Lafayette School Board to elect leaders
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LAFAYETTE — The Lafayette Parish School Board will select its leadership for the coming year at its Wednesday meeting.
For two years, members have elected Carl LaCombe as president. Greg Awbrey has served as vice president for one year.
The action is scheduled to be among the first of the board at its first meeting of 2009.
Also at Wednesday’s meeting, system staff will present its priority list for 12 proposed new and revamped staff positions. The personnel needs were discussed during the board’s retreat in December. Because of the number of positions and possible budget impact, board members requested the staff prioritize its needs.
While the changes would cost more than $177,000, the money is already included in the budget, according to Billy Guidry, the school system’s chief financial officer.
About $88,000 would come from the budgeted salaries of positions that have been vacant for the past half-year and the remainder would come from the system’s budget for the reclassification of employees, he explained.
Of the 12 positions, five have been tagged as an immediate need for the system, including: marketing and recruitment director and secretary; a vacant position of supervisor of early childhood; a new position for an alternative to suspension teacher; and a job-title change within the human resource department that creates a customer service representative.
The staff also recommended other staffing changes, including hires for vacant positions, but left the timing of those staffing additions up to the board. It’s the board’s first meeting since its retreat in December, where staff members also shared more possible changes, including a reorganization within the maintenance department.
That issue isn’t set to be discussed at Wednesday’s meeting, nor is the system’s proposal for a new vocational high school unveiled at the board’s first joint meeting with the Lafayette Consolidated Council, also held last month.
As of Monday, no date had been set to bring a recommendation to the board about the proposed vocational high school, said Burnell LeJeune, director of the system’s career and technical education and schools of choice programming.
LeJeune said he and his staff will brief the superintendent and other staffers about his department’s goals for the schools of choice in the coming year and the vocational high school will be part of that discussion.
For two years, members have elected Carl LaCombe as president. Greg Awbrey has served as vice president for one year.
The action is scheduled to be among the first of the board at its first meeting of 2009.
Also at Wednesday’s meeting, system staff will present its priority list for 12 proposed new and revamped staff positions. The personnel needs were discussed during the board’s retreat in December. Because of the number of positions and possible budget impact, board members requested the staff prioritize its needs.
While the changes would cost more than $177,000, the money is already included in the budget, according to Billy Guidry, the school system’s chief financial officer.
About $88,000 would come from the budgeted salaries of positions that have been vacant for the past half-year and the remainder would come from the system’s budget for the reclassification of employees, he explained.
Of the 12 positions, five have been tagged as an immediate need for the system, including: marketing and recruitment director and secretary; a vacant position of supervisor of early childhood; a new position for an alternative to suspension teacher; and a job-title change within the human resource department that creates a customer service representative.
The staff also recommended other staffing changes, including hires for vacant positions, but left the timing of those staffing additions up to the board. It’s the board’s first meeting since its retreat in December, where staff members also shared more possible changes, including a reorganization within the maintenance department.
That issue isn’t set to be discussed at Wednesday’s meeting, nor is the system’s proposal for a new vocational high school unveiled at the board’s first joint meeting with the Lafayette Consolidated Council, also held last month.
As of Monday, no date had been set to bring a recommendation to the board about the proposed vocational high school, said Burnell LeJeune, director of the system’s career and technical education and schools of choice programming.
LeJeune said he and his staff will brief the superintendent and other staffers about his department’s goals for the schools of choice in the coming year and the vocational high school will be part of that discussion.
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