January+Minutes

**Minutes ** - The minutes were read over by everyone, the minutes were accepted.  **Treasures Report ** - Bo was the only school to pay dues.  **SMOB Report ** - Brett explained what a SMOB does. Board meetings are run through board docs. His responsibilities include being on the safe school committee, vote on issues with in the board. Last years budget was 189 million for this counties expenses. He also received a laptop computer. He tries to speak for the students of this county. He also went to a board member meeting for a week in Ocean City. Kinds of discussions at a board meeting include the following; school lunches- They had a 8% increase in food prices and they were going to crumble if food prices were not raised. The receive no government funding therefore it is difficult to support themselves. When you get money from the state there is restricted to what they can use and what you don’t use, it gets sent back. He spends a decent amount of time working on what is posted in the board docs. The board docs is a website created by the board to display the issues being voted. On average 3 hours a week he spends dealing with SMOB responsibilities. He encourages doing it. He made a lot of good contacts with students around the state who he said are a lot like him.  -SMOB must be a member School Student Council. If they are serious about this, they must start attending meetings.  -Members should present ideas that they have to the SMOB to bring those ideas to the Board of Education. In the committing years the future president would be responsible to go to meet with the board as well. This also includes all executive boards in the mean time.  **Amending the Constitution Committee ** - The material presented was passed.  **<span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Mission Statement Committee ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">- The material was passed. <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Preamble Committee ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">- The material presented was passed. <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Qualifications for all Members Committee ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">- Instead of just putting grades, put the grades but put a explination of why the grades are the way they are. Another idea includes not to consider GPA at all. <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Committee Meetings **  <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">-  <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> Will be held next week to further work on the constitution. <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> **<span style="display: block; font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: center;">Presidents Report ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">North East- In march they will be performing a blood drive, as well as a dodgeball tournament, and a winter dance to raised money. <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Rising Sun- They are planning a winter dance on January 30, they are doing dafidiles, in which raises money for cancer victims by selling flowers, and a volley Ball tournament and candy sales as fundraisers, as well as going to Williamsburg and Bush Gardens, and lastly planning a blood drives <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Perryville- They Dodgeball Tournament, Teacher Ap week, giving Glass Apples. <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Bo manor- Daffodil day, Senior Class just did a floor hockey tournament at a cost of 2 dollars. <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Elkton- Blood Drive, Dodgeball, Teacher Ap. Week, and Relay for Life <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> **<span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> Budget Prioritization List - ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> Two months into the budget process, bit begins with all department heads getting together and planning on what we will be spending on next year and we are expected to give our proposals on how we are going to spend our tax dollars. The executive directors sit down and prioritize on what is more important and what isn’t. The must submit something in march. In annapolis they are doing the same thing but through the state and this money goes to public schools including 23 different school system. We don’t always get the money we expected but we must give them a idea of what we need. Mr. Shafer has asked all the stakeholders, he asking them to do a survey to rank were we want the money to go. We now will take a survey ranking what is most important to us to spend on the budget for Cecil County Public Schools. Due to the recession this country is in, the state is being hurt economically, therefore Cecil County follows in suite. <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> **<span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> Good of Cause ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">-Want to add a 5 minute break in between the meeting. - Jacob <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">-In order to plan for lobby day we dues from all school except for Bo-Manor. We will not be able to go to lobby day if dues are not paid to order to receive a bus. Rising Sun demands paperwork in order to receive there dues from their advisors. <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Ice-Breaker  ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">- A Ice-Breaker would be nice to be added for mixing up school seating. Have seating already set up next time, be seated left to right in order of birth to what month it is is one way. <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Permission Slip <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">s ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">-must be brought to meeting. <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> **<span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> Maryland Leadership Workshop ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">- It is a week long program to teach students leadership skills. It costs 700$. Someone who had gone last year ill create a presentation to explain what is all about. <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Officer Selection ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">- Must know what the officers do and how we elect officers in which is added in the constitition. Strong leadership begets strong organization. Officers must be more mature, if you decide being a officer in County Council. Others must nominate others in the voting process. <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> **<span style="display: block; font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: center;">Plus-Delta ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Plus- Wiki space presentation, and on schedule. All the presentations involving the presenter. Microphones are a nice touch. Our SMOB Brett did a great presentation explaining what he has done how he does it and what SMOBs do in general. <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Delta- Intermingle schools to reduce chatter on side. Seating arrangement was sketchy. The committee presentation were not complete. Name tags. Have seating already set up next time, be seated left to right in order of birth to what month it is is one way.
 * I <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> ntroduction ** <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">- Everyone introduced themselves  <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">