BELLEVUE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS

Regular Board Meeting

Monday, February 15, 2010

1. The regular school board meeting was called to order in the HS Library at 5:27 P.M. by President Gary Griebel.

2. Roll call was taken. Present: Janet Sieverding, Curt Hammond, Kevin Lundin, Martha Montgomery-Henning, and Gary Griebel. Also present were: Mike Healy, Superintendent of Schools; Tom Meyer, High School Principal; Linda Nudd, Elementary Principal; Jeanette Hartung-Schroeder, Curriculum Director; and Penny Medinger, Secretary to the Board of Education.

3. Motion by Lundin, seconded by Henning to approve the agenda after deleting item #10 due to a scheduling issue. Carried unanimous.

4. Motion by Hammond, seconded by Sieverding to approve the minutes of the January 18, 2010 regular board meeting. Carried unanimous.

5. Motion by Lundin, seconded by Hammond to approve payment of all BCS’s expenditures for supplies, equipment, and services received (this excludes payroll). (See attached.) Carried unanimous.

6. Motion by Hammond, seconded by Henning to approve open enrollment out requests for FY11 to the Maquoketa CSD by Grant Lapke and to Fairfield Home School Program by Eryn Hunter and an open enrollment in request from the East Central CSD by Cole Venema for FY11. Carried unanimous.

7. There were no resignations.

8. Motion by Lundin, seconded by Sieverding to hire Ron and Pat Ries as volunteer summer lawn mowers. Carried unanimous. Motion by Henning, seconded by Sieverding to hire Tyler Daugherty for head boys track coach for FY10. Carried unanimous.

9. (5:37 PM) Visitors: Curt Gothard, Gothard & Associates

10. Deleted.

11. KVAR Energy proposal presentation was given by Curt Gothard. Motion by Lundin, seconded by Sieverding to accept Gothard & Associates’ proposal of $8078.50 to install 10 KVAR energy controllers in the HS/MS building with a guarantee of at least 6% energy savings. (See attached.) Carried unanimous.

12. Motion by Hammond, seconded by Lundin to request a State waiver for not teaching high school Spanish III for 2009-2010 due to students signing up for the college credit class instead. (See attached.) Carried unanimous.

13. Motion by Lundin, seconded by Sieverding to authorize the suggested infrastructure projects for summer 2010 from PPEL and Capital Projects fund. (See attached list.) Carried unanimous.

14. The HS building project is slightly behind schedule due to weather, mis-manufactured steel, and sewer tie in problems. The first wall panels should start going up the week of February 23.

15. Dr. Healy gave a power point presentation on the financial condition of the District. There are 3 main factors that the financial condition depends on: enrollment, State cuts, and salary settlements.

16. The BEA’s initial contract proposal was discussed with the Board. They asked for a 6.6% total package increase plus several language issues. (See attached.)

17. Information items:

a) The last day of school for students is currently Thursday, May 27, due to cancellations.

b) The District has withdrawn its Phase 1 SBRC request due to not meeting the criteria needed to apply.

c) State legislative actions were discussed.

d) Motion by Henning, seconded by Sieverding to move the April regular board meeting date to Tuesday, April 13 due to the NSBA conference. Carried unanimous.

18. Comments on events happening at school were heard from the building principals, curriculum director, superintendent and board members.

19. Motion by Hammond, seconded by Lundin to adjourn at 7:33 PM. Carried unanimous. The next regular board meeting will be held Monday, March 8, 2010 at 7:00 PM.

Gary Griebel, Board President

Penny Medinger, Board Secretary