The Morongo Unified School District Board meets in a busy session tonight. Reporter Dan Stork checks the agenda…
At the meeting of the Morongo Unified School District Board of Education on Tuesday January 10th, a closed session at 6:20 p.m. will deal with early application to kindergarten, and student expulsions and re-entries. Items on the action agenda at the 7 p.m. open session include the Title III year 4 Action plan, the budget calendar for the 2012-2013 school year, and piggyback bids for technology contracts. Also on the docket are approvals of a Division of the State Architect Inspector and a Soils and Materials Testing Lab for the new Joshua Tree Elementary School facility. The Board will consider changes to the 403(b) and 457(b) employee savings plans. Next, the Board is scheduled to authorize bids for modernization projects at Yucca Valley High School and Palm Vista Elementary. Second reviews are listed for classic books by Charles Darwin and Rachel Carson, to be used as texts, a prevention program in elementary math, and a Microsoft Office text. A first review for a research guidebook rounds out the agenda. The meeting will take place at Friendly Hills Elementary School.