Other items from School Board meeting of 8-15-2005

Joe Francis reported that the change of gym lights will reduce the electric costs from $28,000 per year to $7,000 per year.

The final enrollment numbers and hence the final firm number of state contribution to the Evansville School District will be known on 10/14/2005. It looks right now like a decrease in the tax levy of about 1%.

In the first reading at the school board was Policy #871 Public Complaints About School Personnel (Complaints against staff). There was some discussion of the process of complaint resolution, and it is expected to come up again at the September board meeting.

On the agenda for the upcoming school year board meetings:
October--Long Distance Capital Project Planning
February--Distance Learning and On-line Learning
April---Tech Ed Review
Dennis Hatfield asked for a session on Textbooks and what's new in that field.