Newton County schools are scheduled to open for students and teachers once again Tuesday after a week’s worth of ice and slush kept many side streets too dangerous for driving. The week off coupled with Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. holiday will not be free, though, and several days will have to be made up.
Georgia attendance requirements say that three of those days must be made up. The Newton County Board of Education will consider its options when it meets Tuesday.
The weather also forced a delay in the swearing in of new board of education members Jeffrey Meadors, Shakila Henderson-Baker and Abigail Morgan-Coggin and the board’s monthly work session. The new board members will be sworn in at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday and they will then meet at 6 p.m.
Here's is the board's agenda:
Combined Work Session/Monthly Meeting Agenda
I. Call to Order at 6:00 p.m.
II. Motion to Enter Executive Session to Discuss Appointment, Employment and Compensation of Employees, Potential
Land Acquisition and Litigation
III. Return to Open Session at 7:00 p.m.
IV. Welcome
V. Invocation – Mr. Almond Turner
VI. Pledge of Allegiance – Mr. Almond Turner
VII. Special Recognition
VIII. Public Participation
IX. Approval of Agenda
X. Approval of Minutes
XI. Superintendent’s Reports
A. Operations
1. Financial Report
2. Operations Report
A. Tiered Routing Transportation Discussion
B. Curricular and Instructional Program
1. Curriculum/Instruction/Technology Report
A. Discussion of Alternative Education in NCSS
2. Enrollment Report
XII. Old Business
XIII. New Business
A. Requested Board Action Relative to FY 2012 Budget Calendar
B. Requested Board Action Relative to Surplus Items
C. Requested Board Action Relative to Renewal of Contract for Comprehensive Custodial Program
D. Requested Board Action Relative to Renewal of Use of Facilities by Springfield Baptist Church
E. Requested Board Action Relative to Contractual Agreement with Marcus Autism Center, Inc.
F. Requested Board Action Relative to Contractual Agreement with Cobblestone Therapy for Speech/Language
Services
G. Requested Board Action Relative to 2011-2012 Board Meeting Dates
H. Requested Board Action Relative to Administrative Recommendation to Make-Up Three Missed School Days
due to Winter Storm
I. Requested Board Action Relative to Election of 2011 Board Chairperson and Vice Chairperson
XIV. Other Matters of Interest
XV. Adjournment
