October 12, 2020 at 6:30 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

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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.

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The Board of Education periodically develops and adopts goals in order to provide the administration and staff direction as the District continues to seek opportunities to improve.  The current process began in late 2019 and continued in early 2020.  On January 26 the administration presented "draft" goals to the Board for their consideration and input.  Due to COVID-19 the process for development and implementation was placed on hold.  

Attached are the goals that have been developed for consideration.

It is the recommendation of the administration that the Board of Education/District goals be adopted as presented.  Once adopted, the details related to how each goal will be measured will be shared along with periodic updates throughout the year.

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The Fremont Public District, over the past several years, has developed the site north of the Middle School to be used for soccer practice as well as lower level games.  The site improvements include fine grading and seeding, installation of an irrigation system, top dressing and fertilization.  The City of Fremont and Midland University have expressed interest in further joint development of the site with the schools to include a gravel parking lot, fencing/netting and eventually a storage/restroom/concession building.

The proposed parking lot will serve the District’s soccer fields, the City’s soccer/football fields and also serve as a staging area for parents of Middle School students during pick-up times.  The cost of the parking lot is shared between the School District and the City of Fremont Parks and Recreation Department.  Midland University has secured a donation of materials and installation of fencing and netting to be installed this fall from Empire Fencing and the Matt Warner family.

The partnership with the three entities works well given that Midland plays soccer in the fall and  Fremont High School’s soccer season is in the Spring. The City’s interest is to create a safer environment for everyone involved.  The spirit of joint use cooperation is what the late Bill and Mary Johnson envisioned when their family sold the family farm to multiple community entities in 1999 - a farm that had been in their family for 113 years.

Once the approval has been granted related to this partnership, a joint use cooperation agreement will be drafted and approved by each entity.

It is the recommendation of the administration that the Board of Education approve the joint use cooperation concept for parking lot development, fencing/netting installation and future development.  In addition by approving this motion the Board of Education instructs the administration to work with District legal counsel on development of a joint use cooperation agreement to be presented to each entity for consideration. 

Rationale:  See attachments