February 28, 2022 at 5:30 PM - Regular Board Meeting

1. CALL TO ORDER
Bohnsack, Habben, Hesse, Hentges, Schurman, and Wesenberg. 

2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
The School Board Chair will lead the school board and attendees in the Pledge of Allegiance.

3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
Board action to approve the agenda for the meeting is expected.

4. CONSENT ITEMS
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.

4.A. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
The minutes from the Regular Board Meeting and Work Session held on February 14, 2022. Also included the minutes from the Special Board Meeting held on February 24, 2022.
Recommend approval of the minutes from the meetings.

4.B. APPROVAL OF BILLS
Treasurer Hentges will have been at the school site to review bills, ask questions, and confirm information prior to the meeting.
Recommendation is to approve the bill payment of $5,153,457.40 subject to any adjustments or direction offered by the Treasurer.

4.C. TREASURER REPORT
Treasurer Hentges will have reviewed financial information for the board. This information is included in the Treasurer's Report.

4.D. ROCORI Secondary-Industrial Technology-Agriculture teacher: Leo Kerfeld

4.E. EMPLOYMENT
Recommend approval of the assignment as outlined.

4.E.1. Buildings and Grounds Department-ROCORI Secondary-Cleaner: Kevin Guggenberger

4.E.2. ROCORI Secondary Paraprofessional-Kym Craven moving to Cold Spring Elementary as a Paraprofessional effective 02/22/2022.

4.E.3. ROCORI Secondary-Paraprofessional: Allison Notsch

4.E.4. ROCORI Secondary-Laundry Worker: Sidney Kuechle

4.E.5. ROCORI Secondary-Laundry Worker: Jacqui Rubio

4.E.6. Cold Spring Elementary-Paraprofessional: Brittany Berven

4.F. RETIREMENTS-RESIGNATIONS
Recommend approval of the following resignations and/or retirements.

4.F.1. Resignation-ROCORI High School Science teacher: Jena Nitz effective June 3, 2022

4.G. MEDICAL LEAVE OF ABSENCE REQUEST
Recommendation: Approve the medical leave of absence request as requested.

4.G.1. Cold Spring Elemenary-1st grade teacher: Valerie Fraley requests to extend her medical leave of absence an additional week from March 6th to March 13th, 2022.

4.H. POLICIES
The following policies have been discussed in the policy committee. It is being presented for a third and final reading and call for public comment. 
Recommendation: Approve the policies as presented.
2-15 School Board Meeting Minutes Policy

4.I. TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT DURING PROBATIONARY PERIOD EMPLOYEE 
Recommendation: Approve the termination of Employee 

5. ACTION  ITEMS
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.

5.A. RESOLUTION TO LIMIT THE ENROLLMENT OF NONRESIDENT PUPILS 

6. DISCUSSION ITEMS
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.

6.A. POLICY
The following policy has been discussed in the policy committee. It is being presented for second reading and call for public comment. This will come back for approval at the next board meeting.

• Harassment and Violence Policy 7-4

7. ADMINISTRATIVE AND BOARD REPORTS

7.A. SUPERINTENDENT REPORT
The Acting Superintendent will make his report about ROCORI Public Schools.

7.A.1. ENROLLMENT UPDATE

7.A.2. BUDGET COMPARISON REPORT JANUARY 2022
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.

7.B. BOARD COMMITTEE AND REPRESENTATIVE REPORTS
Board members will report on activities within their portfolio of committee and representative assignments.

8. COMMENTS AND REQUESTS FROM VISITORS
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.

9. UPCOMING EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
A calendar of upcoming issues of concern to the school board is included as part of the agenda.

10. ADJOURN