Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Board Meeting Tuesday 15 February 2022, 6pm

 Board Meeting Tuesday 15 February 2022, 6pm Staffroom

USEFUL LINKS: Board review cycle - includes who's on prayers,  


ALL REPORTS ARE TAKEN AS READ - BOARD MEMBERS PLEASE COME READY TO REVIEW -
Review includes: Comments/questions, interpretation, action.
We want our time together to be purposeful and cannot wait for reports to be read in the meeting. The principal's report will be unpacked.

6pm: Prayer - Lorraine

6.10pm: Board Chair election

6.15pm: Delegations:
Motion: the board delegates authority to the Board Chair to be an administrator and signatory on bank accounts.

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 Code of Conduct to be signed by all members

Committee Compositions: Personnel, property, finance, committee dealing with mandatory requirements

Compliance - sufficient parent representatives - check.
Recognition for Rory.

There should be one more elected representative. We can leave a seat free within 6 months of an election. The number of elected parent reps has to be more than the number of selected. At present it is equal. Have put a request in with NZSTA to check this.
6.30 -Board Training: - ERO compliance information.  Health and Safety checklist (shared with the ERO folder).  Record of self audit to be signed off.

6.45pm  Strategy
Charter 2020-22 - Please pre-read charter, annual plan and targets. Motion: to approve our 2022 charter, annual plan and targets

PRINCIPAL'S REPORT & Matters Arising                
6.50pm Principals Report February 2022 (including NAG report)

7.05pm Discussion of Roll analysis and staff cuts (supplied by email).

BOARD WORK TO DO
(based on our Board review cycle - (includes who's on prayers)

EMPLOYMENT - Year 4/5 teacher for term 2+, Within School Teacher

Curriculum -

7.40pm - Development report


7.45pm (try and keep this section to 15 minutes)
Property, H&S, personnel and finance 

Health and Safety - to be noted

All reported within principal's report



Draft Budget 2022 - emailed.

Move that the Board accepts the budget for 2022 with a deficit of $41,607.


Policies Review
(For information: Schooldocs self-review schedule - Meeting schedule.)

7,50pm  
Policies to be Reviewed from Schooldocs.  Please read in advance so that we can have discussion around how these look in practice.
To go to the Schooldocs site:

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

Go to the "Current Review" tab

Polices to review this term:
Health and Safety
Note: this is a big review.  It is a good idea to check it now and review it in light of the Health and Safety discussion done in the Board training section.


Consultation

pm - 


NAG 6 Administration :
8.00pm

Accept Minutes of last meeting (updated minutes need linking) Anne to do this before emailing

Correspondence:
Education Gazette - February 2022