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Page 114 April 28, 1975 The regular meeting of the Lexington School Committee came to order at 8: 00 p. m. at the Jonas Clarke Jr. High School. Pres ent were Mesdames Berchtold and Swanson. Messrs. Rotberg, Wachmand and Wadsworth_ Alno nresent rC is M _.i o. 1. '."P.y.3, MatTnnas, ri»'l c, Dr, IG'.J..:,rt and Cummings. The minutes of April 15, 1975 were discussed and, it was VOTED: To accept then e minutes as amended. (Brown, Swanson, Unanimous). MINUTES 4/15/75 Upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, it was VOTED: To accept the Schedule of Payments as presented. (Swanson, Brown, Unanimous) (See next page) SCHEDULE OF • PAYMENTS Upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, it was VOTED: To accept the resignation of Roberta P. Deemer as of 6/30/75. (Swanson, Brown, Unanimous). PERSONNEL CHANGES (certificated) On April 15, Mr. Sam Nablo and the Citizens Advisory Committee presented an interim report on the reassignment of pupils. Please refer to April 15 minutes . The committee returned this evening to take part in a general discussion regarding the report. CAC INTERIM REPORT Mr. Paul Rempfer took the opportunity to give an analysis of busing implications for elementary schools in the event of school closings. If the one mile criteria is used, approximately 483 additional students will be bused by 1980. Statistics were not available but it was his feeling that most of these students live within the 1 1/3 mile limit. He gave the school committee a breakdown of the number of students at each school who would be involved in busing or walking to other schools. Following this analysis, a page by page review of the report was conducted by Mrs. Berchtold with Mr. Noble and Mr. Rempfer clarifying areas of concern. Mr. Nablo said it woul.:i take approximately 100 manhours to do the report again. Renovation information for the schools can be added to it. • He felt the most useful feature of this report was the rational way the .districts were designed. The final report will be -submitted in two weeks Mrs . Berchtold read a letter dated 4/16/75 from a group of parents regarding the proliferation of fund raising projects in which elementary and Jr. High School students are asked to take part. Some of these projects include selling products door-to-door in the community. The letter puctstioned the educationalvalue of such procedures and commented