Next year’s school calendar back on board agenda

Maricopa Unified School District’s governing board will meet Wednesday evening to hear several reports from district staff, to discuss agenda items for a joint meeting with the city and to approve next year’s school calendar.

Fred Laguna, director of transportation, will present an update on his department’s buses, drivers and schedules.  A review of district grants will be provided by Grants Manager and Finance Director Karen Honeycutt, and Dr. Kymberly Marshall, director of Exceptional Student Services, will be updating and discussing assistive technology grants.

In addition to the standard approval of travel, donations and the personnel schedule, the board will discuss the first reading of polices GCQA and CDQA.

A legislative delegate and alternate will be approved to represent the governing board at the Arizona School Board Association’s delegate assembly in June.

Scheduled for March 18, the board will meet with the Maricopa City Council; items for that agenda will be discussed and approved.

Board members will be asked to renew a contract for services from Waste Management and a bid award for unleaded fuel at a two cent per gallon discount from QuikTrip Corporation.

The 2010-2011 calendar will be back for board approval after being tabled at the last meeting to enable the committee to review the number of early release days for elementary students and the timing of parent conferences in relationship to the quarters’ ending dates. 

The new calendar indicates early release days every Wednesday for elementary students and the first and third Wednesdays of each month for middle school students. Individual schools would announce parent teacher conferences if this calendar is accepted, which has a student start date of Aug. 2 and a last day of school on May 24.

For the complete meeting agenda, click here.

If you go:

What:  Maricopa Unified School District governing board meeting
When:  Wednesday, March 10, 6 p.m.
Where:  District Office Administration Bldg., 44150 W. Maricopa-Casa Grande Hwy.

Photo by Joyce Hollis