ARLINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS’

BOARD OF EDUCATION

REGULAR MEETING MINUTES

MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2013, 7:00 P.M.

HS CONFERENCE ROOM

 

1.         Call Regular Meeting to Order and Roll Call:  Vice President Mark Jamison called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m.  All proceedings hereafter shown were taken while this meeting was open to the public.

 

Roll call was taken.  Present were board members Micheal Dwyer, Mark Jamison, Greg Sampson, Luanne Sundberg, Shanon Willmott and Matt O’Daniel.  Also present were Lynn Johnson, superintendent, Andrew Farber, high school principal, James Shada, assistant high school principal/AD, Chad Radke, elementary principal and Cheryl Keeler, recording secretary.

           

1.1       Pledge of Allegiance

 

1.2       Seating of Newly Elected Board Member – Administer/Collect Oath of Office.  Vice President Jamison administered the oath of office to newly seated Luanne Sundberg and welcomed her to the board.  Re-elected board members Greg Sampson, Matt O’Daniel and Mike Dwyer then took their oaths of office.

 

1.3       Approval of Regular Meeting Agenda.  Vice President Jamison requested changes or additions to agenda, otherwise agenda stands as presented.

 

Moved by Matt O’Daniel and seconded by Mike Dwyer to approve the regular agenda as presented.  Motion carried on a roll call vote with Mike Dwyer, Mark Jamison, Matt O’Daniel, Greg Sampson, Luanne Sundberg and Shannon Willmott all voting in favor of the motion.

 

2.         Welcome to Guests and Public Forum

 

3.         Reorganization of Board:  Vice President Jamison presided over the election of the board president.

 

3.1       Election of President

 

            Open Nominations – Mark Jamison called for nominations.  Greg Sampson nominated Mark Jamison for president.  No other nominations were made.  There were six recorded votes for Mark Jamison.  Mr. Jamison presided over the rest of the meeting as president.

 

 

 

 

3.2       Election of Vice President:  Nominations were opened for vice president.  Mike Dwyer was nominated by Shannon Willmott and Matt O’Daniel was nominated by Greg Sampson.  Matt O'Daniel was elected for vice president on the third voting round. 

 

3.3       Election of Secretary:  Moved by Mike Dwyer and seconded by Greg Sampson that Lynn Johnson be appointed board secretary.  Motion carried on a roll call vote with 6-0 in favor of the motion.

 

3.4       Election of Treasurer:  Moved by Mike Dwyer that Cheryl Keeler be appointed treasurer.  No objections were raised.

 

            Mark Jamison approved the appointment of Lynn Johnson as the state and federal representative of the district.  No comments or concerns were raised.

 

3.5       Appointment of Recording Secretary:  Cheryl Keeler was appointed recording secretary.  No comments or concerns were raised.

 

3.6       Appointment of Board Committees      

 

Committee Assignments 2013

 

Americanism/Education Eval                                Buildings and Grounds          

Micheal Dwyer                                                    Luanne Sundberg      

Shanon Willmott                                                  Mark Jamison- Chair

Luanne Sundberg                                                 Shanon Willmott

                                   

Finance                        NASB Legislative            Negotiations

Mike Dwyer-Chair       Shanon Willmott              Greg Sampson-Chair

Mark Jamison               Michael Dwyer-Chair      Matt O’Daniel

Matt O’Daniel              Greg Sampson                 Shanon Willmott

 

Policies                         Steering Committee       St. Paul Liaison (AD HOC)

Full Board                    Mark Jamison                  Luanne Sundberg

                                    Greg Sampson

 

Summer Grant (AD HOC)                    Government Relations Network

TBA-Chair                                           Micheal Dwyer

         Shanon Willmott                      

 

3.7       Appointment of School Attorney:  Moved by Mark Jamison and seconded by Greg Sampson to continue to use the firm of Perry, Guthery, Haase and Gessford as in the past but not exclusively as presented.  Motion carried on a 6-0 roll call vote.

 

3.8       Designation of Legal Newspaper:  Moved by Mike Dwyer and seconded by Matt O’Daniel to designate the Arlington Citizen as the legal paper for the school as presented.  Motion carried on a 6-0 roll call vote.

 

3.9       Dissemination of Conflict of Interest Policies to Board Members (Policies 8261, 8270, 8271, 8272) 

 

4.         Consent Agenda:

 

4.1       Minutes/Ratify Action of the December 10, 2012 Regular Meeting. 

4.2       Monthly Financial Reports, Claims (Check Register), Special Fund Transfers, Hot Lunch Report and Activity Report.  (Enclosures)

 

Employee Benefit Fund - BCBS Health Insurance                     $6,812.80

 

Moved by Mark Jamison and seconded by Greg Sampson to approve the consent agenda as presented.  Motion carried on a 6-0 roll call vote.

 

5.         Curriculum/Instruction Reports:  Business and 4th Grade 

Shawna Koger and Teresa Feick presented and reviewed information from their written business report.  Mrs. Koger presented information on graduation requirements, smart goals, common sense media curriculum and FBLA membership and accomplishments. Ms. Feick presented information on personal finance and the financial literacy test. Students have achieved an average score of 80% or more earning the school a blue star on the certification test.

 

Fourth grade teachers, Carla Kaup and Sara Hasenauer, presented information on smart goals and showed a video of fourth graders actively engaged in learning.

                                                                       

6.         Review of Annual District Plan:  Will review after the board retreat in February.

 

7.         Principals’ Reports:  Andrew Farber, high school principal, presented information on NeSA testing and highlighted the Future Cities competition in which our students placed 3rd out of 15 participating districts.  Future Cities is a program for junior high level students only.  James Shada, athletic director, reviewed the recent Arlington wrestling invite and the upcoming NCC Basketball Tournament.  Chad Radke, elementary principal, presented highlights of his written report.  State writing tests are coming up. PFE will be disbanding after six years.

 

8.         Superintendent’s Report

 

8.1       Quarterly Enrollment Figures and Option Enrollment Student Information:  

K-6 256; 7-12  279.

8.2       February Board Retreat – Scheduled for Wednesday, February 20. 

 

 

9.         Board of Education Committee Reports

 

9.1       Finance Committee:  Committee Chair Dwyer reported to the board that the sprinkler system information is still being compiled.  The district needs to continue to schedule bus replacement and revisit and restructure financial goals.

9.2       Negotiations’ Committee:  Committee Chair Sampson reported that they are in receipt of a proposal from the Arlington Education Association and will consider it at Wednesday’s negotiations meeting.

9.3       Buildings’ and Grounds’ Committee:  Considering possible lease purchase of a bus.

9.4       Professional Development Sharing:  Shanon Willmott attended the NASB New Board Member Workshop.

9.5       Legislative Update:  Mr. Dwyer discussed the meeting he and Mrs. Johnson attended regarding school finance.

                       

10.       Unfinished Business:  None

 

11.       New Business:  This month’s policy review will be moved to the February meeting for further consideration of Policies 6000-6290. 

 

It was noted that policy 6210 needs to be updated and reconsidered and that policy 6212 will be tabled until March after NDE updates social science standards.  The remainder of these policies will be brought back in February for further review.

 

12.       Executive: 

 

12.1    Discuss and Consider the superintendent’s evaluation.

 

12.2     Discuss and Consider teacher negotiations and FCMG contract negotiations.

 

Moved by Mike Dwyer and seconded by Shanon Willmott to enter into executive session, after a 10 minute break, to discuss the superintendent’s evaluation, FCMG contract, teacher negotiations and to prevent the needless injury to the reputation of an employee and/or individual and to protect the public interest.  Motion carried on a 6-0 roll call vote.

 

                        Time Entered Executive Session:  8:26 p.m.

 

                        Time Exited Executive Session:    8:45 p.m.

  

 

12.       Action on Executive Session Items:  The board evaluated the superintendent in seven areas.  The overall average score on all categories being 3.83/4.0 points.  With breakdown of categories accordingly: A. Educational Program and planning 3.80; Relationship with the Board of Education 3.92; Personnel 3.83; Business and Financial Management 3.72; Community Relations 3.76; Individual Characteristics 3.92; Job Related Characteristics 3.84.

 

13.       Adjournment:  There being no other business meeting was adjourned at 8:47 p.m.

 

 

__________________________________                _________________________________

Mark Jamison, Board President                                    Lynn Johnson, Board Secretary

 

__________________                                                _______________

Date                                                                             Date