February 26, 2024 at 6:00 PM - Finance/Regular Board Meeting

Description:  Chairperson Kahle will call the meeting to order.
 

Description:  Chairperson Kahle will ask if visitors wish to be placed on the agenda.

Description:  Chairperson Kahle will ask if there are any items that need to be brought before the board and for consideration of the agenda.

Description:  If any board member has concerns about the adoption of the following consensus items, please acknowledge the Chairperson prior to the final vote.  If there are no concerns, these items will be voted on as a group.

Description:  Enclosed are the January 29, 2024 Regular Board Meeting minutes for your review and adoption.

Description:  At the board finance meeting, expenditures for the month of February were reviewed.  Administration recommends approval of the February 2024 disbursements totaling $1,689,260.39.  This includes Board Payables of $335,518.80, Hand Payments of $212,673.50, Electronic Payments of $1,127,696.53 and Student Activity Payments of $13,371.56.

Description:  See the attached Personnel Changes spreadsheet.

Description:  Donations totaling $1,910.21 were given to the Belle Plaine School District over the past month.  See the attached resolution for a full listing of the donations.  Thank you to all who made these generous donations!

Description:  Superintendent Laager will provide updates on current school activities.

Description:  Board members will have an opportunity to share information about meetings they have attended over the past month.

Description:  Approve the new contract for the BPESP (Support Staff) for the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 Fiscal Years.
Summary of key Items:
5% schedule increase for year 1 and year 2.
Longevity changed to step 9, 14, 19, and 24 years.
6% for health insurance for each year and 403B match of $750/yr

Description:  At the February work session we discussed the District's facilities plan.  Part of that plan included doing projects totaling $1,250,000 and selling Capital Facility bonds to pay for those projects.  Payments for these bonds will come out of our capital allocation and will be cost neutral to taxpayers.
Attached is the Resolution relating to $1,250,000 General Obligation Capital Facilities bonds.  The resolution authorizes the parameters for the issuance and authorizing the Business Manager and any School Board member to award the sale and to take such action and execute all documents necessary to accomplish the award and sale.  This is a roll call vote.

Description:  This is an annual resolution directing administration to review programs in the event reductions are necessary.  This does not mean that reductions will be made but this resolution is necessary in order to review and recommend in case they are needed.  This is a roll-call vote.

Description:  The following policies are due to be reviewed.  The current policy along with the revised redline version are attached.
Policy 613 Graduation Requirements Policy 616 School District System Accountability

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