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Minutes from Trustees Meeting
Meeting Loldia Primary School
Board of Trustees: Monday 29.1.18 at 3pm in the
head teacher's office. Present: Kennedy Kariuki, (HT: chair), Grace Bilashaka,
Caroline Andisi, Wanja-Gitura Arentz, (Secretary, LPS Board ), Ben Arentz
(Technical advisor). Absent with apologies: Diana Low. James Nding'uri. Minutes 1. The
chair and head teacher KK welcomed those present and gave the apology for the
absence of James Nding;uri. WA the secretary gave the apology for Diana
Low. 2. The
agenda of the meeting was the evaluation of the results for the tender
for an extension to the administration block. BA
briefed those present on progress so far. Two
experienced builders and BA had gone to the school to discuss the
logistics of building the new block. It was agreed that trying to build on
top of the existing block would not only be disruptive but would also be too
expensive and so it was best to build adjacent and connected to the old
block. BA
had drawn up the plan for the new block and sent the proposal to TAS. TAS
approved the proposal indicating that funds would be made available for this
new project. BA
had written down a description and made a technical drawing of the
requirement. This
had been sent out to four contractors so they could come up with their
proposals/quotations. Only
two contractors had sent back their bids. The
first one was Joseph Kimani Gatimu who put in a bid for 2, 381.283 Kenyan Shillings. The
second one Josphat Mbugua put in a bid for 1.396.190 Kenyan Shillings. After
a short discussion, it was agreed that the tender should be awarded to
Josphat Mbugua. 3. BA
informed all present that the good news was that TAS in London had
approved and sent 1.4 million shillings to fund this project. All
present expressed their gratitude to TAS for this generous funding. 4. It was agreed that BA would would contact Josphat Mbugua
with the news. The 12th of February would be the date
that the next meeting would be held with the contractor in order to set up a
building schedule and a payment schedule. 5. The same contractor would be asked to install the water
pump needed and also to repair the plinth of the water tank that had shoddily
been made by a previous contractor. 6. KK was asked about the current student enrollment and the
situation regarding teachers. The enrollment this year is 2,013 students and still
ongoing. The government TSC has posted 22 teachers instead of the required
42 teachers. Bilashaka is paying for 5 teachers, Shalimah for 2, Loldia
for 1, Diana's firm for 1 and parents for 5 who sadly go generally unpaid as
the parents do not honour their agreement. There is a shortfall of 8 teachers. AOB. Grace of Bilashaka announced that from the Fair Trade,
Bilashaka was going to send funds for the building of another classroom,
possibly two of them. This was welcome news. BA raised the issue of the playground which had now been
flattened but the plastic takataka still not removed. KK said this was still
ongoing and that it had been very difficult to get the company that dumped
the soil to come and complete the task. WA brought up the issue of last years’ KCP results. The head teacher said there had been a drop from the
previous years and that the boys had performed much better than the girls.
(Please see the attached breakdown.) This was attributed to many factors including the
lifestyle in Kasarani and the lack of supervision of some of the children by
their parents. There was obviously a great need for the school to raise
the matter with the parents, the chief, the MCA and all concerned to come up
with a better plan for better education and higher results. The next meeting will be on 12.2.18. |
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