April 9, 2018 at 6:30 PM - Regular

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

Student Reprresentatives Grace Sauer, AnnaMaria Tomovic, Emily Haus, and Alexa Hennen.

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:  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 March 26, 2018 are included in the exhibits.

The minutes from the Special  meeting of March 29, 2018 are included in the exhibits.

The minutes from the Special meeting of April 3, 2018 are included in the exhibits.

The minutes from the Special meeting of April 4, 2018 are included in the exhibits.

Recommend approval of the minutes from the meetings.

Description:  Chelsie Stenzel, Math Teacher at the ROCORI Middle School, has submitted a letter of resignation effective at the end of the 2017-2018 school year.

Doris Minnerath, Special Education Teacher at the Cold Spring Elementary School, has submitted a letter of resignation for retirement purposes, effective at the end of the 2017-2018 school year after 4 years of service.

Warren Christie, Industrial Technology Teacher at the Secondary Schools, has submitted a letter of resignation for retirement purposes, effective December 20, 2018 after 21 years of service.

Recommend acceptance of the resignation letters with thanks for years of service.

Description:  The John Clark Elementary School flooring project has some asbestos removal as part of that project.  Quotes were received from VCI Environmental and Sterling Systems for the removal.

Recommendation to accept the low quote in the amount of $14,745 from VCI Environmental.

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:  MDE requires us as a local education agency to have an individual identified having authority to assign job duties to the staff and to authorize user access to MDE. 

Recommend: Identify Dr John Thein as official with authority to assign user access to MDE.

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:  In the spring of the year, the district reviews calendars for upcoming school years.  

A tentative calendar for 2018-19 has been adopted to allow parents and community members some opportunities to plan.  The district, through School Board action, typically returns to the calendar in the spring to finalize the upcoming year.  The calendar was placed on the agenda at this time for review purposes and would return at the next meeting for formal adoption.

The district practice, for more than a decade, has also been to look a year further ahead and prepare calendar options.  In this case, several calendar options have been developed for 2019-20.  The versions are shared with the idea that there are strengths and weaknesses to each approach.  At this point, a brief opportunity to introduce the two options, with some initial feedback, is expected at this meeting.  A more specific recommendation among the two options will be brought to the next meeting for adoption as the tentative calendar for 2019-20.

Desired Outcomes:  Presentation of calendars for the next two years with opportunity to review strengths and weaknesses and time to consider the options prior to formal adoption.  Review the calendar before formal adoption of the final 2018-19 calendar.  Review proposed calendars before adoption of a tentative calendar for 2019-20   Recommendation:  No formal action at this meeting.

Description:  The 2018 Senior Class have submitted a request to be released from school on May 29th, May 30th, and May 31st.  This request has been a tradition of the senior class.  Approval is typically based on the students being caught up on credits and the Senior Class demonstrating appropriate and acceptable patterns of behavior during the final months of school.  Removal of the privilege may occur pending issues of student behavior.Recommend approval of the request with expectations of academic and behavioral standards.

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:  Interim Superintendent John Thein will provide a report on his first few days.

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