February 14, 2022 at 7:00 PM - February Board of Education meeting

Rationale: 

Executive/Closed Session may be necessary during this meeting for either:

1) Protection of the public interest; or,

2) The prevention of needless injury to the reputation of an individual, and if the individual has not requested a public meeting.

Rationale:  Excuse absent board members

Rationale:  Notice of this public meeting was published in the Voice News on February 10, 2022. Notice was also posted at the entrance of Freeman Public Schools, Adams Post Office, and Filley bank.

Rationale:  The Freeman Speech team finished 1^st at the MUDECAS speech meet earlier this month. Individual medalists were: 

Summer Buss—1st Place Serious Prose, 5th Place Poetry
Grace VanEngen—1st Place Informative, 5th Place Serious Prose
Shelby Ford—1st Place Poetry
Catie Reed—2nd Place Persuasive
Rebecca Ford—2nd Place Humorous Prose, 4th Place Entertainment
Carter Furstenau—2nd Place Entertainment, 2nd Place Extemp
Thies Richardson—3rd Place Extemp
Meredith Ruyle—4th Place Humorous Prose
Zach Robeson—4th Place Informative
Trenn Hoffman-Ideus—5th Place Humorous
Jenna Husband/Meredith Ruyle—5th Place Duet
 

Rationale: 

Previous Meetings Minutes

General Fund Claims in the amount of $50,784.09

Lunch Fund Claims in the amount of $16,201.61

Depreciation Fund Claims in the amount of $

Special Building Fund Claims in the amount of $

Payroll expenditures in the amount of $436,800.23

Financial Reports

Correspondence to the Board and Accommodations:

Rationale:  Mr. Schroeder has prepared a written recommendation based on a submitted application from a junior student and his parents. He will be part of a foreign-exchange student program during the 2022-23 school year.

See attached board policy 5066  

Rationale:  Freeman is adding a 1/2 science, 1/2 athletic director position for the 22-23 school year. Greg Veerhusen has been offered the position and accepted pending board approval. 

Rationale:  The renovations will include replacing lab tables/sinks including ADA compliance, adding wall cabinet storage, and replacing floor and ceiling tiles. The budgeted amount for the project is $60,000. 

The special building fund will be used for these renovations. 

 

Rationale:  Phase II of the project includes:

• Repairs and replacement of the South and East corners of the gym floor 
• Sand gym floor, repaint floor graphics, water-based gym finish

The project is budgeted to be no more than $38,000. The special building fund will be used for these renovations. 

Rationale:  Membership renewal notices were given to districts.  They are currently offering a 2% discount for all annual dues received prior to April 1.  The discounted rate for Freeman is $4121.

Rationale:  The school district purchased the parcel in October 2021. The adjacent parcel owner and the school district have discussed a potential easement agreement for a portion of the parcel.  

Rationale:  World of Green has submitted a bid for fertilization of the school grounds, athletic complex, and for soil sterilization and weed control of non-grass areas.

Riha Lawn Mechanix has submitted bids for fertilization of the school grounds and the football field

Steve Oltman has submitted bids for soil sterilization and weed control of non-grass areas. 

Rationale: 

Mr. Havelka:
CTE facility - Fakler plan
NRCSA Legislative Forum
Legislative update
Vehicle donation

Mr. Schroeder:  
reVISION reFRESH day
Student registration
CTE Pathways

Mrs. Sieh:
One School One Book
K-6 Music concert

Rationale:  No Report

Rationale:  December storm claim
Summer project list

Rationale:  No report

Rationale:  Freeman Media Center, 7:00 p.m., Monday, March 14th