September 4, 2002

Committee Reports: No reports were given by committees at this meeting. It was noted by Dr. Nelson that all committees need to review or draft a purpose statement. This will need to be done before the next BILT meeting. It was further noted that committee chairs are expected to be at every BILT meeting to provide a committee report.

BILT Flowchart: Jeff, Bill, and AJ shared the BILT flowchart for decision making. It was recommended that teams need to review it before it is adopted by the committee. The flowchart will also be compared to the district’s decision making chart to insure that there are no conflicts or omissions.

Contract Review: It was determined by the committee that BILT is already doing the majority of the things that are spelled out in the new contract. It was also recognized that some of the things that are required in the new contract are not being dealt with by BILT. The items that need to be addressed are: Decision making responsibilities, how members are chosen and what their term will be, including a member of the support staff on the committee, semi annual review of the flex-time procedure, and how appointments to district level committees will be made.

During the contract review discussion Jeff agreed to find out the purpose of the District Staff Development Committee.

Flex Time: A lengthy discussion concerning flex time yielded the following information. It will be assumed by the office that all staff with follow a 7:30 AM – 3:15 PM schedule. If that schedule is followed a flex form does not need to filed with the office. If a staff member needs or wishes to follow a different flex time, a flex form will need to be submitted to the office on the Friday before the week of the change.

Stan agreed to look into this procedure to determine if it is acceptable with downtown.

BILT Times: Kelly brought up a suggestion to change the meeting parameters for BILT. It was suggested that the meetings be one hour and the committee meet twice a month instead of once. Tim indicated that if meeting times were going to be drastically changed from what was outlined when committee sign ups occurred that some members may need to be excused from the committee. It was suggested that the meetings be left at once per month and extend until 4:30. Dr. Baker added that if the committee was going to have a time limit that a docket type agenda would be a good idea. The two options were voted upon and the once per month until 4:30, with a docket option was approved unanimously. All members will be expected to be at the meetings until they are completed or until 4:30 which ever comes first.

BILT agenda items: All items for the built agenda must be given to Bill on or before the last Wednesday of each month.

September Team Meetings: Jeff and AJ wanted to remind the teams that they will be coming in for a September visit to discuss the items on the team effectiveness calendar.

Office ground rules: discussion about office functions and ground rules for what is/is not supposed to happen in the office was tabled until the October meeting. Jeff is going to discuss concerns regarding this issue with Carol and Joyce.

September 11^th: On September 11^th the entire building will be encouraged to wear red white and blue. The entire school will also pause for a moment of silence and then say the pledge at 12:00 noon. Seventh grade teachers will need to hold their students before releasing them to lunch on this day until the pledge is completed.

ISAT packet: Jeff handed out an ISAT results packet to each team member.