Monadnock Regional School District

Surry Transition Committee Meeting Minutes

March 6th, 2008

Monadnock Regional HS/MS

Approved

Committee members present: Jim Carnie, Jane Fortson, Winston Wright (MRSD School Board) and Mark Gross (Surry School Board). Administrators Present: Dr. Kenneth Dassau, Superintendent.

The meeting was called to order at 5:38 pm.

1. Approval of Minutes: Motion to approve the minutes by Jim Carnie seconded by J. Fortson. Motion passes with the 3 yes with 1 abstention (W. Wright).

2. Request from the Surry School Board: A request has been made by the Surry School Board to ask the Monadnock Regional School Board to allow the current 9^th, 10^th, and 11^th graders who wish to remain to continue to attend the Monadnock regional High School. J. Fortson made the motion to recommend to the MRSD School Board that we accept the Surry Board’s request for the 9^th, 10^th, and 11^th graders to attend the MRHS pending an agreement on tuition in accordance with policy JFAB. Seconded by W. Wright. Motion passes, unanimous for all present.

3. Tuition: Mark Gross stated he doesn’t expect the tuition to be waived. He did ask if the rate posted on the state website have the SPED amount in it? K. Dassau stated that there are two rates, one for SPED and one for regular education students. Mark Gross asked if they could get the rates as soon as they are ready? Surry would like the rates so that they can prepare their budget. M. Gross stated they would need both the SPED rate and the regular education rates.

4. Transfer of the Surry School Building: The questions of when the transfer would take place and how much the building would cost the town of Surry arose. For purposes of the warrant article to be placed before the town of Surry the amount of the building needs to be determined. Discussion of what would be included in the building when it is transferred was discussed.

A walkthrough of the Surry Transition committee will be done at a future meeting to determine what needs to be removed, left, etc. M. Gross stated that time was of the essence as far as determining the amount of Capital Improvements and lists of equipment.

J. Carnie leaves at 6:21.

W. Wright asked if an evaluation of the fair market value of the building could be done? A current assessment has been done.

The playground, which was installed by, volunteers, will this be removed? The committee did not feel this was necessary.

5. The items still to be addressed are: The cost of the building, capital improvements, the disposition strategy, listing of equipment, and the timing of the transfer.

W. Wright leaves at 6:35pm.

The Surry School board has requested a special meeting of the SAU Board to address the question of whether or not Surry is a member of SAU 38.

6. Next Meeting: Possible dates/times for next meeting, March 17 or March 20^th at 4pm. M. Gross to check with T. Peloquin to determine his availability.