BAAC March

Attendance: Dave Bergacker, Lori Butler, Anne Wolf, Julie Evans, Julie Randall, Leah Landolfi, Troy Gedack, Christine Benne
Guest: KC Keen, D-11 Facilities, Angela McKibben, Jenna Clinchard,
Minutes: minutes of Feb 12, 2007 were amended and approved.
Principal’s Report:
D-11 Board Meeting: Still waiting for an approval of all day kindergarten. East Middle School will close for 1 year. The Board is still looking at what action to take on the extended school day.
Due to decreasing number of students attending Chipeta, our school may have to reduce one staff member, probably from 4th grade. Chipeta may lose our Vice Principal.
In the district there are 12 schools with approximately 200 students, 3 schools at 350 students, and 1 school with approximately 90 students.
Chipeta Citizen Sounding Board is on the website.
Guest Speaker: KC Keen from the D-11 Facilities talked to the committee about the parking issues. He presented us with the three parking plans that are available to us.
Plan I: $175,000-this plan would clean away berm on the lower parking area, add parking and eliminate the congestion of pedestrian and traffic by inclosing the lower parking and closing off the existing exit and making the lower parking lot a circle drive with parking in the middle. This is the best and safest plan.
Plan II: $35,000- this plan would move the berm back 8 ft allow for a 16-24 ft ‘kiss and go’ drive, this would not add any parking to the lower parking lot, and would not eliminate the congestion of pedestrians and traffic.
Plan III: $75,000-this plan would be Plan II along with adding 10 spaces with parking on an angle in the upper parking lot.. This would involved putting in ‘cut out’ spaces on the east side of the parking lot. (The ‘no parking’ side)
Mr. Keen suggested to wait until we can do Plan I.
It was suggested that we rest ripe the upper & lower parking lot with angled spaces with possibly widening lower parking lot stalls.
Motion to accept Plan I to defer for at least 2 yrs, it was 2nd and passed.

Security: After a note was sent out for opinions of which type of security our school would like out the 3 options:
Option I: leave everything as is.
Option II: put in a video system with locks on the doors at a cost of approx $1,000
Option III: Option I with a buzzer system at a cost of approx $3,500
Teachers and parents expressed an opinion of having Option III
Motion to accept Option III, it was 2nd and passed.