Issaquah Middle School Council Minutes

May 23, 2002

 

Chairperson:  Mary Lou Pauly                      Gatekeeper:  None                           Scribe: Sandie Pike

 

Approval of Minutes

The minutes from the School Council Meeting on 4/25/02 were approved with the following correction:

 Article V  - Council Membership – Parent Representatives will be changed to 6 Parent Representatives.

 

Parent/Community Comments

None

 

Old Business

Ron Thiele shared that the staff has approved the continuation of the SLC/SSR program.

 

Nancy Campi presented Draft 2 of the IMS Site Council Bylaws.  It was agreed to change the wording in Article III Focus Section 1 to read “The Council will focus on matters directly related to the District and IMS mission including achievement data…” 

 

Article V Council Membership Section 1 will be changed to read “21 voting members”, “Secretary” will be changed to “Council Secretary.”  Section 2 will be changed to read “Each elected member is limited to two consecutive one-year terms.”  The numbering of the sections will be corrected.

 

Article VI Election of Membership Section 3 will be changed to “The Special Needs Representative.”  Section 5  “and will be permanent Council members” will be added.  Section 7  “Two (2)” will be added to Student Representatives.  Section 9 “Secretary will be changed to “Council Secretary”  Section 11 will be changed to read “Any remaining open positions can be filled using the election process by the second meeting…” and “remain open” will be changed to “remain unfilled”.  The numbering of the sections will be corrected.

 

Article VII Duties of Members Section 3 “Secretary” will be changed to “Council Secretary” and the words “a summary of” will be removed from part b.

 

 Article VIII Meetings Section 6 the spelling of the word “meeting” will be corrected.  The numbering of the sections will be corrected.

 

Article IX Quorum and Decision Making Section 2 the words “for final decision” will be removed.  Section 3 change “majority” to read “2/3 majority.”  Section 4 the words “sixty percent return rate” will be deleted and sixty percent will be changed to sixty-six percent.”

 

Article X Council Committees Sections 2 and 3 will be switched.

 

New Business

None

 

ASB Report

None

 

Team Reports

6th Grade

None

7th Grade

None

 

8th Grade

None

Special Needs

None

 

PTSA Report

Mary Lou Pauly reported that the PTSA approved two of the five staff grants they received.  She will be sending out letters soon.

 

FYI – Ron Thiele

May 24 – AM Assembly

May 27 – Memorial Day – No School

June 6 – Last Activity Bus

June 7 – Staff Party at Sandie’s 4:30 to Whenever!

June 11 – PM Assembly

 

Other

It was agreed that the IMS Decision-Making Model, the School Mission Statement and Code of Conduct would be reviewed for correction at a future meeting.

 

Next meeting will be June 13, 2002 at 2:45 p.m.

 

Chairperson: Ron Thiele                              Gatekeeper: Margie Rehn  

 

Present at Meeting: Parents:  Nancy Campi, Elaine Hollaway, Mary Lou Pauly, Becky Wilder   Staff: Ron Thiele, Sandie Pike, Lucy Lynch, Margie Rehn, Sandy Grace  Students:  None  Guests:  None