October 24, 2022 at 6:30 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 held on October 10, 2022.
Recommend approval of the minutes from the meeting.

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 $2,871,146.74 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. EMPLOYMENT
Recommend approval of the assignment as outlined.

4.D.1. Food Service Department-Cold Spring Elementary Head Cook moving to ROCORI Secondary Cooks Helper: Brenda Libbesmeier effective October 24, 2022.

4.D.2. Food Service Department-ROCORI Secondary Cooks Helper moving to John Clark Elementary as Cook's Helper: Gayle Sauer effective October 3, 2022.

4.D.3. ROCORI Secondary and Spartan Online: Shelby Teal increased 0.29 FTE for a total of 0.79 FTE.

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

4.E.1. Resignation-ROCORI Secondary-Paraprofessional: Crystal Dingmann effective 10-12-2022.

4.E.2. Resignation-Cold Spring Elementary-Paraprofessional: Denise Ziebarth effective 10-31-2022

4.E.3. Retirement-ROCORI Secondary-Math teacher: Jana Court effective October 17, 2022 ending her leave of absence. 

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

4.F.1. Cold Spring Elementary-Kindergarten teacher: Emily Nibaur requesting additional 4 weeks from previous request on September 26, 2022. Final leave request will be from March 9, 2023 through June 2, 2023.

4.G. WINTER COACHES LIST 2022-2023
Director of Activities Joel Baumgarten has provided the coaches hired for the 2022-2023 school year.
Recommendation: Approve the list as presented.

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 ACCEPT A DONATION
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. 
Recommend adoption of the resolution to accept the donation

5.B. APPROVAL OF PAYMENT TO COLD SPRING BAKERY
Payment to Cold Spring Bakery Check #109921 in the amount of $94.32.
Recommendation: Approve the Cold Spring Bakery Payment as presented.

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. TITLE IX PRESENTATION
Director of Activities, Joel Baumgarten will present information on Title IX.

6.B. POLICIES
The following policies have been discussed in the policy committee. It is being presented for a second reading and call for public comment.

6.B.1. Policy Numbering System Update
As previously discussed, the policy numbering system has changed to the MSBA numbering system. This is in effect and live on the ROCORI Public Schools website.

6.B.2. 624 Online Learning

6.B.3. 807 Health and Safety

7. ADMINISTRATIVE AND BOARD REPORTS

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

7.A.1. BUDGET COMPARISON REPORT SEPTEMBER 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.