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After that they had two other first readings of policy changes, the IL testing program and the revision of the job description of the technology administrator. (Supt. Johnson noted that Matt Schrank has done a heck of a job in that position, especially considering that it’s been on the job training for him since he took it over.)
The board had second readings of revisions to the teacher job descriptions and special education director job descriptions, both of which were voted to be made. (It should also be noted that board member Ruth Sarar had several grammatical and editorial fixes to these policy changes along the way that the board adopted, and Nordstrom and Johnson both expressed gratitude for her knowledge and skills.)
Now the board was ready to move onto administrative reports. First, they briefly discussed a new item to be added to these monthly reports, a school finance accountability report. This, as well as a fund balance sheet during the consent agenda, will be in the board members’ monthly packet, just another way to make sure every dollar is accounted for. These items came as recommendations from the annual audit and have been shown to be good preventative measures against fraud and financial maleficence.
Next, the student count was discussed. The student count was projected to be 488 students this year, but happily it was higher at 496 students.
Supt. Johnson also reported that before Haarsma Construction left town, they used the asphalt millings they made to pave over the land that was formerly occupied by the Dragonland Daycare building. They made the offer at an extremely discounted price and the school as happy to have the work done. As of right now, the area has been used as two rows of additional parking and it came in extremely handy during the roof repairs that happened during homecoming week. Supt. Johnson wanted to note this to the board and the public, because even though Haarsma Const. had upset a great many people in Garretson due to the city street project, they did do a nice thing for the Garretson School District.
Supt. Johson told the board that the roof project repairs were done. He also informed the board that the school’s freezer has also been repaired once again. Readers will recall that the condenser on the school’s freezer blew out recently, and this year the compressor did likewise. But in both cases the food was able to be saved before spoilage. This time the football team came to the rescue.
“Did they volunteer or were they volun-told?” asked Board President Nordstrom.
“We actually paid them for helping to load the food stores into a refrigerated truck,” said Supt. Johnson.
“When they heard there was money involved we had no problem getting as many volunteers as we needed, and it worked out well,” said football head coach and HS principal Chris Long.”
“Bottom line, we couldn’t have done it without them,” said Johnson. “It was a very labor intense and time sensitive issue that could have cost the district thousands in replacing spoiled food, but they came to the rescue.”
The board had an executive session at the conclusion of the meeting to discuss a personnel issue, but there is no information at this time if any motions resulted from that closed session.
