6)    The results of the Board elections are as follows:

• Randy Guthery – President
• Julie Wengert – Vice president
• D.J Bertoncino – Secretary
• Jeff Hughey – Treasurer  

7)    St. Mary’s principal Report

·        Stephen Jones stated the number of enrollments is the same.

·        There are currently two daycare workers. The virtus guidelines strongly encourages there be two workers present. Last year the daycare budget was exceeded. Stephen asks if they could keep two teacher aids on staff with the preschoolers. Stephen asked if the budget permits keeping both workers. Chris Churchwell stated that the budget has been changed to accommodate two people for this year.

·        There is a new music program where a music instructor will come and work with the children at no cost. The parents will be the one to pay for the program if they want to participate.

·        The book fair will begin Friday 3-5 p.m. Saturday 7-12 p.m., Sunday 9-1 p.m

8)    St. Peter’s Principal Report

        ·        Greg Emory stated the enrollments are the same.

        ·        The book fair will be ending this Friday.

        ·        Renovations are being made to the library.

        ·        The Lady Warriors won their game against Thomas Jefferson on September 15th.

9)    McAuley Prinipal Report

        ·        Gene Koester stated there is a correction on the enrollments due to a foreign exchange student not returning from Vietnam. We had a late enrollment as well.

        ·        Testing will start October 13 on the Plan, Explore, and PSAT. Ms. Hartman and Gene met with each other to discuss removing the ASVAB and replacing it with the ACT. Our average test results for the ACT last year were 22.7 in comparison to the states at 21.6.

        ·        Ms. Tempe asked to engage in a program to tutor reading/English students.

        ·        Reminder of Founder’s day, October 4, 1885. The student’s who participate will be allowed to dress in 1880’s fashion.

        ·        Fr. Rahab has invited students to speak at the 9:00 Mass this week, the 12:00 mass next week, and the Saturday mass; different student will talk about their involvement with McAuley and the academic aspect, social extracurricular and catholic education.

        ·        We have some students involved with Franklin Tech. program in Joplin. Clayton Klaver was elected vice president over her nursing program and Lucky Kousky was elected president of the pulmonary program and president over the skills USA program.

10) Finance Committee – Chris Churchwell 
        ·        The high school received a lemon’s grant this year. 
        ·        The revenue from Tuition and education fees  has dropped substantially. 
        ·        The amount of revenue expected/budgeted for Annual Appeal has increased.

The expense side of the budget:
·        The Sr. Corita Fund has now risen to the point that it will cover Sr. Joan’s salary.

·        Salary expense overall has increased for this year.

·        Our health insurance had a few changes. We had some additions to the program due to employment changes.

11) Development – Renee Motazedi, Sr. Norbert, Julie   Wengert

    ·        Annual Appeal theme is being worked on.

    ·        The Catholic education kick off is October 26^th. Matching funds are available to incentivize staff, faculty, and School Board members to participate in the Annual Appeal.  We would like the number of participants to increase so we can say a large percentage of faculty takes part. The Sr. Corita fund is almost to budget. Fr. Justin brought up concerns in regards in regards to the percentage of participation of the fundraiser within each parish.  

    ·        The website was graded and is now up to a 62% from 47% which is a significant increase compared to what it was just three weeks ago.

    ·        Google put a code on the website to keep track of all the visitors. There are about 50-180 visitors on a weekday and it seems to be lower on the weekend and around 35% out of the 3,000 are new visitors.

    ·        We are currently making web templates for the teachers who want a website. It is a site within the main site. They will be anywhere from 5 to 8 pages depending on what the teacher’s preferences are.

    ·        Fr. Justin brought up some concerns about the School Board web pages not being current. Some questions were brought up on who is in charge of the website and if more help is needed to maintain the website. Renee stated that even though it is not part of her job description it should be kept under the development due to its P.R. nature. She asked that time and patience as well as support is needed until the site is completely updated, due to the limited resources and responsibilities of that department. Sr. Norbert brought a couple of articles to the Board.

1.    An article of a study by Notre Dame to help get Latino families in Catholic schools.

2.    An article in America Magazine on the future of Catholic schools.

12) Alumni 

        ·        The Alumni just got finished with the 125^th reunion celebration weekend. Alumni will meet September 28^th to evaluate the success.

        ·        Sr. Joan and Gene will be traveling to Lamar this weekend. Sr. Joan will be doing her first presentation as facilitator for Virtus.

13) Building & Grounds

    ·        Patricia states that the Library at St. Peter’s is going through some repairs and maintenance.

    ·        Randy asked Patricia to remain on the committee for another year. She agrees.

14)  Old Business

        ·        Fundraising policy-Renee met with the fundraising committee to set the calendar. Renee would like to know all extracurricular clubs fundraising attempts so there will not be multiple fundraising events all at once.

        ·        The Board looked over the fundraising policy. Fr. Justin brought up concern about the policy being too long.              Motion to approve policy, motion second, policy approved.

15)New Business

        ·        President Randy had some concerns about the Sisters of Mercy not having the right to vote. Randy asked if the sisters would accept voting rights. Sr. Joan stated that, at this time, she would like for the voting rights to remain the same. The subject may be addressed at a later date.

        ·        There have been some changes to the policy manual. The changes will be completed and online hopefully within the next month.

16)Goals

        ·        To stay afloat financially and start building for the future (endowments).

        ·        Continue to unify the schools to be one entity, not three schools under one name.

        ·        Policy review. To look at the standing committees or ones that should be standing.

        ·        The Principals to meet monthly to keep in touch, to update calendars and not have activities on the same night. This will help on the unification.

        ·        Increase our enrollment through stewardships (tuition free enrollment), public relations and more involvement with Sacred Heart and St. Ann’s.

        ·        A revision of the Long-Range Plan.

        ·        Investigating on how to wisely fund JACS in 2011.

10)         Closing prayer was offered by Stephen Jones

Amanda Pike recording secretary