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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 February Minutes, Board Reports and Treasurers Report, Bills Paid after February Board Meeting, March Bills, Payroll, February Financial Report, 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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IV.A. Ms. Angie Zarvell, Regional Superintendent of Schools of Bureau, Henry, and Stark Counties
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V. Superintendent Communications
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V.A. State of IL funding and General Assembly Actions
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V.B. Annawan CUSD 226 Scbool Board Elections
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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. Temporary Disability Diane Savage effective May 18, 2017
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IX.B. Approve AW Volunteer Baseball Coaches
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IX.C. Rehiring/Hiring/Resignations/Dismissals/RIFs of Personnel (per attachment)
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IX.D. 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, (10) The placement of individual students in special education programs and other matters relating to individual students, and (11) pending litigation.
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IX.E. Recommendations and/or Actions Regarding Items Considered in Closed Session including approval of discipline reports.
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IX.F. Other business to come before the Board.
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X. Adjournment
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Agenda Item Details
Reload Your Meeting
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| Meeting: | March 15, 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 February Minutes, Board Reports and Treasurers Report, Bills Paid after February Board Meeting, March Bills, Payroll, February Financial Report, 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. Bills will be sent by the end of the day Monday, and if you have bill questions, please call me by noon on Tuesday.
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. I have asked Ms. Angie Zarvell, Regional Superintendent of Bureau, Henry, and Stark Counties to attend and give a brief overview of services provided to Annawan by the ROE, a quick State of the State, and the working relationship between the Annawan CUSD 226 and the ROE.
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IV.A. Ms. Angie Zarvell, Regional Superintendent of Schools of Bureau, Henry, and Stark Counties
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Ms. Zarvell
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V. Superintendent Communications
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| Presenter: |
Mr. Buresh, Superintendent
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V.A. State of IL funding and General Assembly Actions
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Mr. Buresh
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Description:
No new significant news from the previous month. If something develops that looks materialistic, I will share it.
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V.B. Annawan CUSD 226 Scbool Board Elections
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Mr. Buresh
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Description:
Just a reminder that Board elections are April 4, 2017. The Board has set Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 5:00 PM in the District Office as the Reorganizational Meeting of the Board.
On April 4, 2017, Election Day, there will five candidates running for three seats on the Annawan CUSD 226 Board of Education. Incumbents Brian Childs and Dwaine Shaw Jr., along with newcomers Jason DeSplinter, Sheldon Miller, and Ted VanHyfte have filed all of their legal paperwork and will be on the April 4, 2017 election ballot to serve a four year term on the Annawan CUSD #226 Board of Education. In this year’s election the top three (3) vote getters will be elected to the Board as no restrictions come into play in regards to townships. |
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VI. Principals' Communications
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Mr. Brau, Mr. Buresh, Mrs. Wolf, Mrs. DeMay
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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:
The Building Committee did not meet. In this weeks storm, damage to one of the rooftop heating units at an approximate cost to fix of $6,000 occurred.
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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. Leased buses ordered for Fiscal Year 2018.
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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:
Next meeting scheduled for Thursday, April 6, 2017 from 8:30-9:30 AM and is only needed if needed to amend the fiscal year 2017 budget or some new financial news is acted on at the State level that will affect the Annawan CUSD 226.. Third quarter year to date reports may be processed by then and if so will be shared. |
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VIII. Old Business
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IX. New Business
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IX.A. Temporary Disability Diane Savage effective May 18, 2017
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Mr. Buresh
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Description:
Diane Savage has submitted a letter of temporary disability. Her final day as an employee will be May 18, 2017. It is attached.
RECOMMEDATION: Approve Mrs. Savages letter of temporary disability as presented. |
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IX.B. Approve AW Volunteer Baseball Coaches
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Mr. Buresh
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Description:
Michael Parsons, Cody Phillips, and Todd Hansen were approved last night as Volunteer Assistant AW Baseball Coaches for the Spring of 2017. We need to do the same. Michael and Cody were volunteer assistants last year and did run the summer program last year.
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IX.C. Rehiring/Hiring/Resignations/Dismissals/RIFs of Personnel (per attachment)
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Mr. Buresh
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Description:
All of these recommendations are as of Friday morning, March 10, 2017. There is a possibility that a couple of these recommendations may change before Wednesday, so please do not share these with anybody. Mrs. Teresa Landwehr is recommended to be employed as a full time teacher for 2017-2018. She will teach mostly in the middle school science area.
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. Tenured Staff do NOT need to be hired annually after achieving tenure, as there is NO legality to do this and they are all guaranteed jobs unless there is a Reduction in Force (RIF) and they are the last one in that category. Nontenured teachers with 3 Excellent evaluations automatically gain tenure. I do have a resignation for Grant Baele as Junior High Boys Basketball Coach, Whitney Walker as Prom Sponsor, Hope DeRycke as Junior High Girls Basketball Coach, and Dawn Heitzler as HS Basketball Cheerleading Sponsor (one year commitment to help us out) that will need to acted on. We will probably have a resignation next week as well. A staff member has been offered and accepted a position with the Bureau Valley School District. Their Board meeting is next week. RECOMMENDATION: I recommend you approve each motion on the attached document as presented. |
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IX.D. 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, (10) The placement of individual students in special education programs and other matters relating to individual students, and (11) pending litigation.
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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.
As agreed, we will be going into Closed Session to interview Mr. Matt Nordstrom as an internal Superintendent/HS Principal Candidate to potentially replace Mr. Buresh when he retires. The interview will probably take 40 minutes in length with Board discussion to follow. It is anticipated that this entire process to last about 1 hour. At the conclusion, the Board will decide whether to offer Mr. Nordstrom a contract for Superintendent/HS Principal that will be approved at the April 19, 2017 Board Meeting or open the position up in the fall to external applicants. I have done more in preparing the Board for this position than most professional firms do that you would pay over $7,000 to do. I have included his confidential packet for your viewing (totally confidential), have called and verified references (all outstanding), have made him submit a summary of achievements paper, 2 written responses, 1 immediate written response, have given the Board the opportunity to semi-select interview questions and submit their own interview questions, and will have a sample contract (if he is who you want to offer the position to after the interview Wednesday) ready by the end of the day TUESDAY for your viewing (so the process is not delayed as I will be converting the old format into our attorney recommended new one tomorrow in which the Board would still need to finalize goals and salary but you would have a base document to complete on Wednesday night if you so choose. I also received additional interview questions from 2 board members this morning, and I will be putting all of their questions together with about 10 other ones for your interview Wednesday tomorrow too. You will receive updates on both documents by the end of tomorrow. I will also have Mr. Nordstrom give a 2 sentence answer to the questions that were not selected and get those to you as well.This should give you more than you ever need to make your decision on Wednesday. Mrs. Diane Savage's last date of employment will be May 18, 2017 as she will be run out of sick days and then go on temporary disability and you will approve her letter in open session. Once again, I will be recommending Teresa Landwehr to be hired as a teacher to fill some of that void and she will teach much of the jr. high science. All other personnel was outlined in IX A for you to review. |
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IX.E. Recommendations and/or Actions Regarding Items Considered in Closed Session including approval of discipline reports.
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Description:
RECOMMENDATION: I recommend you approve each motion on the attached document as presented.
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IX.F. 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 19, 2017 at 5:00 PM.
An Annawan CUSD 226 Reorganizational Board Meeting will be held on Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 5:00 PM in the District Office. |
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