July 22, 2019 at 6:30 PM - Regular

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

Student Members: 

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 June 24, 2019 are included in the exhibits.

Recommend approval of the minutes from the meetings.

Description:  Board Treasurer Jason Wesenberg will have reviewed financial information for the board.  This information is included in the Treasurer's Report.  

Approval of Treasurer’s Report is recommended.

Description:  Treasurer Wesenberg will have been at the school site to review bills, ask questions, and confirm information prior to the meeting. 

Recommendation is to approve bill payment subject to any adjustments or direction offered by the Treasurer.

Description:  Director of Buildings and Grounds is recommending Lora Arceneau as an evening cleaner at Richmond Elementary for the 2019-2020 school year.

Director of Buildings and Grounds is recommending Dave Konz as an evening cleaner at the John Clark Elementary School for the 2019-2020 school year.

Mr Neslon is recommending Alex Naujokas as a fulltime Social Studies Teacher at the ROCORI Middle School for the 2019-2020 school year.

Community Education Director Hillman is requesting the addition of a Parent Educator position for the 2019-2020 school year to fill the need to have all of the ECFE classes with a licensed parent educator.  This position would be for up to 312 hours.

Principal Skanson has submitted a recommendation for Hope Iverson and Kennedy Stace as Kindergarten Teachers for the 2019-2020 school year.

Director of Community Education Hillman has submitted a recommendation for a increase in for Rebecca Larson, Deb Hansen due to section additions and modifications and a change in hours for the vacancies in paraprofessional positions in the ECSE program due to student enrollment is specific sections.  Ms. Hillman is also recommending an increase in hours for Denin Knapp-Baykham due to additional registrations.

Director of Buildings and Grounds Neisinger is recommending Colton Baumgarten as the 16 hour cleaner at the Secondary Schools.

Recommend approval of the assignment as outlined.

Description:  The School District is a member in long standing with Minnesota School Board Association (MSBA),Resource Training and Solutions, Schools for Equity in Education(SEE), and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL).  The invoice for renewal of each of the memberships has been received along with a description of services the district receives or in which the district engages.  The district should continue membership during the 2019-2020 school year.

Recommend approval of Minnesota School Board Association (MSBA), Resource Training and Solutions, Schools for Equity in Education (SEE), and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) memberships for FY20.

Description:  The district has asked for and received bids for supplying the milk for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years.  Only one bid was received and that came from Kemps in the amount of $90,381.

Recommendation:  Accept the bid from Kemps Milk for the 2019-2020 and the 2020-2021 school years.

Description:  The Boni Fest Committee has submitted a request to use the grounds near the District Education Facility for their festival and fireworks display.  The request is for August 17, 2019 and August 18, 2019.

Recommendation:  Approve the request for use of school grounds for the St. Boniface Parish Festival with property use expectations outlined.

Description:  Chelsea Schroeder, Paraprofessional at the District Education Facility, has submitted a letter of resignation effective immediately.

Danny Kuechle, evening cleaner at the Secondary Schools, has submitted a letter of resignation effective at the end of the 2018-2019 school year.

Deb Hansen, Cleaner at Cold Spring Elementary School, has submitted a letter of resignation from her 15 hour position effective immediately.

Recommendation: Accept the letter of resignation as presented.

Description:  The District is required to submit the 10 year Long Term Facilities Maintenance (LTFM) Plan to the Minnesota Department of Education each July.  Attached are the updated revenue and expenditure projections plan for LTFM. 

Recommendation:  Approve the LTFM 10 year revenue and expenditure projections. 

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 District has completed the request for proposal process for the group insurance plan beginning 10/1/19.  Attached are the plan comparisons with the Medica renewal rates and the Public Employees Insurance Plan (PEIP) proposal.  The Medica proposal was an approximately 24% increase in rates from the 2018 plan year, while the PEIP proposal was an approximately 5% decrease.  The health insurance committee is recommending approval of the 10/1/19 PEIP proposal with the 4-Tier Rate structure.  Our two largest Unions have completed their necessary voting and have also approved the change to the PEIP plans. 

Recommendation:  Approve the group health insurance plan with PEIP, using the 4-Tier Rate structure, for the plan year beginning October 1, 2019. 

Description:  The district has been in the process of negotiating with our bus companies for transportation contracts. 

Recommendation: Approve the transportation contracts as presented.

Description:  There has been a change made to the Child Care Site Leader and Child Care Assistant Contracts.  More information will be provided at the meeting.

Recommendation: Approve the changes to the contracts as presented.

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:  Director of Food Services Barker is recommending an increase of $.05 to lunch prices for the 2019-2020 school year to be on compliance with the Paid Lunch Equity (PLE) guidelines.

Description:  The school district conducted a community wide survey that also included staff and student surveys as well as the community.  The process and survey results will be discussed.  No formal action is expected.

Description:  With the completion of the FY19 Superintendent Evaluation, a review of the timeline, forms, indicators, job description, and overall process should be held.  No formal action is expected.

Description:  With the start of the 2004-2005 school year, the district began a reduction of closing all buildings over the Fourth of July week as a cost savings. There is a request to revisit this reduction.  No formal action is expected.

Description:  The business office provides an update of district expenditures and revenues through the Budget Comparison Report.The report is intended to provide a financial picture of the district in a couple ways.One is to compare current year expenditures to the previous year.The second is to simply give a report on the current financial status.In addition to the report, special items of note are highlighted in the explanations offered. This report does not require formal action but is provided as an informational item.

Description:  Board members will report on activities within their portfolio of committee and representative assignments.

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