February 11, 2019 at 6:30 PM - Regular

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

Student Member:  Emily Haus.

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 and Work Session meetings of January 28, 2019 are included in the exhibits.

Recommend approval of the minutes from the meetings.

Description:  Secondary Principal Jenson is requesting the addition of a Special Education Paraprofessional to help cover the needs of a student. 

Erin Tronbak, Early Childhood Coordinator, submitted a recommendation for Chelsea Schroeder as an Early Childhood Special Education Paraprofessional.  This vacancy occurred with the resignation of Marina Schroeder.
 
Recommend approval of the position proposal as outlined.

Description:  The following staff members have submitted requests for unpaid leaves of absences for the 2019-2020 school year:

>Pam Teal, Language Arts teacher at the Secondary School is requesting an unpaid leave of absence for the second trimester of the 2019-2020 school year. 
>Jeron Lieser, Industrial Tech teacher at the Secondary School is requesting an unpaid leave of absence for the entire 2019-2020 school year.
>Gwen Anderson, EL Teacher at the Cold Spring Elementary School is requesting an unpaid leave of absence for the entire 2019-2020 school year.
>Mike Rowe, Instructional Coach is requesting an unpaid leave of absence for the entire 2019-2020 school year.

Description:  The annual membership dues invoice for the Richmond Civic and Commerce has been received.  The School District has been a member of the Organization for an extended period of time and continued membership is recommended.

Description:  The administration is requesting that a change to the 2018-2019 school calendar of moving the three hour early release in April from April 17th to April 18th.  This would be consistent with our pattern of having the early release on the last student day of that week.

Recommendation: Approve the change in the 2018-2019 school calendar as presented.

Description:  Ehlers and Associates will present information on Long Term Facility Maintenance Bonding and how that looks for the ROCORI District.  This is informational only and no action is expected at this time.

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