AGENDA
BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
BOARD OF EDUCATION
Regular Meeting
EDUCATION SERVICE CENTER
Board of Education Meeting Room
1100 South Jennings
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
March 10, 2008
5:30 p.m.
The Board can discuss, make motions, and vote upon any matter appearing on the agenda. Such motions and votes may be to adopt, reject, table, reaffirm, rescind, or take no action on any agenda item.
I.	Call Meeting to Order
II.	Flag Salute
III	Action Topic
	A.	Consideration and vote to reconvene the board meeting in order to move to the Auditorium for Spotlight presentations. (Marta Manning)
IV.	Spotlight
		Jane Phillips Elementary School Certified Staff – Recipient of the Academic Achievement Award
		Hoover Elementary School Certified Staff – Recipient of the Academic Achievement Award
		Hoover Elementary School Teacher of the Year Finalist
		Oak Park Elementary School Teacher of the Year Finalist
		Teacher of the Year Recipient – Granger Meador
		Kurt Schmoldt Award Recipient – Dedra Landon
		Classified Person of the Year Finalists
		Sylvia McFarland, Chairman of the Professional Improvement Committee
		Bridgette Laramie, Chairman of the Teacher of the Year Committee
		Sherry Langham. Co-Chairman of the Teacher of the Year Committee
V.	Action Topic
	A.	Consideration and vote to reconvene the board meeting in Board of Education Meeting Room. (Marta Manning)
VI.	Public Comment
	The Board of Education invites public comment at this point in the regular meeting. Please sign up on the form provided prior to the meeting. Please Keep Comments to Five Minutes. Board members and administrative staff will not respond to questions from the public at the Board meeting. The Board will not be able to vote on matters brought forward by the public during participation time if such matters are not specific agenda items (Board Policy BDC). Jeannette Askins, President, Bartlesville Education Association Robert Snellgrove, President, Bartlesville Education Classified Personnel Organization
VII.	Information Items
	A.	Superintendent’s Report:
				a.	Report on Strategic Plan Goals: Goal #6 – Financial (Tim Green)
				b.	Spring Break – March 17 through March 21, 2008
				c.	Next scheduled board meetings: Special Board Meeting – Thursday, April 3, 2008, 12:00 p.m. (Board of Education Meeting Room) Regular Board Meeting – Monday, April 21, 2008, 5:30 p.m. (Board of Education Meeting Room)
VIII.	Consent Agenda
	All of the following items which concern reports and items of a routine nature normally approved at Board meetings will be approved by one vote unless any Board member desires to have a separate vote on any or all of these items. The Consent Agenda consists of the discussion, consideration, and vote on items A through I.
	A.	Approval of Minutes:
			1.	February 18, 2008 (Regular Board Meeting)
	B.	Approval of Purchase Orders and Change Orders through March 3, 2008
	C.	Approval of Financial Reports for February 2008
	D.	Approval of Personnel - Appointments, Resignations, Change of Status as set out on Exhibit “A”
	E.	Approval of Activity Fundraisers and Expenditures as set out on Exhibit “B”
	F.	Approval of Donations as set out on Exhibit “C”
	G.	Acceptance of Treasurer’s Report
	H.	Approval of Activity Fund Report
	I.	Approval of Activity Fund Transfer
IX.	Action Topics
	A.	Consideration and vote to approve proposed Change Order Number Eight (8) in the amount of add $1,477.98 to Shiloh Enterprises. (Dr. Gary W. Quinn)
	B.	Consideration and vote to approve a School Auditor for 2008-2009 School Year. (Tim Green)
	C.	Consideration and vote to approve Board Policy BDC, “Public Participation in a Board of Education Meeting. (Dr. Richard Rosenberger)
	D.	Consideration and vote to approve revised 2007-2008 School Calendar. (Janet Vernon)
	E.	Consideration and vote to approve revised 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 School Calendar. (Janet Vernon)
	F.	Consideration and vote to accept a donation from the Lyon Foundation in the amount of $650,000 for artificial turf for the high school football stadium and naming the High School Football Field the E. H. “Ted” Lyon Field. (Dr. Gary W. Quinn)
	G.	Consideration and vote to authorize the Superintendent to select appropriate staff and committees to study available research on Gifted and Talented educational program design, consult with other school districts, and utilize offered services of Gifted and Talented program experts at the Oklahoma State Department of Education and other outside consultants, for the purpose of developing, for the Board’s future consideration, an alternative strategy (or strategies) to the Wayside and Oak Park Enhanced Curriculum Classroom Pilot plans that were described in a handout to the Board at its January 21, 2008 meeting. (Doug Divelbiss)
X.	Discussion Topics
	A.	Discussion of Vision 2012 Strategic Planning:
		Academic Focus (Janet Vernon and Dianne Martinez)
		Staffing Focus (Dr. Richard Rosenberger)
		Technology Focus (Dr. Rhonda Layman and Gerald Desormeau)
		Student Activities Focus (Janet Vernon)
XI.	New Business
	Under this item, the Board can consider and vote on any business that could not have been foreseen or known about at the time the agenda was posted.
XII.	Adjournment
If you need an interpreter or special arrangements for this meeting, please contact Karen A. Short at (918) 336-8600 for special arrangements.
POSTED on the bulletin board by the reception desk and the front door at the Education Service Center, 1100 South Jennings, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, at 5:30 p.m., Friday, March 7, 2008, by Karen A. Short, Minutes Clerk of the Board.
Signed: Karen Short Minutes Clerk of the Board