1999-01-11 School Committee Minutes

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READING SCHOOL COMMITTEE Reading, Massachusetts Regular Session January 11, 1999 CALL TO ORDER Vice Chair Twomey called the meeting to order at 7:33 p.m. in the Superintendent's Conference Room. Present were School Committee members Cavicchi, Dahl, Stohlman, Twomey and Williams. Also present were Superintendent Harutunian, Associatc Superintendent Richards, Town Accountant Richard Foley and FinCom Member Kurker. FinCom member Keigley arrived at 7:45 p.m. BILLS & PAYROLL There were no bills and payroll for this meeting SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT Dr. Harutunian advised that the administration, as directed by the Committee, had checked the balance of the tuition reimbursement account. He stated that as of this date, only $19,000 had been spent but that he expected that number to rise after the end of the first semester. Dr. Harutunian advised that he had checked, as directed by the Committee, and was informed that ATT had no flat rate available. Dr. Harutunian advised that the overtime for the high school secretaries totaled 390 hours. He stated that Marge Joyce had retired and that 70 of those hours were due to an overlap for Marge to be available to train the new secretary. Dr. Harutunian advised that he hoped to have the chart for the curriculum initiative ready for Thursday, hopefully with new yellow budget pages. Dr. Harutunian distributed a memorandum from Chris Redford showing the math programs used by the school districts scoring in the top ten for fourth grade math on the MCAS tests. He stated that of the top ten districts, six of the districts were using Chicago Math. Dr. Harutunian reminded the Committee and the audience that Wednesday's School Committee meeting would be to discuss the maintenance and food services budget and Thursday's meeting would be to discuss extracurricular, athletics and health. CITIZEN'S INPUT There was no citizen input.