January 20, 2022 at 6:00 PM - Regular Board Meeting
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1. Call to Order and Pledge of Allegiance
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Call to Order. Secretary to the Board will take attendance.
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2. Action: Agenda - Additions, Corrections and Modifications
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3. Public Comments
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Members of the public may speak during this portion of the meeting. Comments are limited to five minutes. Board members will not respond to public comments at this time. Should total Public Comments approach or exceed a cumulative time of 30 minutes, the Board may suspend additional Public Comments until immediately prior to the Board and Superintendent Comments portion of the agenda. |
4. Action: Consent Agenda Items
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All items under the Consent Agenda are considered to be routine in nature and will be enacted by a single motion and subsequent roll call vote. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Board member so requests, in which event the item will be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered as the first item after approval of the Consent Agenda.
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4.a. Board Meeting Minutes
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4.b. Bills, Treasurer's Report, and Financial Documents
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4.c. Personnel Report
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Regular personnel items.
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4.d. Memoranda of Understanding with RCS/RCSEA and RCS/RCESPA regarding Family Medical Leave.
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This agreement allows employees to use accrued benefit time towards the full 12 weeks of allowable family leave for the birth/adoption of a child. Current practice allows 6 weeks of paid leave. This does not provide additional benefits to employees but allows employees to use already earned benefits.
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4.e. MOU with RCSEA regarding updating/extending of an existing MOU for Pathways to Special Education.
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4.f. Donations/Grants
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4.g. Intergovernmental Agreement with RTHS for Student Transportation
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RTHS has been providing transportation to one student to Champaign at no charge to RCS and this agreement will continue through the end of this school year.
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4.h. Semi-Annual Review of Closed Meeting Minutes
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A log of closed session meetings and topics is attached. The Board is approving that these closed session minutes, which have been approved previously, are maintained as confidential.
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4.i. Destruction of the verbatim records of all closed meetings from July 2020 and older (18 months or older).
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Verbatim records, which constitute the audio recordings of closed sessions, are subject to destruction once those recordings are 18 months old. The minutes of these meetings remain on file.
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4.j. Designate the Superintendent to prepare the FY23 budget.
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5. Action: Discussion and Possible Approval of Any Items Removed from Consent Agenda. Move to closed session if needed.
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6. Action: Business Office Reorganization
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The board is approving the attached job descriptions and authorizing the creation of a new position and its job description. This adds one full-time clerical position. |
7. Annual Report
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The superintendent and board will discuss the annual report which was first shared at the December meeting.
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8. Action: Board Policy Updates
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Discuss and approve Board Policy Updates. First shared and discussed at the December meeting.
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9. Information Items
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9.a. FOIA requests.
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9.b. Media
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9.c. Finance Committee Meeting January 4, 2022
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9.d. Personnel Committee Meeting January 3, 2022
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Meeting cancelled. Update attached.
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9.e. Myna Thompson Update
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The Myna Thompson project is largely completed. We are waiting for final bills from the contractors to move forward with our agreement with RTHS. We anticipate the board taking action on the transfer of property at the February meeting.
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9.f. COVID Data
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9.g. Maintenance Grant
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At previous board meetings we have discussed the use of state maintenance grants to help fund the parking lot construction adjacent to Eater. We were informed recently that these funds could not be used for that project. We have chosen to allocate those funds annually to the ongoing need to replace doors in our buildings as identified in our Health Life Safety report. The maintenance grant is typically a matching grant of up to $50,000 annually.
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10. Resume Public Comments As Needed
Description:
Should the total initial Public Comments during the meeting approach or exceed a cumulative time of 30 minutes, the Board may suspend additional Public Comments until this time. Comments are limited to five minutes. Board members will not respond to public comments at this time.
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11. Board and Superintendent Comments
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12. Action: Adjournment
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