At their meeting Monday, the Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD#2) Board of Directors re-elected Greg Bartlett as Chairman. Diana Berger was elected as Vice-Chairman. Janice Peterson was re-elected as the Clerk, and after some debate, Joe Gaspari was elected to the Treasurer position.
Hanna-Elk Mountain-Medicine Bow seventh and eighth grade science teacher Steven Priest, asked the Board to consider introducing archery into the school system to supplement the physical education program.
If the sport catches on, Priest said, a club could be formed for after school activities and then compete with other clubs, leading to regional shoots.
Establishing a presence at the regional level could lead to competition at the state level against larger schools that already have archery programs in the curriculum.
Jim Dodson with Porter, Muirhead, Cornia and Howard (PMC&H), an independent auditing firm, presented the Board with the independent auditor’s report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012. PMC&H found the business manager, Sally Wells, and the Board are doing a great job of keeping track of revenues and expenditures.
Dodson said even though enrollment has declined by a third in 15 years, the district is healthy in terms of factors affecting its future. The district’s funding could be at risk, though, if it doesn’t increase its Average Daily Membership (the number of students enrolled in the district).
CCSD#2 is required to have two separate audits, one from an independent firm and one from the state auditors office.
“It takes one to two days per employee of CCSD#2 to get ready for the audits, but if every thing is in order on a daily basis then it is not that difficult to prepare,” Wells said.
The Board also considered replacing the existing policies on internet usage, internet acceptable use policy and the current internet user forms with new revised forms. The new policies will be geared toward protecting both students and staff, and at their first reading, the Board looked closely at the wording.
The new policies must protect students from each other, students from teachers and also teachers from students.
Most of the school busses in the district are approaching, or exceeding the 12-year or 175,000-mile mark and the board voted unanimously to put out a bid to purchase new busses on a five-year reimbursement program.
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