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THETIMES - PAGE 13 - AUGUST28,lQQO Gananda Central School District's Board of Education met in a lengthy session on Wednesday, August 22,1990. The first official action of the meeting was the appointment of Vincent Blasia as an interim board member. He was one of four candidates interviewed by the Board for the trustee position left vacant by the July resignation of Beverly Kruger. Mr. Blasio previously served on the Board from April 1984 to June 1987. He resides on Downs Road in Walworth with his wife, Nancy and children Anthony, Theresa, Gina and Vincent. The interim term expires on June 30, 1991. At the beginning of the meeting, board members listened to comments about student recess procedures at the elementary grade level. Some voiced a desire that the district develop a policy requiring a recess period for students in grades kindergarten through five. Emma .Klimek, the district's elementary princi- pal, explained' that she endorses the concept of recess, but leaves the decision for its scheduling to the individual class- room teachers. The Board requested that further information about Gananda's recess procedures be pre- sented at their official September meeting. The approval of several routine business items was followed by the acceptance of the resignation of Maureen Kelly, an elementary instructional aide. Elementary teaching appointments were made to Carol Tobin and Kristie Ingold. Ernestine -Rogers was appointed as a cafeteria Worker and Cheryl Turco, school nurse, was granted an eight week child care leave beginning in Sep- h.- te~mber.. - . , .. .., -- _ . .-. . -. , .. Appointed to coaching positions were David Green for cross country, Joan DiRisio for girls varsity volleyball, Mark Pelligrino for girls junior varsity volleyball, Douglas Foster for boys var- sity soccer and-~imothy-~ennelley for boys modified soccer. Included was the announcement that boys junior varsity soccer will not be scheduled because of insufficient numbers for a team. Student lunch prices for the 1990- 91 school year were aproved. The cost of kindergarten through fifth grade stu- dent lunches will be $1.00 while students in grades six through twelve will pay $1.10. The management team reported on their recommendations for administra- tion realignment. After a discussion, it was unanimously approved that Emma Klimek would continue kindergarten through grade five responsibilities and coordinate the district's curriculum develop- ment. Sarah Chambers' responsibilities of Committee on Special Education would also include supervision of the district's special education instructors and staff. Barbara McCoy, a secondary. matheIhatics instructor, would continue as a teacher and additionally serve as the administration's liaison person for the Middle School. The tax-rate for the 1990-91 school year was established. The rate will yield an average 15% tax increase in both the towns of Macedon and Walworth. It will be $13.59 per thousand for the town of Macedon - and $14.66 per thousand for Walworth. An update on the Facilities,Com- mittee was given by board member Carl Vronian. He stated that the required information on the Middle School/ High School renovation and Richard Mann Elementary School addition has been , forwarded to state education authori- ties. The district anticipates receiving - A Gananda School Board Meets, .;;*.;:, --A .- New Member Appointed approval for the projects in September. It was reported by Dr. Larry Pedersen, the district's superintendent, that the roofing replacement on the Middle School/High School has been completed. He explained that the final cost was lower than the originally esti- mated amount of $577,000. The lower cost enabled funds to -be available for the application of the foam-in-place roofing on the annex area. The replace- ment on-the annex area was recom- mended by the district's roofing architect, Stetson-Harza and the roof installers, - S.D. Carruthers & Sons. Both feel that the roofs maintenance will be easier because of the uniform style of roof now existing on the building and one installer, S.D. Carruthers & Sons, is soley respons- ible for re,pairs. To meet enrollment needs in kinder- garten and grade one, two teaching aide positions were created. Dr. Pedersen and Mrs. Klimek explained that the additional aide positions would help in meeting the instructional demands caused by enrollment increases. It was felt that the two aides would better serve tlie enrollment than the _budgeted half- time teaching position. The motion for the positions was passed with \yes\ votes from Richard Reese, Susan Savage, Carl Vroman and Cyril Weller. Eena Corleto opposed the motion and Vincent Blasio abstained. Presented to the Board was a pro- posal to raise the minimum passing grade for students in grades nine through twelve - to 70 percent. The proposal - - Vince Blasio developed by the secondary school's School Improvement Team, included a community forum presentation of the plan for public knowledge and endorse- ment. The board approved the requested procedure and asked that the final requests on minimum grade standards be ready by the October meeting. . Before the meeting adjourned Lena Corleto and Carl Vroman reported on the New York State School Boards Association's New School Board Mem- bers Seminar. They both' recently at- tended the two day event in Albany. The final aaisn included the establish- ment of the Board's September meeting dates. Wednesday, September 12 was scheduled for the regular monthly meeting. 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