| Hinton Community School District | |||||||||
| Wednesday September 20, 2006 | |||||||||
| REGULAR BOARD | A regular board meeting of the Hinton Community School | ||||||||
| MEETING | District Board of Directors was held in the library on Wednesday | ||||||||
| September 20, 2006 at 7:10 pm. | |||||||||
| BOARD MEMBERS | Members Present: | ||||||||
| Lynette Blanchard | |||||||||
| Steve Eddy | |||||||||
| Robert Held | |||||||||
| Ed Vondrak | |||||||||
| Members Absent: | |||||||||
| Kenny Hoefling | |||||||||
| SUPERVISORS | Al Steen, Superintendent | ||||||||
| PRESENT | Paula Schreck, Board Secretary | ||||||||
| Sue Martens, Principal | |||||||||
| Peter Stuerman, Principal | |||||||||
| Jane Krehbiel, Curriculum Director | |||||||||
| David Attrill, Technology Coordinator | |||||||||
| VISITORS PRESENT | Brenda Baldwin | ||||||||
| CALL TO ORDER | Having Determined a quorum was present, Superintendent | ||||||||
| Steen, speaking on behave of Secretary Schreck, called the | |||||||||
| meeting to order. | |||||||||
| OATH OF OFFICE | Superintendent Steen, speaking of behave of Secretary, | ||||||||
| Schreck, administered the oath of office to Steve Eddy and | |||||||||
| Robert Held. | |||||||||
| ELECT PRESIDENT | Elect President: Motion by Vondrak, Second by Blanchard to | ||||||||
| elect Rob Held as president for the 2006-2007 year. | |||||||||
| Motion by Vondrak to cease nominations, second by Blanchard. | |||||||||
| Motions carried 4-0. | |||||||||
| ELECT VICE-PRESIDENT | Elect Vice-President: Motion by Vondrak, second by Eddy | ||||||||
| to elect Kenny Hoefling as Vice-president for the 2006-2007 year. | |||||||||
| Motion by Vondrak to cease nominations, second to Blanchard. | |||||||||
| Motions carried 4-0. | |||||||||
| WELCOME VISITORS | President Held welcomed visitors to the meeting and asked if anyone | ||||||||
| would like to address the board on any matter not on the agenda. | |||||||||
| Brenda Baldwin addressed the board asking them to re-visit the idea of | |||||||||
| adding Vocational Agriculture/FFA to the curriculum by sharing with another | |||||||||
| district or through the ICN. Mrs. Baldwin also asked that every senior have | |||||||||
| an individual conference with someone helping them to become aware | |||||||||
| of career opportunities, colleges, and scholarships available. President Held | |||||||||
| thanked her for her comments and stated it may be possible to re-visit the | |||||||||
| vocational agriculture issue. | |||||||||
| CONSENT ITEMS | Agenda: Motion by Vondrak, second by Eddy, it was | ||||||||
| RESOLVED: To approve the amended agenda. | |||||||||
| Motion carried 4-0. | |||||||||
| Minutes: None to approve | |||||||||
| REPORTS/ | Jane Krehbiel addressed the board regarding our Reading Recovery program. | ||||||||
| INFORMATION | |||||||||
| National School Board Convention material was presented to the board. | |||||||||
| A copy of the letter from the school's attorney, Jim Hanks, to Eugene and | |||||||||
| Annette Held regarding property line issues was presented to the board. | |||||||||
| The letter had informed the Held's that the district's desire is to have the | |||||||||
| current fence become the legal property lines. This arrangement would | |||||||||
| add approximately ten thousand square feet to the Held's property and | |||||||||
| remove it from the School's property. The letter also informed the Held's | |||||||||
| the school did not intent to re-slope the bank just south of the front | |||||||||
| parking lot as the Held's requested. The district also offered to pay for | |||||||||
| all expenses associated with the changing of the property lines. A copy | |||||||||
| of a response from the Held's attorney, Patrick Sealey, was presented to | |||||||||
| the board. The Held's stated they agreed to accept the fences as | |||||||||
| legal property lines, if the school board would agree to re-slope the | |||||||||
| bank just south of the front parking lot. The Held's requested the | |||||||||
| re-sloping bring the toe of the slope to the property line. Superintendent | |||||||||
| Steen commented that future discussion on the matter will need to take | |||||||||
| place in closed session as it deals with potential litigation. | |||||||||
| PUBLIC INPUT | None | ||||||||
| CONSENT ITEMS | Resignations: none | ||||||||
| Contract: Motion by Blanchard, second by Vondrak, it was | |||||||||
| RESOLVED to approve educational aide: Holli Davis. | |||||||||
| Motion carried 4-0. | |||||||||
| Contract: Motion by Vondrak, second by Blanchard, it was | |||||||||
| RESOLVED to approve educational aide: Dawn Lafave | |||||||||
| Motion carried 4-0. | |||||||||
| Contract: Motion by Vondrak, second by Eddy, it was | |||||||||
| RESOLVED to approve special education bus driver: | |||||||||
| Everett Bollmeyer. | |||||||||
| Motion carried 4-0. | |||||||||
| Contract: Motion by Eddy second by Blanchard, it was | |||||||||
| RESOLVED to approve special education bus driver: | |||||||||
| Connie Kounkel. | |||||||||
| Motion carried 4-0. | |||||||||
| Contract: Motion by Blanchard second by Vondrak, it was | |||||||||
| RESOLVED to approve Business Manager/Treasurer: | |||||||||
| Karmen Betsworth. | |||||||||
| Motion carried 4-0. | |||||||||
| Contract: Motion by Vondrak, second by Eddy, it was | |||||||||
| RESOLVED to approve special education aide: Joey Hill. | |||||||||
| Motion carried 4-0. | |||||||||
| Time and Place of regular meeting: Motion by Eddy, second | |||||||||
| by Vondrak, is was RESOLVED to approve holding regular board | |||||||||
| meeting the third Monday of each month at 7:00 pm in the school | |||||||||
| library. | |||||||||
| Delegate to delegate assembly and LAN: motion by Vondrak, | |||||||||
| second by Eddy, is was RESOLVED to table. | |||||||||
| Motion carried 4-0. | |||||||||
| Official Newspaper: Motion by Eddy, second by Blanchard, it was | |||||||||
| RESOLVED to approve the Hinton Times as the school's official | |||||||||
| paper of record. | |||||||||
| Motion carried 4-0. | |||||||||
| Policy revision 901 - Public Examination of School District Records: | |||||||||
| Motion by Vondrak, second by Blanchard, it was RESOLVED to | |||||||||
| approve the policy revision 901 and waive the second reading. | |||||||||
| Motion carried 4-0. | |||||||||
| Soccer Sharing with Sgt. Bluff: Motion by Eddy, second by Blanchard, | |||||||||
| it was resolved to share soccer with Sgt. Bluff Luton school distric, with | |||||||||
| the understanding that participants are responsible for getting to and | |||||||||
| from all practices and games on their own. | |||||||||
| Motion carried 4-0. | |||||||||
| ACTION ITEMS | None | ||||||||
| DISCUSSION | Board work session on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 5:30 pm. | ||||||||
| ITEMS | |||||||||
| IASB District meeting to be held on Tuesday, October 3 in Sheldon. | |||||||||
| IASB ABLE Ι meeting to be held on Wednesday, October 11 in Sioux Center. | |||||||||
| ADJOURNMENT | Motion by Blanchard, Second by Eddy, it was | ||||||||
| RESOLVED: to adjourn the meeting at 7:55 pm. | |||||||||
| Motion carried 4-0. | |||||||||
| BOARD PRESIDENT | BOARD SECRETARY | ||||||||