School Board Meeting April 2, 2007

April 2, 2007 Living Springs Pre-school Board Meeting

There was a Board Meeting at the Preschool last night. Here are some highlights (in my words)

Amy Penfield reported:

Rebecca Irwin (co-teacher Mother Goose Room) and Tyanna Dover (floater) are no longer with the pre-school.


The Backyard Buddies will have their 4th teacher since February. Cathy Williams has been hired as the co-teacher for the Backyard Buddies room. Dina will be a floater until the end of May and Tanya Duddley will be the lead teacher until the end of May with Cathy as the co-teacher. Starting in June Teretha will move over to be the lead teacher in Backyard Buddies from Forest Friends and Yommi will move from Jumping Jungle to Forest Friends to be the lead teacher with Mary Ann the co-teacher and Dina will be the lead teacher in Jumping Jungle with Tanya Anderson as the co-teacher.


Marcia Bacon from First Steps is assisting the pre-school with the NAEYC paperwork. She recommended holding off on completing paperwork until the new director is in place. The deadline is June 30.


The school is at 99% capacity.


The board looked at some revisions on the current Board Operations Manual, Parent Handbook and Personnel Handbook. Recommend: Add 2 members to the Steering Committee (to reach a quorum???). They looked at Richland 2’s Personnel policy for filing complaints and grievances. Proposed a changed in the current policy (didn’t they say they followed Richland 2 with the firing of Lionel so why are they getting in line now). The policy is different than what they followed. Formal paperwork to be filed to the Director for complaints to have documentation, proposing a chain of command type system for grievances and investigations, administrative leave for the alleged suspect while the investigation is being conducted, the school board has final authority.


Steve Padgett reported:



The school has been looking at the their policies on biting children. According to literature and Marcia Bacon and NAEYC the school is handling the situations in accordance with the guidelines and suggested literature. A more formal guideline is being produced.


Andrea Berry reported:



1. They had eighteen applications for the Directors job. Of those eighteen, only six scored high enough to warrant an interview. (The eighteen applicants were put to the NAEYC scale to determine if they ranked high enough to get an interview. Applicants needed to score 100 to get an interview and there were several ways to get there. Ex. Were 70 points for a BA and 55 points for an AA and different points for different experience). Of the six selected for the interview only four accepted an invitation with two withdrawing their names for consideration. Interviews were conducted on March 26 and 27. Of the four interviewed two were asked back for second interviews that occurred last night at 7:30 and 8:00.



Joe Canterbury reported:



1. That they would like to update the policies and manuals to get them in compliance with SC and Federal Laws.



2. Joe would like to hire the Institute of Organizational Leadership to update the policies and manuals with the boards input at a cost of approximately $5,000 including travel and room and board.