January 12, 2015 at 7:15 PM - Regular Meeting

I. ROLL CALL and PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
  

II. ORGANIZATION OF 2015 SCHOOL BOARD

II.A. Oath of Office and seating of elected members. (A. Counihan)
 

II.B. Approval, 2015  Board Officer Positions of Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary-Clerk, and Treasurer.  The apointments are for one-term commencing the first business meeting in January, 2015, to the first business meeting in January, 2016. (A. Counihan)
 

II.C. Approval, 2015 Board of Education Meeting Schedule (A. Williams)
 

II.D. Approval, to provide delegation of Clerk and Treasurer duties for day-to-day business.
 

II.E. Approval, Authorization the Finance Director and Assistant Finance Director to make electronic fund transfers.
 

II.F. Approval, Designating Bremer Bank, Key Community Bank, US Bank, Wells Fargo, and Minnesota School District Liquid Asset Fund Plus as the depositories for school funds.
 

II.G. Approval, Authorizing the Finance Director to invest excess funds in accordance with Minn. Stat. § 118 A.
 

II.H. Approval, Designating Rupp, Anderson, Squires & Waldspurger, P.A., Knutson, Flynn, and Deans, and District 917 Legal Services as legal counsel for the District.
 

II.I. Approval, Designating Lillie Suburban (Southwest Review) as the official newspaper of the school district for the 2015 calendar year.
 

II.J. Approval, Designating Great River Printing, the official printer of the District's SixTimes publication for the 2015 calendar year.
 

II.K. Approval, Authorizing continued use of facsimile signatures of the board officers on all check warrants issued by the school district.
 

II.L. Approval, Adoping Robert's Rules of Order.
 

III. PRESENTATIONS

III.A. QUALITY-IN-ACTION:

III.A.1. Technology Coordinator Lori Peterson and Director Doug Tomhave will recognize our 2014 TIES Exceptional Teachers Brittan Chamberlin (Kaposia Education Center) and Rachel Mettille (Secondary) for their classroom technology integration of iPads, expanding use of SmartBoard technologies, SchoolFusion teacher web pages, Moodle for online classroom management and Google Apps for Education.
   

IV. APPROVAL OF MEETING AGENDA AND MINUTES

IV.A. Board of Education Meeting Agenda, January 12, 2015

IV.B. Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting Minutes, December 8, 2014

IV.C. Regular Meeting Minutes, December 8, 2014
 

V. CONSENT ITEMS

V.A. Financial Claims:  Bills Payable (A. Bushberger)
 

V.B. Staffing:  Appointments, Resignations, Transfers, Retirements, Abolishments, and Leaves (C. Miller)

V.B.1. Certified

V.B.2. Classified
  

VI. BUSINESS ITEMS

VI.A. Approval for the South St. Paul Board of Education to approve the Acceptance of Gifts Resolution for a $2,667 donation from the Girls Redline Club for the locker room renovations at Wakota Arena.
   

VII. REPORTS AND INFORMATIONAL ITEMS

VII.A. Superintendent's Report
Dr. Dave Webb, Superintendent of South St. Paul Public Schools, will share pertinent items with the Board and community.

VII.B. Board Members' Reports/Committee Updates
Board members will report on recent educational activities/events in which they have participated as well as other informational items.
 

VIII. SUPPLEMENTAL AGENDA

VIII.A. Closed Session per the Open Meeting Law (Minn. Stat. § 13D)

VIII.A.1. Negotiations
 

VIII.B. Other Business Deemed Necessary by the Board of Education
 

IX. ADJOURNMENT