Overview of Spotsylvania County School Board Meeting

2.  Mrs. Amanda Blalock - Chair
Board: Blalock, Meyer, Seaux, Shelley, Wieland, Lora,
Blaine
 Dr. Jones - awards
 Baker - awards
 Mrs. Richardson – Special Reports (finances)
 Dennis Martin – comments
- Peter Pfotenhauer
 Mrs. Flenard – awards/ Instructional calendar
 Dr. Covert - awards

3. Regular meeting
1. Opening
- Call to Order/ Establishment of Quorum
2. Public Hearing, None
3. Instructional Highlights
4. Recognition and Awards
5. Comments
6. Special Reports
7. Consent Agenda Items
8. Action Items
9. Information Items
10. Unfinished Business/New Business
11. Closed Meeting Items
12. Reenter Open Session; Certification of Closed Meeting
13. Items for Closed Meeting
14. Adjournment

4.  I absolutely love that they have a
Teacher of the Year recognition once a
year. They pointed out each teacher,
where they taught, and what students or
principals have said about them. You
could see the excitement and
satisfaction on each of the teachers
faces. It was awesome to see.
 - There were about 30-40 teachers that
were present.

5.  Richardson brought up a revised version of
the Annual Plan to apply federal funds to
support Special Education Programs
- The plan is different due to a decrease in
federal grant and an increase in
compensation and benefits to personnel
covered in the grant. Activities that were
once covered by federal money are now
covered by local money
*A request will be made to approve this in the
first School Board meeting in May

6. - Each of the school board member had their
opportunity to comment on the teachers of
the year.
- Dawn Shelly brought up an issue dealing
with social media comments made from
parents, teachers and students on the
pressure of SOL’s. She calmly cleared up
some misunderstandings and stated that if
there are questions or negative comments,
they should be directly vocalized to her.

7.  There was an error made in the 2013-2014 school year
calendar. It was found after the calendar was
adopted by the school year. It was missing the Back
to School nights.
 2014-2015 Instructional Calendar was approved
 Leveled Literacy Intervention Purchase approved
 The Creative Curriculum System for Preschool and
Teaching Strategies Gold purchase approved
 First Reading Approval of Teacher Growth and
Effectiveness Model
 Secondary Reading Approval of School Board Policy
JC: School Attendance Areas and Regulation JC-R:
Student Transfers

8.  Mrs. Shelley: Spending in the School Board Office:
She is asking for a motion to have an audit to audit
the expenses of the School Board members and
Superintendents for travel expenses for the past 10
yrs.
 None of the Board members seemed to agree with
her
 Gilbert Seaux was blunt in saying that he thought
Shelley was speaking of his actions in the past, which
he defended and did not approve of the motion
 Blalock pushed the motion for a future meeting
dealing with this issue specifically
 The meeting was then moved to a closed meeting

9. “School-board members tend to be older than the
general population(54% over 50 yrs old); more
educated(67% have had 4 yrs or more yrs of
college); and wealthier(50% earn more than
$75,000 annually). They are more likely to be
professionals or businesspeople . Almost all, 96 %, of
school-board members are parents, and 48 % have
children currently enrolled in school”(Ornstein,
Levine, Gutek & Vocke, 2011).
** This is a very comforting statistic!

10.  Ornstein, A. C., Levine, D. U., Gutek, G. L.,
& Vocke, D. E. (2011). Foundations of
education. (11 ed., p. 209). Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth Publishing Company.