School Board Minutes
Red Rock Central District
No. 2884
The regular monthly meeting of the Board of
Education, District No. 2884, was held in the Board Room in Lamberton on
Chairman Gransee called the meeting to order at
The Pledge of Allegiance was recited.
Upon motion of Meyer, seconded by Derickson and
unanimously carried, to approve the agenda, the minutes of the
A personnel hearing involving Chad Irlbeck was
conducted. The hearing was open to the
public at the request of Mr. Irlbeck.
The Board discussed options regarding the employment of Mr.
Irlbeck. The board thanked Mr. Irlbeck for his coaching
the past 2 years.
Upon motion of Meyer and seconded by Derickson to
suspend Chad Irlbeck with 1/3 pay, as Head Wrestling Coach, the rest of the school
year. He may reapply for the Head
Coach’s position the following year. A
roll call vote was taken. Voting yes: Derickson,
Myers, Meyer, and Gransee. Voting
no: Clarke, Imker, and Mattison. Motion passed.
Dave Nester, of Nester and Nester, presented the
audit report for the 2003-2004 school year.
Upon motion of Clarke, seconded by Myers and unanimously carried, to
accept the audit report as printed.
Arlyce Anderson reported on the upcoming Senior
Class Trip to
Principal Olson’s report was distributed to the
Board. The Systems Accountability
Committee Meeting was well attended. A
main concern was how to distribute the report, especially to the Storden and
Jeffers areas because they don’t have a local newspaper. The 9-12 grade Christmas Concert will be held
next Monday. The 6-8 grade will perform
a concert for the elementary on Friday afternoon. Scheduling for 2nd semester is
nearly complete. The Student Council has
adopted a local family of our own school to help with some gift items etc., for
the holiday season instead of the “Share the Spirit” community campaign.
Lead Teacher Westerman’s report reads as
follows: The Christmas concert was very
well attended. Mid-term grades went out,
and we will begin inching toward the end of the first semester. Plans are being made for all of the testing
that must be done in the
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spring. We
have a couple of new families in the district again. It means that we have 44 students in 1st
grade!! The elementary building will
again this year have brunch the day
before Christmas vacation. We tried that last year and it worked very
well. With the early out, there just
isn’t time for 2 meals. We serviced 79
students for breakfast one morning this week.
That’s about 36% of our school population. I am in the process of getting science and
social studies state standards into the hands of each teacher in the elementary
building. We will find some time after
the holiday break to sit down and discuss the documents and decide what
changes, if any, we need to make in order to meet the requirements.
Upon motion of Clarke, seconded by Myers and
unanimously carried, to pay claims in the amount of $51,430.72. Receipts were $202,338.79.
Upon motion of Myers, seconded by Clarke and
unanimously carried, to accept the purchase agreement with Ochs Brick in
Discussion was held on the possible shop/garage
building.
Upon motion of Clarke, seconded by Mattison and
unanimously carried to employ Cathy Kedl as driver for the gymnastics girls to
Windom, and Jeanna Olson as pre-school para for a combined program of
Discussion was held on the Strategic Planning
sessions.
Chairman Gransee appointed Derickson as Legislative
Liaison.
At
On behalf of the
The meeting was declared adjourned by Chairman
Gransee at
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Paula R. Derickson, Clerk Denise Clarke, Recorder