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Willsboro Central School
Board of Education – Agenda
August 28, 2007
Conference Room
6:00pm – Executive Session
Meeting Immediately Following

1. Executive Session

2. Call to Order

3. Pledge of Allegiance

4. New Business
a) Board of Education tour of the facilities by Mr. Harold MacDougal .

5. Approval of Minutes
a) Approve the minutes from the regular meeting on 8/14/07.

6. Business & Finance

a) Recommend approval of the transfers dated August 21, 2007.

b) Approve the transfer of $17,500 from the general fund to the cafeteria fund as recommended in our external auditor’s letter.

c) Recommend approval for the district to retain the state limit of undesignated fund balance each year. (This year the percentage is 3%).

d) As per the auditor’s recommendation for long term planning in regards to the GASB 45 requirement, add $583,681.52 into our health insurance reserve fund.

e) Recommend approval of the 2007-08 tax rate of $12.99 / 1000. This is a decrease of $1.67 from last year and a decrease from the projected rate at budget time. This reflects a tax rate percentage decrease of over 13%. This is based on an assessed value of the school district of $364,922,557.

f) Accept the proposal and agreement with Harris Beach to serve as Bond Counsel for the capital project to be voted on in October 2007.

7. Old Business

8. Board Policies

First Reading
a) Communication Among Individual Board Members

9. Personnel – Consent Agenda
a) Recommend the appointment of Kristen Young as a building substitute at a rate of $75.00 per day.

b) Accept the resignation of Terry Ashline as Teacher Aide. She will be taking a Teacher Assistant position effective September 1, 2007.