education of Independent School District Number 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours before the meeting, the date, time and place of the Regular Meeting was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. I also certify that at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, notice of the date, time, place and agenda of this meeting was posted in permanent public view at the location of the meeting^.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district this /? day

Clerk, Oklahoma City Board of Education

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_________ Personnel

TERMINATIONS Major Classes of Terminations:

Voluntary Resignation

a. b. c. d. e.

Changing employment i Leaving Oklahoma City Area Early Retirement Personal Reasons No reason given

Mandatory Retirement

Notice of Dismissal

Discontinuance of Employment

a. b. c. d. e. f.

Termination from leaive of absence Elimination of posit;ion Expiration of employment period Unqualified for position Deceased Abandoned position

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Terminations

Annual

$10186.

B.S. UA

‘Grant Social Studies

1-07-80

Ridgeview Primary

2-08-80

Marshall Electronics

2-12-80

King Intermediate

1-18-80

Gardner, Lee

Northwest Science

1-29-80

Bickford, Cecil

10186.

Longfellow Intermediate

2-12-80

King Reading

1-25-80

Eugene Fields Primary

2-26-80

Jackson Language Arts

—g-llloo

Reeves, Michael

Baker, Jimmy

Athey, Sharon

Bengston, L.H. Clark, Berkeley Hunter, Alfred

Employments

1-17-80

King Intermediate

B.S, OU

1-28-80

Northwest Science

13031.

B.S. OCU

1-15-80

Taft Band/Orchestra

Boatman, Marilyn

10186.

B.A. BN

1-28-80

Capitol Hill Middle Language Arts

Gardner, Michael

Doyle, Barbara

12161.

B.S. ECSU

1-22-80

Northwest Science

James. Hattie

Essermnn. David

11349.

B.S. CSU

1-17-80

Carver Driver Ed.

Dugger, Helen

Fowler, Catherine

10186.

B.A. OCU

1-08-80

Gatewood Primary

Kihcade, Rebecca

Night, Logan Richardson. Karen

Seheben, Velma Smith, Carroll

Thomas, Bettye

1 - UA - University of Arizona - Tucson, Arizona

145

MEETING OF MARCH 3, 1980 - CONT'D personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

SALARY

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Terminations

Employments

Annual

Murray, Mary

Gardner, Ruth

$11749.

B.A. CSU

2-05-80

Adult Education Learning Center

Kelley, Susan

Hanlgar, Brenda

11349,

B.A. OCU

1-09-80

Dewey Intermediate

Bluethman, Randy

Hardesty, Allen

12161.

B.S, OSU

1-11-80

Douglass Science

Davidson, Pat

Haves. Wanda

10186.

B.S. CSU

1-30-80

Adams Learning Center

Nees, Carol

Heflev. Ema

14681.

M. Ed. CSU

12-17-79

Fuller, Shirley

Holt, Cynthia

10378.

B.S. OSU

1-21-80

Lee Learning Center

Johnson, Judith

Jamison, Steven

10186.

B.S. OU

1-21-80

Capitol Hill High Science

Rosenthal, Merrigaye

Johnson, Susan

10186,

B.S. OSU

1-07-80

Harding Home Economics

Watts, Bernice

LaCoste, Thomas

10186.

B.A. CSU

1-21-80

Jackson Language Arts

Bradford, Connie

Masters, Paula

10378,

B.S. CSU

1-21-80

Northwest Home Economics

Black, Jerry

Mila. Diane

10186.

B.S. LSU

1-10-80

Lincoln Intermediate

Lampkin, Janet

Nelson, Dorothy

15869.

M. Ed. CSU

12-17-79

Marshall Social Studies

Cody, Cindy

Randall. Cherrie

12594.

B.S. CSU

1-17-80

Rogers Social Studies

Sloan, Dennis

Ready, Debra

10186,

B.S. CSU

1-16-80

Rogers Math

Marshall Social Studies

1 - LSU - Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge, La.

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Terminations

Employments

Annual

Bailey, Julia

Scheben, Velma

$12762,

M.S. CSU

12-17-79

Burnett, Donald

Smith, Joyce

10186.

B.S. OSU

1-15-80

Hayes/Oakridge Physical Education

Fugerer, Barbara

Stanley, Mary E.

12575.

M. Ed, OU

1-22-80

Arthur Reading

Burge, Claudette

Starks, Alstene

10186.

B.S. Langston

1-21-80

Marshall Math

Marshall, Ilene

Tyler, Coy Sue

10186.

B.S. CSU

1-21-80

Harrison Primary

Sheldon, Sharon

Usher, Beverly

10186.

B.F.A. IWU 1

1-14-80

Star Spencer Math

Roberts. Cheryl

Warren. Darlene

10695.

B.S. CSU

1-08-80

Classen ED

Moore, Dorothy

Williams, Dorinda

10186.

B.S. CSU

1-08-80

Dunbar Lab. Teacher

10695.

B.S. CSU

1-21-80

Hoover LD

Peck, Nelda

Willy, Barbara

King Reading

i ] i i

Additional Allocations

1 - IWU - Illinois Wesleyan University - Bloomington, Ill. 2 - ED - Bnotionally Disturbed

Diggs, Cornelius

10625.

B.A. Langston

1-22-80

Star Spencer Resource Teacher

Hopson. Beatrice

10695.

B.S. CSU

1-28-80

Mayfair LD

Kniffin, Virginia

11349.

B.S. USAO

1-22-80

Grant Resource Teacher

3 - LD - Learning Disabilities

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PERSONNEL 4

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Employments

Annual

Additional Allocations

Plunk, Paula White, Mary

B.S. CSU

1-30-80

Britton P.T. EWH

10186.

B.S. OCC

1-24-80

Britton Reading

$ 5347.50

Transfers

Employments

Henderson, Joyce

Mezlere, Jacquelyn

14791.

M. Ed. CSU

1-25-80

Harding Asst. Principal

Van Wagoner, Rachel

Roberson, Kathryn

10695.

B.S. OU

1-21-80

Quail Creek MI/LD

Kirkes, Wesley

11436.

2-14-80

Douglass Voc-Auto Mechanic

PROFESSIONAL OTHER

Terminations

Davis, Steven Graham, Charley Smith, James

Wadkins, Brenda

PR&E 3 Research Associate

2-08-80

External Funding Indian Ed. Advisor

1-22-80

Douglass Auto Mechanic

2-15-80

External Funding Comm. Guidance Worker

1-14-80

1 - MI - Educable Mentally Handicapped 2 - LD - Learning Disabilities

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

3 - PR&E - Planning Research & Evaluation

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

PROFESSIONAL OTHER

â&#x20AC;¢

Terminations

Employments

Annual

Gilchrist, Barbara

Jackson, Carmel

$10186.

1-03-80

Rogers Nurse

Owens, Chequita

Lease, Sharon

10683.

1-21-80

External Funding CAS

' 1

Fry, Larry

McCaulev. Earlene

1Z005.

1-22-80

Belle Isle Voc-Business

Stewart, Evelyn

Qualls. Freddie

11436.

2-04-80

Marshall Cosmetology

Rogers, Bennie

Rawlings, LaDeana

10186.

1-03-80

Health Services Nurse

Additional Allocation

Monthly

Cook, Alan

$ 535.

1-28-80

External Funding Indian Ed.Developer

Simpson, Roger

535.

1-28-80

External Funding Indian Ed.Developer

Waldon, Russell

535.

1-28-80

External Funding Indian Ed. Developer

Wilson, Wayne

535.

2-04-80

External Funding Indian Ed. Developer

Yatfifl. Jonn

535.

1-28-80

External Funding Indian Ed. Developer

1 - CAS - Career Awareness Specialist

147

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Ts j.

conf d

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Employments

Terminations

Alvea. Robert D.

Central Innovative Princinal

Annual

4-09-80

tfCTT

Chenev. Robert

n m dn

FOOD SERVICE Terminations

White, Howard

Stubbs, Mary C.

21783.

B.S. OSU

1 - KSU - Kansas State University - Manhattan, Kansas

RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD

Substitute Teachers

Chimelewski, Kathleen Crossley, Mildred Curtis, Mildred Diggs, Cornelius Foster, Charlene Garver, Bobbye D. Gibson, Pauline Houston, Samuel Massad, Janet McDaniel, Craig E. Northrip, Rhonda Pendergraf, Emily 1. Price,- Carol Marie Roseburr, Priscilla Schuddy, Marcia L. Stewart, John B. Taiwo, Ozufemi Tatcher, James Teten, Melody Thanas, Marvin D. Tompkins, James N. Vawter, Diana Watlington, Deborah Watson, Jerome Wilson, MatthewWoodcock, Julie

Home Economics Elementary Elementary History Elementary Social Studies Elementary Social Studies Art Industrial Arts Health and Physical Education Social Studies English Art Art Social Studies Industrial Arts Physical Education Elementary Social Studies Physical Education Elementary Elementary Elementary Physical Education Kindergarten

2-19-80

!'ood Service Administrator

1 J

148

PERSONNEL *

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL Terminations

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

1-18-80

Personnel Secretary

1-16-80

Stand Watie Learning Center Aide

2-01-80

Mark Twain Attendance Clerk

1-15-80

Reading Clinic Reading

SupplyVoucher Accountant

2-08-80

Heronvllle Media Center Aide

2-15-80

Curriculum Processing Clk. II

2-12-80

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

1-18-80

Maint/Englneering Jr. Secretary

2-15-80

Willow Brook Elementary Clerk

1-28-80

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

2-1-80

Green Pastures Secretary II

Accounting Services Bookkeeper

Avis, Dix

Bragg, Debra

Carson, Joyce Clement, Cathleen

Davis, Erma FarmerÂ» Jane

Greear, Sarah Hall, Delois

Henderson, Sherry

Mayberry, Cheryl Morant, Yvonne

Phillips, Cindy Pinon, Jo Ann Reed, Ginger

Employments

Monthly

Welch, Opal

$555.

1-22-80

Ballev. Mary

270.

1-23-80

Mark Twain P.T. Attendance Clk

Brown, Vickie

555.

2-01-80

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

Barnett, Brenda

555.

1-28-80

Green Pastures Secretary II

Crawford, Bobbie

660.

2-04-80

Accounting Services Bookkeeper

West Nichols Hills ..Preschool Aide

12-19-79

12-19-79 1-21-80

s ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

1-24-80

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL

Terminations

Employments

Monthly

$580.

.Curriculum Circulation Clerk

2-01-80

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

1-22-80

Petree, Pam

Douglass P.T. Counselor Aide

2-01-80

Bell, Thelma

267.50

2-04-80

Douglass P.T. Counselor Aide

Bradford, Mary

Brown. Cecilia

277.50

1-03-80

West Nichols Hills P.T. Preschool Aide

Jordan, Barbara

Brown, Sue

535.

1-21-80

Northeast Instructional Aide

Kindle, Paulette

Ennis, Michael

535,

1-22-80

Page-Woodson Learning Ctr. Aide

Milligan, Mary

nenjirika, Ogu

277.50

1-21-80

West Nichols Hills P.T. Preschool Aide '

Huynh, Ngoc

550.

1-24-80

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

Baldwin, Ina

James, Sandra

535.

1-28-80

Willard Aide I

Coursey, Freddie

Langley, Nina

535.

1-25-80

Willard Math Aide

Nealey, Claudia

Renfrow, Joann

270.

1-29-80

Polk/Dewey P.T. Attendance Clk.

Arnold, Susan

Robertson. Mary

535.

1-31-80

Children's Hospital Teacher Aide

Perry, Betty

Rowden, Shirley

545.

1-18-80

Roosevelt Clerk I

Reynolds, Mary Welch, Opal Wilson, Shulah

149

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Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

’

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL Terminations

Employments

Monthly

Switzer, Ruth

Stone, Kathy

$321.

Strenger, Elizabeth

Tuzicka, Sheryl

Newsome, Greta Campbell, Sarah

1-18-80

Eugene Field P.T. Media Aide

277.50

1-17-80

West Nichols Hills P.T. Preschool Aide

Weston, Brenda

535.

1-28-80

Hoover Instructional Aide

Wright, Kay

535.

1-21-80

Dunbar Teacher Aide

Midgett, Marilyn

Hunter, Donna

590.

1-28-80

Purchasing Secretary V

Owens, Mary

McCauley, Joyce

535.

1-21-80

Dunbar Media Center Aide

Arnold, Rosanna

570.

1-16-80

External Funding Clerk III

Moore, Joann

540.

1-16-80

Central/Adult Day Clerk I

Price, Wanda

535.

1-24-80

Stand Watie Aide I

Transfers

1 I

Additional Allocations

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE Terminations

Bills, Lula

Brady, Gwendolyn Clark, Kathryn Evans, Mary

Fuller, Lena

Goldhorn, Grace King, Louise

Linthicum, Jacklyn Mack, Janice Poor, Lucille Romero, Luedes Wooten, Sharon

Employments

4f Id

la le la

lb Id

la le la

la Id

Heiner

1-17-80

Helper

'11-30-79

Heiner

1-25-80

Helper

1-25-80

Helper

1-04-80

Helper

1-18-80

Helper

1-09-80

Helper

1-18-80

Helper

12-07-79

Helper

1-24-80

Helper

1-18-80

Helper

12-21-79

Hourly

______________________ 1

- - ------

*Applications Processed Booth, Pamela

*Awaiting Assignment

—4

........ —

$ 3.15

1-24-80

Helper

150

________ MEETING OF MARCH 3, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE

Employments

Hourly

*Appllcatlons Processed

Fulsom, Michael

$3.15

1-22-80

Helper

Hardimon, Althea

3.15

1-29-80

Helper

Holten, Cherry

3.15

1-29-80

Helper

Jefferson, Geraldine

3.15

1-28-80

Helper

Keller, Patricia

3.15

1-10-80

Helper

Potter, Howard

3.15

1-04-80

Helper

Williams, Ida

3.15

1-15-80

Helper

Wilson, Emma

3.15

1-24-80

Helper

Yager, Gall

3.15

1-29-80

Helper

Student Trainee

Carter, Evon McDonald, Marketta

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

EOnn SERVTCE

NAME

$2.90

12-01-79

Trainee .

2.90

11-26-79

Trainee

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

T**nves of Absence

Ill Health Helper

Wltwlskj f Mary

12-16-79

SUPPLY i

Hnployments

Monthly

Davis. Stevie

$ 615.

1-21-80

Warehouse Worker

GreathouseP Rnhhv

615.

1-14-80

Warehouse Worker

Whlt.ann, Melvin

Smith, Harold

615.

1-22-80

Warehouse Worker----

Harvey, Paul

â&#x2013; White,. Charlene-----------------------

615.

1-28-80

Warehouse Worker

Terminations

Cnmhs, Richard Merry, Rrepda Wiley, Clifton

lb Id

' la

Warehouse Worker

1-16-80

Records Clerk

1-18-80

Warehouse Worker

1-18-80

151

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Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

TRANSPORTATION Terminations Amour, Joseph

Bova, Patricia

Edwards, Sam Forostf. * Don Mpp Ipv .

T.iipnnn

Owens. Elizabeth

4f la

4f 3

4f 4f

NAME

Bus Driver

1-23-80

Bus Driver

1-22-80

Bus Driver

1-23-80

Bus Driver

1-30-80

Bus Driver

1-28-80

Bus Driver

1-28-80

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

Employments

Monthly

Amour, Joseph

$ 475.

1-22-80

Bus Driver

Beasley, Gloria

300,

1-04-80

Bus Aide

Burrough, Oather

395.

1-24-80

Bus Driver

Coulter, Michael

395.

1-22-80

Bus Driver

Goldman, Lula

395.

1-14-80

Bus Driver

Holly, Vincent

395.

2-04-80

Bus J2xÂ±zer----------------

McGee, Lee V,

410.

1-15-80

Bus Driver

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

ASSIGNMENT

TRANSPORTATION

Hnnloyments

Monthly

Mvers, Dessie

$ 425.

1-28-80

Bus Driver

Rex, Lawrence

395.

1-14-80

Bus Driver

Tlmsah, Mohamad

125.

1-17-80

P.T. Bus Driver

Wilkerson, David

395.

1-17-80

Bus Driver

Smith, Michael

605.

2-01-80

Northeast Custodial Worker

Johnson, Evelyn

605.

2-04-80

Marshall Custodial Worker

King, Reginald

605.

2-04-80

Rogers Custodial Worker

SERVICE

Terminations

Allen, Kathleen Bryant, Mattle

Ellis, Archie Henderson, Effie

Johnson, Terry Long, Clarence 1 Jeer, Gertrude

Northeast Custodial Worker

1-23-80

Davis Custodial Worker

2-01-80

Pierce Custodial Worker

1-31-80

Marshall Custodial Worker

1-17-80

All Schools Custodial Worker

1-16-80

All Schools Custodial Worker

1-25-80

Rogers Custodial Worker

1-18-80

___

152

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Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ■<

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

1-16-80

Davis Custodial Worker Classen .Custodial Worker—

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Employments

Monthly

Leger, Jan

Bryant, Matthew

$ 605.

Ilennesy, Millard

Laviolette, Cornelius

605, ...

1-21-80

Lewis, Rayford

830.

,,.1-21-80.

Ossai, Augustine

605.

1-17-80

Marshall Custodial Worker

Overstreet. Shirley

605.

1-14-80

Oakridge Custodial Worker

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

Terminations

Patzkowski, Benjamin Rahman!, All Thompson > James

Tipton, Miirray Weaver, Larry Wynder, Glenda

Stand Watle Custodial Worker

1-25-80

Administration Bldg. Custodial Worker

2-1A-8O

Capitol Hill Middle Head Custodian

1-28-80

Heronville Custodial Worker

1-08-80

Jefferson Custodial Worker

1-28-80

Willow Brook Custodial Worker

2-01-80

Star Spencer Head Custodian

Transfers

Silas. Jonathan

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

ASSIGNMENT

—SERVICE

Transfers

Bnployments

Monthly

King, David

Simmons, Robert

$ 605.

2-01-80

Capitol Hill High Custodial Worker

Baker, Emmitt

Washington, James

605.

1-23-80

Grant Custodial Worker

Milton, Earl

Watson, Albert

605.

1-16-80

Marshall Custodial Worker

Bnployraents-Substltutes

Hourly

Patterson, Otho

$ 3.15

2-01-80

Pierce

3.15

2-05-80

Stand Watle

1-28-80

Plumbing

Patzkowski. Beniamin

MAINTENANCE

Terminations Henderson, Ray

Young, James

Simpkins, Kevin

le 3

Grounds

Serviceman

Bnployments

Monthly

Richardson. James

t 890.

12-10-79

1-23-80

153

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Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

1-21-80

Stationary Officer

CAMPUS POLICE

Terminations Laskey, Anthony

Mack, Gwendolyn

Patrolman

Emnlovments

Monthly

Welch, Billy

$ 625.

1-03-80

154

MINUTES OF MEETING OF MARCH 10, 1980

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, MET IN A SPECIAL MEETING IN THE AUDITORIUM, FOSTER ESTES VO-TECH CENTER, â&#x2013; <

4901 SOUTH BRYANT, MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1980, AT 8:00 P.M. PRESENT:

PaulEnglish, President Mrs. Pat Potts, Vice President Floyd Donwerth, Member Delbert Hamm, Member Mrs. Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member

ABSENT:

Mrs. Freddye Williams, Member

Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; representatives of the news media and other interested persons. The meeting was called to order by Mr. English.

Call to Order

Roll call established that six of the seven Board members were present.

Roll Call

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT

Dr. Payzant reported:

(1)

Petition Filed by American Federation of Teachers - The AFT (American Federation of Teachers) went into Judge Carmon Harris' courtroom this afternoon and asked the Judge to issue an injuntion enjoining the School District from holding the representation election on March 18, and the AFT's motion for an injunction was denied. I anticipate that the AFT tomorrow will appeal Judge Harris' ruling to the Supreme Court; if not tomorrow, in the next day or two.

(2)

Abstract for Grant Application - I have just distributed to you an abstract of another grant application which did not get in your packet on Friday, which I will be asking you to consider next Monday night at the regular 1-89 meeting.

Dr. Start - Did Judge Harris give any reason for denying the injunction? Dr. Payzant - Yes, he did. He went back and reviewed the earlier decisions that he had made and said that at the time in early October when he granted the AFT's motion to be included on the ballot for the representation election that was held October 30, he did so because in early October there was only a temporary injunction in force to decertify or disqualify the AFT, and he had no way of knowing at that point whether that temporary injunction would be continued, and if so, for how long. He said that his ruling,subsequent to the election, on December 14 was clear in stating that the action enjoining the Board from recognizing the AFT and restraining the AFT from serving as bargaining agent was very clear in â&#x20AC;&#x2122;that they were out of business until December of 1980.,, He made clear at that point that even though they had won the election in October,' that because they were disqualified, they would not be able to serve. He also mentioned today that at that time when he issued the opinion on December 14, he had suggested that it might be appropriate for the Board to give the teachers the opportunity to have another representative for collective bargaining, although he did not order us to do so, and he felt that in the context of thoseearlier rulings and the fact that the injunction was still in place and would be until the Supreme Court overruled him, that there was no way the AFT could served as bargaining agent unless the Board was going to take the position that the teachers shouldn't have any representation at all. The Board had no choice but to go ahead and provide an i opportunity for a runoff election, and if the Board chose to do so, it could only be two choices on the ballot - No Representation and the ACT; and based on that, he thought the Board was taking the appropriate action and he denied the petition. Mr. English - He also brought up this little thing about like it is in Russia, the Communism type thing, the attorney for the AFT brought that up today, and the Judge said that if there's only one eligible candidate, I don't suppose there is anything wrong with having just one candidate on the ballot, and in this case there is just one eligible candidate. He was very clear in his decision today and his ruling. He said the Board had a choice and he had not ordered us to have this election, but we had the choice to either give the teachers an opportunity to have another election or no election at all. So he said the school board is in keeping with its policy of following the law to afford school teachers the opportunity to select a representative. And the attorney for the AFT did indicate that he is going to the higher court to try,and overturn the decision.

Remarks Dr. Payzant

155

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Remarks Dr. Payzant cont'd

Mrs. Hill - What happens January 1, 1981?

Dr. Payzant - The matter was brought up about what would happen if the Supreme Court should overrule the District Court after an election had taken place March 18s. It was pretty clear that the court order recertifying the AFT would take precedence over the March 18 election which would give the ACT the bargaining rights. So the AFT would then be back as the bargaining agent if the Supreme Court should overrule Judge Harris on his earlier decisions. Let's say that the Supreme Court sustains Judge Harris. It has only been speculation, as far as I am aware, about the December 31 or January 1 date. If you look at the law, it provides for an election every two years. So it may well be that even though he used that date in his ruling, that October of 1981 would be the first opportunity for a petition to be presented for a new election. But that question has not really been pressed at this point.

EXECUTIVE SESSION R. #97 Board Recessed to Executive Session - 8:10 p.m.

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Potts that the Board go into executive session to discuss personnel (employment of the Superintendent). On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carrried.

R. #98 Board Returned to Open Session - 11:12 p.m.

Having completed its executive session, it was moved by Dr. Hamm and seconded by Mrs. Potts that the Board return to open session. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted 'aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. ADJOURNMENT

R. #99 Adjournment 11:13 p.m.

A motion to adjourn was made by Dr. Hamm and seconded by Mrs. Potts. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the Clerk's office.)

President

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA ) STATE OF OKLAHOMA

I, the undersigned Clerk of the Board of Education of Independent School District Number 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours before the meeting,-the date, time and place of the Special Meeting was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. I also certify that at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, notice of the date, time, place and agenda of this meeting was posted in permanent public view at the location of the meeting.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district thi 1980.

Clerk, Oklahoma

ity Board of Education

156

MINUTES OF MEETING OF MARCH 17, 1980

... -.....

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR ADJOURNED MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION

BUILDING, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M.

PRESENT:

Paul English, President Mrs. Pat Potts Vice President Floyd Donwerth, Member Delbert Hamm, Member Mrs. Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member Mrs. Freddye Williams, Member

Others present: Thomas W. Pa.vzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; William Bleakle.v, Attorney; Central Office staff members; representatives from professional grouos; the news media, and other interested persons. The meeting was called to order by Mr. English and Dr. Hamm gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Mr. English welcomed all of the visitors present.

Visitors Wei corned

Roll call established that all of the Board members were present.

Roll Call

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Hamm to approve the minutes of March 3 and 10, 1980 as presented. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #100 Minutes Approved

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS

Mrs. Potts stated: I think that congratulations are really especially due the Classen boys basketball team for becoming the State 4-A Class Champions. And I think real credit should go to the coach of that team as well as to all of the coaches. We have had a very remarkable number of our teams that went into the semifinals and finals in state competition. I am also especially proud of Rod Rogers from Classen High School and Scott Deatherage from Northeast High School for their winning in the Science Fair that was just held this last week. Also, noteworthy is Northwest Classen being named the outstanding high school newspaper in the state.

Comments Mrs. Potts

Mrs. Williams stated: I did go out to John Marshall and witnessed their presentation of lp1776". It was quite a show. I thought it-was also a wonderful history lesson for the young people.

Comments Mrs. Williams

Mrs. Hill stated: I, too, would like to offer my congratulations to Classen for winning the state championship in boys basketball. I have followed them all year and adiniredthe discinline that seemed to go into that group as they made the journey this year. I would also like to offer congratulations to Liz Burdette for winning the award that they usually come-lup with in the publication of their school newspaper. I think several of us attended the Oklahoma Legislative Conference that was given by our legislators. It was interesting to hear the Honorable Shirley Hufstedler, who is the Secretary of Education, as she is touring the country sei lino the Deople on the ideas of her new Department of Education. In closing, probably by the time we get around to next January, I think Ron Schnee and I are going to be pretty well informed on the school closings and how the communities are meeting. I was invited out to Willow Brook'this past week to attend one of their meetings, and also acted as | parliamentarian for one of their meetings. It is interesting to see that one group I has already decided how it is going to be done, but it will be interesting when the I other groups meet,; what their decision is.

ITEMS PENDING

Meeting of November 16, 1979 1. Commission to Improve Education Report

157

MINUTES OF MEETING OF MARCH 17, 1980 - CONT'D

LEGAL REPORT Attorney's Report

Mr. Rleakley renorted:

Court Hearing - Runoff Election - Subsequent to the Board's action with resnect to the runoff election between the Association of Classroom Teachers and No Representation, the American Federation of Teachers filed a petition seeking to to enjoin the district from holding the election. It was heard by Judge Harris, who denied the relief and dismissed the petition. That action of the Judge has been appealed to the Supreme Court and no action has been taken by the Supreme Court. That will be a regular appeal like the other two appeals. The transcript of that hearing has not been sent up to the Supreme Court yet, and the time frame on that is indefinite. The American Federation of Teachers did file a motion to advance the cause on the docket, but since the briefs and the records are not completed at this point, it is not sure what action the Supreme Court will take.

Oral Arguments on Judith Boswel 1 Case -There were oral arguments heard last week on the termination of Judith Boswell. The judge has not finalized his decision yet. We were hoping to have it for tonight's meeting but it has not been preoared, so we will be able to report on the judge's action on that appeal next week. There are probably three actions the judge can take to sustain the order of the hearing panel which reinstated her, to remand it back to the hearing panel for further proceedings, and thirdly, the judge could reverse the decision of the hearing panel and support the Board's termination of Ms. Boswell.

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT

Adopt-A-School Program

Dr. Payzant stated: I have a report on the Adopt-A-School program, which is one of the positive new programs being implemented in the district this year, with the cooperation of several schools and businesses in the community. This evening there are four people present, two principals and two representatives of businesses that have adopted schools.

Dr. Payzant then introduced Mr. John Winblad, National Sales Director,â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Fidelity Insurance Company; Dr. June Dawkins, Principal, Douglass High School, which is the school adopted by American Fidelity; Mr. Bill Parker, Principal, Quail Creek Elementary School; and Mr. Ray Gollaher, General Manager, Norma Harris Realty Company, the firm that has adopted Quail Creek. Mr. Winblad, along with visual aids, gave a report on the involvement of American Fidelity Insurance Company with Douglass High School in the Adopt-A-School Program.

Mr. Gollaher reported on the activities which Norma Harris Realty Company had been a part of with the Adopt-A-School Program at Quail Creek Elementary School. Each of the presenters described the positive activities that had taken place at the schools with their company's involvement in the program, and stated some of the activities that have been planned for the future.

R.#101 President of Board & Superintendent Authorized to Execute Documents

It was moved by'Mrs. Williams and seconded by Dr. Start that the President of the Board and the Superintendent be authorized to execute the documents and submit applications as follows:

Indian Education Program under Title IV, Part A, of Public Law 92-318, Elementary and Secondary Indian Education Act.

Teacher Corps Project, Third Year Application under Title V-A Higher Education Act of 1965, Public Law 89-329.

Oklahoma County Adolescent Pregnancy Program as authorized under Public Law 95-626, Title VI, through the Public Health Service of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Indochinese Refugee Children Assistance Program authorized under Public Law 94-405, TitleJI, as modified, Indochinese Refugee Children Assistance Act.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hi IT voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

158

MINUTES OF MEETING OF MARCH 17,J980 - CONVD^

Dr. Payzant stated: In your materials you received copies of proposals for summer school programs at the elementary, middle, and high school levels and an evening program as well. The programs at the elementary and high schools are very similar to thos<e which were conducted last summer. The major change is in the program at the middle school level. The recommendation is that the middle school programs this year be held in two middle schools, Taft and Harding, rather than in high school facilities. The program would follow the team concept in the four academic subject areas that are the focus of the regular school year program in the middle schools. The tuition rates recommended at the elementary and the high school are the same as last summer. We believe that revenues from the tuition will enable a ten percent increase in salaries for teachers who work in the summer school program. There is an increase in the proposed tuition at the middle school level, from $36.00 to $46.00 for the four-hour program for a summer school four-week block. A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hill for approval of proposals submitted by the Directors of Elementary, Middle and High Schools as guidelines for the operation of 1980 summer school programs in elementary, middle and high schools. Mrs. Potts inquired: Why did we have a recommendation for two middle schools? Was it that with the rapid increase in participation the year before, we felt that we might anticipate a similar increase and one school might hotcibeuehotighht'odhol'd ail 1 l.bf ithe^'mddd school students?

Dr. Payzant - There was that element in the decision as well as giving a little broader geographic distribution, although Taft and Harding are both in the same general vicinity, and also the proposal to build in the swimming as part of the program; both of these schools have swimming pools and would enable the swimming program to be offered by splitting it up. Mrs. Potts - And one school could not accommodate that full program? Mr. Vernon Moore, Director of Middle Schools, responded from the audience that it would be difficult for the swimming program with the use of one school.

Mr. English - Is there no school south in which we could do this? Harding and Taft are nice schools and one could say that they are centrally located, but I think if I lived south, I might not think it was quite as centrally located as one at Capitol Hill Middle School or something. Dr. Payzant, speaking to Mr. Moore: The question is why was the selection of Taft and Harding made since those schools are both in the same vicinity? Mr. Moore - We first Middle. But because Hill Middle swimming great, so we decided

identified three middle schools, Taft, Harding, and Capitol Hill of the enrichment kinds of programs that we were seeking, Capitol pool was inoperable, and the expense to make it functional was too on the other two.

Mr. English - There is no alternate way to involve a middle school on the southside by the use of a "Y" or something like that for the swimming part of it?

Mr. Moore - We were .trying to utilize the team concept and the middle school setting for summer school, making it different than what we have done before, and there were no other facilities.

Mrs. Potts - Is the pool not used normally at Capitol Hill Middle School? we be looking at in cost for it to be made operable?

What would

Mr. Moore - I do not have the cost estimates right now and I am not real sure, but I could check into it and see. Mr. English - I just have a real concern about that, that those two schools are basically northside schools. We can say that they are centrally located, but if you live south, I don't think you are thinking of it being central.

Mr. Moore - We were concerned also about that, because it would not allow us to have one in the southern part of the system and one in the northern part of the system. But our reasoning was if we could have it more centrally located, this would still provide the services for students, both north and south. Mr. English - How many students are we talking about in each facility?

Mr. Moore - We are estimating two full teams of students, approximately 250 students for each setting.

Mr. English - I sure hope we keep a close watch on it this year to see what we get in the way of enrollment from the southside, because I can't see how it is going to help the southside enrollment any at all. Mr. Moore - We share your concern, but given the opportunity to have the enrichment program with the swimming, this is what we came up with.

R. #102 Approval of Proposals for 1980 Summer School Programs

159

MINUTES OF MEETING OF MARCH 17, 1980 -CONT1D R. #102 Approval of Proposals for 1980 Summer School Programs cont1d

Mr. Donwerth - I wonder if it might not be possible that we can get some kind of an estimate on what it would cost to make the Capitol Hill Middle School operative?

Mr. Moore - The only estimate that we have, that I can recall, is the one that was done earlier when we were looking at all three schools, and I don't recall those figures right now, but we can get them, I am sure.

Mrs. Hill - No transportation will be provided for students to Taft and Harding, is that correct? Mr. Moore - It will be provided for Title I students; other students will be required to make their: own transportation.

Dr. Hamm - Did you investigate the possibilities of maybe some of the southside schools do not have swimming pools, but they have access to a nearby pool? I am thinking primarily of Jefferson Middle School, with the City Park having an outdoor pool just across the playground from it.Mr. Moore - The swimming is enrichment. One of our main concerns, as we indicated in our proposal, is the academics. And if we look at the time that we have set up for summer school, from 8:00 to 12:00, if we pull in swimming, that would mean that we would either have to go outside at 12:00 o'clock or take time out of the academic block for travel, which was another concern that we had for going outside the school setting.

Dr. Payzant - The problem with using a municipal pool during the late morning hours would be getting a section of the pool cordoned off for an instructional program that we would provide, which would be in competition with the free access of those in the community who were coming to the pool to use it. That is where the major conflict would come. It is important that we make a decision this evening, but that would not preclude getting additional information on the cost of pool renovation at Capitol Hill, and coming back at the April 7 meeting, and then possibly making either the addition of a site or a shift of a site, if the Board wanted to do so, but I would hate to hold up the rest of the summer school program, pending the availability of that information. Mr. English - If we could, why don't we get the information together on not just the cost of renovating that pool at Capitol Middle School but how fast can we get it done?

Mrs. Potts - I would assume that we would go at great lengths to make sure that everything is well covered with fans, at least, so that we have cooled the buildings to the maximum that we can, short of air conditioning. I think it is imperative in the summer. Mrs. Hill - While you are going to be checking on the Capitol Hill Middle pool, why do we not check with Jefferson Middle and the City to see if maybe some arrangement could be worked out? '

Dr. Payzant - We will check on that option too. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts.voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

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It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start to direct the following persons to attend meetings as indicated:

At School District Expense (a)

Camolia A. Byrd, Coordinator, Lau Language Center - Southeast Asian Refugee Issues Related to the American Education Process, Fort Worth, Texas, March 20-21, 1980.

(b)

Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent - Large City Superintendents ' Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, April 9-12, 1980.

R. #103 Professional Trips Approved

At No Expense to the District (c)

Cheryl J. Baldwin, G/T Facilitator, Hoover Middle School; Beverly Busch, G/T Facilitator, Moon Middle School - G/T Conference, Houston, Texas, March 20-23, 1980.

(d)

Cheryl Dobbs, Teacher-Hearing Impaired, Classen High School - Close-Up Seminar, Washington, D. C., March 31-April 7, 1980.

(e)

Bertha Troutt, Teacher, Van Buren - A. C. E. International Study Conference, San Francisco, California, April 2-5, 1980.

(f)

Marian Kay Hedges, Music Consultant, Curriculum Services - Music Educator's National Conference Biennial Inservice Conference, Miami Beach, Florida, April 9-12, 1980.

(g)

Rosetta Culpepper, Teacher, Northeast High School - Phi Delta Kappa Educational Sorority Regional Meeting, Waco, Texas, April 11-13, 1980.

th)

Robert R. Webb, Principal, Garden Oaks Fifth Year Center; Charles Lewis, Principal, Shields Heights Elementary School; Erma Baskett, Principal, Dewey Fifth Year Center; Ruby Wood, Principal, Pierce Elementary School; Eugene King, Principal, Dunbar Center - NAESP Convention, Miami, Florida, April 18-23, 1980.

(i)

Jack Biggs, Activity Director, Capitol Hill High School; Michael Whalen, Teacher, Douglass High School - Close-Up Seminar,..Washington, D. C., April 20-26, 1980.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. Dr. Payzant Stated: You will recall from some discussion at previous Board meetings that there was $119,000 that was originally awarded by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to Channel 25 when it was serving as an educational television station under the jurisdication of the school district, and that amount be returned to NTIA since the District had disposed of the television station. The school district's.attorney has kept you posted over the months concerning appeals that have been made*to NTIA, urging that the district not be required to return that money. We have been granted what I assume will be a final opportunity to appeal through presentation of an alternative proposal for use of that money, should we be allowed to retain it in the district. Essentially, what the proposal does is acknowledge the fact that Oklahoma City is in the process of getting anew cable system, and one of the requirements that cable companies have is to provide access to public agencies such as school districts to a cable channel. We would propose to accept the offer of such a channel, which would be available exclusively for the use of the school district for the purpose of public information. It would be available, for example, for the broadcast of Board meetings; for the broadcast of information to the general public on anything from school closure to calendar, to school lunches, to special informational programs. It would be available for the use of the district in-house for staff development activities. There would be no intent furftT^Tly to get into the television again, or to go into the production of instructional materials for use on television. What the proposal suggests is that the $119,000 would allow us to purchase the necessary equipment that would give us the capacity to use that designated channel for public information purposes, and to do so with the use of existing staff and the expertise that is presently available here.

On Friday when I sent the agenda materials.to you, I was still not clear on the time deadlines imposed by NTIA, and Mr. Bleakley was still in contact with representatives of that agency. After the materials were prepared, we learned that it was necessary to special deliver a copy of the proposal to NTIA, so that it would be in their offices today and marked received on the 17th. So I went ahead and did that. If you choose not to approve the proposal before you this evening, then it would simply take a phone call followed by a letter to remove that proposal, which means we would have to return the $119,000 which is currently being held in escrow for NTIA. My recommendation is that the Board authorize the official filing of the proposal with NTIA requesting reconsideration of the petition to retain approximately $119,000 remaining in the Grant made to Channel 25, and that it be used for the purposes outlined in the

R. #104 Authorization to File Proposal with National Telecommunications & Information Administration

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R. #104 Authorization to File Proposal with National Telecommunications & Information Administration cont'd

Dr. Payzant cont'd <

proposal made by Phil George to me that I have just summarized. It was moved by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Williams for authorization to file a proposal with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration requesting reconsideration of the petition to retain approximately $119,000 remaining in the grant made to Channel 25. Mrs. Hill - I noticed in the proposal there was an approximate cost of the different items. I was wondering how accurate this was and is it based on today's cost or is it based on predictions further down the road?

Dr, Payzant - It is based on current estimated cost; like everything else, I am sure that with each passing week, if not month, the cost will increase and the $119,000 would not go as far as is suggested on this equipment list. Mrs. Potts - I feel that this speaks to some of the potential that a lot of us felt that our educational TV had, but we just could not afford as a district to continue that investment. I thought it was noteworthy in describing what was similarly done in Spokane, Washington, that they had a situation where teachers could call a day in advance and request a certain program for a specific time, and that there was quite a bit of educational programming that was available for that purpose. I think that is a real service to teachers. Mr. Bleakley - I might suggest that the Grant Appeals Board will have their hearing on April 7, and if there is not going to be a Board meeting between now and April 7, you might also want to authorize the Superintendent to consider representation at that hearing in Washington, D. C. on April 7.

Addition to the Motion Mrs. Potts - I would add to the motion that we send a representative or representatives, if it is required, to this hearing from our district. Mrs. Williams agreed, as seconder of the motion, to the addition as stated by Mrs. Potts.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. HilT voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. Approval of 1980-81 Student School Assignment 3lan Number One Recommended for Action April 7, 1980

Dr. Payzant stated: You have had the three student school assignment plans developed by the staff before you on two previous occasions; at a work session, and then at the last regular Board meeting two weeks ago. You have them before you again this evening and I am recommending the adoption of Plan I, with action to be taken no later than the April 7 Board meeting. Dr. Payzant referred to a packet of materials that was prepared for distribution to those whowere-in attendance and had not had access to some of the written material before; that included in the material was a summary of some of the aspects of the history and the impact of the three plans, the characteristics of each plan, and maps showing the present assignments of students as well as proposed assignments and changes for students under each of the three plans;also, information was included that would show that a large number of students who would be affected by the reassignments have been students who are already being bused to other schools and would simply be reassignel to additional schools. Also indicated in the material was the number of new students who would be bused under each plan and who had not previously been so.

(A copy of the 1980-81 Student School Assignment Plans I, II, and III Summary is on file in the Clerk's office.) Dr. Payzant continued: To put the entire plan into perspective, none of the three contemplates moving large numbers of students as a percentage of the District total. We have approximately 42,000 students enrolled in the Oklahoma City schools this year and Plan I would move 2.7 percent of those students; Plan II would move 3.3 percent of those students; and Plan III would move only 1.2 percent of those students. The second thing I would like I had with Dr. John Bell, the past week. At that meeting I conclusion of that meeting, we him, and allow him to modify acceptance or modification of

to do is share with you the summary of a meeting that Chief in the Regional Office for Civil Rights, this presented the three plans to Dr. Bell, and at the agreed that I would write a summary of it, submit it to my summary and that he would then notify me about his my summary of the meeting.

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Dr. Payzant proceeded by reading from his letter to Dr. Bell, as follows:

"I appreciate you spending Tuesday afternoon with me in Oklahoma City to review three alternative 1980-81 student school assignment plans. What follows is a summary of the major points of our discussion which give the Oklahoma City School District an understanding of the guidelines that the Office for Civil Rights is using to assess the acceptability of the various student school assignment plans. I also have summarized your informal preliminary reaction to the three plans. "1.

Your reaction that the Oklahoma City School District is obligated to make adjustments to the racial composition of student bodies.

There are those who have suggested to me that the Oklahoma City School District has met its affirmative duty to desegregate as required by the order of Judge Bohanon which directed implementation of the Finger Plan. The release by the Court and its order declaring the Oklahoma City School District a "unitary district" have been cited as evidence that the district has met the standard of Swann, the landmark case dealing with this issue. In Swann v. Charlotte - Mecklenburg Board of Education, the U. S. Supreme Court found that once the affirmative duty to desegregate has been accomplished, school authorities have no constittitiwna'l obligation to make year-to-year adjustments of the racial composition of student bodies. "I understand that your interpretation of Judge Bohanon1s court order is that he implied the District did have some further obligation to take affirmative steps to maintain the racial composition of student bodies required by the Finger Plan even though he declared Oklahoma City a "unitary district" because the pattern of erosion of the Black/Other ratios which occurred in the years following was predictable and the District would not be fulfilling its obligation unless it dealt with the erosion. Your view is that the District has not taken sufficient action to date to deal with the predictable erosion of Black/Other ratios.^ since the Finger Plan was implemented in 1972, the 1978 short-range plan notwithstanding. The short-range plan was accepted by the Office for Civil Rights as a stopgap to deal primarily with overcrowding; it:wa.s.ro.tvi.ewedas.apian to deal with the constitutional requirements ordered by the court. The short-range plan approval and allowance for the District to take more time to adjust school assignments were granted because the District was engaged in the good faith development of a long-range plan which was also to be subject to Office for Civil Rights review and approval.

"Since the implementation of a subdistrict plan, a part of the original Long-Range Plan, will not occur and result in student school assignments that respond to the erosion of the Black/Other ratios in school enrollments, you will require the District to submit a student school assignment plan that does deal with the constitutional issues and meet the standard of Swann and Judge Boha.non-'s court order. In short, your judgment is that the school district does not have the option of leaving the existing student school assignments in place. "2.

Your reaction to alternative 1980-81 student school assignment plans.

Plan 1 This plan would be acceptable to the Office for Civil Rights. It would meet the District's obligation under Swann and probably discharge the District from ever making further adjustments to meet the standard of that case. Of the three plans, Plan 1 has the soundest rationale and greatest possibility of providing stability.

Plan 2 While this plan, based on numbers alone, would be acceptable to the Office for Civil Rights, it lacks internal consistency and does not promise the stability projected in Plan 1. Plan ~3 This plan deals only with schools that are more than ten percent above the District Black/Other ratio for the level and therefore cannot be accepted as a long-range plan. It probably would be approved as a "stopgap" short-range plan, but not without a "rider" setting forth additional expectations for the future. Unlike Plan 1, it would not meet the District's obligation as you interpret it in Swann.

Approval of 1980-81 Student School Assignment Plan Number One Recommended for Action April 7, 1980 cont'd

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Dr. Payzant continued - letter to Dr. John Bell, Office for Civil Rights: "3.

Your reaction to possible school closures.

The Office for Civil Rights would not intervene and attempt to modify local Board decisions to close schools unless there is an adverse impact on the District's desegregation plan. Plan 1 appears to provide the flexibility for accommodating any school closures now contemplated. The resulting adjustments in school assignments would be compatible with Plan 1 and within the range of acceptable Black/Other ratios.

"I look forward to written acknowledgment that this letter accurately summarizes our March 11 discussion and the position of the Office for Civil Rights. Basing my next steps on your reactions, I will recommend Board of Education approval of Plan 1. I will submit my recommendation at the Board's meeting March 17, 1980." Dr. Payzant continued: We subsequently received a night letter acknowledging that this letter was an accurate summary of our conference and today received a follow-up letter in the mail which did the same thing.

The final point that I would like to make is one that I have made before, and that is that even without the difference of opinion that perhaps exists about what the courts and/or the Office for Civil Rights will or can require, I believe that the matter of racial imbalances at some of our schools must be addressed, with or without prodding by the courts, in order for us to reach some of the goals that I think the Board and I have been clear in addressing over the last year, namely those which will improve the quality of education in the Oklahoma City schools, and prevent any further white or black flight from this public school district. So while I acknowledge the fact that there can be differences of opinion about what the role of the courts or the Office for Civil Rights may be; even without that as an issue, I think there are some affirmative steps that must be taken. My major purpose in recommending Plan 1 over Plan 3, which is the other plan that I have given strong consideration, is the promise that it would provide some stability and perhaps prevent us from having to make this an annual or every two or three-year kind of event where we come to grips with the difficulty of contemplating and acting on some school reassignments which can have the effect of uprooting some students and some parents. In any case, I would like the Board to try very hard to make a decision, whatever you decide, at the April 7 meeting, because I feel strongly that parents ought to know early on, not in the summer months, what their new school assignments will be, if indeed they are affected. And also it is important that we have the time now to plan budget, staffing, and transportation in an intelligent way this spring, rather than doing it at the last minute this summer.

At this time, Mr. English called on the following persons who had registered to address the Board on the item being discussed.

Mary Hammond

Mary Weiss

Martha. Pace

Ms. Hammond, representing the-Urbari League of Oklahoma City, Inc., read from prepared copy regarding the organization having received copies of the three proposed reassignment plans of students.. Ms. Hammond stated that they have talked with school officials and are in the process of reviewing the plans based on several issues, and after completing their review of the plans, would have a position statement to the Board prior to the April 7 meeting. Ms. Weiss and Ms. Pace expressed opposition to the reassignment of students anymore, and referred to Horace Mann as a school that was successfully integrated and it was the wish of the parents that the students not be uprooted and reassigned to another school. Mr. English stated: On the student school assignment plans, I have looked into it some more since we received the information about Dr. Bell's visit here, and since the way he reads the Court's order that he thinks Judge Bohanon was saying that we should do some things later on, even though he was out of it; that he felt like we should do some other things, I went back to the Court Order. In the Court's Order which was issued on January 18, 1977, in the second paragraph - "The Court has concluded that this was indeed a plan that worked and that substantial compliance with the constitutional requirements has been achieved." It goes on to say that "the School Board has operated the plan properly and the Court does not foresee that the termination of its jurisdiction will result in the dismantlement of the plan or any affirmative action by the defendant to undermine the unitary system so slowly and painfully accomplished over the 16 years during which the cause has been pending before the Court." I

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Mr. English continued: He goes on to say that "theCourt believes the present members and their successors on the Board will now and in the future continue to follow the constitutional desegregation requirements." I can't find any place in here where the Judge hints that there is some more work for us to do to rid ourselves of the vestiges of the state-imposed segregation. When you look at the Judge's ruling; when you look at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, the Swann case in which they have said as the memo to us from out attorney has pointed out, that drawing the quote from that Supreme Court ruling, that "neither school authorities nor district courts are constitutionally required to make year-by-year adjustments of the racial composition of student bodies, once the affirmative duty to desegregate has been accomplished and racial discrimination through official action is eliminated from the system." So in view of those things, it seems to me that we really do not come under the Office for Civil Rights jurisdiction when they want to have us reassign students based upon whatever their formula might be. I think that we should look into the possibility of going into court and seeking a declaratory judgment arid let the court determine whether we are indeed a unitary school system, and therefore the Office for Civil Rights would no longer be able to say to us that you have to reassign this many students this year, because some schools have gotten out of balance. If you read the memo from the law firm and read into what the Supreme Court said there; they said that there is going to be, just by the natural action of living in today's world, since the people are mobile, that you are going to have a change in your population and where people live in your school district. Therefore, when these changes occur in the racial balance of schools, once you have been declared a unitary school system, you no longer have to keep changing these student assignments so that you have a proper racial balance in every school in the district. So, if the district wants to reassign students, I think it has that right to do it, but I don't think the Office for Civil Rights has the right to tell us that we have to do it, once we have been declared a unitary school system, which we have been declared. I think it is important to the people of Oklahoma City and to this school district that we get this thing cleared up, because so long as we have hanging over our heads the Office for Civil Rights being able to tell us that we have to change students every year or two years, you are going to have people who will stay away from the district because they don't want to even get into this thing where their children may be changed in their assignment to schools. You will also have people simply avoiding the school district because they don't want to get into that. I think that what we can do is to adjust some schools which are out of balance right now, but I don't think it has to be as many as Plan 1. I think Plan 3 is a much better plan than Plan 1 as far as meeting what I think is a good thing for the school district. I would like to see us have some legal opinion before us so we can consider those ramifications as we make a decision on which plan on April 7. Mr. English relinquished the Chair to Mrs. Potts and made the following motion: I move that the Board's Attorney be instructed to prepare a legal opinion on the advisability of this Board seeking a declaratory judgment action to determine the jurisdiction of the Office for Civil Rights to require student reassignments within this school district. Said opinion to be furnished to the Board prior to its April 7 meeting.

R. #105 Board's Attorney Instructed to Prepare Legal Opinion Re the Jurisdiction of The motion was seconded by Dr. Start. Office for Civil Rights to Require Mr. English asked for a vote on the motion since the next Board meeting would be April 7J Student Members of the Board did not express any objections to voting on the motion. Reassignments Mrs. Hill inquired: With the Attorney's opinion that we may have on April 7, will we also make some reassignments, go ahead with maybe Plan 1, Plan 2, or Plan 3? Mr. English - Yes, it would be my intention that we go ahead and adopt some plan on April 7. My preference is Plan 3, maybe with some modifications in Plan 3 even, but that we take some action and get that going because we need to get that done for the coming school year. If the Attorney says that it is advisable to go into court on this, I would anticipate that it will take us some time to work it through the judicial process. So we would not probably have a court ruling by the start of school this fall. So I think we need to go ahead with the student reassignments, but I think which plan we go with may be determined somewhat by what our Attorney says we are required to do.

Dr. Payzant commented: I really think that the Board needs to make some decision on one of the student assignment plans on April 7. My greatest fear is that people be left hanging through the spring and summer months with some resolution coming in July or August, where everybody gets caught at the last minute, and I really hope that does not happen, because I have the same concern that Mr. English does about keeping people up in the air or uncertain about what is going to happen. So, I would hope that the Board would make a decision one way or the other on April 7.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.and returned the Chair to Mr. English

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Approval of Discussion continued. 1980-81 Student School Assignment Mrs. Potts - It seems to me on this business of switching all of the fifth grade Plan Number One - ^students to fifth year centers as opposed to the current situation, that we are really Recommended for weighing two things, and one of them whether it is more important to have this kind Action April 7, of a program in a neighborhood school where there is an integrated neighborhood or 1980 cont'd whether it is the educational offering is that much superior in a fifth year center, and that we feel that is more important. I guess I am wanting to hear a little more educational d-iscussion of the pros and cons in relation to that.

Dr. Payzant - As I mentioned at the meeting two weeks ago, there were several reasons for looking at the remaining K-5 schools, and included in all three of the plans, the | removal of the fifth year from the K-5 schools and the assignment of those students | to fifth year centers. The first reason was an educational one in that the programs that are offered in terms of the curriculum in the fifth year at the K-5 schools are not equal in terms of the enrichment aspect of the curriculum to those that are offered in the fifth year centers. The second reason was that in the case of several of the schools, and Horace Mann may not fall in this category, the K-5 schools are not naturally integrated to the extent that was originally assumed, and some black students are bused in to those K-5 schools. The third reason was that in the case of about three of those schools, if they remain K-5 schools with the enrollment that is projected, they would fall below the 250 student cutoff, which was established as the cutoff point for K-5 schools to consider those buildings for closure. In talking informally with some of the people in those schools, their preference was to retain them as neighborhood schools, K-4, rather than face the possibility of closure in the next couple of years, or the next year or two; and that was another factor in looking specifically, I believe, at Shidler, Riverside, Mark Twain; to name three. The final factor was that 85% to 90% of our fifth year students in this district are in fifth year centers and are getting an enriched educational experience because of it, and the feeling was rather than to do it piecemeal in terms of moving the fifth year students from one K-5 school this year, and two more next year, that it would make sense to do them all together so that everybody would be treated the same. Under these plans, the only K-5 school remaining would be Arcadia, which is a special situation because of its geographic location and it is already a small size. So it was a combination of those factors that led to the inclusion ,of the recommendation in all three plans to remove the fifth graders from the K-5 schools. The other point is that if you look at Plan 1, which definitely puts more of the burden on the black community for changes in reassignments, which is its greatest weakness in my judgment, because the black community has had the burden of busing in grades 1 through 4 since the implementation of the Finger Plan, but this was the only way that we could provide some balance in terms of having some white students move and not put the burden totally on the black community. And even at that, it is still two to one, a burden on the black community in Plan 1. In Plan 3 it is about 50/50, but if you do not move those fifth year students out of the five or six schools, then there will be virtually no white students moved. I know that it is impossible to find a plan that will satisfy everybody, but it seems to me that there ought to be some attempt made to more evenly distribute the burden for the reassignments. That was a final factor that was considered in terms of the reassignment of the fifth graders from the K-5 schools.

Mrs. Hill -* I, too, am concerned about moving the fifth grade out of our K-5 schools, and I have checked the enrollments and the racial balance that we have at some of these schools, and they had been following under these guidelines. I feel Tike that this is just not the right time of the year, particularly, to take fifth graders out of our K-5 schools; that if a move like this was being considered, the parents, the principals and all should have been notified back in January that this was coming. I am sure their budgets are already due or overdue here at Central Office. So I cannot support taking our K-5's and making them K-4's. I was very disappointed that one of the plans did not address leaving our K-5's as they are. I was wondering if there would be any possibility of a plan being presented that would leave them as they are?

Dr. Payzant - The answer is yes, but the reason it was not presented is because of the last reason that I gave, and that is in Plan 3, for example, you do not move the fifth year students from the K-5 schools, you will virtually remove all white students who would be reassigned from the plan, and then leave Plan 3 open to the criticism that is al ready, there in Plan 1, although a more convincing criticism that the burden for reassignment falls totally on the black community. And that is the reason that the other option was not presented as an alternative, because throughout I have tried to establish plans that would not put the burden totally on either the black community or the white community, but would try to distribute it in some fashion. Plan 1 clearly puts more of the burden on the black community; Plan 2 puts more of the burden on the white community; and Plan 3iisabout.50/50. Mrs. Potts - I wonder if Mrs. Hill's concern about the budget could be addressed either now or between now and April 7, too; because I would assume that would apply also to the other schools besides the K-5?

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Discussion continued.

Dr. Payzant - We can still make the judgments on budget and staffing into early April. I agree with her in terms of her concern if we go beyond the April 7 Board meeting, it is going to be increasingly difficult to do that. Mrs. Hill - We, as a Board, are probably in total agreement on our fifth year centers, but I don't think we have been able to sell the public here in Oklahoma City quite that well as I have found in visiting in different communities. I know a lot of parents that have chosen their home because of the K-5 school.

Approval of 1980-81 Student School Assignment Plan Number One Recommended for Action April 7, 1980 cont'd

Mrs. Williams - How many students are involved in the fifth grade transfers? Mrs. Hill - At Mark Twain there will be 40 fifth graders next year, and at the increased cost in busing, we would be picking up that additional expense.

Dr. Payzant - It will be 187 ifor the fifth year. Mrs. Hill - We are talking about the need for more money. We are asking our legislators to consider our busing problems. I think we can spend the money more wisely than this.

Dr. Payzant referred to the recommendation in the agenda for action on April 7, 1980, approval of Textbook Committee Recommendations and Implementation Plan, and asked Dr. Jesse Lindley, Assistant Superintendent, Educational Services, to summarize the recommendations of the committee.

Dr. Lindley stated that the persons who served on the committee were Thelma Jones, Darrel Shepard, Betty Mason, Vern Moore, Betty Williams, Barbara Mitchell and himself. Dr. Lindley continued: To give you a little background information which I think will make the recommemdations more understandable and meaningful to you, the first i information I would like to give you has to do with the textbook ordering process in the Oklahoma City Public Schools. If a school decides that additional textbooks are needed, they submit a request to Ms. Thelma Jones in the media department. Ms. Jones accumulates these requests, combines them into a single request, which we then submit to the State Department of Education. As you know, the State Department and the State allocates presently $11.80 for each child in the Oklahoma City Public Schools for textbooks, so that we have a textbook allocation of a little over $500,000. When that order is submitted to the State Department, they subtract the cost of the books that are being ordered from our allocation and then send an order to a school book depository. This depository usually is Thompson. When Thompson gets the order from the State Department, they process it, pull the books from their stock, and then put them together and send them to the Service Center where they are placed on the dock there. The people in the Supply and Distribution Department at the Service Center then take the books from the order delivered by Thompson, breaks them into the numbers required by individual schools, and then sends them out in the mail truck or through a special delivery to the individual schools. That is the way the ordering process has operated in the Oklahoma City Public Schools. There are two kinds of textbook orders; one is called the annual order, and another is called a supplemental order. The annual order is an order that is submitted in the spring, usually the latter part of April, to the media department. That is combined; it is computerized, and it is submitted to the State Department before July 1. The State Department has orders from all of the school districts in the state at that time. They process the order for Oklahoma City and Tulsa first, because we are the largest districts in the state. They process those orders and sends the orders on to Thompson, then they do not process any further orders from Oklahoma City until they have finished the rest of the state's annual orders. If books are requested on the annual order, we will have them by the time school starts. If they are requested on a supplemental order, we won't have them by the time school starts. So I wanted you to know that there are two kinds of orders. The supplemental order is an order that is submitted later on. They usually are submitted beginning in August and will run up to around December. We will process probably in a normal year about 30 supplemental orders, once a week or sometimes once every two weeks, from August into December. Any textbook needs that were not met by the annual order are supplied with supplemental orders. The time lag from the time a supplemental order is placed, until the books are delivered, will range from three weeks to as many as 12 weeks, which is a long time. So the funtion of the committee as we saw it was to try to improve the annual ordering process and to reduce the time lag on the supplemental orders. That was our task as we saw it. We think that our recommendations speak to that task.

With regard to the annual orders, in our recommendations, we have outlined four principals, the steps they need to take in developing their annual orders. We think that they need to update their textbook inventory. Hopefully, particularly at the secondary level, they will do that by checking with students in the spring to find out about how many books have been lost during that year before they make their order. They also need to look at their pupil projections for the following year. Thirdly, they

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Recommended for Dr. Lindley continued: Action April 7, 1980 - Approval need to determine the levels of the books needed where that is appropriate. This of Textbook is particularly appropriate at the elementary school level. Some of the problems *you saw on the television last fall were caused by the fact that they had the books Committee Recommendati ons but they were not the right level. So they do need to look and try to estimate the and Implementation levels needed. This is particularly difficult at the fifth year center level, where Plan cont'd they just have a complete new student body coming in as opposed to an elementary school where they have one new grade at a time. Once they have done all of those things, then we think that they are in a position to make a good estimate and to submit that in a form of an annual order. This year we are asking them to submit this order to their operational director, and the operational director will review it along with any help that director feels is appropriate. If there needs to be some modifications, if it can be ascertained by the director, they will be sent back and the principal will be asked to reconsider. We hope to get a more complete accurate, annual order than we have in the past, and we feel that if we get the books ordered on the annual order, we will have them there by the time school starts.

On the supplemental order, we are recommending the establishment of a mini school district depository at the Service Center. We talked with the people at the Service Center; they feel like they have got the room. We would like to take part of our textbook allocation and buy some of the books that are commonly used, particularly at the elementary school, books of the various levels. Then when the supplemental orders come in, hopefully we can fill some of them out of the mini school district depository. If we can do that, we can fill it within a week and have them back out to the school. So we feel that is something that should be tried. A second thing we would like to do is to try to provide for Thompson to deliver directly to the schools in some cases, so that we cut out the stop of taking it to the Service Center. If Thompson delivered it directly to the school, we would have to pay for that delivery. But, of course, even if our people deliver it, it costs money, and we feel that it will save time by cutting out the stop at the Service Center, and get the books to the school sooner, even though they are not going to be there when school starts, if you are going to have to order them on the supplemental order. A third idea we have come up with is submitting a computerized order to Thompson at the same time we submit it to the State Department, so that Thompson can begin to fill the order and process it prior to the time they get it from-the State Department. So part of the time that has been conducted at a separate time will be going on simultaneously, where Thompson and the State will both be processing, i t, hopeful ly, at the same time and cut down on the time that would be required altogether. A fourth idea that we feel has merit is transferring books between schools. This is not easy to do. People who order books from an allocation provided them,develop some ownership of those books, and if they have got them, they would rather keep them in case they may need them some day, than to share them with some school that does not have them. We think that encouraging principals and staffs to give up the books and to share them with another school, with the thought that we will replace them, is a process that is going to take some time. We are going to have to establish some trust that the books really will be replaced, and we know that at will take some time. We think it has merit; we think that is something we should be working on, and those are the four ways we hope to cut down onâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;the time lag required for the processing of supplemental orders.

Another issue that we had to deal with has to do withi whether we will provide classroom sets versus a textbook for each child, The state law' says that a child shall.. have a set of textbooks. It doesn't define what a set is. And because of the vagueness, some problems are created. We felt iki l that liicil it il would wuu iu ue be duvibduie advisable for rur ub us to lu make home iiiciKt! some recommendations of the curricular areas where one book per child should be provided. You will note in the report that it includes the basic areas plus some other areas. There are some curricular areas where we are not recommending one book per child, such as in some homemaking courses and some industrial arts courses, and in areas like that. We would like to be able to provide one book per child this coming year in all of the areas that we have recommended, but when we estimated the cost, we found out it would cost $900,000, which is quite a bit of money. To go to one book per child in the books that are being adopted this year plus replacement books, plus consumable books, and in the first grade or two, we have some consumable textbooks; to go that route would cost us approximately $700,000. The current allocation is $11.80 per student. There is legislation before the Legislature at the present time which would increase that to $15, but our allocation under the current plan is $550,000 approximatel lyIf the Legislature should pass it, and we certainly hope they will, and the school district's liaison person is working toward that end, our allocation would be $700,000, just enough to cover the projected cost. So we are hopeful that it will come in that way; we will have the money in our state textbook allocation to go to one book per child in social studies and some of the areas that are up for adoption this year, and then next year we would do the same thing in the curricular areas where textbooks are up for adoption next year. And then the following year, the same thing, until eventually over a five-year period we would be to our goal, and that is to have one textbook per child in the areas in which we have made the recommendations. The

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Dr. Start stated: Every single year that I have been on the Board, there have been constant complaints in the fall of the year about not having enough textbooks, and I am so rejoicing in seeing this, that I want to compliment Dr. Payzant and the staff for putting this together. It seems to me that if this is followed and implemented and people are held accountable to this, maybe this fall we are going to have no complaints. Dr. Lindley - I would not anticipate that you will go through a fall without any complaints.

Dr. Payzant - It will be a significant improvement. Mrs. Hill - What books are up for adoption this year? Dr. Lindley - This year you have social studies, homemaking, family life, and some vocataional education courses.

Mrs. Hill - So, in other words, each of our students would not have a book, like for reading and math?

Dr. Lindley - I am saying that we will go to those in these areas. schools you are going to find we already have them in reading.

Mrs. Hill - In other words, each child has his own reading book.

I believe in most

What about math?

Dr. Lindley - At the middle and high school level, the last time we adopted, we recommended and the Board approved the expenditure of General Fund money and we bought one book per child. Some schools have had losses that they have not been able to replace, I suspect. So I am not going to promise you that there is not a middle school or highâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;school some place where every child doesn't have a book, but hopefully there aren't many such situations. Mrs. Hill - Have we not in the past had a book storage where we have kept some books out at the Service Center? Dr. Lindley - We have had some; although, most of what we have kept out there has been supportive material for reading and math. You may recall that when we adopted the reading program, we also decided to buy supportive materials, which consists of workbooks, tests, etc., and we buy those each year to support the program and we have stocks of that out there, and some textbooks.

Mrs. Hill - I do want to thank you for giving me another argument for keeping our fifth graders at the K-5 schools, because you mentioned that the ordering of books at that fifth year center,getting the levels there etc., could be a problem. Dr. Hamm - One-of'the problems that you were addressing yourself to was the mini school depository, and then you hinted at the fact that we already have this on a smaller level, and that each school has their own mini depository and the fact that they are not willing to share. Is there any way in which a running count is kept in | a central place of what school has how many textbooks where you could have your finger | on that and maybe assist them in making that decision? Dr. Lindley - Yes, we have an inventory. It has been updated once a year and our recommendations would provide for this to be accomplished in October and then again in the spring. And if we have that information updated in October, we would know where those books are and that would help us to locate them so that we would know where to go to try to get the people to loan us the books or to give us the books to be replaced at a later time. Mrs. Potts - Weren't you proposing that a school that had an oversupply of English books then could turn those over to be utilized in another school that had a shortage and receive credit for those books then toward books in another area that they might be short on?

Dr. Lindley - We were thinking about that if they were new books. The thing that we wanted to do and wern't able to come up with a system, was doing it for used books, because of the problem of evaluating the cost of the books. If we were willing to give them full credit for used books, we might have a lot of principals who would be turning in some used books and getting new books in return. Coming up with an evaluation, one that was consistent over a period of time, it just baffled us. We were not able to come up with such a system.

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Mrs. Williams - The inventory is not computerized, is it?

Dr. Lindley - Yes. $

Mrs. Williams -

So then we will know our levels and where they are?

Dr. Lindley - No, it doesn't tell you the levels of the students; it tells you the levels of the books.

Mrs. Williams - I think the committee has hinted to us that the very input is quite important, the requisitioning process, etc., probably the school should tighten that up, because to me if that is put into motion in an accurate way, it seems to me it is foolproof down the line. I want to ask a question that I have been asked every year; if my child doesn't have a book, why can't I buy one?

Dr. Lindley - I assumed people could buy them. Mrs. Williams - Of course, with the homework policy, it is this goal of one book per student that gets to be pretty important. Dr. Lindley - In checking with teachers, in clothing, for instance, they tell me that they really don't assign a lot of homework. Mr. English - What difference does it make that somebody is getting credit for a used book; I would assume that you could set up some kind of arbitrary percentage that a book that is one year old is worth 75% of its original value, and then if it is two years old, it is 50% or whatever. So long as it is a usable book, it is needed some place, and if we can get it from that school, what difference does it make whether it is a used book or a new book, if we can get it into use out there where it is needed? I guess I just don't see the problem.

Dr. Lindley -I guess it is in your definition of what is usable. Suppose a school wants to turn in some books that are really somewhat mutilated, maybe without the hard cover on it, should we accept that and give them credit for a new book at a later time?

Mr. English - If it is not a usuable book, that is a key question, of course. But even then if it is just missing a back, I would assume that we could set up all sorts of schedules about if it is missing a-badq, it would be 10 percent off; if you miss a back and front, it would be 20 percent off, and set up some little scales there. It seems to me if we have the goal of getting books into the hands of children out there who need them and don't have them, then there ought to be a way to overcome that, if somebody over here has the books and we are hung up because we can't come up with a system that reimburses properly the person that has the books, I think maybe we need to spend a little more time in trying to address that problem. When you talk about in the budget we approved the purchase of a book for every child, and during the year there is the natural loss of books, my children's school seems to do a very good job collecting money fromjne when my kids lose books. I have paid for several books. Do we have any enforcement; is there anything we can do to enforce this thing? They would hold my child's grades, and I always assumed that if I did not pay the money, not only would I not get my kid's grades, but finally someone would come after me and say pay here. Do we not have any authority to get the money back from somebody? Dr. Payzant - In the final analysis, no.

Members of the Board continued the discussion by referring to figures and information as printed in the report.

(A copy of the Textbook Committee Recommendations and Implementation Plan is on file in the Clerk's office.)

R. #106 Permission Granted to Present Proposal for Construction of Parking and Pick-up Drive at Edgemere School

Dr. Payzant stated: I am recommending a proposed parking area and pick-up drive at Edgemere Elementary School. I included in your packet of materials a memorandum from Dr. Smith to me setting forth several alternatives which have been considered for dealing with the problem of a crowded parking area, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;and lack of a good pick-up spot for students, either by parents who are driving private vehicles or public school buses. As you know, from earlier discussion concerning the location of a portable classroom at Edgemere, that any modifications that are made to the school site at that school, because it is within a historical preservation area, must go before the Historical Preservation and Landmark Commission. The alternative which has been recommended by the staff at Edgemere and by Dr. Smith's office, with which I concur, would be to install a drive and parking area on the west side of the building, which is the Walker Street side. It is the belief of the building level staff, the principal and Central office staff who have reviewed the various alternatives, that this would solve both the parking and pick-up problem in the safest way without seriously sacrificing the aesthetic quality of the site. What I am recommending for your consideration this evening is, simply permission to request at the next meeting in early April at the Historical Preservation and Landmark Commission, permission to proceed with the plan for this parking and pick-up area on the west side of the school.

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R. #106 Permission Granted to Present Proposal for Construction of Parking and Dr. Howard Morrow, Principal, Edgemere School, al so addressed some of the issues in Pick-up Drive at discussion by the Board. Dr. Wallace Smith also made comments during the discussion. Edgemere School A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Hamm to grant permission to present cont'd a proposal for construction of a parking and pick-up drive on the west side of Edgemere Elementary School to the Historical Preservation and Landmark Commission. Dr. Payzant and members of the Board discussed the parking and pick-up drive as proposed, the feasibility of its location, the time element involved as a current project, another possible location for the project as proposed for the school, the^necessity for providing the need, and other.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted nay; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted nay. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. Dr. Payzant reported:

Research of Cost for Retroactive Pay for Teachers - The Board asked at the last meeting for the staff to do some research on what the cost would be of including teachers who are already in the employ of the Oklahoma City Public School District under the policy that was adopted by the Board with respect to granting years of exoerience for work done prior to coming into the school district. The Personnel Office has done some, research-anti, to the best of our ability, it appears that about 54 or 55 people would be affected, and based on this year's salary schedule the dollar amount would range somewhere between $37,000 and $45,000, from a low of about $165 to a high of $1863 for an individual. That is based on the 1979-80 salary schedule and a review of the records to the best of our ability.

Remarks Superintendent â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Information to the Board

Mrs. Hill - So you are speaking about tenure?

Dr. Payzant - No, the additional credit for years of experience beyond the seven that were granted when the people were employed, consistent with the policy that you adopted last time. It would apply to newly employed people. It would cost $37,000 to $45,000 based on this year's salary schedule.

ENCUMBRANCES AND PURCHASING

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mr. Donwerth for approval of encumbrances R. #107 as listed for February 26 through March 10, 1980. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Approval of Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Encumbrances Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. Purchasing

It was moved by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Hamm for approval of the purchasing items as follows: 1.

Authorization for Mid-Western Elevator, Inc.

Permission to authorize Mid-Western Elevator, Inc., to restore the elevator at Southeast High School; repairs to the area damaged by a fire. This expenditure in the amount of $6,800 is to be charged to Bond Account #1424.

Model 7072 1/0 Printer

Purchase of Model 7072 1/0 Printer for use by Computer Services from National Computer System (available only from designated distributor). This purchase in the amount of $1,600.00 is to be charged to Account G 830.05.

Confirmation Purchase of Computer Cards

Confirmation purchase of computer cards for Data Processing Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Data Documents, Inc. IBM Corporation Total

1,445.00 1,588.00

3,033.00

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 130.17.

R. #108 Approval of Purchasi ng

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4. Instructional Supplies

Purchase of instructional supplies (crayons, various kinds of paper, seal-lamin, etc.) for use by Supply & Distribution Department and Washington Print Shop from the following comoanies which submitted the low quotations:

Thompson Book & Sunply Company Carpenter Paper Company of Nebraska Asel Art Supply Macmillan Arts & Crafts, Inc. Graham Paper Comoany Total

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2,341.50 3,540.00 5,820.00 1 ,462,38 3,377.06

$ 16,540.94

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

$ 13,163.88 3,377.06

G 240.00 G 240.05

Total 5.

$ 16,5*0.94

Photographic Supplies

Purchase of photographic supplies (plates, film, knife blades, rapid fixer, and clean-uo sheets) for Graphics Deoartment (Washington Print Shoo) from Lawrence Photo of Oklahoma, which submitted the only quotation. This purchase in the amount of $2,524.14 is to be charged to Account G 240.05. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION R. #109 Approval of Buildings and Construction Items (Item 5 later del eted)

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of the following buildings and construction items:

Bids on Maintenance Facility Rejected

Approval that all bids which were opened at 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 11, 1980, on the Maintenance Facility for Oklahoma City Public Schools be rejected. 2.

Authorization to Pay Russell, Gravlin, Douglas, Cornell, Inc. Authorization to pay Russell, Gravlin, Douglas, Cornell, Inc., Architects/ Engineers, $16,605, for architectural designs and work on the Maintenance Facility for Oklahoma City Public Schools, based on the architects' contract which requires payment of 4^% of the original estimate of $369,000.

Authorization to Negotiate Settlement with Architects/Engineers

Authorization to negotiate a settlement with Russell, Gravlin, Douglas, Cornell, Inc., Architects/Engineers, for additional services performed by the firm in the development of additional plans and specifications on the Maintenance Facility for Oklahoma City Public Schools.

Acceptance of Low Bid

Acceptance of the low bid and the awarding of a contract to Dudley Construction, Inc., for the construction of a steam tunnel and the replacement of a steam line at Douglass High School and for the repair and recoating of bleachers at Douglass and Taft Stadiums. The contract in the amount of $317,804 is to be charged to Bond Account #1417. 5.

Permission to Appoint Certified Appraisers (later deleted for approval) Permission to appoint three certified appraisers to make an appraisal on a piece of property, 2.5 acres approximately at the southeast corner of the McKinley School site. The cost of the three appraisers not to exceed $2000. The cost of the appraisers to be prorated with the district paying one-half and the United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Oklahoma City, Inc., paying one-half.

Main Entrance Structure to Repair Damages at Johm Marshall High School

Permission to purchase the main entrance structure including doors, panels, closures, mullions, and other hardware to repair the damages at John Marshall High School. This purchase from Acme Glass Company in the amount of $3876 to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

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Since items 5 and 6 were on a green sheet, Mrs. Hill inquired as to if copies had been provided to persons in the audience. It having appeared that this had not been done, | Mr. English asked that in the future when green sheets are added as a part of the agenda i that^copies be provided to the public.

| In referring to item 5, Dr. Payzant stated:

This item is to receive permission from the

I Board to appoint three appraisers at a cost not to exceed $2000 to appraise a portion of the property owned by the school district at the McKinley School site, and the cost of that appraisal to be shared 50/50 by the school district and United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Oklahoma City, Inc. That organization is interested in the possibility of purchase of 2.5 acres of that site for use in a construction project for a residential center for handicapped persons. In order to have some basis on which to bring a (specific proposal to the Board, there is the need for some good information on the value of that property. Dr. Payzant asked Mr. Guy Anderson, a representative of the United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Oklahoma City, Inc., to the issue about the McKinley School site. Mr. met HUD the

Anderson stated: I am director of the Cerebral Palsy Center in Oklahoma City. We had with Dr. Payzant and United Cerebral has put in and we have been approved through (Housing and Urban Development) for a 24-apartment complex for the handicapped and elderly, and it is just simply a 24-apartment complex, a single story building.

Mrs. Hill - Is it zoned for that and meets with the neighbors' approval? Mr. Anderson - I think so. designed for the elderly.

It would be adjacent to the Shartel Towers, which is

Mr. English - Are we on some kind of time problem in getting this done? Mr. Anderson - Yes, I have gotten approximately three or four extensions from HUD and I have another extension through the 26th of March, but that does not mean that I cannot get another one. Mr. English - I have a question about what our Board policy is on the sale of property. My recollection is that on the sale of property our policy is that we put a sign on the property that it is for sale and take bids on it, and that the Board is the one that hires an appraiser to appraise the property and we prefer not to sell it for less than the appraised price.

Dr. Wallace Smith - I looked for a policy. We do not have a policy on the sale of land. We do have a policy on the sale of buildings. This is not a building per se; this is a piece of the property. I think one of the things that you have done in the past is to employ three appraisers to look at a piece of land and then come back with a price and then make whatever kind of arrangement with the person who might be buying it.

Mr. English - What would be the impact of the sale of this 2.5 acres on the McKinley property? Dr. Smith - That is what we want the appraiser to look at. We thought that if you took 2.5 acres oy t- .o f it, it might not be worth as much, and that is one of the things that we want the* appraiser to look at and come back and report to you. I don't think we outjht to, even for a worthy project as this, do something that will lessen the value to the school district. I think that is one of the things we had asked the appraiser to do. We had looked at some proposals if we sold the school to somebody else and we just had a t-shape piece of property, would it be valuable as a residential area, with the deadend culdesacs built in with houses. We have talked to one appraiser and he said he thought it would be a commercial area rather than a residential area. So it may be that would not be a very good idea. But I think one of the reasons for getting the appraisers is to look at the impact it would have on the school system.

Mr. English - As worthy as thjs are doing in the system to that be paying one-half of the cost. are going to sell it to them, I policy on the sale of property,

project is, I have .a concern about overall what we building, and I question whether Cerebral Palsy should Of course, if we go into it with the intent that we guess that is a fair thing to do. So we don't have any but just strictly on school buildings?

Dr. Smith - I did not find a policy that said anything about what the procedure was, what the Board wanted us to do in the event we sold property. I do think there is something about hiring appraisers, but I wasn't able to find anything.

Members of the Board continued to discuss the cost proposed for paying the appraisers, how the sale of property will be handled, consideration of some other alternatives with regard to the McKinley building, the necessity for following Board policy, the need for nore information, and other. Item 5 deleted from the motion. Following the discussion, Mrs. Hill asked that item 5 be deleted from the motion and it be postponed until the staff came back with more information regarding the McKinley site. Mrs. Potts agreed as seconder of the motion.

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R. #109 Approval of Buildings and Construction Items (Item 5 later deleted) cont1d R. #110 Motion Approved for Staff to Make Recommendation Re McKinley Site

On roll call for the motion for approval of items 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the ^motion carried.

It was moved by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Hamm "that we ask staff to make a recommendation at their earliest convenience regarding the disposition of the land and school at the McKinley site, considering the possibility of having appraisal done regarding the value of this property, as well as potential future use."

None. UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Report of the 1980-81 Employment Contract for the Superintendent

R. #111 Approval of 1980-81 Employment Contract for the Superintendent

Mrs. Hill, Chairperson of Committee to work with the Superintendent on Proposed Contract, along with members Dr. Hamm and Mrs. Potts, made the following report:

On the report for the Superintendent's contract, on the compensation we are recommendinc that it stay the same, an annual compensation of $55,000. We are suggesting that the term of this agreement can be extended to include the District's 1982 fiscal year, which would be July 1, 1981 to June 30, 1982. This action would have to take place after July 1, and then the District shall increase the Superintendent's compensation and/or benefits by a percentage of his existing compensation and benefits, which percentage shall not be less than five percent for such fiscal year. This would be for the year 1981-82. The additional benefits we are recommending are (1) that the District pay the full cost of medical insurance for the Superintendent and his dependents; (2) that the sum of $200 per month be paid to an annuity policy designated by the Superintendent; (3) the maximum annual contribution permitted by law to the Oklahoma Teachers Retirement Fund; (4) the District shall reimburse the Superintendent for expenses incurred on behalf of the District in the amount of $150 per month. One of the benefits that we had promised the Superintendent when he came here was the payment of his fees to organizations, and that was not legal. The benefits that remain the same would be what is given to our other certified personnel, including but not limited to vacation leave, sick leave, participation in annuity programs and insurance; also, we give the maximum coverage authorized by law for legal liability incurred in the performance of,his duty as Superintendent, and automobile and liability insurance is covered on that. The amount would be approximately an 8.9 percent for the next coming year. The term of the contract shall commence on July 1, 1980. The tenure stays the same as in the old contract, which he shall neither have or acquire status or tenure. There were no changes in the certification or relationships with the Board- We are recommending a change in the evaluation. A formal evaluation would be conducted the first half of the school year, but not later than December 31. The working relationship evaluation would be conducted no later than June 30. Mrs. Hill continued:

So I recommend approval of the contract as submitted, as a motion.

The motion was seconded by Mrs. Williams.

NEW BUSINESS

None.

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ADJOURNMENT A motion to adjourn was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mr. Donwerth. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

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THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED. (A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the Clerk's office.)

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

Witness my hand and seal of this school district this 1980.

Clerk, Oklahoma City Board of Education

day of

R. #112 Adjournment

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF APRIL 7, 1,980 KT

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY,

OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M. PRESENT:

Paul English, President Mrs. Pat Potts, Vice President Floyd Donwerth, Member Delbert Hamm, Member Mrs. Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member Mrs. Freddye H. Williams, Member

Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; William Bleakley and Judy Onken, Attorneys; Donald H. Ladd, Treasurer; Central Office staff members; representatives from professional groups; the news media, and other interested persons. The meeting was called to order by Mr. English and Dr. Hamm gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Mr. English welcomed all of the visitors present.

Visitors Wei corned

Roll call established that all of the Board members were present.

Roll Call

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of the minutes of March 17, 1980, with the correctly printed page- included.; and under Soard Members1 Comments, Mrs. Potts, a correction in the spelling of a student's name as referred to Rod Rogers.

R. #113 Minutes Approved

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English I voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS

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Mrs. Potts stated: We have two reports that we have received within the last week that I think are very interesting; one of them is looking at some exciting changes in our senior high and middle school cafeterias in terms of making the service and the place to eat much more attractive for our students, and I commend the people who worked on that report. Then also, the new idea of a Central Office volunteer program whereby Central Office administrators will have a chance to put in an hour a week for a nine-week period volunteering in our schools, I.think th&t â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x17E;i.a :a .very exciti'.ng innovation that can do a lot for both our teachers and for our administrators.

Comments Mrs. Potts

Mrs. Williams s.tated: I attended the Chamber of Commerce Education Committee Meeting, and Comments Chamber of Commerce Luncheon last week. It was Oklahoma City Public School Day, and Mrs. Williams the highlight of the luncheon was the address by our Superintendent. For the Education Committee Meeting, we heard from Dr. Schnee, who brought them up on the Adopt-A-School Program; and Dr. Richard Holodick, our new Assistant Superintendent of VocationalTechnical Education, and they made some good impressions.

Mrs, Hill stated: I don't know whether all of the Board members received the letter from Lee Lemons with the names of the students from Rockwood Elementary who attended the Special Olympics, and I would like to commend them for coming away with a gold medal - Tyrone Phifer; Robert Atkinson, with the silver medal; Alvin Juelch, with the bronze medal; and a fifth year student from Page-Woodson, Anthony Eddington, took the fourth place. I think during the Spring Break while our young men were representing Oklahoma City there at the Special Olympics, it sounds like they represented Oklahoma City well.and we can commend them for a job well done.

Mrs. Hill continued: I have a question that I am asking and some patrons have asked; I was invited out to Stonegate to hear their Spanish program. They said that they were expecting such a large attendance that they probably would have to go to Hoover for their program, and I sort of wondered about it. It was standing room only. Their question and min$,too,is will Spanish be in the budget for next year?

Dr. Payzant - I have not received the recommendations from staff on all budget matters as yet, and have not had the opportunity to view the total budget, so I can't answer it at this point. Long before you are asked to approve a budget at the first meeting in July, my recommendation will be available and a clear answer to that question, too. We haven't gotten down to that point of deciding what the priorities ought to be and what to recommend to you.

Comments Mrs. Hill

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COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS cont'd Comments Mrs. Hill cont'd

Mrs. Hill - But by to be a little bit very sold on their It might save them

the time July rolls around, the parents feel like they are going scattered and a little bit harder to get organized, and they are programs in the three schools and are very anxious to keep them. coming down here every week and speaking.

Dr. Payzant - It will be long before July.

Mrs. Hill - In going through my materials, I thought this was an excellent booklet from John Marshall that they are putting out. I always like to see what the schools are doing to advertise what is going on. As I have had several calls, they apparently had the vandalism of the front door in December, and were wondering why, as I am, it took so long before it ever reached the Board; from December until the middle of March seems a little excessive. Dr. Payzant - I agree. I was not aware that there was a delay until I heard about it just before the last meeting. I thought that the repairs had been made long ago, and I made my feelings known to the appropriate staff, and hope that it will not happen again.

Mrs. Hill - On our truancy and attendance, how is that coming? any problems?

Are we not having

Dr. Payzant - I should have the third quarter attendance information for you shortly. The second quarter attendance report showed an improvement anywhere from two to five percent, depending on the grade level, and it averaged a little better than three percent^over the same period last year, which I think was extremely encouraging. I am hoping we will be able to sustain it through the third and fourth quarter and end of next year.

Mrs. Hill - Under items pending, I believe Mr. Donwerth had a motion that I noticed is not listed. I was wondering why it had been deleted? The motion was about payment of sick leave to principals, and he did put a timeline of May on it to be brought back to the Board, and it has been dropped. Comments Dr. Start

Dr. Start stated: I would like to publicly congratulate our Superintendent for an excellent address to the Chamber of Commerce and the way in which he outlined very succinctly our program. It was very good.

Comments Mr. English

Mr. English stated: I would like to commend the staff for this excellent brochure on teaching in Oklahoma City. It is really beautiful, and the description of the district and the community makes you really proud to live in the Oklahoma City School District and be a part of it. I think that this will help to secure quite a number of very high quality employees to the district in the future. So my commendations are to the staff on that.

ITEMS PENDING Information to the Board

Meeting of November 16, 1979 * *

Commission to Improve Education Report

LEGAL AND FINANCIAL REPORTS Attorney's Report

Mr. Bleakley reported:

Hearing Panel - Judy Boswell Termination Case -- The hearing panel will reconvene this Thursday, April 105jat 3:00 p.m. on the Judy Boswell termination case. Judge Meyers had remanded the case to the hearing panel for further consideration, and the action of the hearing panel will probably occur at the Thursday meeting, or they will set out a future hearing date if they decide to take more evidence. The attorney for Ms. Boswell has filed a Motion to Dismiss, which will be heard by Judge Meyers on Friday of this week.

Davidson vs. Independent School District #89 Case - In the Davidson vs. Independent School District #89 case, we have filed a demurrer on behalf of the district with reference to Mr. Davidson's amended petition, and that will be heard on April 18.

MINUTES OF MEETING OF APRIL 7, 1980 - CONT'D LEGAL AND FINANCIAL REPORTS cont'd Mr. Bleakley continued: < 3. Opinion on Jurisdiction of Office for Civil Rights over District's Reassignment of Students on a Racial Basis - I have been asked to present a synopsis of the opinion on the jurisdiction of the Office for Civil Rights over the District's reassignment of students on a racial basis, and I will do so in a brief condensed version of what is set forth in a rather lengthy opinion.

The constitutional and statutory obligation of the Board is to forebear from discriminating against persons on the bcfsTs of race, color or national origin. Title 42, Section 2000d of the United States Code provides: "No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance." In the execution of its duties, the Office for Civil Rights has no greater authority than the federal judiciary, whose remedial power may be exercised only in the face of a constitutional violation.

The Supreme Court said in the case of Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education:

"In seeking to define even in broad and general terms how far this remedial power extends, it is important to remember that judicial power may be exercised only on the basis of a constitutional violation. Remedial judicial authority does not put judges automatically in the shoes of school authorities whose powers are plenary." The Court said further: â&#x20AC;˘The United States Constitution does not require a racial balance in public schools. In Milliken v. Bradley, the Supreme Court noted its consistent holdings that the Constitution is not violated by racial imbalance in the schools, without more. The Court in Swann recognized that, while school authorities may choose to prescribe ratios in schools reflecting the proportions in the District as a whole^ a board's only legal obligation is to refrain from discriminatory actions.

The Court stated at page 1276 in the Swann opinion: "School authorities are traditionally charged with broad power to formulate and implement educational policy and might well conclude, for example, that in order to prepare students to live in a pluralistic society, each school should have a prescribed ratio of Negro to White students reflecting the proportion for the district as a whole. To do this as an educational policy is within the broad discretionary powers of school authorities; absent a finding of a constitutional violation, however, that would not be with-in'the authority of a federal court." The differentiating factor between an actionable constitutional violation and de facto school segregation existing due to factors beyond the control of the school authorities is the presence of a purpose or intent to segregate. Keyes v. School District (1973) 93 S.Ct. 2686. In Dayton, the Supreme Court stated that the duty of both the District Court and the Court of Appeals is to first determine whether there was any action in the conduct of the business of the school board which was intended to and did, in fact,discriminate against minority pupils, teachers, or staff. This does not mean that federal courts or the Office for Civil Rights are without power to deal with future problems; but simply that future intervention must be based on a showing that school authorities have deliberately engaged in discriminatory actions. It is, therefore, the opinion of the firm that the Board of Education is not legally obligated to maintain racial balances within the district, but may, within its discretion, choose to prescribe ratios in schools reflecting the proportions in the District as a whole as a matter of educational policy.

The Board of Education has the broad power to formulate and implement the assignment policy it considers to be in the best interests of the school district so long as such policy does not cause unconstitutional segregation. If, upon making such a determination, the Board of Education finds the policy to be in conflict with the directives of the Office for Civil Rights, it could seek a clarification of its right to do so by bringing an action for a declaratory judgment in federal district court.

Attorney's Report cont'd___________

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LEGAL AND FINANCIAL REPORTS cont'd Treasurer's Report

Mr. Ladd gave a routine treasurer's report. Clerk's office.)

R. #114 Reports Approved

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of the reports as presented. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

(A copy of the report is on file in the

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT Employee of the Month

Dr. Payzant presented Mrs. Pat Watson, President, the Association of All School Personnel, who gave preliminary remarks regarding Mrs. Sarah Hardimon, Community Guidance Coordinator, External Funding, having been selected as Employee of the Month. A Certificate of Recognition was presented by Dr. Payzant to Mrs. Hardimon on behalf of the Board of Education and the Association of All School Personnel. Mrs. Hardimon responded.

Presentation of Laudation and Recognition Certificates

Dr. Payzant presented a Certificate of Science Fair Award First Place Winners:

Recognition to the following Oklahoma City

Derrick Cogburn, Eisenhower Middle School Scott Deatherage, Northeast High School

Rod Rogers, Classen High School Certificates of Laudation and Recognition were presented by Dr. Payzant to the Classen High School basketball team members, managers, and coaches as 4A State Basketball Champions for 1980, as follows: TEAM MEMBERS Don Bly Prince Bridges Eddie Carson Terry Colbert Darrell Franklin Richard Harris Eddie Jones Kerry Mucker Scott Payzant Randy Pickett Terry Pickett Jesse Robbins Scott Smith

COACHES

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Tommy Griffin Maurice Daniels

MANAGERS

Eddie Lewis Wendell Kelly Mr. Griffin responded.

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd

At No Expense to the School District

(a)

Sharon Acuff, Lucille Rozelle, and Raymond Smith, Title I Parent Advisory Committee - Region VI Steering Committee Meeting, Little Rock, Arkansas, April 8-11, 1980.

(b)

Donna Rushing, L. D. Department Chairman, Southeast High School - Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Chicago, Illinois, April 9-12, 1980.

(c)

Gene Steiger, Special Projects Administrator; Lessie LeSure, Coordinator; William Shell, Director of External Funding, and one teacher to be named at a later date - Growth Center Project, Fort Worth, Texas, April 16, 1980.

(d)

Charlotte Bibb-Harrison, Coordinator, Comprehensive Arts - National Endowment for the Arts Regional Meeting, Denver, Colorado, April 15-16, 1980.

(e)

Robert Webb, Principal, Garden Oaks; Lance Cudjoe, Principal, Lincoln - NAESP Convention, Miami, Florida, April 18-23, 1980.

(f)

Cassandra White, Clyde Ellis, Teachers, John Marshall High School - Kansas Relay Track Meet, Lawrence, Kansas, April 18, 1980.

(g)

Marion Swindall, Teacher, John Marshall High School - Close-Up Foundation, Washington, D. C., April 20-26, 1980.

(h)

John Wedman, Teacher, Central Innovative High - Conference and Convention for Educational Technology, Denver, Colorado, April 21-25, 1980.

(i)

Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent - Council for Basic Education Board Meeting, Washington, D. C., April 24-26, 1980.

(j)

Betty Zink, Teacher, Star Spencer High School, KEY Club Sponsor - Texas/Oklahoma 31st Annual Convention, Houston, Texas, April 25-27, 1980. Expenses to be paid by Kiwanis Clubs.

(k)

Nadine Ross, Teacher, Classen High School - Close-Up Foundation, Washington, D. C., April 27-May 3, 1980. ' * â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

(l)

Bob Reese, Coordinator, Vocational Department - Council of Partners Meetings, O.S.U., Stillwater, Oklahoma, April 8 and 25, 1980.

(m)

Betty Williams, Director of Elementary Schools; Alice Houston, Director of Curriculum; Martha Hayes, Director of Teacher Corps; Winfred Parker, Community Council Chairperson; Delores Parker, Associate Director - Teacher Corps Network Regional Meeting, Denver, Colorado, May 4-7, 1980.

(n)

Thelma Earle, Facilitator, Title I; Maree Tarver, Title I Administrator International Reading Convention, St. Louis, Missouri, May 5-9, 1980.

At School District Expense

(o)

Eugene Jacobson, G/T Consultant, Curriculum Department - National Conference for the Creative/Gifted/Talented, Houston, Texas, March 21-22, 1980. Confirmation

(p)

George H. Russell, Director of Personnel Services - ASPA National Conference, San Francisco, California, April 13-16, 1980.

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Jack Isch, Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent - Growth Center Project, Fort Worth, Texas, April 16, 1980.

(r)

Oliver Stripling, Director of School Plant Services - Council of Educational Facility Planners, South Regional Conference, Austin, Texas, April 18-19, 1980.

(s)

William Shell, Director of External Funding - National Association of Administrators of State and Federal Education Programs, Washington, D. C., April 27-30,1980.

(t)

Two persons to attend the Teacher Performance Evaluation Workshop, April 11, 1980, Denver, Colorado, for Staff Development Department. Cost to be charged to the Staff Development Fund.

R. #115 Professional Trips Approved

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Results of Special Runoff Election for Professional Educators Representative

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd The Oklahoma County Election Board has tabulated the votes cast in the Special Runoff Election for a representative of the Professional Educators held in the district on *March 18, 1980. Election results follow:

Votes For

740 541

ACT/OEA/NEA NO ORGANIZATION

Eligible to Vote -

R. #116 Recognition of ^CT as Bargaining Representative of Professional Educators

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A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Williams to approve the Superintendent's recommendation that the Board of Education shall recognize Oklahoma City Association of Classroom Teachers as the exclusive bargaining (as amended) representative of the Professional Educators of this school district and that the Board of Education shall certify such organization as having received a majority of votes cast in the election held for the selection of such representative. Mr. English called on Ms. Ann Turner, who had signed up to speak on the item before the Board, and also the textbook recommendations submitted for action in the agenda.

Ms. Turner inquired: Does "exclusive" mean that AFT has no rights whatsoever to use the school mail or distribute literature, or to represent teachers in grievances? Dr. Payzant responded: Exclusive representative means that organization would be the exclusive representatives of teachers. On certain matters the practice has been since two teacher organizations exist, to give each organization certain rights such as distribution of mail. As far as representation on grievances, the practice has been in the past to give the employee the opportunity to choose which individual or organization to have represent them in a grievance. Depending on the way in which the grievance procedure is stated in the contract will define the ground rules by which the grievance procedure will operate.

Ms. Turner - If you vote this tonight and I file a grievance tomorrow, can AFT represent me? Dr. Payzant - Yes.

Ms. Turner stated that as a librarian she was concerned about that part of the textbook recommendations that out of adopted textbooks, they can be kept as supplementar classroom sets, be made available to students to take home, or they can be offered to the community. Ms. Turner inquired that after they have gotten rid of the textbooks by the means as stated and no one wants them, could they then be thrown in the trash? Dr. Payzant - If the three steps as suggested here have been followed and there can be no good use for them under any one of these three steps, the answer is yes, but you should coordinate the disposal and how that is done with the school principal and with Dr. Lindley's office. Dr. Hamm inquired: The recommendation reads that "the Board of Education shall recognize Oklahoma City Association of Classroom Teachers as the exclusive representative of the Professional Educators..." I believe the guidelines that were used and in the contract, it reads the "exclusive bargaining representative of the Professional Educators..." Was that word to be included or not? Dr. Payzant - I believe this is the statutory language, but I would like to ask Mr. Bleakley to clarify that. Mr. Bleakley - The language of the Statute is that'local board of education shall recognize an employee organization designated by an election of the employees in an appropriate bargaining unit as the exclusive representative of all the employees in such unit." The word "bargaining" is in the phrase "an appropriate bargaining unit." Mr. English - What if we said "exclusive representative of the Professional Educators of this SGhool district for purposes of collective bargaining"? Would we still be within the Statute there?

Mr. Bleakley - I think that would be in agreement with the spirit of the Statute?

Mrs. Hill - What if you just added "bargaining" after exclusive and have exclusive bargaining representative? Mr. Donwerth - That would conform with Article I in the contract that is now in existence in the guidelines.

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AMENDMENT

Mrs. Potts moved to amend the motion "to add following the word 'exclusive1, the word "bargaining." Dr. Hamm seconded the amendment.

R. #116 Recognition of ACT as Bargaining Representative of Professi onal Educators cont'd

On roll call for the amendment, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the amendment was adopted. Mr. Donwerth commented: I think it is drastic that we had no more of the teachers vote in this election for a bargaining representative than did appear to vote. It is a shame that we didn't have more interested in voting.

On roll call for the motion as amended, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried as amended. It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start to approve the recommendation that Capitol Hill Middle School be included as a site for a 1980 summer middle school program.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. Dr. Payzant stated: On the recommendation of the 1980-81 Student School Assignment Plans; first, I willgive some very brief comments about my recommendation and the rationale for it. Secondly, I will review briefly the modification in Plan 1 that I have considered and am recommending to the Board since I presented the plan to you at the last meeting; and third, present some information on additional modifications in the plans which were requested by Board members this afternoon, and that the staff was working on up to seven o'clock this evening.

By way of an overview, whatever may happen in the future, should the Board decide to bring any action for a declaratory judgment in federal district court, I hope you will recognize that a decision on a student school assignment plan for 1980-81 is yours to make and it is needed now. I believe that affirmative steps must be taken to adjust the racial balances in some of the schools next year to maintain the momentum we have generated recently in support for schools and the improvement of educational quality. I make this judgment independent of any consideration that the Office for Civil Rights may or may not have the right to require reassignments of students. If no changes in student assignments are made next year, we will have a more difficult set of decisions to make a year from now, and in the meantime we may risk losing more students because of the uncertainty which exists about future.school assignments and the reaction of blacks and whites to existing racial balances, particularly in schools that have black enrollments more than ten percent above or below the district-wide average, or schools where our black- enrollments are below ten percent of the district-wide average. I am certainly aware that strong emotions are generated by the discussion of school assignments and that there are sensitive political consideration decisions about them. However, the decision that is often thought to be most politically acceptable in the short run may not help the district reach its educational goals over the long run.

I am recommending Plan 1-A as it was presented on several occasions to the Board in recent weeks. There is one modification in it that I am asking you to consider, and it involves students from the Patrick Henry area of the school district who are currently transported by bus to Parmelee Elementary School. The original Plan 1 recommended that these students be shifted to Davis, and on taking a closer look at that, I don't think it makes a lot of sense because Davis is a smaller facility, an older facility and, over the long term, it would make more sense to keep those students at Parmelee even though additional growth in that area my lead to overcrowding down the road. Conceivably, we could be in the position of adding portables at both schools, but if we are going to have to add portables, the core facilities at Parmelee are more modern and more able to accept a larger number of students.

The additional black students who were under Plan 1 to be assigned to Davis would instead be assigned to Parmelee, and in both instances the enrollments at Davis and Parmelee would come within the racial balance guidelines that were the basic criterion for the development of Plan 1. So I am recommending that modification. r

This afternoon the staff was asked to prepare some materials on some additional modifications, and we worked on putting it in readable form right up until 6:30 or later this evening. I will distribute copies to the Board and attempt to explain what

R. #117 Capitol Hill Middle School Approved as Summer School Site

Discussion 1980-81 Student School Assignment Plan

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Dr. Payzant cont'd Discussion 1980-81 Student School Assignment has been requested and ask for Maxie Wood to 'come to the podium to help me if I need ^additional information, or can interrupt me if I am in error in anything that I Plan cont'd present to the Board. The first document that I am going to present to you is entitled Plan 1-B, High School It recommends several modifications in Plan 1 at the high school level. There would be three schools affected - John Marshall, Northwest, and Northeast. Plan 1-B would add the Stonegate Elementary School attendance area to John Marshall and remove it from Northeast. At Northwest, rather than send the Cleveland elementary attendance area to Northeast, it would stay at Northwest, and the Putnam Heights and Monroe attendance areas would go to Northeast rather than Northwest. At Northeast the Stonegate attendance area would be removed and the Putnam Heights and Monroe attendance areas would be added. This results in total projected balances of black students and others as follows:

If nothing were done at Marshall, the projection would be 56.4% Black. Under this proposal it would be 41.7% Black, which is slightly below what the black ratio would be under the original Plan 1 proposal. At Northwest by leaving the Cleveland attendance area at Northwest and removing Putnam Heights and Monroe to send to Northeast, the black ratio at Northwest would be 34.9%, compared to 32.4% under Plan 1.as originally proposed.

By removing Stonegate from Northeast and adding Putnam Heights and Monroe, the black enrollment at Northeast would be 43.2%, compared with 43.6% under the original Plan 1. Mrs. Hill - Are you saying that the Longfellow attendance area would still go to Southeast?

Dr. Payzant - There would be no changes other than those that I have just noted.

Mrs. Hill - On Putnam Heights and Monroe, then anyone who is currently assigned to those schools would go to Northeast? Mrs. Wood - The entire population of students in grades 9-12 in those attendance areas would be moved. Mr. English - The students from Putnam Heights and Monroe currently go to Harding? Mrs. Wood - That is correct. bus to Northwest.

The students in those areas are currently riding a

Mrs. Hill - I feel like some of those students we are going to lose. Mr. English - I think we would have lost some of the Cleveland students too.

Mrs. Hill - Yes, and I was not going to support that either. Dr. Payzant - Remember that when we are talking about any of the high school plans, we are talking about a "grandfather clause" for students who are currently enrolled in high school this year in ninth, tenth, or eleventh grade who would next year be tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders. So that the only students that would be affected next year would be incoming ninth graders. Mrs. Hill - I have never understood, in looking at Plan 1, where you all of a sudden discovered that we had a school named Cleveland. We haven't had a school named Cleveland for several years now. It bothers me that we close a school, and then we come back several years later and say, here you are again; like the Henry patrons, their school having been closed for years. Now we are back to Henry.

Dr. Payzant - We simply are doing tha<t to give a description to the geographic area that we are talking about so that people will have a better understanding of what geographic area we are talking about. Mrs. Hill - When Cleveland was closed originally, it was split three ways and we asked those patrons to become part of Sequoyah, Madison, and Hawthorne. I could buy Plan 1 of the high school, if we had not all of a sudden pulled out the Cleveland zones. Mr. English - Plan 1-B leaves Cleveland where it is, going to Taft and Northwest. takes care of that problem there.

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Mrs. Hill - I don't think I could buy Putnam Heights and Monroe.

Mr. English - The question then becomes where are you going to get the white students to balance Northeast? I figure that it is better to take students closer to Northeast than it is to bus kids at Kaiser, and bus them past Northwest to go to Northeast. What this does, it turns John Marshall into a neighborhood school. Mrs. Hill - And I think it should be.

Mr. English - It is an integrated neighborhood and that is what it does, and I am very happy that it does that, too. I think it is time that we try and get to that kind of a situation. Mrs. Hill - I would agree, but we are taking some black students out of Northeast in Plan 1. Dr. Payzant - That is true. In Plan 1-B, the black students that would be removed from John Marshall and Northeast would be the same under each plan.

Mrs. Hill - How many students from Polk are we sending currently to Northeast? Dr. Payzant - From Polk to Northeast, 140.

Mrs. Hill - What does that do to the black/other ratio with those out, before we add Putnma Heights and Monroe? Mrs. Wood - I don't have the exact figures with me, but it doesn't bring the black ratio down. It is still too high; it is beyond the ten percent limit.

Mrs. Hi IT - You are taking out 140 students,* it should change it some. Mrs. Wood - It changes it some, but they are right now projected at 53.1%, and we have got to get them down within ten percent of 38%.

Mrs. Hill - The paper shows that you are expecting 198 white students to go to Northeast, and I am here to say that won't happen. Mr. English - You asked what it would do just removing those 140 students from Polk. Roughly speaking, it brings them to 47% plus on .Northeast, if you just remove the Polk students. You can remove twice as many blacks out of Northeast, but you are still going to finally have a problem, or are you going to move just blacks to solve all of the problems? I don't think that is going to be probably an appropriate answer to just move blacks. I said take a look and see what this would do with John Marshall, because when I had the report on the neighborhood schools, what it would do if we reverted to total neighborhood schools, I noticed that the John Marshall area is about 41.1% it looked like, ten through twelve, and the Research staff did an excellent fast job. They looked at it and came up with this. I had also had the comment about Cleveland School, the fact that Northwest Classen is right there in the Cleveland School area. So we looked at some place else that it would be appropriate, and, in my opinion, that is the best possible we could do. If somebody else has a better idda, I think everybody here would welcome that idea for another suggestion on how to solve the problem. â&#x20AC;˘

Mr. Donwerth - In looking at this where you take away Polk, where are we sending them now?

Mrs. Wood - Polk is going to Grant, and Longfellow would be going to Southeast. portion is the same as in the original Plan 1.

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Mrs. Hill - I have a concern about Dunbar, by it being right next to Douglass.

Mr. English - We all had the same concern here, and this afternoon the staff also looked at the Dunbar and Polk situation. Mrs. Wood, would you like to explain what we found on the Dunbar situation?

Mrs. Wood - At the high school level, we examined what predominantly' black areas were attending Douglass High School that could be moved, and there are only two - Dunbar and Edwards, and both schools are in very close proximity to Douglass High School, and one of the two areas would have to be moved out, because the other areas feeding in are schools such as Pierce, Oakridge -schools from the very far south. On the Polk situation at the Hilgh- school level, Mr. English asked to see if there was another possible black area that could be moved out of Northeast, the only predominantly black area that we had is Dewey, which is closer to Northeast High School than the Polk area. Dewey is currently split with a portion of those students going to Classen, and the other portion going to Northeast. Mrs. Potts - I think we were looking at the changes, adjusting the ratios particularly for Marshall and Northeast, since these schools had a very high ratio, and one of the things that has been said for Plan 1 is that it would provide a much longer term stability for the school district; that we can anticipate a long period without needing to make any adjustments. I think that is one thing about Plan 1-B, it does even more

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Dr. Payzant - There were several suggestions that were made that we were asked to look at the middle school level, which I am distributing now, Plan 1-B at the middle school level. It would affect three schools - Taft, Harding, and Hoover.

Mrs. Wood - The first change would affect the Taft area, and with the changes on Plan 1-B, then Cleveland would be left at Taft. We would remove Sequoyah instead, and the Sequoyah area would be sent to Harding. The King students that we were removing from Harding in Plan 1 would also go to Taft. This brings the percent black at Taft to 35.4% under Plan 1-B. On Plan 1, the percent at Taft was 34.5. So it increased it a slight amount. At Harding, we previously in Plan 1 had removed 120B, and we have found that this is the Baptist Home area that is in the Belle Isle area, and we left that in Harding. We added the Sequoyah area to Harding and this brought the percent black at Harding to 38.4; whereas, it was 40.2 under Plan 1. At Hoover, the only change is that we took 120B out, and this brought their percent to 37.5, where previously it had been 36.3. Mrs. Hill - But you now have it placed on the list to be looked at for closing. Mrs. Wood - This was a consideration this afternoon, but we were anticipating with the creation of the neighborhood high school in this area, that there might possibly be people who would relocate back in the Hoover and Marshall area, which would increase the enrollment at Hoover. Mrs. Hill - With Sequoyah, the boundary lines are right there at Northwest. Mrs. Wood - Sequoyah is located very close to Putnam Heights and Monroe, which both are currently going to Harding, so it is close to it, and this change would allow Cleveland which is much closer to Taft to remain at Taft.

Dr. Payzant - I am passing to you the Pupil Reassignment Summary, which gives you total information if 1-B were laid over Plan 1 and the adjustments made that have just been explained at the high school and middle, Plan 1-A and 1-B.

Mrs. Hill - But you are still moving all fifth graders out of our K-5 schools in Plan T Dr. Payzant - Yes. All this does is give you a total, given the changes at the high school and middle school that we have just detailed. Mrs. Hill - We have had these plans before and some of the patrons have pointed out some of the conditions that are not good like part of our patrons from Parmelee who showed us that actually we were moving them to a school that couldn't even accommodate them. Tonight we are coming forth with some brand new changes that will affect a lot of people out there, that they might also have some points that we have not even thought of.

Mr. English - We have already discussed the possibility, if it is all right with the Board, to lay the plan over to give time for public input, because it does involve some other areas that have not been involved before.

Dr. Payzant - I think it certainly deserves some time for a closer look, but I am going to argue very hard for the calling of a special meeting to do that soon, because all of our staffing and some other decisions are tying on to a resolution of this question. So it is imperative that we get on with it, but I think it would not be appropriate to come with new information and expect a final decision on that this evening.

Mrs. Williams - A point to remember; whenever we present a plan, as painful as even the ideas of plans are to me, there is going to be somebody that doesn't know about it, but please do not vote on a plan like this without my being here, and I cannot be here beyond tomorrow night.

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Dr. Payzant - The other area on which information was requested was the K-5 schools. I am passing two sheets and I will let Mrs. Wood explain them. The first one that I am giving you is K-5 schools with only neighborhood zones, grades 1-5. The second is the projected percentage of minority enrollment in K-5 schools.

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Mrs. Wood - The first sheet before has the seven K-5 schools that are being considered for changing their status to K-4 buildings. We looked at each of the buildings to see if any students outside the immediate neighborhood were being bused into the area. If you will follow along, you will see that Shidler is currently receiving students from the Ambassador Courts area. This is the entire population, grades 1-5, that feed into Shidler from Ambassador Courts. Riverside receives students from no other area. Mark Twain is currently receiving students from the Kerr Village area. Stand Watie, their black population comes from the Kerr Village area. Ross is receiving black students from two areas, the Ambassador Courts area and a portion of their students come from Dewey. Horace Mann receives students from no other area, and Columbus! receives students from the Kerr Village area. When we remove the students that were being bused into these areas, we find that there are only two schools, Shidler and Horace Mann, whose black/other ratios are within ten percent of the district level ratio.

The second sheet that you have before you shows the percent minority at each school, anc this projection is only for the students in the immediate area. These are the neighborhood zones that feed into the school. It does not include the students from the areas that are currently bused in. We looked at five different racial or ethnic categories - Black, Indian, Oriental, Spanish, White, the total, and then the percent minority. At Shidler, the percent minority is 48.5. There is a high population of Black and Spanish. At Riverside, the percent minority is 87.3, with a high, high percentage of Spanish. At Mark Twain, the percent minority is 26.3; Stand Watie is 16.8; Ross, 18.9; Horace Mann, 34.4; and Columbus, 25.7. So the two schools that would have a very high percent minority if you looked at other racial or ethnic categories would be Shidler and Riverside. It you attempt to compare these totals back with the totals on the other page, they are not going to be exactly the same, because on the computer printout that we have, the ethnic categories other than black/other are percented, but they are with TOO percent retention. Then the second part of the report gives us the black/other with a retention ratio added. So the figures will be slightly different. Dr. Payzant - That completes the written material that we were able to pull together this evening.

(A copy of all materials referred to in the discussion is on file in the Clerk's office.' Mrs. Potts - I suppose it would be proper procedure for us to follow to start with a motion for approval of a particular plan or set of plans, and then we can get into a discussion about when we wish to consider the motion. Mr. English - I would suggest that we do it on school level; that'is, have a separate motion on each level so that we have one at the high schools, one at the middle schools, one at the fifth year centers, and one at the elementary level. Then we can vote on those, whenever we decide to, one at a time, rather than trying to vote on a whole package. Mrs. Potts then made the following motion:

I move for approval of Plan 1-A plus 1-B as it would pertain to the high schools.

The motion was seconded by Mrs. Williams. Mr. English;;- Why don't we go ahead and move into the other steps, and then we will discuss when it is we want to get into the longer discussion of when we will vote on all of this. You would have four unvoted motions.

Mrs. Williams - When we took our oath of office, we understood that we had the responsibility for the total Independent School District No. 89, not the high schools and the middle schools, but the whole bag. Mr. English - You will get to vote on each one of the levels, on each motion.

Members of the Board proceeded to discuss a time that everyone could be present and the plans could be voted on. Suggestions were made that the plans be voted on at the meeting that was in session, the following night, or! any time that could be scheduled outside the period of April 9 through 22. Concern was expressed that persons who would be affected by the plans have an opportunity for input before they were voted; however, time was important that staff begin work on implementation of whatever plans were approved, and other.

Motions Re Student School Assignment Plans to be Considered at April 23 Special Meeting of the Board

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Motions Re Student School Assignment Plans to be Considered at April 23 Special Meeting of the Board cont'd

Following the discussion, Mr. English called on the following persons who had registered to address the Board on Student School Assignment:

Michael T. McEwen

Claudine Patterson

Mary A. Hammond

Dennis Shockley

John Hardin

Nancy Burdette

Patricia Musgrave

Donna Myers

Mary Weiss

Included in the remarks presented was a concern that fifth grade students not be moved from Horace Mann to a fifth year center; a position statement from the Urban League regarding the assignment of students; opposition to all plans that had been presented; i the conditions of school buildings that exist; the need for more stability in the assignment of students, and other.

Members of the Board continued the discussion as to when a special meeting could be called to vote on the Student School Assignment Plans. (Mr. English then called for a five-minute break in the meeting.)

SUBSTITUTE MOTION by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Potts: I move that the Board approve Plan 1-B for high schools; Plan 1-B for middle schools; Plan 1-A for elementary, K-5, and fifth year centers, with the exception of Horace Mann, which would be treated identical to Arcadia.

Mrs. Hill - Are you saying by your motion that Horace Mann and Arcadia would be the only K-5 schools that we would have? Dr. Start - Yes.

Mrs. Hill - I think that is grossly unjust. I think we have some other K-5 schools that are just as good as Horace Mann, and I think we should keep them also. Dr. Start - It is not a question of being good. It is the question of that is the only one on the whole list that is naturally integrated. All of the others have students added to their neighborhood enrollment to achieve a racial balance. It is not a question of good or bad; it is a question of racial balance.

Mrs. Hill - I think that we have some patrons out here who are just as proud of their K-5 schools and that they have some benefits and things that are going on in them, and they should be included. So I would oppose the motion. Mr. Donwerth - I would like to ask about the recommendation of the change in the Parmelee area where they were going to take part of the Parmelee area students and put them in Davis, and they refer to it as the Henry students, but there is no Henry area, it is all Parmelee. Dr. Start - Yes, that is included in Plan 1-A.

Dr. Payzant - So those students, Mr. Donwerth, would stay at Parmelee, under Dr. Start's motion.

Mrs. Hill - So you are saying that you approve of what the Superintendent has proposed? Dr. Start - Yes, except that I didn't hear a recommendation on the K-5 school. I think the Superintendent would recommend that all K-5 schools stay as he presented it to us in Rian 1-A. The only exception to his recommendation would be that I would take out Horace Mann because it has the same unique characteristics as Arcadia. I would like to press for my motion tonight, if we can get an agreement on it.

Mrs. Potts asked Mr. English to speak for clarification on the Board the possibility of voting on the motion.

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Mr. English stated: My interpretation is that this is actually old business, the subject of reassignment of students. It was on the agenda for tonight; it has been discussed at a previous Board meeting, and I think it falls under the Board policy as one that is legitimately up for a vote tonight if somebody wants to vote on it tonight.

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Mrs. Potts - I think you can speak in support of this motion in terms of we as educators have felt and certainly heard from patrons that the programs at the fifth year centers are outstanding, and we do feel that it does a better job of challenging fifth graders than is possible in the K-5 school. I think that there is a possibility of setting up a modeling situation where we can really measure, and perhaps we really should do that, whether these students are achieving as good an education when they are retained in a K-5 school as in the fifth year center. I think all of the evidence has been to the contrary. Patrons, either way, seem to be supportive of it, whatever their children are involved in here. I am really speaking in support of the motion in that respect.

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Mr. English relinquished the Chair to Mrs. Potts, and made the following statement: I think it would be unfair to the people in those areas of Monroe and Sequoyah and Putnam Heights for us to vote on this tonight without them ever having had the opportunity to have some input to the Board. I have some concerns about some other parts of the Plan as well. I think it is too restrictive on just covering Horace Mann. I think there are some other K-5 schools thatrthe fifth grade should be retained in, because I think they are integrated schools as reflected by the figures that we have before. When I look at integration, I don't just look at black and white; I think that it has to be the total community. I think when you involve the Hispanics, the Native Americans, and the Orientals in this, then you have got a really, truly integrated neighborhood, and we have some of those. In talking with Mrs. Williams during the break, she indicated that she could be back on the 23rd, and I think if we would have a meeting on the 23rd that we could then vote on this motion and anything else with amendements or whatever. MOTION TO TABLE by Mr. English and seconded by Mr. Donwerth â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mr. Engl ish continued: Therefore, I would move to table Dr. Start's motion until a meeting of this Board to be held at 7:00 p.m., on Wednesday, April 23, 1980.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted nay; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted nay; Mrs. Potts voted nay; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion to table carried. Mrs. Potts returned the Chair to Mr. English.'

Mrs. Williams - Is an amendment to Dr. Start's motion in order? Mr. English - I don't think it is at this point; I think it would be on the 23rd. That is just an initial impression that I have.

Mrs. Williams - That is why I was trying to stop you with the motion to table so that I could get my amendment in. Mr. English - All amendments will be alive and well on the 23rd.

MOTION by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs..Hill to be voted on April 23rd --

Mrs. Williams continued: In view of the fact that you are dismantling Plan 1, I have an additional dismantling that I want to do to it. Therefore, if I am in order, I move that Plan 1 be revised to remove the Longfellow children from the river-bottom schools,and recommend that they be reassigned to schools like Kaiser that have better facilities and are in danger of being closed. Mr. English and Mrs. Williams discussed the matter of whether what she had made was an amendment or a motion, at which time, Mr. English stated that it didn't make any difference since it would not be voted on at that meeting, and he was not disturbed about little things like that. Dr. Hamm - I was going to talk to Mrs. Williams over this matter, because the Plan 1-B and 1-A that were brought to us tonight originated from somewhere, not with a Board motion, and I am sure that she could talk to the staff and they would be willing to take a look at it.

Mr. English - That would have been my suggestion that it just simply be a request of staff and they provide that information to us.

Mrs. Williams - But I want that in the records.

Mr. Donwerth - If we are going to delay this, because we have had new data this evening, until April 23rd, and then we have staff bring back a recommendation or some information on Mrs. Williams' motion tonight, then are we going to have to delay it again until the parents and students concerned have some input?

Mrs. Williams - I am not going to demand that.

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Mr. English - Could we set an arbitrary time as to when we are going to stop the proposals to the staff, and then ask that what staff recommendations or findings on the drawings of that or other, that that be made public at some point prior to the April 23rd meeting, so that the public will know about these things and have an opportunity on the 23rd to come down here and speak to us at that time? Mr. English then suggested that Friday, April 11, at 5:00 p.m. be the deadline for Board member requests for new plans or adjustments to the plans be made to the Superintendent, and then the Superintendent and staff make those refined plans, whatever they are, public on or before Thursday, April 17.

Mrs. Hill - Actually, if the Superintendent, when these plans are drawn, if they would notify the principal of that school, I think that would be the best way to notify the patrons.that they are being affected.

Mrs. Williams - Of which school; the losing school or the receiving school? Dr. Hamm - All of them.

Mr. English - How about the young people who would be affected directly by the reassignment? In other words, the students who would be reassigned would be informed.

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Periodicals for school libraries be ordered through the Media Services Dept.

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Report on Affirmative Action Plan Update

Dr. Payzant presented Mrs. Beth Wilson, Personnel Administrator Affirmative Action, to give a report on the Affirmative Action Plan update.

<Mrs. Wilson stated: My purpose is to briefly share with you the highlights of the proposed updated Affirmative Action Plan, and to outline for you the chronology of events leading up to its presentation to you this evening. The Equal Employment Advisory Committee has met on several occasions to discuss the progress of the updates of the Affirmative Action Plan. After the first draft was prepared, a public hearing of the plan was held on January 31, 1980 here in this building. The Advisory Committee met on February 7 to discuss the plan land the public hearing comments. Then on February 11 the plan was first presented to the Superintendent's staff who offered several suggestions to improve the plan. The comments from the Advisory Committee, the public hearing, and the Superintendent's staff were considered in the preparation of the second draft of the plan related to the employment goals and timetables. It is that final draft which ultimately received the endorsement of the Superintendent's staff on March 3. The endorsement of the Advisory Committee is reflected in a letter that I understand you have from the chairperson of that committee, dated March 21, and which is being submitted to you this evening for approval.

I amj very happy to report that the processes that were utilized in receiving input to the update of the plan went very smoothly, and it is a compliment I believe to the spirit of cooperation that has resulted in what has been a very successful affirmative action program. That success is reflected in part, I believe, by the Equal Opportunity Employer of the Year Award that was presented to the District by the Oklahoma City Branch of the Urban League in November of 1978, and the fact that since September of 1976, in all complaints that have been filed with compliance agencies, this district has been found innocent of any employment discrimination.

Because of its success, there are relatively few revisions in the proposed update. The major changes that I have outlined in the memorandum to you earlier presented relate to the establishment of new employment goals and timetables. With the assistance and endorsement of the Superintendent's staff and the Equal Employment Advisory Committee, a new formula for the determination of goals has been developed. The formula accommodates more recently published labor market data.- This is a concern that has been expressed previously by committee members and others, and provides for a method of more equitable distribution of personnel. The goals are identified as those we believe that can reasonably be achieved within 12 months, and those we believe may take up to five years to achieve. The short term 12-months'^ goals are based primarily on updated data obtained from the Employment Security Commission and the State Department of Education, the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and tl e Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. We did utilize all sources that were available to us. Employees within our system who would be eligible for promotion from one occupational group to another were also considered. The anticipated annual turnover rate was then applied and determined what would be a reasonable numerical goal. The long-term goals are based on the race/sex composition of-our student population. This population was selected for several reasons; primarily, because it was deemed that this population had a desirable composition, reflected a diversity of staff that we deemed desirable in the community, and also because there was no appropriate reliable data available on which long term five-year goals could justifiably be based. You may note that certain minorities, primarily American Indians,and to a smaller degree of Hispanics,have received greater emphasis in employment goals. We have now been able to obtain similar representation among our employees Of the American Indian and in this population. Special efforts, therefore, will be exerted to increase their representation. We have been able to employ a relatively large number of black and female employees. Efforts with respect to those groups will be focused more on their equitable distribution in the workforce utilizing transfers and promotions as the primary vehicles for achieving this distribution.

Our problems are not great, however, and experience teaches us that those problems which do exist can, with a little effort, in due time be remedied. The internal appeal procedure for discrimination complaints has worked very well. I think the evidence of that is the fact that there has never been any complaints filed with the Affirmative Action Office that have been appealed to either the Superintendent or the Board; nor have any complainants that have been coming through the Affirmative Action Office ever deemed it necessary to file complaints with any state or federal compliance agencies. We have, therefore, left that internal complaint procedure pretty much as it has always been. The only modification was to add a provision for representation; if the complainant wanted representation at a hearing, they have the opportunity to have that, and also to encourage the resolution of complaints at the immediate supervisory level.

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Mrs. Wilson cont'd We did add a section to the plan that addresses the . affirmative action activities for the^handicapped. This was done fn compliance with Sections 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and Section 402 of the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act. These acts are relatively newly applicable to the school district, and the activities in the plan are addressed to compliance with their provisions.

Report on Affirmative Action Plan Update cont'd

As done previously, the plan is separated into two documents. The first small document is the plan itself. The larger document contains the appendix and includes A-l the supporting statistical information. The plan has received a great deal of review from the Advisory Committee, from the public hearing, from the Superintendent's staff and other persons who have individually made comments, who believe that the plan as presently presented reflects a consensus of opinion that is a fair and equitable means of achieving our affirmative action goals. It was, however, recently called to my attention that portions of the plan which are in essence administrative regulations should be rewritten to conform to the regulatory format and coding system. These are primarily relating to our appeal procedure. This change with your approval can be accommodated at a later date and be incorporated prior to district-wide distribution if necessary. We do plan a massive distribution of the plan, as has been done in the past, with copies of it going to each school building and all departments, as well as maintaining files on the plan here in the Media Center and in my office, so that it will be available for review for all employees.

The plan will also be accompanied by a letter from the Superintendent, which instructs all department heads to review the plan, to become familiar with it, and to make it available for all of the employees in their departments and buildings. Dr. Start commented: I think that'is a beautiful piece of work. We have come a long way since this whole process began, and I think the staff and Mrs. Wilson, and the committee ought to receive our congratulations.

Mrs. Hill - Do we usually do an update in October? Dr. Payzant - The goals are based on October to October, and this was a major update this year. I think with the adoption of this plan that there will be only minor adjustments that will be needed in the future and that our actual reporting of progress or lack thereof can be the focus of our annual report to you, and be presented earlier in the year.

A motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of the Affirmative Action Plan update, to be considered at the April 28 meeting of the Board.

Approval of Affirmative Action Plan Updates to be Considered at April 28 Meeting of the Board

Dr. Payzant submitted the following policy for consideration for action at the April 28 Meeting of the Board:

Policy JECBC Admission of Underage Children to Kindergarten, to be Considered at the April 28 Meeting of the Board

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The Board believes that it may be beneficial to some children to enroll in public

school kindergarten at an earlier age than specified by state law.

Therefore,

children four years of age whose fifth birthday is after September 1 and before December 2 may enroll in public school kindergarten on a tuition basis.

The

tuition charge will be equal to the per capita cost per kindergarten student for

the previous school year and must be paid each semester in advance. Underage children who have paid tuition to attend kindergarten in a district

school may attend first grade tuition free the following year, if they have

successfully mastered the expected kindergarten skills as determined by an assessment team.

Children will remain in kindergarten the following year tuition

free if they do not master the required skills.

Underage children who have shown mastery of skills before the school year has ended may accelerate to the next level.

attains the legal age for kindergarten.

Tuition will be paid until the child

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Policy JECBC Assignment of Underage Children to Kindergarten, to be considered at the April 28 Meeting of the Board cont'd

Underage children who have not attended a district kindergarten will not be

placed in the first grade the following year. Underage children living in the district and attending a private accredited

kindergarten may transfer to a district kindergarten on a tulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;tion basis at' the end of the first semester and upon successful mastery of kindergarten skills

may attend first grade the following year without paying tuition.

Underage

children who attended public school kindergarten outside the district may not

enter the first grade in the district the following year.

Underage children

living outside the district and attending public school kindergarten elsewhere may transfer on a tuition basis to a district kindergarten before the beginning

of second semester.

Upon successful completion of kindergarten skills, the child

will be eligible for first grade tuition free.

The district will honor all out-of-state kindergarten transfers for underage children tuition free who are legally enrolled in a public school

.iiri keeping

with the age regulations of the sending state. Cross Reference: JCA Legal Reference: 70-1-114 Oklahoma City District Dr. Payzant stated: The reason for recommending this policy is the change in State Statute which moves the kindergarten enrollment age from being five by November 1 to being five by September 1. This will result in a net loss of about 700 students to the Oklahoma City Schools next year, We opposed that legislation before the House and Senate last year and lost, and it does go into effect with the 1980-81 school year. This would give an opportunity for children who were underage to attend kindergarten if they were willing to pay tuition, and sets forth a policy and procedure for doing so.

Mrs. Hill - About how much would the tuition be? Dr. Payzant - The tuition would be based on the preceding yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s per pupil cost, and I can get a precise estimate for you prior to the next meeting. It won't be completely accurate because we wouldn't have the final cost for this year until the close of the school year. _________ Mrs. Hill - I guess we have discussed this with some kindergarten teachers and principals and they think that this would be a good policy? Dr. Payzant - We have not pulled together a committee of people to look at it. That is one of the reasons that I wanted to present it now so that people who wanted to comment on.it'could do so before you take action. There is a good deal of concern across the district that we are going to lose 700 children as the result of this change in policy that takes effect with the beginning of the 1980-81 school year, and this might get some of those students back, but we have no idea how many.

Mrs. Hill - I thought we might want to have some of the elementary principals respond. Dr. Payzant - I think that some of the people that backed the legislation were thinking it would be better to have children enter kindergarten at an older age, and that was the basis on which they were supporting it. I don't think they recognized at the time the impact it would have on us, what it would do to our ADA, and also that in many instances, the children that would be affected would simply be spending more time in day care centers rather than having an educational program with trained teachers in our public schools. Motion for Approva 3f JECBC Wmi ssion .of Underage Children to Kindergarten, to be Considered at the April 28 Meeting of the Board

It was moved by Dr. !Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams that Policy JECBC, Admission of Underage Children to Kindergarten be approved, and considered for action at the April 28 meeting of the Board.

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF APRIL 7, 1980 - CONT'D A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of a seminar expense - registration, training material, training leaders and other, for 14 administrative secretaries to attend a Secretarial Seminar for Administrative Secretaries, April 15, 1980. The seminar expense in the amount of $1,330 is to be charged to Account G 250.05.

R. #120 Approval of Seminar Expense

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Hamm to approve the Superintendent's R. #121 recommendation for the retention of McKinley School building and site pending completion Recommendation of a study on the retirement of Lafayette School and the assignment of students in the Approved for south central area of the school district. Retention of McKinley School On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Building and Site Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

Dr. Payzant reminded those persons present to vote in the Millage Election and Board Member Election in District 4, those who were eligible. Dr. Payzant inquired: One other point of clarification in responding to Board requests that the staff consider alternates to the Student Assignment Plans, do I take the intent of the Board to be that all ground rules are off in terms of looking at alternatives? For example, one of the givings from the beginning was that we would not look at the 12 schools that are being considered for closure, because once we start to look at those, then by this Student Reassignment Plan we are at this point affecting decisions on school closure or not. After a process has been set in motion to enable a number of things to happen over the next five or six months, to keep that a pure process. For example, if we were to look at some of those schools, we would find that the racial balances in them now, based on the current enrollment and projected enrollment for next year, would perhaps exceed by ten percent the district average or be below by ten percent the district average. But since our criterion was to leave those 12 schools alone, we have not done anything pending the outcome of the Board's decision late this year or early next year. That will make a big difference in terms of what alternatives we might look at in responding specifically to Mrs. Williams' motion. Mr. English - Did the Board vote not to look at those 12 schools in student reassignment, or was that sort of an administrative guideline that was set up?

Dr. Payzant - It was an administrative guideline, sentiment from the Board to alter that, and if we on that, then it really seriously affects what we involvement of the planning councils and how they the pros and cons of keeping certain schools open

but I have never received any are going to change the ground rules have got in motion in terms of might operate in terms of looking at or retiring them.

Mrs. Hill - I have really always felt that you really couldn't do a reassignment, adjustment properly and omit 12 schools out there; that you really needed to look at all schools involved. So I do know it was not a Board decision that that be done.

Mrs. Williams - I can see how you can keep on being confused if you don't put a moratorium on actions. You keep gerrymandering, and the old cliche "the squeaking wheel gets the grease," and then some more squeaks come up. I can see where we should say leave them alone and let them die naturally; however, when I look at where they are sending my children, I get excited. I think the Superintendent needs our direction. I came here tonight prepared to bite my tongue and not say one word about what I really think is something that is going to rob some kids in the LongifeTTow area by the transfer, educationally, morally and all, but I was willing to make the tradeoff because of instructions from a blue ribbon committee in my community that said, all right, go with Plan 1, we have made sacrifices before, but then tell the Board and tell the Superintendent and staff that if our children must be banished to the river bottom, work in those schools if it means moving principals, every teacher in them, program and everything, and bring them up,, the facil ities. But when I get here and see 1-A, 1-B, that is taking care of John Marshal 1, and it is taking care of this, that and the other, then I "say am I selling my children short again?

Mr. English - We are going to take care of every school whether it has the fifth year in it or whatever.

Mrs. Williams - I am not worried about the fifth year. I am worried about those kids in the Longfellow area being banished down to the river bottom. Look at the Longfellow area. Here is a kind of a middle class group; go Took and then go look at where you are going to send them. Mr. English - Let me suggest that if somebody has a plan that they want drawn up and they want to include any of those 12 schools that are in the danger zone, then they should tell the Superintendent that they want it to include those, otherwise plans that are drawn will not include those 12. And then the Board is going to be looking at each one of the plans that is drawn up, and the Board will make a decision on whether they

Remarks Dr. Payzant

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like it with any of the 12 in there or not.

Dr. Payzant - The only thing that I want the Board to be clear on is that I think you have quite a bit of credibility at stake in terms of the procedure that you have approved for looking at the possible retirement of 12 schools. We have started planning councils; we have told them no decisions will be made until December or January of next year; we have gotten people involved at the school level; we have told them we will not manipulate their student enrollments for 1980-81 and skew one way or the other the decision that might be made in December or January on possible school closure. If you change all of those ground rules right now, you could very justifiably have the planning councils from 12 schools in here lobbying for this, that, or the other thing in terms of the school reassignment, which is going to add one more level of complexity to make it that much more difficult to try to arrive at a decision on the 23rd.

Mrs. Hill - The schools that say they are ten percent what the average, should be, and they come up with the idea that they should stay open, and the Board buys it, then they are still ten percent below the black/white ratio. Are we talking about reassigning some other students? Dr. Payzant - You have got some other schools on that list that are more than ten percent over. Mr. English - I think that is where the real problem comes in.

Mrs. Hill - I was thinking about the Longfellow students that could easily fit in there at Mayfair and Kaiser. Dr. Payzant - The other possibility is that if you close Sunset which has a high black population right now and consolidate Sunset with one of those schools, you see a decision to keep one open and close another might solve that. Mrs. Hill- Sunset and Mayfair are not close enough to be put together.

R. #122 'lotion Approved to Jphold Procedure in Consideration Df the 12 Schools

A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Williams "that the Board uphold the policy or procedure that has been followed by the staff that we not be doing anything in the student reassignments that would affect the status of the 12 schools that are under consideration for closure." Dr. Payzant - I want you to make sure that you recall that there were two exceptions; one was the Gatewood/Eugene Field move because of overcrowding at Eugene Field, and we made that clear right along that was an exception for Other reasons. And then there was one other shift that involved 11 or 12 children in Sequoyah/Mayfair.

Mrs. Hill - But you have made the exception, and I don't believe in treating some schools differently. Mr. English - Let's make sure the motion says exactly what it should say. Do you intend that it have the exception for the Eugene Field/Gatewood shift and the Sequoyah/ Mayfair shift? * Perfection of the Motion Mrs. Potts - Yes. For the record, the Board would additionally approve the exceptions that were made in the instances of Gatewood and Eugene Field, and Sequoyah and Mayfair.

Mrs. Williams, as seconder, agreed to the perfection of the motion.

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted nay; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. (The 12 schools: Eugene Field, Kaiser, Lafayette,' Mayfair, Nichols Hills, Putnam Heights, Sunset, Willard, Green Pastures, Parker, Truman and Carver.) PERSONNEL REPORT 1. #123 Personnel Approved

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Potts that the persons listed Personnel Report, with the inclusion of the green sheet, be employed and that with the teachers listed on the form be approved and executed in the name of District by the Superintendent or person by him designated; also, that other recommendations and information listed jbe approved.

in the contracts the personnel

On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted q(ye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. (Personnel listings - pages 206-215)

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF APRIL 7, 1980 - CONT'D PAYROLLS, ENCUMBRANCES AND PURCHASING

A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Hamm to approve Recommendations #1 and <#2 (ratification of March payrolls and authorization of April payrolls) and paymen of encumbrances as listed for March 11-27, 1980. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of purchasing and buildings and construction items as follows:

Purchasing 1.

Fiberglass Insulation Bats

Purchase of fiberglass insulation bats for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from Standard Asbestos Mfg. & Insulation Company which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $2,591.92 to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Lift Gates for Supply and Distribution Department Purchase of lift (fates for Supply and Distribution Department from Fruehauf Division-Fruehauf Corporation which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $5,881.20 to be charged to Account BL 6030.11.

Health Supplies

Purchase of health Supplies (alcohol, band aides, cotton balls, thermomenters, toothbrushes, bandages, pins, etc.) for use by Health Services Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Alert Services, Inc. Ashby Prescription Pharmacy Tri-Med Surgical Company, Inc. Melton Company, Inc. Willis Medical Company, Inc. Micro Bio-Medics, Inc. School Health Supply Company Total

309.80 928.36 724.13 667.80 220.80 2,542.65 63.00

5,456.54

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.01.

Tires for Materials Transportation

Purchase of tires for Materials Transportation from Mohawk Tire Warehouse #79 which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,855.20 to be charged to Account G 560.04. 5.

Computer Tape and Labels

Purchase of computer tape and labels for use by Computer Services from the followin companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: First Forms Company Data Documents, Inc. Total

191.25 4,116.00

4,307.25

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 130.17 G 830.05

Total 6.

4,307.25

Teaching Aids Purchase of teaching aids (Pacemaker, Reader Kits, Building Safe Driving Skills, Job Sheets, etc.) for use in new Special Education classes from Fearon Pitman Publishing Company (available only from designated distributor/publisher). This purchase in the amount of $2,693.54 is to be charged to Account G 240.01.

Payrolls and Encumbrances

R. #125 Approval of Purchasing, Buildings and Construction Items

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APR!L 7, 1980 - CONT'D

Appliances

Purchase of appliances (ranges, ovens, washers, dryers, dishwashers, irons, mixers, etc.) for use at various locations from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: General Electric Company Nasco Liberty Distributors, Inc. House of Sight & Sound Sears Contract Sales Farberware Gas & Electrical Equipment Company Wilson's Total

419.27 68.18 5,238.83 480.00 1,147.00 130.00 2,119.00 533.42

$ 10,135.70

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: $

G 240.01 G 1230.03

Total

59.95 10,075.75

$ 10,135.70

Playground Units Purchase of playground units for Rancho Village and Monroe Schools from I Can Do, Inc. This purchase in the amount of $4,200.00 is to be charged to Account 1230.03 (Institutional) and has been approved on our Federal Educational Grant and/or Programs.

Asphalt

Purchase of asphalt (approximately 800 tons) for use by Maintenance Department from Vinsonite Sales Company which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $17,600.00 to be charged to Account BL 5620.05. 10.

Art Supplies

Purchase of Art Supplies (shears, sparkle glitter, spray fixtif, and styx) for use by Supply and Distribution from the fol owing companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: Easton Arts & Crafts Thompson Book & Supply Company Oklahoma Paper Company Asel Art Supply Pyramid Paper Company

Total

1,366.00 412.50 8,386.00 1 ,570.31 279.60

12,014.41

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.00.

11.

Athletic Uniforms

Purchase of athletic uniforms for use by Douglass High School from Noble Lawton Sporting Goods, Inc., which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $3,333.75 to be charged to Account G 1230.11. Buildings and Construction 1.

Acceptance of Low Bid Re Football Stadiums

Acceptance of low base bid and two alternatives and the awarding of a contract to ; Shawver and Sons, Inc., to replace the field lighting system and the public address sound system at three football stadiums - Douglass, Taft and South Oklahoma City. This contract in the amount of $315,427.00 is to be charged to Bond Fund Account Number B-1417.

Make Offer to Purchase Property Adjacent to School Bus Parking Lot, Star Spencer High School

Permission to make an offer which is not to exceed $33,000 to purchase property, one 125' x 300' (approximately) residential lot and one five-room frame house adjacent to the school bus parking lot at Star Spencer High School. Board's attorney to prepare a conditional purchase contract for action at the April 28, 1980 Board meeting.

On roll call call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

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The Central Food Service Department Financial Statement as of February 29, 1980, was submitted as information to the Board. â&#x20AC;˘4

Central Food Service Statement - Information to the Board

HEARINGS

Mr. English called on the following persons who had registered to address the Board: 1.

Thomasena Johnson

Becly Stewart

Ms. Johnson expressed a concern regarding additional pay for teachers, and other.

Ms. Stewart announced that the Little Theater of the Deaf would be coming to Oklahoma to perform at ten various places during the week. The performance for Oklahoma City high schools would at Classen High School, Tuesday, April 15, at 12:45 p.m.; also at Northwest Classen that morning there would be a workshop at 9:00; to the performance in the afternoon were invited hearing impaired students from fifth year centers, from the elementary and middle schools in Oklahoma City, and also the high school students at Classen would be involved. Ms. Stewart continued by announcing performances at Casady High School, Friday, April 18, and Saturday, April 19, at the Arts Annex at the Fairgrounds, and the public was invited to attend. Ms. Stewart stated that she was a teacher for the Hearing Impaired students at Monroe School. Dr. Start commented: It seems to me that we as a Board certainly ought to promote this rather than the Festival of Youth, which is nothing more than a promotional cult. I think we ought to take our name off that kind of business. Dr. Payzant - As a correction, it was not your endorsement; it was mine, and it was made last fall based on the experience that the young people who participated in the program last spring had. I ihave written a lot of endorsement letters in my life, and probably have never written one that I had more second thoughts about than that one, and will take a serious look before I endorse that program again another year. I have written to the Barkouras Foundtion and told them that I do not appreciate them using my name in any money-raising activities that they are engaged in. I have said that since I did endorse the program, although it was last fall, that I would not renege on that endorsement now, and that the school district would follow through and cooperate on making the materials available to young people who on a voluntary basis wanted to participate in the Festival of Youth this year. That is where I am on it right now. I have had a lot of phone calls.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS None.

NEW BUSINESS A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Williams - I move approval of a resolution stating "The Oklahoma City Board of Education endorses the project 'PUSH-EXCEL1 in its design to involve students in a regime demanding academic discipline Parent-teacher teaming in providing school-home environment conducive to maximum learning is stressed. The Board will support efforts to obtain community funding for this above and beyond program." Mrs. Potts continued: This project came up at an earlier date in terms of school district funding and there was not money in our school district funds to support it. We did look at it. It has been modeled in several school districts in the United States quite successfully, and some of the things it does are very much in line with what we are trying to do. It mentions, for instance, parents agreeing to provide an environment at home where their students can study two hours a night each school night; how the parents would agree to come into the schools to get report cards for their students. Jesse Jackson has pioneered this approach, and there is a possibility, with this Board's endorsement, of some community furrds being able to be secured to help provide this for our school system, but the endorsement would be needed in order to pursue that possibility. So we are not asking for school district funds for this. We are just asking for the Board's endorsement of the effort to secure community funding for bur district.

Mr. English - Is there an urgency in this? Mrs. Potts - In a sense, there is. One of the foundations that might be able to fund it, there is some urgency in presenting it for them to consider. We are looking at losing our family-school correlators and community guidance workers program under our Title I funding, and one of the big thrusts of this program is the home school coordinating that teaming for the students, and it is the best replacement that I have seen so far for the void that we will be having under this change for our district.

R. #126 Approval to Endorse PUSH-EXCEL Program

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R. #126 Approval to Endorse PUSH-EXCEL Program cont'd

Mrs. Hi 11 - In other words, you are saying there would be no district funds involved.

Mrs. Potts - That's right. Mrs. Hill - I guess it brings up the question about our homework policy, because it was talking about the two hours being spent on homework. Maybe if we had an update on what our homework policy is doing, that might answer some of our questions about how our students are doing. You hear reports that there is no homework going on. Mrs. Williams - This PUSH-EXCEL has done a terrific job in several cities. I went to the PUSH-EXCEL headquarters in Chicago when I was there in July, and really gave it a screening. I was told by the Superintendent of Schools in Oakland (a black woman), Ruth Love, who came out with her own homework certificate plan, but that Oakland is the size of about Oklahoma City, &nd being in California it really had its problems/ and what it has done for her school. It is not only homework but motivation of young people and family life and all, and it wouldn't involve any money from our school di strict. Dr. Payzant - The goals of the PUSH-EXCEL program are consistent with most of the goals that the Board has for the school district. What the PUSH-EXCEL program would do in some instances is take some things that we have already started and intensify them. For example, in the area of homework, our policy moves in that direction but it is graduated in terms of the amount of time spent by a child depending on age and grade level, and also the one thing that the PUSH-EXCEL program does is take the specifics of the expectations for parents and puts them into action in terms of signed contracts so that it is not just asking parents, as we do, to provide the monitoring and support and help, but actually getting parents and students to enter into written contract to do those kinds of things which gives the kind of follow-up and support that we are hoping will come naturally. So I think it is a good program. I don't thinl< it is inconsistent with anything that the Board has set forth so far. It might push and prod us to do a little better in some of those areas. Mr. English stated that after inquiring, he had not heard any objection to voting on the motion, so he therefore asked for the roll call.

Mr. English asked that a report on the Homework Policy be listed under Items Pending in the next agenda. R. #127 Board Recessed to Executive Session - 11:10 p.m.

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Potts that the Board go into executive session for discussion of personnel, litigation, and negotiations. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted ยงye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #128 Board Returned to Bpen Session I:40 a.m.

Having completed its executive session, it was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams-that the Board return to open session. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

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ADJOURNMENT

A motion to adjourn was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Hamm. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Potts voted aye; Dr. Hamm voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Mr. English voted aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED. (A mechanical recording of the meeting is; on file in the Clerk's office.)

Prescient STATE OF OKLAHOMA

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

1980.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district this 7* day of Gufvtjjls_____ , -f-

Clerk, Oklahoma City Board of Education

R. #129 Adjournment 1:41 a.m.

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MEETING OF APRIL 7, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel

PERSONNEL •4

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

APPROVED EFFECTIVE DATE EXP.

DEGREE COLLEGE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL FDHrATTrtNAT.

; Terminations Douglass Reading

1-21-80

Capitol Hill High EMH 1

2-21-80

la Marshall Business

1 i House, Debbie

Johnston, Donna Mahoney, Susan Mr Nally, Gaw

Bodine EMH

Southeast LD

Capitol Hill High Math

Id Roosevelt T.D

Taft Learning Center

Employments

Annual

Moore, Nancy

$10897.

3-14-80

L2-21-79 2

2-25-80

Bodine EMH

M. Ed. CSU

2-22-80

Longfellow Intermediate

3-20-80

2-11-80 3-06-80

Craig, LaVerne

12102.

Wood. Gavle

Kolysko, Jean

11217.

Metscher, Ted

Miller, David

V.<■£»£/-».«

2-18-80

Stand Watle LD

10683.

M.S. UI

2-04-80

Northeast Science

Patton. Theresa

11349.

B.S. CSU

2-08-80

Ridgeview Primary

Tarbox, LuAnn

10186.

B.S. OU

2-27-80

Classen Science

M. Ed.

3 - UM - University of Maryland - College Park, Maryland 4 - UJ - University of Illinois - Urbana, Illinois

1 - EMU Educable Mentally Handicapped 2 - LD - learning Disabilities

ASSIGNMENT

3-21-80

1 ChnpnelT Rhone

NAME

B.S. UT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Terminations

Employments

Annual

Scheben, Ruth

Trattner, Denise

$10186.

B.A. CSU

King Reading

2-05-80

_■

Additional Allocation

1 i j

Employments

! i j

1 - WC - Western Carolina - Cullowhee, N.C. 2 - UG - University of Georgia - Athens, Ga.

2-12-80

Rogers Resource

B.S. OSU

2-14-80

Harding Resource

10186.

B.B.A. UG 2

1-28-80

Capitol Hill High Resource

Bates, Marilyn

10186.

B.M. OCU

2-25-80

Eisenhower Resource

DavenDort. Patricia

11217.

M. Ed. OU

2-22-80

Jefferson EMH/LD

Dewev. Sheila

10186.

B.A. CSU

2-12-80

Page-Woodson Drop-Out Program

Flowers, Sheryl

10625.

B.S. OSU

2-08-80

Southeast Resource

Gleb, Blanceh

11349.

B.S. NTS

2-25-80

Jefferson Resource

Janke. Carol

10186.

B.S. 00

2-26-80

Jackson Resource

Paeonis. Eulinda

6353.50

M.S. CSU

3-10-80

North Highland P.T. LD/EH

Arnold, Kathryn

10186.

B.S. WC

Barker, Charles

10378.

Barton. Cornelia

3 - EMH/LD - Educable Mentally Handicapped/Learning Disabilities 4 - NTS - North Texas State - Denton, Texas

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MEETING OF APRIL 7, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel

cont'd

PERSONNEL <

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Employments

Annual

Additional Allocation Parker, Melinda

$10186.

B.A. ECSU

0...

2-11r8Q

Taft Resource

1-23-80

Marshall Resource

Tatro, Rosemary

11349.

B.A. Phillips

Thomas, Carolyn

10683.

M. Ed. OU

.2-25-80

Page-Woodson Dron-Out Program

Winkle, Nancy

10625.

B.A. OU

1--28-8.Q-

Northwest Resource

Winston, Brent

10186.

B.S. OCU

1-22-80

Douglass Resource

Galbreath. Martha

Hellstren, Nancy

10186.

B.S. CSU

3-03-80

Telstar Intel-mediate

Doekrel1. Meredith

Scalph, Jackie

11518.

B.S. CSU

2-18-80

Central Media Specialist

Transfers

PROFESSIONAL OTHER

Employments

Terminations

Hooka. Marie

NAME

External Funding Comm. Guid. Worker

ASSIGNMENT

3-07-80

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL. EBQEESSIQNALJmiEB_ _ _ _ _ _ _

Terminations

Klrkes. Wesley

Pettenrldge, Sherrill

Smith, Janies

Douglass Auto Mechanic

2-14-80

External Funding Indian Ed. Advisor

1-18-80

id Douglass Auto Mechanics

2-20-80

lunter. Alfred

Employments

Annual

Hlnewald. Trov

B11436.

2-25-80

11436.

1-29-RO

Chapman. Charles

Hollier, Cynthia

£ayes of.Absence

’rofessional

External Funding Student Comm. Adv.

Marshall

Monthly

tcKLnney, DeLoyce

elham, Dannv

Douglass Auto MechAntcs

1-18-80

$ 920.

3-10-80

External Funding Family School Corr.

—■

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MEETING OF APRIL 7, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel cont'd

HECOMENDATIONS TO THS EOAHD Substitute Teachers

3ailey, Lawrence W.

Social Studies

Duke, Gregory A.

Political Science

Evans, Martha

Language Arts

Harman, Gerald

English/Speech

Keathly, Marlin

English

Keener, Mildred

Business Education

McClure, Valinda

Elementary

Ragsdale, David M.

Elementary

Watters, David

Arts/Crafts

Zerelin, Greg

Art

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL Bnployments

Monthly

2-08-80

Heard, Cozetta

$ 545.

2-29-80

Capitol Hill Middle Library Clerk

2-18-80

Hopkins, Minta

214.

3-04-80

Johnson P.T. Media Aide

Arinwine, Kim

267.50

2-21-80

Northeast P.T. Counselor's Aide

Terminations Barber, Mary

Chaves, Gladys

Crawford, Bobbie Dillard, Petra Dixon, Esther

Gomez, Beatrice

la Capitol Hill Middle Library Clerk Id

Johnson Media Aide

le Accounting Services Bookkeeper/Clerk

2-18-80

Northeast -Counselor's Aide

2-08-80

Edgemere Learning Ctr. Aide

2-06-80

Id Rancho Aide I

2-29-80

Purchasing Sr. Clerk

2-22-80

Purchasing Secretary V

2-29-80

Manokhoun, Khammeuny

la Curriculum Bilingual Aide

2-15-80

Parker, Barbara

Id Central Innovative Principal's Secy.

2-18-80

Pelham, Dan

Id Star Spencer Student Comm. Adv.

2-07-80

Petree, Pam

4f West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

1-28-80

Tucker, Rebecca

la Northwest Attendance Clerk

2-22-80

Weston, Brenda

lb Hoover Instructional Aide

3-07-80

Grayson, Freda

Hunter, Donna

209

MEETING JF APRIL J, 1980 - CONT'JD Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

■

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL

Employments Williams, Gloria

lb Central Innovative Financial Secretary

3-04-80

la Garden Oaks Mat Hr Cpnt.pr Aide

2-15-80

Monthly

2-28-80

Jefferson P.T. Counselor's Aide

270.

1-28-80

Willow Brook P.T. Elementary Clerk

Carson. Joyce

545,

2-14-80

Stand Watie Learning Ctr. Aide

Wont.. Chori nrtp

n5YnnP Hoea I

535.

3-13-80

Children's Hospital Teacher Aide

Ngo, Hoang

Duong, Lan

545.

3-07-80

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

611.

Jewel, Candace

Burk. Patricia

Morn n t,. Yvonne

CamDbell. Emma

Carson, Joyce

$267.50

Phillips, Cindy

565.

Maintenance 3-03-80— ^acretary..Y-------------West Nichols Hills 2-14-80 Preschool Aide

MnnKi111cnn. Pamela

Robin. Ervin

645.

2-11-80

Curriculum Secretary IV

Johnson, Marylene

Smith. Glenda

580.

2-11-80

Creston Hills Secretary II

Reynolds, Mary

Templeton, Christine

580.

2-18-80

Curriculum Cireuleticr. Clerk

Phillips, Brenda

Thompson, Ruth

270.

3-04-80

Edgemere Attendance Clerk

Mayberry, Cheryl

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

CLERICAL

ASSIGNMENT

--------- .--------------------- 1

Terminations

Employments

Monthly

Werner, Phyllis

Wooten, Carol

$ 535.

1-01-80

Dewberry, Anita

535.

2-15-80

Ngo, Quang Kim

545.

1-06-80

Columbus

Additional Allocation

Curriculum

Temporary-Bnoloyment

Hodson, Doris

Leaves of Absence Parental Leave

Baker, Francine

Monroe ■Liio ox ug bxuiiaj.

Rancho Aide I

3t 31-8Q

543.

2-28-80

Office of Supt. Arlmlnlvo VCV-Yil. 5U»nvT AUUUUXO

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Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE Terminations

Alfaro, Exle

Allen, Michael

Andrews, Virginia

Barnett, Ella

Bellinger. Will

Bunting, Georgette

Carpiteher, Imogene

Hayes, Ruth

High, Ruthie

McDonald, Sheila

Russell. Loretta

Saunders, Jack . r>

Smith, Patricia

Tannehill, Alice

NAME

Helper

2-14-80

Helper

2-14-80

Helper

2-14-80

Heiner

2-29-80

Heiner

2-14-80

Helper

2-14-80

Helper

1-23-80

Helper

2-22-80

Helper

1-24-80

Heiner

2-14-80

Heiner

2-14-80

Helper

2-01-80

Helper

2-29-80

Helper

2-14-80

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE

Employments

Terminations Thompson, Patsy

Turnbow, Thelma Wade, Terry Young, Nettie

la la

Helper

2-22-80

Helper

2-15-80

Helper

1-17-80

Helper

2-29-80

Hourly

*Applications Processed

4 3.15

2-11-80

Helper

Arnold, Mary

3.15

2-18-80

Helper

Barnett, Peggy

3.15

2-28-80

Helper

Cantu, Maria

3.15

3-07-80

Helper

Clarkston, Marjorie

3.15

2-27-80

Helper

Collins, Mary

3.15

2-20-80

Helper

Cooksey, Charlotte

3.15

2-25-80

Helper

Cooksev. Juanita

3.15

2-25-80

Heiner

Crabtree, Peggy

3.15

3-03-80

Helper

Alexander. Charline

*Awaiting Assignment

211

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DA1E

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE Employments

Hourly

^Applications Processed Emery, Marsha

$ 3.15

2-07-80

Helper

Forest, Maxine

3.15

2-15-80

Helper

Graves, Opal

3.15

2-26-80

Helper

Gutierrez, Rebecca

3.15

2-29-80

Helper

Hall. Shirley

3.15

2-22-80

Helper

Jones, Kathy

3.15

2-11-80

Helper

Jones, Mary

3.15

2-27-80

Helper

Loftis, Ella

3.15

3-03-80

Helper

McFarland, Patricia

3.15

2-05-80

Helper

Moore, Bettie

3.15

2-20-80

Helper

Morris, Olivett

3.15

2-22-80

Helper

Packhorse, Valorie

3.15

2-27-80

Helper

Reordan, Janyce

3.15

2-07-80

Helper

*Awalting Assignment

ASSIGNMENT •

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNML-.

,'00D SERVICE

Employments

Monthly

•

*Applications Processed $ 3.15

2-29-80

Helper

Rucker, Mary

3-15

2-11-80

Helper

Smith, Mattie

3.15

3-04-80

Helper

Stepp. Karen

3.15

2-22-80

Helper

Stevenson. Onelia

3.15

2=.Q1-8O— -Helper

Swanegan, Teffie

3.15

2-04-80

Helper

Wallace, Lillian

3.15

2-22-80

Helper

Weaver, Earlene

3.15

2-15-80

Helper

Williams, Sharon

3.15

2-05-80

Helper

Wyatt, Ernestine

3.15

2-06-80

Helper

Rohrick, Melba

•

Leaves of Absence r ‘

Til Hon1th Kerr, Virginia *Awaiting Assignment

Helper

2-25-80

. ?

212

MEETING OF APRIL 7, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL 4 NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SUPPLY Terminations

Employments

Monthly

Combs, Richard

Ishmael, Jonathon

$ 615.

2-07-80

Warehouse Worker

TRANSPORTATION i 1

Terminations

Cagg, Walter Cole, Elmer

Edwards, Allen French, Jerry Henson, Calvin Holley. Vincent

Johnson, Johnnie

Johnson, Michael Lusk, Michael Philips, Beth

3 4f la

le 4f

Bus Driver

2-15-80

Bus Driver

2-28-80

Bus Driver

3-13-80

Bus Driver

2-19-80

Bus Driver

2-29-80

Bus Driver

2-08-80

Bus Driver

2-20-80

Bus Driver

3-04-80

Bus Driver

2-07-80

Bus Driver

3-10-80

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

| APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

TRANSPORTATION

Terminations Robinson, Reggie

Thomas, Marcus

Warren, Michael

la.

la 4f

Mechanic

2-19-80

Bus Driver

2-28-80

Bus Driver

2-15-80

Employments

Monthly

D'Innocenti, Daniel

$ 395.

2-26-80 Bus Driver

Jackson, Gregory

410.

3-06-80 Bus Driver

Jacobs, Ronnie

395.

2-12-80 Bus Driver

James, Percy

395.

2-21-80 Bus Driver

Logan, Matt

300.

2-27-80 Bus Aide

Mvers. R.B.

275.

1 '

3-31-30- Bus Driver

Neal, John

395.

2-19-80

Portis, Shirley

410.

2-14-80 Bus Driver

Roberts. Joseph

. 39J_._

2-14-80 Bus Driver

395.

2-12 -80

White, Johnny

Bus Driver

213

MEETING OF APRIL 7, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd .

PERSONNEL 4

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

TRANSPORTATION __ Tgrninaligns________________

Young, James

Bnployments

Monthly

Smith, Donald

$ 715.

Employments

Monthly

McDowell, Dennis

2-18-80 Serviceman

$ 605.

Hoover 3-04-80 Custodial Worker

SERVICE -

Terminations Allen, Willie Anderson, Toney

Cuong, Nguyen Dickson, Lester

Dockins, Geraldine Downey, Helen

Fowler, Etana —Gessel. Beniamin Ilestand, Ross

Woodson Laundry Driver/Washman

4f Hoover Custodial Worker

2-25-80 2-20-80

Adams Custodial Worker

2-26-80

Northwest Custodial Worker

3-14-80

Eisenhower Assistant Custodian

2-29-80

Id Foster Estes Custodial Worker

2-04-80

Foy, Travis

605.

Foster Estes 2-14-80 Custodial Worker

Adams Custodial Worker

2-18-80

Nzeadibe. Geoffrey

605.

Adams 3-04-80 Custodial Worker

Bodine Custodial Worker

2-08-80

Hestand, Ross

605.

Bodine 2-14-80 Custodial Worker

la Foster Estes Custodial Worker

3-14-80

le Bodine Custodial Worker

2-26-80

Green, Fano

605.

Bodine 2-29-80 Custodial Worker

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

SALARY

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Terminations

Bnployments

Monthly

$ 605.

Dunbar 2-18-80 Custodial Worker

Ivers, Martha

le Willow Brook Custodial Worker

2-11-80

Jackson, Zula

le All Schools ' Custodial Worker

2-26-80

Hill. Resinaid

Johnson, James

le Moon Custodial Worker

2-21-80

Barclay. Darvin

605.

Moon 2-29-80 Custodial Worker

Jones, Elnora

Id Moon Custodial Worker

2-15-80

Triplet, Ramona

605.

Moon 2-25-80 Custodial Worker

Milas, Thomas

Id Garden Oaks Custodial Worker

2-11-80

Hayes Custodial Worker

2-22-80

Telstar Custodial Worker

2-29-80

Triplet, Ramona

4f Moon Custodial Worker

2-25-80

De.Jarnette, Alfonzo

605.

Moon 3-10-80 Custodial Worker

Underwood, Oscar

Id All Schools ' Relief Custodian

2-20-80

Waters, Jo Ann

le West Nichols Hills Custodial Worker

3-03-80

Rabmanl, All

Butler, James

620.

Administration Bldg. 2-18-80 Custodial Worker

Weaver. Larrv

Farah, Hussein

605.

2-15-80

Jefferson Custodial Worker

Wynder, Glenda

Ivers. Martha

605.

2-11-80

Willow Brook Custodial Worker

Morales, Roxana

Thompson, Ronald

■ !

214

MEETING OF APRIL 7, 1980 - CONT'D __________________________ ____ _________

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE Transfers

Employments

Monthly

Nlcliols, Mickey

Foreman, Rickie

$ 730.

2-18-80

Southeast Asst. Custodian

Christian, Helven

Johnson, Terry

620.

2-18-80

All Schools Custodial Worker

Adair, Julian

Lovelady, Terry

625.

2-28-80

Northwest Custodial Worker

Morgan, Melvin

Morgan, Maryn

795.

2-18-80

Davis Custodian

Hayes, Wilford

Snyder, Tim

605.

2-18-80

Parmelee Custodial Worker

Smith, Minnie

Taylor, Charles

640.

2-18-80

Rogers Custodial Worker

Norton, Glenn

Taylor, Ronald

605.

2-29-80

Bodine Custodial Worker

All, Mahmond

Welch, Billy

640.

2-11-80

Stonegate Custodial Worker

2-12-80

Heronville

Termlnations-Substitutes

Haggard, Ricky

Morales, Roxana

Hayes

2-07-80

Hayes

3-05-80

Bnployments-Substitutes

Hourly

Adams, James

$ 3.15

J ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Bnployments-Substitutes

Hourly

Eddington, Charles

$ 3.15

2-28-80

West Nichols Hills

Garner, William

3.15

2-04-80

All Schools

Morales, Roxana

3.15 '

2-15-80

Hayes

Traywicks, Malcolm

3.15

3-10-80

West Nichols Hills

Euwing, Kenneth

2.90

2-18-80

Trainee

Manus, Cary

2.90

2-12-80

Trainee

Employments-Trainees

Ogle, Harvey

Eisenhower Head Custodian

2-08-80

........ â&#x2013; >

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PERSONNEL 4

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

MAINTENANCE/ENGINEERIHG

Terminations Collins, Arley

Dye, Kenneth Mattson, Linda Parsons, Travers

Todd, Glenn

4f 1c

Concrete

2-08-80

Welding

3-07-80

Painter

3-06-80

Carpenter

2-29-80

Engineer

3-31-80

CAMPUS POLICE

Terminations Carpenter, James

Huffman, Lillie Mann, Arthur

le la

Patrolman

2-15-80

Stationary Officer

2-26-80

Campus Officer

3-14-80

Welch, Billy

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Driver, John

$ 610.

EFFECTIVE DATE

’PCFESSICNAL IDUCATICNAL

Irumley, Joe Williams

abor, Clarence 0. liskovsky, John

SALARY

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

2-01-80

APPROVED EXP.

Stationary Officer

EFFECTIVE DATE

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Ross Principal

6-06-80

School Operations Asst, to Dir. - MS

6-30-80

Wbbster Principal

6-30-80

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF APRIL 23, 1980

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY,

OKLAHOMA, MET IN A SPECIAL MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, 900* NORTH KLEIN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M.

PRESENT:

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Paul English, President Mrs. Pat Potts, Vice President Floyd Donwerth, Member Delbert Hamm, Member Mrs. Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member Mrs. Freddye H. Williams, Member

Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; William Bleakley, Attorney: Central Office staff members; representatives from professional groups; the news media, and other interested persons.

The meeting was called to order by Mr. English and Dr. Hamm gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Mr. English welcomed all of the visitors present.

Visitors Welcomed

Roll call established that all of the Board members were present.

Roll Call

Mr. Donwerth apologized for not being present at the April 14 Board meeting, but indicated that he was presented with his first grandson on that night.

Comments Mr. Donwerth

HEARINGS Mr. English called on the following persons who had registered to address the Board:

Michael T. McEwen

Mike Fried

Catharine Pritchett

Sandy Oak

Yvonne Cranford

Barry Albert

Donna Myers

R. M. Cornelius

Mary Weiss

Mr. McEwen spoke regarding fifth year students remaining at Horace Mann School rather than being sent to a fifth year center, and suggested that the Board adopt an incentive program for integration in the Oklahoma City schools.

Mike Fried, a student, expressed a concern for reassignment of students and inquired about the cost of transportation, and why student reassignments were being recommended. Dr. Payzant, in responding to Mike's question about the cost of transportation of students, etc., stated: I can't answer the question of the specific cost of that portion of the reassignment plan without doing some further checking in terms of the mileage that would be involved there. Overall, our transportation budget for the school district is in the neighborhood of about $2 million. Not all of that transportation, however, is for desegregation purposes. A portion of it is for busing of students who live more than one and one-half mile from school even in neighborhoods where it is the natural neighborhood attendance area. With respect to the second question, the reason that I am recommending some reassignments is to try and maintain racial balances in those schools that do not come within plus or minus ten percent of the district average, so that we can preserve some of the gains that have been made during the past several years in working toward quality integrated education. I fear that if we don't make some reassignments, the potential is there for some schools becoming predominantly white or predominantly black, and perhaps taking us back to where we were eight or ten years ago with some segregated schools. And I think that would be a disservice to the community, to the students, and would not get us the quality education that we all want. Other persons expressed a dislike for the reassignment of students, which in some instances referred to specific areas; concern for neighborhood schools and the loss of students to other districts and private schools; whether it was necessary to make any changes in student assignments at this time; conditions in the classrooms, and other.

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HEARINGS cont'd Mr. Albert inquired of Mr. English regarding a statement which he said was in the ’media as a quote from Mr. English that he didn't see any need for the reassignments; that the school district was in substantial compliance with the requirements of the federal court.

Mr. English responded: What I said was that my understanding of the law is that the Supreme Court has held that once you are declared a unitary school district, that no court or federal agency can require you to reassign students simply because of a change in the complexion of a neighborhood because of the natural movement of people. Because a school becomes out of balance through the movement of people doesn't mean that you are required to by the federal government to change the assignment of students and to rebalance that school. Ms. Myers inquired as to whether the reassignment of students was federally mandated at this time?

Dr. Payzant stated: There, I think, exists a difference of opinion between the staff and attorneys at the Office for Civil Rights and this Board's attorney as to what jurisdiction, if any, the Office for Civil Rights has. If you assume that the Office for Civil Rights has some jurisdiction, then it will look at our student assignment patterns and say yea or nay to them. If Mr. English is correct in his interpretation, then, no, we would not be required to do any further reassigning of students next year or down the road until some constitutional violations were alleged and found to be so. My position is that is not the issue. The issue is maintaining balances in our schools that are such that we will retain black and white, and other minority parents in this public school district. And in order to do that and bring some stability to our overall district over the next three to five years, I believe that some reassignments need to be made now. If they are made now, I think we can get that stability for the next three to five years and not have this be an annual kind of event which I understandably creates anxiety and generates frustration among a lot of people in the community.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS :onsideration of iubstitute Motion ■rom April 7, 1980 leeting of the loard

Mr. English referred to the unfinished business - A substitute motion made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Potts at the April 7, 1980 meeting and tabled by the Board until the meeting of April 23, 1980:

"I move that the Board approve Plan 1-B for high schools; Plan 1-B for middle schools; Plan 1-A for elementary, K-5, arid fifth year centers, with the exception of Horace Mann, which would be treated identical to Arcadia."

In consideration of the motion, Mr. Donwerth stated: Before we vote on the substitute motion, I have some comments I would like to make with reference to the reassignment of these children in various neighborhoods. If John Marshall should go back to a neighborhood school, in what area that we are now busing out of John Marshall would go back into the John Marshall area? Dr. Payzant - Stonegate. Mr. Donwerth - I drove through the Stonegate area, and we are saying now that we are busing children out of the Stonegate area to Northeast, and I see many black families that live in the Stonegate area. They are naturally integrated and this is one part of the plan that I really do like. I wholeheartedly support the neighborhood concept, but I still have a problem with the area that is going to be bused over to Northeast to take the place of so many black and white children that are now bused out of Stonegate, in that they will have to be bused to take the place of the ones that we are saving. Ten years ago, they told us that we were definitely out of compliance and Dr. John Finger came into Oklahoma City and gave us all the Finger Plan with busing for desegregating in this system. A few times since then we have been out of racial balance in our schools. Two years ago several hundred children from the eastside of Oklahoma City had to be bused to the southside of Oklahoma City to school, to Jefferson and Webster. The black children that were bused to Jefferson and Webster in the sixth grade haven't started to attend Grant and Southeast at the present time. If we made south Oklahoma City in this area close to the racial guidelines two years ago, why now do we have to come back and bus some more? Why do the children over in the Taft area have to be uprooted? I feel like that we are totally going through a process now by reassigning these children that we are going to drive more people out of the Oklahoma City School District. I feel that right now’if we went back like it was prior to Judge Bohanon's order, prior to Dr. Finger coming in here, that we would find that we are busing students to hurt integration. We are busing students out of the Oakridge area, over in the southeast part of town, back over to Douglass, when quite a few black families have moved into that area. I know that we can't go back to like it was before with the neighborhood concept and the divisions that we had before, but the people now know where their children are going to school; they

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are accepting it. system.

I think that we are only going to drive more people out of the

Mr. Donwerth continued by stating that he would make a motion to table following discussion of the motion.

on of Substitute Motion from April 7, 1980 Meeting of the Soard cont1 d

Mrs. Potts stated: I would like to speak to some of the items related to this motion. One of them is the problem that we face in the north end of town in terms of white population that is just going elsewhere. I asked for some statistics to take a look at what has happened with some of the neighborhoods to find out if it is primarily black people moving in or white people moving out. The statistics really show that it is white people predominantly that are going elsewhere that is making the major part of the difference, rather than black people coming in, although that is a factor. I think that we have really got to take a look at the distances that these students travel, for instance, from Stonegate going to Northeast, who are traveling ten. mfles for that assignment and have been for many years. Now that we have an integrated neighborhood in that area of town, we are looking at making that possibly a neighborhood school, and to do that we have reassignments,then, necessary of other white students into Northeast. These coming from Monroe, where instead of going two miles to Northwest Classen, they would be going five miles to Northeast. From Putnam Heights, where instead of going two miles to Northwest, they would be going three miles to Northeast. It is a trade-out, Any decision we make is necessarily going to be a trade-out, but I think it is impossible for us to please all of the people involved in this decision here. I think it is our decision. It is not the government's decision, but I don't think we can ignore the kind of statistics that we look at here that show increasing ratios for the north part of town. I don't think that it is to our advantage as a school system to get where we have all black and all white schools again because we did not have the courage to make reassignments. Now is the time to do it. If we do make this decision now, we are making it with the fewer students possible to assure the longest range assurance that there will not need to be reassignments for the next several years. I think that is a very important goal. Stability for our school system has got to be top most.

Mrs. Williams stated: I wish to appeal to your intellect; however, with intellect we cannot go without emotion. We cannot sit here tonight and reverse that which was so painfully bought for the Oklahoma City Public Schools. We say we believe in integration. Do we really? Let's think. We have seated before us and around us tonight quite a number of parents. I don't know what the capacity of this auditorium is. We have approximately 4500 students, give or take a few, in the public schools of Oklahoma City. With this great group of parents here, it is only a small number, and yet every man, every child is important. The question to be resolved tonight is not whether big brother is holding a stick over our heads to beat us into something, but whether we can long endure as a unitary, integrated school system. And I submit to you that I and my constituents have borne the brunt because we had to come in from the federal courts, | thanks for the NAACP and the Dowell decision, and Judge Bohanon and what all. The sins of the fathers' were visited unto the second and third generation. It says in Holy writ "a little child,shall lead them." And shame on Oklahoma that it didn't face up to some things back before your children that are now in school were even born. But it di'dn't. I think they are not worried too much about the total busing, but about what happens to my child, and people we can't have a unitary system as long as it is for just my child. Walk with me over to my home and tomorrow morning see our six-year-olds on those buses and on those bus stops. And you know something; we made it. The average black child in the Oklahoma City District is bused nine years and it hasn't hurt them. They have bused blacks in Oklahoma ever since they have had wheels, yet I was an Oklahoma City girl and I walked. I should have gone to Central High School but I walked, and I walked a long way from Eastern practically over to Walnut across the railroad tracks, under the viaducts to perpetuate segregation. This nation cannot endure as long as we sit here and make smokescreens. I relate to every parent in this district. I | know how you feel; I put three kids through it. Some were separate but unequal and this, that and the other. But think, people; can we sit here and wait until somebody I forces us into something or do we stand up with our intellect and say we cannot permit Oklahoma City to resegregate? I don't like the busing either. We can't, I don't Tike every aspect of the plan. I don't like it. Two years ago, we transferred 800 young black children. And Dr. John Bell in his wisdom said the only reason he let us do it was because we thought we were going to have a long range comprehensive plan. It was a Band-Aid treatment as much as we bled, and too many young black mothers and fathers said to me, Mrs. Williams, I am getting tired of every time white folk move, they reassign my child. Think about it. So we have come up with some plans, testing whether this system or any system so dedicated can long endure. And you say don't move my child. My heart bleeds, but let me tell you one thing; without sacrifice, there is no victory. I don't particularly like what I am going to vote for tonight, but under God I am going to vote for it and I tell you here and now, I came to this Board with stars in my eyes for the children's sake, and I give untold hours. I clocked it one ' week.I had'put in 36 hours of free time as a Board member for what I put my hand on the Bible and swore under God, that I would see after the children. A lot of things have

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Consideration of >ubstitute Motion ~rom April 7, 1980 leeting of the Soard cont'd

Mrs. Williams cont'd not been done and all of my ideas are not correct, but I ask you for your trust. There are those who receive salaries. Your Board is not paid. I heard the other day that â&#x2013; I made $1100 a month working on the Board. I wish you would tell me where. That isn't why I came on the Board. I didn't even know I was going to get anything when I really ran for the Board. I thought it was all free. You will get a dinner sometimes or something. I got $50 last month for my service on the Board attending certain meetings. I had a $225 gasoline bill for my personal car. All of it wasn't for the Board, but most of it was. That is neither here nor now. America; was built on the good people who had the dream. Task you to give us confidence; that we aren't going to harm your children. Trust us. We have borne the brunt. This system is moving and help us to get to move into that utopia. They are wearing buttons over in Tulsa - "Good things are happening in the Tulsa Schools." I submit to you, better things are happening in the Oklahoma City Public Schools. Thank you for coming. Stay down here with us all of the time. Get the big picture, not just the picture in your own front or backyard. Let's get this show on the road; don't postpone anything. We have postponed it too long now. It has beenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;intimated that if we make this reallign ment, and please don't say busing; they are being bused anyway, but if we make this reallignment comprehensive enough, there will be enough continuity that at least the kids that are now in school for the next five or six years won't be bothered. Look at the big picture. You don't know how I have prayed and cried over this thing, but I am willing to "bite the bullet," and I am willing to work with it day after day, with malice toward none and with charity for all, and to see that the right thing comes out.

Mr. Donwerth - The black students in this school system are bearing the undue burden of being bused all over the city. I think that it is high time that we stopped it and we let our children know where they are going to go to school next year, where they are going to go to school three years from now, and five years from now. And I don't honestly believe that this plan or reassignment of children now will make any difference, and that three years from now we wouldn't have to be back here again. I submit that after next year if we close 12 schools, and I hope that we are not going to close 12 schools, that we will be reassigning more children at that time. I know we will have to. R. #130 Motion to Table Failed

Mr. Donwerth continued by making the following motion: I move at this time that we table the entire reassignment of children within the district, that we table the division of K-5 schools and any change at all at this time. Mr. Donwerth added: I don't think we are in violation of any federal orders, and if we are, let's use the money that we will save in extra busing to pay the attorneys to go back to federal court.

Mrs. Hill seconded the motion to table.

On roll call for the motion to table, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, nay; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, nay; Mrs. Potts, nay; Dr. Hamm, nay; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mr. English, nay. Mr. English declared that the motion failed.

Discussion Substitute Motion

Mrs. Hill inquired regarding Plan 1-B which contained "retains Cleveland,9-12,at Northeast," and stated she understood that it was Northwest. Dr. Payzant responded that there was a typo in the first set of summaries that went out but it had been corrected.

Mrs. Hill - When we look at these plans and you are saying that part of these plans continue on; what part of the plans continue on, all of them or just certain phases of it? Dr. Payzant - The way in which the various alternatives have been presented and summarized is to make them cumulative so that the high school changes that were built in, in Plan 1-A or 1-B are defined in each of the other plans presented to you. And any modifications made, the K-5 level or elementary schools that are different from Plan 1 are so noted.

Mrs. Hill - I cannot support it because I do not believe that we should pull our fifth grades out of our K-5 schools, and I do think that our K-5 schools need to remain as they are. I also have trouble alluding to the fact that students are right there by a high school, as we see here with Sequoyah being bused. Mrs.Willjams - I would remind Mrs. Hill that a large number of the students right there by Douglass are being bused to Capitol Hill. Mrs. Potts - When we look at the high school reassignment under this, actually we get seven-'-miles less of transportation required than under the existing student assignments. So we are paying less for transportation costs under Plan 1-B for high school students than we are under the existing situation.

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Mrs.. Hill - We have talked here this evening about the assurance that this long-range plan. Figures can show us one thing but I do not feel that this assurance of a long-range plan. I think in another year we are going to be to donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t again because our patrons have just said no, it is time that we do and keep our neighborhood schools where we are.

would be a is the back having stand up

Mr. English stated: I am particularly concerned about the K-5's. I am concerned about the five K-5 schools that are naturally integrated. They were recognized by the court when it came down with its Finger Plan order and were permitted to be stand alone K-5 schools because they were naturally integrated. Two out of those seven schools have now become not integrated naturally, and I think that we could make the move on those, but on the other five - Horace Mann, Columbus, Shidler, Riverside, and Mark Twain, I think they should remain as K-5 schools. I think you need to take a look at the minority enrollment in those schools. I know there is some concern that the young people who are in those schools will never attend school on the eastside of town if they don't go to a fifth year center. However, looking into those schools, we find that three out of those five, the young people in those neighborhoods will be going on to school on the eastside. The Columbus children will go to high school at Douglass. The Riverside ichildtfenii will go to middle school at Moon, and the Horace Mann students will be going to Northeast. I think that if we are to encourage natural integration of our community, of our neighborhoods, that this is one way to do that, and I think this is a very important way to do it, and that is to recognize the naturally integrated sections of our town and to give some inducement to other neighborhoods to become integrated, I would like to see this Board, in conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce and the real estate agents and other civic-minded people in this city, begin a program that woul d be aimed at integrating neighborhoods all over the city. That is what is needed and, finally, that is the solution to the problem that we have tonight and the problem that we have faced in the past. The busing situation will not be solved until we get behind it and there is a program organized to do just that. We can't sit here every year and go through this. It has happened so many times.and nothing happens; no effort is made to integrate the neighborhoods. I think that there must be some organization of people who will do this, and until that day comes, I think that we need to recognize those neighborhoods that are naturally integrated. I know the plan that is to be voted on 'calls for Horace Mann to remain as a K-5 stand alone without busing. Horace Mann income [level, I believe, is considerably above the income level of these other areas that I Eave talked about. Those people possibly don't know that this is happening tonight. hese are the voiceless people out there, the minorities, the people who have the least mount of power in our society. These are the poverty areas of our city. They will have [their schools changed unless somebody, arid I hope.it is this Board, stands up and says, no, they deserve to remain in the same situation as a stand alone K-5; they deserve it as much as Horace Mann deserves it. I would plead for the plan that retains Shidler, Riverside, Mark Twain, Horace Mann, and Columbus as the K-5 schools. I think we owe it jto the people in those neighborhoods to look out for their interest. A correction; plan 1-E will retain Horace Mann, Shidler, Mark Twain, and Riverside as K-5 schools. Columbus, Stand Watie, and Ross are the three that would not be retained.as K-5 schools.

Williams - I would remind you that those fifth grade students in those schools are MIrs. â&#x20AC;&#x2122; peing culturally deprived ?by not going to the fifth year center. You know what is in pur fifth year centers. The children will benefit, and those schools stand a better chance of surviving from our policy on school closure losing their fifth graders and bringing them over to our fifth year centers, which are the show places educationally for |this district. I thihk we do them a disservice by keeping them there. Dr. Hamm - I would like to address what was said in the appeal to take those students to the fifth year centers, the neighborhoods that are already integrated, which is a [little bit different than what was previously spoken. I think if we are trying to hold )ur fifth year centers up as show places, and they do an excellent job, but that is not saying that the teachers at a K-5 schools, or those that were enunciated are doing a bad job. And if the children at those K-5 schools are not getting the kind of education that we want them to have, and we can keep them at a K-5 school in a racially integrated leighborhood, then let's upgrade the fifth grade in those schools in those neighborhoods.

^rs. Williams - And look at the socioeconomic mix in those schools. ["art of the Finger Plan.

That was also a

r. Donwerth - If you are trying to mix socioeconomically, I don't think it is going to be possible. We didn't have it before the Finger Plan. People are going to move into the neighborhood that they can best afford and they are going to live there. If we go back to total integration throughout the city, you are going to have differences in [the socioeconomic factor in different neighborhoods where the children go to school. I [think we are growing in Oklahoma City. I think the district is growing, and I think we pre naturally integrating the neighborhoods. I Dr. Hamm - At one time everyone was saying that we want our neighborhood schools, and phen with the problems in the '60s we realized that we had to have integrated neighborhood schools. Now we have an opportunity to have quality integrated neighborhood schools L think that neighborhoods that voluntarily integrate should in a way be rewarded for |;hat, and I would view denying them a neighborhood integrated school as a form of punishment. If we would foster the concept, look, this has happened at John Marshall; nt has happened at Horace Mann; it has happened at Shidler; it has happened at the other K-5 schools, that it can happen and it will happen, and if it does happen, then you will .

Discussion Substitute Motion cont'd

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have your quality integrated neighborhood schools regardless of what section of town â&#x2013; < it is in. Dr. Start stated: â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I would press for my motion. I am trying not to make a grandstand speech here like everybody else. It is a popular thing to do, but I think the issues have been before us and we have studied this for a month, and one of these times we are going to have to make a decision. I know there are many people out there who are not going to agree with the way I vote, but I am ready to vote.

Members of the Board continued to discuss the adding of Shidler, Mark Twain,and Riverside to the motion as K-5 schools that would stand alone. R. #131 Approval of Substitute Motion

Mr. English called for a vote on the substitute motion made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Potts:

"I move that the Board approve Plan 1-B for high schools; Plan 1-B for middle schools; Plan 1-A for elementary, K-5, and fifth year centers, with the exception of Horace Mann, which would be treated identical to Arcadia." On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, nay; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, nay; and Mr. English, nay. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

Motion Withdrawn

Motion made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hill at the meeting of April 7, 1980 for consideration at the meeting of April 23, 1980:

"I move that Plan 1 be revised to remove Longfellow children from the river-bottom schools, and recommend that they be reassigned to schools like Kaiser that have much better facilities and are in danger of being closed." Mrs. Williams asked for withdrawal of the motion, and Mrs. Hill agreed as the seconder.

R. #132 Motion to Adjourn Failed

A motion to adjourn was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, nay; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Hamm, nay; Mr. Donwerth, nay; and Mr. English, nay. Mr. English declared that the motion to adjourn failed. Mr. English called for a five-minute recess after discussion of reconsidering the previous action in approval of the substitute motion.

After reconvening the meeting, Mr. English asked for comments from Dr. Payzant, who stated: Plan 1-A was my plan right along. I indicated to you last time that Plan 1-B in my view was certainly acceptable as a compromise,and if an exception was made on a K-5 school, that Horace Mann had the best argument for that exception because it really is a naturally integrated neighborhood. When you go beyond that to the other K-5 schools, you can make an argument that they are integrated, but they .are integrated as a result of some busing in, in some instances, and you have to open up the question of looking at other minorities as well.

R. #133 Motion to Reconsider Previous Action Approved R. #134 Substitute Motion Amended

A motion was made by Dr. Hamm and seconded by Mr. Donwerth to reconsider the previous action of the substitute motion (R. #131).

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, nay; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, nay; Mrs. Potts, nay; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mr. English, aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. AMENDMENT Dr. Hamm moved to amend the substitute motion to include the three K-5 schools (Shidler, Mark Twain, and Riverside) along with Horace Mann, which would be the exception to Plan 1-A. Mr. Donwerth seconded the amendment. Mr. English - Is there any difference then in the assignment of the students that are affected by the Horace Mann situation as it would be under Plan 1-C versus the 1-E? So it would be the same. Mrs. Maxie Wood, Research Associate, responded: Horace Mann will remain the same but you are pulling students out of Longfellow. You are also pulling students out of Garden Oaks. You are putting Garden Oaks in jeopardy of being closed because you are leaving 155 students in there.

Mr. English - Under Plan 1-B, aren't there some schools that are also under the 250 enrol 1 ment?

Mrs. Wood - Garden Oaks is increased from 166 to 182. projected, and you are lowering them to 155.

With Plan 1-E, there are 166

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Mrs. Potts - What would be the impact on the schools you just mentioned if Shidler, Mark Twain, and Riverside additionally are kept as K-5 schools? In other words, we are not looking at?,ifras Plan 1-E, but we are just looking at that additional change.

R. #134 Substitute Motion Amended cont'd

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Mrs. Wood - Ross is projected to be 32.9. So that school's racial balance would be all right. Shidler is projected as 37.9. Stand Watie is projected as 23.3; Mark Twain, 25.7; Riverside, 14.6; Columbus, 15.3.

Mrs. Williams - And you are talking about black/other ratio?

Mrs. Wood - Just black/other. i !

Mrs. Potts - Would Garden Oaks be affected with this change I just mentioned, with the inclusion of Shidler, Mark Twain, and Riverside as we discussed remaining? Mrs. Wood - Those schools are included in your Longfellow and your Garden Oaks figures, Shidler would be assigned to Garden Oaks under 1-D. Mark Twain, Columbus, Riverside, and Stand Watie would be assigned to Longfellow. The situation at Longfellow under 1-E, it really would not have a detrimental effect; there would still be 288 students there, But at Garden Oaks when you pull Shidler out, the score drops down to a 155 enrollment, and if Ross would remain, those are the two fifth year centers that would be affected, The K-5 schools themselves, if you do not pull the black students out and replace them with some other students feeding in at 1-4, their projected enrol 1ments would be what I read to you previously. Mr. English - When you talk about that, the low enrollment in some of those schools, let's take a look at North Highland under Plan 1-E, which is what is being discussed here, as well as it is the same enrollment actually as under 1-C, which provides for 410 students. The information given to us two months ago on building capacity has the building capacity at North Highland at 350, which means it is 60 students over the capacity of that building.

Mrs. Wood - The capacity information is for the main structure. any portables.

This does not include

Mr. English - We could make the capacity then 1000 students and have one fifth year center, or we could divide the students equally so that we don't have schools that are in jeopardy of being closed. We could Send 60 students over to Garden Oaks to increase their enrollment? Mrs. Wood - The increase in enrollment at North Highland is necessary if you pull the Longfellow cluster out of the north, because there would not be another fifth year center that you could send those students to. And with the addition of one or two portable buildings in that area, that school could handle the entire fifth year enrollment in the northern area. Garden Oaks is currently too low on their black/otheA ratio. It is one of the 18 schools under and has been under for two consecutive years. Mrs. Williams - I want to remind my colleagues that we are in danger of losing some fifth year centers, when the moves are proposed in 1-B, which we voted, would save those. Garden Oaks is a new school. Those are very good facilities. I am so weary of portables when we have facilities that can be used that the students really deserve, and if you dorr't be- careful we are going to lose our fifth year centers. I am pleading for the fifth year centers.

After further discussion, Dr. Start asked to speak regarding the amendment.and stated: I would like to speak against including Shidler, Mark Twain, and Riverside. I understand what Dr. Hamm is saying, and I understand why he would like to do that, and I can understand why I would like to vote for that, but I really think that when you begin to peck away too much at this whole reassignment issue, that you are going to get into a real jam. Our Superintendent has given us some good advice. We have introduced some suggestions that he modified his original recommendations to us, and he has done that. And I think his rationale and his reasons for not including Shidler, Mark Twain, and Riverside are good. I think he has good reasons and that is why I don't think we ought to pass this amendment.

Mr. Donwerth - The Superintendent's original recommendation was to do away with all of the K-5 sc-hools. We are bargaining now on what can be passed. Mrs. Potts - I think adding these schools careful in what we we may be hurting by

we are looking at some boomerang effect in some other places by to it that are going to be negative. I think we need to be are doing here. I don't think we really realize how many places doing this.

SECOND AMENDMENT

Mrs. Hill moved to amend the substitute motion to include Columbus, Stand Watie, and Ross as additional K-5 schools to stand alone.

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R. #134 Substitute Motion Amended cont'd

Mrs. Potts - I think we need to ask the staff to react about what the impact of this motion would be? I think we need to be aware of what this would do to other schools. < Mrs. Wood - In Plan 1-F, you can see the effects on Longfellow and Garden Oaks. When you remove all of those K-5 schools out of Longfellow, you have reduced their population to 116 and they are 50.9 percent. In order to correct that situation, you would have to go back basically to what you had previously that now has been added to North Highland. The situation there would be that your North Highland students would feed into the schools in the north areas in grades 1-4; yet their students would feed into a separate fifth year center. The situation at Garden Oaks, the population would be reduced to 128 students, and the reason why this population is so low is because other adjustments had been made at Garden Oaks in other parts of the plan. There were two areas that were added in - Ross and Shidler. But in a previous section of Plan 1 | another area had been removed. | Dr. Payzant - I have a comment on the impact of this plan if it were to be adopted. I think ieTTJ! of you have expressed a concern earlier this evening about where the burden for reassignment is and where you think it ought to be. In effect, what you would be doing by allowing all of the K-5 schools to stay as K-5 schools is remove the few white students or a substantial number of those few white students who would be affected by the reassignment plan; thereby, once again putting the major burden on the black community. The purpose for which the fifth year centers were originally established was in part to equalize some of that burden in recognition of the fact that in grades 1-4 the burden is entirely in the black community. So if you are concerned about some sense of equity there, I think you need to look at that impact.

On roll call for the second amendment, to add Columbus, Stand Watie, and Ross as K-5 schools to stand alone, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, nay; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, nay; Mrs. Potts, nay; Dr. Hamm, nay; Mr. Donwerth, aye; Mr. English, nay Mr. English declared that the second amendment failed.

On roll call for the first amendment, to add Shidler, Mark Twain, and Riverside as K-5 schools to stand alone, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, nay; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, nay; Mrs. Potts, nay; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mr. English, aye. Mr. English declared that the amendment was adopted. On roll call for the substitute motion as amended, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, nay; Mrs. Hill, nay; Mrs. Williams, nay; Mrs. Williams, nay; Mrs. Potts, nay; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, nay; and Mr. English, aye. Mr. English declared that the amended s:ubsti)tute'mdtion failed. " SUBSTITUTE MOTION

R. #135 Approval of StudentCSehool Assignment Plan J.-C

Dr. Start moved for approval of Plan 1-C, which was seconded by Mrs. Williams.

Mrs. Hill inquired:

What is the difference between 1-B and 1-C?

Dr. Payzant - When we were asked by Board members to prepare materials for alternatives to 1-B, since we had never computed the data for continuing Horace Mann as a K-5 school, as was suggested in Dr. Start's -motion at the last meeting, we did so and called that plan 1-C. The only difference between B and C is that C includes Horace Mann as a K-5 school. ÂŤ * Mrs. Hill - So we are saying that we only have in all of Oklahoma City one K-5 school if we vote for this, motion?

Dr. Payzant -

Two, with Arcadia being the second.

Mr. English - This is the same thing that we voted on earlier that we later backed and reconsidered.

On roll call for the substitute motion, approval of Student School Assignment Plan 1-C, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, nay; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, nay; and Mr. English, aye.

In voting, Dr. Hamm stated: Let me preface my vote by saying that we could not get all bf the K-5 schools that I would like to have had, but we can retain one under this plan. Mr. English, before voting, stated:

I would repeat Dr. Hamm's statement on that.

Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

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ADJOURNMENT

A motion to adjourn was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Hamm. On roll call, the<votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mr. English, aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the Clerk's office.)

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

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Witness my hand and seal of this school district thisaT^clay of 1980.

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R. #136 Adjournment

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THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY,

OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR ADJOURNED MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION •< BUILDING, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M.

PRESENT:

Paul English, President Mrs. Pat Potts, Vice President Floyd Donwerth, Member Delbert Hamm, Member Mrs. Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member Mrs. Freddye H. Williams, Member

Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; William Bleakley, Attorney; Central Office staff members; representatives from professional groups; the news media, and other interested persons. The meeting was called to order by Mr. English and Dr. Hamm gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Mr. English welcomed all of the visitors present.

Visitors Wei corned

Roll call established that all of the Board members were present.

Roll Call

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of the minutes of April 7, 1980 as presented. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mr. English, aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #137 Minutes Approved

COMMITTEE REPORT - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS

Comments Dr. Start stated: I don't think we officially ever recognized Mr. Jim Ki 1 lackey's honor at the National School Boards Association Convention. I was very proud to"witness Dr. Start that and was very proud to be from Oklahoma. Uy congratulations and I think the Board should recognize that.

Mrs. Hill stated: It Oklahoma how they cut Anyway, they did play turning’in our report

is interesting that when they were playing the theme song of off the "okay." You were just sort of left there hanging. all of "Oklahoma" but the last okay. I suppose later we will be on the trip to the NSBA Convention.

Mrs. Williams - Attorney Brown, President of Urban Boards, from Memphis, stepped down. So there will be a lot of new faces next year. Many persons were asking about Paul Engl ish. since he was not in attendance at the meeting.

Comments Mrs. Hill

Comments Mrs. Williams

Mrs. Potts stated: Unfortunately, the pressure of work kept me from going to the NSBA Comments National Convention, but after seeing Mrs. Williams cast, maybe it was safer to be here! .Mrs. Potts

Dr. Hamm stated: This was my first occasion to attend the NSBA Convention. I want to assure the audience that our Co-Board Member Freddye Williams is not a really highstepper; in 'fact, she is a low-stepper is why she stumbled and fell and fractured her foot,on her way to a meeting. As'I participated and listened to what was transpiring at the various workshops, I came away from this meeting with an increased appreciation for my fellow members of this Board and for our Superintendent, because I feel like that after hearing members from other school boards address their problems, that we are very fortunate indeed. Mr. Donwerth stated: Convention.

Because of my busy schedule, I was unable to attend the’NSBA

Mrs. Williams added: Tulsa made a presentation to the Urban Boards. Of course, all of us know the rivalry between Oklahoma City and Tulsa. They had huge buttons stating "Good things are happening in the Tulsa Public Schools." I want a bigger button than that for the OKC Schools, because I think greater things are happening in the Oklahoma City Schools than are happening in Tulsa, and we need to make some presentations to National on Oklahoma City.

Comments Dr. Hamm

Comments Mr. Donwerth Additional Comments - Mrs. Williams

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LEGAL REPORT

Attorney1s Report

Mr. Bleakley reported:

Hearing Panel in Judy Boswell Matter - The hearing panel in the Judy Boswell matter, after having the issue remanded to them by the District Court, has issued an opinion affirming the Board's action to terminate Judy Boswell. The teacher will have 30 days in which to appeal that decision to District Court.

Filing of Brief in AFT Appeal - We will be filing this week our brief in the AFT (American Federation of Teachers) appeal with the State Supreme Court and that will make that issue ready for determination by the Court. Gift of Property - The Board previously had taken action to accept the gift of some real property at the corner of 23rd Street and Miramar from several people. We have received the deed from Vivian Keely, which will be recorded. The property owned by Emma Ketonen is also available to the District. She responded to my letter offering the District real property concern there. We are preparing a deed which we will submit to her for execution.

R. #138 Attorney's Report Approved

It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Hamm for approval of the Attorney's Report. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mr. English, aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

Information to the Board

ITEMS PENDING Meeting of November 16, 1979 1.

Commission to Improve Education Report

Meeting of February 4, 1980 1.

Consideration of Payment for Unused Sick Leave to Other (Tabled until May 5, 1980 meeting)

Certified Personnel

Meeting of April 7, 1980

Report on Implementation of Homework Policy

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT R. #139 Professional Trips Approved

A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mr. Donwerth to direct the following persons to attend conferences as indicated:

At No Expense to the School District (a)

Hal life Kni'ght, Language Arts Consultant; Betty Clifton, Reading Consultant; Martha Nell Dodson, Coordinator 6-12; Judy Billen, Reading Consultant, Curriculum Services - Prescriptive Learning Program, Houston, Texas, April 17-18, 1980. Confirmation

(b)

Claud Todd, Acting Principal, Central Innovative High School - NAESP, Miama Beach, Florida, April 18-23, 1980. Confirmation

(c)

Barbara Neher, L. D. Teacher, John Marshall; Larry Mott, Teacher, Northwest Classen - Close-Up, Washington, D. C., April 20-26, 1980. Confirmation

(d)

Vickie Livingston, Teacher, Capitol Hill High School - Close-Up, Washington, D. C., April 21-25, 1980. Confirmation

(e)

Wanda Hume, Assistant Principal, Roosevelt Middle School; Betty Mason, Director of High Schools; Jack Isch, Administrative Assistant - Workshop on Solutions to Disruptive Behavior and Discipline, Dallas, Texas, April 30 - May 2, 1980.

(f)

Kay Cox, Teacher; Charles Miles, Assistant Principal; Louvenia Moham, Counselor; Betty Weaver, Teacher, Douglass High School - Senior Class Trip, World of Fun, Kansas City, Missouri, May 2-3, 1980.

(g)

Willie G. Baker, Teacher, Northeast High School - 31st International Science and Engineering Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota, May 4-11, 1980.

(h)

Willie Reynolds, Teacher, Northeast High School -International Science Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota, May 5-10, 1980.

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd

At No Expense to the School District cont'd < (i) Sherry Gassaway, Specialist/CETA; Richard Van Welden, Instructor/CETA Youth Re-entry - Counseling for Youth Employment Program Participants, for Youth Service Workers, Dallas, Texas, May 6-8, 1980. (j)

E. Maxine Dozier, Coordinator-Safety, Business Services, Oklahoma Safety Conference, Fountainhead Lodge, Checotah, Oklahoma, May 8-9, 1980.

(k)

Janice Johns, Facilitator/CETA; Saundra Vallejo, Coordinator, CETA - Career Education Conference for Career Development Professionals, New York, New York, May 27-29, 1980.

(l)

William Langwell, Assistant Principal, Southeast High School - NASSP SeminarPrograms to Meet Students Career Needs, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 23-27, 1980.

(m)

Margaret Basey, Assistant Coordinator, Media Services - American Library Association Annual Conference, New York, New York, June 28-July 6, 1980.

(n)

June Dawkins, Principal, Douglass High School - Norfolk Naval Base, Norfolk, Virginia, June 29-July 3, 1980.

R. #139 Professional Trips Approved cont'd

At School District Expense

(o) Ron Schnee, Administrative Assistant, National Community Partnership Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 4-7, 1980.

Project,

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Potts that the President of the Board and the Superintendent be authorized to execute the necessary documents and submit applications for grants and programs as follows: 1.

A CETA, Title IV-C, Summer Youth Employment Program at Foster Estes Center.

Under P. L. 95-561, Title VIII, ESEA Proposal, a Community Education Consortium Model Program at three high schools.

CETA, Title IV, for a Summer Youth Program at Star Spencer High School.

Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Through Alternative Education (1980-83).

R. #140 President of Board and Superintendent Authorized to Execute Documents

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams aye; Mrs. Potts, aye;. Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mr. English, aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

It was moved by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Hill for approval for VocationalTechnical School District Number 22, at its expense, to renovate office space at Belle Isle and Foster Estes Centers at a cost not to exceed $7500.

R. #141 Approval to Renovate Office Space at Belle On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Willians, Isle and Foster Estes Centers aye; Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mr. English, aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

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Information to the Board School Election

The Oklahoma County Election Board has certified the tabulation of votes cast for the Mill Levy questions and for School Board Candidate at the election held on April 8, 1980:

QUESTION NUMBER 1 EMERGENCY LEVY (5 MILLS) FOR GENERAL FUND YES

2,545

1,817

QUESTION NUMBER 2 LEVY (5 MILLS) FOR BUILDING FUND YES

2,544

1,869

QUESTION 3 LOCAL SUPPORT LEVY (10 MILLS) FOR GENERAL FUND

YES

2,485

1,916

ELECTION DISTRICT NUMBER 4

Susan Hermes

556

Suzie Lil jestrand 146

Gayle Jones

356

Mr. Donwerth commented: I think that we are getting dangerously close on the yes/no of our millage levy votes. I don't know what else we can do in the way of advertising, because we don't want to lose our levies.

Dr. Payzant - I think that comment is well taken, and I think the days are past of us being able to just assume that this will be an automatic election, and next year we have to begin earlier to make sure that the public is aware of the issues and what is at stake in terms of school district financing, so that hopefully more people will vote and will be well informed about the issues. Mrs. Hill - At one time didn't the Legislature consider maybe, making it a permanent occurrence unless there was a petition?- So possibly we need to pursue that area so that we don't have to have this every year.

Mrs. Wi 11 ictms - We do need to overtly push that. It is an expense and the people are not aware. And I think the personality of this election where only in one election district was there a school board seat being contested, al so, was a contributing factor. Mrs. Hill - I think there was some confusion on the part of people who normally are very supportive, who didn't really realize that they could vote this time, but I would like for us to pursue this legislation.

Dr. Payzant - What we are talking about here would require constitutional amendments, and that is a more difficult process to get initiated and to pull off. There were some bills introduced this session to have a constitutional amendment put before the people that would in essence lift the 35-mill limitation and allow local school districts to vote additional taxes on themselves. The fate of that is not clear as yet, but we can certainly pursue it. But you need to be clear that we are talking about constitutional amendments, not just legislative action.

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Dr. Payzant stated: One of the things that perhaps was not made clear at the Board meeting when the Board was considering the student reassignment plans, was the actual impact of the grandfather clause. I think Thursday and Friday of last week after the.reports of the reassignment plan, there was some confusion at the schools and in the community about what that impact would be. I thought it would be appropriate to bring to you suggested language to clarify the impact of that grandfather clause and to include that in your Board Policy on School Assignments so there would not be misunderstanding or ambiguity. Some people apparently were under the impression that the high school assignments would go into effect immediately and would not be phased in over three years with people taking advantage of the grandfather clause. So I have included the entire policy as you adopted earlier this year in the agenda, the recommended changes in section 10, and I have struck through the current language and suggested in the new 10, new language.; which would clarify the intent of the grandfather clause, and in essence that is that all students who are enrolled in high school right now, in 1979-80, in grades, nine, ten and eleven would stay in their current assignments until they graduate, finish out at their current schools. Incoming ninth graders would go to the newly assigned school in 1980-81, and then an exception would be made for siblings of ninth graders who wish to go to the newly assigned school with their ninth grade brother or sister, and in an instance where a family might want children in one high school rather than two. Then any students who would move into the district as new residents in the next three years would go ahead to the newly assigned school. So my recommendation is that the language in section 10 be substituted for the language in the existing policy. A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Williams for approval of the recommended change in theâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Student School Assignment Policy JC.

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Mrs. Potts continued: I think this policy is important in terms of preserving stability and it is certainly going to help our people who are planning for curriculum and staffing needs for next year.to know where most of these students will be, and this policy does help to assure that. Mr. English called on Ms. Elizabeth Garrett who had signed up to address the Board regarding the item that was being discussed. Ms. Garrett asked for leniency on the Student School Assignment Policy where it would be possible for families to choose which direction their two siblings would go. Her concern dealt specifically with Northeast and Northwest Schools.

Dr. Payzant added: The main reason that the recommendation was made in terms of having siblings go to the newly assigned school was to reenforce the pattern of assignment, which was the basis for the argument for making the changes in the first place. My concern is that if the choice is given and a number of students and I honestly don't know; it may be a handful of people citywide; on the other hand, it could be as many as several hundred families; we really don't know; but my concern is that if a number chose to have the siblings go to the school where the older brother or sister is attending, that would undermine the impact of the original reason for making the reassignments in the first place. That was the basis of the rationale in having the sibling go to the newly assigned school, and that was really the only rationale for it. Mrs. Potts - I think the other part of this is that this policy would assure that students who are in' the tenth, eleventh or twelfth grades would not be reassigned to a new high school too. So there wouldn't be that disruption in their high school education, and we felt that was important.

Mrs. Hill - But the grandfather clause took care of that. The way section 10 was written previously, grades ten, eleven, and twelve had a choice.

Mrs. Potts - There has been some public misunderstanding on that very issue though. Mrs. Hill - I do know there is a lot of confusion on what was done last time and where everyone is going. I would hope that very soon the Superintendent could provide us a map with the arrows on it so that we would know where all of the different students are going, because of the confusion.

AMENDMENT Mrs. Hill continued: I would like to camend this policy that ninth grade siblings of tenth to twelfth grade students may attend the same school as their brother or sister.

The amendment was seconded by Mr. Donwerth. Mrs. Hill - I do know that when the younger brothers and sisters are coming along, that they are beginning to get involved in some of the extracurricular activities, especially at Northwest or in other schools. And now we are saying no, you are going to another school. I don't think that choice, in visiting with some of the principals, that it is going to make that much difference, or this is what I was told.

R. #142 ... Modification of Student School Assignment Pol icy JC

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R. #142 Modification of Student School Assignment Policy JC cont'd

Mrs. Potts - Would you set a time limit on that, or are you saying that at any point anyone would have a brother or sister already in a high school, then that a younger sibling ought to be able to attend that school? Mrs. Hill - I was not putting a time limit on it, because I think it is hard for a family to be involved. J We are asking parents to become involved in the organizations there at the school, and this is something that we are encouraging, and it is awfully hard to have to split yourself two ways.in all of the different activities.

Mrs. Potts - I could see a problem into the future in terms of transportation problems, because we are assuming as a district that we will provide transportation for these students, and that would mean that all of an area many years in the future could be assigned somewhere else and we could have then a student who maybe still has a brother or sister there who could continue going, whom I assume we would need to bus. Members of the Board continued the discussion which included a concern for the transportation that would be provided, a suggestion to try the plan as submitted, the necessity ttf include timelines in the policy, a concern for the flexibility in the policy with the amendment so stated, the expediency for the adoption of a modification to the policy, and other. PERFECTION OF THE AMENDMENT

Mrs. Hill perfected the amendment that "1980-81 siblings of tenth to twelfth grade students may attend the same school as their brother or sister. Transportation will be provided only for three years." Mr. Donwerth, as seconder, agreed to the perfection. Mr. English inquired: If this were to pass, the administration, then, would come out with some deadlines for people to apply for this kind of transfer, is that right?

Dr. Payzant - Yes.

On roll call for the amendment as perfected, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, nay Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, nay; Mrs. Potts, nay; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mr. English, aye. Mr. English declared that the amendment carried.

Mrs. Hill stated: I still have problems with Dr. Payzant's amendment, because as I did visit with the patrons from Stonegate before this ever came about, their main concern was that they would have a choice. Our Board policy at that time said they would have a choice. And now we are saying you don't have a choice. It bothers me that we have the policy before we vote the reassignments; we vote the reassignments and then we change the policy. Isn't that what we have done? Dr. Payzant - It is definitely different from the language that Was in the original policy which is before you; I am not denying that. The number of modifications that the various plans went through over a six or : seven-week period and the discussion about the impact of them led the staff and me to believe that in terms of the goal of stability,--a smooth transition, and making the decisions about staffing and budget, and course scheduling, that it made the most sense to clarify the grandfather clause in the way stated in the proposal to you this everning, and that is why we are doing i t.

Mrs. Hill - They were wanting that choice, but I think there needs to be a timeline on when the decision is made, like the motion that we just passed. I still feel like that freedom of choice for the parents should be there if they so want to make that choice.

Mrs. Williams - What choice? Mrs. Hill - Of where they want their children to go to school. My concern is also about our middle school students. We have some of those that have been in a school for two years. We have now said you will become a student of another school. I am thinking of Harding and Taft, and I do know that both of those schools stress very much'the pride of whatever their mascot happens to be.

Dr. Payzant - There was never any intention in any of the plans or policy to make choice an option at the middle school.

Mrs. Hill continued to stress her desire to have a choice for students also at the middle school level. Mrs. Potts - I think it can be kind of traumatic for middle school students, having the peer pressure of pulling them in both directions as to which school they are going to, and I would have some concern about that. In other words, you might very well have a group where they have a choice and half of the group wants to go one place and half wants to go another, and then you have got that pressure pulling kids back and forth. I think at that age peer pressure sometimes is very difficult for them to handle. ;

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF APRIL 28, 1980 - CONT^D After further discussion, Mr. English called for a vote on the amended motion for modification of the Student School Assignment Policy JC as follows: JC

STUDENT SCHOOL ASSIGNMENT

The Board believes students should attend the school to which they are assigned.

The Superintendent shall monitor school enrollment and recommend for Board approval student assignment plans. Guidelines for student reassignment, to maintain the required black/total ratios

in each school, are as follows:

All attendance areas will be included in computing the district black/total level ratios.

District black/total ratios will be computed for each school level, i.e., 1-4

These district level ratios,

and 1-5 combined, fifth year centers, 6-8 and 9-12.

rather than an overall black/total ratio, will be used for student reassignments.

Star Spencer area students will be assigned to schools in the Star Spencer

attendance area. | 4.

Schools (except the ones in the Star Spencer area) that are beyond the district level ratios7 by plus or minus ten percent for two consecutive years will be brought into balance.

Schools will be considered for reassignment Jf they have been out of balance for two consecutive years.

Once the students of a school have been reassigned

to bring the school as close as possible to its appropriate level ratio, efforts

will be made to keep school attendance zones assigned to the same school for at least 3 years. 6.

K-5 schools will be compared to a level ratio from combined K-4 and K-5 school

enrollments, eliminating K from the computations.

K-5 schools that are beyond

the level ratio by plus or minus ten percent will be changed to K-4 schools, and

they will become part of a fifth year center cluster.

be added in the district.

No new K-5 schools will

The areas to be computed in each K-5 school's ratio

are its elementary attendance area plus the apartment complexes which have been

assigned to it in the past. 7.

Enrollment in the special programs listed below will not be included in the black/total ratio of the schools in which the programs are located: Bilingual at Riverside, Westwood and Shidler

Trainable Physically Handicapped Hearing Impaired

Vision Impaired

R. #142 Modificatin of Student School Assignment Policy JC cont'd

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Student School Assignment Policy JC as modified cont'd

The following centers will not be required to meet district black/total

ratios:

Carver

Metro Washington

Dunbar

9. When feasible, student reassignments will attempt to keep students together, K-12. 10.

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Students enrolled in a high school in 1979-80 will attend the same high school until they graduate even if the zone in which they reside is reassigned to a

different high school.

Ninth grade students who enter high school in 1980-81

and thereafter will be required to attend the newly assigned school.

1980-81

high school siblings have the option to attend school together at the school to

which the ninth grade student is newly assigned or the school to which the tenth through twelfth grade siblings were assigned in 1979-80. provided only for three years.

Transporation will be

Students at other grade levels will attend their

assigned schools. 11.

Educational, financial, and facilities criteria in Board policy on Retirement

of Facilities should be considered in selecting a receiving school for students who are being reassigned.

12.

Guidelines for student assignments will be reviewed annually.

Adopted: 12/3/79 Revised: 4/28/80 Oklahoma City School District

On roll call for approval of the Student School Assignment Policy JC as modified, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, nay; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mr. English, aye. Mr. English declared that the amended motion carried.

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd

Dr. Payzant reported:

Attendance Report - You have in your packet of materials a copy of the Attendance Report for the second and third quarters of the year, and the results are encouraging. Please note that the attendance for kindergarten through grade 12 in the second quarter was up 3.1 percent over the same quarter last year, and in the third quarter it was up 1.9 percent over the same quarter of last year. That is particularly gratifying in the second quarter which was the period of time when we implemented the new attendance policy. But if you look further and look at the breakdown by the various levels, you will note that some of the largest increases are at the high school in grades 10 through 12, with the increase in the second quarter 3.4 percent, and in the third quarter 3.7 percent. I put on your desk this evening a copy of a financial analysis that Jack Isch worked out today, and I think it is appropriate to note a couple of things in that analysis, namely that we have figured that the increase in attendance in the second and third quarter will mean about $335,000 in additional state aid to the school district for our Average Daily Attendance. The state reimbursement per student per day works out to about $3.86. If we improve our fourth quarter attendance over last year and that improvement runs about the same level that the secondhand third quarter did, averaged it could mean overall as much as a $500,000 increase for this year in state funds from ADA. I think that will be a consideration when we get around to the budget decisions about continuing the attendance clerks and a rigorous implementation of the attendance policy that the Board adopted last fall.

Mrs. Potts inquired: Do you recall the amount of money that was expended additionally to provide for staffing in the new policy?

Dr. Payzant - Yes, we estimated that cost when you approved it at about $126,000, and then we added two more attendance people to round out. So we have probably got about $130,000 to $135,000 invested. So you can see that if indeed the increased attendance is in great part a result of that program, then it was well worth the investment. Dr. Payzant continued: 2.

Asbestos - A question came up at the last meeting about whether we are doing anything with the problem of asbestos in some of our .buildings, and I have been trying to give you periodic reports about that situation. We are working very closely with the Oklahoma City-County Health Department, and our understanding is that department is going to issue directions as to what approach to take to correct those situations where the fiber content in the asbestos is at a dangerous level. Those recommendations have not been forthcoming as yet and we have been advised not to go ahead with a specific remedy until we receive that direction from the City-County Health Department. We have a rough estimate of about 175,000 square feet of asbestos that might have to be encapsulated or removed, and if you apply approximately a $6 per square foot cost to that kind of a project, you are talking about the possibility of a million dollars or more being needed for that kind of effort. Congress is still considering legislation that might have an impact on the availability of some funding, but in a year when balance of budget and cuts is the cry at all levels of government, I" am not optimistic that we can expect to have major source as funds available from the federal government.for whatever we have to do in this area. We are on top of it and are ready to move just as soon as we get clear direction on the best way to go and precisely which buildings should have priority in terms of our attention.

Mr. English inquired: Don't we have our law firm doing some research on legal aspects of this matter? When do you suppose the Board might have a.report on that? Mr. Bleakley - We can't give you any specific recommendations until we find out who is going to impose upon you the requirement to make the changes in terms of assessing the damages,whether not the legislation in Congress has been passed. We have been doing some legal research on the various methods in which we could establish liability, but it is going to be difficult to give any specific recommendations until an actual requirement is imposed on the district, and at that point and time I think we will be able to make some recommendations as to the proposed avenues of establishing liability and what the potential damages we might recover are.

Dr. Hamm - The memo says "we have been advised at this time not to proceed with any plans, I am not clear as to who is advising us. Dr. Payzant - The City-County Health Department.

Remarks Dr. Payzant

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd Dr. Payzant continued:

District-Wide Achievement Test Brochure - We are getting ready to send! to all Oklahoma City parents a brochure on testing reminding parents that the district-wide achievement tests will be given on May 6, 7 and 8, and with an explanation of what those tests are all about and some tips for parents on helping their children get a good night's rest before the test. You recall that this year we decided to administer the test in May rather than in March, so that the children would have the benefit of a full year of instruction prior to ourm.esESurlng the impact of that instruction. So we hope to have a smooth administration of the test and good cooperation from staff, parents and students.

Application for Parking Lot at Edgemere School - The staff proceeded as instructed by the Board from its action at an earlier meeting and presented to the Historic Preservation and Landmark Commission a request for certificate of appropriateness for the parking lot at Edgemere School. On April 17 the Commission heard the application and voted by six to two to issue the certificate.and it has been issued.

ESAA Proposal - We received word from the federal government that our Emergency School Aid Act proposal is still alive and in the running. Although we received a rank of nine among the Oklahoma applications, it is above the cut-off point for funding. So there is a good chance that we will get partial if not total j funding of that application. j

Mrs. Hill inquired:

Was that for a five-year program?

Dr. Payzant - Yes.

Mrs. Hill - And you feel like that even though we do have the nine rating that we still stand a good chance? Dr. Payzant - Yes, because the letter indicated that the cut-off for non-funding was below nine. I was concerned that we might get cut off altogether. So I am rather pleased that we are still in the running. I think there is a fairly good chance that we will still be funded unless Congress cuts that program as part of the budget balancing goal. Of course, any one of our programs could be affected if that occurs. Mrs. Potts - What does this program provide funding for?

Dr. Payzant - This originally was the program that was to provide funds for school districts that were undergoing desegregation. We have had several grants in the past and have used it for providing additional reading, language arts and math programs for students as well as multicultural education and some counseling activities. The proposal that we have submitted to the federal government would continue to provide us assistance in working with the desegregation process, but through the instructional program in the various schools. The reason that we are down the list in priority in my judgment is that we have had a grant for a number of years and probably those districts that are just going into desegregation for the first time or have only been in it for a. couple of years will be given priority. Dr. Payzant continued: 6.

Proposed Purchase of Property Adjacent to Star Spencer High School Area - You recall my reporting to you about the proposed purchase of a piece of property adjacent to our Star Spencer High School area for access to the bus garage there, and it had been my intention to bring back to you a specific recommendation at this evening's meeting. Several things have occurred since the last meeting which have resulted in my not bringing you such a recommendation this evening. You do have a copy of a memo from Darrel Shepard and it is his judgment after talking with some patrons in the area, and I have also talked with some, that we ought to look at a variety of alternatives before recommending specific purchase of that one piece of property for Board consideration. So we will explore three or four alternatives and cost those out before coming back to the Board with a specific recommendation at one of the next two meetings.

Repair of Doors at John Marshall - There was a comment made at the last Board meeting about the repair of the doors at John Marshall. You have a note in your packet which explains that the materials are on order, and late this afternoon I was informed that they will be in on Thursday and work on installation of the new doors will begin on Thursday.

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd Dr. Payzant continued: 4

Recommended Budget for 1980-81 - This month the staff and I will be spending a lot of time on pulling together a recommended budget for 1980-81 to present to the Board hopefully at your first meeting in June, so that you will have the month of June to review it and give opportunity for public comment. One of the specific areas of responsibility for the Board is in setting the contract and arrangements for the Treasurer, the Auditors, and the Attorney. In the past you have sometimes appointed a subcommitee of the Board to give direction on which way you wanted to go with the contractual arrangements for those three areas. I would find it helpful if you would appoint such a committee so it could be at work over the next couple of weeks and have the figures for budget preparation purposes so that they can be plugged into the budget and be ready for your consideration in early June. If you are willing to do so and appoint such a subcommittee, I would like to see you work with the Attorney on possibly a little bit different approach to a contract agreement which might be based on some kind of a retainer for regular day-to-day services and then the time in charges arrangement similar to what is in the current contract for matters of litigation. This is an approach that has been tried and I think worked quite successfully in some other districts, and would be worth the exploration of a subcommittee of the Board with the Attorney. If you would be willing and would appoint such a committee so that it could work over the next two or three weeks and the information needed for the budget would be ready by'the end of the month, I would appreciate it.

Transportation Costs - You had also raised the question about transportation costs at the last meeting. I had a double check on those, the $180 figure per student had been quoted and that was pretty close; it actually turns out to be $181.81. These figures are based on 1978-79 data and will actually be higher when we compute them after the conclusion of this school year, because of the increased costs associated with transportation, but I thought you ought to have those accurate data before you.

10.

Request by Parent to Have a Student Participate in Graduation Exercises - I was asked to review a decision made by one of our high school principals and sustained by our high school director concerning a request of a parent to have a student participate in graduation exercises. I met .with that parent and the high school principal and counselor to hear that appeal, and after doing so decided to sustain the decision of the principal and the high school director and made it known to the parent that, as with any decision of mine, the parent has a right to appeal to the Board. Ms. Phelps is here this evening and did ask to make an appeal to the Board. Since I was in Washington on Thursday afternoon and Friday, I did not receive her letter in time to forward it to you with your packet of information on Friday, but I did put before you this evening a copy of her letter requesting that she be heard and a little review of my involvement in the case and a statement from the principal and counselor. She had originally asked that this might be heard in executive session, but the statutes are quite clear that the only matters to be heard in executive session with regard to a student would be a matter dealing with expulsion or.suspension. Since that is not the case, I think you have the obligation to hear her in public session. She is here and if you think it is appropriate, I think it would be good to give her the opportunity to present her concerns to you.

Mr. English then called on Ms. Ann K. Phelps to make her presentation regarding her daughter being given the opportunity to participate; inâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;th6 graduation exercises at her school. Ms. Phelps explained that her daughter had been in special education from the third quarter of her first year in school through the eighth grade in school, but was assigned to a regular classroom at the time she entered high school because of HEW guidelines. After further explanation regarding the number of high school credits her daughter had earned, which was not the number required for graduation, Ms. Phelps asked that her daughter be permitted to walk down the aisle with her class during the graduation exercises.even though she would not receive a diploma as other members of the class.

Mrs. Williams inquired:

Do we have to make up our mind at this session?

Dr. Payzant - You can wait and make a decision at your next meeting. The decision does not have to be made tonight. I might just speak briefly about denying Ms. Phelps' appeal at my level. As in many cases, if you just responded in terms of the individual request and based on what your natural f^litigs mi4i t ;be,'iÂą would be easy to make the decision to grant the request. The problem is that despite the sincereness of Ms. Phelps' appeal, that we are working very hard to try and make not only the diploma something that means more to students, but the graduation exercises and everything that go with them as a reward, a final step for achievement through 12 or 13 years of school. Once you start making exceptions for people to participate in the ceremonies if they have not completed all of the other requirements, then it is very difficult for those who do to understand that the participation in the exercises really have the meaning and represent the award for achievement and effort that students have put in over the years. When you put it

Remarks Dr. Payzant cont'd

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Dr. Payzant cont'd ' in that perspective, you have to look at it not just as a request for an individual exception, but as whether or not you are going to have a policy or procedure that applies evenly to all students who might be affected in similar circumustances, and then the issue of fairness comes in, in terms of treating all in a fair and equitable way, and that was the basis for my decision. Mr. English - I guess I would like to know myself more of the details in the case, about what she has said about the special education classes and whether the student was properly placed in her high school career, whether we did all we could as a district to provide the opportunities for the young person to get all of the credits that are necessary. I don't know that we have all of that information available at this time and what it is finally going to come down to one day whenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;there wttT' be young people who go to high school for four years and they do not pass the grades, because of a learning disability or something they aren't able to get those credits, and they have been there the four years. I guess if they stay around they can get the credits and go on through simply because they have been there a number of years. But it is a very painful thing for a young person who has gone through with their classmates and because of a disability they are unable to make the grade, and I can certainly sympathize with the young person and the parents in such a situation. And at the same time we have the flip side of trying to make the diploma and the graduation exercise really meaningful. Mrs. Potts - I think I have a concern; in this instances, we are talking about a student who is going to be lacking eight credits of what is required for graduation. That is a lot of credits. Despite where one's sympathies might be, that is really stretching our expectations for graduation. I don't think we would really be doing justice to the school system or to the students in it if we did that. Mr. Donwerth - I can understand that Ms. Phelps was told that they would check with the State Department of Education on the regulations; that stated students who needed more than one unit for graduation will not be permitted to participate in graduation exercises. If it just said that they not be permitted to graduate, I think we could probably T 'say that she could participate in the exercises and walk across the stage and receive that little blank packet that says nothing inside of it anyway until later on. However, that isn't what the Taw says. I don't know how that we can change it without being in violation of the state law.

Dr. Payzant - I didn't either and in fairness to Ms. Phelps, so that you have the benefit of what I told her after we met, I indicated that I would check with the State Department of Education and make sure that I was reading the regulation correctly and I wasn't sure how it could be read any other way. The one error that you see in my memo is that same regulation was in the July, 1978 update, not just the 1976 version of these regulations. The staff person who talked with Mr. Jack Isch about this said yeSj: that is what it said, but the local district could make its own decision in the matter. So I guess it is tossed back in our lap, but even with that ruling from the State Department, I told her that my decision was the same for reasons I expressed earl ier. Mr. Donwerth - Some three years ago we met in a meeting trying to come up with some type of a diploma that we could hand to children that had less than the necessary credits and grades to graduate from high school. We tried to come up with something before you came Dr. Payzant. Unfortunately, I can't remember anything that we came up with that would provide for this as a Board policy when we were talking about it.

Mrs. Potts - We talked about possibly two different kinds of diplomas, and even one that might say something about the accelerated courses a student had achieved in as well as a student that had put forth the effort to stay in school four years. So we are really talking about three different kinds of diplomas. As I recall, it was very complicated and we didn't see any way to develop it. Mrs. Williams - I don't think we pursued it any farther.

Dr. Payzant - I asked the question today and my understanding is that we only give one diploma, and that we do at Carver and Dunbar have special end-of-the-year ceremonies for students who would be the equivalent of seniors, but if they haven't earned their diploma by meeting the regular school district graduation requirements, then they would not receive one. Mrs. Hill - What do we give those from Carver and Dunbar? Dr. Payzant - There is a ceremony at Carver and Dunbar, and yet they do not get a special diploma of any kind; they only get the Oklahoma City Schools diploma only if they have met the graduation requirements, and I believe the diploma that they get comes through Classen High School, if they have met the requirements. If they haven't, they don't get anything.

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd Mrs. Hill - I know they have quite a ceremony with their caps and gowns.

Remarks Dr. Payzant cont'd

Mr. Donwerth - But they do participate in an exercise, and they don't receive a diploma, but it is an end-of-the-year exercise and some of the students get diplomas and graduate.

Dr. Payzant - That is just for students at Carver and Dunbar who are enrolled there in those special programs. That does not apply to students who are in regular high schools and are in special education programs that are in the regular high school.

Dr. Hamm - As I listened to Ms. Phelps and also read the reports here, I have a very distinct impression that there was some grave misunderstandings, lack of communication taking place, and it has gotten to the point where the decision was made, and I think it is the right decision and we are going to have to live with it because at some point we are going to have to say, look, graduation does mean something. But I think we should address ourselves to the fact that this kind of expectancy on the part of the student not be held out falsely to them, and I don't think it was. I think it is an element of wishful thinking, but that we really need to say this is the requirement and then live with it.

Mr. English - It does appear from reading from the memo given to us tonight that there were some efforts to get the testing done in previous years, and from the hearing this evening there were communication problems apparently, and we do have to have the parent's approval before we can test for special education. Mr. Donwerth - I know that we do probably have to live with it, but during the young lady's tenth year she did go to a counselor and indicated that she thought she ought to be in special education classes. And only at the end of the 1978-79 year, and only for this present year was she reevaluated for special education classes. I feel like had this been done back in the tenth year that possibly she would have picked up the credits. Maybe we should pay a little more attention to these kids when they come in and say that they feel like they need to be in special education. Mr. English - My recollection from reading this is that the student was told to have her mother call the school, and she came back the next day and said she had changed her mind, and the next time apparently the thing was about set up and the call was made to the house, and the father answered and said no, .they weren't interested in having the testing done. And then finally I guess this year was when the testing was accomplished.

Ms. Phelps returned to the microphone and explained that the reason her husband had replied that they did not want the daughter tested was because he was told that she would attend Carver.

Mr. English - Maybe it would be appropriate if we could ask the staff to come to us with some sort of a report on really what the steps are in dealing with special education children and what kind of advice is given to parents and young people about their chances for getting a diploma and walking across the stage with their friends, and how much effort is made to get a child tested or get parental approval for the testing once eithejr a child or a teacher suggesis that they do need possibly to be in special education. 1 guess we could list it on the agenda next time for a decision. Mr. English appointed the following members of the Board as a subcommittee to review and make a recommendation to the Board regarding contracts for the Auditors, Attorney, and Treasurer: Mrs. Potts, Chairperson; Dr. Start, and Mrs. Hill.

Dr. Payzant asked that the subcommittee bring back its report on May 19.

Mrs. Hill stated: I believe you have a Board committee out that is to work on a new Superintendent's evaluation form. Is there a timeline when we should be bringing that back?

Dr. Payzant - You should do it certainly by June.

Mr. English called on two persons who had registered to address the Board regarding the proposed purchase of property near Star Spencer High School to be used to build bus facilities: 1.

Shirley King

Katherine Roper

Ms. King and Ms. Roper expressed a concern that bus facilities be built and access be given for buses to run from these facilities, in the consideration of purchasing some property near Star Spencer High School. Ms. King presented a petition to the Board wtiich she said was from patrons who were in opposition to the proposal to build such facilities.

Appointment of Subcommittee to Review and Make a Recommendation to the Board Re Contracts for Auditors, Attorney, and Treasurer

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Mrs. Hill inquired: expect a report?. .

Can we give the patrons some kind of timeline on when they can ;: - -

Dr. Payzant - I haven't got a fixed estimate from Mr. Shepard, but we have kept in â&#x20AC;&#x2122;contact and told them what is going on and will continue to do so, so that they will be aware. ENCUMBRANCES AND PURCHASING R. #143 Approval of Encumbrances

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of payment of encumbrances as listed for March 28 - April 21, 1980. On roll call the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams; Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Fhmm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mr. English, aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

R. #144 Approval of Purchasing

It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Williams for approval of purchasing items as follows:

Physical Education Supplies

Purchase of physical education supplies (marking tape, hand pumps, stop watches, whistles, etc.) for use by Supply and Distribution Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations: Wolverine Sports Buck's Sporting Goods Twid's Sporting Goods Laub's Sporting Goods

Total

399.00 5,630.00 210.00 617.50

6,856.50

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.00.

Teaching Aids Purchase of teaching aids (pattern cards for pegboard, small mosaics and pattern cards for color beads) for elementary schools and fifth year centers from Teacher Resource Corporation (available only from designated distributor/publisher). This purchase in the amount of $3,985.00 is to be charged to Account G 240.01.

Water Coolers Purchase ot two (2) water coolers (double outlet) to be used at Adams Elementary School and Linwood Elementary School from Peerless Hotel Supply Company which submitted the low1 quotations in the amount of $1,815.48 to be charged to Central Food Service.

Lumber Purchase nf lumber (oak, pine, plywood, cedar, ash, etc.) for use by Vocational/ Industrial Arts Programs from the following companies which submitted the low quotation on specifications: Frank Paxton Lumber Company Denton Drive Lumber Company, Inc.

$ 32,194.70 13,333.50 Total

$ 45,528.20

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.01.

Science Equipment and Supplies Purchase of science equipment and supplies (dissecting kits, disposable dishes, prisms, microscopes, medicine droppers, etc.) for use at various locations from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

Science Kit, Inc. Fisher Scientific Company Sargent-Welch Scientific Company Ann Arbor Biological Center, Inc. Frey Scientific Company Anatomical Chart Company Central Scientific Company Doenges Science Supply Ward's Natural Science Carolina Biological Supply Company Gamco Industries, Inc.

Total

390.10 1,201.27 315.55 173.68 422.45 488.86 101.41 12.50 15.24 21.92 48.30

3,191.28

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Science Equipment and Supplies cont'd These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

G 240.01 G 1230.03

Total 6.

2,230.84 960.44

3,191.28

Home Economics Supplies and Equipment Purchase of home economics supplies and equipment (pans, flatware, dinnerware, pressure cookers, glasses, ice trays, etc.) for use at various locations from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

$ 1,528.51 _____ 716.64

Nasco Wilson's Total

These purchases

2,245.15

833.73 1,361.42

2,235.15

areto be charged to the following Accounts:

G 240.01 G 1230.03 Total

Table and Restorator Purchase of table and restorator for use at Carver Center from G. E. Miller, Inc., who submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,150.00 to be charged to Account G 1230.03.

Band Uniforms Purchase of band uniforms for Capitol Hill High School from Medalist Stanbury which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $13,829.72 to be charged to Account G 1230.03.

Vocational Training Equipment and Supplies ~ Purchase of vocational training equipment and supplies (drills, saw blades, cutters, socket sets, grinders, soldering guns, etc.) for use at various locations from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Brodhead-Garrett Hart Industrial Supply Company A-Welder Supply, Inc. American Plant Products Whitton Supply Company Mideke Supply Company Severin Supply Company Caco, Inc. Brittain Brothers, Inc. Southwest Saw & Tool Snap-On Tools Corporation

Total

7,673.74 515.00 2,137.33 320.35 2,912.74 4,818.87 5,215.35 1,005.02 956.48 36.37 3,472.31

$ 29,063.56

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 240.01 G 1230.03 G 1230.11

Total

10.

517.53 27,745.53 800.50

$ 29,063.56

Kilns Purchase of kilns for use at Rogers Middle School from Nasco which submitted the low quotation on specifications in the amount of $1,168.36 to be charged to Account G 1230.03.

R. #144 Approval of Purchasing cont'd

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11.

Arts and Crafts Supplies

Purchase of arts and crafts supplies (brushes, clay, glue, ink, dye, needles, paint, yarn, etc.) for use at Supply and Distribution Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Thompson Book & Supply Company Asel Art Supply Pyramid Artists Materials Dick Blick Company, Inc. Triangle/A&E, Inc.

Total

8,091.35 3,761.50 1,677.88 1 ,920.00 2,819.00

$ 18,269.73

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.00. 12.

Catalog Cards and Labels Purchase of catalog cards and labels to be used by Media Services Department from Uarco, Inc., which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,128.00 to be charged to Account G 230.04.

13.

Steel, Iron, and Pipe Purchase of steel, iron, and pipe for use by Vocational Industrial Arts Programs from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Robberson Steel Company Steel Supply Company Ducommun Metals Company Earle M. Jorgensen Company Total

64.00 8,470.34 3,016.91 4,546.56

$ 16,097.81

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.01. 14.

Equipment and Supplies Purchase of equipment (music learning modules) and supplies for use by External Funding (Gifted/Talented) from Wurlitzer Educational Products (available only from designated publisher/distributor). This expenditure in the amount of $1,486.00 is to be charged to Account 1230.03, Title 4-C, and has been approved on our Federal Educational Grants and/or Programs.

15.

Teaching Aids

Purchase of teaching aids (manipulative toys Capitol Letters A to Z Panel and Low Case Letters A to Z Panel) for use by elementary schools and fifth year centers from Thompson Book & Supply which submitted the low quotation. This purchase in the amount of $1,225.00 is to be charged to Account G 240.01.

16.

Teaching Ai'ds

Purchase of teaching aids (maps and globes) for use by Media Services from Nystrom (available only from designated publisher/distributor). This expenditure in the amount of $1,655.50 to be charged to Account 230.01, Title 4B, and has been approved on our Federal Educational Grant and/or Programs. 17.

Central Laundry Equipment Purchase of central laundry equipment (hampers, sorting-loading trucks and utility trucks) for use by Custodial Services from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

S-K Supply Tingue, Brown & Company Carver Supply Company, Inc.,

Total These purchases are to be charged to Account G 650.04.

572.10 525.04 1,676.08

2,773.22

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18.

Musical Instruments and Accessories Purchase of musical instruments and accessories (bass drum and stand, electric <piano, trap set, cymbals, etc.) for use by Curriculum Services, Fine Arts Division, Moon and Taft Middle Schools from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

895.00 378.00 815.00 905.50 _____ 360.00

National Education Music Company Sharp & Nichols Music Company Larsen Music Company West Manor Music Norman Music Company

Total

3,353.50

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 240.00 G 740.03 G 1230.03 Total 19.

895.00 236.00 2,222.50

3,353.50

Office Machines Purchase of office machines (transcribers) for use at John Marshall High School, Southeast High School and Adult Day from Electronic Dictation Systems, Inc., which submitted the low quotation on specifications in the amount of $2,090.00 to be charged to Account G 1230.03. The total shown reflects allowance for exchange machines.

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Agreements Approval of agreements with the following listed companies to provide food products and supplies for use in Oklahoma City's Summer Food Program for Children. Actual purchases are to be subject to approval of an agreement between the City of Oklahoma City and Oklahoma City Public Schools' Central Food Services Department. Central Food Service to provide meals funded by the City of Oklahoma City for the 1980 Summer Food Service Program fo_r Children.

Rainbow Baking Company

Bakery Products

Quotation #5593

Tyler & Simpson Company Mid-Central/Sysco Company William E. Davis & Sons, Inc. Scrivner, Inc.

Canned Canned Canned Canned

Foods Foods Foods Foods

& & & &

Staples Staples Staples Staples

Quotation #5595

Tyler & Simpson' Comapny Carpenter Paper Company Service Container Corporation

Mi sc. Cafeteria Supplies Mi sc. Cafeteria Supplies Mi sc. Cafeteria Supplies

Quotation #5592 Scrivner, Inc. Tyler & Simpson Company Oscar Mayer & Company Pauley Cheese Company Swi ft Lamb-Weston Hormel Bil Mar

Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen

Quotation-#5594

Gilt Edge Farm, Inc.

Milk

Food Food Food Food Food Food Food Food

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Audio-Visual Equipment and Supplies Purchase of audio-visual equipment and supplies (cameras, recorder/players, filmstrip projectors, headphones, screens, televisions, etc.) for use at various locations from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

R. K. Black, Inc. Lawrence Photo of Oklahoma, Inc. Radio Supply, Inc. Cory Motion Picture Equipment Composite Video Valiant I.M.C. Perma-Bound Company Thompson Movie Supply, Inc. Audio Visual Educational Systems Industrial Video, Inc. Dowlings, Inc. Fairview Audio-Visual Company (Tulsa) Pipkin Photo Service Electronic Dictation Systems, Inc. General Binding Corporation Thompson Book & Supply Company Dulaney's, Inc. Wholesale Educational Suppliers Company Total

2,354.80 2,072.00 499.82 6.302.50 1,056.40 3,371.46 74.95 6,856.00 9,440.17 13.291.58 30.201.58 15,855.35 1,325.20 120.00 1,341.30 4,242.62 4.561.50

$103,008.50

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: $

G 230.01 G 230.04 G 240.01 G 250.01 G 1230.03 G 1230.11 *240.01 , Title I *1230.03, Title I *1230.03, Title 4B *1230.03, Title VII, Bilingual *1230.03, Teacher Corps 1121.05, Adult Education 1121.03, Vo-Ed (Adult)

Total

1,679.81 1,616.00 1,020.78 139.92 38,641.06 9,746.74 193.10 598.63 46,779.58 1,117.64 1,341.30 79.94 54.00

$103,008.50

*These purchases have been approved on our Federal Educational Grants and/or Programs. 22.

Custodial Supplies

Purchase of custodial supplies (paper towels, toilet tissue and holders) for use by Custodial Services from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: Capital Paper Company Oklahoma Paper Company

$ 21,548.50 2,020.00 Total

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 650.01.

$ 23,568.50

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Athletic Equipment arid Supplies

Purchase of athletic equipment and supplies (footballs, helmets, jerseys, hip 'pads, stop watches, shoes, bases, etc.) for use at various schools from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Willis Medical Supplies Noble Lawton Sporting Goods, Inc. Coast Marketing Group Buck's Sporting Goods, Inc., of O.C. Twid's Sporting Goods Champion Products, Inc. Lambs Sporting Goods Micro Bio-Medics, Inc. Alert Services, Inc. U. S. Athletic Supply Company, Inc. Sportmaster Blumenfeld Sport Net Company Dunlap Sporting Goods

$?. 3,612.50 2,896.40 2,939.57 8,170.00 2,105.80 7,633.90 36.40 1,469.38 212.20 539.52 984.10 1 ,994.72 9.341.00

Total

$ 41,935.49

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

$ 29,809.28 12,126.21

G 240.01 G 1230.03 Total

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$ 41,935.49

Copier Purchase of copier for use at Capitol Hill High School from Saxon Business Products, Inc., which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $2,634.00 to be charged to Account G 1230.03.

25.

Teaching Aids Purchase of teaching aids (test forms, achievement tests, reference books, etc.) for use by External Funding from the following companies (material available only from designated publishers and/or distributors): Jastak Associates, Inc. National Computer Systems World Book-Childcraft

Total

1,685.30 1,700.00 8,419.95

$ 11,805.25

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: *240.01, Title I *230.01 ,-Tjtie 4B

$ Total

3,385.30 8,419.95

$ 11,805.25

*These purchases have been approved on our Federal Educational Grants and/or Programs. 26.

Athletic Uniforms Purchase of athletic uniforms (wrestling and basketball) for use at Jefferson Middle School from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: Buck's Sporting Goods, Inc., of O.C. Noble Lawton Sporting Goods, Inc.

Total

536.40 671.40

1,207.80

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 1230.03. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mr. English, aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried.

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BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION

R. #145 Approval of Buildings and Construction Items

It was moved by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Hamm for approval of the following Buildings and Construction items:

Acceptance of Low Bid to Replace Heating Boilers, Controls, etc. Acceptance of the low bid and ,the awarding of a contract to R & M Mechanical Contractor, Inc., (labor, materials and equipment) to replace heating boilers at five (5) schools; replace burners and controls at thirteen (13) schools; provide boiler combustion air fans at twenty-five (25) schools; and provide a boiler feed pump and receiving tank at one school. This contract in the amount of $549,000.00 is to be charged to Bond Fund Account B 1410.

Change Order No. 1 for Roof Repairs and/or Replacement

Approval of Change Order No. 1 in the contract with Southwestern Roofing and Metal Company for roof repairs and/or replacement at Foster Estes Center, deduct $5,796.00, a reduction of 56 squares of fiberglass insulation which was included in the original plans but not required to complete the contract.

Change Order No. 1 in Location of Water Line Approval of Change Order No. 1 in the contract with W. A. Kaiser Construction Company; add $8,964, a change in the location of the water line to serve Central Laundry Facility.

Approval of Low Bid to Replace Gymnasium Floor Approval of low bid and the awarding of a contract to Beckett Brothers Floor Company to replace the gymnasium floor at Northeast High School. This contract in the amount of $20,100 is to be charged to the Bond Fund.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Potts,aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mr. English, aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. HEARINGS The following persons addressed the Board: 1.

Jeanne Britt

Jerrie Reagan

David Walters

Ms. Britt spoke regarding her child's injury on the playground at an elementary school, a concern for the availability of nurses-at elementary schools and fifth year centers, the lack of medical supervision for students, and suggested that a first aid course be provided fo.r teachers. Ms. Reagan expressed a concern about the test scores of second grade pupils falling below the scores of the past year.at Star School, and other. Mr. Walters distributed printed materials to members of the Board and, as a representatime of the Putnam Heights Planning Council, gave a report on their investigation of the school closure, and offered some alternatives and suggestions for keeping Putnam Heights School open.

Members of the Board commended Mr. Walters for the report given. Mr. English asked the Superintendent to review the guidelines and timelines for â&#x2013; ' school planning councils.

Dr. Payzant responded: If I understand the request that has been made, it is to have the administration and Board respond to the request that was made this evening outside of the timeline that was originally established by the Board, which was to have the planning councils complete their work during the spring, summer and early fall months, then present their recommendations in the fall and have December as a deadline for me bringing recommendations to the Board concerning action on the 12 schools, with the Board committed to make a decision by January of 1981, and should that decision result in the closing of any schools, that would not occur until the fall of 1981 for the 1981-82 school year. I think I heard the request that the timeline be altered in terms of responding to this report which is very well done. My plea would be that now that we have started the process, that we not look at them piecemeal, because in the final analysis^ you are going to have to look at the entire district and how all of the pieces fit together. But if you are to respond to the specific request that was made this evening, this group has obviously done a very fine report and done their work very quickly, and the other planning councils, to the best of my knowledge, are still hard

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at work and are going to need some more time and are probably following the timeline that was originally set.

Mrs. Hill - There is a certain stigma attached to the neighborhoods of the 12 schools that have been listed for possible closure. I remember that last week we kept getting all of these plans for the reassignment of students, and when these schools hit us with all of the plans, it will be hard to view them.

Dr. Payzant - I think it is going to be difficult at some point, maybe not with the first one, but if they all stagger in over the next couple of months, at some point it is not going to be wise to deal with them piecemeal because they are going to relate to each other. I heard nothing but comments from people who have had experience with this in other districts, prior to recommending the policy and procedures to you, that the biggest mistake the districts had made in the past was acting in haste and not giving people enough time to get involved and participate, and we designed that whole procedure to make sure that there was enough time for involvement and participation through the spring, summer and early fall months, when in fact I was a little bit more impatient to get on with it. I think you have to balance those kinds of considerations in responding to this parent group that has obviously done a fine job in presenting their very comprehensive report and quickly. Mr. Donwerth - I want to commend the Putnam Heights parents on an excellent report and assure them that every consideration will be given to them, that we are not taking this report and presentation lightly.

Dr. Hamm - I think that the report itself is an excellent report. It is factual, and the proof of it will be forthcoming, and if they really believe in their report, then they already have sold themselves that they can go ahead and get with it, but that we, though, in faith with the total district need to abide by our timelines. Mrs. Hill - Would we not want to ask the Superintendent to respond to the report?

Dr. Payzant - I know that there are probably going to be very few of the planning councils that will recommend that their school be closed. I am not that naive, but I expect that there will be a range in the arguments presented and the extent to which the arguments hold up in looking at the overall 'issues before us, and I am reluctant to break off in pieces the various reports when we made such an effort to try and design the process in such a way that an intelligent decision can be made by the Board with respect to all of the schools in the entire district. And it is in that spirit that I think it is important to see the reports of the other planning councils before making preliminary judgments on one that has done a very professional job and a very thorough one early. It was moved by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Dr. Start for adoption of Policy JECBC Admission of Underage Children to Kindergarten, as follows: JECBC ADMISSION OF UNDERAGE CHILDREN TO KINDERGARTEN The Board believes that it may be beneficial to some children to enroll in public school kindergarten at an earlier age than specified by state law. Therefore, children four years of age whose fifth birthday is after September 1 and before December 2 may enroll in public school kindergarten on a tuition basis. The tuition charge will be equal to the per capita cost per kindergarten student for the previous school year and must be paid each semester in advance.

Underage children who have paid tuition to attend kindergarten in a school district may attend first grade tuition free the following year, if they have successfully mastered the expected kindergarten skills as determined by an assessment team. Children will remain in kindergarten the following year tuition free if they do not master the required skills. Underage children who have shown mastery of skills before the school year has ended may accelerate to the next level. Tuition will be paid until the child attains the legal age for kindergarten. Underage children who have not attended a district kindergarten will not be placed in the first grade the following year.

Underage children living in the district and attending private accredited kindergarten may transfer to a district kindergarten on a tuition basis at the end of the first semester and upon successful mastery of kindergarten skills may attend first grade the following year without paying tuition. Underage children who attended public school kindergarten outside the district may not enter the first grade in the district the following year. Underage children living outside the district and attending public school kindergarten elsewhere may transfer on a tuition basis to a district kindergarten

R. #146 Motion for Adoption of Policy on Admission of Underage Children to Kindergarten Failed

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R. #146 Policy on ADMISSION OF UNDERAGE CHILDREN TO KINDERGARTEN cont'd JECBC Motion for Adoption of Policy before the beginning of second semester. Upon successful completion of kindergarten on Admission of 4 skills, the child will be eligible for the first grade tuition free. Underage Children to The district will honor all out-of-state kindergarten transfers for underage children Kindergarten tuition free who are legally enrolled in a public school in keeping with the age Failed cont'd regulations of the sending state.

Dr. Payzant stated: I was asked one question that I couldn't answer at the last meeting about the probable cost of tuition. It will be finalized before the start of the year, but it will be about $700 for a kindergarten child for the year. Mrs. Potts - This does not have any kind of an escalator clause in it. It really says that the per capita cost the previous year will be used to determine the cost the next year. I am wondering if staff costed that to see if we are continuing inflationary costs for all of the things that go into providing for that student's education, if we are going to be binding ourselves to a situation where we are really losing money on it.

Dr. Payzant - This is the way in which we normally figure our tuition. We can't project the actual cost of the year in which the chilcf's enrolled because we don't know what that will be until the end-of-the-year accounting. So the normal practice of school districts everywhere is to take the per capita cost from the previous year and make that the tuition charge. So you are correct to the extent that you are always a few percentage points behind in terms of the actual tuition. But unless you just take a stab in the dark, it is hard to get it accurate.

Mrs. Potts - My question was whether the amount of the tuition ought to be in this policy, because of inflation? Dr. Payzant - But that is covered because it says the tuition charge will be equal to the per capita cost for the previous school year. So every year it would increase automatically. Mrs. Potts - Do we have in any other policies of the Board where we say that the costs that are charged will be based upon the prior year's costs?

Dr. Payzant - So you are saying don't have*the cost in at all? Mrs. Potts - If the staff hasn't had any problem with that in the past, I am willinq to go with it, but I think that once we approve it as a policy

Dr. Payzant - Then what we would have to do is on a yearly basis come to you and establish the tuition.cost. Mrs. Potts - We could do it on a yearly basis or certainly the way we handle the summer school tuition is that it is brought to us each year with a recommendation of what the cost should be at that time.

Dr. PayzanX -~-Lf you would be more comfortable with it, that is fine. I am not that bothered by having it in on the basis of per capita cost for the previous year, because that would be the basis on which we would bring the specific recommendation to you on an annual basis.

Mrs. Potts - If our staffs being aware of that, do&sn'Lt have any problem with, it, I am willing to go along with it in here, but I thought that question ought to be raised. Mrs. Hill - In the fifth paragraph it says "underaqe children who attended public school kindergarten outside the district may not enter the first grade in the district the following year." But if they attended a kindergarten like we are having, we still would not accept from a neighborin'ng district even though they had paid'or if they move back in the district, they would still have to pay the $700 to get them in? Dr. Payzant - Right. The problem is that if they go elsewhere and then they come to the Oklahoma City schools in their first grade year, they would still be underage and under'the state statutes would not be eligible to start first grade underage. The way the state provides for this exception is if they pay tuition to go to kindergarten in your school district. That is governed by the state regulations. Mrs. Hill - And we are not recognizing anyone else's kindergarten?

Dr. Payzant - We can't. Mrs. Potts - And the same thing would apply to other school districts with our students?

Dr. Payzant - Yes.

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| Mr. English - The $350 per semester is paid in advance?

( Dr- Payzant - Yes.

i Mr. English - Do we have any sort of a projection on how many people in the district can really afford that kind of tuition? Aren't there some people in this district that cannot afford to pay a tuition?

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| Dr. Payzant - Sure.

Mr. English

- What is going to happen to those people?

Dr. Payzant

- They will have to wait until their children are of age to go to

| kindergarten. |

Mr. English

- Is there any way that those children could be admitted? It is simply

that we won't receive state reimbursement on them or is it a straight prohibition that ! they cannot be admitted to receive a free education?in kindergarten? Dr. Payzant - We will not receive state reimbursement on them. Mr. Isch came to the microphone from the audience and stated: It is prohibitive for us to aocept them without their paying the tuition, and that is state statutes.

Dr. Hamm - I think you are getting at something that is bothering me concerning this whole policy, and that is the Board believes that it may be beneficial to some children to enroll in public school, that they can educationally benefit from it. If that is our motivation, then I am for it. But if our motivation is that the impact of the law being changed is that it is going to be a costly drop in enrollment, because it is going to be cutting the enrollment, it is going to decrease our financial income; if our motivation is on an economic basis for this program, then I am not in favor of it. I don't know how to resolve my dilemma here.

Dr. Payzant - I don't think the two are incompatible. I testified against the law in the first place because I thought it would be in effect removing an educational benefit from children who couldn't afford it and also needed it. I also recognize that it is having a tremendous impact on us in terms of dropping ADA and finances. So I can argue very strongly for it on both counts, and I don't see the two as being in conflict with each other. I am sorry that it passed.

Dr. Hamm - I am wondering what kind of feeling the kindergarten teachers would have concerning this? Dr. Payzant - A number of the kindergarten teachers supported the legislation because they felt that they were getting some children in kindergarten who were not ready to be there.

Dr. Hamm - Then we will come along and take them in on a tuition basis. Mr. English - And the only screening is really whether they can afford the tuition, is that right? As far as admittance to kindergarten, the screening is based upon do you have the $350 pe'r semester? It is not based upon a readiness test or anything of that nature?

Dr. Payzant - The testing comes at the end before they are admitted to first grade. Mr. Donwerth - But the teachers will also be receiving some of these children that they feel are too young or not ready to be there if the parents have the money to get them in there. There will be a number of children who are of this younger age that their parents can' t afford to get them in there that possibly would benefit more from kindergarten. I think we are discriminating against the family that doesn't have the finances to enroll their child, and we have supposedly tried to get away from discrimination, but it looks like we are asking for some.

Mrs. Potts - I woulid like to raise the question as to whether any consideration has been given to some kind of readiness test to be applied for admission of these students, and is that practical?

[ Dr. Payzant - We talked about it and it is possible to do it. It involves more cost I in terms of making the psychometrist or somebody who would be available to do the testing available to do it. So it can't be done without a cost to the district.

Dr. Hamm - Was the cost of the assessment team at the end of the year figured into the tuition?

Dr. Payzant - Not as a separate item; no. Dr. Hamm - Do we have an assessment team that normally does this with kindergarten students every year?

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Dr. Payzant - Usually, the kindergarten teacher will make the first assessment, and R. #146 Motion for then if there are children that are either borderline or questionable, very often a psychometrist would get involved in assisting with a more detailed evaluation, but Adoption of Policy < the kindergarten teacher usually makes the first assessment at the building level with on Admission of Underage Children the principal in terms of whether the child is ready to move on to first grade. to Kindergarten Failed cont'd Dr. Hamm - I am seeing this assessment team, if this program is successful and a good many people want to pay the tuition, whlich we do not have now would be a factor in several schools where students are enrolled on a tuition basis that would increase the cost. So maybe that $700 is not a very reliable figure.

Dr. Payzant - It could. We really have no way of predicting how many people might avail themselves of this program. We will have to wait and see. Mrs. Williams - As I read this, I viewed it as a start in the right direction. I was also planning to touch base with Mrs. Tarver and her department to see if there are not such funds in compensatory education, something on that order, Headstart of whatever, that would take care of a kindergartner who could not afford the tuition. I share the concerns, but I think we need this. It is a start, which means we can augment with some other things, that the idea is it is almost made and we had better get the show on the road.

Dr. Hamm - You say that you feel that we need this.

I want to know why?

Mrs. Williams - Because in this age of Sesame Street and you name it, there are some four-year-olds totally and adequately ready for kindergarten and/or first grade. We know that. And there are some that are not.. We need something, because our State fathers did not see fit to give us the leeway;we had to grab these. Then those that are not ready will be just like if you put something through a sieve, some are going to fall out. But I am fully convinced after interaction with some kids, and I was even told by some of our veteran educators that we are going to have to relook at the total kindergarten approach, because some kids are wasted until they get to be legal age.

Mr. Donwerth - I agree with you one hundred percent, but I am afraid that some of those kids that their parents can't afford to enroll them are going to be wasted also. Mrs. Williams - But if we don't do something like this, then we just waste them all. But I am saying look at available resources, maybe even General Fund monies and get this on the road to see where we can augment. Mr. Donwerth - Was the $700 mandated as the amount? So we are only going to take a portion of the children whose birthdays fall between September 1 and December 2, is that correct?

Dr. Payzant - No. What this would do, if adopted, is give any parent of a child who turned five between September 1 and December 2 the opportunity to enroll that child on a tuition paying basis at the beginning of school, and they would be charged the tuition for the entire year. Mrs. Potts -I think that we are not going to be the only district that will be suffering the'i-mpact of this law and there may be some pressure to take another look at it next year. I don't think we are in a position to take district funds from students that we have an obligation to teach and apply: those funds to students where we don't have that responsibility under lawas much as we would like to do it. And for that reason, I call for the question on the motion.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, nay; Mrs. Williams , aye; Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Hamm, nay; Mr. Donwerth, nay; and Mr. English, nay. Mr. English declared that the motion failed.

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UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Dr. Payzant asked Mr. George Russell, Director of Personnel Services, to give brief remarks before the Board's action on the Affirmative Action Plan update. Mr. Russell stated: I did want to take this opportunity, primarily for the purpose of getting it on the record, of paraphrasing some of my memorandum to you. There are several reasons for that; first, of course, is the reason that you are being asked this evening to approve the update of the District's Affirmative Action Plan and the program that goes along with it. But even more important you are aware at least now of the fact that Mrs. Beth Wilson, Personnel Administrator for Affirmative Action, has tendered her resignation,in order to accept a position at the Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center. Looking at the report, the work that has gone into it is a clear indication of the effort and energy that she along with the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee put into this document which you have before you. The fact is, obviously, that both Mrs. Wilson and the committee deserve a great deal of credit for Further, the putting this document together, and I wanted that to go on the record, work of Beth Wilson and the committee demonstrates that change can be initiated and that change can be accepted, and if we are to hold on to the gains that have been made over the past few years, we must continue to keep affirmative action in the forefront of our personnel policies and practices. In the face of declining enrollment, program and staff cutbacks, and shrinking resources, we will need more affirmative action, not less. The work of Mrs. Beth Wilson has over the past few years continued to keep affirmative action in the forefront. She will be missed, yet we should not nor will we let her departure forestall our efforts at improving the relative posture of underrepresented groups in the district's workforce. Our commitment to affirmative action as a means to achieving equal opportunity in employment and in access to employment for all persons will remain resolute. And Beth Wilson and the Equal Employment Advisory Committee should be assured that their work has contributed immensely to the growth and maturity of a system which values and encourages the provision of equal opportunity for all of its employees and for all of its applicants for employment, I hope that you will take the time to give the credit to Beth Wilson and to the committee that they are due.

R. #147 Approval of Affirmative Action Plan Update

Mrs. Potts - This is a real milestone; we have come a long way, and I have been _____ involved with many of the difficult steps along the way and I think the really important thing has been keeping sight of expecting and looking for excellence in the employees we hired and that we have promoted, I think that is one of the things that she has kept in the forefront of our plans, and that is what has helped us as a district with this plan. I think she needs to be congratulated on an effort that has really accomplished a lot for our district and for our community. A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams for approval of the Affirmative Action Plan update.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mr. English, aye. Mr. English declared that the motion carried. It was suggested that the Superintendent send a letter to Mrs. Beth Wilson apprising her of the praise by the Board.

Dr. Start stated: I would like to express my commitment, and I have nothing against Mr. Russell, but I still think the Affirmative Action Officer ought to report directly to the Superintendent and not to the Personnel Director. Dr. Payzant - That person does report directly to the Superintendent on matters of affirmative action and will continue todo so. NEW BUSINESS

The following motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mr. Donwerth for consideration at the May 5, 1980 meeting of the Board: "I move that the Board instruct our attorneys to file in the Federal District Court a request for a declaratory judgment prohibiting the Office for Civil Rights' supervision of the racial balance in our unitary school district."

Motion for Consideration at May 5, 1980 Meeting of the Board

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Consideration of tesignation.iof Irr. Paul. Eng IjiSb.^ is. Member of the Soard of Education

NEW BUSINESS Mr. English stated: All good things have to come to an end, and someday you â&#x2013; < will face the same moment. I am really happy over the things we have been able to do as a Board over the past years; there are so many, it is hard to list them. I have to review some of those things that I think have meant a lot to the district and will in the future. First, those mammoth books called Board Policies; that has taken for me about eight years of effort, to have found that finally we can do that, thanks to the staff and especially to Jack Isch. And I hope that we don't let those things go for another 80 or 90 years before they are touched again. That has to be sort of a living book there; you have got to keep updating that, and please take the time to do it. I have been very proud that the Board set goals for the first time. The previous Boards had not. We have got a formal evaluation of the Superintendent, and that is something that most of the members of the Board here were sitting here when we started that practice. You recall that we became the first Board to take the meetings out into the buildings, away from the Central Office to hear the people. Even when the people didn't come, we took them out there. We televised a Board meeting live. We tried to communicate with the people, I would say. Going way back, we started investing the idle, if we have any such things, district funds, and today because of that we have got over a million dollars coming in each year, and that translates into a lot of teachers out there, a lot of textbooks, a lot of materials, and the education of children is much better today because we took those steps. We have some school closing guidelines that we hadn't had before, and they really provide for the people affected to have an opportunity to make a difference, and that is important. From now on, our students will have to have a fine arts credit to graduate, and I think that is an improvement because we are improving our fine arts program. The Board did something that, I guess, no other Board in Oklahoma has ever done, and that is they stepped out there and filed a price-fixing lawsuit against the people that they felt or had good reason to believe were fixing the prices on bus bodies, and I hope that this Board does not let that lawsuit die. I hope that this Board will continue to pursue that, because there is a lot of money involved in that and that money can go for the education of children once we recover it. We have a human relations policy. Heaven only knows that we needed that. We had a long-range planning committee, and it was the Board's committee that was comprised of the people of the community. We created an innovative high school. We did an affirmative action plan. We have created a course offering book for our high school students so theywouldknow a little better what the opportunities would be for them in the future. We have got our homework policy. We have got businesses adopting schools, and because we were faithful in implementing the Finger Plan, we became one of the first and one of the very few school districts in the nation to be released from a court order. Then when you get right down to the classroom, we have taken a first step toward preschools, and finally I think we really will get that ball rolling. We have got one going, but it has taken a long time to get the approval, but it is a preschool program that I think will be very beneficial. We have a gifted and talented program. We have elementary physical education teachers, elementary music teachers, and we need to improve on that too. I agreed this last year that I would sit still and we would go with the physical education teachers more than we would go with music teachers, but I certainly hope that we can improve on those elementary music teachers. We have had discipline training for 600 teachers. We have reduced the pupil-teacher ratio, and we will have a naturally integrated high school without busing, and I think that is a strong signal,.of the future for this district, because I think we are becoming a more integrated*district and I think that is good. It has been a pleasure.

Mr. English then asked Mrs. Potts to read the following letter of resignation which was addressed to members of the Board: "Because I have served longer than the voters of this district elected me to serve, and because my successor was elected without the necessity of a runoff, I hereby submit my resignation from this Board effective immediately. Signed, Paul English."

Mr. Donwerth commented: Mr. English, you are a little quick here. Before you can resign, I think we have to give consideration to that and someone has to make a motion that we accept your resignation. Mr. English and I have been on the opposite side many times, and we, T hope, are still friendly toward one another; we have been always. Mr. English doesn't always see the things the way I do, nor do I see things the way he does, but-I feel that this Board as a whole will feel a great loss without the leadership that Mr. English has given us.

R. #148 Resignation of Mr. Paul English Accepted

Mr. Donwerth continued: I know that Mr. English has other things to do, and I move that we accept his resignation.

Mrs. Williams stated that she seconded the motion with regret. Mrs. Potts, presiding, asked if there was further discussion of the motion.

Mrs. Hill - I would like to amend the motion to add that J'we accept his resignation with regret" instead of having it come on the second.

Mr. Donwerth - I made the motion with much reluctance, so it is acceptable.

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Mrs. Williams agreed as the seconder.

Mrs. Potts stated: I have worked with Mr. English for many years and feel that he is going to leave a tremendous void with our district. I know that it is going to be up to bach of us to work just a little bit harder to fill that void that he is going to leave. I think I have never seen a Board member more conscientious in terms of the time they put in both in being prepared for Board meetings and in terms of being out in the community working for those kids. So I think the contribution comes from a real commitment, and I know he is going to count on all of us to follow that commitment. *

Mrs. Williams - I have a quote. ;

R. #148 Resignation of Mr. Paul English Accepted cont'd

"If with pleasure you are viewing, Any work a man is doing-If you like him or you love him; Tell him now!

"Don't withhold your approbation Till.the Parson says oration And he lies with snowy lillies On his brow; Tel 1 him now!" I

Mrs. Williams continued: The next is from Holy writ - "By their fruits, ye shall know them." Paul English was on this Board when I came in. I used to look at him on television and say that young kid sure works hard. We have fought; we have agreed; we discussed, but always the motivation was there, and I used to ask myself how much more does the Oklahoma City Board of Education require of a young man and his family to give. I think he gave full measure. Mr. English, we sure hate to see you go. We are going to have to work hard.

Dr. Hamm - Right now being the newest, most recent member of the Board, I want to take this occasion to express my sincere appreciation for this year of service with Mr. English. Our loss will be his family's gain, and if I know him, he is going to be a long-time friend of the school system and he will be consulted, I am sure, by people, and his impact will still be felt for years to come. I feel that I was privileged to have had this year to serve with him. On roll call the votes and comments were as follows: Dr. Start - I don't know but that I should explain this vote because I don't know of any better way to express my admiration for Mr. English and the years that be has spent on this Board but to vote no. I disagree with him; I tihderstand his reason for resigning but everybody thinks that Mr. English and I have always voted together, that we have had a block of the northside and everything, which isn't true. I think that Mr. English's reason for resigning is not good enough. I think he ought to finish out his term. That is the way the election process has been set up; that is the way the state law reads. I understand his reasons but I don't agree with them, and therefore, Mr. English, the thing I am going to say to you is no; stay on until the end. Mrs. Hill - I have never viewed Paul English as a quitter. He has been one that has stood in there and fought to the bitter end, and he stood up for what he really believedin and thought. I did enjoy the year I sat next to him because I noticed the way he organized and did things, and I think I probably learned more how to function and do my homework by sitting next to him. I, too, question his not staying, so I, too, am going to vote no.

Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried. A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mr. Donwerth for the appointment of Susan Hermes tQj fill the vacancy on the Board of Education resulting from the acceptance of the resignation of Paul English for the balance of his unexpired term of office. The term of such appointment shall end on the first Monday in June, 1980.

R. #149 Appointment of Board Member to Vacancy

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried and congratulated Mrs. Hermes on the appointment.

At this time, Mr. William Bleakley, Attorney, administered the Oath of Office to Mrs. Susan Hermes, (for the unexpired term of office). Following the Oath of Office taken by the newly appointed member of the Board, she was seated with thb Board.

Oath of Office

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R. #150 Election of Board Member to Fill Unexpired Term of President

Dr? Payzant, presiding, stated that the Board should first decide what kind of process to follow to select a president and advised the members of two different approaches that had been followed in the past. Mr. Donwerth President of end upon the on the first

then moved that Mrs. Potts be nominated to fill the unexpired term of the Board resulting from the resignation of Paul English, which term to election and qualification of the President of the Board of Education Monday in June, 1980.

Dr. Payzant, after inquiring of additional nominations and there being none, Mrs. Hill moved that the nominations cease and Mrs. Potts be elected by acclamation.

Mrs. Williams seconded the motion. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, abstained; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; and Mr. Donwerth, aye. Dr. Payzant declared Mrs. Potts duly elected President of the Board. R. #151 Motion to Not Have Other El ections

Mr. Donwerth - I have asked the question of Dr. Payzant tonight if we have to go any further with elections at this time since it is just the one month, and I don't feel it is necessary that we elect a vice president at this time, but the Taw states that we have to have a president. So I move that we have no further elections this evening.

The motion was seconded by Mrs. Williams. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

R. #152 Approval for Mr. English to Award Diplomas at Classen High School

It was moved by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mr. Donwerth that Mr. English award the diplomas at Classen High School, for the graduating class of 1980.

Mrs. William further stated: We are all aware of the fact that Melody English (daughter of Mr. English) will graduate this year from Classen High School. I know that it has been Mr. English's dream for years to hand Melody her diploma. In view, of his long service and that desire of a father, could this Board give approval for that? Mrs. Hill - Is there a problem with that? Dr. Payzant - I think the Board has designate a representative to award to go around to present diplomas at there are staff people, others that are not present.

the authority either directly or through me to the diplomas. There? aren't enough Board members all of the high schools anyway, so every year will present them at schools where Board members

Mrs. Potts inquired of the Attorney as to if there was a legal problem with the action. Mr. Bleakley advised that there was not?

On roll caJT,--the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

R. #153 Board Recessed to Executive Session 10:50 p.m.

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hill that the Board recess to executive session to discuss negotiations and personnel. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

R. #154 Board Returned to Open Session 12:30 a.m.

Having completed its executive session, it was moved by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hill that the Board return to open session. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm,'aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

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A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Dr. Hamm to approve the Superintendent's recommendation for the termination of Jane Finch from employment in Independent School District No. 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, on the grounds of willful neglect of duty pursuant to Title 70, Oklahoma Statutes, Section 103. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

R. #155 Motion for Termination of Jane Finch, A Teacher

ADJOURNMENT

A motion to adjourn was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

R. #156 Adjournment 12:33 a.m.

THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the Clerk's office.)

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA ) STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1980.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district this

Clerk, Oklahoma City Board'of Education

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THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY,

OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGUAR MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING,

j 900 'NORTH KLEIN, MONDAY, MAY 5, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M. | j i i { I | i I j

PRESENT:

Mrs. Pat Potts, President Floyd Donwerth, Member Delbert Hamm, Member Mrs. Susan Hermes, Member Mrs. Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member Mrs. Freddye Williams, Member

The meeting was called to order by Mrs. Potts and Dr. Hamm gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Mrs. Potts' welcorned all of the visitors present.

Visitors Welcomed

Roll call established that six of the seven Board members were present. entered the meeting at 7:15 p.m.

Dr. Start

Roll Call

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hill for approval of the minutes of April 23, 1980 as presented in the agenda. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

R. #157 Minutes Approved

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS

| Mrs. Hermes stated: I want to thank Ms. Jeannee Hamilton, Principal, and the Sequoyah children for inviting me to their flower and garden collection showing. I also want to thank Mr. Doy Burchel, Principal, for showing me around Rancho Village. It was the first time I had been to that school and I was very pleased to have been at the facility and to see how they handle our handicapped children, andklodktat'their art display which was very interesting.

Comments Mrs. Hermes

| Mrs. Hill stated: I, too, was able to attend the flower and art show at Sequoyah and was quite impressed with the number of parents that attended on a week night. I did receive in the mail a publication by the State Department, The Oklahoma Educator, May, 1980, which contained information aboutâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;the intramural program at Taft. So it was also a full page that they devoted to Taft and their intramural program. It was quite interesting "haw they have involved all of the sixth, seventh and eighth grades to come up with their final championships in the different things. I thought it was interesting that they are now really, truly involving all of the students.

ITEMS PENDING

Meeting of November 16, 1979 1.

Commission' to Improve Education Report

Meeting of April 28, 1980

Mandatory First Aid Inservice Program for School District Personnel

Board Committee Report 1980-81 Budget for Attorneys, Auditors, and Treasurer

Board Committee Report - Superintendent's Evaluation Format

Information for the Board

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LEGAL AND FINANCIAL REPORTS

\ttorney1 s Report

Mr. Bleakley reported: I

Judy Boswell Termination Matter have not yet received an appeal Board's decision to terminate.

- In the Judy Boswell termination matter, we of the hearing panel1s decision supporting the

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Jane Finch Termination - In the

matter of Jane Finch's termination, she has

appealed that action of the Board and we are in the process of selecting a hearing | judge to conduct the hearing.

Truitt Case - We received a peÂąjÂą?ton for a rehearing in the Truitt Case which we will provide copies to the Board and an evaluation of that. There has been a recent Supreme Court decision which they claim to be a basis for having that dismissal reheard by the Supreme Court.

AFT Appeal - In the AFT (American Federation of Teachers) appeal, we have filed a brief which we have provided you copies of, and at this time there has been no action by the Supreme Court on the various appeals.

L #158 Approval of attorney's Report

It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Williams for approval of the Attorney's report as presented. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

rreasurer's leport

Mr. Ladd gave a routine Treasurer's report. Clerk's office.)

(A copy of the report is on file in the

Mrs. Hill inquired: I noticed in some of our federal funds accounts, we still have quit^ a cash balance. Is it normal that we have this much near the end of the fiscal year? Mr. Ladd - We don't invest any of those funds. If we do invest them, we don't keep the earnings; we have to pass them on to the government.

Dr. Payzant - Normally, you will see an uneven pattern on federal funds because in many instances we have to request reimbursement based on actual expenditure patterns, and it is very difficult to get a fixed timeline for processing the reimbursement requests and receiving the dollars. So it generally is a very uneven pattern.

Mrs. Hermes - If at the end of a fiscal year the federal funds have not run out, what happens to that money? Dr. Payzant - It depends on the program. There are some programs where at the end of the year grant period, and it will vary from federal grant to federal grant, if the funds have not been expended, they have to be returned. If certain programs provide for carryover to the next fiscal year, then we take advantage and build in the carryover money for the program in the next fiscal year. Again, it varies from grant to grant on what we are allowed to do.

1. #159 Approval of freasurer's Report

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of the Treasurer's report as presented. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT Employee of the ton th

Dr. Payzant presented Mrs. Pat Watson, President, the Association of All School Personnel, who along with Dh. Sally Cole, Principal, Classen High School, gave preliminary remarks regarding Ms. Rachelle Stephens having been selected as Employee of the Month. A Certificate of Recognition was presented to Ms. Stephens on behalf of the Board of Education and the Association of All School Personnel.

Ms. Stephens responded.

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A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Hamm that the President of the Board and<the Superintendent be authorized to execute the necessary documents and submit applications for grants and programs as follows: 1.

Under Title IX, Part C, Career Opportunities for Women in Non-traditional Roles.

Under P. L. 95-561, ESEA, Consumer Education in Home Economics.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye, Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Start to direct the following person to attend a conference as indicated: At No Expense to the School District

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R. #160 President of Board and Superintendent Authorized to Execute Documents

R. #161 Professional Trip Approved

Cynthia J. Foote, Teacher, U. S. Grant, Close-Up Foundation, Washington, D. C., April 28 - May 2, 1980. Confirmation

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried. A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Start for scheduling of reception to recognize new and retiring Board members, June 2, 1980, 4:30 p.m. and Organizational Meeting of the Board, June 2, 1980, 6:30 p.m.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried. It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Williams to approve the Superintendent's recommendation for Oklahoma City Public Schools' membership in Oklahoma Commission for Future Education Leadership and authorization to pay $500 subscription fee.

Dr. Payzant stated: The State Superintendent of Public Instruction has appointed a Commission for Future Education Leadership in Oklahoma. This new commission has as its purpose the upgrading of training for superintendents of schools in Oklahoma and staff development activities for superintendents who are in the position of superintendency. This commission has the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;endorsement of the deans of the various colleges in education, the Oklahoma School Boards Association, and the school superintendents' group. It is in the process now of developing a proposal for an internship program to present to the Legislature for funding, and using the approach that has been used in the past for. the.Oklahoma Curriculum Improvement Commission, it is asking school districts to contribute a subscription fee based upon enrollment in the school district. The amount of the subscription fee would vary from $100 to $500 per year, depending on the district. For the large school districts such as Oklahoma City and Tulsa, the subcription would be $500. Dr. Start stated: With the 600 plus school districts, and if each district would give $100, that is $60,000, which is a pretty hefty nest egg for a commission. I am not going to object to voting $500 because I am essentially in support of this; however, if this is needed, I think that the state taxpayer ought to pay for this in appropriated funds and not ask for contributions from various school districts. Mrs. Potts - We have assumed some leadership in providing programs for internship for administrators in our schools and I think it has proven to be a very effective way of better preparing people for the job and also providing the district a better way of evaluating the performance of these interns before they are actually on the job. So I see a definite similarity and I am sure that is why we are asked to assume a leadership role in this.

Dr. Hamm - As I understand the format as presented, I think we will see later on in the agenda an item to be presented by Mr. Russell, how a large district can do some long-range planning and projection that a smaller school district would not be able to perform. If this commission would be a great assistance to smaller school districts and that they might receive greater benefit from it than perhaps our district; however, I am sure we will receive some benefits, but maybe not as much, I think it is a good i dea.

R. #162 Scheduling of Organizational Meeting and Board Reception

R. #163 Approval for Membership in Oklahoma Commission for Future Education Leadership

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Mrs. Hill - I, too, was disappointed in the subscription fee that they are asking us to pay, and I sort of agree with Dr. Start that a straight across-the-board fee would have been a bit more feasible.

Mrs. Williams - Is there any way that we can protest the fee or let it be known that we disagree with that fee? Why is it that they have to assess us more? Mrs. Potts - It was a sliding scale, as I recall.

It was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Hill for approval of Resolution of Appreciation for Grace Perkins, Retired Teacher, deceased April 12, 1980.

Discussion Authorization to Plan and Implement Preschool Progran at Edwards Fifth Year Center for 1980-81

Dr. Payzant - Several months ago the Board requested a report on the district's experience with the preschool programs. You recall that two preschools were established initially, one at Willard and one at West Nichols Hills. Subsequently, the preschool at Willard was closed because of lack of enrollment, and that was attributed in large part to our inability in the initial year to qualify for Title XX money so that parents who could take advantage of the preschool program could receive the federal Title XX money. The experience at West Nichols Hills has been a very positive one and the financial condition of that program is good at this time. When the Board heard the report, it asked that the staff proceed with planning for the location of another preschool program preferably on the Eastside. So you have before you this evening a recommendation that we go ahead and plan and implement a preschool program at Edwards Fifth Year Center. There is room available at that school and the cost of remodeling will be about $28,000 but not nearly as great as those costs would be at some schools where the condition of the facility was not conducive to the modifications required. *

Members of the Board inquired: Mr. Donwerth - When we implemented the program at Willard School, we felt that possibly we would have the enrollment and it would be necessary to keep it going. I am wondering now if we have evaluated the enrollment that we may have at Edwards to keep it going before we spend the $28,000. I understand that would be the lesser amount that we would spend at another school, but if we are not going to have the enrollment, which I am not sure that we won't have, it is well worth it. If not, I would rather spend more money on another school that we will have the enrollment in.

Dr. Payzant - We believe the key is the-Title XX eligibility, which was the main thing that we think hurt us at Willard. And based on all projections, and they certainly are projections, we think that there will be no difficulty getting a good complement of enrolleeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at'a program at Edwards, although I would not expect necessarily to have it at full complement this first summer. But I think during the regular school year, it will be. Without the Title XX eligibility, I would not make that statement.

Mrs. Hill - Will we ask for Title XX approval before we proceed? Since Edwards is a kindergarten and fifth year Center school only, then the students that might possibly be attracted there during the day, then they would be bused on to where the students from the Edwards neighborhood go? Isn't that one of the features of our preschool, that it keeps older kids during the day? Dr. Payzant - There is an extended day program for young people who want to stay after the end of the regular school day until their parents pick them up. So students from the Edwards neighborhood who are in an elementary school, grades 1-4, elsewhere in the city, presumably would be bused back to the Edwards area and dropped at Edwards if they were indeed enrolled in that extended day after-school program.

Mrs. Hill - I thought it would be to attract other people. Have we done a survey that there are 75 students there or is this to attract other people to our preschool there? Dr. Payzant - That is one of our goals, but as you point out, it would be a different circumstance in a fifth year center than a K-4 elementary school, but it would provide a service for parents and young children in that area of the community.

Mrs. Williams - That is the key. There are no such services in the northeast quadrant at all, because remember we do not just do custodial care, and this will be an answer to a need that has been so expressed. The Neighborhood Association in the area of Edwards School wanted to be here tonight and this is their meeting time. The president told me to express to the Board that they didn't want to talk but wanted their support expressed oh' this, and that they would guarantee parental support. But the key to

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the success is Title XX funding because of some things. I should call to your mind that it is a little different community from the Willard community, and it would draw from a lot of places. Of course, you expect the same opposition where there are certain areas of child care that do not give the instructional programs that we give.

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Mrs. Hill - In the $28,000 that you mentioned here, I believe the memo mentioned that you would have to move in two portables for classrooms.

Discussion Authorization to Plan and Implement Preschool Program at Edwards Fifth Year Center for 1980-81 cont'd

Dr. Lindley, Assistant Superintendent, Instruction Division, was asked to respond. Dr. Payzant - Taking another look since the memo was typed,-we believe that we may be I able to get by with one; is that correct? j Dr. Lindley - Yes, that is true. The Title I status of Edwards has been changed so | that there will no longer be a learning center which will mean that the room that was used for that can be used for a classroom. So we will only need one portable now.

Mrs. Hill - And that cost of the portable has been figured in the $28,000, because I understand that there is an expense in moving those? Dr. Payzant - That is not included in the $28,000, so the cost of moving the portable would be in addition to the $28,000.

Mrs. Hill - The equipment like the bathroom fixtures, is that still at Willard? Dr. Payzant - Some of it is and we plan to use that equipment that we have such as the serving trays that they used to take the food to the preschool rooms.

| Mrs. Hill - What about the carpet?

Is it not still there also?

Dr. Payzant - I am sure it is at Willard, but I am not sure that it can be taken up and moved. I really don't know about that. Sometimes the carpet is glued down. It is commercial carpet and I am not sure whether it can be moved, also whether it would fit.,I think is problematic.

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Mrs. Hill - I think my main concern was moving the portable for students. I just wonder how well our parents will accept something like that, or the community. Mrs. Williams - Sometime ago there was a fire at Edwards School, and instead of putting the roorti back that was destroyed, I questioned it and I am sure that our staff had thought of all the pros and cons, but they made a patio for those kids and then they locked the door to the patio. I just couldn't see a patio for that age level of kids, and Ihwas hoping that someday/ that room would be built back. Let's start with the now and trusting the fact that our staff and our superintendent will do the best they can for us. We need it; it isa service that is long overdue. Mr. Donwerth - I really believe by the virtue of the location of Edwards School and the Interstate 35, and the easy access on and off, it is an attractive location, and I | am sure it will be successful.

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Mrs. Potts - I was wondering about how long you figured it would take until we would have recouped the money that we will have invested to get this program started.

Dr. Payzant - I took a look at that today and the expenses that we are projecting for the first year, including the remodeling staff, food costs, equipment and materials and supplies come to about $113,000. To that would have to be added the cost of the movement of the portable. The projected income for 75 students for 38 weeks at $35 a week is $99,000. But there should be additional income from students who participate in the extended day program and it is hard to project what that might be. So I think it would be safe to say that conservatively our shortfall might be $12,000 to $15,000 the first year, and there is even the possibility if the extended day program goes well the first year, that we could break even.as early as that first year. But certainly by a few months into the second year, given what we expect,' there should be"a "full"' enrollment by the fall. , Mrs. Hill - How have we done at West Nichols Hills on recouping all of the money that we spent on that program? Dr. Lindley - As you know, the first year we didn't make money. This last report we did make a little money. It would take us some time to calculate that. We would have to get estimates on how much had been expended there and then project what we made this last period over a period of time.

I Mrs. Hill - I don't think we have really recouped all of the money. [

Dr. Lindley - No.

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Discussion Authorization to Plan and Implement Preschool Program at Edwards Fifth fear Center for 1980-81 cont'd

Mrs. Hill - And isn't that what Mrs. Potts was asking on this program here at Edwards? ,■

,Dr. Payzant - I think the difference is that we now have Title XX eligibility. Mrs, Hill - At West Nichols Hills, that wasn't that important.

Dr. Payzant - No, but we still didn't have full enrollment all the way along, and then you recall that we raised the fees at West Nichols Hills, and I think we have learned a great deal from our initial experiences with Willard and West Nichols Hills so that we will do a lot better on this round and be in a position to recoup our investment much sooner. It may take us another year or two to completely recoup our investment at West Nichols Hills.

Dr. Lindley - These are capital expenditures and it will take a little time to recoup them.

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Mrs. Hill - I thought Mrs. Potts was asking about how long it would take at Edwards, and I thought the answer was one year or a year and one-half. Dr. Payzant - I think that is quite possible.if we have a maximum enrollment of 75 children, and I think there is a good chance that we will get that. Mrs. Hermes - Will Title XX funds allow any child to go? on that money?

What are the stipulations

Mrs. Mary Dunkin, Early Childhood Consultant-Curriculum Services, responded that admittance was by income eligibility and need for the care.

Mrs. Hermes - Can we assume that we can get 100 percent enrollment? Dr. Payzant - Based on the information we have about the need in that general geographic area and the accessibility of this location as noted by Mr. Donwerth, we really think that we can.

Mrs. Hermes - Then, Mrs. Williams, can you get that Neighborhood Association to work as a liaison for tits and recruit? Mrs. Williams - I will try. I. #165 Authorization to ’lan and Implement ’reschool Program it Edwards Fifth 'ear Center for ;he 1980-81 School 'ear

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Start to approve the Superintendent's recommendation for authorization to plan and implement a preschool program at Edwards Fifth Year Center for the 1980-81 school year.

Mrs. Hill - Could we amend that to add "after the Title XX is approved?" this is important for this area.

Dr. Payzant - You have to do certain things to the building and make the application before Title XXapproval is given, the mystery to the application procedure and what has to be confident that_if we go ahead as suggested in this plan, we

I do think

and set up the program but we have now unraveled done. So we are quite will get that approval.

Mrs. Hill - And you truly feel there is no other building on the Eastside that has room for this that would not require portables? Mr. Donwerth - I think you would lose something though with your accessibility that you have. Mrs. Hill - But if it is only going to service after school the Edwards area___ .

Mr. Donwerth - Would it be that way or could you have the extended day care for the students that are brought in and then the parent pay for the extended time, the working mother that drops a child off and picks him up. Dr. Payzant - It could be that the extended program would be provided in large part for some of the preschool children that were there from that geographic area, and it might be that not that many of the children of elementary school age would actually be enrolled in the extended day program. It is not going to provide a service for a K-4 school geographic area because that doesn't exist as it does at West Nichols Hills, but it will provide a service for that general community. Dr. Lindley - We looked at all of the schools in the northeast quadrant. If we were to locate it in a two-story building, we would have to have a sprinkler system. That eliminated several of the buildings right there. Truman was the only other possibility and it is being considered for closing. It is not nearly as accessible, and we just didn't feel like that location and the building offered nearly as much as Edwards does.

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Mrs. Will jams - This pulls from Carverdale, from the Garden Oaks addition, all around, even as far as the Creston Hills area. Mrs4 Potts - Would not a student be able to transfer into that school for either kindergarten or fifth year center because of that program, so it could draw from a wider area also?

Dr. Payzant - Yes.

R. #165 Authorization to Plan and Implement Preschool Program at Edwards Fifth Year Center for the 1980-81 School Year cont'd

Dr. Hamm - I think that we are looking at this not as a tool for recruiting students in future years, but as a service that is needed in this particular area, this community, and that any spin-off that results from that, the possible attraction of students, and I think one of the greatest spin-offs will be the involvement of some of the patrons that live in that area in the school at an early age is going to benefit our district in the long run. I see that as a plus factor for us. Mrs. Williams - I would like to add my concurrence to that. We have had problems ever since only the fifth year is in the east quadrant. Just about the time the parents become acquainted with the school, their children are gone. That is why I had asked for 5-6 over there instead of just the fifth grade. So this gives the people a sense of something from their school again, because it is just a stopping place for kids.

Mrs. Potts - One other element that hasn't been mentioned that came up in our last Board meeting, too, was the fact of the new law affecting the age that students can enter kindergarten, and there may be quite a few parents who are still expecting their kids to be accepted in kindergarten, whereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;they cannot under the law. And we are going to be looking at not only being able to provide a service there for some parents, but maybe some of those students that we would otherwise lose can be in school. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye.

In voting, Dr. Hamm stated: Before I vote, I would like to suggest that we have a preschool north, east, and south is next.

Mrs. Potts added in voting, I would hope in the future we will be looking at this kind of a service for the Star Spencer area. I know it is much needed; however, we have a problem of having the space currently in any .pf the schools.

Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried. Dr. Payzant reported: 1.

Implementation of Homework Policy - The Board asked that I report on the experience this past year with the implementation of the homework policy. In your materials you have copies of reports that were submitted by some teachers7, principals, and school directors. I will attempt to summarize what comes across to me as a rather uneven message with mixed feelings about the effectiveness of the homework policy this first year. The comments range from very positive in that the homework policy has reinfoYced 'for a number of teachers and administrators what they have been trying to do over the years, and the expression of support that the policy has provided is positive to those persons so reporting. There are others who have found the homework policy somewhat frustrating because they have felt that it has not been very well received by some students and parents, and particularly at the high school level. In some instances, teachers are having difficulty competing with the work responsibilities that some students have in getting good follow-through on completion of the homework assignments. There was a handful of people who still raised concern about the availability of textbooks and adequate materials to fully implement the homework policy, and I am hopeful that we will remove that almost totally as a concern this coming year. My conclusion is that there have been more pluses than minuses; that there has been some uneven implementation of the policy across the district, and that the Board and the administration, and the teachers and parents will each year have to renew their commitment to the importance of the homework policy and seek to work together to see that it is fairly implemented as was intended when the Board adopted it last year.

Mrs. Potts - I am curious as to if there are any plans to share with other schools what was involved in the successful implementation of the program in some particular schools? Dr. Payzant - I will be asking the school directors to do that.

Mrs. Hill - I was wondering if we may find ways to improve upon our current policy, because there seemed to be a concern that some would like to make some suggestions for improvement.

Information to the Board - Dr. Payzant

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Information to the Board Dr. Payzant cont'd

1. Implementation of Homework Policy cont'd

Dr. Payzant - I would certainly be open, and I am sure you would be too, to specific <suggestions for ways to improve the policy or the regulations to go with it. That is always the case with any of our policies or regulations.

Budget Planning and Cutback Management - This next item is an item that I hope will generate some comment from the Board this evening. It is entitled Budget Planning and Cutback Management, and I am going to ask Mr. George Russell to summarize briefly a paper that he prepared for me and my staff to help us begin thinking about what I am sure will become an increasingly difficult challenge of learning how to do more with less as we face times of continuing rising expectations and resources that are short of what is required to make those expectations a reality. We present these idea papers not in the spirit of trying to make the Board or the staff uneasy about what is to come, but rather to attempt to begin some intelligent planning that will enable us to make some difficult decisions as we deal with our budget this year and in the years ahead. I feel that I have a responsibility as Superintendent, arid the Central Office staff has the responsibility to model the kind of behavior that we are asking others in the district to assume, and that if cuts need to be made, that we are going to have to start right here by example, so that our rhetoric does not sound empty to those who will also be affected by the cuts in other parts of the school district.

Dr. Payzant then asked George Russell, Director of Personnel Services, to briefly summarize the paper on Cutback Management. Mr. Russell stated: I am going to try to be very brief, because I think that much of what I would have to say has been expressed fri'.the article"fromâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;theâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;- Tulsa Public ' : Schools publication "ACCENT" in which Dr. Zenke has demonstrated at least their attempts to try to deal with this very sensitive subject area. Also, I hope that I have served to raise some of the issues, if not at least hopefully posed perhaps some of the solutions in the paper that I presented to Dr. Payzant and the staff; and then thirdly, of course, to supplement that, just one of the brief papers that was presented at the conference which I attended in San Francisco in which much of the subject area dealt with this whole issue of dealing with human resource utilization in a time of shrinking financial resources. So what I have tried to do in presenting these materials to you is to at least raise the issues so that we as a school district may at least be forward looking in terms of recognizing that we will be having to in the near future try to do hopefully more with less, if not try to do the same with less. These are the issues that we have tried to present by bringing this forth to you.

I do not see any particular need at this time to address all of the issues raised here, but first of all just to try to dramatize, hopefully without being an alarmis :, the fact that it is necessary to do some planning, and that human resources planning is as important, particularly in a public agency, as is budgetary planning , because our budget is primarily tied up in our human resources. Secondly, of course, we want to try to emphasize the need for more cost effective, more cost efficiency--analysis when we look at either filling positions, creating positions, and looking at how we are utilizing those positions that we currently have in our school district. Lastly, of course, we are trying to suggest in a small way what may be some strategies that we may look at in the future to try to make our human resources match our fiscal resources.

Dr. Payzant continued: You will note from the paper that there are really two techniques that are commonly practiced in looking at cutbacks. One approach is based on the argument that if cutbacks are to occur, they ought to occur eyejfby for al 1, and therefore you try to cut various programs and departments and sections of the budget by some fixed percentage. The second approach is not to do that at all, but look at total programs and decide that certain programs have higher priorities than others, and rather than to put a dent in every program a little bit, make the tough decision of cutting back some altogether so that the full resources required to run the remaining programs at a quality level are available. The former approach, as is pointed out in the paper, is often politically more expedient and easier for people to accept, because everybody is hurting a little. Over the long haul in terms of what goals the school district has, probably the latter approach makes a lot more sense, because you continue the level of support and funding to provide quality services for those programs that you continue to run. What I will be doing in the next couple of weeks as we finalize a proposed budget for you is really looking at the human resources side of the budget. I have already slowed down the hiring process in that certain administrator vacancies that exist have not been posted until we take a hard look at them, and whether through combination or elimination, or reorganizirig responsibilities, there can be some savings made in some administrative positions, and I will be doing this throughout the budget planning process over the next several weeks. The results of these efforts could be controversial to the extent that it may mean that certain positions would be cut or combined. My approach throughout will be to work with attrition so that it is not

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Dr, Payzant cont'd necessary to put any people out of jobs. That will be the goal that I will have throughout, not only this year but the years that follow. But it is quite possible that it may be necessary to reassign some people to other positions. I realize that this is all by way of background, but if you have comments, suggestions, concerns, warnings about going too fast or too slow in certain areas, I would really appreciate your comments. Dr. Hamm - As I read this paper, a theme kept coming through to me, and that is that finally we are facing management accountability, that this is a very realistic approach and I got the impression that had we been realistic as a district in past years, we would not have had to have been looking at this in such a drastic way as perhaps we may have to look at it; it could have been phased in easier. It seems to me to be a very humane program and that there is a feeling for people in this, as well as being fair. But I do have one area of concern, and that is when Mr. Russell is explaining in the paper about the recommendations, he talks about the principals, the workdays per year for the building administrators, and then he makes suggestions and recommendations regarding the central administration. I detected a little bit of very deliberate preset conditions for the building administrators; by that I mean setting forth very deliberately their days of work per year. Then when we get to the central administration they were not treated in the same deliberate manner; that they would be phased in gradually at the central administration level. Perhaps I am in error or perhaps there is no better way to do it, or perhaps I haven't made myself clear.

Dr. Payzant - First of all, ho final plans have been made about how this would specifically work. What Mr. Russell was suggesting are some possible approaches that could be used. I believe very strongly that whatever is done has got to start with us, and by that I mean Tom Payzant and the areas that het works directly with and controls administratively, the Personnel Office and other offices down here. It may well be that the positions that are remaining in central administration need to be 12-month positions by virtue of the nature of the responsibility, but I think there needs to be fewer overall administrative positions at Central Office. That is one of the goals that I have is to cut back our level of Central Office administrative positions. So it is with that spirit that we are going in, although it may well turn out that building administrative positions will^end up for the most part being less than 12 months where those Central Office positions or a number of them will remain as 12 months. Mr. Russell - The reason, perhaps, that it appears that way is because it was more clear in doing the research for this, that we are one of the few school districts in the region and in terms of large school districts in general where we still have building administrators who work primarily a 260-day contract, 12-month contract. That was one of the reasons why, because it was just a comparison factor in terms of looking at what other school districts are doing. The comment where it said Central Office administrative and staff positions should be assessed to determineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;if they need to be 12-month contract positions was only a further elaboration of that, because the intent that I was trying to say was that it may very well be that there are positions in the Central'Office, whether they may be administrative or staff support positions, which because of the very nature of their job need not necessarily be 12-month, because they are more closely aligned to what happens in the school on a day-to-day basis than they are with some of the things that may be necessarily occurring down here through the summer months. So it was definitely not by intent or design that that perception came forth.

Mrs. Williams - That was a tremendous report, I do know that retrenchment is going to be a very real way of life. I wish to commend the Superintendent and staff when they say that the retrenchment will begin at the head of the stream and not just in the tributaries. Dr. Payzant - I am really appreciative of that, and one of the reasons I am presenting it this evening is that remember when it starts to happen your phones are going to start to ring, and whatever individual office or department or individual might be affected, the pressures.are going to build and it is going to be somewhat controversial. But if you understand that the overall task is to do some cutting back, then it becomes a question of where.

Dr. Hamm - As long as we are specific and maintain the posture as Mr. Russell stated in his paper what our number oneJ priority is, the education of the children, I think we will be realistic and it will be easier for each of us as a Board member to defend that position. Mr. Russell - You will note that in terms of the first recommendation that I indicated that we should be looking at nqninstructional positions, that it should be those positions that we are considering in terms of looking at retrenchment, and that those positions that contribute directly to the educational program should be the last ones considered in terms of any type of elimination, consolidation, retrenchment or whatsoever.

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Information to the Board cont1 d

Mrs. Hill - I guess our goal is still to get our class size down to 18, according to our long-range plan. Is this the goal that we are striving for?

<Dr. Payzant - It will be a goal that will be a long time in being reached, given the resources that are out there. In terms of the preliminary staffing for next year's budget, we are using the same staff-student ratios that we have this year with one exception. The first relief and further reduction in class size will be at the middle school level this coming year, because the middle school has not had some of the same benefits that the elementary and the high schools have had in the last several years. So we are going to try to make a little improvement at the middle school level this year, with the high school and elementary being about the same. Mrs. Williams - I want to add that I do appreciate having been given a copy of ACCENT from the Tulsa Public Schools, and I wish everybody could read that, simply because remember Tulsa operates on a larger budget than we do, and this is quite comprehensive. I should like to also say in passing that as a federal employee, I have periodically gone through and been involved in certain retrenchments, but out of it always came something good and better, and that was a bitter pill to swallow.

PERSONNEL REPORT

R. #166 Personnel Approved

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start that the persons listed in the Personnel Report be employed and that contracts with the teachers listed on the form be approved and executed in the name of the District by the Superintendent or person by him designated; also, that other personnel recommendations and information listed be approved.

(Personnel listings - pages 273 - 285.)

PAYROLLS, ENCUMBRANCES, GENERAL BUSINESS AND PURCHASING R. #167 Approval of Payrolls and Encumbrances

A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams to approve Recommendation #1 and #2 (ratification of April payrolls and authorization of May payrolls) and payment of encumbrances as listed for April 22 - May 5, 1980.

R. #168 Approval of General Business, Purchasing, ! s Buildings and Construction

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Hamm to approve the following items:

General Business

Annual Contract for Refuse Collection Approval of an annual contract to the low bidder, American Disposal, for refuse collection-service July 1 , 1980 through June 30, 1981. This service to be at the rate of $5890 per month. This contract is to be charged to Account G 660.04.

Purchasing 1.

Copy Machines and Accessories Purchase of copy machine and accessories for use at Central Innovative High School from R. K. Black, Inc., which submitted the low quotation on specifications in the amount of $1,995.00 to be charged to Account G 1230.03.

Physical Education Equipment

Purchase of physical education equipment (folding mats, gym scooters, and cage balls) for use at all elementary schools from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: Coast Marketing Group Sportmaster

Total

4,274.25 2,862.40

7,136.65

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

G 1230.03 G 240.01

Total

4,274.25 2,862.40

7,136.65

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Purchasing cont'd Floor Wax

3. 4

Purchase of floor wax for use by Custodial Services from Capital Paper Company which submitted the low quotation on specifications. This purchase in the amount of $32,520.00 is to be charged to Account G 650.01. Library Supplies Purchase of library supplies (book ends, guides, files, jacket covers, book cards, book pockets, tape, etc.) for use by Supply and Distribution Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

Thompson Book &.Supply Company Demco, Inc. S-K Supply Brodart, Inc. Standard Stationary Supply Company Fordham Equipment Publishing Company Gaylord Brothers, Inc

Total

1,501.00 1,054.50 443.75 1,192.40 93.60 172.50 1,142.00

5,599.75

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.00.

School Report Permission to purchase 45,000 copies of 24-page "School Report" printed on newsprint as per sample with camera ready art to be furnished two-color throughout to be delivered approximately May 17, 1980 for the Graphics Department from Conceptual Graphics which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $4,123.00 to be charged to Account G 130.16.

Buildings and Construction 1.

Acceptance of Low Bid for Replacement and/or Renovation of Hot Water and Boiler Systems

Acceptance of low bid plus alternate one, three, four, and five, and the awarding of a contract to R & M Mechanical Contractors, Inc., for replacement and/or renovation of the hot water and boiler systems at Douglass, Eisenhower, Grant, Marshall, Northwest, and Taft, and for the conversion of the air handling equipment for heating systems (total outside air to return air capability) at Columbus, Edg'emere, Eugene Field, Hawthorne, Lee, Lincoln, Linwood, Putnam Heights, Riverside Shields Heights, Westwood, Wheeler, and Willard Schools. The contract in the amount of $396,100 ($339,900 base plus $56,200 alternates) is to be charged to Bond Fund Account B-1410. 2.

Acceptance of Low Bid for Replacement of Water Piping System

Acceptance-of low bid and the awarding of a contract to Streets, Inc., for replacement of a water piping system at Classen, Harding, and Jackson. This contract in the amount of $229,700 is to be charged to EJpnd Fund Account B-1412.

Acceptance of Low Bid for Renovation of Heating Systems Acceptance of low the renovation of Douglass, Monroe, $296,300 is to be

bid and heating Prairie charged

the awarding of a contract to Air Engineering, Inc., for systems at Arcadia, Buchanan, Coolidge, Creston Hills, Queen, and Sequoyah. This contract in the amount of to Bond Fund Account B-1410.

Acceptance of Low Bid for Electrical Modernization Projects

Acceptance of low bid and the awarding of a contract to Smith-Weir Electric Company for electrical modernization projects at Sequoyah, Davis, and Nichols Hills Schools. .This contract in the amount of $320,859 is to be charged to Bond Fund Account B-1402. 5.

Acceptance of Low Bid for Parking. Artea Repairs

Acceptance of low bid and the awarding of a contract to Travelers Construction Company for parking area repairs at Capitol Hill High, Emerson, Marshall, Classen, Dunbar, Horace Mann, King, Star, Nichols Hills, Truman, Eugene Field, Creston Hills, Northwest, Arcadia, Stand Watie, Polk, Buchanan, Webster, McKinley, Western Village, Eisenhower Schools and the Administration Building. This contract in the amount of $180,051.86 is to be charged to Bond Fund Account B-1414.

R. #168 Approval of General Business, Purchasing, Buildings and Construction cont'd

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R. #168 Approval of General Business, Purchasing, Buildings and Construction cont'd

Information to the Board Central Food Service Statement

Buildings and Construction cont'd

Acceptance of Low Bid for Roof Repairs

Acceptance of low bid and the awarding of a contract to C & S Roofing Company for roof repairs at Jackson, Adams, Southeast, Polk, and Putnam Heights Schools. This contract in the amount of $116,659 is to be charged to Bond Fund Account B-1411. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried. The Central Food Service Department Financial Statement as of March 31, 1980 was submitted as informtion to the Board.

HEARINGS The following persons addressed the Board:

Ann Phelps

David Walters

Frank LeForce

Gayle Edwards

Diana Gerred

Chris George

Ms. Phelps asked that the Board consider the need for more counseling in the high schools, that counselors be assigned less paperwork.

Mr. Walters made an appeal -to the Board to remove Putnam Heights from the list of schools being considered for closing. Mr. LeForce, too, spoke in support of Putnam Heights School and alternatives to be considered to help keep it open.

Ms. Edwards' remarks were in regard to Mayfair School being considered for closing and a request that it be allowed to remain open. Ms. Gerred asked that the program for handicapped children be extended to more than the three hours per week that are being proviided. Mr. George, too, requested that the special program for the handicapped children be extended because of the need for trained professionals to meet the minimal training needs for these perSdnsc,

Dr. Payzant commented: I did ask the various staff members who have reviewed this program and Irave worked with the home intervention program to prepare a brief statement for the Board, which it did not receive until this evening. So Board members probably haven't had a great deal of time to go through it in detail. I think it probably is fair to say that the issue that is before everyone is whether the services now being provided through the home intervention program are adequate for the children of the parents who have spoken tonight and maybe some others who haven't. And I think that those of you who have spoken this evening have said that you feel that the home intervention program is not sufficient. The judgment of others, including the State Department officials who indicate that in terms of meeting the requirements of providing an appropriate education for these children under 94-142, that the home intervention program does meet that standard. For the information of the Board and others, I think it should be said that the federal law requires us to provide services for children ages 3 to 21, but the state law in Oklahoma requires provision from birth to 21. What is always at issue is what is an appropriate education arid how far is a local school district obligated to go in providing services. The other issue that is very clear is the availability of funding to do what you have requested, and in reviewing the matter with people in the Special Education Department, I can say to our board that we are looking for funding.. The several sources that were suggested to us by the parents as models for this kind of program that we have checked out have not proven to open up new doors of funding for us; however^ we will continue to explore the possibility of starting a small in-school program that certain children could benefit from. But that type of program will very much depend upon the availability of funding. If we were to implement the program that they have suggested in their proposal and provide all of the staff for the various teams, both the teams that would be involved in evaluation and diagnosis of the children's needs as well as those who would provide the educational program for meeting them, as full-time members of a team, we would be talking about a $500,000 to $600,000 program, with the staff, the transportation and facilities that would be required. That kind of money is just nowhere in the picture. So in brief

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response, we will continue to try to find ways to perhaps begin on a small scale some kind of an in-school program if we can identify the funds and work out the various logistics. But that in no way would begin to come near to the full-fledged kind of services that you have suggested in the proposal that you presented back in February. Mr. George inquired as to how the program was being funded in Austin, Texas where the services for the handicapped children have been extended.

Dr. Payzant responded: I think those of you who have been knowledgeable, and obviously some of you have because you know what is going on in other areas, that a major issue being addressed across this land in a number of states is whether or not school districts have the obligation to provide a 12-month program for handicapped children. And it is not in most places an issue of whether it would be desirable. I think most educators and parents would agree that it would be if it were possible. But as with all things for normal or for handicapped children, we have to put our first priority for resources with the regular school year program. I can't see here and tell you that we are doing as much yet as we should be for handicapped or normal children in the regular school year program, and therefore my position is that we should not put money into summer programs until we have fully met needs for the regular school year program. So, in part, I have told the special education people that. I have told our regular school staff that, and they may have interpreted that to you as, no, that is not a real possibility. And if that is the case, I am responsible for that because that is the position that I have taken on the summer program piece. On the other part, I think we have an obligation to keep looking to find ways to try to improve what we are now doing. I have no idea from the data we have that we are talking about the number of children that Mr. George has suggested. We are now serving 27 in the home intervention program, and we have about 14 children of that 27 who are receiving additional services to the three-hour home visit by the instructor during the week. That would be in physical therapy or speech therapy, that kind of service. We are waiting on recommendations or reports from physicians to provide those services for an additional seven children. We can't go ahead and provide those services of extra speech therapy or physical therapy without the clearance and the go-ahead from the physicians. So we are trying to go beyond that three-hour intervention with the additional special services for those that have been requested through physicians, and we will look at the possibility of starting an in-school program. We will check out every source that you give us as possible models, both for funding and doing it. We would welcome that information if it is given to us. The ones that we have checked out in Tulsa and the Arkansas suggestion have not proved to be helpful in solving our problem here.

Mr. George indicated that he was aware that the special program for the handicapped was being funded in Arkansas with federal funds arid would be willing to secure documentation of the program being in existence. | I

Mrs. Potts responded to Mr. George, by stating: Why don't we go ahead and let you sit down with our staff and explore these possibilities and share your information with them, and then they can report back to us later on. I think you have made a good case for the need for additional help, and if there is any way that we can provide, we sure want to. Mrs. Hill - I would be interested in our pursuing this, since Tulsa and some others have some special funding for a summer program. I would like to know more about that also.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS Motion made by Mr. Donwerth and Seconded by Mrs. Hill for consideration at the May 5, 1980 meeting of the Board:

"I move that the identical Option 2 regarding payment for unused sick leave that we adopted for teachers be extended to the other certified personnel in the district in the same amounts." Dr. Payzant commented: I have some new information that may be helpful to the Board. Mr. Russell and I have been meeting with the salary committee of the building principals association, and this issue was addressed by our group at our meeting at the end of last week. The building administrators would like to have this sick leave option extended to them. Although, as I stated when the motion was first made, I don't believe that this is as appropriate for administrators as it is for teachers, and that I would recommend using the money for a different kind of fringe, I respect the request arid the view of the building administrators group, so I will support their request to you to extend that benefit. However, the Central office administrators that I have talked to, and I don't want to give you the impression,with a representativi group of central office administrators, because there has not been, but my sense is that the central office administrators feel differently, and do not feel that this is a benefit that they would like, that they would have the money that they would receive from this kind of benefit go into a different kind of fringe as part of their compensation package for 1980-81. So my recommendation would be that you differentiate

R. #169 Approval of Motion as Amended Re Payment for Unused Sick Leave to Other Certified Personnel

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between the not include entitled to package for

building administrators if you decide to extend the benefit for them, and the central office administrators, but recognize that they would be a benefit of similar value in another fringe area with their compensation 1980-81.

Mrs. Potts inquired: What you are saying then is that you would recommend that this motion be amended to specify building administrators?

Dr. Payzant- Yes, and that the central office administrators receive as part of their 1980-81 compensation package the same dollar value in another fringe. Mr. Donwerth - If central office administrators feel that they would rather have this expenditure in a different way, I certainly have no objections to an amendment to my motion to consider it that way.

MOTION AMENDED Mr. Donwerth continued: If it is permissible for me to amend my own motion, I would amend it that the central office administrators be eliminated from the motion, and that we proceed along the lines of Dr. Payzant's suggestion.

Mrs. Hill- Actually, you could just delete the "certified personnel" and insert "building administrators." Mrs. Potts - If that is agreeable with both the maker of the motion and the seconder, then it would be accepted as such with the understanding that we would be extending a commensurate compensation package to our central office administrators this summer as part of our negotiations. If we have agreement on this, is there any other discussion regarding the motion as it would be amended? There being none, Mrs. Potts called for the vote.

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MOTION AS AMENDED:

"I move that the identical Option 2 regarding payment for unused sick leave that we adopted for teachers be extended to the building administrators in the district in the same amounts (with the understanding that we would be extending a commensurate compensation package to our central office administrators this summer as part of our negotiations)." On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that themotion carried as amended.

R. #170 Motion to Instruct Attorneys to File Request for Declaratory Judgment Failed

Motion made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mr. Donwerth for consideration at the May 5, 1980 meeting of the Board: "I move that the Board instruct our attorneys to file in the Federal District Court a request for a declaratory judgment prohibiting the Office for Civil Rights'-supervision of the racial balance in our unitary school district."

Dr. Start - Before any action is taken on this motion, I think it would be appropriate to have some cost estimate of what this might cost the district, and,secondly, what are the chances for success. Mr. Bleakley responded: I previously provided you with a legal opinion on the scope | of the OCR's (Office for Civil Rights') jurisdiction over the school district on these matters. That remains our opinion, that there is no jurisdiction of the OCR to dictate or direct to the school district any plan of reassignment of students. To go into Federal Court, the appropriate lawsuit would be an action for a declaratory judgment. One of the prequisite of bringing an action for a declaratory judgment is the existence of a controversy of some sort, and I think that would be the greatest weakness of any suit at this point and time, is that we would probably get jurisdiction of the Federal Court on the basis that there is no controversy. Simply stated, the Federal Courts will not answer philosophical questions unless there is an actual controversy between the parties. In our particular situation, the Board has recently approved a reassignment plan that I would assume will meet the pleasure of the OCR in terms of its requirements. They have not told us to adopt that particular plan and we have not refused to follow any course of action that the OCR has given us. So we are kind of in a situation now where we really do not have a controversy going on because we did approve a plan, and we did so on the Board's own volition, and we have not been told to do otherwise by OCR. So we are in a state of which a Federal Court is probably going to say that no controversy exists. So that would be my greatest concern; that we would probably have the case dismissed on that basis if it were filed. It is not one hundred percent certainty that the case would be dismissed, because we do have a letter from OCR stating their position, but we are not in a situation of controversy with them on that letter. With respect to the cost, we have done a substantial amount of legal research, so we could adequately prepare a petition

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Mr. Bleakley cont'd at probably minimal cost. The other side would come in with a motion to dismiss probably on the basis of no jurisdiction. I am assuming that Mr. Walker will represent the party litigant that probably existed in the previous litigation on integration of the district. I am not sure whether he would step in to defend the situation or there might be a new party to deal with the issue. There is the possibility in terms of cost that if the other side prevails, that they would be entitled to attorneys' fees themselves as well as your cost in paying our attorneys' fees. I would imagine that a petition could be filed to challenge the question of jurisdiction probably in the range of probably not more than $1,000. If they file a motion to dismiss, we are going to have to do some legal research on the basis of what is an issue of controversy and do the facts of this case constitute one, which might require some additional research in the filing of the brief.

Dr. Start - I am appreciative of the legal position in this matter; however, I would disagree that no controversy exists. In my opinion, a tremendous controversy exists, it has existed for some time, and it seems to me that we could present to the District Court ample evidence of OCR (Office for Civil Rights) in the past. We want it stopped. I would like to take a little preventive medicine; let's get the Court to determine whether or not every time we have some imbalance develop in our system, that we have to sit around and be intimidated and threatened by what OCR is going to do to us in regard to our federal funds. I, for one, don't want to continue to be under that kind of a gun to my head, and I don't think this Board ought to either. I think there is ample evidence that a controversy exists and there is ample evidence of OCR interferenc in the affairs in this unitary school district, and I think it is worth $1,000. We have had people come to this podium in the last month telling us to fight. That is what I want to do, but I don't want to fight in the heat of emotionalism. Now is the time to do it. If they won't accept jurisdiction, as far as I am concerned, there is nowhere else to go. I would be quite willing to tell the judge in the court that he is chicken,by not wanting to face this issue; he wants to have a controversy before we try to solve problems. Why don't we solve the problems before confrontation occurs.

Mrs. Williams - I should like to call our attention to the fact that we have voted a plan. I should alsolike to say that we stand in danger here of some things. If it were an established fact that this Board as so constituted would long and permanently endure, the motion might not have much danger. Who knows how long we will have every member of this Board here, and I would hate to trust the future of our unitary school system to the whims of Board members yet to come. We know our commitment toward an integrated system. I think it would be disruptive and would destroy a certain level of confidence that we have striven so hard to build. We have 'bit the bullet'. I think that preventive medicine might turn out to have a type of allergic reaction. I want to call your attention to the fact that that we voted last time had within it a measure of stability, and this is what we want for our system. I wish to call your attention to the fact that we paid John Walker, his fees alone, some $250,000 plus; plus what we paid our own attorneys in the litigation for the Dowell case. We had a retainer of $17,000 a year and yet every time there was a piece of paper filed there were a few more hundred and thousands of dollars involved. So the costs were astronomical and exorbitant., I should also like to call your attention to the fact that in accordance with the Civil Rights Act, unless we have monitorship, we stand to lose 'under Title VI all of our federal monies. I think the motion is ill-timed. We cannot afford the risk. Let us move on with the positives; then if the negatives become necessary, we will accentuate the positives and eliminate the negatives. So I am going to vote against the motion and I am asking you to do the same. I appreciate Dr. Start's willingness to give us something whereby we can say self-government, but that to a point has built-in dangers that I don't think we can risk. I know this Board, but all the members of this Board are not going to be with us forever, and you are going to leave the barn door open. Mr. Donwerth - I will agree with you that the timing is wrong. I think that we should have requested this declaratory judgment before we made the decision to reassign all of these students. I agree with Dr. Start that atâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;this time it is better to go ahead and get a declaratory judgment. We do have the monitoring of OCR; we realize that. What we are saying now is let's wait until they reject or modify what we have just completed. We have a unitary school system and we are saying what we did at the last meeting by reassignment of these children made us at that time totally integrated and something with stability that we could look forward to. But how far can we look forward to it when Dr. Finger devised the plan that he did and Judge Bohanon said that all the reassignments that we made seven or eight years ago would lend this stability to the system? But we have the ever-changing populations of areas and the integration of the areas that we have now that really I feel like we are going to be busing kids that should be in their neighborhood schools. I would like some type of declaratory judgment from the courts, if they will give it to us. As our attorney said, they probably will tell us we have no cause. That is my reason for saying we waited a 1ittl< late for getting it done. We should have asked for this declaratory judgment before we did the reassignments. I am confident that we are going to have these ever-changing populations and needs for reassignments brought to us and I think that we should get some kind of an opinion now.

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R. #170 Mrs. Williams - If you do this, you risk all of your federal funding. Two years ago we Motion to Instruct had a Band-Aid type of reassignment thing and it was a temporary measure voted because Attorneys to a long-range comprehensive plan with subdistricting involved looned. Therefore, it File Request for .was not comprehensive enough. Tf we place' this plan into effect, it was stated that Declaratory this will have semblance of permanency for approximately five years. Now we want to Judgment Failed come in and spend $3,000 to $4,000 in attorney fees to begin with; the timing isn't cont'd right. Let's get on with the show.and stop disrupting. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 requires a monitorship, which means all federal funds will be monitored. Delete from our budget all of our federal funds and then see what we get.

Mrs. Potts - I have real concerns that we all agree that local authority is an important issue here. I think we established that we were the local authorities and that we could act responsively when we made our decision a few weeks ago regarding assignment of students. I would urge the Board to think twice before they pursue this litigation, and my major reason is because I feel that we do not have an issue. We have already established what we believe is our responsibility as local elected officials. If we do in this coming year or in future years have an issue where we believe we are right and OCR comes in and says you are wrong, I think that is the time to take it to the courts and I would be more than ready to do it. I think that is really the issue. Let's choose our battles carefully and wisely. Mrs. Hermes - I asked my husband, who is an attorney, and he told me that first of all this would cost an awful lot of money to this district; it would take a lot of time, and there is going to be an appeal, you can guarantee it, and that, again, is going to take maybe as much as two years. Mr. Bleakley, you can correct me if I am wrong. After Mr. Russell's talk to us about cutting back and watching the purse strings, it just seems to me that we might be remiss to be putting a lot of money into something which in the long run might put us right back where we are. I would hate to see us fall into another lawsuit. I am not sure that if we got out from under this, that we are going to have neighborhood schools. If we have neighborhood schools again, we are probably going to be faced with another lawsuit because of the Supreme Court ruling on integrating schools. Mrs. Hill suggested that Dr. Payzant comment on the motion.

Dr. Payzant - My position has been right along that the matter of OCR's jurisdiction and the court requirements of us are separate at this point from what we as an administration or you as a board feel has to be done in order to reach the goals of this school district. That is why I argued very seriously that you address :the student reassignment plan separately. I am very much aware of the strong beliefs that various people have about the rightness or wrongness of what has occurred over the last ten or twelve years, and that in some instances there is great frustration. On a matter of principle, I think it is very reasonable to clarify what jurisdiction OCR has and what the school district has. The question really is at what cost, and I am not just talking about dollar cost. My fear is that now that we have gotten by the student reassignment plan, I think we can implement it smoothly; that by going into court we may raise all kinds of false expectations among people out there that somehow the result of all of this is going to be that busing will go away and we will return to the neighborhood schools. I really don't think that will happen, and somewhere in all of this, the principle of the matter, which I think is what Dr. Start is after, will get lost in the shuffle and the by-proddct will be some continuing unrest and argument from people tfiat the situation really isn't as stable as we have'told them that it coulc be. So, weighing the desire on the one hand to clarify a matter of principle against what the practical impact may be, I come out on the pragmatic side on this one in my judgment saying that I think there is more to lose right now in terms of keeping everybody off guard and upset and unsettled than there is to be gained by going ahead with the request for the declaratory judgment. Mrs. Hill - We did send to OCR our reassignment plan. to have to wait for their approval or disapproval?

Are we saying that we are going

Dr. Payzant - I am going ahead with implementation, and if OCR were to come back and say we don't approve the plan, then you would quite possibly see me changing my view in recommending that we go ahead and get the matter of principle clarified. Mrs. Hill - In other words, if OCR should come back and say we don't approve, then that would be an ideal time to go to court to have us declared a unitary system?

Dr.- Payzant - Yes, I think not only would the matter of principle be enjoined, but7al so the specific controversy, a difference of opinion that Mr. Bleakley has said really needs to exist would be present. Dr. Start - I must confess to you, my colleagues on the Board, my very strong belief that the Constitution of the United States does not allow the federal government to be involved in education, period. I wish somebody would test that. Our Constitution says the education of children in this country is the responsibility of the states. Why anybody hasn't challenged that, I will never know. I must admit that is behind this. I don't believe the federal govenment has one bit of business in dealing with our children's education.

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On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, nay; Mrs. Hermes, nay; Mrs. Williams, nay; Dr. Hamm, nay; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mrs. Potts, nay. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion failed.

A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the Board support the Superintendent's recommendation for denial of Mrs. Ann Phelps' request for her daughter to participate in the 1980 graduation exercises at Capitol Hill High School. Mr. Donwerth - I feel that the State Department of Education would not stand up and tell us what their law is.. They put it back in the laps of the Oklahoma City School District to make this decision when it is their ruling. I think that they slighted their duties by not making that decision themselves, by implying that we had the authority to break this law.

R. #170 Motion to Instruct Attorneys to File Request for Declaratory Judgment Failed cont'd

R. #171 Request for Student to Participate in Graduation Exercises Denied

Mrs. Potts - As I understand, you are talking about the number of credits required for graduation.

Mr. Donwerth - That is correct, and the State Department of Education should have made that decision without passing it back to us and telling us we could do whatever we wanted to do.

It was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Dr. Hamm that the request from parents to alter the timeline for a decision on the future of Putnam Heights School be denied.

Dr. Start continued: The data presented to us is extremely convincing. I am most impressed by the information that has been presented to us and the professionalism in which that information has been presented to us,bLFtI believe in being fair to everybody in the district. If we take the Putnam Heights situation and deal with that as an isolated case without dealing with the whole package, I don't think we are being fair to everybody else. Even though right now it would not take me very long to vote what I think is right as far as Putnam Heights is concerned, but I think I owe it to the other children and other patrons in this district to look at the other II schools.and what kind of thing they are going toâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;putrdut. I think this a kind of thing that we ought to do all together. As the Superintendent suggested, if the rest of the councils hurry up the timeline, I think the Board can certainly reconsider all of the other schools earlier if that is possible. I don't think it is the fair and right thing to do to consider one out of the group, arid that is the reason why I moved to deny the request. I

Mr. Donwerth - Contrary to Dr. Start's statement, I feel that the Putnam Heights parents and the coalition presented to us a very strong argument against the reasons that we found for closing the school. I think that they presented to us a complete and united effort for all of the patrons of that area. I feel that probably to defeat Dr. Start's motion now would be an incentive to the other schools to come in with the same type of presentation, and quite frankly do a lot of the work that we would have to do ourselves. I would like to see us uphold the request of the parents of Putnam Heights and grant them some satisfaction at least in knowing what is going to happen to their school, and what is the end to all of their efforts that they have presented to us with this complete package. Mrs. Hill - Of all the 12 schools that were placed on the list to be looked at, how many fell under the guideline of the renovation of their building?

Dr. Payzant - I believe that this was the only school that had just the facility criteria.

Mrs. Hi 11 - So, therefore, I think they are a little bit unique in their plan that they were presenting to the Board. I do know that in these communities it is placing them in sort of a limbo as they are working on this. I know that the patrons of Putnam Heights had further plans to improve their school, and that will delay all of that for another year because the parents are not about to spend some more money if their schoolis placed on this list. I do think they have come to us with an outstanding plan here. We have for the last two weeks gone in and spent money to improve the building. If we are spending that kind of money to improve the building, it doesn't make sense to me to place them on a list for closure. The idea that we have got to upgrade our property because we might want to rent it; if it is not safe and secure for students, I don't see how it would be safe and secure for us to rent out to somebody else. So I reailTy would like to see, since they were the only school in this certain category, that"we dohalter the timeline for their school.

R. #172 Request to Alter the Timeline for a Decision on Future of Putnam Heights School Denied

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Dr. Hamm - I would like to explain my vote before I cast it, and that is that voting for this motion is no way voting for closing a school. In fact, I think that the patrons from Putnam Heights have felt a very consensus of opinion among the Board members, a very favorable consensus of opinion, but that now is not the time to go on record to do that. In fairness to everyone, that should be done in conjunction with consideration of all of the schools. Mrs. Potts - If we would have other schools that might be on this list that would have some unique feature about them that would make them also different from the other schools, what kind of situation would we have then with reference to any such other schools and the timeline that we had planned for consideration with all of them?

Dr. Payzant - My position is, as correctly stated by Dr. Start, that if all of the planning councils should present their reports, for example, by the early part of the summer or either by the end of the summer, I would have no problem recommending to the Board that the entire timeline for a decision be moved up. I think that if you alter the timeline for Putnam Heights that you can expect as each planning council completes its report, to hear a presentation and to hear arguments urging you to consider that school at the time that itsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;planning council reads its report. That is what is at issue. Again, I agree with Board members who have spoken, that the presentation that has been made is an'impressive one and that the arguments and data supporting the position are persuasive at this point. Mrs. Hermes - It seems to me that as a Board we are supposed to be doing what is best for our kids, and what is best for our kids can be reflected by how our parents feel about where their children are. I think that as the schools come up, either they are going to meet the criteria or they are not going to meet the criteria, and whether they come up singly or as a package, I just don't see how this Board can change their view. They either do or they don't meet the stipulations. It is my view that if a neighborhood has become so solid and has put together a package that proves that they shouldn't be on the list in the first place, then it is our duty to take them off the list.

Mrs. Hill - This question has been asked of me by some other planning councils. When they finish their study, as Putnam Heights has done, are they to present lit tbetlhe Boar d or are they to present it to the Superintendent?

Dr. Payzant - The original plan as set forth by the Board was for all the planning council reports to come into me and they would be shared in their entirety with the Board, but then the Board would look to me and to the staff for some analyses of the 12 reports and recommendations concerning any closures or retention of facilities among the 12, and that it was to presented as a package. That was the way the original procedure was set forth. Mrs. Hill - But I think they were wanting to present their plan to the Board because the Board would be making the final decision.

Dr. Payzant - My understanding was that you expected me and the staff, although you might agree or disagree with our final recommendations, at least to review the planning council reports and come to you with our thoughts in the matter. Mrs. Hill - I have to agree with what Mrs. Hermes said; they have met the enrollment; they have met the cost, and they have now met the renovation, and I really think that we need to seriously consider them tonight.

Mrs. Potts - I wonder if we should be looking at consideration of an alternative motion that we adjust our timeline that we had agreed to earlier. Mrs. Hill - Hopefully, that will come in, but I don't think that would be fair to adjust it.

Mrs. Potts - Approval of this request would certainly be making an exception to the policy and to the timeline that we had agreed on earlier.

Mr. Donwerth - By virtue of the reason that this school was being considered for closing at all, and being unique in that position because of the cost involved, and because the Putnam Heights parents in the neighborhood have presented us with the plan that would take them out of consideration, I believe it would be unique that we could adjust the timeline on this one and approve not closing the school. In addition, it would be an incentive to the other groups to start getting their materials together, start working on their neighborhoods to get more people to mdve in; if they have parents who have their children in private schools, to get them back into the public school system and raise the enrollment. I think it would be an incentive to these other schools to work harder. I feel that there could be a lot of good that could come out of it.

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to call attention to the fact that these were nothing was going to transpire, was it, until equation when you chip it off bit by bit. To to commend the parents on !the scholarly report

earmarkings of 1981. It is reiterate what that they

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presented. They did jump a hurdle by coming straight to the Board instead of to the staff, and I can understand that; and some more are hoping to jump all of the hurdles too. But I think that we can really keep faith with all parents by keeping the plan as adopted by this Board, and knowing that you have done your work, I think maybe you can just sit by and smell victory. Right now I think would be a dangerous thing.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, nay; Mrs. Hermes, nay; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, nay; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

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R. #172 Request to Alter the Timeline for a Decision on Future of Putnam Heights School Denied cont'd

Mr. Donwerth - I hope that the closeness of the vote being defeated would be at least encouraging to the patrons of Putnam Heights School that there is a possibility that they can save that school.

Mrs. Potts - I think we all agree that it was an outstanding presentation and we were really not voting on the consolidation of the school at this point; we were just voting on a policy that was previously set up as a procedure.

Announcement Mrs. Williams stated as an announcement: For years now it has been a pet project of Mrs. Williams mine and some more people to have the Calvary Baptist Church at Northeast Second and Walnut Street designated as a historical preservation site. Calvary Baptist Church was the only auditorium that people of color had in Oklahoma City. I graduated from Douglass High School on the stage of Calvary Baptist Church; we did not have adequate facilities. Roland Hayes sang at Calvary Baptist Church; he couldn't sing west of Broadway. Mary Anderson's first concert in Oklahoma City was at Calvary Baptist Church. And only when we got Douglass High School at Northeast Sixth and High, which is now Page-Woodson, did we have an auditorium that would accommodate a graduation. I was notified today by Ward Seven Councilman Ben Tipton, victory at long last, after maybe about seven years, Calvary Baptist Church will receive the historical designation plaque Monday, May 12, at 2:00 p.m. and you are invited to share this with us. Mrs. Hill - I did receive a legislative bulletin from Bob Mooneyham. I don't know how Comment it affects Senate Bill 280 where the teachers are transferring sick leave from district Mrs. Hill to district.

Mr. Jack Isch, Administrative Assistant, responded: We have stated our position on Senate Bill 280 and our position has been to oppose that. We try to keep in touch with otir representatives and they do have in writing our position on that particular bill. <

ADJOURNMENT

A motion to adjourn was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Hamm. On roll call, the R. #173 votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, Adjournment________ . aye; Dr. Hamm, ay.e; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carYied.' THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the Clerk's office.)

President STATE OF OKLAHOMA

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I, the undersigned Clerk of the Board of Education of Independent School District Number 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours before the meeting, the date, time and place of the Regular Meeting was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. I also certify that at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, notice of the date, time, place and agenda of this meeting was posted in'permanent public view at the location of the meeting.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district this

Clerk, Oklahoma Xity~Board of Education

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PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Terminations Abbott, Virginia

Abercrombie, Juanita Adams, Patricia Adwon, Adam

Allen, Ellen Andres. Suite Bassler, Vivian

Boettcher, Susan Booth, Judy Bradford, Toni

Bruton, Maurice Busey, Woodrow

Cantmill, Dorothy Cochrane, Louise l

Taft Social Studies

5-30-80

Star Spencer Science

5-30-80

Harrison Primary

5-30-80

Webster Social Studies

5-30-80

Classen Journalism

5-30-80

Hawthorne

Intermediate

5-30-80

Shields Heights Learning Center

5-30-80

Horace Mann Reading

3-21-80

Moon Home Economics

5-30-80

Marshall Math

5-30-80

Harthorne Learning Center

5-30-80

Roosevelt Social Studies

5-30-80

Johnson Primary

5-30-80

Telstar Primary

5-30-80

1 EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Conkapv.

Mp I rwlv

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Crnwp. Marv Dahlquist, Janice Diikp. Meta — ,r r— ........ 1<Mrr«3

Dnnnn

freeman,

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Garrett. T.ucv

Columbus Primarv

5-30-80

Eugene Field Intermedl ate

5-30-80

Douglass Tpnrninp Center

4-14-80

King EH/LD

Shields Heights Primary

Davis

Northwest

Buchanan Reading

5-30-80

Rancho Primarv

5-30-80

Sequoyah Primarv

5-30-80

Marshall Math

5-30-80

Davis Intermediate

3-21-80

Southeast Art

4-18-80

Central Human Relations

4-15-80

Cater. .Tulip

Tporpp. Grace

rZrornrr. Gnvl n

Harris, John

Hester, Daniel

4-11-80 5-27-80

5-30-80 5-30-80

1 - EU^LD - Educable Handicapped/Learning Disabilities

1 1

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Personnel cont'd -

... .... EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

. .. .

APPROVED EXP.

....................... ......................

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

s’

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Terminations High, Rainey Roehner, Teresa

Holland, Michael Holt, Donna Hudak, Georg An

Hunt, Cynthia Ingram, Pamela

Labor, Mildred

Lackey, Rose Levy, Lottie

Lohman, Kerry Losey, Jana

Mankins, Donna

McAvoy, Theresa

Star Primary

5-10-80

Rogers Math

5-30-80

Northeast Science

5-30-80

Hillcrest Primary

5-30-80

Spencer Primary

5-30-80

Rancho Multi-Handicapped

5-30-80

Davis Primary

5-30-80

Eisenhower In-House

5-30-80

Britton Primary

5-30-80

Creston Hills Intermediate

5-30-80

Arthur Intermediate

5-30-80

Special Services Speech Pathologist

5-30-80

Telstar Primary

5-30-80

Special Services Speech Pathologist

5-29-80

•

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations

McGahey, Sharon Montgomery, Norma

Newton, Claudia

Olson, Fon Pahlke, Charolet

Pennington, Dovie Porter, .Tim

^uanstrom, Christy

Reeves, Margaret Reynolds, Lea Scott, Patricia Shockey, Renee

Simpson, Juanita >mith, Brenda

la 4a Id

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Columbus Primary

5-30-80

Ross Intermediate

...5.-30t 8Q

Children's Hospital Special Education

5-30-80

Northwest Language Arts

5-30-80

Green Pastures Special Education

5-30-80

Shidler EH/LD

•

5-30-80

Southeast Science

3-21-80

Wilson Primary

3-05-80

Dunbar Special Education

4-11-80

Northeast Journalism

5-30-80

Capitol Hill Middle Librarian

6-12-80

Capitol Hill High Language Arts

5-30-80

Roosevelt Media Specialist

6-13-80

Adams Learning Center

5-30-80

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â&#x20AC;&#x2122;ersonnel cont'd

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Leaves of Absence Farental Leave

Keating, Libby

Carver Physical Education

5-30-80

Malloy, Malinda

Dunbar Special Education

2-27-80

Thele, Betty

Columbus Intermediate

5-30-80

Adams, Senora

Prairie Queen Intermediate

5-30-80

Bollman, Jeanette

Stand Watie LD

Professional Leave

5-30-80

Ill Health Stand Watie Primary

Burr, Carol

5-30-80

1 - LD - Learning Disabilities

i 1 ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROFESSTCMAT. OTHER

Employments

Terminations Carruthers. Claude

Dppro. Jackie

Jones t Melton

External Funding Family School Corr.

3-31-80

External Funding Indian Ed. Dev.

3-18-80

Foster Estes

Foster Estes Sheet Metal Inst.

Monthly

Z-29-gO

5-07-80

Additional Allocations

$ 535.

3-17-80-

External Funding Indian Ed. Developer

Deere, Jacquelyn

535.

3-06-80

External Funding JMifln_MUDevq.ioper

Khodabakhsh, Kathy

535.

3-14-80

Externa] Funding Indian Ed. Developer

...... -0

^-02-80

External Funding iDdianJSdj-Dsyslecex.

Clark, Newton

Packhorse, Ralph

211

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PERSONNEL 5

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

TECHNICAL

Terminations Id DeGraffenreid, Mark_____

la JjMideXLL-Aueuslina.

Graphics Audio Tech. II

4-07-80

Graphics Cony Center Tech.

4-04-80

Computer Services

.Keypunch Operator.

3=28=80.

RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD Substitute Teachers

Abercrombie, Ella Faye

Physical Ed./Health/Biology

Dean, Donna

Special Education

Domer, Judy C.

Elementary

Duke, Alice A..

Elementary

Harris, Blossom'

Psychology

Hines, Sherri R.

Elementary

Qetlah, Anubis

Physical Ed./Health

Ritchie, Charles

Social Science

Waters, Sharon W.

English

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

CLERICAL

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

Terminations la

Northeast Attendance Clerk

3-31-80

Hayes Secretary

3-17-80

Southeast Secretary

3-17-80

Putnam Heights Learning Ctr. Aide

3-19-80

Accounting Services Bookkeeper/Clerk

4-04-80

Accounting Services Bookkeeper/C lerk

3-31-80

Capitol Hill High Registrar

4-30-80

Eugene Field Secretary

3-17-80

Marshall Attendance Clerk

4-04-80

Guidance Services Secretary III

4-15-80

Star Spencer

Southeast Library Clerk

Beard, Wanda Bruce, Anita Daniel, Lois

El H s. Dana

i ;

Gowin, Marcella Hardin, Marla

Hpnslpv. Billie

la __ Mason^JAary_______________

West Nichols Hills

la JIcGuichePjJagdaJ^.na_____

Moon Tearning Ctr. Aide

3-31-80 4-11-80

3-14-80

3-07-80

278

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ASSIGNMENT

NAME

____________

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

4-02-80

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL

McDonald, Rebecca Ur

Quang Kim

Reynolds, Rose

Robinson, Becki Shanks, Nadine Smith, Betty

Stevenson, Patricia

Tadefa, Maria Tinffler. Rita

Titus. Barbara Tomlinson, Elra Weston, Brenda White, Essie

Columbus Kindergarten Aide

2-29-80

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

3-21-80

Harding Principal's

4-18-80

Belle Isle Principal's Secv.

4-04-80

Northeast Instructional Secy.

3-17-80

Hawthorne Learning Ctr. Aide

3-21-80

Johnson Aide I

4-01-80

Lee Attendance Clerk

4-01-80

Edwards Learning Ctr. Aide

4-01-80

Linwood Media Aide

6-06-R0

Edwards Media Aide

3-17-80

Hoover Instructional Aide

3-14-80

Jackson Learning Ctr. Aide

4-07-80

Employments

Monthly

Lusk, Rita

$ 535.

Columbus Kindergarten Aide

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL

-Terminations

Employments

Monthly

Crawford, Bobby

Dixon, Renee

$ 635.

4-01-80

Accounting Services RnnlfVnonor /HI orV

Tucker, Rebecca

Ford, Margueritte

545.

3 31 8O

Northwest At.f.pndnnro PlorV

Southerland, Carla

Hines, Sondra

540.

3-14-80

Weston, Brenda

LaMondue, Norma

535.

3-18-80

Hoover Instructional Aide

Arinwine, Kim

Mulkin, Roberta

345.

4-07-80

Northeast P.T. Counselor’s Aide

Baker, Francine

Pendleton, Barbara

535.

3 31 8o

Goff, Patti

Sells, Sherry

570.

3-10-80

Funderburgh, Gloria

Smith, Anna

540.

3-20-80

Southeast Attendance Clerk

Templeton, Christine

Stewart. Sherrie

■ 570.

4-14-SO

Curriculum Ci mill n hi nn F.lork

535.

2-05-80

Columbus Instructional Aide

Central

pmAnt.nrv CIpt Ic

Rancho

Aide For Ifandi mimed

Supply

TTT

Additional Allocation McDonald, Rebecca

279

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L...

Personnel cont'd ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

4 CLERICAL

Leaves of Absence Ill Health

Cottrell, Sandy

Vocational Education Secretary V

4-09-80

Helper

1-10-80

Helper

2-29-80

Helper

2-29-80

Helper

2-29-80

Helper

3-21-80

Helper

2-29-80

Helper

2-29-80

Helper

3-05-80

Helper

3-13-80

FOOD SERVICE

Terminations Dean, Connie

Carter, Willie Castillo, Rosa Coker, Gladys

Colbert, Roberta

Conder, Dora

Cook, Mary Cooksey, Juanita Crabtree, Peggy

le Id

la le la

la Id

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE Terminations

Daugherty, Hazel

Davis, Loretta Emery, Marsha

Fields, Fayne

Fuller, Regina

Gardenhire, Janna Hall, Dorene Hall, Michael Hall, Shirley

Hammons, Juanelda Harding, Hazel Henderson. Bettv

llev. Ruth

Ioerger, Surakanya

la le la le le

la le

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Helper

2-29-80

Helper

2-29-80

Helper

3-14-80

Helper

3-14-80

Heiner

2-29-80

Helper

2-29-80 -

Helper

3-14-80

Helper

2-29-80

Helper

3-14-80

Heiner

2-29-80

Helper

2-29-80

Heiner

2-29-80

Heiner

3-21-80

Helper

2-29-80

â&#x20AC;¢

280

______________ _____ ____

MEETING OF MAY 5, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

•4 FOOD SERVICE

terminations

Jackson. Eva Johnson, Mary

Jones. Queen

Cendrick. .Tnhnit.a (irklin, Lucille

jebhardt, Deborah jister, Carrie

(aeon, Earlie

farshall, Emma

tar tin, Nancy

Jason, Theressa

JcCoy, Mary IcDonald, Beverly lelton, Penny

le le

la le le lb

la la

la le

Heiner

2-29-80

HelDer

2-29-80

HelDer

2-29-80

Helper

2-29-80

Helper

3-14-80

Helper

3-13-80

Helper

3-14-80

Helper

2-29-80

Helper

2-29-80

Truck Driver

2-29-80

Helper

2-29-80

Helper

2-29-80

Helper

3-14-80

Helper

2-29-80

i i . i

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

FOOD SERVICE Terminations

Milow, John

Moore, Bettie

Murray, Rita Austin, Ora Mealy, Armetha lelson, Madelyn

folen, Irene

Jliver, Corell

’ackhorse, Valorie ’url, Sheila

lomero, Maria landers, Danny >ims, Marie

■mith, Judy

la le la

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Helper

2-29-80

Helper

.3-14-80

Helper

3-07-80

Helper

2-29-80

Helper

3-14-80

Helper

3-14-80

Helper

2-29-80

Helper

3-15-80

Helper

3-14-80

Helper

3-14-80

Helper

3-21-80

Helper

2-29-80

HelDer

2-29-80

Helper

2-29-80

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

281

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Personnel cont'd J-

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE

Terminations 4f

Stevenson, Michael

Swanegan, Zeffie

Walker, Cornelia

Wagnon, Marion

Webb, Sherry

Williams. Gail

Younp. Cleevester Youngblood, Kathryn

Helper

3-13-80

Helper

3-14-80

Helper

3-14-80

Helper

2-29-80

Helper

3-14-80

Helper

3-14-80

Heiner

3-14-80

Helper

2-29-80

Employments

Hourly

Bailey, Wilma

$ 3.15

3-31-80

X Helper

Batiste, Theresa

3.15

3-31-80

Helper

Bean, Connie

3.15

3-03-80

Helper

Berry, Sandra

3.15

3-31-80

Helper

Brock, Miriam

3-15

4-04-80

Helper

J NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED Exr.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE

Employments

Hourly

Cole, Bonnie

$ 3.15

4-14-80

Helper

Connelly, Pauline

3.15

3-31-80

Helper

Dodson, Jackie

3.15

3-21-80

Helper

Johnson, Aaron

3.15

3-19-80

Helper

Keesee, Wanda

3.25

4-07-80

Cook

Seay. Jovce

3.15

3-04-80

Heiner

Self, Evelyn

3.15

3-13-80

Helper

Tanner, Willie

3.15

3-19-80

Helper

Taylor, William

3.15

3-10-80

Helper

Waller, Ida

3.15

3-13-80

Helper

Watson, Raama

3.15

4-01-80

Helper

Webb, Sherry

3.15

3-12-80

Helper

282

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’ersonnel cont'd EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

■(■VvV ’inn DijitV cvwTnTr J.vL

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IL.nT + h tieaiLn

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net bin ,y j i

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2-19-80

3-20-80

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Employments

tenniiid. ujl ui i

3 lSnauieit

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vOIlclLIlUIi

IWnrphntlflP WnrkPT*

4-04-80

Ferguson, Michael

lu vHUi

Leaves ui

au ocu

-Monthly.__

$ 615.

4-15-80

Warehouse Worker

i arenviij. Leave

Film Tn«r»or»f.m*

Culwell> Kimberly

4-01-80

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

TRANSPORTATION Terminations Anglin, Marc Ballard, Bobbie

Boldt, Cynthia

Dyer, Alvan Garrett, Delma Hayes, Monretta

Henderson. Roosevelt Ladd, Art

Stevenson, Arthur Taylor, Charles

Tliaggard, Zerita

Townsend, Pascel Walker. Lillie White, Johnny

la lb

la Id 4f Id 4f

Id Id

4f 4f 4f

Bus Driver

4-01-80

Bus Driver

2-18-80

Bus Driver

3-21-80

Bus Driver

2-26-80

Bus Driver

4-04-80

Bus Driver

-.2-18-80...

Bus Driver

-4=11-rfiQ

Bus Driver

3-31-80

Bus Driver

3-31-80

Bus Driver

3-07-80

Bus Driver

4-04-80

Bus Driver

4-08-80

Bus Driver

3-11-Ro

Bus Driver

3-14-80

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Personnel cont1d ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

a s s ignm e nt

TRANSPORTATION

Terminations

Employments

Monthly

Burch, John

$395.

4-08-80

Bus Driver

Hamilton, Steve

395.

4-11-80

Bus Driver

Johnson, Johnny

197.50

4-14-80

P.T. Bus Driver

Johnson, Michael

395.

4-14-80

Bus Driver

Philips, Beth

395.

4-17-80

Bus Driver

Rutledge, Charlie

205.

' 2

White, Johnny

197.50

Kelley, Ray

Allen. Marvin

Robinson, Reggie

Boyett, Roger

4-08-80 TxUusjJciw:

3-31-80

Bus Driver

715.

...4.-10-80

.Serviceman

990.

3-10-80

il 5 ! i I i i

Mechanic

Deceased

Bus Driver

Martin■ Orion

3-29-80

1 NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

•

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Terminations Adams, Janies

Anderson. Charles

Benson, Thomas Butler, James

Dinkins. Alexander Famodimu, Oluslegun

Foster, Curtis

Gabriel, Larry Galloway, Michael Green, Gano

Hankins.

Herrin, William

Huckleberry, Billy

Monthly

Heronville Custodial Worker

3-10-80

Bodine 'Custodial Worker

3-26-80

Rancho Custodial Worker

3-28-80

Kumapayl, Ademola

$ 605.

Administration Bldg. Custodial Worker

3-07-80

Gallowav. Michael

605.

Willow Brook Custodian

3-13-80

Northwest Custodial Worker

4-10-80

Kirksey, Samuel

605.

4-14-80

Northwest, Custodial Worker

Southeast Custodial Worker

4-01-80

Herrin, William

605.

4-07-80

Southeast Custodial Worker

Hoover Assistant Custodian

3-21-80

Administration Bldg. Custodial Worker

4-02-80

Bodine Custodial Worker

3-07-80

Anderson. Charles

605.

3-20-80

Bodine Custodial Worker

Service Center Cnatortfal Worker

4-09-80

Wheeler Custodial Worker

4-03-80

Southeast Custodial Worker

4-07-80

Central Custodial Worker

Josp d Md p

Henson, Russell

Employments

4-10-80

Rancho Custodial Worker Administration Bldg. Custodial Worker

3-14-80

Ligons. Arnetha Daniels, Naomi

605. 605.

0 0

4-10-80

Southeast Custodial Worker

3-31-80

Central Custodial W'orker

i '■

1 1 ;

284

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Personnel cont'd ■

1 *"

1,1

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

■

__________ J_ ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Terminations

Bnployments

Monthly

Ekuri, Mba

$ 605.

4-09-80

Marshall Custodial Worker

605.

4-11-80

Shidler Custodial Worker

Essien, Isang

605.

4-14-80

Riverside Custodial Worker

Cuong, Nguyen

Colbert, Mack

605.

3-17-80

Northwest Custodial Worker

Thompson, James

Coffman, Maxine

840.

4-14-80

Capitol Hill Middle Head Custodian

Gessel, Benjamin

Parton, Vernon

605.

3-17-80

Foster Estes Custodial Worker

Hunter, Elijah

Jimah, Lawai Johnson, Evelyn

McKenzie, Gerald Oluwole, Ferdinand Privett, Ronald

Smith, Earon

Snow, Robert

Washington, James Wilkerson, Hazel

Hayes Custodial Worker

3-17-80

lb'

All Schools Custodial Worker

3-11-80

Marshall Custodial Worker

4-01-80

Willow Brook Custodian

3-17-80

Edgemere Custodial Worker

3-17-80

Shidler Custodial Worker

4-10-80

Hillcrest Custodial Worker

4-01-80

Riverside Custodial Worker

4-03-80

Grant Custodial Worker

4-15-80

Rogers Custodial Worker

3-07-80

Akanno, Okechukwu

PERSONNEL EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Transfers

Rmployments

Monthly

Ingram, Barbara

Buckner, Lloyd

$ 605.

3-24-80

Marshall Custodial Worker

Mitchell» James

Caldwell, Herman

605.

3-19-80

Northwest Custodial Worker

Bell, James

Giwa, Kayode

605.

4-09-80

North Highland Custodial Worker

Kirk, Esther

795.

4-09-80

Fillmore Custodian

McClendon, Lawrence

Milton, Dennis

640.

3-10-80

Service Center Custodial Worker

Hawkins, John

Simms, George

625.

3-14-80

Wheeler Custodial Worker

Tucker. Lawanda

Walker, Darrell

605.

4-11-80

Adult Education

Harrison

•?PO-8O

Fmpl ovmfints-Siibsti tutes

Hourly

Menefee, Larry

$ 3.15

4-09-80

Hillcrest Custodial Worker

3.15

4-03-80

Hayes Custodial Worker__

Townsend, Shirley

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Personnel cont'd NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE Terminations-Trainees

Employments-Trainees

Hourly

Taft, Mark

$ 2,90

Employments

Monthly $ 605.

4-10-80

Knight, Gary

Perry, Josephine

Trainee

3-14-80

4-11-80

Trainee

4-02-80

Harding Custodial Worker

3-13-80

Washington Custodial Worker

Leaves of Absence

Parental Leave Seay, Tommie

Harding Custodial Worker

4-08-80

Wilson, Shulah

Washington Custodial Worker

3-03-80

Davis, Kenneth

Ill Health

Martin, John NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CAMPUS POLICE

Transfers

Employments

Monthly

Foran, Glen

Bonnie, Archie

$ 835

Driver, John

Small, Sue

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

MAINTENANCE Terminations

Baker, Homer Branam, Steve Gordon, John

la la

Sheet Metal

4-15-80

Plasterer

4-04-80

Energy Coordinator

Landscape.

.3-17-80

Plumber

3-17-80

Freeman, Robert

Machinist

4-03-80

Wischerath, Gene

Painter

4-02-80

Patrolman

3-17-80

Lawrence, Harvey

Peck, Marvin

Leaves of Absence Ill Health

CAMPUS TOLICE Termination Osban, J.W.

610.

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

3-17-80

Campus Officer

3-10-80

Stationary Officer

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

j 3 , 1 ;

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF MAY 19, 1980

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY,

OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR ADJOURNED MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M.

PRESENT:

Mrs. Pat Potts, President Delbert Hamm, Member Mrs. Susan Hermes, Member Mrs. Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member Mrs. Freddye Williams, Member

ABSENT:

Floyd Donwerth, Member

The meeting was called to order by Mrs. Potts and Dr. Hamm gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Mrs. Potts welcomed all of the visitors present.

Visitors Welcomed

Roll call established that six of the seven Board members were present.

Roll Call

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of the minutes of April 28 and May 5, 1980 as presented. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

R. #174 Minutes Approved

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS

Mrs. Hill stated: I think we need to offer our commendations to Dr. Loyce Willett and our fifth year centers for their "Fitness - '80" that they had at Taft Stadium several weeks ago. It, as usual, was a very outstanding program. I am always impressed when that many fifth graders can come together and leave the place without a scrap of paper anywhere. I also would like to thank some of the staff at Lincoln Fifth Year Center for including me in one of their trips. I even rode the bus, and I did enjoy the bus ride even though it was about an hour Tate in arriving. The kids thought we would never get to Stars and Stripes Park, but we did make it. We did do the arts plays and the downtown area. I enjoyed it and I appreciated being included. I also would like to thank Dr. Payzant and his staff for working on the special education legislation that I did ask for, and the memo that was in the packet this weekend. Maybe we can get a program for our handicapped students during the summer. It was nice to receive a letter mentioning our Southeast students and their prom. It is always n-ice to receive letters about how well our students do behave,in those instances.

Comments Mrs. Hill

Mrs. Hermes - This past week I went out to Page-Woodson that houses our alternative avenues program for our dropouts. I was very pleased at seeing 15 students who had been down on school performing together, singing together, dancing together and putting on a program which will be presented at that school later this week. I was also out to Belle Isle today. I would like to thank Ms. Magers and Dr. Holodick for showing me around their school and showing me the various business courses that are available to our high school students.

Comments Mrs. Hermes

Mrs. Williams - I suppose this year I am going to be famous for the ones I didn't make. Getting around has been quite a chore. I did go to the Capitol Hill Field House to hear the Stringed Festival of the fifth year centers. It was terrific. Also, a very nostalgic affair Saturday night Mrs. Hill and I attended was what was called "The End of an Era" \for Mrs. Sarah Hardimon's group. It was a tremendous banquet and it was a celebration of 12 years of service to this district, and as the main speaker said, they saw a need and they filled it, and this is very well a tribute to celebrate their work. Of course, we know their work is ending as of the 1st of June, but I feel that perhaps some other things can be done.

Comments Mrs. Williams

Comments Dr. Hamm - I think if a person remains silent long enough, that someone else will Dr. Hamm speak their thoughts for them, dnd I found this to be the case this evening, because Mrs. Hill mentioned one of the things that I was particularly impressed with, the letter that the Superintendent received from the business that hosted the Southeast junior-senior prom; one paragraph in particular, "it was truly a pleasure hosting their function; the students were exceptionally well behaved and the faculty was most accommodating." It is good to get reports like this concerning our students.

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COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS cont'd

Comments Dr. Hamm cont'd

Comments Mrs. Potts

Dr. Hamm cont'd One of the young men who was quoted in an article in The Oklahoman regarding theâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; memories of their career in high school made a very meaningful statement when he said that the thing that he was going to treasure the most was the experience of attending a racially integrated high school, that he felt that this was a plus for his education. That young man happened to be a very good friend of mine, so I felt doubly rewarded.

Mrs. Potts - Our school district has a School Environment Commission, and it has worked in a variety of endeavors to encourage our young people to take pride in what is happening in their schools and in the environment around their schools. One of the projects sponsored this spring by that group was a junior gardener's exhibit, | and this was as part of the National Council of State Garden Clubs that met here in * the city this last week. There were 18 schools that had some 92 entries in this. | I thought I would report, not going into detail as to the individual winners, but mentioning the schools. Rancho Village won in two categories; Western Village in one; Sequoyah in another; Stonegate, Dewey, and Madison in different categories. The most blue ribbons overall were won by Western Village; perhaps by coincidence the principal , Odette Scobey, has been chairman of the School Environment Commission. I think it was a lot of hard work on the part of her staff and her students. That was a point of pride. The individual winners in these schools will be recognized in the Oklahoma City Beautiful meeting coming up. Mrs. Potts continued:

Report - Committee to Review and Make Recommendation to the Board Re Contracts for Audi to rs, Attorney 5, and Treasurer

I want to report on the committee assignment to make recommendations regarding the fees for the auditors, attorneys, and treasurer for this coming year. In meeting with our attorneys, the committee that was composed of Dr. Start, Mrs. Hill, and myself considered the possibility of having a retainer, which would mean a set fee for the attorneys, with a charge above that amount for litigation, as an alternative to the current schedule that we have whereby there is a different type of fee for different types of services provided by our attorney firm, from courtroom appearances down to the use that they make of legal interns. In considering these alternatives, we found that it looked like it would end up costing the district more money and that there would be less accountability if we were to move to a retainer basis. Part of that was because the current process, as-other Board members I am sure are aware, does provide for a full record of the assignments and the work of our law firm. We are hoping to cut down on the demands of the law firm. Our administrative staff is working on that and I think it is notable that over half of the fees were strikerelated. So we had very positive feelings that this next year there will not be this particular demand or drain on this fund.

We visited with our treasurer and with our auditors, and they are willing to continue on their current fee basis. So with our attorneys saying they, too, are willing to continue with no increase in charges, the committee's recommendation then is a continuance on this fee basis for all three - the treasurer, the auditors, and the attorneys for this coming year. We may want to take a look next year at a retainer basis again when we have a more normal year to look at, to evaluate whether it has good potential, but at this time the committee felt it was not well advised. So that is the recommendation of this committee.

R. #175 Acceptance of Commi ttee's Repo rt

A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams for acceptance of the committee's report as presented by Mrs. Potts. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

Attorney's Report

Mr. Bleakley reported:

Termination of Judy Boswell - In the matter of the termination of Judy Boswell, Ms. Boswell has appealed the reversed decision of the hearing panel to the District Court. I assumed that will be heard by Judge Meyers. We are in the process of preparing responsive pleadings to their petition in error, which will be filed in the near future.

Termination of Jane Finch - In the matter of the termination of Jane Finch, a hearing judge has been selected. It is an attorney from Stillwater, Oklahoma named Lynn Osborn. The hearing is tentatively set for May 28 at 2 p.m. in the Board Conference Room. Ms. Finch contacted me today and indicated that she was not satisfied with the time of day and the location of the hearing, and she is in contact with the hearing judge, so that may be subject to change.

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Mr. Bleakley cont'd

Agreement Re University Heights Property - I have provided the Board with a copy of the agreement that the district entered into with the Harden Trust in December of 1978 concerning University Heights School. To refresh your memories, that was a situation in which the University Heights School property was divided up in a number of tracts with different title problems. A quiet title action had been filed against the district by the Harden Trust. We entered into a settlement agreement on December 28, 1978 with the Harden Trust. In that agreement, we let title revert back to the Harden Trust and we entered into an exchange of lease agreement with them for a 20-foot strip along the west side for the reason that the building encroached over onto the Harden property in two different locations. And to facilitate the sale of the property in resolving that problem, we had a provision for the exchange of the lease. After settling that quiet title action, the Board put the remaining tract that was 200 ft. by 300 ft. up for bid and it was ultimately sold to Horace K. Calvert. At the time that sale went on, we did not deal with the issue of the exchange of leases, and it is my recommendation that lease should have been assigned to Mr. Calvert at the time the tract of land was sold because it relates to resolving the encroachment problem of what is now his building onto the property of people who bought the other tract from the Harden Trust. I have provided you with a draft of the Assignment of Lease agreement which I am recommending that the Board authorize its president to sign with a date effective at the time we deeded the property over to Mr. Calvert.

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Hamm for approval of the Assignment of Lease agreement as recommended by the attorney regarding the University Heights property.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

Attorney1s Report cont'd

R. #176 Approval of Assignment of Lease Agreement Re University Heights Property

ITEMS PENDING

Meeting of November 16, 1979

Commission to Improve Education Report

Meeting of April 28, 1980

Board Committee Report - Superintendent's Evaluation Format

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Hamm to direct the following persons to attend conferences as indicated:

At School District Expense

(a) Susan Russell, Staff Development Specialist, Personnel Services, Evaluation Institute - ASCD, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 15-16, 1980. Confirmation !(b) Steve Callies, Senior Programmer, Planning, Research and Evaluation -CICS/VS Macro Level Coding, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 2-6, 1980. At No Expense to the School District (c) Francine Combs, Northwest Classen High School Student; Vanessa Little Axe, Douglass High School Student; Laketa Pratt, Grant High School Student; Susan Wenner, Southeast High School Student - Close-up Foundation, Washington, D. C., April 27 - May 3, 1980. Confirmation (d)

Delores Parker, Associate Director, Teacher Corps; Tonya Trimble, Team Leader; Rebecca Case, Community Coordinator; Ronald G. Schnee, Administrative Assistant, Superintendent's Office - Conference on Institutionalization of Community, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 28-30, 1980.

,e)

Maree Tarver, Titie I Administrator; Jan Sims, Dennis Shockley, Sue Brown, Parent Advisory Committee - Regional Workshop for Parental Involvement, Little Rock, Arkansas, June 11-13, 1980.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, pye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

R. #177 Professional Trips Approved

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd R. #178 President of Board and Superintendent Authorized to Execute Documents and Submit Grant

It was moved by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Dr. Start that the President of the Board and Superintendent be authorized to execute documents and submit a Grant as follows:

R. #179 Approval of Name Change and Modification in Program Description Emerson Al ternative Education Center

A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Hill for approval of name change and modification in program description for Emerson Alternative Education Center, 715 N. Walker.

Under Title IV, Comprehensive Employment Training Act, a subcontract with Oklahoma State University, Division of Home Economics, a career planning program. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

Dr. Payzant stated: I believe the Board is aware that at a school currently called the Adult Education Center at 715 N. Walker, there are two major programs, the Metro High School Program for students who have been suspended a number of times from regular high schools and an Outreach Program which serves young women who are pregnant prior to the time that they have their babiesÂť and for single parents who are still students and have not completed their credits for a"high school diploma. There are some adult programs that are offered at the school, primarily in the evening. Ms. Betty Mason, Director of High Schools, along with Ms. Joyce Henderson, principal at that site and other staff have spent some time these last few months in revising the program description for the various activities that go on at that site, and have presented them to me and my staff. You have a copy of that program description in your materials, and I have recommended that you authorize its adoption as well as a change in name to Emerson Alternative Education Center. The school was originally called Emerson School and it would seem more appropriate to name it an Alternative Education Center rather than an Adult Day Center because it does not primarily provide programs for adults at this time. Dr. Start stated.that he wanted to compliment the principal, director, and staff for the long overdue attention to that part of the school district's educational program. Mrs. Potts inquired: I can remember some discussion in the past about the need to provide both child care and training in child care there, and I am not sure that is in place.

Dr. Payzant - As part of the curriculum in the Outreach Program, there is some attention given to teaching of parenting skills. One of the grant applications that you have approved is one which if funded would allow us to start the child care component at that site. So we are hopeful that the funds will be forthcoming to allow us to begin such a program there.

Mrs, Potts - I see that as a critical need, not only so that these young women can continue their education and have some child care available for their babies, but also so that they have training in how to do a proper job of parenting. On roll call, tire votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried. R. #180 Approval of Supplement to 1979-80 General Fund Budget

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start for approval to supplement the 1979-80 General Fund Budget in the amount of $3,054,012.74 to bring the budget to the previously planned total of $59,465,000. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

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Recommendation for adoption of Policy DFH/DM, Student Activities Funds Management at June 2, 1980 Board meeting:

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The Board hereby authorizes the establishment and maintenance of a Student Activity Fund account. The principal of the school is designated as custodian of these funds and shall be responsible for the proper administration of the financial activities of each account in accordance with state laws, Board policy, and administrative regulations.

All monies collected shall be properly receipted and directed to the proper location of deposit. Money shall not be left overnight in schools unless the school has a vault. All schools shall provide for making bank and/or night deposits after regular banking hours in order to avoid leaving money in school overnight. An audit shall be made of all activity funds annually and a detailed report furnished to the Board.

Dr. Payzant and members of the Board proceeded to discuss the recommendation. Dr. Payzant stated: There are two major changes in the proposed as compared to the current Board policy. The first deals with the requirement that schools may leave money in the school overnight if the school has a vault, although we encourage schools to make deposits on the night that money is collected after an evening activity. The other change, a proposed deletion of the last two sentences of the current policy statement which suggests that the audit of the school activity accounts would be charged back to the school activity funds on some sort of a prorated basis. Since that auditing is done as part of our general contract with the auditors, it is not necessary to do that. I also included in your packet a draft of a set of administrative regulations to go with the implementation of this Board policy. A number of principals and members of my staff have been involved in a review of several drafts and suggestions of many modifications which for the most part have been included in the version that you received.

Mrs. Potts stated th&t the recommendation would be scheduled for action on June 2, 1980 as suggested.

Dr. Start, referring to a section in the proposed Administrative Regulations, stated: It says - "The purposes for which General Activity Account money may be spent shall be determined by the principal." I suspect it would be better to add "with approval of the appropriate director," because further on when it talks about purchases and expenditures, it isn't just the principal that determines the purposes for the General Activity Account money,'is it? Dr. Payzant - There is another section in the regulations that specifies a dollar limit which can be spent without a specific approval, on an individual purchase, of the director. So. it would be some things under a certain dollar amount that the principal could do without getting the director's approval. Anything over those amounts would require the director's approval.

Dr. Hamm referred to a part of the Administrative Regulations - "Generally, the balance in this account should not exceed $2000.00 for elementary schools, $5000.00 for middle schools and $10,000.00 for high schools," and stated: The last audit report that we received last year, there were several schools that considerably exceeded this. This has been a concern of mine that when the money has been collected for the students, that it should be used while they are there.in the school instead of building up a big balance. Therefore, I am very pleased to see this limit put on it. But I didn't find anything addressing the issue about how these large balances are going to be reduced to this recommendation. Dr. Payzant - There is a distinction between the General Activity Account and the other accounts in the activity funds. For example, if you look at the audit for high school activity funds, it will have 25 or 30 different accounts - one for the Pep Club, one for the Band, one for the Debate Club, one for Athletics; each club or group will have a separate account within the activity funds. Then the General Activity Account is that account which does not have funds earmarked for one of the specific-activities. It takes in revenue that is not earmarked for the Debate group, or the Band Boosters, or the Pep Club. So conceivably you could have money-raising projects of the Pep Club or the Debate Club, or the Band would undertake, that would build up balances in their account that are just earmarked for them, that would carry over from one year to another because they wanted it earmarked for a project which could not be financed out of the revenues collected in any single year. So the total dollar balance that a school's activity funds would show on June 30 would be a combination of the balances in the Pep Club Account, the Band Account, and this General Activity Fund, which is the catchall account. So the total balance could be more than $10,000. This speaks only to that General Activity Account within the overall activity funds. Having said that, I am

Adoption of Policy DFH/DM, Student Activiti Funds Management Recommended for Action June 2, 1980

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Adoption of Policy DFH/DM, Student Activities Funds Management, Recommended for Action, June 2, 1980 cont'd

Dr. Payzant cont'd

still with you in terms of the intent to try to get the schools to reduce their balances so that those funds are available for use for students now, rather than for * a rainy day, unless they are earmarked for a special project that it takes two or three years to raise the money to fund. Dr. Hamm - When the regulations refer to the investment of activity funds, is the investment included as a part of the limit that you are setting on the fund, the other $10,000 fund and then an investments Dr. Payzant - It would be on the General Activity Account, but it is conceivable that the Band, for example, might be saving money over two or three years to make a contribution toward the purchase of band uniforms. That money could be invested out of the Band Account for a period that would cut across several fiscal years. Mrs. Potts - As I recall, one problem we had experienced also were situations like a graduating class raising money for a function and then not needing all of that money for that function, and that money then being frozen and remaining in that account after those students have gone and it is not being able to be used for other purposes.

Dr. Payzant - That has been a problem and I have made a specific proposal to the high school principals, which I am hoping that they will accept, which I think would be a good use of tome of the balances that have built up and go directly to the students. One of my thoughts is that if one school bought one van or maybe two, housed it at the school designated for people who would be authorized to drive it who were school employees, that would be a good investment and over the long haul would save them money over what they would have to pay to get a regular school bus, paying driver's salary and gasolinefor a vehicle that consumes more per mile. Mrs. Potts - I think that is excellent. I have heard coaches speak to their interest in being able to drive their students in a school vehicle to an event. I think the way it is now, so many of them have to use their own cars or the students get there on their own.

Mrs. Williams - I have a concern, because I see the little children selling everything from candy to magazine, subscriptions, to candles, you name it. I was thinking that perhaps that money went for some projects that would benefit the youngsters. I think we maybe need to look at that. Mrs. Hill - In the past we have had some patrons who refer to the principal having all of this money. I would assume that the books are open at the schools, or how is that handled?

Dr. Payzant - They should be and there should be periodic statements or summary of the status of the activity funds that would be available to share with the leadership of the parent groups at the school. Mrs. Hill - I do think it would be good if they would make a regular report to the parent organization at that school. Dr. Payzantâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;The practice in this school district for years has been to allow principals to use activity funds in a limited way for registration fees for teachers and coaches, and administrators to attend conferences and workshops, and for administrators at the building level to attend a national conference, and occasionally for a teacher at the building level to attend a national conference. Generally, the money in the overall activity fund that is used for this purpose is not the money that comes directly from the candy sales where young people are out door-to-door, but more typically from the vending machines which provide general revenue for that General Activity Account. I have wrestled with this one a great deal myself. I believe that teachers and administrators ought to have some opportunity to attend conferences and workshops, and if we had the best of all worlds, my position would be that the General Fund of the school district budget should provide resources for that purpose. Speaking very practically, however, in order to pick up the expenses that are being provided for teachers and administrators across the 100 schools would take a substantial increase in the conference and travel accounts in the school district's General Fund budget. When I make my next comments about what is happening with the budget, there is no way ingood conscience that I can recommend that kind of addition for 1980-81 and feel that there is no choice but to allow the past practice under the scrutiny of the directors to continue with moderation. It is also a very important morale factor with many of the administrators and some of the activity sponsors who are teachers, because they feel that they put in a lot of extra time on projects helping students raise funds for special activities, and that one trip or registration fee at a conference that might be a partial result is small payment for that contribution of time and effort. So that is the reason that the regulation spells out that General Activity Account money may be used for this purpose on a limited basis, with the approval of the director.

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd

Dr. Payzant reported: 1.

Response on Program for Infant Handicapped Children - I wanted to call to the Board's attention the work of the staff in response to requests made by parents of infant handicapped children at the last Board meeting. We are working with the Legislature to generate some funding for a pilot program for a summer offering for these students, and should we be successful there, we would be able to go ahead and provide such a pilot program. We also are exploring the possibility of trying to start a limited in-school program for children in the birth to three-year-old category in the 1980-81 school year, but I am not yet in a position, with the budget as"it appears at this timq to give a firm commitment that we will be able to deliver on that. But we are following up and the staff in the Special Services Department have been in contact with the parents to keep them informed.

Development of Proposed Budget for 1980-81 - Staff and I are working very hard on the development of a proposed budget for 1980-81. We will meet the timeline of making a presentation to you on June 2 although there is still a great deal of work to be done to bring to you a balanced budget. I alluded earlier to a freeze that I have instituted on General Fund expenditures, non-salary items for the balance of this fiscal year except for prior commitments made and emergencies, because I think unlike the past we are going to be as close as we really should be to spending just about every dime of what we have said we would spend in the 1979-80 budget. When you are talking about a $59.4 million budget, I am down within a margin of looking at expenditures that might vary only.a one-fourth to one-half of one percent of that overall total, which is a pretty close call and a little bit too close for comfort. So I am putting a freeze on to make sure that we slide in on the black side rather than the red side come June 30. The projections for revenue for the year may be a little bit cheerier in that there are two areas that I think we will have revenue that will exceed the projections that were made when the budget was prepared and adopted by the Board last July, and one area where we will be off significantly. From the treasurer's reports these last few months you know that with high interest rates we have done better on interest income earned; we will probably be about $300,000 ahead in that revenue area. When we budgeted last year we did not expect to get any Impact Aid money and it looks like we will probably get around $185,000 in Impact Aid money. However, our auto license tag collections will be off probably $103,000 to $105,000. So we still are looking, hopefully, at our revenue picture that is about $380,000 better than projected. That is tentative and things can change in the six weeks between now and June 30, but I am taking that into consideration as I plan the budget to present to you.

Information to, the Board Dr. Payzant

The budget situation is tight for a couple of reasons. Our budget this year, as I have said, is $59.4; our projected revenue for next year, withouttaking into consideration any of the new money coming from the State for salary mandates which would go directly to salary, is about $57.8. So you can see that we are off about $1.6 going in. And you can attribute about $1.2 of that $1.6 million to the reduction in reserve that we made last year when we finalized the budget. You recall at the time that I indicated that we had to be cautious about dipping into the reserve, because you can only do that once and that revenue is not recurring, and it is in the subsequent year when you start to plan for the following fiscal year that you see that turn up. So, as a result, we are having to make some significant cuts. We are starting at the top. We will be meeting again for a late afternoon and evening session through tomorrow night to try to get at some more cuts, and I am still hopeful that we can bring in a balanced budget without having to cut into teaching positions and programs which are now in place at the schools. I will keep you posted and will have a proposed budget for you at the next Board meeting.

Mrs. Hill inquired: You mentioned that this year we are going to be off on our auto license tags. Is there a reason for that?

Dr. Payzant - There are two reasons; one because wei are in a new system of collection and distribution. It was difficult to project precisely what we would get as the state phased into the new system this year. The other factor is that car sales are off and that has an impact. ENCUMBRANCES, PURCHASING.AND GENERAL BUSINESS

A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded :by Mrs. Williams for approval of encumbrances R. #181 as listed for May 5-15, 1980. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Approval of Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; and Mrs. Potts, Encumbrances aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

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R. #182 Approval of Purchasi ng

Purchasing It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Hamm for approval of purchasing items as follows:

Magazine Subscriptions Purchase of magazine subscriptions for all schools from Seaboard Subscription Agency which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $16,154.55 to be charged to Account G 230.01 and G 240.01.

Soccer Shoes Purchase of soccer shoes for use at Grant and Northwest Classen High Schools from Dunlap Sporting Goods, Inc., which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,730.00 to be charged to Account G 1230.03.

Jewelry Supplies Purchase of jewelry supplies (beads, hair pieces, needles, etc.) for use by External Funding (Indian Education) from Ozark Indian Store (available only from designated distributor). This purchase in the amount of $3,334.45 is to be charged to Account 240.01, Indian Education, and has been approved on our Federal Educational Grants and/or Programs.

Cleaning Supplies

Purchase of cleaning supplies (soap, bleach, degreaser, glass cleaner, etc.) for use by Custodial Services from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

S-K Supply Company Break Thru Products, Inc. Thompson-Hayward Chemical Co. Total

367.74 227.00 731.25

1,325.99

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 650.01 G 650.04 Total

18.00 1,307.99

1,325.99

Lumber Purchase of lumber (pine, plywood, fir, oak, etc.) for use by the Maintenance/ Engineering Department and in various schools from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

$ 11,411.00 12,683.00 18,730.00 1,340.00

- Leonhardt Lumber Company Forest Lumber Company Frank Paxton Lumber Company International Paper Company

Total These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: $

G 240.01 G 1230.03 BL 5620.05

Total

4,450.00 140.00 39,574.00

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Purchasing cont'd 6.

R. #182 Approval of Purchasing cont'd

Teaching Aids 4

Purchase of teaching aids (reading skills, phonics, worktexts, math kits, microfilms, etc.) for use by Curriculum Services, Educational Services and External Funding Department from the following companies (available only from designated publishers and/or distributors):

Oklahoma Learning Systems, Inc. BFA-CBS Educational Publishing Co. University Microfilms International Charles Bennett Company

Total

1,397.25 2,796.00 2,893.54 2,011.35 9,098.14

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: $

G 230.01 G 240.01 *Title I, 240.01

2,893.54 2,011.35 4,193.25

Total

*These purchases have been approved on our Federal Educational Grants and/or Programs. 7.

Air Compressor Purchase of air compressor for use by the Maintenance Department from Auxier-Scott Supply Company which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $6,647.00 to be charged to Account G 1230.06.

Work Benches

Purchase of work benches (machine benches) for use by Jackson Middle School from Brodhead-Garrett which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $2,352.00 to be charged to Account G 1230.03.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

General Business It was moved by Dr. Start arid seconded by Mrs. Williams to approve the following items of general business: 1.

Agreement with City on Summer Food Program

Permission to execute a Memorandum of Intent (an agreement) with the City of Oklahoma City's Public Property Authority whereby the Authority will pay the School District's Central Food Services Department to furnish meals for the Authority's Summer Food Program for Children (June 6 - August 7, excluding July 4) at $1.10 per lunch for a type "A" lunch. The program will include the providing of lunches, purchasing food, materials, and supplies, renting of packaging machines necessary to process the meals and employment of cafeteria personnel.

Easement Through Eisenhower Middle School Grounds Approval of an easement, a tower guy wire and guy wire anchors right of way, through a part of the Eisenhower Middle School grounds to Trinity Broadcasting of Oklahoma City, Inc., for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, operating, repairing, and removing a tower guy wire and guy wire anchors. The easement to be at the northeast corner of the Eisenhower Middle School grounds, a strip of land extending approximately 460' in length and 50' in width. Trinity to pay the district $840 for the easement and to pay for any damages which may arise from maintaining, operating, repairing, relocating and removing any guy wire and/or guy wire anchor. Trinity is to save harmless and indemnify the district against losses arising from Trinity's holding or using the easement. The Board's attorney has approved the easement form.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

R. #183 Approval of General Business

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HEARINGS The following persons addressed the Board:

Dennis Shockley

10.

Marcia Woodside

Ann Scarinzi

11.

Theresa Cudjoe

Perry Townsend

Gerald Kernahan

Diane Layton

Susan Lewis

Rozel la A. Powel l

Sim Swindall

Angela Minton

Mr. Shockley spoke regarding internal problems within the Title I District Advisory Council and asked that the school district provide some technical assistance to the Council. Following Mr. Shockley's presentation, Dr. Payzant and members of the Board discussed their interpretation of the type of assistance he was "requesting.

At the close of the discussion, Mrs. Williams asked if the Board could take the matter under advisement, knowing that time was of essence, and whatever Dr. Payzant wou think could be done. Mrs. Williams further inquired of Mr. Shockley, for clarification, that it would involve someone attending the District Advisory Council meetings in an advisory capacity, to which he replied that would be fine. Mrs. Potts stated that since there was no general consensus on the Board, that Mrs. Williams' suggestion seemed to be the best approach.

Ms. Scarinzi, Ms. Woodside and Ms. Cudjoe expressed a concern for the abolishment of the position of Coordinator of Speech and Language Pathology and asked that it be retained.

Mr. Townsend spoke in support of the Preschool Day-Care Program at West Nichols Hills School. Mr. Kernahanand Ms. Layton expressed a concern that Kaiser School be allowed to remain open.

Ms. Lewis, Ms. Powell, Mr. Swindall and Ms. Minton asked that Nichols Hills School not be closed and submitted a petition to the Board in behalf of the patrons of. the. school.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS None. NEW BUSINE'SS

None. EXECUTIVE SESSION

R. #184 Board Recessed to Executive Session 9:10 p.m.

A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Dr. Hamm that the Board go into executive session for the discussion of litigation and personnel. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carri ed.

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Having completed its executive session, it was moved by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Dr. Start that the Board return to open session. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

R. #185 Board Returned to Open Session 10:58 p.m.

It was moved by Dr. Hamm and seconded by Dr. Start that the Board accept the resignation R. #186 of Richard Wilson, a teacher at Rogers Middle School, effective May 30, 1980. On roll Acceptance of | call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Resignation of Richard Wilson, Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the l motion carried. a Teacher â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

ADJOURNMENT A motion to adjourn was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams. On roll call the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

THEREUPON THE MEETIING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the Clerk's office.)

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

Witness my hand and seal of this school district thiszft^day of 1980.

Clerk, Oklahoma City Board of Education

R. #187 Adjournment 11:00 p.m.

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THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR AND ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1980, AT 6:30 P.M.

PRESENT:

Mrs. Pat Potts, President Floyd Donwerth, Member Delbert Hamm, Member Mrs. Susan Hermes, Member Mrs. Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member

ABSENT:

Mrs. Freddye Williams, Member

The meeting was called to order by Mrs. Potts and Dr. Hamm gave the invocation.

Call to Order

The families of Mrs. Hill and Mrs. Hermes, and the wife of Dr. Hamm were presented as visitors.

Visitors Welcomed

Mrs. Potts welcomed all of the visitors present. Roll call established that six of the seven Board members were present.

Roll Call

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Hill for approval of the minutes of R. #188 Minutes Approved May 19, 1980 as presented. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

Dr. Payzant presented the official Certificates of Election to the candidates recently elected to the Board for a four-year term, Mrs. 'Betty Hill and Mrs. Susan Hermes.

Presentation of Certificates of Election

Mr. William Bleakley, Attorney, administered the Oath of Office to Mrs. Hill (four-year term) and Mrs. Hermes (four-year term).

Oath of Office

Dr. Payzant, presiding for the election of Board President, stated: I would like to suggest a procedure and receive your approval to proceed with that approach prior to actually getting into the business of election of a Board President. It has been your custom to follow Robert's Rules of Order, and what I am going to suggest is a procedure that is consistent with Robert's Rules. Let me outline the procedure and see if you have questions about' it first, which I will try to answer, and then I would like to know whether or not you concur with that approach. If you do, we will proceed. If you would prefer another approach, it would be appropriate to suggest it but to make sure that we have concurrence of the entire Board before moving ahead with it.

Procedure for Election of Board Presi dents

The procedure that I am suggesting is a nominations procedure which would open the opportunity for any Board member to nominate a person for President. I would accept any nominations. Seconds are not necessary when a nomination is made. I would wait until any Board member who wishes to make a nomination has an opportunity to do so, and then as prescribed by Robert's Rules would when I thought the nominations were through being made state three times "are there any more nominations?" Then hearing no response to that question, after asking it three times, I would exercise the prerogative of the chair to close the nominations. I would then suggest that the Board proceed with a roll call vote. The ground rules for a roll call vote would be for you to state as your name is called which nominee you vote for, or if you choose to abstain, you would vote under Robert's Rules "present," which is the same as an abstention. The Clerk would take the roll and at the conclusion of the roll call repeat the results. If each of you, all six, cast a vote for a nominee, it would take four votes to elect a new Board President, four votes to one person. If one or more of you were to vote "present," in other words, abstain, then a president could be elected by a majority of the votes cast. That is the procedure that I would suggest to you. If you have questions about it, please raise them; or if you don't like that procedure and would like to suggest another one, that is certainly appropriate too. I think it is important to get consensus on the procedure before we move ahead.

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L #189 ’rocedure Adopted "or Election of Soard Presidents

■1 ection of ’resi dent

It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hermes that the procedure as presented by the Superintendent for the election of Board Presidents be adopted as policy to be ufeed each time there is >such an election.

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On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Dr. Hamm, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Mrs. Potts, aye. Mrs. Potts declared that the motion carried.

Following the procedure as adopted, Dr. Payzant asked for nominations for Board President for 1980-81. Mr. Donwerth nominated Betty Hill. Dr. Start nominated Delbert Hamm.

Hearing no further nominations, Dr. Payzant declared the nominations closed. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, Dr. Hamm; Mrs. Hill, present; Mrs. Hermes, Dr. Hamm; Dr. Hamm, present; Mr. Donwerth, Mrs. Hill; and Mrs. Potts, Dr. Hamm. With the majority of votes cast for Dr. Hamm, Dr. Payzant declared Dr. Delbert Hamm the duly elected President of the Board for 1980-81.

Election of fice President

Dr;, iHamm, presiding and following the procedure as adopted, then asked for nominations for Vice President. Mr. Donwerth nominated Betty Hill. Mrs. Hermes nominated Freddye Williams.

Hearing no further nominations, Dr. Hamm declared the nominations closed. Mr. Donwerth inquired as to according to Robert's Rules of Order, if a person had to be present in order to be nominated for an office.or present a letter accepting the nomination?

Dr. Payzant referred the question to Mr. Bleakley. Mr. Bleakley responded by reading from Robert's Rules of Order: "An election takes effect immediately if the candidate is present and does not decline or if he is absent and has consented to his candidacy. If he is absent and has not consented to his candidacy, it takes effect when he is notified of his election provided he does not decline immediately."

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, Mrs. Williams; Dr. Start, Mrs. Williams; Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Hill; Mrs. Hermes, Mrs. Williams; Mr. Donwerth, Mrs. Hill; and Dr. Hamm, Mrs. Williams.

Dr. Hamm declared Mrs. Freddye Williams as the elected Vice President of the Board for 1980-81 subsequent to her acceptance on notification. L #190 ’lection of Clerk, 'reasurer, vsst. Treasurer, iSSit; Treasurer :or Clearing iccount, Deputy Ilerk, Attorney ■irm, and Auditing i rm

A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Start that the following persons be reinstated as recommended by the Superintendent: Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; Donald Ladd, Treasurer; Darrel Shepard, Assistant Treasurer; David Light, Assistant Treasurer for the Clearing Account; Hugh Ginn, Deputy Clerk; Jernigan, Groves, Bleakley and Tague, Attorney Firm; and Moak, Hunsaker, Rouse, Thomas and Company, Auditing Firm. Mrs. Hill inquired as to the legality of a clearing account.

Dr. Payzant - My understanding from talking with Mr. Ginn about this was that this position was added at the request of the Board prior to my coming. Mrs. Hill - I think that is true. I think the Board had a clearing account that they were putting money in, but I don't remember now who said that it was not legal, and I thought we had done away with it.

Mr. Ladd - I can't speak on the legality of it, but we do still have the clearing account and we are still handling it by the same method.

Mrs. Hill - It seems like we were leaving money in it for a month or more,and it was mot really a legal account. Mr. Bleakley - Several years ago the auditors raised a number of questions about the clearing account, as to some of the transactions that would be handled by it, and those transactions that were questionable have been removed from it,and it is basically operating as a clearing account for checks to clear and for proceeds that are divided into several accounts,' it is used for a dispersing account. It has been operating on a basis that we deem it legal with transactions that are currently being used in it. For instance, I think one of the examples was where they received tuition checks for simmer school, they were deposited in the account and left there to make sure that the checks clear, and then they are transferred on to the appropriate account. I think they put some federal funds in there that have to be divided up into varying accounts, where it is used mainly as a transitory account.

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Mr. Ginn, after being asked to speak on the subject of the clearing account, stated: The clearing account, for example, as pointed out earlier, is used'during stimm&rschool; other times when we may receive three, four, five, six or ten checks of revenue in the Business Office, that is deposited into the clearing account and then once per day the treasurer takes the funds from the clearing account and deposits in the bank. Sometimes in one day there is a large balance in the clearing account until it is cleared out and dispersed to whatever legal budgeted area funds where it should be deposited. About three years ago a decision was made that since at times there is a sizable amount received in one day, then the Board decided, upon recommendation of the study which was done on the insurance and bonding procedure, to cause the person, David Light, who was handling that clearing account, to be bonded. The money just passes through; it is a collection area collecting the funds, and then it is paid on to the treasurer. It is a very short in and out procedure.

R. #190 Election of Clerk, Treasurer, Asst. Treasurer, Asst. Treasurer for Clearing Account, Deputy Clerk, Attorney Firm, and Auditing Firm cont'd

| Mrs. Hill had made an amendment to the motion, which was seconded by Mr. Donwerth, that

| the Assistant Treasurer for the Clearing Account be deleted from the motion until | further clarification of the account. After the explanation by Mr. Ginn, Mrs. Hill i withdrew the amendment and Mr. Donwerth the second. I On roll call for the original motion, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye (stating that she was voting nay on the Attorney Firm); Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; arid Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. It was moved by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Hill to pay renewal premiums on bonds as follows:

(a)

Treasurer - amount of bond, $750,000.00, premium $2,575.00.

(b)

Assistant Treasurer - amount of bond, $750,000.00, premium $2,575.00.

(c)

Assistant Treasurer for Clearing Account - amount of bond $750,000.00, premium $2,575.00.

(d)

Assistant to the Treasurer - amount of bond $750,000.00, premium $2,575.00.

(e)

Blanket Fidelity Bonds - covering all Board of Education employees (Treasurers not included), amount of bonds $2,500.00, premium $1,134.00.

(f)

Deputy Clerk - amount of bond, $1,000.00, premium $20.00.

R. #191 Permission to Pay Premiums on Bonds

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.'

A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of the Board Committee's Report in which it recommended that the attorney firm of Jernigan, Groves, Bleakley, and Tague; the auditing firm of Moak, Hunsaker, Rouse, Thomas and Company; the Treasurer, Don Ladd, be retained by the Board for 1980-81, existing contracts to remain in effect w'it-h annual fees for each as follows:

Attorney Firm Fee Schedule

Courtroom Appearances Trial Preparation (partners) Trial Preparation (associates) Other professional service by partners by associates Professional services by legal intern

$55.00 per hour $50.00 per hour $45.00 per hour $50.00 per hour $40.00 per hour $20.00 per hour

Auditing Firm Annual Fee

$36,52C1.00

Treasurer Annual Fee

$14,98C).00

Mrs. Potts commented: A committee composed of Dr. Start, Mrs. Hill and I did confer with our attorneys regarding different alternatives on fee schedules and arrived at this particular one as being the most favorable for the school district in terms of cost, and the auditing firm and treasurer were approached regarding continuing of their fee schedule the previous year as acceptable, and they agreed to it. I understand there is somewhat of a difference in the auditing firm fee as shown here. Dr. Payzant - Last year the fee was split between the General Fund budget and the

R. #192 Approval of Fee Schedule for Attorney Firm, Auditing Firm, and Treasurer

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Dr. Payzant cont'd R. #192 Approval of Fee Food Services budget, and to make it clearer for the Schedule for ^included the total amount proposed to be paid to the Attorney Firm, budget, and the other fund such as the Food Services Auditing Firm, anc Treasurer cont'd of the auditors would reimburse the General Fund for auditing services.

Board and the public, I have auditors in the General Fund Fund which utilizes the services its prorated share of the

Mrs. Hermes inquired as to how competitive the fees were with other firms? Mrs. Potts - We did look into it, and we were looking at a different arrangement that the Tulsa School District had, which as I recall we concluded would have ended up being more costly for the school district. The average per hour fee is below what the market is charged, and partly that is possible because of the use by the law firm of legal interns to perform some of the services, as you can see a sliding scale that explains that. When we first set this up, the idea was that the courtoom appearances di!d require the most expertise, and then we graduated the cost down based on that. One of the considerations! in our committee unanimously making this recommendation I think was that we have thorough accounting of the expenditure of the funds using this schedule, so that we do know who is using the attorneys' services and what the individual allocation for each service is. If we were to have gone to a retainer basis, we wouldn't have had just what we think, as kind of a! bridle on unnecessary use of legal services. Mrs. Hill - I think also the retainer fee asked by the attorney firm was probably more than some of the areas we were checking with, and that is why we decided not to go with the retainer fee. Mrs. Potts - The committee did recommend reconsideration of a retainer fee when we have a more nearly normal legal situation. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS Comments Dr. Start

Comments Mrs. Hill

Comments Mrs. Hermes

Dr. Start - I was very proud of the maturity of our district in its graduation exercises. I think the students, the faculties and the staff are outstanding. The ceremonies that I was aware of were handled very professionally and the last few days of school went very well with minimal problems. I well remember the days when the last days of school were the biggest waste of time, and I am so proud of our system and so proud of the students and faculty this past year. Mrs. Hill commented: I, too, would like to ditto what Dr. Start said, because I do feel like our last week was a very successful week. It is always a pleasure to attend the graduations, and I think the one at Dunbar probably is always a special place in all of our hearts because of the good work that is going on there. There was a section in the newspaper with a picture of Taft Middle School and a very nice article, and I appreciated that as it was .pointing out the igood things about our Oklahoma City schools. It is nice to have those kind of reports. I did enjoy the Mayfair Times newspaper. It had a little bit of everything and was very clever. Someone needs to be commended on a job well done in teaching those students how to be reporters. Mrs. Hermes - First of all, I would like to thank you for putting me in this position and I pledge to do my very best over the next four years as a Board member for the Oklahoma City Public Schools. I was privileged to be allowed to present diplomas to the Douglass High School students. It was their first graduation and my first presentation of diplomas. I also went to Dunbar Center's graduation. These special students walked all the way up that aisle and got those diplomas and walked all the way back, and that was a chore in itself. I attended the Alternative Avenues .. program. These are our dropouts. Not only did the faculty give awards to the students, but the students gave awards to the faculty. The saying on the plaque to Linda Rice,who is the coordinator, said "without you, we are nothing." I think that was the dropouts in that school's way of saying to the Oklahoma City Public Schools "thank you for giving us an alternative form of education that we can learn within." And I want to commend those people for that program this year. I also attended Quail Creek's Spanish Art and Music program with costumes and singing by all the K-4 children. It was very, very lovely.

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COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS cont'd Mrs* Potts commented: I had to be out of town most of the week to a conference but was privileged to give out diplomas at John Marshall, and found it quite a point of pride to hear the principal mention all of the accomplishments of students from that high school in winning state and national honors, and also in seeing students with outstanding talent perform and speak regarding their view of the future. It gave me a very confident feeling that it is going to be in good hands.

Comments Mrs. Potts

Mr. Donwerth - Because of the busy schedule that I had, I was unable to attend many of the functions; however, the Northwest Classen breakfast I was able to attend. I believe that each year it seems to get a little bit better. I really enjoyed it. The kids at Northwest were such ladies and gentlemen, that they just seem to get better every year. Thursday evening I had the real pleasure of passing out the diplomas at Capitol Hill High School, and in the six years that I have passed out diplomas, I don't believe that I have ever attended a graduation exercise where the young people were more delightful to be around. I really think some real good things must be going on in our school district.

Dr. Hamm stated:. One comment that I would like to make is something that is not generally known, and that is the fact that of all of the diplomas in our. graduation ceremonies, they all were personally signed by the President of the Board, Mrs. Potts, which was no small task. I think that a personal touch like that is significant, rather than just a rubber stamp. It is thrilling to hear the involvement of this board in the life of the schools. To me this is one of the good things that is happening, and good things areJhappening and we have a story to tell, and if we keep telling this story, it will eventually be heard and soaked in.

ITEMS PENDING

Meeting of November 16, 1979 1.

Commission to Improve Education Report

Meeting of April 28, 1980

Board Committee Report - Superintendent's Evaluation

Dr. Hamm referred to the items pending and when these reports might be presented to the Board. I j

Mrs. Hermes, speaking as an ex-member of the Commission to Improve Education, stated that the Commission ddd have a report, andJt was a matter of getting the elected spokesperson to call another meeting to make a decision on its presentation.

Mrs. Hill indicated* that the Board Committee for an instrument for the Superintendent's

Evaluation would be meeting at 3:30 p.m., June 11.

LEGAL AND FINANCIAL REPORTS

Attorney's Report

Mr. Bleakley reported: 1.

Hearing - Termination of Jane Finch - The hearing on the termination of Ms. Jane Finch was heard last week. The hearing judge anticipates that a decision will be rendered within seven to ten days after that hearing. That will depend primarily on the availability of the transcript of the hearing to the hearing judge.

Pretrial in Antitrust Bus Suit - We had a pretrial last week in the antitrust suit relating to school buses. In that conference, we asked the judge to remove the order on further discovery in that matter so that we can begin discovery on the merits.

Mr. Donwerth inquired:

Did the judge grant the request with respect to the discovery?

Mr. Bleakley - Mr. Groves attended that conference, and I understand from my conversation with him that the judge is going to permit further discovery on the matter.

Mr. Ladd gave a routine treasurer's report. (A copy of the report is on file in the Clerk's office.)

Treasurer's Report

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R. #193 Reports Approved

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Potts that the Attorney's and Treasurer's reports be approved as presented. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

Information to the Board

Depositories for School Funds: Allied Oklahoma Bank American Bank of Commerce Capitol Hill State Bank and Trust Company Central National Bank Citizens National Bank and Trust Company City National Bank and Trust Company Crossroads State Bank Fidelity Bank, National Association First National Bank and Trust Company First Bank of Britton First Security Bank and Trust Company Friendly National Bank Grant Square Bank and Trust Company Liberty National Bank and Trust Company Medical Center State Bank Nichols Hills Bank Northwest Bank Oklahoma National Bank and Trust Company Penn Square Bank, National Association Quail Creek Bank Republic Bank Southeast Plaza Bank Southwestern Bank and Trust Company Spencer State Bank Union Bank and Trust Company United Oklahoma Bank The Village Bank

Fiscal Agencies: First National Bank and Trust Company Liberty National Bank and Trust CompanySUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT Employee of the lonth

Dr. Payzant presented Dr. John Brandt, President, the Association of All School Personnel, who gave preliminary remarks regarding Ms. Noveda Forshee, Indian Education Developer, Arthur Elementary School, having been selected as Employee of the Month.

A Certificate of Recognition was presented to Ms. Forshee on behalf of the Board of Education and the Association of All School Personnel by Dr. Payzant.

Ms. Forshe.e responded. !. #194 â&#x20AC;&#x2122;resident of Board ind Superintendent authorized to Execute Documents

It was moved by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Start that the President of the Board and the Superintendent be authorized to execute the necessary documents and submit applications for grants and programs as follows: 1.

Under Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 - P. L. 95-561 a Bilingual Education Program (Middle Schools).

Under a contract written with the U. S. Department of Labor, National Collaboration for Youth - Pre-Vocational Training for Learning Disabled Youth.

Mrs. Hill inquired: Capitol Hill?

Is the bilingual program just going to be at one middle school,

Dr. Payzant - Yes. Mrs. Hill - As I was reading, it said that training would be provided for all persons. Would that include staff not involved at Capitol Hill or Capitol Hill staff only?

Dr. Payzant - It will be primarily for Capitol Hill staff.

Dr. Payzant asked Gene Steiger, Special Projects Administrator, to respond, and Mr. Steiger stated: As for personnel who are conducting the program on bilingual education, or who are preparing to conduct a program of bilingual education, this training as it is listed in your abstract primarily applies to the staff at Capitol Hill. However, if we are conducting some training and some teachers are identified as being interested in preparing to conduct a program, then it would be legal to include those teachers.

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Mrs. Hill - But Capitol Hill is not the only school where we have a bilingual program. Mr. Steiger - No, we have three Title VII programs at the elementary level, and the middje schools that we have, we have the Lau compliance program which currently is at Jackson, Harding, and Moon. It is possible that some of those staff could be trained through this program. We anticipate that there would be a lot of cooperative training. If we were able to bring in a consultant with the resources of the grant, then we could certainly make that resource available to the Lau compliance staff.

President of Board and Superintendent Authorized to Execute Documents cont1d

Mrs. Hill - Are we going to have to apply for the grant every year for three years? Mr. Steiger - We would have to apply for renewal of the budget each year. The Education Division general regulations which haVe just been finalized authorized multiple year funding, and most of the service programs do authorize certain periods. It varies from program to program. Most of the multiple year ones are either for three years or five years.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. Presentation of Dr. Payzant, in presenting the proposed 1980-81 General Fund Budget, stated: I would 1980-81 General like to take a few moments to make some general comments about the budget and then take the time to go through with you some of the major account categories and highlight Fund Budget areas where changes are being proposed as background information for you in considering this budget during the next three or four weeks. My recommendation is that you take the opportunity at your next Board meeting regularly scheduled on the 16th of June to hear public comment on the budget and discuss it among yourselves, and to call for a special meeting on Monday, June 30, for the purpose of considering year-end fiscal 1979-80 business as well as take action on a budget for fiscal year 1980-81, presuming that the legislature has completed its work and revenue estimates can be finalized. Failing that schedule, my suggestion would be consideration of the budget no later than the first regularly scheduled meeting on July 7.

The message that I present this evening may seem somewhat paradoxical. On the one hand, I will be telling you about a budget that is tight, one that has been pared very close in most account areas, and on the other hand, I will be telling you in making the difficult decisions to do that paring, we have been able to keep the impact from being negative in the classroom where services most directly affect children, and I will be more specific about that shortly. Preparation of a balanced budget for an urban school district these days when expectations are rising and resources are shrinking is certainly difficult. Perhaps it was that I was new last year that I didn't realize what a significant undertaking it would be, but I have found in working with staff this year the challenge much more difficult than last year. We have attempted to use Board goals that you have set for 1980-81 and the progress made in the last few years in reducing class size and improving direct services to children as the guides for establishing priorities in this proposed budget. We have decided to reduce Central Office overhead cost so that it would be possible to maintain direct services in the classroom for children. Transferring a major portion of our vocational-technical programs from District 1-89 to Vo-Tech District 22,July 1, is also helping to achieve that end. I think you are well aware with your budgets in the past that ours is a "people intensive' organization, and more than 80 percent of our budget goes into salaries and salaryrelated costs for personnel. We can cut non-salary accounts only so much before we hit the bedrock amounts necessary to operate the district. Beyond that, there is no choice but to begin cutting personnel positions and programs. In this budget, you will see that we have done both. I am pleased that the staff/student ratios will be maintained at' the elementary and high schools. This is possible because of projected declining enrollment and the fact that we are not proposing to cut the number of teaching positions that could be eliminated based on declining enrollment alone. In addition, positions will be added at the middle school level to further improve staff/student ratios and class sizes there. From looking at the data, we have made good progress in the elementary schools and high schools, and I believe the middle schools should be the next area where we focus attention for further reduction of class size. In looking at the Board goals about providing equal opportunity for students, sound instruction in reading,' language arts, math, and the arts, we are proposing the addition of teaching positions in the following program areas: ten (10) positions for the elementary vocal music program, which will provide a total of fifteen (15) positions and will provide some vocal music each week for the entire school year for elementary children; further expansion of the gifted and talented program in the elementary schools and fifth year centers and middle schools by the addition of flveand bne-haâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Tf (5;5) positions; addition of three (3) positions for the elementary physical education program, which will help round out the scheduling to ensure 80 minutes of physical education instructionb with specialists in all elementary schools next year. The major area of addition consistent with our needs and our commitment to meet them is in the area of special

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Presentation of 1980-81 General Fund Budget cont1d

Dr. Payzant cont'd

education, and I have included forty-six (46) additional teaching positions in this budget above the base number of positions provided in the 1979-80 budget. Finally, I am proposing the addition of nine (9) developmental reading teacher positions for the high schools above and beyond the normal staff allocations that were available this year. In order to accomplish these recommendations, I have also reduced the teacher contingency account which I had in the current year's budget at the level of forty-five (45) positions to twenty-two (22) positions. These positions are available for assignment to schools in the early fall when we get actual enrollment figures and ease overcrowded situations where enrollments are higher and staffs are below what they should be. What this means is that there will be less flexibility in the fall and there may be the necessity for moving teachers from school to school to balance out staff/student ratios and class sizes.

School districts must have balanced budgets. We do not have the luxury of deficit financing. I do not believe in deficit financing for a public school district even if we had the legal right to do so. According to our up-to-the-day projections, our expenditure pattern for the current fiscal year 1979-80 will be as close to budget projections as it has been in recent years. As I told you at the last Board meeting, that fact has resulted in a freeze on the expenditure for any items over which we have a choice. The revenue picture consistent with what Mr. Ladd has been reporting to you will be more positive than estimated a year ago. We anticipate that although expenditures will be right about on target for what was budgeted, revenue will be about $1 million ahead on June 30 of what we originally anticipated last July. There are two or three reasons for this. The first Mr. Ladd has mentioned to you in that we probably will receive about $400,000 in additional revenue from interest earned on investments due to the high interest rates that we took advantage of during the middle of the fiscal year - December, January, February, and March. Each year at this time we are confronted with uncertainty about what will happen with impact aid in Washington. A year ago the talk was that impact aid would be cut out. We exercised caution and did not budget for receipt of any impact aid, and sometime after the budget was adopted, Congress decided to continue the impact aid program and we will receive about $218,000 in impact aid this year. We also received substantially more than was projected for such revenue sources as the trailer tax. Don't ask me to explain why, other than to hazard the guess that perhaps because of the difficulty with the housing market that more and more people have gone to the lower cost trailer home as an option to the single family home. You will see as you look at the revenue items that the gross production tax was a little bit above "what was projected in the state school land tax. Even with less money being collected for auto license tags than was projected, the net result will be about $1 million to the good, which means that the reserve will not have to be reduced as much as was projected when the budget was finalized last July. Looking ahead to 1980-81, we anticipate revenue of $58.3 million. That does not include any new money which we expect to receive from the state if the current compensation proposal before the legislature is enacted later this week or next. All of that money which could be as much as $5 million to $5.4 million would go directly for salaries and related costs as is appropriate, and so earmarked by the legislature. So I have not included those dollars in the $58.3 million figure I have just quoted to you. If we maintained jjur reserve, which I am recommending, at the 1979-80 level of $2.9 million, we would then have available revenue of $59,446,309:for the 1980-81 budget, which really represents about a $20,000 difference over what was available for the current Although the actual dollar amount year, again, not including new money for salaries, of the reserve is recommended to remain the same, it would decrease the percentage amount that that reserve represents of the total budget, declining from 4.94 percent in the 1979-80 budget to 4.52 percent in the proposed 1980-81 budget. If you take all of our projected revenue, including from the state for salaries, we are talking about a represents an increase of 9.3 percent. All of that salary money. Without it, there would be virtually budget for next year.

the new money we expect to receive $64.9 million budget, which increase is represented by the new no increase in the recommended

Dr. Payzant then proceeded by referring to the various budget accounts, explaining, and he ting changes that were being recommended.

In closing remarks, Dr. Payzant stated: I realize that this was a quick and very general overview. The staff and I stand ready to provide you with additional informatio in detail in any of these areas, and would urge you to make such requests and we will try to respond as quickly and as clearly as possible. I would urge the Board as you study the material and questions come up, that you call Dr. Wally Smith or me and ask us to get the information so we can get it out to you, and then you use the time at your next meeting on June 16 to get into discussion about priorities where you would like to see additions made or deletions made, and that we not use valuable time at these meetings to try and search around for additional information that you may need. (A copy of the 1980-81 General Fund Budget information is on file in the Clerk's office.

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A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of the Superintendent's recommendation for a Special Meeting, June 30, 1980, 7:00 p.m., to conduct end-of-the-year general business matters and consider the 1980-81 General Fund and Building Fund Budget.

R. #195 Special Meeting Scheduled

! On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, I aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that : the motion carried. It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start for readoption of all Board Policies R. #196 Readoption of which have been previously adopted by the Board. Board Policies Dr. Hamm stated: I think that it would be wise if we would consider a way to implement the use of the Board Policies book, that it be read. Therefore, I would suggest that the Board consider that when an item of business appears before the Board on the agenda, that business item as it is presented be indexed to the policy that it pertains to, that the policy code appear in the lefthand column. I think that would serve two purposes. It would keep the policy manual in the front of people's thinking concerning the business of the Board, as well as it would cause the policy manual to be read at the grassroots level in the schools.

Dr. Payzant - Without any formal action by the Board, we could try doing it for an agenda or two and see whether you find it helpful or unhelpful, and then based on that experience give us direction to continue or discontinue the practice.

Mrs. Potts - I think that would be a good idea, but I think we ought to also as part of that get some idea of if there is additional staff time to do this, what we are looking at. So we are measuring staff time as opposed to the benefit it provides.

Dr, Hamm - I am assuming that the staff is already doing this, that they are relating any recommendation to policy. Dr. Payzant - I think what would happen, for example, there would be a general policy reference that deals with personnel that would appear with every personnel report. There would be policy references to purchasing that would appear with purchasing, payrolls and encumbrances, and those would be routineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, that once we establish them and put them in, they would show up on every agenda. Where you would get the variable would be on items that might be presented in my report or become items of new business or unfinished business, and conceivably those policy references could change from agenda to agenda because the items change from agenda to agenda. So there would be some staff time initially to get the coding for all of the routine matters, and once that was done, they would become repetitious, and then it would simply be a matter of taking every new item that came along and coding it appropriately. i

Dr. Hamm - If we do not make an effort to do something like this, I can envision the Board Policies book as being put on a shelf and gathering dust and not being referred to very much by Board members or by everyone else that is connected with the administration of School Board policy. I am .envisioning that the policy handbook become more workable, a reference for people. Dr. Payzant - It wi 1'1 be a regular reference for building and central office administrators, I can assure you, and the administrative regulations that go along with it. We are planning workshops either at the beginning of the summer or in the preschool workshops to help administrators better utilize the policies and administrative rules and regulations. But I have no problem in trying this if the Board thinks it will be helpful. I don't think it will require a great deal of staff time to at least try what Ii.think you are proposing. If it does become a more involved kind of thing to prepare, I will certainly let you know. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

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R. #197 Professional Trips Approved

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A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Hill to direct the following persons to attend conferences as indicated:

jAt no Expense to the School District a

Naomi Ard, Nutrition Education Specialist, Administration Building - State Nutrition Education and Training Workshop Committee Planning, Fountainhead Lodge, February 4-5, 1980. Confirmation

(b)

Joe Starwait, Teacher, Capitol Hill High School - Trip with vocational students to Six Flags, Texas, May 17, 1980. Confirmation

(c)

Bill Sharp, Teacher, Southeast High School - Trip with students to Glassboro, New Jersey, May 28-30, 1980. Confirmation

(d)

School custodians, not to exceed sixty-five (65) employees - Custodial Summer Workshop, Moore-Norman Vocational-Technical Center, June 9-11, 1980.

(e)

Naomi Ard, Nutrition Education Specialist, Administration Building - School Food Service Management Workshop, Woodward, Oklahoma, July 10-11, 1980.

Mr. Donwerth inquired about the date of the trip in item (a) and the delay for its confirmati on.

Dr. Payzant stated: The person who is requesting the confirmation is a person who is employed as the result of a state grant in nutrition education, and at the time that this was processed, the person did not realize, even though they were working on the state grant in the school district, that the claim had to be processed through the Board. It was not done and we had never paid the claim, and the person is requesting reimbursement, which she is entitled to, and now understands the procedure. There should not be this problem in the future. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #198 Approval of Resolutions of Appreciation

It was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Mr. Donwerth for approval of Resolutions of Appreciation for Breta Lee Bradford, Teacher, deceased May 13, 1980; and George H. House, retired Maintenance Engineer, deceased May 12, 1980.

Information to the Board

Dr. Payzant reported:

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

Technical Assistance for Title I District Advisory Council - You recal 1 at the last Board meeting that you received a request from a member of the Title I District Advisory Council for technical assistance. After a good deal of discussion'and time meeting with various people, I decided that the best way out was to provide the technical assistance myself. I did go to the District Advisory Council meeting last week and stayed with the group for the entire morning session. There was progress made in that a procedure for considering proposed modifications in bylaws was agreed to. Therewill be another meeting of the group on June 11 and I have agreed to attend that meeting as wel1:and attempt to provide technical assistance for that meeting. I am limiting my involvement to comment and direction on procedure, and have made it very clear to the group that I am not there to provide any assistance or give any recommendations oh the substance of decisions that the group may make. I am hopeful that the next meeting will result in progress too.

PERSONNEL REPORT

R. #199 Personnel Approved

A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Hill that the persons listed in the Personnel Report be employed and that contracts with the teachers listed on the form be approved and executed in the name of the District by the Superintendent or person by him designated; also, that other personnel recommendations and information listed be approved. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. (Personnel listings - pages 312-321.)

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PAYROLLS, ENCUMBRANCES, PURCHASING, BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Hermes to approve Recommendation #1 and #2 (ratification of May payrolls and authorization of June payrolls) and payment of encumbrances as listed for May 16-28, 1980. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #200 Approval of Payrolls and Encumbrances

Purchasing It was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of the following purchasing items:

Agreement for Cleaning of Band Uniforms, Etc. Agreement for the cleaning of band uniforms, blazers, choir robes, etc., for all high and middle schools by two cleaning firms, The Cleaners and Eastgate Cleaners, which submitted the low quotations on specifications. This purchase is to be charged to Account G 650.04.

Instructional Supplies

Purchase of instructional supplies - miscellaneous (rulers, prisms, ink, bar magnets, knife switches, etc.) for use by Supply and Distribution from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Frey Scientific Company, Inc. LaPine Scientific Company Thompson Book & Supply Company

Total

860.00 62.50 587.00

1,509.50

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.00. 3.

Wrestling Mat Purchase of wrestling mat for use at Moon Middle School from Sportmaster which submitted the low quotation on specifications in the amount of $3,015.00 to be charged to Account G 1230.03.

Sewing Machines and Accessories Purchase of sewing machines and accessories for use at various schools from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications. These prices reflect allowance for trade-ins.

The Singer Company (North May Avenue) Bernina of Oklahoma City White' Elna Sewing Center Singer Company (Norman, Oklahoma)

Total

6,737.52 4,320.53 109.90 ______ 24.66 $

$ 11,192.61

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 1230.03. 5.

Electronic Test Equipment and Tools Purchase of electronic test equipment and tools (wire, nutdrivers, pliers, multimeters, batteries, solder, etc.) for use by various schools and vocational classes from the following companies which submitted the low quotations: Wholesale Electronic Supply Radio, Inc.

Total

1,515.94 292.00

1,807.94

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

240.01, Adult Vo-Tech 1230.03, Adult Vo-Tech

Total

773.44 1,034.50

1,807.94

R. #20T Approval of Purchasing

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R. #201 Approval of Purchasing cont'd

Purchasing cont'd 6. â&#x20AC;˘J

Upholstery Supplies Purchase of upholstery supplies (staples, bobbins, needles, twine, scissors, thread, chalk, etc.) for use by various schools and vocational classes from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Oklahoma Upholstery Supply Trumans Fabric Keeton Industries, Inc.

421.80 488.20 431.77

Total These purchases are to be charged to Account 240.01, Adult Vo-Tech.

Horticulture Supplies Purchase of horticulture supplies (sprayers, nozzles, peat moss, rakes, hoes, fertilizer, pots, etc.) for use by Vocational Departments from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Horn Seed Company Hart Industrial Supply Company Mideke Supply Company Total

1,175.84 25.20 66.56

1,267.60

These purchases are to be charged to Account 240.01, Adult Vo-Tech.

Dental and Health Supplies Purchase of dental and health supplies (gloves, drainage bags, surgical blades, germicide, needles, soap, cotton balls, etc.) for use by Foster Estes AVTC (LPN) from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

Willis Medical Company, Inc. Patterson Dental Company

Total

1,491.67

These purchases are to be charged to Account 1121.03, Adult Vo-Tech.

Automotive Body Supplies

Purchase of automotive body supplies (body filler, putty, undercoating, polish, discs, masking tape, etc.) for use at Foster Estes AVTC from Sherwin Williams Company which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,012.76 to be charged to Account 1121.03, Adult Education. -

10.

Photography and Art Supplies

Purchase of photography and art supplies (plates, pads, ink, film, lettering, flash cubes, etc.) for use by Graphic Services, Educational Services and Foster Estes AVTC from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Neo Sign Supply Western Paper Company Sooner-Graphics Triangle A & E, Inc. Pyramid Ppaer Company, Inc. Color King. Inc. Bingham Ink Company Lawrence Photo of Oklahoma, Inc. Dees Graphic

9.95 51.62 68.00 83.70 267.00 599.08 144.60 572.99 129.82

Total These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

G 240.01 G 240.11 1121.03, Adult Education

Total

326.53 138.10 1,462.13

1,926.76

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R. #201 Approval of Purchasing cont'd

Purchasing cont'd

Photographic Supplies

11. 4

Purchase of photographic supplies (film, tape, blades, developer, activator, etc.) for use at Foster Estes AVTC from the following companies which submitted the low quotations: Lawrence Photo of Oklahoma, Inc. Sooner Graphic Supply

Total

1,194.69

These purchases are to be charged to Account 1121.03, Vocational Education (Adult).

12.

Teaching Aids Purchase of teaching aids (skill books for workshops, language development teaching materials, reading jkits, etc.) for use by External Funding (Learning Centers) from the following companies (available only from the designated distributor/publ is her): Nystrom Communication Skill Builders BFA Educational Media Child Focus Company Coronet Media Services

Total

$ 26,978.77

These purchases are to be charged to Account 240.01, Title I, and have been approved on our Federal Educational Grants and/or Programs. 13.

Office Machines Purchase of office machines (calculators) for use at various locations from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications. These prices reflect allowances for trade-ins: $

Monroe, The Calculator Company Oklahoma Typewriter Company, Inc. Capitol Hill Typewriter Company Olympic Sales Company

Total

443.55 662.65 8,854.00 371.80

$ 10,292.00

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: $

G 130.18 G 1230.03 *1230.03 (LEA), Teacher Corps *123O'.O3, Institutional

Total

112.00 9,926.00 127.00 127.00

$ 10,292.00

These purchases have been approved on our Federal Educational Grants and/or Programs. 14.

Duplicating and Copying Machines

Purchase of duplicating and copying machines for use at various locations from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications. These prices reflect allowances for trade-ins:

Audio-Visual Educational Systems Duplicating Supply Company -A. B. Dick Products of Oklahoma City

Total

$ 24,033.16

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 1230.03.

15.

Photo Identification System

Purchase of photo identification system for use by Graphic Services Department from Stik/Strip, Inc., which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,196.50 to be charged to Account G 1230.03.

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R. #201 Approval of Purchasing cont'd

Purchasing cont'd 16.

Asphalt for Maintenance and Supply Department

Confirmation of asphalt for Maintenance and Supply Department from Haskell Lemon Construction Company. This purchase in the amount of $7,844.07 is to be charged to Account Bond 1413.

17.

Paper and Tape Purchase of paper and tape for use by Washington Print Shop and Supply and Distribution from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Midwest Paper Company Western Paper Company Total

1,010.76 4,200.00

5,210.76

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

G 240.00 G 240.05

Total

1,010.00 4,200.00

5,210.76

The Central Food Service Department Financial Statement as of April 30, 1980 submitted as information to the Board.

was

Buildings and Construction R. #202 Approval of Change Order for Parking Lot Paving

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of Change Order No. 1 in the contract with Travelers Construction, Incorporated, for parking lot paving and repair at Star Spencer and Willow Brook Schools - Ned add $2,689.12. (Add at Star Spencer 240.13 yards of asphalt base repair 0 $10.20 = $2,449.32; add at Willow Brook 68.33 yards of asphalt base repair @ $10.20 = 696.79; and deduct at Star Spencer 49 concrete curbs @ $9.33 each = $457.17 - Net Add $2,689.12). On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

HEARINGS The following persons addressed the Board:

Casey Childs, II

Earnest Spivey

Mr. Childs read a prepared statement from the Urban League of Oklahoma City, Inc., expressing opposition to the elimination of an Affirmative Action Officer from the budget and abolishment of the Human Relations position. Mr. Spivey expressed a concern about the enrollment and assignment of his children.

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UNFINISHED BUSINESS It was moved by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Hill for adoption of policy DFH/DM, Student Activities Fund Management as follows: The Board hereby authorizes the establishment and maintenance of a Student Activity Fund account. The principal of the school is designated as custodian of these funds and shall be responsible for the proper administration of the financial activities of each account in accordance with state laws, Board policy, and administrative regulations.

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An audit shall be made of all activity funds annually and a detailed report furnished to the Board.

R. #203 Adoption of Policy DFH/DM, Student Activities Funds Management

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

NEW BUSINESS

None.

Dr. Start asked that the Board reconsider moving the Hearings to the earlier part of the agenda again. Some members of the Board expressed agreement with the suggestion. EXECUTIVE SESSION

A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Hill that the Board recess to executive session for discussion of matters pertaining to negotiations and personnel. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Ur. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #204 Board Recessed to Executive Session - 9:15 p.m.

Having completed its executive session, a motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Start that the Board return to open session. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #205 Board Returned to Open Session 10:49 p.m.

ADJOURNMENT A motion to adjourn was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Potts. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the Clerk's office.)

_________________ *Âť**Âť*^____________ President

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

I, the undersigned Clerk of the Board of Education of Independent School District Number 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours before the meeting, the date, time and place of the Regular Meeting was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. I also certify that at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, notice of the date, time, place and agenda of this meeting was posted in permanent public view at the location of the meeting.

Wi tness my hand and seal of this school district this 1980. --

Clerk, Oklahoma City Board of Education

R. #206 Adjournment 10:50 p.m.

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MEETING OF JUNE 2, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel

•4

TERMINATIONS

Major Classes of Terminations:

Voluntary Resignation a. b. c. d. e.

Changing employment \ Leaving Oklahoma City Area Early Retirement Personal Reasons No reason given

Mandatory Retirement

Notice of Dismissal

Discontinuance of Employment

a. b. c. d. e. f.

Termination from lea ve of absence Elimination of posit ion Expiration of employ nent period Unqualified for posi tiori Deceased Abandoned position

PERSONNEL NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

Terminations

Barthell, Roger Bell, Sarah

Bennett, Jefferson

Boswell, Judy

Bowen, James Brown, Karvl

Brueggen, Marcia Carr, Susan

Carroll, Kay Carselowey, Lorraine

Carver, Fay i

Chaney, Henry Chlouber, Gary

Clark, Nadine

’Star Spencer Business

5-30-80

Northwest Librarian

6-13-80

Marshall Science

5-30-80

Capitol Hill High Language Arts

4-15-80

King Intermediate

5-30-80

Burbank/Eugene Field Physical Education

5-10-80

Buchanan Special Education

5-30-80

la - Taft EH/LD

5-30-80

North Highland Intermediate

5-30-80

Carver Learning Center

5-30-80

Taft Art

4-15-80

Eisenhower Counselor

6-06-80

Capitol Hill Middle Science

4-21-80

Moon Math

5-30-80

1 - EH/LD - Educable Handicapped/Learning Disabilities

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MEETING OF JUNE 2, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cant'd

...

NAME

......... EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

— NAME

.. .... SALARY

-... DEGREE COLIEGE

APPROVED EXP.

-.....

... .

EFFECTIVE DATE

.... -...... — ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations

Clifton, Jan Cooper, Altheda

Dixon, Alice Durham, Jan

Ediger, Alice Finch, Jane Fowler, Catherine

Fredette, Debra French, Kay

Gelona, Vicki Golda, Dianne Hamilton, Vester

Howell, Elizabeth Howell, Roy

Rockwood Primary

4-14-80

Moon Language Arts

4-29-80

Northwest LD

Star Spencer Language Arts

5-30-80

Central Science

5-30-80

Central Language Arts

4-29-80

Gatewood Primary

5-30-80

External Funding Occup. Therapist

5-30-80

Classen French/Spanish

5-30-80

Northwest Vocal Music

5-30-80

Northeast LD

Classen Business

Jackson LD/EH

Grant Physical Ed./Coach

■

1 I

5-30-80

5-30-80 5-30-80

5-30-80

1 - LD - Learning Disabilities 2 - LD/EH - Learning Disabilities/Educable Handicapped

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

Gatewood i T. Kindergarten .

5-30-80

Southeast Science/Coach

5-30-80

Rogers Social Studies

5-30-80

Buchanan Soecial Education

5-30-80

Marshall Math

5-30-80

Capitol Hill Middle Soc i a 1 Stu dies

5-30-80

Vocational-Technical Medical Instructor

4-15-80

Capitol Hill Middle Science

5-30-80

Capitol Hill High Special Education

5-30-80

Roosevelt Language Arts

5-30-80

Edgemere Primarv

5-30-80

Moon Science

5-30-80

Jackson Math

5-30-80

Southeast Band

5-30-80

NAME

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Hunter, Betty

Lascelle, Robert Lewis. Rita T.i +.+.1 pnnfp. Hav

Ifann.A.

(Tph tc

Miller, Barbara Nash, Janie

Neph, Nancy Nichols, Beverly Orunh. .Tulip

Rook, Victor

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

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Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Speeglet Steve

Walker, Joseph

Arthur/Mark Twain

Page-Woodson

Capitol Hill High Driver Ed./Coach

5-30-80

Van Buren Lparni-np- Canter

5-30-80

Ridgeview Intermediate

5-30-80

Harding

Pupil Services Coord, of Guidance

5-09-80

Eugene Field Primary

5-30-80

Guidance Services Elementary Counselor

4-15-80

Telstar Primary

5-30-80

5-30-80 5-02-80

5-26-80

Leaves of Absence

..... 1 NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Leaves of Absence Professional Leave

Batchelor, Barbara

Belle Isle Business

6-04-80

Wedman, John

Central Math/Science

5-30-80

Health Services Elementary Nurse

5-30-80

Ill Health Miles, Jerry

PROFESSIONAL OTHER Terminations

Deere, Jackie

Hollier, Cynthia Khodabakhsh, Kathy

Stubblefield, Harrv Van Welden. Richard

Id '

External Funding Indian Ed. Developer 3-14-80

External Funding Family School Corr.

External Funding Indian Ed. Developer 4-07-80

External Funding

External Funding Youth Reentry

CAS

1 - CAS - Career Awareness Specialist

4-30-80

5-02-80

5-30-80

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MEETING OF JUNE 2, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROFESSIONAL OTHER.

Termination Wahpepah, Auchie

External Funding Indian Ed. Developer

3-24-80

Additional Allocation

Employment

Monthly

Byington, Jeff

$ 535.

Terminations

Enrolovments

Monthly

Yandell, Augustina

Johns, Jamie

$ 765.

4-18-80

Computer Services Keypunch Operator

DeGraffenreid, Mark

Reynolds, Samuel

745.

4-29-80

Graphics Audio Tech II

4-18-80

External Funding

TECHNICAL

RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD Substitute Teachers

Brantley, Lorraine E.

Library/Language Arts

Eutler, Betty

Home Economics

Flaniken, Kenneth

Physical Education/Science

Flatt, Cathy

Business

Hackett, Sylvia T.

Elementary

Ray, Reba

Science/Math

CAMPUS POLICE Termination

Small, Sue

Sullivan, Jayna

Stationary Officer

Employment

Monthly

Holman, Dale

$ 610.

4-17-80

4-15-80

Stationary Officer

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MEETING OF JUNE. 2, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL

------------------------- 4------------------------------ -

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

APPROVED EXP.

DEGREE COLLEGE

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT .

CLERICAL

Brown, Cecilia Carter, Dee Ann

Cottrell. Carla Goldsmith. Carol Hpnrv. Lois

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Mandez. Patricia Neal, Birdie

Oddlhurcr. — —<-»> Calia ~ Rollins, Kenneth

Townsend, Shirley

NAME

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

4-10-80

Adams Attendance Clerk

5-02-80

Shields Heights Principal's Secy.

3-31-80

Accounting Services Bookkeeper/Clerk

5-14-80

Taft Learning Ctr. Aide

4-18-80

Ridgeview Madia Aide

6-06-80

Office of Supt.

Computer Services Data Kntrv Clerk

5-07-80

Lincoln Media Center Aide

5-13-80

Parker Learning Ctr. Aide

5-07-80

Children's Hospital Teacher Aide

4-30-80

Moon Library Clerk

4-28-80

Capitol Hill High ESAA Aide

5-12-80

ASSIGNMENT

6-0Z.-80

—

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL

Terminations

Employments

Monthly

White, Essie

Doris, Lorette

$ 535.

4-22-80

Jackson Aide I

I < Robinson, Becki

Duren, Blanche

675.

5-01-80

Belle Isle Principal's Secy.

Ellis, Dana

Goldsmith, Carol

600.

4-14-80

Accounting Services Bookkeeper/Clerk

Grayson, Freda

595.

4-29-80

Purchasing Clerk I

Luetkemeyer, Regina

Hamdokh, Mary

545.

4-21-80

Southeast Library Clerk

Stinebeck, Yolanda

Langley, Betty

870.

4-14-80

Personnel Services Adm. Secretary II

Gilmore, Rebecca

Pricer, Dannv

615.

4-14-80

Accounting Services Payroll Clerk

Leach, Eva

675.

4-22-80

Secretary III

Transfer

Abrams, Kathy

FOOD SERVICE

Terminations Barnett, Peggy

Helper

4-03-80

317

MEETING OF JUNE 2, 1980 - CONT'D â&#x20AC;&#x2122;ersonnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE' Terminations

Bowman, Mamie Clayborn, Larry

Cranfield, Betty Davis, Stella Dillon, Patsy Drake, Wilma

Eyman, Sandra Fulson, Michael Hawkins, Ruth Hill, Mabie

Hodges, Gloria Jones, Beverly Jones, Elnora Kendrick, Mary

le le

le 4f

lc le

le le Id le

la le la

Helper

4-14-80

Helper

3-14-80

Helper

4-03-80

Helper

4-17-80

Helper

4-16-80

Helper

3-10-80

Helper

4-17-80

Helper

4-17-80

Helper

4-17-80

Helper

4-17-80

Helper

4-17-80

Helper

4-03-80

Helper

4-17-80

Helper

4-18-80

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE

McKenzie, Alice

Melvin, Carolyn

le Percy, Teressa

Scribner, Neva Stringer, Elizabeth

lb Id la la

Taylor, William

Helper

3-14-80

Helper

4-14-80

DPT*

3-1Z.-8O

Helper

4-18-80

Helper

4-17-80

Helper

4-24-80

Heiner

A-23-80

Helper

4-25-80

Employments

Hourly

Alexander, Rosie

$ 3.15

4-18-80

Helper

Braddy, Judy

3.15

4-30-80

Helper

Butler, Ruth

3.15

4-11-80

Helper

Hey, Ruth

3.15

4-21-80

Helper

318

MEETING OF JUNE 2, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE

Employments

Hourly

Johnson, Ronnie

$ 3.15

4-10-80

Helper

Jones, Lawanda

3.15

4-14-80

Helper

Kerr, Virginia

3.15

4-14-80

Helper

Kirby, Georgia

3.15

4-30-80

Helper

Moore, Bettie

3.15

4-22-80

Helper

Randall, Teresa

3.15

Remy, Vera

3.15

4-24-80

Helper

Thomas, Dorothy

3.15

4-14-80

Helper

2.90

5-01-80

Trainee

.-5-01=8.0..- Helper

Student Trainee Cargill, Tommy

j 1

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SUPPLY Termination

Chatman, Victor

Warehouse Worker

Employment

Monthly

Scott, Jo Ann

$ 615.

4-21-80

Warehouse Worker

715.

4-30-80

Serviceman

5-09-80

Bova, Patricia

TRANSPORTATION Terminations Allen, Melvin

Bills, Larry Boyett, Roger Childress, Donald

Coulter, Michael D'Innocenti, Daniel

Gunter, G.C. Hamilton, Steve

4f 4f

4f la

4f lb

Serviceman

4-25-80

Bus Driver

4-09-80

Bus Driver

4-29-80

Bus Driver

4-28-80

Bus Driver

4-23-80

Bus Driver

5-08-80

Bus Driver

4-18-80

Bus Driver

4-11-80

White. Timothy

319

MEETING OF JUNE 2, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL <

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

TRANSPORTATION Terminations

Jackson, Charles Johnson, Neal

Lagan, Matt

Porter, Larry Rodriquez, Thelma Seay, William Shubert, William

Timsah, Mohamad

Wilkerson, David

NAME

Id Id 4f Id la

la 4f

Bus Driver

5-06-80

Bus Driver

4-21-80

Bus Driver

4-24-80

Bus Driver

4-16-80

Bus Driver

4-28-80

Bus Driver

5-16-80

Bus Driver

5-08-80

Bus Driver

4-30-80

Bus Driver

4-09-80

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

Employments

Monthly

Burwell, Daniel

$ 395.

4-28-80

Bus Driver

Childress, Donald

395.

4-28-80

Bus Driver

Cooper, Julius

395.

4-22-80

Bus Driver

De-Sha, Rebecca

300.

5-02-80

Bus Driver

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

TRANSPORTATION

Boyett, Roger

Employments

Monthly

Frye, Stephen

$ 395.

5-08-80

Bus Driver

Jackson, Charles

600.

5-07-80

Bus Driver

Nichols, Ernest

410.

5-08-80

Bus Driver

Nkwonta, Austin

395.

4-16-80

Bus Driver

Pomeroy, Carroll

410.

5-07-80

Bus Driver

Porter, Donna

395.

4-28-80

Bus Driver

Porter, Larry

to C O

Terminations

4-22-80

Bug.jaÂ±ar

Reid, Molly

212.50

4-29-80

P.T. Bus Driver

Stokes. Martin

600.

4-24-80

Bus Driver

Wilson, Jerry

395.

5-06-80

Bus Driver

McCormick, James

990.

5-06-80

Mechanic

320

MEETING OF JUNE 2, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

................. ■ • ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

1 •

TP A MdPOPT A TTflM

Ik’lrmav TOUT'S

Bus Aide

2-25-80

.^‘FRVTr.Ti’ 1 eniiina uxuiio Rn+.l pt

T.inda

Roosevelt Custodial Worker

Bodine Custodial Worker

4-23-80

Employments

Monthly

Bannister, Michael

$ 605.

5-05-80

Roosevelt Custodial Worker

4-28-80

Bodine Custodial Worker

4-15-80

Mukes, Vernon

620.

Marshall Cnstodlal Worker

4-28-80

Kayode, Odeseye

605.

5-06-80

Marshall Custodial Worker

Davis Custodial Worker

5-05-80

Rogers Custodial Worker

4-10-80

Roach, LaVerta

605.

4-25-80

Rogers Custodial Worker

5-01-80

Jefferson

Riverside Custodian

605.

4=25=8Q

605.

5-01-80.

H.XX1U.X XVXl 3

Id Laviolette.*. Cornelius------ . 4f

Ligons, Ametha

NAME

4-30-80 5-08-80

Willard bUST.oaiaj wtHMtr

4-16-80

Thomas, Robert

Southeast Custodial Worker

4-17-80

Newton, John

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

Willard Southeast Custodial Worker

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Terminations

Employments

Monthly

$ 605.

5-02-80

Service Center Custodial Worker

—------------------------------- ( 1■

Southeast Custodial Worker

4-29-80

Service Center Custodial Worker

4-24-80

Swafford, Dennis

Rogers Custodial Worker

4-11-80

Imbu, Tamunokubie

605.

4-24-80

Rogers Custodial Worker

4-21-80

Willard Custodial Worker

4-14-80

Douglass Custodial Worker

4-23-80

Parmelee Custodial Worker

4-28-80

Goad, Keneth

605.

4-30-80

Parmelee Custodial Worker

Douglass Custodial Worker

5-07-80

Foster Estes Head Custodian

4-30-80

Banks, Michael

605.

4-21-80

Administration Bldg. Custodial Worker

Fulson, Herbert

Greer, Harold

605.

4-16-80

Star Spencer Custodial Worker

Hankins, Josephine

Kofa, Velma

605.

4-17-80

Service Center Custodial Worker

Washington, James

Nwalu, Mikada

605.

4-17-80

Grant Custodial Worker

McCutchen, Magdalena

Milton, Dennis ! Moore, Johnny I

Mukes, Marcus Rector, James jSe.ay-.. Ray

Siler, Donald Wallace, Lawrence

Witcher, Richard

Galloway, Michael

321

MEETING OF JUNE 2, 1980 - CONT'D r"-""""........

Personnel cont'd NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

' NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Terminations

Employments

Monthly

Cruikshank, Warner

Murphy, Frank

$ 700.

4-21-80

Taft Custodial Worker

Thompson, Ronald

Musgrave, Jimmy

620.

4-22-80

Telstar Custodial Worker

Dailey, Herbert

Beck, Jack

605.

5-01-80

Northwest Custodial Worker

Donnell, Robert

Dorman. lauren

620.

5-05-80

Roosevelt Custodial Worker

Easley, Paul

Jones, Johnny

605.

4-16-80

Jefferson Custodial Worker

Ingram, Herman

Mukes, Marcus

620.

5-07-80

Western Village Custodial Worker

Simms, George

Udomah, Michael

605.

5-06-80

Wheeler Custodial Worker

Transfers

Terminations-Substitutes Cawood, Kelly.

Douglas, Ralph

Goodner, John

Id le

Washington

4-22-80

King

5-02-80

Harrison

4-22-80

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Terminations-Substitutes Menefee, Larry

Moaning, Joseph

Hillcrest

4-23-80

Sunset

4-25-80

Employments-Substitutes

Hourly

Goodner, John

$ 3.15

4-18-80

Harrison

Higgins, Michael

3.15

5-06-80

Harrison

Paxton, Steve

3.15

4-30-80

Sunset

Tapia, Juan

3.15

5-05-80

Washington

5-05-80

Carpenter's Helper

MAINTENANCE/ENGINEERING

Termination

Coyle, Arthur

Machinist

4-09-80

Transfer

Employments

Monthly

Smith, Willard

Wise, Bryan

$ 865.

322

MINUTES OF MEETING OF JUNE 16, 1980

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY,

OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR ADJOURNED MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION

BUILDING, 900 NORTH KLEIN, MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M. PRESENT:

Delbert Hamm, President Mrs. Freddye Williams, Vice President Floyd Donwerth, Member Mrs. Susan Hermes, Member Mrs. Betty Hill, Member Mrs. Pat Potts, Member Armond H. Start, Member

The meeting was called to order by Dr. Hamm and Mrs. Williams gave the invocation.

Dr. Hamm welcomed

all of the visitors present.

Roll call established that all of the board members were present.

Call to Order Visitors Welcomed

Roll Call

Mr. Donwerth inquired regarding Mrs. Williams1 acceptance of the nomination as Vice President of the Board on June 2, 1980.

Dr. Hamm stated: Mrs. Williams was elected to the position of Vice President of the Board. She was absent and upon notification of her election, she did accept. So let the record read that she is Vice President. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hill for approval of the minutes of June 2, 1980 as presented. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williajns, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Mr. Donwerth,. aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #207 Minutes Approved

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS

Dr. Start - In talking about the future of the school district, I was reminded this past week about the necessity of having a downtown elementary school that would enable those members of the work force, who would wish, to drop off their children and pick them up after work, the same kind of arrangement that we have at West Nichols Hills. It is an immediate and priority concern in the downtown area. I would suggest that we as members of the board think in terms of building a new building downtown and closing those three places that we currently operate and integrate all of that into a beautiful elementary downtown'structure.

Comments Dr. Start

Mrs. Hill - I received a brochure from Linwood Elementary School, and I am very pleased to see principals that are publishing little booklets telling a message about their school. So to the principal and the staff there, I think it is a very worthwhile bulletin. I know that the patrons are working very hard to keep the interest going that they still have. Also, I was privileged to attend the awards ceremony at the Service Center and pleased to learn that the State has now decided that maybe they need a training program and will be stealing one of our workers, but we wish him well.

Comments Mrs. Hill

Mrs. Williams - I would invite all of you to the concert by the Boulder Youth Choir to be held at Grace Lutheran Church, Wednesday night at 7:30. The Boulder Youth Choir is composed of 36 kids from the Boulder Valley area of Boulder, Colorado. It is interracial and they do all kinds of music. The concert is free and it is directed by our son James.

Comments Mrs. Williams

Mrs. Hermes - I was also at the Service Center for the awards ceremony for our custodial Comments Mrs. Hermes people, and that was in conjunction with a tour of the whole Service Center conducted by Dr. Stripling and Mr. Shepard. I want to thank them for having me out there. It was very impressive.

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Comments Dr. Hamm

Committee Report - Evaluation Procedure for Superintendent

Dr. Hamm - I also attended the awards ceremony at the Serice Center and was very much * impressed with the amount of time that the personnel put in their training. In your agenda you will notice that each item of business has a code reference to the particular board policy that item is implementing, and it is hoped that such a coding will keep board policy in the front of our thinking and make the policy manual a much In case you haven't heard, at the Vo-Tech 22 Board meeting, needed reference book. Mrs. Betty Hill was unanimously elected President of the Board of Vo-Tech 22 and we are looking forward to working jointly with her in our many common interests.

Mrs. Hill reported: Del Hamm, Pat Potts and I were on a committee appointed sometime ago to come up with an evaluation procedure for our Superintendent, and we do have one that we will be recommending to the board this evening, The first sheet is called the Evaluation of the Superintendent and we are suggesting that this be sent to the Superintendent's Office staff (a central office administrator), our principals and our assistant principals. This will be the first time we will have involved staff people in the evaluation of our Superintendent. It is a one-page evaluation form that they are to fill out, rating the Superintendent on management, leadership, communications, and the relationships with staff, board, and community. We are recommending that it would be sent with a cover letter from the Superintendent to the people here and would be returned to the President of the Board. This would be done the first part of December so that they could be tabulated before we do our annual evaluation of the Superintendent. The contract calls for that to be done in December. In addition to this one that we will be using, we have suggested for sometime that the Superintendent needs to be rated on the goals and objectives that we have. The Superintendent in the first part of December would give a written report to the board on the extent that he thinks that these goals and objectives have been met, and would give any other additional information to show how the board goals have been met during this year. The other sheet included is the one we used last time, very similar to the one we have been using since I have been on the board, where the board members themselves rate the Superintendent.on the relationships with the board, community relations, staff and personnel relationships, educational leadership, business and finance, etc. We as a committee are recommending that this be the method that we use tc evaluate the Superintendent in December.and for next year to go with his contract. Dr. Start inquired: Did I understand you to say that this would go to the individuals listed with a cover letter from the Superintendent?

Mrs. Hill

Yes.

Dr. Start - I would strongly suggest that it come from the President of the Board. Dr. Payzant - My suggestion was that my letter would just go urging them to do it ____________ and say nothing more than that, and then they would be returned directly to the President of the Board. They would be anonymous; there would be no requirement to sign. I was concerned that some might not think that I endorsed the idea of being evaluated by the other administrators. I do endorse that idea and just wanted to make it â&#x20AC;&#x2122;dear in a cover note. Mrs. Hill - In doing this, we are trying to involve the people that Dr. Payzant works with most directly. The cover letter could be signed by both the Superintendent and President of the Board.

R. #208 Guidelines for Evaluation of Superintendent Approved

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start that the board use guidelines as submitted by the committee for evaluation of the Superintendent for 1980-81. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

ITEMS PENDING

Meeting of November 16, 1979

Commission to Improve Education Report

HEARINGS The following persons addressed the Board:

Jim Huff

Gerrie Beasley

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HEARINGS cont'd | Mr. Huff's remarks were in regard to the Oklahoma City Federation of Teachers being I ready to return to the bargaining table as the result of the State Supreme Court's | decision. | Ms. Beasley, representing parents from Kaiser School, cited reasons why they believed | Kaiser School should not be closed.

LEGAL REPORT

i Mr. Bleakley reported: l

Decision of State Supreme Court in Recognition of American Federation of Teachers as Bargaining Representative for Teachers - The first item is the decision of the Supreme Court in the suit brought by the American Federation of Teachers. All of the actions that have occurred during the strike have been undisturbed by the decision of the State Supreme Court except for the length of non-recognition of the American Federation of Teachers. As you recall, Judge Carmon Harris held that the recognition had ceased until December of this year, and the Supreme Court gave a conservative and strict interpretation of the statute and said that it was only during the length of the strike that you could cease to recognize and negotiate with the American Federation of Teachers. On the basis of that decision, the action coming up in the Superintendent's Report is the appropriate action to take. You will recall that petitions for recognition were submitted both by the American Federation of Teachers and the Association of Classroom Teachers, and those petitions were proper and an election was held and the American Federation of Teachers was the winner of that election. So by virtue of that election the American Federation of Teachers should be recognized as the representative organization of the teachers. The decision of the Supreme Court was a seven to two decision. Two of the justices felt that the length of time was proper under the statute.

Opinion on Official Action of Attorney's and Treasurer's Reports - At a previous board meeting, Mrs. Potts had asked my opinion as to whether or not the treasurer's and attorney's reports should be adopted by the board or received by the board. You have that opinion and it contains the recommendation that it would probably be more appropriate not to have it received in ~its entirety as an official action. This board might consider that opinion and take what action it deems appropriate.

3. Opinion in Jane Finch Termination Hearing - We have not received an opinion yet in the Jane Finch termination hearing. The transcripts have been prepared. I anticipate a ruling by the hearing judge within the very near future. I 4.

Request of Attorney General's Opinion - We have also requested through a legislator an attorney general's opinion with respect to the transfer of personnel to different positions in the district, and how that will affect their salary positions and the applicable mandates. We are hopeful that opinion will be received on or before July 1, whith is' when the new salaries go into effect. As soon as that opinion is received, we will distribute it to the administration and board.

Dr. Hamm stated that in regard to the opinion given that the board should not move to accept or adopt the report unless the attorney or treasurer specifically requested some action, the board would not move for action but just thank the attorney for making his report.

Attorney's Report

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT

It was moved by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Start that the following persons be R. #209 Professional Trips directed to attend conferences as indicated: Approved At School District Expense

(a) Phil George, Administrative Assistant, Public Information -The National School Public Relations Convention, Washington, D. C., July 7-11, 1980.

(b) Vern Moore, Director of Middle Schools and Fifth Year Centers - Leadership Conference, National Middle School Association, Chicago, Illinois, July 9-11, 1980. At no Expense to the District

(c) Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent - Speech, Sarasota Public Schools, Sarasota, Florida, June 18-19, 1980. (d) Meredith Cockrell, Summer School Principal, John Marshall High School - National Council of Assessment, Denver, Colorado, June 18-20, 1980. (e) Alice V. Houston, Director of Curriculurn - Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, Alexandria, Virginia, June 26-28, 1980. (f) James Robinson, Principal, John Marshall High School - Naval Academy-Administrative Tour, Norfolk, Virginia, June 29-July 3, 1980.

(g) Pam Wheeler, Principal, Taft Middle School - National Middle School Association Leadership Conference, Chicago, Illinois, July 9-11, 1980.

(h) Naomi Ard, Nutrition Education Specialist, Curriculum - The School Board Food Service Management Workshop, Hobart, Oklahoma, July 17-18, 1980. (i) Betty Williams, Director, Elementary Schools - Speech, Arkansas State Administrators Convention, Little Rock, Arkansas, July 29-31, 1980. Referring to item (d), Mrs. Hill inquired as to who would be in charge of the summer school while the principal attended the meeting as indicated.

Dr. Payzant stated that summer school at the high schools were being administered by administrative interns for the most part, with the assistance of the Director of High Schools and the Assistant to the Director of High Schools; that the responsibilities would be covered by the Director of High Schools in the absence of the principal just as they would be during the regular school year. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. R. #210 President of Board and Superi ntendent Authorized to Execute Documents

A motion wa*s made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the President of the Board and the Superintendent be authorized to execute the necessary documents and submit applications for grants as follows:

Under Title III of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act, P.L. 95-619 - Technical Assistance for Energy.

Under Title IV of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, Youth Employment and Training Program - CETA Career Awareness Youth Re-Entry Program.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. R. #211 Recognition of Oklahoma City Federation of Teachers as Representati ve for Professional Educators

It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Potts that the Board of Education shall vacate its action of April 7, 1980 in which the Oklahoma City Association of Classroom Teachers was recognized as the exclusive representative of the professional educators of the District for negotiations, and that the Board of Education shall recognize the Oklahoma City Federation of Teachers as such representative on the basis of the majority vote it received in the representation election held on October 30, 1979 On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd

Dr. Payzant stated: I am recommending approval of a statement of understanding with the building administrators of the school district - the principals and assistant principals. Mr. Russell and I have been carrying on discussion sessions with the representatives of the building administrators over the past several months. The statement of understanding which covers salary and fringe benefits for the 1980-81 school year has been approved by the building administrators. It provides for a 12 percent increase in salary and fringe benefits. The range in salary increases will be 8.46 percent to 18.56 percent. Each administrator will receive at least his or her mandate as required by the state in the legislation recently adopted and signed by the Governor. The fringe benefits are similar to those provided in the 1979-80 year, with the board paying the cost of the employees' health insurance premiums and continuing to pay the employees' retirement benefits up to the maximum allowed, which this coming year will be $800 rather than the $750 in 1979-80. There will be 11 working days of sick leave for the school year, with the sick leave bonus benefit that was approved by the board several months ago. being carried over into the statement of understanding for next year. There will be two personal business leave days per year, with the option of receiving a third day if a certain percentage of sick leave is not used. It includes a severance pay benefit, which is not a new one and provides five dollars per day for accumulated sick leave at the time of retirement for building administrators who resign after 15 years of service to the district. The work year for elementary principals under this proposed statement of understanding would be 196 days; the same for elementary assistant principals; 206 days for middle school principals; 201 days for their assistants; and 206 days for high school principals and high school assistants. This represents a change in approach to contract days in that the days that are listed in the contract would be as those I referred to, and administrators will be paid for a day's work. They will not be paid vacation days. This agreement would become effective on the 1st of July, 1980, and remain in effect through June 30 of 1981. I think this statement of understanding is an excellent one for the school district and for the administrators, and it will allow administrators to come close to realizing a goal that they have long sought, namely, becoming competitive in salary and fringe benefits with the average in the southwestern and central United States regions.

Recommendation Statement of Understanding 1980-81 Salary and Fringe Benefits for Building Administrators

A motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hermes for approval of the statement of understanding - 1980-81 salary and fringe benefits for building administrators, as recommended by the Superintendent.

R. #212 Approval of Statement of Understanding 1980-81 Salary and Fringe Benefits for Building Administrators

Mrs. Hill inquired as to whether principals had Jjeen informed about the statement of understanding.

Dr. Payzant responded that the principals had received a copy of the proposed statement and he was assured by the principals' association that the principals had seen it and voted to accept it.

Dr. Payzant^.continued: My next recommendation is for the adoption of the salary schedule and fr.inge .benefit package for the central office administrators for 1980-81. The proposed package would provide for two groups of central office administrators, the first being a group of approximately 67 persons who are classified as administrators on the administrative salary schedule, and the second for a group of 23 persons identified as central office support staff. These would be people such as research associates, computer programmers and managers, who primarily work in the Planning, Research and Evaluation, and the Computer Services Departments. For the central office administrators, the package proposed represents an increase of 10.95 percent, and for the support staff, 11 percent. The range in percentage increases in salaries for central office administrators on the proposed schedules would be 7.5 to 15.29 percent, and for.the support staff, from 8 percent at the bottom to 15.29 percent at the top. The central office administrators received considerably less last year in a salary and fringe benefit compensation package than did the teachers and classified employees, and building administrators. They did not receive the full retirement benefit fringe benefit which teachers and other administrators received, and the board has paid only $500 of the retirement contribution, rather than the $750 that has been paid for the other two employee groups this past year. I am recommending that as part of the package the central office administrators receive the maximum retirement benefits up to $800. On the health insurance pldn, the building administrators last year received full premium for the employee, and I am'recommending that benefit be extended to central offfice administrators this year. You will recall that when the board approved the sick leave bonus plan, I questioned its applicability and relevance for central office administrators, and in lieu of that fringe benefit I am suggesting for this group a term life insurance benefit that would provide $10,000, $20,000 and $30,000 in term group life insurance, depending on the salary schedule which the administrator is assigned to.

Recommendation 1980-81 Salary Schedule and Fringe Benefit Program for Central Office Administrators

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R. #213 Approval of 1980-81 Salary and Fringe Benefit Program for Central Office Administrators and Support Personnel

Discussion 1980-81 General Fund Budget

A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Hermes for approval of the 1980-81 salary schedule and fringebenefit program for central office administrators and support personnel as recommended by the Superintendent.

Dr. Payzant reported: Before the board's discussion of the budget, I have two points that I would like to make to add to the comments that I made in some detail when the budget was presented at the last meeting. There are two revisions that I am going to be recommending that I am aware of at this point, although I have not presented you with a new printout of new material to reflect those two changes because there may be others that will result from your discussion this evening, or new information which comes as the result of the final work of the legislature this evening. I do intend to recommend the elimination of one additional research associate's position, with the retention of the funds allocated for that position for temporary help category that would enable the Research Department to use that money for the employment of clerical and secretarial persons to do a lot of the extra work that does not require the level of skill of a research associate. During the past few weeks with the budget freeze on and no temporary help available, we had a problem getting the California Achievement Test answer sheets and scoring packets in shape to submit for scoring. That is a laborious task that takes a lot of time, but it need not take the time of highly paid, highly skilled personnel. Secondly, we do think that we possibly will get additional funds from the State and Community Education Grant for next year. I hope to have additional information on that in the next few days which would require adding some money to both the expenditure side of the budget and the revenue side. That would balance out based on the Community Education Grant. After we get bills as finally enacted by the legislature this evening on appropriations, we will have another session with Mr. Isch, Dr. Smith, and Mr. Light to doublerclieck our revenue estimates and present any new revenue information to you prior to the time that you are asked to take final action on the budget at the June 30 special meeting. Mrs. Williams inquired as to the saving, with the result of the change as recommended.

Dr. Payzant responded: It doesn't result tn a saving; it is a transfer of money, eliminating a position, but making that $14,000 available for a temporary help account which could be used as the peaks of the work load in that department accrued during the year, and it would be used for different types of temporary help from data collectors to clerical people who would compile data, to people who would do checking kinds of work to perhaps putting on a part-time research associate for a couple of weeks to work on a special project. Mrs. Potts asked about the amount budgeted for the Teacher Contingency Fund.

Dr. Payzant - There are 22 positions budgeted for the Teacher Contingency Fund, which is included in the main 213.00 Account. That compares with 45 positions that were budgeted l.ast-year. These positions are unassigned until August and September, and they are used to provide assistance in schools that are under-staffed because we missed the enrollment projections. It may be necessary, because that number is low this year, to move some existing teachers around from one school to another at the beginning of the school year to assist with balancing out the staff/student ratios and class sizes. We used for budgeting purposes an average teacher's salary for those contingency positions. Mrs. Hill inquired about expansion of the Spanish program.

Dr. Payzant - We did not have to my knowledge a specific request from other schools for that program. I think that should not reflect a lack of interest, but rather an understanding of some of the budget constraints that we were going to face. The one position for the three schools that have had the program is still in the budget. Mrs. Williams expressed a concern that the human relations aspect of the board goals had not been budgeted, and stated: I have looked at the budget to see if where maybe we could consider a trade-off. I am afraid of human relations under staff development only. We have come a long way, but I want something that can be monitored with student participation, with more climate within the school system. I think I have seen some retrogression; yet I have seen improvement in so many ways. Mrs. Potts in speaking, also, to the concern for human relations, stated: I think we have seen a dismantling of the Human Relations Department over the last two or three years. Some of it could be considered mainstreaming of much of the thrust of human relations, but I have a real concern in our cutting back those positions to the extent we are when we are looking at the cutting back that had taken place the previous year and the year before that. I think in terms of keeping faith with our

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commitment to human relations as a district as exhibited by our policy as found in our goals and objectives, I have a real problem with it being cut back to the extent we are dointj in the proposed budget.

Mrs. Potts continued by making the following motion which was seconded by Mrs. Williams: I move that we reinstate the position of human relations consultant (in the proposed budget) and that.it be funded out of the Teacher Contingency Fund. Additionally, as part of the motion, I would move that we ask for a twice-a-year report in terms of the implementation of the human relations policy and the goals and objectives that relate | to this policy.

Discussion 1980-81 General Fund Budget cont'd

R. #214 Reinstatement of Human Relations Consultant Position in Budget

Mrs. Potts continued: We are looking at for the first time our state really getting behind staff development by providing not only authorization for an extensive program in staff development, but funding, too, as we and other districts have requested. I think for us to be cutting back this area so drastically in the face of this kind of thrust on the part of the state, it looks to me like we are moving backwards from where we have urged the state to go. Mrs. Hill inquired about Mrs. Potts' reference in relation to the motion, to which Mrs. Potts responded that, of course, human relations was one of several aspects of the Staff Development Department. Mr. Donwerth inquired about that part of the motion which referred to the reinstatement of the position being funded from the Teacher Contingency Fund. Mrs. Potts responded: As I understand it, the full amount of the state allocation for this is already budgeted.

Dr. Payzant - There is a line item amount for staff development in the neighborhood of $200,000 which would go for workshops, teacher stipends, and the expenses associated with staff development, both the district program and the new."program that would be developed as the result of the bill that was passed by the legislature. That does not include money for any staff development positions that are full-time positions. They are budgeted separately. Dr. Hamm asked the Superintendent if he felt comfortable with the motion as stated.

Dr. Payzant - I don't agree with the motion because I recommended the budget another I way. Obviously, I do think that it is appropriate for the board to challenge my priorities and adopt different ones. I have no quarrel with that at all, but when you | do, I think you have to make the decision about where the money is going to come from. | My priorities are still as I presented them in the budget. The one concern I do have is with the second part of the motion, and we do have a rather extensive list of specific objectives which are part of my responsibilty under the goals which speaks to human relations, and I would be presenting as part of the evaluation format that the board just adopted a detailed report on the extent to which those objectives have been met or not met in December. I think that is very appropriate in terms of my performance. I would hate to see the board starting to get into special reports on any of these objectives twice a-year, because there are a lot of other very important areas in that statement of goals a'nd objectives that certainly could warrant attention monthly, not twice a year. So I am concerned about that part of the motion; not its intent, but if you do this one twice a year, are there other objectives that will need to be reported on twice a year as well? Mrs. Potts - I would think that the report that is done for the December evaluation would provide that kind of information at that time. So we really would be talking about one other time, at the conclusion of the year, for data in this area. It may be within a year or so that the board won't feel the need for this continuing, but at this point I certainly feel that it is needed.

Mrs. Hill - Having served on the evaluation committee and just recently rereading the Superintendent's job description and his contract, it calls for this very thing that you are asking for, that he is to organize the staff and to make any changes that he deems necessary. So I think he really has just been carrying out his job here. We have built it into the evaluation process. I think wehneed to follow the Superintendent s guidelines in this area and not try and get into the organization of different areas of the central office. We use the goals and objectives in evaluating the Superintendent, and I think we need to let him follow the job description.as written. Mrs. Potts - The difference being that as provided for now, we would be getting it in all areas at one time. I am talking about making sure that we get the report in this specific area two times during the year.

After further discussion, on roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, nay; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, nay; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd Remarks Dr. Payzant

Dr. Payzant reported: 1.

Summer School Enrollment - The summer school enrollments are up this yearin elementary, middle and high schools, but down slightly-in driver education. Last year we had 772 in elementary summer schools. That has increased by 88 to 860 this year; in middle schools from 210 to 416; and in high schools from 794 to 858. Driver education is down from 345 to 293. Honors Received We had several nice honors presented to us last week by the Oklahoma School Public Relations Association in that we won four first place awards in the state for publications that have been produced by Phil George, Pat Yarotsky, and Shirley Platt in the Public Information Office.

Pre-Test on Board Policy - Some of the administrators when they return for their inservice workshops in August will be given a little pre-test on board policy. I thought that perhaps you would like to have a copy of the pre-test. At your leisure you might like to administer it to yourselves. You noticed that I didn't give you the answer sheet, but when you become curious enough about how well you do or do not do on those questions which are true and false on board policy, I will be happy to share with you the answer key.

Dress Code for Summer School - The board policy on dress code says that no shorts should be worn. During summer school in this heat, I don't really have much of a problem with kids wearing shorts to school. There is no specific mention of a distinction for summer school programs, but I feel very comfortable administratively in just telling the kids that they can wear shorts to summer school, unless you think it ought to be some kind of amendment to the board policy.

Dr. Payzant and members of the board continued discussing consideration of dress for students in summer school which included a stipulation that shorts that covered the posterior would be acceptable when the temperature is above a certain point, authorizing a certain dress for summer school, and other. L #215 Approval of Dress >ode for Summer School

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams that students be allowed to wear shorts during summer school, and that the board take another look at the policy on student dress later on.

Members of the Board continued to discuss a concern about how much of the body the shorts that students would wear shouTd cover. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

ENCUMBRANCES, PURCHASING AND GENERAL BUSINESS

L #216 Approval of incumbrances

1. #217 Approval of ^rchasing Items

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mr. Donwerth to approve payment of encumbrances, as listed for May 29 - June 10, 1980. On roll call, the votes were as follows: "Mrs.'Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

Purchasing A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Hermes that items of purchasing be approved as follows:

Instructional Supplies Purchase of instructional supplies (duplicating masters, transparencies, letter cards, spelling exercises, charts, etc.) for use at various locations from the following companies which submitted the low quotations: Thompson Book & Supply Company Dowlings, Inc.

Total These purchases are to be charged to Title I Educational Grants and/or Programs.

3,067.44 5,370.43

8,437.87

and have been approved in Federal

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Permission to Place Orders Permission to place orders as needed for toner, developer, and fuser oil for use by the Graphic Services Department from PX Corporation which submitted the low quotation on specifications.

Asphalt

Purchase of asphalt (approximately 400 tons) for use by the Maintenance Department from T. J. Campbell Construction Company which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $8,600.00 to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Heating and Air Conditioning Supplies

Purchase of heating and air conditioning supplies (hose clamps, tubing, wire nuts, valves, extension cords, etc.) for use at Foster Estes AVTC from the following companies which submitted the low quotation:

Johnstone Supply Waugh Brothers Supply Company Total

536.54 623.52

1,160.06

These purchases are to be charged to Account 1121.03, Adult Vocational Education. 5.

Science Supplies Purchase of science supplies (forceps, cylinders, flasks, tubing, corks, wire, etc.) for use by Supply and Distribution Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Southern Biological Supply Company Central Scientific Company Science Kit, Inc. Fisher Scientific Company Frey Scientific Company Sargent-Welch Scientific Company Total

661.64 51.92 153.25 469.20 24.00 97.50

1,457.51

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.00. 6.

Film

Purchase of film (transparency) for use by Supply and Distribution Department from R. K. Black, Inc., which submitted the only quotation, in the amount of $1,012.50 to be charged to Account G 240.00.

Publications

Permission to..purchase publications (Food Coloring Book, F.O.O.D) for use by External Funding' from American School Food Service Association (available only from designated publisher/distributor). This purchase in the amount of $1,068 is to be charged to 240.01, Nutrition, and has been approved in Federal Educational Grants and/or Programs.

Paint Supplies Purchase of paint supplies (lacquer, glue, sealer, and thinner) for use by the Vocational Departments from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: PPG Industries Anchor Paint Company Del Paint Company

Total These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.01.

72.00 299.70 1,710.30

2,082.00

R. #217 Approval of Purchasing Items cont'd

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R. #217 Approval of Purchasing Items cont'd

Photographic Supplies and Miscellaneous Items Purchase of photographic supplies and miscellaneous items (plates, developer, finisher, sponges, masking sheets, etc.) for use by Graphic Services Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Lawrence Photo of Oklahoma, Inc. VWR Scientific, Inc.

Total

295.89 1,023.96

1,319.85

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.05. 10.

Metal Working Tools and Equipment

Purchase of metal working tools and equipment (vises, drills, sander-grinder, drill press, etc.) for use at Jackson Middle School from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Whitton Supply Company Stephens Industrial Supply Mideke Supply Company McKilligan Supply Corporation Brodhead-Garrett Total

130.00 2,355.05 744.60 1,061.69 693.00

3,984.34

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 1230.03.

11.

Permission to Place Orders for Goods and Services

Permission to place orders for goods and services used by the Maintenance, Supply and Distribution, Campus Police and Custodial Services Departments, and by various centers and schools during the 1980-81 school year. Prices paid or discounts received to be in response to invitations for quotations, agreements, standard price of publishers or authorized distributors.

12.

Firestone Retread Plant Joe Esco Tire Company

Recapping of Tire Carcasses Recapping of Tire Carcasses

Houchen Bindery, Ltd.

Rebinding of Books

Mid-Western Elevator, Inc.

Elevator Service

R. K. Black, Inc.

VQC Copier Paper

J. B. Battle Uniform Company

Campus Police Uniforms

Western Univorm & Towel Company Commercial Linen Supply

Laundry and Linen Service Laundry and Linen Service

Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. Big Three Industries, Inc. Service Supply, Inc.

Oxygen and Acetylene Oxygen and Acetylene Oxygen and Acetylene

Industrial Uniform & Towel Supply

Uniform Rental (Custodial)

The Dolese Company Murphy & Perkins Concrete Company

Concrete, Sand & Limestone Products Concrete, Sand & Limestone Products

Electrical. Supplies Purchase of electrical supplies (conduit, couplings, connectors, elbows, receptacles, etc.) for use by the Engineering Services from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Pyramid Supply, Inc. Melton Electric Supply Hunzicker Brothers Electric Graybar Electric Company Total

1,060.20 272.37 40.62 18,00

1,391.19

These purchases are to be charged to Bond Account 1425.

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13.

Typewriters

Purchase of typewriters (electronic) for use by Vocational Department at Douglass, * Grant, Marshall, Northwest and Star Spencer High Schools from the following companies which submitted thelow quotations on specifications: IBM Corporation Oklahoma Systems, Inc. Total

5,602.50 3,377.88

8,980.38

R. #217 Approval of Purchasing Items cont'd

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 1230.03, Vocational. 14.

Typewriters

Purchase ot typewriters (electric and manual) for use in various business education classrooms, school and administrative offices from the following companies (prices reflect trade-in allowance): Oklahoma Systems, Inc. Downtown Office Machines IBM Corporation Oklahoma Typewriter Company, Inc.

$ 28,653.15 12,629.50 49,161.00 259.00

Total

$ 90,702.65

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

$ 88,646.65 866.00 705.00 259.00 226.00

G 1230.03 G 1230.11 1230.03, Teacher Corps 1230.03, Adult BE *1230.03, Title I

Total

$ 90,702.65

*This purchase has been approved in Federal Educational Grants and/or Programs. 15.

Permission to Issue Purchase Orders Permission to issue purchase orders, July 1, 1980 - June 30, 1981, to the following companies for materials, supplies and services to be used by schools, Media Service;, Music and other departments. Prices to be paid and/or discounts received are based on quotations, agreements, standard price with publishers or authorized distributors. Library, Text, Reference Books and Other Media

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Allyn & Bacon, Inc. Arista Corporation Audio-Visual Enterprises

Textbooks, Kits & Tests Textbooks Teaching Aids Teaching Aids

The Baker & Taylor Company Barness-Loft, Ltd. Barron's Educational Services, Inc. Benefic Press Bennett, Chas., & Co. Bobbs Merrill Book Company Borg-Warner Educational System Bound To Stay Bound Bowmar Records, Inc.

Library Books & Teaching Aids Teaching Aids Teaching Aids Teaching Aids Teaching Aids Textbooks Teaching Aids Library Books & Teaching Aids Teaching Aids

Children's Press Collier-Macmillan Company Compton Company

Teaching Aids & Books Library Books & Teaching Aids Reference Books & Teaching Aids

Developmental Learning Materials Doubleday & Company

Teaching Aids Library Books & Teaching Aids

Economy Company Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation Education Corporation of America Educational Progress Corporation Eye Gate House

Textbooks & Teaching Aids Reference Books & Teaching Aids Teaching Aids Teaching Aids Teaching Aids

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R. #217 Approval of Purchasing Items cont'd

15.

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Permission to Issue Purchase Orders cont'd

Teaching Aids Fairview Audio-Visual Field Educational Publications, Inc. Teaching Aids Library Books & Teaching Aids Field Enterprise Educational Corp.. Ginn and Company Globe Book Company Grolier Educational Corporation Guidance Associates Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich, Inc.

Harlow Publishers Harper and Row Publishers Hertsbert-New Method, Inc. Hoffman Educational Systems Holt, Rinehart & Winston Houghton Mifflin Company Lyons & Carnahan Macmillan Company McGraw-Hill Book Company

Textbooks, Tests & Teaching Aids Teaching Aids Reference Books & Teaching Aids Teaching Aids Textbooks, Library Books, Tests and Teaching Aids Textbooks and Teaching Aids Textbooks, Library Books and Teaching Aids Teaching Aids Teaching Aids Library Books, Teaching Aids and Textbooks Teaching Aids and Textbooks Teaching Aids and Textbooks Teaching Aids and Textbooks Teaching Aids, Library Books, Textbooks and Testing Materials

Mcknight Publishing Company Nystrom Oklahoma School Book Depository Prentice Hall, Inc. Psychological Corporation

Teaching Aids and Textbooks Teaching Aids Textbooks and Teaching Aids Textbooks and Teaching Aids Teaching Ai ds

Rand-McNally & Company Random House, Inc. Regents Publishing Company

Teaching Aids and Reference Books Teaching Aids and Books Teaching Aids

Sadler, W. H., Inc. Scholastic Book Services Science Research Associates Scott, Foresman & Company Silver Burdett Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Society for AV Education Society for Visual Education South-Western Publishing Company Steck-Vaughn Company

Teaching Aids Library Books and Teaching Aids Teaching Aids Textbooks and Teaching Aids Teaching Aids Teaching Aids Teaching Aids Teaching Aids Teachi ng Aids Teaching Aids

Texas School Book Depository Thompson School Book Depository

Textbooks Textbooks and Teaching Aids

Western Psychological Services Weston Woods Wilson, H. W. & Company World Book-Childcraft

Teaching Aids Teaching Aids Teaching Aids Library Books

Xerox Education Publications

Teaching Aids

Film and Supporting Material

Leasi ng Leasi ng Leasi ng Leasi ng

Advertising Agency Associates Aims Instructional Films Alfred Higgins Arthur Barr

Films Films Films Films

BFA Educational Media Barry and Enright Productions

Films and Film Leasi ng Films

Centron Films Churchill Films Coronet Films

Films Films Films

Walt Disney Educational Media Co. Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation Films, Inc.

Films and Film Leasi ng

Golden Phoenix Communications Group W. Productions

Films Films

Handel Film Corporation

Films and Film Leasi ng

and and and and

Film Film Film Film

Films Films and Film Leasi ng

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15.

Permission to Issue Purchase Orders cont'd Film and Supporting Material cont'd

I.T.C. Entertainment King Features Learning Corporation of America

Films Films Films and Leasing

Martin Moyer Films Maryland State Dept, of Education Division ITV McGraw-Hill Textfilms Media Five Film Distributors Metromedia Producers Corporation Modern Media Services

Films Films and Film Leasing Films Films Films Films

NTA Films, Inc. National Film & Video National Georgraphic Society

Films Films and Film Leasing Films and Film Leasing

Oklahoma State University Ontario Education Communications Authority Oxford Films

Films

Paramount Communications Productions Unlimited, Inc. Professionalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Development, Inc.

Films and Film Leasing Films and Film Leasing Films

Raymer Educational Media, Inc.

Films and Film Leasing

SFM Media Service Corporation Southwest Media Services, Inc.

Films Films and Film Leasing

Teaching Film Custodians Time Life Multimedia

Films and Film Leasing Films

UPA Productions of America

Films

Viacom International Vipro, Inc.

Fflms Films and Film Leasing

Wordvision Enterprises

Films

Young and Rubican

F i 1 ms

Films Films and Film Leasing

Musical Instrument Repair and Overhaul (All Schools)

Audio Associates

Electronic Equipment

Harold Blue Repair Service

Brass, woodwind, percussion and some overhaul

Chenoweth & Green Music Company

Minor and major overhauls, and repairs on brass, woodwind, percussion and string instruments, and cases

Eb'minic Angelo

Repair of electric pianos and organs

Haught Music Company

Brass, woodwind and cases

Inter-City Violin Studios

String instruments, repair or overhaul

Jenkins Music Company

Major and minor repair of woodwind and brass, minor repairs on string instruments

Jones TV Radio

Electronic Instruments

Larsen Music Company

Brass, woodwind, and percussion and some overhauls

Millsaps

Brass, woodwind, percussion and some overhauls

Norman Music Center

Minor and major repair on brass, woodwind and percussion; overhaul on woodwinds only

R. #217 Approval of Purchasing Items cont'd

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R. #217 Approval of Purchasing Items cont'd

15.

Permission to Issue Purchase Orders cont'd

Musical Instrument Repair and Overhaul (All Schools) cont'd Paul McCrea's Band Instrument Repari

Brass, woodwind, percussion and some overhauls

Sharp & Nichols Music Company

Brass, wood, percussion; minor repairs to major overhauls

Stephens Brothers

Tuning, repair and overhaul of pianos

Lease, Lease/Purchase and Maintenance of Computer Equipment & Software Bell Telephone Company Discover Foundation Harris Communications System IBM Corporation Management Science America

Moore Business Machines National Computer Systems SPSS, Inc. Tel-Tex, Inc. Uarco, Inc.

Copying Machines & Services

Xerox Corporation Visual Art Equipment

Bob Crain House of Clay Evans Electric University Arts and Crafts

Kiln repairs Kiln repairs Small motor repair Repair of visual art - jewelry equipment including casting machinery, lapidary machinery, and plating machines

Stipend

Artists-in-Residence and Consultants

Mrs. Hill inquired about item 11, Laundry and Linen Service, expressing some concern that the district's laundry facilities would provide this service. Dr. Payzant responded: This would be for items such as uniforms or shop aprons, or the heavy towels that are used for cleaning rags in the shop programs - auto mechanics, etc. We do not own those items. We have a laundry rental agreement with the firms that provide the materials and laundry them. We take care of our mops and towels for physical education and some of our athletic uniforms; those kind of things that we own are laundered at our laundry facility.

Mrs. Hill indicated that in Industrial Uniform and Towel Supply was where she thought the rental typ.e service was included. Upon request from Dr. Payzant, Charles Allen, Director of Purchasing, stated that Industrial Uniform and Towel Supply was used for uniforms only.for custodians in the central office administration building; that the laundry and 1inen service was provided as indicated by Dr. Payzant. Mrs. Hill expressed some concern that the service had been provided to the home economics department in a high school, stating that it was her understanding that washers and dryers were provided in that department for this purpose.

Mr. Allen stated that he was not sure how the washers and dryers in the schools were being used; however, the use of the linen service as so stated had been an ongoing thing for many years.

Dr. Payzant stated that he would take a look at the service as provided and see if there were any of-the areas that were traditionally contracted for that the district could hand! ? with its own laundry; that the first thing tD be raised would be the purchase of the items, and the costing out of the initial investment to see if there would be a cost saving.

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General Business

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of the following general business items: 1.

R. #218 Approval of General Business I terns

Acceptance of Offer for Inman Page Property Acceptance of an offer of $90,000 from the Department of Transportation, State of Oklahoma, for the Inmain Page property (building and site) located at 317 North Geary.

Permission to Authorize Pool

ifs on Capitol Hill Middle School Swimmi

Permission to authorize Paddock Pools to make emergency repairs on the swimming pool at Capitol Hill Middle School at a cost not to exceed $3,000.

Dr. Payzant commented regarding item 2, by stating: I talked with John Ward at the County Health Department today, and there is no assurance that the expenditure of this $3,000 which will repair the pump system will correct all of the problems that the County Health office wants corrected before the inspection certificate is issued. Yet in pressing the County health officials, they can't tell us what else to do until they see whether this does it. So I am a little bit concerned that I come to you with a recommendation to spend $3,000, which won't absolutely result in assurance that pool will be opened after the $3,000 is spent, but I don't have an alternative because I am told that unless the $3,000 is spent, I can't find out whether the problem can be totally corrected. Mrs. Potts - I think even the need for it for summer school, which is very important with the program that we have, it needs to be fixed so it is usable for the fall term anyway. So I think if it is going to require additional expenditure, we may have to further authorize it. Mrs. Hermes suggested that if the sale of the property in item 1 would be placed in the Bond Fund, that the amount for additional expenditure for' the pool cduld be taken from the $90,000.for. that sale. AMENDMENT

An amendment was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the motion be accepted as made, but that the Superintendent and President of the Board be given the authority, if it is necessary to spend additional funds, to go ahead and spe^d those funds and bring the (Capitol Hill Middle School) swimming pool up to par for operation. Mrs. Hill asked if one of the high schools would be able to use the pool in the fall?

Dr. Wallace Smith, Assistant Superintendent, Business Services, stated that high school swimming teams are reluctant to use the pools that are not adequate in size for the proper practice; however, it could be arranged if the board wanted to do this. On roll call for the amendment, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

On roll call for the original motion as amended, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes,.aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. | .... ... BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of Change Order No. 1 in the contract with Universal Roofing and Contracting, Inc., for roof repairs, Taft Middle School; deduct $2,240.00.

R. #219 Approval of Change Order in Roof Repairs

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UNFINISHED BUSINESS None. NEW BUSINESS None.

HEARINGS

None. EXECUTIVE SESSION by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hill that the board recess to to discuss personnel and negotiations. On roll call, the votes Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the

R. #220 Board Recessed to Executive Session-8:35 p.m.

A motion was made executive session were as follows: Mrs. Hermes, aye; motion carried.

R. #221 Board Returned to Open Session 9:55 p.m.

Having completed its executive session, it was moved by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the board return to open session. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. ADJOURNMENT

R. #222 Adjournment 9:56 p.m.

A motion to adjourn was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the Clerk's office.)

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1980.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district thi

day of

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THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY,

OKLAHOMA, MET IN A SPECIAL MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M.

PRESENT:

Delbert Hamm, President Mrs. Freddye Williams, Vice President Floyd Donwerth, Member Mrs. Susan Hermes, Member Mrs. Betty Hill, Member Mrs. Pat Potts, Member Armond H. Start, Member

Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; Central Office staff members; representatives from professional groups, the news media and other interested persons.

The meeting was called to order by Dr. Hamm.

Call to Order

Dr. Hamm welcomed all of the visitors present.

Visitors Welcomed

Roll call established that all of the Board members were present.

Roll Call

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS Mrs. Williams commented regarding the death of a retired teacher, Mrs. Elva Lois Cooper.

Dr. Hamm read a letter from the president of the Taft Stadium Board, Mr. Omar Massad, expressing appreciation for the recent appropriations by the school district for major capital improvements to the stadium. Dr. Hamm also referred to a pre-test on Board policy that had been sent by the Superintendent to members of the Board, stating that his copy was completed and he was returning it to the Superintendent. HEARINGS

Dr. Hamm called on Raymond L. Smith, who had registered to address the Board. Mr. Smith expressed concern about the Title I programs in the high schools. Following his remarks, Dr. Payzant and members of the Board discussed the issue that had been raised.

Mrs. Potts asked Dr. Payzant to explain some of the rationale for not continuing the reading programs in the high schools. Dr. Payzant stated: The issue that Mr. Smith is raising is the eligibility criterion used to determine what schools will be designated as Title I schools. And he is correct in stating that the federal and state regulations give us several alternative ways to go, one being the us.e of an economic criterion and the second being use of a combination of an economic criterion and an educational deprivation criterion. The past several years the district has used the economic deprivation as a criterion and used those students who qualified and applied for free lunch as the basis for determining the schools that would be elfgfb'le,and then using a formula to determine which schools among 100 or so would qualify for Title I. He and several people came to.see me about this claim, and I think with some good reason, that at the high school level the free lunch data may not be as solid as it is at the elementary and middle school levels, because the high school students in some instances are less willing to ask for it; therefore, the numbers who show up on the eligibility list are fewer percentagewise and the high schools tend not to qualify using just the criterion of free lunch. We have talked several times in the last two or three weeks, and I have made the commitment to do a major study of the eligibility issue for next year, and perhaps suggest a different approach than what we have used in the past. If we were to make the change at this late date, we would be removing some schools at the elementary level and perhaps the middle school level from Title I eligibility that have been given to believe that they would have those programs for next year. I don't believe that it is appropriate to do so after the end of the school year or late in the school year. Therefore, I am recommending that we go with the eligibility criteria that we have used the last several years for 1980-81, but am quite willing, in fact have already set in motion the procedure for involving parents, the advisory council and staff in a look at the eligibility criteria with the possibility of a change being decided upon very early in the year so that the impact on schoolfe that would be affected could be realized before the late spring of next year.

Comments Mrs. Williams Comments Dr. Hamm

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HEARINGS cont'd Mrs. Potts - But using the past criteria, will we have elimination of several high school reading programs that we had in the past?

Dr. Payzant - The only high schools that qualified for Title I this year were Star Spencer and Douglass. None of the other high schools were in the program this past year. Mrs. Potts - So at the high school level the only measure of economic need were those who requested a free lunch program? Dr. Payzant - When you use that economic criterion; the data that we are asked to use by the State Department is the free lunch data. We haven't left things hanging completely, in that one of the recommendations that I have included in the budget which you will consider tonight is the addition of nine developmental reading teachers for the high schools, which will give each high school, ah .additional develidpmentiali reading teacher that will provide services similar to what a Title I reading lab would provide. Mr. Smith's contention is that won't deal with all of the students that need the services, :and I agree that it won't, but it will certainly double the services provided in all of the high schools this current year because each high school has only had one developmental reading teacher this year.

Dr. Payzant asked Dr. Bill Shell to respond to Mrs. Potts' question about the free lunch program as the measure of economic need. Dr. Shell stated: The base formula is free lunch. After you qualify the number of schools under the free lunch formula, you may then use educational deprivation as an option to take away one of the schools that qualified under free lunch, if you have more educationally deprived youngsters in another school. Then you can use a combination of the two, whichever one allows you to qualify selected schools. But you cannont qualify any more than the number you qualify under the free lunch criterion. It is not an option between one of three. You have to start with your base, which is your free lunch criterion, and then based on the preference of the local educational agency use the other portions of the formula which would be the deprivation portion. It is a complicated formula and it takes a long time to work out. Mrs. Potts - This would mean thatvthe funds for the developmental reading would be coming from the general budget as opposed to the funds for the reading specialists under Title I coming from the federal grant?

Dr. Payzant - Yes. There is another issue, too, that has been raised that is of some concern, and that is you can't fund with Title I money any program that the state or federal government thinks will supplant that which you should be doing with your regular funds. Although the Title I Learning Center program at the high school level is not identical to the developmental reading program, there area lot of similarities, and at least the question can be raised that if you kept your developmental reading program and had Title I reading labs at the high school as well, that you might be in danger of being charged with supplanting with the use of Title I funds. Dr. Shell added: One other consideration that came out this year is that we only tested students'at the high school level in their sophomore year. It requires individualized testing for all students who are considered for educational deprivation. For this past year, we did test all students, 1-11, but the tests have not been scored and could not be considered in the deprivation portion of the formula. We would have had to have gone back to last year's test to be able to do that and we only tested sophomores. So we will be prepared next year to consider all students under the deprivation portion of the formula. Mrs. Williams expressed a deep concern about the requirements for eligibility in the use of Title I funds and the students who receive the services.

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT #223 esident of Board d Superintendent thorized to ecute Documents

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mr. Donwerth that the President of the Board and the Superintendent be authorized to execute the necessary documents and submit applications for grants as follows:

Under the Adult Education Act, PL 91-230, as amended by the Education Amendment Act, PL 95-561 -Adult Basic Education.

Under PL 94-142, Education of Handicapped Children Act - Handicapped Flow Through Fund.

Under Oklahoma Senate Bill No. 402, Subgrant from the State Departmnet of Education - Community Education Program.

Under PL 95-561 (ESEA), financial assistance to meet Special Education Needs of Children - Title I Program.

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye^Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #223 President of Board and Superintendent Authorized to Execute Documents cont'd

It was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams for approval of the following:

R. #224 Approval of General Fund and Building Fund Operating Budgets

(a) (b)

General Fund operating budget for the 1980-81 fiscal year in the amount of $65,375,000. Building Fund operating budget for the 1980-81 fiscal year in the amount of $3,295,000.

Dr. Payzant stated: You have received with your packet of materials an updated printout of the proposed budget, which includes the modifications that have been made since the last meeting as the result of the decisions that were made, and also including the updated revenue estimates which are the result of new information, particularly, from the County Assessor on the assessed valuation for the school district.

Mrs. Potts inquired regarding the revenue estimates, as to if they were just the best estimates available?

Dr. Payzant agreed that the estimates in the budget were the best revenue estimates available and continuted by stating: On each of these revenue sources there is no way of having absolute figures because they are going to fluctuate somewhat during the year, depending on what happens with other forces that are beyond our control. A good example is what happened this current year with interest on investments. A year ago this time there was no way we could predict that we were going to go into a period where interest rates were going to skyrocket and we would be able to have three or four months of investments at 15% or 16% interest rates. There are those kinds of variables in just about every one of these estimates; however, the current year tax, which is the ad valorem tax based on the valuation of property, will now be pretty close because it is based on the updated tax rolls and the figures that the County Assessor just recently released. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Start for the ratification of a negotiated agreement with Laborers' International Union of North America, Local 1357, July 1, 1980 through June 30, 1981, for classified employees.

Dr. Payzant stated: Mr. Savage, the Board's negotiator, and the negotiator for the Laborers' International Union late last week reached a tentative agreement on a contract, and t-he membership of the Union met this afternoon and ratified that tentative agreement. The agreement includes a salary package that totals 11.5 percent. Ten percent of that amount 4s based on state mandated money that will be forthcoming from the State of Oklahoma. It also includes the sick leave bonus plan that the Board earlier provided for the certified employees as an incentive to not abuse sick leave, and the basic form and content of the contract that was in force for this last fiscal year is carried forward. I believe it is a good agreement for the Board and for the classified employees, and it is really a very positive thing to have it completed before the start of a new fiscal year. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #225 Ratification of Negotiated Agreement for Classified Employees

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd 1. #226 Approval of Employment and leemployment of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;ersonnel

Jt was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Hermes for approval of the following: (a)

(b)

The employment and reemployment of certified personnel as recommended by the Superintendent for the 1980-81 fiscal year. Salaries for these employees shall be as follows:

Prior to the approval of a negotiated salary schedule by the Board and the certified employees' representative organization, certified employees shall be paid at the rates previously approved by the Board for the 1979-80 fiscal year.

After the approval of a negotiated salary schedule for the 1980-81 fiscal year by the Board and the certified employees' representative organization, certified employees shall be paid at the rate set forth in the approved schedule for their work year.

Salaries for certified employees who are not represented by an employee organization shall be paid at rates established by the Board on June 16, 1980, for 1980-81.

All certified personnel salaries shall be subject to any necessary adjustment required by law to bring the total of all certified personnel contracts within the amount of valid appropriations approved for such purpose.

The employment and reemployment of noncertified personnel on a month-to-month basis as recommended by the Superintendent during 1980-81 fiscal year. Salaries for these employees shall be as set out in the negotiated agreement for the period of July 1 , 1980 through June 30, 1981.

(c)

Salaries for noncertified employees who are not represented by an employee organization shall be paid at rates established by the Board on June 16, 1980 for 1980-81.

The contracts with certified personnel for the school year 1980-81 and statutory notices on nonemployment to certified personnel who will not be employed for the 1981-82 fiscal year, to be executed or given for and on behalf of the Board by either the Superintendent or the Director of Personnel Services.

PURCHASING AND GENERAL BUSINESS

L #227 \pproval of Purchasing

A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mr. Donwerth for approval of the following purchasing items:

Furniture'"-. Purchase of furniture (tables, cabinets, desks, chairs, shelves, study carrels, etc.) for use at various locations from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Thompson Book & Supply Wright Line, Inc. S-K Supply Virco Mfg. Corporation Southwest Church Furniture Scott Rice Ramo's Office Furniture Dowlings, Inc.

8,843.22 780.00 504.04 1,666.10 380.00 1,545.00 225.18 _____ 114.70

Total

$ 14,058.24

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 240.01 G 830.05 1121.03 Vo-Ed Adult G 1230.03 G 1230.11 *1230.03, Teacher Corps *1230.03, Institutional *1230.03, Title I *1230.03, Title VII, Bilingual Central Food Service

2,418.62 2,722.00 777.27 2,916.71 43.70 58.94 178.00 4,414.40 183.60 345.00

Total $ 14,058.24 *These purchases have been approved on our Federal Educational Grants and/or Programs.

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PURCHASING AND GENERAL BUSINESS cont'd 2.

Instructional Supplies Purchase of instructional supplies - toys and games (Nerf balls, flexible farm animals, colored cubes, pegs, puzzles, flash cards, etc.) for use by External Funding, Educational Services, and Coolidge Elementary School from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Childcraft Education Corporation Thompson Book & Supply

Total

2,889.28

960.19 1,142.80 260.77 525.52

2,889.28

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 240.01 G 1230.11 *240.01 , Title I *230.01 , Title 4B

Total

*These purchases have been approved on our Federal Education Grants and/or Programs. 3.

Physical Education Supplies Purchase of physical education supplies (knee pads, sweat shirts and pants, wall mats and panels, etc.) for use at various schools from the following companies which submitted the low quotations: The Broderick Company Coast Marketing Group Nobel Lawton Sporting Goods Korney Boards Aids U. S. Athletic Supply Company, Inc. Sportmaster Total

173.58 175.92 518.00 217.80 67.49 806.30

1,959.09

1,391.92 567.17

1,959.09

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 240.01 G 1230.03

Total

Copy Machine Purchase of copy machine for use at Douglass High School from Pitney Bowes which submitted the .low quotation on specifications in the amount of $1 ,610,000, to be charged toâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Account G 240.01.

Cosmetology Equipment and Supplies Purchase of cosmetology equipment and supplies (hair dryers, manikins, shampoo chair, brushes, tweezers, hair color, etc.) for use by the Vocational Department at various schools from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Nationwide Barber & Beauty Supply Henry Kayser & Fils, Inc. Marianna, Inc. Porters Beauty Supply Helene Curtis Industries The Burmax Company, Inc.

Total

1,122.48 1,194.10 763.11 3,159.00 404.00 195.98

6,838.67

2,725.70 3,612.97 500.00

6,838.67

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 1230.03 240.01, Adult Vo-Tech 1230.03, Adult Vo-Tech

Total

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PURCHASING AND GENERAL BUSINESS cont'd 6.

Teaching Aids Permission to purchase teaching aids (notebooks for cosmetology practices, food models and literature) for use by the Vocational Department and External Funding from the following companies (available from the designated publisher/distributor only): State Department Vocational-Technical National Dairy Council

Total

3,281.00 1,147.50

4,428.50

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

*240.01 , Nutrition 240.01, Adult Vo-Tech Total

1,147.50 3,281,00

4,428.50

*This purchase has been approved on our Federal Educational Grants and/or Programs. â&#x2013; Home Economics Supplies

Purchase of home economics supplies (shears, cooling racks, coffee makers, pans, mixers, bowls, can openers, etc.) for use by Home and Community Services (CVET) at Classen High School from NASCO which submitted the only quotation. This purchase in the amount of $3,590.18 is to be charged to Account 240.01, Vocational. 8.

Home Economics Equipment and Supplies

Purchase of home economics equipment and supplies (pans, tables, ovenware, wrap counter, dinnerware, etc.) for use by Vocational Department at various locations from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: H. J. Wilson Company, Inc. Liberty Distributors Sei rite School Equipment Corporation Prestige Party Sales (Tupperware) Sunbeam Appliance Company Nasco Total

590.80 325.00 1,203.00 31.45 72.15 6u7.65

2,830.05

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: 240.01, Adult Vo-Tech 1230.03, Adult Vo-Tech Total

409.45 2,420.60

2,830.05

Steel

Purchase of steel (scrap for welding classes) for use in the vocational at Northeast, Capitol Hill, Southeast, and Douglass High Schools from Neer Steel Gompany which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,600.00 to be charged to Account 32-240.01, Vocational.

10.

Agreement for Fire Extinguishers

Approval of an agreement for checking, tagging, recharging, replacing, etc., fire extinguishers for all schools, Administration Building, Service Center, and school buses for 1980-81 with All State Fire Equipment which Submitted the Tow quotation on specifications. 11.

Agreement for Boiler Treatment Chemicals

Approval to validate an agreement for boiler treatment chemicals at $2.53 per gallon', for use by the Maintenance Department from Solvent Manufacturing Company which submitted the low quotation. These purchases are to be charged to Account BL 5620.05. 12.

Printed Forms Purchase of printed forms, purchase orders for use by the Purchasing Department from Origami, Inc., which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,598.66 to be charged to Account G 130.15.

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13.

Instructional Supplies and Equipment Purchase of instructional supplies and equipment (wrench sets, sandpaper, blades, socket sets, goggles, screwdrivers, grinding wheels, etc.) for use by all secondary schools in industrial arts and vocational classes from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Whitton Supply Stephens Industrial Supply Caco, Inc. Welsco, Inc. Hart Industrial Supply Gates Hardware & Supply Company Mideke Supply Presto Welding Supplies Brodhead-Garrett Company Rutland Tool Supply Severin Supply Company Duo-Fast Van's Auto Supply United Tool, Inc. Snap-On Tools Corporation Sears Contract Sales Hooper Supply Company W. W. Grainger Company McKilligan Industrial Supply Corporation Brittain Brothers A-Weldors Supply Company Total

901.28 1,204.69 1,545.08 864.68 419.53 783.60 4,063.10 2,512.39 673.70 842.58 1,164.21 196.09 328.47 564.00 876.93 529.80 172.00 8.42 190.82 113.29 715.10

$18,669.76

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

G 240.01 G 1230.03 240.01, Adult Vo-Tech 1121.03, Adult Vo-Tech 1230.03, Adult Vo-Tech

Total 14.

1,557.06 3,566.35 8,036.14 511.50 4,998.71

$ 18,669.76

Permission to Place Orders

Permission to place orders as needed with The Baker & Taylor Company which submitted the low quotation for Library, Text, and Reference Books, etc., and Brodart, Inc., which submitted the low bid on cassettes and records, to be used by Media Services, departments, schools, and centers during the 1980-81 school year. 15.

Service Agreements

Approval of service agreements with designated typewriter and office machine repair companies as listed herein to perform services on machines during the period from July 1, 1980 through June 30, 1981. Manual typewriters to be serviced under bid specifications, Option #3. Electric typewriters and all other office machines to be serviced under bid specifications, Option #2. Downtown Office Machines

Typewri ters

Oklahoma Typewriter

Typewriters and Adding Machines

Capitol Hill Typewriter Company

Calculators, Duplicating Machines and Copying Machines

Electronic Dictation System

Dictating Machines, Transcribing Machines, and Dictaphone & Transcriber Combination

A. B. Dick Products

Duplicating Machines

Duplicating Equipment Repair

Duplicating Machines

R. #227 Approval of Purchasing

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16.

Instructional Supplies

Purchase of instructional supplies - toys and games (puzzles, lacing cards, sewing cards, nerf balls, lockers, storage units, etc.) for use at Edwards Preschool from the following companies which submitted the low quotations: Developmental Learning Materials Teaching Resources Corporation Childcraft Education Corporation Children Press Educational Teaching Aids Wood Etc. Company Thompson Book & Supply Company

Total

122.20 256.25 1,719.91 68.45 75.42 2,752.25 1,989.13

6,987.61

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 240.11 G 1230.11

Total 17.

3,902.30 3,085.31

6,987.61

Refrigerator/Freezer

Purchase of one refrigerator/freezer and two bulk food carriers for use by Edwards Preschool from the companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: Dulaney's, Inc. Wm. E. Davis & Sons, Inc.

Total

525.00 1,746.87

2,271.87

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 1230.11. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

General Business

R. #228 Approval of General Business Items

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of the following general business items:

Donated Foods Agreement

Renewal of the Donated Foods Agreement with the Food and Nutrition Services Unit, Department o'f Institutions, Social and Rehabilitative Services to continue with the donated food agreement program for school cafeterias beginning July 1, 1980. 2.

Resolution on Inman Page Property Approval of a resolution declaring Inman Page property, 317 North Geary, to be surplus and no longer needed by the District and the authorization that the $90,000 received for its sale to be deposited into the District's cash Bond Fund Account to be used to either construct new structures or to repair and modify existing structures.

Lease/Maintenance Contract for Intrusion

Alarm System

Approval of transfer of lease/maintenance contract for intrusion., alarm system previously installed in various schools and buildings from Sonitrol Southeast, Inc., to Son-itrol of Oklahoma City, Inc., and continuation of agreement through June 30, 1981.

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General Business cont'd 4.

Insurance Policies

Approval to continue in force the following insurance policies and to pay premiums as they become due:

(1)

Workers' Compensation

(2)

Vehicle Fleet Policy; including liability, medial payments, fire, theft, combined additional coverage.

(3)

Surety Bonds

(4)

Legal Liability; Board members and employees

(5)

Fire and Extended Coverage for all buildings, including premises liability.

(6)

Unemployment Insurance

(7)

Boiler Insurance

(8)

Marine type policies on heavy concentrations of equipment, i.e., Data Processing Equipment.

R. #228 Approval of General Business Items cont'd

Continuation of Rental and/or Lease Agreements

Continuation of rental and/or lease agreements through June 30, 1981, subject to a 30-day cancellation clause and with the lessees' understanding that lessees will agree to (1) reimburse the district for cost of Fire and Extended Coverage insurance plus the average annual building maintenance cost based on the last two years of maintenance cost history; or (2) that lessee provide Fire and Extended Coverage insurance based on the value which the district establishes for the building and reimburse the district as annual rent the average of at least two years' maintenance cost on the building. Property and organizations follows:

(a)

Arcadia High School; Arcadia Youth, Family, and Multi-Purpose Associates; lessee pays insurance. (Effective October 1, 1980, lessee to pay $27.00 per month plus insurance.)

(b)

Cleveland Elementary School; Grover Cleveland Arts Institute; lessee pays insurance and $20.00 per month. (Effective October 1, 1980, lessee to pay $95.00 per month plus insurance.)

(c)

*Dungee Junior-Senior High School; *Tyler Elementary School; and *Walnut Grove tary School properties; Community Action Program of Oklahoma City and County, Inc.; lessee pays 3/4 cost of insurance . (Effective October 1, 1980; no change according to past Board action.)

(d)

*Garffeld Elementary School; South Oklahoma City Junior College; lessee pays $100.00 per month plusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; insurance. (Effective October 1 , 1980; no change recommended.)

(e)

Grant Elementary School; Northside All Sports Association; lessee pays $25.00 per month. (Effective October 1, 1980; lessee to pay $52.00 per month)

(f)

Lone Star Elementary School (west building); Lone Star Baptist Church; lessee pays $20.00 per month plus insurance. (Effective October 1, 1980; lessee to pay $43.00 per month plus insurance.)

(g)

*McKinley Elementary School; Plumbers and Pipefitters Local #344, Joint Apprentice and Training Committee; lessee pays insurance and $200.00 per month. (Effective October 1, 1980; no change recommended.)

(h)

Orchard Park Elementary School; Native American Center; lessee pays insurance, (Effective October 1, 1980; lessee to pay $19.00 per month plus insurance.)

(i)

*Sunnyside Elementary School; Wright Patrons for Youth; lessee pays insurance. (Effective October 1, 1980; no change recommended.

(j)

*Taylor Elementary School; Pathways Child Development Corporation; lessee pays insurance plus $20.00 per month. (Effective October 1, 1980; no change recommended.)

lemen-

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General Business cont'd

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5. <

Continuation of Rental and/or Lease Agreements cont'd

(k)

Valley Brook Elementary School; Town of Valley Brook; lessee pays insurance. (Effective October 1, 1980; no change recommended.

(1)

Whittier Elementary School; Board of Regents for Oklahoma State University; lessee pays $318.13 per month. (Effective October 1, 1980; lessee to pay $419.61 per month.)

*1980-81 payment by organizations to be identical as 1979-80 payment.

Continuation of Agreement with City of Oklahoma City Approval, through June 30, 1981 , of the continuation of an agreement with the City of Oklahoma City to lease a parcel of land, 9.6 (more or less) acres located at Southeast 50th Street and Shallow Brook Drive for use as a recreation site.

Altrusa Club

Continuation of lease agreement dated May 23, 1969, with the Altrusa Club for a plot of ground approximately 100' x 120' in the southwest corner of the site of the Emerson School on which Altrusa Club has previously constructed a building for use as a nursery school.

Henry School Property Continuation of lease of Henry School property to the Department of Institutions, Social and Rehabilitative Services for $5,601.39 per month according to terms and conditions of agreement dated July 1, 1977 (4th year renewal of five-year lease/purchase agreement).

Mrs. Potts inquired regarding item 7, agreement with the Altrusa Club, in terms of setting up some kind of cooperative arrangement, since Emerson School is where there are young women who may need child care while they are in school there.

Dr. Payzant responded: There has been no reciprocal agreement to my knowledge. I don't know whether any overtures have been made by us or by the nursery school. I would be happy to check that out. Mrs. Potts Stated that it seemed to her that the setup as mentioned had all kinds of potential and it should be explored.

Mrs. Hill inquired about item 5, (c) - "lessee pays 3/4 cost of insurance."

Dr. Wallace Smith explained that by past Board action, initially, the lessee paid one-fourth (%) the cosfof insurance and this would increase by one-fourth (%) until the lessee would be paying the full amount. Mrs. Potts expressed a concern on the rental of district property by stating: I want to raise th.e question regarding when the staff would plan to come to the Board with recommendations regarding sale of some of these schools. I think we are in a real bind. We have got a responsibility to the taxpayers to get the most for the money they give us, and every one of these schools is probably a very worthwhile community-serving agency, and yet at the same time I am not sure how long this school district can continue providing that kind of service to other agencies in the community. I really think that we ought to be looking as soon as possible, in terms of long range plans, of selling a lot of these buildings. I do recall that at the time we consolidated schools several years ago, we had a Board motion that said the schools were not to be sold for three years following that consolidation, in order for Students that were projected as coming into the community, to come into place and provide the student population for the school to be reopened. Do we have any data that would show that this has or has not happened, and how long are we looking at recommendations regarding holding these schools for future potential and maybe selling them?

Dr. Payzant - In our report to the. Board, we maide one or two recommendations for sale right now. The staff and I would be delighted to move ahead with some recommendations for consideration of sale of other buildings, but would welcome the prod from the Board, because we don't want to go through all of the work and do it and then have the Board say, well, we really think we ought to be providing this community service. I think the sense has been that the Board in previous years has felt some commitment to make these facilities available to community organizations that are engaged in worthy causes. I would welcome the opportunity, but I want to make sure that is what the wishes of the Board would be before we do the staff work on it.

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i General Business cont'd i

Mrs. Hermes stated that she was in agreement with Mrs. Potts in her thinking, and continued: It seems to be such a paradox that our parents are coming to us saying "don't close my school," when we have all of these other schools that, yes, they are being turned over to community serving programs, but as a school system, our first responsibility is to our children. If we want to take under our wing other agencies, that is the Board's decision, but it seems to me that we ought to be selling or looking into the sale of some of these buildings. Mrs. Hill stated: I would agree, because I think we are spending money here and probably running in the red with agreements on a lot of these buildings and I think we need to begin to look at some of the buildings. Mrs. Potts - Additionally, we are looking at wanting to perhaps build something new to replace some old buildings, and that is going to take a lot of money. So possibly by the sale of some of these buildings, we can secure that money and replace it with something much more desirable educationally, and I think that would be a wise move.

Dr. Hamm - I am finding myself agreeing in principle with this approach, but yet at the same time dragging my foot, being well aware of the fact that we would really want good hard, firm projections for the future that this community or this area might not come back, and therefore we would have to come back and buy another site to build a school if it does come back. In principle I would agree, but I think we would want | to proceed with caution and some good, hard planning. I

Dr. Payzant - That is why I think that it would be appropriate to tie in this kind of study and report with the recommendation for other school closures and your consideration of the total recommendation, giving good study to the kind of thing that you are talking about, Dr. Hamm. So I would see them as two pieces of the same package. If the Board is desirous, we will go ahead and do that, and when we bring recommendations in December on school closures, we could deal with this larger issue as well.

Mrs. Potts inquired as to whether there would be any problem with approving the lease arrangements as presented with the intention of a decision being made at the end of I the year as had been discussed. Dr. Payzant stated that all of the leases had 30-day clauses in them. Mrs. Hermes expressed a concern on the low rental of some of the buildings.

Dr. Payzant - What this package does is bring all of the lease agreements in line with your existing Board policy, unless you specifically made the exception to handle a lease differently. So this package will bring you to the closest you have been in sometime to uniform application under your existing policy, and that doesn't mean that you may not want to look at your policy. The policy does provide taking a look at the combination of insurance cost and maintenance cost and when it is a community organization, basing the lease on those factors, and that is what wehave done here. Modifications th&t would be made over the 90-day period between July1 and October 1 would bring into line those leases that have really not been consistent with your Board policy.

Mrs. Potts

- Are there any ongoing costs that are not included?

Dr. Payzant - Yes, if there were a major maintenance problem such as storm damage to a | roof, or to windows, or any portion of a building, that would not be included in the lease cost, and the organization or group leasing the building would not be expected to pick that up. The maintenance costs that we are talking about are routine maintenance costs. So where the Board would really take a beating financially would be if some major maintenance problem occurred, like a boiler blew up or something of that sort, and the district would have to foot the bill for that, the insurance deductible. Mrs, Potts - So we are not going in the hole on anything except unusual events?

Dr. Payzant - That is correct, but by the same token, we have not put major maintenance dollars into all but one or two of these buildingsin the sense of major renovation or upgrading; so the maintenance costs have been reasonably low. Dr. Startistated: I would like to remind my colleagues on the Board that those of you J that are upset by the minimal amount of reimbursement we get for some of these buildingsi I am going to remind you. of these statements when the Community Action Program represent: atives come to that microphone when you begin to disturb these arrangements. A lot of these buildings are not very desirable buildings to begin with; many of them are not in a very desirable location, and if it were not for these tenants, these buildings woul< be boarded up. Some of them are probably saleable, but not very many. Although, I would agree with you that we ought to try to sell some of these buildings, I think you would be surprised how many there is not a market for, and if you tried to raise the rent beyond the means of these Community Action Programs and all of the welfare agencies, you would board up those buildings. When they come to that microphone, I am going to remind you about your strong statements about not supporting community activities, which is one of our goals.

R. #228 Approval of General Business Items cont'd

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R. #228 Approval of General Business Items cont'd

General Business cont'd

Dr. Hamm - I think what we are doing here is making our lease agreements live up to a policy that we have set in the past. Dr. Start - Yes, but I am catching a drift that the members of the Board want to get a little more money out of some of these buildings or sell them. Mrs. Potts - I recognize that some of the buildings may be difficult to sell, but I think there are a few that might not. One other bit of information that entered in was the importance of having responsible occupants in the building to cut down vandalism. So in many instances that entered in, in the low cost to a lessee.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS None.

NEW BUSINESS 7or Consideration it Next Meeting if the Board

Motion made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Hermes for consideration at the meeting of July 7, 1980: "I move that we ask our staff to thoroughly study and make recommendations regarding sale or continued lease arrangement for all of the buildings that are now being leased, and that these recommendations be presented to the Board at the same time that it is asked to make decisions regarding closure or consolidation of schools for the subsequent year."

HEARINGS None.

ADJOURNMENT

R. #229 Adjournment

A motion to adjourn was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hill. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED. (A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the Clerk's office.)

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

I, Number before Office

the undersigned Clerk of the Board of Education of Independent School District 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours the meeting, the date, time and place of the Special Meeting was filed in the of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district this y 1980.

Clerk, OkTahoma City Board of Education

day of

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THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY,

OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, 900 NORTH KLEIN, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M.

PRESENT:

Delbert Hamm, President Mrs. Freddye Williams', Vice President Mrs. Susan Hermes, Member Mrs. Betty Hill, Member Mrs. Pat Potts, Member Armond H. Start, Member

ABSENT:

Floyd Donwerth

The meeting was called to order by Dr. Hamm and Mrs. Hill gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Dr. Hamm welcomed all of the persons present.

Visitors Welcomed

Roll call established that six of the seven Board members were present.

Roll Call

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Hill for appproval of the minutes of June 16 and 30, 1980 as presented. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #230 Minutes Approved

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS Dr. Hamm presented the Reverend Goree James, Chairperson, Commission to Improve Education, who gave a report from the Commission on its consideration of the Oklahoma City Public Schools 1980 Legislative Goals and recommendations to the school district. Included in the recommendations was reference to changing boundaries, consolidation of schools, magnet schools, sliding teacher salary scale, day-care centers, instructional programs and extracurricular activities, public relations for principals, school/ community relationships, and other.

(A copy of the report is on file in the Clerk's office.)

Following the presentation, members of the Board commented: Mrs. Potts - I would suggest that we extract from this report the portions that refer to legislative action and convey them to at least our Oklahoma County delegation and to any other legislators that might be better informed because of it, and sent on behalf of this Board.

Dr, Hamm - I am sure that will be done. Mrs. Potts - I really liked a lot of the ideas in here, especially parts that had to do with the student body assuming responsibility with regard to some of the upkeep and maintenance of their own schools and providing some incentive money for that. I think that some of the things were pointed out in terms of the principals and perhaps teachers having the opportunity to interact with the business community. Some of that may be possibly made more possible through our adopt-a-school program or through businesses in our community. I would suggest that some of our community groups might want to take a look at a paying membership for representative teachers and representative principals to their organization, recognizing that oftentimes educators' salaries don't make it possible for them to belong where they might like to. I think in the process both the educator and the business or community organization would be better off. I think the whole thing is full of a lot of ideas that I hope we can mull over and digest and apply through the coming year in different ways.

Mrs. Williams - It is a comprehensive report. I wish to commend the Commission. Are you winding up your work and going to self-destruct or help us as we begin to try discuss these areas and help us with some implementation and some yeomen work for committees that may be formed? I know that at one time our school people were more involved in the total community. I attended a seminar at the National School Boards Association meeting, and along that line they mentioned that our school people should ask to be invited to certain clubs within the area. It does build a type of community support that is easygoing but very effective.

Commission to Improve Education Report Goree James

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COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS cont'd Mrs. Hermes - I want to urge the Board not to drop this. We, as a commission, put a lot Commission to Improve Education of work into it and there are a lot of good ideas. But if we don't get some concrete motions going or other committees, â&#x20AC;˘ . or ask' the Commission to continue their work, it Report Goree James contd is going to end here, because none of this will get done on its own.

Dr. Hamm - I think we.are all aware of the need to take the seeds that were sown as the result of the report and cultivate them to see that they do bear fruit in the days and months ahead. I think responsible leadership on our part and the part of the staff will take this report and thoroughly digest it, then take off in the directions that we deem advisable. There were many things in the report that have already been accomplished to some degree, but there is still a lot that is left there, leaving room for improvement. This was a commission to improve education and if it is not followed through, it is just a report. So we want to follow through with it. Dr. Payzant - I think it would be appropriate, if the Board thinks so, for the staff to take the report and initially do an analysis to see what recommendations have already been implemented or in the process of being implemented, give you a report on those things and then to perhaps involve some other people in â&#x20AC;&#x2122;taking a look at some of the other recommendations, and come to you with them in small packages. For example, the whole series of recommendations that deals with school consolidation and annexes, etc.; that is all in process and you will have a major report and set of recommendations in the late fall. There are some other things that would be similarly affected. Perhaps the most useful thing to do would be to do an initial analysis and give you a report of what has been done, what is in progress, what remains to be done, and perhaps you give some direction in terms of priorities on those items that remain to be done that you would like Cis- to address first. R. #231 Commission to Improve Education Report Received

Human Relations Committee Report - Gene Imke

It was moved by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hill that the Board receive the report of the Commission to Improve Education, with commendations to every member of the Commission.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

Dr. Hamm presented Mr. Gene Imke, representative of the Human Relations Policy Implementation Committee, who gave a report from the committee expressing a concern for revitalization of the committee, support for the Board's Human Relations Goals and Administrative Objectives for the 1980-81 school year, recommendations for implementation of the Human Relations Policy, and other. Mr. Imke concluded his remarks by reading aloud the Oklahoma City Public Schools Human Relations Policy as adopted February 17, 1975 by the Oklahoma City Board of Education.

(A copy of the report is on file in the Clerk's office.) Members of the Board commented:

Dr. Start - Several members are still on the Board that were when that was written, and I don't really believe that this Board has demonstrated all that wavering path away from what that policy says. I think with some of the more urgent problems, primarily economic, and the vast disruption caused by the work stoppage, that some of the attention to human relations perhaps hasn't been as pronounced as it was at the beginning. It is very difficult sometimes to continue a momentum, and I appreciate very much the remarks and I think the Board should continue to expedite the action taken to implement that policy. I personally believe that policy is still what this Board stands for, and whatever needs to be done I think is also the posture and position of our Superintendent.

For Consideration at Next Meeting of the Board

A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Williams for consideration at the meeting of July 21, 1980: "I move for approval of the recommendations found in this report from the Human" Relations Policy Implementation Committee."

Dr. Start - I think we owe it to our Superintendent to analyze these recommendations and to give us his opinion about this. I think he and the staff should study this, because it involves a selection procedure.

Dr. Hamm - When we approved the Board Policies, we had the policy on Human Relations that may be somewhat different from the one that was adopted in 1975. We would want to relate these recommendations to our current policy also. Dr. Payzant - I am perfectly willing to come back with staff recommendations on this report. It might be helpful and save some time if the Board could give a little more

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Dr. Payzant cont'd

For Consideration direction in a couple of areas. I think it is really important to see clearly the at Next Meeting relationship that this committee might have, since it is a Board committee, in the of the Board area of the goals and objectives that have been established by the Board and by me to cont'd implement the Human Relations Policy. I don't want misunderstanding to occur down the road about where the responsibility is going to lie. If it is going to be a shared responsibility, that is fine if it is understood that way at the outset. I don't think there is any disagreement on the end or the goal of the policy. Where disagreements have come in to this point, they have been around methods or means of how you get there. That can be a very healthy kind of situation. The difficulty that can occur is when you do the final assessment and where the responsibility really lies. So it would be helpful to have some direction on that point. Obviously, from my vantage point, if I am going to have total responsibility for the final product, then I want more flexibility on determining how to get there. On the other hand, if it is going to be more of a shared responsibility, then I can afford to be much more flexible on methods and means, because I am not going to have to be totally accountable in the final analysis. I think it is very important under 5-c. of the report's recommendations, to give a very clear commission to the committee about what the Board expects it to do. Any help that you could give on those two points I think would be time-saving in terms of getting us to the goal which we all share of getting that policy implemented as effectively as possible on a daily basis. Dr. Start - I, personally, believe that this is a shared responsibility between the Superintendent and the Board. This is not something to lay on the Superintendent and the'staff, and all of us go home and say we have done our work. It seems to me that one of the things that this committee ought to really get a hold of this commmunity is real estate people. I still feel that is a major source of racism in this community. Perhaps this is something we could directly ask the committee how to handle that situation.

Mrs. Hill - We will have to look at what we did two weeks ago in asking for the committee report and where we were placing quite a bit of the responsibility on the Superintendent.-"that we ask for a twice-a-year report in terms of the implementation of the Human Relations Policy and the goals and objectives that relate to this policy," which to me with that motion places it in the Superintendent's lap. This is the motion that we approved on June 16. Dr. Payzant - The issues are big enough and complex enough for the Board and for me and the staff to have additional help, but we need to be clear on what the relationships are going to be with staff responsibilty, Board, and a committee that is outthere. All that I am asking for is some clarity about the relationships going in so that we don't spend all of our time trying to figure out who is doing what and where the responsibility is going to lie, and then avoid substantive matters along the way. Dr. Hamm - I don't think that we are really prepared to address ourselves to that this evening. I think that having the report, taking it and studying it, and reviewing our current policy, and them coming at the next meeting when we vote on this item, that we could be a little bit more knowledgeable about what direction that we are going to take. A motion was mad'e by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the Board receive the report of the Human Relations Policy Implementation Committee. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. HEARINGS

R. #232 Human Relations Pol icy Implementation Committee Report Recei ved

None. LEGAL AND FINANCIAL REPORTS Mr. Bleakley reported:

(1)

Teacher Termination Matters - The hearing judge in the termination of Jane Finch has upheld the decision of the Board to terminate her employment. With respect to Judy Boswell, the matter was appealed to the District Court for the second time, and this was upon the hearing panel's sustaining of the Board's decision. The District Court has sustained the hearing panel's sustaining the Board's decision. At this point, Ms. Boswell has the opportunity to appeal it to the Supreme Court, but the proceedings of the District Court and the hearing panel level are ended.

(2)

Temporary Restraining Order on Opening Bids for Painting Contracts - A local paint manufacturer, Del Paint Manufacturing Company, filed a petition against the District and obtained a temporary restraining order against the District opening the bids for painting contracts on school buildings. We appeared on behalf of the

Attorney's Report

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LEGAL AND FINANCIAL REPORTS cont'd

Attorney's Report cont'd

Mr. Bleakley cont'd

Treasurer's Report

Because of a delay in attending the meeting, Mr. Ladd gave a report during the Unfinished Business portion of the agenda, at which time he gave a routine treasurer's report.

District and got the temporary restraining order vacated and the petition dismissed. The plaintiff was given ten days to file an amended petition, arid we have not received such to this date.

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT

Employee of the Month ...

Dr. Payzant presented Mr. David Nunn, Vice President, the Association of All School Personnel, who gave preliminary remarks regarding Mrs. Dovie Pennington, Teacher, Shidler Elementary School, having been selected as Employee of the Month. A Certificate of Recognition was presented to Mrs. Pennington on behalf of the Board of Education and the Association of All School Personnel by Dr. Payzant. Mrs. Pennington responded.

R. #233 Professional Trips Approved

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Potts to direct the following persons to attend meetings'as indicated:

At No Expense to the District

(a)

Dorothy M. Tucker, Principal, Northeast High School -Eustis Air Force Base Training Facility, Ft. Eustis, Virginia, June 27-July 3, 1980. Confirmation

(b)

Garrol L. Dockum, Director, Computer Services - Army/Navy Educators Orientation Visit, Ft. Eustis and Norfolk, Virginia, June 29-July 3, 1980. Confirmation

(c)

Harold Merideth, Principal, Southeast High School -Army/Navy Educators Orientation Visit, Norfolk, Virginia, June 30-July 3, 1980. Confirmation

(d)

J. Howard White, Administrator, Food Service; Margie Jones, Dietitian (CFD to pay registration only) - American School Food Service Association National Convention, Kansas City, Missouri, July 20-24, 1980.

At School District Expense (e)

Maridyth M. McBee, Statistics & Planning Associate - Seminar on Multivariate Research Methods and the' SPSS Package of Computer Programs, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, August 4-8, 1980.

On roll call,, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Willi'ams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #234 Authorization for Memberships

It was moved by Mrs. Hermes and seconded by Mrs. Hill to continue memberships in the fol lowing:

(a)

Council of Urban Boards of Education and the National School Boards Association for the 1980-81 fiscal year at an annual fee of $840.

(b)

Oklahoma State School Boards Association for the 1980-81 fiscal year at an annual fee of $1,700.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

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A motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hill that the President of the Board and the Superintendent be authorized to execute documents and submit applications for grants as follows:

(a)

Under a grant from the Oklahoma State University, Community Education Consortium Model Program.

(b)

Under United States Department of Agriculture, Section 19, PL 95-166; Nutrition Education and Training Program.

R. #235 Authorization for President of Board and Superintendent to Execute Documents - cont'd

Anceo Melvino Francisco, Teacher, Douglass High School, deceased June 7, 1980.

Elva Lois Cooper, Retired Teacher, Moon Middle School, deceased June 22, 1980.

Willie Z. Moore, Retired Teacher, Dunbar Elementary School, deceased June 29, 1980.

R. #236 Approval of Resolutions of Appreciation

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. PERSONNEL REPORT A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Potts for extension of the TERM of employment as stipulated in Paragraph Number 5 of the March 17, 1980 Employment Contract between the Board of Education, Independent School District Number 89 and Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent of Oklahoma City Public Schools, to include the ensuing fiscal year which begins on July 1, 1981 and ends on June 30, 1982.

R. #237 Extension of Term of Employment Superintendent

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Willi'ams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. It was moved by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Start that persons listed in the Personnel Report be^employed and that contracts with the teachers listed on the form be approved and executed in the name of the District'by the Superintendent or person by him designated; also, that other personnel recommendations and information listed be approved.

R. #238 Personnel Approved

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams., aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; carr'ied. PAYROLLS, ENCUMBRANCES, PURCHASING AND GENERAL BUSINESS

A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Potts to app'rove Recommendation #1 and #2 (ratification of June payrolls and authorization of July payrolls) and payment of encumbrances as listed for June 11-30, 1980. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #239 Approval of Payrolls and Encumbrances

Purchasing

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of the following purchasing items:

Plumbing Supplies

Purchase of plumbing supplies (pipe elbows, tees, valves, faucets, drains, traps, etc.) for use by Maintenance and Engineering Department at Edwards Preschool from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

Mideke Supply Company Central Plumbing Supply Federal Corporation

3,149.11 350.32 _____ 467.16 $

Total $ 3,966.59 These purchases are to be charged to Bond Fund Account 1425.

R. #240 Approval of Purchasing Items

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R. #240 Approval of Purchasing Items cont'd

Purchasing cont'd f I

2. Air Conditioners â&#x20AC;˘4

Purchase of air conditioners for use at Edwards Preschool from Jack Bradford T.V. & Appliance which submitted the low quotation on specifications in the amount of $2,590.50 to be charged to Bond Fund Account 1425.

Cafeteria Equipment Purchase of cafeteria equipment (steam generators and infrared food warmers) for use at various schools by Central Food Service Department from Peerless Hotel Supplies which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $8,916.85 to be charged to Central Food Service Account.

Permission to Place Orders

Permission to place orders during the school year for the Central Food Service Department with companies which have submitted quotations as follows: McVay Henley Company Clements Foods Carl C. Wheeler Sales Specialist Brokers Rocky Mountain Oklahoma State Industries Tyler-Simpson Company Scrivner, Inc. Portion Pack, Inc. William E. Davis & Sons, Inc.

Canned Canned Canned Canned Canned Canned Canned Canned Canned Canned

Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods

McVay Henley Company Hormel Gooch Packing Company Swift - Food Service Sales Blue Morrow - Amarillo Double B Sausage - Food Service Sales Circle T - Food Service Sales Wilson Foods Cusack Meats Farina Pizza Frionor - Midwest Brokerage National Beef - Midwest Brokerage Butcher Boy - Midwest Brokerage Scrivner, Inc. Tyler-Simpson Company William E. Davis &Sons, Inc. Coldwater Seafood Corporation Oscar Mayer Lamb Weston - Midwest Brokerage

Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen Frozen

Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods Foods

Sokol Comapny Farmer .Brothers Cain's Coffee Company Scrivner, Inc. Durkee Foods Tyler-Simpson Company Rodrizuez Foods - Food Service Sales

Coffee , Coffee , Coffee , Coffee , Coffee , Coffee , Coffee ,

Tea Tea Tea Tea Tea Tea Tea

S. K. Supply Southern Coffee Hotel & Restaurant Supply

Smal1 1Equipment Smal1 1Equipment

S. K. Supply Cardinal Paper Company Hi-Line Plastics Southern Coffee & Restaurant Supply Carpenter Paper Company Scrivner, Inc. Tyler-Simpson Company Morrison Paper Company William E. Davis & Sons, Inc.

& & & & & & &

Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Miscellaneous

Condiments Condiments Condiments Condiments Condiments Condiments Condiments

Cafeteria Cafeteria Cafeteria Cafeteria Cafeteria Cafeteria Cafeteria Cafeteria Cafeteria

Supplies Supplies Supplies Supplies Supplies Supplies Supplies Supplies Supplies

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Purchasing cont'd 4.

R. #240 Approval of Purchasing Items cont'd

Permission to Place Orders cont'd 4

Rodriquez Foods - Food Service Sales Southern Coffee & Restaurant Supply Kraft Foods Russ Ambler & Associates S. Gumbert Company Tyler-Simpson Company William E. Davis & Sons, Inc. Scriver, Inc. General Mil Id Lance, Inc. Bui tornâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Foods - Todd Brokerage

Staples Staples Staples Staples Staples Staples Staples Staples Staples Staples Staples

Guy's Foods Sta Krisp Snack Food (Div. of Borden Snacks)

Potato and Corn Chip Products Potato and Corn Chip Products

North American Chemical Corporation

Dishwashing & Dietary Cleaning Compounds

Coca-Cola USA

Fruit Juice Concentrate

Continental Baking Company, Inc.

Bakery Products

Lieberman Produce Company

Eggs

Al add Pest Control Service

Pest Control Service

Midwest Armored Service, Inc.

Armored Car Transportation Service

Central Food Service Statement - Information to the Board

General Business A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams for approval of the continuation of the insurance program offered by Industrial Life Insurance Company, A. J. Clemons, agent, to offer Student Accident Insurance to students (and employees) of the Oklahoma City Public Schools for the 1980-81 school year. Neither the Board nor the District to assume any liability for the program. The 1980-81 rates are: School-Time

Students Jr.-Sr. High Faculty & Employee

$ 7.00 8.00 8.00

Full-Time $ 23.00 23.00 23.00

Premiums for Football Players Coverage Senior High School Students Middle School Students

$ 30.00 10.00

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #241 Continuation of Insurance Program

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CONT'D

BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION

1. #242 Acceptance of ow Bi ds

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Hermes for acceptance of low bids and sthe awarding of contracts for the painting of buildings as listed in Project No. 15-80, Specifications for Contract Painting at Various Schools.

Bidders and low bids: (a)

Dow Construction, Inc., painting of buildings listed in Group III, Project No. 15-80

$ 231 ,095.

(b)

Jack Ridings Contracting Company, paneling of buildings listed in Group II and Group V, Project No. 15-80.

255,502.

Wampler Construction Company, paneling of buildings listed in Group I, Project No. 15-80.

106,400.

(c)

These contracts are to be charged to Bond Funds.

Motion by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Hermes at the meeting of June 30, 1980:

"I move that we ask our staff to thoroughly study and make recommendations regarding sale or continued lease arrangement for all of the buildings that are now being leased, and that these recommendations be presented to the Board at the same time that it is asked to make decisions regarding closure or consolidation of schools for the subsequent year." On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

NEW BUSINESS

:or Consideration it Next Meeting of :he Board

Motion by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Williams for consideration at the meeting of July 21, 1980:

"I move that we attempt to establish a 'Fund for Educational Enrichment' to benefit the Oklahoma City Public School District. This fund, to be established with the Oklahoma City Community Foundation, would have an advisory board of community leaders providing assistance in the securing and designating of said funds. This motion would authorize our attorneys to proceed with the creation, of such a fund, the finalizing of any written agreements to be subject to'approval of the respective boards."

Dr. Start inquired: When you say "the respective boards," you are referring to the Board of Education and the board of the Community Foundation, or this advisory board of community leaders? Mrs. Potts - It would be the Oklahoma City school board and the board of the Oklahoma City Community Foundation. Mrs. Potts continued: This is an idea that has been long in coming for me. I remember an article in a National School Board Journal for the potential for funding to a school district from private and corporate sources through foundations. About a year ago, with our attorney's assistance, I set up a meeting with both a representative of Kerr Foundation here in Oklahoma City and a representative of the Oklahoma City Community Foundation to explore the possibility of setting up this kind of thing for our school, district. It developed that the potenial was greater with the Oklahoma City Community Foundation than it was with the Kerr Foundation. What, hopefully, can happen out of this is that we can provide a means for securing contributions to our district that do not need to become part of the General Fund, but can be directed to specific projects, equipment, needs that cannot be met with the amount of money available from our taxpayers. I can very easily see a list of needs developing after the budget process each year that are not met, that can be presented for people who are interested in contributing in a variety of ways to the school district to assume. This would provide a vehicle for this kind of thing to happen.

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cont'd

Dr. Start - This is an excellent idea. I am convinced that there ds a substantial number of people in this community who really look upon their education in the public schools of this community with a great deal of endearment. Some of these people, I think, would be willing at a point in their life to designate that to show their gratitude with a contribution. This is exactly what is needed. Up until this point, somebody would say I would like to give $50,000 to the Oklahoma City Public Schools. Someone gives the $50,000 and it would go into the general budget. With this sort of thing, and the fact that we had no mechanism, immediately the givers lost interest. I applaud Mrs. Potts with this great idea.

Mrs. Potts added: Additionally, I would like to comment that I have seen quite a bit of money funneled to private schools in our community through this kind of an arrangement, and I think it is high time that some of this same money be funneled to our public school system for an even more worthy cause.

For Consideration at Next Meeting? the B.eard.-.coot.'d'

Mrs. Hermes inquired: If a person or corporation were to give money, can we as a board earmark that money and still control that money in the area that it is designated? I am concerned with losing control to the person who is giving the money. Mrs. Potts - In our consulting on this we are suggesting a board, and this will all be part of working out the potential agreement; a-board that may be composed of seven membe in the community, with possible three of this seven from the school district. I think it is important that this not be looked upon as something that is just controlled by the school district. In looking at appropriate positions to be represented on the board, we felt that the Superintendent or the Superintendent's designee would be appropriate, the Board President or the Board President's designee, and the PTA President or a designee of the PTA President; then outside of that probably looking at the City Council, a representative of the Mayor's office. We have worked closely with the Chamber of Commerce that has an education division, and possibly a representative of that division would appropriate on this board; then similarly someone representing the foundation itself. This board would serve as an advisory making the recommendations on the needs to be met with the monies that were contributed to the foundation board, which would! make the final decision.

Mrs. Potts asked Mr. Bleakley for further comments.

Mr. Bleakley stated: In further response to Mrsr. Hermes' question, the laws relating to community foundations and such, the beneficiary of the money can't have control ,'of the way the money is spent. That causes some problems in the way this is structured. It requires the existence of an independent advisory board to make these decisions or you run into difficulties with the tax laws. The whole idea of it is to make it a charitable contribution where donors can write off the money. Mrs. Potts - It does provide a vehicle for honoring people who have given long service to the district, for instance, and when they retire it may be that the people who have worked with them will want to make a contribution in their name to a specific thing that was important in the work of that person in the district. There is no reason why people cannot write in their wills that part of their monies would go to a specific program or a specific kind of equipment that person felt was important. So there are a lot of ways that monies could be generated to be used for the benefit of educational enrichment in the district.

Mrs. Hill - Mr. Bleakley said that it could not be specified. tax purposes?

Is that because of the

Mrs, Potts - The beneficiary cannot be the one who decides. That was the reason why the representatives of the school district would not be the majority of that board, but they would be three out of seven.

Mrs. Williams referred to a copy of a letter that Board members had received, that was from the National School Public Relations Association congratulating the Public Relations Department for having won an honor for a publication. She also referred to the School Report which had been published recently.

Mrs. Potts inquired about the proper procedure to be used in presenting for reconsideration a motion, which motion had been made at a prior meeting, to make available education as provided by the school district for five-year-olds who could not attend the Oklahoma City Public Schools under the existing law (admission of underage children to kindergarten).

Comments Mrs. Williams

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:or Consideration it Next Meeting )f the Board

After further discussion and reference to parliamentary procedure, interpretation of Robert's Rules of Order by the attorney, Mrs. Potts- made the following motion which was seconded by Dr. Start, for consideration at the meeting of July 21, 1980:

"I move that we consider the proposal that was presented regarding providing kindergarten at cost for Oklahoma City school children."

Mrs. Potts continued: I would suggest that Board members review the materials on the subject presented, and any questions or concerns they might have, express them to staff so they can be explored as much as possible. Mrs. Hill - I think we would need to look at guidelines. If a classroom is already overcrowded and we have a tuition child coming in, I can see some problems in that area.

Dr. Hamm - I think some input from the kindergarten teacher in the classroom who would be dealing with these children would be beneficial as well. ADJOURNMENT R. #244 Adjournment

A motion for adjournment was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED. (A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the Clerk's office.)

President

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLHAOMA ) I, the undersigned Clerk Number 89 of Oklahoma County, before the meeting, the date, Office of the County Clerk of

of the Board of Education of Independent School District Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours time and place of the Regular Meeting was filed in the Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district thi s^A^ay

1980. /

i Clerk, Oklahoma City Board of Education

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Personnel

TERMINATIONS

Major Classes of Terminations: 1.

Voluntary Resignation

a. b. c. d. e.

Changing employment Leaving Oklahoma City Area Early Retirement Personal Reasons No reason given

Mandatory Retirement

Notice of Dismissal

Discontinuance of Employment

a. b. c. d. e. f.

Termination from leave of absence Elimination of position Expiration of employment period Unqualified for position Deceased j Abandoned position j

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

â&#x2013; >

PROFESSIONAL OTHER

| I

Terminations Director, School Community Relations Principal , Fojster Estes Vo-Tech

Bowlan, Sizemore

Earnest, G. W.

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

PERSONNEL EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

6-30-80 6-30-80

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Terminations Adair, Sylvia Adams, Joyce

Arnold, Kathryn

Avcock. Deborah Ayler, Alice Bacus, Karen

Bailev. Linda Baker, Jimmy

Barker, Charle s Barnett, Ronald Barnhart, Rhonda

Barton, Cornelia

Bass. Janet Bates, Marilyn

Employments

Annual

$10695.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Southeast Special Education

Hayes Primary

5-30-80

Special Services Special Education

5-30-80

Rogers Resource

5-29-80

Webster Math

5-10-80

Special Services Psychometrist

5-30-80

Southeast Special Education

5-30-80

Bacus, Karen

Special Services Speech Pathologist

5-30-80

Thomas. Linda

11217.

M.S. OU

8-18-80

Special Services Speech Pathologist

Taft Band/Orchestra

5-30-80

Harding Resource

5-29-80

Southeast Special Education

5-30-80

Barnett, Ronald

10695.

B.S. NESU

8-18-80

Southeast Special Education

Parmelee Intermediate

5-30-80

Capitol Hill High Resource

5-29-80

Monroe Primary

5-30-80

Eisenhower Resource

5-90-80

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MEETING OF JULY 7, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations

Bennett, Sandra Berrier, Kay Birch, Edwin

Black, Cathi Blair, Regina Boatman, Marilyn

Bozone, Julia Brantley, Patricia

Brown, Blane

Brown, Shirley Bryant, James

Buckley, Pauline

Caldwell, Cheryl Carter, June

Emerson Adult Center Math/Science

5-30-80

Longfellow Reading

5-30-80

Longfellow Intermediate

5-30-80

Douglass Social Studies

5-30-80

Jefferson Special Education

5-30-80

Capitol Hill Middle Language Arts

5-30-80

Page-Woodson Intermediate

5-30-80

Star Spencer Reading

5-30-80

Grant Special Education

5-30-80

Rogers Reading

5-30-80

Green Pastures Intermediate

5-30-80

Spencer Primary

5-30-80

Special Services Speech Pathologist

5-30-80

Page-Woodson Intermediate

5-30-80

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

Employments

Annual

Blair, Regina

$10695.

B.S. OU

8-18-80

Jefferson Special Education

10897.

B.S. csn

8-18-80

Special Services Speech Pathologist,

Caldwell, Cheryl

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Employments

Terminations

Clark, James Clifton, Deborah

Colwell, Steven

Cooper, Elizabeth Cornelius, Diggs Costic, Suzanne

Cottrell, Rachel Craig, LaVerne Crane, Gary

Cumby, Frank Cunningham, Gayla

Davenport, Patricia

Dewey, Sheila Douglass, Deborah

Northeast Speech/Drama

5-30-80

Star Spencer w Art

5-30-80

Northwest Metalwork

5-30-80

Heronville Primary

5-30-80

Star Spencer Resource

5-29-80

Mark Twain Primary

5-30-80

Capitol Hill High Spanish

5-30-80

Longfellow Intermediate

5-30-80

Jackson ' < Soc. Studies/Health

5-30-80

Classen Speech/Drama

5-30-80

Star Spencer Math

5-30-80

Jefferson Special Education

5-30-80

Page-Woodson Drop-Out Program

5-30-80

Page-Woodson Intermediate

5-30-80

Annual

Davenport, Patricia

$11217.

M. Ed. OU

8-18-80

Jefferson Special Education

362

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

Terminations

Engebretson, Lyndall

Engel, Al Engel, Linda Estenban, Yvonne

Estell, Linda Esserman, David Faulk, William Faurot, Patricia

Ferguson, Marsha

Flowers, Sheryl Franks, Linda

Fugerer, Barbara

Gardner, Lee . 1

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Duncan, Mildred

SALARY

Classen Business Ed.

5-30-80

Hayes Reading

5-30-80

Douglass Social Studies

5-30-80

Eugene Field Reading

5-30-80

Douglass Math

5-30-80

Shields Heights Kindergarten

5-30-80

Special Services Driver Ed.

5-30-80

Northwest History/Lang. Arts

5-30-80

Willow Brook Acting Asst.Principal 6-06-80

Hayes Primary

5-30-80

Southeast Resource

5-29-80

Roosevelt Physical Education

5-30-80

Arthur Primary

5-30-80

King Intermediate

5-30-80

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

Employments

Annual

Engel, Al

$13046.

M. Ed. CSU

8-18-80

Douglass Social Studies

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations

Gardner, Ruth Gattis, Judith

Gentry, Hazel Gibson, Sheila Gieb. Blanche

Gilley, Beverly Hahn, Lynn Hall, Cynthia

Hanigar, Brenda Hardesty, Allen Hayes, Wanda

Hefley, Erna

Hellstern, Nancy Henderson, Michele

Emerson Adult Center Learning Center

5-30-80

4c *

Northwest Social Studies

5-30-80

Page-Woodson Kindergarten

5-30-80

Edgemere Special Education

5-30-80

Jefferson Resource

5-29-80

Marshall Special Education

5-30-80

Hoover Reading

5-30-80

Douglass Language Arts

5-30-80

Dewey Intermediate

5-30-80

Douglass Science

5-30-80

Adams Learning Center

5-30-80

Putnam Heights Reading

5-30-80

Telstar Intermediate

5-30-80

Grant Special Education

5-30-80

Employments

Annual

Irwin, Stephanie

$10897.

B.S. CSU

11383-

M.A. MSU

1 - MSU - Michigan State University - East Lansing, Michigan

Henderson, Michele

8-18-80

Marshall Special Education

8-18-80

Grant Special Education

.1 j

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PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Terminations Henley, Lois

Hicks, Hazel Holder, Roxanne Holman, Patricia Holt, Cynthia

Honson, fieatrice Jamison, Steven Jenke, Carol

Johnson, Kerri Johnson, Lanette Johnson, Susan

Johnston, Jerry

Jones, Cynthia Keah-Tigh, Lilly

Dewey Reading

5-30-80

Douglass Media Specialist

6-13-80

Adams Primary

6-11-80:

Emerson Adult Center Voc-Home Ec.

6-04-80

Lee Learning Center

5-30-80

Mayfair Special Education

5-30-80

Capitol Hill High Science

5-30-80-

Jackson Resource

5-29-80

Marshall Social Studies

5-30-80

Longfellow Intermediate

5-30-80

Harding Home Economics

5-30-80

Harding Counselor

6-06-80

Britton Reading ■

5-30-80

Riverside Learning Center

5-30-80

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

Employments

Annual

Holt, Cynthia

$10378.

B.S. OSU

8-18-80

Lee Learning Center

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations Kelson, Deborah

Kidd, Joyce

Kniffin, Virginia Kolysko, Jean Lackey, Debra Leal, Maria

LeCoste, Thomas

Le Master, Paula Lira, Nancy

Loomis, Janice Lukens, Lenora Lynch, Rosemary Malone. Judy

McKinley, Ramona

Employments

Truman Intermediate

5-30-80

Eisenhower Special Education

5-30-80

Annual

Grant 5-29-80 Resource . ------- -------- 1-------

Stand Watie Special Education

5-30-80

Mark Twain Learning Center

5-30-80

Burbank Primary

5-30-80

Jackson Language Arts

5-30-80

Northwest Home Economics

5-30-80

Taft Physical Ed./Dance

5-30-80

Taft Reading

5-30-80

Northwest Counselor

5-30-80

Central Language Arts

5-30-80

Eugene Field Intermediate

5-28-80

Edgemere Learning Center

5-30-80

1 - ASC - Adams State College - Alamosa Colorado

Wolfe, Susan

611349.

B.A. ASC

8-18-80

Jackson Science

•

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NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

SALARY

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

'4 ' PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations Miller, David

Milor, Diane Moblev. Sandra

Moodv. Jane Moore, Nancy

Nabors♦ Cvnthia

Nedbalek. Melanie Nelson, Dorothy

Nelson, Noisette

Nezam, Myrta

Holland, Michael

$10683.

Northeast Science

5-30-80

Edgemere Reading

5-30-80

Lincoln Intermediate

5-30-80

Star Spencer Math

5-30-80

Stonegate Ki nd ergart en

5-30-80

Bodine Special Education

5-30-80

Roosevelt Reading

5-30-80

Lincoln Learning Center

5-30-80

Lincoln Learning Center

5-30-80

Davis Learning Center

5-30-80

Nabors. Cynthia

10378.

Star Spencer Horticulture

6-30-80

Nedbalek. Melanie

Marshall Social Studies

5-30-80

Douglass Lau Program

5-30-80

Webster Learning Center

5-30-80

Nezam, Myrta

Myles, Ollie

Annual

Muse. Bette Mvers, Pearl

Employments

M.S. UI

Northeast

8-18^8.Q

£ESU

8-18-80

Davis Learning Center

13946.

B.S. CSU

7-01-80

Star Spencer Horticulture

12594.

B.S. OSU

8-18-80

Webster Learning Center

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

^aienc£

■

B.S.

1 - UI - University of Ill. - Urbana, Ill.

NAME

(

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations

Norvell, Jo Ella Nowak, Mary

Oakes, Ferrelyn Orndorff, Mary

Owens, Sammie Padgett, Debra Pagonis, Eulinda

Park, Jean

Parker, Melinda Patterson, Nadine

Patton. Theresa Payne, Carol

Perkins, Diane Plurlk, Paula

EnplOyments

Annual

Norvell, Jo Ella

$10378.

Ross Learning Center

5-30-80

Douglass Reading

5-30-80

Taft Language Arts

5-30-80

Hawthorne i T. Kindergarten

5-30-80

Hayes Learning Center

5-30-80

Hawthorne Learning Center

5-30-80

North Highland Special Education

5-30-80

Pagonis, Eulinda

King Learning Center

5-30-80

Park, Jean

Taft Resource

5-29-80

Kaiser Primary

5-30-80

Ridgeview Intermediate

5-30-80

Curriculum String Teacher

5-30-80

Northwest Great Books/Drama

5-30-80

Britton/Monroe Special Education

5-30-80

B.S. NESU

8-18-80

Ross Learning Center

M.S. CSU

8-18-80

North Highland P.T. Special Educatio:

11996.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

King Learning Center

Perkins, Diane

10378

B.A. OCU

8-18-80

Northwest Drama

Plunk, Paula

10695.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Britton/Monroe Special Education

6353.50

365

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PERSONNEL 4

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL Educational Terminations Porter, Janice

Randall, Rebecca

Ready, Debra Reese, Carol Risley, Patty Roberts, Paula

Roush, David Royal, Janice Royse, Jo Salmon, Martha Sanford, Mae

Savage, Susan

Scalph, Jackie Scarinzi, Ann Marie

Employments

Annual

Porter, Janice

$11749.

B.A. SHSU

Risley, Patty

10897.

B.S. OCC

Taft Learning Center

5-30-80

Harding Reading

5-30-80

Rogers Math

5-30-80

Sequoyah/Gatewood Physical Education

5-30-80

Special Services Special Education

5-30-80

Marshall Business

5-30-80

Hoover Industrial Arts

5-30-80

Roush, David

11596.

B.S. PS'

Stand Watie Learning Center

5-30-80

Royal, Janice

10378.

B.S. OCU

Edgemere i T. Kindergarten

5-30-80

Johnson Primary

5-30-80

Willard Learning Center

5-30-80

Sanford, Mae

10625.

B.S. MC

Hoover Resource

5-29-80

Central Media Specialist

6-13-80

Special Services Speech Pathologist

5-30-80

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

8-18-80

Taft Learning Center

8-18-80

Special Services Special Education

8-18-80

Hoover Industrial Arts

8-18-80

Stand Watie Learning Center

8-18-80

Willard Learning Center

3 - MC - Mississippi College - Clinton, Mississippi

1 - SHSU - Sam Houston State University - Huntsville, Texas 2 - PS - Pittsburg State - Pittsburg, Kansas

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations Scherler, Larry

Schieber, Christina Schneberger, Rebecca Schwartz, Margaret

Scott, Rita

Scott. Sandra Semrad, Everett Sheldon, Sharon

Shropshire, Lani

Sielert, Lisa Silvers, Beverly Simmons, Kathryn

Skoch. Nancv Smith, Joyce

Northwest Social Studies

5-30-80

Star Spencer Reading

6-16-80

Marshall Voc-Agriculture

7-01-80

Shields Heights Learning Center

5-30-80

Edgemere/Sunset Physical Education

5-30-80

Willard Primarv

5-30-80

Capitol Hill Middle Principal

6-30-80

Eugene Field Learning Center

5-30-80

Edgemere Primary

5-30-80

West Nichols Hills Preschool

5-30-80

Classen Special Education

5-30-80

Southeast Vocal Music

5-30-80

Special Services Speech Patholopist

5-30-80

Oakridge Physical Education

5-30-80

Employments

Annual

Sheldon, Sharon

$12860.

Skoch, Nancy

10897.

B.S. 0U

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Eugene Field Learning Center

8-18-80

Special Services Speech Pathologist

366

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL r

Terminations

Smith, Kimberly Smith, Martha Smith, Melanie

Smothers, Donna Sorrels, Sondra Stanley, Mary

Stewart, Dorothy

Stone, Laprelle Swartz, Janice Tarbox, LuAnn

Tatro, Rosemary Taylor, Jovce

Taylor, Richard

Shields Heights Learning Center

5-30-80

Star Spencer Social Studies

5-30-80

Special Services Speech Pathologist

5-30-80

Sequoyah Intermediate

5-30-80

Special Services Speech Pathologist

5-30-80

Arthur Reading

5-30-80

Marshall Math

5-30-80

Star Spencer Science

5-30-80

Classen Counselor

6-06-80

Oakridge Reading

5-30-80

Classen Science

5-30-80

Marshall Resource

5-29-80

Parker Learning Center

5-30-80

Marshall Band

5-30-80

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

Terminations

Thomas, Carolyn

Thomas, Marvin

Tillman, Larecia

Todd. Claud Tomlinson, Jim

Trattner, Denise

Trent, Connie Tyler, Coy Sue Urher, Beverly

Von Merveldt, Michael

Wall, Susan

Annual

Smith, Kimberly

$10186.

B.S. OSU

8-18-80

Shields Heights Learning Center

Smith, Melanie

11217.

M.S. OU

8-18-80

Special Services Speech Pathologist

Sorrels, Sondra

10897.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Special Services Speech Pathologist

Starks, Alstene

10186.

B.S. Langston

8-18-80

Marshall Math

Tarbox, LuAnn

10186.

B.S. OU

8-18-80

Classen Science

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Thomas, Betty

Employments

Roosevelt Resource

5-30-80

Page-Woodson Drop-Out Program

5-30-80

External Funding Reentry Program

5-30-80

Burbank Primary

5-30-80

Special Services ESAA Counselor

5-30-80

Central Innovative Principal

5-30-78

Classen Asst. Principal

6-04-80

King Reading

5-30-80

Special Services Home Intervention

5-30-80

Harrison Primary

5-30-80

Star Spencer Math

5-30-80

Northeast Resource

5-29-80

Page-Woodson Learning- Center

5-30-80

Northwest Special Education

5-20-80

Employments

Annual

Wade, Helen

$12422.

B.S. BN

8-18-80

Page-Woodson Learning Center

367

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NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

APPROVED EXP.

DEGREE COLLEGE

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Terminations 4c

Capitol Hill High History/Coach

5-30-80

4c Warren-Griffin, Ernalea

Special Services Special Education

5-30-80

Telstar Reading

5-30-80

Special Services Counselor

5-30-80

Capitol Hill Middle Reading

5-30-80

Taft Special Education

5-30-80

Spencer Primary

5-30-80

Britton Primary

5-30-80

Dunbar Lab. Teacher

5-30-80

Putnam Heights Primary

5-30-80

Capitol Hill Middle Reading

5-30-80

Personnel P.A.A.A.

6-05-80

Bodine Kindergarten

5-30-80

Northwest Resource

5-29-80

Warburton, David

Weir, Jean

Wetmore, Bill Wheeler. Velma White, Catherine

White, Lillian White, Mary

Williams, Dorinda Williams, Dorothy Willy, Barbara

Wilson, Beth

Wilson, Jeanie

Winkle, Nancy

Employments

Annual

Warren-Griffin, Ernalea

$10695.

Hoover, Anne

Carter, John

______________

GSU

8-18-80

Special Services Special Education

$10695.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Taft Special Education

10683.

M.S. SESU

8-18-80

Northwest Resource

B.S.

1 - P.A.A.A. - Personnel Assistant Affirmative Action

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Terminations

Witte, Anne

Wolfe, Susan Wood, Jacqueline

Workman. Eva Wright, Rosalie

Young, Kathy Zavala. Rosalinda

Zurcber, Linda

Davis Primary

Jackson Reading

5-30-80

Shidler Learning Center

5-30-80

Curriculum Consultant

5-19-80

Eugene Field Primary

5-30-80

Taft Science/Math

5-30-80

Curriculum Lau Language Center

5-27-80

Lee Bilingual

5-30-80

Employments

Annual

Young, Kathy

$10378.

B.A. NLU

8-18-80

Taft Science/Math

8-18-80

Mark Twain Primary

5-30-80

Mansfield, Connie

Briggs, Peggy

10683.

M.S. ETSU

Speegle, Steve

Burris, Michael

10625.

B.S. SESU

8-18-80

Capitol Hill High Driver Education

Bynum, Sally

Dean, Donna

14217.

M.S. OU

8-18-80

Capitol Hill Middle Special Education

Drake. Jovce

Drake, Joyce

15181.

M.E. CSU

8-18-80

Capitol Hill High Special Education

Fowler, Joyce

11349.

B.A. UA

8-18-80

Rogers Learning Center

1 - NLU - Northeast Louisiana University - Monroe, la. 2 - ETSU - East Texas State University - Texarkana, Texas

3 - UA - University of Arizona - Tucson, Arizona

368

PERSONNEL n Ame

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations

Employments

Annual

Fricke, Bonnie

$10378.

B.S. UM

8-18-80

Harding Reading

Dahlquist, Janice

Fugerer, Barbara

12596.

B.A. UF

8-18-80

King Special Education

Walker, Ron

Gallimore, Robert

11834.

M. Ed. OCU

8-18-80

Taft Science

Mallorv. Malinda

Goetz. Marv

10897.

B.S. .GSU

...8-18-8Q..

Cochrane, Louise

Hall, Sharon

11749.

B.S. ECSU

8-18-80

Telstar Primary

Winston, Brent

Hardesty, Allen

12161.

B.S. OSU

8-18-80

Douglass Resource/Coach

Reddish, John

Hersh, Rebecca

10186.

B.S. 0U

8-18-80

Marshall Math

Gilchrist, Virginia

Jackson, Carmel

10186.

B.S. OU

8-18-80

Rogers Nurse

Brown, Karyl

Mahan, Shari

10186.

B.S. OU

8-18-80

Burbank/Gatewood Physical Education

Smith, Joanna

McKaig, Michael

11217.

M.S. OU

8-18-80

Special Services Speech Pathologist

Holland, Michael

Miller. David

10683.

M.S. UI

8-18-80

Northeast Chemistry

Carr. Susan

Nero. Shirlev

10695.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Taft Special Education

Lascelle. Scott

Pierce. Mike

11996.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Southeast Science/Coach

Sheward. Debbie

Preston. Paul

14959.

M.S. CSU

8-18-80

Classen Special Education

1 - UM - University of Missouri - Columbia, Missouri 2 - UF - University of Florida - Gainsville, Florida

Dunbar

Special. Education_____

3 - UI - University of Ill. - UrWana, Ill.

f NAME

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

â&#x2013;

Employments

Annual

Mosher, Karen

Stewart, Mary

$11916.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Madison Special Education

Smith, Johnny

Welborn, Jeff

12860.

B.S. SWSU

8-18-80

Southeast Business/Coach

Wheeler, Jo Ann

11834.

M. Ed. CSU

8-18-80

Capitol Hill Middle Reading

Calvin, Paula

10695.

B.A. CSU

8-18-80

Harding Special Education

Langham, Cynthia

10695.

B.A. CSU

8-18-80

Moon Special Education

Miles, Kay

10186.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Capitol Hill Middle Modern Dance/P.E.

Steward. Donna

12336.

B.A. CSU

8-18-80

Jackson Special Education

Hicks. Hazel

11518.

B.S. CSU

8-04-80

Douglass Media Specialist

Additional Allocations

Transfer

Hadley, Dolla

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>ersonnel~Tont1 d

PERSONNEL EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Parental Leave

Etter, Kerry

Bodine Kindergarten

5-30-80

Green, Theta

Curriculum Media Specialist

6-13-80

Collis, Eleni

Pierce Primary

5-30-80

Luetscher, Frances

Linwood Primary

5-30-80

Robinson, Linna

Burbank Primary

5-30-80

Thompson, Karen

Nichols Hills Special Education

5-12-80

Hoover Phvs. Ed./Coach

5-30-80

Rogers Social Studies

5-30-80

Professional Leave

Leave - ACT President Bazhaw, Lana

Leave - AFT President Renfro, David

............ ....... L NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Deceased Columbus Primary

Bradford, Berta

1 5-13-80

PROFESSIONAL OTHER

Terminations

Gassaway, Sherry Packhorse, Ralph

Enrolovments

Monthlv

External Funding Career Awareness Spec 5-30-80

Williams, Charles

$ 920.

6-16-80

External Funding Career Awareness Spec

External Funding Indian Ed. Developer

Packhorse, Olivia

535.

5-12-80

External Funding Indian Ed. Developer

5-09-80

i Annual Chapman,' James

Coleman, Cornelius Eastep, Bertha

Kinsey, Otis

Lease, Sharon

Olson, Mary Ann

Marshall Electronics

External Funding Career Awareness Soec 5-30-80

Carver L.P.N.

5-30-80

Northwest Auto Mechanics

5-30-80

Central Career Awareness Spec 6-30-80

Foster Estes L.P.N. Coordinator

6-06-80

6-09-80

Chapman, James

$11436.

8-04-80

Marshall Electronics

370

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Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

SALARY

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROFESSIONAL OTHER

Terminations

Qualls, Freddie

Rawlings, LaDeana Ringwald. Troy Yates. Joan

Marshall Cosemetology

6-04-80

Health Services Nurse

5-30-80

Douglass Auto Mechanics

6-04-80

External Funding Indian Ed. Develoner

4-16-80

Foster Estes L.P.N. Instructor

6-30-80

Foster Estes Counselor's Aide

6-30-80

Vocational Services Coordinator

6-30-80

Foster Estes Business Education

6-30-80

Foster Estes Small Engines

6-30-80

Foster Estes Attendance Clerk

6-30-80

Foster Estes Custodial Worker

6-30-80

Employments

Annual

Qualls, Freddie

$11436.

8-04-80

Marshall Cosemetolog.v

Ringwald. Trov

.... 11436,.-

8-04-80

Douglass Auto Mechanics

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

FOSTER ESTES - BELLE ISLE

August, Helen

Brown, Tommie Cawood, Marvin

Condren, Ann Connor, Matthew

DuBose, Lorine Foreman. Rickie li NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROFESSIONAL OTHER

FOSTER ESTES - BELLE ISLE â&#x20AC;¢ '

Terminations

Foy, Travis Garrett, Genevieve Gilmore, Beverly

Gleichman, Emmy Gooden, Marva Griffin, Eloise

Hamilton, Kay Harrison. Michael Harwood, Bill

Hinds, Francis

Howell. John H. Jardee, Robert

Foster Estes Custodial Worker

6-30-80

Foster Estes Dental Assistant

6-?o-8o

Belle Isle Business Education

6-30-80

Foster Estes L.P.N. Instructor

6-30-80

Foster Estes Secretary

6-30-80

Foster Estes Custodial Worker

la " Belle Isle Data Processing

6-30-80 6-30-80

Foster Estes Machine ShoD

6-30-80

Foster Estes Air Conditioning

6-30-80

Foster Estes Diesel Mechanic

6-30-80

Foster Estes Printing

6-30-80

Foster Estes Aero Mechanic

6-30-80

371

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Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

------------ 1--------------------------------------------------------------------

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROFESSIONAL OTHER FOSTER ESTES - BELLE ISLE

Terminations Johnson, Zollie Magers, Mildred

McCoy, Leonard McDonald, William

Myers, Phil

Nixon, Brenda Odell, James

Peterson, Mary Prieto. Stenhan

Raines, Lynn Riggs, Lory Riker, Mary

Foster Estes Auto Mechanics

6-30-80

Belle Isle Acting Director

6-30-80

Foster Estes Commercial Art

6-30-80

Foster Estes Electronics

6-30-80

Foster Estes Director

6-30-80

Belle Isle Medical/Dental

6-30-80

Foster Estes Assistant Director

6-30-80

Foster Estes Counselor

6-30-80

Foster Estes Auto Bodv

6-30-80

Belle Isle Business English

6-30-80

Belle Isle Voc-Business

6-30-80

Foster Estes Nurse

6-30-80

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

; PROFESSIONAL OTHER ..

FOSTER ESTES - BELLE ISLE

Terminations Roten, Max Ray Rowe. Gladvs Schiel, Lahoma Sloss, C.L.

Strong, Steve

Thompson, Anthony

Wade, Mary Ward, Martha Washington, Iva Watters, Margie

Young, Buddy

Foster Estes Printing

6-30-80

Foster Estes Secretary

6-30-80

Foster Estes Financial Secretary

6-30-80

Foster Estes Brick Masonry

6-30-80

Foster Estes Voc-Drafting

6-30-80

Foster Estes Appliance Repair

6-30-80

Foster Estes Upholstery

6-30-80

Foster Estes L.P.N. Instructor

6-30-80

Foster Estes Health Services

6-30-80

Foster Estes Counselor

6-30-80

Foster Estes Custodial Worker

6-30-80

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

372

MEETING OF JULY 7, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL -------------PDfflj’TrcjciTnMAT PiTHFR

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Rowe« Gladys

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NAME

Foster Estes Printing

Foster Estes

Foster Estes Financial Secretary

6-30-80

Foster Estes Rrink Masonry

6-30-80

Foster Estes Vnn —Dt *p C+,t ntr

6-30-80

Foster Estes A-nnl t ance Repair

6-30-80

Foster Estes Uphnlatary

6-30-80

Foster Estes

Foster Estes Health Services

6-30-80

Foster Estes Counselor

6-30-80

Foster Estes Custodial Worker

6-30-80

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

CLERICAL

Terminations Arenston, Susan

Arinwine, Kim

Baird, Thelma Burke, Billie Chenoweth, Kathryn Claxton, Glenda

Deere, Judith

Dewberry, Anita Dunlap, Judy

Faulk, Anna

Freeland, Carol French, Claudia

Gaddy, Vanessa Hemjirlka, Ogu

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

6-20-80

Northeast Attendance Clerk

5-30-80

Personnel Sr. Secretary

6-20-80

Stonegate Secretary

6-06-80

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

5-30-80

Mark Twain LRTA

5-30-80

Moon Teacher Aide

6-02-80

Monroe Instructional Aide

5-13-80

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

5-23-80

Moon Instructional Aide

5-20-80

Sequoyah Secretary

6-06-80

Vocational Education Secretary

6-02-80

Computer Services Secretary

5-23-80

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

5-30-80

1 - LRTA - Learning Resource Teacher Aide

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

;

373

MEETING OF JULY 7, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

■

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL

Terminations Hill, Annette

Hodson, Doris

Lee, Willa Littlejohn. Christine Madison, Susan

Neal, Beverly

Njoku, Olu Patterson, Barbara

Phillips, Cindy Rader, Marcia

Roark, Barbara Roark, Dianna Rowles, Hazel

Schaumburg, Viva

Jackson LRTA

Office of Supt. Administrative Secy.

5-21-80

Johnson Teacher Aide

5-30-80

External Funding Secretary

5-16-80

Northwest Media Aide

6-02-80

Harding Secretary

6-13-80

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

5-20-80

Office of Assessment Secretary

5-30-80

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

5-30-80

Hawthorne Attendance Clerk

5-16-80

Central Innovative Jr. Clerk

5-22-80

Garden Oaks LRTA

Hawthorne Secretary

6-06-80

Central Innovative Secretary

5-30-80

■Rmpl nymenta

Monthly

Thompson, Rhodena

$ 605.

5-30-80

5-19-80

External Funding Secretary

5-22-80

1 - LRTA - Learning Resource Teacher Aide

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL

Employments

Terminations

Scott, Mary Stepp, Karen

Tomlin, Wanda Tuzicka, Cheryl

Wallace, Vanita Ware. Sherry

Goldsmith, Carol

Computer Services' Secretary

5-15-80

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

5-30-80

Dewey Principal's Secv.

6-06-80

West Nichols Hills Preschool Aide

5-30-80

Capitol Hill Middle LRTA 1

5-22-80

Hillcrest Clerk

6-06-80

Taylor, Judith

Deceased

Johnson, Betty

•

Ellis, Dana

Cottrell, Carla

Rockwood Media Center Aide

1 - LRTA - Learning Resource Teacher Aide

5-05-80

Monthly

$ 615.

5-15-80

Accounting Services Bookke eper/Clerk

560.

5-12-80

Shields Heights Principal's Secy.

374

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MEETING OF JULY 7, 1980 - CONT'D 1 .........^^ .............

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

•4

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE Terminations Adair, Symiria Ames, May

Berry, Beulah Bramlett, Nola Branch, Nina Carter, Corine

Craig, Beatrice

' : !

lc 2

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Elementary Mpt .

5-30-80

Helper

4-24-80

Helper

5-29-80

,Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

lc Davis, Juanita

Dorsey, Ruth

Freeman, Christina Golden, Eula Haggard, Veryle

Hess, Arlene Hopkins, Sable

2 lc

lb lc

NAME

Helper

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE Terminations North, Ruth

Pierce, Doris Rule, Goldie

Stone, Blanche Tate. Georgia

Wade. Queen Ward, Dottie

Watkins, Patricia Wesley, Rosa Wilder, Irene

Wright, Vernice

Id le le lc lb le

2 le 2

2 le

Helper

5-29-80

Key Person

5-20-80

Helper

5-29-80

Secondary Manager

6-16-80

Helper

5-29-80

First Baker

6-02-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Employment

Monthly

Long, Velma

$ 595.

5-14-80

Traveling Manager

375

MEETING OF JULY 7, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd |

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

SALARY

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE Terminations

Enrolovments

Hourly

Baker, Loren

$ 3.15

5-07-80

Helper

Baker, Luvenia

3.15

5-05-80

Helper

Baker. Rosemary

3.15

5-19-80

Helper

Blue. Florence

3.15

5-15-80

Helper

Collins, Vicki

3.15

5-05-80

Helper

Harner, Shelah

3.15

5-13-80

Helper

Johnson. Faye

3.15

5-12-80

Helper

Rochell. Alma

3.15

5-09-80

Helper

Scott. Sharon

3.15

5-08-80

Helper

Yargee. Dee Ann

3.15

5-17-80

Helper

Student Trainees Biller. David

Brown, Charles

Trainee

5-29-80

Trainee

5-29-80

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE

Terminations Student Trainees

Cargill, Tommy

Donham, Mary Gale, Anthony Hicks, Danita

Manus, Cary

Pettigrew, Eddie Williams, Rodney

4c 4c . 4c

4e 4c

Student Trainee

5-29-80

Student Trainee

5-29-80

Student Trainee

5-29-80

Student Trainee

5-29-80

Student Trainee

5-29-80

Student Trainee

5-29-80

Student Trainee

5-29-80

______________________

TRANSPORTATION Terminations

Boyd, Rickey Carter. Michael

Duke, Kent

Bus Driver

5-19-80

Bus Driver

5-19-SO

Bus Driver

5-14-80

376

MEETING OF JULY 7, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

’

TRANSPORTATION Terminations

Farahani, Keyvan Frye, Stephen Goldman, Lula Hedgecock, Terry Jackson, Charles

4f 4f 4c

Bus Driver

5-14-80

Bus Driver

5-09-80

Bus Driver

5-02-80

Bus Driver

4-28-80

Bus Driver

6-12-80

Bus Driver

5-09-80

Johnson, Michael Phillips, Brandon

Roberts, Joseph

la 4f

Employments

Monthly

Dukes, Kent

$ 395.

5-13-80

Bus Driver

Farahani-Horri, Keyvan

600.

5-19-80

Bus Driver

Spunaugle, Barbara

600.

6-02-80

Bus Driver/Disnatche

5-09-80 Bus Driver

5-02-80

Bus Driver

5-16-80

Bus Driver

5-20-80

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

,-SERHC.E

Terminations Akanno, Okechukwu

Denson, Sallie

Ekuri, Mba Gilstrip, Orville Goad, Keneth

Johnson, Barry

Kumapayi, Roger Laster, Diana Lynch,' Odis McCoy, Rosa

McDaniel, Rebecca Mukes, Marcus

Nwalu, Mikado Packhorse, Ralph

Shidler Custodial Worker

5-30-80

Central Innovative Custodian

6-02-80

le’

Employments

Monthly

Dolphin, Dave

$ 605.

6-09-80

Shidler Custodial Worker

Parker, Burford

605.

5-16-80

Marshall Custodial Worker

McNeal, Walter

605.

5-23-80

Rancho Custodial Worker

Marshall . Custodial Worker

5-07-80

Capitol Hill High ,Parking Attendant

5-30-80

Parmelee Custodial Worker

6-04-80

Gatewood Custodial Worker

5-15-80

Rancho Custodial Worker

5-16-80

Custodial Services Custodial! Worker

6-06-80

Hayes Custodial Worker

5-30-80

Courtney, Ben

670.

6-03-80

Hayes Lie. Custodial Worker

Horace Mann Custodial Worker

5-30-80

Okolo, David

605.

6-02-80

Horace Mann Custodial Worker

Custodial Services Relief Custodian

5-07-80

Western Village Custodial Worker

5-20-80

Cudjoe, Kendal

605.

6-02-80

Western Village Custodial Worker

Grant Custodial Worker

5-16-80

Stanford, Forest

625.

6-03-80

Grant Custodial Worker

Douglass Custodial Worker

5-15-80

Biamonte, Peter

605.

5-27-E 0

Douglass Custodial Worker

;

377

MEETING OF JULY 7, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel co nt1 d

PERSONNEL EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

SALARY

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Terminations

Employments

Monthly

Sanderson, Herman

$ 605.

Jefferson Custodial Worker

5-16-80

Jefferson Custodial Worker

6-12-80

Taft Custodial Worker

5-30-80

Richmond, Haywood

605.

6-02-80

Taft Custodial Worker

Custodial Services Relief Custodian

4-30-80

Baccus, Irving

620.

7-02-80

All Schools Relief Custodian

Willard Custodial Worker

5-30-80

Harding Custodial Worker

5-13-80

Stand Watie Custodial Worker

5-30-80

Bodine Custodial Worker

6-03-80

West Nichols Hills Custodial Worker

5-28-80

Imbu, Tamunokubie

Bennett, Nathaniel Jr.

605.

5-19-80

Rogers Custodial Worker

Hayes, Wilford

670.

5-13-80

Davis Custodial Worker

Hunter. David

605.

5-27-80

North Highland Custodial Worker

Jones, Billy

605.

5-14-80

Southeast Custodial Worker

Powers, Alan

Sanderson, Herman Shiferaw, Sahle Simms, George Sitole, Silvanus

Stewart, James Taylor, Ronald Traywicks, Malcolm

McCutchen, Magdalena -

. NAME

.....

6-05-80 •

1 !

...... EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

SALARY

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Terminations Seay, Ray

Employments

Monthly

Packhorse, Ralph

$ 605.

5-12-80

Douglass Custodial Worker

Jones, Johnny

Powers, Alan

605.

5-16-80

Jefferson Custodial Worker

Lawrence, Wallace

Tate, Wardell

605.

5-15-80

Douglass Custodial Worker

Transfer

Hall, Julius

Bailey, Johnny

640.

5-15-80

Nichols Hills Lie. Custodial Worker

Terminations-Substitutes

Brown, Walter Johnson, Aaron Johnson, Roger

Parks, Allen Paxton, Steve

Randall, Ronald

la Id

le Id

All Schools

5-30-80

Heronville

5-22-80

All Schools

5-29-80

All Schools

6-04-80

Sunset

6-03-80

Stonegate

5-23-80

378

MEETING OF JULY 7^1980 -__C0NV_D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME •■4

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE Termination-Substitute

Tapia, Juan

Washington

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

Terminatlons-Trainees

Allen. Steve

Cant rell. Donald Cloe ston, Vernon Cud.ioe, Willard

Curry. Flovd

Davis, Marlene Doakes, Bobby Donnell, Raymond

Douglass, Ray Green, Barbara

Huggins, Timmy

’

4c 45 4c 4c

4c 4c 4c 4c

Jacobs, Kenneth

Leake, Donnie

Hourly

Antwine, Donald

$ 3.15

5-19-80

Hillcrest

Atlabachew. Delnessahu

3.15

6-03-80

Washington

Carter. Michael

3.15

5-20-80

Wheeler

Edwards, Kevin

3.15

6-13-80

Parker

Garrett, Cynthia

3.15

5-13-80

All Schools

Hardimon, Gwendolyn

3.15

6-03-80

All Schools

Pham, Tien

3.15

5-21-80

Gatewood

Pullen, Keith

3.15

6-12-80

Heronville

Wilson. James

3.15

6-02-80

Carver Center

Yahola, Dannv

3.15

6-13-80

Stand Watie

5-23-80

SERVICE

Allen, John

Employments-Substitutes

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

379

MEETING OF JULY 7, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont1d

PERSONNEL <

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Terminations-Trainees Palmer, Prentis Rucker, Veola Shaw, Jerry Taft, Mark

Terrell. Danny

Waenon. James

Webster, Sharlote Wilson, Terri

Woody, Attis

4c 4c

4c 4c 4c 4e 4c 4c

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

Trainee

5-09-80

Leaves of Absence

•

Employments

Monthly

Campbell, Vernon

$ 605.

Parental Leave Marshall Custodial Worker

Busher. Willie

6-11-80

6-16-80

Marshall Custodial Worker

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Leaves of Absence

Employments

Monthly

$ 605.

6-16-80

Truman Custodial Worker

605.

5-27-80

Garden Oaks Custodial Worker

Professional Leave

Buchanan Custodial Worker

5-30-80

Donnell, Robert

All Schools Custodial Worker

5-15-80

Gort, George

Truman Custodial Worker

6-06-80

Walters, Everett

Norton, Glenn

Garden Oaks Custodial Worker

5-20-80

Jordan, Frank

Onwuasomba, Felix

Ill Health

MAINTENANCE/ENGINEERING -

Terminations ..Etopndson,, William

lc 1

Heavy Equipment

4-03-80

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CAMPUS POLICE

—— Mo.AI 5 s+.pt. Michaol

Welch, Billy

lb lb

Patrol man

6-13-80

Patrolman

5-30-80

—

380

MINUTES OF MEETING OF JULY 21, 1980

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR ADJOURNED MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION

BUILDING, 900 NORTH KLEIN, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M. PRESENT:

Delbert Hamm, President Freddye Williams, Vice President Floyd Donwerth, Member Susan Hermes, Member Pat Potts, Member

ABSENT:

Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member

The meeting was called to order by Dr. Hamm.

Call to Order

Dr. Hamm welcomed all of the persons present.

Visitors Welcomed

Roll call established that five of the seven Board members were present.

Roll Call

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING It was moved by Mrs. Hermes and seconded by Mr. Donwerth for approval of the Minutes of July 7, 1980 as presented. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #245 Minutes Approved

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS Mrs. Williams commented class reunion which was who appeared on program positive aspects of the

on her attendance of the Oklahoma City Douglass High School held in Los Angeles, CA., She referred to various professionals at the reunion and who were graduates of Douglass, and other reunion and the School.

Comments Mrs. Williams

Comments Mrs. Potts, with reference to her resignation, made the following comments: I have Mrs. Potts pondered carefully over the things that I would like to say tonight. It is with considerable regret that I will be submitting my resignation to the Oklahoma City Board of Education at the conclusion of this meeting. I find that my responsibilities as new director of the Oklahoma City Community Foundation are such that I cannot continue as a member of the School Board and do justice to the responsibilities rightly going with the school position. This has indeed been a challenging six and one-half years. I have had the opportunity to provide leadership in bringing our schools through the difficult times jof desegregation. While I served as President, we became one of the first school districts released from such a court order in the country. During those years we learned a lot about the humanness of us all. We learned a lot about human potential, that is no respecter of race. Recent establishment of a neighborhood assignment area with no future reassignments contemplated districtwide for at least four years should help provide long-range stability for our school district. We have developed academic enrichment, K-l2, via our gifted and talented programs. Our extra fine arts requirement, award-winning science program, smaller class size, homework policy, and course description book all point to more serious future students. The now established partnership between schools and business, via the Adopt-a-School Program, has 15 partnerships now and I am proud to have helped initiate these efforts. So I feel both schools and businesses stand to benefit. Plans to consolidate, modernize and sell existing facilities should better provide for future student needs in a more attractive setting, a setting worthy of our students. We have now a model affirmative action policy that is accompanied with training for leadership, and with performance evaluation based on goals. This should help us train and get the very best personnel available. Smaller class size and Salaries at the regional average are things we have long sought that are now a reality. Our most important asset certainly is motivated in well-trained teachers. I know that we have some of the best anywhere. I am proud of the progress in these areas that we have made for teachers. Diagnostic testing via Criterion Referenced Test was only an idea when I began my work. With approval of the Board tonight, it will become a tool available to individualized student reading progress throughout the District. Our long-range plans are well on the way to accomplishment in most instances. They should help the Board to continue a proactive rather than reactive stance, better preparing for the future. They will certainly require yearly evaluation and extension. I am proud to have shared the journey and leave with strong feelings of confidence in the future of our school system. I have confidence in the Board's ability to work together positively, building the best for all

381

MINUTES OF MEETING OF JULY 21, 1980 - CONT'D

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS cont'd

Commen ts Mrs. Potts cont'd

Mrs. Potts cont'd of our young people. I am confident that our Superintendent will continue to provide outstanding leadership that will anticipate future problems and creatively involve those affected in their solutions. I am confident, also, as I see more and more families who are aware of the improved state of public education in Oklahoma City moving into our school district and choosing our schools,because they are tops.

Dr. Hamm indicated that action on the resignation of Mrs. Potts would be taken under New Business in the agenda. HEARINGS Mrs. Virginia Miller addressed the Board, at which time she referred to the performance of the Board's Attorneys.

LEGAL REPORT

Attorney's Report

Mr. Bleakley reported:

Filing of Petition by Fair School Finance Council, Inc.-- The Fair School Finance Council of Oklahoma, Inc., has filed a petition for declaratory judgment to declare Oklahoma's present system of financing public education unconstitutional. I have obtained a copy of this petition and will have it distributed to members of the Board of Education.

Hudiburg Suit -- Dr. Start had asked about the status of the case against Hudiburg Chevrolet, particularly in light of its change of ownership. I have contacted the new attorney for that firm and will try to have a proposal for the resolution of that case within the next several meetings.

Pending Matters on Sale of Channel 25 -- With respect to pending matters on the sale of Channel 25, you will recall that ten percent of the proceeds of the sale were put into an escrow account to deal with any residual claims that might arise between the parties. The first anniversary of the close of the sale of Channel 25 has occurred. The Blair and Company wrote a letter to the escrow agent saying that they have no pending claims against the District, and we have received disbursement late today of half of that escrow account, in the amount of $175,000 plus the interest that has accrued on that account during the last year of $32,980.53.

ITEMS PENDING None.

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT

R. #246 Approval of Central Innovative High School Program Guidelines

A motion was made by Mrs. Hermes and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of Program Guidelines for Central Innovative High School as recommended by the Superintendent. Mr. Donwerth commented: The guidelines are extremely desirable. I hope that in the upcoming years we can follow the guidelines and, if we are going to have Central Innovative High School, have the outcome of the high school be like the guidelines that have been presented.

Mrs. Hermes - The guidelines sound very much like a college-oriented high school, and I think where much is expected of the students, that they give us back that much or more. I really hope that this new set of guidelines will give a new boost to Central Innovative and what it really is for, the creative child. Mrs. Williams - I think the guidelines are outstanding and I was happy to read through them. The Task Force should be commended for the resul ts.of its assignment.

(A copy of the Central Innovative High School Program Guidelines is on file in the Cl erk's office.) On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

382

MINUTES OF MEETING OF JULY 21, 1980 - CONT'D

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hermes to direct the following person to a'ttend conference as indicated:

At School District Expense (a)

R. #247 Professional Trip Approved

Linda J. Johnson, EEO Specialist, Personnel Services â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A Basic Orientation-Equal Employment & Affirmative Action-Positive Management Approaches to Compliance, Houston, Texas, August 25-27, 1980.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the | motion carried.

A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mr. Donwerth that the President of the Board and the Superintendent be authorized to execute a document and submit an application for a grant as follows: | (a)

Under P. L. 95-207, Career Awareness and Information Program

R. #248 President of Board and Superintendent Authorized to Execute Document

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. The following was presented from the Superintendent as information to the Board: Commission to Improve Education Report

As requested, I have reviewed with key staff members the recommendations contained in the report of the Commission to Improve Education. The Commission's recommendations reinforce some work under way and provide positive suggestions for improving the quality of public education in Oklahoma City. My comments on and suggested responses to the Commission's recommendations follow. pp. 1-3:

Legislative Goals

Most of the legislative goals will be relevant for 1981. these goals as a basis for its 1981 legislative programs. PP- 4-5:

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Transportation

The Board should cpntinue to seek ways to reduce its transportation costs. The work with Ecotran will result in more efficient design of bus routes, utilization of equipment, and provision of services. The District has just completed a detailed study of student assignments with â&#x20AC;&#x2122; the assistance of a patron advisory group. This year the Board adopted a policy on student scho'ol assignments and approved a student assignment plan for 1980-81. Parents and students affected by the new assignments have been informed. In adopting the 1980-81 plan, the administration and Board said that stability would occur and there would not have to be annual reassignment of students for several years. Therefore, I do not recommend establishing a new committee to study student reassignments at this time.

pp. 5-6:

School Consolidation and Boundary Changes

The Board has adopted a policy specifying a process for consideration of retirement of school buildings, consolidation of schools and boundary changes. These issues will be assessed by the Board as the administration prepares recommendations for consideration in December 1980. pp. 6:

Magnet Schools

The Long Range Plan recommendations on magnet schools are endorsed by the Commission. A new program for Central Innovative, a magnet high school, will be implemented in 1980-81. Consistent with the Arts Task Force recommendation, the staff is considering plans for an arts magnet or mini school for 1981-82. Three academic mini school programs within comprehensive high schools (Classen, John Marshall, and Star Spencer) will be started in the 1980-81 school year.

Mini schools within schools may offer the same educational benefits as magnet schools without as much increase in overhead and transportation costs.

Information to the Board - Commission to Improve Education Report

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Temporary Buildings

The Commission endorses the Long Range Plan recommendation to reduce and ultimately eliminate the use of temporary buildings. I support the recommendation, but do not think that it can be implemented in the near future. Despite reduction in enrollment, significant decreases in class size during the past five years, additional new programs such as elementary physical education, vocal music, gifted and talented, addition of federal programs, and a major expansion of special education programs have created new demands for space.

Significant reduction in the number of temporary buildings now would require reassignment of children and possible increases in transportation costs. The District should plan for retirement of temporary buildings as it adopts a schedule for retirement of facilities, consolidation of schools, renovation or replacement of facilities and boundary changes. pp, 6-8:

Other Ideas

I support many of the suggestions made by the Commission. Staff members are planning to continue the All-City Elementary Choral Program in 1980-81 and begin a new All-City High School Choir. Schools, staff and students will be invited to present proposals for an incentive program to cut vandalism and improve the physical environment in schools. The staff will continue to develop plans for expansion of preschool and day care programs. The Adopt-a-School Program will expand.

In this section the Commission suggests consideration of salary differentials for teachers working in "hard core" schools. I think it would be a mistake to stereotype certain schools as "hard core" and reinforce negative attitudes about the students and adults associated with them. Boards and Superintendents in many school districts have learned that it is not productive to make special examples of schools by designating them "hard core." When this is done, the students tend to behave negatively, as they are expected to do; thus, reinforcing the negative stereotype. I do not think the Board should label any schools in this way.

PP. 9-10:

Community Relations

The Commission is most helpful in emphasizing the importance of the District working to improve community understanding of and involvement in public education. With a vigorous public information program, the development of school coordinating councils of staff and patrons, school-business partnership programs, and regular contact with civic clubs and community agencies, the suggestions of the Commission will be followed.

Dr. Payzant commented further: The legislative goals that were recommended by the Commission were very consistent with those adopted by this Board for the legislative session just completed, and you are aware by now from reports of what action was taken by the legislature in line with those goals. There are still some goals that are considered in that Commission report that in my judgment and that of the staff will be timely for 1980-81, and particularly in light of the Fair SchooTFinance Council litigation, the goals that deal with the reform of public school finance in Oklahoma will remain timely. As I suggest in this report, I would'urge thd Board to resubmit those goals for the 1981 legislature. The recommendations that deal with transportation in part, have been implemented or are now under consideration. As you know, we have employed Ecotran consulting firm to assist with scheduling of our transportation routes and expect that the results of their work will decrease the number of routes that we have and makd the existing ones more efficient in terms of our utilization of staff and equipment. This spring we completed a rather detailed study of school reassignments, involved parent groups at great length, spent a good deal of time debating alternative plans before this Board, with the result that the Board adopted a student school assignment policy and a plan for 1980-81. In so doing, both the administration and Board gave some assurances that this plan would provide some stability for the next three or four years, and the hope that we all have is that it will get us out of the annual school reassignment business. Therefore, I don't think it would be good to come with yet another committee right away to talk about school reassignments and changing transportation patterns after the Board has just given some indication to the public that we are going to try and have some stability for the next several years.

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I Dr. Payzant cont'd

The matters referred to with school consolidation and boundary change recommendations are under consideration. As you know,the staff will be coming to the Board with a detailed set of recommendations in December after receipt of the School Planning Council reports and careful study through the fall.

Information to the Board Commission to Improve Education Report cont'd

We continue to look at the magnet school concept. The Fine Arts Task Force report | suggested that consideration be given to the development of a magnet school in the I Arts. Dr. Lindley will be looking at such a proposal for possible implementation in J 1981-82. We do have several magnet school programs now in operation, of which Central is one. We are deviating a bit from the original intent of the Long Range Plan in that we are looking more at the idea of schools within schools or mini schools that perhaps will cut down transportation and overhead cost and probably will be coming to you with more recommendations in this area rather than necessarily setting aside a separate building in a separate location for a magnet school program. The staff shares the goal of the Board and the Commission with respect to the elimination of annexes and temporary buildings. However, I want to caution the Board that it not confuse the declining enrollment and the availability of space in some school buildings with ease of getting rid of temporary buildings. At the same time that this has happened, namely, enrollment decline over the last few years, we have had an increase in demand for space for discreet uses such as special education classes, federal programs, arid, over the same period, class sizes have been reduced considerably, so that we can't simply equate enrollment decline with elimination of all of the temporary buildings. Also, the temporary buildings do give us the flexibility to respond to shifts in enrollment patterns that aren't accurately predictable over the long term. If we were to establish a policy of eliminating all of the temporary buildings within a year or two, we might conceivably be able to do that if we filled up all space in existing buildings, but not without changing a significant number of boundaries and perhaps busing quite a few more students than we now are. My point in saying that is that we share the goal but we don't see an easy way to reach it. In the next year or two, we will continue to analyze this problem and make some recommendations along with our school consolidation report and reconrnendations in December. We were quite taken by a number of the other ideas that were included on pages 6-8 of the Commission report. We thought many of them were very positive, particularly those I designed to try to get students more involved in all-city activities. There are | discussions under way for an All-City Choir at the senior high school level. We had | a good experience this last year for the first time with an All-City Elementary Vocal

Music Program in the spring, and we hope to take these ideas and others mentioned by the Commission and build on them. We also acknowledge and agree with the importance that the Commission attaches to the need for the District to continue to work very hard in the area of community relations; With the implementation of our school coordinating councils, the expansion of our volunteer program, our public information program, and the encouragement of principals and others in the schools to get out and take the message of what we are doing to the community, as well as open the school doors and welcome the community into the schools to see firsthand what is going on; that we will I be able to follow through and implement some of the recommendations that the Commission has presented in this area. I have not recommended specific action in that this report represents some things that are already done, some things that are under way, and some things that remain to be done. You may take action as you wish. If you don't give me direction to the contrary, I would proceed along the lines that I have suggested in this report by way of response to the Commission's recommendations.

Mrs. Williams - I would suggest that the Board ask the Superintendent to continue in the way which he has stated, and that we could give him a vote of confidence to carry on.

Mrs. Hermes - I would like to suggest that someone on the Commission be involved, just to meet perhaps with Dr. Payzant occasionally or with various people in these areas just to see what they are doing, and maybe to report back to the Commission, which has not disbanded yet.

Dr. Hamm - I do recall, Mrs. Hermes, that it was your concern at the last meeting that the report be heard and it would just disappear. I think with this report that has in part answered that concern of yours, especially with Rev. James' comment that this was the way that he saw the ComnrissTon's results being channeled into the regular operation of our district affairs. I don't think that any action as such is required other than the Board members keeping in mind the Commission's report and making sure that it is incorporated. Dr. Payzant - I am very comfortable with that. I think it would be appropriate if the Board has some direction wfthi respect to a continued role for the Commission, that you specify it so that we can let the Commission members know and learn of their willingness or unwillingness to continue.

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd

Dr. Hamm - I think we would need to give some thought to that to come back with a very definite recommendation as to the degree of involvement. Mrs. Potts - I would suggest that you might take a look at reconvening the committee, say, six months hence in terms of where we are in the progress on these things.and potential role that this committee might have in helping with legislation that would further the welfare of this school district.

Dr. Payzant - Maybe for the short term it would be appropriate for me to work with the President of the Board on a letter to each of the Commission members thanking them for their service, and then perhaps suggesting in that letter that a meeting be convened in four to six months to review progress made with the recommendations in the report and to talk at that time about disbanding or a continuing role for the Commission members. Mr. Donwerth - I am wondering if we can keep the Commission intact where they can come back in six months.

Mrs. Potts - I am wondering if in this letter thanking them for their service on this committee, if we were to say we appreciate their continued attention and support to the affairs of the School District and look forward to reconvening the committee in approximately six months to evaluate at that point how they might further serve the District.

Dr. Hamm - Mrs. Potts rec amended at our last meeting that the items of the Commission Report concerning legislation be forwarded to the legislators. Would we want to get the Commission's response to that? Dr. Payzant - I think they are clearly on record in support of those goals. I would include them in the recommended package that you consider in the fall for submission to the State Legislature. ENCUMBRANCES, PURCHASING AND GENERAL BUSINESS R. #249 Approval of Encumbrances

It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Potts to approve payment of encumbranc es as listed for July 1-15, 1980. On roll call, the,votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. Purchasing

R. #250 Approval of Purchasing and General Business

A motion was made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Williams for approval of the following items of purchasing and general business:

Plumbing Supplies and Equipment Purchase of plumbing supplies and equipment (ells, couplings, snakes, unions, caps, etc.) for use by the Maintenance and Engineering Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations: Central Plumbing Supply Crane Supply Company

Total

576.00 705.36

$ 1,281.36

These purchases are to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Permission to Place Orders Permission to place orders during the 1980-81 school year for the Central Food Service Department with the following companies which!? have submitted quotations:

Gilt Edge Farm, Inc.

Milk, Milk Products, and Ice Milk Mix

Bordens, Inc.

Milk, Milk Products, and Ice Milk Mix

Beatrice Foods Company

Ice Cream and Ice Milk Products

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Purchasing cont'd 3.

Electrical Supplies & Hardware -4

Purchase of electrical supplies & hardware (relays, breakers, wire, couplings, switches, outlet boxes, etc.) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations: $

Emsco Electric Supply Company, Inc. Pyramid Supply, Inc. Graybar Electric Company

R. #250 Approval of Purchasing and General Business cont'd

1,209.09 4,040.60 265.16

Total

These purchases are to be charged to Account BL 5620.05. 4.

Audio-Visual Supplies

Purchase of audio-visual supplies (screens, clutch kits, sprockets, drive belts, lamp sockets, switches, etc.) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Services from Fairview Audio-Visual (available only from designated distributors). This purchase in the amount of $1,292.63 is to be charged to the following Accounts:

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G 740.08 BL 5620.05

Total

1,089.89 202.74

1,292.63

Concrete Blocks and Cement Purchase of concrete blocks and cement for use by Maintenance/Engineering Services from Harter Concrete Products, Inc., which submitted the only quotation, in the amount of $2,079.84, to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Confirmation of Payment Confirmation of payment to American Indian Institute of Oklahoma University for Workshop to Develop Curriculum Materials for Title IV-A Project. This expenditure in the amount of $3,000 (15 days @ $100 for .two consultants) is to be charged to Account 250.05, Indian Education, and has been approved on our Federal Education Grants and/or Programs.

Electronic Supplies and Equipment Purchase of electronic supplies and equipment (antennas, tubes, transistors, speaker; transformers, cartridges, etc.) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotation on specifications:

Wholesale Electronic Supply Radio Supply Newark Electronics Electronic "Distributors, Inc. Electronic Supply Company

Total

411.31 2,361.16 27.20 101.60 44.64

2,945.91

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 740.08 BL 5620.05

2,560.26 385.65 Total

Carpet

Purchase of carpet forâ&#x2013; use at Edwards Preschool and Tel star (Handicapped) from Carpet Country, Inc., iwhcih submitted the low quotation. These purchases in the amount of $4,536.35 are to be charged to the following Accounts:

Bond Fund No. 1425 Bond Fund No. 1426 Total

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Purchasing cont'd R. #250 Approval of Purchasing and General Business cont'd

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Permission to add McVay Henley Company to the list of suppliers furnishing food staples (pasta food products) to the Central Food Service Department during 1980-81.

Approval of Service Agreement

Approval of a service agreement with typewriter companies as listed to perform repairs and maintenance services on electrical typewriters from July 1, 1980 through June 30, 1981. The Front Office, Inc.

IBM (Standard and Executive and Selectric)

Oklahoma Systems, Inc.

Underwood/Olivetti Std. & Olivetti L-90 Series

Capitol Hill Typewriter Company

Facit

Downtown Office Machines

Olympia

Oklahoma Typewriter Company

Royal, Brother", Royal 5000 (element), Silver Reed (element), Remington, Smith-Corona

11. Authorization for Printers

Approval to authorize Rainbow Color Press, Inc., to print the Parent Handbook and School Calendar (45,000 copies approximately) for Graphics Services. This purchase in the amount of $12,619.60 to be charged to Account G 130.16.

General Business

1. Authorization for School District Representative Authorization that Howard White, Administrator of Food Services, be designated as the school district's representative'during the 1980-81 fiscal year, in matters pertaining to the National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program and for food commodities donated by the United States Department of Agriculture. 2.

Agreement for Staff Development Services, etc.

Authorization to enter into an agreement with CTB/McGraw Hill, Inc., for staff development services, testing and instructional materials for reading, grades K-5, the total not to exceed $190,000 for the 1980-81 fiscal year. In referring to item 2, General Business, Mrs. Hermes asked that staff advise McGraw Hill of the ethnic makeup, of the Di strict as the tests,are customized.for use. On roll ca-H,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motioncarried.

R. #251 Change Order Approved

BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION It was moved by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Hermes to approve the Deduct Change Order No. 1 in the contract with Jack Ridings Contracting Company - omit the painting of Dunjee building from the list of buildings listed in Group II.

Original contract Change Order No. 1 - Deduct

$ 255,502.00 17,722.50

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

Information to the Board - Central Food Service Statement

The Central Food Service Financial Statement,as of June 30, 1980, was submitted as information to the Board. Dr. Payzant commented on the Financial Statement,with some explanation, and added: It may be possible to keep the same pricing structure for another year. We are going to have to see what the impact of the proposed government cutbacks in subsidy for the Federal Lunch Program will do to us before we bring a recommendation to you for 1980-81.

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UNFINISHED BUSINESS i

| Motion made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Dr. Start at the meeting of July 7, 1980: ; I

"I move that we consider the proposal that was presented regarding providing kindergarten at cost for Oklahoma City school children."

ADMISSION OF UNDERAGE CHILDREN TO KINDERGARTEN The Board believes that it may be beneficial to some children to enroll in public school kindergarten at an earlier age than specified by state law. Therefore, children four years of age whose fifth birthday is after September 1 and before December 2 may enroll in public school kindergarten on a tuition basis. The tuition charge will be equal to the per capita cost per kindergarten student for the previous school year and must be paid each semester in advance.

Underage children who have paid tuition to attend kindergarten in a school district may attend the first grade tuition free the following year, if they have successfully mastered the expected kindergarten skills as determined by an assessment team. Children will remain in kindergarten the following year tuition free if they do not master the required skills. Underage children who have shown mastery of skills before the school year has ended may accelerate to the next level. Tuition will be paid until the child attains the legal age for kindergarten.

Underage children who have not attended a district kindergarten will not be placed in the first grade the following year. Underage children living in the district and attending private accredited kindergarten may transfer to a district kindergarten on a tuition basis at the end of the first semester and upon successful mastery of kindergarten skills may attend first grade the following year without paying tuition. Underage children who attended public school kindergarten outside the district may not enter the first grade in the district the following year. Underage children living outside the district and attending public school kindergarten elsewhere may transfer on a tuition basis to a district kindergarten before the beginning of second semester. Upon successful completion of kindergarten skills, the child will be eligible for the first grade tuition free. The district will honor all out-of-state kindergarten transfers for underage children tuition free who are legally enrolled in a public school in keeping with the age regulation of the sending state.

Members of the Board discussed the proposal: Mrs. Potts - Wh'en yo'u have a student that this year goes into private school, what happens in terms of the cost and where the child is placed when they become of age and are back in our district?

Dr. Payzant - If there is a child that is underage and does ;not qualify for kindergarten this fall under the new legislation and that child goes to a private kindergarten, that child when he or she enrolls in Oklahoma City a year from now would not be eligible to go into first grade. The child would have to go into kindergarten because they would not be six by the September 2 date. Dr. Hamm - If a student is enrolled in private kindergarten and then transfers to the Oklahoma City district, would they be tested before we accept them?

Dr. Payzant - What we are proposing is yes, up to the 1st of December.

Mrs. Potts - Some of the concern that was expressed is a valid part of any special program we have where there is a cost charged even if it is actual cost that is a part of the program that we provide.as with our other similar programs like Preschool and Day Care, and that concern is the students that might be eligible but cannot afford to be a part of it. If we are providing it at cost, we are looking at where we have an employed parent who would otherwise put a child in a day care arrangement, we are looking at the opportunity for that young person to get a better educational offering during that year and keeping that child in the public schools as opposed to losing them to a private school.

R. #252 Approval of Proposal Re Underage Children

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R. #252 Approval of Proposal Re Underage Children cont'd

Mrs. Hermes - I am wrestling with this one. I feel that the staff has done a very excellent job by providing a testing mode to determine the maturity level and academic peadiness. I called Headstart today and they assured me that they can provide for those children whose guardian or parent's income falls in the very low brackets and this $700 fee would be comparable. So that negates that part of the population. But I am still concerned with those middle class parents whose child or children would pass the test, are developmentally ready, who we want in our system because we are a developmental system and we believe in that as a school system, yet I am concerned that those parents, again, are going to get the brunt of not being able to use this.

Mr. Donwerth - At the same time that you checked with Headstart and there will be funds provided for the poverty level children to attend kindergarten, and the wealthy can afford to send their children on a tuition basis, it still falls back on the hard working guy that just barely makes ends meet but can't afford to send his chi Id,-and this is my hangup on it also. Mrs. Williams - Should we deny everyone because we can't?

Dr. Hamm - Some of the concerns that we had when we voted on this a few months ago have been addressed regarding the testing and screening, the readiness, but this particular aspect that Mrs. Hermes and Mr. Donwerth have addressed is still of a real concern of mine because it seems to me that this program is different from our preschool program. Our preschool, though it is housed in our building, is entirely separate from the rest of our public school education and it is a readiness program for them to come into public education. But this would place children in the public kindergarten, and they would be coming under the same way that they would go to a private kindergarten and we are not in the private kindergarten business; we are in public education. I feel like we have to provide for all of the children and not just for those that can afford it. Mrs. Williams - What about the summer school program?

Dr. Hamm - But they have in the summer school the opportunity to do the same during the winter, and they would have another opportunity the next year, but they choose not to exercise that alternative, but would want to go to summer school so they can stay with their class. Mrs. Williams - If we defeat this, I think that we would be doing a disservice to at least a portion of the young people that nee'd it so badly.

Dr. Hamm - I am not arguing that point and I understand that. It is the disservice that we are doing to those that would like to but cannot afford to.

Mrs. Potts - I think the difference between this, perhaps, and a private school is that we are not in it for a profit. We are really going to be charging just to cover the cost of providing the education, and it should be more accessible to most families than private education. It is an opportunity for enrichment, and I think that the kindergarten year is an important year for enrichment. All of the studies that I.have seen really point to young people's readiness to be challenged at that age and younger. Dr. Hamm - Bute-very kindergarten teacher that I have talked to has told me that they have/less trouble with children who are of age coming in than those who, even if it were under the law, are still immature and can come too early.and the parents did not exercise the wisdom to hold them back a year.

Mrs. Williams - I have talked.with some of the kindergarten teachers also, and they have told me that when developmental levels are considered and the child is denied this opportunity, he has a sense of regression. Mrs. Potts stated that,'of course, she did favor passage of the motion, but she would recommend passage with the enjoinder that the program be evaluated at the end of the year to consider whether it should be continued a subsequent year, assuming that the law is still the same.

Dr. Hamm stated that because the seconder of the motion was not present, the perfection suggested by Mrs. Potts could not be considered and asked that the vote be taken on the original motion.without the perfection. Mrs. Hermes expressed a concern about the payment of $350 in advance per semester as opposed to monthly payments.

Members of the Board continued to discuss concerns regarding the proposal â&#x20AC;&#x201D; fairness to all students, parents' ability to pay fees in advance per semester, the number of children the program would serve, the possibility of dividing fees into monthly payments, and other.

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Dr, Payzant, in speaking to the payment of tuition on a monthly basis, stated: I don't think it would be a great problem to divide it into quarterly payments. The problem on the monthly payments, depending on the number of students, is simply a bookkeeping and monitoring function. What you run into is the problem of spending a lot of time as a bill collecting agency unless you collect in advance. Whenever you ar& talking about children and ihuman beings, if you don't get the payment in, then you are faced with deciding at some point that the child has to stop coming to class. If a person makes a commitment for a semester or at least a quarter and pays in advance, you know that you are talking about decision points at a quarter or at a semester and not being faced with removing a child for nonpayment halfway through a month. I think we could handle quarterly payments.

R. #252 Approval of Proposal Re Underage Children cont'd

Mrs. Hermes, again, expressed a concern that children would be eliminated who would be ready and could not afford to pay the tuition.

Dr. Payzant stated: It seems to me that one of the reasons for not doing it that you have expressed is a concern about some sense of equity and how it is going to fall with respect to all children. The only way, in my judgment, that you can look at this and not be hung up with that argument is to recognize that there is no way that it is within your control right now to effect an equitable solution with respect to all children because the Legislature has spoken and has placed some limits on what can or cannot be done. The only decision that you are considering is whether or not to make a program available to those kids that can afford it. If you say yes or no, it is going to have no impact at all on the kids who. can't unless they qualify for Headstart. So the only decision you are making is whether we offer a public school program for those who can afford to pay, so that they come to our program rather than go somewhere else. You can't resolve the equity issue; that is not within your control to do it, with respect to this group of children and a kindergarten program. Dr. Hamm - By the same token, the public schools are an extension of the State Legislature and they have spoken, and it is really not within our control to do otherwise either, except if we choose to.

Dr. Payzant - Except that they specifically authorized the public school district to offer the program on a tuition basis. So as a matter of policy at the legislative level, they have considered this and said it is okay for a local district to do so if it wishes.

After further discussion, on roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, nay; and Dr. Hamm, nay. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. UNFINISHED BUSINESS Motion made by Mrs..Potts and seconded by Mrs. Williams at the meeting of July 7, 1980:

"I move for approval of the recommendations found in the.report from the Human Relations Policy Implementation Committee." (Motion Withdrawn)

Recommendations

The Bocird appoint a new representative committee to assist in implementing the Human Relations Policy through the annual Board Goals and Administrative Obj ecti ves;

The spirit of the Membership Criteria and Selection Procedures of our Implementation Recommendations' Component #1 be used in selecting committee members;

The new committee members be persons who have an active commitment to the discipline of Human Relations;

A minimum of three professional persons in the field of Human Relations be ex officio members of the committee with one of these professionals being the Oklahoma City Public Schools' Human Relations Consultant and the other being selected from the staffs of the Human Relations Department, University of Oklahoma.and the Consultative Center for Equal Educational Opportunity, Norman, Oklahoma;

That an Orientation Meeting for new committee members be held at the earliest possible time in the 1980-81 school year for the purposes of:

The original Implementation Committee transmitting the history and philosophy of the Human Relations Policy and Implementation.

The Administration sharing their view of plans for implementing the Human Relations Policy.

The Board communicating their commission to the committee.

R. #253 Approval of Superintendent's Alternative'to Recommendations of Human Relations Policy Implementation Commi ttee

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R. #253 Approval of Saperfntdndentls- . Alternative to Recommendations of Human Relation' Policy ImpTementation Commitee cont'd

Superintendent's Alternative to Recommendations of Human Relations Policy Implementati on Commi ttee <1.

Existing Human Relations Committee be disbanded.

Board authorize Superintendent to establish Human Relations Advisory Committee as follows:

Membership*

--Director of Personnel Services --1 School Operations Director (appointed by Superintendent) --Director of Curriculum —2 teachers (appointed by Superintendent from list submitted by teachers' organizations) --2 principals (appointed by Superintendent from list submitted by principals' association) --2 classified employees (appointed by Superintendent from list submitted by LIU —1 student (appointed by Superintendent from list submitted by Student Communications Committee) --3 patrons (appointed by Superintendent from list submitted by Board President) --Human Relations Consultant -- Committee staff person and ex officio member

*Committee must be balanced by race and sex. b.

Committee would elect its chairperson.

Committee Charge —to advise the Superintendent on methods for implementing the Board's Human Relations Policy;

--to assist in the development of specific goals and objectives designed to implement the Human Relations Policy; —to assist the Superintendent in monitoring the implementation of the Human Relations Policy; —to assist the Superintendent in evaluation of the Human Relations goals and objectives and preparation of a semi-annual report to the Board; and, —to establish two subcommittees to divide the work of the committee, one to work with matters related to staff human relations, the second to work with affective education and curriculum.

Meetings The Superintendent will meet with the committee at least quarterly.

Transition and Continuity

Prior to disbanding and no later than October 1, 1980, the existing committee will be invited to meet with the new committee for the purpose of providing information on the history of human relations activities in the district since the adoption of the Board's policy.

Reports

The Superintendent semi-annually will present a report to the Board on the implementation of the Human Relations Policy. All recommendations of the committee will be presented to the Board with the Superintendent's concurrence or dissent. In referring to the Superintendent's Alternative to Recommendations of Human Relations Policy Implementation Committee, Dr. Payzant stated: The alternative that I am suggesting is based on the premise that the Board goal with respect to implementing the Human Relations Policy is rather clear, and the specific objectives that are set forth to meet that goal are, in that I have been charged with the ultimate responsibility of seeing that, that happens. If that is going to continue to be the case, then I would like to have the advisory group report to me and work with me to that end. If the Board feels that it would like an advisory group to work directly with the Board, then I would be more than happy to share some of the responsibility for the outcomes and think it would be appropriate to do so.

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R. #253 Approval of Superintendent's In withdrawing the motion, Mrs. Potts stated: I think the Superintendent makes a good Alternative to point, that the accountability must rest with the staff. I think the membership of Recommendations this committee looks like it would be representative of our staff. There is a provision of Human Relations for patrons to be involved, and I think it is probably a better solution to what we Pol icy hope will happen than the original motion, and I would favor it. Implementation Committee cont'd Mrs. Potts then moved for withdrawal of the original motion in favor of the Superintendent's alternative, with approval of the seconder, Mrs. Williams. Mrs. Williams agreed.

Motion Withdrawn

New Motion A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Potts for approval of the Superintendent's Alternative to Recommendations of Human Relations Policy Implementation Commi ttee.

Mrs. Williams expressed a concern that more patrons should be added to the committee, at what school level the teachers would be chosen, and referred to item 3 of the Committee recommendations â&#x20AC;&#x201D; "The new committee members be persons who have an active commitment to the discipline of Human Relations." Dr. Payzant responded: Let me be very clear on my intent so there is no confusion later on. I would expect anybody who served on this committee to have an active commitment to support the Board's Human Relations Policy, but I would not expect them necessarily to have a commitment to the discipline of human relations. That term can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Again, we are talking about the difference between the goal which is jointly shared by all, and how you get there. I would hope there would be some differences of opinion and diversity of view about the best way to get there if I am going to get a good cross section of advice. People who adopt the framework of the so-called discipline of human relations may think that there is only one way to get there. Discussion continued.

Amendment Mrs. Hermes moved to amend the motion by adding two more patrons to the committee (a total of five). Mrs. Williams seconded the motion. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

On roll call for the motion as amended, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.as amended. Motion made by Mrs. Potts and seconded by Mrs. Williams at the meeting of July 7, 1980: "I move that we attempt to establish a 'Fund for Educational Enrichment' to benefit the Oklahoma City Public School District. This fund, to be established with the Oklahoma City Community Foundation, would have an advisory board' of community leaders providing assistance in the securing and designating of said funds. This motion would authorize our attorneys to proceed with the creation of such a fund, the finalization of any written agreements to be subject to approval of the respective boards."

R. #254 Approval to Attempt to Establish Fund for Educational Enrichment

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwreth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

NEW BUSINESS

Dr. Hamm read the following letter of resignation:

"Please accept my resignation from the Board of the Oklahoma City School District,. 1-89, effective immediately. I assure you that my support of this board and our school system will continue long past this evening. I am convinced I leave things in good hands. I wish each of you well. Pat Potts." A motion was'made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Williams to accept the resignation of Mrs. Potts, with reluctance and regret.

Members of the Board commented: Mr. Donwerth - I have served on the Board with Mrs. Potts longer than any at this table. We had the fortune or misfortune to be elected at the same time. Mrs. Potts has made a great contribution to the Oklahoma City Public Schools. We have not always agreed on items and recommendations that came before the Board; however, with all the things that Mrs. Potts has contributed to the Board, I think that possibly the Adopt-a-

Resignation Mrs. Pat Potts

R. #255 Resignation Accepted

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R. #255 Resignati on Accepted cont'd

Mr. Donwerth cont'd

School program that was her original idea that she brought to us was one of her greatest contributions. I think this will help be a salvation of the Oklahoma City Public School System.

Dr. Hamm - In the year and one-half that I have served with Mrs. Potts on this Board, one of the things that has always impressed me about Mrs. Potts has been her well thought-out concern for the District, and she has addressed issues in a very rational, logical way; always with the benefit of the children of-this District in mind. We are going to miss her and certainly hate to see her take this step, but certainly understand it. Mrs. Potts - It is like leaving an important part of me behind. My heart and my thoughts are going to remain with the School District and I want you to know that I will be there supporting you all the way, even though I am not here at the podium, at the meeting.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Potts, abstain; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Dr. Hamm declared that the Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. motion carried.

Mrs. Williams inquired regarding the timeline for filling the vacancy on the Board. Dr. Hamm referred to an instrument that had been given to each member of the Board and read the excerpt from Oklahoma School Laws, 1978, Section 59. Vacancy - Fil led for Unexpired Term, which was included:

"Any vacancy occurring on the board of education of a school district shall be filled by the board of education of such district for a period extending until the next regular school district election, at which time an election conducted as provided for in this code shall be held to fill any balance of the unexpired term..." Dr. Hamm continued by stating that in the past the Board had followed various methods in filling vacancies, . but later a structured procedure had been used to fill a vacancy, and recommended that same procedure, a copy of which was before the Board.

R. #256 Guidelines for Filling Vacancy on Board Adopted

After discussion of dates and timelines that could be used in the procedure, a motion wa; made: .by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hermes to adopt the following guidelines for filling the vacancy on the Board: GUIDELINES FOR FILLING VACANCY ON BOARD A.

Required eligibility to fill the position -- (Legal address, registered voter, etc.).

Applications (notification and declaration of candidacy) to be filed with Board's Clerk (during regular working hours).

Applicant required to submit a resume at the time of filing.

Filing time to begin with vacancy on July 21 and extend to August 15.

Applications accepted through 12:00 noon Friday, August 15.

Board to meet and interview all applicants, make a selection and name a new member to the Board.

Interview to be conducted on August 18 or at a Special Meeting called for that purpose.

New member to be named and sworn in on August 18, or at another Regular Meeting; or at a Special Meeting called for that purpose. New member to serve until next regular school election.

Before taking action on the motion, Dr. Hamm called on Dave Renfro, President, AFT, Oklahoma City Federation of Teachers, who had registered to address the Board.

Mr. Renfro stated that even though there were times that Mrs. Pcitts did not vote as AFT members would have liked, he had never felt that she had closed the lines of communi cation during her tenure, that she had ever been vindictive, that any of her votes were done to be vengeful, and that he thought that she was a very dedicated person to the qiiality iof education in Oklahoma City, and he had a lot of respect for that and for her. Mr. Renfro asked that teachers be allowed"input in the filling of the vacancy as the result of Mrs. Potts' resignation.

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R. #256 Guidelines for Filling Vacancy on Board Adopted - cont'd

Members of the Board expressed a desire that the public be informed, by a press release, about the vacancy and the procedure to be followed by the applicants.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. Dr. Payzant suggested that the Board address whether they were going to invite suggestions from individuals or organizations about criteria that should be used in considering the applicants, clarify whether they would provide an opportunity for hearings prior to making their decision once the slate of applicants had been announced, so that individuals or representatives of groups would have the opportunity to express opinion on the applicants; in other words, for the Board to clear the air as to the process they planned to use.

Discussion by Board members included an applicant having a representative to come up and give input to the Board on the applicant and why they were supporting the person, possibliy going through a hearings for supporters of the applicants, with a time limit; applicants responding to questions by the Board, the same questions being prepared for each applicant; the submitting of suggested criteria in writing for the selection of a Board member; preparing a press release to inform the public, and other.

After further discussion, it was decided that by way of a press release, persons would be asked to submit to the Board in writing any suggestions that they would want to make concerning criteria for the selection; that at the August 4 meeting, the Board would make a decision about a special meeting date the week of August 18 or that date for interviewing the applicants; also, a decision would be made on August 4 as to the procedure that would be used for interviewing the applicants, whether it be to either limit the presentations to the applicants themselves or one, two or three people who might want to speak in their behalf publicly, others that might want to make comments in writing, all applicants being asked the same set of questions for the screening, and other. EXECUTIVE SESSION

R. #257 Board Recessed to Executive Session - 9:15 p.m.

It was moved by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hermes that the Board go into executive session for the discussion of personnel, negotiations, and litigation. | On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; I Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hammâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;declared that the motion carried.

R. #258 Board Returned to Open Meeting - 10:04 p.m.

Having completed its executive session, it was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the Board return to open meeting. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

ADJOURNMENT

A motion to adjourn was made by Mrs. Hermes and seconded by Mrs. Williams. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm,, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #259 Adjournment 10:05 p.m.

THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED. j

(A mechanical recording of the open meeting is on file in the Clerk's office.)

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

Witness my hand and seal of this school district this ,4%

Clerk, Oklahoma Ciiy Board of Education

day of

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THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, 900 NORTH KLEIN, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M.

PRESENT:

Delbert Hamm, President Freddye Williams, Vice President Floyd Donwerth, Member Betty Hill, Member

ABSENT:

Susan Hermes, Member Armond H. Start, Member

Others present: Hugh B. Girin, Executive Administrative Assistant; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; William Bleakley, Attorney; Donald H. Ladd, Treasurer; Central Office staff members; representatives from professional groups, the news media, and other interested persons. The meeting was called to order by Dr. Hamm and Mr. Donwerth gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Dr. Hamm welcomed all of the persons present.

Visitors Welcomed

Roll call established that four of the six Board members were present.

Roll Call

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Williams for approval of the Minutes of July 21, 1980 as presented. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #260 Minutes Approved

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS

Mrs. Hill stated that it was good to be back after enjoying a vacation in cool weather, near the Grand Canyon.

Comment Mrs. Hill

HEARINGS None.

LEGAL AND FINANCIAL REPORTS Attorney's Report

Mr. Bleakley reported:

Petition in Error in Judy Boswell Case â&#x20AC;&#x201D; We have received a petition in error filed by Ju'dy Bo'swell appealing the District Court's sustaining of the Board's termination action to the Supreme Court. The next action that will occur in this will be a filing of a brief by.the attorney for Ms. Boswell.

Jane Arin Finch Case -- We have not received any notice of an appeal to the District Court by Ms. (Jane Ann) Finch.

Mr. Ladd gave a routine Treasurer's report. office of the Clerk.)

ITEMS PENDING None.

(A copy of the report is on file in the

Treasurer's Report

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT Mr. Ginn, in the absence of Dr. Payzant, presented the items under Superintendent's Report. Mr. Ginn stated that the Superintendent was on vacation and had planned to return and be present at the meeting of August 18.

R. #261 Professi onal Trips Approved

A motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mr. Donwerth that the following persons be directed to attend conferences as indicated:

At School District Expense

(a)

Billie McElroy, Data Specialist, Curriculum Services--TRACER Users' Conference, Denver, Colorado, August 6-8, 1980.

At No Expense to the District

(b)

Albert Fuller, COE Business Teacher, Grant High School -- Management Series Conference, Washington, D. C., August 11-15, 1980.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #262 Confirmation That President of Board and Superintendent be Authorized to Execute Documents

It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hill for confirmation that the President of the Board and/or the Superintendent be authorized to execute the necessary documents and submit an application for a grant as follows:

Under Oklahoma Senate Bill #402 - Pilot, Early Childhood Development Program.

Mrs. Hill inquired as to why Horace Mann School was:chosen: as the.piTot'school' for the program so stated. .

Dr. Lindley replied: We felt that it would be best for the program to involve children from various ethnic groups in our district, and this school has a mix of children living contiguous to the school grounds. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. PERSONNEL REPORT

R. #263 A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams that persons listed on the Personnel Approved employed; that administrative personnel assignments and promotions for administrators as listed be confirmed, and that all contracts b'e executed in the name of the District by the Superintendent or his designee; also, that other personnel recommendations and information listed be approved. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

PAYROLLS, ENCUMBRANCES, PURCHASING AND GENERAL BUSINESS R. #264 Approval of Payrolls and Encumbrances

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams to approve Recommendation #1 and #2 (ratification of July payrolls and authorization of August payrolls) and payment of encumbrances as listed for July 16-31, 1980. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

'orm be

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Purchasi ng

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hill for approval of the purchasing items, as follows:

Building Materials and Supplies

Purchase of building materials and supplies (glazing compound, ceiling cross tees, ceiling panels, floor tile and floor stone) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotation:

Cook Paint & Varnish Company B & H Floor Company American Tile & Carpet Company

Total

4,800.00 1 ,853.50 15,570.00

$ 22,223.50

These purchases are to be charged to Account BL 5620.05. 2.

Company to Supply Parts and Labor Approval for Boecking Machinery, Inc., to supply parts and labor and make repairs on the district's D6 caterpillar tractor (fly wheel and clutch) at a cost not to exceed $2500. This repair to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Fans Purchase of fans for use at Northeast High School from Emsco Electric Supply Company which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,417.50 to be charged to Account G 1230.03.

Lamps Confirmation to purchase lamps to be used on overhead projector's, EDL readers, Kodak carousel, etc., for Supply and Distribution Department from Lighting, Inc., (State Contract #0025). This purchase in th.e amount of $7,722.05 is to be charged to Account G 240.00.

Chemical Fire Suppressor System

Purchase of dry chemical fire suppressor system for range hoods to be used at all middle and high schools from Bill Story Safety Systems which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $15,225.00 to be charged to Bond 1426. 6.

Air Filters Purchase oT air Tilters for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from American Air Filter which submitted the low quotation on specifications. This purchase in the amount of $3,119.04 is to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Instructional Supplies Purchase of instructional supplies (clay, carving tool sets, yarn, manikins, acrylic paint, etc.) for use at Northwest Classen and Grant High School from following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Trinity Ceramic Supply, Inc. Chaselle Arts & Crafts, Inc. Sax Arts & Crafts Nasco Pyramid Paper Company, Inc. Asel Art Supply, Inc. Triarco Arts & Crafts

Total

244.95 432.64 1,712.73 224.08 68.85 353.30 152.09

3,188.64

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 240.01 G 1230.03 Total

2,539.04 649.60

3,188.64

R. #265 Approval of Purchasing

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R. #265 Approval of Purchasing cont'd

Purchasing cont'd

T i res Purchase of tires for Garage Services and Material Transportation from Joe Esco Tire Company which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $22,975.00 to be charged to the following Accounts:

G 560.04 BL 5620.05

$ 21,741.40 1,233.60

Total 9.

$ 22,975.00

Hardware and Lumber

Purchase of hardware and lumber (hasps, hinges, casters, nails, door closers, wood glue, fir, etc.) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department and John Marshall High School from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: Bosco Fastening Service Scovil & Sides Hardware Company Herbert Helmus & Son, Inc. Gates Hardware & Supply Company ABS Enterprises, Inc. Hart Industrial Supply Company Mideke Supply Company The Oran Huston Lumber Company Paxton/Patterson Leonhardt Lumber Company

Total

78.10 1,544.00 1,388.50 329.75 37.50 354.00 779.40 1,140.00 16.74 32.50

5,700.49

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

G 240.01 BL 5620.05

Total

78.99 5,621.50

5,700.49

Mrs. Hill, referring to item 3, inquired about plans for fans for the beginning of school.

Mr. Ginn replied: There have been some limited numbers of fans purchased by the various schools throughout the school year; however, there has not been a big concentration of fans bought. These are fans that Northeast is requesting as a part of their equipment allocation for the 1980-81 school year. Since we are now budgeting and allocating funds to the various schools, we would depend upon the request from the principal before we would execute a request to purchase fans. * * On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. General Business R. #266 Approval of Easement Re Nichols Hills School

A motion was made by Mrs..Hill and seconded by Mr. Donwerth for approval of an easement to Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company for the purpose of erecting, operating and maintaining an electrical transmission system over a strip of land 10' wide 82' long in the southwest corner of the Nichols Hills School site. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

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UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Dr. Hamm referred to an item under Unfinished Business â&#x20AC;&#x201D;"Recommend consideration of guidelines to be used, suggestions for selection criteria, procedures for interviewing applicants, and a date for special meeting for filling of vacancy which exists on the Board." He continued with reference to a copy of the s.ugâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;gestiedguidelineswhich had been given to each member of the Board. A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hill that the guidelines as presented be accepted for the selection process in filling the vacancy on the Board.

Mr. Donwerth then suggested that the guidelines be used for all future selections for filling a Board vacancy. After a concern expressed by Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Hill regarding item 8, "...allow two (not more than two) persons three minutes each to speak on behalf of an applicant," Mr. Donwerth withdrew his suggestion and conceded to the idea that the guidelines would apply only to the particular selection that was under consideration. PROCEDURES

FOR FILLING VACANCY IN DISTRICT NUMBER ONE

Call a Special Meeting of the Board to interview applicants and make the appointment.

Conduct the interviews in alphabetical order of names of applicants.

Conduct interviews in the auditorium with arrangement of spaces (tables, chairs, microphone) to assure good communications. This arrangement for better accommodations for public and media.

For objective, positive fairness to all applicants, ask those applicants who are to be interviewed to wait at another location away from the interviewing area until they are called.

Schedule the first interview at 6:30 p.m.; second interview at 7:00 p.m.; third interview at 7:30 p.m., etc. Notify all applicants of the total schedule.

Follow a consistent pattern of questions or discussions with each applicant by preparing a list of items which we will wish to discuss with each applicant.

Review suggestions, questions and inquiries which are submitted by others and incorporate these into the interviews as they seem to be appropriate.

After the interviews of candidates have been completed, allow two (not more than two) persons three minutes each to speak on behalf of an applicant.

Establish a voting or selection procedure which will be used to make the selection of an applicant to fill the vacancy.

Selection Process

box adjacent

The names of applicants to be listed alphabetically with a | to each name. (Lists to be placed before the Board.)

Each member of the Board to check | to the Board and sign the list.

Upon direction of the Chair, the Clerk read aloud the Board member's name and checked | v | on each list.

to gather the "lists" of applicants and name of the applicant whose name was

If one applicant receives four checks | placed before the Board for its action.

that applicant's name would be

If upon the first "checkoff" one of the applicants does not receive four checks | |, a new "list" to be distributed to members of the Board which bears only tlie names of applicants who received a check | by their name. The same process as listed in paragraph "B" and "C" to be fol lowed by the Cleric gathering and reading aloud the checked names.

If upon the second "checkoff" one applicant does not receive four checks } X |, . a new list to be distributed which carries only the names of applicants whose name received a check on the most recent checking procedure.

The "checkoff" procedure to be continued until one applicant receives four checks | | or until the Board by its action reaches another decision-on the matter.

)

|one name only as their choice as a member

Members of the Board may, during the selection process, wish to ask for additional input from various applicants. These additional inquiries should be limited to no more than a total of five minutes for each applicant.

R. #267 Guidelines Approved for Selection Process in Filling Board Vacancy

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R. #267 Guidelines Approved for Selection Process in Filling Board Vacancy - cont'd

R. #268 Special Meeting Scheduled for Filling of Board Vacancy

Members of the Board discussed the 30-minute interval between interviews of applicants, criteria submitted to be used in preparing questions to be asked of applicants, and other. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Williams that a Special Meeting be scheduled for Thursday, August 21, at 6:30 p.m., to interivew applicants and make the appointment for filling the vacancy in District Number One.

Dr. Hamm suggested that the Board take action on the motion and, if during the interval preceding the Board meeting of August 18, some Board members should have a conflict with the August 21 date, a Special Meeting could be rescheduled on August 18. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

Comments Mrs. Williams

Mrs. Williams called attention of the Board to a letter addressed to Dr. Hamm, as President, from the Capitol-Medical Center Improvement and Zoning Commission with reference to Lincoln Fifth Year Centerand a proposal that an elementary school be formed in the area for various reasons. Mrs. Williams asked that Dr. Hamm acknowledge receiptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;of the Tetter, to which he replied that he would do so.

HEARINGS

None. EXECUTIVE SESSION R. #269 Board Recessed to Executive Session - 7:50 p.m.

A motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hill that the Board go into executive session for the discussion of personnel and negotiations. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #270 Board Returned to Open Session 8:46 p.m.

Having completed its executive session, it was moved by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hill that the Board return to open session. On roll call, Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Dr. Hamm voted aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. ADJOURNMENT

R. #271 Adjournment 8:47 p.m.

A motion to adjourn was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Williams. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical, recording of the meeting is on file in the office of the Clerk.)

President

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

I, the undersigned Clerk of the Board of Education of Independent School District Number 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours before the meeting, the date, time and place of the Regular Meeting was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. I also'certify that at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, notice of the date, time, place and agenda of this meeting was posted in permanent public view at the location of the meeting. Witness my hand and seal of this school district this ZF^day of ,

1980.

Clerk, Oklahoma City Board of Education i

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Personnel

TERMINATIONS

Major Classes of Terminations: 1.

Voluntary Resignation

a. b. c. d. e.

Changing employment Leaving Oklahoma City Area Early Retirement Personal Reasons No reason given

Mandatory Retirement

Notice of Dismissal

Discontinuance of Employment

a. b. c. d. e. f.

Termination from leave of absence Elimination of position Expiration of employment period Unqualified for position Deceased Abandoned position >

Assignments and Promotions Assistant Principal - Northeast High School

Evelyn Moore

Assistant Principal- Harding Middle School Jackie Meziere Acting Assistant Principal - Jefferson Middle School Larry Frye Assistant Principal - Willow Brook Elementary School Lula Jackson

Assistant Principal - Bodine Elementary School

Ilene Marshall Assistant Principal - Telstar Elementary School

Jerry .Black

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Personnel cont'd

1 .

PERSONNEL

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Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

< NAME

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Employments

Annual

Baker, Jim

$13031.

B.S. OCU

8-18-80

Taft Band/Orchestra

Beesley. Paul

11596.

B.S. OU

8-18-80

Star Spencer Gen. Business/Coach

Coplin. «Sue

Bergman, Donna

11596.

B.S. OSU

8-18-80

Sequoyah Primary

Cnrt.er, June

Birch, Edwin

10186.

B.A. CSU

8-18-80

Page-Woodson Intermediate

SnA'Hnp.i. Ann

Bryant, Vicki

10695.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

External Funding Speech Pathologist

Spence, Sandy

Canada, Gayle

10683.

M.A. CWP

8-18-80

Jackson Art

DigRs, Cornelius

Cubit, Ralph

10378.

B.S. ECSU

8-18-80

Star Spencer Resource

Terminations

South, Dana Trowsdale, Mary Wasemiller, Dolores Carolvn ,WM t»p r Sherry

Eisenhower Special Education

5-30-80

Polk Intermediate

5-30-80

Roosevelt Special Education

5-30-80

Eisenhower Home Economics

5-30-80

Roosevelt Counselor

6-06-80

Curriculum TSC

5-30-80

1 - ISC - Instructional Service Center 2 - CWP - C.W. Post - Greenvale, Mew York NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations

Employments

Annual

Ferguson, Sara

Daniel, Tamera

$10695.

B.S. OSU

8-18-80

Capitol Hill High Special Education

* Pennington, Dovie

Dobson, Mack

10695.

B.S. OSU

8-18-80

Shidler Special Education

Williams, Denise

Edwards, Donna

11217.

M.S. OU

8-18-80

Special Services Speech Pathologist

Essermann. David

Essermann, David

11596.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Carver Driver Education

Bryant, James

Ferguson, Marsha

10378.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Green Pastures Intermediate

Schneberger, Rebecca

Fields, Randal

13946.

B.S. OSU

7-01-80

Marshall Agriculture

Trattner. Ruth

Flovd. Marca

5691.

M.A. OU

8-18-80

Special Services 1 T. Speech Path.

Roberts, Bobby

Franklin, Tony

10186.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Moon PE/Health/Coach

Russell, Janet

Glasgow, Marsha

11749.

B.S. NWSU

8-18-80

Willow Brook Primary

Bollman. Jeanette

Henley. Darlene

12707.

M. Ed. ECSU

8-18-80

Stand Watie Special Education

Johnson. Susan

Johnson, Susan

10378.

B.S. OSU

8-18-80

Harding Home Economics

Guv. Mason

Jones. Sharon

10186.

B.A. Langston

8-18-80

Capitol Hill Middle Science

Parks. Sharon

Kurey, Barbara

12422.

B.S. OU

8-18-80

Ridgeview Intermediate

. McKenzie, Henry

11217.

M.S. SWSU

8-18-80

Jackson Special Education

Howell, Elizabeth

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF AUGUST 4, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

8-18-80

Douglass Special Education

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations

Employments

Annual

Houtchens, Diane

Oliver, Glenda

$10695.

B.S. NIU

McVav. William

Outlaw. Barbara

10186.

B.A. OU

8-18-80

Northwest Art

Royal, Rita

Robinson, Joel

10186.

B.A. SWSU

8-18-80

Arthur/Mark Twain Physical Education

Smith, Joyce

10186.

B.S. OSU

8-18-80

Hayes Physical Education

Taylor, Joyce

11996.

B.S. SC

8-18-80

Parker Learning Center

Usher, Beverly

11596.

B.F.A. IWU 3

8-18-80

Star Spencer Math

Paul, Linda

Washington, Carlise

10695.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Capitol Hill High Special Education

Kniffin, Virginia

Wilhite, Walter

10186.

B.A. CSU

8-18-80

Grant Resource

Faurot, Patricia

Wright. Betty

12860.

B.S. FAMU 4

8-18-80

Arthur Primary

Ayres, Nancy

10695.

B.S. OSU

8-18-80

Telstar Primary

Brantley, Patricia

12575.

B.S. PVAMU 5

8-18-80

Star Spencer Reading

Brueggemann, Susan

10695.

B.S. UN

8-18-80

Carver Co-Op Teacher

Additional Allocations

1 - NIU - Northern Ill. University - DeKalb, Ill. 2 - SC - State College - Bridgewater, Mass.

3 - IVrtJ - Illinois Wesleyan University - Bloomington, Ill. 6 - UN - University of Nebraska 4 - FAM.) - Florida A & M University - Tallahassee, Florida Omaha & Lincoln, Nebraska 5 - PVAMU - Prairie View A & M University - Prairie View, Texas

x NAME

-........................... -

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

..-LL,,.,-------------

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Enployments

Annual

Additional Allocations $12176.

B.S. OU

8-18-80

Grant Soecial Education

Crane. Gary

12161.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Classen Resource/Coach

Godfrey, Stephen

10186.

B.A. NESU

8-18-80

Capitol Hill Middle Industrial Arts

Leebron, Linda

11996.

B.A. SWSU

8-18-80

Jackson Speech/Drama

McKenzie, Barbara

11217.

M.S. UN

8-18-80

Roosevelt Special Education

Sinith, Stacy

10695.

B.S. OSU

8-18-80

External Funding Speech Pathologist

South, Dana

10695.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Rogers Special Education

Stewart, Donna

12336.

B.A. CSU

8-18-80

Jackson Special Education

Walker, Janet

10186.

B.S. OSU

8-18-80

Northeast Reading

—1.1749 •

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Eisenhower Math/Science

Byerly. Bonnie

Transfers Lillard, Mary Helen

1 - UN - University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Nebraska

Anderson, Charles

405

MINUTES OF MEETING OF AUGUST 4, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL s

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

B.S. SWSU

8-18-80

Hoover Math

8-18-80

Assessment Office Psychometrist

8-18-80

Douglass Band

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Transfers

Employments

Annual

Reherman, Jean

Haller, Peggy

$10186.

Yarholer, Gayle

Lowrey, Joyce

11996.

M. Ed. csu

Greene, E. Wilbur

10186.

B.A. Langston

Leaves of Absence Professional

Monroe Primary

5-30-80

Douglass Band

5-12-80

Special Services Floating Nurse

5-30-80

Belle Isle Computer Science

5-04-80

Nichols, Linda

Deceased Francisco, Anceo

- PROFESSIONAL OTHER

Terminations

Frizzell, Colene Howeth, Billy

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

EFFECTIVE DATE

•

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL OTHER

Terminations Manoles, Betsy Pendarvis, Embry

Poe ♦ Larry

Foster Estes LPN instructor

6-30-80

Douglass School Comm. Corr.

5-30-80

Foster Estes Machine Shon

6-30-80

Frizzell, Colene

TECHNICAL

Terminations

Goodale, Leonard Roberts, Kathleen

Graphics Artist

6-30-80

P.R.& E. ' 1 Research Associate

7-03-80

1 - P.R.& E. - Planning Research and Evaluation

Employments

Annual

Levy, Ellen

$10186.

... 0

8-1.8-80

External Funding Float Nurse

406

MINUTES OF MEETING OF AUGUST 4, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL

Terminations Arnold, Roxanna

Coburn, Myron Duren, Blanche Ervin, Robin

Henley, Judy Mulkin, Roberta Platt, Shirley

Renshaw, Mary Ellen Robinson, Carolyn

Stone, Kathy Vernon, Thyra

Winters. Rubv

External Funding Secretary

6-30-80

Hawthorne Learning Center Aide

5-30-80

Belle Isle Secretary

6-30-80

Curriculum Secretary IV

6-19-80

Eisenhower Attendance Clerk

5-30-80

Classen/Northeast Counselor's Aide

5-30-80

Public Information Administrative Secv.

7-03-80

Office of Supt. Administrative Secy.

6-30-80

Eisenhower Counselor's Aide

5-30-80

Eugene Field Media Aide

5-30-80

Star Spencer Financial Secretary

6-13-80

Research Secretary V

6t 30-80

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

FOOD SERVICE

Terminations

Barnett, Judy Bussell, Rosa

Goins, Candis Ingram, Patricia Ogle, Kathryn Stepp, Karen

Stinson, Jody Wade, Lynn

Williams, Sharon

Witiwiski, Mary

le 4f 4f

4a lb lb

lc 4f

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

4-23-80

Helper

5-28-80

Helper

5-29-80

Key Person

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-19-80

Helper

5-29-80

Warehouse Worker

6-09-80

SUPPLY Termination Heath, Joe

-------------------------------- i

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

407

MINUTES OF MEETING OF AUGUST 4, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE Terminations

Employments

Monthly

Taylor, Ronald

Clour, Ezra

$ 625.

Employment-Substitute

Hourly

Coffey, David

$ 3.51

6-23-80

Bodine Custodial Worker

Termination-Substitute la

6-20-80

7-08-80

.. KiBg

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

TRANSPORTATION

Terminations Carolina, Manuel

McCormick, James

Serviceman

7-01-80

Mechanic

6-25-80

Rogers Custodial Worker

6-06-80

Parker Cusotdial Worker

6-10-80

Northwest Custodial Worker

6-20-80

Foster Estes Custodian

6-30-80

Garden Oaks Custodial Worker

6-20-80

Northwest Custodial Worker

6-16-80

Hoover Custodial Worker

6-30-80

Foster Estes Asst. Custodian

6-30-80

Parmelee Custodial Worker

6-23-80

Belle Isle Custodial Worker

6-30-80

SERVICE Bennett, Nathaniel Fuller, Frankie

Garcia, Jesus Jackson, Andrew

Jordan, Frank

Lovelady, Terry

McDowell, Dennis 1--------------------------

Robinson, Porter

Snyder, Tim Wheeler, Matilda

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

408

MINUTES OF MEETING OF AUGUST 18, 1980

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY,

| OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR ADJOURNED MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION | BUILDING, 900 NORTH KLEIN, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M. PRESENT:

Delbert Hamm, President Freddye Williams, Vice President Floyd Donwerth, Member Susan Hermes, Member Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member

The meeting was called to order by Dr. Hamm and Mrs. Hermes gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Dr. Hamm welcomed all of the persons present.

Visitors Welcomed

Roll call established that all of the Board members were present.

Roll Call

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING Amotion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hill for approval of the Minutes of August 4, 1980,with the following correction: Roll call established that "four" of the six Board members were present, instead of "five." On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #272 Minutes Approved

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS

Mrs. Hill - I was privileged to attend the recognition of some of our employees in the Maintenance Department who had completed some training. Itwasnice to see this group of people who are constantly working to upgrade their skills.

Comments Mrs. Hill

Mrs. Hermes - I received a brochure from KTVY, Channel 4, that Saturday, August 23 at 6:30 p.m. and the following Saturday, September 3 at the same time, they will run a TV show -- the first one being "Working Parents" and the second one being "Preparation for Parenthood." They are videotape cassettes, and if you like them or miss them and would like your school to take advantage of them, they are available through your PTO or PTA, or parent group, to be used free of charge. I think it will be good for our patrons.

Comments Mrs. Hermes

Dr. Hamm - I, likewise, attended the presentation of certificates at the Service Center and assisted Mrs. Hill in presenting the certificates to the people that had completed their training. Also, I had a very pleasurable experience this past week of visiting a workshop for all of the school secretaries. To me, it was a step in the right direction, because the secretaries in the offices in our various schools are the ones that really have a lot of contact with parents andâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;patrons. They were there to learn some new skills. In reading some of the evaluation reports, all of them with maybe two or three exceptions were very favorable.

Comments Dr. Hamm

HEARINGS

The following persons addressed the Board: 1.

Linda G. Wells

Kim Maney â&#x20AC;?

Liz Mayes

Sarah Fuller

John David Turpin

Jo Bazhaw

Dave Renfro

Phoebe J. Revelle

409

MINUTES OF MEETING OF AUGUST 18, 1980 - CONT'D

HEARINGS cont'd

Ms. Wells spoke of the early opening of school, with her preference being after Labor Day, and the overcrowded conditions at some Fifth Year Centers. Ms. Maney's remarks were in regard to continuation of the summer school dress code. Ms. Mayes expressed a concern for the Title VII Bilingual Program; that it be continued in the Fifth Year Centers. Ms. Mayes spoke specifically about the fifth year students from Shidler, Riverside and Westwood,and the parents from those areas being assured by the Board and staff that these children would have Title VII services. Dr. Fuller, Mr. Turpin, Ms. Bazhaw, Mr. Renfro, and Ms. Revelle included in their remarks a concern for a teacher contract, the need for security personnel for the safety of students and teachers, increments for teachers being included in the salary increase, the state mandate for teacher salaries as opposed to that provided by the school district, support of the negotiations process and settlement for a contract, the discontentment of teachers in the classroom, arid other.

LEGAL REPORT Attorney1 s Report

Mr. Bleakley stated that there were no litigation matters to report; however, there were two items relating to litigation that the Board should discuss in executive session.

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT Employee of the Month ;

Dr. Payzant presented Dr. John Brandt, President, the Association of All School Personnel, who gave preliminary remarks regarding Ms. Margueritte Cassady, Secretary, Northwest Classen High School, having been selected as Employee of the Month. A Certificate iof Recognition was presented to Ms. Cassady on behalf of the Board of Education and the Association of All School Personnel by Dr. Payzant. Ms. Cassady responded.

ITEMS PENDING

None. R. #273 Professional Trips Approved

It was moved by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hermes to direct the following persons to attend conferences as indicated: At School District Expense

(a)

Betty Hill, Board Member^ NSBA Task Force Meeting, Washington, D. C., September 21-23, 1980.

(b)

Kaye M. Teall, Assistant to Director, Personnel Services, American Association of School P.ersonnel Administrators Annual Conference, Detroit, Michigan, October 12*-17, 1980.

(c)

Sandy Karhu, Coordinator of Staff Recruitment, AASPA Conference, October 13-17; Employee Assistance Programs Conference, October 21-24, and for employee recruitment in Michigan, Ohio and Missouri through October 25, 1980.

At No Expense to the District (d)

Lee Graham, Librarian, Northwest Classen, National AFT Convention, Detroit, Michigan, August 18-23, 1980. Confirmation.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. declared that the motion carried.

R. #274 Continuation of Summer School Dress Code

Dr. Hamm

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start to approve continuation of the dress code plan used during 1980 summer school, the temporary relaxation in the Student Dress Code (JFCA) allowing students to wear shorts during the period if and when school days are adjusted to the Extremely Hot Weather Plan. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Harm declared that the motion carried.

410

MINUTES OF MEETING OF AUGUST 18, 1980 - CONT'D

A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams to give permission to make R. #275 Compensation lump sum compensation payments to Juanicizetta Lang to correct her improper placement Payments for on the salary schedule, and Eva Ashby as payment for unpaid retirement contribution. Improper Placement on Salary Schedule On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm and Unpaid Retirement Contribution declared that the motion carried. It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of weekly rates, 1980-81 school year, for preschool and daycare programs as follows:

Program

1979-80 Rates

Proposed 1980-81 Rates

Daycare (6 or more hrs.)

$ 35.00

$ 37.00

Preschool (2^ hrs.)

15.00

18.00

Kindergarten (6 or more hrs. Daycare)

20.00

25.00

First - Fourth Grades Mornings (Approx. 1^ hrs.)

8.00

9.00

First - Fourth Grades Afternoons (Approx. 3 hrs.)

11.00

12.00

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. declared that the motion carried.

R. #276 Approval of Weekly Rates for Preschool and Daycare Programs for 1980-81 School Year

Dr. Hamm

REMARKS

Dr. Payzant reported: (1)

Plans for Modified School Schedule

Remarks Superintendent

I announced today plans for a modified school schedule, with beginning and ending times being moved up in order to allow students and staff the opportunity to be at school conducting classes during the coolest part of our days which have been extremely warm, as we all know, and we believe will continue to do so, relying on weather forecast for the very near future. This will mean that for the first seven school days -- Thursday and Friday of this week and the five days next week, high schools would begin at 7:30 and dismiss at 12:30; elementary and fifth year centers would begin at 8:00 and dismiss at 1:00; and middle schools would begin at 8:30 and dismiss at 1:30. You should know that I am taking this step with some risk involved, and it is the risk that the State may say to us that we are required to make up some time at a later date. I believe that the weather conditions are such that if we are to have a good environment for learning these first days of school and be fair to teachers and other staff working in our unair-conditioned school buildings, that we have no other choice but to take that risk and deal with the issue of the required six-hour day later on. If the State should require us to do something with the six-hour day, I feel strongly enough about this matter that I believe it would be appropriate to go to the Legislature and ask the Legislature to provide an exemption for making up the time, which is not unprecedented when weather conditions have on occasion during the winter months required that kind of decision to be made. We will reassess the schedule next week, get as good information as possible on projected weather forecast for the first week of September and then make a decision prior to the end of next week whether to resume the normal school schedule after Labor Day or continue the alternative schedule for another week. Because of the logistical problems of transportation and communicating with students, parents and staff, we have made the commitment to do this alternate schedule for a block of time rather than leaving people hanging on a day-to-day basis. So by making this announcement today, we are committed to go with the alternative schedule for the first seven school days and then from that point on will make a decision on a week-to-week basi s. I wish that we had the luxury of dealing with the State requirement of a six-hour day before trying to arrive at a decision on a school schedule. But the heat is with us now and staffs are in the schools, and the children will be there on Thursday. I think that has to be our paramount concern, and we will worry about the other factor later.

411

MINUTES OF MEETING OF AUGUST 18, 1980 - CONT'D

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd

R. #277 Plans for Modified School Schedule Approved

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hermes that the Board approve the Superintendent's recommendation, a plan for starting school earlier because of the heat, and the decision and notification of the starting time.

PROPOSED MODIFIED SCHOOL SCHEDULE Start

End

High School

7:30 a.m.

12:30 p.m.

Elementary School and Fifth Year Centers

8:00 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

Middle School

8:30 a.m.

1:30 p.m.

Kindergarten (1st session)

8:00 a.m.

10:00 a.m.

Kindergarten (2nd session)

11:00 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

Carver and Dunbar Centers

8:00 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

Washington Center

7:30 a.m.

12:30 p.m.

Dr. Hamm inquired about whether principals were taking into consideration the heat, with the staffs in the schools and the adjusting of time as such. Dr. Payzant stated that the plan was to allow principals to make the decision at the school level to let staff leave earlier than they normally would; for the three workshop and inservice days, the administration had not put out a blanket time for the release of staff because many people were involved in workshops at alternative locations which are air conditioned; that starting Thursday, as soon as staff had fulfilled their responsibilities at the school with students or activities, principals would have the authority to release staff earlier than they normally would at the end of the school day, while the plan was in effect. As a word of caution, Dr. Start asked that coaches be advised about boys working out for football in full pads at one o'clock in the afternoon in the heat, without free access to water at all times, and that appropriate attention should be given to water breaks and hydration breaks. Dr. Payzant stated that the administration had worked with principals and coaches as they began the preseason and regular practice on precautionary measures to take with respect to the heat. Remarks Superintendent cont'd

Dr. Payzant continued: There was discussion in the last few days about the appropriate time for football practice should we go to the alternative schedule for a few days. One consideration was to bring the players back in the late afternoon for practice, and that was countered with the argument that the experience the summer has been, the highest temperature readings of the day have been at the hours of 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00, and it really doesn't start to cool off until after 6:00 or 6:30. The possibility of having evening practices, I believe, were looked at, but not all teams have access to lighted fields. So we will continue to take a look at alternatives for scheduling the practice, although I think many coaches believe that given the option of early afternoon, middle afternoon or late afternoon, that early afternoon would be the best time to hold it. We will continue to monitor the situation with respect to sound practice for dealing with heat. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

Dr. Payzant continued:

(2)

Calendar - Start of School It might be appropriate to just briefly respond to two questions which one of the speakers at the hearing raised, because they tie into the matter just discussed and the next item that I will mention. The reason that we went with the calendar for the start of school August 21, was the response that we got, although be it small, to a survey that went to all parents in the district as well as staff. There were four or five different options for a school calendar that were presented. Of the people that responded, although it was about 700 or 800 who did, two-thirds or more voted for the two options which had an earlier school start in August, a longer holiday break at Christmas, and ending school right after Memorial Day. We will certainly take a look at the options that were mentioned this evening in preparing a recommendation on the calendar for next year. I don't think there is any particular magic in starting the third week in August, but people will have to realize that if they start later, either the vacation breaks will be shorter.- or we will go into June. That is ultimately what it comes down to, because we have the obligation to meet with students 175 days.

412

MINUTES OF MEETING OF AUGUST 18, 1980 - CONT'D

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd

(3)

Moving of Annexes 4

We are in the process of moving annexes from school sites to other school sites because of changes in enrollment, and the annexes will not be fully installed at several schools by Thursday. We are running a few days late in some instances. The reason that we have annexes? Even though we have empty space in some school buildings or several; it is true that we have had a tremendous declining enrollment over the past decade or so; it is also true that we have continually reduced class size and added programs in special education, federal programs, the gifted and talented programs and othfers, all which require space. In many instances the classrooms that have been vacated by regular students have been assigned for these special programs. So while our student bodies are smaller, in many instances, the actual demands for space may be greater, which means that it would be impossible for us, even if we were to do a complete assignment of students just by space available factor, to eliminate all of the annexes. As we consider school consolidations, which we will be doing later this fall and early winter, we will give consideration to the suggestion that you have made and worked toward over the years, a phase-out of the annexes; but do not expect that the annexes will disappear completely in the near future.

(4)

Supplies, Textbooks and Materials One of the goals this year is to do a better job by making supplies, textbooks and materials available at the opening of school. The results will be in certainly in a week or two, and I expect and encourage feedback from teachers and others on how well we have done. I can report that there is no great backlog of supplies at the warehouse. We have done a much better job this summer of getting them out to schools. That is true, too, with textbooks that were timely ordered. There certainly will be the need to order additional textbooks where classes are over or under what was projected. There always is this need each fall. In some instances, publishers, not distributors, have not provided us with materials that were timely ordered. For example, the basic Oklahoma History textbook that we use which is published by The University of Oklahoma Press has not been reprinted in sufficient quantity for that press to get the copies to the various school districts that have ordered it. So in several instances such as that which is beyond our control, there wilj still be some delays. I look for much improvement this fall over last with respect to supplies, materials and textbooks.

(5)

Transportation

This year we will be experiencing the first year of designing routes based on the use of the consul ting-firm and a computer. This will enable us to eliminate a number of routes and save money, which unfortunately will be eaten up again with increased costs of gasoline. The complete bus schedules are now in the hands of the school principals, and patrons and others may check at their local school or with the Transportation Department if they did not receive information on their appropriate bus-stop at the time of enrollment, if they enrolled this summer. I am sure with this new system, as with most, we will have some "bugs" in it in the first week or two. We will work diligently to eliminate them just as quickly as possible, and we look forward to improved bus service this school year. (6)

Program for Central Innovative High School The program for Central Innovative High School, which you approved at a Board meeting earlier this summer, has been approved by the State Department of Education. So we can go ahead with its implementation.

(7)

Retention Information You have received a report from the elementary school director, fifth year center and middle school director on the retention policy and its implementation during this past school year. You can see from a review of those two reports that the number of students retained this past May for the 1980-81 school year in the 1979-80 grade increased over 1978-79. That to me shows that teachers and administrators are taking seriously the new Board policy which was adopted last year. The report also shows in my view that there is still some inconsistency districtwide in the implementation of the policy and that there are some schools which need to take more seriously the policy's implementation. I will be working with the directors and they with the principals of those schools to see that that policy is seriously implemented in the coming year. My assessment of the report is that it shows good progress and a real strong commitment to raising standards and sticking by them in a number of schools, with the need for additional work in others. So we are partly there, but we have a ways to go.

Remarks Superintendent cont'd

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ENCUMBRANCES, PURCHASING AND GENERAL BUSINESS R. #278 Approval of Encumbrances

It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of encumbrances as listed for August 1-11, 1980. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill,aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

Purchasing R. #279 Approval of Purchasi ng

A motion was made by Mrs. Hermes and seconded by Mrs. Hill for approval of purchasing items as follows: 1.

Printed Forms Purchase of printed forms (class record books, teachers plan books, machine receipts, progress records envelopes, etc.) for use by Supply and Distribution Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

$ 5,889.50 4,913.25 531.75

Hatcher Business Forms Origami, Inc. Uarco, Inc.

$11,334.50

Total These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.00.

Safety Supplies

Purchase of safety supplies (first aid kits, flares) for use by Pupil Transportation from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: $

Action Safety Supply Bill Story Fire & Safety Company

355.20 1,483.20

Total These purchases are to be charged to Account G 1230.06. 3.

Chemicals Purchase of chemicals for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from Ashland Chemical Company which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $2,250. to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Plumbing, Heating,Air Conditioning Tools and Supplies Purchase of plumbing, heating, air conditioning tools and supplies (pipe, couplings clamps, washers, plugs, seals, solder, screwdrivers, etc.) for use by Maintenance/ Engineering, Supply and Distribution, and John Marshall High School from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Federal Corporation Boone & Boone Sales Company, Inc. Mideke Supply Company Central Plumbing Supply Hunzicker Brothers Pyramid Supply, Inc. Hart Industrial Supply Company Stephens Industrial Supply Standard Asbestos Mfg. & Insulation

Total

$12^864.76

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

G 240.00 G 1230.03 BL 5620.05 BL 6030.11

$ 1,547.88 94.80 10,917.78 304.30

Total

$12,864.76

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R. #279 Approval of Purchasing cont'd

Purchasing cont'd J

Vehicle Parts and Supplies Purchase of vehicle parts and supplies (point sets, engine paint, bearings, oil filters, horns, spark plugs, fuses, etc.) for use by Garage Services and Material Transportation from the following companies which submitted the-low quotations:

Billingsley Parts & Equipment Solloway Auto Supply Severin Supply Company Phil's Auto Supply American Di st. & Parts Exchange Federal Corporation Total

579.80 1,683.72 2,111.90 156.55 259.50 1,433.76

$ 6,225.23

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 560.04 BL 5620.05 Total

Buses Purchase of buses for use by Pupil Transportation from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

$146,132.00 109,600.00 36,250.00

International Harvester Company Wayne Bus & Equipment Sales, Inc. Keas Superior Bus Sales, Inc. Total

$291,982.00

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 1230.05. 7.

Cassette Cartridges and Batteries Purchase of cassette cartridges and batteries for use by Supply and Distribution Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

Radio Supply Jim Maupin Distributing Company Total

2,555.00 112.80

2,667.80

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.00. 8.

Lock Parts and Sets Purchase of* lock'parts and sets (key blanks, dogging keys, knobs and spindles, etc.) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

Herbert Helmus & Son, Inc. Wesche Company

Total

These purchases are to be charged to Account BL 5620.05. 9.

Paint and Paint Products Purchase of paint and paint products (brushes, shellac, oil stain, lacquer, paint, plastic wood, etc.) for use by Supply and Distribution Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

S.E.B. Paint Company, Inc. Del Paint Manufacturing Co.

Total

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.00. I

1,460.70 1,618.50

3,079.20

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10.

11.

Towels Purchase of towels for use by Custodial Services from McArthur Towels, Inc., which submitted the low quotation on specifications in the amount of $4,812.50 to be charged to Account G 650.04. Pickup

Purchase of a 3/4-ton pickup for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from Jack Marshall Chevrolet which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $6,920.38 to be charged to Account BL 6030.11 12.

Truck Body Repair

Authorization to make truck body repair on a Supply Department truck by Fruehauf Corporation which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,256.44 to be charged to Account BL 5620.05. 13.

Radios

Purchase of radios (two-way) for use by Pupil Transportation Department from Motorola C & E, Inc., which submitted the low quotation. This purchase in the amount of $6,424.80 is to be charged to Account G 1230.05.

14.

Leasing of Buses Permission to lease seven (7) buses (20-passenger) for use by External Funding (Handicapped) from Wayne Bus & Equipment Sales, Inc., which submitted the low quotation on specifications. This expenditure in the amount of $36,750.00 ($5,250.00 per bus for nine-month period) is to be charged to Account 520.00 (Handicapped) and has been approved on our Federal Education"Grants and/or Programs.

15.

Lubricants

Purchase of lubricants (motor oil, grease, brake fluid, transmission fluid, and absorbent) for use by Garage Services and Material Transportation from Commercial Distributors, Inc., which submitted the low quotation. These purchases in the amount of $2,708.66 are to be charged to the following Accounts:

G 560.01 G 560.04 BL 5620.05 Total 16.

1,338.66 1,195.00 175.00

2,708.66

Batteries and Supplies Purchase of batteries and supplies (batteries, cable, clamps, and electrolyte) for use by Garage Services and Material Transportation from the following companies which submitted the low quotations: Commercial Distributors, Inc. Auto Battery & Equipment Batteries Unlimited, Inc.

Total

2,486.64 160.00 259.20

2,905.84

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 560.04.

17.

Instructional Supplies Purchase of instructional supplies (ink, paper, glaze, pipe cleaner, paint, felt, modeling clay, etc.) for use by Supply & Distribution from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Thompson Book & Supply Company Chase!le Arts & Crafts, Inc. Hoover Brothers, Inc. Carpenter Paper Company Dowlings, Inc.

$ 38,408.28 9,911.30 232.00 2,471.00 _____ 500.50 Total

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.00.

$ 51,523.08

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18.

Paper Purchase of paper (index, precollated NCR and bond) for use by Graphic Services ^Department at Washington Print Shop from the following companies which submitted the low quotations: Midwest Paper Company Graham Paper Company

9,862.00 5,851.50

$ 15,713.50

Total These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.05.

19.

Dust Collector Machine Purchase of dust collector machine for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from Air Filter Supply which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $4,120.00 to be charged to BL 5620.05.

20.

Paper

Purchase of paper (index, cover, and precollated NCR paper) for use by Graphic Services Department at Washington Print Shbp from the following companies which submitted the low quotations: $ 3,624.00 5,924.28

Graham Paper Company Carpenter Paper Company

Total

$ 9,548.28

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.05. 21.

Ribbons and Correction Tape

Purchase of ribbons and correction tape for use by Supply and Distribution from the following companies which submitted the low quotations: Thompson Book & Supply Company Fine Line Ribbon Company, Inc. Columbia Ribbon & Carbon Company

$ 1,064.64 1,680.48 147.60

$ 2,892.72

Total These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.00. 22.

Physical Education and Athletic Supplies Purchase of physical education and athletic supplies and materials for use by the Supply & Distribution Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

Buck'S Sporting Goods, Inc., of Oklahoma City Sportmaster U. S. Athletic Supply Co., Inc. Blumenfeld Sport Net Company ' Noble Lawton Sporting

Total

258.75 2,243.25 2,920.23 6,415.88 510.00

$12,348.11

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.00.

23.

Validate Agreeements

Permission to validate agreements with the following companies to furnish pupil transportation services (buses, drivers, supplies, maintenance, insurance, etc.) for the 1980-81 school year. District to be responsible for cost of gasoline.

Sooner School Buses, Inc. Garrett's School Bus Transportation School Bus Transportation Co., Inc.

Total

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 520.00.

278,583.00 424,826.00 315,527.00

$1,018,936.00

R. #279 Approval of Purchasing cont'd

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R. #279 Approval of Purchasing cont'd

With regard to item 6, Mrs. Hill inquired as to when delivery was expected on the buses.

Dr. (Wallace) Smith replied that it would probably be the middle of Januarywhen the special education buses were delivered.

Mrs. Hermes inquired as to when new buses are purchased, how the older buses are disposed of. Mr. (Doug) Markham stated that some of the buses are retained and placed in a pool for activities buses that are available to schools, and some are salvaged for parts.

Mrs. Hill suggested that activities' sponsors in the schools be made aware that buses are available for their use. On roll call, Dr. Start voted aye; Mrs. Hill voted aye; Mrs. Williams voted aye; Mrs. Hermes, voted aye; Mr. Donwerth voted aye; and Dr. Hamm voted aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. General Business

R. #280 Approval of General Business

It was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Mr. Donwerth for approval of the general business items as follows:

Authorization to Finalize Agreements Authorization to finalize agreements to lease (rent) swimming facilities as listed below:

John Marshall High School - Agreement with Northside Oklahoma City Branch YMCA of Greater Oklahoma City, 10000 North Pennsylvania, to lease (rent) swimming pool from October 20, 1980, through February 28, 1981, based on a fee of $22.00 per hour for 85 hours, total not to exceed $1,870.00.

Northeast High School - Agreement with Oklahoma City Tennis Club, Inc., 3333 West Hefner Road, to lease (rent) the swimming pool from October 20, 1980, through February 28, 1981, based on a fee of $22.00 per hour for 85 hours, total not to exceed $1,870.00.

Grant High School - Agreement with Southside Oklahoma City Branch YMCA of Greater Oklahoma City, 5325 South Pennsylvania, to lease (rent) the swimming pool from October 20, 1980, through February 28, 1981, based on a fee of $22.00 per hour for 85 hours, not to exceed $1,870.00. Expenditure to be charged to Account G 660.02.

Permission to Set New Amounts on Cafeteria Menu Prices

Permission, to set new amounts on cafeteria menu prices for all cafeterias (school and adult). Proposed menu prices are: Elementary.Junches (includes milk) Secondary lunches (includes milk) Adult meals in school cafeterias (Special teacher lines) Adult meals in school cafterias (Student lines)

.75 .85 1.50 (w/o beverage) 1.00 (w/o beverage)

A la carte items in the Middle and High Schools increase 5-10<ÂŁ per item.

Adult Only Cafeteria Entrees (including roast beef, turkey, hot dogs, fish, sandwiches, soup, etc.)

.80/1.00 range

Salads

.50/.80 range

Desserts (pies, cobblers, pudding, cookies, cakes, etc.)

.20/.50 range

Bread (crackers, biscuits, rolls, corn bread, etc.)

.05/.30 range

Beverages

.15/.40 range

Vegetables

.40

Agreement with Baptist Children's Home

Approval of an agreement with Baptist Children's Home to provide bus service (buses, drivers, and insurance for approximately 90 students who are residents of the Home) to Northeast High School, Harding Middle School, Longfellow Fifth Year Center, and Burbank Elementary School. The cost for these services, $5488.50 is to be charged to G 520.00.

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On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, R. #280 aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the Approval of General Business motion carried. cont'd BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION

It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hill for approval of the following buildings and construction items:

Approval of Agreement with Architects for Bus Driveway and Parking Facilities Approval of an agreement with RGDC, Inc., Architects, for the school district use of plans and specifications previously prepared by the firm, for school bus driveway and parking facilities at the Service Center, 2700 North Miramar, The firm to furnish plans and specifications to prepare bidding documents and contract and assist in the bidding phases of the project for a flat fee of $3,000. The agreement to be charged to Bond Funds.

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#281 Approval of Buildings and Construction Items

Change Order

Approval of Change Order No. 1 in the contract with Travelers Construction, Inc., for parking area repairs at Emerson Alternative Education Center - delete from the contract one storm sewer inlet and one six-inch storm sewer tie-in; deduct $708.73. Original Contract Change Order No. 1 deduct

Adjusted Contract

$ 179,343.13

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Dr. Hamm reviewed the plans for the Board meetinguof August 21, at which time applicants would be interviewed for the Area Number One Board position.and suggested that the Board might want to vote at the September 8 meeting to fill the vacancy. After discussion by members of the Board, it was agreed that the appointment would be made at the August 21 meeting as approved in the procedures for filling the vacancy.

Discussion

Mrs. Hermes suggested that Board members write down specific questions arid ask each candidate those questions. After discussion, members of the Board agreed to prepare themsel ves or from the specific topics and questions that had been suggested to each member for consideration for asking applicants, certain questions that they were interested in and submit them to the President of the Board, who would in turn prepare a list for each t Board member to use in the interview process. |

Dr. Hamm mentioned that he had found that the policy code designator in the agenda was not being used 'as he thought it would, and therefore would suggest that it be deleted from the agenda. One Board member stated that it had been beneficial in saving valuable time when referring to the policy manual. Other members stated that to them the use of the policy code in the agenda was unnecessary and could be deleted to decrease the work load of the Central Office staff. Dr. Hamm inferred that by consensus of the Board the policy code use in the agenda would be eliminated- inasmuch as the purpose for its use was being accomplished in another way. NEW BUSINESS

None. HEARINGS

Ms. Gayle Jones addressed the Board regarding teachers spending hours in the buildings after dismissal time, the need for hastening the process of negotiations so teachers would have a contract, appreciation for teachers, and other.

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EXECUTIVE SESSION

R. #282 Board Recessed to Executive Session 8:30 p.m. R. #283 Board Returned to Open Session 10:26 p.m.

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the Board go into ..executive session for the discussion of negotiations, litigation and personnel. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams aye; Mrs •Hermes.,, aye; Mr..Donwerth.., aye;. and. Dr, Hamm:,’. aye, Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

Having completed its executive session, it was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hill that the Board return to open session. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; ............... Mrs'. Hermes, aye;.Mr, Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr.Hamm declared that the motion carried. ADJOURNMENT

R. #284 Adjournment 10:27 p.m.

A motion to adjourn was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Williams. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; Mrs:. Hermes:,, aye;.and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED. (A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the office of the .Clerk.)

STATE OF OKLAHOMA ) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA)

Witness my hand and seal of this school district thisz^day of, 1980.

Clerk,--Oklahoma City Board of Education

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF AUGUST 21, 1980

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, MET IN A SPECIAL MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, 900 NORTH KLEIN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1980, AT 6:30 P.M.

PRESENT:

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Delbert Hamm, President Freddye Williams, Vice President Floyd Donwerth, Member Susan Hermes, Member Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member

Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; Central Office staff members; representatives from professional groups, the news media, and other interested persons.

The meeting was called to order by Dr. Hamm and Dr. Start gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Dr. Hamm welcomed all of the persons present.

Visitors Wei corned

Roll call established that all of the Board members were present.

Roll Call

SPECIAL BUSINESS Dr. Hamm stated the purpose of the meeting — To interview the applicants and select a person to fill the vacancy existing on the Board in Area Number One.

Dr. Hamm outlined the procedure that would be followed and asked that applicants keep their responses brief and to the point in order to cover as many items as possible within the allotted time schedule. | i

Scheduled at 30-minute intervals and with each member of the Board opening an interview with a question, the following applicants responded:

John C. Booth, Bank Vice President & Trust Officer 12709 St. Andrews Terrace Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Jean L. Brody, Housewife 1508 Barclay,Road Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Randall B. Grubb, Assistant Professor, University 2016,.Lanesboro Drive Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Franklin Jay Kivel, Attorney 2417 N. W. 121 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Jacquelyn A. Perry, Housewife 8829 Oakridge Drive Midwest City, Oklahoma

Raymond L. Wandick, Minister 4260 N. Richardson Spencer, Oklahoma

Purpose of Meeting

MINUTES OF MEETING OF AUGUST 21, 1980 - CONT'D

Applicants responded to the following questions:

What part do you think the classroom teacher should play in the area of discipline?

Should teachers be permitted to strike?

You realtze that you are being interviewed by the 1-89 School Board and that you will be serving on the Vocational-Technical Number 22 Board; how important do you fee that vocational- education and vocational-technical schools are to our students?

What is the extent of your knowledge about public school finance?

(a)

Should the present method of finance be continued?

(b)

Should radical or extreme changes be made?

Doyour-children^ttendthe Oklahoma City Public Schools?

How would you suggest that academic achievement levels be improved in this district?

In your opinion, should new facilities be constructed for vocational-technical programs or should existing facilities be remodeled and renovated for this purpose?

What activities have you participated in the last four years which would show your support for Oklahoma City Public Schools?

If you became the next Board member, how much time each week would you spend in our schools, either as a volunteer or going in looking at our facilities and meeting our staffs and principals?

10.

What is your position on collective bargaining for teachers, and what role do you perceive yourself playing in the collective bargaining process between the District's employees and the Board?

11-

What dO-'you perceive to be the workirig relationship between the Superintendent and the Board?

12.

Would .you as a Board member be willing to meet informally with teachers?

13.

How would you define a neighborhood school?

14.

How do you feel about the discipline in the Oklahoma City schools? .

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15.

How do you feel about affirmative action and human relations with reference to personnel and the end product, which is the student?

16.

On retention, how do you feel about holding students back until they are able to read at the next level?

17.

How do you feel about in-house suspension?

18.

What would you do to improve and support good public image and good public relations for the* Okl aTioma City schools?

19.

If you should be selected as the member for voting Area Number One, how would you balance your concerns for the entire District with your concerns for Area Number One in making decisions in the best interest of all students?

20.

To what extent do you think parents should be involved in the schools, and do you feel that it should be heavy, moderate or light involvement of patrons in the decision-making process in the public schools?

21.

In a dispute between a teacher/teachers and administration, would you view yourself as a member of the Board as a mediator or upper level management?

22.

Did you ever attend an integrated public school?

23.

What would you do to improve the competency of our teachers?

24;

Do you' have anyone to speak in your behalf?

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Selection Process cont1d

Members of the Board then proceeded with the selection process. procedure, the following applicants were chosen:

Upon the first checkofi

Jean L. Brody — Dr. Start, Mrs. Hermes, and Mrs. Williams. Randall B. Grubb -- Mrs. Hill.

Franklin Jay Kivel -- Dr. Hamm and Mr. Donwerth.

During the second checkoff procedure, the following applicants were chosen:

Jean L. Brody -- Dr. Start, Mrs. Hermes, Mrs. Williams, and Dr. Hamm. Franklin Jay Kivel — Mr. Donwerth and Mrs. Hill. Dr. Hamm stated that Mrs. Jean L. Brody had received a majority for the selection. R. #285 Selection of Applicant for Vacancy on the Board

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Williams that Mrs. Jean L. Brody be seated as a member of the Board from Area Number One. (The term of such appointment shall end on the first Monday in June 1981.) On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. declared that the motion carried.

Dr. Hamm

Dr. Hamm announced that Mrs. Jean L. Brody would be sworn in as a member of the Board at the meeting of September 8, 1980. R. #286 Vote of Thanks Approved

It was moved by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hermes that the Board give a written vote of thanks to each of the applicants.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. declared that the motion carried.

Dr. Hamm

ADJOURNMENT R. #287 Adjournment

A motion to adjourn was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Hill. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the office of the Clerk.)

President ) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

I, the undersigned Clerk of the Board of Education of Independent School District Number 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours before the meeting, the date, time and place of the Regular Meeting was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. I also certify that at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, notice of the date, time, place and agenda of this meeting was posted in permanent’publ ic view at the location of the meeting.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district this zF^ay 1980.

Clerk, Oklahoma City Board of Education

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THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING,

900 NORTH KLEIN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1980, AT 7:00 p.m. PRESENT:

Delbert Hamm, President Freddye Williams, Vice President Jean Brody, Member Slisan Hermes, Member Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member

ABSENT:

Floyd Donwerth, Member

Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; William Bleakley, Attorney; Donald H. Ladd, Treasurer; Central Office staff members; representatives from professional groups, the news media and other interested persons. The meeting was called to order by Dr. Hamm and Mrs. Williams gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Dr. Hamm introduced The Honorable Terry A. Pendell, Associate Municipal Judge, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who administered the Oath of Office to Mrs. Jean Brody, newly appointed member of the Board from Area Number One (the term of such appointment to end on the first Monday in June 1981).

Oath of Offi ce Mrs. Jean Brody

After administering the Oath of Office, Judge Pendell stated: Jean, I want to tell you what a pleasure it is for me to be here to swear you in and tell those present that I feel like they are indeed fortunate to have you on this board. You have performed many fine services to our community and we are delighted that you will devote your energies and your talents to this duty..

Dr. Hamm stated that Judge Pendell was a former teacher at Roosevelt Middle School, and the Board was extremely happy that she was sharing in the occasion. Dr. Hamm welcomed all of the visitors present. Mrs. Brody introduced her husband, Martin, and daughter, Diane. Dr. Start introduced a Japanese teacher who he stated was his housegudst and was in the country for instruction and observation in the schools.

Visitors Welcomed

Roll call established that six of the seven Board members were present.

Roll Call

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS A motion was made by Mrs. Hermes and seconded by Mrs. Hill for approval of the minutes of August 18 and 21, 1980 as presented. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Dr..Start, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye.' -Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #288 Minutes Approved

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS The following Board members commented:

Mrs. Hermes - I went to the Football Preview and was pleasantly surprised by all of the cheerleaders and football teams in their regalia. I enjoyed it very much. I am not a product of the Oklahoma City Schools and it was fun to relive the excitement of football. I want to thank the system for the Activity Card that they presented to each of us and I intend to use it, and would ask that the schools invite me to whatever they are doing.

Comments Mrs. Hermes

Mrs. Williams - From observation'of the Football Preview, it looks like we are going to be having football in the Oklahoma City Public Schools this year. Of course, we are very proud of our young people. Also, I visited the Preschool and Extended Daycare Center at Edwards School this past week. You should drop by and look it over. I know that everything is not in place at this moment, but I do hope that we will really give it a push so that we can get the Title XX funding. A grandparent mentioned to me that she hoped we could hurry and get the Title XX assistance, because the Center had such a wonderful program but she could not afford it.

Comments Mrs. Williams

Mrs. Hill - I, too, enjoyed the Football Preview and was pleased to see how well our teams performed not only on Thursday night but Friday and Saturday nights. There is a good spirit there that I hope will continue. It seems like school is off to a good start, and for that I am pleased.

Comments Mrs. Hill

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COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS cont'd Comments Mrs. Brody

Mrs. Brody - I, too, enjoyed the Football Preview and thought it was, as always, outstanding with the participation. I have been kept very busy, even before I was Appointed to the Board, not only on my own initiation but by being invited. I have been in three buildings already and was invited to teach a class in Government at Northeast High School. I was very encouraged by the three buildings that I have been into.

Comments Dr. Hamm

Since our last meeting, Board members have received several items of information, and one that tremendously impressed me was the report on the 1979-80 Dropout Information, which reported on grades 6-12. There was a decrease of 21 percent of the total number of dropouts that was reported over 1978-79. To me this is a very significant statistic. It says that good things are happening in our schools. Also, I think it is well to mention from time to time for our guests at the Board meetings, that each Board member does receive a tremendously thick packet of materials each Friday evening, and included in that packet of materials is not only-the agenda for that Board meeting, but also several informational items and other material to help the Board member understand the agenda and any action that is to be taken. So if it appears that we are not giving our due attention and careful consideration during the meeting, rest assured that a great deal of pre-study has gone into our meetings.

HEARINGS

The following persons addressed the Board:

Jamie Goodwin

Gerald Kernahan

Cindy Fravel

Omega N. Burge

Susan Parker

Ms. Goodwin inquired as to if the teachers' contract was ratified, why would she as a physical education teacher not receive the maximum 30-minute planning time that the regular classroom teachers would receive? Dr. Payzant replied that he would do some checking on that but his expectation was that all classroom teachers that did not have planning time built into their schedules would be provided with some planning time as provided by the contract.

As a representative of a group of parents from Kaiser School, Mr. Kernahan expressed concern.and support for the Kaiser School to remain open and not be considered for closing. The Kaiser patrons in the audience were asked to stand.

Ms. Fravel spoke regarding the temperature in her classroom and the schedule she would have to follow in order to have a 30-minute planning period. Representing the'Wright Patrons for Youth, Inc., Mrs. Burge requested the use of the former Wright School building to provide activities for the elderly, the youth, and possibly a daycare program. Mrs. Burge asked that the building be leased to the organization at minimal cost.

Mrs. Hermes inquired of Mrs. Burge if the organization had administrative people who would take cafe of the day-to-day operation of the facility? Mrs. Burge said that she believed that they did and would try as best they could, and they did have people who were willing to work.

Dr. Start asked if they had any idea how much it was going to cost to put the building in operational condition?

Mrs. Burge replied that they did not; however, a building contractor in the area was looking into that part of the proposal, and various proposals would be made to funding agencies for renovation of the building, using perhaps the estimates of the building contractor. Mrs. Burge continued by expressing a concern about the PTA Clothing Center; that patrons were not responding to the Center as desired by the PTA, and solicited support for the program.

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HEARINGS cont'd

Mrs. Hill asked Mrs. Burge if they were aware of the policy that the lessee would provide the insurance coverage of the building?

Mrs. Burge stated yes, after having experienced the leasing of the Sunnyside School building. Ms. Parker, Northwest Classen student, spoke regarding what she considered disorganization in the school offices, overcrowded classrooms, problems with schedule changes, and other. Dr. Payzant commented that he would check on the things that had been mentioned by Ms. Parker and added: I know from the enrollment figures that came in today, it is not a problem of Northwest having more students than were projected. So it has got to be a problem of getting the classes balanced at the school and schedule changes made.

LEGAL AND FINANCIAL REPORTS Mr. Bleakley reported:

(1)

Attorney's Report

Tommy Davidson Case

The only matter of litigation that has occurred since the last meeting was a hearing on our objections to some interrogatories filed in the Davidson matter.

(2)

Hudiburg Suit

The Motion for Summary Judgment has been set in the School District vs. Hudiburg Case for October 3, 1980.

Mr. Ladd gave a routine treasurer's report. Mr. Ladd included in his report that collections are somewhat behind last year's and disbursements are somewhat ahead of last year's, which caused him to believe that the district would not escape having to pay interest on the general fund as occurred the last two years; that interest is already being paid on the building levy fund. (A copy of the report is on file in the Clerk's office.)

Treasurer's Report

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams for ratification of the 1980-81 Bargaining Agreement reached August 22, 1980 between the Oklahoma City Federation of Teachers, Local 2309 of the American Federation of Teachers AFL-CIO and the Board of Education of Independent School District 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.

Dr. Start commented: I would like to express on behalf of the Board how pleased we are with this agreement. It is a very fair agreement and I, personally, am very happy with the agreement. I think it deals as best we can with the teachers that we have in our system wjio -demonstrate a high quality of motivation and expertise. I also would like to specifically thank the School Board's team for the very professional and skilled expertise in representing the Board in all of the issues that were brought for the collective bargaining units. The Board was very much up-to-date on what was going on, knew precisely the major items in the negotiations, and we certainly are appreciative of that.

R. #289 Ratification of Collective Bargaining Agreement

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

It was moved by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hill that the President of the Board and the Superintendent be authorized to execute documents and submit application for a grant as follows: 1.

Under Title III B, Older Americans Act - An Intergenerational Involvement Program.

Title I, Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, School Facility Improvement for Community Use.

Mrs. Hill inquired regarding the Title I grant application, stating: I noticed that two of the high schools and one of the buildings that we are leasing have been chosen for this program. Who would pick up the expenses for the utilities for night use?

Dr. Payzant - The grant application is for funds to help provide better lighting at the two high school sites, and also move toward some building modifications that would make the buildings more accessible for senior citizens and handicapped persons. The Consortium for Community Life-Long Learning is endorsing the proposal and the school district would provide access to the schools and absorb the utility cost. Where programs are offered with instructors, the instructors would be provided by the various agencies in the Consortium that are offering the program, or if it was an adult basic education

R. #290 President of Board and Superintendent Authorized to Execute Documents

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT

Dr. Payzant cont'd 4program offered at these sites, such as we now offer at Grant and John Marshall, then the instructors and the administrative overhead would be paid through tuition and adult basic education money. The two target areas for working with this broadened community education program through the Consortium are the Classen High School and Northwest High School ereas. These will be the pilot areas for the next year and then we hope to learn from the experience at these sites what to do in the way of improvement and expansion into other high school areas in the city in future years. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. Dr. Hamm acknowledged the presence of Mrs. Pat Potts, former Board member, who was in audience.

R. #291 Professional Trips Approved

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Hermes that the following persons attend conferences as indicated:

At School District Expense

(a)

One or more Board members--First Annual Statewide Conference on Black Family Urban League, Fountainhead Lodge, September 11-12, 1980.

(b)

Kathryn B. Turner, G/T Facilitator, Webster Middle School--National Council for Basic Education, Washington, D,C;,_ September 19-22, 1980.

(c)

Betty G. Mason, Director of High Schools -- 25th Annual Conference on Secondary School Problems, Denver, Colorado, October 4-9, 1980.

(d)

Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent -- Large City Superintendents' Conference, San Antonio, Texas, October 16-19, 1980.

At No Expense to the District

(e)

Jack Isch, Administrative Assistant, Superintendent's Office; John Hatfield, Community Education Specialist -- Community Education Workshop for all LEAs receiving Community Education Grants, Western Hills State Lodge, September 11, 1980. (Mott Foundation)

(f)

Betty G. Mason, Director of High Schools -- First Annual Statewide Conference on the Black Family - Urban League, Fountainhead Lodge, September 11-12, 1980.

(g)

Betty Lesher, Financial Assistant, External Funding; Lessie L. LeSure, Coordinator ESAA Project, External Funding -- FY 80 Grantee Orientation and FY 81 Information Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, September 22-24, 1980. (ESAA Funds)

(h)

Thomas Wr Payzant, Superintendent -- University Council for Educational Administration, Conference on Leadership, Columbus, Ohio, October 14-15, 1980.

(i)

Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent -- Council for Basic Education, Board of Directors' Meeting, Washington, D.C., October 30 - November 1, 1980.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

Remarks Superintendent Information to the Board

Dr. Payzant reported:

(1)

NSBA Suggestion Sheets

The Board members received a copy of a request from the National School Boards Association for any suggestions on program participants for the clinics that are being planned for the National School Boards' Meeting, scheduled for Dallas of this year. If you have completed any of those suggestion sheets, I wish you would leave them with me so that I can forward them to NSBA.

(2)

Enrollment Report Information handed to you this evening represents a report on the enrollment for this school year as of Friday of last week. We had projected enrollment of 39,786 students. As of Friday, we had 99.1% of our projected enrollment at 39,418 students. This is a higher percentage of our projected enrollment than we would normally expect this early in September. I find it a very encouraging note. In fact, we are at 101 % of our projection for the K-4 elementary schools; 107% of our projection for the middle schools; and we are only at 96.8% of our projection for the high schools. These data indicate to me that we will probably

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Dr. Payzant cont'd

(2)

Enrollment Report cont'd 4

at least meet, if not exceed, in total our projections for this school year. As you know, I do have 20 teaching positions that were built into the budget that were not allocated to specific schools, so that adjustments could be made where enrollment projections did not materialize in actual membership this fall. What I am asking the directors to do is to begin shifting teachers from schools that are overstaffed, to schools that are understaffed, and then I will release (of the 20â&#x20AC;&#x2122; additional teaching positions where they are needed to balance the staff-student loads. I will keep you informed of the updated enrollment figures as they come in over the next couple of weeks.

Remarks Superintendent Information to the Board cont'd

Dr. Start inquired: If our enrollment does drop below 40,000, does the statute which authorizes the number of school board members for a certain number of studentspr.evai.l; ms y a board have either five or seven, or is the statute specific in requiring school systems that have enrollment over 40,000 have seven board members?

Mr. Bleakley - Once you are seven board members, you remain seven board members, even if you drop below 40,000. When they enlarged the board, they made the provision that the cutoff was 40,000 or"boards presently having seven board members?' is the way the statute is worded.

Dr. Payzant continued:

(3)

Availability of Textbooks and Supplies

You recall at this time last year we were receiving a number of complaints about the availability of textbooks and supplies. One of the major objectives that I had for this year was to significantly improve the delivery of textbooks and supplies so that they would be available for students and teachers when school began, as long as they were timely ordered. That has happened this fall. There will still be the need for supplemental ordering of textbooks and supplies in those schools where the actual enrollment exceeds what was projected. However, the turnaround time on receiving those basic textbooks will be much shorter than in previous years because of the mini depository that we set up at the Service Center and stocked with basic textbooks in anticipation of this kind of demand. I am not suggesting that there are not still isolated instances of some delay, but the improvement over a year ago is significant and the people in the Instruction Division and Business Services Division have worked very hard to make those improvements, and I am pleased to report that. PERSONNEL REPORT A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start that the persons in the report be employed and that contracts with the teachers listed on the form approved be executed in the name of the District by the Superintendent or person by him designated; also, that other personnel recommendations and information listed be approved.

R. #292 Personnel Approved

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. j (Personnel listings - pages 438 - 448.) PAYROLLS, ENCUMBRANCES, PURCHASING AND GENERAL BUSINESS I It was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Hill to approve Recommendation #1 and I #2 (ratification of August payrolls and authorization of September payrolls) and j payment of encumbrances as listed for August 12, 1980 through September 2, 1980.

j On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, | aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that j the motion carried.

R. #293 Approval of Payrolls and Encumbrances

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R. #294 Approval of Purchasing Items

Purchasing It was moved by Mrs. Hermes and seconded by Mrs. Williams to approve the following purchasing items: 1.

Science Equipment and Supplies

Purchase of science equipment and supplies (flasks, forceps, slides, goggles, aprons, microscopes, incubator and embedding ovens, etc.) for use by Supply and Distribution Department at various schools from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: $

Sargent Welch Scientific Company American Scientific Products Fisher Scientific Company Science Kit, Inc. Central Scientific Company Frey Scientific Company Southern Biological Supply Company Ann Arbor Bioloqical Center, Inc. Labco Scientific Carolina Biological Supply Company Ward's Natural Science Est., Inc.

Total

2,886.82 102.00 1 ,435.88 256.92 690.98 2,149.65 2,280.74 96.35 687.00 1,170.48 34.60

$ 11,791.42

These; purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: $

G 240.00 G 240.01 G 1230.03

Total

2,453.26 3,711.81 5,626.35

$ 11,791.42

Tools> and Hardware Supplies Purchase of tools and hardware supplies (sanding belts, sandpaper, bits, nails, screwdrivers, washers, screws, grinding wheels, etc.) for use by Supply and Distribution from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

4,312.50 472.00 382.50 1,745.20 _____ 526.75 $

Brodhead-Garrett Mideke Supply Company Hart Industrial Supply Company Gates Hardware & Supply Company, Inc. Whitton Supply Total

7,438.95

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.00.

Instructional Supplies Purchase of instructional supplies (adding machine paper, desk blotters, stamp pads, carbon paper, staplers, etc.) for use by Supply and Distribution Department and Policies and Regulations (Mini-Grants) from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: Thompson Book & Supply Hoover Brothers, Inc. Oklahoma Paper Company Carpenter Paper Company of Nebraska Constructive Playthings Oklahoma School Supply

Total

4,230.30 1,352.06 2,601.48 916.80 834.30 247.97

.. $ 10,182.91

These- purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 240.00 G 250.06

$ Total

8,618.22 1,564.69

$ 10,182.91

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Purchasing cont'd Power Roller

Purchase of power roller (asphalt paving jobs) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from Bert Smith Road Machinery Company, Inc., which submitted the low quotation on specifications. This purchase in the amount of $3,795.00 is to be charged to Account BL 6030.11.

Photographic Film and Mailers Purchase of photographic film and mailers for use by Supply and Distribution Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations: Sooner Graphic Supply Lawrence Photo of Oklahoma, Inc.

Total

1,950.50 804.00

2,754.50

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.00.

Hand Tools and Electrical Supplies Purchase of hand tools and electrical supplies (wire, tape, cords, fuses, padlocks, glides, nails, hammers, etc.) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department and Custodial Services from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Graybar Electric Company Gates Hardware & Supply Company, Inc. Hunzicker Brothers Electric Herbert Helmus & Son, Inc. Hart Industrial Supply Company Pyramid Supply, Inc. Severin Supply Company Leonhardt's Big L

6,082.60 3,458.47 1,017.20 476.71 2,349.20 509.30 36.60 _____ 271,20 $

Total

$ 14,201.28

These purchases are to be charged to the voTlowing Accounts: $

G 650.01 BL 5620.05 Total

9,214.48 4,986.80

$ 14,201.28

Glass Purchase of glass for Maintenance/Engineering Department from PPG Industries, Inc., which submitted the low quotations. This purchase in the amount of $3,829.70 is to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Instructional Supplies-Sewing Purchase of instructional supplies-sewing (bobbins, needles, pins, shears, tracing paper) for use by Supply and Distribution Department from Bernina of Oklahoma City which submitted the only quotation. This purchase in the amount of $2,762.00 is to be charged to Account G 240.00.

Audio-Visual Supplies

Purchase of audio-visual supplies and equipment (film, headsets, jack boxes, projection sheets, etc.) for use by Supply and Distribution from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specification:

Thompson Movie Supply, Inc. Thompson Book and Supply Company R. K. Black, Inc. Audio Visual Educational Systems

Total These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.00.

1,130.00 2,173.50 2,135.00 3,137.40

8,575.90

R. #294 Approval of Purchasing Items cont'd

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10.

Stage Curtains/Cyclorama

Purchase of stage curtains/cyclorama for Buchanan, West Nichols Hills, Willow Brook and Mark Twain Elementary Schools, Edwards and Garden Oaks Fifth Year Centers, and John Marshall High School from Capitol State Equipment Company. This purchase in the amount of $7,694.00 is to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

11.

Paper for Graphic Services Purchase of paper for Graphic Services to be used at Washington Print Shop from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

Midwest Paper Company Carpenter Paper Company Total

6,210.75 2,883.37

9,094.12

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.05.

12.

Mail Bags Purchase of mail bags for use by the Curriculum Services Department from Southwest Canvas Manufacturing which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,488.00 to be charged to Account G 240.01.

13.

Agreement with Dayton Tire and Rubber Company

Permission to finalize an agreement with Dayton Tire and Rubber Company to make a negotiated purchase of 130,000 gallons of #2 Diesel fuel at 60<f per gallon.. The Diesel to remain in storage in Dayton Rubber Company's tanks and to be picked up as needed by the district's tanker truck. This purchase to be charged to G 560.01.

Welding Supplies and Equipment Purchase of welding supplies and equipment (welder, lens, safety glasses, helmets, gloves, welding rod, etc.) for use by Maintenance/Engineering and Supply and Distribution Departments from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

A Weldors Supply, Inc. Big 3 Industries, Inc. Hooper Supply Company Welsco, Inc. Presto Welding Supplies

Total

2,095.75 1 ,580.00 645.00 329.50 99.00

4,749.25

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: BL 6030.11 G 240.00

Total 15.

1,563.00 3,186.25

4,749.25

Desk Computer

Purchase of a desk computer and supplies (system level II, desk, Printer/cable, word processor cassette, blank tapes, etc.), equipment and supplies 'to be used with a mini-grant project at Emerson Alternative Center from Radio ShÂŤck which submitted the only quotation. This expenditure in the amount of $1,858.21 is to charged to Account G 250.06.

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Purchasing cont'd 16.

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Music Supplies Purchase of music supplies, sheet music, for Curriculum Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

Sharp & Nichols Music Company Southwestern Music Company Hallmark Music, Inc. Universal Musical Instrument Company

Total

898.15 194.30 928.14 417.00

$2,437.59

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 250.07. 17.

Electrical Wire and Fittings

Purchase of electrical wire and fittings for use by Maintenance and Engineering Department from Pyramid Supply, Inc., which submitted the low quotations on specifications. This purchase in the amount of $1,187.80 is to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

18.

Lighting Fixtures

Purchase of lighting fixtures (lamps, lightpoles, light fixtures, brackets, etc.) for use by Maintenance and Engineering Department from the following comoanies which submitted the low quotations:

Pyramid Supply, Inc. Graybar Electric Company Total

670.00 2,179.66

2,849.66

These purchases are to be charged to Account BL 5620.05. 19.

Instructional Supplies Purchase of instructional supplies (carbon .paper, thermofax paper, and seal-lamin) for use by the Curriculum Department and Supply and Distribution Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

Thompson Book & Supply Company Chaselie Arts & Crafts, Inc. Total

80.00 2,967.64

3,047.64

2,967.60 80.04

3,047.64

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 240.00 G 230.04 . Total

20.

Lamps for Use by Custodial Services Purchase of lamps for use by Custodial Services from Melton Electric Supply which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $19,357.52 to be charged to Account G 650.01.

21.

School Bus Van Approval to make a "one-time" final payment to Ron Stevens Ford Company for one (1) school bus van used by Pupil Transportation Department. This payment is a lease option to purchase agreement (initiated September 5, 1978) in the amount of $3,660.00, to be charged to Account G 1230.05.

Mrs. Hermes, commenting regarding item 13, stated: The purchase of 130,000 gallons of Diesel fuel really excites me. I think that is great because we are going to save some money on the Diesel, and. I understand that can then be used to buy gasoline if the price becomes exorbitant and we haven't budgeted it. After Mrs. Hill inquired, Dr. Payzant explained that the "#2 Diesel" was the correct grade of Diesel for the buses, and that purchase would provide almost a two-year supply, of Diesel for the vehicles that were now operating on Diesel fuel, and the fuel could be drawn out of the'talnks as needed. As to the number of vehicles that were being operated on Diesel fuel, Mr. Markham, Director of Transportation, stated that seven buses were in operation and 15 to be delivered.

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Purchasing cont'd

L #294 Approval of Purchasing Items :ont'd

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

General Business

1. #295 Approval of General Business [terns

It was moved by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of the following General Business items:

Lease Agreement with Wright Patrons for Youth, Inc. Approval of a lease agreement with the Wright Patrons for Youth, Inc., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for the district to lease the Wright Building (previously Wright Elementary School) in the "as is" condition. The patrons to be responsible to pay the full cost of building renovations and repairs which they may elect to make. The patrons are to pay for all utilities and operating expense. Patrons are to supply to the district a Certificate of Insurance showing coverage, a fire and extended insurance policy in the amount of $180,000 and Comprehensive Liability with bodily injury policy with limits of $100,000 per person, $500,000 per occurrence, and $50,000 property damage coverage.

Purchase and Lease of Computer Equipment Purchase and lease of computer equipment for use by the Computer Services Department from the following companies which submitted the Tow quotations on specifications. Prices from Computer Sales International and Diamond Page, Inc., reflect trade-in allowances.

$ 129,425.00 276,577.96 10,260.00 9,000.00

Computer Sales International International Business Machines Diamond Page, Inc. Johnson Systems, Inc.

Total

$ 425,262.96

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

$ 357,381.00 67,881,96

B 1427 G 830.05

Total

$ 425,262.96

In the discussion, Mrs. Brody inquired regarding item 2 (Purchase and Lease of Computer Equipment): Have we done a study in Computer Services that supports this purchase; because it is proposed for a six-year plan? Dr. Payzant - The answer is yes, and the recommendation represents a combination of outright purchase of certain pieces of equipment with the financing for those purchases to be charged to' the bond fund, a one-time expenditure of $357,381.00. The balance of the cost for the equipment to be on a lease-purchase plan which would spread the leasepurchase payments over a six-year period, with the estimated figures as provided you in your packet of information. It would require an increase in our data processing budget of about $70,000 for next year; that same $70,000 approximately for the second and third year; then, in the fourth, fifth and sixth year, you would have a reduction in the operating budget to about $20,000 below what we budgeted in T98Q-8T for data processing equipment. As to the study, you have a report that came out of Computer Services that listed the types of services that are being provided now and the types of services that are in progress, and the request for services that have not been met as yet and could not be met because our current equipment is at capacity.

Mrs. Brody - Why is it at capacity? Dr. Payzant - It is at capacity because the core unit has only so much storage capacity, and that storage capacity is being used to its fullest. In order to increase both the efficiency of the existing services and to expand services, you have got to go to a core unit and peripheral equipment that provide you with additional capacity. Mrs. Brody - Are we adding to the core unit?

Dr. Payzant - This proposal would give us a new core unit and a number of new pieces of equipment that help operate the core.

Mrs. Brody - Was the study in-house? Dr. Payzant - Yes. The other thing is that the technology moves very, very rapidly in the data processing field. The current unit that we have is about eight years old,

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Dr. Payzant cont'd I

and by industry standards, it would bring very little on the open market. We could conceivably go for another year or two with our current equipment if we were willing to limit the level of services to what we have right now. But it would not be uni ike a deferred maintenance situation in which two years from now we would be faced with an even bigger investment to get our system upgraded to keep current with the advancing technology. I don't feel that we can afford, with an operation of our magnitude, to get behind in utilizing the development of technology in this field, whether we are talking about theâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;business financial services that are provided, the student information?!! I services, or Instructional uses on the computer. Mrs. Brody - In getting behind, would it jeopardize our Criterion Referenced Testing Program? Dr. Payzant - Yes. We would not be able to meet the expectation for providing information to teachers through our proposed Criterion Referenced Testing Program.

Mrs. Brody - You were proposing to have the information back to them the next day, I understand. Does that mean we would be delayed a week, two weeks, or what? Dr. Payzant - With respect to the CRT Program, it would mean that in ord&r to handle that volume of work, we would probably cut out some of the other services that we are now providing, in order to do the total CRT Program on our current equipment. One alternative would be to contract with the company that is working with us on the CRT Program. They will provide the data processing services, but it is much more costly when you contract it out than if we do it ourselves. It is a recurring cost year after year that is built into the program.

Mrs. Hill - I noticed that Data Processing is now on 24-hour, seven days a week. this continue?

Will

Mr. Dockum (Supervisor of Computer Services) - We are now running three shifts five days a week. Currently, Saturday and Sunday are used for programming that can't be done during the normal hours and also for emergency work. During the past year we have been working Saturdays and Sundays pretty regular. As far as still maintaining three shifts, we do plan to do that. Primarily, we feel that within the next one to two years because of success of the TRACER program as far as the daily turnaround type services, it is going to require us to man it at night in order to process that kind of information. In addition, the new finance systems are.also run at night. The information is gathered during the day so that the following morning various financial reports are also available.

Mrs. Hermes - If we have an initial outlay this year of $365,381.00 out of our bond fund, and also $71,000.00 that will glean out of our various places in general fund, then next year do we just have to find the $87,000.00 or do we have to find $335,000.00 more o'ut of the bond fund plus $87,000.00? Dr. Payzant - No, the expenditure out of bond funds is a one-time expenditure. The $67,881.96 represents that portion of the lease-purchase fees that would occur during the last part of this fiscal year, after the equipment is installed. We are now paying fees for some of our current equipment out of our data processing budget, which was established in *this "year's general fund operating budget at about $270,000.00. Next year the general fund budget would have to increase to about $340,000.00, which is where I got the $70,000.00, the difference between the $270,000.00 and the $340,000.00 that would be required next year to meet the lease-purchase payments. That same amount, roughly, would be needed in the second and third year; then in the fourth, fifth and sixth year, that amount would drop back to $250,000.00 a year which is less than we have budgeted right now for 1980-81. The only increase that you are committing to at this point is about a $70,000.00 increase in the overall data processing budget for the general fund budget for 1981-82, 1982-83 and 1983-84.

Dr. Hamm - If the current staff that we have is working three shifts and on weekends, performing what we are now doing, with the proposed computer will the same amount of staff be kept that busy or will we have to add new staff to increase the input into the computer? Dr. Payzant - By accepting this kind of upgraded equipment package, we would not box ourselves into an argument later on that we couldn't operate the equipment without additional staff. What we will do is get much more efficient processing of the data and programs that are now being processed, thereby freeing some of the time of existing staff to do the developmental work for the new programs and services that we need the increased capacity to run. I will not be coming back to you a year from now with the request for additional staff, with the cry that we can't make use of the equipment that we have got. We will maintain the existing level of staffing.

Dr. Hamm - The generation of the computer that we have was projected for a five-year span and we have exceeded that by three years. So in one way we are three years late updating our equipment.

R. #295 Approval of General Business Items cont'd

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R. #295 Approval of General Business Items cont'd

Dr. Payzant - We made the decision not to go to the interim update between what we have had for the last eight years and what was available a couple of years ago, and’this .new generation of equipment which we are recommending now,, we figure should have a j . Jife span of eight to ten years if we are lucky. Mr. Dockum - If we get the system that we expect to get, we hope to have the system throughout the decade of the '80s. There is the possibility that the’current computer system will have to be upgraded, depending on need again,at some point in that period of time, but the goal is to acquire a system that is early in its development cycle so that we can get the maximum use out of that system before obsolescence occurs, and that we can do the most with that kind of a system if we are able to keep it in-house for a long period of time. We were real fortunate in getting the current computer very early in its development cycle. So we are quite fortunate in getting it this early in the cycle. We do plan on using it throughout the '80s; however, there are some needs on the drawing board particularly in the area of use of the TRACER package which may necessitate some kind of movement about three years hence. That is one reason why we are recommending a lease-purchase agreement for that unit, and that unit alone does allow us to purchase it at any time in the next two years if the situation develops as I feel that it will. If it does not develop, we are also in a position to acquire a subsequent computer without having to sell the one that we have and go through a cycle of losing money on that particular machine.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, nay; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

Hearing

Jeneral Business [tern for Consideration at September 22, 1980 Meeting

In referring to another general business item - consideration of an agrement for a maintenance study implementation plan, Dr. Hamm called on Ann Turner who had requested t( speak on the subject. Ms. Turner stated that the dispersion .of the textbooks and supplies had been better the current school year than she had seen it during the 12years she had worked in the system. However, she referred to instances regarding the delay in service by the Maintenance Department in respondingto work* order requests. General Business cont'd Consideration of an agreement with Kapner, Wolfberg and Associates, Inc., for a maintenance study implementation plan for a base fee not to exceed $49,500. Additional fees payable during the term of the agreement contingent upon savings realized due to the installation of the plan. The scope of the study and plan as follows: The Oklahoma City Board of Education will examine the operation of its maintenance department. The purpose of the study is to determine if dwindling resources are utilized to the maximum to provide the best environment for learning for each of the students enrolled in this school system.

The following areas are to be studied in detail: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.. 6.

Work order system Preventative maintenance program Purpose of organization and’improved understanding of the purpose by users Organization plan - number of supervisors and workers S’up.ervisory procedures Material control and availability of supplies

Consultants will provide:

A plan for improving maintenance service that will lead to reduced costs and an increase in the quality and quantity of work performed.

An implementation plan that will include the training of employees by the selected organization.

A time schedule for completing the implementation of the plan with progress reports to be made every thirty days.

A method of determining savings made as a direct result of implementation of the plan. The savings made will be utilized to pay the cost of the study and implementation.

Credentials and experience in providing consultative services of a similar nature as listed above.

The District will provide materials, equipment and personnel to implement the plan and thetraining provision.

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UNFINISHED BUSINESS

None. NEW BUSINESS None.

Comments Mrs. Williams stated: I want to voice a concern about our Title I program. Douglass *1rs. Freddye High School lost its Title I standing. Star Spencer lost its Title I identification, I think I know why in some instances; Williams - Re as well as Emerson Alternative Education Center. Title I Program that certain guidelines come down from the State Department of Education.and it is a federal program. I do believe that we can look into some fine points and come up with extenuating circumstances, because usually when federal programs are written they also include some trade-offs. The one guideline that has been told to me, that they sign up for a free lunch program and when there are not enough signed up, then you lose your Title I. Peer pressure being what it is, highschoolers are going to look askance at that. The need is there; the money is there. Could we look into it? I brought up at the beginning of summer school about the 1 through 4 children on the eastside all attend schools outside of their home areas. By no choice of their own they are sent by a court order. There were some students very much in need of summer school and they would qualify for Title I by their family economic standard, but they were bused from their homes to schools in an affluent neighborhood. And, therefore, these children's parents who could not afford it would have to pay for their summer school and the Title I children had the advantage of summer school. This is discrimina tory. Those who were here, you will remember when McGuinness High School came to us and Father Petuskey wrestled with us and got that Title I money for those people who are paying private school fees. They got the services. If you can afford to pay $1500 a year tuition and yet get Title I funds, there must be a way. This is a plea that perhaps the Superintendent and staff could look and come up with some kind of report.

Dr. Payzant responded: The amount of money that we receive for Title I as a district is established based on criteria that relate to the entire district. So it is not a question of us doing something that will increase the total Title I dollars coming into the district. The issue is how the Title I dollars get distributed once they are here. There are several options. One, we can base our eligibility criteria for identifying Title I schools on an economic criterion alone, the number of students that qualify for free lunch. That is the criterion we have used in the last couple of years. Or we can use combined criteria and build a formula which is based on the number of students qualifying for free lunch and data on educational deprivation based on student performance on standardized tests. Regardless of what criterion or set of criteria that you use for eligibility, there is another issue that yoti ultimately have to confront, and that is whether to take all the money you get and spread it very thinly across as much of the district as possible at all levels, or try to get a more concentrated impact by putting more of the money into fewer sites. Depending on the approach you use to eligibility, you will get different results with respect to the schools that are actually eligible. I have asked that this year, before the decision is made on eligibility for next year, the District Advisory Council be involved in working with the staff on looking at several alternatives for eligibility. We can't "switch horses" in the middle of the year. So right now I have given the charge to the staff to do what you are saying^ but the timeline will be probably the winter before that is completed and recommendations come from the staff and the District Advisory Council concerning the approach we ought to use for next year. So we are dealing with' precisely what you are talking about and there will be some recommendations to the jtoard prior to decisions being made for next year. Dr. Start stated: I am very upset about what is happening in bilingual education on the federal level. As you know, I have been very upset by the whole bilingual educational program in this country from its very inception. It is quite obvious now that the federal government is not only going to use this bilingual education program whereby we are forced to teach foreign students their own language in our schools, which seems ludicrous, but now they are going to tell us how to teach it. I am referring to the reports that we received - the Washington fast report and the information forwarded from Dr. Lindley. If I were a resident in Japan, the schools in Japan would not teach me English in their schools. If the Cuban refugees come to this country, we ought to teach them English, not Spanish. Perhaps the Board ought to send a resolution to pose this in the Federal Register. I don't know if that does any good or not. Mrs. Williams - Isn't the National School Boards Association planning on a national scale to try to get legislation to give us relief? Dr. Start - Yes. Dr. Payzant - You have raised a philosophical and economic issue. The Title VII is comparatively a small program in terms of students served and dollars spent. The program that serves large numbers of students, which is financed totally by this school district, is the Lau program, which is the result of court decisions saying what our

Comments Dr. Armond Start Re Bilingual Education

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Dr. Payzant cont'd

Comments )r. Armond Start te Bilingual Education cont'd

responsibilities are with respect to educating students. Speaking to the economic dssue that you raised, that is where the big money is, in the local program; not in Title VII.

Mrs. Hill - But in our own bilingual classes, they are teaching them English. They are making sure that they get their subject so that they understand it in English and the language that they are working in also. HEARINGS

None.

ADJOURNMENT 1. #296 Adjournment

A motion to adjourn was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs,. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the Clerk's office.)

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

I, the undersigned Clerk of the Board erf Education of Independent School District Number 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours before the meeting, the date, time and place of the Regular Meeting was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. I also certify that at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, notice of the date, time, place and agenda of this meeting was posted in permanent public view at the location of the meeting.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district this^n/day 1980. '

Clerk, Oklahoma^City Board of Education

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Personnel TERMINATIONS

Major Classes of Terminations: 1.

Voluntary Resignation a. b. c. d. e.

Changing employment Leaving Oklahoma City Area Early Retirement Personal Reasons No reason given

Mandatory Retirement

Notice of Dismissal

Discontinuance of Employment

a. b. c. d. e. f.

Termination from leave of absence Elimination of position Expiration of employment period Unqualified for position Deceased Abandoned position

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

Employments

Terminations

Caudill, Karen Chandler, Mildred

Cochran, Delores

Coleman, Glynda Collis. Fieri

Creed, Mary C, Crosley, Aileen

Cunningham, Ronald

Daniel, Vicky Eskew, Jan

Gum, Rebecca Ha Ip . ChATl ps Haring, Glenn

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Arterberry, Karen

NAME

Webster Special Education

5-30-80

Coolidge1 Primary

5-30-80

Northwest Special Education

5-30-80

Van Buren â&#x2013; Primary

Annual

5-30-80

Star Spencer Special Education

5-30-80

Pierce Primary

5-30-80

Davis Primary

5-30-80

Sequoyah Primary

5-30-80

Capitol Hill High D.E.

5-30-80

Stand Watie Learning Center

5-30-80

Webster Soo. St./Lang. Arts

5-30-80

Monroe Primary

5-30-80

Northwest

Curriculum Spec. Ed. Consultant

5-30-80

6-13-80

Shrophire, Lani

B.S. $10511.. . . CSU

8-18-80

Monroe Primary

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MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 8, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;J

Terminations Hayes, Loneta

Hersh, Rebecca Holkum, Johnny

Houtchens, Diane

Huddleston, Steve Hudson, Linda

Hudson, Stephen

Jahr, Barbara

Johnson, Julie Kilman, Mary

Langwell, Herma Lekawski, Sharon

5-30-80

Marshall Math ' /

8-03-80

Southeast Social Studies

5-30-80

Douglass Special Education

5-30-80

Capitol Hill High Social Studies

5-30-80

Longfellow Intermediate

5-30-80

Northeast Soc. Stu./Coach

5-30-80

Shields Heights Primary

5-30-80

Bodine Special Education

5-29-80

Mayfair Primary

5-30-80

Southern Hills Intermediate

5-30-80

Stonegate Special Education

5-30-80

Northwest Soc. Stu./Coach

Dewey Special Education

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

Nance, Anna

Grant Business Education

o to o

Longstreth, Michael

5-30-80

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Terminations O'Brien, Michael Poznanski, Jean Shawn Marsha

Smith, Kimberly Smith. Terri South, Dana

South. Terry Taliaferro, Kelly

Taliaferro, Nancy Teske, Larry

Tucker, Billy Vaughn, Vicki

Werneke, Jennifer West, Mary

Emp] nvmnnt.s

Harding Industrial Arts

5-30-80

Harrison Gifted & Tal&ted

5-30-80

Special Services Speech Pathologist

5-30-80

Shields Heights Learning Center

5-30-80

Jackson Special Education

5-30-80

Rogers Special Education .

5-30-80

Willard Primary

5-30-80

Rogers Counselor

5-30-80

Davis Primary

5-30-80

Children's Hospital Special Education

5-30-80

Garden Oaks Learning Center

5-30-80

Capitol Hill Middle Math

5-30-80

Douglass Journalism

5-30-80

Jackson Social Studies

5-30-80

Remmers. Harriet

Annual

$15573.

M. Ed. csu

8-18-80

Jackson Special Education

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MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 8, 1980 - CONT'D

JPerâ&#x20AC;¢sonnel cont'd EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

B.A. Phillips

8-18-80

Webster Math

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Employments

Annual

Ay r*.n r.k, Ttehornh

Avcock, Deborah

$10761.

Shafor, Patsy

Belknap, Wilomae

15121.

M.A. csu

8-18-80

Children's Hospital Youth Shelter

Brashears. Donald

15615.

M.A. ECSU

8-18-80

Page-Woodson Intermediate

Cassidy, Cheryl

12788.

M.S. osu

8-18-80

Roosevelt Special Education

Chen, Julia

11658.

M.A. UK

8-18-80

Curriculum Lau Language

Hunter. Ardith

Ginn, Tatricia

11380.

B.S. UH

8-18-80

Gatewood Primary

Sharp, Rill

Hovt, Sarah

12264.

M.A. CS

8-18-80

Southeast Speech/Draraa

Jackson, Alvertis

13897.

B.S. OCU

8-18-80

Classen Business

Moody, Jane

10511.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Spencer Primary

Padgett, Debra

10761.

B.A. CSU

8-18-80

Hawthorne Learning Center

Peak, Ira

12224.

B.A. ECSU

8-18-80

Marshall Lang. Arts/Debate

Terminations Wilhite, Walters. Wilkey Lynn

Grant Resource

5-29-80

Star Spencer Social Studies

5-30-80

.Tan

Rurlclay, Pauline

Patton, Karen 1 - UK - University of Kansas - Lawrence, Kansas

2 - UH - University of Hawaii - Honolulu, Hawaii

3 - CS - Colorado State - Ft. Collins, Colorado

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations

Employments

Annual

Edge, Donna

Ragsdale, David

$10511.

Taylor, Richard

Rye, Thomas

Guess, Doris

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Davis Intermediate

11380.

B.M.E. OBU

8-18-80

Marshall Instrumental Music

Schwartz, Margaret

10761.

B.S. WTSU

8-18-80

Shields Heights Primary

Barton. Cornilia

Seacrist. George

10511.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Capitol Hill High Resource/Coach

Thain. Nora

Shaw, Douglas

15816.

M. Ed. UM 2

8-18-80

Fillmore Intermediate

Wood, Jacquline

13X36.

B.S. TS

8-18-80

Shidler Learning Center

Clark, Kathryn

13364.

M. Ed. CSU

8-18-80

Special Services Psychometrist

Fay, Edgar

11942.

M. Ed. UA 4

8-18-80

Marshall Special Education

Hoy. William

13765.

M. Ed. OU

8-18-80

Grant Reading

Jackson. Joyce

11053.

B.A. Langston

8-18-80

Capitol Hill Middle Art

Kinsey, Otis

15X75.

B.S. CSU

8-04-80

Classen CVET

Le Masters, Paula

14812.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Classen CVET

Additional Allocations

1 - WTSU - West Texas State University - Canyon, Texas 2 - UM - University of Missouri - St. Louis, Missouri

3 - TS - Troy State - Troy, Alabama 4 - UA - University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, Arkansas

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MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 8, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Terminations

Employments

Annual

Edge, Donna

Ragsdale, David

$10511.

Taylor, Richard

Rye, Thomas

Guess, Doris

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Davis InteiTnediate

11380.

B.M.E. OBU

8-18-80

Marshall Instrumental Music

Schwartz, Margaret

10761.

B.S. WTSU

8-18-80

Shields Heights Primary

Barton. Cornilia

Seacrist. George

10511.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Capitol Hill High Resource/Coach

Tha1n. Nora

Shaw, Douglas

15816.

M. Ed. UM 2

8-18-80

Fillmore Intermediate

Wood, Jacquline

1.3436..

B.S. TS

8-18-80

Shidler Learning Center

Clark, Kathryn

13364.

M. Ed. CSU

8-18-80

Special Services Psychometrist

Fay, Edgar

11942.

M. Ed. UA 4

8-18-80

Marshall Special Education

Hoy, William

13765.

M. Ed. OU

8-18-80

Grant Reading

Jackson. Joyce

11053.

B.A. Langston

8-18-80

Capitol Hill Middle Art

Kinsey, Otis

15475.

B.S. CSU

8-04-80

Classen CVET

Le Masters, Paula

14812.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Classen CVET

Additional Allocations

1 - WTSU - West Texas State University - Canyon, Texas 2 - UM - University of Missouri - St. Louis, Missouri

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Leaves of Absence

Professional Leave Webster Social Studies

5-30-80

Harding Science

5-30-80

External Funding Indian Ed. Developer

5-30-80

External Funding Indian Ed. Advisor

5-30-80

Business Services Mgr. Graphic Service

7-28-80

Staff Development Training Specialist

7-30-80

Health Services Elementary Nurse

5-30-80

External Funding Guidance Worker

5-30-80

Davis, Phyllis

Ill Health

Wood, Virginia

PROFESSIONAL OTHER Terminations

Clark, Newton

Earls, Karren Freeman, Samuel

Gill, Lydia Maddox, Sherry Warren, Janie

3 - TS - Troy State - Troy, Alabama 4 - UA - University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, Arkansas

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

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MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 8, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ' NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

PROFESSIONAL OTHER Terminations

Broloyments

Monthly

Hill, Pamela Jo

$ 825.

Terminations

SnDlovments

Annual

Clark. Kathv

Fink. John

$16082.

7-28-80

Graphic Services Audio Tech I

7-24-8O..

PR&E 1 Research Associate

7-14-80

PR&E 1 Research Associate

TECHNICAL SERVICES

Additional Allocation

Surmann, Paula z

12960.

RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD

Substitute Teachers

1 - PR&E - Planning, Research and Evaluation !

Allen, Sallie R. Barnes, Frances *Brennan, Ruth M. *BUckley, Pauline Cooksey, Phillis Cox, Corann L. *Clayton, Lee Clark, James K. *Craig, Lavern *Davis, Gwen L. *DeFreese, Gertrude *Ellis, Jennie *Fagin, Della Flatt, Cathy *Fuller, Myra T. Fulton, Carol *Gardner, Ruth R. *Gibson, Pauline *Gieb, Blanche Greer, Bernis Hale, Sharon Hanna, Marcia *Harris, Margaret Helsel, Jane A. Hendrick, Paul Hopson, Vickie Hopson, Richard R. Jackson, Cynthia Killgore, Helen Kivel, Susan C. *Kniff>in, Virginia *Leathers, Nezzie Leal, Maria *Lindsey, Orel Livshee, Stephen Mobley, Sandra Montgomery, Trudy Moore, Kathleen Morris, Agnes A. Oliphant, Eleana Powell, Brenda Purdum, Mary S. Quinnette, Mary Randall, Janelle Rasulullah, Aisha H. Royer, Ginny L. Scheriman, Karen Slater, Lynne *Stallboris, Ora Lee Thomas, Lydia M. Traska, Janice Trent, Erma Tyson, Nellie Varner, Janet Vicks, Sharon Wilson, Alphus W. Winkle, Nancy *Wright, Gennie Zerolin, Gregory

*Retired Teachers

Elementary Elementary Elementary Elementary Elementary Psychology Mathematics Drama/Language Arts Elementary Elementary Elementary Elementary French Business Nurse Spanish/Art Music Fl omenta ryHealth/Physical Ed. Nurse Elementary Elementary Elementary Learning Disabilities Instrumental Music Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies Elementary Elementary Home Economics Elementary Elementary Industrial Arts Social Studies Art Social Studies Social Studies Social Studies Language Arts Business Elementary English Elementary Social Science Vocal Music Elementary 1 Elementary Elementary Elementary Special Education Elementary Elementary Drama Physical Education Business Latin Special Education Art

443

MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 8, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL

Terminations Id

West Nichols Hills Media Aide

6-06-80

Parker LRTA

5-30-80

Children's Hospital Teacher's Aide

5-30-80

Accounting Services Accounting Clerk

7-29-80

Monroe Teacher's Aide

5-30-80

Willow Brook Teacher's Aide

8-07-80

Johnson Media Aide

6-06-80

Willard Aide

5-30-80

Douglass LRTA

Northwest Counselor's Aide

8-04-80

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

7-07-80

North Highland Media Center Aide

6-06-80

Page-Woodson Principal's Secy.

6-06-80

Marshall Secretary

8-15-80

Brown, Kay Brown, Willa

Dickson, Hazel

Ellis, Dana Flowers, Carolyn

Grundon, Frances Hopkins, Mlnta

James, Sandra

Kelso, Sharon

Loggins, Shirley Lozada, Rose McCabe, Linda

Mogg, Patty Moon, Helen

EJnployments

Monthly

Satterlee. Diane

$ 236.

8-18-80

West Nichols Hills P.T. Media Aide

Gilmore, Rebecca

686.

8-04-80

Accounting Services Accounting Clerk

Russell, Eunice

610.

8-11-80

Page-Woodson Principal's Secy.

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

5-30-80

1 - LRTA - Learning Resource Teacher Aide

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

ASSIGNMENT

------------------------------------------- J

CLERICAL

Morrison, Edna Murfitt, Karen Oranffp, Olfttha

Platt, Kay Pricer, Danny

Roberts, Joyce Snvder. Marv

Stewart, Sherrie

Sweeden, Donna

Willard Principal's Secy.

6-06-80

Gatewood Media Aide

6-06-80

Telstar LRTA

Monroe Teacher's Aide

5-30-80

Accounting Services Payroll Clerk

7-15-80

Bodine • Attendance Clerk

6-06-80

Rogers Title I Aide

5-30-80

Media Services Circulation Clerk

8-15-80

Rogers Title I Aide

5-30-80

Tomlin, Wanda

1 - LRTA - Learning Resource Teacher Aide

Employments

Monthly

Anderson, Sharon

$ 619.

8-11-80

Gozman. Mary

602.

■8.-18-80— Title I Aide

Gunter. Joanna

301.

8-04-80

Roosevelt P.T. Attendance Secy.

Hamilton, Dorothy

820.

8-04-80

Dewey Principal's Secy.

Willard Principal's Secy.

5-30-80

Taft

444

MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 8, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

CLtMlvAL

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

SALARY

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

■

ASSIGNMENT

---------

*FrM*m4 nra +.■? fins

Employments

Monthly

lVLUXKXIly ItUUcX va

Hamer. Darla

$ 295.

8-11-80

Classen P.T. Counselor's Aide

Pickerel, Donna

590.

8-18-80

Northeast Instructional Aide

Reynolds. Rose

697.

8-04-80

Harding Princinal’s Secv

Rowell, Rose

647.

8-04-80

Sequoyah Principal's Secy.

Sells, Cynthia

658.

7-21-80

PR&E Secretary V

Stiggers, Valeacia

304,

8-11-80

Harding P.T. Counsleor's Aide

Switzer. Ruth

686.

8-04-80

Eugene Field Principal's Secy.

Jones, Katherine

741.

8-05-80

Employment Services Secretary IV

Martin, Betty

619.

8-18-80

Arthur Media Aide

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A.X1U

pictiit uciciAj

wxii ovx t> ♦ xtuv.y itl l ick t Joaii

Miller, cue

lraiiox ex o IJX'ci.UUJHj

VJCO.XX

Leaves ox AUoexioe

■ Professional Leave

Arthur

; varxey, nauxm?

7-15-80

1 - PR&E - Planning, Research and Evaluation

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL

« Leaves of Absence

Empl ovment.s

Monthly

Theyel, Amelia

$ 708.

Military Leave Reeves, Pamela

Media Services Secretary

7-14-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

FOOD SERVICE Terminations Dean, Edith Earing, Janet

Fulton, Adalene Glass, Patricia

Hammer, Leona

- Jackson, Wilma Miles, Nathelder ■ Pickard, Jimmie

Ramirez, Olympia

Id le la le le la

le la

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Training Supervisor

7-31-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

8-04-80

Media Services Secretary

445

MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 8, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel cont'd -

--------------------ASSIGNMENT

NAME

PERSONNEL EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE

Employments

Terminations Reed, Betty Rule, Goldie Snith, Marjorie

/ Stone. Linda Wallace, Lillian

le lb

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Elementary Manager

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Elementary Manager

5-29-80

Hourly

*Applications Processed Adair, Symiria

$ 4.07

8-21-80

Retired Manager

Allison, Penny

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Ames. May

3.74

8-21-80

Retired Manager

Bartl, Marcella

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Carter, Corine

3.74

8-21-80

Retired Heiner

Creasey, Susan

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Dorsey, Ruth

4.07

8-21-80

Retired Manager

*Awaiting Assignment

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE Employments â&#x20AC;¢

*Applications Processed $ 3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Fishburn, Bernice

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Freeman, Christina

4.07

8-21-80

Retired Helper

Gaines, Ruby

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Higdon, Edith

3.51

8-21-80

Helps!_______________

Hughes, Judy

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Hutton, Wanda

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Johnson, Brenda

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Martinez, Paula

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Maxey, Joyce

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

McGeehan, Kathryn

3.74

8-21-80

Retired Helper

Murray, Janis

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Privett, Susan

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Durley, Rose

*Awaitlng Assignment

Hourly

446

MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 8, 1980 - CONT'D

________________ | Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE Employments

Hourly

*Applications Processed

$ 3.74

8-21-80

Retired Helper

Smith, Trade

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Wilder, Irene

3.74

8-21-80

Retired Helper

Young, Betty

3.51

8-21-80

Helper /

8-04-80

Serviceman

Rule, Goldie

SUPPLY Terminations

Ferguson, Michael

Warehouse Worker

6-09-80

TRANSPORTATION Termination

White. Timothy

Serviceman

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

7-11-80

EFFECTIVE DATE

Employment

Hourly

Brown, Larry

$ 4.53

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

.SERVICE ... Terminations

Biamonte, Peter Brown, Donald Coleman, Raymond

Daniels, Naomi Essien, Isang

Farrier. Daniel Greer, Harold Hall, Betty

Haynes, Jimmy Hunter, David

Kofa, George McClung, Larry McDaniel, Tracy

McNeal, Walter

Employments

Monthly

Hankins, Joel

$ 625.

7-21-80

Douglass Custodial Worker

7-16-80

Hoover Custodial Worker

8-15-80

Putpam Heights Custodian

8-15-80

Central Innovative Custodial Worker

7-08-80

Gort, George

714.

7-16-80

Central Innovative Custodial Worker

Riverside Custodial Worker

7-31-80

Willey. Jack

625.

8-08-80

Riverside Custodial Worker

Star Spencer Custodial Worker

7-18-80

Star Spencer Custodial Worker

7-18-80

Custodial Services Custodial Worker

8-08-80

Custodial Services Custodial Worker

7-02-80

North Highland Custodial Worker

8-15-80

Central Innovative Custodial Worker

7-10-80

King Custodian

6-30-80

Jefferson Custodial Worker

7-03-80

Bean, Raymond

625.

7-23-80

Jefferson Custodial Worker

Rancho Custodial Worker

7-03-80

447

M EETING 0F SEPTEMBER 8, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Employments

Terminations Negash, Negusse

Scott, William Stanford, Forest

Thomas, Robert Yahola, Danny

Capitol Hill Middle Custodial Worker

7-31-80

Britton Custodial Worker

7-18-80

Grant Custodial Worker

6-09-80

Willard Custodial Worker

7-16-80

Stand Watie Custodial Worker

7-30-80

Monthly

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

$ 625.

7-29-80

Custodial Services Custodial Worker

Exume, Jean

625.

7-14-80

Northwest Custodial Worker

Fuller, Frankie

Smith. Tracy

625.

7-10-80

Parker Custodial Worker

Jordan, Frank

Steele. Larr.v

625.

7-10-80

Garden Oaks Custodial Worker

Ossai, Augustine

Avlor. Pamela

625.

7-11-80

Marshall Custodial Worker

Bray, Jay

Catlett, Arlan

675.

7-11 -80

Swafford, Edward

Brases. Claude

Garcia, Jesus

Transfers

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

Prairie Queen

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE Transfers

Employments

Monthly

Ingram, Herman

Gamble, Terry

$ 625.

7-09-80

Rogers Custodial Worker

Parrish, Carl

625.

8-05-80

Service Center Custodial Worker

Thompson, James

747.

7-28-80

Star Spencer Lie. Custodial Worker

Additional Allocations

Termination-Substitute

Williams, Alfred

8-14-80

All Schools -

MAIMTENANCE/ENGINEERING

Terminations Kile, Merlyn

Heat and Air

7-25-80

Employment-Substitute

Hourly

Dubose. Thomas

$ 3.51

Z=14=8.QL. All Schools

Ginn, Ricky

•

Chilson, John

Terminations

CAMPUS POLICE

Tanner, Jack

Mayes, James

Terminations

MAINTENANCE/ENGINEERING

NAME

Campus Officer

Patrolman

Plumber

Painter

ASSIGNMENT

8-21-80

7-29-80

7-25-80

7-09-80

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

PERSONNEL SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

8, 1980 n o s r+ Q.

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MEETING OF SEPTEMBER

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449

MINUTES OF MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 22, 1980

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR ADJOURNED MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, 900 NORTH KLEIN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M.

PRESENT:

Delbert Hamm, President Freddye Williams, Vice President Jean Brody, Member Susan Hermes, Member Floyd Donwerth, Member Armond H. Start, Member

ABSENT:

Betty Hill, Member

Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; William Bleakley, Attorney; Central Office staff members; representatives from professional groups, the news media and other interested persons. The meeting was called to order by Dr. Hamm and Mrs. Hermes gave the invocation.

Cal 1 to Order

Dr. Hamm welcomed all of the visitors present.

Visitors Welcomed

Roll call established that five Board members were present. (Mr. Donwerth entered the meeting at 7:10 p.m.)

Roll Call

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING A motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hermes for approval of the Minutes of September 8, 1980 as presented. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #297 Minutes Approved

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS The following Board members commented: Mrs. Hermes - I would like to congratulate Marilyn Oden on the Volunteer Day. On September 11, we sat in Shepherd Mall and hoped that people would volunteer for our school system. The booth won honorable mention in the awards ceremony.

Comments Mrs. Hermes

Dr. Hamm - In visiting with many school teachers and administrators the past two weeks, Comments I have been pleased with the comments that I have been hearing from them. They are Dr. Hamm saying that this is one of the best startsof a school year that they have experienced in recent years. This does not mean that we .are perfect; we have areas that we can improve in, but it does mean that we are headed in the right direction. I was impressed with the statistics we received showing ourrplipil membership information for this year. The projected enrollment has been exceeded and to me that is significant, especially when you keep in mind the fact that we lost some kindergarten students who were not able to enroll this year because of a change in the state law. HEARINGS

Ms. Ann Turner addressed the Board regarding the Security Alarm System, loss of equipment as the result of burglaries, employee with a criminal record, and other. LEGAL REPORT Mr. Bleakley reported:

Memo - Public Telecommunications Facilities Program We have received a memorandum opinion and order from the Grant Appeals Board of the Public Telecommunications Facilities Program with respect to our Petition for Forgiveness of the $119,000 on the grant money that was used to purchase TV equipment for Channel 13. That matter has been referred by the Grant Appeals Board to the Public Telecommunications Facilities Program staff who will be reviewing it and making recommendations to the Board on whether or not to accept the petition. I will be working with Phil George to develop more information for the staff in consideration of the proposals that we have given them, and I hope for a favorable ruling.

Attorney's Report

450

MINUTES OF MEETING OF..SEPTEMBER 22, 1980 -.. CONT'D

L #298 â&#x20AC;&#x2122;resident of loard and iuperintendent luthorized to Execute Documents

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT

It was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Mr. Donwerth that the President of the Board

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and the Superintendent be authorized to execute documents and submit applications for grants as follows:

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Fine Arts Component for Elementary Gifted and Talented

Fine Arts Component for Middle School Gifted and Talented

Foreign Language Component for Gifted and Talented

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. declared that the motion carried. !. #299 'rofessional Trips approved

Dr. Hamm

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Williams to direct the following persons to attend conferences as indicated:

At School District Expense

(a)

Howard White, Director, Food Service- Muiti-Unit Directors Meeting, Tulsa, Oklahoma, September 23, 1980.

(b)

George H. Russell, Director of Personnel Services - National Alliance of Black School Educators, San Francisco, California, October 12-16, 1980.

(c)

Carl Ruble, Supervisor of Certified Personnel, Employment Services - AASP Conference, Detroit, Michigan, October 11-17, 1980.

Pat Watson, Director, Research, Planning and Evaluation - FBLA Mountain-Plains Region Conference, Jackson, Wyoming, October 9-11, 1980. At No Expense to the District Te") Vern Moore, Director of Middle Schools and Fifth Year Centers, Administration Building - to attend the Arkansas/Oklahoma Consortium at Fountainhead State Lodge, September 24-25, 1980.

(d)

(f)

Albert C. Fuller, Business Teacher, Grant High School - FBLA Mountain-Plains Region Conference, Jackson, Wyoming, October 9-11, 1980.

(g)

Four (4) Title I Parents, Title I District Advisory Committee - National Coalition of ESEA Title I Parents, Louisville, Kentucky, October 29-November 2, 1980.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye'. declared that the motion carried.

Information to the Board

Dr. Hamm

Dr. Payzant reported:

(1)

Enrol 1 ment

As of September 19, we had 40,783 students enrolled against a projection of 39,786. I am really pleased to see the enrollment climb this year. It is quite possible that we will have more students enrolled, because we usually peak about the 1st of October, and the enrollment figures that we have about the 1st of October are the ones that we usually rely on for the balance of the year. You might be interested to have a report on the number of have requested screening for the kindergarten program for As of September 8 or 9, we had some 37 children screened, for the program and we have 17 enrolled at this time on a

(2)

parents ofâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; students who underage^ children. of which 21 qualified tuition basis.

Update on Grant Applications

At an earlier meeting or after a meeting, Mrs. Hill requested an update on the status of our grant applications and I thought it was a good suggestion. So I plan to periodically give you a report similar to the one that was contained in your packet which will list the grant applications that we have filed for outside funds and report to you which ones have been approved and the amounts granted. For the purpose of this initial report, I simply went back to the beginning of this fiscal year, picked up two that we submitted in June, and will keep you up to date as we continue through the year. (A copy of the update report is on file in the office of the Clerk.) (3)

Summary of Bills Passed by Legislature Related to Education

You have received this evening a report from Jack Isch which includes a summary of all of the bills relating to education that were passed by the Legislature this year. The new edition of the School Laws is now at the printing press and should be available before too long.

451

MINUTES OF MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 22a 1980 - CONT1D

Information to the Board cont'd

Dr. Payzant continued:

(4) Response to Remarks by Ms. Turner In commenting on two of the things that Ms. Turner raised in her remarks to the Board, I am aware that there have been several breaks at Grant and that the Security System has not picked up those breaks, that there is some evidence on a couple of occasions that the missing equipment is not the result of a break from outside but may be as the result, as Ms. Turner suggested, that somebody has keys to storage areas and rooms that they should not have. We are trying to work on a solution to that problem. I do disagree with her generalization that the Security System is not working districtwide, because the evidence is just to the contrary. We have had great success with the system districtwide. The Board was given a report several weeks ago of the number of people who had been apprehended in buildings and the amount of money that had been lost by the district as the result of break-ins and vandalism this year. It is down significantly from prior years. Also, you should know that the common practice is, and if Ms-. Turner has information to the contrary I would like to have it in specifics, that when people are apprehended by our Security force, a typical pattern is to notify the Oklahoma City police at the same time that our Security people are on the way to a building. Usually, the Oklahoma City police are brought in right away. If an arrest is made, the people arrested are turned over to the Oklahoma City police. I learned a lot of this firsthand by taking the opportunity this summer to ride with our Security officers four hours of a night shift. As a matter of fact, I spent some time in the Grant building that night myself and heard about some of the problems that had been occurring there. I am aware of what is going on at Grant. I am trying to work on that, but what has happened at Grant is not to be generalized to the entire district because we are having very good success with the system elsewhere. With reference to the dogs being in the building, I suspect those were Oklahoma City police dogs. We do sometimes work with the Oklahoma City police to call in the canine officer if somebody is in the building, but we don't have any dogs in our Security force.

Mrs. Hermes suggested that a copy of the Security Report that was given to the Board be given to Ms. Turner. ENCUMBRANCES AND PURCHASING It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hermes to approve payment of encumbrances as listed for September 3-15, 1980. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #300 Approval of Encumbrances

Purchasing

A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams to approve the following purchasing items:

Hardware, Tools and Supplies

Purchase of hardware, tools and supplies (washers, bits, putty knives, screwdrivers, saws, hammers, etc.) for use by Maintenance Engineering, Custodial Services, and Supply and Distribution Departments from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: Gates Hardware & Supply Company Severin Supply Company Broadhead-Garrett Herbert Helmus & Son, Inc. Mideke Supply Company Stephens Industrial Supply Hart Industrial Supply Company Whitton Supply Company

Total

1,764.58 82.38 595.80 1,571.71 3,229.54 963.90 677.80 229.50

9,115.21

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

G 240.01 G 650.01 BL 5620.05

Total

8,648.73 435.00 31.48

9,115.21

R. #301 Approval of Purchasing

452

MINUTES OF MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 22, 1980 - CONT'D

1. #301 approval of 'urchasing cont'd

Purchasing cont'd

Batteries

Purchase of batteries for use by Garage Services and Material Transportation from Commercial Distributing, Inc., which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $2,804.40 to be charged to Account G 560.04. 3.

Clay

Purchase of clay for Supply and Distribution from Trinity Ceramic Supply, Inc., which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,247.95 to be charged to Account G 240.00. 4.

Plumbing Supplies

Purchase of plumbing supplies (pipe) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from Crane Supply Company which submitted the low quotation. This purchase in the amount of $4,747.32 is to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Data Processing Supplies Purchase of data processing supplies (stock paper, labels, ribbons, warrants, cards, class rolls, record book inserts and covers, etc.) for use by Computer Services from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifi cations:

Trinity Forms Company Columbia Ribbon & Carbon Mfg. First Forms Company IBM Corporation Uarco Data Docments, Inc.

Total

3,179.80 115.20 554.86 2,175.00 8,489.19 26,486.25

$ 40,990.30

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 130.17.

Hardware Supplies Purchase of hardware supplies (bits, nails, bolts, gaskets, casters, handles, etc.) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Herbert Helmus & Son, Inc. Gates Hardware & Supply Mideke Supply Company Hart Industrial Supply Company Stephens Industrial Supply Company Bosco Fastening Service Center' Central Plumbing Supply

71.25 547.39 798.10 107.40 223.92 20.22 _____ 661.89 $

Total

2,430.17

These purchases are to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Public Address System

Purchase of public address system for the Administration Building (Auditorium) for Business Services from Driver Music Company which submitted the low quotation on specifications. This expenditure in the amount of $3,185.90 is to be charged to Account G 1230.06.

Tires and Antifreeze Purchase of tires and antifreeze for use by Garage Services and Material Transportation from the following compam which submitted the low quotation:

Joe Esco Tire Company Paul Penley Oil Company Mohawk Tire Warehouse #79 Total

5,561.28 1 ,809.50 2,147.50

9,518.28

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

G 560.01 BL 5620.05 Total

1,809.50 7,708.78

9,518.28

453

MINUTES OF MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 22, 1980 - CONT'D 2-.3J

Purchasing cont'd

R. #301 Approval of Purchasing cont'd

Teaching Aids Purchase of teaching aids (filmstrip libraries, films and kits) for use by External Funding (Nutrition) from the following companies (available only from designated distributor/publ isher):

Utah State University Great Plains National ITV Library Tupperware Home Parties

1,620.00 1,410.00 3,891.60

Total

These purchases are to be charged to Account 240.01, Nutrition, and have been approved on our Federal Educational Grants and/or Programs.

10.

Truck Purchase of truck (dump type) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Services from King GMC Truck, Inc., which submitted the low quotation on specification. This purchase in the amount of $33,124.42 is to be ^charged to Account BL 6030.11.

11.

Paper Purchase of paper for Graphic Services (Washington Print Shop) from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

Midwest Paper Company Western Paper Company Carpenter Paper Company Total

754.20 1,091.88 668.20

2,514.28

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.05.

12.

Recorder/Pl ayer Purchase of recorder/player for use at Taft .Middle School from Industrial Video, Inc., which submitted the low quotation. This purchase in the amount of $1,833 is to be charged to Account G 1230.11.

Motor Oil Purchase of motor oil for use by Garage Services and Material Transportation from Pate Oil Company, Inc.., which submi tted the low quotation. This purchase in the amount of $3,927.00 is to be charged to Account G 560.01.

14.

Custodial Supplies Purchase of custodial supplies (brooms, soap, mop heads, buckets, seals, floor machines, wiping' rags, bleach, etc.) for use by Custodial Services from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

S.E.B. Paint Company Mideke Supply Company A Bear's Maintenance Supply Craver Supply Company, Inc. S-K Supply Oklahoma Paper Company Cardinal Paper Company Fuller Brush Company Midwest Maintenance Supply, Inc. Brulin & Company, Inc. Carpenter Paper Mfg. Company L. A. Brush Company Solvent Manufacturing, Inc. The Aqua Mart Mednik Wiping Materials Tyler-Simpson Company Southwestern Paint Manufacturing Canon Chemical Corporation

$ 11,071.74 4,077.45 244.75 1,150.14 3,422.35 8,556.80 6,012.00 403.92 502.00 650.00 1 ,003.14 762.80 1 ,750.00 1,359.00 750.00 990.00 1,575.00 5,445.00 Total

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 650.01.

$ 49,726.09

454

MINUTES OF MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 22, 1980 - CONT'D L #301 Approval of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;urchasing cont'd

tonsideration of in Agreement for laintenance Study mpl ementation â&#x20AC;&#x2122;lan

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

Dr. Hamm called on Rick Lane, who had requested to speak on the item for consideration.! Mr. Lane referred to two items in the proposed maintenance study implementation plan - | "2. Preventative maintenance program" and "1. ...increase in the quality and quantity of work performed," and expressed a concern about painting in the Harding Middle School building by subcontractors, and repair work to windows, etc., being left undone because it was not a .part of the contract. |

Dr. Payzant stated: By way of background to amplify a bit on the rationale for this I recommendation, every school district that I have been involved with has faced from j time to time the problem of trying to meet the day-to-day challenges of keeping up i with emergency maintenance in school buildings, while at the same time try to plan and implement a program of preventative maintenance. Due to budgetary constraints and often external forces over which the maintenance personnel themselves have no control, the tendency is to be faced with the day-to-day crisis as the focus of the operation. There are not many school districts around the country that have been quick to pick up on the techniques that have been used successfully in business or industry for more effective day-to-day preventative maintenance programs. This is not usually the result of school people having a lack of desire for so doing, but rather the lack of know-how and the lack of time to really get the know-how to do that kind of job. It is with this kind of perspective that I say we can benefit from the help of some outside experts who specialize in this kind of analysis of a maintenance program and the design of a program and its implementation to see that changes take place which both improve the amount and quality of the work done, and do so in such a way that it becomes more cost effective for the school district. There is a certain risk involved in this because any time you bring in an outside consultant, there can be a threat to those who are already here, that change is going to occur that people won't like and that will be difficult to accept. I understand that and I think that the administrators who are working in the area understand that too. That means that if you approve this recommendation, there is going to be an obligation on our part to try and work with the consultants and the employees to set the proper tone and provide the proper encouragement for the implementation of the changes that may be recommended. R. #302 Approval of Agreement for Maintenance Study Implementation Plan

A motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hermes for approval of an agreement with Kapner, Wolfberg and Associa-tes, Inc., for a maintenance study implementation plan for a base fee not to exceed $49,500. Additional fees payable during the term of the agreement contingent upon savings realized due to the installation of the plan. The scope of the study and plan as follows:

The Oklahoma City Board of Education will examine the operation of its maintenance department. The purpose of the study is to determine if dwindling resources are utilized to the maximum to provide the best environment for learning for each of the students enrolled in this school system. The following areas are to be studied in detail: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Work order system Preventative maintenance program Purpose of organization and improved understanding of the purpose by users Organization plan - number of supervisors and workers Supervisory procedures Material control and availability of supplies

Consultants will provide:

A plan for improving maintenance service that will lead to reduced costs and an increase in the quality and quantity of work performed.

An implementation plan that will include the training of employees by the selected organization.

A time schedule for completing the implementation of the plan with progress reports to be made every thirty days.

A method of determining savings made as a direct result of implementation of the plan. The savings made will be utilized to pay the cost of the study and implementation.

Credentials and experience in providing consultative services of a similar nature as listed above.

The District will provide materials, equipment and personnel to implement the plan and the training provision.

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Mrs. Hermes urged passage of the motion and specifically referred to application of the plan in consideration of maintenance in the inner-city schools. Mr. Donwerth expressed support for the plan.

A concern was expressed by Mrs. Brody as to the "now" with regard to maintenance problems, while the study was being done and solutions prepared.

R. #302 Approval of Agreement for Maintenance Study Implementation Plan cont'd

Dr. Payzant stated that he would check the next day on the situation as referred to by Mr. Lane; that if the recommendation was approved, he was hopeful that an agreement on a contract could be reached with Mr. Kapner within the next week; that with a project manager being identified, it could be contemplated that the project could be under way in two weeks; although the first several week would be used for data and information gathering, it would move very quickly into an implementation stage, which would mean that changes would occur in the first several months that would begin to have an impact on productivity. Mrs., Williams stated that she was impressed with the planning and happy to hear Dr. Payzant say what he did about the morale of the employees while the study was going on, so that they would not feel threatened.

Dr. Payzant added that conflict as the result both on the consultant communicating the whys the employees along the

he did not want the Board to think that there would be no of the study and some recommendations, but the burden would be and on the school district staff to do an effective job of and wherefores of the changes and to take some time to involve way.

Dr. Hamm stated that the fact that the district was wanting to undertake the study should not be taken as a criticism of any of the employees, but rather trying to work in a cooperative way with the teachers, students, building administrators and maintenance employees to build a better relationship. Dr. Hamm also referred to a suggestior by the Commission to Improve Education to involve the students at the local building level in the solution of a possible maintenance problem, to which Mrs. Hermes responded that the suggestion in the report was directed toward students being involved in the beautification side of maintenance. Mrs. Brody expressed a concern that the custodial department was not included as a part of the study.

Dr. Payzant responded that the study and implementation plan did not deal directly with the custodial department, but it could well indirectly lead to some different direction or training programs for custodians. As a closing remark, Dr. Hamm added that he thought it should be emphasized that the recommendation was not for just a study, but was for a study plus implementation of a plan. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr.:,Start, '.aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. declared that the motion carried. NEW BUSINESS

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None. HEARINGS

None. ADJOURNMENT A motion to adjourn was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Start. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED. (A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the office of the Clerk.)

President

R. #303 Adjournment 7:50 p.m.

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

1980.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district thi

day of

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THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING,

900 NORTH KLEIN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M.

PRESENT:

Delbert Hamm, President Freddye Williams, Vice President Jean Brody, Member Floyd Donwerth, Member Susan Hermes, Member Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member

Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; William Bleakley, Attorney; Donald Ladd, Treasurer; Central Office staff members; representa tives from professional groups, the news media and other interested persons.

The meeting was called to order by Dr. Hamm and Mrs. Hill gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Mrs. Williams introduced as visitors Dr. Clyde Jacob, Assistant Dean, College of Education, University of Oklahoma; Mrs. Mabie Cherry, Los Angeles, California; and her husband Calvin Williams.

Introduction of Visitors

Dr. Hamm welcomed all of the visitors present. The Oath of Office was re-administered to board members Betty Hill and Susan Hermes by William Bleakley as a Notary Public.

Oath of Office

Roll call established that all of the board members were present.

Roll Call

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hermes for approval of the Minutes of September 22, 1980 as presented. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #304 Minutes Approved

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS The following board members commented:

Mrs. Hill referred to rough draft copies of reports from the NSBA Task Force Meeting that she attended in Washington, D. C., which had been given to the Board, and stated: I thought you might be interested in reading the rough draft reports from the meeting. NSBA now plans to take the four reports and combine them and send them back to the committtees for their approval or any additions or corrections. When that report comes I will be sharing .it with you. They do hope that this will be made into a booklet that will aid board Tnembe'rs across the nation in increasing their knowledge on binding interest arbitration.

Comments Mrs. Hill

Mrs. Hill also stated that while visiting the Oklahoma State Fair she came upon some vo-tech students from Capitol Hill High School who were making nameplates for people I as they came by, and that she was very pleased with what they were doing.

Mrs. Williams stated that she had received a report on trends of desegregation from NSBA Council of Urban Boards of Education; a report that was the result of the work of a task force of which she was a member for three years. Mrs. Williams read excerpts from the report which described what it contained, and stated that she was sure each board member would receive a copy.

Comments Mrs. Williams

Mrs. Hermes reported that she had attended Open House at Edgemere Elementary School and wanted to thank that staff for an enjoyable evening. She also thanked the Kaiser Elementary School staff for having invited her to their'building.

Comments Mrs. Hermes

HEARINGS The following persons addressed the Board:

Kirby L. Howell

Virginia Miller

Gerald F. Kernahan

Jo Bazhaw

Jerry L. Smith

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HEARINGS cont'd Mr. Howell spoke regarding Kaiser Elementary School remaining open and stated that he 4iad questions about the minority quota at that school; a concern that students receive transfers out of the Kaiser area; and the overcrowding in area schools close to Kaiser. Mr. Howell also questioned the possibility that a day-care center could be instituted at the school which might help to increase the enrollment.

Dr. Payzant, in responding to Mr. Howell's remarks, stated that the 12 schools that had been identified for consideration for closure were not affected by any of the student reassignments the past spring when the Board did some balancing of minority populations at a number of schools; that factor would be taken into consideration after all of the recommendations came in from the various planning councils in each of the 12 schools and before he and his staff would make a recommendation to the Board on which schools or how many should be closed; that the Board has a policy with respect to transfers that does provide an opportunity for parents to transfer their students to another school if there is room in the receiving school, in order to make it possible for that parent to have access to a day-care center or nursery in the neighborhood of that school; and that one of the things they would look at in determining which schools needed to be recommended for closing would be what combinations could occur. In regard to a day-care program, Dr. Payzant cited the day-care programs that had been instituted in the district and stated that there were start-up expenses that the Board had underwritten but it would be difficult to do that in a widespread fashion in any given year, in terms of trying to open five or six centers in schools all in one year. Dr. Payzant also referred to the fact that a planning council composed of parents, teachers and administrators at each of the 12 schools was supposed to have its report into his office by the end of October; that he and his staff would take the month of November to look at all of the possible combinations and recommendations that they could come up with, and his goal being to present specific recommendations to the Board at the first Board meeting in December, give the Board about a month for discussion and further' hearings with the public; with a decision hopefully coming in early January.

Mrs. Miller referred to two articles from a newspaper; one about a new vo-tech facility and the other pertaining to the Carver School building. Mrs. Miller then gave her personal comments related to what was included in the news articles. Dr. Payzant stated that Carver is one of the schools that is being looked at for possible closure, not with the thought at all in mind that the Carver program would be ended, but that if Carver were closed, it would have to be moved to another facility and that could occur as the result of closing one of the other 11 schools, and would possibly be part of a package recommendation that would deal with school closures. Mr. Kernahan spoke in support of the Kaiser School, the growth of the community’in the Kaiser area, and other.

Ms. Bazhaw's remarks were directed toward the proposed legislative goals for 1980-81, specifically the goals under School Operations - "(1) Oppose passage of legislation that will erode or remove local authority on matters regarding personnel management, personnel policies or management-labor relations;"" and (2) "Oppose passage of legislation’ to p’ermit last best offer or binding arbitration for the resolution of an impasse during the collective bargaining process." Ms. Bazhaw also referred to (3), that would support legislation for establishing a specific period of time for decertification of employee organizations that engage in a strike, and stated that all three goals would only cause hard feelings among the teachers in the school system.

Mr. Smith, too, spoke about school closings and specifically expressed a concern regarding Sunset School. LEGAL AND FINANCIAL REPORTS

Attorney's Report

Mr. Bleakley reported:

Tax Review Portests On the tax protest pending at the Court of Tax Review, the Court will not set any hearings on these until all of the protests have been filed across the state, and at that point and time will set a hearing date to dispose of these matters.

Tommy Davidson Case

In the case of Davidson versus the School District, the District's demur to the petition was heard. The Court overruled the demur with respect to three causes of action and sustained the demur with respect to one cause of action.

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LEGAL AND FINANCIAL REPORTS cont'd Mr. Bleakley cont'd

Attorney's Report cont'd

3. Adkins v. Betty Mason

We have just received a copy of a petition that has been filed in a case, Adkins v. Betty Mason. She is being sued in her capacity as Director of High Schools by some students that are challenging their ineligibility to play basketball. As soon as we have had a chance to review the facts in that matter, we will be reporting more to you on that case.

I | I I 4.

Hudiburg Chevrolet Case

We have had pending for sometime a Motion for Summary Judgment in the Hudiburg Chevrolet case. That motion has been continued by the judge to be heard on October 31.

Burdick v. Midwest City School District

Another suit has been brought to the District's attention, and that is the case of Burdick versus the Midwest City School District. It was brought by a family who resides in the Oklahoma City School District and has erroneously been attending the Midwest City District for a number of years and has brought this lawsuit to seek an injunction to permit them to continue to attend the Midwest City District. I have reviewed the matter with the Superintendent and it is his recommendation that the District file a motion to intervene in that case. I would like the Board to vote on that recommendation. It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the District intervene in the case of Burdick v. ISD 52 (Midwest City School District) as requested by the Attorney on the Superintendent's recommendation.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr..Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth,. aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. Mr. Ladd gave a routine treasurer's report. office of the Clerk.)

(A copy of the report is on file in the

R. ,#305 Approval for District to Intervene in case of Burdick v. ISD 52

Treasurer's Report

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT

Dr. Payzant presented Dr. John Brandt, President, the Association of All School Personnel, who gave preliminary remarks regarding Mr. Harold Lundy, Teacher, Southeast High School, having been selected as Employee of the Month.

Employee of the Month

A Certificate of Recognition was presented to Mr. Lundy on behalf of the Board of Education and the Association of All School Personnel by Dr. Payzant.

Mr. Lundy responded. A motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hill that the President of the Board and the Superintendent be authorized to execute documents and submit applications for grants as follows:

(1)

Adult Basic Education/GED Program under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973.

(2)

Library Resources Program under Title IV-B, Public Law 95-561.

(3)

A Pre-School Diagnostic/Prescriptive Program under Public Law 91-230, Education of the Handicapped Act.

R. #306 President of the Board and Superintendent Authorized to Execute Documents

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd R. #307 Vofessional Trips Approved

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mr. Donwerth that the following persons pe directed to attend conferences as indicated:

At No Expense to the District (a)

Primer Lee Barr, Teacher, Lincoln Fifth Year Center -- National Instruction Conference, Washington, D. C., October 2-5, 1980. Confirmation

(b)

Alice V. Houston, Director of Curriculum Services -- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Fall Meeting/Executive Council, Alexandria, Virginia, October 9-11 , 1980.

(c)

Maxine Dozier, Coordinator Safety/Driver Education -- Safety Congress and Seminar on Safety Management and Back Injury Prevention, Chicago, Illinois, October 19-23 1980.

(d)

Geneva Williams, Facilitator, Gifted and Talented, Hayes/Lafayette —National Association for Gifted Children Convention 1980, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 30-November 1, 1980.

(e)

Betty G. Mason, Director of High Schools & Adult Education -- National Urban League Leadership Development Project, Washington, D. C., November 3-5, 1980.

(f)

Alice V. Houston, Director of Curriculum Services -- National Alliance of Black School Educators Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 12-16, 1980.

(g)

Howard White, Food Service Administrator — State PTA Conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma November 12, 1980.

(h)

Dorothy Tucker, Principal, Northeast High School —NASSP 1980 Seminar for Officers of Large City Associations, Indianapolis, Indiana, December 2-6, 1980.

(i)

Mil ton H. Denman, Principal, Ridgeview Elementary School -- National Nominating Committee, NAESP, Washington-; D.C., January 7-10, 1981.

At School District Expense (j)

Velma Thompson, Coordinator, Health Services -- School Health Conference, Dallas, Texas, October 15-18, 1980.

(k)

Douglass Markham, Supervisor, Pupil Transportation — National Association for Pupil Transportation, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2-6, 1980.

(l)

Vern Moore, Director of Middle Schools and Fifth Year Centers -- National Middle School Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, November 12-15, 1980.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: .Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. roposed Board Olicies for ,ction October 20, 980

The following proposed Board policies were presented for consideration for action on October 20, 1980:

PROGRAM FOR HANDICAPPED STUDENTS

IGBA

The Board believes that education services for all young people should be provided in the normal environment of the school and

its regular classes.

However, students may be placed in special

programs when it is determined that they provide the most appropriate education.

After cautious and documented assessment,

a student may be removed from a regular classroom for special

education services.

Only with parental participation will there

be activation of the referral, assessment, and placement process.

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To assure compliance with P.L. 94-142, the laws of Oklahoma, and

the direction of the State Department of Education, and to assure

nondiscrimination in assessment and placement of students, the

following guidelines shall be followed: 1.

Parents, or guardians, must be present for referral and placement conferences;

Parents must request special education placement;

Parents must be informed of their rights in language they understand;

Parents must be informed of the purposes and means of

the evaluation and the interpretation of the results; 5.

A school team of appropriate personnel will make all recommendations for a student to be assessed and placed in a program.

The ethnic composition of the team must

be representative of the ethnic composition of the

student population in the school; 6.

Results of mental tests shall not be used to qualify a student for a special education program. data

All relevant

must be used in the assessment process, i.e.,

health, education and socioadaptive information; and 7.

A school psychologist must evaluate all data.

A due process procedure will be established to resolve any

disagreements about the proper placement of students in a special education program.

FOR ACTION OCTOBER 20, 1980

STUDENT TRANSPORTATION IN PRIVATE VEHICLES

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When students are transported to school-sponsored activities,

properly inspected, registered, and insured private vehicles may be used with licensed drivers.

The district is not permitted to buy insurance or special liability coverage for private vehicles.

Insurance coverage is the

responsibility of the owner of the private vehicle. FOR ACTION OCTOBER 20, 1980

proposed Board Policies for Action October 20, 1980 cont'd

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D Proposed Board Policies for Action October 20, 1980 cont'd

SMOKING ON SCHOOL PREMISES BY STAFF MEMBERS

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The Board recognizes that smoking is harmful to health. As role models for Students, employees are expected to limit

their smoking in the presence of students.

Employees are

expected to smoke only in those areas specifically designated as

employee smoking areas, in private offices, or other areas

where there is limited student presence or accessibility. Proper precautions must be taken to protect against fire such as providing receptacles for ashes.

Smoking is not permitted in the school auditorium, stage,

gymnasium, dressing rooms, classrooms, workrooms, or other rooms used for instruction of students. Employees who smoke should be cognizant of other employees'

rights to freedom from smoking. FOR ACTION OCTOBER 20, 1980

STUDENT RECORDS

The Board acknowledges and supports the rights of a student regarding information that is gathered, stored, used or dispensed by its employees.

It is the intent of the Board to comply with

the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, P.L.

94-142, and federal guidelines related to confidentiality and the right to privacy of the student.

The official records of a student may, upon request be inspected by the student's parent or an eligible student.

Parents or eli-

gible students have a right to an explanation or interpretation of all records. Copies of all materials will be furnished to

parents or eligible students at a cost of ten cents per copy. An eligible student is a student 18 years old or older.

Parents or eligible students may submit a complaint, in writing,

to the U.S. Education Department if they believe there has been a violation of rights afforded in these acts and their regulations. The following types of student records are maintained at the

school and/or the Central Administration Office: Health Records:

High school and middle school,

(Form JO-E1)

maintained in the clinic; elementary schools, maintained in the principal's

secretary's office.

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STUDENT RECORDS cont'd

Cumulative Folders: All schools, maintained by the principal

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Confidential Folders: All schools, maintained by a person designated by the principal (a notice

will be posted in each school stating the person in charge of the records, Form

JO-E2); Central Office, maintained in the Office

of Assessment.

Transcripts:

At the school in which the student is currently enrolled or last attended,

maintained by the principal, and The Planning, Research and Evaluation

Department at the Central Office. Class Record Book:

At each school, current books maintained

by the teacher; others maintained by the

principal.

Parents who believe that information in confidential records violates the privacy or other rights of a student, may request

that the information be amended or destroyed.

If a request is

made to amend or destroy records, the parent will be asked to

sign form JO-E3.

Requests to amend or destroy confidential records may be made at the school, or .the Office of Assessment.

If the request is made

at the school, principals will send the request and their copy of the record(s)

to the Office of Assessment for amendment or

destruction.

Principals will inform the person making the

request that the hearing will be held by the Coordinator of Assessment.

If the request is made at the Office of Assessment,

principals will be asked to send their copy of the record(s) to

the Office of Assessment for amendment or destruction.

If the parents or eligible student requests (Form JO-E3) an amendment to the records or the destruction of records, the coor-

dinator of the Office of Assessment shall conduct a hearing

within six school days after the request has been received. Within six days after the hearing, the coordinator shall render a decision and give a written explanation of the decision to the

person making the request.

Proposed Board Policies for Action October 20, 1980 cont'd

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Proposed Board Policies for Action October 20, 1980 cont'd

STUDENT RECORDS cont'd

The person requesting the hearing may appeal the decision to the

Director of Special Services who shall render a decision and give

a written explanation of the decision within six school days

after receiving the appeal. The person requesting the hearing may appeal the director’s deci-

sion to the Board by making an appeal through the superintendent’s

office.

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If the records are not amended or destroyed, the parent or eligible student may place in the records a statement commenting on the information or setting forth any reason for disagreeing with

the decision not to amend or destroy the records.

;

If a parent or eligible student wishes to amend or destroy the

information on the student's non-confidential records, a hearing shall be conducted by the principal as soon as possible, but no

later than six school days after the request, Form JO-E3, is received by the principal. Within six days after the hearing, the principal shall render a

decision and give a written explanation of the decision to the

person making the request. The person requesting the hearing may appeal the principal’s decision to the appropriate director who shall render a decision

and give a written explanation of the decision within six school days after receiving the appeal.

The person requesting the hearing may appeal the director's decision >’to the Board by making an appeal through the

superintendent's office. If the records are not amended or destroyed, the parent or eli-

gible student may place in the records a statement commenting on the information or setting forth any reason for disagreeing with

the decision not to amend or destroy the records.

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STUDENT RECORDS cont'd

The district may release "Directory Information" without consent or notice to the parents.

Parents or eligible students who do

not wish to have Directory Information released must notify the school annually.

Directory Information is considered to be:

the

student's name, address, telephone listing, date and place of

birth, major field of study, participation in officially

recognized activities and sports, weight and height of members of

athletic teams, dates of attendance, degrees and awards received, and the most recent previous educational agency or institution

attended by the student.

Lists of names and addresses of stu-

dents will not be furnished to persons or agencies that will be used for campaign purposes or commercial gain.

Additionally,

before names are released, it should be ascertained that such information will not be used in any way to embarrass or annoy the

school, the students, or the parents of the students. The superintendent may authorize the release of lists of students to

federal, state, and local officials and local schools and

colleges, which, in his/her opinion, offer opportunities of sufficient merit to interest them.

The district may release the following kinds of information to certain persons and/or agencies without consent of or notice to

parents or students: a.

Basic Identifying Information 1.

Name and sex;

Birthdate and birthplace;

Home address and telephone number;

Parent or guardian name, address and telephone

number; 5.

Names and dates of school attendance, location, and

principal's name; and 6.

Current health information, e.g., allergies,

diseases, immunizations. b.

Functioning or Performance Information 1.

Results of group standardized achievements tests;

Results of group standardized intelligence and apti-

tude tests; and 3.

Academic information.

Proposed Board Policies for Action October 20, 1980 cont'd

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’roposed Board ’olicies for \ction October 20, 1980 cont'd

STUDENT RECORDS cont'd

Persons or agencies who may receive the above information are as follows:

Other school officials, including teachers within the school or school system who work directly with the students;

Officials of other schools or school systems in which

the student intends to enroll;

In connection with a student’s applications for, or receipt of, financial aid;

Authorized representatives of (a)

the Comptroller

General of the United States,

the Secretary of the

(b)

Department of Education, (c) an administrative head of ■ an education agency (federal), or (d) state educational

authority; 5.

Organizations conducting studies for, or on behalf of the district, educational agencies or institutions for

the purpose of developing, validating, or administering

predictive tests, administering student aid programs, and improving instruction; if such studies are conducted in such a manner as will not permit the personal iden-

tification of students and their parents by persons other than representatives of such organization and such

information will be destroyed when no longer needed for the purpose for which it is conducted;

Accrediting organizations in order to carry out their

accrediting functions;

7. * Parents or a dependent student of such parents, as

defined in section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954

(see JO-E4);

To appropriate persons in compliance with judicial order, or pursuant to any lawfully issued subpoena, if a

reasonable effort to notify parents or an 18-year-old student of the order or subpoena is made in advance of the compliance; and

Appropriate persons, in connection with an emergency, if

the knowledge of such information is necessary to protect the health or safety of the student or other persons.

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STUDENT RECORDS cont'd

Confidential records will be kept in a separate folder and not in the student’s regular school cumulative folder.

will be kept secure in a locked area.

These records

The principal will select

one person to be responsible for these records. Confidential records include the following information:

Individual Evaluations

All specialized records of professionals who have

screened, assessed and/or evaluated the students, i.e.,

psychologist, psychometrist, social worker,

diagnostician, physician’s medical assessment, or any individual evaluation as it pertains to placement in a school program.

Specialized reports from outside agencies or

specialists, i.e., private schools, social service

agencies, vocational rehabilitation, hospitals. 2. The following persons may have access to the confidential

records without parents1' or eligible student’s consent:

Special Education Teacher Regular Teacher Administrator Counselor State Department of Education Personnel Regional Education Service Center Personnel .Parents/Guardian Student (if over 18 years old) School Nurse Speech Therapist Psychometrist Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor *

Persons not included on this list, desiring to see confidential records, must have parental or eligible student’s permission to see the records.

A form (Form JO-E5) will be kept in each confiden-

tial folder to record who saw the records, on what date, and the

purpose of examination. Confidential records will only be released through the Office of

Assessment and only with a written consent (Form JO-E7)

from the

parent or eligible student.

Special attention must be given to the following:

When records or data include information on more than

one student, the parents of any student shall be

entitled to receive, or be informed of, that part of the record or data that pertains to their child; 2.

Where parents are separated or divorced, a written

parental consent may be obtained from either parent,

Proposed Board Policies for Action October 20, 1980 cont'd

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Proposed Board Policies for Action October 20, 1980 cont'd

STUDENT RECORDS cont'd

unless the district has been provided with evidence that there is a legally binding instrument which provides to the contrary.

Annually/ the superintendent will devise a method to inform

parents of the privacy rights of parents and students concerning student records, the location of policies, the right to file

complaints and effectively communicating the information to parents of students identified as having a primary or home language other

than English.

FOR ACTION ON OCTOBER 20, 1980

TEXTBOOK SELECTION

IIAA

The Board believes that there should be a variety of textbooks for students in the district and that there should be a review of

each adoption every five years.

Criteria for evaluation will

include appropriateness of content, technical quality, relevance to students, objectivity, availability and quality of

teaching aids, price, and readability.

Textbooks also will be reviewed to ensure that they avoid stereotypes and biased images of racial/ethnic groups, socioeconomic

levels, and sex roles. Consistent with state statutes, the superintendent shall appoint each textbook committee.

The superintendent shall serve as

chairperson or appoint a principal to serve as chairperson. The

committee shall be composed of teachers, administrators, and lay

persons. FOR ACTION OCTOBER 20, 1980

Members of the Board expressed concerns regarding various aspects of policies EEAE, Student Transportation in Private Vehicles; GBK, Smoking on School Premises by Staff Members; and JO, Student Records.

(A complete transcription of the discussion is on file in the office of the Clerk.)

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In recommending the 1980-81 Board Legislative Goals for adoption, Dr. Payzant stated: The legislative goals that are suggested to you for consideration have been assembled as a result of several things. You recall that when the Commission to Improve Education presented its report to you, a number of recommendations were made on school finance and at that time you directed me to include those recommendations in the legislative goals for 1980-81. Individual board members have suggested some of the goals and staff members have suggested some of the goals. The purpose for putting them before you this evening is to give you the opportunity to delete, add or modify this list and take action on it. The Oklahoma State School Boards Association is having its meeting prior to your next board meeting and the Executive Director arid leadership of OSSBA have been urging local boards to take official action on 1980-81 legislative goals prior to that state meeting. That is the reason for the earlier timing this year in presenting them to you. It also will give Jack Isch and me the opportunity to begin work early this year in disseminating the goals that you adopt to the legislative delegation and to begin work with the committees that are still meeting in the interim and as they organize themselves for the regular session. A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the 1980-81 Legislative Goals be adopted.

Mrs. Hill inquired about the word "disadvantaged" in item 2 under School Programs -"Provide support for legislation to establish preschool programs for disadvantaged children," as to why it could not read just "children." Dr. Payzant explained that the intent of the language the way it was there was as a first priority focus on those children who were economically or educationally disadvantaged.

Amendment

Mrs. Hill then moved to amend the motion that the word "disadvantaged" be deleted from item 2, School Programs. The amendment was seconded by Mrs. Hermes. Members of the Board discussed the amendment in relation to asking for legislative support to establish preschool programs for all children, the need for appropriate funding for K-12 students as the first priority, and other.

On roll call for the amendment, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody; nay; Dr. Start, nay; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, nay; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, nay. Dr. Hamm declared that the amendment failed. Discussion continued as to a clear definition for the word "disadvantaged."

Dr. Payzant stated that generally it is defined by using some measure such as family income compared with a standard of poverty for a family of four nationwide, and it is usually that kind of a figure that is used, and it changes obviously from year to year in order to come up with some specific dollar amount. Mrs. Hermes suggested that in item 3 under School Programs that it include "tuition free;"--"Seek introduction of and give support to legislation to permit public schools to admit tuition free four year olds by September 1 providing their maturity level is age 5 or above.J*1 â&#x2013; ,

Amendment

After further discussion, Mrs. Hermes moved to amend the motion to include in item 3, "to fund and permit" -- "Seek introduction of and give support to legislation to fund and permit public schools to admit children four years old by September 1 providing their maturity level is age 5 or above." On roll call for the amendment, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the amendment carried.

Amendment A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mr. Donwerth to delete item 2 under School Programs -- "Provide support for legislation to establish preschool programs for disadvantaged children." Members of the Board discussed seeking support for legislation to establish and fund preschool programs for disadvantaged children, the establishing of preschool on a district-wide basis, and other.

On roll call for the amendment, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, nay; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, nay; Mrs. Hermes, nay; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the amendment carried.

R. #308 1980-81 Legislative Goals Adopted

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T #308 1980-81 .egislative Goals \dopted cont'd

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Hermes inquired about Goal 7 under School Finance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; "Seek introduction of and support to legislation that will allow Boards of Education to establish a petty fund in each school in the district and that the total expenditure for each petty fund will not exceed $2500 in one fiscal year."

Dr. Payzant and Mr. Isch explained that this goal would give the district the statutory authority to go forward with its school activity fund guidelines.

Legislative Goals as amended:

OKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

1980-81 Board Legislative Goals School Finance

Advocate legislation that will provide additional funds for

support of common schools and vocational education Oklahoma.

Any new school finance legislation should be

designed to reform Oklahomaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s system of school finance based

on the following concepts:

A balanced, multiple-source revenue system that does not place an undue burden on any one tax source.

An equalization program that provides for equal educational opportunity for all children regardless of where

they reside in the state and based on equitable distri-

bution of state common school funds. c.

A student weighting system which recognizes the addi-

tional cost required to educate students with special

needs. d.

A weighting system which recognizes the additional cost of education in urban school districts.

Full state funding of transportation costs.

A capital outlay assistance program.

Seek introduction of and give support to legislation to

increase financial support for driver education.

Support legislation to increase state textbook funding above

present level. 4.

Urge the Legislature to fully fund any new or existing educational programs or services it mandates local school districts to provide.

Seek introduction of and give support to legislation to

increase state funding for community education programs. 6.

Seek introduction of and give support to legislation for purposes of computing state aid and apportioning dedicated revenues,

using the Average Daily Membership.

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Seek introduction of and give support to legislation that will allow Boards of Education to establish a petty cash fund in each school in the district and that the total expenditure

for each petty cash fund will not exceed $2500 in one fiscal

year.

Seek introduction of and give support to legislation that

will require the State Board of Education to fund Regional Service Centers to be operated by districts with an Average Daily Membership of more than 15,000.

School Programs

Seek introduction of and give support to legislation to authorize and fund full-day kindergarten programs.

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fund and Seek introduction of and give support to legislation to/per-

mit public schools to admit children four years old by September 1 providing their maturity level is age 5 or above.

School Operations 1.

Oppose passage of legislation that will erode or remove local

authority on matters regarding personnel management, personnel policies, or management-labor relations. 2.

Oppose passage of legislation to permit last best offer or binding arbitration for the resolution of an impasse during the collective bargaining process.

Seek introduction of and give support to legislation for establishing a specific period of time for decertification of

employee organizations that engage in a strike. 4.

Seek introduction of and give support to legislation to

recodify the teacher termination statutes to provide separate procedures for probationary and tenured teachers. . Also amend the statutes to provide separate procedures for termination on the basis of incompetency.

R. #308 1980-81 Legislative Goals Adopted cont'd

MINUTES OF MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D

X. #308 1980-81 .egislative Goals \dopted cont'd

Legislative Goals as amended cont'd

School Operations cont'd 5.

Seek introduction of and give support to legislation permitting school districts to pay travel expenses related to

screening, interviewing, and selection of prospective

employees. 6.

Seek introduction of and give support to legislation to amend

language of statute to permit local textbook committee to be

chaired by the superintendent or his designee. 7.

Seek introduction of and give support to legislative changes in truancy law that will hold parents responsible for their

children's attendance in school.

Seek introduction of and give support to legislation to

change school election laws in districts with Average Daily Membership of 15,000 so that school elections are conducted in a manner as all other public elections with expenses paid by the County Election Board.

Seek introduction of and give support to legislation to include in Powers and Duties of Boards of Education to expend

local funds to produce informational material about school bond and levy elections. 10. Seek introduction of and give support to legislation that

will allow school districts to transfer title of school

property to other public agencies in the district for a nominal fee. 11. Seek introduction of and give support to legislation that

provides for an annual appointment of members of the State

Textbook Committee.

Term shall be for one year, and all mem-

bers of the committee shall have expertise in the subject

area to be adopted that year.

Retirement 1.

Support legislation to improve the Oklahoma Retirement System.

Support legislation requiring nonclassified personnel working

more than one-half time to become members of the Teachers' Retirement System. On roll call for approval of the 1980-81 Legislative Goals as amended, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. i

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd Dr. Payzant presented the recommendation for approval of a Board policy on Human Resource Development (Staff Development) by stating: I am recommending this evening the policy that deals with implementation of that portion of House Bill 1706 which requires the creation by the Board of a staff development advisory committee. The statute is specific concerning the manner in which certain categories of employees shall be considered for membership on the committee. The recommended policy suggests an approach to identifying members and it also suggests a charge, including the responsibilities and specific duties of'the committee. I would hope that if you took action on this policy this evening that we could come back to you at the next Board meeting with recommendations and your action on creation of the committee itself.

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Hermes for approval of the Board policy GCL/GDL, Human Resource Development (Staff Development) as presented. Mrs. Brody referred to H.B. 1706 in which she stated that the intent of the legislation was to have "meaningful parent input"; that the committee as recommended would have two parents (submitted by PTA Council) out of 41 persons, and in her opinion this would not denote "meaningful parent input." Mrs. Brody continued by stating her hope would be to involve more parents and to expand the areas from where they came from.

Dr. Payzant indicated that the Board could modify the composition of the committee as they would choose; however, the only thing that they would have to remember would be that in the modification of the committee they would have to have the majority of the slots going to teachers; if they added positions for parents, they would either have to delete some other areas or add additional teachers.

Dr. Hamm inquired about the makeup of the committee in following the Affirmative Action guidelines. Mrs. Brody stated that included in the Human Relations Policy of the Board was that district commi ttees reflect a racial and sexual balance. Amendment After further discussion, an amendment was made by Mrs. Brody and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the Human Relations Policy be considered by the organizations making the recommendations to â&#x20AC;&#x2122;theitommittee, and that they reflect a racial and sexual balance; also, that the parent membership be increased by having each Board member recommend one parent to the Staff Development Committee, and that the teacher allotment be | increased proportionally.

On roll call for the amendment, the votes were as follows:; Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, nay; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the amendment carried.

After a discussion as to the number of persons that would make up the committee as approved in the amendment, it was established that there would be a total of 51 members (26 teachers and 25 others), which would include seven (7)â&#x20AC;&#x2122; parents.

(A complete transcription of the discussion is on file in the office of the Clerk.) Human Resource'Development Policy as amended:

GCL/GDL

HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (STAFF DEVELOPMENT) The Board recognizes the need for and supports the concept of a

comprehensive

and

continuing

staff

development

program.

The

major purpose of the program is to increase the effectiveness of all persons who contribute toward the attainment of the goals and

objectives of

the district.

The program also will provide

for

career, personal, and organizational development through training

and educational activities.

Therefore, the Board shall establish

a staff development committee to accomplish these purposes. appointment of

committee

members

shall be made

The

consistent with

the Human Relations policy to ensure proper balance of race and sex.

R. #309 Approval of Policy on Staff Development

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R. #309 Approval of Policy an Staff Developnent cont'd

Human Resource Development Policy as amended cont'd

The procedure for establishing the committee will be as follows: I

Annually,

persons

superintendent

the to

principals,

serve

shall

the

except

committee

and

parents,

recommend

Board

teachers,

nonadministrative

classified

representatives

II. Annually,

the bargaining

agent

agent for classified personnel,

for

teachers,

the bargaining

the principal's association,

and Board members will submit a list of names for considera-

tion

serve

the

follows:

committee

Teacher bargaining agent - 35 names

Classified personnel bargaining agent - 12 names (two nonadministrative names from each of the following: custodial, maintenance and engineering, transportation, supply and distribution, food services, and clerical and secretarial) Principal's Association - 6 names

Board members - 14 names, each members shall submit 2 names

III The Board will appoint the committee from the list of names submitted

and

its

Seven parents;

Six

classified

shall

composition

nonadministrative

follows:

representatives,

one

each selected from custodial, maintenance and engineering, transportation, supply and distribution, food services, and clerical and secretarial; 3.

26 classroom teachers;

One

representative

from

the

Oklahoma

Association

College of Teacher Education; 5.

One representative from the State Department of

Education; 6.

Three principals or assistant principals;

One administrator of classified personnel from Business Management Operations Department;

administrator

from

the

Services

Department;

One

One administrator from the External Funding Department;

administrator

10.

One

11.

One administrator Department;

Pupil

from Curriculum Services

Department;

from Planning Research and Evaluation

X-

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Human Resource Development Policy as amended cont'd

12.

One and

13.

One

The

from

administrator

Staff.

Superintendent's

the

responsibilities

major

Education;

from Vocational/Technical

administrator

committee

the

are:

To develop and recommend annually a plan for a district

development

staff

and

program

submit

plan

that

writing to the Board;

make

staff

recommendations development

for

the

program

implementation of the

the

superintendent;

To evaluate the district staff development program;

To perform the duties outlined below.

and

Specific duties of the committee are:

recommend

training

and 2.

a district

annually

and

certified

plan

for

development

classified

staff;

To periodically review the guidelines for staff develop-

ment

and

established to make

the State

recommendations

Department

Education

superintendent

the

for

implementation of the state plan; 3.

recommend

changes

the

committee

keep

compliance with changes in statutes, State Department of Education

regulations,

the

composition

the

district; 4.

To review and

recommend procedures

and

instruments

for

district needs assessment; 5.

To recommend

training programs for each major

category

of personnel;

recommend

criteria

for

approval

proposals

for

staff development to the superintendent;

7 .â&#x20AC;˘

identify

and

recommend

resources

for

staff

development; 8.

To recommend incentives for participation in staff development activities;

establish

such

subcommittees

and

task

forces

necessary to accomplish the purpose of the committee or to perform its assigned duties;

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L #309 Approval of Policy )n Staff Developnent cont'd

Human Resource Development Policy as amended cont'd

10.

To perform other duties

recommended or

requested by

the superintendent; 11.

To recommend an annual plan for staff development to the

Board

through

the

superintendent

March

each

year. The superintendent

shall

responsible

for

developing

regula-

tions for implementation of this policy.

On roll call for the motion as amended, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye-; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried as amended.

information to the Board

Dr. Payzant reported:

(1)

Results of May 1980 California Achievement Test

My remarks are going to be focused on the California Achievement Test but the report which you received makes reference to three different tests that were used in our testingipwgram this past year. The first is the Metropolitan Readiness Test which is given to kindergarten students. It is used to determine the readiness of kindergarten students for formal school learning which they get in the first-year program when they enter first grade. We do plan to continue to do that in the spring of this year. The second test that is referenced in the report is the Otis-Lennon Mental Ability Test. This is an aptitude test which is supposed to give us an estimate of a student's ability to do school work. It is a more controversial test and the questions that you hear raised about possiblebias in tests is usually a question raised about this kind of test, an aptitude test and also intelligence test. Because it is controversial and there is some question about the usefulness of the results, we have declared a moratorium on the use of that test for this school year and will have a committee of staff people, teachers, and administrators take a look at it to see whether or not we should continue another year to give an ability test such as the Otis-Lennon or some other. This past year it was given in grades three, five, seven, nine and eleven. The third test, which is the focus of my report, is the California Achievement Test. It is a test which provides information about how students are doing in math, reading, language, and spelling skills. It is given in May of the year to students in grades one through eleven. It is scored against a national sample of students who take the test and enables a local school district to compare the scores of its students against the scores of those who took it in the national sample. In Oklaho'ma City we give this test to all students except those who are educationally handicapped and part of a special education program. The test is given to some students who qualify for special education programs; namely, students who are learning disabled, and it is also given to those students who have limited English proficiency.

Often the question arises about the deperidability of the test scores. I think as we look at the scores we need to be clear that a number of different factors affect them--the knowledge of a student, the skill that he or she may have, the health of the student and how the student happens to be feeling on the day that test is taken, student's feelings about school, about home, and not least of all, a student's test-taking ability. Some students just do better at taking standardized tests than others. That may or may not be related to some objective measure of their actual skill in the subject area being tested. So the scores on these achievement tests serve as one good estimate of a student's academic skills but they are not the only measure and they should be put in perspective with other measures such as a student's classwork, the grades a student gets, the way in which the student may score on other tests, and the judgment of the teacher. The scores on the California Achievement Test are presented by percentiles. A percentile rank simply tells us what percentage of students in the national sample receive the same or a lower score in the test. For example, if a student scores in the 56 percentile, it simply means that student did as well or better than 56 percent of the students who took the test nationwide. Another way of looking at that is that child did as well or better than 56 students of every 100

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Dr. Payzant cont'd

(1)

Information to the Board cont'd

Results of May 1980 California Achievement Test cOnt'd who took the test. A second way in which we report scores is by the use of a stanine. Stanine is simply another way of dividing scores up into ranges. It happens to be a nine-point spread with stanines one through three representing the lower end of the scale; stanines four through six representing the middle or average ranges; and stanine seven through nine representing the high ranges. Another way we often look at scores is to use something called the grade equivalent. If you take the traditional school year of roughly ten months, September through June, and kindergarten through grade 12, when you look at grade equivalent scores there is the potential of having 12 years and nine months. You might see a score reported for a second grader as 2.8. That means that child has been scored at a level that you would anticipate an average child in the eighth month of his or her second grade year to perform in the national sample. Perhaps you would have a child who takes the test in May of the second grade year scoring 3.0 or 3.6. That doesn't necessarily mean that child is doing third grade work or third grade, six-month work. It simply means that if the average third grader took the test in the third grade, six month, that is likely what that third grader would score. I think it is important to understand th ose definitions so that when we report results, using one format or another, you can understand the reference point.

Let me turn to the three tests and the results first of the Metropolitan Test for kindergarten. On the percentile basis, the 50th percentile.is considered typical. It is also the point at which you are likely to find half of the students above and half the students below. It is always good to recognize that when you are talking about the average, whether it be percentile or grade equivalent, you are always talking about some students being above and some students being below. , The positive result of the Metropolitan Readiness Test this year was the increase in the percentage of our students who scored above the mid-point of 50th percentile, In 1980, the students scoring above the 50th percentile increased by 3 percent over 1979. The goal of the Board and of the district is to see some progress made each year. The progress is positive. We need to make more this next year. The Otis-Lennon Mental Ability Test, which by my earlier comments you can probably tell is not of great import to me, does not tell us very much other than to show that there was very little change if you put any stock in the results of this test in the ability of the group of children that we are working with. As I mentioned, it was given in grades three, seven, nine, and eleven, and children in grade three in 197)8-79 fell in the fifth stanine, grade five in the fourth stanine; in grade seven there was a drop of one stanine from 1978-79, five to four; in the ninth grade and eleventh grade, there was a four stanine both years. So the results seem to indicate that there is little change in scores for the two years in terms of an ability measure. You recall that I said stanines four through six represent the mid-range or the average ranges that you would find nationwide. On the California Achievement Test, there are some very positive conclusions that can be drawn from the data in these tests from the spring 1980 administration. A greater number of Oklahoma City students scored above the 50th percentile or national a*verag'e in both reading and math, than a year ago. That reinforces the pattern that was established last year of progress being made. If you look more closely at the pattern of what occurred from grade to grade, there is some variation in reading and math. There were increases made from 1979 to 1980 in reading, in grades two, five, six, seven and eight; and in math grades two, six and ten. In reading in grade four and in math in grades three, seven and eight, there was the same level of achievement as defined by the percentiles in 1980 as in 1979, which means there was about a year's growth, because the child who scores in the 50th percentile as a third grader and scores in 50th percentile as a fourth grader is making about a year of progress that an average child would make. There were two grades in reading and two grades in math where there was a slide; in reading, grades three and ten, and in math in grades four and five. What does this mean? It means that overall we are coming much closer each year to achieving the Board goals for improving achievement in the basic skill areas. It means that the achievement is still uneven in several grade levels. It means that there is variation as you might expect from school to school and grade to grade around the district, because what we are reporting to you this evening are averages. I think you can safely draw the conclusion that it show that probably we are doing a pretty good job with our students who are in the upper middle and higher stanines but probably not doing as good a job as we would like to be doing with students who are in the lower ranges. I am not sure that I have all of the answers to that. It is easy to find excuses such as a great deal of mobility that exists in our school district where students move in and out of some schools perhaps two or three different times in a year, which makes a difficult provision of continuity in a program. The real test for me is whether we are making progress with individual children when we indeed have them for the better part of a school year in the same setting. And it is with this in mind that we will use the test data for particular schools and have school directors work with principals and: classroom teachers and

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Information to the Board cont'd

Dr. Payzant cont'd

(1)

Results of May 1980 California Achievement Test cont'd

other instructional staff to try and determine the strengths in the program in those schools that seem to be making more progress with similar populations of students than other schools who may not be making as much progress where the population of students is about the same, arid to take those program strengths and try to duplicate them in other areas to help improve the achievement of students in those other areas.

I am quite confident that the new program being implemented this year in kindergarten through fifth grade with the Criterion Referenced Test and the ability for teachers to get good, clear information on the skill level of the children in their classes in reading, and from that information the ability to design the appropriate instructional program and report progress that children are making from week to week in their skill development, this program is going to be significant in helping us to make progress with our student achievement in reading.

So, in summary, I am really pleased with the progress that has been made this year. It is still not as good as we would like it to be but it certainly is encouraging to see us moving in a positive direction and I think will give all of us the incentive to keep achievement moving in this positive direction in the year ahead. (2)

Revised Administrative Procedure - Banking, Payroll and Investment of External Funds You have in your packet of materials a memo which lays out some changes and procedures which will allow us to combine federal funds for the purpose of cash flow while maintaining strict accountability for a financial accounting system by grant area. When we have received authorization to proceed with a federal grant but have not actually received the cash, we will be able to still put people to work and hopefully come up with the payroll so thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.won't be as much of a delay as it was this year with the ESSA program and the Indian Education program.

(3)

Summer School Report In regard to the Summer School Report which you received, I will be working with Dr. Williams and Mrs. Lonian to pursue the recommendations that were made in that report for planning a program for next year.

(4)

Enrollment Report

According to the October enrollment figures, we are about 1100 students above our projections. Usually, our enrollment peaks about the 1st of October or in that first week. It will be interesting to see whether those figures are the peak or whether they keep going up.

(5)

Asbestos

To update you on what we are doing to deal with the problem of asbestos in the schools, we are working with the County Health Department now to finalize information on those schools that as the result of testing have asbestos content in insulation which is serious enough to warrant direct action. We will be proceeding then to develop specifications and get cost estimates on removal of the asbestos which I think you know can only be done at a time when school is closed, and then moving ahead with specific recommendations for that removal either during the school vacation periods or during the summer vacation period next year. There is still a great deal of disagreement among the experts about what the danger levels actually are^ and once you define them, the appropriate way to go ahead dealing with the problem. Although removal is the most expensive solution, it is probably in the long haul the safest. With limited funds available, I am not interested in having us throw money after bad and using the ^encapsulation type of solution, and then a year or 18 months for now having the EPA or government agency come back and tell us that we have got to remove the material altogether. Dr. Start commented that he was quite pleased with the publicity the school district had received with regard to the standardized test scores.

Mrs. Williams expressed a concern that the children who are bused from the District 5 area be monitored very closely in the testing program as to their achievement.

479

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PERSONNEL REPORT A motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hermes that persons listed on R. #310 the< form be employed and that contracts with the teachers as listed be approved and Personnel executed in the name of the District by the Superintendent or person by him designated; Approved also, that other personnel recommendations and information listed be approved.

PAYROLLS, ENCUMBRANCES, PURCHASING AND GENERAL BUSINESS It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start to approve Recommendation #1 and #2 (ratification of September payrolls and authorization of October payrolls) and payment of encumbrances as listed for September 16-30, 1980.

Fencing Supplies

Purchase of fencing supplies (chain link fence, railing top, and tubing) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Services from Nation Wholesale which submitted the low quotations on specifications in the amount of $1,518.10 to be charged to Account BL 5620.05. 2.

NCR #300 Accounting Machine Purchase of NCR #300 Accounting Machine for use by the Accounting Department from the National Cash Register Company, a machine which is currently under a lease/ option to purchase plan. This purchase in the amount of $8,000 is to be charged to Account G 1230.06.

Lease Purchase Agreement for Buses

Approval of a lease purchase agreement with Wayne Bus and Equipment Sales, Inc., for three (3) buses as follows: 1 - 1974, 16-pas.senger Wayne Busette with Chevrolet chassis 1 - 1977, 20-passenger Wayne Busette with Chevrolet chassis 1 - 1978, 19-passenger Wayne Busette with Chevrolet chassis

First year lease payment to be:

$7500.00

This lease purchase is to be charged to Account G 1230.02.

Reparirs of Case Tractor

Permission for repairs of a Case tractor for the Maintenance Department by Oklahoma City Tractor Company (standard repair by authorized Case dealer). The cost of repairs in the amount of $1,236.25 is to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Teaching Aids

Purchase of teaching aids (blocks, games, balls, jump ropes, brushes, crayons, books, etc.) for use by West Nichols Hills Elementary School (Policies and Regulations - Mini Grant) from Childcraft (available only from designated distributor/publisher). These purchases in the amount of $1,376.77 are to be charged to Account G 250.06.

Printing Supplies Purchase of printing supplies (plates, film, cleaner, scratch remover, etc.) for use by Graphic Services at Washington Print Shop from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Sooner Graphic Supply Dee's Graphic Supply Polychrome Corporation

Total

31.68 616.20 903.76

$ 1,551.64

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.05.

R. #311 Approval of Payrolls and Encumbrances

R. #312 Approval of Purchasi ng

480

MINUTES OF MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D

R. #312 Approval of Purchasing cont'd

■«. 8.

Ceiling Tile and Adhesive Purchase of ceiling tile and adhesive for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from Southwestern Acoustics Company which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $3,316.80 to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Tires Purchase of tires (40 each, 700/18 size) for Garage Services from Commercial Distributing, Inc., which submitted the low quotation on available merchandise. This expenditure in the amount of $2,096 is to be charged to Account 650.01.

Repair Diesel Engine

Permission for International Harvester Company to repair the diesel engine in bus #2463. This repair in the amount of $2,657.01 is to be charged to Account G 560.04. 10.

Safety Glasses Confirmation to purchase safety glasses (400) for Supply and Distribution Department from Presto Welding Supplies which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,280 to be charged to Account G 240.00.

11.

Pumps and Pump Components

Purchase of pumps and pump components (shafts, washers, bolts and nuts, etc.) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: O'Connor-Oklahoma Company, Inc. Federal Corporation

Total

2,656.00 1,416.09

4,072.09

These purchases are to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

R. #313 Approval of General Business

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of the following items of General Business:

Lease Agreement with Randy Fields Approval of a lease agreement with Randy Fields for a one-story house containing 732 square feet of floor space including two bedrooms and one bath on a building lot 103' 3" x 70' 4", located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Northwest.Robinson and North 96th Streets. Lease on a month-to-month basis subject to a 30-day termination notice. The lessee to be responsible for keeping that house, FFA barn,‘and grounds clean and be responsible for the security of the barn and livestock in lieu of cash rent.

Lease Agreement with Neighbor for Neighbor

Approval of lease agreement with Neighbor for Neighbor of Oklahoma City, Inc., to use Riverside/Woodson School, 302-12 Southwest 13th Street, on month-to-month basis, subject to 30-day termination notice. Neighbor for Neighbor to furnish fire and extended coverage insurance in the amount of $77,000.00 and liability insurance as required. 3.

Agreement with Employee Benefit Specialists

Approval of agreement with Employee Benefit Specialists to provide $10,000 group term life insurance from Guarantee Mutual Life Insurance Company for all fulltime eligible teachers and other certified personnel and $5,000 group life insurance for all half-time eligible teachers and other certified personnel. Cost to be $J120/$l000 per month.

481

MINUTES OF MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D

Temporary Easement - Rogers Middle School Site

Approval of a temporary easement over a strip of land one hundred feet (100‘) x ■three hundred feet (300‘) in the east end of the Rogers Middle School site description as follows:

R. #313 Approval of General Business cont'd

From the CALVERT #2-A Willcox located 991' FSL and 993' FEL of Section 14-12N-2W, THENCE West 15' to existing fence for a point of beginning THENCE South along existing fence 100', THENCE West 100'; THENCE North 300, THENCE East 100'; THENCE South along existing fence 200', to the point of beginning,

to Calvert Drilling Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for the purpose of providing storage space for pipe, pipe racks and trucks, and for placing and operating a drilling pit. Calvert is to pay the district $100 for the temporary easement and pay for any damages which may arise from the use of the property. Calvert is to post a $5000 cash bond to be held until the property is restored to its original state and condition existing at the beginning date of the easement. Calvert is to save harmless and indemnify the district against losses arising from Calvert's holding or using the easement. The Board's attorney has approved the easement form.

Easement - Rogers Middle School Site Approval of an easement over a parcel of land fifty feet (50') x two hundred feet (200') located in the east end of the Rogers Middle School site description as follows:

From the CALVERT #2-A Willcox located 991' FSL and 933' FEL of Section 14-12N-2W, THENCE West 15' to existing fence for a point of beginning; THENCE South along existing fence 100'; THENCE West 50'; THENCE North 200'; THENCE East 50'; THENCE South along existing fence to the point of beginning, to Calvert Drilling Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Calvert to pay the district $400 for the easement. The easement is to give right of ingress and egress to and from the strip of land and premises for the sole purpose of constructing, maintaining, and operating over and upon same an anchor for guy wire cables for an oil well derrick. Should, the grantee abandon the easement and right-of-way for the purposes stated or remove itself from the ownership or operation of the well or fail to meet the conditions listed then said easement shall revert to the district. Calvert is to save harmless and indemnify the district against losses arising from Calvert's holding or using the easement. The Board's attorney has approved the easement form.

BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hermes for acceptance of the low bid and the awarding of a contract to Triple A Construction Company for concrete parking areas and drives at Edgemere and Johnson Elementary Schools. The contract in the amount of $27,098.05 is to be charged to Bond Fund Account Number B 1414.

R. #314 Acceptance of Low Bid for Parking Areas atnd Drives

482

MINUTES OF MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D

NEW BUSINESS Comments 1rs. Williams

Mrs. Williams commended the Superintendent's staff and personnel of the Communications Department for the calendar Whi ch had been prepared with information about the school system and mailed to patrons of the district.

R. #315 Approval of Policy for Filling a loard Vacancy

Mrs. Hill, speaking to the policy and procedures (Guidelines for Filling Vacancy on Board, Procedures for Filling Vacancy on Board, and Selection Process) used in appointing a Board member to Area Number 1, moved "that this become the policy of the Board in filling vacancies." The motion was seconded by Mrs. Williams.

GUIDELINES FOR FILLING VACANCY ON BOARD A.

Required eligibility to fill the position -- (Legal address, registered voter, etc.).

Applications (notification and declaration of candidacy) to be filed with Board's Clerk (during regular working hours).

Applicant required to submit a resume at the time of filing.

Filing time to begin with vacancy on_____________

Applications accepted through 12:00 noon

and extend to

_________________ .

Board to meet and .interview all applicants, make a selection and name a new member to the Board.

Interview to be conducted_________________________ at a Special Meeting called for that purpose.

New member to be named and sworn in on_______________________________ , or at another Regular Meeting; or at a Special Meeting called for that purpose. New member to serve until next regular school election.

PROCEDURES FOR FILLING VACANCY ON BOARD 1.

Call a Special Meeting of the Board to interview applicants and make the appointment.

Conduct the interviews in alphabetical order of names of applicants.

Conduct interviews in the auditorium with arrangement of spaces (tables, chairs, microphone) to assure good communications. This arrangement for better accommodations for public and media.

For objective, positive fairness to all applicants, ask those applicants who

are*to be interviewed to wait at another location away from the interviewing area until they are called.

Schedule the first interview at 6:30 p.m.; second interview at 7:00 p.m.; third interview at 7:30 p.m., etc. (30-minute intervals). Notify all applicants| of the total schedule. I

Follow a consistent pattern of questions.; or discussions with each applicant by preparing a list of items which we will wish to discuss with each applicant.

Review suggestions, questions and inquiries which are submitted by others and incorporate these into the interviews as they seem to be appropriate.

After the interviews of candidates have been completed, allow two (not more than two) persons three minutes each to speak on behalf of an applicant.

Establish a voting or selection procedure which will be used to make the selection of an applicant to fill the vacancy.

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MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd TERMINATIONS Major Classes of Terminations:

Voluntary Resignation a. b. c. d. e.

Changing employment Leaving Oklahoma City Area Early Retirement Personal Reasons No reason given

Mandatory Retirement

Notice of Dismissal

Discontinuance of Employment

a. b. c. d. e. f.

Termination from leave of absence Elimination of position Expiration of employment period Unqualified for position Deceased Abandoned position

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DA1E

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations:

Adams, Joyce Brand. Shirley

Brown, Faith

Buckner, Patricia Burton, Barbara Caswell, Wynema

I Coffey. Deborah

1 1 Davis, Linda k

Desmond. Nancv Dodson, Jo Ann Drake, Joyce

Factory, Fred Garrett, Dorothy

Gaston, Patricia

Moon Special Education

5-30-80

Parker Intermediate

5-30-80

Curriculum Vocal Music

5-30-80

Lee Kindergarten

9-08-80

Northwest Science

5-30-80

Southeast English

5-30-80

Capitol Hill Middle Science

8-18-80

Polk Intermediate

8-12-80

Capitol Hill Middle Special Education

5-30-80

Guidance Services Counselor

8-12-80

Capitol Hill High Special Education

9-12-80

Page-Woodson Intermediate

9-05-80

Rancho Physical Therapist

5-30-80

Prairie Queen Kindergarten

5-30-80

1 - TTU - Texas Technical University - Lubbock, Texas

Employments:

Annual

Hoover. Claudine

$13465.

Turner. Virginia

Hallmark. Allen

Moon

B.A. CSU

8-18-80

10511.

B.S. Langston

8-18-80

Folk Intermediate

14824.

B.S. TTU

8-18-80

Guidance Services Counselor

485

MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations: Holmes, Charles

Jones, Sharon

Knight, Susan Larimore, Della

Layman, Virginia Lockridge, Jane

Muse, Bette Osborn, Kathleen

Robinson, Harry Rowe, Betty

Schwartz, Margaret Sheets, Sharon

Skinner, Carolvn

Smelser, Carroll

Employments:

Annual

Doughty, Geneieve

$11658.

M.S. CSU

9-09-80

Capitol Hill Middle Science

Lambert. Janvce

11053.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Columbus Primary

Northeast Special Education

5-30-80

Capitol Hill Middle Science

8-28-80

Wheeler Special Education

5-30-80

Willow Brook Primary

8-23-80

Columbus Intermediate

5-30-80

Heronville Primary

8-29-80

Roosevelt Reading

9-05-80

Asmt. & Placement Psychometrist

5-30-80

Star Spencer Special Education

5-30-80

Monroe Primary

5-30-80

Shields Heights Primary

5-30-80

Bodine Primary

5-30-80

Bolles, Diane

10511.

B.S. BN

8-20-80

Bodine Primary

Creston Hills In+.prmprH ata

5-30-80

Hunt, Lynn

10511.

B.S. CSU

8-25-80

Creston Hills Intermediate________

Northwest Physical Education

9-19-80

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations: Stacy, Mary

Thiel, Sharon

Hayes Primary

5-30-80

Harrison Learning Center

9-05-80

Van Buren Primary

5-30-80

Bodine K1nderrarten

5-30-80

Westwood Principal

10-31-80

Edgemere Primary

10-31-80

Northeast Math

5-30-80

Star Spencer Special Education

5-30-80

Employments:

Annual

Schroeder, Betty

$10511.

B.A. UI

8-21-80

Hayes Primary

Adams, Reneta

11408.

M. Ed. TSU 2

8-18-80

Van Buren Primary

Windham. Donnie

11037.

B.S. CSU

8-25-80

Star Spencer Special Education

Deaton, Susan

Allen, Linda

10511.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Linwood/Rockwood Physical Education

Hudson, Steve

Ambrister, Alan

10511.

B.S. Langston

8-18-80

Northeast Social Studies

Chahdler. Mildred

Andrews. Jerry

12877.

M.S. CSU

8-18-80

Northwest Special Education

Carter, John

Anthony. Tom

14069.

B.S. NWSU

8-18-80

Northwest Resource

Ellsworth, Sandra

Apple. Florence

10511.

B.S. BN

8-18-80

Johnson Primary

Troutt, Bertha Tucker. Jewell Vann, Allen

Vann, Sandra Watkins. David

Zink. Bettv

1- UI - University of Iowa - Iowa City, Iowa 2- TSU - Tennessee State University - Nashville, Tenn

486

MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel

PERSONNEL NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations:

Employments:

.Annual

Simmons, Katheryn

Arthur, Bennett

$11408.

M.A. WMC

Wood, Gayle

Bales, Mallonie

11037.

Barker, Charles

Newton, Claudia

8-18-80

Southeast Vocal.Music/Drama

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Stand Watie Special Education

11658.

M.S. OSU

8-18-80

Harding Resource

Barringer. Marilyn

11408.

M.S. DU

8-18-80

Children's Hospital Preschool

Kirk, Katherine

Bates. Marilyn

10511.

B.M. OCU

9-04-80

Moon Vocal Music

Abercrombie. Juanita

Bennett, Jeff

14437,

M.S. CSU

8-18-80

Star Spencer Science

Taliaferro, Kelly

Berry, Ronald

14463.

M.S. CSU

8-11-80

Rogers Counselor

Evans, David

Brightwell, John

16859.

B.S. OSU

8-18-80

Central Math

West. Carolyn

Burleigh, Annette

10511.

B.S. Langston

8-18-80

Eisenhower Home Economics

Booth, Judy

Card, Celia

12671,

B.S. OSU

8-18-80

Moon Language Arts

Carter, Linda

10761.

B.S. BN

8-18-80

Parker Intermediate

Palmer, Darrell

Cathey, Dorothy

11408.

M. Ed. CSU

8-18-80

Northwest Language Arts

Chamberlain, Zethel

Chamberlain. Zethel

12264.

M.A.T. OCU

8rl8.-8Q

Lincoln ESAA

LaCoste, Tom

Chism. Wynell-----------------

M.S. -15121,___ . CSU

Jackson 8-18-80 .. Science

1 - INMG - Western Maryland College - Westminster, Maryland 2 - DU - Duquesne University - Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations:

Bnployments:

Stripling, Joyce

Cloud, Theresa

Parker, Deborah

Annual 3

8-18-80

Dewey Primary

8-26-80

West Nichols Hills Special Education

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Edgemere Special Education

11053.

B.A. OCU

8-18-80

Harding Science

Crean, Helen

10511.

B.A. SDSU 2

8-18-80

Garden Oaks Learning Center

Zuravloff, Phyllis

Dayton. Dana

10511.

B.A. OSU

8-18-80

Star Spencer Social Studies

Clark. Karen

DeBose. Vickie

11037.

B.S. OU

8-18-80

Grant Special Education

Dewey, Sheila

10511.

B.A. CSU

8-18-80

Capitol Hill High Drop-Out

Vaughan, Vickie

Dilleshaw. Nancy

12671.

B.A. CSU

8-18-80

Capitol Hill Middle Math

Doyle. Barbara

13271.

B.S. ECSU

8-18-80

Northeast Biology

Cunningham. Lorna

Duke, Alice

10511.

B.A. CSU

8-18-80

Stonegate Primary

Mills, Arlene

Dukes, Lonzetta

11408.

M.S. USF

8-18-80

Sunset Primary

Lekawski. Sharon

Dunn. Bvna

11037.

B.S. OU

8-18-80

Stonegate Special Education

Cunningham. Ron

Eggleston, ..Chaxmaine

12658.

M.S. OSU

8-18-80

Capitol Hill High D.E.

$11380.

B.S. CSU

Colbert, Doretha

11978.

M.A. EKU

Gibson, Sheila

Corff. Mary

11299.

Wood, Virginia

Cozard, Mabel

Tucker, Billy

Mitscher. Ted

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1 - EKU - Eastern Kentucky University - Richmond, Kentucky 2 - SDSU - San Diego State University - San Diego, Calif. u

3 - USE - University of San Francisco - San Francisco, Calif.

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MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D 3ersonnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

APPROVED EXP.

DEGREE COLLEGE

SALARY

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations:

Employments:

Annual

Brown, Baby

Engel, Linda

$13271.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Hawthorne Primary

Arthur, Bennett

Flaniken, Kenneth

10511.

B.S. OU

8-25-80

Southeast Resourc e/Coach

Pittman, Cornelius

Francisco, Andre

10511.

B.M.E. CSU

8-18-80

Curriculum Instrumental Music

9-02-80

Dunbar Counselor

8-18-80

Sequoyah Kindergarten

Wetmore. Bill

-..Gardner. Warren

13364.

M. Ed. SWSU

Crosley, Cline

Gentry, Hazel

12671.

B.S. SH

Keating, Elizabeth

Gibson. Linda

11408.

M.S. OU

8-18-80

Carver Physical Education

Banfill, Sharon

Hanigar. Brenda

11380.

B.A. OCU

8-18-80

Dewey Intermediate

Miller, Linda

Hanna, Marcia

10761.

B.S. OU

8-18-80

Philpott, Emily

Harris, Patricia

10511.

B.A. CSU

8-22-80

Northeast Speech/Language Arts

VonMerveldt, Michael

Hart, Ben

15364.

Ph.D. OU

8-18-80

Northeast Resource/Coach

Caudill, Lynn

Hawkins, Octamede

10511.

B.S. GC.

8-18-80

Coolidge 'Primary

Hayes, Wanda

10511.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Adams Learning Center

Heiderman. Martha

13897.

B.A. OCU

8-18-80

Marshall Math

Hemphill. Dana

11037.

B.S. OCC

6-18-80

External Funding Speech Pathologist

. Hersh, Rebecca Sorrels, Sondra

1 - SH - Sam Houston - Hunstvllle, Texas 2 - C.R. - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Star c ;r

3 - CSU - California State University - Northridge, California 4 - GC - Grambling College - Baton Rouge, La.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL mrCATTONAT.

Employments:

Annual

ffenleyr Lois—----------------

Henley, Lois

$12671.

B.S. OU

8-22-80

Dewey Reading

VKXgOVjj LJtflljaUlJ.ll

Henson, James

10511.

B.A. CSU

8-18-80

Douglass Language Arts

Hudspeth. Teri

10511.

B.S. OBU

8-18-80

Westwood/Nichols 11. Physical Education

— 1051L.

B.S. OU

8-18-80

Shields Heights Primary

Jameson, Sue

11408.

M.S. OCU

8-18-80

Health Services Nurse

Jenke. Carol

10511.

B.S.E. OCC -

Jackson 8-18-80 . Social Studies

Johnson. Lvnette

11916,

M. Ed. SWSU

8-18-80

llarrison/Creston H. Gifted/Talented

Johnson, Pat

12824.

B.A. NWSU

8-18-80

Webster Language Arts

Jones, Jack

12224.

B.S. SWSU

Jovner. Janice

B.A. 11053, - J2SU

8-18-80

Webster Social Studies_____

Kpah-Tiph. T.illv

10511.

B.S. OU

8-18-80

Willard Primary

Kelson, Deborah

13577.

M. Ed. OU

8-18-80

Curriculum Lau Language Center

Killian. Bobbv

16396.

M. Ed. OU

8-18-80

Southeast Snecial Education

8-18-80

Edgemere/Willard Physical Education

X eX7llXIl<X uXUllo •

•

Hn+.chPT’fion. Carolvn

Jahr, Barbara

Hart. Hlllnrv

rVivr-t ct Dlrtrl 1 4 ct UaVXbt riLYXXXo

OOULlit ItilfellCte

----

OBLVXCti« riiiziaucbii Scott. Rita

. ---

Klefeker, James--------------- 10511.

B.S. SWSU

Star Spencer 8-18-80 ' Math/Social Studies

488

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

- ------- ---------- ’— PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

Terminations:

Employments

Choate, Neil

LaCoste. Thanas

Arterbery, Karen

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

Annual

$11380.

B.A. CSU

8-25-80

Capitol Hill High Arts

Leach. Robin

12885.

B.S. OU

8-18-80

Webster Special Education

Creed, Carol

Lewis, Patricia

10511.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Davis Primary

Coleman. Glvnda

Maiorca, Donna

11978.

M. Ed. CSU

8-26-80

Star Spencer Special Education

Smith, Brenda

Manora, Odessa

10511.

B.S. FVSC

8-28-80

Adams Learning Center

Parker, Melinda

McCauley. Earlene

14250.

M.S. CSU

8-18-80

Taft Resource

Patterson. Willa

McDermott. Charles

10511.

B.S. OU

8-18-80

Willow Brook Primary

Tatro, Rosemary

McFadden, Arthur

10511.

B.S. Langston

8-18-80

Marshall Resource

McKinley. Ramona

11053.

B.S. OCU

8-18-80

Edgemere Learning Center

Clark, Wesley

McKinney, Herbert

11400.

B.S. Langston

8-18-80

Shidler/Eugene F. Physical Education

French, Reba

McKitrick, Amanda

13577.

M.S. NESU

8-18-80

Classen FrenCh/Spanish

Moore, Elaine

Murphy, Annie

11037.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Dewey/Creston Hills Special Education

White. Vickie

Nelson. Noisette

11400.

B.S. BN

8-18-80

Curriculum Lau Language

Brown, Dana

Nichols, Gae Marie

13765.

M. Ed. CSU

8-18-80

Eisenhower Art

1 - FVSC - Ft. Valley State College - Ft. Valley, Georgia ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

SALARY

NAME

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

M. Ed. CSU

8-18-80

Taft Social Studies

DEGREE COLLEGE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations:

Emnlovments:

Abbott, Virginia

Oakes. Ferrelvn

Annual

$11658.

Owens, Diana

10511.

B.S. CSU

8-26-80

Ross Primary

Park, Jean

12824.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

King Learning Center

Daugherty. Cynthia

Payne, Hoy

10511.

B.A. OU

8-18-80

Curriculum Lau Language

Holkum, John

Perkins, Jack

10761.

B.S. OSU

8-18-80

Southeast Social Studies

Werneke, Jennifer

Randall. Rebecca

11380.

B.A. CSU

8-18-80

Douglass Lang Arts/Journalism

Wilson, Gayle

Reutllneer. Linda

12224.

B.S. PSU

8-18-80

Roosevelt Math

Cochran, Jean

Roark, Barbara

10511.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Van Buren Primary

Williams, Ruth

Robinson, Katherine

10511.

B.S. CSU

8-25-80

Kaiser Intermediate

Hahn, Lynn

Ross, Vern

11408.

M. Ed. MBTS 2

9-08-80

Hoover Reading

Losey, Jana

Rowan. Eleanor

14592.

M.A. OU

Special Services B-18-8.Q- Speech Pathologist

Slelert, Lisa

Schmidt. Cindy

10761.

B.S. OSU

8-13-80

Hardesty. Allen

Scott. John

11658.

M.S. OSU

Douglass 8-18-80 -Resource

Moyer, Susan

Scott, Sandra

10511.

B.S. UM

8-18-80

Thomason, Gertrude

1 - PSU - Pittsburg State University - Pittsburg, Kansas 2 - MBTS - Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary - Kansas City, Mo.

3 - UM - University of Missouri - Columbia, Mo.

West. Nichols Hills Preschool

Telstar Language Center

489

MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D

PERSONNEL NAME ----- ,------------------------------------------------ i

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

SALARY

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

8-18-80

Oakridge/Ross Special Education

8-18-80

Van Buren Learning Center

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Terminations:

Employments:

Jeffries, Charlyn

Sheward, Debra

$11037.

B.S. SWSU

Sallard, Cheryl

Sheehan. John

10511.

B.S. FHSU

White, Sherry

Smith, Wayne

16438.

M.S. CSU

8-18-80

Roosevelt Counselor

West, Mary

Snelcrove. David

15121.

M.A. OCU

8-18-80

Jackson Social Studies

Berry. Saundra

Swartz. Janice

10511.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Tel star Intermediate

Thomas, Marvin

11408.

M. Ed. CSU

8-18-80

External Funding Youth Reentry

Reynolds, Sue

Tyler, Coy Sue

10511.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Kaiser Primary

Nemechek, Glenda

Valentine, Dianne

11037.

B.A. UI

8-18-80

Lincoln Special Education

Wood, Tom

Von Merveldt, Michael

11400.

B.A. CSU

8-22-80

Webster Resource

Echols, Dorothy

Wamble, Wilma

13109.

M.S. OSU

8-18-80

West Nichols Hills Primary

Huddleston, Steve

Warburton. David

10761.

B.S. UT

8-18-80

Capitol Hill High Social Studies/Coach

Moore, Evelyn

Wayland. Randy

14449.

B.S.E. CSU

8-04-80

Douglass Librarian

Stallborls. Ora

Webster. Cheryl

11408.

M.A.T. OCU

8-18-80

Southern Hills Primary

Van Welden, Richard

Wilson. Gale

13436,

B.A. MS

8-18-80

External Funding Youth Reentry

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

J - MS - Michigan State - East Lansing, Michigan

1 - FHSU - Ft. Hayes State University - Hayes, Kansas 2 - UI - University of Iowa - Iowa City, Iowa

NAME

Annual

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

8-18-80

Davis Primary

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Etoployments:

Annual

Witte, Anne

$11053.

B.A. W&M

Williams, Dorinda

Wood, Janet

10511.

B.S. CSU

9-08-80

Dunbar Language Lab.

Rahn, Sharon

Wooley, Teri

10511.

B.S. OSU

8-18-80

Shields Heights Primary

Younger. Sarah

11408.

Younewerth. Margaret

11408.

M.S. VPT&SU 3

8-18-80

North Highland Intermediate

Alexander, Monroe

11037.

B.S. OSU

8-18-80

Grant Special Education

Barnhart, Rhonda

10511.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Hayes Title I Lab.

Black, Melissa

10511.

B.M. OCU

8-18-80

Curriculum Vocal Music

Boldien. Cherryl

11037.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

External Funding Speech Pathologist

Booth. Judy

12671.

B.S. SWSU

8-18-80

Moon Drama/Year Book

Collins, Maxine

11037.

B.A. HTC

8-25-80

Moon Special Education

Conway, Mary

12877.

M. Ed. ECSU

8-18-80

Children's Hospital Special Education

Terminations: ..

Taliaferro, Nancy

M. Ed. â&#x20AC;¢ AU

...a........

Garden Oaks 8-18-&Q.. .Intermediate------------

Additional Allocations: -

__________________________

1 - W&M - William & Mary - Williamsburg, Virginia 2 - AU - Auburn University - Auburn, Alabama

...

3 - VPT&SU - Virginia Polytechnic Technical and State University - Blacksburg, Virginia 4 - HTC - Harris Teachers College - St. Louis, Missouri

490

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL * Employments:

Annual

Additional Allocations

I 1

M. Ed. CSU

Crum, Ramona

513764.

Dodney, Nancy

10511.

B.S. LCC

Fowler, Katharine

10511.

Cleaves, Gary

Horace Mann

8-18-80

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Polk/Longfellow Gifted/Talented

13921.

B.S. CSU

8-04-80

Grant CVET

Graham, Billie

10511.

B.S. OCU

8-18-80

Curriculum Vocal Music

Hahn. Lynn

13765.

M.S. OS

Roosevelt 8-18-80 • Reading

M. Ed. OU

9-05-80

Wheeler P.T. Kindergarten

Curriculum

Hall, Patricia

7704.

Hickel. Debbie

10511.

B.F.A. SUNY 3

8-18-80

Curriculum Vocal Music

McKinney. June

10511.

B.M. OCU

8-18-80

Curriculum Vocal Music

Miller. Sara

11053.

B.S. USAO

8-25-80

Polk Reading

Mitchell, Roberta

10511.

B.S. ETSU

8-28-80

King Reading

Monnot. Candida

11408.

M.A. OCU

8-18-80

Edwards Preschool

Morefield. Wesley

12671.

B.A. CSU

8-18-80

Telstar/Willow Brk. Gifted/Talented

1 - WC - Lubbock Christian College - Lubbock, Texas 2 - OS - Ohio State - Columbus, Ohio

3 - SUNY - State University of New York - Buffalo, New York 4 - ETSU - East Texas State University - Commerce, Texas

II NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

8-18-80

Roosevelt Reading

8-18-80

Classen Reading

ASSIGNMENT

•

Bnployments:

Annual

Additional Allocations

Muse, Bette

$12824.

B.S. UNC

Parman. Frances

17156.

M. Ed. OU

Pierce, laurel

12824.

B.A. OU

8-28-80

Eisenhower Gifted/Talented

Pryor. Darla

10511.

B.S. OU

8-18-80

Stand Watie Primary

Readv. Debra

10511..

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Rogers Math Lab.

Savage, Susan

10511.

B.A. CSU

8-18-80

Hoover Resource

Spigner, Terry

11978.

M.S. OU

8-20-80

Northeast Special Education

Stoabs, Suzanne

12531.

B.S. OSU

9-03-80

Asmt. & Placement Psychometrist

Sturdy, Patricia

10511.

B.M.E. CSU

8-18-80

Curriculum Vocal Music

Sutton. Connie

13577. .

M.A. UND

8-18-80

Curriculum Vocal Music

Travis. Ginger

11916.

M. Ed. SWSU

8-18-80

Roosevelt Math

11037.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Harding Special Education

11037.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

King/Longfellow Special Education

Willy, Barbara

1 - UNC - University of North Colorado - Greeley, Colorado 2 - UND - University of North Dakota - Grand Forks, North Dakota il

491

MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

NAME

”

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

APPROVED EXP.

DEGREE COLLEGE

SALARY

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL trnnr a TTnMAT

Employments;

Annual

Additional Allocations

Woody. Linda

B.S. UNI

$10511.

8-18-80

Curriculum Vocal Music

8-18-80

Emerson Science/Math------------

EJnnloyments: Bumpus. Larnoda

10511,

B.S. _______

Land, Harold

Clark, Nadine

18344.

M.A. OCU

8-18-80

Jackson Math

Itawv. SAimdra

James, Cynthia

14921.

M.S. OU

8-18-80

Telstar Primary

Kretchmar, Kristi

10511.

B.A. OU

8-20-80

Rancho Primary

Rubier, Ellen

12877.

M.A. CSU

8-26-80

Rancho Special Education

McMillan. Sherril

11037.

B.S. OSU

8-18-80

Roosevelt Special Education

Black, Jerry

Milor. Diane

12671J f

Richmond. Doi 1&

Oldis. Nanc.v

rVnnl

M6XbQH« Dcbuy

McCreery,Rary

Orndorff, Mary

Jordan, Patricia

Scherbenski, Susan

1 - UNI - University of Northern Iowa - Cedar Falls, Iowa 2 - LS - Louisiana State - Baton Rouge, La. NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

B.S. LS

8-18-80

Lincoln Intermediate

10511J

B.A. AC

8-18-80

Edwards Intermediate

5700.

B.S. OU

9-08-80

Mayfair P.T. Kindergarten

11053.

B.A. OR

8-18-80

Lincoln Language Center

3 - AC - Adrian College - Adrian, Michigan

JL NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

B.S. OSU

8-18-80

Capitol Hill Middle Science

8-18-80

Childrens Hospital Youth Shelter

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Transfers:

Employments:

Dense, Carroll

Sellers. Linda

$10511.

Thomas, Carolyn

11408.

M. Ed. OU

Allen, Suzanne

Trattner, Denise

10511.

B.A. CSU

Wood, Eugene

Venk, Georgia

16522.

M. Ed. CSU

Clemens, Mary

Violett. Michael

11408.

M. Ed. CSU

8-18-80

Coolidge Physical Education

. Wasson. Linda

11408.

M.S. OSU

8-18-80

Eisenhower Math/Science

Wise, Barbara

15667.

M. Ed. CSU

8-18-80

Quail Creek Special Education

Webb, Nande

14182.

M. Ed. CSU

8-18-80

Harding Special Education

... leske. Larry____________

McLennan. Margaret

Roberson, Catherine

Annual

Linwood 1 Primary 8-18-80 -----£-------------■-----------! 1 Webster 8-18-80 Science

Leaves of Absence

Parental Leave Ansivino, Sondra

Harding Special Education

5-30-80

Berger, Carol

Burbank Kindergarten

8-28-80

Davis, Pamela

Willow Brook Primary

5-30-80

Gardner. Lee

12671.

B.S. UA

8-18-80

Willow Brook Primary

Davis, Paula

Lee Primary

5-30-80

Canuti. Linda

11400.

B.S. SU

8-18-80

Lee Primary

1 - UA - University of Arizona - Tucson, Arizona 2 - SU - Syracuse University - Syracuse, New York

492

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

SALARY

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Leaves of Absence

Employments

Annual

Parental Leave Mitchell, Debra

Northwest Special Education

5-30-80

Ponds, Diana

Page-Woodson Intermediate

9-29-80

Factory, Fred

Page-Woodson Intermediate

5-30-80

Powell, Robert

Northeast Counselor

5-30-80

Capitol Hill High English

9-08-80

Curriculum Artist-in-Residence

5-30-80

Professional Leave

Pickard, James

1511053.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Page-Woodson Intermediate

Ill Health Wiggins, Elvena

PROFESSIONAL OTHER

Terminations: 4c

Clark, Vicki

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

PROFESSIONAL OTHER

Employments

Terminations:

4c Howell, Harriet i----------------------------------- :â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 4c ! Jackson, Joyce

Curriculum Artist-in-Residence

5-30-80

Curriculum Art.i Rt.-ln-.RpxrMAnr'P

5-30-80

Curriculum Artist-in-Residence

5-30-80

External Funding Career Awareness Spec

8-20-80

Oswalt, George

Williams, Charles

Statum, Barbara

Gielchtnan. Emmv

Annual

$12671.

9-02-80

Special Services Nurse

8-21-80

Carver L.P.N.

Monthly Eastep, Bertha

Muzny, Kathleen

$ 750,,

493

___ _ MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D 3ersonnel cont'd

Substitute Teachers

Elementary Elementary Elementary Elementary Music English/Speech Elementary Social Studies Social Studies Industrial Arts Kindergarten Elementary Elementary Elementary/Spec. Ed. Home Economics Home Economics Spanish Elementary Elementary Industrial Arts Special Education Elementary French Elementary Elementary Math/Phys. Ed. Elementary Elementary Elementary/Phys. Ed. Elementary English Science Kindergarten Elementary Language Arts Business Social Studies Elementary Science/Chemistry Elementary Physical Education Social Science Instrumental Music Art Business Home Economics Home Economics Language Arts Spanish English Elementary Elementary Elementary Business Elementary Science Music Music

Aberson, Linda ♦Alexander, Melvia Arnold, Kathryn Atkins, Dorothy Bates, Marilyn Belts, Harold Berrier, Virginia Black Cathryn Black, Luke Blockaon, Barbara Borland, Mary Buffington, Mary Buffalohead, Connie Burrall, Sharen Butler, Betty Capps, Marjorie Chaffin, Neill Charney, Linda ♦Clemmer, Pauline Colwell, Steven Collins, Maxine ♦Cook, Mary Cox, Julia Crowder, Lucretia Crutchfield, Estella Cunningham, Gayla Cunningham, Carolyn Dahlke, Janie Daniluk, Lavern Dean, Marilyn Dunlap, Gregs Ediger, Alice Engebreton, Lyndall ♦Factory, Josephine Fillinger, Charles Flatt, Cathy Foster, Penelope Fowlkes, Myrtle Gardner, Michael Gettis, Mae Greear, Katrina Hall, Peggy Harris, Alton D. Hatfield, Kynug Hickman, Darlene Holly, Martin Holman, Patricia Holmes, Jill Holmes, Lillie Hull, Paul S. Jackson, Vivian Jackson, Enid Jacksen, Cheryl Jewel, Mary S. Jones, Charles Kneeland, Nedra Kopper, Dean Littleton, Betty

Marsh, Zenith Matlock, Beryl McCollom, June McDaniel, Carolyn McDaniel, Twana McGalliard, Thomas McMahan, Laura Monnett, Robert Lfoore, Velma Murphy, Daniel Nolen, Vernon Pahlke, Chariot Parker, Melinda Parks, Judy Pate, Annette Pendarvius, Roland Perkins, Jerry ♦Pierson, Bernice Porter, Denise Quetlah, Anubis Raha, Setlah Reaves, Michael ♦Reid, Leavie Rowley, Richard Russ, Shirley Seago, Lorene Seymour, Mary L. Sinn, Lois Slaughter, Michael Smith, Mary Sosanya, Babatundi Stevens, Paul Stewart, Jewel Stone, Katherine Stone, Judith Sullivan, Patricia Summers, Phyllis ♦Swift, Mildred Talbot, Susan Tatro, Rosemary Thompson, Deborah Tiger, Marian Tompkins, James Trammel, Edward Trent, Leslie Villar, Nestor VonMerveldt, Michael Walker, Ronald Walker, Karheleen Watkins, H. Louise Wavers, Sandra Welker, Patricia Whiteside, Beverly Winslow, Robert Woods, Elaine Woodcock, Judy Young, Georgia Zeiser, Juel

Elementary Secondary Elementary Home Economics Elementary Elementary Language Arts Physical Education Social Studies Social Studies/Counselor Business Special Education Social Studies Elementary Art Driver Ed/Phys. Ed. Science Elementary Business Health/Phys. Ed. Social Studies Band Elementary Math Art Elementary Art Home Economics Elementary Art Psychology Instrumental Music Social Studies Elementary Elementary English Art/Phys. Ed. Elementary Elementary Speech Special Education English Psychology/Phys. Ed. History Language Arts Social Studies English Physical Education Elementary Elementary Learning Disabilities Elementary Elementary Social Studies Elementary Kindergarten Elementary Social Studies

♦Retired Teachers

•

CLERICAL Terminations:

Barnett, Judy Bolden, Dorothy

Brantley, Ina Bright. Linda Bush. Shervl

Calrrera. Alicia Canning, Carol Cao, Cue Thu Ennis, Michael Fallis, Bertha

Farley, Joyce

Gilmore, Rebecca

Green, Nunnery Gressler, Renee

Employments:

Lee P.T. Attendance Clk.

8-20-80

Proctor, Cheryl

Spencer Teacher's Aide

8-21-80

Moon Teacher's Aide

5-30-80

Willard Teacher's Aide

' 8-29-80

Marshall Attendance Clerk

9-05-80

Westwood Bilingual Aide.

5-30-80

'la

Capitol Hill Middle Attendance Clerk

8-29-80

Curriculum Bilingual Aide •

Page-Woodson LRTA

Monthly

$297.50

8-25-80

Lee P.T. Attendance CJk.

Chinn. Betty

590. .

9-04-80

Spencer Teacher's Aide

5-29-80

Nguyen, Thu

600.

9-02-80

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

5-30-80

Daniels, Johnny

590.

8-21-80

Page-Woodson LRTA

Fillmore Media Aide

6-06-80

Ellis. Betty

590.

9-03-80

Fillmore Media Aide

Star Media Aide

6-06-80

Accounting Services Insurance Clerk

9-12-80

Dunbar Teacher's Aide

5-30-80

Jenkins, Michael

590.

8-28-80

Dunbar Teacher's Aide

Lincoln LRTA '

1 - LRTA - Learning Resource Teacher Aide

5-30-80

494

___ MEETING 0F OCTOBER 6, 19801 - CONT'D Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL Employments:

Terminations:

KTncr. Anl arm

Langlev. Nina Lawlerj Marne

t .iip .ar t

Rita

finh ngujcHe mut Moh

va h

T bjc vp v +. iu

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Ma I

........

Ontho. Carol

« Rnnh«*T»+. - Elba

i Scott, Mary

Marshall Financial Secretary

Marshall

Southeast Teacher’s Aide

Wilson LRTA

Personnel Services Secretary

Harding Learning Ctr. Aide

Curriculum

Spencer Teacher’s Aide

Creston Hills LRTA

Telstar Learning Ctr. Aide

9-05-80

Stand Watie Teacher’s Aide

5-30-80

Shidler Bilingual Aide

5-30-80

External Funding F.QA A Aide

5-30-80

Capitol Hill High I Clerk

6-12-80

Monthly

9-12-80 8-29-80

5-30-80 *

8-18-80

8-19-80

•

5-30-80

Canady. Alice

$59^

5-29-80

Lam. Le Minh

600.

8-25-80

Harding Learning Ctr. Aide

9-02-80

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT;

8-22-80 8-18-80

1 - LRTA - Learning Resource Teacher Aide NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE'

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

CLERICAL

Terminations:

Employments:

Monthly

Hooks, Wilma

$ 590.

8-26-80

Mayfair LRTA

Baker. Martha

236.

8-18-80

North Highland P.T.‘Media Aide

Bell.-Gavla

416.

9-02-80

Polk/Dewey P.T. Attendance Clk.

Biamonte. Peter

295.

8-18-80

Star Spencer P.T.: Counselor Aide

Bright. Linda

590.

8-18-80

Willard Teacher's Aide

Rudkins, Rose

Dallas, Suzanne

676.

8-22-80

Curriculum Secretary

Platt, Shirley

Davis. Patricia

753.

8-18-80

Public Information Adm. Secy. II

Lazada, Rose

Esparaza. Leticia

595.

9-02-80

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

Ford. Jan

590.

8-19-80

Monroe Teacher's Aide

Fulsom, Michael

595.

8-18-80

Northeast Attendance/Truancy

Smith. Sharon Smith. Shirley ■ Templeton, Christine Watson. Raama

Willow Brook Principal's Seev.

8-22-80

External Funding Secretary

8-22-80

Vocational Services Secretary

8-22-80

Mayfair LRTA

5-30-80

Heath. Treva

— Renfrow, , Jp. Ann Farrow. Mary

—James, ..Sandra:

;Platt,„Kay

Ponds, Mae 1 - LRTA - Learning Resource Teacher Aide

•

' '

495

MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D

’ersonnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL

Terminations:

Employments:

Monthly

Stiggers, Valencia

Greene, Louise

$297.50

Swain, Linda

Hafeld, Alice

Stone, Elaine

8-26-80

Harding P.T. Attendance Clk

590.

8-21-80

Page-Woodson Learning Ctr. Aide

Harris, Debra

590.

8-18-80

Harrison Learning Ctr. Aide

Stone, Kathy

Hudson. Marilyn

354.

8-18-80

Eugene Field Media Ctr. Aide

Loggins. Shirlev

James. Phyllis

619.

8-25-80

Northwest Counselor Aide

Mulkins. Roberta

Johnson. Pinkie

295.

8-18-80

Northeast P.T. Counselor Aide

Moon, Helena

King, Marge

600.

8-18-80

Marshall Attendance Secy.

Chenoweth, Katherine

Ledbetter, Charlene

708.

8-14-80

West Nichols Hills Secretary

Baird, Thelma

Lemieux. Elizabeth

736.

8-14-80

Personnel Services Secretary

Lloyd. Melva

590.

8-20-80

. Willow Brook Learning Ctr. Aide

McCanne. Barbara

297.50

8-18-80

Mark Twain P.T. Attendance Clk.

Miskovsky, Lee

Meredith. Gloria

647.

8-18-80

Van Buren Principal's Secy.

Carrol, Anthony

Morgan, Valerie

590.

8-18-80

Page-Wbodson Media Ctr. Aide

Stewart, Sherrie

Myers, Frances

6Z7.

8-18-80

Curriculum Circulation Clerk

Grundon, Fran

Bailey. Mary ♦

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL Terminations:

Employments:

Monthly

Duong, Lan Dien

Nguyen. Nga

$ 600.

9-02-80

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

Shanks, Nadine

Oliver. Patricia

608.

8-18-80

Northeast Elementary Clerk

Carrington. Joy

Otis. Naomi

600.

9-08-80

Capitol Hill Middle Clerk II

Garrett, Dorothy

Scroggins, Cheryl

590.

8-18-80

Rancho Teacher's Aide

Stephens, Chris

Strunk. Jeri

354.

8-18-80

Rancho P.T. Media Aide

Johnson. Bettv

Thompson. Nancy

590.

8-18-80

Rockwood Media Ctr. Aide

Wixom, Bonnie

Wade, Terri

595.

8-18-80

Capitol Hill High Attendance Secy.

Peters, Della

Williams, Tina

354.

8-28-80

Lincoln P.T. Attendance Clk.

Flowers, Carolyn

Wood, Janet

590.

8-18-80

Monroe Teacher's Aide

$ 3.90

8-13-80

West Nichols Hills Day Care Aide

Hourly

Lawrence, Carolyn

Hackler, Betty

Simpson. Judith

Hazel ton» Nflncv

3.90

8-18-80

West Nichols Hills Day Care Aide

Petree, Pamela

Reynolds, Linda

3.51

8-13-80

West Nichols Hills Day Care Aide

496

L—

MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL N^ME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

8-21-80

West Nichols Hills Dav Care Aide

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL Terminations:

Employments:

Hourly

Hemijerki, Sabastlan

Schindler. Malford

$ 3.51

Additional Allocations

Monthly

Bailey, Sheila

$ 625.

8-13-80

Curriculum Secretary

Berrlous, Egl'e

600.

8-29-80

Longfellow Bilingual Aide

Cardenas, Maria

608.

8-25-80

Longfellow Title VII Aide

Harper, Jeri

597.

8-25-80

Reading Center Reading Aide

Henzel, Becky

590.

9-02-80

Reading Center Reading Aide

Hill, Pat

297.50

8-18-80

Hawthorne P.T. Attendance Clk.

• Hines, Bobbie

597.

8-18-80

Rogers Learning Ctr. Aide

Koonce, Dinah

630.

. 8-18t 8.Q

Schardt, Janie

297.50

8-25-80

North Highland P. T. Attendance

Smith, Mary

297.50

9-02-80

Longfellow P. T. Attendance

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

SALARY

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

Telstar Teacher's Aide

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT i 1

CLERICAL

Transfers!

Employments:

Monthly

Graham, Gean

Brooks, Tamara

$669.

8-18-80

Personnel Services Receptionist/Secy.

Ledbetter, Charlene

Hampton, Janis

686.

8-11-80

Stand Watie Principal's Secy.

Summers, Rickie

Scarborough. Buelah

602. .

8-20-80

Star Spencer Focus

- A

Additional Allocations

Hourly.

Dearman, Linda

$ 3.75

8-28-80

Stand Watie Teacher's Aide

3.90

8-22-80

Edwards Preschool Aide

Smallwood. Hattie

«*•

Leaves of Absence

•j

Parental Leave Thompson, Danna

Curriculum Secretary

9-18-80

-1 1

497

... -..

MEEnNG^Fjn0XE^6,J980j- CONTJD______ __ _

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE

Terminations: le

Arinwine, Margie

Atchley, Nell

Banks, Margaret

Decker. Glenvs

Galbraith. Writtie

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Hightower, Barbara

Long, Velma

McFarland, Patricia

Montgomery, Nancy

Moore, Audrey

Rector, Joyce

Rowlan. Elsie Saunders, Goldie Sherrick, Alpha

lb Id

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

2nd Cook

5-29-80

2nd Cook

5-29-80

Heiner

6-20-80

Helper

5-29-80

Elementary Mgr.

8-11-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Key Person

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Cook

5-29-80

Elementary Mgr.

5-29-80

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

i NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EFFECTIVE DATE EXP.

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE Employments:

Terminations:

Snider, Clara Springer, Georgia Stanford, Mary Thorne. Irene Townsend, Ruth

Wilson, Emma Wright, Dawn

Zeneto, Olga

la la le

le lb le

Helper

Key Person

Hourly

5-29-80 : 8-21-80

Heiner

5-29-80

Heiner

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

Heiner

5-29-80

Helper

5-29-80

*Applications Processed

*Awaiting Assignment

8-21-80 -Helper

bailey. Flora

$ 3.51

Berry, Beulah

3.74

8-21-80

Retired Helper

Berry. Mary

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Bills, Linza

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

498

MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D

_______________________ ___________________ Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

SALARY

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE

Employments:

Hourly

^Applications Processed

Booker, Haywood

$ 3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Bowles. Linda

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Boyle, Kathy

3.5i

8-26-80

Heiner

Bramlett, Nola

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Branch, Nina

3.74.

8-21-80

Retired Helper

Brantley. Tena

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Brown, Birdie

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Browning, Theresa

3.51

•

8-21-80

Helper

Buckner, Irma

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Caldwell, Virginia

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Craig, Beatrice

4.07

8-21-80

Elementary Mgr.

Day, Beatrice

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Dean, Edith

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

’

*Awaiting Assignment

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

* FOOD SERVICE Employments:

-•

*Applications Processed

DeWoody, Debra

*Awaiting Assignment

Hourly

$ 3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Edwards, Martha

3.51.

8-22-80

Helper

Ellis. Sandra

3.51

8-26-80

Hel per

Golden, Eula

3.74

8-21-80

Retired Helper

Griffis, Karen

3.51.

8-29-80

Helper

Hall. Shirley

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Haury, Donna

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Henderson, Rose

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Howe. Patty

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Jackson. Otha

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Jackson, Vemita

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Jackson, Violet

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

James, Alma

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

499

MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT 1D

Personnel cont'd

NAME

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

•<

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE

1 “

.............~

■1 ■

Employments:

Hourly

*Applications Processed $ 3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Johnson, Loretta

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Jones. Ruth

3.51

8-11-80

.Helper

King, Anna

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Loudermilk. Annie

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Maxey. Nancy

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

McConnell, Louise

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

McGuire. Mary

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Moore, Velma

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Myers, Kathy

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Nelson, Madelyn

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Norman. Betty

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Penn. Eileen

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Johnson, Essie

• ■

•

*Awaiting Assignment

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE Employments:

Hourly

^Applications Processed *

*Awaiting Assignment

Pierce, Doris

$ 3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Powers,‘Karen

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Raeder, Delores

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Raynor, Juanita

3,74.

8-21-80

Retired Helper

Rimel. Doris

3,51

8-21-80

Heiner

Robison, Marie

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Romero, Maria

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Rooks, Gloria

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Schumacher, Lavonne

3.62

8-21-80

Seebeck, Bertha

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Sheets, Azella

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Smith. Doris

3.51

8-21-80

Heiner

Smith, Linda

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Baker —---------------- ---------

i i

500

MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

SALARY

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE

Hourly

Bnployments: *Applications Processed

$ 3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Starbuck, Irene

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Stead, Sharon

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Stinson, Jody

3.74

8-21-80

Retired Helper

Thomas, Judith

3.51

8-22-80

Helper

Tinco, Betty

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Turnbow, Thelma

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Turner, Mary

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Violet, Janette

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Wadsworth, Evelyn

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Wagnon, Marion

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Soliz, Genevieve

Ward. Dottie

Watson, Patricia *Awaiting Assignment

1.. .......... NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

•

FOOD SERVICE Terminations, •

Employments:

Hourly

^Applications Processed Weaver, Leola

$ 3.51

8-21-80

Webb, Patsy

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

Wimple, Edna

3.51 ■.

8-21-80

Helper

Wright, Marva

3.51

8-21-80

Helper

8-J1-80

Elementary Mgr.

Monthly

Smith, Lavern

Perkins. Paula

$ 680.

Leaves of Absence

Parental Leave Ballard, Joann

Helper

8-21-80

1 *Awaiting Assignment

501

MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ......... — “<

---------------—

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMLiV.

FOOD SERVICE

Leaves of Absence Ill Health

Helper

McDowell, Ramona

8-21-80

SUPPLY Terminations:

Employments:

Monthly

Chatman. Victor

Cole. Michael

$ 675. ,i.

Heath, Joe

Wytch, Thomas

,.Q

8-11-80

Relief Bus Driver/ Warehouse Worker

675.

8-18-80

Relief Bus Driver/ Warehouse Worker

675.

8-11-80

Relief Bus Driver/ Warehouse Worker

Additional Allocation

Taylor, Arthur

TRANSPORTATION Terminations:

Adair, Julian

NAME

Bus Driver

ASSIGNMENT

5-29-80

EFFECTIVE DATE

lfiANSEQlUAIIQa

Terminations:

Beasley, Gloria Burch, John Bumwell, Daniel Carolina, Walter

Carter, Frank Chiles, Robert Davis, Delbert

DeShazer, Curtis

Edwards. Chester

Eschmann, Thomas Farahani, Keynan

Ferguson, Michael Fleming. Shelly

Green, Nunnery

4b 4f la

4a 4b

4f 4f

4b 4f

Id 4b

Bus Aide

5-29-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

8-15-80

Bus Driver

8-15-80

Bus Driver

8-20-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

8-19-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

------------ ......

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLIEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

502

MEETI NG OFOCTOBER

Jg80 /-„CONT^ 0

Personnel cont'd

______________________

PERSONNEL

~ TM„

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

TRANSPORTATION

Terminations;

Haywood, Alfred

Heath, Paul

Jackson, Charles

Jamerson, Louis Johnson, Cleotha ST

Johnson, Lonnell Johnson, Verniz

4c 4f

Klllam, Gloria Lawrence, Marvin

4f 4f

McComb, Reba

McGary, Merlin

McGee, Lee

Meade. Rnlnh

Mollet, David

Bus Driver

8-15-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

8-15-80

Bus Driver

8-28-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

8-15-80

Bus Driver

8-22-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

8-21-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Mechanic!

8-29-80

Bus Driver

5=29.-80

Employments;

Hourly

Belcher. Bobby

6.40

Ueshanls________________ F I

l! . ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

TRANSPORTATION Employments:

Terminations:

Moore, Jinsny Moore, Rebecca Neal, John Nkwonta, Austin

Penifold. Shirley

Perry. Eugene Phillips, Beth

Pickett, Raymond Pomeroy, Carroll

Reed, Ronnie Roark, Budgeman

Scott, Danny Smith, Donald

Stringer, Samuel

4f 4f

la 4f

4f 4b

4c 3

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus, Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

8-15-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

■ 8-15-80

Mechanic’s Helper

, 8-14-80

Bus Driver

8-20-80

Hourly

Walker, Phillip

$4.53

8-18-80

Mechanic's Helper

503

MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D Jersonne1 cont'd

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

SALARY

NAME

APPROVED EXP.

DEGREE COLLEGE

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMI 'T

TRANSPORTATION

Ehiployments:

Terminations:

Thomas, Arthur

Thomas, James

White, Johnny

Williams, Fairy

Wilson, Jerry

Woods. Casanova

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

8-18-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Aide

5-29-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Monthly â&#x20AC;¢

$ 418.

8-14-80

Bus Driver

Amerson. Cecil

418.

9-03-80

Bus Driver

Anderson, Ira

474.

8-15-80

Bus Driver

Arnold, Helen

418.

9-04-80

Bus Driver

Brown, Ricky

418.

8-14-80

Bus Driver

Campbell, Deborah

418.

8-14-80

Bus Driver

Campbell, Peter

418;

8-14-80

Bus Driver

Adkins, Charles

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

TRANSPORTATION

i_-

Employments:

Monthly

Carpenter, James

$ 418.

8-20-80

Bus Driver

Carson, Everett

418.

8-19-80

Bus Driver

Carter, Michael

440.

8-21-80

Bus Driver

Chanev. John

.491..

8-19-80

Bus Driver

Cobb, Herman

418.

8-25-80

Bus Driver

Davis, Delbert

418.

8-14-80

Bus Driver

Davis, Patricia

295.

8-18-80

P.T. Bus Driver

Eschmann, Thomas

418.

8-18-80

Bus Driver

Finley. Jo Dee

295.

8-18-80

P.T.* Bus Driver

Ford, Gary

440.

8-26-80

Bus Driver

Frazier. Brady

418.

8-18-80

Bus Driver

Garrett. Delma

228.50

8-26-80

P.T. Bus Driver

418.

8-22-80

Bus Driver

474.

8-18-80 ; Bus Driver

Garrett. Jewel Giles, Francis

> .

504

MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL na Ae

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

SALARY

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

TRANSPORTATION

I 1 i I 1

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

Employments:

Monthly

Hannah, David

$ 418.

8-14-80

Riis Driver

8-14-80

Bus Driver

Harrell, Wallford

440.

Harris, Kenneth

418.

9-05-80

Bus Driver

Harris. Richard

457.

8-25-80

Bus Driver

Hayes. John

418.

8-27-80

Bus Driver

Hayslip, Marchita

457.

8-14-8-

Bus Driver

Hill, Archie

418.

8-18-80

Bus Driver

Hill, Kenneth

418.

8-25-80

Bus Driver

Hill, Richard

418.

8-25-80

Bus Driver

Holley, Gregory

418.

8-25-80

Bus Driver

Holman, Dale

474.

8-18-80

Bus Driver

Hudson. Richard

418.

8-14-80

Bus Driver

Humphrey, Stanley

418.

8-21-80

Bus Driver

Jackson, Martin

440.

9-05-80

Bus Driver

SALARY

NAME

•

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

TRANSPORTATION

Employments:

Monthly

Jamerson, Louis

$ 418.

8-25-80

Bus Driver

James. Carl

220.

9-02-80

P.T. Bus Driver

James. Roger

474-.

8-18-80

Bus Driver

Jasper, Charles

418.

8-14-80

Bus Driver

Johnson, Harry

440;.

8-28-80

Bus Driver

Johnson. Vernia

440.

8-14-80

Bus Driver

Kellam. John

295.

8-14-80

P.T. Bus Driver

Landers, Lucian

440.

8-20-80

Bus Driver

418,

9-08-80

Bus Driver

Mannie, Arthur

418.

8-26-80

Bus: Driver

Martin, Evia

418.

8-14-80

Bus Driver

Maxwell, Raleigh

418.

8-14-80

Bus Driver

McCloud. Albert

418.

8-14-80

Has driver

McComb. Reba

418.

8-21-80

Bus Driver

Lewis, Paul

•

505

MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

TRANSPORTATION Employments:

Monthly

McKinney, Oscar

$ 418.

8-14-80

Bus Driver

Miller, Bruce

440.

8-27-80

Bus Driver

Mitchell, Harvey

440.

8-14-80

Bus Driver

Moore, Napoleon

418.

8-27-80

Bus Driver

Morris, Earnestine

295.

8-18-80

P.T. Bus Driver •

Mvers. Oliver

418,

8-14-80

Bus. Driver

Newton, Lloyd

418.

8-15-80

Bus Driver

Nunnelly, R.G.

418.

8-14-80

Bus Driver

Perry, Eugene

418.

8-14-80

Bus Driver

Peters, Chris

418.

8-21-80

Bus Driver

Phillips, Adam

418.

8-27-80

Bus Driver

Raipge, Wilbert

418.

8-14-80

Bus Driver

Rex. Laurence

418.

8-21-80

Bus Driver

• Roberts. Joseph

440.

8-18-80

Bus Driver

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

TRANSPORTATION

Employments:

Monthly

Robinson, Charles

$ 418.

8-27-80

Bus Driver

Rodriquez, Thelma-

474.

8-21-80

Bus Driver

Shelly. Maryanne

400.

8-27-80

Bus Driver

Smith, Clyde

418.

8-25-80

Bus Driver

Smith, Daryl

418.

8-14-80

Bus Driver

Smith, Eddie

440.

8-20-80

Bus Driver

Stevenson, Arthur

457,.

8-18-80

Bus Driver

Stewart, Samuel

418>

8-14-80

Bus Driver

Stringer, Samuel

418.

8-18-80

Bus Driver

Sykes, Frank

220.

8-25-80

P.T.,,Bus Driver

Thames, Charles

418..

8-26-80

Bus Driver

Thomas, James

418.

8-18-80

Bus Driver

Thomas, Richard

418,.

8-14-80

Bus Driver

Thompson, Ellis

418.

8-26-80

Bus Driver

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MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

TRANSPORTATION Terminations:

McCormick, James

Employments:

Monthly

Upshaw, Adolph

$ 440.

8-14-80

Bus Driver

Wilson, Oleman

418.

9-03-80

Bus Driver

Wolfe, Thanas

209.

8-18-80

P.T. Bus Driver

Fletcher. Ted

llOi.

8-18-80

Mechanic

Leaves of Absence

Ill Health

Scott, Claude

Mechanic

9-03-80

All Schools Custodial Worker

8-11-80

Star Spencer Custodial Worker

8-22-80

SERVICE Terminations:

Bacus, Irving 1 ! Bowers, Ora Mae

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

SALARY

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EFFECTIVE DATE EXP.

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE Terminations: Clour, Carl Cowen, Vernon

Cudjoe, Kendal

Dorman, Lauren Garrett, Cynthia

Haile, Shawanseh Higgins. Michael Morgan, Melvin Mukes, Vernon

Overstreet, Shirley Pullen, Keith Richardson, Mark

Simmons, Robert Stinson. Jewel

Bodine Custodian

All Schools Custodial Worker

Western Village Custodian

Roosevelt Custodial Worker

J 8-29-80

All Schools Custodial Worker

8-22-80

Jackson Custodial Worker

8-29-80

Harrison Custodian

Webster Asst. Custodian

8-18-80

Bodine Custodian

8-15-80

Oakridge Custodial Worker

9-05-80

Heronville Custodial Worker

r 8-15-80

Van Buren Asst. Custodian

8-22-80

Capitol Hill High Custodian

8-29-80

Webster Custodian

9-05-80

8-07-80

Employments:

Monthly

Williams. Ulysses

$ 62?.

625.

9-05-80

Bodine Custodian

i9-05-80 8-15-80

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——---

•

2=Q3=ao

Jackson .Custodial Worker

J 8-15-80

Wz'" ■

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MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

APPROVED EXP.

DEGREE COLLEGE

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Terminations:

Udomah, Michael Walters, Everett

Williams, Louis Worku, Amare

Wheeler Custodial Worker

8-15-80

Truman Custodial Worker

8-19-80

Webster Custodian

8-22-80

Marshall Custodian

9-0A-80

Employments:

Monthly

Davis, Leroy

$ 625.

8-2.8-80

Wheeler Custodial Worker

Coleman, Raymond

886.

8-15-80

Putnam Heights Custodian

Christian, Helven

Curry, Vai

625.

8-27-80

Hoover Custodial Worker

Buckner, Floyd

Hooks, Wadell

625:.

8-20-80

Marshall Custodian

Cort, George

Outlaw, Charles

625.

8-20-80

Central Custodial Worker

Hunter, David

Preston, Marvin

697.

8-20-80

North Highland Custodial Worker

Thomas, Robert

Shelton, Jesse

625.

8-13-80

Willard Custodial Worker

Baker, Vernon

886.

9-08-80

Western Village Custodian

Transfers:

Bruner, Leola

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

8-26-80

Southeast Lie. Cust. Worker

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Transfers:

Employments:

Monthly

Dunkin. James

$ 675. t

Additional Allocations

Coffey, David

Custodial Services

Gooden, Richard

625.

8-28-80

Eisenhower Custodial Worker

Wilkerson, Hazel

691.

9-02-80

Lee Custodial Worker

8-15-80

Bnployments-Substitutes

Hourly

Cantrell, Donald

$ 3.51

9_O?-Â«o

Webster

Clogston, Vernon

3.51

8-29-80

Carver

Dillard. Keith

3.51

8-21-80

Eueene Field

Hemphill, Michael

3,?i : . L

8-28-80

Marshall

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MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 1980 - CONT'D

PERSONNEL

Personnel cont'd

X X \

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF OCTOBER 20, 1980

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR ADJOURNED MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION

BUILDING, 900 NORTH KLEIN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M. PRESENT:

Delbert Hamm, President Freddye Williams, Vice President Jean Brody, Member Floyd Donwerth, Member Susan Hermes, Member Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member

The meeting was called to order by Dr. Hamm and Dr. Start gave the invocation.

Dr. Hamm welcomed all of the visitors present. Roll call established that all of the board members were present.

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING R. #317 A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of the minutes of October 6, 1980 as presented. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, Minutes Approved aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS

Dr. Hamm referred to an item in the agenda - "Presentation of a certificate in appreciation to Pam Olson for services to the Oklahoma City school district," and stated that Ms. Olson was out of town and unable* to be present; therefore, the presentation would be postponed until a later date. Comments Mrs. Hill expressed her thanks for the "open houses" that had been held in the schools Mrs. Hill and spoke specifically of Capitol Hill and Northwest Classen High Schools. Mrs. Hill stated that at Capitol Hill during the open house a spaghetti dinner was sponsored by the band parents as a money-making project and while the parents were eating, the band performed in their new uniforms and the choral group presented some numbers. She also mentioned of having gone to Northwest Classen and participating in the traditional visiting of classes. Mrs. Hill also.cal-lqd attention of the Board to a letter received from the Oklahoma State School Boards Association asking for a response as to concerns or problems in regard to House Bill 1706, stating that she thought it would be nice for the Board to respond as requested.

Mrs. Williams, speaking with reference to having been out of town because of illness of a member of her family, stated that she was unable to attend any of the "open houses" in the high schools; however, she was invited to Douglass High School during a regular school day, was given a tour of the facility, arid was very, very pleased with the decorum, cleanliness of the building, etc.

Comments Mrs. Williams

Mrs. Williams also mentioned the different hours that school boards in the State of Washington met while she was in the area and the fact that 22 Schools were being closed in Seattle. Because of the number of people who had signed up to speak on the closing of schools, Dr. Hamm called on the Superintendent to share with the audience the administration's guidelines and the timing of his recommendations to the Board with regard to school closings. Dr. Payzant stated: We had a number of calls today at the office about this evening Comments meeting and whether or not I would be making recommendations to the Board concerning Dr. Payzant specific school closures and whether the Board would be taking action on any recommendations this evening. The answer to both was no. The time schedule that has been laid out for some months now was to have the reports of the School Planning Councils composed of parents, teachers and administrators at the 12 schools being considered for

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF OCTOBER 20, 1980 - CONT'D

Comments Dr. Payzant cont'd

Dr. Payzant cont'd possible closure be received in the middle of October. This would give the last couple <of weeks in October and November for staff study and the development of a number of alternatives to consider the assessment of the pros and cons of those alternatives, with the timeline for presenting recommendations to the Board being set for the first Board meeting in December, which is the first Monday night in December. The original timeline which is still being followed would then provide for the month of December for public review and comment, and I would recommend at least one special meeting of the Board to do nothing but hear testimony and discuss the recommendations concerning school closures, with my recommendation being for any decision from the Board to come during the month of January, 1981. Then should the Board decide to close any schools, it would still be six months for a transition period to accommodate any changes that needed to be made prior to the opening of school and the closing of specific schools in the fall of 1981. So as of this week most of the School Planning Council reports are in and my staff and I will spend the next five weeks or so analyzing those with care and developing our recommendations to present to the Board .in early December.

HEARINGS The following persons addressed the Board:

Derek McCammon

Bearleen Wooley

Mike Woolley

Carol Braun

Clayton Johnson

Gerald DeMarsh

Jimmy Johns

Mr. McCammon, Mr. and Mrs. Woolley, Ms. Braun, and Mr. Johnson expressed concerns that Mayfair School not be closed. Mr. DeMarsh's remarks were in relation to drug abuse and the transfer of his son from one school to another of his choice.

Mr. Johns spoke regarding the consideration for closure of Nichols Hills School and spoke in support of the school remaining open. LEGAL REPORT

Attorney's Report

Mr. Bleakley reported:

Tax Protest

With respect to the tax protest filed by Phillip A. Kernan and Estella K. Kernan, the Couft of'Tax Review finds that such protest does not specifically allege illegal levies for the grounds upon illegal levies are based, and the protest has been dismissed by the Court of Tax Review.

National Gay Task Force Suit

An action for a declaratory judgment was filed in federal district court by the National Gay Task Force and an individual named Stan Easter. They are contesting the constitutionality of Title 70, Section 6-103.15.

Burdick v. ISP 52 (Midwest City School District)

Pursuant to the school board's direction, we filed a motion to intervene in the case of Burdick versus Independent School District #52. That motion to intervene has been granted and we filed a petition in intervention contesting the right of the Burdick children to attend the Midwest City school district. There is a temporary injunction in place now that permits the children to attend the Midwest City school district until the issue is resolved. I am working with the attorneys on the other side to have the matter dealt with by the court prior to the end of the first semester so that there can be an Orderly transition of the children from one school district to the other if the Oklahoma City school district prevails in that action.

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF OCTOBER 20, 1980 - CONT'D

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Start to direct the following persons to attend conferences as indicated: At No Expense to the District

(a)

Alfa Mouton, Assistant Principal, John Marshal 1 --Educator's Tour of Ft. Carson, Colorado, October 20-22, 1980. Confirmation

(b)

Carole Willis, Coordinator, Indian Education; Noveda Forshee, Indian Education Advisor; Juanita Learned, Chairperson, Indian Education Parent Advisory Committee; Reuben Topaum, Specialist, Indian Education; Glenna Lemon, Indian Education Advisor- -- National Indian Education Association Conference, Dallas, Texas, October 19-22, 1980. Confirmation

(c)

June Maddox, OCMH School Principal - Stanford University Med-Center Site Visit, Palo Alto, California, October 26-29, 1980.

(d)

Thelma Jones, Coordinator; Valeria Turnell, Assistant Coordinator, Curriculum Department Media Center -- Southwestern Library Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas, October 29-November 1, 1980.

(e)

John Hatfield, Community Education Specialist -- National Adult Education Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, November 2-7, 1980.

(f)

Jack Reynolds, Assistant Principal, Taft Middle School — National Middle School Annual Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, November 12-15, 1980.

(g)

Ronald Walker, Coordinator, Curriculum Services — National Alliance of Black School Educators, San Francisco, California, November 12-16, 1980.

(h)

James Robinson, Principal, John Marshall -- Advisory Council, National Merit Scholarship Corp., Evanston, Illinois, November 13-14, 1980.

(i)

Hallie Knight, Language Arts Consultant, Curriculum Services -- National Council of Teachers of English Convention '80, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 21-26, 1980.

(j)

Kay Vrooman, Vocational Business Teacher, Star Spencer High School -- The American Vocational Association Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 5-11, 1980.

(k)

T. Burns Westman, Music Consultant, Curriculum Services Department — Mid-West National Band and Orchestra Clinic, Chicago, Illinois, December 16-19, 1980.

(l)

Nancy Johnson, Art Teacher, Douglass High School -- National Art Education Convention-National Art Conference of Educators, Chicago, Illinois, April 10-15, 1981.

(m)

Vinata P. Johnson, Counselor, John Marshall High School — U.S. Air Force Academy Educator Tour, Colorado Springs, Colorado, November 12-14, 1980.

(n)

Audrey E. Dragg, Counselor, Star Spencer High School -- U. S. Air Force Academy Educator Tour, Colorado Springs, Colorado, November 12-15, 1980.

(o)

Jim Wallace, Principal, Telstar Elementary School -- North Central Committee at Mustang Mid-High School, December 1-3, 1980.

R. #318 Professional Trips Approved

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF OCTOBER 20, 1980 - CONT'D

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd Remarks Dr. Payzant_______

Dr. Payzant reported: 1.

Instructional Management Program You received reports on the instructional management program and the American College Testing program results for the 1979-80 school year. Following my presentation to the Board at the last meeting where I presented some detailed information on the results of the California Achievement Test, I indicated that we were moving toward a program that would combine the use of those norm referenced tests which compare the performance of Oklahoma City students with other students across the country and the Criterion Referenced Testing program which is a mastery test designed to determine what specific skills you do or do not have. The move in this direction will meet the original goal of the instructional management program of providing information on how our students are doing compared to others in the state and nation, but more importantly how our students are doing against our expectations that they master certain skills in reading and language arts. I will be coming back to you at a later meeting with some recommendations bn how that program will be focused in the future so that you will be able to see more clearly how the two pieces tie together. The material that is included in the instructional management report for the middle schools does overlap with the material that I presented to you last week in the summary report of the California Achievement Test. You also see in that material the kind of mastery progress that was made by middle school students by specific skills in the reading and math program, and that is the direction in which we are moving with the new Criterion Referenced Testing program in reading, K-5, which is being implemented this year. The other section of the instructional management report which has generated a good deal of discussion in the past deals with goals that are referred to as affective goals; those goals that deal with attitudes, values and feelings. You will recall from earlier discussion that there was strong feeling among staff that there was no perfect objective instrument available to test the progress that students were making in those goal areas. We have used in the past an instrument called the Oklahoma Inventory which asks students to respond to certain items that will give you an idea of what kind of critical thinking skills, what kind of attitudes and values they have. You can see from the results that are reported in the document that there is very little change in the data collected on the last round of those tests from the data collected in the previous year. There is also a very heavy reliance, which is not all bad in my view, on teacher judgment for measuring student progress in those areas. There is one particular goal that deals with career education where we have not met the objectives that were stated, and that is not surprising in that we really do not have a formal required career education program through the various grade levels. Although that was an item addressed by the Board when you established the Board goals, it was a much lower priority than some of the other areas and the resources and time were never provided to pursue the implementation of a career education program in any serious way.

American College Testing Results The ACT test is one of two that students who are thinking abMit continuing their education in college take during their junior or senior year. The other test is the College Board Scholastic Aptitude Test. It is a test which is really designed to assess the general development and the ability of the student to perform college-level work. It is a nationally norm test which means that a 10% sample of students who take it nationwide is used as the group against which all others are measured. If you compare the 1978-79 scores with the 1979-80 scores you will see very little change, and the scores are reported to you in three groupings, how the national group did, how the state of Oklahoma did, and how the Oklahoma City group did. Each of the three groups remain the same. In the English portion of the test all groups dropped a fraction of a point; on mathematics; that is, national, state, and local; and on the composite score the drop was very minor, and from the standpoint of the statistician not statistically significant. The national and state .groups remain the same on the Social Studies and Science portions of the test, while the Oklahoma City group dropped a fraction of a point in Social Studies and gained a fraction of a point in Science. The number of students taking the test nationally and statewide increased. The real number of students taking the test in Oklahoma City declined very slightly, but because of the overall enrollment decline, the actual percentage of students taking the test increased from 15.4% to 15.8% from 1978-79 to 1979-80. One of the other elements of the ACT test is a questionnaire that all students complete who take the test, and it has several sections, one which deals with their college and career aspirations, and the second which deals with their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the quality of their high school education. The results for 1979-80 show that there was a slight drop in Oklahoma City high school'students satisfaction with the program that: they received in Oklahoma City schools than in the previous year with one exception, and

MINUTES OF MEETING OF OCTOBER 20, 1980 - CONT'D

Dr. Payzant continued: 2.

American College Testing Results cont'd that was an increase in satisfaction with the programs offered for more advanced students. If I would hazard a guess for the reason for those two conclusions; one, I think the trauma of our school opening last year had a lot to do with the response that the students made in terms of last fall; and secondly, at the high school level anyway, last year was the first year that we instituted the advanced placement program which could account for the students being more receptive to the programs provided for more advanced students. In summary, I would say that there is no significant difference between the performance of our students, the state group and the national group in 1979-80 compared with 1978-79. That means that Oklahoma City held its relative position. I think there is still room for improvement as I said in reporting our standardized achievement tests last week, and would hope that improvement would be forthcoming in the future. No more than any other educator do I have a definitive answer on why the decline in performance of students on tests such as the ACT and the College Boards over the last ten or twelve : years. I do know that there is some indication that at least on this test there may be some stabilizing, and the possibility that the curve will turn around. We have not seen our report on the SAT scores for this year, although the national scores have been reported and that did not happen nationally this year as predicted by some educators with respect to a turnaround or the beginning of a turnaround on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

Schedule of Staff Development Workshops You have before you a schedule of staff development workshops that have been planned for the coming year with an invitation to attend any that you may be able to fit into your schedule. You will recall that you made a high priority among Board goals, staff development, and we are really making every effort with that Board goal and the passage of HB 1706 to move forward with a vigorous staff development program.

Meeting of Large City School Superintendents

The last two days I had the opportunity to attend the meeting of Large City School Superintendents in San Antonio, Texas. The topics for discussion were very timely for me. The main topic of discussion was student achievement and what appears to be good news for urban school districts in that the slide in student achievement scores on the Iowa test of basic skills or California achievement tests and like tests seems to have ended in most of the big city school districts, with most reporting modest gains starting and a new trend established over the last couple of years. We talked a good bit about our reading and math programs and the move to mastery learning and Criterion Referenced Tests and expression of some concern that if we keep improving our results in the norm referenced tests, that somebody is going to go ahead and re-norm the test and then we will be right back in the bottom half again, which is a real danger, because anytime you have a norm referenced test, they are designed to make sure that half fall below the mid-point and half fall above. So the big thrust in the cities around-the country seems to be toward Criterion Referenced Tests where the goal is to make sure that students master specific skills rather than worrying so much about how Oklahoma City compares with Tulsa, Chicago, or St. Louis. We also talked about school closures, which is a major topic in every big city in this country. We talked about bilingual education and the concern assured by most big city school superintendents, that the federal government with the proposed regulations is going beyond its proper role and function and telling us how we ought to approach bilingual education. Although those regulations are on hold for the balance of this year, we talked a good bit about the need to stay very much aware of what was happening and try to retain the option to pursue our bilingual education programs as we think best suits the needs at the local level. The value of this kind of meeting is that you learn that others are facing some of the same issues that you are. You learn that you are ahead in some things and can learn from others on other issues, and it is an extremely valuable meeting to attend twice a year.

Drug Survey

You may have read in the paper of a drug survey instrument that was distributed to school districts throughout Oklahoma with the request that it be administered to middle school, junior high, or high school students. It was proposed by a subcommittee on substance abuse of the Oklahoma Legislature chairdd by Representative Tom Manor. The staff and I reviewed the questionnaire and had a number of reservations about the survey instrument. We were concerned that the data collected from it would not be very reliable or valid, and would not make a good base for decision making about the extent of substance abuse in our schools and the right direction to go in trying to solve some of the problems related to substance abuse. I, therefore, wrote to Dr. Fisher (Superintendent of Public Instruction) and indicated to him that I had deep concern about the issue and its impact on Oklahoma youth, but that I did not think the proposed instrument was the

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF OCTOBER 20, 1980 - CONT'D

Dr. Payzant continued:

Remarks Dr. Payzant cont1d

Drug Survey cont'd

way to go about collecting data. The instrument was to be given to students without any notification of parents, and all to be done in a highly confidential manner on a designated day last week. It is always easy to be critical without being constructive in offering an alternative, and I tried to do the latter and suggested that using random sampling techniques with trained interviewers in a very small sample that was scientifically drawn could get the kind of data that are needed, but with much greater statistical validity and reliability. Today I received a call from Representative Manor and he was disappointed that Oklahoma City did not participate in the survey. I did indicate to him that I would provide him with some information about what we are doing in Oklahoma City to deal with the problem of drug abuse. I told him that our lack of participation was not to be received as any indication that we feel that we do not have a problem here. We do have a problem. I happen to believe that it is no greater and perhaps not as great as in some other areas around the state. We have had a problem for sometime in Oklahoma City and perhaps we have had it for sometime and have been dealing with it. It doesn't pop up as a major issue to us right now. I did give him a copy of our student handbook which explicitly states the Board's policy with respect to drug abuse and what action is taken. I sent him a copy of our suspension report which itemizes the causes for student suspension and lists drug and alcohol abuse as two of the reasons. I gave him a copy of our policies and procedures for conducting research in the Oklahoma City schools, which would not have been met should I have authorized this study to be given last week. I gave him a copy of a brochure about our drug-alcohol program that is just one example of a cooperative effort; that we are engaged in the Communtiy Action Program at the high school level to help students who are having problems with drugs. I also said that I would welcome the opportunity to meet with the subcommittee and give some detailed testimony about our drug education program, where our strengths are, and to speculate a bit about what might be done to improve our efforts.

Finally, I indicated to him that we have had a lot of experience, not only here but around the country over the last 15 or 20 years with drug education programs, most of which have not worked. The programs which have used techniques on either extreme, which I will identify on the one hand as extreme scare tactics, or on the other hand everything is fine, do your own thing, have not worked and what I believe is needed is some kind of a balanced approach which gives students good reliable information about the dangers of drugs, but also is broadly focused on getting students involved in a lot of positive activities and programs that will motivate them and give them opportunities to experience success so that there will not be the temptation to go to drugs as an alternative. Since this is a controversial issue, I wanted to bring you up to date on my correspondence with Dr. Fisher and my conversations with Representative Manor, and I can assure you that I will continue to work with both on this important issue in the future. 6.

Level III Grievances Dr. Payzant stated that there were three Level III Grievances waiting to be heard by the Board, and it would be helpful if the Board would address itself to the scheduling be'fore the> close of the meeting as to a possible time to hear those grievances.

Mrs. Hermes expressed a concern that Oklahoma City's mean grade average was higher than the state and national averages for their regular grades; however, on the ACT test'results the children were scoring below the national and state children as a whole; that perhaps this was an indication that they are not being challenged enough or could be graded tougher; if they are getting A's, they have a right to expect good results on the ACT test scores. Dr. Payzant responded that he agreed with most of what Mrs. Hermes had said, in that there was a suggestion of grade inflation if you looked at the grade point averages of Oklahoma City students compared with state and national grade point averages as measured against performance on the ACT test; however, he would caution that it was all right to generalize about that, but there were a number of individual exceptions to the rule, where there were students who performed very poorly on standardized tests who legitimately achieved well in class and made a good grade point; that he was a prime example ot that, one who always did poorly on standardized tests, but achieved pretty well in terms of grades in class. Dr. Payzant added that he thought Mrs. Hermes' overall generalization was appropriate and well taken and something that the school district ought to look at. Mrs. Hermes stated that she did not mean to criticize teachers, but was speaking on behalf of parents and kids, that they need to know that their grades mean something.

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With reference to a schedule of inservice training events and a resource catalog, Mrs. Bred;? stated: I thought it was outstanding that we finally are beginning to catalog the skills and strengths of our people. I think one of the strengths of the Oklahoma City school system in the past has been to train its personnel in things like stress and discipline and organizational development and human relations, and it seems on the inservice events, two people from within the system are the trainers. I assume we are going to pay these other people their fee to train them. For instance, on human relations, the presenter is Dr. Dan Marker, and I don't know what his fee is and am really not concerned about that, but I do know that he was trained by the Oklahoma City school system, and there are people still in the system who have perhaps equal training. There is John Wedman, who is a teacher at Central and I believe he is working on his doctorate now and has been trained by the Oklahoma City school system. My point is that I am concerned that we seem to have people within the system with great skills, and we have taken a lead in training these people and providing them with skills that could help our staff people attain and we are not seeming to use themidn\.ibii^swoirkshops:and Lam. wondering why.

Dr. Payzant stated that he could not answer her specific question that evening, but would be happy to make some inquiries, because he did not know specifically how individual consultants or presenters or trainers were selected for each event. Mrs. Brody added that she thought it was a plus for the Oklahoma City school system to have been out in the forefront of training of people on some innovative and progressive programs, and it seemed that they were not being used; that you would think that would be the purpose in providing them with the training; and then when they leave the system, they hire them back.

Dr. Start inquired as to who designed the drug survey instrument as referred to by Dr. Payzant? Dr. Payzant stated that the answer that he received from Representative Manor was that the legislative subcommittee itself designed the instrument after gleaning items from survey instruments that apparently were collected from around the country; that it was not clear whether legislative staff people actually did the collection and suggested the items, but Representative Manor led him to believe that the committee itself actually worked on the instrument.

Dr. Start added that "we don't need another survey to give us some meaningless statistics about the use of drugs by our young people. What we need to know is ways of meeting and overcoming problems." Dr. Payzant stated that was one of the reasons why he thought it was not appropriate to do the survey, but his real Objection was that he did not think you would have much to hang your hat on with the data that you would get from that kind of instrument.

ENCUMBRANCES AND PURCHASING R. #319 It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded byâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Mrs. Hill for approval of encumbrances as listed for October 1-10, 1980. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, Approval of Encumbrances aye; Dr. Start* aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of the following purchasing items: 1.

Hardware and Plumbing Supplies Purchase of hardware and plumbing supplies (drill, bits, washers, wire, valves, nails, etc.) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

Mid-States Industrial Supply, Inc. Severin Supply Company Herbert Helmus & Son, Inc. Hart Industrial Supply Comapny Pyramid Supply, Inc. Bosco Fastening Service Center Mideke Supply Company Central Plumbing Supply

Total

25.92 27.36 205.44 117.40 937.00 327.95 330.50 453.25

$ 2,424.82

These purchases are to be charged to Account BL 5620.05. 2.

Health Supplies Purchase of health supplies (sanitary napkins) for use by Health Services Department from Thompson Book & Supply Company which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,612.00 to be charged to Account G 420.01.

R. #320 Approval of Purchasing

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Stencil Maker Purchase of stencil maker (Rex-Rotary RR20025) for Classen High School from Duplicating Supply Company which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,046.00 to be charged to Account G 1230.11.

Water Coolers Purchase of water coolers for Central Food Service to be used at Central Innovative High School and Edgemere Elementary School from Crane Supply Company which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,187.15 to be charged to the Central Food Service Department.

Teaching Aids Purchase of teaching aids (music learning modules, headsets, and tote bags) for use by Curriculum Services from Wurlitzer Education Products (available only from designated distributor/publisher). This expenditure in the amount of $1,561.00 is to be charged to Account G 1230.03.

Agreement for Repair of Grader Approval of an agreement with Clarence L. Boyd to repair a Galion Motor Grader. This expenditure riot to exceed $4,983.00 is to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye., Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION R. #321 Approval of Items )f Buildings and Construction

It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the following items of buildings and contruction be approved:

Approval of Change Order Number One (1) in the contract with Dudley Construction, Inc., for repairs and renovations of a steam tunnel and the stadium at Douglass High School. Steam Tunnel

(1)

Re-route the steam tunnel

Deduct

$5,645.00 $5,645.00

Total Deduct

(2)

Re-route three (3) natural gas lines

Add

$2,125.00

(3)

Install 6" storm drain through the steam tunnel

Add

250.00

(4)

Install electrical conduit and pull boxes at steam tunnel

Add

370.00

Add

$2,900.00

Stadium (5)

Steel encasement of seven (7) additional columns

$5,645.00

Total Add

Net Difference

-0-

Acceptance of Low Bid Acceptance of the low bid and the awarding of a contract to Triple A Construction Company for a bus parking facility at the Service Center, 2700 North Miramar. The contract in the amount of $41,969.00 is to be charged to Bond Fund Account Number B 1414.

Approval of Agreements

Approval of agreements with the following companies which submitted the low quotations to furnish and install "short runs" of natural gas lines at ten schools. Streets, Inc. (Nine locations - Quotations #5777 of 10/3/80, U. S. Grant, Capitol Hill Middle, Polk, Roosevelt, Johnson, Taft,

$ 7,280.00

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Approval of Agreements cont'd

R. #321 Approval of Items of Buildings and Construction cont'd

North Highland, Webster arid Washington) $

United Mechanical Contractors, Inc. (one location - Quotation #5789 of 10/15/80, Southeast High School) Total

5,270.00

$ 12,550.00

These purchases are to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Hermes for adoption of the following policy on Program for Handicapped Students:

PROGRAM FOR HANDICAPPED STUDENTS

IGBA

The Board believes that education services for all young

people should be provided in the normal environment of the school and its regular classes.

However, students may be placed in spe-

cial programs when it is determined that they provide the most

appropriate education.

After cautious and documented assessment,

a student may be removed from a regul-ar classroom for special education services.

Only with parental participation will there

be activation of the referral, assessment, and placement process. To assure compliance with P.L. 94-142, the laws of Oklahoma, and

the direction of the State Department of Education, and to assure

nondiscrimination in assessment and placement of students, the i

following guidelines shall be followed:

Parents, or guardians, must be present for referral

and placement conferences; 2.

Parents must request special education placement;

Parents must be informed of their rights in language they understand;

Parents must be informed of the purposes and means of the evaluation and the interpretation of the results;

A school team of appropriate personnel will make all

recommendations for a student to be assessed and placed in a program.

The ethnic composition of the team must

be representative of the ethnic composition of the

student population in the school;

R. #322 Adoption of Policy - Program for Handicapped Students IGBA

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Program for Handicapped Students Policy cont'd

Results of mental tests shall not be used to qualify a

student for a special education program. data

All relevant

must be used in the assessment process, i.e.,

health, education and socioadaptive information; and 7.

A school psychologist must evaluate all data.

A due process procedure will be established to resolve any

disagreements about the proper placement of students in a special

education program. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. R. #323 Adoption of Policy - Student Transportation in Private Vehicles EEAE

It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of the following policy - Student Transportation in Private Vehicles:

STUDENT TRANSPORTATION IN PRIVATE VEHICLES

EEAE

When students are transported to school-sponsored activities,

properly inspected, registered, and insured private vehicles may i

/ be used with licensed drivers. The district is not permitted to buy insurance or special liabi-

lity coverage for private vehicles'.

Insurance coverage is the

responsibility of the owner of the private vehicle.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. R. #324 A motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hill for approval of the Adoption of fol 1 owing poll'eV - Smoking on School Premises bv Staff Members:_______ ________ __ SMOKING ON SCHOOL PREMISES BY STAFF MEMBERS GBK Policy - Smoking on School Premises The Board recognizes that smoking is harmful to health. by Staff MembersGb <

As role models for students, employees are expected to limit

their smoking in the presence of students.

Employees are

expected to smoke only in those areas specifically designated as employee smoking areas, in private offices, or other areas where there is limited student presence or accessibility. Proper precautions must be taken to protect against fire such

as providing receptacles for ashes.

Smoking is not permitted in the school auditorium, stage,

gymnasium, dressing rooms, classrooms, workrooms, or other rooms used for instruction of students.

Employees who smoke should be cognizant of other employees' rights to freedom from smokinq.

-On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

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It was moved by Mrs. Hermes and seconded by Mrs. Williams for approval of the following policy - Student Records: 4

STUDENT RECORDS

R. #325 Policy Tabled Student Records JO

The Board acknowledges and supports the rights of a student regarding information that is gathered, stored, used or dispensed by its employees.

It is the intent of the Board to comply with

the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, P.L.

94-142, and federal guidelines related to confidentiality and the

right to privacy of the student. The official records of a student may, upon request be inspected by the student's parent or an eligible student.

Parents or eli-

gible students have a right to an explanation or interpretation of all records. Copies of all materials will be furnished to

parents or eligible students at a cost of ten cents per copy. An eligible student is a student 18 years old or older.

Parents or eligible students may submit a complaint, in writing,

to the U.S. Education Department if they believe there has been a violation of rights afforded in these acts and their regulations.

The following types of student records are maintained at the school and/or the Central Administration Office: Health Records:

High school and middle school,

(Form J0-E1)

maintained in the clinic; elementary schools, maintained in the principal's

secretary's office.

Cumulative Folders: All schools, maintained by the principal.

Confidential Folders: All schools, maintained by a person designated by the principal (a notice

will be posted in each school stating the

person in charge of the records, Form J0-E2); Central Office, maintained in the Office

of Assessment.

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R. #325 Policy Tabled Student Records JO cont'd

Student Records Policy cont'd_____________ _____ :_____

Transcripts:

________

___

__________

At the school in which the student is

currently enrolled or last attended, maintained by the principal, and

The Planning, Research and Evaluation Department at the Central Office. Class Record Book:

At each school, current books maintained

by the teacher; others maintained by the

principal. Parents who believe that information in confidential records violates the privacy or other rights of a student, may request

that the information be amended or destroyed.

If a request is

made to amend or destroy records, the parent will be asked to sign form JO-E3.

Requests to amend or destroy confidential records may be made at

the school or the Office of Assessment.

If the request is made

at the school, principals will send the request and their copy of the record(s)

to the Office of Assessment for amendment or

destruction.

Principals will inform the person making the

request that the hearing will be held by the Coordinator of Assessment.

If the request is made at the Office of Assessment,

principals will be asked to send their copy of the record(s)

The Office of Assessment for amendment or destruction. If the parents or eligible student requests (Form JO-E3) an amend-

ment to the records or the destruction of records, the coor-

dinator of the Office of Assessment shall conduct a hearing within six school days after the request has been received. Within six days after the hearing, the coordinator shall render a

decision and give a written explanation of the decision to the person making the request.

The person requesting the hearing may appeal the decision to the Director of Special Services who shall render a decision and give a written explanation of the decision within six school days

after receiving the appeal.

The person requesting the hearing may appeal the director's decision to the Board by making an appeal through the superintendent's

office.

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Student Records Policy cont'd

If the records are not amended or destroyed, the parent or eli-

gible student may place in the records a statement commenting on

the information or setting forth any reason for disagreeing with the decision not to amend or destroy the records.

If a parent or eligible student wishes to amend or destroy the information on the studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s non-confidential records, a hearing

shall be conducted by the principal as soon as possible, but no later than six school days after the request (Form JO-E3)

received by the principal.

Within six days after the hearing, the principal shall render a decision and give a written explanation of the decision to the person making the request.

The person requesting the hearing may appeal the principalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to the appropriate director who shall render a decision

and give a written explanation of the decision within six school days after receiving the appeal.

The person requesting the hearing may appeal the director's deci-

sion to the Board by making an appeal through the superintendent's office. If the records are not amended or destroyed, the parent or eli-

gible student may place in the records a statement commenting on the information or setting forth any reason for disagreeing with the decision not to amend or destroy the records.

The district may release "Directory Information" without consent or notice to the parents.

Parents or eligible students who do

not wish to have Directory Information released must notify the school annually.

Directory Information is considered to be:

the

student's name, address, telephone listing, date and place of birth, major field of study, participation in officially

recognized activities and sports, weight and height of members of

athletic teams, dates of attendance, degrees and awards received, and the most recent previous educational agency or institution

attended by the student.

Lists of names and addresses of stu-

R. #325 Policy Tabled Student Records JO cont'd

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R. #325 Policy Tabled Student Records JO cont'd

Student Records Policy cont'd

dents will not be furnished to persons or agencies that will be

used for campaign purposes or commercial gain.

Additionally,

before names are released, it should be ascertained that such information will not be used in any way to embarrass or annoy the

school, the students, or the parents of the students. The

superintendent may authorize the release of lists of students to

federal, state, and local officials and local schools and colleges, which, in his/her opinion, offer opportunities of suf-

ficient merit to interest them. The district may release the following kinds of information to

certain persons and/or agencies without consent of or notice to parents or students:

Basic Identifying Information

Name and sex;

Birthdate and birthplace;

Home address and telephone number;

Parent or guardian name, address and telephone

number; 5.

Names and dates of school attendance, location, and

principalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name; and 6.

Current health information, e.g., allergies,

diseases, immunizations. b.

Functioning or Performance Information

Results of group standardized achievements tests;

Results of group standardized intelligence and aptitude tests; and

Academic information.

Persons or agencies who may receive the above information are as follows:

Other school officials, including teachers within the

school or school system who work directly with the students;

Officials of other schools or school systems in which the student intends to enroll;

In connection with a student's applications for, or

receipt of, financial aid; 4.

Authorized representatives of (a) the Comptroller General of the United States, Department of Education,

(b) the Secretary of the

an education agency (federal), or authoritv:

(d) state educational

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Student Records Policy cont'd

Organizations conducting studies for, or on behalf of

the district, educational agencies or institutions for the purpose of developing, validating, or administering predictive tests, administering student aid programs, and improving instruction; if such studies are conducted in such a manner as will not permit the personal iden-

tification of students and their parents by persons other than representatives of such organization and such information will be destroyed when no longer needed for

the purpose for which it is conducted; 6.

Accrediting organizations in order to carry out their

accrediting functions; 7.

Parents or a dependent student of such parents, as defined in section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954

(see JO-E4);

To appropriate persons in compliance with judicial

order, or pursuant to any lawfully issued subpoena, if a

reasonable effort to notify parents or an 18-year-old student of the order or subpoena is made in advance of the compliance; and

Appropriate persons, in connection with an emergency, if the knowledge of such information is necessary to pro-

tect the health or safety of the student or other persons.

Confidential records will be kept in a separate folder and not in the student's regular school cumulative folder.

will be kept secure in a locked area.

These records

The principal will select

one person to be responsible for these records. Confidential records include the following information:

Individual Evaluations

All specialized records of professionals who has

screened, assessed and/or evaluated the students, i.e.,

psychologist, psych.ometrist, social worker,

diagnostician, physicianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s medical assessment, or any individual evaluation as it pertains to placement in a

school program. b.

Specialized reports from outside agencies or

specialists, i.e., private schools, social service agencies, vocational rehabilitation, hospitals.

R. #325 Policy Tabled Student Records JO cont'd

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R. #325 Policy Tabled Student Records JO cont'd

Student Records Policy cont'd â&#x20AC;˘4

................

2. The following persons may have access to the confidential

records without parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; or eligible student's consent:

Special Education Teacher Regular Teacher Administrator Counselor State Department of Education Personnel Regional Education Service Center Personnel Parents/Guardian Student (if over 18 years old) School Nurse Speech Therapist Psychometrist Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Persons not included on this list, desiring to see confidential

records, must have parental or eligible student's permission to see the records.

A form (Form JO-E5) will be kept in each confiden-

tial folder to record who saw the records, on what date, and the

purpose of examination. ( Confidential records will only be released through the Office of Assessment and only with a written consent (Form JO-E7) from the

parent or eligible student.

Special attention must be given to the following: 1.

When records or data include information on more than

one student, the parents of any student shall be entitled to receive, or be informed of, that part of the record or data that pertains to their child; 2.

Where parents are separated or divorced, a written

parental consent may be obtained from either parent, unless the district has been provided with evidence that

there is a legally binding instrument which provides to the contrary.

Annually, the superintendent will devise a method to inform parents of the privacy rights of parents and students concerning

student records, the location of policies, the right to file

complaints and effectively communicating the information to parents of students identified as having a primary or home language other

than English.

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Mrs. Hill expressed a concern with regard to the length of the policy, stating that she felt it was too lengthy and too involved.

Dr. Rayzant responded that because of the significance of the Privacy Act not only locally but around the country, it was necessary that the detail be included in the Board Policy so there could be no mistake about the stand that the Board was taking with respect to the implementation of the Privacy Act.

R. #325 Policy Tabled Student Records JO cont'd

Mrs. Williams stated that because the information was so pertinent, maybe it wotild be less confusing if a lead-in paragraph could be used listing the things that the policy covered in title form, like "this regulation covers transcripts, class records, health records, cumulative records, confidential folders, etc.

Dr. Payzant added that if it would help, an introductory paragraph could be added that would itemize the subsections. Motion Tabled

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mr. Donwerth that the motion be tabled until the November 3 meeting of the Board and that the Superintendent come back with an itemized introductory paragraph.

On roll call for the motion to table, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, nay; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, nay; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion to table carried. It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Hermes that the policy on Textbook Selection be adopted as follows:

TEXTBOOK SELECTION

IIAA

R. #326 Adoption of Policy - Textbook Selection IIAA

The Board believes that there should be a variety of textbooks for

students in the district and that there should be a review of each adoption every five years.

Criteria for evaluation will

include appropriateness of content, technical quality, rele-

vance to students, objectivity, availability and quality of

teaching aids, price, and readability. Textbooks also will be reviewed to ensure that they avoid stereo-

types and biased images of racial/ethnic groups, socioeconomic

levels, and sex roles. Consistent with state statutes, the superintendent shall appoint

each textbook committee.

The superintendent shall serve as

chairperson or appoint a principal to serve as chairperson. The

committee shall be composed of teachers, administrators, and lay

persons. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

Dr. Start stated that he wanted to make everyone aware of the fact that the stadiums had been renovated and a lot of money had been put into the stadiums, but as came out of the recent Taft Stadium Board, that he thought it was only a matter of time until the district would have to include some operational funds in the budget for the continued maintenance of the stadiums; that the amount of income to support the upkeep of the stadiums was not going to continue very much longer, and looking ahead to the next budget year, it would seem that the Board, if not next year maybe the year after, may have to provide some monies out of the district operating funds to maintain the level of improvements in those stadiums.

Comments Dr. Start Re Stadi urns

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Meeting Scheduled Dr. Hamm reminded the Board of the necessity to schedule a meeting for Level III for Level III Grievance hearings. After a brief discussion, by consensus the special meeting Grievance Hearings < was scheduled for Monday, October 27, 1980, at 6:00 p.m., at which time two Level III Grievances'would be heard. Agreement by those representatives from the Union that were present was expressed. Dr. Hamm asked that Board members come to the special meeting of October 27 prepared to schedule a third Level III Grievance Hearing for a later date.

HEARINGS cont'd

The following persons addressed the Board during the second part of the Hearings: 1.

Virginia Miller

David Helseth

Glen M. Brooks

Rozel la A. Powell

Thomas C. Allen

Ms. Miller directed her remarks to a concern by Mr. DeMarsh in the first part of the Hearings that his son be granted a transfer, stating that she supported him in this request. Ms. Miller also referred to integration of schools in another city.

Mr. Helseth, Mr. Brooks, Ms. Powell, and Mr. Allen spoke in support of Nichols Hills Elementary School not being closed. R. #327 Board Recessed to Executive Session - 9:05 p.m.

EXECUTIVE SESSION A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the Board go into executive session to discuss matters of personnel and litigation. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #328 Board Returned to Open Session 10:10 p.m.

Having completed its executive session, it .was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the Board return to open session. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Fhmm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #329 Approval to Request Declaratory Judgment Re Election Information to Patrons of the District

A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mr. Donwerth that the School Board attorneys be empowered to join with attorneys representing other county and state school districts to file a lawsuit requesting a declaratory judgement against the State Attorney General's Opinion that school districts may not provide election information to patrons of the district.

R. #330 Approval for Settlement of Torrmy Davidson Case

On roll cajl,- the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. It was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the case of Tommy Davidson vs. Independent School District #89 be settled for the sum of $20,000. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

ADJOURNMENT R. #331 Adjournment 10:17 p.m.

A motion to adjourn was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Williams. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED. (A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the office of the Clerk.)

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

| |

I, the undersigned Clerk of the Board of Education of Independent School District Number 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours before the meeting, the date, time and place of the Regular Adjourned Meeting was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. I also certify that at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, notice of the date, time, place and agenda of this meeting was posted in permanent public view at the location of the meeting.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district this 1980.

Clerk, Oklahoma City Board of Education

day of

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF OCTOBER 27, 1980

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY,

OKLAHOMA, MET IN A SPECIAL MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING,

MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1980, AT 6:00 P.M.

PRESENT:

Delbert Hamm, President Freddye Williams, Vice President Jean Brody, Member Floyd Donwerth, Member Susan Hermes, Member Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member

Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; Central Office staff members; representatives from professional groups, the news media and other interested persons. Call to Order

The meeting was called to order and Mrs. Hill gave the invocation. Roll call established that six of the board members were present. the meeting at 6:15 p.m.)

(Dr. Start entered

Roll Call

SPECIAL BUSINESS

Dr. Hamm stated the purpose of the meeting, to hear two Level III Grievances, and referred to the procedure for conducting the grievance hearings. The following persons participated in the first grievance hearing:

Marie J. Wilpan, Teacher and Grievant

Jim Huff, Grievant1s Representative

George Russell, Witness and Director, Personnel Services

Dr. Thomas Payzant, Witness and Superintendent

James Savage, Respondent and Personnel Administrator/Employee Relations

Level III Grievance Hearing - Marie J. Wilpan

Dr. Hamm called for the grievance hearing for Marie J. Wilpan and the opening statement by the grievant's representative. For clarification, Mr. Huff ascertained that there were no time limits involved in the procedure for conducting the hearing.

As an opening statement, Mr. Huff stated: Ms. Wilpan was employed by the Oklahoma City school district August of 1978. She was given six years of experience and placed on Step 7. In July of this year, the Board adopted a new policy allowing for a maximum of ten years experience. Ms. Wilpan has additional years of out-of-district experience, specifically four additional years, and she has been denied placement of four additional steps on the proper salary scale. Denial of this increase in pay steps is unjust. We believe that the contract in existence at the time the Level I Grievance was initiated clearly states "no teacher shall be disciplined, reprimanded, or reduced in compensation without just cause." We would clarify for the Board that we are not maintaining that Ms. Wilpan is being disciplined or reprimanded in any way, but we do believe that since she has not been given full compensation as the Board policy now allows; she is being reduced in compensation without just cause.

Opening Statement - Mr. Huff

In an opening statement, Mr. Savage stated: The decision made at the Level II Grievance Opening Statement Hearing was that Ms. Wilpan at the time she was employed given the proper credit that - Mr. Savage_____ was being allowed under the policy in effect at that time. The adoption of a subsequent policy involving discussion when the policy was being considered by the Board, the decision was made not to make the policy retroactive to the current employees at that time. Therefore, Ms. Wilpan was not entitled to the additional years of experience credit given to employees coming new into the district. The point was made during the Level II Hearing that the employee has not been reduced in compensation. She may not have been given credit for the compensation that the grievant alleges she should have been given, but she was not reduced in compensation. Therefore, the position was that the contract was not violated and that is our position this evening.

Mr. Huff inquired as to if each member of the Board had a copy of the narrative on Ms. Wilpan, the policy as adopted by the Board in March to be effective July 1, 1980 (Professional Staff Salary Schedule GCBA), and the decision of the Level II Grievance, and was assured that they did have the copies.

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Mr. Huff also inquired as to whether any documentation had been given to the Board by Mr. Savage as to the position taken in the Level II Grievance Hearing.

<Mr. Savage responded that his narrative was the Level II decision and no other evidence was presented with it.

Mr. Hjff then referred to a section in the Level II decision under the Synopsis of Testimony - "The grievant's representative stated the grievance was dealing only with the reduction in compensation," and stated it was not correct, that the original Level II Grievance asked that the grievant be placed on the teachers1 salary schedule for credit for four additional out-of-district years; the loss of one year when she originally came in the district and placed on Step 6 was discussed. Mr. Huff added that they were questioning one year that she was not given credit for when Ms. Wil pan was employed in 1978, which was under the policy at that time. Testimony Mr. Russell

Mr. Russell responded to inquiries as to his familiarity with the section in the Personnel Handbook related to "Salary Adjustments for Approved Experience": if he was familiar with Ms. Wilpan's out-of-district experience, a total of six years; if he was aware that Ms. Wilpan had additional experience of teaching outside the six years for which she was given credit; the administration's interpretation of "out-of-district" experience; his interpretation of the policy adopted by the Board in March of 1980, to be effective July 1, 1980 - "Professional Staff Salary Schedule"; what were the specific applicabilities when the policy was presented to the Board; what was his interpretation as to whether the policy would apply only to newly hired teachers; his reply to the Board as to the cost that was computed if the policy was adopted; had there been any change in the willingness of the district to put any of its own dollars in for out-of-state experience for teachers; did any member of the Board express to him that they were in agreement that the recent policy adopted was only to bring in teachers rather than apply to teachers already employed; did he consider it proper that all teachefs should receive the same amount of credit for their years of experience; had he stated in the Level II Grievance Hearing that it was his opinion that the policy was silent as to the effect it would have on current employees; did he recall when the administrative regulations to implement the policy were developed; his familiartiy with state law with regard to out-of-state teachers experience; was the policy adopted on the basis of the way he had presented it to the Board; did he make it clear to the Board that the extra years of experience allowance was to apply to only new teachers; if there was anything presented in the Level II Hearing that would cause him to believe that Ms. Wilpan had not been given the proper credit at the time she was employed; when the new policy was adopted, was it understood that the state could only reimburse the district for the five years, of out-of-state experience; his knowledge of the legal aspect as to the interpretation of the policy with regard to out-of-state experience now; ' had jbhe possibility for the change in the policy been explained to the Board; whether the suspension of the policy was his decision, and other.

Mr. Huff expressed a desire to question each Board member who voted"as'to their intent when the policy was approved in March,.1980.

Mr. Savage stated an objection to Mr. Huff's request, stating that he thought it was out of line for the established grievance hearing; that if he had some question about what the Board members voted on that night, it was a matter of record in the official minutes ofâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;the Board.meeting. Dr. Hamm expressed agreement with Mr. Savage and stated that Mr. Russell's assessment of that was probably accurate, and that the proper time to interpret what the Board intended would be when it voted on the decision for the Level III Grievance Hearing, revealing how they understood the policy when it was passed, and that he did not think it appropriate for Board members to be called to the witness stand.for testimony.

Testimony Ms. Wil pan

Included in the testimony by Ms. Wilpan were responses regarding how long Ms. Wilpan had held a teaching certificate and the total years of experience she had including her experience in the Oklahoma City school district; when she came back to Oklahoma City to work, was she shown the policy regarding credit for seven years of out-ofdistrict experience; when she read the policy that was currently adopted, what was her reaction to the policy; did she feel that she should have had the extra year's credit for her experience as the result of the policy; did .she feel it necessary to call it to the attention of the Personnel Department; did Mr. Ruble offer anything other than his interpretation; did she have any additional personal feeling about what the Board meant when it adopted the policy; did she think the policy would apply to all teachers or just newly hired ones; if she felt like she had been reduced in compensation because of the policy; did she consider the new ten-year experience credit policy a special salary benefit that she was not receiving; what did it do to her morale other than not liking it and not receiving dollars; if she knew other teachers who were in the same situation she was by not receiving their total credit for experience; had the Board adopted a policy reducing the experience credit for out-of-state from five years to, say, two yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; whereby it might involve less credit for new teachers coming into the district, would she be present that night, and other.

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Testimony Dr. Payzant responded to inquiries as to whether he recalled the original discussion Dr. Payzant before the Board by Mr. Russell with regard to the recruitment of new teachers and the â&#x2013; purpose of the policy in recruiting new teachers to the district; did he recall, aftdr he finished the discussion and the Board discussed the policy, any discussion by Board members on whether or not the policy would be retroactive; after the Board asked for a study of the cost of the policy, did he give further explanation after the discussion by the Board of the purpose of the policy and whether or not it would apply to previously employed teachers; if he believed that the administrative regulations that were written to implement that policy whereby it only appiHeft.to newly employed teachers for this school year set forth the wishes of the Board members as reflected in the discussion of the policy; did he believe that the implementation of the policy in any way violated the negotiated agreement; if Oklahoma City was having trouble in attracting teachers; was the policy directed primarily to math and science teachers; his explanation of what he meant about it being retroactive and what he thought the Board meant about it being retroactive; if he had any direct input through Mr. Russell1s office in the development of the policy; if he had any explanation as to why the words "new teachers only" were not included in the policy or excluded "teachers currently in the district"; was any figure presented about the cost for new teachers coming in who might have the maximum; if he knew how many new teachers had been hired that had previous experience; since his testimony the evening the policy was adopted was that it would apply only to new teachers and it was an economic concern, and the economic concern was set aside and the employee concern was looked at, would his interpretation of the policy be a beneficial stance for the employer to take; did he envision that' the policy attempted to get into negotiations with teachers on salaries; on the suspension of the policy, did it mean that the Board would be deciding a change in the policy; had there been any discussion about the retention of teachers, any kind of enticement to retain the teachers who were leaving the district; and other.

In additional testimony, Mr. Russell responded to inquiries in regard to the retention of teachers and if there was a policy adopted by the Board for payment of bonuses to presently employed teachers or new teachers in special areas; and did he envision the awarding of bonuses for retention purposes as possibly negotiating with certain groups of teachers outside the negotiating unit.

Addi tional Testimony Mr. Russell

As a closing statement, Mr. Huff stated: It makes us feel very surrounded by the other Closing Statement - Mr. Huff side.by hot being allowed to question Board membersr At Level II the decisions that are made there are administrative decisions which in the past have not supported the decisions with documentation, it has been more of a verbal explanation than anything else, and that, of course, was at the Superintendent level. We are now before the Board itself which is an awkward place of attempting or having to in some way defend administrative decisions because the Board is the top layer of administrative decision making. I would ask the Board to look at the policy that you adopted. An effective date does riot rule out other employees; it simply says it goes into effect on that date. Orfe sentence that says "in order to attract experienced teachers" does not exclude teachers already in the district. We are in favor of that; Ms. Wilpanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;is in favor of that. There is no wording in this policy that limits it only to new employees. At any level when you talk with anyone about this, people are amazed that this policy is not being uniformly applied. It is an unfair policy if it is applied the way the administration is interpreting it. We maintained in our narrative that we don't believe that the Board intended to establish this particular salary benefit for a certain group, and we have been told that we can't ask the Board what they intended, that we will have to wait for your decision. Ms. Wilpan does have ten years out-ofdistrict experience. The district is getting the benefit of those ten years, just like they would get the benefit for someone being hired prior to the suspension of the policy. It is not good employer-employee relations to develop differences in pay based on a date. And that is what has happened here, an arbitrary date isâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;being used to give some extra dollars and some less dollars. When Ms. Wilpan originally entered the district, she accepted the district's explanations to her as true with no questions about them, but then as she begins to read policies that appear to be clear on the paper, she is told that is not the way it is interpreted, and that is what happened with that one year back in 1978. And that is the only year that she is asking for retroactive pay. The district maintained at Level II that they could not go any higher than the five years because state law limited it to a certain level, but the policy at that time said up to seven years. The policy prior to its suspension said ten years, and it is our understanding that the Board feels like it could, at least up until the time with the additional information with the complaint hearing, that they could do whatever they wished to absorb. If someone is on a step and receiving $10,000 in a current year, and the next year their salary increases to $15,000, but if it is supposed to increase to $20,000, that person has still been denied dollars, for no just cause. It is not an argument to simply say the person is making more dollars than they made last year. If the person is still not receiving their full compensation, they have been reduced in compensation without just cause. There are many teachers across the district who were very glad to see the Board take this initiative in terms of dollars. And there are many teachers who had the years who expected it to apply to them. As testimony has shown, it is about 55 or so teachers, and in the area of $40,000 or so. We have no figure as to how many new teachers have come in and gotten the full benefit, but I would be willing to venture that it is less than $40,000 for those teachers. The district has chosen to save dollars at the

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Closing Statement - Mr. Savage

Mr. Huff cont'd

expense of people who have been in the district. These teachers didn't come in because they were being enticed with extra dollars; they chose to teach in Oklahoma City. 3ince they came in two years earlier they are being discriminated against. They are not being given the full treatment like anyone else. I don't know of anyone who would call that fair. We did not grieve the policy; we grieved a clause in the contract that existed - "No teacher shall be reduced in compensation without just cause. " Ms. Wilpan is very concerned about the four years that she should have as an addition on her salary steps. If the district did not intend for this to uniformly apply to everyone, they should have stood up and said that very loud and very clear. It appears, too, that there may have been some concern about not making it that clear, and obviously with the suspension and the complaint hearing, the Board is going to have to rethink this whole thing again. But don't use dollars as the excuse not to uniformly apply it to current teachers; that is not proper at all. The Board made a policy. There were people who came under that policy. The Board is setting a very bad precedent, I believe, in employer-employee relations by backing off of what is clear in their written policy. Anyone can interpret laws or a grading system to fit the teachers' benefit. But if we tried that as teachers, didn't uniformly apply it the way we have got things written out, we would be in real trouble with our bosses. From the Superintendent on down the term equity has been mentioned, But if you set aside the dollar concern, the economics, this is not an equitable Board policy. We don't want to discourage the Board from using dollars to reward and compensate teachers for work they do; we are not against that, but do apply it uniformly. Again, Ms. Wilpan has four more years coming. She had one year that according to just the surface reading of the policy, she has been denied one year and should receive her compensation for that year only over the year that has been denied. She should be placed on the proper step, giving her full credit for all of her years of experience. We would hope that the Board would set aside its administrative concerns and serve simply as a hearing appeal panel and make a decision on the basis of contract language and their policy. Mr. Savage stated: I would ask the Board to keep in mind that the purpose of this grievance hearing is to determine alleged violation of the contract. As cited in the grievance the alleged violation was the employee had been reduced in compensation without just cause, when, in fact, the employee has not been reduced in compensation. There has been no evidence produced tonight that she has been reduced in compensation. For the grievant through the representative to allege that she has been simply because of a Board policy that they interpreted in one way was not applied to that teacher is not correct. We are not here to discuss or determine whether or not the Board policy is fair or unfair as the way it was applied.- It was made very clear in testimony that during the discussion by the Board the point was brought up whether or not the policy would apply to teachers previously employed, and no action was taken to change the intent of that policy. The administrative regulations were so written to implement the policy the way the Board voted it. There was brought out through testimony that a complaint had been lodged against the Board policy and as the result of a hearing held on that Board policy, a ruling was established that the policy was indeed in conflict with state law. The state law is very clear in its language about limiting the number of years of out-of-state experience that may be applied. As the result of that hearing we have suspended the implementation of the policy in this district until a final decision has been made, At the time Ms. Wilpan was hired we had a policy in effect on the number of years of experience that could be allowed, The number of years was seven; we could grant up to five years for out-of-state experience, That provision was in the law at that time; that is all we could grant. We could grant two other years of addi tional experience if someone came to us with five years of experience. That experience could have been in the state or it could have been military service, Ms. Wilpan came to us with approved experience by the State Board of Education for her five years in Spain, for her one year at Altus, and was given credit for six years which is all she could be given. She did have some teaching experience in Georgia, but that would have exceeded the five years allowed by the state for out-of-state experience. She was placed on the proper step at that time and in the past two years has been advanced a step each time.and has been given the proper salary for where she should be based on our policy in effect at the time she was hired. She got all the experience that was allowed by the district, that was approved by the state, and that was allowable under the state law that was in effect at that time and still in effect at this time. At the time this policy was discussed before the Board no one appeared before the Board to raise objections about it only being applied to new teachers when the discussion was going on about who it was to be applied to. There was ample opportunity. The position paper was first presented by Mr. Russell to the Board and it was two or three meetings after that where there was discussion about the policy, and being an open meeting anybody was allowed to appear and speak for or against the policy. No one appeared to do so, especially after the report was brought back by the Superintendent and given to the Board on what the cost would be if this policy was made to apply to previously employed teachers. I have seen no evidence brought forth here tonight by the grievant that she has been reduced in compensation as they have alleged is a violation of the contract, and, therefore, I ask that you uphold the decision made at Level II and find that there was no violation of the negotiated agreement.

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To begin the discussion, Mr. Donwerth stated that he needed some clarification on some Discussion Level III Grievance things; first, that he thought the discussion of incentive bonuses for math teachers, science teachers, and vocational education teachers did not pertain to the grievance; that the teacher was hired under the state law that allowed five years maximum out-ofstate teaching experience; however, the Board adopted a policy on March 3, 1980 to be effective July 1, 1980 that would grant ten years experience credit which said to him that the state would fund five years and the district could pick up the balance up to the ten years; that it was his understanding that when Ms. Wilpan was hired she received six years experience.and was on Step 9, but had she been teaching in Altus for the past two years and was hired the current school year, she would only be on Step 10; that the policy in effect at the time she was hired said "outside the district" and not "out-ofstate," Which regardless of where, with the exception of District 1-89, she was employed up to a total of seven years, and if Ms. Wilpan was wronged in any way, it would be that she"did not receive the seven years credit at the time that she was employed, which would have allowed her Six years for out-of-state and one year for in-state. Dr. Start stated that "having heard no evidence this evening that the negotiated agreement has been violated, I move that the grievance be denied." The motion was seconded by Mrs. Williams.

Mr. Donwerth, again, referred to Section 55 in the Personnel Policy handbook -"Salary Adjustments for Approved Experience," stating that it said "credit is allowed on either salary schedule for approved teaching experience outside the District, up to a total of seven years" and "no more than five years of military experience may be approved teaching experience." He added that the policy said "outside the District" instead of "out-of-state" and Ms. Wilpan had received six years experience, with one of the years credit when she taught at Altus, which was also out of the district; that he felt the Board was in violation of state law if the policy was still in effect that was adopted in March, 1980 allowing ten years credit for experience out of the state, since the law said that a maximum of five years experience could be g'ranted for out-of-state.

Dr. Start responded that he understood what Mr. Donwerth was saying and he thought he had brought up an issue that the Board would need to address, namely, its policy in conformance with state law, but that was not the issue brought at the grievance hearing and he thought that the Board needed to address the issue presented. Dr. Start continued by stating that he did not think it was appropriate for that particular grievance; that it needed to be addressed as far as all the other employees were concerned in the district, and the grievance was_not addressing that issue, and because the Board had not heard any evidence that it broke the negotiated agreement, was why he thought the grievance ought to be denied.

Mr. Donwerth stated that he agreed with Dr. Start; however, had Ms. Wilpan been granted the full seven years at the time of employment, she would be on Step 10, the same as a brand new teacher coming in. Mrs. Hill referred to printed information that was given to the Board wherein she stated that if you would look at the experience for Ms. Wilpan, so much of it listed was not a full year's experience; that she came from Madrid, Spain with actually five years of a full year's experience, the number of months actually taught the first three years was not full time; there was part-time listed for Cleveland County and Georgia, and she was'assuming that was where the six years came in instead of the five. Mrs. Hill added that she did oppose the policy at the time because she did not feel like it was just, that it should apply equally to all, but she did lose and she did feel like her understanding as it was presented was, and it was made very clear to the Board at the time, that it was strictly for new employees; so whether the policy was fair or not was not really the issue with which the Board was to deal with at that meeting, and she would have to support Dr. Start. Dr. Hamm expressed a concern that a policy was suspended, stating that he was under the impression that if the Board set a policy it was in effect. He questioned the fact that if a policy was in violation of state law, was it automatically suspended? Dr. Hamm stated further that he thought the Board should have been notified right at the time it was suspended; that any time any of the Board's policies were suspended because they were in violation of state law, the Board should know about it so it could address itself to that. Dr. Hamm mentioned that Mr. Huff had called for an interpretation from the Board as to how each member felt when the policy on Professional Staff Salary Schedule was voted in March, 1980, stating that he thought their action of voting would reveal that interpretation, unless other members would like to do as Mrs. Hill and state their understanding of what the policy was for the recruitment of new teachers, applying to new teachers only and was not to go back and apply across-the-board to people already employed, which was his understanding.

Mrs. Brody questioned the fact that it was brought up in the testimony that Mr. Russell stated that the new policy was "silent" on some things, and she did not understand how you could interpret something as being silent. She continued that the Board had a policy that seemed to mean different things to different people and wanted to know what did the silent impact mean to the administration or what did the silent impact mean to the teachers?

R. #332 Level III Grievance Denied - Marie J. Wilpan

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R. #332 Level III Grievance Denied - Marie J. Wilpan cont1d

Mrs. Hill expressed her surprise that the policy was described as being silent in view of the minutes of that meeting as recorded.

<Mr. Donwerth indicated that he remembered that Board members were asked how they felt about the policy at the time it was presented and he would admit that the incentives would be for the immediate; however, he still maintained that Ms. Wilpan should have received an additional year of experience at the time she was hired.and had she received that year she would be on Step 10 instead of Step 9. Mr. Huff explained the step that Ms. Wilpan was on and the step for which they were asking.

Mr. Savage explained that it was not the personnel policy at the time she was hired, but state law that said no more than five years of out-of-state experience could be granted, and the same law was still in effect. Mr. Donwerth and Mr. Savage continued to discuss the interpretation of the out-of-state experience as granted by state law and the policy adopted by the Board, and whether there were teachers employed presently that had been granted ten years of experience for outside the district.

Mr. Savage added that there may have been teachers hired under the ten-year condition from the time the Board policy was adopted, but as the result of a Level II Complaint Hearing on the Board policy, it was discovered that the policy was in conflict with state law and was suspended by the Director of Personnel Services because it was in violation of the state law.

After Mr. Donwerth asked what procedure would be followed as far as the teachers were concerned that had been granted the additional, Dr. Hamm stated that was something that the Board would address, but not at that meeting. Mrs. Williams stated that for the benefit of those persons who were not members of the Board at the time the policy was voted on, it was designed as an emergency recruiting measure; that the minutes would show that there was a lengthy discussion but it was understood that they were voting on a policy to help the school system with its needs for teacher hiring.

Dr. Start stated as a reminder to the Board that he and Mrs. Hill disagreed at the time because she wanted to make the new policy applicable to all currently employed people and they disagreed on the economic factor because they did not know how much it was going to cost and were quite willing to let it stand. However, he continued that if there had been inequity created by an action of the Board, there was not one of them that Would not.be willing to address the inequity, and if that was brought to their attention, he was sure that they would be glad to reconsider it; that as shown in the minutes of that meeting, he repented and would be willing to repent again if he had done something wrong, but he was not going to repent and be forced into evaluating unfair policy which created an inequity to the system at a grievance hearing which Charged the Board with violation of the negotiated agreement; that the Board had always been willing to be fair and address inequities and would if it wasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;brdughtrtotthem in the proper format.

Mrs. Brody'stated that since she was not present when the policy was discussed and did not have the intent of the Board, in reading it, it simply said that "we will give these teachers this much credit for experience" and she was concerned that a policy was written that was not that specific in what it meant, and in looking at it without knowing the history, it looked like it meant "we will give teachers benefit of this much credit." Dr. Hamm responded that he would disagree with that interpretation because "in order to attract experienced teachers" was mentioned twice, and it did not say "retain" but "attract," and also that it was presented in a packet for recruiting new teachers.

Mrs. Brody added that it did not say "new" teachers, and you could "attract" experienced teachers who would like to stay in the system. Mrs. Hermes stated that she was finding herself on two sides; that she did not believe Ms. Wilpan's grievance violated the contract, because she did not think the policy was either clear or fair and no matter how she voted she was hot being true to herself because she thought it was rightful to consider the dignity of teachers; that if you are going to do for one, you need to do for the rest because it matters down the road how you treat your people; and if she were a teacher, she would want the policy to be retroactive for experience; again, she thought that it was an unfair policy and she did not think they really intended it to be that way.

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Dr. Start, again, stated that the Board established policy and if it passed a policy that was unjust, unfair or discriminated, they coiild correct it anytime. Mrs.< Williams asked that the Board remember that the policy was presented in a packet designed to attract new teachers to the system, and Mr. Russell made the presentation and the policy came forth, and having worked in Personnel, it was her experience and if you would check personnel regulations, if ;it had intended to give to those on board, it would have said retroactive.

R. #332 Level III Grievance Denied - Marie J. Wilpan cont'd

Mr. Donwerth added that the Board needed to reconsider the policy and see what it could come up with as to what could be allowed for teachers who were already employed.

Mrs. Williams indicated, however, that because the question before the house was the grievance, that consideration would have to take place at another time. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, nay; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, nay; Mr. Donwerth, nay; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried and the grievance was denied. Following the vote, Mr. Donwerth stated that he would like to explain his nay vote, which was only because the district had possibly granted more than five years out-of-state experience to other teachers that came on board. (Dr. Hamm called for a 15-minute recess before hearing the second Level III Grievance.)

Dr. Hamm stated that the meeting would be resumed for hearing the Level III Grievance for Jerry P. Andrews. ' ?. â&#x2013;

Level III Grievance Hearing - Jerry P. Andrews

The following persons participated in the hearing:

Jerry P. Andrews, Teacher and Grievant

Jim Huff, Grievant1s Representative

George Russell, Witness and Director, Personnel Services

Carl Ruble, Witness and Supervisor, Employment Services

David Renfro, Witness'; and President, Oklahoma City Federation of Teachers

James Savage, Respondent and Personnel Administrator/Employee Relations

Statement of Grievance: "Grievant has not been placed on the proper salary step for the 1980-81 school year. Grievant has been denied five additional years of approved out-of-district teaching experience." Provision of Agreement Violated: "Article VII, Paragraph 0."

Relief Sought:. "Grievant be given full credit for the five additional years of approved out-of-district teaching experinece. Grievant be placed on Schedule 4, Step 13 beginning with the 1980-81 school year. There is no demand for retroactive pay for the previous school years, 1978-79 and 1979-80." Mr. Huff stated: Mr. Andrews was also employed in August of 1978; he was given five years of experience and placed on Step 6. Mr. Andrews has an additional five years out-of-district experience, is currently on Step 8 and we maintain that he should be on Step 13 according to the Board policy. He has been denied those five additional steps unjustly, so therefore his compensation has been reduced without just cause which is what we are grieving. Mr. Huff referred to the Statement of Grievance, Provision of Agreement Violated, and the Relief Sought.

Opening Statement - Mr. Huff

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Opening Statement - Mr. Savage

Mr. Savage stated: At the time Mr. Andrews was employed in August of 1978 he was given the total amount of experience allowable under state law at that time, that being five years for out-of-state teaching experience. He had a total of 10 years <out-of-state teaching experience when he came to work for us. But under the policy in effect at that time for out-of-state experience and state law, five years was all the state approved as approved experience. We maintain that his compensation has not been reduced and that there has been no violation of the negotiated contract, and on the basis of what we heard in the previous grievance hearing and the decision made, I think that his grievance should be denied.

Testimony Mr. Russell

In responding to inquiries, Mr. Russell was asked to explain what he meant by the "policy was silent" in its specific reference to new teachers; did he know how many teachers were employed under the new policy; was Mr. Andrews given the amount of .: experience credit for out-of-state teaching experience allowable by law at the time he was hired, and other.

Testimony Mr. Ruble

Mr. Ruble responded to inquiries related and concerning the new policy, was it correct that the basic premise for denying both grievants the full years of experience was the date and the reference to attract teachers; did he know how many teachers new to the district that the Oklahoma City system had employed this year; of an approximate 250 or 300 teachers employed, how many would he say were brand new teachers; did most of the new teachers hired come in under the new policy or after the suspension; did he recall when the policy was suspended; in his discussion with Mr. Andrews, was there any discussion of inequity that the policy did not apply to all teachers, and other.

Testimony Mr. Renfro

Mr. Renfro responded to questioning of his interpretation of the language in House Bill 1706 regarding years of credit for out-of-state teaching Experience for the purpose of salary increments and retirement; what was his interpretation of the application for retirement purposes; concerning the placement on any salary schedule, did he perceive it as limiting the district from going to anything above five; regarding the salary steps in the district ranging from 1 to 17 or 18 steps, was he aware of what the district based its placement of people on the various steps, and other.

Testimony Mr. Andrews

In his testimony, Mr. Andrews was asked to identify the total years of experience in his background of teaching; when he was employed did he have any questions of his being granted credit for five years of experience; what was his expectation when he read the policy adopted by the Board allowing up to ten years for out-of-district experience; did it bother him that someone could come in and be placed some steps above him; what was it that bothered him about that; was he holding back any of his experience from the di strict for which he was not given credit for; what was the reason that he had been given that!ihe' woiiild not receive the extra five steps; did the answer he was given that the policy would apply to new employees appear to him as a just cause for his being denied the adcflt'lonall credit for teaching experience, and other.

Closing Statement - Mr. Huff

Mr. Huff stated: I am not for sure the Board really, as a group, grasped the seriousness of the situation. It appears that thereis still some discussion that the policy itself may be bad and may not be equitable. We still maintain that the employee has not been given the same pay as another employee with the same experience and the same educational background. If that doesn't happen, there must be a reason. An arbitrary date and the part of a phrase is not just cause. Mr. Andrews has expressed his concern that the district is not treating him fairly; not because of the earlier policy, he has accepted that, there is no request for any back pay or anything. On the basis of the policy that is now in effect, it has only been suspended. There are 100 or more people that have come in under that policy. The main reason given was that it was an economic reason. That is exactly why Mr. Andrews is concerned about this; he is losing dollars out of each warrant that could be used to live on. He made a sacrifice to come to Oklahoma; he chose to be here, which was before you had any special incentives. Now that you create special incentives, you take it away from someone who has demonstrated some concern for the district. Compensation isa negotiated item. I question that the district has been making some additional compensation decisions outside the negotiating realm. We chose not to argue that particular issue, we didn't want to muddy it up. The Board must acknowledge that Mr. Andrews is not receiving the exact same dollars as someone with the equal background and educational qualifications. That is not proper; that is reducing without just cause. The only proper thing really for the Board to do is to grant him the five years and simply move him up on the steps. That is no big deal, but it will cost dollars. But that is the reason for the policy in the first place, is to attract teachers. Reading from the Board Highlights, "one of the Board's recently adopted goals has to do with the encouragement and retention of quality staff and the improvement of personnel recruitment." Just because someone is alreay employed in the district, I don't think it is proper for the district to take advantage of them and to consider them less important in holding them than somebody new. Again, the Board has the final say on what they meant by that policy and we have heard some earlier testimony. I would like to question the Board members specifically on what

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Mr. Huff cont'd they intended. I am very concerned that the Board may simply just drop the policy. But^that is not going to solve what has happened to Mr. Andrews or Mrs. Wilpan. And even if you reward it, the harm has already been done in terms of salary. It is only proper that the Board simply give him his proper steps and move on. If then, they want to adjust the policy, fine. But it is not proper to leave someone in limbo while you are going back and forth about it, giving it to some and taking away from others. We are very adamant in maintaining, even though the person is making more dollars, Mr. Andrews has been reduced in what he should be making. That is reduction in compensation and there has been absolutely no just cause offered; the contract has been violated. We are not grieving policy.

Closing Statement - Mr. Huff cont'd

Mr. Savage stated: I would like to state to the Board again that the purpose of this grievance hearing is to determine if there has been a violation of the negotiated agreement. We are not here to discuss the fairness or unfairness of the policy or here to discuss what particular teacher or representative would like for the policy to say. The basic fact is that policy was adopted and it stood and was implemented on that basis. The grievant was employed and given five years out-of-state experience as provided by the policy in effect at the time he was employed and as limited by state law. He was placed on the proper step for the amount allowable for the amount of experience that we could give him and has advanced steps since he has been in the district. He has received proper compensation. He did receive proper compensation last year; he was given a salary increase this year, and in no way has his compensation been reduced. It is our strong feeling that based on the testimony given not only in this hearing but in the previous hearing the grievant did receive and is receiving the proper compensation allowable. Therefore, I request you uphold the ruling made at Level II and that the negotiated agreement has not been violated.

Closing Statement Mr. Savage

A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the grievance (for Jerry P. Andrews) be denied.

R. #333 Level III Grievance Denied Jerry P. Andrews

After Dr. Hamm asked for discussion of the motion, Mr. Donwerth stated that he would reiterate the discussion that took place on the Level III Grievance Hearing for Ms. Wilpan, and since they had been through that, he would see no reason to repeat it. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, nay; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, nay; Mr. Donwerth, nay; and Dr. Hamm, aye. I Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carred and the grievance was denied.

Dr.Hamm stated that it would be necessary for the Board to schedule two additional grievances. Mrs. Hill inquired as to whether the grievance scheduling was needed for a grievance the same as those that had just been heard, that if it was the same issue that maybe they needed to look at the policy because She had a problem with the policy being cancelled, thinking that only the Board could do something like that. Dr. Payzant responded that there were two Level III Grievance requests, one for hearing a.grievance at-Lev'eT II and the second for a Level III Complaint Hearing.which dealt with the new policy and whether it was in compliance with state.law.

Dr. Payzant continued that he was fully aware that the Board only by its own action could change or modify policy, but as chief administrator he felt that he had the responsibility when he sensed that there may be a policy which was in conflict with state law to suspend it pending specific action by the Board so that if there had been any violation that they would not compound it by acting for a longer period to continue that violation; that only the last week was the complaint heard and the decision rendered at Level II, and when it was, it was based on that decision at Level II that the policy was suspended for the time being; there had not been another Board meeting other than the special meeting held that night and the parties that were involved in the complaint had asked for it to be heard at Level III; but it was not at all an attempt on the part of the administration to act independently of the Board;when. < information came to him that suggested that the district not be put in further jeopardy, I he thought he had the obligation to say halt until there was an opportunity to get the ~ matter redressed. Mr. Donwerth asked that since the policy was suspended, did the district intend to hire teachers for the remainder of the year?

Dr. Payzant stated that they would hire additional teachers throughout the year as vacancies occurred, but not in large numbers; that all he had done was say that any teachers who were hired in that period of time, until the matter was clarified, that they not be granted credit on the salary schedule for out-of-state experience under the new policy because of the possibility that it was in violation with the state statute.

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Members of the Board continued to discuss the types of hearings that were pending and a possible time they could be scheduled and the clarification of a complaint as compared to a grievance.

Mr. Donwerth suggested that he would hope the Board would delay setting up a hearing or maybe even they could do away with the hearing by receiving some official opinion on the state law on the policy. Dr. Payzant stated that he would be wj 1 Nngitg approach it on the basis of requesting an official interpretation from the State Department of Education that had responsibility for giving guidance to school districts throughout the state and administering the particular section of the statutes over the years. After further discussion of the complaint hearing related to the policy that had been suspended, it was agreed that the Superintendent could follow the recommendations as he presented in seeking opinions before the complaint hearing was held. Dr. Payzant stated that he would go ahead and make the request to the State Department for their interpretation, and then depending on their response, perhaps it would be necessary to go to the next step and ask the appropriate parties to seek an Attorney General's opinion. Dr. Start mentioned scheduling the complaint at the next Monday night's Board meeting and addressing it in some way, after which, Dr. Hamm stated that he would meet with the Superintendent and talk about the procedure and address the issue as it was being discussed.

Scheduling of Level III Grievance Hearing

After further discussion, the next Level III Grievance Hearing was scheduled for Tuesday, November 11, 1980, at 6:30 p.m.

ADJOURNMENT

R. #334 Adjournment 9:40 p.m.

A motion to adjourn was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Dr. Start. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA ) STATE OF OKLAHOMA

% I, the undersigned Clerk of the Board of Education of Independent School District No. 89- of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours before the meeting,., the date, time and place of the Special Meeting was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. I also certify that at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, notice of the date, time, place and agenda of this meeting was posted in permanent public view at the location of the meeting.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district this ^Zday of 1980.

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF NOVEMBER 3, 1980

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, â&#x20AC;˘< 900 NORTH KLEIN, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M.

PRESENT:

Delbert Hamm, President Freddye Williams, Vice President Jean Brody, Member Susan Hermes, Member Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member

ABSENT:

Floyd Donwerth, Member

Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; William Bleakley, Attorney; Central Office staff members; representatives from professional groups, the news media and other interested persons. The meeting was called to order by Dr. Hamm and Mrs. Williams gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Dr. Hamm welcomed all of the visitors present.

Visitors Welcomed

Roll call established that five of the board members were present. the meeting at 8:20 p.m.)

(Dr. Start entered

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS A motion was made by Mrs. Hermes and seconded by Mrs. Hill for approval of the minutes of October 20 and 27, 1980 as presented. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #335 Minutes Approved

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS

Mrs. Williams referred to homecoming activities*at Northeast and Douglass High Schools and her attendance of the football game at Douglass. She also spoke of Northwest Classen High School and the RIF (Reading Is Fundamental) Program and how proud she was of the program.

Comments Mrs. Williams

Mrs. Hill mentioned that at the last Board meeting she had asked Dr. Payzant to respond to the Oklahoma State School Boards Association letter regarding House Bill 1706; Dr. Payzant did respond as suggested and she wanted to thank him publicly for the very good letter. Mrs. Hill added that it was educational for her even as a board member, because so many times as board members they do not realize some of the bad points and good points of a bill.

Comments Mrs. Hill

Mrs. Hill also expressed appreciation for a week's agenda of events that she received from Douglass and John Marshall High Schools, and the one that she had been receiving weekly from Northwest Classen; that she did enjoy the Election '80 that took place in the schools, which Dr. Ruth Faine was in charge of and the students were involved citywide and she thought it was a very beneficial program.

Mrs. Brody stated that she and Mrs. Hermes went to Willard School for the Adopt-A-School Comments Program by Robberson Steel Company; that it was a good turnout and she thought it was Mrs. Brody the beginning of a new era for the Oklahoma City schools as far as community involvement and business and the joining of hands of business and school/community. Mrs. Brody added that she was very pleased with Willard School and the staff there, and the Robberson Steel Company; that it was a marvelous evening.

HEARINGS The following persons addressed the Board:

Sherman Di 11 berg

Pat Vaught

Mr. Dillberg and Mr. Vaught spoke regarding Eugene Field School and the support from the community that it remain open. Mr. Vaught presented a petition to Dr. Hamm on behalf of the Eugene Field patrons that the school not be closed.

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Dr. Hamm asked Dr. Payzant to respond to comments by the speakers with reference to school closures.

<Dr. Payzant stated: For those who have come from Eugene Field, you might be interested in the process. The month of November my staff and I will be wrestling with the very difficult decision of what recommendations to bring to the Board. They could range anywhere from recommendations to close no schools to close all 12 that are on the list. I can assure you that the latter alternative will probably not be a seriously considered one, because there is no way this year that we could close 12 in one year. At the first Board meeting in December, I have told the Board that I would bring specific recommendations; the Board would take the month of December to have public consideration of those recommendations, provide an opportunity for more public hearings and testimony, and then hopefully the Board will make a decision on those recommendations during the month of January so that the matter will not be hanging month after month and a decision will be made so that planning can go forward for the fall of 1981. I can assure you that I do not take the responsibility lightly for making these recommendations and we will look very carefully at all alternatives available and make sure that the choices are clear so that the Board will have the best information possible to decide among them. LEGAL AND FINANCIAL REPORTS

Attorney's Report

Mr. Bleakley reported: 1.

Charles Evans Complaint

Mr. Charles Evans had filed a complaint alleging discrimination by the district with the EEOC office. We have received an order from that body dismissing the claim of Mr. Evans. Mr. Evans will now have a right to bring a legal action if he so desires based on the ruling of the body.

Hudiburg Case

We filed a Motion for Summary Judgment in the case of the school district versus Hudiburg. The judge overruled the Motion for Summary Judgment stating that there were some issues of fact in that matter which would have to be determined at a trial, and I am moving forward to get the matter set on a trial date.

Summons and Complaint by Gerald DeMarsh I have been provided with a copy of a summons and complaint filed by Gerald DeMarsh. Apparently, this complaint was filed in federal district court on October 14, but the school district was only served with the summons today. This matter relates to Mr. DeMarsh's child's attendance at Moon School.

Treasurer's Report

Mr. Ladd gave a routine treasurer's report. the office of the Clerk.)

(A copy of the report is on file in

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT Employee of the Month

Dr. Payzant presented Dr. John Brandt, President, the Association of All School Personnel, who gave preliminary remarks regarding Mr. Henry Minter, Custodian, Stand Watie Elementary School, having been selected as Employee of the Month.

A Certificate of Recognition was presented to Mr. Minter on behalf of the Board of Education and the Association of All School Personnel by Dr. Payzant.

Mr. Minter responded. Certificate of Recognition to Dr. Payzant

Dr. Hamm introduced Dr. Loyce Willett, Consultant for Health and Physical Education, who presented a Certificate of Recognition to Dr. Payzant from the Oklahoma Association of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation for his commitment to physical education. Dr. Willett stated that she had the honor of standingin for Dr. Payzant when he received the award from the Association on October 16, 1980. Dr. Payzant responded.

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd |

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams to direct the following persons to attend conferences as indicated:

At School District Expense

(a)

Frances Mae Jackson, Coordinator Office of Assessment -- Association for Children with Learning Disabilities, Atlanta, Georgia, February 17-22, 1981.

(b)

Oliver Stripling, Director School Plant Services — Annual International Conference Council of Educational Facility Planners, Dallas, Texas, November 22-25, 1980.

(c)

Odessa Wycoff, Coordinator Vocational Education — American Vocational Association National Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 5-9, 1980.

(d)

Ann Hsieh, Supervisor of Accounting Services; and Milton Bear, Assistant Programming Manager-Management Science America, Inc. National Training Workshop, Atlanta, Georgia, November 19-21, 1980.

At No Expense to the District

(e)

Sharon Lippert, Diversified Education ■ Teacher at John Marshall -- Field Trip for Diversified Education/Marketing Students, Dallas, Texas, October 23, 1980. Confirmation.

(f)

Bob Royse, Principal, Rockwood Elementary — Phi Delta Kappa District III Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas, November 5-8, 1980.

(g)

Cam Byrd, Coordinator, Curriculum Department, Bilingual and ESL Resource Center - Convocation II, Austin, Texas, November 19-21, 1980; Lubbock, Texas, January 14-16, 1981; and Port Arthur, Texas, February 25-27, 1981.

(h)

Dorothy M. Tucker, Principal, Northeast High School; Charles Clark, Jr., Assistant Principal, Capitol Hill Middle School--OASSP Annual Trip to NASSP National Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, February 20-24, 1981.

(i)

Carol Berry, Assistant Director, Special Services Department; Wyolene Brown, Chief School Psychologist, Office of Assessment -- CEC Conference on Culturally Diverse Exceptional Children, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 15-17, 1981.

(j)

Anita Jean Reynolds, Counselor, Webster Middle School-National Middle School Annual Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, November 12-15, 1980.

(k)

Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent, to speak at Conference on Alternative Education, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, December 3-5, 1980.

(l)

Billie Nash Graham, Teacher, Curriculum Comprehensive Arts -- National Association for Teachers of Singing, Nacogdoches, Texas, November 11-12, 1980.

(m)

Claudine Logan Hoover, Teacher, Moon Middle School -- Developing Attitudes Toward Learning Seminar, Dallas, Texas, November 11-14, 1980.

(n)

Alvin Owens, Principal, Riverside Elementary School — Academy III for Elementary School Principals, Fort Worth, Texas, November 10-11, 1980.

(o)

Roy Watson, Principal, Shidler Elementary School -- Academy III for Elementary School Principals, Fort Worth, Texas, November 10, 1980,

(p)

Sarah Hoyt, Teacher, Southeast High School -- Southwest Theatre Conference for Speech and Drama, Austin, Texas, October 30-31, 1980. Confirmation.

(q)

Gene Steiger, Special Projects Administrator; Hope Alvarez, Coordinator Title VII Program, External Funding Department -- Technical Assistance Meeting on 1981-82 Title VII Application, Fort Worth, Texas, November 17, 1980.

(r)

Randy Fields and Dwight Surface, Agricultural Instructors, John Marshall High School -- National FFA Convention and American Royal Show, Kansas City, Missouri, November 11-14, 1980.

(s)

Howard White, Food Services Administrator -- American School Food Service Association, Williamsburg, Virginia, December 7-11, 1980.

(t)

Vivianette Lewis, Teacher, Northeast High School --National Alliance of Black School Educational Issues Affecting Education, San Francisco, California, November 12-16, 1980.

(u)

Dr. Leon Edd, Principal, Star Spencer High School -- Annual Meeting of the North Central Association, Chicago, Illinois, March 29-April 1, 1980.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: ay%; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye.

Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #336 Professional Trips Approved

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd

R. #337 Board and Superintendent Authorized to Execute Documents cont'd

It was moved by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hill that the President of the Board and the Superintendent be authorized to execute documents and submit an application for a grant as follows:

Metric Education Program as authorized by the Education Amendments Act of 1978, Public Law 95-561.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. R. #338 Adoption of 1981-82 High School Curriculum Catalogue

Dr. Payzant stated: One of the district's fine accomplishments in the Curriculum Department for the past several years has been the development of at high school curriculum catalogue. It has now become an annual task and we begin very early in the year; in fact, prior to the end of the previous year, to pull together recommendations and suggestions for modification so that we can bring them to you early enough in the fall for your consideration in time to allow us to have the catalogue printed and distributed to students early in the new calendar year to be useful to them as they plan their programs for the following school year. Mrs. Martha Nell Dodson, who is responsible for working with other staff on this project, will highlight the major changes that you find in the recommendations and respond to any questions that you may have about specific areas.

Mrs. Dodson - You will find that the major changes that we are recommending for the 1980-81 school year is that we have taken the Drama courses from the Language Arts section; we have changed their names and we are going to put them in the Fine Arts section as a means of being part of the Fine Arts requirements and course offerings. This will meet the Fine Arts Implementation Plan suggestions. We have also added two credits in Fine Arts to our graduation requirements. Students will have to take two credits or two courses in Fine Arts in order to graduate from the Oklahoma City schools. This also is in terms of the implementation plan for Fine Arts. We have indicated a change in the sequence of courses that will be required in the Social Studies. Beginning with the 1981-82 freshman, we will be requiring only two credits in U.S. History, a credit in Oklahoma History, and a credit in Government, and this is a change beginning with those students. We are recommending that we limit the courses in Language Arts which can be taken to fulfill the Language Arts requirements for graduation, and we are doing this because we want to make sure that our students have a good fundamental foundation in the ability to write, ability to read, and exposure to good literature, both American Literature and English Literature. And then from that point they can move out into the more specialized subjects and possibly be more successful with them and have a contribution to make to them as well as to receive from them. This may be a controversial issue later in the year. We have added two new advanced placement courses, one in Studio Art and one in Music Theory.

Members of the Board inquired:

Mrs. Hermes - If we are adding the two Fine Arts credits for graduation, does this mean our students will be getting two less electives? Mrs. Dodson - Yes, it does. We will be identifying some of their elective credits. They can take anything in the Fine Arts that they want to, but we will be requiring them to take the electives in the Fine Arts. We have not increased the requirements, though, for graduation. This will just come out of their electives pool. Dr. Payzant added: In the area of the Language Arts requirement, we are saying that studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;will be required to take the fundamental course in English/Language Arts, which will include writing, grammar, spelling, and literature. That is going to be controversial in some areas because heretofore students have been able to take Journalism, Debate, and other elective courses arid have them count for Language Arts. And there will be some who will argue that by making this change, we will be undermining the Journalism, Debate and other programs. I don't think that has to be so in that I think those programs can very much complement and not duplicate or overlap what a student would get in the fundamental English or Language Arts course at the various levels. We are making an effort to provide more support for some of these other areas such as Debate and Journalism. For example, the Director of High Schools and some of the people from the Curriculum Department have been arranging meetings for teachers who work with Journalism or Debate and sharing ideas and providing some support for those programs. We received a small grant through the Community Foundation earmarked specifically for Debate to provide each high school with some money to help support their Debate program. So we are going to work in other ways to make sure that this shift does not pull the rug out from under some of these important elective programs.

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd Mrs. Hermes - I noticed that in taking out one of the semesters in the U.S. History thaÂŁ you are deleting the Pre-Civil War area. Are we going to filter this down to the middle school level and suggest that they emphasize it there? Mrs. Dodson - Yes, our eighth grade Social Studies program will be involved in the Pre-Civil War of U.S. History. We have put in U.S. History at the middle school level in the eighth grade. Theyhwill ;bd covering what was formerly covered in that first semester of U.S. History.

Dr. Hamm - On varsity athletics offered after school, I was wondering if the time is not right for our district to consider maybe establishing a sport to be offered to our students, primarily soccer. I am thinking it would be a program that would be relatively inexpensive to fund if we have the facilities to practice on, etc. I was wondering if any thought or study had ever been given to including that as an offering in the athletic program?

Mrs. Dodson - Not to my knowledge. I don't think it has been discussed officially. I know that there is a ground swell here inâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Oklahoma City in terms of soccer. We haven't had a request for it to my knowledge. Do you mean that as another after-school sport? Dr. Hamm - Yes.

Mrs. Hill - Do some of our schools now offer soccer; some of our middle schools in their intramural activities? Dr. Payzant - There are several that have soccer clubs and they actually do play after school and arrange competitions; that is, at the high school level. I was contacted by a parent group several months ago asking about the possibility of including soccer as an interscholastic sport and I advised them to talk with the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association about the process by which a sport is recognized for interscholastic competition in the State of Oklahoma, because there is a relationship between acquiring the blessing of that organization and having a full-fledged interscholastic program. The alternative to that would be for the district to get more actively involved in sponsoring a club type activity which would be more kin to intramurals or a half-way step between an intramural program and an interscholastic program. I did not hear back from t+iat parent group, so I am not aware of whether they did contact the state organization and if they did what kind of response they received.

Dr. Hamm - I am wondering if our secondary activity consultant couldn't check into that for the Board? Dr. Payzant - We would be happy to. Dr. Hamm - Do the soccer clubs that are now functioning receive any credit? varsity athletics do meet a physical education requirement, don't they?

Dr. Payzant - yes-,-on the physical education requirement. answer to the first part of the question.

The

I will have to find the

Mrs. Brody - On the Athletic Conditioning, does that include boys and girls?

Mrs. Dodson - I think it is only boys. Mrs. Brody - Why?

Mrs. Dodson - I think we have just so recently been into girls sports, that I don't thin it has been attended to with girls yet, but there is no reason it couldn't be, There is no reason it couldn't be girls if we had enough girls at any one school that wanted to be involved. Mrs. Hermes - It is stated in the materials that the prerequisites for Data Processing are Typewriting I, which I consider very objective; and then, the ability to carry a logical trainof thought, which I consider rather subjective. I question that we could tell a child that he or she couldn't be in that class because they are not logical.

Mrs. Dodson - I agree, "i. These are Vo-Tech #22 courses that you are looking at when you look at Data Processing, and these were the prerequisites that they sent to us just for inclusion in our book for information to the students. That was one of the prerequisites that I was questioning; how would they tell whether they were logical thinkers? That is one that we have scheduled to ask about; what means Wdiild 'they have to determine that?

R. #338 Adoption of 1981-82 High School Curriculum Catalogue cont'd

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd R. #338 Adoption of 1981-82 High School Curriculum Catalogue cont'd

Dr. Payzant - That necessitates my clarifying one point, that this Board with its mother hat on next week will be addressing the vocational courses for Vo-Tech #22 for 1981-82. That is something that we can look at for that discussion. This will not be printed before next Monday, so there will be the opportunity to take advantage of the conversation tonight as well as next Monday night before the book is finalized.

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams for adoption of the 1981-82 High School Curriculum as listed in the 1980-81 High School Curriculum Catalogue with additions and deletions as listed in the "1981-82 Proposed Curriculum Changes." On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. R. #339 Appointment of Persons to Staff Development Commi ttee

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams that the following persons be appointed to the Staff Development Committee for the 1980-81 school year consistent with Board policy GCL/GDL adopted by the Board October 6, 1980: Board Member Nominees

Jacqueline Perry John Adams Elizabeth Garrett Jerry Kernahan Susan Braggs Rudy Mejia Glenda Carlile

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Support Personnel

Betty Hart, Harding Elmer Laird, Transportation Arthur Johnson, Supply Jack Adkins, Maintenance Chris Mathes, Jefferson Thedford Motley, Maintenance Principals/Assistant Principals

Ruby Rolfe, Lafayette Robert Shell, Jackson Jerry Smythe, Capitol Hill High

Central Office and Other Jack Isch, Superintendent's Office Odessa Wycoff, Vocational-TechnicalMaxie Wood, Planning, Research and Evaluation Alice Houston, Curriculum Gene Steiger, External Funding Carol Berry, Special Services Mike Brown, Transportation Judy Leach, State Department of Education Ken Elsner, Oklahoma Association of Teacher Education

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Teachers Elementary Billie Barnes, Longfellow Suzette Batson, Western Village Karen Ludlow, Carver Terry Murphy, Gatewood Jim McGinley, Lincoln SheiTa Johnson, Green Pastures Sybil Morgan, Telstar Candi Nabors, Davis Joel Robison, Arthur Jesse Warrior, Adams Cindy Fravel, Eugene Field Loe Jackson, Bodine

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd Teachers cont'd

R. #339 Appointment of Persons to Staff Development Committee cont'd

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Middle

Race/Sex

John Turpin, Rogers Ruth Nichols, Capitol Hill Jimmy Wade, Jefferson Leon Bernard, Jackson Brenda Martin, Taft Charles Taylor, Moon Susie Dennis, Taft Kay Bradford, Jefferson Beverly Horne, Webster

W W W B W W W B B

M F M M F M F F F

W W B B W

F F F M F

Debbie Taylor, Marshall Chris Skogen, Douglass Jo Ann Pollard, Star Spencer Glen Mustiful, Marshall Phoebe Revelle, Northeast

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. A motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hermes for adoption of the policy IGBA - Program for Handicapped Students, as corrected (item 6 - "Results of mental tests alone shall not qualify...," instead of "Results of mental tests shall not be used to qualify...").

PROGRAM FOR HANDICAPPED STUDENTS

IGBA

The Board believes that education services for all young people should be

provided in the normal environment of the school and its regular classes.

However,

students may be placed in special programs when it is determined that they provide the

appropriate education.

After cautious and documented assessment, a student may be

removed from a regular classroom for special education services.

Only with parental

participation will there be activation of the referral, assessment, and placement proc To assure compliance with P.L. 94-142, the laws of Oklahoma, and the direction of the State Department of Education, and to assure nondiscrimination in assessment and

placement of students, the following guidelines shall be followed:

Parents, or guardians, must be present for referral and placement conferences;

Parents must request special education placement;

Parents must be informed of their rights in language they understand;

Parents must be informed of the purposes and means of the evaluation and

the interpretation of the results;

A school team of appropriate personnel will make all recommendations for a student to be assessed and placed in a program.

The ethnic composition of

the team must be representative of the ethnic composition of the student

population in the school;

Results of mental tests alone shall not qualify a student for a special education program.

All relevant data must be used in the assessment

process, i.e., health, education and socioadaptive information; and

A school psychologist must evaluate all data.

A due process procedure will be established to resolve any disagreements about the

proper placement of students in a special education program.

R. #340 Approval of Policy IGBA Program for Handicapped Students as Corrected

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On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #341 Resolutions of Appreciation Approved

A motion was made by Mrs. Hermes and seconded by Mrs. Hill for approval of Resolutions of Appreciation for the following:

Foster Estes, Member and President of the Board of Education; deceased October 14, 1980.

Geneva Smith, Teacher, Creston Hills Fifth Year Center; deceased October 28, 1980.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. Information to the Board

Dr. Payzant referred to a memo from George Russell, Director Personnel Services, speaking to the issue of salary adjustments for teachers who had not been credited with the appropriate number of years of experience, and asked that Mr. Russell summarize the contents of that memo. Mr. Russell stated that as the result of some inquiries from the State Department of Education in a recent audit of the Personnel records, it was determined that there were a number of teachers who because of the previous policy in existence at the time that they were hired into the district were not granted full credit in terms of the salary schedule, and in reviewing the records with respect to those teachers, it was identified that it would be necessary to move a number of those teachers to an appropriate place on the salary schedule to coincide with the experience that was approved by the State Department of Education and that would allow them to receive the mandate as provided in H.B. 1706. Mr. Russell added that the memorandum that had been provided to the Board outlined the amount of additional expense that they thought it would take to move those people to the appropriate step, that being in the amount of approximately $83,000. Mr. Russell referred to another attachment to the memo which pertained to what it would cost to move current employees up on the salary schedule to coincide with the new policy allowing ten years out-of-state experience, that cost being approximately $40,000.

Dr. Payzant also mentioned that Board members had received a copy of a letter addressed to Dr. Leslie Fisher requesting the State Department of Education ruling on the language in the statute which covered credit for out-of-state teaching experience, and that as soon he received a reply from Dr. Fisher, he would share it with them and talk about the next steps. Mrs. Hill inquired as to if teachers tha-t were affected with regard to the salary schedule had been notified, to which Mr. Russell replied that the teachers were notified approximately ten days ago that there would be an adjustment made; that they would be receiving that week and a part of the next week the actual salary notification which would tell them what the new step and schedule would be and the amount of salary involved.

Dr. Payzant added that the process would take the people who were involved and give them the appropriate placement on the 1980-81 salary schedule so that their 1980-81 salaries would be adjusted for the higher step reflecting the years of experience that they were entitled to. PERSONNEL REPORT

R. #341 Personnel Approved

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams that persons listed on the form be employed and that contracts with the teachers as listed be approved and executed in the name of the District by the Superintendent or person by him designated; also, that other personnel recommendations and information listed be approved. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

(Copy of Personnel Report attached in permanent minutes.)

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.i-

PAYROLLS, ENCUMBRANCES AND PURCHASING

It was moved by Mrs. Hermes and seconded by Mrs. Williams to approve Recommendation #1 and #2 (ratification of October payrolls and authorization of November payrolls) and payment of encumbrances as listed for October 10-27, 1980. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Hermes for approval of the following purchasing items: 1.

Furniture Purchase of furniture (chairs, file cabinet and typewriter desks) for use at various schools from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Thompson Book & Supply Dowlings, Inc.

Total

2,103.00 2,878.20

4,981.20

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 1230.03 G 1230.11

To tai 2.

3,141.20 1,840.00

4,981.20

Teaching Aids and Instructional Materials Purchase of teaching aids and instructional materials for use by various Special Education classes from CTB/McGraw-Hil 1, Inc. These purchases in the amount of $17,070 are to be charged to the following Accounts:

$ 13,570.00 1,000.00 2,500.00

G 1230.03 G 1230.11 *G 1230.03, Handicapped Total

$ 17,070.00

*These purchases have been approved on our Federal Educational Grants and/or Programs.

One-Ton Pickup Truck Purchase of a one-ton pickup truck from Boyd Chevrolet, Inc., which submitted the low quotation for use at John Marshall High School by vocational agriculture classes.

This purchase in the amount of $9,080 is to be charged to Account 1230.03, Adult EdTech. 4.

Science Equipment and Supplies Purchase of science equipment and supplies (helium, discs, microscopes, steam boilers, jars, pulleys, modules, planes, etc.) for use at Douglass and John Marshall High Schools and Eisenhower Middle School from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

Ward's Natural Science Ann Arbor Biological Center Central Scientific Company Labco Scientific Science Kit, Inc. LaPine Scientific Company Total

95.09 83.76 98.48 34.50 503.28 430.94

1,246.05

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 240.01 G 250.06 Total

355.06 890.99

1,246.05

R. #342 Approval of Payrolls and Encumbrances

R. #343 Approval of Purchasi ng

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Small Engine Parts Purchase of small engine parts (oil seals, clamps, rings, mufflers, air filter elements, starter rewind assumblies, etc.) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department for repairs of Briggs & Stratton gasoline engines from American Electric Ignition Company (authorized distributor). This expenditure in the amount of $2,222.35 is to be charged to Account G 740.01.

â&#x20AC;˘<

Hand Tools Purchase of hand tools (hacksaws, wrenches, pipe cutters, hammers, speed drills, ratchets, belt sander, etc.) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department, Northeast and Star Spencer High Schools from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: Hart Industrial Supply Company Pyramid Supply, Inc. Hunzicker Brothers Graybar Electric Company Snap-On Tools Corporation Sacto Div. of Satterlee Severin Supply Company Brodhead-Garrett Company Mideke Supply Company Whitton Supply

548.24 20.31 838.95 262.13 235.45 56.19 137.62 174.00 365.66 ______ 31.63

Total

2,670.18

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 1230.03 BL 6030.11

1,057.45 1,612.73

2,670.18

Musical Instruments and Equipment Purchase of musical instruments and equipment (French horn, tuba, clarinet, speakers, receivers, etc.) for use at John Marshall and Star Spencer High Schools from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: National Educational Music Company Sharp & Nichols Music Company Team Electronics Wichita Band Instrument Company, Inc. Coret Music Company, Inc.

1,042.00 127.00 300.00 1,868.00 _____ 320.00 $

3,657.00

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 1230.03. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION

R. #344 Approval of Buildings and Construction Items

A motion was made by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hermes for approval of the following items: 1â&#x20AC;˘

Employment of Engineering Company for Technical Assistance Re Energy Approval for employment of Collins-Soter Engineering Company to provide technical assistance as required by the terms of the grant which the district has received from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Change Order to Remove Cylinder from Elevator Approval of change order #1 authorizing Jester and Associates to remove the cylinder from the elevator, Administration Building, and install a safety bulkhead at the base of the cylinder. The condition of cylinder, casing and liner will determine the work to be performed. The cost of the change order not to exceed $9,922.

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| BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION cont'd

In speaking to item 1, Dr. Payzant stated: We received a grant from the Department of Epergy and the grant will finance fifty percent of this recommendation which is to retain an engineering firm to study our buildings and systems that use energy in about 20 schools. The result of this study will be specific plans and recommendations for modifications in the buildings, the systems or the way we operate them that will then lead to a grant application under Phase III of the Department of Energy conservation program that hopefully will result in some funding on a 50/50 match basis to help us | make some of the modifications that will result in energy conservation. We are talking about roughly a $43,000 or $44,000 grant that we have received matched by the same amount of of bond funds that will underwrite the cost of the Phase II. Then at the completion of that I will be coming to you with recommendations for a grant application ! as I just mentioned.

R. #344 Approval of Buildings and Construction Items cont'd

Mrs. Hermes inquired as to whether the grant money for the school guaranteed that the schools would not be on the closing list. Dr. Payzant responded that if they went to Phase III and got money for specific renovations or alterations in a building, at that point he thought it would mean that building would not be on the closing list. Mrs. Hill also expressed a concern that even at Phase II they should make sure that any school on the list would not be on the closing list any time soon. Members of the Board and Dr. Payzant continued to discuss that schools that might be considered for closing not be on the list with reference to item 1.

Dr. Payzant stated that they would need to, first, check to see if it was all right to make substitutions on the list; and second, check to see which, if any, schools on the list were in and around the 200 enrollment figure which would mean that the school might come up for consideration in the next two to three years. Motion Perfected

Upon a suggestion by Dr. Payzant with regard to item 1, the motion was perfected to include 1 'the consultants would be authorized to begin work on the secondary schools but not to proceed with an elementary school list until the Superintendent reports back to the Board." On roll call for the motion as perfected, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. The Central Food Service Department - Financial Statement, October 31, 1980, was submitted as ihfbrma>tron to the Board.

Central Food Service Statement - Information to the Board

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It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams to approve the policy JO, Student Records, as modified:

STUDENT RECORDS

The Board acknowledges and supports the rights of a student

regarding information that is gathered, stored, used or dispensed by its employees.

It is the intent of the Board to comply with

the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, P.L.

94-142, and federal guidelines related to confidentiality and the

right to privacy of the student. This policy, consistent with federal guidelines, contains the following components: 1.

The right of parents and eligible students to inspect

records; 2.

The schedule of fees for duplicating records;

The right of parents or eligible students to submit a

complaint to the U.S. Office of Education;

The type and location of records maintained;

The process to be used when parents or eligible students

request records to be amended or destroyed;

The districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right to release Directory Information;

The right of the district to release basic identifying and performance information to other persons and agencies and a

list of these persons and agencies;

The use and release of confidential information and identification of personnel that have access to these files; and

The method of informing parents and students of their privacy

rights. RIGHTS OF. PARENTS AND ELIGIBLE STUDENTS TO INSPECT RECORDS The official records of a student may, upon request be inspected

by the studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parent or an eligible student.

Parents or eli-

gible students have a right to an explanation or interpretation

of all records.

An eligible student is a student 18 years old

or older. SCHEDULE OF FEES FOR DUPLICATING RECORDS

Copies of all materials will be furnished to parents or eligible students at a cost of ten cents per copy.

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PARENTS AND ELIGIBLE STUDENTS RIGHTS TO FILE COMPLAINTS â&#x20AC;˘4 Parents or eligible students may submit a complaint, in writing,

to the U.S. Education Department if they believe there has been a violation of rights afforded in these acts and their regulations.

TYPE AND LOCATION OF RECORDS The following types of student records are maintained at the school and/or the Central Administration Office:

Health Records:

High school and middle school,

(Form JO-E1)

maintained in the clinic; elementary schools, maintained in the principal's

Cumulative Folders: All schools, maintained by the principal. Confidential Folders: All schools, maintained by a person

designated by the principal (a notice

will be posted in each school stating the

person in charge of the records, Form JO-E2);

Central Office, maintained in the Office of Assessment.

Transcripts:

At the school in which the student is

currently enrolled or last attended, maintained by the principal, and The Planning, Research and Evaluation

Department at the Central Office. Class Record Book:

At each school, current books maintained

by the teacher; others maintained by the

principal. THE PROCESS OF AMENDING OR DESTROYING RECORDS

Parents who believe that information in confidential records violates the privacy or other rights of a student, may request that the information be amended or destroyed.

If a request is

made to amend or destroy records, the parent will be asked to

sign form JO-E3. Requests to amend or destroy confidential records may be made at

the school or the Office of Assessment.

If the request is made

at the school, principals will send the request and their copy of

R. #345 Approval of Policy Student Records JO cont'd

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Policy on Student Records cont'd

the record(s) to the Office of Assessment for amendment or

â&#x2013; destruction.

Principals will inform the person making the

request that the hearing will be held by the Coordinator of Assessment.

If the request is made at the Office of Assessment,

principals will be asked to send their copy of the record(s) to

The Office of Assessment for amendment or destruction. If the parents or eligible student requests (Form JO-E3) an amendment to the records or the destruction of records, the coor-

dinator of the Office of Assessment shall conduct a hearing within six school days after the request has been received.

Within six days after the hearing, the coordinator shall render a

decision and give a written explanation of the decision to the

person making the request. The person requesting the hearing may appeal the decision to the

Director of Special Services who shall render a decision, and give

a written explanation of the decision within six school days

after receiving the appeal. The person requesting the hearing may appeal the director's deci-

sion to the Board by making an appeal through the superintendent's office. If the records are not amended or destroyed, the parent or eli-

gible student may place in the records a statement commenting on

the information or setting forth any reason for disagreeing with

the decision not to amend or destroy the records. If a parent or eligible student wishes to amend or destroy the

information on the student's non-confidential records, a hearing shall be conducted by the principal as soon as possible, but no

later than six school days after the request (Form JO-E3) is. received by the principal.

Within six days after the hearing, the principal shall render a

decision and give a written explanation of the decision to the person making the request.

The person requesting the hearing may appeal the principal's

decision to the appropriate director who shall render a decision and give a written explanation of the decision within six school days after receiving the appeal.

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Tlje person requesting the hearing may appeal the director's decision to the Board by making an appeal through the

superintendent's office. If the records are not amended or destroyed, the parent or eligible student may place in the records a statement commenting on

the information or setting forth any reason for disagreeing with the decision not to amend or destroy the records. THE RELEASE OF DIRECTORY INFORMATION

The district may release "Directory Information" without consent

or notice to the parents.

Parents or eligible students who do

not wish to have Directory Information released must notify the school annually.

Directory Information is considered to be:

the

student's name, address, telephone listing, date and place of

birth, major field of study, participation in officially recognized activities and sports, weight and height of members of athletic teams, dates of attendance, degrees and awards received,

and the most recent previous educational agency or institution attended by the student.

Lists of names and addresses students

will not be furnished to persons or agencies that will be

used for campaign purposes or commercial gain.

Additionally,

before names are released, it should be ascertained that such

information will not be used in any way to embarrass or annoy the school, the students, or the parents of the students. The *

superintendent may authorize the release of lists of students to federal, state, and local officials and local schools and colleges, which, in his/her opinion, offer opportunities of suf-

ficient merit to interest them.

THE RELEASE OF BASIC IDENTIFYING AND PERFORMANCE INFORMATION The district may release the following kinds of information to

certain persons and/or agencies without consent of or notice to

parents or students: a.

Basic Identifying Information

Name and sex;

Birthdate and birthplace;

Home address and telephone number;

R. #345 Approval of Policy Student Records JO cont'd

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Parent or guardian name, address and telephone number;

Names and dates of school attendance, location, and principalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name; and

Current health information, e.g., allergies,

diseases, immunizations.

Functioning or Performance Information 1.

Results of group standardized achievements tests;

Results of group standardized intelligence and aptitude tests; and

Academic information.

Persons or agencies who may receive the above information are as follows:

Other school officials, including teachers within the school or school system who work directly with the students;

Officials of other schools or school systems in which

the student intends to enroll; 3.

In connection with a studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s applications for, or

receipt of, financial aid;w 4.

Authorized representatives of (a) the Comptroller General of the United States,

Department of Education,

(b) the Secretary of the

an education agency (federal), or (d) state educational

authority;

Organizations conducting studies for, or on behalf of

the district, educational agencies or institutions for

the purpose of developing, validating, or administering predictive tests, administering student aid programs,

and improving instruction; if such studies are conducted

in such a manner as will not permit the personal identification of students and their parents by persons

other than representatives of such organization and such information will be destroyed when no longer needed for

the purpose for which it is conducted; 6.

Accrediting organizations in order to carry out their

accrediting functions;

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Parents or a dependent student of such parents, as defined in section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (see JO-E4) ;

To appropriate persons in compliance with judicial

order, or pursuant to any lawfully issued subpoena, if a reasonable effort to notify parents or an 18-year-old student of the order or subpoena is made in advance of the compliance; and

Appropriate persons, in connection with an emergency, if the knowledge of such information is necessary to protect the health or safety of the student or other persons.

THE USE AND RELEASE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

Confidential records will be kept in a separate folder and not in the studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regular school cumulative folder.

will be kept secure.in a locked area.

These records

The principal will select

one person to be responsible for these records. Confidential records include the following information: 1.

Individual Evaluations

All specialized records of professionals who has screened, assessed and/or evaluated the students, i.e., psychologist, psychometrist, social worker,

diagnostician, physicianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s medical assessment, or any individual evaluation as it pertains to placement in a school program.

Specialized reports from outside agencies or

specialists, i.e., private schools, social service agencies, vocational rehabilitation, hospitals. 2. The following persons may have access to the confidential

records without parents' or eligible student's consent:

Special Education Teacher Regular Teacher Administrator Counselor State Department of Education Personnel Regional Education Service Center Personnel Parents/Guardian Student (if over 18 years old) School Nurse Speech Therapist Psychometr ist Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Persons not included on this list, desiring to see confidential records, must have parental or eligible student's permission to see

R. #345 Approval of Policy Student Records JO cont'd

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Policy on Student Records cont'd

5 the records.

A form (Form JO-E5) will be kept in each confiden-

tial folder to record who saw the records, on what date, and the

purpose of examination Confidential records will only be released through the Office of Assessment and only with a written consent (Form JO-E7) from the parent or eligible student.

Special attention must be given to the following: 1.

When records or data include information on more than

one student, the parents of any student shall be

entitled to receive, or be informed of, that part of the record or data that pertains to their child;

Where parents are separated or divorced, a written parental consent may be obtained from either parent,

unless the district has been provided with evidence that there is a legally binding instrument which provides to

the contrary.

METHODS OF INFORMING PARENTS AND STUDENTS Annually, the superintendent will devise a method to inform parents of the privacy rights of parents and students concerning

student records, the location of policies, the right to file

complaints and effectively communicating the information to parents of students identified as having a primary or home language other than English.

Adopted: December 17, 1979 Revised: Oklahoma City School District "On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

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NEW BUSINESS

As her resignation from the Board, Mrs. Williams read the following statement:

Resignation Mrs. Williams

The Black poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar, wrote so eloquently at the passage of a point in his short life:

"Yes, the Chapter ends today. We even lay the book away; But, oh, how swift the moments sped Before the final page was read." As all of you know, thanks to the confidence of the electorate in Legislative District 99, I will be sworn into the House of Representatives of the State of Oklahoma on November 18. Therefore, I am submitting my resignation as a member of the Board of Education of Independent District 89 tonight, effective with the close of business tonight, November 3. So ends a very demanding amd most rewarding chapter of my life. Can it be true that it has really been almost six years since I was made a member of this body? Always a devout believer in education, I became vitally interested in the school system when I was working as a volunteer at Edwards Elementary School, as a "Helping Hand". I saw what I deemed some real needs and I offered myself as a member of this Board. May I say in passing that my Fifth Graders who called me "Our Helping Hands Teacher" will graduate from several high schools of this system in the Class of 1981. I beg of you to permit me to take a backward look and assess the past few years.

Only two members of the Board that appointed me to fill the vacancy created resignation of Dr. F. D. Moon remain, Dr. Start and Mr. Donwerth.

Much as transpired, but many stand out in my mind.

by the

Some of them:

When I came on the Board, I am afraid the confidence level was not what one would desire. We had survived through the throes of desegregation via the Finger Plan, with the usual unfounded misunderstandings, distrust and fears. White flight was in evidence and the yellow bus was an enigma. Approximately 78% of all the expulsions from school were black students.

We were monitored by a court-appointed Biracial Committee whose purpose it was to insure that desegregation was carried out to the letter and intent.

Black employees on the real decision-making level were nonexistent. We had several principals and one black Director of Curriculum. And there were more. No one individual accomplishes anything alone on a Board of Education. At least four members on the body must approve or even the greatest ideas die aborning. I am happy to say that this Board heard many of my ideas and we worked them together. Today, we are a Unitary system, no longer monitored by a Biracial Committee.

Expulsions have been greatly reduced. My pet idea of In-School Suspension is a reality in middle and high School. Through this system, students are not turned out into the "Streets", but suspended in-house where their education continues although cut off from the regular school. When you turn them out onto the "Street", the "Street" will teach them negatively.

Until I came on board, there was no middle school in District 5. F. D. Moon Middle School stands today as a result of my effort and an understanding Board. Also,in District 5, Edwards Fifth Year Center is boasting a Pre-School and Day Care Center fashioned after the West Nichols Hills School, the creation of which I had a part also. We worked hard and long, and now have written Board Purpose and two large books of School Board Policies.

We learned from attending meetings with the experts that School Boards should hire a legal firm, not a lawyer, and we have that legal firm which has been kept very busy. The Adopt-A-School Plan was one idea we brought and is working well. r

We appointed a Human Relations Committee which worked tirelessly and gave us a Director of Human Relations and human relations experts in various schools.

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1980 - CONT'D

A hard-working Affirmative Action Committee bore: fruit in the work of an Affirmative ■Action Officer. Although these no longer exist in the original form, human relations and affirmative action are high on this Board's priorities. I have served one year as President of the Board. Surely, the highlight of that year was the hiring of Dr. Thomas Payzant, the finest superintendent in the nation, bar none, we are convinced. Under his superintendency, we have made momentous strides and are still going forward. His commitment to excellence and to affirmative action are evident. Where once we boasted only one black director, we now have four.

Dr. Ron Edmonds of Harvard states that one way of assuring "quality education" is to have some means of periodically assessing student progress. It is comforting to know that the Oklahoma City Public Schools are deeply committed to monitoring student progress. The new PRI (Prescriptive Reading Inventory) together with Tracer, our computerized management system, is one of a kind in educational circlda.; We are heading the way to improving the quality of instruction. The past year, two of our elementary schools placed in the top 10 among schools across the nation in the Reading Olympic Games.

We in the Oklahoma City Schools have the largest secondary program in the RIF (Reading is Fundamental). Three times per year in each high and middle school we distribute books free to students. Reading is truly fundamental in our schools. Our Biomedical Professional Program is really flourishing. This program is a cooperative effort between the OKC Public Schools and the OU Health Sciences Center. Our young scientists from our Science Center are tops and known nationally.

We have Comprehensive Arts in Education - 15 vocal music teachers and six string teachers.

President Carter, himself, would have been proud of our "Election '80 Project'which we held in our schools. Our students are good citizens in the making. High on the list of achievements of which I am proud is the formulation of Vo-Tech District 22, with a super fine program already working under Dr. Holodick, but knowing our dream of a Vo-Tech School in the heart of Oklahoma City will soon be a reality, with a building second to none, but best of all, programs training our young people to become productive artisans in "the new world a-coming." I am proud to have had a part in this, and feel somewhat like Moses, as I view the Promised Land of a dream. This and much more has been done.

To my colleagues on the Board, my sincere thanks for the job we've done together; hot agreeing, at all times, but with a common purpose, as the pillars of a temple stand apart, yet pointing toward the common sky. And it has all been and will be for the children's sake, to provide the best education possible for all of the children of all of the people. As you chossemy Successor, I pray.it will be someone with.the same motivation. It has been a labor of love. "And what is it to work with love? asked the Prophet. He said: It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest of joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit, and to know that all the blessed dead are standing about you and watching." I leave you now for broader spheres, but I will always be with you as you mosey on to greater achievements FOR THE CHILDREN'S SAKE.

1. #346 Acceptance of designation 4rs. Williams

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Hermes that the Board accept the resignation of Mrs. Williams with regret. (Resignation to be effective at.the.close of business.)' . ' ' ' „■ Members of the Board commented: ' urn :

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Mrs1. Hill - I have enjoyed working with Freddye through the years and I imagine that we will be working very closely with her there at the Legislature. We have some legislative goals here, so I am sure you will be one of our allies. We do wish you well in your new venture, and we will miss you.

Mrs. Brody - I am almost wanting to make a motion to have our attorney look for a loopholein state law. My big regret is that I have not served longer with Freddye on the Board. Freddye and I came together on behalf of the Oklahoma City schools many years ago. Whenever there was a cause for the city schools we seemed to be winding up in the same place. I have never known a better champion for the kids of this system than Freddye, and I would like to thank her.

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| Dr. Start - Freddye, I want to apologize for being late.

I was thinking on the way

R. #346 Acceptance of Resignation Mrs. Williams cont'd

down here from McAlester that being on this Board of Education and the commitment to I the young people that you have had, and all of the struggles that we have gone through all the way back from getting out from underneath the court order and all the trauma and pain of that, closing schools and things like that, I thought to myself, really, where are we going? My immediate concern was the growth industry in the state prison system, and it is really pretty sad. We increasingly incarcerate more and more of our young people. Half of the 4,800 people that we have incarcerated in the state prison system are under 27 years of age. This district has tried so hard, and Freddye you have been so much a part of that, that it almost seems like we are whistling in the winds with some of our efforts. But you have been a big inspiration to me and I appreciate very much the honor of being with you on this Board of Education. I guess the reason I am talking to you or bringing up the issue of the incarcerated young people of our society is I think that local Boards of Education are somehow unable to deal with that problem and perhaps it ought to be dealt with at the legislative level.

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Mrs. Hermes - I just want to say, Freddye, I haven't served with you long enough. I am going to miss you very much. I love you and God bless you. ... Dr. Hamm - One of the things that has impressed me, Freddye, in the year and a half or better that I have served with you on this Board has been the personal integrity that you lend to the office of being a school board member; your honesty and your fairness, and your tireless efforts to keep the children foremost in your thinking, and for your uncanny ability to having discovered the 25-hour day when it comes to school board work. We appreciate what you have done and we will miss you. We look forward to working with you in the future in another capacity.

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On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, reluctant aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

Dr. Hamm referred to the dates that were before the Board with regard to filling the vacancy on the Board - the deadline for accepting applications for November 14; interviews of the applicants in a special meeting on November 18; the new member to be named on November 18 and then sworn in at the first regular meeting following that.

Discussion Dates Re Filling Vacancy on the Board

Members of the Board were in agreement with the dates as stated. EXECUTIVE SESSION

It was moved by Mrs. Williams and seconded by Mrs. Hermes that the Board go into executive session for the discussion of personnel matters. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #347 Board Adjourned to Executive Session 8:35 p.m.

Having completed its executive session, a motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start that the Board return to open session. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, ay.e; -and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #348 Board Returned to Open Session 8:58 p.m.

ADJOURNMENT A motion to adjourn was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Williams. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Williams, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechancial recording of the meeting is on file in the office of the Clerk.)

R. #349 Adjournment 8:59 p.m.

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1980 - CONT'D

) ) SS: ^COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA ) STATE OF OKLAHOMA

I, the undersigned Clerk of the Board of Education of Independent School District No. 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours before the meeting, the date, time and place of the Regular Meeting was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. I also certify that at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, notice of the date, time, place and agenda of this meeting was posted in permanent public view at the location of the meeting.

1980.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district thisjr day

Clerk, Oklahoma CTty Board of Education

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MEETING OF NOVEMBER 3, 1980 - CONT1D j Personnel

PERSONNEL 4

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

5ALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL Ehiployments

Terminations

Alyea, Allina Cagigal, Catherine

Clark, Karen

Dahlke, Janice

Hainm, William Jamison. Steven

Luetscher, Frances

Narcomey, Phyllis Ross, Lane

Rye, Thomas Shelton, Nancy

Stewart, William

Thorn, Claire

Gatewood/Nichols H. Special Education

Jackson Resource

9-09-80

Grant Special Education

5-30-80

Bodine Primary

8-22-80

Operations Middle Sc. Advisory Assistant

Capitol Hill High Science

5-30-80

Linwood Primary

9-29-80

Emerson Adult Center Counselor

Mark Twain Special Education

9-26-80

Marshall Instrumental Music

9-15-80

Heronville Primary

9-24-80

Jefferson Industrial Arte

Mark Twain Intermediate

Annual

10-03-80

10-31-80

â&#x2013;

10-10-80 Buxton, Margaret

$11037.

B.A. WPC

Mark Twain 9-29-80 Special Education

10-10-80 9-30-80

1 - WPC - William Paterson College - Wayne, New Jersey

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ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

____ _____________________________________ L NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL ;

Terminations

Employments

Annual

i 1 1 i

O'Brien, Mike

Allen, Keith

$10511.

B.S. BU

Bayouth, Gloria

13897.

Drake, Joyce

Bielstein, Carl

Brand, Shirley

8-26-80

Harding Industrial Arts

B.S. OSU

9-08-80

Taft Science

11037.

B.S. OSU

9-29-80

Capitol Hill High Special Education

Borland, Mary J.

10511.

B.S. CSU

9-23-80

Parker Intermediate

Barnes, Sheila

Burrall, Sharon

11037.

B.S. NAU

9-10-80

Rancho Special Education

Berger, Carol

Dutcher, Elizabeth

13271.

B.S. SWSU

9-08-80

Burbank Kindergarten

Burton, Barbara

Edwards, Mary

10761.

B.S. PS

9-11-80

Northwest Science

Gieb, Blanche

13436.

B.S. NTS

9-11-80

Jefferson Resource

Littlepage, Gaye

Goetz, Katherine

11037.

B.S. ISU

9-11-80

Buchanan Special Education

Pickard, James

Haugen, Nancy

10511.

B.S. VENM 6

9-15-80

Page-Woodson Intermediate

Arnold, Kathryn

Tarker, Melinda

10511.

B.A. ECSU

9-16-80

Rogers Resource

Elkins, Sharon

Pingleton, Theresa

6412.

B.S. OSU

9-15-80

Harrison i T. Kindergarten

Thomas, Debra

Terrell. Joann

10511.

B.S. OU

10-06-80

Capitol Hill High Drop-Out Program

Chapman, James

Tiger, Miller

..1147^

B.S. OSU

9-08-80

Boles, Linda

1 - BU - Ballstate University - Muncie Ind. 2 - NAU - Northern Arizona University - Flagstaff, Arizona 3 - PS - Panhandle State - Goodwell, Okla.

Marshall Electronics

4 - NTS - North Texas State - Penton, Texas 5 _ isu _ Illinois State University - University of Iowa 6 - VE11M - University of Eastern New Mexico - Portales, New Mexico

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Personnel cont'd

NAME

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

â&#x20AC;¢

Terminations

Employments

Annual

Tillman, Larecia

$15695.

M.S. csu

8-20-80

Guidance Services Elementary Counselor...

Mitchell, Debra

Traska, Janice

14256.

M.S. csu

8-18-80

Northwest Special Education

Nichols, Linda

Webber, Barbara

10511.

B.S. WS

9-18-80

Monroe Primary

Wiggins. Elvenia

White. Robert

13109,

M.A.T. OCU

Anthony. Charles

Winkle, Nancy

11053.

B.A. OU

9-29-80

Andree, Suzanne

10511.

B.S. OU

10-01-80

Webster Science/Social St.

Baby, Melissa

10511.

B.S. PS

10-06-80

Wilson Primary

Black, Cathi

10761.

B.S. OSU

9-29-80

Eisenhower Reading

Brueggen, Marcia

14921.

M. Ed. CSU

9-15-80

Adams Gifted/Talented

Buffington, Mary

10511.

B.S. SAU

9-19-80

Western Village Primary

Dean. Marilvn

13897.

B.S. OU

9-16-80

West Nichols Hills Primary

Dunkin, Mary

14250.

M.S. OSU

9-25-80

Horace Mann Preschool

_____ 8-18-80

Capitol Hill High Social Studies Northwest Resource

Additional Allocations

1 - WS - Worcester State - Worcester, Mass. 2 - SAU - Southern Arkansas University - Magnolia, Ark.

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

5ALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL

Bnplo.vments

Annual

Additional Allocations

Flatt, Cathy

$10511.

B.A. CSU

9-02-80

Moon ESAA Columbus Primary

Foster, Ramona

13271.

B.S. Langston

9-19-80

Hall. Peggv

10511.

B.A. OBU

10-01-80

Jackson, Kathy

11037.

B.S. CSU

9-29-80

Spencer/Arcadia Special Education

Johnson, Vernice

10511.

B.S. MVS

9-25-80

Page-Woodson Intermediate

Jones. Richard

10511.

B.S. UI

10-01-80

Classen Language Arts

Lock, Angela

10511.

B.S. SCSC

9-24-80

Lee Primary

Montgomery, Debra

10511.

B.S. OSU

9-23-80

Longfellow Intermediate

Nelson, Suzanne

10511.

B.A. TLC

10-06-80

Rogers, Dennis

13109.

M. Ed. SWSU

9-29-80

Lincoln Intermediate

Williams, Terrill

13765.

M. Ed. CSU

9-17-80

Page-Woodson ESAA

1 - MVS - Mississippi Valley State University - Itta Bend, Miss. 2 - VI - University of Iowa - Iowa City, Iowa

3 - SCSC - St. Cloud State College - St. Cloud, Minnesota 4 - TI,C - Texas Lutheran College - Seguin, Texas

Webster Soc. Stu./Lang. Arts

Wheeler Primary

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Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ’

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

APPROVED EXP.

DEGREE COLLEGE

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCAT IOMAI. Tronrjf

Employments

Annual

Pennington, John

Gunter, Patricia

$10511.

B.S. OSU

2=22=20- -Math—

Doughty# Ronald

Hall, Debi

10511.

B.S. OU

9-29-80

Jefferson In-House

McCoy, Annetta

Henderson, Mary B.

14884.

M.S. UCA

9-29-80

Personnel Services Human Relations Con.

Srml rrrnvp. Ftavld

Rider. Alfonzo

10511.

B.S. Langston

10-06-80

JjpflUamR. Ruth

Robinson, Katherine

10511.

B.S. CSU

8-22-80

Kaiser Primary

Stewart. Jewel

10511.

B.S. UA

9-24-80

Capitol Hill Middle Resource

Hallmark, Allen

Thoiiias, Denise

11053.

B.S. CSU

8-18-80

Columbus Primary

Seacrist, George

Villar, Nestor

11408.

M.A.T. ocu

10-06-80

Allen, Paula

Wagner, Carol

11408.

M.A. GU

9-19-80

Curriculum Lau Language

Jeude, Rochelle

Williams, Dorothy

11685.

B.S. Langston

9-23-80

Telstar/Speneer Kindergarten/Spec.. Ed

Roosevelt

Jackson Social Studies

Capitol Hill High Resource

Leaves of Absence

PrtT’cin + nl T.nov<> Hayes Special Education

Edwards, Linda

10-10-80

1 - UCA - University of Central Arkansas - Conway, Ark. 2 _ UA - University of Arkansas - Pine Bluff, Ark. 3 - GU - Georgetown University - Washington, D.C. NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL i EDUCATIONAL

Leaves of Absence Personal Leave

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Hepp, Mary

Taft Math

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Employments

Annual

Medley, Mary

$10511.

9-19-80

B.S. CSU

9-29-80

Taft Math

• PROFESSIONAL OTHER

Terminations

Alvarez, Laura Byington. Jeff

Chapman, Charles Crenshaw, Sandra Doty, Debra Harjo, Richmond

Jackson, Carmel

Johns, Janice

Killebrew, Scott

External Funding Assoc. Instructor

9-24-80

External Funding Indian Ed. Developer

5-30-80

Id - Marshall Electronics

Bnployments

Monthly

Fillmore, Priscilla

$ 610.

9-02-80

$ 970.

10-07-80

610.

8-18-80

External Funding

8-22-80

Douglass Student Comm. Adv.

5-30-80

External Funding Career Awareness Spec

9-30-80

Williams, Charles

External Funding Indian Ed. Advisor

5-30-80

Smith, Esther

Rogers Nurse

External Funding Facilitator

9-26-80

Computer Services Computer Operator

8-29-80

10-13-80

• -

External Funding Career Awareness Spec External Funding Indian Ed. Advisor

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Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

â&#x2013; <

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROFESSIONAL OTHER Terminations Pricer, Florence

Simpson, Roger

Volunteer Services School Volunteer

6-12-80

External Funding Indian Ed. Developer

5-30-80

Employments

Mon t.hlv

Yates. Joan

$ 610.

External Funding

..9-Q8-8Q- Indian Ed. Developer

Annual Frizzel, Colene

$10511.

Vann. Cindv

9-23-80

External Funding Float Nurse

10-07-80

External Funding Nurse

Additional Allocations 6743.60

Greer. Bemis

Monthly

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

Coolen. Hazel

$ 866.

Magnus. Joyce

781.

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

Telstar L.P.N.

.....

10-06-80 APPROVED EXP.

Johnson/Tel star Thei-apist Assistant

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL -IECHHICAL

Terminations Robins, Larry

Graphics Pressperson I

Einployments

Annual

Biggers, Steve

$16082.

9-12-80

__ Transfer

Gardner, Warren

L - P.R.&E. - Planning 'Research and Evaluation

10-10-80

P.R. & E.

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MEETING OF NOVEMBER 3, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel cont'd RECOMMENDATIONS TO TEE SCARP

Substitutes Agee, Kaye Baldwin, Frances Barnes, Frances ' Bethel, Mary Black, Cathryn Bostic, Ardeth Boykih, Bennie ♦Burton, Lewis Cannon, Caroleen Carmichael, Jody Dahlke, Janice ■ Donner, Judy Duncan, Mildred Edwards, Mary L. ■ Golliver, Kim D. Gunter, Patricia Hayes, Carol Hook, Bess A. Hunter, Charlotte A. Jensen, Deane K. Marsh, Sally McAnally, Kenneth McClure, Valinda McMillian, Louise A. McMinn, Henry C. Neel, Marcia B. Parson, Phyllis ♦Paschal, Catherine Richards, Charlotte G. Ripple, Ruth Scott, Florence Smith, Judith Taiwo, Olufemi Williams, Cathy Webster, Irene Weir, Laura Whitlow, Chris A. Young, Georgia

Elementary Elementary Elementary Special Education Social Studies English Elementary Mathematics German/French Elementary Elementary Elementary Business Elementary Drama/Physical Education Elementary Social Studies Mathematics English Nurse ■ Speech Pathologist English/Speech Elementary Industrial Education Elementary Elementary English Business Social Studies Nurse Special Education Mathematics Industrial Arts Elementary Elementary Elementary Speech/Drama Elementary

♦Retired Teachers

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT . ..................

CLERICAL Terminations

Barnes, Cynthia Biamonte. Peter

Burroughs, Mary

Davidson, Lynn

Griffin, Judy Hall, Peggy

Morgan, Valerie Roberts, Lois

Schrlndler, Mell Smith, Juanita Stiggers, Valencia

Theo, Dang

Vernon, Thvra Wood, Janet

Wilson PrinciDal's Secy.

Star Spencer P.T. Counselor Aide

10-09-80

Rancho Teacher*8 Aide

10-10-80

Taft P.T. Counselor Aide

10-01-80

Southeast Attendance Clerk

10-15-80

Accounting Services Accounting Clerk

10-03-80

Page-Woodson Media Aide

9-26-80

Parker Media Center Aide

9-24-80

West Nichols Hills Day Care Aide

9-08-80

Webster Instructional Aide

5-30-80

Harding Counselor Aide

10-15-80

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

5-29-80

Star Spencer Financial Secv.

8-01-80

la :

Monroe Teacher's Aide

9-05-80

9-12-80

Employments

Monthly

Sootsman. Coral

$ 610.

10-06-80

Wilson Principal's Secy.

Flowers, Caroline

298.50

10-08-80

Taft P.T. Counselor Aide

Weyrick, Judith

679.

10-01-80

Accounting Services Accounting Clerk

Douglas, Holly

472.

9-29-80

Parker Media Center Aide

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3ersonnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SALARY

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL Terminations

Bnployments

Monthly

Templeton, Christine

Farmer, Jane

$ 355.

9-15-80

Bush, Sheryl

Fulk, Billie

600.

10-06-80

Bright. Linda

Gilkey, Essie

590.

9-09-80

Willard Teacher's Aide

Gilmore. Rebecca

Hall, Peggy

688.

9-15-80

Accounting Services Accounting Clerk

Hill, Annette

608.

9-08-80

Jackson Learning Ctr. Aide

Craig, Mary

Jaworsky, Judy

624.

9-16-80

Lafayette Principal's Secy.

Campbell, Bnma

McAninch, Donna

297.50

9-11-80

Willow Brook P.T. Attendance Clk.

Presson, Marcelle

Moore, Sandra

590.

9-12-80

Telstar Learning Ctr. Aide

Ngo, Quang

Nguyen, Huong

600.

9-18-80

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

Oedewaldt, Judy

297.50

9-11-80

Willow Brook P.T. Elementary Clk.

236.

9-17-80

Sunset P.T. Media Aide

Campbell, Emma

Bratcher, Rebecca

' Toole, Linda

Vocational Secretary Marshall Attendance Clerk

Nolden, Ruby

P.obison, Mary

590.

9-17-80

Spencer Title I Aide

King. Margie

Roland, Clemmie

600.

9-15-80

Marshall Attendance Clerk

Logan, Ana

Tran, Binh'

600.

9-30-80

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SALARY

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL Terminations

• Employments

Monthly

Rodriquez, Ester

Valle, Martha

$ 600.

9-23-80

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

590.

9-17-80

Classen Teacher's Aide

597.

8-21-80

Buchanan Teacher's Aide

590.

9-23-80

Fage-Woodson Teacher's Aide

590.

9-15-80

Stand Watie Teacher's Aide

Wright, Patra

590.

8-28-80

Rancho Teacher's Aide

Pantry, Zola

Anthony, Ruby

630.

9-15-80

Marshall Attendance Clerk

Torres, Sandra

Craig, Mary

719.

10-07-80

Roosevelt Principal's Secy.

Harris. Marva

Gay, Berta

647.

9-15-80

Custodial Services Clerk

Doty, Juana

Gonzalez, Amparo

300.

10-06-80

Riverside P.T. Bilingual Aide

Additional Allocations Barton, Patsy

• Bishop, Sharon

♦

Dewberry, Karen Mattox, Mary H.

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Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

■ NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

CLERICAL

Transfers

Employments

Monthly

Valesquez, Delores

Holt, Maria

$ 600.

9-10-80

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

Honeycutt, Carolyn

Landoil, Catherine

354.

10-01-80

Southern Hills P.T. Media Aide

Lopez, Regina

Sayavong, Mountholy

600.

9-02-80

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

FOOD SERVICE Terminations Alexander, Nannie

la le

Berry, Wry

Clark, Janelie Cooksey, Charlotte

Ellis, Sandra

Hall, Shirley

Hutton. Wenda

James, Alma

NAME

Helper

9-17-80

Helper

8-29-80

Helper

9-08-80

Helper

9-05-80

Helper

9-01-80

Helper

9-23-80

Helrer

9-05-80

Helper

9-05-80

ASSIGNMENT

• -

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

FOOD SERVICE

McCullough, Ricky Teel, Annie Verson, Wilma

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECT! VE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

•

Terminations Johnson, Bessie

SALARY

Id la

Employments Helper

9-15-80

Helper

9-16-SO

Heiner

9-05-80

Helper

9-19-80

Hourly

Alexander, Nannie

$ 3.51

9-16-80

Helper

Barnett, Judy

3.74

9-10-80

Retired Helper

Basden, Nadine

3.51

9-04-80

Helper

Bradley, Shirley

3.51

9-24-80

Helper

Brewer, Sheila

3.51

9-12-80

Helper

3.51

9-08-80

Helper

Clark, Janelie

3.51

9-08-80

Helper

Cook, Mary

3.51

9-18-8Q-

Davis, Stella

3.51

9-08-8 0

: Calbert, Elizabeth

Helper

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Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE Employments

Hourly

Doyle, Barbara

$3.51

9-18-80

Helper

Dunn, Carlesia

3.51

9-25-80

Helper

Erven, Erma

3.51

9-09-80

Helper

3.51

9-17-80

Helper

Ferguson, Delois

3.51

9-04-80

Helper

Fuller, Regina

3.51

9-08-80

Helper

Garrett, Willa

. 3,51

9-03-80

Helper

Goodman, Gwanda

3.51

9-05-80

Helper

Gordon. Mary

3.51

9-05-80

Helper

Hardzog. Glenna

3.51

9-24-80

Helper

Harris, Charlene

3.51

9-08-80

Helper

Hawkins, Lola

3.51

9-03-80

Helper

. 3.51

9-04-80

Helper

3.51

9-08-80

Helper

.Espinoza. Rosa

Hodgins, Oletha

Hopkins, Sable

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE

Employments

Hourly

Jackson, La-Thrsicussia

$ 3.51

9-09-80

Helper

Johnson, Vanessa

3.51

9-10-80

Helper

Leonard, Rachel

3.51

9-29-80

Helper

Lindsey, Cindy

3.51

9-09-80

Helper

Lively, Eunice

3.51

9-15-80

Helper

Perry, Eva

3.51

9-05-80

Helper

Price, Ceola

3.51

9-24-80

Helper

Ratliff, Ruth

3.51

9-09-80

Helper

Robinson, Cathy

3.51

9-10-80

Helper

Russell, Jacqueline

3.51

9-30-80

Helper

Sanchez, Judith

3.51

9-09-80

Helper

Sewell, Florence

3.51

9-23-80

Helper

Smith, Frieda

3.51

9-23-80

.Helper------------------------

Stanford, Mary

3.51

9-16-80

Helper

■-

5591

MEETING OF NOVEMBER 3, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL .< NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

FOOD SERVICE

Employments

Hourly

Sweeney. Winona

$ 3.51

9-11-80

Helper

3.51

9-16-80

Helper

Tash, Cindy

...3.51

9-11-80

Helper

Tudor. Leona

3.51

10-01-80

Helper

Westbook, Anna

3.51

9-17-80

Helper

Wrifiht, Vervina

3.51

9-25-80

Helper

Tannahill, Christie

3.51

9-24-80

Helper

.... 2.90

9-04-80

Trainee

Pettierew. Eddie

2.90

9-02-80

Trainee

Turpin. Catherine

2.90

9-04-80

Trainee

Williams. Rodney

2.90

9-02-80

Trainee

Zumbro. Ramona

Student Trainees Brown. Charles

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

FOOD SERVICE

SALARY

NAME

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

Leaves of Absence Ill Health

Gaston, Gladys

Helper

9-04-80

Jones, Hazel

Key Person

8-29-80

Mvers. Kathv

Heiner

8-21-80

Saulsberrv. Evelyn

Key Person

9-18-80

SUPPLY Terminations Cole, Michael

Faulkenberry, Harold

Stokes. Martin

Teeter. Ronald White...Charleafi

Driver/ Warehouse Worker

9-15-80

Warehouse Worker

9-15-80

Driver/ Warehouse Worker

10-15-80

Driver/ Warehouse Worker

9-15-80

Driver/ Warehouse Worker—

9-15-80

4f le

ASSIGNMENT

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MEETING OF NOVEMBER 3, 1980 - CONT'D

3ersonnel cont'd

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SUPPLY

White, Charlene

Employments

Monthly

White, Charlene

$ 686.

10-02-80

Driver/ Warehouse Worker

TRANSPORTATION Terminations Belcher, Bobby

4f 4f

Griffin, Sterling Harris, Kenneth Humphrey, Stanley

Jackson, Martin Jamerson, Louis

4f 4f

4f 4f le

Phillips, Adam

Rainge, Wilbert

9-19-80

Bus Driver

10-08-80

Rus Driver

9-15-80

Bus Driver

5-29-80

Bus Driver

9-19-80

Bus Driver

9-26-80

Bus Driver

10-02-80

Bus Driver

9-26-80

Bus Driver

9-19-80

Bus Driver

9-25-80

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

! 1

Mechanic

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNME NT

TRANSPORTATION

â&#x20AC;¢

Terminations Smith, Willie Stevenson, Doris

Stewart, Samuel Witherspoon, Michael

Wolfe, Thomas

Id 4f 4f le

Bus Driver

9-17-80

Mechanic

9-11-80

Bus Driver

10-09-80

Bus Driver

9-05-80

Bus Driver

9-12-80

Biroloyments

Monthly

Bailey, Lawrence

$ 418.

10-08-80

Bus Drivel1

Brown, Connell

440.

10-09-80

Bus Driver

Cobb, Gilbert

418.

9-26-80

Bus Driver

Deshazer, Cutrell

457.

10-03-80

Bus Driver

Hayes, Monretta

440.

t.n

9-12-80

Bus Driver

Jamerson. Louis

418.

9-17-80

Bus Driver

Johnson, C.W.

457.

9-23-80

Bus Driver

1 i

559k

MEETING OF NOVEMBER 3, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

•< NAME

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

TRANSPORTATION

1 f

BnDlovments

Monthly

Ladd, Art

$ 457.

1QTQ1-8Q.

Bus Driver

Lee, Emery

457.

10-01-80

Bus Driver

Neal, James

220.

9-17-80

P.T. Bus Driver

Colbert, Walter

625.

9-19-80

Star Spencer Custodial Worker

Howard, Gary

625.

9-25-80

Prairie Queen Custodial Worker

NAME

SALARY

SERVICE Terminations Asiodu, Sydney

Aylar, Pamela Bowers, Ona Mae Carter, Mike Catlett, Arlan

Christain, Ethola Cruikshank, Warner

Hausam,i. Billy

NAME

Custodial Services Custodial Worker

9-29-80

Marshall Custodial Worker

9-15-80

Star Spencer Custodial Worker

8-22-80

Wheeler Custodial Worker

10-07-80

Prairie Queen Custodian

9-10-80

Rogers Assistant Custodian

9-30-80

Rancho Custodial Worker

10-08-80

Marshall Custodial Worker

9-29-80

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Terminations Hausam, Tessie

Hemphill, Michael Hooks, Wardell Kirksey, Samuel Landers, Lucian McMillan, Jeffrey

Nichols, Alphonzo Norton, Glen

Nzeadibe, Geoffrey

Wynder, Arthur

Morgan, Melvin Cowen. Vernon

Webster Custodial Worker

10-01-80

Marshall Custodial Worker

9-05-80

Marshall Custodial Worker

9-15-80

Northwest Custodial Worker

9-12-80

Grant Custodial Worker

9-16-80

Sunset Custodial Worker

9-29-80

Rogers Custodial Worker

9-26-80

Taft Custodial Worker

9-18-80

Adams Custodian

9-10-80

Heronville Custodian

10-15-80

Employments

Monthly

Galbert, Gus

$ 625.

9-29-80

Marshall Custodial Worker

] i

Besaw, Harvey .■Laskeyj-.ArnQld____________

755.

9-29-80

Webster Assistant Custodian

621.

9-16-80

Custodial Services Custodial Worker-------

559L

MEETING OF NOVEMBER 3, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL s

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

APPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Terminations

Employments

Monthly

Watson, Albert

Orange, Joe

$ 625.

9-15-80

Marshall Custodial Worker

McCarver, Jessie

Smith, Linda

625.

9-09-80

Central Custodial Worker

691.

9-09-80

Eisenhower Custodial Worker •

Additional Allocation

Moore, Minnie

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

Substitute-Employments

Hourly

Adetoro, Chris

$ 3.51

10-06-80

Edwards

Agboola, LaFeef

3.51

9-11-80

Edgemere

Beard, Johnny

3.51

9-11-80

Columbus

Ford, Marty

3.51

9-15-80

Hawthorne

Myers, Richard

3.51

9-04-80

Jefferson

Slaughter. Raimonido

3.51

9-04-80

Kind

Tucker, Louis

3.51

9-11-80

Sequoyah

NAME

SALARY

DEGREE COLLEGE

AFPROVED EXP.

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SERVICE

Ill Health Hayes Custodial Worker

Courtney, Ben

10-03-80

MAINTEMANCE/ENGIMEERING Terminations

Employments

Monthly

Hamilton, Robert

Davis, Daniel

$1121.

Cowen, Vernon

Huggins. Kenneth

10-06-80.

992.

Journeyman Fainter—

9-11-80

Plumber's Helper

9-29-80

Stationary Officer

CAMPUS POLICE

Employments

Terminations

Driver, John

Silveira^~Rick~~

~" & ~

Washington, William

Stationary Officer

9-23-80

~StWr±on®PS-jQf f leer

10-13 8o

■..Sergeant___________ M=1Q=8Q

Silveira, Rick

660.

.. „„Q

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF NOVEMBER 11, 1980

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY,

OKLAHOMA, MET IN A SPECIAL MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING,

| TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1980, AT 6:30 P.M.

PRESENT:

Delbert Hamm, President Jean Brody, Member Susan Hermes, Member Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member

ABSENT:

Floyd Donwerth, Member

Others present: Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; Central Office staff members; representatives from professional groups, and other interested persons. Dr. Hamm called the meeting to order and gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Roll call established that five of the six board members were present.

Roll Call

SPECIAL BUSINESS Dr. Hamm stated the purpose of the meeting, to hear a Level III Grievance by Susan K. Ulmer.

The following persons participated in the grievance hearing:

Susan K. Ulmer, Teacher and Grievant

Jim Huff, Grievant1s Representative

Carl Ruble, Witness and Supervisor/Emplbyment Services

James Savage, Witness, Respondent, and Personnel Administrator/Employee Relations

Bill Shehorne, Witness and Principal/Adams Elementary School

Mike Barlow, Witness and State Executive Director/AFT

Leslie Kelly, Witness and Principal/Madison Elementary School

Level III Grievance Hearing - Susan K. Ulmer

Statement of Grievance: "Grievant has been improperly selected to be transferred from Adams Elementary School. Grievant1s district seniority has been improperly applied. Grievant has been denied proper consideration for other in-building assignments." Provision of the Agreement Violated:"Article VI, Section 5, Paragraph 1.1, J., K."

Relief Sought: "Grievant be allowed to remain at Adams in any teaching assignment for which she is qualified. District seniority be properly applied." As the grievant's representative, Mr. Huff stated: The first thing I wish to present Opening Statement to the members of the hearing panel is a copy of a memorandum from Mr. Savage - Mr. Huff explaining that the decision that this body could make in upholding the grievance would in no way create any additional paperwork problems; it's statement that to transfer the teacher to another school will in no way affect the processing of the grievance; if the grievance is upheld at any level, the teacher will be returned to the original school. I wanted to make ;sure that the Board is aware that there are no other issues which should cloud the issue of seniority as we will be talking about it, because this will not in any way create a paper problem should the Board uphold the grievance. The second issue that I would like to make sure that the Board is very clear on; this grievance in no way involves any dollars, any retroactive pay, or any funds of the district. It will simply be a clause and a concept in the negotiated agreement. Nothing else should muddy the arguments. After ascertaining that members of the Board had the necessary copies for the grievance, Mr. Huff continued: We will show this evening that the principal, Mr. Shehorne, did not understand the definition of seniority. We will show that the principal received incorrect advice from the Employee Relations Officer, Mr. Savage. We will prove that a senior fully qualified for any elementary grade level teaching position was not considered for any other teaching position in the building. We will show that the contract language has been ignored. We will show that a new phrase has been invented. I wish to call to your attention the narrative of the occurrence, the things that happened at Level II. It was presented and there was no question about Ms. Ulmer's

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Opening Statement - Mr. Huff cont1d

Mr. Huff cont'd

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date of employment by this district which is September, 1973. This year 1980-81 is her eighth continuous year of employment. She has worked at Adams Elementary School all eight years. Principal Shehorne did not accurately determine the seniority of the teachers at Adams Elementary School. Ms. Ulmer has a current Oklahoma Standard Elementary Certificate, K-8. During the hearing we requested the dates of employment of all of the teachers at Adams School. We were denied that request. This is a violation of Article VI, Section 4, Paragraph D and D.l. Even though we were not given the dates of employment of the teachers as we requested, there are standard elementary certificated teachers at Adams with much less than eight years of teaching experience and service to District 1-89. Principal Shehorne testified at LeveT II'that Ms. Ulmer i; qualified to teach any elementary grade level. He also testified that there was no question of her ability to be effective with children at any grade level. Ms. Ulmer was not considered for any other grade levels at Adams School prior to her transfer. District seniority was never considered as a factor to allow Ms. Ulmer to remain at Adams. The hearing judge's explanation of the relationship between Paragraphs J and K was not presented and discussed at all at Level II.

Ipening Statement - Mr. Savage

Mr. Savage stated: The respondent will show during this hearing that the principal did act in accordance with the negotiated agreement as negotiated at the bargaining table. It specifically sets out the procedures to be followed when a staff reduction is necessary. The alleged violation of the contract as to a private conference between the administrator and the teacher was not violated. The fact that the conference was not held behind closed doors does not mean that it was not a private conference. In all areas grieved in this grievance filed, the principal, the administrator of the school, did follow the negotiated agreement in making the selection for the teacher thathad:to be put on the "must assign" list because of a reduction in staff.

testimony fr. Ruble

Mr. Ruble responded to questioning as to whether prior to Ms. Ulmer's being notified that she was going to be transferred, if he informed Mr. Shehorne of a loss of a teaching position at Adams; did he on any occasion indicate to Mr. Shehorne who was to be transferred; when someone holds the Standard Certificate, K-8 certification, what grade levels are they qualified to teach; and other.

testimony 1r. Savage

Included in the testimony by Mr. Savage were responses regarding his not making any reference to in-grade or grade level seniority in his response to the Level II hearing; at the Level II when the process was being grieved by which Ms. Ulmer was selected for transfer, was seniority a factor in that process; did he have a part in the negotiating of the agreement in 1978 and what was his role in the negotiating process; did he recall which team presented the concept of seniority; did he recall what the opposition was over with regard to the concept of seniority; the definition of seniority as written in the agreement, Section 5; is seniority a factor in the transfer criteria; was seniority a key factor that Mr. Shehorne made his final decision on; did he at any time advise Mr. Shehorne that seniority was a grade level concept; was he aware of any teachers at Adams Elementary School with less years of seniority than Ms. Ulmer; is there a circumstance in which seniority takes a less prominent role.in the decisions made by the administrator; is seniority a top factor in an administrator making his decision concerning transfers; "The principal stated he assumed seniority was determined by salary steps"; was that a correct statement of what transpired; why is it that salary steps cannot be interpreted as seniority; his interpretation of a private conference and what would be a key item to guarantee privacy; did he recall how Ms. Ulmer made the'.assumption that she might be assigned to a third grade position; prior to the filing of the grievance, did he recall that there was any reference made to seniority of two people on the same grade level or in the same building; during the negotiations, did the Board's team ever propose grade level seniority as a counter to the district's proposal, and other.

testimony 1r. Shehorne

Included in the testimony by Mr. Shehorne were his responses to inquiries related to his statement that he assumed seniority was determined by salary steps; did Mr. Ruble give him any dates of employment regarding seniority of teachers in his building; did he recall Ms. Ulmer's testimony at Level II that she assumed she might be assigned to a third grade position since she was certified at all elementary levels; did he at any time ask Ms. Ulmer if she would be interested or would she consider the possibility of a third grade teaching position; when Ms. Ulmer expressed a preference for the first grade, did he interpret that as she was automatically excluding any other level; why did he decide to eliminate a first grade level position; when he visited with Mr. Ruble checking on seniority, had he read the contract prior to discussion with Mr. Ruble; in dropping one teaching position, was he instructed to make that at level on p or was it his decision; what was his interpretation of grade level seniority; after he determined that his staff reduction would be made in the first grade, then did he further determine that based on that criteria established in the negotiated agreement that all the factors among the four teachers involved at first grade level were equal, then according to the contract he went to seniority, which was how he came up with seniority in that grade level; had he ever heard Jim Huff use the phrase of grade level

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seniority in any of the other grievances; in his definition of grade level seniority, did it take into account that anyone in that building is certified in that grade level; did he use certification as part of his definition of grade level seniority; why was the certification aspect not utilized since there were people in the building with less than a year who were not considered for transfer; and other.

Testimony Mr. Shehorne cont'd

Mr. Barlow responded to inquiries concerning .his responsibilities to the teachers in Testimony the school district in 1978; did he recall who presented the first proposal utilizing Mr. Barlow the concept of seniority during the negotiations process; his interpretation of the language used in the agreement related to seniority; was there anywhere in the contract where it may have referred to grade level seniority or department level seniority; had he had any circumstances in which he had discussed with Mr. Savage the resolution of seniority questions involving a transfer of teachers in the school district; the context in which he talked with Mr. Savage about a seniority problem; the proposal presented by the Board's team during the negotiations process; what was theâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;application of the language to be regarding seniority as negotiated in the contract; his interpretation of an administrative-initiated transfer; if he had an occasion to determine what his seniority was; how was seniority applied when he inquired in the Personnel Office; had he taught any other subjects during his eight years or did he teach just one subject during that period; and other. Ms. Ulmer's testimony included answers to questions that related to her eight years Testimony of experience in the school system; were there other teachers in her building that Ms. Ulmer had less years of experience than eight; earlier when Mr. Shehorne had discussed with her about the possibility of a third grade position, did she express a preference for first grade; did Mr. Shehorne make reference to seniority in grade level or grade level seniority; did she speak with anyone concerning the actual application of seniority the way it was being applied after she was told that she was to be transferred and was considering filing a grievance; did she recall at Level II Mr. Shehorne referring to salary steps being given to him as a record of seniority; had her di strict seniority been given any consideration at all; her interpretation of J. and K. under Section 5.in the negotiated agreement, what would have happened if someone had volunteered to leave the building; had she received good effective evaluations in the past; was she confident that she could handle any grade level; did she question the interpretation of seniority in view of her certification; in the grievance that she filed where she alleged that the contract had been violated as related to Section 5, Article VI, Paragraph 1.1 which says that administrative-initiated transfer shall be made only after a private conference between the affected teacher and principal, did she have a private conference with the principal; why did she not consider it a private conference; was there anyone in the principal's office besides her and the principal; on the grievance as related to J regarding an administrative transfer with regard to reduction in staff, in two places it talks about reduction in staff and does not talk about elimination of position, did she agree with that; what part of that section in the agreement did she feel was violated; did she feel that the principal violated the contract as to J, and did he determine that the reduction of staff would be made at a grade level; did he ask for volunteers; as to K which speaks to the selection of the individual to be recommended for transfer as so stated in the agreement and the principa' so stated that he considered all of the factors involved, what part of K did she feel like was violated; was certification listed in any of the factors; basically, did she feel like the contract was violated; with regard to K where it talks about the selection of the individual, the immediate supervisor after he determines it is to be in the first grade, did she feel like he should look at the whole school and consider all of the factors with all of the teachers in the school and if all of them equal, every teacher in the school, then.heshoitld go to seniority and select the one with the least seniority and then shift people around to fill the vacancy; why was she offered a position in the third grade; when she was invited by the principal into his office, did she have any inkling at all of the topic to be discussed; prior to her. leaving his office and her. getting back to herr class, did she say that people were already coming to her and sharing with her contract language; when they began to discuss the Level I hearing, did anyone suggest that the door be closed; was the door closed and would she say that was an effort at privacy; how was it presented to her about the five schools from which she could choose; Mr. Savage had emphasized in the narrative "staff reduction" and :not thip word "where" the administrator is to consider the program needs and determine the grade level and or department "where" the reduction in staff can best be made, but he emphasized the words "staff reduction", did she see that the issue there was simply an administrator looking at his own building and deciding where he can lose a staff position; was she willing to acknowledge that the principal did not violate establishing where the position should be lost from; did she consider herself a first grade teacher; did she feel like the K section had been violated, when they asked for volunteers and no one volunteered from the whole group and then her understanding that the whole group should have been considered because of equal certification, did she feel like that had been violated, and other.

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testimony is. Kelly

Ms. Kelly testified that she was a member of the negotiating team in 1978 when the contract referred to was negotiated; responded to questioning of her agreement with Mr. Ba how the negotiations for the particular language alleged violated in the grievance took place; would she list some of the things that she disagreed with Mr. Barlow on; at | what point did Mr. Savage propose grade level seniority; at what point did Mr. Barlow cease discussing seniority as district seniority; was there any similar phrase to grade level seniority used in the discussion; did she recall how the spokesperson of the Board's team interpreted the word seniority; and other.

Additional testimony 1r. Shehorne

Mr. Shehorne, in additional testimony, responded to questioning with regard to when he had to make a reduction in staff, was he ever told by Mr. Ruble that Ms. Ulmer would be the teacher that would have to be transferred; how he shared with | Ms. Ulmer the five schools where she could be transferred and the words he used to infor her; did he recall any response from Ms. Ulmer indicating that she asked you was Mr. Ruble aware of her years of experience or years of seniority; did he see any change in the procedure that he had used before and after the procedure had been | negotiated; did he see any difference at all in how to go about handling the selection j and choosing of a teacher for transfer, and other. i

At the suggestion of Mr. Huff and a brief discussion by the Board, Dr. Hamm called for a ten-minute recess.

| !

Dr. Hamm reconvened the meeting and asked Mr. Huff for his closing statement.

Hosing Statement - Mr. Huff

Mr. Huff stated: I would ask that the appeal panel give serious consideration to Mr. Savage's letterindicating that at any level should the grievance be upheld, the teacher would be transferred back to the building and there would be no real problems. I would ask that the appeal panel not let other issues be weighed. This is a very important grievance as evidenced by the large number of elementary administrators who are here. It is not something which the grievant found easy to file; it took some courage and some fortitude. It is simply a grievance dealing with a decision made by the administrator, an interpretation of a negotiated agreement. I think testimony has shown very clearly that Mr. Shehorne when he made the decision did not have the correct understanding of contract language. The accepting of salary steps as seniority was in error. The phraseology in his letter to Ms. Ulmer of seniority in grade level was in error. There has been a great deal of testimony concerning what went on at the negotiating table and that is extremely crucial. You have had Mr. Savage's testimony which was basically I am not for sure, I don't remember, yet he was there, and. with his own testimony, he was present at every single session. The only other testimony to challenge our testimony to corroborate what did happen at the table was Ms. Kelly and hers was basically a statement of disagreement. When attempting to clarify where the disagreements were, it was futile. Ms. Ulmer is now teaching at another school and she is teaching a first and second grade combination. She has eight years in the district. She was transferred from her school. A teacher in her building with two years of experience in the district is teaching a first and second grade combination. That just is not the way it should be; that is not the intent of seniority. When we negotiated that language, we were very much aware of the district's concerns, the administrator's concerns over blanket using of seniority. Consequently, seniority is not the key issue in determiining a transfer. There have been numerous occasions; I have filed grievances in which we alleged theft a teacher seniority was violated, and what the grievance hearing did was to show that it was not equal; therefore, seniority in the district didn't apply. This ruling at Level II was a complete shock. At Level I when I was informed that it was Mr. Savage's advice, I expressed myself pretty well that, that was hard for me to believe since it had not come up that way before. The issue is seniority even though Mr. Savage has repeatedly said that is not the issue. We maintain that there are two | decisions made at J and K. In J you decide where to make your reduction. That is a proper administrative decision and we have no arguments with that. When we filed the greviance we had some questions about numbers and we discussed those at Level II, but the where is one question. The requesting for a volunteer is clear; that is to resolve the problem if at all possible without having to go to K. If you go to K, you weigh all of those who are qualified to do the teaching. If there are no other factors that deal in the difference between teachers' abilities and teachers' skills, if everything is equal, then it says the one with the least number of years of service shall be recommended for transfer, and that is proper; we agreed with that. It wasn't exactly what we had proposed but we agreed to it. The privacy issue; when someone is caTTedinon the spur of the moment notice and you are standing in an office and someone tells you that you are going to be transferred and here are some names, you consider these schools and make your decisjon because you are going, when you are hearing that, that is kind of a shock right there. It would seem proper that the administrator would take the precautions to go ahead and shut the door, because obviously this was not a private conference. Before she got down the hallway, people were coming to her with language saying that is not the proper procedure. Someone heard; others told; that is not a private conference. It is very strange; the district seems to be developing an attitude toward teachers that have been in the district for a period of time. I am not quite sure what it means, but it does appear that those who have been in the district are receiving less consideration than brand new people. Obviously, that is not what we intended when we negotiated the agreement.

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Mr. Huff cont'd

Closing Statement - Mr. Huff cont'd

There was no disagreement at the table over what ultimately was resolved. It was clear. It has repeatedly been used against us. In earlier grievances, you simply try to show that teachers are not equal so that you don't have to use seniority. We have accepted those decisions; didn't like them, didn't agree with them; felt like that there were not differences but the administrator made his argument and the hearing was upheld. You cannot get away from the seniority clause. It is very clear that seniority starts with the first day of employment. It is all of your days of employment in the district and it is entitled district seniority. If this decision is allowed to stand, the district is allowing itself to interpret and uphold its interpretations to get what it cannot get at the negotiating table. A similar clause exists now in the contract. If the district had not really wanted seniority to be a reasonable factor, they should not have agreed to that language. Simply look at the J and the K. One decision is where the staff is to be reduced, the other one is the individual to be selected, and if a volunteer can be found in the' middle, you solve all of your problems. There are teachers at Adams with less than a year of experience in the district, teaching subjects that Ms. Ulmer has taught in the past. Then the half first grade and the half second grade, which she is now teaching, is being taught by a non-tenured teacher. If the appeal panel will simply listen to the testimony that has been given, you are not going to be creating problems if you uphold this grievance, There is not going to be a lot of paperwork and a lot of extra things involved. Ms. Ulmer is still carried officially on the staff at Adams; she receives her check there; she receives official transactions there, There has been no official transfer. Mr. Savage's letter clarifies that. We have been told in the past that if there was ever a clear-cut violation of the contract, we want to correct that; we want to get things like they are supposed to be. I don't think you are going to find a more clear-cut violation of the contract. And to uphold doesn't hurt anyone. It is not saying that Mr. Shehorne is a bad administrator; it is simply saying that he misinterpreted the contract. It is not saying that Ms. Ulmer has won a giant battle against the district, that she is a troublemaker that has won something, She has simply had her contractual rights upheld, It is extremely important to us that seniority have some meaning. Teachers who have put years into this district should have some degree of extra consideration for some of their preferences. If they are not doing a good job, that cancels seniority right there. In your deliberations, I would ask that if you have some questions about what we were saying, I would encourage y?u to ask us. We are rarely ever asked for clarification of our position in a grievance hearing. We are utilizing the procedure which you the school board have agreed to. I think you are in an awkward position, I really don't think it is proper for you to be making this decision; that there should be some other methods, But we are utilizing the system which you agreed to. We didn't have a gun put to our head, The grievance thing could have fallen by the wayside if we hadn't liked some of the language that was in there, but it is meaningful. Simply utilize the contract language and vote to uphold the grievance because there has been a very direct violation. Mr. Savage stated: There has been a great deal said here tonight about what went on Closing Statement - Mr. Savage at the negotiating table and I feel like it was out of place in this grievance hearing. We are here to determine if there is a violation of the contract as written, not as the discussion was leading up to the contract. It is a contract that the School Board and Union have agreed to back in August of 1978. I am as interested in protecting this contract as written 'as anybody is. I think it is very clear if you read the language of J and K, that it is instructions to the administrator and also to the teacher telling what happens if a reduction of staff is necessary and how a person is to be transferred. Had the intent been to simply look at the school as a whole and select an individual to be transferred because of reduction in staff, there would have been no need to say in the contract that the administrator would determine the grade level and/or department where the reduction would be made. This contract didn't need to have that in it if that was the purpose, that we would just say that we would go straight to the school as a whole and if you are going to have to lose one teacher, if you have got 50 teachers at that school, you look at all 50 of them and then make your selection. But that is not what the language says. It says very clearly that the administrator will determine the grade level and/or department where the reduction in staff will be made, and then he makes that determination. It further tells him that after he has requested for volunteers that are properly certified and receives none, then it says the selection of the individual after he has made the determination of the grade level and/or department is to be made according to established criteria, and it is listed in the contract in paragraph K. It is very clear. If the principal in his judgment, and his judgment alone, decides that those factors that are listed in the contract are equal, then he selects the person with the least seniority. If it had meant the least seniority of the teachers in the whole building, it would have so stated. But it is still talking about after he has made his determination of the grade level, he looks to the teachers in that grade level whether there be two or ten at that particular grade level. He looks at each teacher, evaluates the factors as listed, and then if he determines, whether it be two teachers or ten teachers, that they are all equal, then he looks at the seniority of those teachers that he is considering putting on the "must assign" list because of a staff reduction. Mr. Shehorne followed the criteria as he was instructed to do. If the grievant feels like in paragraph 1.1 that there was no private conference held because the door was not closed, that is another matter, if that is her position. I made the determination at Level II that a private conversa-

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'losing Statement - Mr. Savage :ont'd

Mr. Savage cont1d

tion does not necessarily have to be behind closed doors. I maintain that it is a 4 private conversation as long as only the parties involved in the conversation are present. She did testify that the door was open to Mr. Shehorne's office but there was no one in the office with them. Mr. Shehorne may have used bad judgment when | he referred to the steps on the salary schedule as being seniority; however, there is a way of verifying the original date of employment for every teacher in this district, and this was determined before the final selection was made. It is a habit, and I admit a real habit, to look at what step is on a salary schedule and assume that is their total experience in the district. That may not be true, because we do grant additional experience from outside the district when new people come in. So he probably was in error when he assumed that salary steps meant seniority, but nevertheless of the four teachers involved, Ms. Ulmer did have less seniority in the district. The fact that she feels that it was unfair and unjust may be true in her case. I think it is a traumatic experience when any person is moved from their place of assignment to another place. But one of the reasons that we put the language in the contract as we did wasitotry to let the teachers know this is how it's done. This is the same way that every administrator is instructed on how to handle the administrativd transfers because of a staff reduction. In fact, we even followed this rule when we had to make staff reductions in this building. People were called in and they were given a private conference, and they were told about the necessity of staff reduction. So we felt like it was good language. The fact that we disagree at this point and time; two years later, that we don't see the language as the-same way is a matter that can be discussed at the negotiating table when we start negotiations again early next year. We are here tonight only to determine if this contract as written has been violated. And I ask at this point that you uphold the decision made at Level II. Dr. Hamm stated that the Board had heard the opening statements, the statement of witnesses and cross examination, and closing statements by both sides, and that they were now ready for a motion.

totion Failed from .ack of Second

A motion was made by Dr. Start - "I move that the grievance be denied." There being no second to the motion, Dr. Hamm declared that the motion died from lack of a second.

t #350 lotion to Uphold Grievance Failed

A motion was then made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Brody - "I move that we uphold the grievance as stated."

In the discussion, Mrs. Hill stated that she did not place any blame on Mr. Shehorne; that she felt like from what she had heard during the hearing that he did as he was instructed from staff at the Administration Building; that she realized that there were a lot of principalsand teachers present, but she did feel like that as he was instructed, thatwashow he interpreted the contract; that J and K to her could be confusing if you wanted to interrelate them; that she did think it is a principal's right to choose the grade levels that he will have at his school, but it also said in J that'properly certified volunteers will be transferred;" it did not say volunteers from the in-grade; the in-grade seniority was the first time thatshehad heard it, which was during the hearing; that she did not find it in the contract; as the contract was written it strictly just talked about seniority, and K did mention the length of-service in the school system, and it did go on into training and experience, which were things that were to be considered, and that was why she made the motion as she did.

Mrs. Brody indicated that she had a concern about the privacy part; that if the system values its students and employees, the privacy factor is a very important thing; if people are to be counseled with, it must be done in private, and it can be done if the door is open if no one else is around, but that matter was a very personal thing and the fact that it was in a busy area, obvibusTy'people heard7 â&#x20AC;&#x2122; '' what was going on; that it is very important to a person, whether it be a teacher or a student, that they have privacy in certain matters.

Dr. Start stated that he thought the motion should not be passed; that he really, sincerely believed that Mr. Huff and Ms. Ulmer are very sincere people; only one time had he and Mr. Huff not related to each other, other than an issue oriented, and he wanted to make sure that they were talking about issues there and not personalities; that he had a great deal of respect for Mr. Huff, he is very skillful at introducing emotional issues and making misleading issues; for example, there was no evidence presented at all to suggest that the district is taking a negative attitude toward experienced teachers; that he had told the Board as a matter of fact, and it was not true, therewasno evidence of that. Dr. Start continued that in his opinion, the three issues were the testimony solicited by Mr..Huff which was intended to challenge the administrative decision in the case; different supervisors w6iHd"make different decisions based on different sets of facts and circumstances; that secondly, Mr. Huff had very skillfully brought into the forefront the issue of

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Dr. Start cont'd

seniority, thus the grievance procedure was being used to negotiate an agreement between the Union and the District that seniority would be the primary factor in administrative transfers; and thirdly, in his opinion the evidence clearly demonstrated that the negotiated agreement was followed, and those were the three reasons why he believed the motion should be defeated.

R. #350 Motion to Uphold Grievance Failed - cont'd

Dr. Hamm stated that concerning the privacy of the conference, he had learned a long time ago that it was always wise to leave the door open in a conference with an attractive young lady, that just for his reputation's sake, and that the only time the door was closed was upon a request; that it was his feeling that there were some presumptions made and no real evidence was given that the privacy was violated; that no doubt he was aware that everyone in the school knew that probably something was going to be going on because they were aware of the reduction in staff that was coming and therefore they could have put two and two together, but no one was offered as a witness and testified that they overheard a statement; it was all assumption. Dr. Hamm continued that the question of seniority in Section 4 of the contract was not being grieved; that seniority does have meaning for the district, and he thought they as Board members had to keep in mind the fact that they were Board members for the total district; teachers are employed by the district and Ms. Ulmer was not being dismissed from the district but she was being transferred to another school, and the criteria for transfer was addressed in the contract which began/ with the building administrator's decision and the thing that bothered him about it was that in all of the criteria that were listed, once the grade level or department was determined, all of the criteria stay within the confines of that, then if everything was equal, then suddenly it was going to open to the whole school, not just the first grade or the department; and he felt that needed to be addressed; that if the building administrator had decided that there was a difference among the four teachers and then selected one because of that difference, it would have been resolved there within that grade level, but then suddenly to throw it open to the whole school did not make sense to him, that it was inconsistent; so, therefore he was going to vote against the motion.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, nay; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, nay; and Dr. Hamm, nay. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion failed. ADJOURNMENT

A motion to adjourn was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Brody. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the office of the Clerk.)

President

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA ) I, the undersigned Clerk of the Board of Education of Independent School District No. 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours before the meeting, the date, time and place of the Special Meeting was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. I also certify that at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, notice of the date, time, place and agenda of this meeting was posted in permanent public view at the location of the meeting.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district this/? day of 1980.

Clerk, Oklahoma City Board of Education

R. #351 Adjournment

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PRESENT:

Delbert Hamm, President Jean Brody, Member Floyd Donwerth, Member Susan Hermes, Member Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member

The meeting was called to order by Dr. Hamm and Mrs. Hermes gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Dr. Hamm welcomed all of the visitors present.

Visitors Welcomed

Roll call established that all of the board members were present.

Roll Call

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mr. Donwerth for approval of the minutes of November 3 and 11, 1980 as presented. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #352 Minutes Approved

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS

Dr. Start stated that he was pleased with the results regarding the school calendar for 1981-82 survey forms; that 6,000 were returned.

Comments Dr. Start

Mrs. Hill stated that she thought it would be nice if the Board would send a letter or something to Mark Herndon, National FFA President, a former student of the Oklahoma City Public Schools and is now in college, and who was president of not only his local chapter but State FFA President. Mrs. Hill added that she thought it was quite an honor and achievement for this former student to have been elected National President of FFA (Future Farmers of America) and it would be nice to let him know that it was noticed by members of the Board.

Comments Mrs. Hill

Mrs. Hill continued by expressing appreciation to Southeast High School for the invitation from their drama department to attend a play that was presented,,and stated that the students did a fine job in the presentation.

Mrs. Hill added that while she was attending a meeting at Kaiser Elementary School the children sang, and she attributed it to the music department that they performed so well; al so, that a film was presented to the parents on-discipline the same evening by a professor from Oklahoma .University, the same film which had been presented to the staff, and that they would probably be deciding whether they would want to undertake that kind of discipline program in their school, and it would be interesting to see how that would come out.

Mrs. Hermes commented that she visited Central Innovative High School's Open House and the principal seemed to be doing a very good job; however, she was concerned with the program; with a high school that is geared toward creative children, he is fighting things like public coming in off the streets disrupting classes, walking the halls; that they only have a nurse once a week, and it-was' herâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; feeling â&#x20AC;&#x2122;that the Board and staff needs to look at Central if this type of program is to be continued. Mrs. Hermes added that the principal did have his "chin up" and is working with the kids, and it is coming along.

Dr. Hamm called attention to the Board that questions for the applicants' interviews for the vacancy in Area Number Five should be turned in before the meeting was over; also that as a result of polling the Board members a special meeting was rescheduled for November 24 for interviewing the applicants, because two members would have been unable to attend the meeting scheduled for November 18; that the meeting was rescheduled for Monday, November 24, 6:30 p.m. and all appropriate steps had been taken with regard to notifications.

Comments Dr. Hamm

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COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS cont'd Comments )r. Hamm cont'd

Dr. Hamm added that he was also looking forward to the events that would be coming up .in December and January, and he would urge all Board members, if at all possible, to visit the schools thatwereon the list for consideration for closing. Dr. Hamm stated that he had been visiting those schools and had been walking in the footsteps of some of the Board members who had been there before him and he was glad to see that. HEARINGS Dr. Hamm called on Ms. Virginia Miller, who had registered to address the Board.

Ms. Miller's remarks were in regard to Gerald DeMarsh, Jr., a student not in school, and requested that he be allowed to transfer from Moon Middle School to Capitol Hill Middle School. Ms. Miller read from the School Laws of Oklahoma, Section 686, Busing and Transfer of Pupils for Racial Reasons Prohibited.

Dr. Payzant responded that the Student Assignment Plan which was adopted by the Board was not one that in all instances assigned students to the school that was geographically closest to their place of residence, which was the result of a number of decisions involving the courts and the Board.over the years which have taken precedence over the State Statutes.

Mr. Bleakley commented that he was sure Dr. Payzant was correct with regard to litigation involving the Oklahoma City School District; that he had not checked the date that the law read by Ms. Miller was passed by the Legislatureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; but he thought it was probably contemporaneous with the integration lawsuit of the school district and was dealt with by the court, but the federal court in applying the United States Constitution and the 14th Amendment through the integration litigation probably dealt with the issue of that Statute, and it is not an impediment to the use of busing as an integration vehicle in the district. Ms. Miller commented further regarding the issue,and the transfer of the student, to which Dr. Payzant responded that when the reassignment plan was presented to the Board last spring and some modifications were made in it that involved about 2,000 students, he and the Board went on record and made the commitment at that time that they would try to bring some stability to the student assignment procedure and not have annual review which would lead to peopTe wondering if it was going to change every year and their student be assigned to another school, which was with the exception of any reassignments that might come as the result of school closures, and thi was made very clear at the time. Dr. Payzant added that ever since the Board began working with student assignments some eight or nine years ago it had been very conscious of precedents and had attempted to operate with consistency so that there would be a sense of fairness that would be applied across the board for all people, and whenever you start making exceptions, then it was very difficult for others for whom the exceptions are denied to understand where that consistency is. Dr. Hamm mentioned that the district is being monitored by the Health, Education and Welfare Department. Dr. Start referred to medical and other types of transfers that are issued to students to try to do the right thing for them; that since it had been mentioned later that the student be transferred because he was in trouble, that maybe that could be looked into and a transfer be considered for another reason other than a school close to his home. Mrs. Hermes cited the reasons for which she had been told a transfer could be granted.

LEGAL REPORT Attorney's Report

Mr. Bleakley reported: 1.

Challenge of Attorney General's Opinion on Disseminating Information

The Berard of Directors of the Oklahoma State School Boards Association voted today to join in the challenge of the Attorney General's Opinion that school districts cannot disseminate information relating to school elections. 2.

DeMarsh vs. School District Case In the case of Gerald DeMiarsh versus the School Districts as you knbw.Mr.FDeMarsh has filed an action pro-se (without an attorney)in U. S. District Court. We appeared with him before Judge Daugherty on his Motion for a Preliminary Injunction. That motion was denied on the basis that Judge Daugherty did not feel that Mr. DeMarsh had a probability of winning in that he felt that the Federal Court did not have jurisdiction over the matters raised in 'Mr. DeMarsh's complaint. We have subpoenaed Mr. DeMarsh for a deposition. He has refused to submit himself

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Demarsh vs. School District Case cont'd

Attorney's Report cont'd

to a deposition and he has issued a subpoena for the Superintendent. We have a number of motions relating to sanctions against him for failure to appear and motions relating to the subpoena of the Superintendent which we are filing in Federal Court. 3.

National Gay Task Force vs. the School District Case

In the case of the National Gay Task Force versus the School District, we have not yet received a reaction from the Attorney General with respect to intervening in the case. Judge Daugherty has disqualified himself from the case and Judge Eubanks has been assigned the matter. This week we will file our Motion to Dismiss and Brief in support of the motion which will contend that the plaintiffs lack standing to sue and that there is no case or controversy.

Mrs. Hill stated that it would be interesting to see how the first item comes out because when she was at the School Boards Association meeting she had picked up a nice pamphlet that someone had done for a school election and she would be sharing that, and it was elaborately done to prove their point. Mrs. Hill then inquired if the district would be audited? Dr. Payzant replied that he had not received communication of any kind from the State Auditor. Mr. Donwerth mentioned that he had read in the paper about an investigation by the Grand Jury of something in the school district, but Dr. Payzant stated that he did not know to what the article was referring.

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT

In recognition of Poster Contest Awards to Ninroy F. Levy, second grade student; and Betty Dunbar, his teacher, Kaiser Elementary School, Dr. Payzant stated: The first item in my report was to be the presentation of an award to one of our elementary students and teachers from Kaiser, but they are unable to be here this evening. The Certificate of Recognition will be forwarded to them. Often you may see reference made to student participation in essay or poster contests, other activities that may be extracurricular in a way, but in this instance there was a Morgan Horse Poster Contest, and we had 523 students who submitted entries to the contest. The teachers in a lot of the schools took the opportunity to work on the students' research skills as well as their art skills and had them do some studying about the Morgan Horse and its origin and its role in this country. The young man who won the award also was a recipient in behalf of his class of a $25.00 prize gift certificate from a local art supply store. So his class will have the benefit from those art supplies.

Recognition Poster Contest Award

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Start to direct the following persons to attend conferences as indicated:

R. #353 Professional Trips Approved

At No Travel Expense to the District

(a)

Koehler L. Johnson, Band Director; Rachelle Stephens, Principal's Secretary, Classen High School -- Close-Up Convention, Washington, D.C., March 22-28, 1981.

(b)

Robin Gaston, Principal, Northwest Classen High School; Elton Matthews, Principal, Central Innovative High School; June Dawkins, Principal, Douglass High School; James Robinson, Principal, John Marshall High School -- National Association of Secondary School Principals Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, February 20-24, 1981.

(c)

John W. Easley, Teacher, Hoover Middle School -- Western States Leadership Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 19-23, 1981.

(d)

Sally R. Cole, Principal, Classen High School -- Conference on the Bilingual Child, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 17-21, 1981.

(e)

Margie Cole, Teacher, Northwest Classen High School -- A.P. Workshop, Dallas, Texas, November 14, 1980. Confirmation.

(f)

Bill Parker, Principal, Quail Creek Elementary School -- Large City Principals Convention, Indianapolis, Indiana, December 3-6, 1980.

(g)

John Hatfield, Community Education Specialist -- National Community Education Conference, Denver, Colorado, December 1-5, 1980.

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t #353 Professional Trips Approved cont'd

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

Dr. Start noted that it was a misnomer to indicate "At No Expense to the District" with reference to persons in attendance at conferences, but it was "At No Travel Expense to the District," because whenever an employee is gone even though it doesn't cost to pay for the travel, it still costs the district. Dr. Payzant agreed that it should say "At No Travel Expense to the District," because people are receiving professional leave to attend and although administrators and counselors would not have substitutes, teachers would, and that would be an additional cost, so in the future it would be s stated that way. j I Mrs. Hill mentioned that when employees go to conferences at district expense, Board members usually receive reports and she suggested it probably would be nice to have the reports, but consideration would have to be given to the fact that they have a lot of paperwork as it is. 1. #354 â&#x20AC;&#x2122;resident of Soard and Superintendent Authorized to ixecute Documents

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Dr. Start that the President of the Board and the Superintendent be authorized to execute documents and submit an application for a grant as follows:

(a)

ESAA Program (Emergency School Aid Act Program) under P.L. 95-561 Educational Amendments of 1978.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. Approval of 1981-82 School Calendar for Action on lecember 1

In recommending approval of the 1981-82 School Calendar, Dr. Payzant stated: This recommendation comes to you a bit early this year for approval of the calendar. Purposely, the staff and I decided to deal with this issue soon after our experience with the warm days at the start of our 1980-81 school year. As last year, we thought it would be appropriate to survey parents and teachers in some way. Rather than include a survey later in the year in a copy of the School Report that goes to all homes, we decided this year to send a survey questionnaire home with students. We received about 6,000 completed questionnaires back from homes. The teacher organizations did their own survey and they had a return of about 660 questionnaires. I was extremely surprised to find that of the options listed, both the teachers and the parents, if you just took their first choice, responded with support for an early start day; in fact, the option that would have students Starting one day earlier in 1981 than in 1980. Despite that response, I don't feel that I can recommend the exact same calendar for 1981-82 as we had for 1980-81, while at the same time going to the Legislature to ask for a waiver on make-up time for the short days that we had to schedule because of the extreme heat. Frankly, my preference would be to start as late in August as possible, although with the school holidays and vacation periods remaining roughly the same, inservice days, etc., that would take us into the first week in June. I am fi.nding that there seems to be some magic in Memorial Day weekend and with the date June 1,' beyond which people feel that school should not go. Most seemed to start with that June 1 date and work backward and have the calendar determined by the number of days that must be incorporated in the year with that ending date being late May. So what I am recommending to you is a compromise calendar that is part-way between the two extremes of a calendar that would be a repetition of this year and one which I personally think would make more sense starting late in August and going through the first week in June. It would have the students reporting on August 25, which would be four days later than they reported this year. I think that one possible advantage of taking action on it this early is that perhaps some of our neighboring school districts will, because they are aware of our calendar, be more apt to schedule their Spring Break at the same time that we do, and that has been one matter that has been a bone of contention in the greater Oklahoma City area in some years. Mrs. Hill - I guess my concern still is starting this far up in August, because August 20 is rather early. Of course, I think the students and the teachers sort of liked that half-day going to school, thinking maybe that might happen again next summer. I think that we are going to have to be very cautious about that same thing.

Dr. Payzant - I quite agree because the bills that have been introduced in the Legislature, so far none of them would exempt us completely from some make-up time, and with the pressures really going to be on, if we get a number of snow days this year, then there is no doubt that we will have to make up some days sometime, either spring break or at the end of the school year. It two of the bills as they are proposed in the Legislature now were adopted, we could use the snow days that we have built into the calendar, which number two, for the early release time last August. But if we have to use them for snow days, then we could well have additional days to make up.

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Mrs. Hill - So in other words you are saying that we would only have to make up the hours that we missed, because I understood that was only considered a half-day. Dr. Payzant - It is really too early to tell. It would depend on which bill and in what format it passed, but there has been nothing proposed so far that would exempt us completely.

Approval of 1981-82 School Calendar for Action on December 1 cont'd

For Action on December 1 - 1981-82 School Calendar:

Teachers Report

August 20, 1981

Students Report

August 25, 1981

Labor Day

September 7

Fair Day

September 21

Fall Break

October 15-16

End, First Quarter

October 23

Inservice Day

October 26

Thanksgiving

November 26-27

Winter Break

December 23-January 1, 1982

End, Second Quarter

January 8

Inservice Day

January 11

Make-up Day (if required)

February 15

End, Third Quarter

March 12

Spring Break

March 15-19

Make-up Day (if required)

April 23

End, Fourth Quarter

May 27

Record Day

May 28, 1982

Total Number of Days Classes in Session

175

It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of the schedule of meetings of the Board for the 1981 calendar year as presented.

AMENDMENT

After a brief discussion regarding Spring Break, Mrs. Hermes moved to amend the motion to schedule March meetings for March 2 and 23, instead of March 2 and 16. Mrs. Hill seconded the amendment. On roll call for the amendment, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that thb motion carried. Schedule of Meetings of the Board for the 1981 Calendar Year as amended:

DATES

TIME

PLACE

PURPOSE

January 5, 19

7:00 p.m.

900 N. Klein

Conduct Regular Business and Related Issues

February 2, 16

7:00 p.m.

900 N.â&#x20AC;&#x17E;Klein

Conduct Regular Business and Related Issues

March 2, 23

7:00 p.m.

900 N. Klein

Conduct Regular Business and Related Issues

April 6, 20

7:00 p.m.

900 N. Klein

Conduct Regular Business and Related Issues

May 4, 18

7:00 p.m.

900 N. Klein

Conduct Regular Business and Related Issues

June 1, 15

7:00 p.m.

900 N. Klein

Conduct Regular Business and Related Issues

July 7, 20

7:00 p.m.

900 N. Klein

Conduct Regular Business and Related Issues

R. #355 Approval of Schedule of Board Meetings

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R. #355 Approval of Schedul e of Board Meetings cont'd

Schedule of Meetings of the Board for the 1981 Calendar Year as amended cont'd

DATES

TIME

PLACE

PURPOSE

August 3, 17

7:00 p.m.

900 N. Klein

Conduct Regular Business and Related Issues

September 8, 21

7:00 p.m.

900 N. Klein

Conduct Regular Business and Related Issues

October 5,

7:00 p.m.

900 N. Klein

Conduct Regular Business and Related Issues

November 2, 16

7:00 p.m.

900 N. Klein

Conduct Regular Business and Related Issues

December 7, 21

7:00 p.m.

900 N. Klein

Conduct Regular Business and Related Issues

On roll call for the motion as amended, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #356 . \pproval of Agreement with Architectural Firm te Swimming Pools

Dr. Payzant stated: We have had questions raised by the City-County Health Department about our swimming pools, and those of you who have been on the Board for a while know that over the years we have been patching and applying Band Aids every few months to try and keep a number of our swimming pools in operating condition so that they could be used for the swimming programs and physical education programs at the various schools. We are making arrangements for alternative locations that will be available to the high school swimming teams for their practices. We have not got those contracts finalized yet but Ms. Mason is working on those this week. Of the swimming pools that are listed in the recommendation, all of them with the exception of Douglass will probably require substantial work to put them in top operating condition. I believe that we have reached the point where we should no longer just analyze the immediate problem, develop a solution and do it, but we ought to have a comprehensive analysis of the swimming pools and conditions and what it will take to put them in topnotch operating order. Therefore, I am recommending approval of an agreement to do the work as listed. We would then take the resuJts of that study, evaluate them and bring them back to you before going forward with any specific work.

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hermes for approval of an agreement with the Architectural Firm of Noftsger, Lawrence, Lawrence and Flesher to provide at a fee of $5200 architectural/engineering services as follows:

Scope of Work, Swimming Pool Evaluation::

Visit each swimming pool at: Capitol Hill Middle

2727 S. Robinson

Oklahoma City

Capitol Hill High

500 S. W. 36

Oklahoma City

Classen High

1901 N. Ellison

Oklahoma City

Douglass High

900 N. Eastern

Oklahoma City

Harding Middle

3333 N. Shartel

Oklahoma City

Taft Middle

2901 N. W. 23

Oklahoma City

Evaluate the existing pool-associated mechanical equipment (filters, heat-exchanges, pumps, piping, chlorinator, etc.) relative to the equipment's apparent ability to perform required functions and the equipment's capacity to meet present Oklahoma City pool code requirements.

Evaluate the swimming pool and related spaces (dressing rooms, showers, locker rooms, etc.).

Based on the evaluations stated in #2 and #3, make recommendations for the upgrading of the equipment and facilities to meet or exceed existing code requirements.

Provide estimates of cost and a time schedule to accomplish item #4 above.

Members of the Board proceeded to discuss the motion.

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Mrs. Brody stated: I know these are the existing swimming pools that are in operation now, but I am also wondering about Page-Woodson, which is a six-lane, 25-yard pool. At one time there was a study done for Page-Woodson which included the Northeast High School swim team using that pool, and also some of our handicapped students, and some of our fifth year centers. I am wondering if it is projected in the future to look at that, can we add this to it, or what was the thinking on it?

Dr. Payzant - Sometime within the last year it was reviewed and I recall that it was not a detailed study with the specific kinds of expectations listed here, but as I recall the price tag was $30,000 or $35,000, and based on the fact that it was that number of dollars, we didn't do anything more with it. Yes, it could be added, but if it is added, I suspect that the fee would have to be adjusted accordingly. Mrs. Brody - I know, for instance, the Northeast swimmers have been going over to the Tennis Club which is quite a ways from Northeast High School; other high schools have the facilities and John Marshall is probably using the "Y". It seems tome if we could provide those swimmers at Northeast a place to swim and try out, plus providing the handicapped with the kind of therapy that is needed, and provide swimming classes for some of our fifth year students, it might be worth the investment down the road. I don't know what Northeast is paying for rental at the Tennis Club, but I know it is a pretty good sum. It wouldn't be long before we would begin to get back some of our money. There are not too many six-lane pools in the State of Oklahoma. We have got one and it is kind of a shame to leave it not used if it is possible to get it back in working order. AMENDMENT

Mrs. Brody then moved to amend the motion to include Page-Woodson on the list of swimming pools to be evaluated: Page-Woodson Fifth Year Center

600 N.

High

Oklahoma City

The motion for the amendment was seconded by Mr. Donwerth.

Dr. Start inquired as to why Page-Woodson was not included on the list? Dr. Payzant replied: We have proposed to look at the pools that we have until a few days ago had in operating condition. There is no problem if you want to do the total study.

Dr. Payzant - I think the only two that we have that are not on the list are the one in this building and the one at Page-Woodson. The only reason they were not included was because they had not been in operation for a number of years. If you want to include them and have them studied at the same time, that is fine, so that we can get a good picture of what the costs are. I think that a function of use is accessibility and you can see from the geographic locations of these various pools that they don't necessarily serve every section of the city. There is another factor, too, in that the pools at the three middle schools are small pools and in some instances you will have high school swim teams that will elect to go to other pools and pay rental rather than swim in our middle schools. So I am not sure that we are meeting the need, but opening Page-Woodson and a pool here wouldn't necessarily, totally meet the need either.

Mrs. Hill ioquiredjasrto.tf; they were trying to work out some arrangements for Northwest, Southeast, Star Spencer and Grant? Mr. Donwerth - Grant goes to the "Y" at 44th and Penn, and Southeast does not have access to a pool except at Capitol Hill High School and that one really is being used. I guess they could go to Capitol Hill and use it, but at the present time I don't believe they have a swimming team for that reason. With reference to what Mrs. Brody brought up, we are paying to use the Tennis Club for Northeast, and if Page-Woodson is closer, then we could eliminate the expense that we are paying to the Tennis Club for using their facilities, by using the facilities at Page-Woodson.I think it would behoove us and maybe even pay us to check into the feasibility of redoing the pool at Page-Woodson. Mrs. Hill - What are we paying for Northeast? Because we are actually talking about $30,000 to $35-,000 for one school's use, is that right? Dr. Payzant - I can't tell you specifically for Northeast without checking, but the rental fees usually run from $18.00 to $22.00, maybe as much as $24.00 or $25.00 an hour, and most of the teams have the pool anywhere from an hour minimum to two hours maximum four or five days a week for the swimming season. So it would take you a long time to amortize the $35,000, but that is just to get the pool in shape. You have got operating cost to consider in terms of maintaining the pool during the day-to-day custodial and operations work on it and then having it staffed. So that $30,000 or $35,000 figure doesn't include the operating cost.

R. #356 Approval of Agreement with Architectural Firm Re Swimming Pools cont'd

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R. #356 Approval of Agreement with Archi tectural Firm Re Swimming Pools cont1 d

Dr. Hamm - When the swimming teams of these various schools are in a meet or in competition, are competitions held at these pools? I remember receiving a call from a parent who was saying that they had to lease a pool of dimensions for competitive swimming in order to have a meet that would involve more than one school. Dr. Payzant - That is true in many instances. Your middle school pools are not large enough to have meets in them. I think Douglass is probably the only pool that we have that could be used for that purpose. Dr. Hamm - If the Page-Woodson pool was brought up to functioning level, would that meet the needs, say, of a multiple school meet?

Mrs. Brody - I can't speak to that; I haven't seen the study, but I know, for instance, our handicapped students are at Dunbar. Rancho Village has their children going to pools once a week at the "Y". I am not talking about just getting our investment back but opening up the pool to students that normally would not have access to a pool and having that experience. Mrs. Hill -I guess Dunbar students could use Douglass, because Dunbar is close to Douglass.

On roll call for.the amendment, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, nay; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. Members continued to discuss the motion as amended.

Mrs. Hill - I thought this summer we spent some money at Capitol Hill Middle School and I don't remember exactly the amount of money that was spent. Dr. Hamm - There was a limit of $5,000.

Dr. Payzant - You will recall at the time that I told you our short-term objective was to get it open for the summer school program and there were no guarantees that would suffice over the long haul. We have approached the pools just as we approached Capitol Hill Middle School last summer over the last few years, and I am suggesting that we stop approaching them that way and take a look at the total picture and then make some decisions. Mrs. Hill - I am not familiar with the expertise of this firm that you are recommending in doing this type of work. Dr. Payzant - I asked for the Business Services Division and Maintenance Department to suggest firms that would have the expertise to do this kind of study and there were two architectural engineering firms that were suggested and two firms that are actually in the business of constructing and/or repairing pools, one of them being the firm that we have used for most of our repairs in recent years. Since that firm could be a prime contractor bidding on any work that we would do, I didn't feel that it was appropriate to recommend that firm to you for a study of this sort. The other firm, I believe, was an out-of-city firm and the'second architectural firm, another board which you are.familiar has recently given a lot of business. So by a process of elimination* in p'art and the fact that this firm has apparently done good work for the district before, I am bringing you this recommendation. Mrs. Hill - We are talking about $5200. money coming from?

We know that is going to go up.

Where is the

Dr. Payzant - It would be my recommendation that the money for this project and anything that you might do with the recommendations would come from Bond Funds; that is the only place you really have it.

Members of the Board continued to discuss the Douglass pool as a regulation pool for the purpose of holding swimming meets,the proximity of Douglass to Northeast, use of the YMCA by Grant High School, and other.

On roll call for the motion as amended, the.votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start,-aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

nformation to ;he Board

Dr. Payzant reported: 1.

Study of Schools on Closure List The question was raised at the last meeting about the inclusion of schools on the list that would be reviewed for energy conservation under the Technical Assistance Grant that was awarded to the District. I have checked and there is no problem of taking schools off the list but you can't substitute other schools in that place. Since we are anticipating a six to eight-month period to complete the review that was recommended to the Board, I would propose that after the first of the year when we would normally under the Board's policy identify any schools that would be looked at next year for a possible closure, that we hold off on looking at any

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Dr. Payzant cont'd

.2.

Study of Schools on Closure List cont'd < schools that would be close to that 200-pupil cutoff point. There are four that are either just over 200 students or just under 200 students that were on that list - Oakridge, West Nichols Hills, Garden Oaks, and Pierce. Then I would come back to you in January or February after we have made that decision and take another look in terms of what you want to do with those four schools, but that we would go ahead with the balance of the list and have the work commence.

Information to the Board cont'd

Asbestos Report I have given to. you a copy of the memo from Dr. Smith to me with the latest update and a list of the schools where we have identified the existence of asbestos. I am very pleased that our list is as small as it is of buildings with asbestos in them. The reason that it may seem like a lot of delay without much action is that all school districts are waiting for the Environmental Protection Agency rules and regulations to guide them in what will be acceptable and unacceptable in dealing with asbestos after it has been identified. Those EPA regulations are supposed to be out after the first of the year, but there is no telling whether the change in administration or other could result in further delays. In the meantime we are developing specifications for complete removal of the asbestos in the locations noted. We will then bid those jobs so that we will have accurate costs of what it will take for a total removal, assuming that if we were to go forward with removal that we would not be violating any regulations that EPA might come up with later. The controversy is over some kind of encapsulation or something short of removal and what you can do in certain circumstances. The removal is a very tricky process that must be done with care. We could not do it until summer when students are away from school anyway. So we are going to proceed to get the Board as much information as possible about cost and the alternatives and be prepared to recommend a course of action to you so that we could take advantage of the summer break period next year to do whatever work needs to be done. And perhaps in the meantime, we will have EPA regulations that will give us further guidance.

Soccer Program Report

At the last Board meeting you asked me to have the staff look into the possibility of starting a soccer program. I don't have a complete report for you this evening, but just wanted to say that work is in progress and I hope to have at the next meeting or second meeting in December some specific recommendations for you and the cost associated with starting a soccer program at the high schools. We are also looking at the middle school intramural program and will have a report on that as well.

Dr. Payzant announced that Bill Bleakley was elected president of the Oklahoma School Board Attorneys Association and with that office would al so serve as the ex officio member. of the OSSBA Board of Directors.

ENCUMBRANCES, PURCHASING AND GENERAL BUSINESS It was moved by Mr. 'Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of encumbrances as listed in the agenda for October 28 through November 10, 1980. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #357 Approval of Encumbrances

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Hermes for approval of the following R. #358 Approval of purchasing items: Purchasi ng 1. Exterminating Supplies Purchase of exterminating supplies (rat, mouse, and roach exterminators) for use by Custodial Services from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

T-E Agri Supply Company Horn Wholesale Total

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 650.01.

324.00 1,320.00

$ 1,644.00

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PURCHASING AND GENERAL BUSINESS cont'd

L #358 Approval of 3urchasing cont'd

2. <

Heating and Air-Conditioning Purchase of heating and air-conditioning components (thermostats, relays, valves, switches, fittings, strainers, etc.) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

National Temperature Control Center Federal Corporation Honeywell, Inc.

628.55 2,908.50 _____ 1,931.86

Total

5,468.91

These purchases are to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Vehicle Repair Parts Purchase of vehicle repair parts (bearings, universal joints, and "U" joint kits) for use by Garage Services and Material Transportation from the following companies which submitted the low quotation:

Phil's Auto Supply Solloway Auto Supply

$ 1,923.00 _____ 1 ,064.50 Total

2,987.50

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 560.04. 4.

Hand Tools, Materials and Supplies Purchase of hand tools, materials and supplies (wrench sets, sander-grinders, socket sets, welding outfit, tap and die sets, etc.) for use by the Curriculum Services (Industrial Arts and Vocational classes) from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

Hart Industrial Supply Company Mideke Supply Company

$ 406.05 _____ 1 ,509.06 Total

1,915.11

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 1230.03.

Lighting Fixtures Purchase of lighting fixtures for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from Pyramid Supply which submitted the low quotation on specifications in the amount of $3,405.60 to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Teaching Aids

Purchasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;e of'teaching aids (books) for use at Hoover, Webster, Eisenhower, and Capitol Hill Middle Schools from Marshall Cavendish Corporation (available only for designated distributor/publisher). This expenditure in the amount of $4,662.55 is to be charged to Account G 230.01.

Annual Maintenance Service Contract

Permission to renew the annual maintenance service contract for 65 FM Phonic Ear Auditory Training Equipment Units for use in various schools (Special Education classes) from H. C. Electronics, Inc. (available only from designated vendor). This purchase in the amount of $3,900 is to be charged to Account G 740.03.

Plastic Pipe and Fittings

Purchase of plastic pipe and fittings (pipe, couplings, tees, ells, core refill springs, etc.) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: Eagle Supply , Inc. Cooper Supply Company Mideke Supply Company

Total

412.50 3,509.50 4,209.80

8,131.80

These purchases are to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

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Musical Instruments

Purchase of musical instruments (chromaharps, bell sets, cymbals, hand drums, tambourines, etc.) for use by Curriculum Services from Thompson Book and Supply Company which submitted the low quotation. This purchase in the amount of $1,588.88 is to be charged to Account G 240.01.

10.

Teaching Machines Purchase of 29 teaching machines for use Educational Systems (available only from in the amount of $8,120 is to be charged been approved on our Federal Educational

11.

by various schools from Borg-Warner designated distributor). This expenditure to Account 1230.03, Title 1, and has Grants and/or Programs.

Ribbons Typewriter and Posting Machine Purchase of ribbons (adder, calculator, typewriter, and posting machine) for Supply and Distribution from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

Fine Line Ribbon Company, Inc. PX of Oklahoma, Inc. DAB Industries, Inc. Columbia Ribbon and Carbon Mfg.

Total

2,889.96 1,037.64 192.60 184.68

4,304.88

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.00.

12.

Visual Transfer Communication System Permission to purchase a visual transfer communication system (Zygo Industries, Inc.) for Rancho Village School from Best Rents which submitted the low quotation. This expenditure in the amount of $2,500 is to be charged to Account G 250.06.

13. Permissionito Place Orders for Food Materials, Supplies and Services Permission for the Central Food Services Department to place orders for food, materials, supplies and services for various time periods during the school year with companies ori the following lists:

Oklahoma State Industries Tyler-Simpson Company William E. Davis & Sons Scrivner, Inc. Clements Foods Keeth & Associates Del Monte Corporation Associated Coop Sales

Canned Foods

McVay Henley Cusack Wholesale Meat Wilson Foods Kreck Foods - Bob Harris Gooch Packing Company Rodriquez Foods Double B Sausage Keeth & Associates Dubco, Inc. William E. Davis & Sons Chef Pantry Lieberman Produce Scrivner, Inc. Coldwater Seafood Corporation Butcher Boy - Midwest Brokerage Johnson's Corn Dog - Midwest Brokerage National Beef - Midwest Brokerage Lamb Weston - Midwest Brokerage Tyler-Simpson Company Swift & Company Johnston Foods

Frozen Foods

R. #358 Approval of Purchasing cont'd

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PURCHASING AND GENERAL BUSINESS cont'd

R. #358 Approval of Purchasing cont'd

13. â&#x20AC;˘<

14.

Permission to Place Orders for Food Materials, Supplies and Services cont'd

Morrison Paper Company Cardinal Paper Company Tyler-Simpson Company William E. Davis & Sons Carpenter Paper Company Hi-Line Plastics S. K. Supply McVay Henley Southern Coffee & Restaurant Supply Scrivner, Inc.

Mi sc. Cafeteria Supplies

Keeth & Associates McVay Henley William E. Davis & Sons Oklahoma State Industries Lance, Inc. Scrivner, Inc. Kemper Food Brokers Kraft Foods Fiesta Foods - Russ Ambler Associates Tyler-Simpson Company Osceola Foods Rodriquez Foods General Mills

Staples

Rodriques Foods Tyler-Simpson Company Sokol & Company Cain's Coffee Company Farmer Brothers

Coffee , Tea, & Condiments

II II

II II II II

II II

Paper Products Purchase of paper products (paper, envelopes, tissue, notebooks, legal pads, etc.) for use by Supply and Distribution Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: Thompson Book & Supply Jim Walter Papers-Graham Paper Div. Western Paper Company Oklahoma Paper Company Zaner-Blaser, Inc. Mid-Continent Paper Corporation Carpenter Paper Company of Nebraska Total

139,832.80 11,820.00 10,335.95 22,560.00 21 ,525.00 19,867.00 5,927.75

231 ,868.50

These*purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.00.

15.

Lockers

Purchase of lockers for use at Star Specner High School from Oklahoma Chalkboard which submitted the low quotation on specifications in the amount of $12,197 to be charged to Bond Fund 1426.

16.

Vehicle Purchase of vehicle (one-ton pickup)) for use by Vocational Department at John Marshall High School from Morris Chevrolet City, which submitted the second low quotation on specifications. This purchase in the amount of $10,491.90 (quoted price plus October direct factory increase to all Chevrolet dealers) is to be charged to Account 1230.03., Adult Ed-Tech.

17.

Clothing for Indian Education Department Permission to purchase clothing for Indian Education Department (eligible Indian students) from C. R. Anthony Companies, 2700 S.W. 28 and 4215 South Western, which submitted the high discounts (25%) off counter prices. These expenditures not to exceed $6,500, are to be charged to Account 250.05, Title IV (Indian Education) and has been approved on our Federal Educational Grants and/or Programs.

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PURCHASING AND GENERAL BUSINESS cont'd

Mrs. used* from with

Hill inquired about item 1, exterminating supplies, as to the process that was when school buildings are ex-terminated; that there had been some complaints teachers that the supplies were brought from the Service Center into the schools bugs and eggs, and therefore reinfesting the buildings.

R. #358 Approval of Purchasing cont'd

Mrs. Hill then inquired regarding item 5, that the company recommended was not the low bidder; to which Mr. Allen responded that the low bidder's quotation did not meet specifications after it was examined by Dick Samples, Supervisor of Maintenance and Engineering.

A concern was then expressed by Mrs. Hill with regard to item 16, purchase of vehicle (pickup) at John Marshall, the account to which it was charged. Dr. Payzant replied that the pickup was being charged to Adult Basic Education; that he had learned that a lot of the money that was coming from the State earmarked for specific vocational programs was being put in Adult Basic Education funds; that there were some substantial balances that were built up as the result of that money that had come from the State for vocational programs and now it was being used for purchase of equipment in programs for which it was originally intended and that the purchase of the pickup was one of them.

Mrs. Hermes expressed a concern that a bidder could rescind his bid. Dr. Payzant and Mr. Allen explained that a bid bond was not required and about the only thing you can really do is take them off the bid list. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Start for approval of easements to the City of Oklahoma City for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating streets and utilities over same. The easement, a strip of land 20' x 120' (approximately) on the Carey site along the west side of Portland Avenue at Southwest 29th Street. The Board's attorney has approved the easement form.

R. #359 Approval of Easements

Legal description:

A permanent easement in the SE/4, Section 11, TUN, R4W, of the Indian Meridian, more particualrly described as follows: Beginning at the SE corner of Lot 50, Block 32 of Packinghouse View Addition to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; thence West 25.00 feet; thence North 33 1' 26"; East 23.85 feet; thence North 120.00 feet; thence East 7.00 feet; thence South along the East line of Lot 50, 140.00 feet to the point or place of beginning. and

A permanent easement in the SE/4, Section 11, TUN, R4W, of the Indian Meridian, more particularly described as follows: The East 7.00 feet of Lot 1, Block 32 of Packinghouse View Addition to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

NEW BUSINESS None.

HEARINGS

None. EXECUTIVE SESSION A motion was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Hill that the Board go into executive session for the discussion of personnel and litigation. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #360 Board Adjourned to Executive Session 8:30 p.m/

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1. #361 toard Returned Ipen Session 3:04 p.m.

Having completed its executive session, it was moved by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Hill that the Board return to open session. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; â&#x2013; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. 3

ADJOURNMENT

1. #362 Adjournment 1:05 p.m.

A motion to adjourn was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Dr. Start. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the office of the Clerk.)

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

I, the undersigned Clerk of the Board of Education of Independent School District No. 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours before the meeting, the date, time and place of the Regular Adjourned Meeting was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. I also certify that at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, notice of the date, time, place and agenda of this meeting was posted in permanent public view at the location of the meeting.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district this 1980.

____ Clerk, Oklahoma'City Board of Education

/?/day of

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THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, MET IN A SPECIAL MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, 900 'NORTH KLEIN, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1980, AT 6:30 P.M.

PRESENT:

Delbert Hamm, President Jean Brody, Member Floyd Donwerth, Member Susan Hermes, Member Betty Hill, Member Armond H. Start, Member

Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; Central Office staff members; representatives from professional groups, the news media, and other interested persons.

The meeting was called to order by Dr. Hamm.

Call to Order

Roll call established that all of the Board members were present.

Roll Call

SPECIAL BUSINESS Dr. Hamm stated the purpose of the meeting -- To interview the applicants and select a person to fill the vacancy existing on the Board in Area Number Five.

Dr. Hamm then outlined the procedure that would be followed as adopted by the Board. Scheduled at 30-minute intervals and with each member of the Board alternating and opening an interview with a question, the fol lowing;appl icants responded:

Shirley A. Darrell, Management Analyst 3624 North Jordan Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73111

Hurlon J. Dulan, Retired Postal Supervisor 2628 N. E. Success Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73111

J. M. Jenkins, Retired Educator 2508 N. E. 16 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73117

Raymond L. Smith, Self-Employed (Furniture Upholstery) 1604 N. E. 19 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73111

Cecil L. Williams, Field & Job Development Counselor (CETA) 3305 N. Prospect Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73111

Ira D. Hall, Retired Educator 733 N. E. 16 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104

Applicants responded to the following questions: 1.

What do you see as the greatest challenges for the Oklahoma City Public Schools.

In what ways can this school district demonstrate to its employees that they are respected and are valued?

What is a Board Member's responsibility in assessing the needs of the school district and facilitating change?

How do you feel about discipline in schools, especially the role of the classroom teacher?

How do you define a neighborhood school?

What activities have you participated in which would demonstrate your support for the Oklahoma City Public Schools?

Purpose of Meeting

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Applicants responded to the following questions cont'd: 7.

What is the extent of your knowledge about public school finance?

(a)

Should the present method of finance be continued?

(b)

Should radical or extreme changes be made?

How familiar are you with the Vo-Tech District 22 and how important do you feel that vocational education and vocational-technical schools are to students in Oklahoma City?

How would you suggest that academic achievement levels be improved in this district?

10.

With regard to retention, how do you feel about "holding students back" until they are able to read at the "next" level, or is retention not advisable?

11.

How do you feel about quotas and Affirmative Action in hiring practices for a school system as it would apply to men and women, Black and White, Orientals, Native Americans, etc.?

12.

Would you be willing to visit and familiarize yourself with our di strict's,many schools, and would you be willing to.volunteer in the.schools?

13.

What is your position on collective bargaining for teachers, and what role do you perceive yourself playing in the collective bargaining process between the District and its employees?

14.

How long have you lived in the Oklahoma City School District?

15.

Do you feel that there should be heavy, moderate, or light involvement of patrons in the decision-making process in public schools or only as a volunteer role of helping teacher?

16.

The vacancy you have applied for is in District 5. What do you perceive to be your responsibilities to the constituents of your district and also to the district-at-large?

17.

What should be the working relationship between the Superintendent and members of the Board?

18.

Should negotiations between the school board and the teachers break down and teachers refuse to work without a contract? What action would you as a Board member advocate during the teachers' refusal to work and after a settlement is reached?

19.

You are probably familiar with the legislation on truancy. How do you feel about truancy and how do you feel about the in-house suspension program?

20.

What do you see as the strengths of the Oklahoma City Public Schools?

21.

Do you have' anyone to speak in your behalf?

Following the interviews, Dr. Hamm called for a 15-minute recess.

Dr. Hamm reconvened the meeting and called on the following persons who spoke in behalf of the applicants as indicated:

Shirley A. Darrell

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Hurl on J . Dulan '

Bonnie Cox

(a)

Leroy A. Tease

(b)

Michael T. Braswel

J. M. Jenkins

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Selection Process cont1d

Members of the Board then proceeded with the selection process. checkoff procedure, the following applicants were chosen:

Upon the first

Shirley A. Darrell â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mr. Donwerth (Later changed to Mr. Dulan.)

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Hurlon J. Dulan -- Mrs. Brody, Dr. Start, Mrs. Hill, Dr. Hamm, and Mrs. Hermes. Mr. Donwerth asked for the opportunity to change his vote to Mr. Dulan to make it unanimous by the Board, which was so acknowledged by Dr. Hamm.

R. #363 Selection of Applicant for Vacancy on the Board

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mr. Donwerth that Hurlon J. Dulan be seated as a member of the Board from Area Number Five. (The term of such appointment to end on the first Monday in June 1981.)

R. #364 Adjournment 10:30 p.m.

A motion to adjourn was made by Dr. Start and seconded by Mrs. Hill. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the Office of the Clerk.)

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

Clerk, Oklahoma City Board of Education

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF DECEMBER 1, 1980

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY,

I OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, I | 900 NORTH KLEIN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M. | |

PRESENT:

Delbert Hamm, President Betty Hill, Vice President Jean Brody, Member Floyd Donwerth, Member Hurlon J. Dulan, Member Susan Hermes, Member

ABSENT:

Armond H. Start, Member

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Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; William Bleakley, Attorney; Central Office staff members; representatives from professional groups, the news media, and other interested persons, and Donald H. Ladd, Treasurer.

The meeting was called to order by Dr. Hamm and Mr. Donwerth gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Dr. Hamm presented Mr. Bleakley, Attorney, who administered the Oath of Office to Mr. Hurlon Dulan, newly appointed member of the Board from Area Number Five (the term of such appointment to end on the first Monday in June 1981).

Oath of Office Hurlon J. Dulan

After receiving the Oath of Office, Mr. Dulan was seated with other members of the Board. Mr. Dulan introduced his wife, Vina, who was in the audience. Mrs. Hermes asked that State Representative Rick Stahl be acknowledged as a visitor, and Dr. Hamm welcomed all of the visitors present.

Visitors Acknowledged

Roll call established that six of the seven Board members were present.

Roll Call

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mr. Donwerth for approval of the minutes of November 17 and 24, 1980 as presented. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #365 Minutes Approved

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS Mr. Donwerth commented that he was glad to see such a large crowd at the meeting; however, some of the business on the agenda had probably dictated the size of the crowd, but he would like to see the people come back sometimes when they didnothave a problem.

Mrs. Hermes stated that Mr. Donwerth's comments were very apropos, and members of the Board had received in their packet a report that the Average Daily Attendance was up this year, so perhaps the di strict was showing an increase in school enrollment | and it was the beginning of an upswing, which was good news.

Mrs. Hermes added that she wanted to thank Special Services for asking them to volunteer in the schools; that the first semester had ended and she went to her volunteer station, North Highland, and the children and teacher gave her a sweat shirt I and some "thank you" letters. Mrs. Hermes read several lines from the letters.

Mrs. Hill stated that she, too, wanted to comment on the district's attendance which was up to 93.5% this year, which she thought was very good and that the staff should J be commended for a job well done.

Mrs. Hill also commented that board members did receive the report from each planning com mittee. from the schools that were being considered for closure.,and she wanted to thank the committees for doing an outstanding job in providing information as to why their school should be kept open. Mrs. Brody stated that she wanted to reinforce what Mrs. Hermes had said regarding the program in the Oklahoma City Public Schools where administrators from the Central Office volunteer out in the schools, and some board members, and that they were finishing their first nine weeks; that the excitement that itwas causing in the schools and the positive reinforcement that they were getting, she did not know what the evaluations would show, but she was sure they would show the same things that they were feeling, and she could not say enough about the program; that she would urge everyone to continue in it and support it in every way that they could.

Comments Mrs. Hermes

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COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS' COMMENTS cont'd

Dr. Hamm called attention of board members to some material from the National School ^Boards Association concerning two ad hoc committees that they were forming and they would like to have some names submitted, and if any member would like to serve on one of the committees to take note of that and notify the Clerk of the Board so she could respond by December 10. Certificate of Appreciation -reddye Williams

Dr. Hamm, on behalf of the Board, presented a Certificate of Appreciation to Mrs. Freddye Williams for outstanding and dedicated service to the Oklahoma City Public Schools. Mrs. Williams had recently resigned from the Board after having been elected a State Representative. Mrs. Williams responded.

Election of /ice President )f the Board

Procedure which was used on June 2, 1980 for selection of a Board President:

The chair will accept nominations. Seconds are not necessary when a nomination is made. The chair will wait until any Board member who wishes to make a nomination has an opportunity to do so; then, as prescribed by Robert's Rules the chair will state three times, "are there any more nominations?" If there is no response to that question, the chair will then instruct the Clerk to proceed with a roll call vote. The ground rules for a roll call vote are for members to state, as their names are called, which nominee they vote for, or if members choose to abstain, they will vote under Robert's Rules "resent", which is the same as an abstention. The Clerk will take the roll and at the conclusion of the roll call repeat the results. If each member casts a vote for a nominee, it will require four votes to elect a new Board vice president. If one member votes "present", the balloting could produce a tie vote and additional roll calls would be necessary. If two members vote "present", a vice president would be elected by a majority of votes cast.

Dr. Hamm referred to the procedure as above, stating that the chair would follow that procedure for the election of a vice president.

Mrs. Hermes nominated Betty Hill for vice president. After asking three times if there were any more nominations, and there being none', Dr. Hamm called for a roll call vote. Not necessarily following the procedure, Mr. Donwerth moved that the nomination cease and that Betty Hill be elected by acclamation. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, abstain; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye.

Dr. Hamm declared Mrs. Betty Hill the duly elected vice president of the Board. HEARINGS

Dr. Hamm called on Mr. Sherman Dillberg who had registered to address the Board. Mr. Dillberg spoke in support of Eugene Field School not being closed. LEGAL REPORT

Attorney's Report

Mr. Bleakley reported:

National Gay Task Force Lawsuit

We have filed a Motion to Dismiss with a supporting brief in the lawsuit entitled the National Gay Task Force vs. Independent School District No. 89. The court has not set a date for response to this and the plaintiffs will have an opportunity to respond with a brief of their own.

rreasurer's Report

Mr. Ladd gave a routine treasurer's report. (Copy of report on file in office of Clerk.)

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT Employee of the ionth

Dr. Payzant presented Dr. John Brandt, President, the Association of All School Personnel, who gave preliminary remarks regarding Mr. Jim Johnson, Director, Special Services, having been selected as Employee of the Month. A Certificate of Recognition was presented to Mr. Johnson on behalf of the Board of Education and the Association of All School Personnel by Dr. Payzant. Mr. Johnson responded.

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd

It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Brody that the President of the Board and the Superintendent be authorized to execute the necessary documents and submit an application for a grant as follows:

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Under Title IV, Part A, of Public Law 92-318, The Elementary and Secondary Indian Education Act, Indian Education Program.

R. #366 President of Board and Superintendent Authorized to Execute Documents

| On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, I aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the I motion carried.

A motion was made by Mrs. Hermes and seconded by Mrs. Hill to direct the following persons to attend conferences as indicated:

At No Travel Expense to the School District

I | |

Richard Smith, Band Director, U.S. Grant High School, Sun Bowl Festival, El Paso, Texas, November 25-29, 1980. Confirmation

Robert W. Condren, Principal, Parmelee Elementary School, South Central District Association of Elementary Principals, Ozark Beach, Missouri, March 6-10, 1981 and NAESP Convention, Anaheim, California, April 30, 1981.

Julia Anderson, Consultant, Title I, Title I In-Class Program, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, December 10-11, 1980.

Myrna DeBose, Consultant, TitTe.I,Title I In-Class Program, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, December 9-10, 1980.

Nedella H. Foster, Consultant, Title I, Title I In-Class Program, St. Louis, Missouri, December 10-11, 1980.

R. #367 Professional Trips Approved

At School District Expense

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Jesse Lindley, Assistant Superintendent, Educational Services, School of Performing Arts, Northside High School, Atlanta, Georgia, December 8-9, 1980.

James Stephens, Staff Development Specialist, Staff Development and Training, National Council of States on Inservice Education Conference, San Diego, California, December 7-12, 1980. â&#x2013; Willie 0. Reynolds, Science Teacher, Northeast High School, 1981 AAAS-AJAS Meeting, Toronto, Canada, January 2-8, 1981.

| On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the I motion carried.

| Presenting the "report and recommendations on retirement of school facilities, and using a slide projector at:intervals, Dr. Payzant stated: The Board has not had this report and these recommendations before this moment. I will be working from a detailed report which they will have copies of in a minute, and then at the end of my presentation there will be an executive summary available outside the auditorium for persons to pick up as they leave. The Board also is planning to set later this evening a special meeting, December 18, for the purpose of holding a public hearing on this report and these recommendations so there will be ample opportunity for any people from the community who want to come and give their comments to the Board prior to any decisions being made on this report and these recommendations in January of 1981.

(Dr. Hamm announced that the special meeting for December 18 would be held at 6:00 p.m.)

Dr. Payzant continued: The staff and I have worked extremely hard to develop this report and to make recommendations which reflect in our judgment the best direction for the school district to take. You should also know that it is the toughest set of recommendations that I have had to make since undertaking this assignment almost two years ago, and there have been many moments when if I were to accede to my emotional side and react based on my intuition at the spur of the moment, I might come up with a different set of recommendations than I have this evening, these recommendations being based on, hopefully, a more rational long-term approach which is in the best interest of the entire school district which I am charged to serve.

Report and Recommendations on Retirement of School Facilities - Dr. Payzant

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd

Report and Recommendations >n Retirement of School FacilitiesDr. Payzant cont'd

Dr. Payzant cont'd The -report and recommendations are the result of a process which really began overt VO years ago. You may recall in August of 1978 the Long Range Planning Committee in it s report presented to the Board indicated that the district was experiencing a declining enrollment; there were empty classrooms in â&#x2013; vSridus'Tocatidns in the district, an 1 that the Board should take a look at very small schools and determine whether or not some should be consolidated. Then just about a year ago in December of 1979, the Board adopted a policy on the Retirement of Facilities, and that policy lays out a rather detailed procedure which governs the way in which schools will be considered for retirement or closing. The policy includes several criteria and there were three categories. One is an enrollment criterion; the second is a cost per pupil criterion; and the third is a criterion that deals with the condition of the school facilities. The policy then requires the Superintendent to apply these three criteria to all of the schools in the district and identify those schools which would come under consideration for closing because they fall within one of the criteria I just noted. The policy also requires that any school that is identified for a possible closing have a study committee or planning council composed of staff, the principal and patrons from that school community to work over several months to provide information to the administration and the Board about their school and the pros and cons of closing it. A year ago when we applied the three criteria to the schools in the district, we identified twelve (12) for consideration for closing. They were: Eugene Field, Kaiser, Lafayette, Mayfair, Nichols Hills, Putnam Heights, Sunset, and Willard Elementary Schools; Green Pastures, Parker, and Truman Fifth Year Centers, and Carver Center.

During the past seven or eight months the procedures required by the Board policy have been implemented and the study councils at those twelve (12) schools have submitted their reports which were due on October 15, and as Mrs. Hill noted earlier, you received copies of those in your packets over the weekend. Before I comment on the work of the study councils and present my own recommendations, I think it would be helpful to provide the Board with some additional perspective by discussing further the phenomenon of declining enrollment, the history of closing schools in this district and some of the philosophical considerations involved. During the past decade every major school district in the country has been forced to address the problem of declining enrollment. The trend is expected to continue for the first half of this decade. Recently, the Educational Research Services reported that the nation had 49,335,000 students in grades kindergarten through 12 in the fall of 1976. By the fall of 1986 that figure is expected to drop to 45,244,000 students, a loss of over four million students. Here in Oklahoma City we have experienced a steady declining enrollment that began in 1966. Our peak enrollment for the 1966-67 school year was approximately 75,000 students. This year our enrollment is approximately 41,000 students, a loss approaching 50 percent during that time span. The district in the process of losing almost half of its students has been forced to close some schools.

Using visual aids, Dr. Payzant continued:

About the history of school closings since 1965, 18 elementary schools and three secondary schools have been closed since 1965; 1978 was the last year the district closed schools and the two were Culbertson and Orchard Park. The last school closed before 1978 was in 1976 when enrollment was more that 10,000 students greater than it is today. I think you can see from these figures that the Board and the Long Range Planning Committee were correct when they recognized that the time has come to again face up to the difficult problems of closing schools. Let me speak a moment about the rationale for closing schools. No one wants to close a school. The thought is contrary to all of the ideas we hold about the importance of neighborhood schools and parent involvement in them. Parents rightfully recoil at the thought of having their neighborhood school closed and their children assigned to a different and more distant school building. It would t)nly be surprising if they did not. Obviously, the ideal course would be to keep all of our schools operating and support them to the fullest. However, realities dictate otherwise. Our responsibility is to establish a public policy for a system of schools that serves all of the children in the community equally. Resources for public schools are limited and we have the responsibility to allocate them for the greatest benefit of all of the children. When you establishec your goals and objectives last year as a board, I believe you recognized the reality of dealing with scarce resources when you said "the board will continue to evaluate the allocation of existing resources to improve educational services." To do so prudently dictates that resources not be diffused too greatly, but that they be efficiently concentrated whenever possible. For example, in a small school you may have a kindergarten section with 12, 13 or 14 students and a

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd

Dr. Payzant cont'd

half-time kindergarten teacher.

It is much more economically and educationally

advantageous to place these students with others in a nearby school where you can have two regular kindergarten sections with a full-time kindergarten teacher without travel involved. The real question is whether we believe it is more important to spend limited resources to operate a number of higher cost small schools at the expense of other students in the district, whether to consolidate some of them and free resources for improving programs for all students. Consolidation would allow us to provide the same or better programs for students while reducing our overhead cost. We would then use the savings to improve the educational offerings that have a direct impact on children. Our financial resources are very limited and rising inflation continues to increase our cost. We must continue to use our dollars as efficiently as possible to improve the educational programs for children. The district is making every effort to cut costs in areas that least affect students. For example, last year we cut 40 positions out of this building, a combination of administrative, consultant, and clerical positions at a saving of $750,000. That freed money that was turned around and used for the expansion of special education programs, gifted and talented programs, the elementary music program, developmental reading at the high school, and further reduction in class size at the middle schools. We will continue to economize and whenever possible make reductions in non-program areas. However, at some point, and we are almost there, we will reach the limit of our ability to cut costs in these other areas and will have no other recourse but to begin cutting programs and services for children. This is why I strongly believe that we must makfe whatever savings we can through school consolidations now.

The study committees worked extremely hard; they did their jobs well. The reports, as you can see from reading them, are excellent; they provided my staff and I with much valuable data. The study committees conducted surveys; they canvassed door-to-door; they held public hearings; recruited students; studied residential development trends, and analyzed school cost. In the final analysis, only one study committee recommended that its school be closed; however, others expressed preferences for reassignment of students should their school be closed. I am recommending the consolidation of several schools. A number of these recommendations to close schools are based on the fact that the school has a small enrollment that is not expected to increase.

Some of the other factors that were considered in arriving at these decisions; first, we applied a set of educational criteria that state that an elementary school must have sufficient size so that it is practical to provide a full quality program for the students. One of the necessary elements for a full program is a teaching staff with a variety of competencies, knowledge, special interests, and talents. Support personnel such as counselors, nurses, librarians and others should be provided at each school. These staff members must be able to concentrate their time and efforts and reduce their travel time between schools. A school should be able to support a media center that has sufficient materials to serve a wide range of learning needs. And finally, a school should have adequ&te administrative, custodial, and clerical support. Other factors considered were such things, as- the amount of space available in the nearby schools to which the students would be reassigned; the distances and additional transportation costs in the reassignment;: the condition of the facility at the receiving school; the black/other ratios of the student bodies; the demography of the various neighborhoods involved; membership projections; enrollment trends; physical barriers, such as major traffic arterials; and our ability to keep together''thei btudehts^whd( would be reassigned. A summary of my recommendations:

LAFAYETTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Lafayette School fell within the criteria for schools to be considered for closing because of its low enrollment. Three years ago it had an enrollment of 183, under the 200 cutoff point, but this year the enrollment increased to 224, and it is projected next year to stay above 200 or 214. Because of the increase in enrollment and the projections that the enrollment at Lafayette will stay above 200 for the next several years, I am recommending that Lafayette remain open.

SUNSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Sunset was considered for closure because of its low enrollment and high cost per student. Three years ago, the enrollment was 143 children; this year 128; it is projected for 120 next year, considerably below the 200 cutoff point. As I said, the cost per pupil was considerably above the district average. There is the expectation in the area north of Lake Hefner that there will be considerable residential growth in the next few years. It is not expected in the immediate Sunset area. We do have additional capacity available at Burbank, Western Village, and Stonegate should home construction north of Lake Hefner result in more elementary students. Our projections show that only 13 kindergarten children and about 38 children, grades 1 through 4, reside in the immediate Sunset neighborhood

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and would be attending the school in the next year. I am recommending that Sunset be closed and that the students who are now attending Sunset from the North Highland area and are transported to Sunset, that 54 of those students be reassigned to Ridgeview, 10 reassigned to Stonegate, and the children from the immediate Sunset neighborhood be assigned to Ridgeview which is the school attendance area immediately adjacent to the Sunset area on the east. The planning committee did recommend that should the school be closed that students be assigned to Quail Creek Elementary School, but that is not a realistic option because Quail Creek is currently at capacity.

NICHOLS HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Nichols Hills was initially identified because of. its low enrollment and high cost per student. Back in 1977-78 there were 207 students in the school; this year there are 139 and they are projected for 136 next year, considerably below the 200 cutoff point. There is no appreciable residential growth expected in the attendance area. I am recommending that the school be closed and that the students be reassigned to Johnson and West Nichols Hills. The students from the part of the current attendance area that is to the east of Western, they are presently transported to Nichols Hills, those students would be reassigned to West Nichols Hills. There are about 10 student s who reside in the section of the attendance area that is west of Western and south of Wilshire. These students would also be assigned to West Nichols Hills because it is the closest school. The remainder of the students, about 20 kindergarten children and 59 students in grades 1 through 4 who reside in the Nichols Hills attendance area proper, north of Wilshire between Western and Pennsylvania, would be reassigned to Johnson. In both instances those two schools to which the students would be reassigned are immediately adjacent to the Nichols Hills attendance area.

MAYFAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Mayfair was identified for consideration because of low enrollment and high cost per student. Three years ago Mayfair had 183 students; this year 173 and projected for 165 next year, and the cost per pupil is above the district-wide average. There seemed to be no short-range plans for any residential development in the Mayfair attendance area that would significantly .increase the elementary student population. Currently, there are about 19 kindergarten students who would attend from the immediate Mayfair area next year, and 85 children in grades 1 through 4. My recommendation is that the school be closed and that students be reassigned to Monroe, which will require some additional transportation. There are students currently assigned to Mayfair from the Edison area and from the Polk area, and the students from those areas would be assigned to Monroe along with the students who currently reside in the immediate neighborhood of Mayfair. The Monroe attendance area is adjacent to Mayfair and there is closeness of the two schools.

KAISER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Kaiser was identified for consideration because of its low enrollment and high cost per student. Three years ago Kaiser had a fairly large enrollment of 275 students; there was a reassignment made for the 1978-79 school year because of racial imbalance in the black/other ratio and that brought the student enrollment at Kaiser down to 156 students in 1978-79. This year the enrollment is 134 students and they are projected for 129 next year, which is considerably below the 200 cutoff point. There are students from the Polk area that are currently transported to Kaiser. I am recommending that the school be closed for an elementary program and that the children be assigned to Buchanan School which is directly south of the Kaiser attendance are. The study committee at Kaiser did request that students be reassigned to Madison should the school be closed, but there is not sufficient capacity at Madison to accommodate the students from Kaiser, where there is sufficient capacity at Buchanan.

TRUMAN FIFTH YEAR CENTER

Truman Fifth Year Center was identified for consideration for closing because it met all three criteria - low enrollment, high per pupil cost, and poor condition of the facilities. Three years ago the enrollment was 172; this year it is 164, and it is projected for about 170 for next year. Currently, students are sent to Truman for the fifth year from the Buchanan area, the Rancho Village area, and from the Wheeler area, and, of course, fifth year students who reside in the Truman neighborhood, of which there are 26, attend that school also and as with all fifth>year centers there is a kindergarten class located there. My recommendation is that the school be closed and that the fifth year students from the Buchanan and Rancho area be reassigned to Page-Woodson School along with the students from the Truman neighborhood who attend fifth year, and that the students from the Wheeler area who were assigned to Truman this year for fifth grade be reassigned to Garden Oaks Fifth Year Center. There is room for a kindergarten classroom to be

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd Dr. Payzant cont'd 4 located at Moon Middle School which is only a block away from the old Truman facility, which would keep the kindergarten in the same neighborhood, and I so recommend.

CARVER CENTER

Carver Center was considered for closure because of the very poor condition of the facility. The distribution of Carver students is all over the district, almost equally found in each of the various geographic areas. All of these students are transported now to Carver which is on May Avenue and the location of a Carver Center will require transportation regardless of where it might be. You may recall that a year and a half ago there was a good deal of discussion about Carver Center and its program and whether it should continue to function as a program in a separate facility. I was of the opinion initially that Carver could function very well in a self-contained wing of an existing school building. The parents and staff at Carver were strongly opposed and wanted to retain a separate facility even if it meant staying in the poor location that they are currently in. I am recommending that Carver be moved to the Kaiser building which is an excellent facility. It would require some minor renovation work which could be accomplished, in my view, this summer. The location of Kaiser, although it is on the northwestern side of the district, is more central in terms of transportation routes and you might initially think because it is not far from 1-240 and the freeway system which is used to bring the students to Carver from various parts of the school district. No additional transportation would be required and I feel very strongly that these handicapped students deserve a much better facility than they now have in the current Carver location. There were some schools that were considered for closing for reasons other than their small size. The Board policy, of course, specifies criteria that have to do with both the cost per student and the cost of needed repairs or renovation. The second set of recommendations is being made for these schools. Some of our school buildings are in such condition that they should be renovated or replaced in the near future. Therefore, regardless of whether we maintain the same number of schools we now have or close some of them, we still must face the problem of providing adequate school facilities in areas where children need them. This is a summary of my recommendations for the remaining schools on the original list of 12:

EUGENE FIELD ELEMENTARY_SCHOOL

Eugene Field was identified for consideration for closing because of its poor facility and the condition of it. The study committee at the school recommended that the school be renovated or that a new facility be built in the area. The enrollment at Eugene Field is high; there are almost 300 students in the school now; it is down a bit from three years ago in part because we reassigned some students to Gatewood because of capacity problems at Eugene Field. The projections show for the next couple of years that Eugene Field will have between 275 and 300 students, and it appears that many of the older homes in the neighborhood are being purchased and renovated by families that have young children who will attend the school. My recommendation is that the school be closed and that it be combined with Willard, which I will speak to later, which also would be closed and replaced with a new school to be located somewhere in the Willard-Eugene Field attendance area. WILLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Willard was looked at for a different reason, not only the condition of the facility since Willard is one of the older schools in the district^ but also because of its low enrollment and high cost per student. Three years ago the enrollment at Willard was 172; it is projected for next year at 178, but it is not expected to go above 200 which is the cutoff point. Although that is not as critical a criterion as was some of the other schools that we have recommended for closing, the condition of the facility at Willard and the possibility of consolidating with Eugene Field in a replacement facility does lead me to the recommendation it be closed and that a new building to serve both Eugene Field and Willard attendance areas be constructed.

PARKER FIFTH YEAR CENTER

Parker Fifth Year Center was identified because of the condition of the building. The enrollment at Parker is quite high; it was about 300 students three years ago and it has 228 now, but it is projected for 240 next year and 233 the year after. We really looked at Parker in combination with Green Pastures and are recommending that Parker be closed when a major classroom addition is built at Green Pastures School. This would give the Star Spencer area one centrally located fifth year center which would take fifth year students from all over the Star Spencer area,

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Dr. Payzant cont'd and because of Green Pastures current capacity, it would not be able to take those Parker students until a major classroom addition is constructed. The enrollment at Green Pastures is low; it was one of the reasons Green Pastures was identified for a study this year. We are projected to have 130 students for next year. The core facility at Green Pastures is much better than the core facility at Parker, so it would not make a lot of sense to close Green Pastures and send students to Parker and put an addition there. Plus the fact Green Pastures is more centrally located and overall transportation costs could be cut by having that as the central fifth year center for the Star Spencer area.

PUTNAM HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Putnam Heights ;was looked at because of the high renovation to replacement ratio cost; it was the condition of the facility. Enrollment has not been a problem there the last several years. Although it was under 200 three years ago, the enrollment this year was 284 and it is projected to stay about 268 for next year. It seems to be a number of families who are purchasing homes in that area that have young children and the projections indicate that neighborhood will support a school with more than 200 children for the foreseeable future. Some improvements have already been made in the building at Putnam Heights. Consideration of those improvements rather than to replace the building, it seems cost effective to go ahead and recommend a renovation of that building as part of the building plan that I have been mentioning these last few minutes. That concludes the recommendations on the 12 schools that were on the list. Turning to the financial implications, the school closings recommended here will result in significant savings in our operating budget. After the cost of necessary additional transportation, projected to be 10 bus routes, is deducted, in other words, we have taken that out, the estimated annual savings will be $447,103. The first year savings from closing Carver, Kaiser, Ma'yfair, Nichols Hills, Sunset, and Truman, will be $345,000. When Eugene Field, Parker, and Willard are closed after new construction occurs, the annual savings will be increased to that $447,000 figure. Actually, it will probably be considerably more than that because these estimates have not been adjusted for annual rates of inflation.

The initial estimate of the cost of the new construction and renovation projects recommended is $4.5 million, and I am recommending that the Board seek voter approval of a bond issue in the fall of 1981. Before establishing the amount of the bond issue, however, I think that there are additional steps that should be taken.

It seems to me that the Board will be in a much stronger position to ask voters for the authority to issue bonds if it demonstrates its unierstanding of the importance of allocating resources by consolidating some schools now and more effectively using existing space and good facilities. We have learned a great deal from oilr work of this past year in studying the 12 schools that are being considered for closing. I am confident that the recommendations presented in this report fit together and provide substantial and sensible direction for the next year. However, I believe we must begin planning for future years now. I do not think that we can afford to approach on a piecemeal basis further decisions about consolidation of schools, closing of schools, renovation and replacement of schools, and disposal of previously closed schools and surplus sites. The development of a longer plan in these matters which provide directions for the next five to ten years should be a high priority goal for 1981. I am recommending that the Board modify its timeline and its retiming of school facilities policy and authorize the administration to develop a plan for next steps with a longer view. It would address the following: further consolidation of schools, closing of schools, replacement of schools, renovation of schools, disposal of previously closed school facilities, and disposal of surplus sites. Before starting the development of such a plan, I would return to the Board early in 1981 with information- about what data are now available for us to use, with plans for gathering additional data, with procedures for involving staff and patrons, and with a timeline to follow. Further my recommendation would be that you hold me accountable for presenting a report to you no later than July 1, 1981. The July 1 date is predicated on the need for you to have enough time during the summer months and early fall months to act and determine the details of the renovation and replacement program to include in a falT 1981 bond issue to be presented to the voters. As the result of the work completed during the past year, we have begun to identify some of the specific needs that we would address in the next six months and I would like to give you some examples of projects that might be considered.

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First, in the area of replacement: the possible consolidation of Riverside and Shidler Elementary Schools with a new school to replace the two old schools.

Closing one or worst physical East Side.

more of our fifth year centers on the East Side which are in the condition and replacing them with a new fifth year center on the

Additions: One of the goals that you have had as the result of the Long Range Plan is to try and eliminate some of the annexes in the school district. Two possible projects would be the construction of a classroom addition at Willow Brook to eliminate the use of portables, annexes at that school and the construction of an addition to Star Spencer to do the same thing, get rid of the portables. Renovation: High on the list for renovation would be Capitol Hill Middle School. The enrollment is up there and we anticipate use of that school for a long period of time and see that as a top priority renovation project. Then we would look at additional elementary schools that would be high on the list for renovation.

Sale of Surplus Facilities and Sites: We have already done a good deal of the base work for looking at our existing facilities and sites that are no longer being used for school district programs. As part of the recommendation that would come to you in July would be specific suggestions on what we ought to do to dispose of surplus facilities and sites that we no longer need. I am talking about selling them to generate resources to help with our renovation program and other needs in the school district.

Other: In the category of other, to consider alternative locations for Emerson Alternative Education Center, Central Innovative High School, and Washington Center. As part of this process, rather than to do it piecemeal and to get away from the annual countdown and anxieties that are generated by looking at schools for closing, to really do a little longer term projection and make some judgments about any additional schools that might be closed due to the total package plan and the next year, and then stick with it and live with it for a while, so that part of that overall plan would be additional recommendations on closings.

In summary, I am recommending that in the fall of 1981 the Board close four (4) elementary schools, one (1) fifth year center, and move the Carver program to a new location. Two additional elementary schools and one fifth year center are recommended for closing as soon as replacement buildings are constructed. The estimated savings in operating costs for the first year would be about $350,000, and as soon as the new facilities are constructed, more than $450,000 per year when construction is completed. The greatest deterrent to making these difficult recommendations is the reassignment of some children from their present neighborhood school to another school nearby. I understand the concern of parents in the schools affected. I also understand -the concern of parents district-wide who expect us to provide the best educational programs for all of the children. It might be helpful to point out two things. First, all students who are being reassigned from their immediate neighborhood schools because of consolidation will attend schools in neighborhoods immediately adjacent. Second, the total number of students who are not now transported and will be reassigned from their present immediate neighborhood school to a school nearby in the fall of 1981 will be 95 kindergarten children and 303 children in grades 1 through 5. This is less than one percent of the district's total enrollment. I want to point out again that regardless of what schools may be closed or reassignment patterns adopted, considerable capital improvement of our school facilities must be undertaken in the very near future. The longer we delay beginning these projects, the more expensive they will be. The pressures of inflation and the effects of continued deterioration will push costs higher and higher. Finally, I would like to stress that it is very important that the Board understand that this proposal has been developed as a single comprehensive package. I hope you will address it as such; I think it should be; that it not be addressed as a series ofseparate individual recommendations. Viewed as a comprehensive plan, this proposal offers an unusual opportunity to make many important gains for our district. It allows us to greatly improve our school facilities while at the same "time effectin significant savings in our operating budget so that we can allocate our resources more effectively to provide better programs for children. We can either move ahead now or fall further behind. I think the choice is clear.

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Dr. Hamm announced again that a special board meeting had been scheduled for ..December 18, at 6:00 p.m. in order to have public input concerning the Superintendent's recommendations as presented.

Mrs. Hermes stated that she was not sure of what the Superintendent was recommending with regard to Eugene Field and Willard. Dr. Payzant responded that he was recommending that Eugene Field and Willard be closed, but not until a new school wasconstructed in the Willard-Eugene Field attendance area, which would accommodate the students from both of those schools.

Mrs. Hermes asked further if their closing would be dependent upon the passage of a bond? Dr. Payzant replied:

That is correct.

Inquiring further, Mrs. Hermes asked if he was recommending renovation of either of those buildings or any boundary changes in those attendance areas? Dr. Payzant stated that renovation of Putnam Heights and an addition at Green Pastures would be the only others in that phase but he was suggesting that prior to establishing the exact amount of a bond issue, that they take a look at the total district and make some other decisions about priorities for replacement of facilities and renovation and any further closings, and go with a total package next fall.

Mrs. Hill added that, in other words, coming next August,.Willard and Eugene Field as well as Parker and Green Pastures would be open at their same school because they really did not have a site for building.as yet? Dr. Payzant agreed.and stated that at this time they could not accommodate either the Eugene Field children at Willard or the Willard children at Eugene Field with the present capacity, nor could they accommodate the Green Pastures children at Parker or the Parker children at Green Pastures with the current capacity. Mr. Donwerth inquired that because the enrollment was up at Lafayette and the building was not really in bad condition, did he contemplate any renovation at Lafayette at all?

In responding, Dr. Payzant stated: That would be one of at over the next six months before presenting you with a in July that would become part of an overall bond issue, Lafayette would fall in the total scheme of things based of the facility.

the things that we would look total package for consideration and it would depend oh where on an analysis of the condition

Mr. Dulan inquired as to the number of kindergarten children that would be placed at Moon from the Truman attendance area, to which Dr. Payzant responded, 48.

Mrs. Hill asked if there was any consideration given to moving the students at Willard and Eugene Field to some of the better facilities? Dr. Payzant stated that they did look at a number of alternatives, but in terms of space available they would have had to transport students to far west or far northwest part of the district, and one of the things that they tried to do where they consolidated schools was to do it in a way that would allow students to attend the school in the attendance area adjacent to the one that they were already attending, and they would have been unable to do that in the case of Eugene Field and Willard because the surrounding areas did not have the capacity, like schools such as Wilson, Gatewood and the schools that surround those two attendance areas. Mrs. Hill added that she was sure that the recommendations of some of the planning councils were not followed in any way, shape or form and she was sure they would be hearing from them and she could feel their disappointment.

(Report and Recommendations on Retirement of School Facilities was recommended for action on January 5, 1981.)

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PERSONNEL REPORT It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mr. Dulan that the persons as presented in the report be employed as of the effective date specified, and that contracts or assignment notifications with the appropriate persons therein listed be approved as executed in the name of the district by the Superintendent or person by him designated; also, that other personnel recommendations and information listed be approved.

R. #368 Personnel Approved

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

(A copy of the report is on file in the permanent minutes.)

PAYROLLS, ENCUMBRANCES, PURCHASING AND GENERAL BUSINESS

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mr. Dulan to approve Recommendations R. #369 #1 and #2 (ratification of November payrolls and authorization of December payrolls) and Approval of Payrolls and payment of encumbrances as listed for November 11-20, 1980. Encumbrances On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Hermes for approval of purchasing as follows:

Paper Purchase of paper for Washington Print Shop from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

Thompson Book & Supply Company Mid-Continent Paper Corporation Total

1,148.20 4,714.45

5,862.65

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.05. 2.

Offi ce Suppli es Purchase of office supplies (1iquid paper, pens, file folders, index guides, clips, tape, ribbons, etc.) for use at various schools and departments from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: Thompson Book & Supply Company Royal Office Products B & M Sales Company

Total

577.66 354.54 1,310.12

2,242.32

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 130.08 G 130.09 G 130.10 G 230.01 G 250.01 *240.01 , ESAA *240.01, Title I *240.01, CETA, Youth Demo Total

137.60 28.88 70.84 28.92 437.69 60.58 1,038.35 439.46

2,242.32

*These purchases have been approved on our Federal Educational Grants and/or Programs.

R. #370 Approval of Purchasi ng

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Teaching Aids

Purchase of teaching aids (filmstrips, cassettes, questionnaires, etc.) for use by Northwest Classen High School and External Funding Department from the following companies (available only from designated distributor/publ isher):

Bell & Howell (Micro Photo Div.) Educational Reading Services Charles W. Clark Company, Inc. Oklahoma School Supply System Development Corporation Human Development Training Institute Total

1,106.00 1,269.05 2,119.00 1,030.28 1,125.00 1,490.00

8,139.33

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

G 230.01 *240.01, ESAA

Total

1,106.00 7,033.33

8,139.33

*These purchases have been approved on our Federal Educational Grants and/or Programs.

Equipment Purchase of equipment (hammock chairs, table, walkerette, swing, mobile stool, etc.) for use by Special Education classes from the following companies (available only from designated distributors):

J. A. Preston Corporation Achievement Products, Inc.

Total

2,080.76 2,854.45

4,935.21

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

G 240.01 G 1230.03 Total

2,854.45 2,080.76

4,935.21

Instructional Supplies Purchase of instructional Supplies (pencils, crayons, glue, rubber bands, chalk, clips, staples, etc.) for use by Supply and Distribution Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

As-el Art Supply Constructive Playthings Chaselie Arts & Crafts, Inc. Oklahoma Paper Company Thompson Book & Supply Company Standard Stationery Supply Company

Total

$ 11 ,472.48 7,938.28 7,524.62 39,280.00 23,386.44 14,050.60 $103,652.42

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 240.00.

Payment and Repair of Service Center Air-Conditioninq Unit

Confirmation payment and repair of Service Center air-conditioning unit for Maintenance/Engineering Department from Gene H. Binning Company, Inc. This expenditure in the amount of $1,418.31 is to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Radios and Charger Purchase of radios and charger for use by Garage Services and Material Transportation from Motorola C & E, Inc., which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $1,684.00 to be charged to Account G 1230.06.

Pickup Truck Purchase of pickup truck (3/4 ton) for use by Garage Services and Material Transportation from Morris Chevrolet City which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $7,530.56 to be charged to Account G 1230.06.

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On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye;<Mr. Dulan, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #370 Approval of Purchasing cont'd

General Business

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mr. Dulan for authorization to finalize agreement to lease (rent) swimming facility at the Central YMCA, 125 N.W. 5th, for use by Capitol Hill High School and Northwest Classen High School from November 24, 1980 through February 28, 1981. Fee to be $22.00 per hour, 65 hours for each school. Total not to exceed $2,860.00 ($1430.00 for each school). Expenditure to be charged to Account G 660.02.

R. #371 Authorization to Finalize Agreement to Lease Swimming Facility

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. The Central Food Services Financial Statement as of October 31, 1980 was submitted as information to the Board.

Information to the Board

Mrs. Hill commented that she had talked with Howard White, Director/Food Services, and he stated that department would probably lose a considerable amount/of,money because of some legislation that was passed, and she understood that he would be working with other food directors around the country, but she was wondering if maybe the Board should notify the senators or representatives of how they felt on the bill; that she had shared a letter with Dr. Payzant, and they probably would be losing about $150,000 to $200,000 this year for the food services program. Mrs. Hill added that the House Resolution 7664 was temporary, but the Senate was permanent and this was the main concern, and maybe the Board should be working with their senators to have some input in something like that, and it was on the federal level.

It was moved by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hermes for approval of the 1981-82 School Calendar as follows:

1981-82 School Calendar Teachers Report

August 20, 1981

Students Report

August 25, 1981

Labor Day

September 7

Fair Day

September 21

Fall Break

October 15-16

End, First Quarter

October 23

Inservice Day

October 26

Thanksgiving

November 26-27

Winter Break

December 23-January 1, 1982

End, Second Quarter

January 8

Inservice Day

January 11

Make-Up Day (if required)

February 15

End, Third Quarter

March 12

Spring Break

March 15-19

Make-Up Day (if required)

April 23

End, Fourth Quarter

May 27

Record Day

May 28, 1982

Total Number of Days in Session

175

Mrs. Hill stated that she had a concern about approving the calendar that early until they knew what would happen about the last year's calendar, and she would vote against it because she thought they were ahead of schedule. Dr. Payzant commented that there were reasons why he was presenting the calendar to the Board that early; that his hope was in surveying the staff and parents soon after the experience with the heat at the beginning of school this year, that they would get a true reading of what people really thought, and he was most surprised to find that people came back and said start it early in August; that the second reason was to try

R. #372 Approval of 1981-82 School Calendar

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and get out in front of the surrounding districts with the hope that they would take the Oklahoma City School District calendar into consideration in establishing particularly the Spring Break, because there had been instances in the past where the Spring Breaks did not coincide and it worked hardships on some families where people were working or families who resided in one community and participated in activities in another where trips were planned for Spring Break Week. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, nay; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. NEW BUSINESS

None.

HEARINGS None.

ADJOURNMENT R. #373 Adjournment 8:30 p.m.

A motion to adjourn was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mrs. Hill. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the office of the Clerk.)

President STATE OF OKLAHOMA

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA ) I, the undersigned Clerk of the Board of Education of Independent School District No. 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours before the meeting, the date, time and place of the Regular Meeting was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. I also certify that at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, notice of the date, time, place and agenda of this meeting was posted in permanent public view at the location of the meeting. Witness my hand and seal of this school district this 1980. . '

Clerk," OkTahoma City Board of Education

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Personnel

PERSONNEL - EMPLOYMENTS ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ADMINISTRATIVE:

SALARY

Annual

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

ANNUAL

CERTIFICATED:

Harms, Kathleen

Hayes Special Education

10-20-80

$14453.

19903.

Harris, Sherri

Edgemere. Primary

11-03-80

10511.

12-01-80

30805.

Hiney, Phyllis

Gatewood Primary

11-17-80

10511.

Asst, to Director Middle Schs & 5th Yr. 12-01-80

21469.

Hollins, Robert

Taft In-House

10-20-80

10511.

Houtchens. Diane

Putnam Heights Primary

10-06-80

i2aL

Hunter, Charlotte

Emerson Adult Ctr. Language Arts

11-10-80

10511.

Hsieh, Anne

Administrative Supv. Accounting Services

11-03-80

$23890.

Page, William F.

Manager Graphics Services

12-02-80

Price, Donald A.

Director External Funding

Wood, Maxie

CERTIFICATED: Atkins, Dorothy

Polk Intermediate

10-23-80

10511.

Jencks, Carol

Page-Woodson Intermediate

10-03-80

13109.

Berrier, Kay

Longfellow Intermediate

9-19-80

12824.

Jones, Edith

Page-Woodson Intermediate

11-07-80

11408.

Biggs, Suzanne

Rancho Kindergarten

11-10-80

10511.

Mitchell, Patricia

Rogers Nurse

10-27-80

10511.

Blockman, Barbara

Jefferson Industrial Arts

10-23-80

10511.

Mobley, Sandra

Harding Resource

10-09-80

10511.

Cohen, Ruth

Grant Special Education

10-27-80

11978.

Montes, Loretta

Curriculum Language Center

10-09-80

10511.

Mark Twain Primarv

10-20-80

10511.

Pardue, Dan

Harding Reading

10-09-80

11053.

Dees, Karen

Eugene Field Primary

10-09-80

10511.

Pogue, Lana

Roosevelt Reading

10-21-80

11408.

Douglas, Mitchell

Bodine Special Education

10-21-80

11978.

Porter. Debra

Mark Twain Primary

11-04-80

10511.

Hackett, Sylvia

Heronville Primarv

10-08-80..

Post, Barbara

Children's Hospital Youth Shelter Program

11-10-80

11408.

Cronin, Anne

1 -Temporary contract - replacing regular employee on leave of absence

...

S^^^NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

CERTIFICATED:

SALARY

MONTHLY:

$590.

Green, Virginia

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

10-30-80

600;

13765.

Guardalibene, Kaye

Staff Development Clerk Typist

10-15-80

676;

10511.

Gutierrez, Rebecca

Westwood Bilingual Aide

11-12-80

600.

Hawkins, Opal

External Funding Secretary

10-20-80

676.

Henderson, Chrystal

Marshall Attendance Clerk

10-27-80

600.

Ladd, Donna

West Nichols Hills Day Care Aide P.T.

11-10-80

305.

McNabb, Kathryn

Parmelee Teacher's Aide

11-12-80

590.

Nguyen. Thu Ngoc

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

11-03-80

.619..

Parks, Mattie

Page-Woodson Instructional Aide

11-17-80

590.

Rickerts, Steve

Southeast Attendance Clerk

10-22-80

602.

Curriculum Bilingual Aid®

$10511.

Stewart, Dorothy

Rogers Science

11-03-80

16859.

Stewart, John

Jackson Resource

10-20-80

Weir, Laura

Heronville Primary

10-23-80

PROFESSIONAL-TECHNICAL: 15403.

Monthly

SUPPORT:

------ -----

10-20-80

10-24-80

10-15-80

. .. ..

....

Johnson Instructional Aide

Roosevelt Resource

Staff Development Training Specialist

. ..

EFFECTIVE DATE

Fulks. Billie

Richards, Wayne

Reed, Wavie

ASSIGNMENT

£ .....

CLERICAL:

ANNUAL:

i' ;

NAME

.........................

Clerical:

Black, Frankie

West Nichols Hills Day Care Aide

11-10-80

$610.

Butler, Pam

Harding P.T. Counselor's Aide 10-27-80

301.

Sengdara, Vasithy

Byrd, Christine

Children's Hospital Teacher's Aide

10-24-80

590.

Smith, Sharon'

Denton, Maryon

Moon Library

11-03-80

630.

Southerland, Ramona

Hillcrest Clerk P.T.

10-21-80

297.50

Lee Instructional Aide

10-30-80

597.

Thomas, Norma

Star Spencer Counselor Aide P.T.

11-03-80

295.

ill, Deborah

;

60< 6Z

598b

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OF DECEMBER

.... ....

1980 ~ CONT'D_____ __ _______ _ --------- ---------- ———

Personnel cont’d

■

‘

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

PERSONNEL-wiow ents

EFFECTIVE DATE

SALARY

MONTHLY:

SUPPORT:

Clerical:

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

SALARY

Hourly:

Food Service:

Dickson, Bobbie

Helper

9-30-80

■ ,.$JL5A

Ferguson, Karen

Helper

10-20-80

3.51 3.51

Watson, Sherry

Rancho Teacher's Aide

10-14-80

$590,

Wauters, May

Curriculum Secretary II

11-03-80

705.

Harper, Donna

Helper

10-06-80

Wsvne. Wvnette

Taft Attendance Clerk

10-27-80

613.

Hunziker, Rebekah

Helper

11-12-80

Lackie, Clistie

Helper

10-13-80

Hourly

Lane. Jacauelvn

Helper

10-06-80

$3,75

Manuel, Brenda

Helper

10-15-80

3.51

Marshall, Vemetta

Helper

11-05-80

3.51

McCullum, Clara

Helper

10-14-80

3.51

Helper

10-28-80

3.51

Clerical-Temporary: Office of Supt. Clerk

Lee, Charlene

10-24-80

Food Service:

. McGlory, Diann

_____

3.51 3.51

Abdullah, Evelyn

Helper

10-27-80

3.51

Anderaon, Jessie

Retired Mannirer

10-13-80

4.07

McLendon, Helen

Helper

10-09-80

3.51

in.no-fln

3.51

Miller, Robin

Helper

10-23-80

3-51

11-12-80

3.51

Nelson, Marian

Helper

9-17-80

3.51

Cole, Johnita

Helper

10-27-80

3.51

Nelson, Sivina

Helper

10-27-80

3.51

Dean, Edith

Helper

10-14-80

3.51

Purl, Sheila

Helper

10-22-80

3.51

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

SUPPORT:

SALARY

Hourly

Food Service:

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

Transportation:

SALARY

Monthly:

Bomesberger, Doris

Bus Driver

11-03-80

$440.

Clark, William

Bus Driver

10-22-80

418.

Randle, Patricia

Helper

10-07-80

$3.51

Rankin, Virgie

Helper

10-27-80

3.51

Cobb, Herman

Bus Driver

10-13-80

418.

Sims, Bertha

Helper

9-23-80

3.51

Frederick, Karen

Bus Aide

10-03-80

307.

Helper

10-28-80

3.51

Harper, Raymond

Bus Driver

10-28-80

418.

Helper

10-15-80

3.51

Hoskinson. Carol

Bus Aide

10-09-80

350.

Wardrip, Evelyn

Helper

10-20-80

3.51

Jones. Booker

Bus Driver

10-27-80

418.

Warren, Patricia

Helper

10-15-80

3.51

Mack, David

Bus Driver

10-20-80

440.

West, Linda

Helper

10-02-80

3.51

Mason, James

Bus Driver

10-21-80

418.

White, Linda

Helper

10-06-80

3.51

Mitchell. Lelean

Bus Driver

10-29-80

418.

Williams, Fairy

Heiner

11-11-80

3.51

Morgan, Curtis

Bus Driver

11-05-80

418.

Zumbro, Charlotte

Helper

11-03-80

3.51

Stepney, John

Bus Driver

10-30-80

440.

Upshaw, Adolph

Bus Driver

11-06-80

440.

Monthly:

Walker, James

Mechanic

10-13-80

1124.

$418.

Walker, Ronald

Bus Driver

10-14-80

418.

-Stokely, Sandy

Van Hoose, Barbara

Transportation:

Ardrey, Bonny

Bus Driver

11-24-80

598c

MEETING OF DECEMBER 1, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL - wloy men ts

| '

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

MONTHLY:

SUPPORT:

i j

EFFECTIVE DATE

SALARY 1 Monthly.;

Service: Tenison, Dillard

Service:

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

Eugene Field Custodial Worker

10-31-80

$625.

Anders, Donna

Hayes Custodial Worker

10-14-80

$625.

Brothers, Kenneth

Custodial Services Custodial Worker

10-22-80

625.

Service-Substitute:

Cambron, Glen

Southeast Custodial Worker

11-11-80

625.

Colbert, Callie

Sunset

10-13-80

$3.51

Covle. Michael

Rancho Custodial Worker

10-13-80

747.

Goudeau, Rosetta

Quail Creek

10-28-80

3.51

Hausam, Jack

Western Village Custodian

11-10-80

753.

Heaton, Benton

Hayes

10-04-80

3.51

Henrick. Fred

Northwest Custodian Worker

10-15-80

625.

Hunter, David

Quail Creek

10-15-80

3.51

.Tnhnfion. Ar+.hur

All Schools Custodial Worker

11-04-80

675.

Johnson. Charlie

West Nichols Hills

11-03-80

3.51

Jones, Charles

Heronville Custodial Worker

10-15-80

625.

Johnson, Faye

Madison

10-06-80

3.51

Larch, Carl

Hayes Custodial Worker

11-13-80

625.

Murphy, Michael

Rogers

10-15-80

3.51

Larmouth, Barclay

Eisenhower Custodial Worker

10-20-80

625.

Norton, Glenn

Capitol Hill High

10-21-80

3.51

Parton, Patrick

Bodine Custodial Worker

10-13-80

625.

Okoye, Chiazam

Ridgeview

10-22-80

3.51

Pearson. Paulena

Northwest Custodial Worker

10-13-80

725.

Porter, James

All Schools Custodial Worker

10-13-80

625.

Student. Trainee:

Stinson, Donnia

Webster Custodial Worker

10-23-80

747.

Keesee, Terry

Trainee

10-20-80

3.10

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

SUPPORT:

i !

Hourly

â&#x20AC;¢

SALARY

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

SALARY

MONTHLY:

Maintenance/Engineerine:

Eastep, Kenneth

Masonry

11-03-80

$1232.

Gadderson, James

Plumbing

10-20-80

1232.

Hoel. Layne

Sup. of Engineering

10-10-80

1934.

Skinner, Allan

Plumber's Helper

10-20-80

992.

Finley, Linda

Stationary Officer

10-13-80

660.

Hilliard, Charles'

Stationary Officer

10-21-80

660.

Tatmon, Doris

Stationary Officer

10-21-80

660.

Security: f

598d

MEETING OF DECEMBER 1, 1980 - CONT'D

3ersonnel cont'd

PERSONNEL - TERMINATIONS NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

RESIGNATIONS:

SUPPORT:

Administrative:

Clerical:

Mitchell, Barbara

Asst, to Director Middle Schs & 5th Yr.

11-14-80

Certificated:

NAME

SALARY

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

Banks, Bell

West Nichols Hills Day Care Aide

11-05-80

Barton, Pat

Classen Teacher's Aide

10-24-80

Brown, Sue

Northeast Attendance Clerk

11-14-80

Alexander, Monroe

Grant Special Education

10-24-80

Engling, William

Taft Title I Aide

10-29-80

Barlow, Denise

Lincoln Intermediate

10-24-80

Fulk, Billie

Marshall Attendance Clerk

10-15-80

Carr, Katherine

Capitol Hill Middle Social Studies

10-24-80

Hammonds, Margaret

Taft Attendance Clerk

10-23-80

Fleming, Sarafia

Carver Special Education

10-31-80

Kerr, Stephanie

Curriculum Clerk

10-15-80

Olson, Kelly

Polk Intermediate

10-10-80

Ngo, Bich Ngoc

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

10-31-80

Reynolds, Rose

Harding Principal's Secy.

10-31-80

Sootsman, Coral

Wilson Principal's Secy.

11-07-80

Southerland, Ramona

Hillcrest Clerk P.T.

10-23-80

Taylor. Deena

West Nichols Hills Day Care Aide

10-15-80

Tran, Binh Kin

Curriculum Bilingual Aide

10-10-80

Velasquez, Norma

Westwood Bilingual Aide

10-22-80

Retirement:

Light, David

NAME

Administrative Supv. Accounting Services

12-31-80

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

SALARY

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

RESIGNATIONS:

Food Service:

Support:

Garton, Margaret

Helper

11-07-80

Clerical:

Henderson, Rose

Helper

9-15-80

Morris, Beatrice

Baker

10-13-80

Nelson, Marian

Helper

10-01-80

Powers, Karen

Helper

9-18-80

Privett, Susan

Helper

9-23-80

Russell, Jacqueline

Helper

10-31-80

Walters, Debbie

West Nichols Hills"

Day Care Aide

â&#x20AC;¢

11-03-80

Food Service: Aimes, Brenda

Helper

10-15-80

Bailey, Flora

Helper

8-22-80

Berry, Sandra

Helper

10-01-80

Snith, Leo

Helper

11-05-80

Bond, Mildred

Helper

10-13-80

Stead, Sharon

Helper

10-09-80

Braddy, Judy

Helper

9-18-80

Walker, Mary

Helper

10-24-80

Buckner, Irma

Helper

8-25-80

Cole, Norma

Helper

10-20-80

Transportation:

Cutliff, Debra

Helper

8-27-80

Amerson, Cecil

Bus Driver

10-30-80

Davenport, Naomi

Helper

10-06-80

Carpenter, James

Bus Driver

10-15-80

DeWoody, Debra

Helper

9-25-80

Chaney, John

Bus Driver

10-01-80

SALARY *"

SALARY

598e

MEETING OF DECEMBER 1, 1980 - CONT'D

Personnel cont'd

PERSONNEL - TERMINATIONS j

■“

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

SALARY

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

RESIGNATIONS:

Transportation:

Support:

Walker, Ronald

EFFECTIVE DATE

Bus Driver

10-17-80

SALARY

Transportation:

Cole, William

Bus Driver

10-31-80

Service:

Cowen, Michael

Truck Driver

10-17-80

Anders, Donna

Hayes Custodial Worker

11-03-80

Finley, Jo Dee

Bus Driver

10-09-80

Banks. Donnv

Webster Custodial Worker

10-14-80

Ford, Gary

Bus Driver

10-15-80

Barclay, Darion

Moon Custodial Worker

10-15-80

Gist. Arthur

Bus Driver

10-03-80

Caldwell, Herman

Northwest Custodial Worker

9-18-80

Biis Driver

9-25-80

Dixon, Louise

Ross Custodian

10-30-80

Bus Driver

10-15-80

Dunkin, James

Southeast Custodial Worker

10-23-80

Johnson, Johnny

Bus Driver

10-22-80

Greathouse, Bobby

Marshall Custodial Worker

11-05-80

Newton, Lloyd

Bus Driver

10-31-80

Ingram, Herman

Ridgeview Custodial Worker

10-14-80

Roberts, Joseph

Bus Driver

10-21-80

Johnson, Martha

Eisenhower Custodial Worker

10-08-80

Sykes, Frank

Bus Driver

10-17-80

King, Paul

Emerson Custodian

11-12-80

Taylor, Arthur

Bus Driver

10-14-80

Logan. Calvin

Eugene Field Custodial Worker

10-24-80

Upshaw, Adolph

Bus Driver

10-15-80

Milton, Earl

West Nichols Hills Custodian

10-22-80

Hill. Richard

Johnson, Harry

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

NAME

SALARY

EFFECTIVE DATE

SALARY ! •

RESIGNATIONS:

DISMISSALS:

Support:

Service:

Clogston, Vernon

Carver Custodial Worker

-ll=QAx8fl

Jefferson Custodian

10-10-80

Harris, Richard

Bus Driver

■10-14.r80...

Parton, Patrick

Bodine Custodial Worker

10-31-80

Trolinger, Kenneth

Electrician

10-30-80

Sherrill, Claude

Davis Custodian

11-07-80

Wilkins, Alvin

Northeast Custodian

10-20-80

Stokes, Beatrice

Bodine Custodian

12-23-80

Waldai, Ghenet

Northwest Custodial Worker

10-13-80

Wilson, Shulah

Harding Custodial Worker

9-17-80

( ---Myers, SL----- Richard - --------------- '--

J Student Trainee:

Morris, Ronnie

Trainee

10-15-80

Grounds

10-21-80

Maintenance:

Shoemake, Bobby

Helper

Williams, Vanilla

Western Hills CnRtndlAn

Custodial Services Custodial Consultant

Baker. Vernon

Howard, Louise

Medical Leave:

Service:

Helper

Lane, Wanda

Medical Leave:

Food Service:

10-02-80

9-15-80

9-01-80

10-07-80

10-31-80

Rancho Kindergarten

Markell, Dorothy

■

11-26-80

Parmelee Primary

Dansby, Sandra

SUPPORT:

10-15-80

EFFECTIVE DATE

Mark Twain Primary

ASSIGNMENT

Coffman, Martha

Parental Leave:

CERTIFICATED;

NAME

SALARY

Nesbitt, James

Courtney, Ben

Deceased:

Corbin, Ben

Medical Leave:

Maintenance/Engineering :

Jones, Elnora

Clocks/Signals

Hayes Custodial Worker

Masonry

Putnam Heights Custodial Worker

ASSIGNMENT

‘ LEAVES of ab sen ce and ot her

NAME

PF R QO N N FI

11-07-80

11-10-80

10-02-80

10-31-80

EFFECTIVE DATE SALARY

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1, 1980 - CONT'D

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF DECEMBER 15, 1980

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 89 OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY,

OKLAHOMA, MET IN A REGULAR ADJOURNED MEETING IN THE BOARD ROOM, ADMINISTRATION

BUILDING, 900 NORTH KLEIN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1980, AT 7:00 P.M.

j | j | ( |

PRESENT:

Delbert Hamm, President Betty Hill, Vice President Jean Brody, Member Floyd Donwerth, Member Hurlon J. Dulan, Member Susan Hermes, Member

ABSENT:

Armond H. Start, Member

I Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; Eric Groves, Attorney; Central Office staff members; representatives from professional groups, the news media, and other interested persons.

The meeting was called to order by Dr. Hamm and Mr. Dulan gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Dr. Hamm welcomed all of the visitors present.

Visitors Welcomed

Roll call established that five of the board members were present. entered the meeting at 7:40 p.m.)

(Mr. Donwerth

Roll Call

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

A motion was made by Mr. Dulan and seconded by Mrs. Brody for approval of the minutes R. #374 of December 1, 1980 as presented. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, Minutes Approved aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS1 COMMENTS

Mrs. Hermes commented that board members had received a copy of a news release saying Comments that KOFM would be featuring music from the Oklahoma City Schools during the Christmas Mrs. Hermes holidays, called "The Schools1 Happy Holiday Sounds;" that the children were recorded during their music sessions and the radio station was kind enough to intersperse the Christmas music where commercials caime in, and she thought this was nice public relations for the Oklahoma City School System, something positive, and also good for the children. Also, Mrs. Hermes said that she went to Nichols Hills School for the last time as one of her volunteer stations; that she received more letters from the students, they prepared a cake for her, and they presented her with a banner that had been signed by the teacher and students, which made participation in the volunteer program that much more special,' that they could work with the students and faculties and come out with a positive relationship. Mrs. Hermes added that she wanted to commend Kapner, Wolfberg & Associates, Inc., for the beginning steps of the maintenance research; that she attended the All-City High School Choir program at Central Innovative High School, where eight of the high schools had representatives in the choir; the children participate by going after school and provide their own transportation, and sing under the direction of John Blackwell who is well known in the city for his talents in music; that these children gave a special performance for administrative people, and they did a very good job in presenting a variety of music. Mrs. Hermes stated that she thoroughly enjoyed listening to the choir and wanted to continue to support that program.

Mrs. Hill stated that she thought she and Mrs. Hermes were the only board members that did get to attend the special concert by the All-City High School Choir, and the students are to be commended for their presentation; that Mrs. Hermes had been given a nice write-up by the Junior League where she was giving her views on the Oklahoma City Schools and the good publicity was appreciated. Also, Mrs. Hill commented that she attended the Hansel and Gretel performance at Kaiser, which was part of the arts in education program, and even though it was a rather lengthy program, the students responded very well and paid very good attention; that the arts in education program is in only four schools in Oklahoma and two of those were recommended for closing and she had heard conflicting reports on whether it would be allowed to move or not, and somewhere she was still searching for that answer; a representative from the State Department was there and said that it could not be moved with the students to another school but she had heard since that it could be moved, and this was a question that she would like a definite answer on reasonably soon.

Comments Mrs. Hill

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF DECEMBER 15, 1980 - CONT'D

COMMITTEE REPORTS - BOARD MEMBERS1 COMMENTS cont'd Comments 1r. Dulan

Mr. Dulan commented that an article that was in a newspaper shortly after he was sworn <in said that he was entering at a "suspicious" time, and he discovered it was at a suspicious time when he had an opportunity to meet with some parents concerning the closing of their schools and they brought to his attention many things that he did not know about, but he did enjoy meeting with the parents because they had enlightened him as to how they felt about the closing of their particular schools.

Also, Mr. Dulan stated that he was in the Administration Building and had the opportunity to listen to the children from Quail Creek Elementary School sing Christmas carols; that he was invited to Edgemere Elementary School to judge some of the decorations on doors to the classrooms, and it was obvious that the principal and staff had done a marvelous job in getting the student body into the spirit of Christmas; that the originality of some of the decorations was hard to believe and board members should go by and look at the decorations at Edgemere School, if possible. Mr. Dulan added that his first week on the Board had been one of where he needed two telephones and two secretaries, and someone to talk with; that he would be talking with the parents and administrators to learn more about what he was supposed to do as a member of the school board; however, his first week on the Board had been very enlightening, but, in other words, very busy.

HEARINGS

Dr. Hamm called on Ann Turner who had registered to address the Board. Ms. Turner, after giving copies of printed materials to the Board, stated that she was presenting a copy of a Level III Grievance and the supporting attachment that had been previously and properly filed on December 3, 1980, and a copy of a letter from Dr. Payzant to her refusing her the opportunity to file a Level III Grievance. Ms. Turner continued by expressing her understanding of the negotiated agreement as it relates to the filing of a grievance and the position of the Superintendent in the process, and requested that the Board schedule for her a Level III Grievance Hearing.

Dr. Payzant explained that the grievance was filed at Level III because a decision was not rendered at Level II, with respect to the hearing at Level II not being held in a timely fashion; that Ms. Turner had received a response from Mr. Russell acknowledging the fact that the Level II Grievance had not been heard in a timely fashion and the relief sought was being granted as requested, with an assurance that in the future hearings at Level II would be held within the time specified by the contract; that it was his belief that it would be appropriate for the merits of her grievance to be heard at Level II as she had originally requested, then if she was not satisfied with the Level II consideration of the merits of her grievance, she would have every right to appeal to Level III on the merits, which in no way was to keep her from having a Level III hearing if the matter on its merits could not be resolved at Level II. Ms. Turner responded that after filing the grievance at Level II, she was ignored until she filed at the next level, Level III. Dr. Payzant and Ms. Turner continued to discuss what had happened with regard to the Level II Grievance, with Dr. Payzant's reference to acknowledgment of an error and an oversight in granting relief at Level II by not having scheduled the hearing within the five-day period as specified in the contract and his recommendation to schedule a Level II hearing to hear the grievance on the merits, and Ms. Turner's contention that she had been ignored, that no effort had been made to schedule the hearing prior to her filing of the Level III Grievance, and her insistence that she be granted a Level III Grievance Hearing, which was due her in keeping with the negotiated agreement. Ms. Turner responded to questions from members of the Board as to what had actually occurred between her and the Administration with regard to a response after filing the grievance, and other; at which time Dr. Hamm concluded the discussion by stating that the matter would be brought up later in the agenda for a decision. SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT

R. #375 President of Board and Superintendent Authorized to Execute Documents

A motion was made by Mrs. Hermes and seconded by Mrs. Hill that the President of the Board and the Superintendent be authorized to execute documents and submit applications for grants as follows:

(a)

Under Title IV, Elementary and Secondary Act, Computer Linked Interdisciplinary Program, Star Spencer High School.

(b)

Under Title IV, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Computer Oriented Math Analysis Program, Northeast High School.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF DECEMBER 15, 1980 - CONT'D

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT cont'd It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mr. Dulan for acceptance of the resignation of Debbie Tyler and the appointment of Tommy Thomas as the AFT representative on the Staff Development Committee.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Hill aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Hermes to direct the following persons to attend conferences as directed: At School District Expense

(a)

Patrisha Nicholson, Assistant to Director of High Schools and Adult Education, NASSP Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, February 20-24, 1981.

(b)

Sylvia G. Lonian, Assistant to Director of Elementary Schools, NAESP Convention, Anaheim, California, April 3-8, 1981.

R. #376 Acceptance of Resignation on Staff Development Commi ttee

R. #377 Professional Trips Approved

At No Travel Expense to the District (c)

Ellie Kubier, Teacher, Rancho Elementary School, Neuro-Developmental Workshop, Kansas City, Missouri, December 11-13, 1980. Confirmation.

(d)

Nester Villar, Resource Teacher, Capitol Hill High School, USSF National Coaching Schools, Tampa, Florida, January 4-10, 1981.

(e)

Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent, Executive Committee Meeting, Council for Basic Education, Board of Directors, Washington, D.C., January 30, 1981.

(f)

Jake A. Diggs, Principal, Grant High School, NASSP Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, February 20-24, 1981.

(g)

Milton H. Denman, Principal, Ridgeview Elementary School; Howard Morrow, Principal, Edgemere Elementary School, South Central Association Annual Meeting, Tantara, Missouri]., March 6-10, 1981.

(h)

Milton Denman, Principal, Ridgeview Elementary School; Gerald Taylor, Principal, West Nichols Hills Elementary School; Howard Morrow, Principal, Edgemere Elementary School, NAESP Convention, Anaheim, California, April 3-8, 1981.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Brody for approval of the following items with regard to the school election: 1.

Consideration of the preliminary estimate* of the amounts of money and the tax rates that will be required for the district for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1981, and the call for an election contained in the estimate form, an election will be held on Tuesday, April 14, 1981, for the purpose of voting on the following questions:

(a)

Making an Emergency Levy of 5 mills for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1981, under Section 9 (D), Article X, Oklahoma Constitution.

(b)

Making a Local Support Levy of 10 mills for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1981, under Section 9, (D-l), Article X, Oklahoma Constitution.

(c)

Making a Building Fund Levy of 5 mills for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1981, under Section 10, Article X, Oklahoma Constitution.

R. #378 Approval of Items Re School Election

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Adoption of the following Resolution to the County Election Board, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma: RESOLUTION: An election of the School District Electors of Independent School District Number 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, will be held at ninety-eight** (98) school buildings in said District on the 14th day of April, 1981, beginning at 7:00 a.m., and ending at 7:00 p.m. on said date, to consider or vote upon:

(a)

Emergency Levy - 5 Mills

(b)

Local Support Levy - 10 Mills

(c)

Building Fund Levy - 5 Mills

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THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT NEEDED FOR ERECTING, REMODELING, OR REFAIRING SCHOOL BUILDINGS ANO FOR FURCHASING FURNITURE FOR THE ENSUING YEAR, OR YEARS, TO BE PROVIOEO FOR FROM THE SCHOOL DISTRICT BUILDING FUNO. 1. Erecting new buildings .•••,••,.« $.....,..w..«.....o..«. ........... . $«„3.».?.§2.i.22>9 2. Remodeling or repairing school buildings .................................................... ................................................................ ....................................... ......................................................................................................... $.........?.2.9.r.2£9 3. Furniture

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This Is to certify that the above notice was published or posted, «s required by law. at l**st tan days prior to said Election.

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3416 S. W. 37th Adams 900 North Klein Administration Bldg. Arcadia, OK Arcadia Elementary 5100 S. Independence Arthur 5301 South Bryant Bodine 1215 N. W. 95th Britton 4126 N. W. 18th Buchanan 3233 N. W. 65th Burbank 2717 S. Robinson Capitol Hill Middle 500 S. W. 36th Capitol Hill High 2801 S. W. 3rd Carver 817 N. Robinson Central 1901 N. Ellison Classen 2402 S. Pennsylvania Columbus 5212 South Villa I Coolidge 2240 N. E. 19th Creston Hills 324 S. E. 53rd Davis 3500 N. Lindsay Dewey 900 N. Eastern Douglass 1432 N. E. 7th Dunbar 3200 N. Walker Edgemere 1123 N. E. Grand Blvd. Edwards 1301 N. E. Eisenhower Eisenhower Ed. 715 North Walker Emerson Alternative 1515 N. Klein Eugene Field 5200 S. Blackwelder Fillmore 3401 N. E. 16th Garden Oaks 1821 N. W. 21st Gatewood 5016 S. Pennsylvania Grant 4300 N. Post Raod Green Pastures 3333 N. Shartel Harding 721 Britton Road Harrison 2300 N. W. 15th Hawthorne 6900 South Byers Hayes 1240 S. W. 29th Heronville 6421 S. Miller Hillcrest 1105 N. W. 45th Horace Mann 2401 N. W. 115th Hoover 2601 South Villa Jackson t J 6800 S. Blackwelder Jefferson 1810 Sheffield Road Johnson 3125 Lyon Blvd Kaiser 1537 N. E. 24th Martin L. King 500 S. W. 44th Lafayette 424 S. W. 29th Lee 1138 N. Geary Lincoln ' 3416 N. W. 17th Li nwood 1201 N. E. 48th Longfellow 3117 N. Independence Madison

R. #378 Approval of Items Re School Election cont'd

Mark Twain Marshall Mayfai r Monroe Moon Nichols Hills Northeast North Highland Northwest Classen Oakridge Page-Woodson Parker Parmelee Pierce Polk Prairie Queen Putnam Heights Quail Creek Rancho Village Ridgeview Riverside Rockwood Rogers Roosevelt Ross Sequoyah Service Center Shidler Shields Heights Southeast Southern Hills Spencer Stand Watie -Star Star Spencer Stonegate Sunset Taft Telstar Truman Van Buren Webster W. Nichols Hills Western Village Westwood Wheeler Willard Willow Brook Wilson

2451 West Main 9017 N. University 3200 N. W. 48th 4810.North Linn 1901 N. E. 13th 1301 Wilshire Blvd. 3100 North Kelley 8400 N. Robinson 2801 N. W. 27th 4100 Leonhardt Dr. 600 North High 12000 N. E. 42nd 6700 South Hudson 4101 S. W. 27th Pl. 3806 N. Prospect 6609 S. Blackwelder 1601 N. W. 36th 11700 Thorn Ridge Road 1401 S. Johnston Dr. 10010 N. Ridgeview 421 S. W. Uth 3131 S. W. 24th 4000 N. Spencer Rd. 3233 S. W. 44th 4120 Magnolia 2400 N. W. 36th 2700 N. Miramar 1415 South Byers 301 S. E. 38th 5401 South Shields 7800 S. Kentucky 8900 N. E. 50th 3517 South Linn 8916 N. E. 23rd 3001 M. Spencer Road 2525 N. W. 112th 3105 Sunset Blvd. 2901 N. W. 23rd 9521 N. E. 16th 1324 North Kelham 2700 S. W. 40th 6708 S. Santa Fe. 8400 N. Greystone 1508 N. W. 106th 1701 Exchange Ave. 501 S. E. 25th 1400 N. W. 3rd 8105 N. E. 10th 2215 North Walker

Approval of the employment of the County Election Board of Oklahoma County, and election officials thereof, to conduct the following elections:

(a)

A Levy Election for making an Emergency Levy of 5 mills for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1981;

(b)

A Levy Election for making a Local Support Levy of 10 mills for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1981;

(c)

A Levy Election for making a Building Fund Levy of 5 mills for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1981;

(d)

A Nomination Election to be held April 14, 1981; and,

(e)

A General Election to be held May 5, 1981.

The elections to be held at polling places designated by the Board of Education. Also approval of payment of compensation at the established rate to the election officials and office personnel helping to conduct the elections, and payment of other election expenses, including the rental and transportation cost of voting machines, election supplies and the printing of ballots.

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R. #378 Approval of Items Re School Electior cont'd

Recommendation Adoption of Various Board Policies

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. 'Mrs. Hermes suggested that people need to understand that the regular polling places for elections are being eliminated and only schools as designated will be used for the school election.

Dr. Payzant referred to a number of Board policies that had been sent to members of the Board and stated that they were being recommended for action on January 5, 1981J that the policies were additions to or modifications of those which were already included in the Board Policy manual; that many of them related to personnel matters and were being presented for consideration prior to the Personnel Services Division finalizing a Personnel Policies and Regulations Handbook for all school district employees; also, that the administrative regulations that had been drafted to provide the backup and support for the implementation of the policies had been provided in the packets to the Board.

In view of matters that the Board would have to consider at the January 5 meeting, it was suggested that the policies as recommended be submitted for'action on January 19, to which the members and Dr. Payzant agreed. Dr. Hamm called on Richard Lane, who had requested to address the Board regarding the recommendation on Board policies. Mr. Lane, stating that he was speaking for David Renfro who was absent because of illness, remarked that after reviewing the proposed policy changes, that the Board was being asked to consider, that there was a concern that they were being asked to take action on certain policy provisions that were in conflict with the negotiated agreement. Mr. Lane then read from Article I, Section 5; and Article I, Section 5-A of the negotiated agreement, which language he stated was in conflict with the policies, and further stated that the Union would mail to each Board member a response to the proposed policy changes. Dr. Payzant asked that a copy of the response be sent to him also. \NNUAL REPORT of superintendent

As preliminary comments before presenting the Annual Report of the Superintendent, Dr. Payzant stated that his plan was to take the report which had two parts, a prose part and a specific set of responses to the goals and objectives that were set for 1980- 81, along with the goals that the Board hopefully would adopt in January for 1981- 82, and print at the end of January a document like was done last year that would receive wide distribution in the schools and for others who might be interested. Dr. Payzant further stated that what he would give them at the meeting was for several purposes; that he hoped the Board would use it as a source document for their consideration of goals for 1981-82; that he would be asking them to take action on those goals in January because it was necessary to have a specific framework to proceed with budget development and budget planning for 1981-82; secondly, he hoped that the report would be used as a document to share information with public and staff about the accomplishments of the last year and the challenges that lie ahead, and that he thought they should use it as a basic tool to give them information and to evaluate hijn, which the Board was required to do under the Statutes and by his contract.

Dr. Payzant continued by reading from the Report as follows:

With the presentation of this report, I am almost to the point of completing my second year as Superintendent of the Oklahoma City Schools. They have been extremely busy years,and, I think, successful ones. There have been some disappointments, some setbacks, but I am optimistic that considerable progress has been made. This past year has seen difficult decisions about allocation of resources, reduction of overhead administrative cost, expansion of instructional programs for children, codification of board policy, negotiation of contracts with employee bargaining units, progress in student achievement, and improvement in the school district's image.

In this,my second annual report, I want to discuss some of these accomplishments and assess the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. The first section of my report is entitled Time in Schools With Students, Employees, and Parents. My first year I gave school visits very high priority; I have continued to do that during my second year, and continue to have as a goal spending time through at least one visit to every school every year. I also continue to meet with parent groups and particularly to make informal presentations about activities in the school district, and provide opportunities for informal dialogue through question and answer sessions with parent and other groups. I have met with some school district staffs, al though I hope to have more invitations to meet with staffs in the next year, using that informal give and take forum for understanding better the kinds of concerns that staff have and taking the opportunity to share some of my thoughts with staff members as well.

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ANNUAL REPORT of Superintendent The second topic that I included in my report is that of Student School Reassignments cont'd Last spring we completed a student reassignment plan which resulted in moving about 2.4 percent of our district's students, and I am quite confident that, that student reassignment plan will lead to the stability in the district that we hoped for when I recommended it to you last spring, and not necessitate annual school reassignments to adjust our racial balances in our schools. I think that stability should be with us for the next three to four years. The next section deals with Building Improvements Using Bond Funds. About 18 months ago we set forth some plans and proceeded to implement them to undertake major deferred maintenance projects by replacing heating systems, upgrading electrical systems, repairing roofs, paving student play areas, and those projects I am happy to report are about 90 percent complete. And we have, in completing those projects, just about depleted the existing bond fund account, although there is some money left to proceed with a few more deferred maintenance projects.

The next section deals with the District Testing Program. Our testing program has two major types of tests - norm referenced tests which are achievement tests that are given all around the country to assess how students are doing in relation to other students who attend school in other school districts nationwide. This year we did not give our tests until early May, which allowed for almost a full year of instruction to take place before attempting to measure the results of that instruction. We continued to make progress by having a greater percentage of our students score above the national average in both reading and math. While there is good reason to be pleased and optimistic about those gains, there is clearly a need to continue to improve student achievement in these areas and to set expectations that are high and to include in the statement of board goals the expectation that we will continue to improve student achievement in reading and math. We did put a moratorium for this year on administration of the OtisLennon Mental Ability Test. A staff committee is reviewing that test and other mental ability tests and will have a recommendation this spring concerning the future and whether we should continue to do mental ability testing in the school district. The other kind of test which we use is a criterion referenced test, which is simply a mastery test that is designed to show whether or not a student has or does not have a particular skill. We are beginning to use criterion referenced tests much more throughout our school system and to use this kind of test to help improve our instructional program. We also have completed a project to define basic goals and objectives in the major subject areas within the curriculum so that teachers, administrators, and parents will have a much clearer idea of the specific skills we set out to teach. One of the real high points of the year has been our advances in special education. Our budget this year is more than $6 million for our special education programs. We now have some 30 speech pathologists, 15 psychometrists, 4 school psychologists, 1 search/serve person, 4 consultants, 8 visiting counselors, 2 administrative coordinators, and 312 plus certified special education teachers, all serving some 5,190 students who are handicapped, some 12.67 percent of the school district enrollment.

In addition' to the certified personnel, we have some 69 classified employees serving as transportation aides, classroom aides, and health assistants in their direct work with handicapped children. Prior to the district's commitment to meet Public Law 94-142 and its expectations, we employed only 25 classified employees for supplemental services for the handicapped.

This year we added some 30 new classes for handicapped children to serve the increasing number of children enrolled, and we developed programs for all age levels serving handicapped children from birth to 21 years of age. In addition, we completed a due process procedure for parents of handicapped children, and have made it available to patrons, and my central office administrative staff have received inservice training on legal requirements and the district's commitment to special education this year. I have said before and I would like to reiterate that I think Oklahoma City would stand very tall in comparison to big city school districts across this country in measuring the advances that have been made in services provided to handicapped children over the last two or three years.

In other program areas we have made advances in programs for gifted and talented students. Five more gifted and talented teachers were added to the staff, with new programs placed at four elementary schools, two fifth year centers, and two middle schools this year. That brings the total number of schools with gifted and talented programs to 28, serving nearly 1,200 students. The advanced placement program is in its second year, providing opportunities for high school students to take advanced courses in American History, Calculus, Chemistry, English, Physics, Studio Art, and Biology. Upon successful completion of these courses and

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scoring at a certain point on a national exam, students are eligible for advanced standing or even college credit at most colleges and universities in the United States. This year there were about 250 students enrolled in advanced placement programs, and we hope that will grow in the future.

To start the year the Board adopted a committee report and recommendations on the Fine Arts. A number of those recommendations have been implemented this year. The district now requires one credit for high school graduation in the fine arts. | We are looking at the possibility of establishing a mini-school within an existing | high school next year for the dramatic and performing arts, and we are looking at the possibility of a tuition summer school program for the performing arts to provide interested students an opportunity for concentrated study in this field. We continue to support our fifth year center program, which does a lot for the arts, including a rather unique program where every child receives at least one semester of instruction in string instruments. This year we added a vocal music program in an expanded form for all elementary schools so that children are getting vocal music for the entire year, at least some time each week with trained vocal music teachers. And we have expanded the opportunities for participation in city-wide activities with a high school parade of bands, the new all-city high school choir, arid the all-city visual arts exhibits for middle and high school students. This is the second year of the Elementary Physical Education Program. We now have 34 elementary physical education teachers' serving 59 K-4 elementary schools, with each child receiving 80 minutes of physical education instruction each week.

The new program called the Biomedical Professions Program was implemented as a cooperative project with Northeast High School and the University Health Sciences Center. It has students enrolled from each of the city's high schools, grades 9 through 12, and some 40 students are enrolled this first year. Perhaps the largest and most dramatic effort at the elementary schools and fifth year centers this year has been the implementation of a program called PRI. That acronym stands for Prescriptive Reading Inventory. It is a system that is being implemented in the elementary schools and fifth year centers that will in fact replace our instructional management program. It provides teachers and administrators with a system for monitoring a student's progress in reading and providing an instructional program that will better meet the needs of individual children. It includes a set of instruments that enables the teacher very early in the year to diagnose the skill level at which a child is reading, to provide instructional materials that are appropriate for the child at the skill level, and to repeatedly through the year give mastery or criterion referenced tests which will be scored and get feedback to the teacher within 48 hours from our Computer Services Department, and provide up-to-the-minute data on the progress that child is making, and also enables the student and parents to have a good up-to-date reading of the progress that the student is or is not making. The program is being placed in 70 of our schools in grades K-5. You may recall that we have already implemented a similar program in reading and math at the middle schools, and in reading at the high school level. It is my hope that in the next fiscal year we will be able to use the similar kind of approach with math and our K-4 elementary schools and fifth year centers. It is important to understand that this is not a reading program, but it is a system that supports a teaching of reading as a process and not as a simple subject or program. It is based on our understanding that not all children learn to read in the same way, and it makes possible the effective use of varied instructional materials and provides students, teachers, and parents with current information on student achievement. I mentioned briefly in my report the last week of school because through the efforts of teachers, parents, administrators, and students it was a productive final week again last year. I plan this year also to continue with our final exams schedule and instruction right up until the final day so that those last few days will be useful instructionally and not a waste of student and teacher time.

The summer school this past year served some 2,500 students. They attended programs in 16 different schools and we will present you with recommendations for a tuition summer school program to be held in 1981.

School Involvement Week was held again in October where, on each of four different nights,schools at the various levels scheduled open houses with an opportunity for parents and teachers to meet and to review the school curriculum and activities at the school. Most of those open houses were very well attended and did a great deal to improve communications between the school and the home.

A new program this year which a number of us are excited about is the Central Office Volunteer Program where 54 Central Office administrators and two board members are volunteering an hour's time each week serving in some 32 different schools. The program is providing those of us who have been away from the classroorr for a while an opportunity to have some classroom experience again. We are

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learning a great deal from our association with teachers and children and hope that they, too, are learning from their association with us. The Adopt-A-School Program was a program that was begun last year. The number of businesses that adopted schools and have provided resources through human involvement with volunteers, the sponsorship of special programs, career education, and visitations to business and industry, went far beyond our expectations in that 15 firms adopted schools in the first year of the program. We now have 18 firms actively involved and a number who are about ready to adopt schools in the next month or two. It is one of the most positive things that we have done to bring educators and the business community together, and I think it is a program that will not be a short-term fad but will become a regular part of our community in the years ahead.

As you know from your action at the last meeting, the calendar for next year was adopted. This year the involvement of patrons and staff was much greater in reviewing various options for a 1981-82 school calendar.

External Funding had.a busy year. That department is responsible for administering programs such as Title I, the Emergency School Aid Act, CETA programs, the Indian Education program, Bilingual Education program, and Teacher Corps. Some 38 grant applications were submitted for funding for 1980-81 projects and 28 of those 38 were approved for funding and are being implemented. This totaled about $7 million in external funds for the school district. It has been our practice in the past, and I would urge us to continue it, that we do not use external funds to support ongoing programs that should be supported by local school district funds, so that we get a false sense of security and become overly reliant on those external funds. We have taken the approach, and I hope we will in the future, that we havetthe programs if the funds are available; if the funds are not, then the programs have to be dropped. It has been a busy year for Vocational Education, and the next year will be even busier. We have accomplished the transition with the development of the new Vo-Tech District 22 and the transfer of Foster Estes, Belle Isle, and the Skills Center to the new vo-tech district. Some 1-89 vocational programs will be transferrec to the new district in the future. Others will be retained in 1-89 comprehensive high schools with the upgrading of some facilities necessary to bring those programs up to standard.

A new effort in community education was launched this past year. It is a cooperative one with virtually no budget at this point. It is called the Community Education Consortium for Lifelong Learning, and it is a consortium of more than 30 local nonprofit and public agencies and institutions, all of which provide services of one kind or another to the Oklahoma City community. The purpose of that consortium is to try and prevent duplication and overlap of services and to make use of facilities and to utilize other low-cost approaches to providing services for the community. This year two schools, Northwest Classen and Classen High Schools, have been named as service centers to begin providing community education programs for people of all ages, and as those programs grow and show success, then other service centers will be developed- in other parts of the district.

In Employee Relations it was a busy year. In the absence of a bargaining representa tive during the first part of the year, the Board did adopt several policies that provided additional benefits for teachers last winter and spring. Collective bargaining began in April with the various employee organizations and was concluded prior to the opening of school with contracts signed by the various employee organizations and the Board. The completion of the contract negotiations prior to the opening of school and during that first week of school made for a very positive start of school this year, and it really made a difference.

Recruitment is a major area of our attention, and it will continue to be in the future. There is no doubt that there is a teacher shortage in a number of areas, particularly in math, science, and some of the vocational areas. In March the Board adopted a professional staff supplementary plan with bonuses to teachers in those areas. The plan went into effect July 1 and, as of December of this year, approximately 150 teachers are receiving bonuses. We are beginning to recruit iin other areas of the country, and my belief is that we will have to continue to do this to fill all of our teaching positions in the years ahead. I think one possible source of teachers will be areas of the north and northeast where enrollments are declining rapidly in school districts and people are moving>to the sun belt and teachers are actually being laid off where attrition is not large enough to accommodate all of the teachers in some of those northern and northeastern school districts. Affirmative Action; we continued this year again to vigorously pursue the goals in our Affirmative Action Plan. Twenty-two percent of the people hired this year to fill professional staff positions; that is, positions held by teachers and administrators, were minority persons. The total percentage of minority persons for all

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positions filled in the district was 33 percent. In the area of discrimination complaints, during the past year 17 have been processed - 10 from employees of the district and 7 external complaints brought against the district. Of the 10 internal complaints, 3 were brought by the complainant, 3 were denied because of lack of sufficient evidence, and 4 were resolved in the employee's "favor.?0f the 7'" external complaints, 3 were dismissed by an outside agency and 4 are pending at the time of this writing. The Equal Employment Advisory Committee is continuing to study our Affirmative Action Plan, and the committee will present its annual report and recommendations to the Board no later than April 15 of 1981.

This year there were major changes in staff development and training. The Staff Development and Training Department was reorganized and with the high ranking of a Board goal in staff development, more emphasis was given to staff development activities. These locally generated activities were given support by the passage of House Bill 1706, which also at the state level provides for new mandates for local districts in the area of staff development. Recently the Board appointed a 51-person staff development committee that has commenced its work and will be making recommendations on staff development programs for next year. Also, the Staff Development and Training Department has spent a major amount of time on the revision of employee evaluation plans. The evaluation plan for Central Office administrators was completed last year and implemented this year. The new plan for evaluation of principals and assistant principals was completed with the help of the committee last summer and implemented this year, and committees are now finalizing revisions in teacher and classified employee evaluation plans,: which will be ready before the end of this school year and will be implemented in August with the start of the next school year. Retirement of Facilities; I have a section in my report that covers briefly some of the material that I presented to you in my report at the last Board meeting. It reviews the Board policy and the action that has taken place in the development of the report and recommendations during the past year.

One of the Board goals dealt with calling for a review of our maintenance practices and implementation of a plan to improve efficiency of the maintenance program. We have contracted with Kapner, WolfbergÂť Associates to assist in this endeavor, and we are underway with the study by Kapner, Wolberg; recommendations will be forthcoming, and the implementation of the program will be occurring shortly.

Budget Planning is one of the most important tasks that a school district undertakes because it is a plan for the allocation of resources that will be used to accomplish the goals of the district. This year I tried to do two things. I tried to make the budget more understandable and attempted to involve more people in making budget decisions. At the school level budget committees were created by the principals. There were staff and patron involvement in reviewing the local school budgets. At the Central Office level I worked with a budget committee made up of Central Office administrators and representatives of the principals to review all of the school budgets and departmental requests before presenting my budget recommendations to you in June for acation in early July. I expect to follow*a similar pattern this year with a similar timeline. Last year we faced some very difficult decisions as we-were preparing the final budget proposal for the Board. The budget requests exceeded our anticipated resources by a significant amount and, because we are required to submit a balanced budget, many cuts had to be made. Last year we tried to made reductions in non-program areas where services to children would be least affected. One example was the eliminatior of 40 Central Office positions, with a savings of over $750,000. That money was used for programs and their expansion in the areas such as gifted and talented, special education, elementary music, developmental reading at the high school, and reduction in class size at the middle schools. I am sure this coming spring we are going to face even more difficult budget decisions, and it will be no easier than last year to make some difficult decisions. One of the bright spots this last year was improvement in our attendance. The Board did adopt a new Attendance Policy and provided some resources to do better follow--up on student attendance, with the employment of attendance clerks in the schools to call parents. The results showed a steady increase in attendance through the various quotas last year compared with the same quotas in the previous year. There was major work accomplished in the Board Policy Manual and the codification of school board policies, and a start in the development of administrative regulations.

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Our Legislative Goals were adopted by the Board. report.

I have included them in the

In the area of Textbooks and Supplies, a major goal was to try and improve upon the ordering and delivery of textbooks. That goal was met this year. Those textbooks that were timely ordered prior to teachers leaving last spring were, unless there were publisher delays in printing, in the schools when the students and teachers arrived this fall. We also set up a mini-textbook depository at the Service Center to handle more expeditiously the supplementary textbook orders that would come in the first few weeks of school. We have made major progress in turn-around time on supplies ordered and delivered from our Central Services warehouse. I think there is room for improvement in the ordering and delivery of supplies that have to be obtained directly from vendors, either locally or in other parts of the country, and we will continue to work on that in the future. In District Publications, we started two new ones this past year, The Eighty-Niner, which is an in-district publication. We have not produced copies of The Eighty-Niner this fall because of prolonged illness of one of our staff members. That production schedule will start very soon and we hope to put out an issue of The Eighty-Niner every two or three weeks for the rest of the year. We also started the School Report, which was a tabloid type newspaper which went to parents and patrons in the community, and we have plans for several issues of the School Report to go to the public this coming winter and spring.

As I said in the beginning, 1980 has been a ful1, productive year for our schools. A smooth school opening, despite the discomfort of unusually high late August and early September temperatures has been the catalyst for a very positive semester this year. The positive attitudes of students, staff, and parents are contagious now and diminish the negative attitudes of previous months. It is encouraging to see our time and energy focus more on instructional program and its programs. Fewer extraneous issues have diverted this year from the most important tasks. While there is good reason to be pleased with our progress, I know important challenges and difficult decisions are ahead. My recommendations to the Board earlier this month concerning school closings were the most difficult that I have had to make. The choice between allocating scarce resources for the high overhead cost of small enrollment schools or freeing those resources by closing some schools to increase the support of instructional programs for all students is not an easy one.

Last year, I wrote of the need for more financial support. The uncertain state of our economy where the only known seems to be continuing inflation is cause for concern. The 1980 Legislature did provide major increases for salaries of teachers, administrators, and support personnel, but did not face squarely the problem of revising our system's school finance so as to provide money for common schools. With inflation reducing the anticipated gain, Oklahoma continues to be among the states with the lowest support for public schools in the nation. With surpluses anticipated' from' 1981 state revenue, the time will be right to reform the state system of financing schools. I continue to believe that public education can overcome the problems that face it. As I said last year, they will be solved if we as a community make a commitment to solve them. The key continues to be public realization that a healthy public school system is absolutely essential for the community to thrive. The quality of life in Oklahoma City is affected by the quality of the schools. They are intertwined.

Our public image is improving and we all want it to get better. I believe that people will strive to meet higher expectations with proper encouragement and recognition of work well done. Public support and involvement are necessary ingredients. We must find ways to generate them. Respect must be earned. When it is, we can be justly proud. In the first year of anew decade, we have taken some important steps. More positive steps will be taken in the year ahead, because we know that our children deserve the best education we can provide, and there is excitement in accomplishing important tasks. Mrs. Hermes commented that she felt very good about the report; that it was very positive and she hoped they could continue next year to make even more progress.

Dr. Hamm stated that as all those things unfold during the year, as mentioned in the report, you are not aware of what all is being done; then when you take a backward glance at it, you can't help but be impressed by the tremendous amount of work and the progress; that it was an excellent report.

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Dr. Payzant added that he did not go into any detail of the report on the specific objectives and hoped that they would; that he would be bringing recommendations to the Board early in January on goals for next year and would hope that Board members would be thinking about additions or deletions that they would want to make, because of the importance in establishing goals by the end of January so they would have them as a framework for the budget-making process.

Mrs. Hill inquired: I was wondering about Goal 2 (The Board will expect staff to assist each student according to his or her abiliity to make progress each year in learning and applying skills in reading, writina, and computation.), that we were not very specific in the length of time for.accomplishing the goal. In reading^sonie of the materials from the Committee on Basic Education, it talked about so many of the schools have turned their educational system around by saying within three years they have brought the children back up to the national average. So I was wondering if this board might want to be a little bit more specific about a timeline. Dr. Payzant responded: You may well want to be more specific. There will be some goals that I will recommend that you continue another year and really arguably are timeless, and there are others that are more specific that perhaps have been met this year and could be dropped out, or there may be some, as Mrs. Hill suggested, that you will want to make more specific. Dr. Payzant and members of the Board discussed the way in which the goals and objectives had been presented and considered the past year. Dr. Payzant stated that it was his intention to bring to the of goals at the January 5 meeting and not ask that action be January 19 meeting, which would give them the opportunity to to make any additions or deletions that the Board would want

Board a suggested list taken until the hear from the public and to make.

Dr. Hamm inquired of Dr. Payzant regarding input or suggestions from Board:members prior to his presentation of the goals.

Dr. Payzant responded that if they had ideas or suggestions that they would like to make, the earlier the better, so that they could get a more comprehensive list for the entire Board to react to. PERSONNEL REPORT

1. #379 Personnel Approved

It was moved by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Hermes that the listed persons be employed as of the effective date specified, and that contracts or assignment notifications with the appropriate persons listed be approved as executed in the name of the district by the Superintendent or person by him designated; also, that other personnel recommendations and information listed be approved.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

ENCUMBRANCES, PURCHASING AND GENERAL BUSINESS 1. #380 \pproval of incumbrances

A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mr. Dulan for approval of payment of encumbrances as listed for December 10-15, 1980. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

L #381 Approval of 3urchasi ng

It was moved by Mrs. Hermes and seconded by Mrs. Hill for approval of the following purchasing items: 1.

Plumbing Supplies and Equipment

Purchase of plumbing supplies and equipment (ells, tees, faucets, couplings, shower heads, platens, etc.) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from the fallowing companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: Eagle Supply, Inc. Central Plumbing Supply Mideke Supply Company

$ 2,666.13 1,353.81 456.32 Total

$ 4,476.26

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: BL 5620.05 BL 6030.11

$ 1,810.13 2,666.13 Total

$ 4,476.26

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Musical Instruments Purchase of musical instruments (autoharps, cymbals, castanets, bass xylophones, mini-organs, etc.) for Fifth Year Center Traveling Program (Vocal) from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

Thompson Book & Supply Company Rhythm Band, Inc. Wepco, Inc. Whittaker Music, Inc. Total

$ 2,385.72

These purchases are to be charged to Account G 1230.03. 3.

Instructional Supplies Purchase of instructional supplies and equipment for art classes (screen inks, etching inks, clay, easels, underglaze, pens, staple gun, etc.) for use by various schools from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications: $

Chase!le Arts & Crafts, Inc. Sax Arts & Crafts Asel Art Supply The Highsmith Company, Inc. NASCO Dick Blick Company Pyramid Paper Company, Inc. Welsh Products, Inc.

Total

298.53 1,001.03 3.85 129.95 285.92 92.68 42.98 175.60

$ 2,030.54

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: G 240.01 G 1230.03

Total 4.

$ 2,030.54

Trailer Purchase of trailer (tractor carrier) for use by Custodial Services from Oklahoma City Tractor Company, Inc., which submitted the low quotation in the amount of $2,527.20 to be charged to Account G 740.01.

Physical Education Supplies Purchase of physical education supplies (rackets, paddles, stop watches, shuttlecocks, balls, hurdles, goals, etc.) for use at various locations from the following companies which submitted the low quotations on specifications:

U. S. Athletic Supply Company, Inc. Modi in Rec Equipment, Inc. Sportmaster Blumenfeld Sport Net Company Wolverine Sports Noble Lawton Sporting Goods U. S. Games, Inc. Miller Sporting Goods Buck's Sporting Goods, Inc., of O.C. Alumagoal Athletic Company

Total

180.90 413.00 948.50 80.00 6.64 1,102.70 161.67 2.60 638.35 183.00

$ 3,717.36

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

$ 2,242.60 467.26 320.00 687.50

G 240.01 G 1230.03 G 1230.11 BL 5620.05 Total

$ 3,717.36

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Plumbing Supplies Purchase of plumbing supplies (adapters, couplings, eels, pipe, valves, washers, etc.) for use by Maintenance/Engineering Department from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

Central Plumbing Supply Federal Corporation Mideke Supply Company Total

320.79 4,007.98 541.78

$ 4,940.55

These purchases are to be charged to Account BL 5620.05.

Teaching Aid Supplies and Equipment

Purchase of teaching aid supplies and equipment (books, backrests, modules, velocipede, tricycle, jettmobile, etc.) for use by Rancho School and Curriculum (Media Section) from the following companies (available only from designated distributor and/or publisher): $ 1,399.00 1,094.00

J. A. Preston Corporation Pied Piper Productions

Total

$ 2,493.00

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts: $1,094.00 1 ,399.00

G 230.01 G 1230.03

Total 8.

$2,493.00

Toilet Tissue Holders Purchase of toilet tissue holders for use by Custodial Services from Oklahoma Paper Company which submitted the low quotation on specifications in the amount of $6,060.00 to be charged to Account G 650.01.

For Public Information Department Permission to purchase for the Public Information Department 120,000 copies of The School Report, scheduled for three printings (January, March and June), 40,000 copies per printing, from Printing, Inc., which submitted the low quotation on specifications. This expenditure ($2,562 per printing) in the amount of $7,686 is to be charged to Account G 240.05.

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Instructional Equipment Purchase of^instructional equipment and supplies (saws, analyzer, drill, spray gun, buffer, truck stands, etc.) for use by Curriculum Department and Shop Department for Garage Services from the following companies which submitted the low quotations:

$ 2,509.84 306.75 4,408.80 45.90 2,572.50 729.72

Mideke Supply Brodhead-Garrett Company Hart Industrial Supply Company Whitton Supply Sun Electric Corporation Severin Supply Company

Total

$10,573.51

These purchases are to be charged to the following Accounts:

$ 9,977.79 595.72

G' 1230.03 G 1230.06 Total

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$10,573.51

Vehicles Purchase of vehicles - step-vans (4) for use by the Maintenance and Engineering Department from Jackie Cooper Olds-GMC which submitted the low quotation. This purchase in the amount of $40,790.20 is to be charged to Account BL 6030.11.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

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A motion was made by Mr. Donwerth and seconded by Mr. Dulan for approval of General Business items 1, 2 and 3 as follows: (Item 3 was later deleted from the motion) 1.

Approval of Agreement on Health Care Insurance Approval for the continuation of an agreement with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma to offer health care insurance to employees of the Oklahoma City Public Schools with provisions for payroll deduction; contract period January 1, 1981 through December 31, 1981.

PREMIUMS Single Coverage - - - - â&#x20AC;&#x201D; $40.65 per month

Family Coverage ------ $98.50 per month

Approval of Extension of Temporary Easement - Calvert Drilling Company Approval of the extension of a temporary easement through January 15, 1981, over a strip of land one hundred feet (100') x three hunderd feet (300') in the east end of the Rogers Middle School site, description as follows: From the CALVERT #2-A Willcox located 991' FSL and 993' FEL of Section 14-12N-2W, THENCE West 15' to existing fence for a point of beginning, THENCE South along existing fence 100', THENCE West 100', THENCE north 300', THENCE East 100', THENCE South along existing fence 200', to the point of beginning,

Insurance Settlement Check

(Deleted from the motion and considered later in the agenda.)

Recommendation that insurance settlement check in the amount of $118,554.05, which was received from the Home Insurance Company for damage resulting from a fire May 27, 1980 at Carey School, 3701 Southwest 29th Street, be deposited in the Bond Cash Fund. Mrs. Hill stated that she had a question about the legality of item 3 and asked the Attorney for his opinion, in that the School Laws specified that depositing of the funds would have to be by resolution and if it was not going to be used on that building, it would need to go into the General Fund.

Mr. Groves stated that he would like to look at the school law which she referred to before he could give her an opinion, and since they would be going into executive session, he could look at the law and give the Board an opinion if 'they would tike to pass the item until later; that he would be pleased to look at the law and give an opinion concerning it, but he did riot want to do it hastily. Mr. Donwerth, as maker of the motion; and Mr. Dulan, seconder, agreed to delete item 3 from the motion.

On roll call for items 1 and 2 of General Business, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carriedand item 3 would be considered after the Board returned to open meeting from executive session.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS None.

R. #382 Approval of General Business

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NEW BUSINESS Dr. Hamm referred to a request by Ann Turner during the hearing session of the meeting ÂŁhat she be granted a Level III Grievance Hearing, and asked for the pleasure of the Board regarding Ms. Turner's request.

1. #383 \pproval of .evel III Grievance lea ring fo.be Scheduled

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Brody that the Board hear the Level III Grievance as requested by Ms. Ann Turner. Mr. Dulan inquired as to if the Union representative had been involved in the grievance?

Ms. Turner explained that as a member of the Executive Board of the Union and a member of the negotiating team, she could represent herself in the grievance.

On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mr. Dulan, abstain; Mr. Donwerth,''abstain; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried and the hearing would be scheduled. \mendment to Superintendent's Recommendation on School Closings lies for Lack of Second

Mrs. Hill stated: I do feel like with the topic of school closings coming up, that if there are any alternatives that we might want to consider, I would like to see us lay those alternatives out so that the Board and staff,and the community would have time to study an alternative, and then maybe there could be several options at the January 5 meeting. h

Amendment Mrs. Hill continued by stating: I would amend the Superintendent's recommendation on school closings, that we also close Eugene Field and Willard.

Mr. Donwerth expressed concern about the amendment since the Superintendent had recommended that the two attendance areas (Eugene Field and Willard) be combined, and try to get a bond issue passed to build a new facility,for these areas.

Mrs. Hill stated that her concern was that a bond issue would not pass if the other outlying schools were closed, in view of comments she had received from all areas of Oklahoma City that were very much in opposition to the recommendation; that if money was the real issue, then those schools should be considered, because to build a school in that area was a concern of hers also; that Dr. Payzant was wanting the Board to look at it as a package deal and before she could accept it as a package if she accepted it as a package, she would want to include the other two schools; that the amendment was just to lay it out as an issue on the table; there were some alternatives that were in the packet; that she was not sure that she agreed with some of the alternatives as to where the students would be sent because she thought there were some vacancies in some schools that were not considered. There being no second to the amendment, Dr. Hamm declared that the motion for the amendment died for lack of a second.

Motion for Consideration at ^lext Meeting of the Board

Mrs. Hill then Stated that in some phone calls she had received, some people had asked "if you do not approve the Superintendent's report, what is the alternative and who makes those alternatives?" She continued that she knew that Dr. Payzant was not going to present an alternative, so she was presenting an alternative motion if the Board did not accept his recommendations: three "I move to suspend our School Closing Policy for feur years so the Oklahoma City schools can continue to gain stability, improve the quality of education and improve students' achievement test scores."(Change of years later in discussion.

Mrs. Hermes inquired as to why the "four years?" Mrs. Hill responded that it was just an arbitrary year that she came up with, because she had debated three, four, or five years and she finally settled on the four, because two years or even three would still leave the .cloud hanging there; so those years would give them:time.to get back to the business of growing and educating the students:.

Mrs. Hermes said she was interested in the motion, but she would prefer three years; that four years was a long time especially when you have to do the budget every year and you don't know what the recession is going to do to the district. Mrs. Hill then changed the motion to read "three years," at Which time it was seconded by Mrs. Hermes.

After further discussion, it was decided that the motion would be on the agenda for consideration at the meeting of January 5, 1981.

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Included in the discussion were comments by members of the Board as follows:

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Mr. Donwerth - I hate that the recommendations were presented in a package, and I can understand, but I can also see some very urgent needs that we have. The Carver | building, for instance, is in terrible condition for a school and so are thfe Eugene j Field and Willard buildings, and we do need to do something about the schools. We j have one particular school that the enrollment is so low that I feel that there | definitely needs to be a consolidation in that area.

| Mrs. Hermes - But there are still options like changing some boundaries or changing | the faculty and programs and things that we can do to lessen our expenses at some I schools. If we are going to have any credibility somewhere down the line and ask j for bonds, we need to go into this very carefully.

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Mr. Dulan - I think we are obligated to hear from the taxpayers and the parents concerning their feelings about the closing of the schools, and I don't think that we should try to take any action to change the action that we are going into now. We have set up for a special meeting on Thursday and this is for the taxpayers and parents to express their feelings and their input toward the recommendations that the schools be closed.I think we should hear it out. The Superintendent has presented us his recommendations and the parents and taxpayers are fully aware of what he has recommended, and we should hear both sides. Maybe they have a better idea than what we are trying to present here tonight by the motion. Mrs. Hill - I think we as a board need to be aware; maybe when it comes right down to it, we will realize that we have to close the schools. But I don't know; maybe we will have to look at them separately. There are several things that can happen as we progress, but I would like for us to start looking at all of those now.

Dr. Hamm - I think as the time grows closer to make that decision, that all of us are receiving a lot of anxiety within ourselves and we are reluctant to make such a decision, but yet postponing it is not going to allow us to escape from making that decision. I am not sure that the rationale for postponing it for that length of time | is good thinking. It seems to me like that a good look at the total district and all | of the schools is needed, and I think the Superintendent has indicated that is going to be one of the things that he will be doing. I also feel that we as a board are sympathetic t'other concerns of our community, but yet we are not the neighborhood organizations, we are not the real estate operators; we have the primary responsibility of the education of children in our community. I think our community has fostered enough off onto the school board in years past, that if we had not had to do something regarding integration that the rest of the community should have done years ago, we wouldn't have been in as big a bind as we are in. So I would suggest to you to keep foremost in your mind the sound, educational criteria that was used in the Superintendent's recommendation, even though we can understand it logically and rationally, but yet emotionally | we can't go along with it, but yet that is where we have to focus our attention. We | are going to have to "bite the bullet" whether it is going to be the first meeting in January or three years from now; we are going to be faced with this. Mrs. Hermes - I don't think I am looking at Dr. Payzant's recommendations as incorrect. I think as a board we hire him to bring financial expertise as well as educational expertise to this system, and we have asked him to do this and he has done a good job, but I don't know tha't the price is not too high. And I think that is what we. are supposed to do, is determine whether the price is too high. He has done his job as I intend to do our job, and I don't think it is just to rubber stamp everything he wants. Most of the time we do because we are in align with his feelings; however, on this issue I am not so sure that the price would not be too high to pay.. Mrs. Hill asked that the map of the school district on display in the Board Room be brought up to date as to the schools that are not in use.

Mrs. Hermes stated that she would like to see included on the bottom of the map the schools that are closed to the system but are being leased.

EXECUTIVE SESSION A motion was made by Mr. Dulan and seconded by Mrs. Hill that the Board go into executive session for discussion of litigation and personnel. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried..

R. #384 Board Adjourned to Executive Session - 9:00 p.m.

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L #385 Soard Returned to )pen Meeting 10:10 p.m.

Having concluded its executive session, it was moved by Mrs; Hill and seconded by Mr. Donwerth that the Board return to open meeting. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; <Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #386 Approval of General Business Item 3 Re Insurance Settlement Check

A motion was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mr. Dulan: Be it resolved that the insurance proceeds received in settlement as damages for the loss of Carey School be deposited in the General Fund of the district. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried. ADJOURNMENT

R. #387 Adjournment 10:17 p.m.

A motion to adjourn was made by Mrs. Hill and seconded by Mrs. Ifermes. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the office of the Clerk.)

Presi dent

) ) SS: COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA ) STATE OF OKLAHOMA

I, the undersigned Clerk of the Board of Education of Independent School District No. 89 of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, do hereby certify that prior to 48 hours before the meeting, the date, time and place of the Regular Adjourned Meeting was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. I also certify that at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, notice of the date, time, place and agenda of this meeting was posted in permanent public view at the location of the meeting.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district thisjr^day of 198T.

Clerk, Oklahoma City Board of Education

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MEETING OF DECEMBER 15, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel

PERSONNEL NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

SERVICE:

SALARY

mmwiTs

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

SALARY

MONTHLY:

King, John

All Schools Custodial Worker

11-24-80

$ 625.

Peoples, Charles

Putnam Heights Custodian

11-20-80

745.

■

SUBSTITUTES:

Hourly:

Fletcher, Duane

Marshall

11-25-80

$ 3.51

Sam, Steve

Emerson

11-24-80

3.51

MAINTENANCE/ENGINEERING;

Goins, John 1 1

NAME

MONTHLY: Machinist

ASSIGNMENT

11-19-80

EFFECTIVE DATE

External Funding Director

12-03-80

DoKr’n

SALARY

Rancho Special Education

Hawthorne 'Paymelee

CLERICAL: PR & E Secretary

Ladd, Donna

West Nichols Hills Day Care Aide

11-26-80

12-19-80

Pace, Zuramell

Taft Learning Center Aide

11-11-80

12-19-80

Price, Dimple

Ei senhower/CHMS P.T. Aide/P.T. Clerk

12-01-80

11-21-80

Wheeler, Sheryl

Hoover Attendance Clerk

11-21-80

Williams, Ruth

Riverside Media Center Aide

11-13-80

CERTIFICATED:

Fl v

EFFECTIVE DATE

ASSIGNMENT

Glover, Elizabeth >

Barnes, Sheila

NAME

SALARY

SUPPORT:

ADMINISTRATIVE:

Shell, William

$ 1143.

11-14-80

.TnnpSj Dpnnfl

Douglass Special Education

11-26-80

T.pgn +.p f Mn t *1 n

Parker Tntprmedlate

11-26-80

Smart> James

Marshall Lang. Arts/Speech

12-03-80

FOOD SERVICE:

Wncrrtet*. Cnw»r»1

Curriculum iAntniAPp Cpnter

11-07-80

Bartee, Laura

Helper

11-05-80

Brewer, Shelia

Helper

10-01-80

Hobbs, Marilyn

Helper

8-21-80

Helper

11-07-80

JCray.eling_Manager------

11-21-80

PROFESSIONAL OTHER* lARlKlaa t VUX uXia

External Funding Indian Ed. Spec.

11-14-80

Rimel, Doris

Fillmore, Priscilla

External Funding Indian Ed. Advisor

11-03-80

Scarbrough, Nancy

Wynde, Jean

External Funding Indian Ed. Advisor

10-31-80

1 - FR & E - Planning, Research and Evaluation

618

MEETING OF DECEMBER 15, 1980 - CONT'D Personnel cont'd

NAME

PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

CERTIFICATED - TEMPORARY:

employme

NAME

SALARY

nts

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

SALARY

ANNUAL:

PROFESSIONAL OTHER:

$11053.

Bitseedy, Anthony

External Funding Indian Ed. Advisor

11-25-80

$ 610.

Frazier, Serina

External Funding Indian Ed. Advisor

11-17-80

610.

MONTHLY:

Allen, Sally

Parmelee Physical Education

11-24-80

Bias, Shirley

External Funding Psychometrist P.T.

10-06-80

Capps, Marjorie

Putnam Heights Primary

11-17-80

15121.

Presson, Marcella

External Funding Indian Ed. Advisor

11-19-80

610.

Caves, Dennis

Guidance Services ESAA Counselor

11-24-80

14144.

Strasner, Hope

School Volunteer Ser. Intergen. Specialist

12-01-80

1095.

Douglas, Curtis

Capitol Hill Middle Science

11-17-80

10511.

Hulsey, Linda

Capitol Hill Middle Special Education

12-01-80

11299.

SUPPORT:

Keester, Jim

External Funding Sheet Metal

11-18-80

11761.

CLERICAL:

Shelley, Evelyn

Taft ESAA Advisor

10-30-80

15615.

Brumley, Linda

Van Buren Instructional Aide

11-10-80

595.

Smith, James

External Funding Auto Mechanics

11-21-80

13474.

Cud.loe, Sarah

Taft Learning Center Aide

11-24-80

' 590.

Smith, Joanna

External Funding Pathologist P.T.

10-01-80

5150.

Freeland, Coral

Wilson Principal's Secy.

11-17-80

663.

Thompson, Karen

External Funding Presch. Screening PT

11-01-80

5134.

Haynes, Ella

Horace Mann Preschool Aide

11-17-80

602.

McDonald, Phyllis

Curriculum Circulation Clerk

11-17-80

693.

Monthly.

Owens, Mary

Taft Learning Center Aide

12-03-80

619.

Ratliff. Ruth

Hillcrest Clerk P.T.

12-01-80

297.50

Smith, Juanita

Webster Attendance Clerk P.T.

12-01-80

301.

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

SALARY

PROFESSIONAL OTHER:

5462.40

Ahhaitty, Jody

External Funding Indian Ed. Advisor

11-18-80

$ 610.

Bennett, Frances

External Funding Indian Ed. Advisor

11-17-80

610.

NAME

ASSIGNMENT

EFFECTIVE DATE

SUPPORT:

MONTHLY:

Classen Aide

11-24-80

FOOD SERVICE:

MONTHLY:

TRANSPORTATION: Asberv. Marv

Bus Driver

12-01-80

$ 491.

Clark, Thomas

Bus Driver

11-19-80

440.

Franklin, Calvin

Bus Driver

11-25-80

440.

HOURLY â&#x20AC;¢

Givens, Joe

Bus Driver

9-26-80

395.

Heath, Susan

Bus Aide

11-19-80

350.'

Clerical: Williams, Janice

NAME

SALARY

$ 590.

Allensworth, Brenda

Helper

11-19-80

$ 3.51

Danels, Latricia

Helper

11-26-80

3.51

Holmes, David

Bus Driver

11-19-80

418.

Golden, Kathy

Helper

11-20-80

3.51

Hooks, Lester

Bus Driver

12-01-80

418.

Keever, Virginia

Helper

11-24-80

3.51

Jackson, Don

Bus Driver

11-19-80

418.

Pettit, Mary

Helper

11-17-80

3.51

Lawson, Johnny

Bus Driver

11-20-80

418.

Ring, Joan

Helper

11-19-80

3.51

Reeves, Roger

Mechanic

11-24-80

1126.

Springer, Georgia

Helper

11-25-80

3.51

Richardson, Donald

Bus Driver

11-18-80

418.

Daniels, Darrell

Bodine Custodial Worker

11-11-80

625.

Johnson, Edward

All Schools Custodial Worker

11-25-80

625.

Trainee:

Carter, Evon

SERVICE:

Trainee

11-14-80

3.10

Bus Driver

Schroeder, Susan

Bus Driver

McCoy, Maggie

11-24-80

11-18-80

Webster Custodian

McClinton, Raymond

11-17-80

Hayes Custodian

11-20-80

11-18-80

11-14-80

12-04-80

EFFECTIVE DATE

Bus Driver

Columbus Custodial Worker

Putnam Heights Custodial Worker

Eugene Field Primary

ASSIGNMENT

- LEAVES - DISMISSAL

Webster Custodian

Jackson, Andrew

Heaton, Benton

Study Leave:

12-19-80

Griffith, Alford

Leaves of Absence:

Garrett, John M.

Agboola, Lateef

DISMISSALS:

SUPPORT:

CERTIFICATED:

Central Speech/Drama

9-27-80

Bus Driver

Givens, Joe 11-25-80

11-14-80

Bus Driver

Giles, Frances

Overstreet, McKinley

Ill Health:

11-14-80

Bus Driver

Davis, Patricia

SUPPORT:

Leaves of Absence!

11-11-80

TRANSPORTATION:

Smith, Harold

Warehouse Worker

NAME

Williams, Mabie

SALARY

SUPPLY:

EFFECTIVE DATE MEDICAL LEAVE:

ASSIGNMENT

SUPPORT:

NAME

PERSONNEL - TERMINATIONS

12-05-80

SALARY

MEETING OF DECEMBER

15, 1980 - CONT'D

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MINUTES OF MEETING OF DECEMBER 18, 1980

PRESENT:

Delbert Hamm, President Betty Hill, Vice President Jean Brody, Member Floyd Donwerth, Member Hurlon J. Dulan, Member Susan Hermes, Member Armond H. Start, Member

Others present: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent; Vivian Stevenson, Clerk; Central Office staff members; representatives from professional groups, the news media, and other interested persons.

The meeting was called to order by Dr. Hamm and Dr. Start gave the invocation.

Call to Order

Roll call established that all of the board members were present.

Roll Call

SPECIAL BUSINESS Dr. Hamm stated the purpose of the meeting - to hold public hearings regarding the staff recommendations for school consolidations; that the board wanted to have input from patrons before any decision was reached in January.

Purpose of Meeting

Dr. Hamm continued by referring to the hearing format that would be followed for the meeting, and called on the following persons who had signed up to speak as representatives of the respective school building retirement committees and the Elementary Principals Association:

Hearings Proposed Retirement of School Facilities

EUGENE FIELD

Pat Vaught Jeanne Dupree Brenda Jackson WILLARD Harold W. Bendle Sue Ingle Bobby BigHorse Imogene Henzel

SUNSET

Jerry L. Smith NICHOLS HILLS Deborah Hartley Rozel la A. Powell KAISER Jerry Kernahan

MAYFAIR Bearleen Woolley

CARVER

Barbara Chishko ELEMENTARY PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION Orgel Ware

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learings â&#x20AC;&#x2122;roposed Retirement of School Facilities â&#x2013; cont'd

Representatives from Eugene Field and Willard Schools, in a joint presentation, stated that as a whole they felt that the Superintendent's recommendation was fair and reasonable, but proceeded to elaborate on the following points: that the two schools should remain open until a new school was built; youth organizations in the schools; formation of a selection committee for the new school site; the importance of maintaining the existing schools in the interim; recognition of the areas as a totally integrated neighborhood; parents' concern that their children not be bused out of the neighborhood; fair allocation of resources, and other. Mr. Smith read from a prepared copy entitled Sunset School Retirement Committee Supplement - Response to Superintendent's Recommendation, a copy of which was given to each member of the Board. Included in the presentation was a concern expressed for the school district as a whole; criteria and priorities as established by the Long Range Plan in comparison with the Superintendent's recommendations; present utilization of Sunset School; vote for issuance of bonds; consideration of future housing developments; reasons why Sunset School should remain open; expansion of the Sunset attendance area; recommendation regarding a patron committee, and other.

As a representative of Nichols Hills School, Ms. Hartley referred to the main criteria used to determine which schools should be considered for closing (low enrollment, condition of facility, and high cost per pupil ratio); data and statistics which they considered as inaccurate; information that would indicate a possible increase in enrollment at Nichols Hills; prior renovations which could decrease the maintenance cost of the facility; natural integration which exists in the neighborhood; their general observations and interpretations of the Superintendent's recommendations on school closings in their assessment of the situation, and other. As a patron of Kaiser School, Mr. Kernahan spoke specifically of the recommendation to send the Kaiser students to Buchanan and place the Carver handicapped students at Kaiser School; findings and recommendations of the school's planning council to keep Kaiser open; thoughts from the Long Range Plan Implementation Committee; contributions of the Kaiser PTA to the school; the arts in education program, volunteer program, physical education program, and media center at the school and their desire to maintain these offerings as they are now being provided; the involvement of parents and students, and other. Ms. Woolley cited what they, Mayfair's planning council, considered as some of the favorable aspects for keeping Mayfair School open - families moving back into the neighborhood, an increase in younger families, the condition of the Mayfair facility, major repairs of the building; their recommendation for reassignment of Mayfair students to Monroe should the school be closed, and reasons for the recommendation; the present and projected enrollment at Mayfair and its breakdown as to black/other ratio; Mayfair's Title I program; comparisons of Mayfair and Monroe Schools; the cost factor as cited for closing the schools; welfare of the students; what the district could lose by closing the schools; reference to the Long Range Plan Implementation Guide in consideration of consolidation of schools, and other.

As a representative and a parent from Carver Center, Ms. Chishko spoke of a visit by parents, students and principal of Carver to the Kaiser building; the inadequacies of Kafser as a facility for handicapped students; a suggestion that the Belle Isle vo-tech.. program be moved to Kaiser and the Carver program be located at Belle Isle, and reasons for'that suggestion; proposal for a new building; the Carver program's compliance with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; consideration of a committee to study the total problems at Carver and see if some other option could be more satisfactory, and other. Mr. Ware, representing the Elementary Principals Association, stated that the Association had a history of endorsing the closure of schools and the Executive Committee of the organization had requested that he inform the Board of its support for the closure of schools this year.

(Dr. Hamm called for a 15-minute recess.) In the regular three-minute hearings, the following persons addressed the Board: 1. 2. - 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Kay Ahaus Sherman Dennis Suzanne Kernahan Buddy Padget Nancy Allen Kathy Douglas Gerri Beasley Barbara Chishko Kermit Hathcoat Harold Bendle

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Ms. Ahaus expressed concern that Sunset School remain open and asked that the Board broaden Sunset's attendance area; however, if Sunset had to be closed, that consideration be given to consolidating the school with Stonegate as opposed to Ridgeview. Ms. Ahaus gave reasons for her request, with reference to high academic achievement at S'tonegate, patrons' dislike of open classroom instruction, and other.

Hearings Proposed Retirement of School Facilities - cont'd

Remarks by Mr. Dennis were in regard to the supportive neighborhood of Eugene Field and his endorsement of a new building for the Eugene Field and Willard attendance areas. Ms. Kernahan spoke regarding reasons why Kaiser School should remain open and the effect that inflation could have on its increase in enrollment due to families moving back into the inner-city.

Included in Mr. Padget's remarks was reference to the consideration his child had been given by the staff at Nichols Hills School, with regard to his heart condition, hearing and speech difficulty, and learning disability; why some renovation was done at the school if it was to be considered for closing, and his desire that Nichols Hills remain open. j

Ms. Allen expressed a concern about the closing of Sunset School and the willingness of parents to do whatever was necessary to help with the cost of keeping their school I open. j Speaking in support of Nichols Hills School, Ms. Douglas expressed the need for children to attend a neighborhood school and asked that the Board think of these children before closing the schools. Ms. Beasley, speaking in behalf of Kaiser School, referred to boundary and assignment changes that could increase the enrollment at Kaiser; if the school was closed, | students would be assigned to other schools where they would not be left together | as had been promised previously. Ms. Beasley also expressed a concern for losing i their Title I program in the event Kaiser students were moved to another facility. I Again, Ms. Chishko spoke regarding the handicapped students at Carver, their inadequate | housing, and asked that board members come and visit the center.

Mr. Hathcoat, as a representative of Robberson Steel Company, spoke as a concerned corporate citizen that Willard School remain open. Mr. Hathcoat referred to the tax support and other contributions of the company to the Willard neighborhood and their concern that the neighborhood not be disrupted. As additional remarks, Mr. Bendle stated that if Willard did not have to be consolidated with Eugene Field, he would like to see it remain open.

(A complete transcription of all hearings as presented is on file in the office of the Cl erk.) Dr. Hamm expressed appreciation to the patrons for attending and participating in the hearings, and stated that each board member had been very attentive and, hopefully, would consider,what,was presented; that the more input the board had from patrons in decision making, it would benefit the'.total district as a .whole.

I 1

ADJOURNMENT A motion to adjourn was made by Mr. Dulan and seconded by Mr. Donwerth. On roll call, the votes were as follows: Mrs. Brody, aye; Dr. Start, aye; Mrs. Hermes, aye; Mrs. Hill, aye; Mr. Dulan, aye; Mr. Donwerth, aye; and Dr. Hamm, aye. Dr. Hamm declared that the motion carried.

R. #388 Adjournment

THEREUPON THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

(A mechanical recording of the meeting is on file in the office of the Clerk.)

President

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA

) ) SS: ^COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )

1981.

Witness my hand and seal of this school district thi

Clerk, Oklahoma City Board of Education

day of