McKinstry performance energy conservation projects. The District locked in at 0 percent interest on financing the Qualified School Construction Promissory Notes, and with an average interest rate of 3.24% for the General Obligation Promissory Notes. Culmination of both of these financing options will result in a $345,000 savings in interest payments. This would significantly reduce the project cost of this energy improvement.
Board Policy #411.1 – Student Harassment and Policy #512 – Employee Harassment. Changes to both policies were approved.
Board Policy #114 – Harassment – School Board Members, Volunteers, and Other Community Members of the MGSD. Needs more work and will be discussed at a later date.
Preliminary budget shows a deficit of slightly more than $604,000.
Future Agenda Items -- essentially, the Board's "To Do List":
- Status of athletic fields in district and of grading of fields at Glacial Drumlin
- Response to Intervention
- Baldrige Continuous Improvement Process
- List of policies that need revision
- Scheduling of “Big Ideas” meetings and/or listening sessions
- Open Enrollment process
- Suggestions for others
- Limiting the amount of non-academic issues per meeting;
- Gifted and Talented update
- Disproportionality
- School Climate, discipline, study halls, school suspensions
- Budget Session – what we need to do to move forward
- Financial support for academic groups within the school
The Board conducted a variety of other board business, which can be found in the minutes on the district website.
