September 30, 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:  This agenda item is intended to be a formal opportunity for the School Board and its members to recognize and celebrate success within the ROCORI School District.  Most of the recognition comes in the form of ROCORI Proud presentations although the recognition is not limited to that format.

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 September 9, 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:  Principal Skanson, Cold Spring Elementary School, is proposing an increase in an assignment for a Special Ed Paraprofessional of 2 hours to meet the needs of a Special Ed student.

Director Hillman, Community Education Department, recommending child care positions for the following people: Krisin McMahen, Emily Lang, Mady Apel due to increase student enrollment and staff availability.

Principal Skanson, Cold Spring Elementary School is recommending Amber Poganski as a Special Education  Paraprofessional due to a resignation for 2019-2020 school year.

Principal Sam Court, John Clark Principal is recommending Kurt Gunn for 0.6 DAPE and Elementary PE teacher for the 2019-2020 school year.

Director of Buildings and Ground Brent Neisinger recommending Levi Lauer as a cleaner for the Cold Spring Elementary School due to a resignation.

Principal Skanson, Cold Spring Elementary School, is recommending an increase of 2 hours to the assignment of Dana Claseman, Special Ed paraprofessional for the 2019-2020 school year.

Principal Jenson, Rocori High School, is recommending FTE1.0 English Learner teacher Lynda Bennetts effective for 2019-2020 school year.

Principal Skanson, Cold Spring Elementary School is recommending an additional FTE 1.0 for a Special Education Paraprofessional due to increased IEP's in kindergarten for the 2019-2020 school year. 


Recommend approval of the assignment as outlined.

Description:  Keisha Kramm, Art teacher at Cold Spring Elementary is requesting a leave of absence to begin approximately March 23, 2020 for up to 12 weeks. 

Recommendation: approve the request for a leave of absence as presented.

Description:  Brent Neisinger has requested to remove the Hustler from the fleet prior to this winter. Value estimate $2,000

Recommendation: authorize for Brent to sell the equipment as requested.

Description:  The following policy is recommended for a third and final reading.

#9-18 Peace Officers

Recommendation: Approve the policy as presented.

Description:  The Master Agreement with our teaching staff allows our teachers to request a lane change in September, December, and March of each school year.  A report of the requested lane changes is included in your documents for approval.  Once approved, the change becomes a part of their pay the following month.

Recommendation: Approve the lane change requests as presented.

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 levy implementation process is conducted in two stages--initial certification and final certification of the tax assessments applied within the School District.  In order to prepare and finalize the levy authorization, initial action is required in September to set the expected tax levy within the district.  

Recommendation: Approve the initial maximum levy authority, with final amounts to be approved in December. 

Description:  Payment to Cold Spring Bakery Checks in the amount of $126.48

Recommend approval of the payment to Cold Spring Bakery.

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:  Policy #7-5 Tobacco-free is being presented for the second reading.

Policy #10-3 Visitors to School Building is being presented for the second reading.

No action is expected.

Description:  The Social Studies teacher, from RMS are requesting permission for their annual trip to Washington DC. They are wanting to change the dates to October 15-18, 2020 which would be over MEA. It was previously scheduled in March. One of the teachers is expected to be present at the meeting for any questions.

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.