Meadows Valley School District #11 Minutes: July 14, 2015
The regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of Meadows Valley School District #11, Adams County, Idaho, was held July 14, 2015 at Meadows Valley School, New Meadows, Idaho as provided in Section 33-510 and 67-2345 et seq. Idaho Code.
The school trustees and officials of the Board and School Administration present:
Barbara Dixon Chairperson Zone IV
Levi Burden Trustee Zone V
Nancye LaFay Trustee Zone I
Penny Dreyer Trustee Zone II
Mike Howard Superintendent
Carol Whitney Business Manager
I. Call to Order & Flag Salute – Chairperson Dixon convened the meeting at 7:00pm with a quorum of trustees present (Burden, Dixon, Dreyer, LaFay)
II. Announcements or any changes/additions to agenda: appoint Trustees
III. Appoint Trustees ~ Following full and complete discussion upon motion made by Trustee Burden and seconded by Trustee Dreyer, all Trustees voted in favor of appointing Nancye LaFay to Trustee for Zone III and Chris Peterson to Trustee in Zone I (Burden, Dixon, Dreyer) Chairperson Dixon declared the motion carried.\
IV. Annual Meeting
a. Selection of Board Chairperson and Vice Chairperson ~ Trustee LaFay nominates Barbara Dixon for Chairperson ~ following full and complete discussion upon motion made by Trustee Burden and seconded by Trustee Dreyer, all Trustees voted in favor of Barbara Dixon as Chairperson (Burden, Dreyer, LaFay, Peterson) Trustee Burden nominates Nancy LaFay for Vice Chairperson ~ following full and complete discussion upon motion made by Trustee Burden and seconded by Trustee Dreyer, all Trustees voted in favor of Nancye LaFay as Vice Chairperson (Burden, Dixon, Dreyer, Peterson)
b. Selection of Board Clerk/District Treasurer ~ following full and complete discussion upon motion made by Trustee Burden and seconded by Trustee LaFay, all Trustees voted in favor of appointing Carol Whitney as Board Clerk/District Treasurer (Burden, Dixon, Dreyer, LaFay, Peterson) Chairperson Dixon declared the motion carried.
c. Board Meeting Dates, Times, Places ~ following full and complete discussion upon motion made by Trustee Burden and seconded by Trustee Dreyer, all Trustees voted in favor of board meetings being held on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:00pm in the school library (Burden, Dixon, Dreyer, LaFay, Peterson) Chairperson Dixon declared the motion carried.
d. Authorizing Bank Signature Cards ~ District Funds ~ no change (Howard, Dixon, Whitney)
e. Authorizing Bank Signature Cards ~ Associated Student Body Funds ~ following full and complete discussion upon motion made by Trustee Dreyer and seconded by Trustee LaFay, all Trustees voted in favor of removing Ed Kalinowski and adding Patrick Berg to signature card (Claudia Bentz and Carol Whitney will remain as signers) (Burden, Dixon, Dreyer, LaFay, Peterson) Chairperson Dixon declared the motion carried.
f. Designation of Public Places for Posting Notices ~ following full and complete discussion upon motion made by Trustee LaFay and seconded by Trustee Burden, all Trustees voted in favor of posting places: school, post office and city hall (Burden, Dixon, Dreyer, LaFay, Peterson) Chairperson Dixon declared the motion carried.
V. Consent Agenda – Whereas, the Trustees having received and reviewed: A) copies of the minutes dated June 9, 2015 B) Monthly Financial Report C) Employee Hire (Fisher). Following full and complete discussion upon motion made by Trustee Burden and seconded by Trustee Dreyer, all Trustees voted in favor of acceptance of Consent Agenda. (Burden, Dixon, Dreyer, LaFay, Peterson) Chairperson Dixon declared the motion carried.
VI. Audience and Communication
VII. Reports
a. Superintendent Report ~ Superintendent Howard reported ~ locker room showers need some modification/athletic passes/letter has been sent to IHSAA to allow 5th graders to play JH sports/class schedule given to board/some of the new computers for next year have arrived.
b. Principal Report ~ none
VIII. Action Items
a. Policy 2410 ~ graduation requirements ~ following full and complete discussion upon motion made by Trustee Burden and seconded by Trustee LaFay, all Trustees voted in favor of the third reading and adoption of Policy 2410 (with corrections). (Burden, Dixon, Dreyer, LaFay, Peterson) Chairperson Dixon declared the motion carried.
b. Irrigation System ~ following full and complete discussion upon motion made by Trustee Burden and seconded by Trustee Dreyer, all Trustees (Peterson recused from vote) voted in favor of going ahead with plan to build pump building, but do more research on pumps. (Burden, Dixon, Dreyer, LaFay) Chairperson Dixon declared the motion carried.
IX. Board of Trustees/Superintendent Comments
X. Executive Session 74-206 ~ a)b) consider personnel matters. The next order of business was the consideration of the board recessing into executive session at 8:20pm. Upon motion made by Trustee Burden and seconded by Trustee Dreyer: BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees of Meadows Valley School District #11 recessed from an open meeting into executive session pursuant to Idaho Code Section 67-2345 (a)(b).“BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that following the executive session the board will reconvene in public session for the purpose of conducting further business or adjournment of the meeting.” (Burden ~ aye, Dixon – aye, Dreyer ~ aye, LaFay ~ aye, Peterson ~ aye). Chairperson Dixon declared the motion carried.
XI. Action Resulting from Executive Session ~ Following full and complete discussion upon motion made by Trustee Burden and seconded by Trustee Dreyer, all Trustees voted in favor of changes to the Non Certified salary schedule (removing years 1 and 2 and extending out years 14 and 15) (Burden, Dixon, Dreyer, LaFay, Peterson) Chairperson Dixon declared the motion carried.
XII. Adjournment – There being no further business to conduct, Chairperson Dixon declared the meeting adjourned at 8:55pm.
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Chairman Clerk