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In the beginning...

An AMENDED agenda was available for attendees.

The changes to the originally posted agenda are presented in bold print.

Report of the Superintendent:

• A Community Health Fair was held on June 19th, which was very successful with approximately 400 people in attendance.

• A Bash in the Park will be conducted on June 21st - physicals, dental cleaning, health and wellness.

• ISAT - There has been a change in the "cut scores" which will make it harder to meet.

The BOE voted to enter closed session at 6:50 p.m. The BOE voted to exit closed session at 8:00 p.m.

Requiring Action/Decisions By Board of Education:

(1) Anthony Brown hired as Campus Safety and Hallway Monitor

(9) Special Board Meeting Date for Discussion of Parent/Student Handbook - Set for June 27th at 6:00 p.m.

(10) Set Dates for IASB Training with Nesa Brauer: Sessions 3 hours - July 25th from 5:30 to 8:30.

(11) Approve Amended Budget

(12) Interfund Loan Payment

(13) Approve transfer of Sharon Neely from 1st Grade to Pre-K

(14) Approve transfer of Tena Harrell from 3rd Grade to 1st Grade

(15) Reassignment of Angela Coleman from 4th Grade to 2nd Grade

(16) Houston-Jones from Alternative to Kindergarten

(17) Mary Jo Miller from Kindergarten to Inclusion (Primary)

(18) Melanie Pitts from Primary Inclusion to Self-Contained

(19) Posting of 3rd Grade Vacancy

Adjournment at 8:20 p.m.

CAT Tracks Editor's Note:

Once again, Madame CAT President had to go it alone.

For the past week, I have been battling a "fever of unknown origin". Hopefully, an extensive battery of tests run today will eventually expose the culprit. They tested for two types of Lyme Disease, two types of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, West Nile Virus and a whole bunch of stuff of which the medical coding lady had never heard. In my "normal" state of mind, I couldn't help myself, but I was able to bite my tongue...

... yep, my bet is on "cat scratch fever".

Anyway...

Not knowing whether my affliction was contagious, I chose to quarantine myself.

So, a special thanks to De De for the information presented. Any errors are mine and mine alone.

Who knew?

That there would actually come a time when I would rather have gone to a school board meeting than stay home and watch DVDs?

After years and years of listening to the Cairo Board of Education plead broke and that "the sky is falling, the sky is falling" (despite millions of dollars stashed in the bank), I could hardly fail to miss the irony of the DVD now playing on my home entertainment system...Season Two of "Falling Skies" (a TV series about alien invasion.)

Yep...

Even though I didn't venture forth to the board meeting, I still got to see my goodly share of aliens tonight!