Minutes October 9, 2012

Minutes

CHAPPAQUA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
BOARD OF EDUCATION
Chappaqua, New York

 

Date:

October 9, 2012

 

Time:

8:00 a.m.

 

Place:

Education Center

 

Present:

Board of Education
Victoria Tipp, President
Alyson Kiesel, Vice President
Randall Katchis
Karen Visser
Jeffrey Mester

 

Staff Members
Present:

Dr. Lyn McKay, Superintendent

Mr. John Chow, Assistant Superintendent for Business

 

Visitors Present:

press

 

President Victoria Tipp convened the public session at 8:04a.m. Alyson Kiesel moved to convene the meeting. Randall Katchis seconded. The motion passed unanimously.

1.

Recommended action:

1.1

Vote on the Resolution of Chappaqua Central school District, New York, on October 9, 2012, authorizing said school district to enter into a Joint Agreement with the Board of Cooperative Educational Services of the sole supervisory District of Putnam/Northern Westchester Counties (THE "BOCES") and the seventeen other component school districts of the BOCES for the reconstruction of, and construction of improvements to, various BOCES facilities pursuant to Section 1950 of the Education Law.

Alyson Kiesel offered the following resolution,

"BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CHAPPAQUA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (by a vote of not less than a majority of all the members of said Board of Education) AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. The Chappaqua Central School District (the "District") is hereby authorized to enter into a Joint Agreement in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A and made a part hereof with the Board of Cooperative Educational Services of the Sole Supervisory District of Putnam/Northern Westchester Counties (the "BOCES") and the seventeen other component school districts of the BOCES (the District and said component school districts referred to collectively hereinafter as the "Component School Districts") for the reconstruction of, and construction of improvements to, various BOCES facilities. Said Joint Agreement, in addition to providing for all other matters deemed necessary and proper, (i) sets forth the cost of such reconstruction of, and construction of improvements to, such BOCES facilities and costs incidental thereto and (ii) provides for an allocation and apportionment of said costs among the Component School Districts on such equitable basis as the parties thereto shall determine and agree, and further sets forth the proportion of the total cost to be provided by each such Component School District in accordance with such allocation and apportionment.

The Component School Districts are as follows:

Bedford Central School District

Brewster Central School District

Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District

Carmel Central School District

Chappaqua Central School District

Croton-Harmon Union Free School District

Garrison Union Free School District

Haldane Central School District

Hendrick Hudson Central School District

Katonah-Lewisboro Union Free School District

Lakeland Central School District

Mahopac Central School District

North Salem Central School District

Ossining Union Free School District

Peekskill City School District

Putnam Valley Central School District

Somers Central School District

Yorktown Central School District

Section 2. The President of the Board of Education, the chief fiscal officer of the District, and in her absence, the Vice President of the Board of Education, is hereby authorized and directed to execute said Joint Agreement for and on behalf of the District.

Section 3. The District hereby agrees to take any and all actions necessary as required by said Joint Agreement to accomplish the purposes and intent of the Joint Agreement.

Section 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately."

Randall Katchis seconded the resolution. A lengthy discussion followed.

The resolution was put to a roll call vote, which resulted as follows:

ayes: None

noes: Randall Katchis, Karen Visser, Jeffrey Mester, Alyson Kiesel, and Victoria Tipp.

The resolution was declared, "not adopted".

 

2.

President Tipp gave Notice of Future Meetings:

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 - 8:15 p.m., Horace Greeley High School

Presentations:

Audit Approval

Teacher Action Research Project (TARP)

3.

Adjournment

Randall Katchis moved to adjourn meeting at 8:38 a.m. Alyson Kiesel seconded. The motion passed unanimously.

Respectfully submitted,

Theresa Markley, District Clerk / Admin. Asst. to Superintendent

Victoria Tipp, Board President

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