Minutes of the Board of Education Meeting held Monday, April 14, 2014.

Present:

Warren Grable	Brian Harris

Sherman Smith	Jared Wigger

Jennifer Luedke	Janel Anderson

Hugh Kinsey

Barbara Winder

Duane Weishaar

Nikia Weber

Representative Jerry Henry spoke to the Board of Education on House Bill 2506.

The meeting was called to order at 6:45 p.m. by President Warren Grable.

AGENDA

It was moved by Smith and seconded by Weber to approve the agenda as presented. Motion Carried.

MOMENT OF SILENCE

The Board of Education took a moment of silence to reflect on all the servicemen home and abroad serving our country at this time and a resolution to the air liner missing. Motion Carried.

VOUCHERS AND BILLS

It was moved by Kinsey and seconded by Weishaar to approve the vouchers and bills as presented. Motion Carried.

VISITORS:

Jerry Henry, Kristin Franken, Rosa Dolven, Darian Warner, Kristee Grable, Jena Tharman, Susan Boeh, Bobette Geiger, and Bethany Jenkins.

CONSENT AGENDA

It was moved by Winder and seconded by Luedke to approve the following consent agenda items. Motion Carried.

a. Approval of the March 10, 2014 Board of Education Meeting Minutes

b. Accept High Bid for Used Sprayer - $255.55 – Tyler Smith

c. District Investing of Idle Funds/Hays Estate – Morrill & Janes Bank

d. Accept Resignation of Licensed Personnel – Rosa Dolven

e. Approve Use of Sick Leave Bank/Request for Additional Days

f. Approve KASB Legal Assistance Fee/Membership Dues for 2014-2015

g. Accept Troy and Community Committee Meeting Minutes

NEW TEXTBOOK ADOPTIONS

It was moved by Kinsey and seconded by Weishaar to approve the subscription purchase for 6 years of the My Math Series from McGraw Hill in the amount of $16,934.37 plus some manipulative supplies. Motion Carried.

It was moved by Smith and seconded by Weber to approve the purchase of Social Studies Textbooks (which does not include American History) from Houghton Mifflin in the amount of $7710.23. Motion Carried.

VERA DEAN FUND

It was moved by Weishaar and seconded by Weber to approve the request from the elementary teachers to approach the Vera Dean Committee about purchasing reading books. Motion Carried.

FACILITIES

It was moved by Smith and seconded by Weishaar to approve the low bid from Approved Paving in the amount of $6600.00 for concrete repairs at Troy High School. Motion Carried.

DRIVER EDUCATION/TEXTBOOK/PRESCHOOL/ AND OTHER FEES FOR 2014-2015

It was moved by Kinsey and seconded by Weishaar to approve the 2014-2015 fees as follows:

Driver Education – summer 2014 - $100.00/ Textbook Fee – Prek – 6 - $45.00; Gr. 7-12 - $48.00/ Art Fee - $5.00 Gr. 7-12/ Vocational Agriculture fee - $15.00 / Preschool Snack Fee - $15.00 per quarter for 4 year olds and $10.00 per quarter for 3 year olds. Motion Carried.

BOARD POLICY

It was moved by Smith and seconded by Winder to approve board policy EDDA as presented. Motion Carried.

COOPERATIVE WRESTLING AGREEMENT FOR 2014-2016

It was moved by Kinsey and seconded by Luedke to approve the 2 year wrestling cooperative agreement with Doniphan West for Troy Middle/High. Transportation will be the responsibility of the athlete/parent/guardian for practices. Motion Carried.

SPECIAL BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING

It was moved by Luedke and seconded by Weber to set a special board of education meeting for Tuesday, April 29th at 5 p.m. in the Troy Central Office. Motion Carried.

JULY 2014 MEETING

It was moved by Weishaar and seconded by Smith to have the July Board of Education Meeting on Monday, July 7th at 6 p.m. Motion Carried.

SUMMER SCHOOL 2014

It was moved by Weber and seconded by Winder to approve the summer school policy as presented for students in Grade 8 in Troy Middle School. Motion Carried.

REPORTS

Mr. Harris, Mr. Wigger, and a few teachers will attend a meeting on Wednesday, April 16th on the new student growth measures for teacher evaluation. Health insurance rate bids will be in sometime mid May. Mr. Harris would like to use Bukaty as an insurance broker to help the district bid insurance. Kansas Assessments are being given. The tests are a dry run and have for the most part gone very smooth for the district. Preliminary numbers for Kindergarten Round-Up were 18. Master Teacher was awarded to Kevin McNorton.

Mr. Wigger gave an update of upcoming calendar events. The meeting for the site council for the TMS/THS will be April 17th. The mock county wide accident assembly was extremely well done and those involved did a wonderful job. Mr. Wigger and senior, Holly Stegall, will be attending the Governor’s Scholar Program.

Mr. Smith gave the Board of Education a DCEC report.

PERSONNEL

EXECUTIVE SESSION

It was moved by Smith and seconded by Weishaar to go into executive session for a period of 30 minutes to discuss non-elected personnel in order to protect the privacy interests of the individual(s) to be discussed. Motion Carried.

REMAINING: Board and Superintendent

Returned to Regular Session at 9:30 p.m.

It was moved by Weber and seconded by Kinsey to go into executive session for a period of 20 minutes to discuss non-elected personnel in order to protect the privacy interests of the individual(s) to be discussed. Motion Carried.

REMAINING: Board and Superintendent

Returned to Regular Session at 9:50 p.m.

It was moved by Kinsey and seconded by Winder to go into executive session for a period of 10 minutes to discuss non-elected personnel in order to protect the privacy interests of the individual(s) to be discussed. Motion Carried.

REMAINING: Board and Superintendent

Returned to Regular Session at 10 p.m.

It was moved by Weber and seconded by Kinsey to pay Rosa Dolven as a long term substitute teacher for the remainder of the 2013-2014 school year. Motion Carried.

The meeting was adjourned at 10:06 p.m.

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Janel Anderson, Clerk of the Board