Craftsbury Schools Community Collaboration
Stakeholder Meeting
February 18, 2010
6:40 p.m. at the Craftsbury Town Hall
Attendees: Elinor Osborn, Katie Tagi, Edward Tagi, Gayle Kroger, Brian Machesney, Anne Morse, Leslie Rowell, Jen Schoen, Bob Twiss, Abbey Volmer, Jeannine Young, Joe Young, George Hall, Ann Hanson, Cedar Hannan and Ann Ingerson.
Steering Committee: Harry Miller, Annie Volmer, Susan Houston, Tina Sweet and Stark Biddle.
Facilitator: Annie Volmer
The meeting was called to order by Annie Volmer, chair of the Steering Committee at approximately 6:40 pm. Annie asked if any Stakeholder had any objection to her facilitating the meeting as our usual facilitator, Heidi Krantz, was unable to attend the meeting. There was no objection. The minutes of the January 21st and February 4th meetings were approved. Stark typed up the questions from all of the RFPs and a hand out of these questions was given to all Stakeholders. Annie asked if there were any errors in the question listing. No one had any problems with the question listing.
Harry talked about Town meeting. He asked if anyone had any changes to the final draft of the Stakeholder’s progress report that was to be circulated and read at Town Meeting. Nobody had any changes and Ann Morse agreed to read the report after the school portion of Town Meeting under the category of Other Business. It was also decided to make copies of the report and put it in every seat at Town Meeting. Stakeholders decided it would be a good idea to have an information booth and Stakeholders signed up for time slots to run the booth. The Stakeholders had no objection to standing to be recognized at Town Meeting. Some of the Stakeholders had concerns that some Stakeholders have not attended meetings in a while. They thought it was very important for them to attend especially with panelists coming to answer questions. The original list of Stakeholders was put on a table for current Stakeholders to get phone numbers to encourage more attendance.
Everyone was asked to break up into their original groups and take the list of approved questions that was typed up from the RFPs and assign the questions to certain individual panelists or multiple panelists. This exercise was done in an effort to make question lists for the panelists. Panelists wanted the lists in order to be able to send the person most qualified to discuss the questions. The Steering Committee will meet and send out the question lists to the panelists. March 11th will be the first panel discussion. The second panel will be March 25th. We are hoping to have a variety of types of schools attend as well as some educational leaders. In April we hope to be able to have a panel discussion with the Commissioner of Education and some of our representatives. Duncan Kilmartin and Senator Starr were some of the recommendations from the Stakeholders.
Research groups were established based on additional questions generated by the RFP drafts. These questions and the resulting groups are listed in the following blog entry.
