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Board receives first reads on Neola policy updates and approves employee services report
Summary
Board members heard first readings of Neola policy revisions and compliance-officer updates and approved the employee services report by motion; the policy items will return for approval at a future meeting.
The School District of New Berlin Board of Education received first readings of a set of Neola policy revisions, updates to policies reflecting a change in the district’s compliance officer, and two new human resources policies drafted after board discussion. The items were presented for review and will be considered for approval at a subsequent meeting.
District staff explained that Neola identified 16 policies for revision under the “34-2” update to keep the board’s policy manual legally compliant as laws and regulations change. Administrators said the district is now on an appropriate cadence with Neola and asked board members to submit feedback to staff or Neola before the next meeting.
Staff also said that, because of a personnel change at the director-of-employment-services level, a series of policies must be updated to name Scott Garner in the compliance-officer role instead of the prior designee. Administrators said the policy changes were reviewed with Neola and the district’s legal counsel and will come back to the board for approval.
Two new HR policies — drafted at the board’s request and reviewed by Neola and legal counsel — were presented as first reads; the administration said it will return with those policies for approval on the next agenda.
On a separate, recorded motion the board approved the employee services report as presented. The meeting record shows a motion by Miss Crosby and a second by Mister Zielinski; the motion passed on a voice/hand vote. The consent agenda (minutes approval) was also approved earlier in the meeting (motion by Mister Seidel, second by Mister Helmer).
The policy presentations were informational first reads only; no policy adoptions occurred at the meeting. The board asked staff to bring the marked-up policies back for formal action at the next meeting so the board can consider suggested edits and counsel feedback.
Formal references made during the meeting included a closed-session motion citing Wisconsin statutes for the closed-session authority: “pursuant to section 19.851 c, e, and f of the Wisconsin statutes,” which the board invoked earlier in the session to discuss confidential personnel matters and other listed items.
