Week of December 22, 2008
Best wishes for a happy and healthy holiday
season and Happy New Year.
Haddam-Killingworth
High School will be hosting its twentieth annual Holiday Show
telethon December 23. The live student-produced program hosts
a "Shoreline Idol" competition which raises money for a different
charity each year. The charity to which this years' Holiday
Show is benefiting is the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, a
group dedicated to finding a cure to one of childhood's most
debilitating diseases. HKTV was inspired to choose to JDRF as
its charity, because of a letter written by local Haddam resident
Kim Alonzo. Kim's son Ben copes with type I diabetes on a
daily basis. Her son's school recently held a "Caps for a
Cure" JDRF fundraising event with much success. The 2008 Holiday
Show which will air from 8:00 to noon on December 23rd, will raise
money for the Connecticut Chapter of JDRF. Shoreline residents can
turn to Comcast channel air 18, and view the "Shoreline Idol"
finalists performing live. The ten Idol finalists have been selected
from auditions held by shoreline-area high schools. Students
and members of the community can vote for their favorite Idol singer
by donating a dollar or more to the Holiday Show. An Idol
winner will be chosen on January 23, 2009, where the student with
the most votes will be named the 2008 Shoreline Idol winner.
Television students at Haddam-Killingworth are proud to benefit such
a worthy cause as JDRF. This will bring children like Ben hope
that Juvenile Diabetes is just one step closer to a
cure.
Holiday Show Telephone #: (860)
345-0690
We are now officially broadcasting HKTV Channel 18 full time
over the World Wide Web at
www.ustream.tv/channel/vsen18. You can now
watch the Holiday show from anywhere you have a computer.
For your convenience, a link has been placed on the school
district's homepage at
www.rsd17.org.
The Central Administration of the school district is
in the process of assembling a proposed 2009-2010 budget for the
Board of Education to consider. This process will take until
late February 2009. If you have ideas regarding cost
containment measures, ways you think the district can be more
economically efficient and other similar thoughts, please forward
them to Gary S. Mala, Superintendent of Schools at
gmala@rsd17.org.
The following is the budget development schedule as
approved by the Board of Education.
REGIONAL
SCHOOL DISTICT NO.
17
2009/2010 Budget Time Line
Approved by Board of Education
on 12-2-08
Friday, October 31,
2008
Administrator's submit both the Operational and
Capital Budgets to the Superintendent
Tuesday January
6,
2009
Budget Workshop with Board, 6:30 pm, Central Office,
Board Room
Explain Process and Answer General
Questions
Wednesday, January 7,
2009
Superintendent Budget Meetings with
Administrator's
8:30 BES
10:30
HES
12:30 KES
Thursday,
January 8,
2009
Superintendent Budget Meetings with
Administrator's
8:30
Buildings & Grounds, Capital requests
10:30 High
School
12:30 Middle
School
2:30
Technology
Monday, January 12,
2009
Superintendent Budget Meetings with
Administrator's
8:30
Special Education
10:30
Transportation
12:30 Food
Service
Monday, January 12, 2009
Community Input for the 2009/2010 Budget
7:00 pm
Media Center, HKMS
Tuesday, February 3,
2009
Community Input for the 2009/2010 Budget
6:30 pm
Central Office, Board Room
Tuesday, March 3,
2009
Special Meeting for the presentation of the
Superintendent of Schools recommended budget for 2009/2010
6:00 pm Central Office, Board
Room
Monday, March 9,
2009
Budget Committee
Review of Elementary,
Middle & High School
6:00 Central Office, Board
Room
Monday, March 16,
2009
Budget Committee
Review of Special
Education, Transportation, Buildings & Grounds and Food
Services
6:00 Central Office, Board Room
Monday March 23, 2009***
Joint
Meeting with Town's & Board Meeting with the Selectman and
Boards of Finance from the towns of Haddam and Killingworth
7:00
pm, Student Commons, Haddam Killingworth Middle
School
***TENTATIVE - NEED CONFIRMATION FROM THE TWO
BOARDS
Tuesday March 31,
2009
Budget Committee If Needed
6:00 pm Central
Office
Possible vote on the proposed 2009/2010
budget
Tuesday April 7,
2009
Budget Committee If Needed
6:00 pm Central
Office
Possible vote on the proposed 2009/2010
budget
Monday, April 13,
2009
Budget Committee If Needed
6:00 pm Central
Office
Possible vote on the proposed 2009/2010
budget
Monday, April 20, 2009
Annual Hearing and
a Special Meeting of the Board of Education
Annual Hearing of the
Board of Education's proposed 2008/2009 budget.
7:00 pm Student Commons, Haddam Killingworth Middle
School.
Monday, May 4,
2009
Annual Meeting.
7:00 pm HK High School Auditorium Annual meeting on
the 2009/2010 budget.
Tuesday, May 5,
2009
REFERENDUM in each respective town on the Board of
Education's Budget for 2009/2010
The public is more
than welcome to attend any of the budget workshops and any of the
Budget Committee meetings. Certainly our Budget Committee is
eager to communicate effectively with the town officials in both
Haddam and Killingworth. As a Budget Committee responsible for
articulating the educational needs of the school district in a
fiscally responsible manner, we have the difficult task of striking
a balance between our educational needs and our fiscal
responsibilities. Our committee will be monitoring activity
and actions at the legislative level most carefully, and wherever
possible will be providing input in order to protect both the
educational and financial interests of the district and our
towns.
At last meeting of the Board of Education, the Board,
acting upon a recommendation from the Interim Director of
Transportation, voted unanimously to modify the late bus run
schedule at HKHS effective January 5, 2009. Effective
January 5, 2009, there will only be one late bus at HKHS. The
HKHS late bus run will be 5:00 p.m. only. This
modification will save the district approximately $25,000.00
annually. Any questions may be directed to cluisi@rsd17.org.
or by calling the district's Transportation Department at (860
345-8228.
Please visit the District Calendar located on the
district's homepage (www.rsd17.org) to see when various events are
scheduled to happen.
A reminder that the district
utilizes the Honeywell Instant Alert system to communicate with
parents during times of emergency or to deliver messages of high
importance. Please be sure that you are registered with
Honeywell (link available at www.rsd17.org) and have indicated how
you wish to have messages received. If you have questions
regarding this, please do not hesitate to contact the Principal of
any one of our schools for
assistance.
If you wish to have
an announcement included in any Weekly Message or if you have any
suggestions regarding the Weekly Message, please contact Gary S.
Mala, Superintendent of Schools at
gmala@rsd17.org.
Enjoy your week, your
holiday season and a Happy New Year.
Thank you for your continued
support.
Gary
Gary S.
Mala
Superintendent of Schools
Regional School District
17
(860) 345-4534
http://www.rsd17.org
"Believing is
Achieving"
