February 26 Regular Minutes

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL
DISTRICT NO. 299
CALEDONIA, MINNESOTA
ABBREVIATED REGULAR
MEETING MINUTES
FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The Board of Education of Independent
School District No. 299, Caledonia, Minnesota, met in a regular school board meeting
in the Middle/High School Media Center.
The meeting was called to order by Chair
Kelley McGraw at 5:30 p.m. The Pledge of
Allegiance was said. The school board members present were Jared Barnes, Melissa
Marschall, Emily McGonigle, Kelley McGraw,
Michelle Werner, Jimmy Westland, Spencer
Yohe, and student school board representatives Isabel Allen and Roy Kerrigan. Also
present were Ben Barton, Gina Meinertz,
Mary Morem, and Nancy Runningen. Others
present were Brad Augedahl, Todd Meiners, Jason Wiebke, Collette Bruening, Pam
Schieber, and Dan McGonigle.
Moved by Spencer Yohe, seconded by
Emily McGonigle to approve the agenda
as amended to have the Memorandum
of Understanding removed from the consent agenda and move into closed session
to discuss this item. Motion carried by a
unanimous vote. Moved by Spencer Yohe,
seconded by Jimmy Westland to direct the
Finance Committee to review the budget
for the pressbox/storage building/bleacher proposal as presented and if the committee deems that the school district has
$12,000.00 in the budget to put it towards
this project, then the baseball committee
can move forward with acquiring donations/
fundraising for the remaining cost of this
project. Motion carried by a unanimous
vote. Moved by Emily McGonigle, seconded
by Melissa Marschall to approve the following consent agenda items: Approval of January 16, 2018, regular school board minutes,
and the January 23, 2018, special school
board minutes; approval of the electronic
transfers and bills due and payable amounting to $713,792.32 including check numbers
62693 through 62847 along with electronic
transfers from MSDLAF to Merchants Bank
in the amount of $400,000.00; approve the
six-week maternity leave request from Emily
Engan to begin approximately April 2, 2018,
through approximately May 14, 2018; approve the maternity leave request from Sara
Buros to begin approximately April 30, 2018,
through the remainder of the 2017-2018
school year; accept the retirement/resignation of Jane Meisch effective at the end of
the 2017-2018 school year with thanks for
her past thirty-three years of service and
dedication to our school district; accept the
retirement/resignation of Gregory Meiners effective February 15, 2018, with thanks for his
past twenty-two years of service and dedication to our school district; ratify the hiring
of Leslee Oakes as a part-time ECFE teacher
beginning March of 2018, at BA/1; and approve the request from Marsha Sawle to terminate her three to five year leave of absence
and to return to her full-time teaching position beginning the 2018-2019 school year.
Motion carried by a unanimous vote. Moved
by Spencer Yohe, seconded by Emily McGonigle to approve the contract as presented
from Hiawatha Valley Education District who
agrees to purchase special ed teaching services from Independent School District No.
299 for the 2017-2018 school year. Motion
carried by a unanimous vote. Moved by Jimmy Westland, seconded by Emily McGonigle
to approve posting a position for a Mental
Health Practitioner who will be an at will employee for our school district. Motion carried
by a unanimous vote. Moved by Spencer
Yohe, seconded by Jared Barnes to advertise for sealed bids for the sale of the white
garage and to invite the top five bidders for a
bid-off to be facilitated by the law office with
the school district having the right to refuse
any bids. Motion carried by a unanimous
vote. Moved by Jimmy Westland, seconded
by Emily McGonigle to adopt the traditional
calendar for the 2018-2019 school year as
presented. Motion carried by a unanimous
vote. Moved by Michelle Werner, seconded
by Emily McGonigle to close the meeting at
7:56 p.m. to discuss the Memorandum of
Understanding with Barbara Meyer. Motion
carried by a unanimous vote. The board
opened the closed session during roll call
as a question was asked if we could hold a
closed session which was not on the agenda
and determined we would table the discussion to the next meeting. Moved by Emily
McGonigle, seconded by Melissa Marschall
to adjourn the meeting at 7:57 p.m. Motion
carried by a unanimous vote.
These minutes are only a summary and
complete minutes are available at the school
district office or on the school district website at www.cps.k12.mn.us
Published in
The Caledonia Argus
March 28, 2018
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