Town Meeting Minutes – September 15, 2015

Topics:

Motions: Special schedule 9/24, Activity block for the Big Draw; Activity block activities are consent items in Town Meeting – -Discussions:  Activity Blocks, 6th graders TA, End of year scholarship information, Wifi Situation, HB Honor Society – – Announcements:  Committee for Future of HB, Building Level Planning Committee, Bike rack, Street Sense, Theater Season, Song Writing Club, Ultimate Frisbee!

Precursors

• SAB elections
  • Nominees selected next week
• Staff meeting tomorrow

Announcements

• Committee for Future of HB
  •  Continuing the committee started by Bennett last year; ask Marie for details
• BLPCs update – Building Level Planning Committee
  • Both proposed buildings were significantly over budget○
  • Possibly remove parking from new building?
  • Many other ideas on the table
  • Ask members of the BLPC for more information
  • Students in 8th grade will be the first class to graduate from the new school
• Bike rack
  • Any ideas for where a new, larger bike rack should go are welcome
• Street Sense Tom
  • Looking for students interested in writing and otherwise taking part in the upcoming play, “Devising Hope”
  • Really great program, sign up in the next few days!
• Theater Season Tom
  • Please audition for, take part in, or see the new blackbox shows!
  • Many auditions available during Lunch, and H Block later this week
• Song Writing Club Dan○
  • First meeting in room 108 at lunch time today
  • Future meetings will be scheduled for a different time
• Ultimate Frisbee! Dave
  • 6th grader ultimate practice on Wednesday! Other students will have practices later this week.
  • Do I need to have any previous experience? NO!

Consent Items

Motions

• Special schedule 9/24 Casey
  • Brief TA at the beginning of the day to allow for preparation for Back to School Night
  • Motion passed.
• Activity block for the Big Draw
  • Motion Passed.
• Further discussion on the scheduling of activity blocks below.

Discussions

• Activity blocks
  • Activity blocks will be held during one Town Meeting a month○
  • Perhaps activity blocks should be consent items in Town Meeting Bill P
  • We shouldn’t be scheduling things during Town Meeting, so an activity block would give us time to have choices Eleanor
  • Perhaps Activity blocks would help attendance at TAs, with less conflicts
  • Maybe having so many activities during one block would create even more conflicts
• Motion that activity block activities are consent items in Town Meeting Bill
  • Call to question
  • Passed
• 6th graders TA
  • Any high schoolers interested in talking to 6th grade TAs about Town Meeting are welcome
• Town Meeting Class○ (same as above)
• End of year scholarship information
  • More information on the end of year scholarships, especially since there are more of them? Maybe on the website? Carol
• Wifi Situation
  • Probably a carryover from SOL testing? Ben
  • We are short IP addresses for all personal and school devices Dan
  • Is there anything we can do about this, maybe ask the county?
  • IP addresses are not the problem; we don’t have enough bandwidth (from Verizon) Ben
  • There was a similar problem recently addressed at WL. Tom
• HBHS
  • HB Woodlawn Honors Society○
  • Make the NHS “more about our school”
  • Community engagement should be social, continuous, engaging○
  • Meeting at TA on Thursday○
  • Trying to show the community that HB is already a part of the larger community.
  • No GPA average required○
  • Motion to table –  Passed

Chair: Salome Gongadze

CoChair: Ben Gessel

Secretary: Jacob Hall