October 9, 2017 at 6:30 PM - Regular

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

Student Representative: AnnaMaria Tomovic

Description:  The School 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.  As a general rule, items introduced in the opportunity for comments and requests do not receive action from the School Board, but are taken under advisement or consideration for future action.

Description:  Student representatives to the School Board have been selected at the RHS Student Senate.  Student members have opportunity to share information about the Student Senate activities or other feedback and insight to the School Board.

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 September 25, 2017 are included in the exhibits.

Recommend approval of the minutes from the meetings.

Description:  Policies are submitted on the consent agenda for third and final readings.   

The policies at this meeting include #8-16 Staffing Extra-Curricular Activities and #6-10 Leaves of Absences.

In Policy Review Committee work, it has been determined that Policy 6-6 Public and Private Personnel Data is the most current version from MSBA and that no changes are recommended.  The Committee is then asking that the policy continue as Reviewed:  October 9, 2017.

The Policy Review committee is also recommending the deletion of #6-12 Prayer at Teacher Workshop.  This policy would be removed from active policies with approval at this meeting.

These policies, as approved, become ROCORI District policies.

Recommend adoption of the policies.

Description:  A letter of resignation has been received from Eric Peckskamp, Special Education teacher at the Secondary site.  The resignation was effective immediately for personal reasons. 

Recommend acceptance of the letter of resignation.

Description:  Principal Skanson has submitted a recommendation for Todd Wachendorf  as the Long Term Substitute for Gwen Anderson, EL teacher at Cold Spring Elementary, for the remainder of the 2017-2018 school year.

Recommendation: Approval of Todd Wachendorf as the Long Term Substitute for Gwen Anderson.

Description:  Action items receive individual attention because of the nature of the issues, the need to discuss or review the information prior to taking action, or the specific kind of action required for the item.

Description:  The timelines related to the election process require appointment of the election judges at least 25 days prior to election or at least by October 13, 2017.  The district office has been working in collaboration with the three City Administrators within the district boundaries in choosing the election judges.  The judges named in the resolution have been hired and approved by each of the city councils and have been used in the past elections. 

Desired Outcomes:  Meet election requirements in the appointment of judges.

Recommendation:  Approve the lists of judges as offered by the City Administrators through the resolution offered. (Requires Roll Call Vote)

Description:  An employee of the ROCORI Kid Care program has been dismissed from the program.  After a brief period of employment, Community Education Director Stephanie Hillman met with the employee and indicated that the employment situation was not working out.  Stephanie has recommended termination of employment.

Recommendation:  School Board action to terminate the employment of Kid Care worker, Jessica Wilson.

Description:  Discussion items receive individual attention because of the nature of the issues and the need for introductory or other discussion in order to review the information prior to taking action.  This is also the agenda location for items which simply need school board review, but no formal action on the item is required.  Discussion items will typically return to the agenda at a future point for more specific action.

Description:  The Policy Review Committee has completed some work on District policies.  Several policies are brought forward for School Board consideration.

Description:  The Policy Review Committee has completed work on several policies.  The introduction for these policies was given with the first reading of Policy 6-7 Employee Drug and Alcohol Offenses at a previous meeting.  The Policy Review Committee has offered adjustments and revisions to the policy in several ways and is asking for full School Board consideration as second readings.  

As noted, the District policy initially was 6-7 Employee Drug and Alcohol Offenses.  As the policy was reviewed, the Committee considered MSBA Model policies 417 and 418 for additional information.  It was determined in Committee discussion that parts of policy 6-7 should be retained, specifically identifying issues with employees, but that MSBA Model policies 417 and 418 should be adopted within Chapter 7, District-Wide Policies, in the District.  

The district auditors have recommended an adjustment to Policy 4-3 Fund Balance policy.  The adjustment to policy is intended to reflect the district practice on use of fund balances.  Because this was just recently revised, it would be appropriate for this to be a second reading with the minor change and return for a third reading at the next meeting.

These policies would return to the next meeting agenda for third and final readings. The policies include a revised 6-7, along with the new policies 7-10 and 7-11

Desired Outcome:  Second reading of the policies with the expectation they would return for third and final readings at the next meeting.

Recommendation:  This is the second reading; no formal action is required.  The policies are expected to return in final form under the consent agenda at the next meeting.

Description:  The Policy Review Committee is recommending first readings of several policies within Chapter 7 District-wide Policies.  These policies are submitted with the recommendation that they return to Policy Review Committee for additional consideration before they return to the full School Board.

Desired Outcome:  First reading of the policies.  Referral back to Policy Review Committee for additional discussion and consideration.

Recommendation:  This is the first reading.  No formal action is required, but it is desired that the policies be referred back to Policy Review Committee.

Description:  The Policy Review Committee has looked at the District Policy Manual Table of Contents.  The Committee is requesting that the full School Board consider the manner in which the Table of Contents is presented.  Each policy is placed in the Table of Contents in alphabetical order under present practice.  The Committee members are asking if it makes more sense for the policies to be arranged in numerical order to expedite the processes of using the Table of Contents.  

Desired Outcome:  The Committee is seeking historical background on the alphabetic approach and seeking direction from the full board as to making a change from the alphabetic order to numeric order of the Table of Contents.

Recommendation:  Reach School Board consensus as to the approach to the Table of Contents.

Description:  Administrative reports are requested of each administrator for update purposes.

Description:  The reports during the first meeting of the month are expected from the Academic team including principals and curriculum leaders.

Description:  This agenda item allows School Board members to share information learned from interactions with the public.

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