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Show THE 8 PAYSON CHRONICLE 12-1- Thursday, February 12, 1970 School 'Board 4 k The Board of Education, Nebo School District, met in special session in the District Office, Spanish Fork, Utah, on Monday, January 26, 1970, at 5:30 p.m. President William H. Sorensen was presiding. Roll call showed all members present. Superintendent Joe A. Reidhead and LeRoy Whitehead, Clerk-Treasur- Jr., were also present. Visitors: Mrs. Josephine Zimmefman Provo Herald, Mr. Rulon Thomas, Spanish Fork, Utah and Mrs. Carol W. Hallam, Spanish Fork, Utah. Invocation: Dr. William H. Sorensen. President Sorensen stated that the purpose of the meeting was to complete unfinished items on the agenda of the regular meeting dated January 12, 1970, and to act on several items needing immediate attention. Agenda Item No. 1: Old Business Item No. 1A: President Sorensen read to the members of the board a letter from Mr. Eugene Sanford, painting contractor for the Mapleton Elementary School Addition; wherein, he outlined his breakdown of cost, labor and material as requested by the board at their January 13, 1970, board meeting. This breakdown of labor and materials was requested to substantiate Mr. Sanfords request for an additional $997 for materials omitted in his original paint bid with the general contractor, Vincent Construction, for the Mapleton Elementary School Addition. Motion: Lynn Crook Seconded Glenn W. Coffman That Mr. Sanfords request for an additional $997 covering his omission in his original paint bid be approved less 5 of his original bid which would be the customary amount for a bid bond. Voting: 1 -against Motion carried. Item No. IB: Superintendent Reidhead presented to the board a summary of a survey taken by the student council at the Spanish Fork High School. This summary outlined over 92 constructive suggestions that were given by the students for school improvement. The areas covered varied from physical facilities of the school to the enforcement of dress standards, controlling litter and better communication between the student council and students. Superintendent Reidhead also discussed a recent survey of the staff of Springville High School, conducted by a student of Brigham Young University, which covered areas of teacher morale, feelings towards administration, and general working conditions of the school. Item No. 1C: Superintendent Reidhead discussed briefly with the board the happenings of the Legislature, bringing them up to date on the status of the various bills and the proposals being submitted on the finance portion of the legislative calendar. Item No. ID: Superintendent Reidhead presented some of the problems facing next year in preparing the budget and the staffing of our schools. One area of concern was in regards to the elementary principal program. Nebo has too many half-da- y principals, but the schools are too small to justify full-tipositions. He complimented the principals of Nebo School District in the leadership ability they are exhibiting this current year. He indicated his desire to employ an outstanding principal from another district tobring new ideas and help provide leadership in individualizing instruction. Superintendent Reidhead spent some time reviewing goals and anticipated programs that he has planned forNeboSchool District. It was the unanimous feeling of the board to support Superintendent Reidhead in developing the plans that he feels would best serve Nebo School District. They ghve him permission to hire the staff he desired to obtain the goals he outlined. The board directed the superintendent to analyze the best possible solution to the elementary principal program and to make his recommendations to them at a future meeting. Agenda Item No. 2: New Business Item No. 2A: Superintendent Reidhead read to the board a letter from State Superintendent Dr. T.H. Bell; wherein, he emphasized that the policy of the State Board.... in harmony with National Guide Lines, do not intend funding any Title in Projects beyond their initial 3 year grant period. The purpose of Title III is to support pilot projects and not continuous activities. He therefore encouraged districts to be planning for the reassignment of their staff members who are presently engaged in Title III Project activities. He then reviewed NeboSchool Districts Title HI Project to date and gave several recommendations as to how these trained people could best be utilized in the ongoing programs of Nebo School District. Motion: Dr. J. Robert Hogan Seconded Ray S. Whiting That the board support Superintendent Reidhead in finding a way to continue some of the services developed under Nebos Title III Project that will best serve the children of our district who have communication problems. Voting unanimous. Item No. 2B: Superintendent Reidhead read to the Board a letter from Ray H. Clark, principal of the Brookside School, requesting a Sabbatical leave for the school to continue his education in year 1970-7- 1, a Doctoral program at Brigham Young University. Under Nebo School Districts Sabbatical Leave Program the recipient is paid $3,000 during the years leave, with the privilege to return to the district without any loss of credit for years experience or any other benefits previously earned. Motion: Ray S. Whiting Seconded Dr. J. Robert Hogan That the request for Sabbatical leave for the school year 1970-7- 1, for Principal Ray H. Clark, be approved. Voting unanimous. Item No. 2C: Superintendent Reidhead presented to the board a request for travel for J. Wayne Nelson, Tim Moran, and Boyd Stansfield to attend the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development of the or National Workshop in San Francisco, 9, 1970. Administrators are March on a rotating schedule for National Conventions. Motion: Glenn W. Coffman Seconded Lynn Crook That the above request to attend this National Workshop be approved. Voting unanimous. Superintendent Reidhead also read a request for Mr. Boyd Goodrich, Mr. Omar Hansen, and Mr. Phil Argyle to be included in the group traveling to Iron County Schools and schools in Mesquite and Las Vegas, Nevada, to study the modular scheduling of these various schools. Motion: Dr. J. Robert Hogan Seconded Ray S. Whiting That the above request be approved to allow these three district staff members tu be included in the car traveling to these various schools to study modular scheduling. Voting unanimous. Item No. 2D: Superintendent Reidhead brought to the board a proposed program to be instigated in the Goshen 4th grade This project for the school year 1970-7would be under the direction of Russell Merrill, Director of Western StatesSmall Schools, whose goal is to find better ways to educate children in rural schools. Under this program there would be specially trained aids working under highly specialized people from the State Office. It would include means of measuring the students achievement to be able to determine their gains. The program would provide for at least two specialists to be in the classroom per week, and a psychologist to be there at least one day per month. This project would be conducted jointly between Nebo School District andtheState Department of Education. Item No. 2E: Superintendent Reidhead discussed with the board a phasing program for the high schools of Nebo School District in the areas of English, biology, and social studies. Under this program they would have at least three levels of instruction in each of these curriculum areas. This project could be implemented using the same teachers and facilities, and at the same cost. It would be an attempt to meet the needs of more students, particularly the advanced students and those experiencing difficulty. It was the feeling of the board that they would give their unanimous suonort to this program. Item No. 2F: Superintendent Reidhead read to the board a letter written to Mr, Russell H. Bishop, coordinator for elementary internship at the Brigham Young University, wherein, he notified Mr. Bishop that Nebo School District did not wish to participate in the intern program under the conditions set forth by Brigham Young University. He pointed out that Nebo was interested in differentiating staffing patterns, but felt that the Nebo School Board should have full jurisdiction over the total school program, including 1. Rates lowered Charges for long distance telephone service between states have been reduced for the second time this year, according to Theron Johnson, local manager for WILL YOU MY 5fnf Mountain BelL The two reductions will save telephone customers approximately $237 million annually, he said. The latest rate cut the 26th since calling began in 1915 became effective February 1 and includes: A special weekend rate for customer-diale- d calls, with a maximum calls charge of 70 cents for three-minubetween 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Sunday. The lower weekend rates are designed to shift peak calling loads from late Sunday evening to the more economical daytime period. rate Establishment of a schedule for person-to-perscalls, with the same rates for the initial period, regardless of the time of day. Overtime charges would be the same as for operator handled station-to-staticalls. of the late night, 35 cent, customer-diale- d rate for an additional hour from 11 p.m, instead of midnight and continuing to 8 a.m, The early evening rate will be eliminated and night rates will begin at 5 p.m. and continue to 8 a.m. In addition, Johnson said, rate reductions on calls between Utah and Hawaii will become effective March 1. The charges will drop from $5,25 to $4.65 for a three minutes station-to-statidaytime call and from $3.75 to $3.30 station-to-statifor a three-minu- te night call, he said. Also included in the rate package is a revision in the time period that would make night rates on Hawaii calls apply from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m., instead of from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. The various rate reductions are made possible by improved communications technology and techniques that have lowered the cost of building long distance circuits. Improvements have also helped offset the increased costs of labor and coast-to-coa- pfi Be My Valentine, sounds around most HER VALENTINE AND MINE st Grandma always sends a Valentine With hearts of red and lace so fine. I think she loves me very much cause You Be Mine? It always says Will My te She says she used to make her own. With paper and lace right at home. With hearts glued on with flour paste And inside she would write this poem: ur Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet and so are you. Hiding her name in a corner so tiny letters And in big FROM GUESS WHO? She tells of a joke they always played With a as a trick; Tieing string on a great big heart, Kick on a door then pull it quick. te ne sentiment that the world on February 14, has origins almost as old as history itself. The first recorded information about a day devoted entirely to romance and affection describes a Roman festival called Lupercalia. It honored June and Pan, two important Roman deities, and celebrants drew names for festival partners and exchanged gifts. In 496, Pope Gelassius changed the festivals name to St. Valentines Day in honor of two early Christian martyrs. The name stuck, but the old customs continued relatively unchanged. In recent years customs have been added of course including the sending of cards and candy. But the holidays age-omeaning and message remains..., Be My Valentine. a of ld likes the one I bought. a green monster on a yellow heart. YOURE OUT OF THIS WORLD is what it says. I think it is a lovely thought. By Viola M. Spencer I hope she Its materials, Johnson said. salaries. Item No. 2G: Superintendent Reidhead discussed with the board an ongoing evaluation that is being used in the Headstart Program. This was broken down into five different areas and a continual evaluation on each child was carried through the entire period of time that the child was in this program. Item No. 2H: Superintendent Reidhead read to the board a letter from Mr. DelMoine Christensen, principal of the Springville Jr. High, requesting permission to act on a committee of the Utah High School Activities Association to upgrade the officiating throughout the state. The meetings are to be held at the Activities Association Office in Salt Lake twice a month. Motion: Lynn Crook Seconded Ray S. Whiting That Mr. Delmoine Christensen be allowed to act on this committee to upgrade the officiating throughout the State of Utah. Voting unanimous. Item No. 21: Superintendent Reidhead read to the board a letter from Mr. Gayle Dean Hunt, attorney at law, representing the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, who paid to the Board of Education of Nebo School District $10,000 on the fidelity bond covering Clarence J. WendeL The letter requested the Board of Education sign an assignment against First Security Bank of Utah to recover the $10,000 bond payment made in behalf of the action against Clarence J. WendeL Motion: Ray S. Whiting Seconded Dr. J. Robert Hogan That the request be denied. Voting unanimous. Item No. 2J: Superintendent Reidhead presented to the board a request from Harold L. Bartlett, principal of the Springville High School, for a student to be released from school attendance and pointed out his reasons for the recommendation. Motion: Lynn Crook Seconded Glenn W. Coffman That the above student ofSpring-vill- e High School be released from school attendance subject to receiving a letter concurring this action from his parent. Voting unanimous. Item No. 2K: Superintendent Reidhead read to the board a letter from Mr. Dell Ashworth of Ashworth Architects, which reviewed the inspection of the Springville and Payson High School roofs, and gave a history of the problems encountered in the roofs of these two buildings along with the conditions observed when the roofing material was torn into. He gave his conclusions of the inspection and made his recommendations for correcting the problems. Motion: Glenn W. Coffman Seconded Dr. J. Robert Hogan That the Superintendent turn this problem over to an attorney and seek an engineers advice as to the solution and possible recourse for the correcting of this roof problem. Voting unanimous. Agenda Item No, 3: Communications from the Board Item No. 3A: Board member Crook asked if any solution had been found to correct the bus problem in the southwest corner of the district, which was discussed at the last board meeting. Superintendent Reidhead reported that Mr. Wolf was not being paid to deliver his children to school and the remaining children were picked up by the bus as before. Item No. 3B: Board member Crook requested the procedure to be used for distributing the Senior Citizen Activity Cards in the outlining areas. Superintendent Reidhead reported these could either be mailed directly from the District Office or could be picked up from the principals in the Goshen, Santaquin, Mapleton, Lake Shore, andBenjaminSchools. Item No. 3D: Board member Hogan reported some property in the Payson area was now for sale. This included about five and a half acres. It was requested by the board that Dr. Hogan check further into the details of this and report at the next meeting. Item No. 3D: Board member Hogan requested the consideration of placing padding along the walls at each end of the sm fllB office stymie SCE9MIL, basketball courts, under the baskets, to help prevent injuries to the players when they hit against the walls. Item No. 3E: Board member Hogan asked what involvement was anticipated for the. parents in the Work-Stud- y Program, which was discussed last board meeting. Superintendent Reidhead indicated, that as with all programs of this nature, this must have the parents permission before a student could participate; thus, the parents must be informed as to what the program con- sists of. Item No. 3F: Board member Hogan asked if the District Psychologist had parents permission when giving students therapy. Superintendent Reidhead explained that most of the work of a school psychologist is in testing, diagnosing, and prescribing educational methods to help students. Item No. 3G: Board member Hogan reported that a child had fallen off the monkey bars at the Taylor School. The child was hurt quite seriously around the mouth, with the cause being due to the black top under the monkey bars. He asked if a different material could be placed under the playground equipment that would be less dangerous. Item No. 3H: Board member Coffman presented a proposal submitted to him for opening a road near the Springville High School, Jhe board instructed Mr. Coffman to investigate the participation of Springville City in developing this road and report back at the next meeting. Reports: The board heard tapes and saw slide reports from: 1. Eldon Reese - American Vocation Assn. Convention in Boston, Massachu- 1969. setts, December 2. Visitation of Schools- - Grant Junction, Colorado Individualized and Media Centered Schools. 3. Visitation of Roy HighSchool- - Modular Scheduling. 4. Della McClellan report on the National Conference on Children and Youth. Meeting adjourned on a motion by Glenn W. Coffman at 10:55 p.m. 1, LeRoy Whitehead Clerk-Treasur- RayS. Whiting President, Board of Education Jr. UHTOinnr P 0 Box 280 Noith Main Spanish PUBLISHING I " PRINTING & COMPANY ADVERTISING SPECIALISTS' er (Scnirl (SouZi 'Hint i Lnilfliy u'illt the Ltronui' (O 130 84G60 Fork. Utah |