March 19, 2012 Board Minutes

 Riceville Community School

Riceville, IA

 

The Board of Education of the Riceville Community School District held their regular monthly meeting March 19^th, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the school library.  Board members present: Hemann, Fox, Keeling, Smith and Schumann(arrived at 7:05P.M.).  Also in attendance: Jennifer Dunn-Board Secretary, Greg Adams-Principal 3-12,  Cory Schumann K-2 Principle & Technology, Cassandra Leff-Riceville Recorder, Jim Cross – Press News. Also, in attendance were three staff members, eight parents, seven students and four citizens.

 

President Smith called the meeting to order at 7 P.M..

 

Motion by Hemann, second by Keeling to approve the agenda.  Ayes 4.  MC.

 

Smith discussed the financial reports.

 

Motion by Fox, second by Hemann to approve the Financial Reports. Ayes 5. MC.

 

Motion by Keeling, second by Schumann to approve the minutes of previous meetings, financial reports and summary of bills. Ayes 5. MC

 

Betsy Morse spoke with the board regarding CPI dual enrollments.

 

Reports were given by Mr. Schumann and Mr. Adams.

 

Mr. Schumann commented he has spoken with other districts within our conference about how they are archiving their emails. The other schools are either archiving their own, if they are hosting their own emails, or they are not achieving at this time. Mr. Schumann also reported Access Systems had bid on the phone system upgrade. The dome theater was he on March 13 and we had nine classrooms K-8 use the theater. May staff members and students have had positive responses and would like to explore the possibility of having the dome return in two to four years.

 

Mr. Adams reported parent teacher conferences will be held on Tuesday and Thursday of this week. Plans have been made with the CRC to offer swimming lessons through the month of April for all third graders. We are planning to pilot two updates to the student handbook policies. Adams also commented on the consideration of discontinuing the purchase for student planners for grades 6-12.

 

Congratulations to Myranda Bartles and Hannah Cross on I ratings at state speech. Also, congratulations to Jennifer Tweedt and Kristian Schofield on II ratings at state speech. Congratulations also go out to boys and girls basketball selections: 1^st team- Justin Anderlick; 2^nd team- Grace Harken; Honorable Mention- Allen Koenigs and Lauren Jensen.

 

Congratulations to our students for being selected to the 2012 Northeast Iowa Chorl Directors Association’s Elementary Honor Choir Festival. 5^th /6^th grade students: Dylan Orth, Derrick Dunn, Kalab Asfahl, and Savannah Sullivan. 7^th/8^th graders: Savannah Asfahl, Hannah Buege, Madison Drilling, Ben Swancutt, and Mikal Percival.

 

Motion by Keeling, second by Schumann to accept the resignation of Elmer Knockel as fourth grade teacher. Roll call vote: Fox, aye; Hemann, aye; Smith, aye; Schumann, aye; Keeling, aye. MC. 

 

Motion by Fox, second by Hemann to approve a contract for Chris Conger as JV Boys Baseball coach. Roll call vote: Hemann, aye; Schumann, aye; Smith, aye; Keeling, aye; Fox, aye. MC.

 

Motion by Keeling, second by Fox, to approve a Larry Abel and Acea Speigler as volunteer track coaches. Roll call vote: Keeling, aye; Schumann, aye; Fox, aye; Hemann, aye; Smith, aye. MC

 

Motion by Fox, second by Hemann to approve new director districts.5 Ayes. MC. 

 

Motion by Fox, second by Schumann to approve Nolte, Cornman, & Johnson at a cost of $5,000 for FY 2012, $5,250 for FY 2013,and $$5,500 to perform the audit for the Riceville School District . Ayes 5.  MC.

 

Motion by Fox, second by Keeling to approve the purchase three 41 passenger school buses for the district from School Bus Sales at the cost of $72,489.00 each for a total of $217,467.00

 

 

Motion by Fox, second by Hemann to authorize administration to implement a plan that utilizes IRS code to save the Employer and Employee payroll taxes on payment to Employees at retirement and approve the necessary documents to implemt the plan: 403(B) ADOPTION AGREEMENT, Information Sharing Agreement, and Mis America Service Agreement.. 5 Ayes. MC

 

Motion by Hemann, second by Keeling to approve the open enrollment transportation agreement with St. Ansgar.

 

Motion by Keeling, second by Hemann to set date and time for the disposal of two buses. Date will be April 16^th at 7:00 P.M.. Ayes 5.  MC.

 

Motion by Keeling, second by Hemann on the approval of the resolution proposed sale of two buses. 5 Ayes. MC.

RESOLUTION: Riceville Community School District wishes to sell two buses, to be sold as is.

 

Motion by Fox, second b y Schumann to approve the open enrollments in: Debra Lane from Howard- Winn., George Penning from New Hampton, and out: Mackenie and Drew Offen to St. Ansgar,and Cole & Lydia Beran to Howard-Winn. 5 Ayes. MC.

 

Motion by Hemann, second by Fox to approve early retirement applications for Kathy Allen- math teacher, Lynne Kozak- part time night custodian, and Richard Kozak- head custodian.5 Ayes. MC.

 

Motion by Fox, second by Keeling to approve Access Systems at a cost of $19,779.00 for ther new voice over Ip phone system.

 

Next board meeting will be held April 16^th @ 7:00 P.M in the high school library.

 

Motion by Schumann, second by Hemann to adjourn the meeting.  Ayes 5.  MC.

 

 

 

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Christopher Smith                                                                        Jennifer Dunn

Board President                                                                            Board Secretary