November 12, 2018 at 6:45 PM - Regular

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

Student Members: Emily Haus, Grace Sauer, AnnaMaria Tomovic, Alexa Hennen

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 October 22, 2018 are included in the exhibits.

Recommend approval of the minutes from the meetings.

Description:  Assistant Principal Nelson is recommending Veronica Bedolla as a Special Education Paraprofessional at the Secondary building to replace Alexa Lanz.

Recommend approval of Veronica Bedolla as outlined.

Description:  Christine Olson, Paraprofessional at Richmond Elementary has submitted a request to extend her unpaid FMLA leave until the end of November, 2018.

Arin Spindler, Teacher at Cold Spring Elementary has submitted a request for a leave of absence to begin approximately at the end of February, 2019 and continue for the remainder of the 2018-2019 school year.

Regina Magedanz, Teacher at the Secondary School, has submitted a request for a leave of absence beginning approximately April, 2019 and continuing until May 28, 2019.

Recommendation:  Approve the requests for leaves of absences as presented.

Description:  Previously, you approved a van purchase through Schwieters Chevrolet, however; the dealership was not able to procure the vehicle.  Tenvoorde Ford was able to provide a vehicle based on the state purchasing contract.

Recommendation:  Approve purchase of 10 passenger Ford Transit from Tenvoorde Ford.

Description:  Approve quote from RHL of $27,250 for replacement of LED sign.

Description:  Bruce Weber, Head Custodian at the Secondary building has submitted a letter of resignation for retirement purposes effective December 31, 2018.

Recommendation:  Accept the retirement letter from Bruce Weber effective December 31, 2018.

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:  In accordance of election laws, the resolution authorizing issuance of election certificates must be passed by the school board.

Description:  Substitute pay rates were discussed at the October 22, 2018 meeting and an increase is recommended. 

Recommendation: Approve the teacher daily substitute rate of pay as $115.00 and the paraprofessional substitute hourly rate of pay as $12.00.

Description:  Christine Olson, Paraprofessional at Richmond Elementary, has submitted a letter to request a personal, unpaid leave from December 3, 2018 through January 18, 2019.

Description:  The Boys and Girls Club has submitted a letter requesting to end their agreement with the ROCORI School District to provide school-aged care effective May 31, 2019.

Recommendation: Accept the letter from the Boys and Girls Club as submitted.

Description:  The Policy Committee has met and is making the following recommendations:
Policy 4-22, Disposition of Obsolete Equipment and Material; 6-11, Public Data Requests; 8-13, Testing Accommodations, Modifications, and Exemptions for IEP, Section 504 Plans, and LEP Students; 8-18, Assessment of Student Achievement; 8-19, Staff Development for Standards; 9-21, Mandated Reporting of Child Neglect or Physical or Sexual Abuse; and 9-22, Mandated Reporting of Maltreatment of Vulnerable Adults are all new policies but are required policies for the district to have.

Policy 6-5, Family and Medical Leave Policy; 7-8, Internet Acceptable Use and Safety Policy; 8-9, an Equal Educational Opportunity are policies that do not have any changes to them but need to be reviewed annually.

Policies 7-4, Harassment and 9-4, Student Discipline have very minor language changes to bring them into compliance.

Policy Policy 8-12 School District Testing Plan and Procedure is replacing the old 8-12 Profile of Learning policy.

The committee is asking to have two readings on these policies because some are mandated policies, some are just being reviewed or have minor changes to be in compliance.

Description:  Tyler Gohmann and Brian Herrig have submitted a request for club status for a Graphic Design club.  This will not become a sanctioned Minnesota State High School League activity so the district is not expecting it will come back for a request to change to becoming an activity. 

Recommendation: Consensus on granting club status to the Graphic Design group.

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