REGULAR BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING – AUGUST 23, 2005
Location: RJK Middle School Cafeteria – 7:00 P.M.

ROLL CALL A Present: Richard Feller, Susan Horton,
Vivian Liff , Eugene Nesin,
Robert Rosengard, Robert Stewart, Alyce
VanEtten, Joseph D’Abbraccio
Absent: Jacob Billig, John Pavese
Also Present: Eileen P. Casey, Superintendent of Schools
Dr. Patrick Michell, Assistant Superintendent
Gladys P. Baxter, School Business Official

President Alyce VanEtten called the meeting to order at 5:35 P.M.


EXECUTIVE SESSION 7:0 Upon motion by Robert Rosengard, seconded by Richard Feller, the Board of Education went into Exeuctive Session at 5:35 P.M. to discuss personnel matters.

7:0 Upon motion by Robert Rosengard, seconded by Susan Horton, the Board of Education returned to regular session at 6:58 P.M.

QUESTIONS & COMMENTS
B There were no questions and comments.
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE
C Joseph D’Abbraccio, student representative, was present.
MINUTES Da
7:0 Upon motion by Robert Stewart, seconded by Robert Rosengard, the Board of Education, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent, approved the minutes of the July 25, 2005 Board meeting as amended.

TREASURER’S REPORT Db
7:0 Upon motion by Susan Horton, seconded by Richard Feller, the Board approved the attached Treasurer’s Report for June, 2005.

OLD BUSINESS F1 There was no old business.

PERSONNEL F2a
7:0 Upon motion by Robert Rosengard, , seconded by Vivian Liff,
the Board of Education, approved the following personnel items:

APPOINTMENTS Resolved, that the Board of Education of the Monticello Central School District, pursuant to Section 3012 of the Education Law and in compliance with Part 30.3 of the Rules of the Board of Regents, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, does hereby appoint Lou Aubain to a probationary position in the Academic Tenure Area – Mathematics, effective September 12, 2005 to September 12, 3008, at a salary of $50,002, replacing Lucas McDonald. .

Resolved, that the Board of Education of the Monticello Central School District, pursuant to Section 3012 of the Education law and in compliance with Part 30.3 of the Rules of the Board of Regents, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, does hereby appoint Mario Baczkowski to a proba-tionary position in the Academic Tenure Area – Foreign Lan-guage, effective September 1, 2005 to September 1, 2007, at a salary of $51,634, replacing Erin O’Leary.

Resolved, that the Board of Education of the Monticello Central School District, pursuant to Section 3012 of the Education Law and in compliance with Part 30.3 of the Rules of the Board of Regents, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, does hereby appoint Amanda Craig to a probationary position in the Special Subject Tenure Area – Education of Children with Handicapping Conditions, effective September 1, 2005 to September 1, 2008, at a salary of $38,042, replacing James Ortner.

Resolved, that the Board of Education of the Monticello Central School District, pursuant to Section 3012 of the Education Law and in compliance with Part 30.3 of the Rules of the Board of Regents, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, does hereby appoint Stephen E. Dodge to a probationary position in the Special Subject Tenure Area – Music, effective September 1, 2005 to September 1, 2008, at a salary of $53,877, replacing David Trombley.

Resolved, that the Board of Education of the Monticello Central School District, pursuant to Section 3012 of the Education Law and in compliance with Part 30.3 of the Rules of the Board of Regents, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, does hereby appoint Tanya England to a probationary position in the Special Subject Tenure Area – School Counselor, effective September 1, 2005 to September 1, 2008, at a salary of $41,846, new position.

Resolved, that the Board of Education of the Monticello Central School District, pursuant to Section 3012 of the Education law and in compliance with Part 30.3 of the Rules of the Board of Regents, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, does hereby appoint Jill Harrold to a probationary appoint in the Elementary Tenure Area, effective September 1, 2005 to September 1, 2008, at a salary of $46,334, replacing Susan Martin.

Resolved, that the Board of Education of the Monticello Central School District, pursuant to Section 3012 of the Education law and in compliance with Part 30.3 of the Rules of the Board of Regents, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, does hereby appoint Eileen Kolaitis to a probationary appointment in the Elementary Tenure Area, effective September 1, 2005 to September 1, 2008, at a salary of $42,206, re-placing Catherine Woods.

Resolved, that the Board of Education of the Monticello Central School District, pursuant to Section 3012 of the Education Law and in compliance with Part 30.3 of the Rules of the Board of Regents, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, does hereby appoint Nicole Myron to a probationary position in the Academic Tenure Area – Mathematics, effective September 1, 2005 to September 1, 2008, at a salary of $40,326, replacing Kathryn Helms.

Resolved, that the Board of Education of the Monticello Central School District, pursuant to Section 3012 of the Education law and in compliance with Part 30.3 of the Rules of the Board of Regents, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, does hereby appoint Evan Yavne to a probationary position in the Academic Tenure Area – English, effective September 1, 2005 to September 1, 2008, at a salary of $43,834, replacing Susan Rehm.

Resolved, that the Board of Education of the Monticello Central School District, pursuant to Section 3012 of the Education Law and in compliance with Part 30.3 of the Rules of the Board of Regents, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, does hereby appoint Sally Feller to the position of Teacher Aide at a salary of $7.31 (salary to be adjusted upon approval of MOA), per hour for 6 hours per day and 185 days per year, prorated, for a probationary period of 60 work days with benefits as per the teacher aide contract, replacing Josephine Contos, to be effective September 1, 2005.

Resolved, that the Board of Education of the Monticello Central School District, pursuant to Section 3012 of the Education law and in compliance with Part 30.3 of the Rules of the Board of Regents, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, does hereby appoint Eli Manzi to the position of Bus Monitor at a salary of $7.25 per hour for number of hours to be determined by the Director, and 185 days per year, prorated, for a probationary period of 60 work days with benefits as per the Bus Monitor contract, replacing Terry Ranne, to be effective August 15, 2005.

Resolved, that the Board of Education of the Monticello Central School District, pursuant to Section 3012 of the Education law and in compliance with Part 30.3 of the Rules of the Board of Regents, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, does hereby appoint Linda Dempsey to the position of Hall Monityor at a salary of $7.31 per hour for 6.5 hours per day and 185 days per year, prorated, for a probationary period of 60 work days with benefits provided, new position, to be effective September 1, 2005.

Resolved, that the Board of Education of the Monticello Central School District, pursuant to Section 3012 of the Education Law and in compliance with Part 30.3 of the Rules of the Board of Regents, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, does hereby appoint Christine Simon to the position of Secretary to Assistant Principal at a salary of $23,000 per year for 75 hours per day and 260 days per year, prorated, for a probationary period of not less than 8 weeks but no more than 26 weeks, with benefits as per the secretarial contract, replacing Wendy Julkerski, to be effective August 26, 2005.

Resolved, that the Board of Education of the Monticello Central School District, pursuant to Section 3012 of the Education law and in compliance with part 30.3 of the Rules of the Board of Regents, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, does hereby appoint Susan Venditti to the position of Educational Services Aide at a salary of $32,137 per year for 7 ½ hours per day and 260 days per year, prorated, for a probationary period of 8 weeks with benefits as per the secretarial contract, replacing NA, to be effective August 29, 2005.

RESIGNATIONS Ms. Amanda Culver, Middle School Special Education Teacher, wishes to resign effective August 3, 2005.

Ms. Tanya Klein, High School Special Education Teacher, wishes to resign effective August 9, 2005.

Ms. Erin O’Leary, Middle School Spanish Teacher, wishes to resign effective August 9, 2005.

Ms. Susan Rehm, Middle School ELA Teacher, wishes to re-sign effective September 3, 2005..

Mrs. Christine Bellacicco, High School Special Education Teacher, wishes to resign effective September 23, 2005.

Mr. Anthony G DiToto, Mechanic, wishes to resign effective August 26, 2005.

Mrs. Judith McGowan, High School Guidance Secretary, wishes to resign for the purpose of retirement effective August 31, 2006.

Ms. Susan Venditti, Educational Services Aide, wishes to re-sign effective August 12, 2005.

Mr. Matthew Von Oesen, Mechanic Supervisor, wishes to re-sign effective August 25, 2005.

TERMINATION Mr. Fred Fiddle, Account Clerk, is terminated effective August 5, 2005.

CHILD CARE LEAVE Mrs. Sandra Fodor, Grade 2 Teacher at Cooke School, re-quests a child care leave effective September 1, 2005 to November 29, 2005. Mrs. Fodor is entitled to use up to 40 days of her accumulated sick leave for this child care leave.

COMMITTEE ON SPECIAL EDUCATION E2b
7:0
Upon motion by Robert Stewart, seconded by Eugene Nesin,
the Board of Education approved the attached CSE Services.

CPSE SERVICES E2c
7:0 Upon motion by Vivian Liff, seconded by Richard Feller, the Board of Education approved the attached CPSE Services.

MIDDLE SCHOOL RESTRUCTURING PLAN E2d
7:0
Upon motion by Robert Stewart, seconded by Vivian Liff, the Board of Education approved the attached Middle School Re-structuring Plan.

TAX RESOLUTION AND WARRANT
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7:0 Upon a motion made by: Robert Stewart, Seconded by: Susan Horton
WHEREAS: Chapter 73 of the Laws of 1977, amended §1318, subdivision 1 of the Real Property Tax Law

BE IT RESOLVED:

To the Collector of the Monticello Central School District Towns of Thompson, Mamakating, Bethel, Forestburgh and Fallsburg, County of Sullivan, New York State.

You are hereby commanded:

1. To give notice and start collection on September 1, 2005 (In accordance with the provisions of §1322 of the Real Property Tax Law.)

2. To give notice that tax collection will end on November 3, 2005.

3. To collect taxes in the total sum of $30,608,495 (this amount represents the total levy of $33,659,197 minus $3,050,702 of STAR reimbursement) in the same manner that collectors are authorized to collect town and county taxes in accordance with the provisions of §1318 and §1326-A of the Real Property Tax Law.

4. To make no changes or alterations in the tax warrant or the attached tax rolls but shall return the same to the Board of Education. The Board may recall its warrant and tax roll for correction of errors or omissions in accordance with the pro-visions of §553 and §556 of the Real Property Tax Law.

5. To forward by mail to each owner of real property listed on the tax rolls within ten days after the start of collection a statement of taxes due on his property on tax bill forms pro-vided by the school district in accordance with the provisions of §922 of the Real Property Tax Law. To forward by mail, without interest penalties, to the office of the county treasurer a detailed tax bill of all State land parcels liable for taxes on the school tax rolls in accordance with provisions of §540 and §544 of the Real Property Tax Law.

6. To receive from each of the taxable corporations and natural persons the sums listed on the attached tax rolls without interest penalties when such sums are paid before the end of the first month of the tax collection period. To add one percent interest penalties to all taxes collected during the second month of the tax collection and to add two percent interest penalties to all taxes collected during any part of the third month of the tax collection period and to account for such sums as income due to the school district.

7. To promptly return the warrant at its expiration and if any taxes on the attached tax rolls shall be unpaid at that time, de-liver an accounting thereof on forms showing by town the total assessed valuation, tax rate, the total tax levy, the total amounts remaining uncollected as required by §1330 of the Real Property Tax Law.

The warrant is issued and delivered in accordance with §1306 and §1318 of the Real Property Tax Law. It is effective immediately after it is properly signed by a majority of the Board of Education. The warrant shall expire on the date stated above unless a renewal or ex-tension has been endorsed on the face of this warrant in writing in ac-cordance with §1318, subdivision 3 of the Real Property Tax Law.

Member Vote

Jacob Billig absent
Richard Feller yes
Susan Horton yes
Vivian Liff yes
Eugene Nesin no
John Pavese absent
Robert Rosengard yes
Robert Stewart yes
Alyce Van Etten no

RESOLUTION TO CONFIRM TAX ROLLS AND AUTHORIZE TAX LEVY

WHEREAS the Board of Education has been authorized by the voters at the Annual Meeting & Election to expend the sum of $59,957,405 for the 2005-06 school year and to levy the necessary tax thereof.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board fix the equalized tax rates by towns and confirm the extension of the taxes as they appear on the tax roll:


Town School Taxable
Assessed Value Equalization Rate To Be Collected on Warrant STAR Reimburse Total Levy
Bethel 310,836,193 .7600 6,191,498.45 480,294.43 6,671,792.88
Fallsburg 7,174,254 .6915 163,062.38 6,179.19 169,241.57
Forestburgh 14,119,114 .1204 1,765,376.33 147,572.84 1,912,949.17
Mamakating 185,318,324 .5900 4,477,210.30 646,550.23 5,123,760.53
Thompson 1,144,734,740 .9440 18,011,347.54 1,770,105.31 19,781,452.85
TOTALS 1,662,182,625 30,608,495.00 3,050,702.00 33,659,197.00

AND BE IT HEREBY DIRECTED THAT the tax warrant of this board, duly signed shall be affixed to the above-described tax rolls authorizing the collection of said taxes to begin September 1, 2005 and end November 3, 2005 giving the tax warrant an effective period of 64 days at the expiration of which time the tax collector shall make an ac-counting in writing to the board;

AND IT IS FURTHER DIRECTED THAT the delinquent tax penal-ties shall be fixed as required by law.



SALARY INCREASE FOR TAX COLLECTION STAFF
E2f
7:0 Upon motion by Richard Feller, seconded by Robert Rosengard, the Board of Education approved the attached salary increase for the Tax Collection Staff.
PRIVATE SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION REQUEST E2g
7:0 Upon motion by Robert Stewart, seconded by Richard Feller, the Board of Education approved the following transportation requests:
A student to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
A student to John S. Burke Catholic High School
Three students to St. Joseph’s Elementary School
A student to Glory to God High School

BID AWARD – MUSIC E2h
7:0 Upon motion by Robert Rosengard, seconded by Vivian Liff, the Board of Education approved the attached Music Supply Bid.

BID AWARD – FLOORING E2i
7:0 Upon motion by Eugene Nesin, seconded by Robert Stewart, the Board of Education approved the attached Flooring Bid.

MEMORANDUM AGREEMENT FOR TEACHER AIDES E2j
7:0 Upon motion by Richard Feller, seconded by Vivian Liff, the Board of Education approved the attached Memorandum Agreement for Teacher Aides.


APPROVAL OF BUS TURN AROUND AGREEMENT E2k
7:0 Upon motion by Robert Stewart, seconded by Vivian Liff, the Board of Education approved the attached Agreement for the Mirant Turnaround Agreement.

EASTER SEAL LEASE E2l
7:0 Upon motion by Richard Feller, seconded by Robert Rosengard, the Board of Education approved the renewal of the attached Easter Seal Lease.

WORKERS COMPENSATION RESERVE E2m
7:0 Upon motion by Robert Stewart, seconded by Vivian Liff, the Board of Education approved the establishment of a Worker’s Compensation Reserve in the amount of $1,014,000.

CORRESPONDENCE F E-mails


INFORMATION AND DISCUSSION Ga Compliance with Section 1708 of New York State Education Law Annual Visit to Schools

Gb Board of Education Meeting, Thursday, September 1, 2005, RJK Middle School Library, 7:00 P.M.

Gc Naming of High/Middle School Auditorium

Gd Superintendent’s Search

Ge Update on Music Department Evaluation

Gf Status Report on Capital Project

Gg Set Board Date for Board Evaluation

Gh LED Sign

Gi Memorial Kenny/Cerrone

Gj Policy Manual Update

QUESTIONS & COMMENTS
H There were no questions and comments.
EXECUTIVE SESSION 7:0 Upon motion by Richard Feller, seconded by Robert Rosengard, the Board of Education went into Executive Session at 9:55 P.M. to discuss personnel.

7:0 Upon motion by Vivian Liff, seconded by Robert Rosengard, the Board returned to regular session at 10:25 P.M.

ADJOURNMENT I
7:0


Upon motion by Richard Feller, seconded by Susan Horton, the Board adjourned at 10:32 P.M.


Respectfully submitted,

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Gladys P. Baxter
Recording Secretary

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Christine Rice
District Clerk




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