North Fayette Valley Community School District
Monday, November 11, 2019 6:00 p.m.
NFV Middle School Library
23493 Canoe Road, Elgin, IA 52141
TENTATIVE AGENDA
- CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL/PLEDGE
- APPROVE AGENDA
- PUBLIC FORUM – Open to public comment on items not on the agenda
- Consent Agenda
- Approval of Minutes
- Minutes of Oct. 14, 2019 – Regular Meeting
- Minutes of Oct. 21 Public Hearing
- Minutes of Oct. 29 Special Meeting
- Review and approve invoices
- Approve Financial Reports
- Approve Contracts and resignations –
- Resignations –
- New Hires –
- Volunteer Coach
- Receive and approve Gifts
- Approval of Minutes
- Communications
- Student Reports
- Principals’ Reports
- Curriculum Director Report
- Superintendent Report
- Report from National Rural Schools Convention
- Solar installations update
- Board Member reports
- OLD BUSINESS
- Approve bid for sale of FFA tractor
- Approve 2nd read Therapy Dog policies
- Policy Approval (2nd Read):
- 203 – Board of Directors’ Conflict of Interest
- 206.2 – Vice-President
- 307 – Communication Channels
- 501.5 – Attendance Center Assignment
- 505.5 – Graduation Credits – High School
- 603.1 – Basic Instruction Program
- NEW BUSINESS
- SBRC Application
- AEA Election of board members
- Consider offering Early Retirement
- Discussion item – Supt. search timelines
- Schedule work session for Supt search
- FY21 Calendar Preview
- Board Discussion for Possible agenda items
- Adjourn
TO: NFV School Board members
FROM: Duane WIllhite, Supt.
Date: October 10, 2019
RE: Notes for October 14, 2019 Board Meeting
TENTATIVE AGENDA
- CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL/PLEDGE
- APPROVE AGENDA
- PUBLIC FORUM – Open to public comment on items not on the agenda
- Consent Agenda
- Approval of Minutes
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- Minutes of October 14, 2019 – Regular Meeting
- Minutes of October 21, 2019 – Public hearing
- Minutes of October 29, 2019 – Special Meeting
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- Review and approve invoices
- Approve Financial Reports
- Approve Contracts and resignations –
- Resignations – Ted Schacherer, Pit Band
- New Hires – Kyle Harms, Pit Band; Julie Lansing, Paraprofessional
- Volunteer Coach – Elise Vandersee, Bowling team
- Receive and approve Gifts – Financial gift from Kara Wedemeier for MHAT; Reid Martin Cheerleading and Suzanne Rowe dance team choreography.
- Communications
- Student Reports
- Principals’ Reports
- Curriculum Director Report
- Superintendent Report
- Report from National Rural Schools Convention – We heard a lot about CTE programming in other states, teacher shortages and internships/work experiences. Colorado has a good teacher retention program using college debt forgiveness, but that would take legislative action. Kentucky has a consortium called KVEC, (Kentucky Valley Education Consortium) Students were telling us about some pretty ambitious projects they were doing. Also learned about Holographic Epistemologies.
- Solar installations update Fayette and Valley installations are generating, Bus Barn is done but not yet turned on, HS will be a “couple weeks” yet.
- Board Member reports
- OLD BUSINESS
- Approve bid for sale of FFA tractor there were no bids submitted
- Approve 2nd read Therapy Dog policies Last month we had first read of the new therapy dog policies. These will be in the packet, for your information. I believe we will be able to approve these, if you have an issue with something let me know and perhaps I can investigate more before the meeting, #606.3 – no change; old policy 506.3 is changed to 603.3 R1 Service Dogs; 606.3R2 will be the therapy dog policy, and this assumes a certified therapy dog team (includes the handler).
- Policy Approval (2nd Read): This set of policies are required edits suggested by IASB, there are really no important changes in policy for them; the highlights-
- 203 – Board of Directors’ Conflict of Interest You may now earn up to $6000 from school district (was $2500)
- 206.2 – Vice-President This one makes election times the same as the board president
- 307 – Communication Channels adds “It is within the board’s discretion whether to hear the concern.” about complaints
- 501.5 – Attendance Center Assignment adds that we “must honor a request to place siblings” in the same or different classroom requested by parents. This one might hit us at the Valley elementary with the multi-age arrangement.
- 505.5 – Graduation Credits – High School Add the requirement that special ed students must have 4 English, 3 Math, 3 Science and 3 SS credits to graduate.
- 603.1 – Basic Instruction Program Adds the financial literacy requirement.
- NEW BUSINESS
- SBRC Application This application is for increased enrollment, open enrollment out, and ELL beyond 5 years. We are requesting $26,944 for open enrollment and $6,123.9 for ELL beyond 5 years for a total request of $33,067.92 for the year.
- AEA Election of board members – As a board, we vote for representation on the AEA board of directors. Sue Updegraff is our current rep and I recommend she continue as such.
- Consider offering Early Retirement- The disadvantage early retirements are that we run the risk of not finding quality replacements in this time of teacher shortages. The advantage of early retirement is that it’s a bit of a budget relief, and the possibility that we are creating a substitute pool for next year.
- Discussion item – Supt. search timelines – There is a list of all search firms in the state in this packet. I also have developed what I have observed as a common timeframe for supt hiring. Just a template that can be changed and arranged if you want to change things. If you want to hire a firm, they will offer their own timelines for the most part.
- Schedule work session for Supt search Not written in stone, just something to get you thinking
- FY21 Calendar Preview Again, preview only, we will have discussions during Labor Management. A couple possible adjustments could be starting on Aug 26 (short first week), I have both MLK and Presidents day as days off, (possible snow days?) no early outs on this one yet, we always seem to ask how we can do PD better.
- Board Discussion for Possible agenda items
- Adjourn