ARLINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS’
BOARD OF EDUCATION MINUTES
REGULAR MEETING
MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011
7 P.M., HS CONFERENCE ROOM
1. Call Regular Meeting to Order: The regular meeting was called to order at 7:01 p.m. All proceedings hereafter shown were taken while this meeting was open to the public.
Roll call was taken. Present were board members Kristie Gilmore, Micheal Dwyer, Kristie Magnino, Mark Jamison, and Susie Moravec. Also present were Lynn Johnson, superintendent, Andrew Farber, high school principal, Brent Cudly, athletic director, Chad Radke, elementary principal and Cheryl Keeler, recording secretary. Board Member Sampson was absent and the absence was excused.
1.2 Seating of Newly Elected Board Members-Administer/Collect Oaths of
Office. Oaths of office were collected from newly elected board members Kristie Gilmore, Mark Jamison and Susie Moravec.
1.3 Moved by Mike Dwyer and seconded by Kristie Magnino to approve the regular agenda as amended to include 7.5 Advanced Ed Visit and 7.6 Arlington Fire Department Request. Motion carried on a 5-0 roll call vote with Mike Dwyer, Kristie Gilmore, Mark Jamison, Kristie Magnino, and Susie Moravec voting in favor of the motion.
2. Welcome to Guests and Public Forum: No Comments
3. Reorganization of Board
Superintendent Johnson presided over the election of the board president.
3.1 Election of Board President: Kristie Gilmore nominated Susie Moravec as board president; Kristie Magnino seconded. Moved by Mike Dwyer and seconded by Kristie Magnino to close nominations.
Moved by Mike Dwyer and seconded by Kristie Gilmore to elect Susie Moravec as president. Motion carried on a 4-1 roll call vote with Mike Dwyer, Kristie Gilmore, Mark Jamison and Kristie Magnino voting in favor of the motion and Susie Moravec abstaining.
Board President Moravec presided over the rest of election/meeting.
3.2 Election of Board Vice President: Kristie Gilmore nominated Mark Jamison as board vice president. Kristie Magnino seconded.
Moved by Mike Dwyer and seconded by Kristie Gilmore to close nominations. Moved by Kristie Gilmore and seconded by Kristie Magnino to elect Mark Jamison as board vice president. Motion passed on a 4-1 roll call vote with Mike Dwyer, Kristie Gilmore, Kristie Magnino and Susie Moravec voting in favor of the motion and Mark Jamison abstaining.
3.3 Election of Board Secretary: Moved by Susie Moravec and seconded by Mike Dwyer to elect Lynn Johnson secretary of the board. Motion carried on a 5-0 roll call vote.
3.4 Appointment of Treasurer: Moved by Susie Moravec and seconded by Kristie Magnino to appoint Cheryl Keeler as district treasurer. Motion carried on a 5-0 roll call vote.
3.5 Appointment of State and Federal Representative of District: Moved by Mike Dwyer and seconded by Kristie Gilmore to appoint Lynn Johnson as the state and federal representative of the district. Motion carried on a 5-0 roll call vote.
3.6 Appointment of Recording Secretary: Moved by Mark Jamison and seconded by Kristie Magnino to appoint Cheryl Keeler as recording secretary. Motion carried on a 5-0 roll call vote.
3.7 Appointment of Board Committees:
Committee Assignments 2011
Americanism Buildings and Grounds Education Eval
Micheal Dwyer Micheal Dwyer Susie Moravec
Kristie Magnino Kristie Gilmore Mark Jamison
Susie Moravec-Chair Mark Jamison-Chair
Finance NASB Legislative Negotiations
Micheal Dwyer-Chair Kristie Gilmore Greg Sampson-Chair
Mark Jamison Susie Moravec Susie Moravec
Greg Sampson Micheal Dwyer Kristie Magnino
Policies Steering Committee St. Paul Liaison(AD HOC)
Full Board Kristie Gilmore Micheal Dwyer
Susie Moravec
Summer Grant (AD HOC) Government Relations Network
Mark Jamison Micheal Dwyer
Kristie Magnino
3.8 Appointment of School Attorney: Moved by Susie Moravec and seconded by Kristie Gilmore to continue to use the firm of Perry, Guthery, Haase and Gessford as in the past but not exclusively. Motion carried on a 5-0 roll call vote.
3.9 Appointment of Representative to ESU #3 Advisory Council: Moved by Susie Moravec and seconded by Mike Dwyer to appoint Lynn Johnson as representative to the ESU #3 Advisory Council. Motion carried on a 5-0 roll call vote.
3.10 Designation of Legal Newspaper: Moved by Susie Moravec and seconded by Kristie Gilmore to designate the Arlington Citizen as the legal paper for the school. Motion carried on a 5-0 roll call vote.
4. Consent Agenda:
4.1 Minutes/Ratify Action of the December 13, 2010 Regular Meeting.
4.2 Monthly Financial Reports, Claims (Check Register), Special Fund Transfers, Hot Lunch Report and Activity Report. (Enclosures)
Union Bank $165,908.75 Bond Fund (Interest Payment)
Union Bank $524.00 Bond Fund (Annual Fee)
MecoHenne $16,185 Construction Fund (Final Payment)
Moved by Mark Jamison and seconded by Mike Dwyer to approve the consent agenda as amended to include additional special fund expenditures (Union Bank $524.00 and Meco Henne $16,185) submitted for approval. Motion carried on a 5-0 roll call vote.
5. Curriculum/Instruction Reports: Math and Summer Grant “Middle School Interdisciplinary Unit”. Written reports were submitted by the math and middle school team participating in the U.S. History Interdisciplinary Unit. Members of the team submitting the written report are teachers: Keith Fink, Ann Jamison, Janelle Lorsch, Shawna Tierney and Barry Jurgensen. Barry Jurgensen also reported at the meeting on the progress his Honors History students are making with their research on the Nebraska Underground Railroad. As a result of their project, the students have been offered many opportunities through radio, internet, newspaper coverage and public forums to share statewide and nationally the research they have done in this area. Through co-ordination with the National Park Services the students participating in the project will receive an opportunity to apply for federal internships at parks around the country.
6. Principals’ Reports: In addition to written reports, Andrew Farber, high school principal reported on the steel sculpture the art class designed and metal class constructed, the Chemistry II field trip and the near completion of the counselor manual.
Elementary Principal Chad Radke reported on the completion of K-12 math curriculum, off-level scoring of writing, SPED state file review summary and schedule for NeSA writing exam.
Brent Cudly, high school athletic director/assistant principal, reported on the first professional learning community committee meeting, finals for junior students and a meeting with the regional director for the mentoring program, Teammates.
7. Superintendent’s Report
7.1 Quarterly Enrollment Figures and Option Enrollment Student Info: PS-6: 279; 7-12: 297 Total: 576
7.2 January/February Board Retreat. (Professional Learning Communities, AdvancEd, Middle School Concept): Susie Moravec will e-mail the board dates to look at for the retreat.
7.3 School Board Leadership Workshop: Wednesday, February 23, LaVista Embassy Suites.
7.4 Depreciation Expenditures: A booster heater for the dishwasher, fan/exhaust for boiler room and final payment on elementary boiler expenditures will be paid our of the depreciation fund.
7.5 Advanced Education Visit: The steering committee should be present for the visit. The entire board could also be there.
7.6 Arlington Fire Department T-shirt Sales: Board discussion was held regarding a request from the fire department to sell t-shirts at a school game. The board agreed to allow the department to sell t-shirts at a home game. There is no policy against it and the fire department serves the needs of our students at games. Guidelines should be developed on how requests from organizations, which are not under the direct control of the school, that want to sell merchandise at school events should be handled and on what basis it should be limited.
8. Unfinished Business:
8.1 Discuss and Review Guidelines for Establishing Administrative Compensation. Guidelines were agreed upon.
9. New Business:
9.1 Review, Discuss and Consider the Following Policies:
1000 Statement of Intent
1010 Visiting School
1020 Citizen Communication to the BOE
1040 Annual Report
1050 Public Access to School Records-Examination, Making Memoranda and Copying
1060 Advertising and Promotion
1070 Publications, Radio and Television
1080 School Directory
1100 Community Use of School Facilities
1105 Use of School Facilities: Student Groups and Boy Scouts
1110 Bulletin Boards, Display Case and Posted Material
1120 Tobacco Policy
9.2 Discuss, Consider and Take Necessary Action to Readopt Policy 4140 Professional Growth: Moved by Susie Moravec and seconded by Mike Dwyer to readopt Policy 4140 Professional Growth on first reading as presented. Motion carried on a 5-0 roll call vote.
9.3 Discuss, Consider and Take Necessary Action to Accept a Non-Certified Employee Resignation: Moved by Kristie Gilmore and seconded by Susie Moravec to accept the resignation of J. Stephany Kecy as library paraeducator effective January 14, 2011 as presented. Motion carried on a 5-0 roll call vote.
9.4 Discuss and Review Proposal for Administrative Contract Language Changes: Wording changes will be made to the administrative contracts as presented.
10. Executive Session:
10.1 Discuss, Consider and Review Preliminary Compensation for Administrators.
10.2 Discuss and Consider Evaluations of Building Principals.
10.3 Discuss and Consider the Superintendent’s Evaluation.
Moved by Susie Moravec and seconded by Mike Dwyer to enter into executive session to discuss personnel issues and to prevent the needless injury to the reputation of an employee and/or individual and to protect the public interest.
Time Entered: 8:22 p.m.
Adjournment of Executive Session
Time Exited: 10:10 p.m.
11. Action on Executive Session Items: No action taken.
12. Adjournment: There being no further business the meeting adjourned at 10:10 p.m.
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Susie Moravec, Board President Lynn Johnson, Board Secretary