Thursday 6 February 2020

Tuesday 11th February 2020, 6pm Staffroom


Prayer - Lorraine (next month: Sharni)

Board Chair election

Motion: the board delegates authority to the Board Chair to be an administrator and signatory on bank accounts.

Board resignations - Dave Marriat, Leanne Brookes
New Board Staff representative - Leigh Thomas

Board Training - a building tour

Code of Conduct - please look at before meeting to familiarise yourself, new hard copies will be available at meeting.

From the Pews

PRINCIPAL'S REPORT & Matters Arising

Principal's Delegation
Move that the Board delegates the following responsibilities to the principal:
  • The day-to-day curriculum and resource management of the school and the achievement of the Government's key achievement areas and requirements as specified in official educational  policy documents;
  • The implementation of any other requirements specified by Act of Parliament, the Secretary of Education, any other permanent head of a Government department and for individual and collective employment contracts;
  • Approval of any orders for goods and services provided such an order will not exceed the Board approved budget allocation for the expenditure item involved;
  • Transfers to at-call deposits of amounts less than $5,000 and for periods less than 12 months;
  • Ordering fixed assets for which the capital expenditure has the prior approval of the Board, or fall within the asset replacement budget;
  • The appointment of relieving, casual staff and support staff provided such appointment is within the budget allocation for this particular person and provided this delegation is not given to any other staff member;
  • Communication with parents, officials, representatives of educational organisations and other firms and organisations with whom the Principal deals as part of their curriculum and resource management responsibilities;
BOARD WORK TO DO

Curriculum -
Updated St Joseph's curriculum based on staff development from 2018-19

STRATEGY

St Joseph's Draft Charter 2020 and annual plan - to be adjusted/accepted and approved

Budget 2020 - Move that Board accepts the Budget in draft form to be confirmed at the next meeting when the actual Operations, high health and ESOL Grants are known.
Staff wellbeing survey - paper copies will be distributed.  Update.  In committee.

For our annual report, statement of financial position the Board moves:
That the Board approves the inclusion of a budget for the 2019 Statement of Financial Position and a budgeted Cash flow which are derived from the Board's 2019 operating and capital purchases budgets.

So that the Principal and Board Chair can sign the Statement of Responsibility for the Annual Report:
The Board authorises the Board Chairperson and Principal to sign the Statement of Responsibility for the 2019 Annual Accounts on the Board's behalf when confirmation is received that the audit has been completed.

Policies Review

Term 1 policy review. Please check on Schooldocs before next meeting. The community login for the site is at schooldocs.co.nz. To login, click the link and enter the following details when prompted:
username: stjosephsoamaru

password: veritas



Consultation

NAG 6 Administration : Accept Minutes

Inwards and outwards correspondence