February 15, 2023 at 7:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting
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1. OPENING PROCEDURES
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COPY OF OPEN MEETINGS ACT: The Board of Education makes available at least one current copy of the Open Meetings Act posted in the meeting room at a location accessible to members of the public. The Act is posted on the south wall of the meeting room. ORDER OF AGENDA ITEMS: The Arlington Board of Education reserves the right to adjust the order of items on this agenda.
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1.1. Call Meeting to Order
Discussion:
Chase K Called the meeting to order at 7:00
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1.2. Roll Call
Action(s):
No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
Discussion:
Motion to excuse Matt O'Daniel's absence from tonight,s meeting.
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1.3. Pledge of Allegiance
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1.4. Approval of Regular Meeting Agenda
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Action(s):
No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
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2. WELCOME TO GUESTS AND PUBLIC FORUM
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO SPEAK DURING PUBLIC FORUM: Getting Started: When it is your turn to speak during the public forum portion of the agenda, please come forward, sign your name and address on the sign-in sheet and state your name to the Board of Education. Personnel or Student Topic: If you are planning to speak about a personnel or student matter involving an individual, please understand that our policies require that such concerns initially be directed to the administration for consideration. Board members will generally not respond to any questions you ask or comments you make about individual staff members or students. You are cautioned that slanderous comments are not protected just because they are made at a board meeting. General Rules: Please remember that this is a meeting of the Board of Education held in public for conducting the business of the Board of Education. Disruptions, offensive language, personal attacks and hostile conduct will not be tolerated.
Discussion:
Mike Dwyer addressed the board tonight and to thank the board for the community engagement meeting. He addressed the budget process that would be beginning tonight, stating to make sure to think logically and make sure the needs of our students are met, when looking at salaries and contracts for staff this year and to address all areas of spending. He also spoke to the legislative bill that are out there- to have the board appoint a liaison for the legislative issues, and help relay info to the board on all the bills that are being introduced.
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3. CONSENT AGENDA
Action(s):
No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
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3.1. Minutes of the Previous Board Meeting(s)
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3.2. Monthly Financial Reports
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3.3.
Resignations: Hires: Reassignments: |
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4. CURRICULUM/INSTRUCTION REPORTS
* 5th Grade * Family Consumer Science (FCS)
Discussion:
5th Grade- Carla Kaup, Claire Smith, Landon Walkenhorst were present at the board meeting.
Family Consumer Science- Doug Hart was not present tonight due to getting ready for state wrestling. |
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5. PRINCIPALS’ REPORTS
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5.1. Mrs. Morgan's Elementary Report
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5.2. Mr. Pfingsten's Secondary report
Discussion:
Need to check on board policy about adding the courses that Mr. Pfingsten's report. Wether or not there needs to be an action item from the board on this or not.
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5.3. Mr. Shada's Activity Report
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6. SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT
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6.1. Legislation Updates
Discussion:
Dr Lewis, spoke to the board about some of the bills in legislative works at this time. Updated on the most important ones and how they might affect schools and districts.
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6.2. NRCSA and NASB Updates
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6.3. Enrollment Report
Discussion:
Dr Lewis reported on student numbers from the end of last year's numbers of students to the currrent number of students. We are up 12 students from the end of last year but only 5 students from the beginning of the year.
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6.4. Report on ECF computers:
Discussion:
The Emergency connectivity funding was going to be running out as the Essers funds are going away
Mr Larson put in a request for the funds for 120 student computers and we received the funding. In the past 2.5 years we have received 620 student computers and 30 staff computers with ECF funds (grant funds) No money has come out of the APS budgeting for any of these computers. |
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6.5. Discuss Snow Day and Projected End of the School Year
Discussion:
Have had 3 snow days for the 22-23 school year moving our end of year date being May 26th
If the need arises to have to use more snow days, Dr Lewis prepared the board that she may need to come back in the coming months to ask them to excuse the days and not have staff and students make up the days. Days would need to be made up after Memorial Day (May 29th) and the board agreed that it would not be effective to make those up. |
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6.6. Recap and Discussion of Community Engagement Meeting
Discussion:
The board discussed the community engagement meeting- the board agreed that the community would like to have a more question and answer session instead of a presentation. The community has brought up that they would like to see more engagements like this- and to be able to have more question and answer sessions, is there a time that would work better than January? Does the board plan something like this every year?
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7. COMMITTEE AND REPRESENTATIVE REPORTS
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7.1. Buildings and Grounds Committee:
Discussion:
The members of the committee have all come up to school and have gone through the school and looked over some of the projects that are going on. The committee has not officially met, but conversations have started on these projects. The committee will be going over the list of summer projects that will need to be addressed this year.
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7.2. Negotiations Committee
Discussion:
Negotiations committe has met with AEA and the proposals will be presented in New business items:
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8. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
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8.1. Discussion and Update on Fence/Fire Marshall Compliance for Fuel Tank
Discussion:
The previous meeting a bid was presented for the work needed to finish at the bus barn, a new bid was proposed that will include some of the concrete work at the school as well, came in at $8800 total.
Once weather is permitting the work will begin and the tank and fence will be set. Both the EMS and Village have their codes and are able to use the tank if needed. Buses have been actively filling at the bus barn and saving miles for fueling. |
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9. NEW BUSINESS
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9.1. Discuss, Consider, and Approve Negotiated Master Agreement with Arlington Education Association for the 2023-2024 School Year
Action(s):
No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
Discussion:
Matt O'Daniel and Chase Kratovichil met to go over the negotiations. Cassie Flesner is also on the committee, but due to the timeline of her election, she was not able to meet prior to October.
MOst of the changes are wording in the negotiated agreement, an increase in the district portion of the health insurance, wording on the unused sick leave pay out, and that certificated staff could move over unused personal days to the sick bank to carry over. the total of the package that is presented to the certificated staff is about a 4.07% increase |
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9.2. Discuss and Consider Changes to Policy 5007 Foreign Exchange Students
Discussion:
Policy is looking to have language change from having students currently enrolled in High School, to change to enrolled in the district.
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9.3. Review Policies 6300-6500's:
Discussion:
Some of these policies could change if new legislative bills are passed. If the changes are needed, the policies will be updated and then there will need to be 2 viewings again on the policy to correct, change and adopt the new wording on the policy.
At this time, no changes are needed to the policies, they are just for review. |
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9.4. Discuss, Consider and Approve Administrator Contracts for 2023-2024:
Action(s):
No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
Discussion:
Negotiation committee meet again on these contracts. They looked at data from the array from other schools when determining the contracts and salaries. Mrs Morgan is also the SPED Director. Most schools have a separate SPED director, her contract is a little bit higher as she is filling that spot, where as most schools are paying a Elementary Principal and SPED Director, we are actually saving money by having Mrs. Morgan doing both positions.
Tashia Wolf is the only curriculum director in our array that was on the teacher's salary schedule and not being paid out on an admin contract. A proposal is being made to move her over to an Admin contract and include her extra working days into the contract. She would only move up about a $500 increase to being on the teacher's salary schedule. This is not a Administration contact Shanon Willmott would like to go on record and say that she can not in good concision vote for having 5 administrators with a 700 student district. Shanon has an issue with the position |
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10. ADJOURNMENT
Discussion:
Chase adjourned the meeting at 8:49 pm
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