August 12, 2019 at 7:00 PM - Regular

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

Student Representative 

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 Closed meetings of July 22, 2019 are included in the exhibits.

Recommend approval of the minutes from the meeting of July 22, 2019.

Description:  Principal Jenson is recommending Amanda Rosengren as the Language Arts Teacher at the Secondary Building for the 2019-2020 school year.

Activities Director Baumgarten is submitting a list of Fall Coaches for the 2019-2020 school year.  He has also submitted a recommendation for Brad Bauer and Lisa Swan Anderson as Cross Country Head Coaches and Kim Mitchell as Girls Swimming and Diving Head Coach.

Director of Buildings and Grounds Neisinger is recommending Sandra Robatcek as a 15 hr per week cleaner at Cold Spring Elementary.

Director of Community Education Hillman has submitted a recommendation for Amanda Brock, Lauren Illies, and Haylee Pogatchnik as Childcare Assistants and Grace Sauer and Zoe Rist as  Childcare Aides.
Ms Hillman is also recommending Amber Jacobs as an ECSE Paraprofessional for the 2019-2020 school year.

Recommend approval of the assignment as outlined.

Description:  Ashley Peck, Paraprofessional at Cold Spring Elementary has submitted a letter of resignation from her position effective immediately.

Barb Fuchs, Executive Assistant has submitted a letter of resignation for retirement purposes effective December 31, 2019.

Brayden Holthaus, cleaner at the Secondary Schools, has submitted a letter of resignation effective immediately.

Recommendation:  Accept letter of resignation with thanks for years of service.

Description:  Director of Food Services Barker shared her proposal for an increase in meal prices for the 2019-2020 school year at the July 22nd meeting.

Recommendation:  Approve the increase in lunch prices for the 2019-2020 school year as proposed.

Description:  The annual renewal of the cooperative agreement for 6th grade activities with the St Boniface school is included in the exhibits.  There were no changes to the existing agreement and the dates have just been updated. 

Recommendation: Approval of the annual renewal of the cooperative agreement for the 6th grade activities with St Boniface.

Description:  Be It Resolved, by the School Board of ISD 750, ROCORI, as follows, that the following donation be accepted with gratitude: Thank you to all the organizations and individuals for their donations.  The school district appreciates your generosity and continued support.  Item donated: $5,000; Donor: ColdSpring; Designation: VEX Robotics.

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 Administrative team has been working on the language for the district goals for the 2019-2020 school year. These goals were based on the feedback received in the Community wide survey. 

Recommendation: Approve the district goals for the 2019-2020 school year as presented.

Description:  Proposed changes to the Child Care terms and conditions of employment were shared at the July 22nd meeting and are being brought back for approval.  The proposed changes better align the contract to similar pay equity benefit levels as compared to the Terms and Conditions of Employment for Classified Employees. 

Recommendation:  Approve the changes to the Child Care terms and conditions of employment 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:  The district has put together an Employee handbook as a guideline for employees as to the district expectations.  This would be your first reading on the handbook and will come back to the August 26th meeting for endorsement.

Description:  The principals are expected to present any changes being made to the student handbooks for the 2019-2020 school year. This is the first reading and will come back to the August 26th meeting for endorsement.

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