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Craftsbury Schools Community Collaboration
Stakeholder Meeting #6
January 21, 2010
Craftsbury Town Hall
Attendees: Jim Moffatt, Anne Morse, Elinor Osborn, Leslie Rowell, Jen Schoen, Barb Strong, Edward Tagai, Bob Twiss, Allison VanAkkeren, Katie Williams Tagai, Jeannine Young, Kent Young, Barb Alexander, Marie Royer, Laurie Courage, George Hall, Anne Hanson, Ann Ingerson, and Gayle Kroeger.
Steering Committee: Tina Sweet, Stark Biddle, Steve Moffatt, Perry Thomas, and Susan Houston.
Facilitator: Heidi Krantz
The meeting was called to order by Perry Thomas at approximately 6:37 on January 21, 2010. Minutes from January 7, 2010 were approved, and Heidi explained the process for tonight’s meeting. Feasibility studies came up as a reoccurring theme at the last meeting. With this in mind, the Stakeholders were instructed to break into small groups to formulate ideas on what these feasibilities studies would focus on. They will do this in the form of Request for Proposals (RFP). A RFP template was distributed to each group to give a guide line of questions for the RFP. The Stakeholders counted off by 3’s and broke into 3 groups of 5 to 6 people. Each group was asked to do a two RFP’s. It is envisioned to take this meeting and the next meeting to achieve this goal. Heidi explained that we needed to put our own prejudices aside to reflect on everyone’s point of view. Questions camp up regarding the window of time that should be looked at. Heidi suggested that each group could decide this and write it in the RFP. Another suggestion was to look at the current elementary children up through their graduation. At 7:45 Heidi stopped the groups and asked them to continue to think of ideas for their RFP over the next two weeks. Everyone was asked to remember which group they were in, so they could be in that same group next time.
Heidi asked George Hall if he would like to tell the group about the Schoolboard meeting that he attended where he gave an update to them about where the Stakeholders are in the process. George explained that he told the Schoolboard about the three areas of focus (Academics, Economics, and Grade Configuration/Alternative Models. The question was asked if the Stakeholders wanted to give another report to the Schoolboard before Town Meeting. It was decided that a subcommittee consisting of Katie Williams Tagai, Marie Royer, and Ann Morse would draft a report and present it to the Stakeholders at the next meeting for approval. If approved, this report would be given to the Schoolboard and then presented at Town Meeting by the Stakeholders.
The school renovation project and time line was discussed. Steve Moffatt said that the Schoolboard was waiting to see if a bank would buy the bond. Rita Davis has a meeting about this and the Schoolboard is hopeful that the bond will be bought.
The next Stakeholder meeting will be on February 4th at 6:30 at the Town Hall. The following meeting has been changed to February 18th, then March 11th.
The meeting adjourned at approximately 8:10.
Respectfully submitted,
Tina Sweet
Scribe
