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2005 Pentucket Regional Agreement Task Force Minutes - 11/2/05

Middle School District Conference Room

7:00 P.M. Meeting Time                                          Date:  November 2, 2005
                                        
I.      Call to order 7:15 pm

Present –       Sandy Venner
                Maureen Moran
Mary Harada
Bill Darke
Bonnie Collins

Absent –        Glen Kemper
Tom Atwood
Groveland Citizen at Large (Groveland needs to appoint a new one)

Citizens -      Nick Tarzia

II.     Agenda (approve) Motion to approve Agenda made by Sandy Venner seconded by Bill Darke
                                                                
III.    Correspondence
a.  Email to Jeff Wulfson requesting his comments on Chapter 70 by town assessment       proposal
b.  Email from Jeff Wulfson with his response, DOE

IV.     Minutes     (approve)
a.      Oct. 5, 2005 – motion to approve minutes by Bill Darke and seconded by Maureen Moran. Unanimous vote. Abstained Mary Harada and Sandy Venner
b.      Oct. 19, 2005 – need to vote minutes at Meeting on November 16th, no Quorum when come up on Agenda

V.      Old Business
a.      Status on receiving Triton’ most recent regional agreement (Glenn) –                    Glen has not gotten as of yet.

b.      Update on Bill Darke’s summary of other regional agreement documents-assessment methods only – basically either per pupil method, or two step method


c.      Status on regional agreement documents from central office (Maureen) – Have documents, but need to be put together in a binder. Bring Binder to the November 30th meeting

d.      Status on enrollment numbers to define PRSD enrollment vs. Foundation Enrollment (Bonnie) – Bonnie spoke to Dr Compton to get the enrollment numbers                                                            October 1, 2003 and October 1, 2004 Central Office Sheet
Sandy Venner is going to call Tony Repucci to see if he recollects why the district uses a different enrollment number that the state foundation enrollment

e.      Status on revenue detail to support Regional Agreement Section V-2 pg 3 –               Maureen provide law on revolving accounts to the RA Task Force Revolving account definition  

f.      Status on obtaining school age student census numbers from local towns (Bob Sinibaldi) Sandy Venner made a motion that the RA Task Force will be using actual enrollment versus student population. Seconded by Bill Darke

g.      Discuss Chapter 70 by town assessment method along with Mr. Wulfson’s comments reference Bonnie’s spreadsheets and attach for the minutes.
I.      Come prepared to discuss which method to go forward with                        
Bill Darke suggestion use Chapter 70 approach then default to 2 step


VI.     New Business  
  a. Identify other areas of the agreement to address after the assessment method

VII.    Wrap Up Session

VIII.   Adjournment – 9:35 pm


 
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