Meeting Last Night

A few notes on the meeting last night:

First of all - thank you to everyone who came out, it was very well attended. Mr. Barkley, Mr. Murphy, and Mrs. Brewis represented Haultain's staff.

1. Mr. Barkley mentioned that the Accomodation group at the CBE will be meeting by April 24th to discuss the future of our communities' schools. They will hand a preliminary proposal to the the Board which will be considered along with community input.
   
2. Mr. Barkley also mentioned the surplus of teaching staff that Haultain will be faced with next school year. At this point there is a surplus of 11 positions. Obviously this is a very tough situation and a lot of present staff will be sorely missed next year.
   
3. We also received an update regarding a Council proposal for a writing initiative, it will be a write-a-thon and teaching staff is working on rolling that out.
   
4. We have some tentative dates for our new Artist-in-Residence program; in mid to late May, Ramona will start working with our students.
5. Earth Day is April 22nd and there will be classroom activity encouraging environmental stewardship. The lunch program students will be asked to do their best to bring a 'zero impact' lunch.
6. The full results of the parent survey were reviewed, it seems that the spending decisions echo the general feelings of our parent population. More survey details will be posted shortly.
7. Mrs. Kipp will be off for 6 weeks shortly so everyone should be patient with whichever poor soul is hired to try to fit into those ever-capable shoes.
8. Our monthly financial report was a little tricky this month as we had many items from last month's spending spree to get through - thank you Sherri for your hard work on this.

Thanks again to everyone who attended for your valuable input. The full minutes of this meeting will be ratified next month and then posted to tend to your edification.