Monday, April 15, 2024 6:30 pm - Regular Board Meeting

1. CALL TO ORDER
Bohnsack, Hesse, Nierenhausen, Schurman, Thompson, Humbert

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 March 25, 2024.
Recommend approval of the minutes from the meetings.

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

4.B.1. ROCORI Secondary School Special Education Teacher for the 2024-2025 school year -  Jack Evens.  

4.B.2. ROCORI School District Floating Health Technician Carrie Anderson.  Starting April 12th, working 1 day a week through the 23-24 School year.  Will be full time for the 24-25 School year.  

4.B.3. Richmond Elementary and John Clark Elementary .5 Speech Language Pathology in-person long term substitute Tracy Steinhoff. 

4.B.4. Cold Spring Elementary Physical Education Teacher for the 24-25 School Year Morgan Thompson

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

4.C.1. Cold Spring Elementary Administrative Assistant Loraine Ashfeld will be retiring at the end of the 23-24 school year after 45 years of employment.

4.C.2. Cold Spring Elementary assessment provider Debra Heinis resignation at the end of the 23-24 school year effective May 31, 2024

4.D. LEAVE OF ABSENCE REQUEST

4.D.1. District Education Facility teacher Denin Knapp-Baykham is requesting family medical leave from September 6, 2024 to November 29, 2024 with an anticipated return date of December 2, 2024. 

4.D.2. ROCORI Secondary Custodian James Cox is requesting medical leave from July 8, 2024 - August 19, 2024. 

4.D.3. Cold Spring Elementary SPED teacher Kaija Mattson is requesting medical leave from April 4, 2024 - April 22, 2024. 

4.D.4. Cold Spring Elementary Paraprofessional Tina Schneider is requesting a medical leave of absence from April 3, 2024 - April 26, 2024.  

4.D.5. District Education Facility Paraprofessional Shelley Lindstrom is requesting a leave of absence from March 27 - May 30, 2024.

5. ACTION
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. POLICIES 
The following policies have been discussed in the policy committee. They are being presented for a third and final reading.  Recommend approval of the policies as presented.

5.A.1. 509 Enrollment of Non-Resident Students

5.A.2. 613 Graduation Requirements

5.B. APPLE EDUCATION MACBOOK PROPOSAL
The school district computers provided to students is done through a four-year lease and financed by the districts voter approved technology levy.  Our current lease is set to expire as well as the warranties on the current devices.  It is recommended to approve the new 4 year lease and warranty and sell all current devices to Second Life Mac and use those proceeds towards other technology needs. 

5.C. EDUCATION MINNESOTA ROCORI 2023-2025 MASTER AGREEMENT
The negotiations with Education Minnesota ROCORI for the 2023-2025 term has been completed. Recommendation: Approve the contract with Education Minnesota ROCORI as presented.

5.D. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE EDUCATION MINNESOTA ROCORI AND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT #750 REGARDING Retiree announcements for 2023-2024.
This has been reviewed by the Negotiations Committee.
Recommendation: Approve the MOU as presented. 

5.E. 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

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 - 2ND READING
The following policy has been discussed in the policy committee. It is being presented for a second reading and call for public comment.  No formal action is expected.

6.A.1. 904 Distribution of Materials on School Property by Non-School Persons

7. ADMINISTRATIVE AND BOARD REPORTS

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

7.A.1. Enrollment Update

7.A.2. Legislative Update

7.B. NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE
The negotiations committee will provide a brief update.

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. ENTER CLOSED SESSION

11. ADJOURN