ARLINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS’
BOARD OF EDUCATION
REGULAR MEETING MINUTES
MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
HS CONFERENCE ROOM
1. Call Regular Meeting to Order and Roll Call: President Micheal Dwyer 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, Matt O’Daniel, Teri O’Flaherty, Luanne Sundberg, Greg Sampson, and Shanon Willmott. Also present was Lynn Johnson, superintendent.
1.2 Approval of Regular Meeting Agenda: Moved by Matt O’Daniel and seconded by Teri O’Flaherty to approve the regular agenda as presented. Motion carried on a 6-0 roll call vote with Mike Dwyer, Matt O’Daniel, Teri O’Flaherty, Greg Sampson, Luanne Sundberg and Shanon Willmott voting in favor of the motion.
2. Welcome to Guests and Public Forum
3. Consent Agenda:
3.1 Minutes/Ratify Action of the February 10, 2014 regular meeting and February 11, 2014 retreat.
3.2 Monthly Financial Reports, Claims (Check Register), Special Fund Transfers, Hot Lunch Report and Activity Report.
Employee Benefit Fund - BCBS Health Insurance $7,237.60
Moved by Shanon Willmott and seconded by Greg Sampson to approve the consent agenda as presented. Motion carried on a 6-0 roll call vote.
4. Curriculum/Instruction Reports: Deb Walling and Morgan Smeal presented the 2nd grade report. They provided the board with demographic information about their students as well as information pertaining to their SMART goal and progress students have made on the goal. Desiree Hayden-Parra shared information about her SMART goal with the board and shared evidence that she has gathered about the positive correlation between average quiz scores and average test scores. She shared that she has a proposal pending for offering dual enrollment Spanish III and Span IV.
5. Review of Annual District Plan: Plan Item 5.0: The board briefly discussed continuing to review the annual district plan and to develop goals in a workshop setting. The board discussed progress that has been made in this plan area.
6. Principals’ Reports: Principals submitted written reports. Mr. Farber’s report included information about attendance at spring parent-teacher conferences and this year's graduation ceremony. Mr. Shada's report included information about the summer training for the Professional Learning Communities team leaders and the youth wrestling and basketball tournaments. Mr. Fritson's report included information about spring parent-teacher conference attendance, spelling bee, quiz bowl participation, and lunchtime 'switcharoo'.
7. Superintendent’s Report:
7.1 Upcoming Professional Development:
NASB The School Board as Judge and Jury – March 18;
NRCSA Spring Conference in Kearney – March 20-21;
School Law Seminar in Kearney – June 6.
7.2 Quarter Enrollment Figures: PS 23; K-6 271; 7-12 278
7.3 e-Funds – Online Payment Program: This program allows for payments to be made online. Parents would have to pay a “convenience” fee.
7.4 Transporting Students/Monitors to Post Prom Event at Henry Doorly Zoo: As discussed in 2012, Arlington Public Schools’ busses and drivers will be used to drive students to events sponsored by post prom parents and Teammates. Discussion was held on liability issues and insurance coverage.
7.5 Ad Hoc Committee on Superintendent Evaluation Instrument: This committee plans to meet in the near future.
8. Committee and Representative Reports:
8.1 Americanism/Education Evaluation: Have not meet but agenda is in place and will meet soon.
8.2 Buildings and Grounds Committee: Meeting set for March 24 and includes a presentation by Trane.
8.3 Finance Committee: Plan to meet in April.
8.4 Negotiations Committee: No meeting. Negotiations are complete except for non-certified personnel.
8.5 NASB Legislative Representative: President Dwyer shared legislative information he obtained from conferences he has attended.
8.6 Professional Development Sharing: Mrs. Sundberg and Mr. Dwyer shared information from their sessions at the Education Forum workshop that they attended. Mr. Dwyer and Mrs. Johnson shared that the information they gleaned from the NRCSA Legislative Session has already been shared via email updates.
9. Unfinished Business:
9.1 Discuss, Consider and Take Necessary Action to approve the following policies on second reading.
New Construction:
7000 Facilities – Purpose Objectives
7010 Facilities – Planning
7020 Facilities – Guidelines for Building New Schools or
Remodeling
Existing Schools Construction Plans
Moved by Greg Sampson and seconded by Shanon Willmott to approve Policy 7000 Facilities-Objectives; 7010 Facilities-Planning; 7020 Facilities-Guidelines for Construction Plans on second reading as presented. Motion carried on a 6-0 roll call vote.
9.2 Discuss, Consider and Take Necessary Action to approve the superintendent’s salary of $125,379 for the 2014-2015 school year.
Moved by Matt O’Daniel and seconded by Greg Sampson to approve a salary of $125,379 for Superintendent Lynn Johnson for the 2014-2015 school year per contract amendment as presented. Motion carried on a 6-0 roll call vote.
10. New Business:
10.1 Discuss and Consider recommendations for certificated teachers. All teachers are being offered a contract for the 2014-2015 school year.
10.2 Discuss, Consider and Take Necessary Action to amend Policy 4170 Leave of Absence on first reading.
Moved by Matt O’Daniel and seconded by Teri O’Flaherty to amend Policy 4170 Leave of Absence on first reading as presented. Motion carried on a 6-0 roll call vote.
10.3 Discuss, Consider and Take Necessary Action to approve a leave of absence request.
Moved by Greg Sampson and seconded by Matt O’Daniel to approve the request of Sara Hasenauer for a leave of absence and resignation as set forth in the agreement as presented pending a qualified replacement. Motion carried on a 6-0 roll call vote.
10.4 Discuss, Consider and Take Necessary Action to approve option enrollment capacities for the 2014-2015 School Year. Mrs. Johnson explained the process for granting option enrollment status.
Moved by Mike Dwyer and seconded by Shanon Willmott to approve the option enrollment capacities for the 2014-2015 school year as presented. Motion carried on a 6-0 roll call vote.
10.5 Discuss, Consider and Take Necessary Action to approve the 2014-2015 school calendar. Mrs. Johnson explained that the calendar has four snow days built in at the end of the calendar to avoid losing professional development time for staff and for planning purposes. The last day of school could be as early as May 15 or as late as May 21. Graduation will be on the 3rd Sunday in May for one more year. This calendar has 186 teacher days and 178 instructional days.
Moved by Shanon Willmott and seconded by Teri O’Flaherty to approve the 2014-2015 school calendar as presented. Motion carried on a 6-0 roll call vote.
10.6 Discuss, Consider and Take Necessary Action to approve 2014-2015 activity admissions and pass prices. Recommendation is to have no increase in prices for the 2014-2015 school year. There was discussion about prices being on the high end as compared to other districts and whether or not the board should table this until there was more investigation. Some of the information needed to make a decision is data we do not have on hand and will need to be collected next year as passes are sold. The board would like to have more data on this topic to consider next year when making this decision.
Moved by Greg Sampson and seconded by Matt O’Daniel to approve the 2014-2015 activity admission and activity pass prices as presented. Motion carried on a 4-2 roll call vote with Mike Dwyer, Matt O’Daniel and Teri O’Flaherty voting in favor of the motion and Luanne Sundberg and Shanon Willmott voting against the motion.
2014-2015
Admission (Varsity) (JV/9th/JH)
Preschool Free Free
Students (K-12) $4.00 $2.00
Adults $5.00 $3.00
*Athletes do not get in free. They must pay admission or pay for a pass.
Passes 2014-2015
Student Passes (K-12) $45/yr. ($40 winter)
Adult Passes $60/yr. ($50 winter)
Family Passes $145/yr. ($120 winter)
Senior Citizens Free w/Golden Age Pass
10.7 Discuss, Consider and Take Necessary Action to incorporate electronic board meetings using eMeeting software. An ad hoc committee has been investigating the feasibility of incorporating electronic board meetings using eMeeting software. The committee presented information to the board and indicated that they favored this change in format. The board responded favorably. It was indicated that this item will be brought to the board next month for formal action.
11. Executive Session: None
12. Action Taken on Executive Session Items: None
13. Adjournment: There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 8:43 p.m.
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Michael Dwyer, Board President Lynn Johnson, Board Secretary
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