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6A Wednesday, July 20, 2011 Indian Valley Record School board meeting is blessedly brief Trustees get down to business in short order Delaine Fragnoli Managing Editor dfragnoli@plumasnews.¢om The Plumas County Office of Education/Plumas Unified School District governing board met for a mercifully brief two hours July 12, easily the shortest meeting of the year. Still, the board managed to conduct quite a bit of busi- ness in that time. Classified supervisors PCOE and PUSD Board members approved a revised salary schedule based on the reclassification of clas- sified supervisors from hourly employment to salaried employment. Super- intendent Glenn Harris said the reclassified employees were happy with the change. "They told me, 'now I can do my job.'" Interfund transfers PCOE and PusD The board approvecl a reso- lution to establish interfund transfers for the purpose of cash flow and internal bor- rowing. Budget report PUSD Harris and Business Direc- tor Yvonne Bales had few comments for board members about the state's recently passed budget. Bales' backup material called the budget "strong on gimmicks and lofty revenue expectations." The state budget results in no significant changes to the district's adopted budget. Bales wrote, "The message be- ing sent to schools is to budget for the same revenue as 2010/11, and not worry if the multi-year projections are not viable!" The district's next planned budget revision will be its First Interim report in No- vember, which will include the actual carryover amounts from 2010-11 and personnel ex- penses based on actual staffing. Accreditation PUSD Tori Willits reported the Western Association of Schools and Colleges had reaf- firmed Greenville Junior-Se- nior High School's accredita- tion for a six-year term end- ing June 2013. Willits also told the board the district was working with the Greenville Rancheria and the Plumas County Public Health Agency on a dental hy- giene grant. Child nutrition grant PUSD Rebecca Mills of Food Ser- vices had good news for board members: her department's Child Nutrition Program has been awarded a Breakfast Startup and Expansion grant in the amount of $130,847 for the 2010-11 school year. The funding will be used to purchase a transport vehicle, much.needed kitchen equip- ment and outreach materials for students, parents and com- munity members on the im- portance of eating breakfast. Mills noted that research has shown a direct link between students eating breakfast and reduced behav- ioral issues in the classroom, increased attention span and improved test scores. Correctional work crews PUSD Harris shared with the board a revised administra- tive policy about using correc- tional work crews at school district sites. The revisions came after staff and communi- ty complaints about the use of inmates at Quincy High School. The new policy requires no- tification of the staffs union. The inmate crews cannot per- form work usually done by classified staff. Inmate crews can use only nonviolent offenders. The superintendent or his designee will make arrange- ments. Inmate work crews shall have little or no contact with students by performing work during school breaks when students are not on campus. Inmate crews will be super- vised by someone who has Recycle Your E-Waste for Free! TVs, Monitors, electronics, drain oil (no hazardous waste or appliances) Saturday July 30 9am to 4pm at each of the following Waste Management sites: Quincy- Abernethy Lane Chester - Hwy 36 & A- 13 Greenville - Greenville Dump Road From everyday collection to environmental protection, Think Green.® Think Waste Management. Feather River Disposal, Inc. • 283-2065 Serving Quincy, GreenviUe, Chester/Lake Almanor I I I I WASTE MANAGEMENT Think Green: passed a Department of Jus- tice background check and will be monitored by appro- priate PUSD maintenance or custodial personnel. Solar proposal PUSD Board members voted to proceed with a green energy analysis that could lead to so- lar installations at district fa: cilities. Discussion centered on what would happen if the district closed some facilities. Representatives of IES and IEC assured the board the pro- gram would still be viable, "just ratioed." Eddie Jordan of IEC said the contract would be broken down by site and sites would be mutually selected. He said the initial analysis had identi- fied four larger sites in the district and a couple "in:be- tweeners." Jordan clarified that the on- ly financial exposure the dis- trict had would be the cost of the study, about $15,000, if it backed out of the deal after a certain point. The sites would be in the PG&E service area, which ex- cludes Portola since it is ser- viced by Liberty Energy. Chris Barstow of IES ex- pressed interest in "getting at those in another way." Capital improvements PUSD The board approved bids from Legacy Roofing and Wa- terproofing to replace the roof at the Feather River Middle School cafeteria ($33,800), the roof at the Greenville Elemen- tary cafeteria ($45,670) and the roof at the Greenville High School administration build- ing ($17,600). After some discussion, board members also approved a bid for $46,500 to prep and paint the exterior fronts and walkways of Portola High School and authorized Harris to negotiate as much as 10 per- cent in additional work. New hires on FRC trustees' agenda Mona Hill State for all on- and off-cam- Staff Writer mhill@plumasnews.com Four requests for approval to hire are on the agenda July 21, for the Feather River Com- munity College District board of trustees meeting. Two of the actions request approval to hire Theo Jack- son as bookstore manager ef- fective Aug. 1, and Leslie Mikesell as director of Admis= sion and Records, effective July 1. Both filled those roles with interim appointments. Mikesell has worked at the college since she began as a student employee in 1987. She has been interim director since July 2010. Jackson began work at the college bookstore as an assis- tant in 1991 and took over as interim manager in Septem- ber 2009. Also before the board July 21 is the request for approval to hire Michael Miller, of Sacramento, as Food Services manager effective Aug. 1. Miller currently serves as production manager at Sac pus catering and dining services. Trustees will also consider approval of a request to hire Dr. Karen Pierson as chief Student Services officer, ef- fective July 25. Pierson was vice president of Student De- velopment and Success at North Iowa Area Community College in Mason City, Iowa, from 1996 to 2010. NIACC's student popula- tion was 3,744 as of the fall 2010 semester, more than dou- ble that of FRC. In other reque, rdfor action, trustees will consider ap- proval of equivalency and minimum qualification stan- dards for faculty and adminis- trators. They will also hear a quar- terly financial status report and a cost/revenue reconcili- ation report on the Learning Resource Center project from Chief Financial Officer Jim Scoubes, as well as a report on the district's capital outlay plan from Facilities Director Nick Boyd. Free cancer screen for eligible women Plumas District Hospital is --They must be California designated to provide cancer screening services through the Every Woman Counts pro- gram. The program provides qualified women with clinical breast exams, mammograms, pelvic exams and Pap tests at no cost. For free cancer screenings, patients must meet certain qualifications: Need help REPI =ING L If it's tng we can'll find someo can. CONSTRUCTION SINCE 1P,4 General Building Contractor l Calif. Lic. #453927 (530) 283-2035 residents. --To receive free cervical cancer screening they must be at least 25 years old, and at least 40 years old for breast cancer screening. --In addition, they must meet the income eligibility standards and be uninsured or underinsured. In addition to offering free screening and diagnostic ser- vices, Every Woman Counts is designed to provide women with normal or benign breast and/or cervical conditions to have access to annual re- screening. The program also provides follow-up services and referral for treatment for positive diagnoses of breast and/or cervical Cancer. A woman's regular Plumas District Hospital primary care provider may provide every Woman Counts ser- vices. If she does not have an established primary care provider, she may obtain ser- vices from one of Plumas Dis- trict Hospital's mid-level providers -- Liz McGee, AG- NP; Janet Thompson, NP; or Edie O'Connor, PA-C. Contact North Fork Family Medicine at 283-5640 or Quincy Family Medicine at 283-0650 to dis- cuss eligibility for these free services. The California Department of Public Health reopened en- rollment tO the Every Woman Counts program to eligible- women Dec. 1, 2010.