School Board Minutes
Red Rock Central District
No. 2884
Monday, September 20, 2010
The regular monthly meeting of the Board of
Education, District No. 2884, was held in the Board Room in Lamberton
on Monday, September 20, 2010. Members
present were: Bierl, Johnson, Kelsey, Stavnes, and Westerman.
Clarke and Rogotzke were absent. Superintendent Brennan, Principal Olson,
Sheila Ryker, Tasha Frasher, Denise Clarke, and Joe
Dietl were also in attendance.
Chairman Kelsey called the meeting to order at 7:30
p.m.
The Pledge of Allegiance was recited.
Upon motion of Westerman and
seconded by Stavnes, to approve the agenda, the
minutes of the August 16, 2010 meeting, and the treasurer’s report. Voting yes:
5; voting
no: none; absent: 2.
Motion carried.
Principal Olson reported that we have had one fire
drill and will be doing a tornado drill on Tuesday. In the next two weeks we will be having a
lock down and evacuation drill. The only
new staff we have is Andrew Krupp who is our school psychologist and comes to
us from the Service Coop. The Student
Council is getting ready for Homecoming next week. They have come up with dress up and activity
days. The Student Council has been
discussing ways to help out our school by possibly sponsoring a lyceum and/or
helping out with the expense of the gravel that needs to be hauled to our
parking lot. Josten’s
has been here to present to the sophomores options for class rings. NRP was here today to kick off the magazine
sales for the juniors. We have had a very
smooth start to the school year with our experienced veteran staff that just
knows what to do. They are very much
appreciated by the students and administration.
Lead Teacher Riley’s report was distributed to the
Board. We tried something new at the Jeffers
site for our Open House to kick off the new school year. In the past, we had the parents come from
8:30-10:00 in the morning of the first day of school. This year we invited our students and their
parents to come September 2nd from 5:00-7:00 p.m. which was the
evening of our last workshop day. Our
students were able to meet their new teachers, see where they were going to sit
in their classroom, bring their school supplies, and ask any questions they had
before the first day of school. We had
better parent attendance having Open House in the evening, so we’ll plan on
doing it the same way in the future. School
pictures were taken September 16th.
We will be having our first lyceum on September 21st. It’s entitled “Totally Courageous
Basketball.” The gentleman presenting
the lyceum will be showing us how he can spin a basketball on pens, giant
pencils, umbrellas, cups, and even people.
He will be performing other stunts with the basketball as well. Along with this talent, he will also be
sending a message to our students to make right choices, have positive
attitudes, good work ethic, respect others, and drug awareness. Our 4th graders will be attending
the Fall Field Day at the Lamberton Experiment
Station on September 22nd. The
teachers have decided that our annual Grandparents’ Day will be October 20th
this year. The program will begin at
1:45 in the gym. Our integration program
will begin October 19th with our 1st and 2nd graders traveling to
Walnut Grove and our 3rd and 4th graders heading for Wabasso. The
kindergartners always go on a field trip in the fall. This year they will be going to
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Poppes Pumpkin Patch in Lakefield
on October 13th. The 5th
graders will once again be going to Lake Carlos in the spring May 4th-6th. Our school year didn’t begin as smoothly as
it usually does due to the mold in our library.
Luckily, the teachers have many books in their classrooms their students
can use until the library is safe to use again.
Tasha Frasher reported that our former band teacher,
Mrs. Donna Larson, had entered a sweepstakes with Schmidt Music and won a
$5,000 prize which she donated to our music department. The money was used to purchase a Yamaha Stage
Custom drum set, a set of concert bongo drums, and concert conga drums. A letter of thanks was sent to Mrs. Larson
along with pictures of the items purchased.
Discussion was held regarding the new boiler in
Jeffers which was purchased from Yellow Medicine East schools. The cost of the 4-year old boiler was
$5,000. It cost $200 for Bisbee to
transport it to Jeffers. Bisbee also has
charged $3,145 for removal of the boiler from the YME school building. Dr. Brennan was directed to call the
Superintendent at YME again and try to negotiate a fair amount to be paid to
Bisbee from us.
Upon motion of Johnson and seconded by Westerman, to
purchase a 4-year old boiler from Yellow Medicine East Schools for our
elementary school in Jeffers at the cost of $5,000. Voting yes:
5; voting
no: none; absent: 2.
Motion carried.
Upon motion of Westerman and
seconded by Stavnes, to pay all claims except Bisbee
for $3,345. Voting yes:
5; voting no: none; absent: 2. Motion carried.
Upon motion of Johnson and seconded by Westerman, to
set December 20, 2010 as the date to discuss our budget and taxes before the
final tax request is set and sent to the county. The meeting will be held in the
Superintendent’s office at the Lamberton Building
starting at 6:30 p.m. and to approve the projected levy of $618,228 or the maximum
option for the 2010 payable 2011 property tax.
Voting yes: 5; voting no: none; absent:
2. Motion
carried.
Upon motion of Bierl and
seconded by Westerman, to approve the System Accountability Report and to
publish it as in the past. Voting
yes: 5; voting no: none; absent:
2. Motion
carried.
Discussion was held regarding the mold in the
library in Jeffers, the upcoming referendum and cursive reading and writing.
Upon motion of Westerman and
seconded by Stavnes, to adjourn at 9:05 p.m. Voting yes:
5; voting no: none; absent: 2. Motion carried.
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Alan J. Clarke, Clerk Denise Clarke,
Recorder