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A. CALL TO ORDER

President Susan Lowy called the meeting to order at 5:40 p.m.

B. DECLARATION OF QUORUM
President Susan Lowy, Vice President Marc Chaloupka, Secretary Dayne Foster and Trustees Mary Broussard and Tim Jones were present. Trustees Steve Aldrich and Larry Johnson were absent.
B. OPEN FORUM TO DISCUSS ACADEMIC CALENDAR PLANNING ISSUES
President Susan Lowy reviewed the items that must be considered when adopting a school calendar. These items are: New legislation that requires school district calendars to have a student start date the week of August 21 unless the school district applies for a waiver to allow instruction to begin sooner than the week of August 21; School calendars must have 187 workdays for teachers; School calendars must have 180 school days for students unless the district applies for a waiver to allow students to attend 177 days to give the district ten staff development days; The number of days in each six weeks and each semester should be approximately the same; CSISD traditionally aligns its Spring Break with TAMU's. Several College Station ISD employees were present at the Open Forum to discuss Academic Calendar Planning issues. A&M Consolidated High School employee, Jamie Bassett was in favor of starting school at a later date and having a shorter Winter Break. Central Office employee, Becky Eden requested clarification on the State waiver allowing schools to start earlier than the week of August 21st for parents who call for information. A&M Consolidated High School employees, Lisa McAlpine, Chrissy Hester and Rick Hill discussed the issue of when to schedule winter finals. Academic Calendar Planning issues will be revisited at a later date.
D. ADJOURNMENT

MOTION 3298: I move to adjourn the meeting. The motion was made by Dayne Foster and seconded by Marc Chaloupka. The motion carried with five ayes.

Without objection, President Lowy adjourned the Open Forum at 6:11 p.m.

SUSAN LOWY DAYNE FOSTER
PRESIDENT SECRETARY

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