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Meeting Agenda
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I. Call to Order and Roll Call
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II. Approval of Agenda
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III. Approval of Consent Agenda including March Minutes, Finance Committee Minutes, April 13 Special Board Meeting Minutes, Board Reports and Treasurers Report, Fiscal Year Third Quarter Financial Report, Bills Paid after March Board Meeting, April Bills, Payroll, Belief Statement and Goal Documentation, Investment Report, Activity Accounts, and Credit Card Account
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IV. Audience to Visitors and Other Communications
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V. Superintendent Communications
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V.A. Unofficial School Board Election Results
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VI. Principals' Communications
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VI.A. Mr. Brau, PreK-8 Principal
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VI.B. Mr. Buresh, 9-12 Principal and Mrs. Wolf, K-12 Lead Teacher
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VI.C. Mr. Huber, Athletic Director
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VII. Board Member Committee Reports
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VII.A. Special Education - Nancy Goodman
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VII.B. Building Committee - Al Landwehr, Jerad Heitzler
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VII.C. Transportation Committee - Brian Childs, Dwaine Shaw, Jr.
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VII.D. Finance Committee - John Rosenberry, Cathy Foes
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VIII. Old Business
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IX. New Business
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IX.A. Approve Tentative 2017 High School Graduation List
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IX.B. Approve Tentative 2017 8th Grade Promotion List
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IX.C. Approve Multi Year Contract for Mr. Matt Nordstrom as Superintendent beginning on July 1, 2018
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IX.D. Accept Resignation of Mr. Justin Landwehr and Mr. Joe Schmitt
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IX.E. Approve Employment of Mr. Michael Smith, K-12 Physical Education Teacher, Junior High Boys Basketball Coach and Shared Year Round Weight room Supervisor, Chris Goodley as Junior High Girls Basketball Coach, Teresa Landwehr as High School Cheerleading Sponsor, Whitney Walker as Junior High Volleyball Coach, and Brenda Haff as Maroon Platoon.
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IX.F. Approve First Reading of Updated Board Policies
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IX.G. Approve Membership to IHSA and IESA as well as all activities for 2017-2018 Year
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IX.H. Approve Registration, Lunch, Milk, and Activity Fees for 2017-2018 school year.
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IX.I. Closed Session for Purpose of Discussing: (1) the Appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees or the public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee to determine its validity, (9) Student disciplinary cases, (11) pending litigation, and (10) The placement of individual students in special education programs and other matters relating to individual students.
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IX.J. Recommendations and/or Actions Regarding Items Considered in Closed Session including approval of discipline reports.
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IX.K. Other business to come before the Board.
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X. Adjournment
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Agenda Item Details
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| Meeting: | April 19, 2017 at 5:00 PM - Regular Meeting | |
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I. Call to Order and Roll Call
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Mr. Shaw
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Description:
Board President Dwaine Shaw Jr. will call the meeting to order and Chris Kidd will call the roll of members. Dwaine will also introduce any guests that we have present.
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II. Approval of Agenda
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Mr. Buresh, Superintendent
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Description:
There should be no additions to the agenda from Board members per Board Agreements.
RECOMMENDATION: I recommend you approve the agenda as presented. |
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III. Approval of Consent Agenda including March Minutes, Finance Committee Minutes, April 13 Special Board Meeting Minutes, Board Reports and Treasurers Report, Fiscal Year Third Quarter Financial Report, Bills Paid after March Board Meeting, April Bills, Payroll, Belief Statement and Goal Documentation, Investment Report, Activity Accounts, and Credit Card Account
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Mr. Buresh, Superintendent
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Description:
We will need a motion to approve these reports which are attached. If you have specific questions relating to any of these items, please call me and get clarifications before noon Monday.
RECOMMENDATION: I recommend you approve these as presented. |
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IV. Audience to Visitors and Other Communications
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Mr. Buresh, Superintendent
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Description:
Nobody has formally requested to address the Board.
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V. Superintendent Communications
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Mr. Buresh, Superintendent
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V.A. Unofficial School Board Election Results
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Mr. Buresh
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Description:
I still haven't received the canvassed School Board Election results from Henry County. Attached are the unofficial counts. Regardless of the counts, it does appear that Brian Childs, Dwaine Shaw Jr., and Ted VanHyfte are elected to serve a 4 year term on the Board. Their first meeting will be the Reorganizational meeting on April 27, 2017.
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VI. Principals' Communications
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Mr. Brau, Mr. Buresh, Mrs. Wolf, Mr. Huber
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VI.A. Mr. Brau, PreK-8 Principal
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Mr. Brau, PreK-8 Principal
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Description:
Mr. Brau's Report is attached. In an efficiency of time, we will not verbally go over reports item by item, but just mention a couple as we all can read.
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VI.B. Mr. Buresh, 9-12 Principal and Mrs. Wolf, K-12 Lead Teacher
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Mr. Buresh and Mrs. Wolf
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Description:
Mr. Buresh's and Mrs. Wolf's report is attached. Mr. Buresh's and Mrs. Wolf's Report is attached. In an efficiency of time, we will not verbally go over reports item by item, but just mention a couple as we all can read.
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VI.C. Mr. Huber, Athletic Director
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Mr. Huber
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Description:
Mr.. Huber's report is attached. In an efficiency of time, we will not verbally go over reports item by item, but just mention a couple as we all can read.
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VII. Board Member Committee Reports
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VII.A. Special Education - Nancy Goodman
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Mrs. Goodman
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VII.B. Building Committee - Al Landwehr, Jerad Heitzler
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Mr. Landwehr and Mr. Heitzler
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Description:
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VII.C. Transportation Committee - Brian Childs, Dwaine Shaw, Jr.
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Mr. Childs and Mr. Shaw
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Description:
No meeting. No needs.
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VII.D. Finance Committee - John Rosenberry, Cathy Foes
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Mr. Rosenberry, Ms. Foes, and Mr. Buresh
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Description:
Third quarter financial summaries are in your packet.
No new concrete news from Springfield yet on any type of school finances for fiscal year 2018. |
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VIII. Old Business
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IX. New Business
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IX.A. Approve Tentative 2017 High School Graduation List
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Mr. Buresh
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Description:
These will be sent to you by the end of the day Monday.
RECOMMENDATION: I recommend you approve these as presented. |
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IX.B. Approve Tentative 2017 8th Grade Promotion List
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Mr. Buresh
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Description:
These will be sent to you by the end of the day Monday.
RECOMMENDATION: I recommend you approve these as presented. |
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IX.C. Approve Multi Year Contract for Mr. Matt Nordstrom as Superintendent beginning on July 1, 2018
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Mr. Buresh
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Description:
Matt Nordstrom has signed and returned the contract offered him to be Superintendent starting July 1, 2018. It is a 3 year contract with starting base pay in 2017-2018 of $100,000.
RECOMMENDATION: Approve a 3 year contract for Mr. Matt Nordstrom to be Superintendent of the Annawan CUSD 226 beginning July 1, 2018 with a base salary of $100,000 for the 2017-2018 school year. |
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IX.D. Accept Resignation of Mr. Justin Landwehr and Mr. Joe Schmitt
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Mr. Buresh
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Description:
Mr. Landwehr and Mr. Schmitt are resigning at the end of the school year. Their letters are attached. We wish them both well in their new endeavors.
RECOMMENDATION: Accept the resignation as presented. |
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IX.E. Approve Employment of Mr. Michael Smith, K-12 Physical Education Teacher, Junior High Boys Basketball Coach and Shared Year Round Weight room Supervisor, Chris Goodley as Junior High Girls Basketball Coach, Teresa Landwehr as High School Cheerleading Sponsor, Whitney Walker as Junior High Volleyball Coach, and Brenda Haff as Maroon Platoon.
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Mr. Buresh
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Description:
All of these recommendations are as of Friday morning, April 14, 2017. There is a possibility that other extra-curricular recommendations will be presented at the Board meeting.
Michael Smith is another outstanding Annawan graduate that I am recommending you hire to be a K-12 Physical Education teacher. He wants to start and end his career here and is anticipated to be outstanding. Any individual discussions on specific hiring decisions need to be done in Closed Session. Thus, if there is any specific person that you wish to discuss before we vote, we need to go into Closed Session. . RECOMMENDATION: I recommend you approve these as presented. |
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IX.F. Approve First Reading of Updated Board Policies
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Mr. Buresh
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Description:
I have included Graduation Policy with PE Requirements changed with the yellow highlighted area to be added.
I am also checking with our attorney on Policy 4:15 as requested and will have that by Wednesday. RECOMMENDATION: I recommend you approve these First Readings as presented. |
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IX.G. Approve Membership to IHSA and IESA as well as all activities for 2017-2018 Year
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Mr. Buresh
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Description:
IESA Registration Sheet is included, but need to add Cross Country to it.
No fees for IHSA. RECOMMENDATION: I recommend you approve these as presented. |
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IX.H. Approve Registration, Lunch, Milk, and Activity Fees for 2017-2018 school year.
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| Presenter: |
Mr. Buresh
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Description:
Registration fees for 2017-2018 are recommended to be raised from $75 to $80 for all K-12 students, with no additional class fees except for Driver’s Education which will go from $75 to $100 per student. A $100 distance learning fee has been added to defray some of those costs if we approve the class. . Lunch fees are recommended to increase $0.10 to $2.60 from $2.50 for students and to $3.25 from $3.15 for adult lunches. Milk prices will remain at $0.30 per milk for extra milk. Chrome book fees will remain as last year as well. We did not make any increases this year, so a small increase is being asked to stay somewhat current with increasing costs and not have a big jump in prices in any one year. Activity pass prices are also included, and we added a senior citizen discount price for the first time this year. An attachment is included for your viewing. RECOMMENDATION: I recommend you approve these as presented. |
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IX.I. Closed Session for Purpose of Discussing: (1) the Appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees or the public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee to determine its validity, (9) Student disciplinary cases, (11) pending litigation, and (10) The placement of individual students in special education programs and other matters relating to individual students.
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| Presenter: |
Mr. Buresh
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Description:
*****Anytime school personnel or individual student issues are discussed, the discussion needs to take place in Closed Session, with action only coming in Open Session.
If we go into Closed Session there are some discipline reports to approve, and I will give you an update on pending litigation. At this time, I have no need to go into Closed Session. |
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IX.J. Recommendations and/or Actions Regarding Items Considered in Closed Session including approval of discipline reports.
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Mr. Buresh
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Description:
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IX.K. Other business to come before the Board.
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X. Adjournment
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Description:
The next Board of Education meeting will be held on April 27, 2017 at 5:00 PM in the Annawan CUSD 226 District Office and will be an Annawan CUSD 226 Reorganizational Meeting only. No other items will be on the agenda.
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