MORMON TRAIL COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
Proposed Budget Hearing
April 10, 2017
President Smiarowski called the Budget Hearing to order at 7:19 p.m. in the Humeston Elementary Library. Answering roll call were board members Evans, Lundahl, Funk and Smiarowski. Peasley was absent. There were no members from the community in attendance for the hearing. Funk made a motion to close the meeting and Evans seconded. All present voted in favor and Smiarowski closed the meeting at 7:30 p.m.
MORMON TRAIL COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
REGULAR MEETING
April 10, 2017
President Smiarowski called the regular meeting of the Mormon Trail Board of Directors to order at 7:30 p.m. in the Humeston Elementary Library. Answering roll call were board members Evans, Lundahl, Funk, Peasley and Smiarowski. Superintendent Lorna Paxson, Principal Becky Stripe and Board Secretary Peggy Rash were also present. Principal Hunt was absent. Guests were Brad Krutsinger and Stacie Porterfield. First up, Krutsinger and Porterfield were present to update the Board about the upcoming Senior Trip. Krutsinger also addressed his concerns about overall poor communication and his dislike of the purchase order system. He feels both could be improved upon. Lundahl made a motion to move item #4 on the agenda, the Senior Trip, to item #1 under action items and to approve the agenda as amended. Evans seconded the motion to approve with all present voting aye. Motion carried. Lundahl moved to approve the consent agenda which included the previous meeting’s minutes and one new open enrollment application into the District request for school year 2017-18 and no new open enrollment requests out of the District for 2017-18 that met filing requirements. Funk seconded. Motion carries with all ayes. Funk motioned to approve the Senior Trip. Seniors and their sponsor’s will leave for the Lake of the Ozarks May 4 and return May 7. The motion included the use of the school’s credit card. Lundahl seconded the motion. The motion carried with all ayes. After reviewing the month’s financial reports, Lundahl made a motion to approve. Funk seconded with all present voting aye. Following a brief discussion, Funk motioned to approve the February bills for payment. Evans seconded with all present voting aye. Lundahl made a motion to approve the proposed 2017-18 budget for filing with the Wayne County Auditor. Peasley seconded the motion. Everyone present voted aye in favor of having the Board Secretary file the necessary documents by the April 17 deadline. Lundahl made a motion to approve a one-year contract for the audit team of Faller, Kincheloe & Co, PLC to conduct the District’s yearly audit for fiscal year 2016-17. Funk made the second with all ayes. Motion carries. One other proposal was received from Community CPA, Iowa City. There was no action required concerning participation in the Wayne County Hazard Mitigation Plan; however, Superintendent Paxson told the Board she will represent Mormon Trail April 25th at a meeting at the Wayne County Courthouse where area schools will gather to discuss the plan. Lundahl motioned to approve the District’s 2017-18 calendar. Funk seconded with everyone voting aye. The calendar is posted on the school’s website www.mormontrailcsd.org. Next up for discussion was the Garden Grove construction project that connects the CTE building with the main school. The project is being managed by Shive Hattery who will be in charge of overseeing the construction process and making sure all aspects of the project meet code. Superintendent Paxson told the Board they had a couple different choices. One would be to tear out the previous construction, which did not meet code, and redo everything costing upwards of $45-000-$55,000 to completely redo and finish the project. A second option would be to have someone come in and do all of the main things needed and the school would do the finish work costing somewhat less, around $40,000. Lastly, the board could take the project back to the original non compliant structure at an unknown cost and hopefully buy themselves a little more time to figure it out. Originally, the Board had hoped to spend between $25,000-$35,000 to bring the link up to code. In the end, Funk made a motion to accept the mid range bid of $45,960 from Boyd Construction, Leon IA. Peasley seconded and everyone in attendance was in agreement and cast an aye vote. The construction needs to be completed by the time school starts next fall. The Football and baseball/softball field lighting project is ready to accept bids. May 4th, 2 p.m. has been set for the Board to open bids on the project with a public hearing set prior to the next board meeting at 7 p.m. on May 8th. Superintendent Paxson ask the Board to review Board Policy Code No. 710.4 regarding payment of meals which also addresses negative account balances for purchased meals. Item #10 review and update, as necessary, Board policy code series 710.4 was tabled pending recommendations by Superintendent Paxson in May. The new policy is recommended as part of the recent Administrative Review of the child nutrition programs conducted by the Bureau of Nutrition and Health Services. No action was taken on #11 classified staff wages. This issue will be discussed further at the May board meeting. Administrative reports were given by Principals Becky Stripe and Superintendent Lorna Paxson. Paxson wanted to extend her thanks to Paul Gunzenhauser and Jason Dent for recently grading and leveling out the surface of the Humeston parking lot. Peasley motioned that the meeting be adjourned. Lundahl seconded with all voting in favor of adjournment. Smiarowski closed the meeting at 9:58 p.m. The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Mormon Trail Board of Directors will be held May 8th 2017 @ 7:30 p.m. in the Elementary Library preceded by the Public Hearing for the Football and baseball/softball field lighting project at 7:00 pm.
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President, Board of Education Secretary, Board of Education
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These minutes are written as recorded by the board secretary and subject to approval at the next regular board meeting. Peggy Rash, Board Secretary/Treasurer