February 13, 2017 at 6:30 PM - Regular

Description:  Demuth, Habben, Hesse, Humbert, Schurman, and Wesenberg. 

Student Members:  Lisa Volkers, Tayler Dingmann, and Nick Warne.

Description:  The Board Chair will lead the board and attendees in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Description:  Board action to approve the agenda for the meeting is expected.

Description:  The agenda is open to visitors of the meeting to offer comments to and/or requests of the school board. The comments and requests should follow the adopted district guidelines which are printed and available at the meeting.

Description:  This agenda item allows for comment and updates from the student representatives.  The more formal report opportunity remains the second meeting of the month, but opportunity to share information is also afforded at this meeting.

Description:  Action is requested on the following items of the consent agenda. Consent agenda items are typically adopted without discussion of the individual items because they are routine or ordinary in action.  Any consent agenda item may be removed for further discussion and deliberation by any member of the board.

Description:  The minutes from the regular meeting of January 23, 2017  are included in the exhibits. Recommend approval of the minutes from the meeting.

Description:  Jeron Lieser, Industrial Technology Teacher at the Secondary Schools, has submitted a request to continue his leave of absence during the 2017-2018 school year.  Jeron had originally requested a five-year leave of absence but must notify the district of his intent each year.  This would be the third year of the five-year leave.  Recommend approval of the request to continue the leave of absence for the 2017-2018 school year.

Description:  Katie Dilbeck, elementary teacher who has worked at Richmond Elementary School, has submitted a letter of resignation from the district.  Katie requested a leave of absence from her position for the current year and is not planning to return to the district at this time.  

At the secondary level, Jacob Zetah, Science Teacher, has been offered a position to teach in another country.  He is accepting that assignment and has submitted a letter of resignation from the ROCORI District.

Sue Jenkins, Instructional Coach, has been on a leave of absence for two years and has now submitted her letter of resignation to continue her Administrative position in the Albany School District.

Recommend acceptance of the letters of resignation.

Description:  Several positions have been advertised because of teachers who have been approved for leaves of absence.  The positions have been posted, applications accepted, and the building administrators have engaged in a selection process.

Kelli Soupir is being recommended as the Long Term Substitute for Bethany Walker while she is on leave.

Stephanie Mucciacciaro is being recommended as the Long Term Substitute for Jessica Rennecke while she is out on leave.

Recommend approval of these assignments for the leaves of absence.

Description:  Activity Director Baumgarten has submitted a list of the spring activity coaches and advisers for the 2016-2017 school year.

Recommend approval of the the spring assignments as presented.

Description:  Items listed as action items generally involve school board discussion prior to taking action.  The agenda items that follow are recommended for specific school board action.

Description:  With the vacancy in the Curriculum Director role, the district has been examining options for both permanent and short-term leadership.  The initial search process brought a small number of (but still quality) applications.  Discussions, for a variety of reasons, have shifted the focus from filling the Director role permanently, at this time, to making arrangements to effectively complete the year with a continued search for a permanent Director.  

As such, conversations regarding leadership on core issues within the academic program have occurred.  Establishing a core contact or "point person" for several major areas of work are expected to meet the needs of the district through the remainder of the school year.  The proposal included offers an approach to providing leadership through the end of 2016-17.  

Recommend establishment of the temporary positions to provide academic leadership.

Description:  Items on the discussion agenda are issues that do not require immediate action but are presented for information and potential future action by the board.

Description:  The board has determined a different approach to Policy review.  At a previous meeting, several items of policy were given consideration and referred to Policy Committee.  The work of the Committee will be reported back at this time.

This would be considered the second reading of the four policies reviewed and submitted back to the school board.  There were no content changes to Policy 8-1 Title I Parent Involvement but the location of the dates of adoption and review have been adjusted as well as the addition of the original source.  The committee feels this is simply a review of the policy and that a third reading would not be required.

The other three policies have had revisions to the policy.  As such, this should be the second reading of the policies and they will return at the next meeting for adoption under the consent agenda.

Policies 8-6, 8-7, and 8-8 are offered for School Board consideration as a first reading.  Discussion would determine if the policies need to go to committee for further review or if the discussion at the meeting would warrant classification as a review.

Description:  Members of the Administrative Team are expected to submit reports based on a schedule distributed among the team.  The reports are written and offered for board information.  The reports during the first meeting of the month are expected from the Academic team including principals and curriculum leaders.

Description:  The administrators responsible for the academic program of the district are afforded the opportunity to report to the school board at the first meeting of the month.  Reports received from the principals and academic leaders are included in the exhibits.  No formal action is required on the reports as they are submitted for informational purposes.

Description:  A calendar of upcoming issues of concern to the school board is included as part of the agenda.