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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 9:57 PM CDT
Board to hear proposal to change CMS colors

By DAVE FOPAY, Staff Writer
dfopay@jg-tc.com

CHARLESTON — The Little Trojans might start wearing the red and gold of their older counterparts next year.

Representatives of the Charleston Booster Club are scheduled to attend tonight’s school board meeting to discuss the possibility of changing Charleston Middle School’s colors to match Charleston High School’s. CMS’s school colors are orange and black now.

The club wants to make a presentation to the board and to start looking at whether it can buy sports uniforms for the middle school to make the change, Superintendent Jim Littleford said. The boosters would like the change in place for the 2010-2011 school year, but the board would have to vote on it at some point, he explained.

One possible advantage of having the two schools’ colors match that club representatives have mentioned is that some uniforms could be passed down to CMS after use at the high school, Littleford also said.

Other items on the agenda for tonight’s meeting include:

- An update on the hiring process for a permanent principal for CMS. Littleford said the board decided to limit the current search to school district employees and the board should be able to hire a principal for next year at its Nov. 18 meeting.

Littleford said one reason to limit the search to current district employees was because of Scott Williams’ decision to stay in his job in the Chicago area because of difficulties moving after he was hired for CMS; interim Principal Michael Schmitz then agreed to continue in the position for another year. Littleford added that he thinks there are qualified candidates in the district, as well.

-A report on a recent change in the district’s school lunch payment policy in which students who are behind account payments by a certain amount are no longer limited on their lunch selections.

Littleford said those students are now allowed to get a complete lunch instead of being limited to smaller selections such as a sandwich and fruit. The district is also trying to do more to get lunch accounts up-to-date, and the change has worked well so far, he said.

-A look at preliminary figures for the district’s annual tax levy, which financial consultant David Kuetemeyer said the board will approve in November or December, depending on when property values for new construction are known.

Kuetemeyer said the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law’s restrictions tied to the rate of inflation mean the district can probably expect about a $1,000 increase in revenue from current property values.

- Adopting a program that would let CHS students who have failed classes to make up the courses online.

Littleford said costs kept the district from considering such a program in the past, but with the proposed system the cost would be about $200 for each course a student needs to take. CHS Principal Diane Hutchins will make a presentation on the proposal to the board.

-Repaying interfund loans of $175,000 from the budget’s transportation fund to its working cash fund. The board moved the money to the transportation funds earlier this year when the state was behind on its transportation reimbursements.

Contact Dave Fopay at dfopay@jg-tc.com or 238-6858.

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das wrote on Oct 21, 2009 5:51 PM:

" For a district who is in AYP trouble, shouldn't they be moe concerned about spending money on education and moe time on education than buy moe uniforms and discussing an issue that truly doesn't matter? "