The Medical Lake School Board went through some housekeeping items at its Aug. 23 meeting.
In action items, the board approved the first and second readings of the updated “Nondiscrimination” policy. The only change to the policy is the district must provide auxiliary aides and services to individuals with disabilities upon request.
The board also approved the second reading of policies “Effective Communication,” “Separation from Employment” and “Disciplinary Action and Discharge.”
Kim Headrick, director of teaching and learning, gave a report on Title I at Hallett Elementary.
Headrick said Title I Part A dollars will be used to help fund a schoolwide program to help students needing intervention. The Title I teacher hired will focus on math and fifth-grade reading support. The paraeducators who were hired at Hallett will also support reading and math intervention.
There will also be an after school intervention program for grades 3-5 in reading and math.
During his superintendent’s report, Superintendent Tim Ames gave an overview on the various maintenance projects that were completed on the buildings over the summer.
Maintenance crews cleaned all of the classrooms, sealed gym floors, inspected the fire panel and smoke detectors, changed filters, lubricated all HVAC units and packed pre-engineered bark at the elementary school playgrounds.
Individual building projects included replacing one of the interior doors at the high school, repairing concrete and asphalt in the Michael Anderson Elementary School bus loop and parking lot and changing the faucets at the middle school.
Crews also installed some new security cameras and automated latches on doors at the buildings and a new security wall at Hallett Elementary.
“We’re looking at getting more security cameras,” Ames said during an Aug. 29 phone interview. “There’s more to security and we’re going to piece it together. We may have to go out for a capital improvement bond (in the future).”
A couple of the bigger maintenance projects staff hopes to complete in the future include demolishing and remodeling the high school concessions building and resealing the parking lots at each of the buildings. He said staff is also working on pricing for a maintenance building that will be located behind the middle school’s tennis courts.
“The plan is to have a new maintenance building by October 2017,” Ames said.
Ames also gave a report on the summer meals program at Hallett Elementary. He said the program served an average of 30 meals — between breakfast and lunch — per day. Although Ames said the meals were not as well attended as the district would have liked, it is still a valuable program.
“Thirty meals a day meant that 30 kids did not go hungry,” Ames said. “It’s a great program and we’ll keep doing it. It’s grant funded, so it’s not a cost for the district to do this.”
In other business:
● Chad Moss, director of finance, was named the Washington State Impact Aid Association secretary/treasurer and will serve a two-year term.
Al Stover can be reached at [email protected].
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