School Board Minutes
Red Rock Central District No. 2884
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
The Truth in Taxation meeting
of the Board of Education, District No. 2884, was held in the Board Room in
Lamberton on Tuesday, December 21, 2010 because of bad weather on the scheduled
evening of December 20, 2010. Members
present were: Bierl, Clarke, Johnson,
Kelsey, Rogotzke and Westerman. Stavnes was
tardy. Superintendent Brennan, Principal
Olson, and Joe Dietl were also in attendance.
Chairman Kelsey called the
meeting to order at 6:30 p.m.
The Pledge of Allegiance was
recited.
Board Member Stavnes joined the meeting.
The Board discussed property
taxes and reviewed a handout provided by Superintendent Brennan. After discussion, the Board moved into their
regular meeting.
Upon motion of Rogotzke, seconded by Johnson and unanimously carried, to
approve the agenda, the minutes of the November 9, 2010 meeting and the
treasurer’s report.
Board Members Johnson and
Kelsey along with Superintendent Brennan updated the Board on a meeting they
attended in Windom with area schools and their Boards.
The Board reviewed Lead
Teacher Riley’s report: Title I teacher,
Sheila Ryker, had the annual Title I meeting for
students and parents on November 16th. The students played in the gym with adult
supervision while the parents met with Miss Ryker. She gave them important information about the
Title I program. After the meeting the
parents and their children came together to play Turkey Bingo. Nineteen parents and 28 students attended. Our Christmas program was on December 6th. This year the theme was “A Holiday of
Music.” Every chair was filled and the
bleachers were full as well, so this program was well attended. Our library is painted and looks very
nice. They are now working on getting
the new shelves in place. On December 22nd
Santa will be coming to the Jeffers site to visit the preschoolers through 2nd
graders. At noon we will all be meeting
in the gym to do some caroling under the direction of Mrs. Dammann. We will be dismissing our students at 12:30
and our Christmas break begins. Look for
some creative Christmas writings from our students in the Lamberton
News. The classrooms have been doing art
projects with a Christmas theme also.
These are displayed throughout the building. Soon it will be 2011 and as I reflect on the
past year I feel very fortunate for all the hard-working and caring staff we
have at the Jeffers site. It’s so
obvious that they want what’s best for our students and they strive daily to meet
their goals for their students. I’m
proud of the entire staff whether they be teachers, paras,
our secretaries, custodians, cooks, or volunteers. I want to thank Dr. Brennan for his
leadership and for being someone I can confide in as the Lead Teacher.
Principal Olson reported the
following: The Winter Concert was a very
nice event and the decorations were outstanding. Thank you to Erv
and Lorna Runck. One-Act play practice
has begun with Mrs. Wilmes again doing this for
us. Second semester scheduling is near
finalization. The Student Council
sponsored a Lyceum called “Dare to Move”.
It is a big screen presentation about motivation, building
relationships, standing up to bullying, etc.
Mr. G and I attended a short meeting with the Redwood County Attorney on
proper procedures for filing truancy notices.
It is good every once in a while to review these policies. We have been able to shift some periods
around to keep classes meeting with all the interruptions with the
weather. For example last Thursday with
the late start we had periods 1-4-2-6-7.
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Upon motion of Clarke,
seconded by Rogotzke and unanimously carried, to pay
claims in the amount of $53,737.54.
Receipts were $130,674.56.
Upon motion of Rogotzke, seconded by Westerman and unanimously carried to certify
the 2010 payable 2011 levy at $852,424.54.
Upon motion of Rogotzke and seconded by Clarke to approve the hiring of
Cheryl Van Meveren as assistant cook in the high
school and Barbara Johnson as part-time junior high girls’ basketball
coach. Voting yes: 6; voting no: 1. Motion carried.
Upon motion of Johnson,
seconded by Clarke and unanimously carried, to acknowledge that each year Red
Rock Central receives E-rate (federal) funding in order to help cover the cost
of our students having access to the Internet in both buildings. In receiving these funds we, as a District,
(and all U.S. public schools) agree to protect our students from “harmful
Internet content” as defined by the Federal Government via a law named the
“Children’s Internet Protection Act”. RRC
does filter out harmful Internet content via our agreement with our access
provider which is Trillion and the Southwest/West Central Service Coop. in
Marshall. With Board agreement we
consider this agenda item does cover Public Notice and we’ll conduct this
meeting yearly at this time. A copy of
the posting of this agenda to give the public advanced notice that they may
contribute to the discussion of the Internet Access Use Policy and ask questions,
the agenda itself and the minutes of this meeting will be kept on hand for five
(5) years in order to verify that we did discuss this issue at a public
meeting. A copy of the posting, the
agenda and minutes will also be sent to SW/WC Service Coop for their records as
well.
Upon motion of Johnson,
seconded by Rogotzke and unanimously carried, to change the following Board
meeting dates, because of National holidays, from January 17th to
January 10th and February 21st to February 22nd.
Upon motion of Clarke,
seconded by Stavnes and unanimously carried, to award
the carpet bid including both Lamberton and Jeffers
buildings, to Bittner Flooring at an estimated cost of $6,172.60.
Upon motion of Rogotzke, seconded by Westerman and unanimously carried, to
approve a short-term 2-year loan through Mills Resolute Bank in Sanborn for
$200,000 at 2.85% interest due to our fiscal situation.
The Board would like to thank
and commend Valerie Halter and her son Sam, and Randy Tordsen
who gave of their time to paint the elementary library.
Chairman Kelsey, representing
the Board, presented Judy Westerman with a plaque and thanked her for her years
of service on the Red Rock Central Board of Education.
The Board discussed
Superintendent Brennan’s meeting with FEMA.
Upon motion of Clarke,
seconded by Johnson and unanimously carried, to adjourn at 7:42 p.m.
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Alan J. Clarke, Clerk Denise
Clarke, Recorder