Zanatta presented the BGMEA initial package, costing and responded to a few questions.

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1 B.G.M. Community School District Negotiation Committee Meeting BGM Secondary School Library 1090 Jackson Street Brooklyn, IA :00 PM January 14, 2015 The meeting began at 6:00 pm with BGMEA Chief Negotiator Craig Zanatta, addressing those in attendance. Board Members present were Ed Kline and Laurie Jansen. Others present were BGMEA team members Rhonda Jack and Rick Crosson. Also in attendance were Lisa Ehresmann, Steve Alig, Katy Calkins, Sara Woolery, Colin Gisel, Neal Van Ersvelde and Supt. Hohensee, Acting Secretary. Zanatta presented the BGMEA initial package, costing and responded to a few questions. The meeting adjourned at 6:15 pm. Ed Kline, Board President Brad Hohensee, Acting Secretary B.G.M. Community School District Negotiation Committee Meeting BGM Secondary School Library 1090 Jackson Street Brooklyn, IA :29 PM January 14, 2015 The meeting began at 6:29 pm with BGM Chief Negotiator, Supt. Hohensee addressing those in attendance. Board Member present was Ed Kline and Laurie Jansen. Others present were BGMEA team members Craig Zanatta, Rhonad Jack and Rick Crosson. Also in attendance were Lisa Ehresmann, Steve Alig, Katy Calkins, Sara Woolery, Colin Gisel and Neal Van Ersvelde. Supt. Hohensee presented the BGM initial package, costing and responded to a few questions. The meeting adjourned at 6:41 pm. Ed Kline, Board President Brad Hohensee, Acting Secretary

2 January 14, 2015 The regular board meeting of the Brooklyn-Guernsey-Malcom Community School District was called to order by President Kline at 7:00 pm. Roll call resulted in Directors Pendarvis, Kline, Jansen, Hanlon, Minnaert, and Ford, as being present, absent Director Horrigan, a quorum was declared. Also present were Supt. Hohensee, Principal Radcliffe, Principal Sherwood, J.O. Parker, Colin Gisel, Katy Calkins, Steve Alig, Josh Lakose, Kim Pendarvis and Secretary Schott. Ford read the Mission Statement. Kline gave the President s address. Pendarvis moved to adopt the agenda as presented; adopt consent agenda; approve minutes; approve claims and accounts (Horrigan & Minnaert); approve budget and financial reports; approve facility use requests as presented; approve open enrollment applications ; approve resignations Patty Patten Co-Part Time Cook; Tami Tish Part Time Cook; approve employment Michelle East - Part Time Cook; seconded by Jansen, motion carried unanimously. Ford moved to approve the review of Section 200 of the Board Policy Manual; seconded by Minnaert; motion carried unanimously. The President of the Board called up for consideration the Resolution to Consider Continued Participation in the Instructional Support Program which requires that a public hearing be held on this proposal. Director Minnaert introduced the following Resolution and moved its adoption. Director Ford seconded the motion to adopt. The roll was called and the vote was: AYES: Kline, Pendarvis, Ford, Hanlon, Jansen, and Minnaert NAYS: None Absent and not voting: Horrigan The President declared the Resolution adopted as follows: RESOLUTION TO CONSIDER CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN THE INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT PROGRAM

3 WHEREAS, The Board of Directors has approved a five (5) year finance plan, which anticipates the level of funding that will be possible to continue the current level of services and to fund the ongoing programs of the School District; and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors wishes to consider Continued participation in the Instructional Support Program as provided in Iowa Codes sections through ; and WHEREAS, the authorization for the Instructional Support Program will expire on June 30, 2016; and WHEREAS, this resolution sets forth the proposal of the Board of Directors, including the method that will be used to fund the program; and WHEREAS, notice of the time and place of a public hearing must be published: NOW, THEREFORE, it is resolved: 1. The Board of Directors wishes to consider continued participation in the Instructional Support Program as provided in Iowa Code Sections through , for a period of five (5) years, commencing the fiscal year ending June 30, The additional funding for the Instructional Support Program for a budget year shall be determined annually, and shall not exceed ten percent (10%) of the total regular program district cost for the budget year and moneys received under Iowa Code section as a budget adjustment for the budget year. 3. Moneys received by the District for the Instructional Support Program may be used for any general fund purpose. 4. The Instructional Support Program shall be funded by instructional support state aid and a combination instructional support property tax levied annually upon the taxable property within the School District commencing with the levy of property taxes for collection in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, and if imposing income surtax and instructional support income surtax imposed annually, the percent of income surtax to be determined by the Board for each budget year to be imposed upon the state individual income tax of each individual income taxpayer resident in the School District on December 31, 2016, and each year thereafter. 5. The Secretary is authorized and directed to give notice of a public hearing to be held in the High School Library, BGM Community School District, Brooklyn, Iowa on February 11, 2015, 7:00 o clock P.M. 6. Following the public hearing the Board intends to take action on the question whether to consider continued participation in the Instructional Support Program.

4 PASSED AND APPROVED THIS 14 TH DAY OF JANUARY, ATTEST: President Secretary Discussion ensued on the mowing bids submitted. There were two bids submitted one from Houghton Landscaping and one from Lakose Services. One was a two year bid and one was a one year bid. One included spraying and one did not. Ford moved to approve the bid from Lakose Services for $ per mowing for the 2015 year. No second was given. Ford moved to table the item until next month giving each provider the chance to change their bids to match the same services and for the same time frame; seconded by Minnaert; motion carried unanimously. Mr. Hohensee stated that the process for the school calendar has been started. There will be a few versions to place in the staff lounges for their comments. One will have an early start date, in case we do get a waiver, the other one will have the mandatory August 31 st start date. This will depend if the legislature makes any changes to the law. There is talk of one or two bills being introduced. One would eliminate the language for the start date and leave it up to the individual school district, the other one will state the first Monday after the end of the State Fair. Mr. Hohensee presented the Voluntary Early Retirement Plan that has two major changes from last year. One change is the timeline of offering to the teachers. They would be offered the Early Retirement a total of four times before they could no longer take it. The second change is the deadline which is January 30 th. Jansen moved to approve the Voluntary Early Retirement Plan as presented; seconded by Hanlon; motion carried unanimously. Ford moved to approve the Grades 3-6 Special Education students to attend Camp Courageous; seconded by Minnaert; motion carried unanimously.

5 Mr. Hohensee stated his Board report. The 2015 Legislative Overview- This year will be very interesting to see if State Supplemental Aid (SSA) to schools will be set in the first months of the session. It is almost a year late in being set by our legislature. During the Condition of the State Address today by Governor Branstad, he stated that education is a priority, but he is only recommending a 1.25% SSA for the 2016 school year and a 2.45% SSA for the 2017 school year. The State has over $1 Billion dollars in state reserves. This shows his commitment to Education. With the SSA of 1.25%, this would create that 48% of the schools will be eligible for a budget guarantee. This is funded entirely by local property taxes. This is just the recommendation from the Governor to the Legislature. They don t have to accept this budget. It is extremely time consuming to try and do budgeting with no direction from the state. We have a budget workshop set for February 6 th. Not knowing SSA has already created a lot more work in calculating budgeting issues for next year. We will have to a worst case scenario for the budget. Once the budget is published it can always come down but the amounts cannot go up. It would be the best interest that everyone contacts their Senators and Representatives and tell them your views on the state funding and support of our schools. The School start date is another issue. Mr. Hohensee has heard that a bill will be introduced and has support to be passed to do away with the law setting the start date. There has also been talk of another bill that will state the start date is the first Monday after the end of the State Fair. We will have to wait to see what happens here as well. Enclosed with the written report is the Food Inspection Report. GREAT JOB KITCHEN STAFF!! Budget requisitions are beginning. The equipment requests will be on the agenda for your approval in February. Textbooks/Workbooks will be on agenda in March. Supplies will be on the agenda in April. School Board In-Service at Carnforth Inn, the date has been set for January 29 th at 6:00 pm. We will need to know if you would like to attend this legislative in-service please contact either Sharon or Brad. The Second Mile donated an additional $ to the school to help provide school supplies and meet other needs for disadvantaged students. This organization has already donated $ to the school earlier in the year. First and second open sessions for negotiations were held on Wednesday, January 14 th at 6:00 pm. No date for the next meeting has been set at this time. The School calendar will be changed. We will have school on January 19 th. If we have another snow day before February 16 th, that day will be made up on February 16 th. Any additional days of school missed due to the weather, will be made up at the end of the school year.

6 Mr. Hohensee handed out to the Board the description, fundraisers and the goals of the SADD (Students against Destructive Decisions) club has done since its recent reformation. Kline wanted to know how the notification system was working. Mr. Hohensee stated that on the first notification, the system was pulling all the emergency contact people listed in our JMC data bank. This did not go well. Some people that were contacted were from 6 years ago. This has been changed. The contacts are now just the first 2 contacts. It worked better the 2 nd and 3 rd time that it was used. Mr. Radcliffe presented his written report. The second semester started on January 5 th. With the weather being uncooperative, we have extended the drop and add period until Friday, Jan. 8 th. The secondary staff will start to do a deeper unpacking of the Iowa Core Standards. This will allow them to dig deeper and continue the improvement of their lessons. I will also be having the staff do an analysis of the Depths of Knowledge to look at the rigor of their activities and assignments in class. Mr. Radcliffe has been busy preparing for the NAEP assessment for our 8 th grade students on February 25, Mr. Radcliffe will be sending in the bar codes for the Iowa Assessments which will be given the week of February 9, 2015 for grades Mr. Radcliffe will be attending a special education meeting to discuss meeting the needs of Level 3 students in the Southern part of AEA 267. This will be a joint meeting between Montezuma, BGM and Grinnell Newburg on the programming for Level III Students. These are hard to find, and possibly with a consortium more services can be found for these students. Mrs. Sherwood presented her Elementary news report. A Mid-year district-wide assessment is coming up in the next few weeks. MAP testing for grades K-6 will be given during the weeks of January 12 th and 19 th in the areas of reading and math. The FAST assessments will be given for grades K-3 for early reading skills. If students have not met the benchmarks for two consecutive testing periods, parents will be notified and a collaborative plan will be created to meet the needs for the student. This is part of the legislative requirements involved with the ELI (Early Literacy Implementation). An copy of the letter being sent to parents explaining this law from the Iowa Department of Education was given to the Board. The focus for the elementary PLC time during Wednesday early outs for the next few months will be working on curriculum mapping in literacy which includes developing high quality units that are aligned to the rigor of Iowa Core, aligned horizontally and vertically, and prepare students to be college and career ready. Character Counts focus for January is the pillar of responsibility. Classroom activities will include goal setting as a class and as individuals. Teachers will be incorporating Learning

7 Targets for students to begin lessons so purpose of learning and lesson are clear to both the teacher and the students and related to how everyone can reach intended goals. Mrs. Sherwood, along with Mr. Radcliffe, is continuing to attend the PLN (Professional Learning Network) classes through AEA 267 for their professional growth. They meet once a month to discuss school improvement. They also came for a site visit and observed classrooms before Christmas break and provided feedback to help us in our school improvement efforts. Jansen wanted to know if the feedback was useful. Some of it was and some wasn t. It helped to guide the administrator. Mr. Radcliffe stated that it was a different look at things. This provided us with seeing things differently. Mrs. Sherwood stated that the networking was beneficial. Jansen moved to go into closed session under Iowa Code section (3), Discussion on Negotiating Strategies with a Collective Bargaining Unit; seconded by Minnaert; Aye: Minnaert, Kline, Hanlon, Jansen, Ford, Pendarvis Nay: None Absent and not voting: Horrigan We went into closed session at 7:45 pm. The Board came out of closed session at 8:20 pm. The next regular meeting is Wednesday, February 7:00 pm. Pendarvis moved to adjourn, seconded by Jansen, motion carried unanimously adjourned at 8:23 pm. Edward Kline, President Sharon Schott, Secretary