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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 28,2012 IONE SCHOOL BOARD -Continuedfrom PAGE ONE Rudolf concerning the coop erative agreements between schools for sports programs, p rim arily betw een lone and Heppner. Rudolf said that the agreem ents have created opportunities for kids to participate in ath letic program s that they would not have been able to take advantage of..H e said that no negative issues have arisen, no money has changed hands and neither has transportation been an issue. “ B o th d i s t r i c t s have benefited,” said Ar cher. “1 think it’s a good opportunity for kids. And it’s nice to give kids op portunities.” “I think its a won derful opportunity for kids,” added Mulvihill. “My only concern is the cost.” -learned that with the hirin g o f new, less- experienced teachers, lone has lost some state funding based on teachers’ experi ence. -learned from Ar cher that lone has been selected to participate in a civil-rights survey. He said he is in the process o f gathering data for the report. Mulvihill remarked that educational statistics concerning African-Amer ican males, especially with regard to suspensions, are “pretty alarming.” “ W e’re o ffe rin g equal opportunity,” said Archer. -learned that Mid Columbia Bus Co. is in the process o f instal I ing camer as on school buses. Archer said that it would cost the d istrict in the neighbor hood o f $9,000; however, the state would reimburse the lone School District 90 percent o f transportation costs. -learned from Mul vihill that the Oregon Edu cation Investment Board, a new education board ap pointed by Governor John Kitzhaber, has approved the education service dis trict K-12 “ ESD Achieve m ent C om pact W orking Draft.” The three categories in the com pact include completion o f high school and career readiness; pro gression tow ard college and career readiness; and equity o f student popula tions. He said that lone was “well positioned” on these criteria. Since Kitzhaber w as e le c te d , the s ta te ’s e d u c atio n focus is now geared toward proficiency and perform ance and the target has expanded to in clude children from birth through college. The state has petitioned the feds to be released from the “No Child Left Behind” law. M ulvihill, who is on the OEIB, said that ad ditional funds that small and remote schools, such as lone, receive has become a contentious issue at the state level with the majority o f the population in urban areas. He said that small- school funding rem ains intact for now, but added, “It was not a pretty battle.” He also told the board that the state wants to know the amount o f money raised by schools above and be yond state formulas, such as funding received from local option taxes. “We need to know if districts are getting mon ey beyond the formulas,” he said. lone School Board m em bers feared that this information would be held against the schools receiv ing these funds, whereby the state would offset the amount the districts receive from these other funding sources by reducing state school funding; however, M ulv ih ill said this was not the case. He also said school districts' practices o f maintaining large end ing fund balances may also become an issue. -received the fol low ing financial update as o f Feb. 29 from Beth O 'H anlon with the ESD: the general fund collected $128,359 in basic school support, $3,527 in prop erty taxes and $5,426 in federal forest fees; the up dated basic school support estim ate for the 2011-12 year is $38,596 less than the previous estimate, due to a reduction in the 2010- 11 estimate. The average daily attendance figures and lone’s teacher experience were adjusted to the actual figures. “The 2011-12 es tim ate also updated the current school year’s ADMr (average daily membership) and teacher experience,” said the report. “ As this calculation continues to be lower than the 2010-11 school estimate, the state is paying basic school sup port based on the higher 2010-2011 w e ig h tin g .” T his y e a r ’s A D M r was 167.80, versus the estimat ed 172. Other revenues in clude $3,661 from cafeteria operations and a $40,000 Wind Energy Grant for the science program. O ’Hanlon said the state is readjust ing lone’s ADMr and that the district will see a sub sequent decrease in state school funding starting this month. -a p p ro v e d a r e vised school district budget calendar as follows: April 11-publish first notice o f budget committee meeting; April 18-publish second notice o f budget committee m eeting; April 24-budget com m ittee m eeting with election o f officers, pre sentation o f budget m es sage and budget document, citizen input and review o f budget document, 7 p.m.; May 22-final meeting target date for approval o f budget by budget committee; June 19-publication o f notice o f budget hearing and sum - THREE mary o f budget and funds; June 26-budget hearing. 4:30 p.m ., regular board m ee tin g , ad o p t b u dget, m ake appropriations and levy tax. -approved 2012-13 budget com m ittee m em bers as follows: Bob Ball, Mike Garrett, Tim Holtz, Jason Proudfoot and Linda LaRue and the five board m em bers-Lisa Rietm ann, Bill Jepsen, Anne Morter, Bink Ramos and Joe McEl- ligott. 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