January 8, 2018 at 7:00 PM - SCHOOL BOARD ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
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1. Call to Order-Rob Mathias, Chair
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2. Pledge of Allegiance
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3. Roll Call of Attendance-Dean Mikel, Clerk
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4. Administer the Oath of Office-Rob Mathias
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5. New Business.
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6. Approve the Agenda.
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7. Organization of the School Board for 2018.
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7.A. Election of Office of a Chairperson.
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7.B. Election of Office of a Vice Chair.
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7.C. Election of a Clerk.
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7.D. Election of a Treasurer.
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7.E. Consider/Approve Maribeth Cooper as Board Secretary. DECISION
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7.F. Consider/Establish salaries for School Board members. Salaries for 2016 were $2,200 for the Board Chairperson, Directors received $1,900. DECISION
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7.G. Consider/Approve the dates, places, and times of regular School Board meetings and Work Sessions. ATTACHMENT/ DECISION
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8. Consent Items: DECISION
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8.A. Consider/Approve Minutes from the December 18, 2017 School Board Meeting. ATTACHMENT
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8.B. Consider/Approve Belinda Selfors' and Katie Morlock's recommendation to hire Angie Kime as the Bear Cave Intermediate Library Paraprofessional. Ms. Kime will be placed on Step 7 at $13.70/hr, 37.5 hours/week beginning January 3, 2018.
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8.C. Designate legal depositories for school district funds. It is recommended that Bremer Bank of Stewartville be designated as the primary depository for checking accounts and that Wells Fargo Bank of Stewartville and Rochester be designated as secondary depositories for investments.
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8.D. Authorize the Superintendent, Business Director, or the School Board Treasurer to make wire transfers of funds for the purpose of investments.
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8.E. Authorize the Superintendent or Business Director, to issue checks, electric funds transfer, and wire transfers between board meetings with payments of same to be approved by the School Board at the next meeting at which payment of claims is approved.
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8.F. Authorize the Superintendent or Business Director, to invest funds not needed for current expenses, with investments to be approved at the next School Board meeting at which payment of claims is approved.
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8.G. Determine the amount of the employee surety bonds. It is recommended that the amount continue to be $50,000.00.
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8.H. It is recommended that the following statutory duties of the clerk be delegated to the administrative staff: the keeping of the book of minutes of all School Board meetings, the preparation of reports that shall include the condition and value of school property, receipts and disbursements in detail and such other financial matters as may be called for by the Minnesota Department of Education, the length of the school term and the enrollment and attendance by grades, and the names and post office addresses of all directors and other officers, and such other items of information as may be called for by the Commissioner of Education.
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8.I. Approve the authorization for the use of facsimile and bitmap signatures of the 2018 officers on payroll and voucher checks in accordance with the provisions of M.S. 47.41 and 47.42.
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8.J. Designate the "Stewartville Star" as the official newspaper of the school district.
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8.K. Authorize the Superintendent, Business Director, Human Resources Coordinator, and the 2018 School Board Treasurer to have access to the school district's safety deposit box at Wells Fargo Bank, Stewartville.
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8.L. Designate the Central Education Center area as a posting place for notices of meetings of the Stewartville School Board.
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8.M. Approve the Minnesota School Board Association memebership for the year 2018.
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8.N. Approve employee participation in current tax sheltered annuities for the year 2018.
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8.O. Establish mileage rate for school business. It is recommended that the IRS approved rate of $0.54.5 be used for the year 2018.
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9. Consider/Adopt a Resolution Designating a School district Attorney. Joseph Langel of Ratwik, Roszak and Maloney of Minneapolis and Steven Corson of Corson Law Office of Stewartville. ATTACHMENT/DECISION
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10. Consider the designation of representatives to the Minnesota State High School League for the year 2018. Governing Board Representative: _______________________________________; School Representaive-Ms. Belinda Selfors; Boys' and Girls' Representative and Speech Activities-Mr. Tim Malone; Music Activities-Ms. Jessica Honsey. (The 2017 represenatives were as follows: Governing Board Representative-Mr. Todd Emanuel, School Representtaive-Dr. David Thompson; Boys' and Girls' Representative and Speech Activities-Mr. Tim Malone; Music Activities-Ms. Jessica Honsey) DECISION
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11. Consider/Appoint Board Members to the following committees:
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11.A. Appoint a Board Member(s) to the Community Education Advisory Committee for the year 2018. (2017 Nicole O'Neill)
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11.B. Appoint a Board Member(s) to serve on the Building Construction and Facilities Committee for the year 2018. (2017 Rob Mathias, Lori Miller-Beach, Will Welch)
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11.C. Appoint a Board Member(s) to serve on the Negotiations Committee for the year 2018. (2017 Rob Mathias, Lori Miller-Beach, Dean Mikel)
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11.D. Appoint a Board Member(s) to serve as liaison with the High School Student Council for the year 2018. (2017 Todd Emanuel)
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11.E. Appoint a Board Member(s) to serve as the SEE representative for the year 2018. (2017 Will Welch and Rebecca Wortman)
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11.F. Appoint a Board Member(s) to serve on the SEPTA Bonner/BCI Parent Advisory Board Committee for the year 2018. (2017 Nichol O'Neill and Rebecca Wortman)
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11.G. Appoint a Board Member(s) to serve on the Finance Committee for the year 2018. (2017 Dean Mikel, Lori Miller-Beach and Rebecca Wortman)
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11.H. Appoint a Board Member(s) to serve on the ZED Advisory Governing Board for the year 2018. (2017 Rob Mathias)
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11.I. Appoint a Board Member(s) to serve on the Health and Safety Committee for the year 2018. (2017 Todd Emanuel)
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11.J. Appoint a Board Member(s) to serve on the District Advisory Committee for the year 2018. (2017 Rob Mathias)
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11.K. Appoint a Board Member(s) to serve on the District Wellness Committee for the year 2018. (2017 Lori Miller-Beach and Will Welch)
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11.L. Appoint a Board Member(s) to serve on the Policy Review Committee for the year 2018. (2017 Dean Mikel, Nichol O'Neill and Will Welch)
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11.M. Appoint a Board Member(s) to serve on the Meet and Confer Committee for the year 2018. (2017 Rob Mathias and Lori Miller-Beach. alt. Rebecca Wortman)
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12. Discussion regarding the Proposed Tax Abatement-Sprouts Child Care and Early Learning Center, LLC. DISCUSSION / INFORMATION / DECISION
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13. MSBA Conference and Officer Workshop DISCUSSION
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14. Motion to close the meeting for the purpose of discussing mid-year evaluation of performance persuant to M.S.13D.05 for Superintendent of Schools, Belinda Selfors.
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15. Motion to open the meeting after closed session.
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16. Adjourn
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