By Patricia Bogumil
Editor
A special joint meeting for all school districts in the Waterford Special Education Cooperative has been called for Wednesday, Nov. 14, to discuss the Cooperative’s makeup in the near future.
The Cooperative is run by the Waterford Union High School district to provide services for special education students in the Waterford Graded, North Cape, Washington-Caldwell and Waterford Union High School districts.
The Nov. 14 meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. at the high school, 100 Field Drive.
The meeting is in response to a Sept. 19 letter from the Waterford Graded board giving notice of its intent to withdraw from the Cooperative in June 2014.
WGSD had asked in July that a joint meeting be held between itself and the high school board to discuss fringe benefits and post-retirement benefits paid to Cooperative employees, whose employer is the high school board.
“The WGSD Board has been seeking dialog with the high school board about this for several months.” said WGSD Superintendent Chris Joch via email. “The November meeting is the venue for the conversation.”
But the grade school board will have to share the conversation with members of the other school boards in the Co-op. The WGSD request for a one-on-one with the high school board was nixed in favor of the Nov. 14 joint meeting of all five boards.
Having a cooperative means cooperation by all the boards – not just between one or two of them, explained high school board president Jim Graff.
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