Welcome!

Thank you for taking time to visit the U-CF School Board page. All school board meetings are conducted openly and in public in compliance with the Pennsylvania Sunshine Law. Residents are welcome to stay informed about the schools by attending school board meetings and getting involved in their public schools.

 

Opportunity For Public Input - Top

At regular board meetings, public comment is taken on agenda items at the beginning of the regular monthly meetings; time is also allocated for additional public input at the meeting's end as needed.

 

Citizens who want to have a specific item placed on the agenda must send a written request to the Superintendent at least one week prior to the meeting.

 

Work sessions are also held in public. The purpose of these sessions is for the school board, as a whole, to gather information, review and discuss issues.

 

Board Members - Top

President	Edward Murray
Vice President	Therese West
Secretary	Kathleen M. Brown
Region A	East Marlborough, West Marlborough Townships
	Kathleen Brown, Karen Halstead, Corinne Sweeney
Region B	Newlin, Pocopson, Birmingham, Chester County Townships
	Curt Baker, Therese West, Edward Murray
Region C	Chadds Ford, Delaware County, Pennsbury Townships
	Timotha Trigg, Paul Price , Edward V. Wandersee
	Directors are elected from three geographical voting districts established on the basis of proportionate representation as approved by the Court of Quarter Sessions.
Chester County Intermediate Unit Rep	Edward Murray
Chester County School Authority Rep	Therese West

 

Meeting Schedule - Top

2007-2008
Work Sessions	Board Meetings
August, 13, 2007 September 10, 2007 October 8, 2007 November 12, 2007 December 3, 2007 (Org Meeting) January 14, 2008 February 11, 2008 March 10, 2008 April 14, 2008 May 12, 2008 June 9, 2008 July - No Meeting	August, 20, 2007 September 17, 2007 October 15, 2007 November 19, 2007 December 10, 2007 January 28, 2008 February 25, 2008 March 17, 2008 April 21, 2008 May 19, 2008 June 16, 2008 July - No Meeting
Work sessions of the Board are open to the public. Agendas for these sessions, however, are pre-determined by the Board and the administration. School Board Work Sessions start at 7:00pm and are usually held in the Unionville High School Library.   Public comment and formal presentations by district residents are reserved for the public board meetings which are held on the third Monday of the month at 7:30pm in the High School LGI. Exceptions to this schedule are the January and February meeting dates which occur on the third Tuesday to accommodate legal holidays.

 

Agendas - Top

2007-2008
Please Note	Board Meetings
The School Board work session agenda will be posted after the monthly work session as an agenda for the following Board meeting. The School Board reserves the right to make changes to the agenda between the work session and board meeting.	March 17, 2008

 

Minutes - Top
Board meeting minutes are posted after they are approved at the following month's board meeting. Work session minutes are not prepared unless there is a voting item at the meeting.

Current Year

2007-2008 - .pdf format
July 2007 - No Meeting
August 2007
September 2007	September Work Session
October 2007
November 2007	December 3, 2007 Board Reorganization Meeting
December 2007
January 2008	January 14 Work Session: Preliminary Budget
February 2008
March 2008
April 2008
May 2008	May Budget Meeting
June 2008

Archives

2006-2007 - .pdf format
July 2006 - No Meeting	September 2006 Work Session
August 2006
September 2006	December 4, 2006 Board Reorganization Meeting
October 2006
November 2006
December 2006
January 2007	February 2007 Work Session
February 2007
March 2007
April 2007
May 2007	May Budget Meeting
June 2007

2005-2006 - .pdf format
July 2005 - No Meeting	December 2005 Board Reorganization Meeting
August 2005
September 2005	January 2006 Work Session
October 2005
November 2005	April 2006 Special Board Meeting
December 2005
January 2006	May 1, 2006 Budget Hearing
February 2006
March 2006	May 3, 2006 Budget Hearing
April 2006
May 2006
June 2006

2004-2005 - .pdf format
July 2004 - No Meeting	July 2004 Special Board Meeting
August 2004
September 2004	December 2004 Board Reorganization Meeting
October 2004
November 2004	May 2 Budget Hearing
December 2004 - No Meeting
January 2005	May 4 Budget Hearing
February 2005
March 2005	May 9 Preliminary Budget Adoption
April 2005
May 2005	June 27 Special Board Meeting
June 2005

2003-2004 - .pdf format
July 2003 - No Meeting	December 2003 Board Reorganization Meeting
August 2003
September 2003	May 3 Special Board Meeting
October 2003
November 2003	May 3 Budget Hearing
December 2003
January 2004	May 10 Preliminary Budget Adoption
February 2004
March 2004	June 2004 Work Session
April 2004
May 2004
June 2004

2002-2003 - .pdf format
July 2002 - No Meeting	July 29, 2002 Special Board Meeting
August 2002
September 2002	December 2, 2002 Board Reorganization Meeting
October 2002
November 2002	May 5 Budget Hearing
December 2002
January 2003	May 12 Preliminary Budget Adoption
February 2003
March 2003	June 2003 Work Session
April 2003
May 2003
June 2003

2001-2002
July 2001 - No Meeting	May 6, 2002 Budget Hearing - pdf
August 2001
September 2001	May 13, 2002 Preliminary Budget Adoption - pdf
October 2001 - pdf
November 2001 - pdf
December 2001
January 2002 -pdf
February 2002
March 2002
April 2002 - pdf
May 2002 - pdf
June 2002 - pdf

1999-2000	2000-2001
July 1999 - No Meeting	July 2000 - No Meeting
August 1999	August 2000
September 1999	September 2000
October 1999	October 2000
November 1999	November 2000
December 1999 - Org Meeting	December 2000
January 2000	January 2001
February 2000	February 2001
March 2000	March 2001
April 2000	April 2001 April Work Session
May 2000	May 2001
June 2000	June 2001

1997-1998	1998-1999
July 1997	July 1998 - No Meeting
August 1997	August 1998
September 1997	September 1998
October 1997	October 1998
November 1997 - First Issue	November 1998
December 1997	December 1998
January 1998	January 1999
February 1998	February 1999
March 1998	March 1999
April 1998	April 1999
May 1998	May 1999
June 1998	June 1999

 

Committee Membership - Top

Committee	Chair	Member	Member	Member
Co-curricular and Student Life	Karen Halstead	Kathleen M. Brown	Paul Price	Corinne Sweeney
Communications	Therese West	Karen Halstead	Timotha Trigg
Curriculum and Instructional Technology*	Kathleen M. Brown	Karen Halstead	Therese West	Timotha Trigg
Facilities	Curt Baker	Kathleen M. Brown	Edward V. Wandersee
Finance	Edward V. Wandersee	Edward Murray	Curt Baker	Paul Price
Legislation and Policy	Edward V. Wandersee	Timotha Trigg
Personnel	Corinne Sweeney	Curt Baker	Edward V. Wandersee	Edward Murray

*Meets in January, September and November as a "Committee of the Whole"

 

Members Biographies - Top

 

CURT BAKER – Region B (Newlin, Pocopson, Birmingham Townships)
Curt Baker and his wife, Debbie, have been married for more than 20 years. They have 2 boys – Joe (17) a senior at UHS and Chris (13) a 7th grader at Patton Middle School.

 

Curt earned his Bachelors degree from University of Southern California (Economics, Sociology and International Relations) where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. He has a Masters from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (Economics, Political Analysis and International Law).

 

He is the Deputy Superintendent for the Roanoke City Public Schools, which serves a financially and ethnically diverse population of more than 13,000 students and has an approved budget of $150 million. Earlier in his career, he served as a negotiator for Conoco (a global oil company), as a management consultant, and as the Chief Financial Officer for the School District of Lancaster.

 

Curt devotes significant personal time to youth development activities. He founded and serves as Head Coach of the Unionville Rugby program, a school-affiliated varsity club sport.

 

Curt, who is currently the U-CF’s Board President, was elected in 2003 and represents Region B (Birmingham, Pocopson and Newlin townships). He has served on the Finance and Communications Committees of the U-CF School Board and currently serves on the Co-Curricular and Student Life, Facilities, and Personnel Committees.

 

KATHY BROWN – Region A (East Marlborough, West Marlborough Townships)

Kathy Brown was first elected to the UCF School Board of Directors in 2001 and is currently serving her second term, which will be up in 2009. Kathy is a native UCF resident. She attended Chadds Ford Elementary before any of the additions and the high school when it was a 7-12th grade school. The last of her teachers retired this year.

 

Kathy graduated from the University of Connecticut with a degree in Political Science and has lived and worked in Baltimore, Chicago, London, Dusseldorf and Spirit Lake, Iowa before returning to Unionville. She has two daughters who have graduated from Unionville High School and her son is currently a UHS student.  Kathy currently serves as the Secretary of the School Board as well as on the Communications and Technology Committees and is Chairperson of the Curriculum Committee of the Board.

 

KAREN HALSTEAD – Region A (East Marlborough, West Marlborough Townships)

Karen Halstead has lived in the UCF School District for over 40 years. She is a graduate of Kennett High School and went on to get a BA in Elementary Education from Allegheny College. She taught first grade for many years in the Newark (DE) School District, including being in the first class to be trained in teaching Head Start. After taking time from teaching to raise her children, she subsequently began teaching in the UCF School District as a substitute teacher. As the Gifted Support Teacher for 16 years in the district, she taught in each of the present elementary schools.

Karen has two sons who have both graduated from Unionville High School. While the young men were in school, she was extensively involved as a volunteer and officer in the PTO’s of Unionville Elementary, CF Patton Middle School and Unionville High School.

Karen was elected to the School Board in 2005. She serves as the Chairperson of the Transportation and Technology Committees and is a member of the Curriculum Committee. She enjoys people, reading, singing and volunteering.

 

ED MURRAY – Region B (Newlin, Pocopson, Birmingham Townships)

Ed Murray, who has been married 12 years, has two young children aged six and four. He and his family have been living in the district since 1998. Ed is a public finance investment banker specializing in financings for Pennsylvania local governments, school districts, 501©(3) organizations and municipal authorities since 1991. He is currently a Managing Director in Boenning & Scattergood’s Public Finance Department where he continues to develop innovative financing structures for the firm’s municipal clients throughout Pennsylvania. Ed has over 14 years of experience specializing in school district general obligation debt issuance and has structured and managed over 184 financings totaling over $1.4 billion.

 

Ed received a B.A. degree from the University of Richmond in 1988 in Economics. He is a member of the Municipal Bond Club of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials, and the Pennsylvania Municipal Authorities Association.

 

Currently, Ed serves on the Board of School Directors for U-CF School District where he is the Chairman of the Finance Committee. He also serves as a member of the Technology Committee and is a member of the Board of the Chester County Intermediate Unit, an educational service institution serving Chester County from K-12.

 

DR. PAUL PRICE – Region C (Chadds Ford, Pennsbury Townships)

Paul Price, after graduating from high school in White Plains, New York, went on to get a BS in Biology from The American University in Washington, DC. He worked in management for Alexander’s Inc. before going back to dental school. He graduated from The University of Pennsylvania’s School of Dental Medicine in 1977. He served as a dental officer in the United States Air Force both domestically and overseas from 1977-1985, and then practiced private dentistry until 1987.

In 1987 he changed career paths to become a Financial Consultant/Investment Manager. He worked for Merrill Lynch, A.G. Edward, Wachovia securities (then named Wheat First Securities) and Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc. from 1987-2000.  Paul retired in 2000, but is still active in financial management for friends and relatives.

Paul and his wife Christine have one son who went through the Unionville-Chadds Ford school system K-12. Their son is currently in the Honors program at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business in State College, PA.
Paul was elected to the UCF School Board in December 2007. He serves on the Co-Curricular and Student Life and Finance Committees of the School Board.

 

DR. CORINNE SWEENEY – Region A (East Marlborough, West Marlborough Townships)

Corinne Sweeney has lived and worked in East Marlborough Township for 28 years. She received her BS from the University of Delaware and DVM from the University of Georgia, and then came to this area to do post-doctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine, New Bolton Center where she met her husband, Ray. Their two children (a son and a daughter) were educated in the UCFSD (K through 12) and currently are both in college.

 

Corinne is a Professor of Penn’s Veterinary School, specializing in Equine Internal Medicine. She currently serves as Associate Dean, COO and Executive Hospital Director for the Large Animal Hospital at New Bolton Center.

 

Corinne became a UCF School Director in 1993. Over the years she has served on a number of board committees. Currently she serves on the Communications Committee and is Chairperson for the Personnel Committee.

Corinne's outside interests include reading about and enjoying fine food and wine, running, and "reading" books on her Treo.

 

TIMOTHA TRIGG – Region C (Chadds Ford, Pennsbury Townships)

Timotha Trigg has been a resident of the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District since 1985, when she moved here with her husband, Jon. They met at the University of Michigan where she majored in Cellular and Molecular Biology. Prior to moving to this area, Timotha was the general manager of a large retail plant nursery in Southern California.

 

The Triggs have four children, 7 to 18 years of age. Three of their children attend schools in the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District; the fourth graduated from Unionville High School in 2006.

 

Timotha was elected to the U-CF School Board in 2003. She currently serves as the Chairperson of the Policy Committee and serves on the Curriculum and Transportation Committees. In her spare time, Timotha enjoys gardening, reading, collecting fossils, and playing with the various household pets.

 

ED WANDERSEE – Region C (Chadds Ford, Pennsbury Townships)

Ed Wandersee and his wife Kathy have been residents of Pennsbury and Chadds Ford Townships for 32 years. They have four daughters who went through the Unionville-Chadds Ford school system. A native of Chicago, Ed received his B.S.C.E. from Northwestern University and his M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.  After a two-year period in the U. S. Air Force, he went on to a 35-year professional career with E. I. DuPont including 6 years in Geneva Switzerland.   In addition to this rich professional background in management, financial development and personnel, he has also had extensive community involvement. This includes four years as President of U-CF School Board, Chairman of the Buildings and Grounds Committee, member of the Personnel Committee, and the School Board’s Financial and Legislative representative, eight years as Chairman of the Pennsbury Township Board of Supervisors and President of the Chadds Ford Historical Society for 5 years.  He also serves as Chairman of the Zoning Hearing Board for Chadds Ford Township.   Ed currently serves on the Facilities, Finance and Personnel committees and is the Chairman of the Legislative Committee of the UCF School Board.  Ed’s personal time is spent with his 3 daughters who live locally, his wife, and their two West Highland White Terriers.

 

DR. THERESE WEST – Region B (Newlin, Pocopson, Birmingham Townships)

Therese West and her husband David have been married for over 17 years and have three sons, 11, 13, and 15 years of age. Therese earned her BS from the University of Massachusetts in Biology and Psychology and her MD from the University of Texas Medical Branch. She trained at the University of Virginia in Pediatrics and went on to specialize in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) where she remained as a faculty member in the Department of Pediatric Hematology before deciding to become a full-time at-home parent. At that time she became very involved with the school PTOs, including serving as PTO president at Chadds Ford Elementary and Pocopson Elementary. Therese became involved as a parent volunteer at the district level serving on many committees including Curriculum Council, 5th Grade Health Committee, Report Card Committee, Middle School Steering Committee and Principal Search Committee.

 

She was elected to the U-CF School Board in December 2005 and serves on the Curriculum Committee, is Chairperson of the Communications Committee and is the UCF representative to the Chester County School Authority.  In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, quilting, needle arts, tennis, and reading.