Weed Union Elementary School District rescheduled their January meeting for Feb 1 due to the power outages in Mt. Shasta.
Board president Deborah Goltz and trustees Michael Carpine, Tim Frisbie, John Gaustad and Jeff Repass were present along with superintendent Gary Lampella and principal Tag Pimentel.
About 15 parents along with their children attended the beginning of the meeting when the board presented certificates to the students chosen as Student of the Month.
In Lampella’s financial report, he said the property taxes and state money that has been trickling in have helped put the district ahead this month. However, he said there is concern about April, May and June.
In June the district makes three payroll payments for June, July and August, and they will probably be “dipping into reserves for that.”
• Lampella reported that since October Martie Hagarty and Tag Pimentel have been working on the Improvement Plan that is required for schools in Program Improvement.
Pimentel will give a presentation to the leadership team on Feb 24.
Lampella said the plan has been shared with staff and received feedback.
WES has already been moving forward on the nine essential program components outlined in the Improvement Plan. Lampella feels the plan is solid. He said assistant county superintendent Mike DeRoss commended the school for being ahead on implementation of the components.
• The only action item on the agenda concerned the replacement of the radiant heating system in the primary wing. Trustees chose an option involving Indoor Environmental Services and Dwayne Evans working together on the project. A lease/lease purchase is being considered as a way to finance the project.
• Air pollution specialist Eric Olson from the Siskiyou County Air Pollution Control District asked the board to consider allowing continued monitoring of Weed’s air quality from the elementary school’s upper parking lot.
Olsen explained that they would like to replace the existing monitoring equipment with a newer air-monitoring trailer in March to gather air quality data before and after Roseburg expands.
The project needs district approval for the easement required for Pacific Power to install a line from a power pole to the trailer’s power meter.
Gaustad asked if the trailer monitors weather, wind speed, precipitation and other similar information. Goltz and Gaustad both commented that real-time, local data gathered from the equipment could be valuable in the science classrooms.
The issue was scheduled as an action item for the Feb. 22 meeting.
• The board accepted a donation from Tri Counties Bank for 17 Gateway computer towers.
• In his superintendent’s report, Lampella said he met with administrators at Butteville, Gazelle, Big Springs and Grenada, along with county superintendent of schools Kermith Walters, to request that the other districts change their bus routes so they are not entering Weed Elementary’s district to pick up students. He said, “They indicated that commencing next fall they would come up with another plan so their buses wouldn’t come into (Weed) school district.”
Lampella said WUESD has roughly 50 inter-district agreements to other districts, which amounts to a loss of about $250,000 in revenue annually. “That hurts us financially,” he said.
Typically, Lampella said in a follow-up conversation, inter-district transfer students are transported to and from their schools by parents.
The next meeting of the WUESD will be Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. in the school library.
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Weed Union Elementary School District rescheduled their January meeting for Feb 1 due to the power outages in Mt. Shasta.
Board president Deborah Goltz and trustees Michael Carpine, Tim Frisbie, John Gaustad and Jeff Repass were present along with superintendent Gary Lampella and principal Tag Pimentel.
About 15 parents along with their children attended the beginning of the meeting when the board presented certificates to the students chosen as Student of the Month.
In Lampella’s financial report, he said the property taxes and state money that has been trickling in have helped put the district ahead this month. However, he said there is concern about April, May and June.
In June the district makes three payroll payments for June, July and August, and they will probably be “dipping into reserves for that.”
• Lampella reported that since October Martie Hagarty and Tag Pimentel have been working on the Improvement Plan that is required for schools in Program Improvement.
Pimentel will give a presentation to the leadership team on Feb 24.
Lampella said the plan has been shared with staff and received feedback.
WES has already been moving forward on the nine essential program components outlined in the Improvement Plan. Lampella feels the plan is solid. He said assistant county superintendent Mike DeRoss commended the school for being ahead on implementation of the components.
• The only action item on the agenda concerned the replacement of the radiant heating system in the primary wing. Trustees chose an option involving Indoor Environmental Services and Dwayne Evans working together on the project. A lease/lease purchase is being considered as a way to finance the project.
• Air pollution specialist Eric Olson from the Siskiyou County Air Pollution Control District asked the board to consider allowing continued monitoring of Weed’s air quality from the elementary school’s upper parking lot.
Olsen explained that they would like to replace the existing monitoring equipment with a newer air-monitoring trailer in March to gather air quality data before and after Roseburg expands.
The project needs district approval for the easement required for Pacific Power to install a line from a power pole to the trailer’s power meter.
Gaustad asked if the trailer monitors weather, wind speed, precipitation and other similar information. Goltz and Gaustad both commented that real-time, local data gathered from the equipment could be valuable in the science classrooms.
The issue was scheduled as an action item for the Feb. 22 meeting.
• The board accepted a donation from Tri Counties Bank for 17 Gateway computer towers.
• In his superintendent’s report, Lampella said he met with administrators at Butteville, Gazelle, Big Springs and Grenada, along with county superintendent of schools Kermith Walters, to request that the other districts change their bus routes so they are not entering Weed Elementary’s district to pick up students. He said, “They indicated that commencing next fall they would come up with another plan so their buses wouldn’t come into (Weed) school district.”
Lampella said WUESD has roughly 50 inter-district agreements to other districts, which amounts to a loss of about $250,000 in revenue annually. “That hurts us financially,” he said.
Typically, Lampella said in a follow-up conversation, inter-district transfer students are transported to and from their schools by parents.
The next meeting of the WUESD will be Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. in the school library.
