February 5, 2018 at 6:30 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

Rationale:  INDIVIDUALS WISHING TO ADDRESS THE BOARD REGARDING ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA WILL BE RECOGNIZED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE IF THEY WILL COME TO THE BOARD TABLE.  MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE WISHING TO SPEAK TO AN ITEM ON THE AGENDA WILL BE RECOGNIZED AT THE TIME THAT ITEM IS BEING DISCUSSED BY THE BOARD.  WHEN RECOGNIZED BY THE CHAIR, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME BEFORE PROCEEDING WITH YOUR COMMENTS.  A MAXIMUM TIME LIMIT OF 5 MINUTES WILL BE ALLOWED FOR EACH AUDIENCE UNLESS AN EXCEPTION IS GRANTED BY THE CHAIR.

Rationale:  A copy of the Open Meetings Act is posted in the Board Room.  The Board may meet in Closed Session to consider issues including, but not limited to 1) strategy sessions with respect to collective bargaining, real estate purchases, or litigation; 2) discussion regarding deployment of security personnel or devices; 3) investigative proceedings regarding allegations or misconduct; or 4) evaluation of the job performance of a person when necessary to prevent needless injury to the reputation of a person or persons.  The vote to hold a Closed Session shall be taken in open session and the subject matter and reason for the session shall be included in the motion.  The motion and the vote of each member of the Board and the time when the session commenced and concluded shall be recorded in the minutes.  If the motion passes, the President will restate on the record the limitation of the subject matter of the Closed Session.

Rationale:  All matters listed under the Consent Section are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion.  There will be no separate discussion of these items.  If discussion is desired, the item(s) will be considered at the end of the Consent Section.

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Approve that all legal requirements have been met as to advance notice of this meeting to both individual Board Members and to the public.

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Approval of the agenda as published/revised.Note that items can be removed or amended from the published agenda at this time but additions can be made only through an emergency resolution.

Rationale:  It is recommended to ratify continuing terms for the following current Board members (with term ending in parentheses) including:  Pam Murphy (2019), Butch McDuffee (2019), Ronda Niehaus (2019), Jennifer Peterson (2019), Lori Sajevic (2019), Gary Bolton (2020), Jennifer Benson (2021), Jane Dugan (2021), Christy Fiala (2021), Brett Richmond (2021), and Lisa Schulz (2021).  Dan Moran will continue to serve as the Board of Education representative, and Doug Sheppard (FEA President) and Mark Shepard will continue to serve as non-voting members.  Recommended Board approval of Officers for 2018 include: Jennifer Benson -President, Brett Richmond- Vice President, Pam Murphy - Secretary and Butch McDuffee - Treasurer. The FPS Foundation Board regretfully accepted the resignation of Brenda Garcia in January due to personal reasons and a search for her replacement is ongoing at this time.  Tom Brune’s and Brad Nick’s terms expired this year and they have elected to no longer serve as Board members.  A search for their replacements will ensue shortly.
 

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The Fremont Education Association finalized a vote Friday, January 26th, 2018 regarding the proposed negotiated agreement which includes 1) a total package increase of 3.7%, and 2) language changes including sick leave buy back, unused personal days, leave provisions, extra duty study, inclusion of grievance procedure in the negotiated agreement and technical clean-up.  We ask that the Board of Education approve the Negotiation Committee’s recommendation to approve the settlement, and apply the same 3.7% total compensation package increase to all employee groups except any specific employee as excluded through their individual employment contract.