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READING PUBLIC SCHOOLS <br />Reading, Massachusetts <br />School Committee Meeting <br />Regular Session Minutes 25 September 1989 <br />CALL TO ORDER <br />Chairman Stan Nissen called the regular meeting of the Reading <br />School Committee to order at 7:06 p.m., in the Superintendent's <br />Conference Room at 62 Oakland Road. All members of the School <br />Committee were present except Mary Williams, who had notified Mr. <br />Nissen that she expected to be late for the meeting. Also present <br />were Superintendent Robert J. Munnelly, Assistant Superintendents <br />Lynn M. Bak and Ronald A. Winslow; several Band Parents, a <br />reporter from the Chronicle, and members of the community. <br />APPROVAL OF MINUTES <br />Mr. Nissen asked that the last half of the sentence on page 4, <br />line 8 be deleted as an inaccurate observation. By consenses, the <br />School Committee agreed and Carol Lyons moved to approve the <br />minutes from the Auqust 31, 1989, as changed, and the September <br />11, 1989 meetings. Margaret Cowell seconded the motion. All <br />members were in accord. <br />BILLS AND PAYROLLS <br />BILLS <br />September 18, 1989 <br />September 25, 1989 <br />October 2, 1989 <br />PAYROLLS <br />$41,346.90 <br />$106,815.66 <br />$302,443.72 <br />September <br />15, 1989 <br />- Weekly - <br />$ 48,237.30 <br />September <br />21, 1989 <br />- Teachers - <br />$403,034.93 <br />September <br />22, 1989 <br />- Weekly - <br />$48,936.09 <br />September <br />29, 1989 <br />- Weekly - <br />$51,298.90 <br />CITIZEN'S INPUT <br />There was no Citizen's Input. <br />SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS <br />Director of Art, Susan Wheltle described to the School Committee <br />the collaboration between the Reading Public Schools, the Hudson <br />Public Schools, and the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA. All <br />seventh graders in the two school systems will be involved in a <br />program with the museum to study Public Sculpture and its growth <br />in America. The study will begin with the traditional public <br />displays in the Boston Public Gardens; the contemporary at MIT and <br />will include the sculpture gardens at the DeCordova Museum. The <br />program is expected to commence later this week. Funded largely <br />($18,000) by one of the few Art and Humanities grants awarded <br />this year, a contribution will also come from our "Program <br />Support for the Arts." Carol Lyons thanked Mrs. Wheltle on behalf <br />of the School Committee for her continued initiative in seeking <br />grants and obtaining available funds to advance the art programs <br />in the Reading Public Schools. <br />