[BurleyBulletin] August 16, 2007: Volunteers Needed Tomorrow

Thu Aug 16 15:34:22 EDT 2007

The Burley Bulletin
August 16, 2007

Inside This Issue...
*        Volunteers to Stuff 1st Day Packets Needed
*        School Picture Day September 5th
*        On-line Student Cafeteria Accounts
*        SchoolMatters Message re. MHS Turf Field
*        No Longer at Burley?
*        Mark Your Calendar...
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Volunteers to Stuff 1st Day Packets Needed
We will be meeting at Burley at 1:00 PM tomorrow (Friday, 8/17) to stuff the
1st Day Information Packets.  If you can come by even for ½ hour and help it
would be greatly appreciated.  Hopefully we will finish “stuffing” on
Friday, but we may need to continue on Monday.  Look for an update on the
Bulletin over the weekend.  Thanks!!
School Picture Day September 5th
Please mark your calendars.  School pictures will be taken on Wednesday,
September 5th.  We will need volunteers to help throughout the day, plus we
need someone who can help schedule our volunteers.  Please contact Evelyn
Wilson at ewilson2 at k12albemarle.org or 295-5101 if you can help.
On-line Student Cafeteria Accounts
DATE: August 14, 2007
CONTACT: Christina Pitsenberger, Director Child Nutrition Program
PHONE: (434) 295-0566
Parents Can Make On-line Deposits into Student Cafeteria Accounts With
Albemarle County’s New Café Prepay Program
To make payment of school meals more convenient for families, the Albemarle
County Public Schools Child Nutrition Program is offering parents an
internet-based service called Café Prepay.  The service is a website where
parents can add money to their child’s cafeteria account using Visa,
MasterCard or Discover Card.  Parents also can view their child’s account at
any time.  This service was activated on Thursday, August 9, 2007.
Participation in this service is voluntary and parents may enroll at any
time. To use this service, parents must first enroll on the Café Prepay
website.  Parents will choose a login name, which they will use each time
they make a payment on the website, and a valid e-mail address, where
payment confirmations will be sent by Comalex.  There is a small fee for
this service.  The fee is to cover the cost of processing credit card
payments, as well as the cost of maintaining the Café Prepay website.
Visit the website for more information.  The website address is HYPERLINK
"http://www.cafeprepay.com"www.cafeprepay.com .  If you have questions that
are not answered on the website, please contact the Child Nutrition Program
at (434) 295-0566.
Once parents have enrolled on the Café Prepay website and received a
password from Comalex, they will then be able to log in and enter personal
information.  All personal information is stored in a secure database and is
accessed only to process payments and send payment confirmation via email. 
Student accounts are automatically updated several times throughout the
day.  The school cafeteria will receive a report of payments made at the end
of the school day. 
SchoolMatters Message re. MHS Turf Field
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This message is not an official communication of the Albemarle County School
Board. SchoolMatters is a private, e-mail newsletter written by Brian
Wheeler, At-Large Member of the Albemarle County School Board.  This
communication authorized by Brian Wheeler for School Board.
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[Want to share some public comments on this message?  See the weblog version
here:  HYPERLINK
"http://schoolmatters.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/08/turf.html"http://schoolm
atters.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/08/turf.html]
The Daily Progress editorial this morning is on the subject of accepting a
gift for the installation of a synthetic turf field at Monticello High
School.  Monticello's goal is to raise 100% private funds to purchase the
$800,000 turf field.  Last Thursday, the School Board was told they do not,
however, have a major sponsor lined up to fund the field.  The Monticello
community it trying to identify the right way to manage this project and
initiate the necessary fundraising. I applaud their initiative.
Editorial: HYPERLINK
"http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Common%2FMGArticle%
2FPrintVersion&c=MGArticle&cid=1173352362790&image=80x60cdp.gif&oasDN=dailyp
rogress.com&oasPN=%21news%21opinion"http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Sat
ellite?pagename=Common%2FMGArticle%2FPrintVersion&c=MGArticle&cid=1173352362
790&image=80x60cdp.gif&oasDN=dailyprogress.com&oasPN=%21news%21opinion
Staff report for School Board: HYPERLINK
"http://www.wheeleronboard.com/docs/20070809-MHS-turf.pdf"http://www.wheeler
onboard.com/docs/20070809-MHS-turf.pdf
First, I'll point out that I am already on record with my colleagues
recommending that the school division evaluate the installation of turf
fields at all three of our high schools.  I think we need them.  My kids
play field hockey, lacrosse, and soccer and have played on these turf fields
around the state, at UVA and at St. Anne's Belfield.  They are a wonderful
playing surface for the athletes.  Athletic Directors and coaches trying to
schedule practices, games, and tournaments around inclement weather have a
whole different set of reasons to like these fields.
At our meeting last week, the School Board learned that Albemarle County
Parks & Recreation has indicated they would be willing to reallocate
$250,000 already budgeted to light a practice field at Monticello towards a
turf field in the stadium.  Further, the School Board was told Parks & Rec
would support budgeting $500,000 towards similar fields at Western Albemarle
and Albemarle High Schools (i.e. $250,000 per school).  That puts
Monticello's fundraising goal at around $550,000 and they are hoping for
some in-kind construction donations to lower that amount.  Again, according
to Monticello's Athletic Director, there is not a single benefactor prepared
to write a check for the field at this time.  They do of course hope to
bring major donors on board as soon as possible.
My goal in the School Board meeting last week was to learn from staff about
their recommendation and the different financing options so we can have a
model that could be followed by the other schools.  This project, as
presented, involves a huge capital expense, a single-vendor trying to get
the business from us, and long-term costs we will all have to pay as a
community to replace the turf down the road (i.e. we need to channel any
maintenance cost savings for grass fields into a "turf replacement fund" for
ANOTHER $250,000 to $300,000 expense 15-18 years from now).  As soon as one
high school has a turf field, the other schools will want one too.  We need
to ensure we have a good process in place and that these capital investments
by local government (at least the $250,000 per school) go through the
capital budget vetting process.
I am all for creativity and public-private partnerships.  I want world class
facilities built in an equitable manner that our taxpayers will see as smart
and efficient investments.  I am confident we can make this a win-win
proposition.  It starts with the School Board asking questions.  One thing
we heard from our attorney last week was that the MHS boosters would not, in
his opinion, be able to donate the field to the school division without
going through the state's procurement/bidding process.  That was news to the
MHS folks.  Another option discussed was a "co-operative procurement
process" where we piggyback on another school's bid.
There are a lot of details to work out and the school board gave
Superintendent Moran plenty of topics to investigate further.  I look
forward to our staff reporting back at a future meeting this Fall with their
recommendations as to how we can help move this project forward.
Want to listen to the Board's discussion from last week?  There are two
audio files available here:
HYPERLINK
"http://schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/education/components/docmgr/default.ph
p?sectiondetailid=41908&catfilter=7987#showDoc"http://schoolcenter.k12albema
rle.org/education/components/docmgr/default.php?sectiondetailid=41908&catfil
ter=7987#showDoc
Audio file #1 - conversation starts at 89:20
Audio file #2 - conversation continues at 00:00
Brian Wheeler
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Mark Your Calendar...
*         Wednesday, August 22, First Day of School
*         Monday, September 3, Labor Day Holiday, NO SCHOOL
*         Wednesday, September 5, School Picture Day
*         Wednesday, September 5, Back to School Night

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