The Board of Trustees of School District No. 58, Bingham County, Idaho met for a Regular Board Meeting Session at 6:30 p.m. on February 17th, 2021 at the Aberdeen School District Office, 318 W. Washington, Aberdeen, Idaho.
CALL TO ORDER AND ESTABLISHMENT OF A QUORUM
Chairman Todd Lowder opened the regular meeting at 6:35 p.m. Other Board members present were Mike Shackelford, Sherrie Mauroner and David Wahlen. A quorum was established. Elaine Blik arrived at 6:40 p.m.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Those present recited the Pledge of Allegiance.
DELEGATION AND PATRON INPUT
Amber Tilley provided a handout and discussed travel opportunities for the upcoming 2021-2022 spring break for students to tour Europe for 10 days and 9 nights. There will be one day that the students will miss school and asked that they be excused. Mrs. Ward made clear this trip is not any part of the school curriculum and is not sponsored by the school district.
SUPERINTENDENT and ADMINISTATOR REPORTS
Superintendent Ward discussed her written report. The district will be hiring new maintenance personnel and Mrs. Ward hopes to have this done by March 1st. The vaccinations have been completed and everyone had the opportunity to be vaccinated for Covid-19. The bus inspection went very well. Our buses are in good working order and our drivers are very well qualified to drive a bus. The greenhouse at the high school has finally arrived. Mrs. Ward thanked the trustees for having our students go to school. Other schools have been out for almost a whole year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Having the students return to school has been good for them as well as the staff and the community.
Travis Pincock discussed his written report. The senior projects will be presented in the next couple of weeks. There have been some great projects and Mr. Pincock is excited to see the students present. The basketball season for the girls has concluded. They are a great team and always represent Aberdeen High School well. Mr. Pincock thanked the coaches who gave so much time, and to all the parents and patrons for their support throughout the season. Mr. Pincock added that Larissa Carrillo took 5th place for Girls’ state wrestling and he was happy to have a whole year of sports allowed for the high school throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ann Mennear reviewed her written report. The Boys’ Basketball season is underway and the 8th grade team is doing well. Mrs. Mennear thanked Chris Pratt and all of the dads who come out to practice early in the morning to help these young men. Mrs. Ingersoll is working with 8th and 9th grade students on the GEAR UP STEM League. This year they are working with a student at BSU and learning about developing apps. The middle school wrote and received a $15,000 mini-grant from GEAR UP to purchase laptops for the students to use for this project since the program they will be using does not work on the Chromebooks. The grant will also be used to purchase another interactive TV, some consumables for the STEM lab, a three-color 3D printer and to pay a teacher or aide to supervise students this summer if they need to do online courses for credit recovery.
Robi Jo Colton went over her written report. The STEM ozobots coding activity was successful. The students in first through fifth grade had an opportunity to code the robots and a high school student lead this activity for a senior project. The second round of teacher observations are being scheduled and submitted. Mrs. Colton added that Dr. Seuss week will be the first week of March and there will be dress up days to go along with the books they are reading. Mrs. Colton thanked police officer Brook Ferro for coming in and reading books to the students.
David Vaughn reviewed his written report. The seniors in special education are working on their senior projects and doing very well. Darla Wright, Kristina McClean as well as the high school paraprofessionals have provided great support to our students working on their projects. All students are able to complete the project and present what they have done. Mr. Vaughn added that there are 128 students in special education this year.
APPROVAL OF AGENDA
There was a change made to the agenda to remove out of state/overnight trip requests under Consent Items – Actions 7G.
A motion was made by Trustee Shackelford and seconded by Trustee Mauroner to approve the agenda as amended. The motion passed.
CONSENT ITEMS – ACTIONS
The following consent items were presented:
Approval of January 20th Regular Meeting Minutes
Approval of February 4th Work Session Minutes
Approval of January 2021 Claims
County Tax Report-January 2021
January 2021 Financial Report
Building Budget Reports
A motion was made by Trustee Wahlen and seconded by Trustee Shackelford to approve Consent Items A-F as presented. The motion passed.
BUSINESS ITEMS-ACTIONS
Approve January 2021 Hires
A motion was made by Trustee Shackelford and seconded by Trustee Mauroner to approve the January 2021 new hires. The motion passed.
Approve Bid to Paint the High School Gym
No bids were received. For discussion only, no motion was necessary.
Approve Hutchison Smith Architects Fee Proposal to Remodel Old Auditorium and Convert into a Wrestling Room
A motion was made by Trustee Wahlen and seconded by Trustee Blik to approve the fee proposal presented by Hutchison Smith Architects to remodel the old auditorium and convert into a wrestling room. The motion passed.
BUSINESS ITEMS-DISCUSSION
Board Policies for February Review, March Approval
104 – Educational Goals: 205 – Continuous Improvement Plan: 206 – Public Charter Schools 206F1 – Application for Employee Transfer from Public Charter School: 206F2 – Application for Student Transfer from Public Charter School: 207P1 (formerly policy 208) – Public Charter School Petition Procedures:
209 – Enforcement, Renewal and Revocation of Charter and Performance Certificate: 296F1 – Title IX Grievance Procedure: Reporting Form: 296F2 – Title IX Grievance Procedure: Notice Template (Complainant): 296F3 – Title IX Grievance Procedure: Notice Template (Respondent): 296F4 – Title IX Grievance Procedure: Notice Template (Witnesses): 296F5 – Title IX Grievance Procedure: Notice of Delay: 494 – Vaccination Policy: 494F1 – Request for Accommodation: 494F2 – Request for Accommodation: Religious Exemption from Vaccination: 604 – Personnel Standards: 616 – Early Graduation: 658 – Social Studies: 677 – Title I: Parent and Family Engagement Policy: 677.10 – Title I: Parental Involvement: 681.50 – Student Data Privacy and Security: 816 – Disclosure Requirements for Bond and Levy Elections: 870 – Board of Trustees Records:
For review only, no motion is necessary.
FY 21-22 School Calendar
For review only, no motion is necessary.
TRUSTEE INPUT
Trustee Wahlen said it was great to have school sports. The school administrators handled the limitations on attendance due to Covid-19 well for the parents and patrons. He was happy to hear that Larissa Carrillo took 5th place for state wrestling and appreciates the work that the administrators, teachers and students do. He agrees with Mrs. Ward in being thankful that the school remained open for the students to return this year.
Trustee Mauroner agrees with Trustee Wahlen in keeping the school open this year and the students can be with their friends and go to school every day. She appreciates the administrators and teachers and knows that the board was nervous, but made the right decision in moving forward with keeping school open. She enjoys going to school ball games.
Trustee Shackelford said the maintenance and custodian staff are doing a great job. The bathrooms are clean and look good at the middle school. He thanked Mrs. Bradley for working with 4-H in receiving frogs to dissect in her science class.
Trustee Blik is thankful for our teacher’s dedication to our students and they didn’t fight coming back to school. She said Aberdeen is a great place and is happy to be here and thankful that our staff and students are healthy.
Trustee Lowder agrees with everything said and thanks God every day that he lives in Aberdeen.
EXECUTIVE SESSION
At 7:40 p.m., a motion was made by Trustee Blik that the Board of Trustees of School District No. 58 recess from an open meeting into executive session pursuant to Section 67-2345, Idaho Code, in order to discuss Section 67-2345: Subsection b (Consideration of personnel issues) and that following the executive session the Board will reconvene in public session for the purpose of conducting further business or for adjournment of the meeting.
A roll call vote was held with the following results:
Todd Lowder – Yes; Mike Shackelford – Yes; Sherrie Mauroner – Yes; David Wahlen – Yes; and Elaine Blik – Yes. The motion passed.
The Regular session reconvened at 8:55 p.m.
BUSINESS ITEMS – ACTIONS
Approve Administrator’s Contracts
A motion was made by Trustee Shackelford and seconded by Trustee Mauroner to approve rehiring the administrators for the 2021-2022 school year. The motion passed.
ADJOURNMENT
A motion was made by trustee Mauroner and seconded by Trustee Shackelford to adjourn the meeting. The motion passed and the meeting adjourned at 9:00 pm.