School board to discuss snow days, central office

Published 12:00 am Sunday, February 22, 2015

Superintendent Dr. Lynn Moody will discuss snow days and the use of the 10 minutes of extra class time added to each school day at the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education business meeting Monday.

The administration’s decision to preserve its instructional time by utilizing a snow day for Tuesday’s weather-related absence rather than waiving the day was a controversial one. The administration has yet to decide how to cover absences on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

The board is also expected to approve the final resolutions and documents before construction can begin on the district’s new central office. The board will also vote on the proposed name, “Wallace Educational Forum.”

The board will continue its discussion of making recordings of its meetings available to those who were unable to attend. There are two proposals — a video proposal and an audio-only proposal.

The board will conduct a second read on the policies brought up at its last work session, including the following policies with only minor changes regarding family and medical leave, personnel files, demotion and dismissal for professional employees and classified personnel, nonrenewal for non-career teachers, plans for growth and improvement of licensed employees and evaluation of licensed employees.

If approved as revised, the school visitor policy will require visitors to show photo identification in order to visit a school, and the school assignment policy will clarify when students are subject to a 356-day wait period for athletics and no longer will allow students to transfer just to stay in a school with siblings.

Assistant Superintendent of Operations Anthony Vann will discuss a long-range facilities plan, land use study and paving evaluation for the district.

The board will talk about the job description of the school board’s attorney, and Moody will discuss reorganizing of the district’s organizational chart.

Chairman of the Board Josh Wagner said the meeting should flow fairly smoothly and quickly because most of the items on the agenda were thoroughly discussed at the board’s work session Feb. 9.

The board also has a closed session scheduled at the end of the meeting, which will include discussions on a personnel matter and a student appeal.

The Board of Education will meet Monday at 5 p.m. at the Rowan-Salisbury Administrative offices, 110 South Long Street in East Spencer.