PREVIEW: BOE Agenda For Monday’s Meeting

The Board of Education meets tonight at 8:30 p.m. at South Side High School. Here’s an idea of what they’ll be discussing, contracts they’ll be approving and other items for information.

Items for Discussion

• Bond issue meeting with building representatives
• Heat management in the gymnasiums at the elementary schools
• Confirming elementary enrollment
• Summer curriculum programs
• Your Schools
• Annual review of Audit Committee Charter

 Contract Approvals

•  Approval of a lease of extension between Rockville Centre Public Schools and Rockville Plaza Realty for three years for property located at 189 Sunrise Highway.
• Contract with United Cerebral Palsy Association (ucpn) of Nassau County for tuition and any additional billings, such as 1:1 aide, for the two month summer 2011 and ten month school year 2011/2012 for Rockville Centre students attending ucpn during this period.

New Textbooks for the 2011/2012 school year

• High School French (6 IB)—Face-A’-Face—Vista Higher Learning
• High School French (5 IB)—Imaginez—Vista Higher Learning
• High School Spanish—Realidades 2—Pearson Prentice Hall
• High School Physics—Physics: Higher Level Physics for the IB Diploma—Pearson Higher Education
• High School Chemistry (AP Edition)—Chemistry: The Central Science—Pearson Prentice Hall

Items for Information

• The following transfers in the following amounts have been approved for the 2011/2012 school year: Employee Benefit Accrued Liability ($400,000), Retirement Contribution ($900,000) and Unemployment Insurance ($30,000).
• The following reserves in the following amounts have been affirmed for the 2011/2012 school year: Reserve for Encumbrances ($500,000), Reserve for Unemployment Insurance ($100,000), Reserve for Employee Benefit Accrued Liability ($2,700,000) and Reserve for Retirement Contribution ($1,800,000).