Minutes of the Regular Board of Education Meeting on November 12, 2016.

Present:

Warren Grable	Pat McKernan

Nathan Geiger	Janel Anderson

Sherman Smith	Harley Huss

Jennifer Luedke

Jason Winder

The regular Board of Education Meeting was called to order by President Warren Grable at 6 p.m.

AGENDA

It was moved by Smith and seconded by Luedke 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 law enforcement personnel.

VOUCHERS AND BILLS

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

CONSENT AGENDA

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

Approval of Minutes – October 10, 2016 Meetings

Acceptance of Resignation from Abra Rush, TMS/THS Secretary

AED MACHINE DONATION APPROVAL AND CONTRACT

It was moved by Geiger and seconded by Luedke to approve the donation of the AED Machines from Cheryl Grace and the “Carter’s Gift From The Heart Foundation”. Motion Carried.

It was moved by Smith and seconded by Geiger to approve the AED contract for the 2016-2017 school year. Motion Carried.

Mr. McKernan updated the Board of Education that the district at this time is undergoing a KPERS audit. The Doniphan County Memorandum of Understanding is being completed and signed by county officials for Doniphan County. The next DCEC meeting is November 16 at Troy. The site councils from both schools met on November 9th. The Veteran’s Day assembly held at the high school on last Friday was very well done.

FARM ACCOUNT

It was moved by Smith and seconded by Luedke to purchase hams for the faculty and staff from the Farm Account for Christmas. Motion Carried.

DECEMBER BOARD MEETING DATE RESCHEDULED

It was moved by Geiger and seconded by Winder to move the December 2016 board meeting to December 14, 2016. Motion Carried.

Mr. Hevel was absent so his report was given as a handout to the Board of Education. Mr. Hevel’s written report included updates to the Board of Education on the HCC financial aid meeting that was held at the high school on Nov. 7th. Number of athletes that started and completed cross country were updated to the board. Two students placed at the dairy cattle contest and both have qualified for state contest. Parent/Teacher conference attendance percentages were included in the report. An update on the high school scholar’s bowl was also included. The visual arts pathway committee met on October 24th.

Mrs. Weber and Mr. Luedke gave the DCEC report.

EXECUTIVE SESSION

It was moved by Luedke and seconded by Smith to go into executive session for a period of 5 minutes to discuss matters affecting a student(s) in order to protect the privacy interests of the individual(s) to be discussed. Motion Carried.

Remaining: Board and Mr. McKernan

Returned to regular session at 6:50 p.m.

STUDENT TRANSPORTATION
It was moved by Geiger and seconded by Smith to approve the transportation of a student as recommended at the rate of $6.00 per day. Motion Carried.

OUT OF DISTRICT

It was moved by Smith and seconded by Winder to approve the out of district student request as presented. Motion Carried.

EXECUTIVE SESSION

It was moved by Smith and seconded by Winder to go into executive session for a period of 10 minutes to discuss nonelected personnel matters 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 7 p.m.

Mr. Smith excused himself from the meeting.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

It was moved by Geiger and seconded by Luedke to approve Shanna Smith as the Administrative Assistant for TMS/THS for the 2016-2017 school year. Motion Carried.

TRANSPORATION DIRECTOR

It was moved by Smith and seconded by Geiger to approve the salary increase for Richard Simmons as presented. Motion Carried.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:03 p.m.

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Janel K Anderson, Clerk