Board approves consent agenda, policy second reads, handbooks, ice-arena contract and superintendent contract
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Summary
In a series of voice votes, the Chisago Lakes School District Board approved the consent agenda, second readings of multiple policies, handbook updates, an ice-arena contract with higher rates, and a three-year superintendent contract; the board also authorized submission of the facility review-and-comment to the state.
The Chisago Lakes School District Board voted on multiple routine and contract items during its meeting, approving the consent agenda, several policy second readings, handbook updates, a revised ice-arena contract and a three-year employment contract for Superintendent Brian (last name not specified).
The consent agenda, which included claims and accounts, personnel actions and past meeting minutes, passed on a voice vote after a motion and second. The board then approved second readings on policies numbered 102, 214, 401, 402, 406, 410, 413, 506 and 806; a motion and second carried the item on a voice vote.
The board approved annual handbook updates for elementary and secondary levels; staff said changes were generally small and reflected recent legislative adjustments such as language-access provisions, drinking-water information and electronic-device rules.
The board approved a new ice-arena contract that raises several user rates: practice rates by $5 per hour, game rates by $50 per game, sectional rates by $50 per game and spring-break rates by $6 per hour, as presented. The board discussed that the new rates were checked against regional averages and that legal counsel had reviewed contract language. The transcript records a reduction in a parking-lot item from "$3,500 to $17.50" as presented; the board noted the district leases the parking lot.
The board approved a three-year superintendent contract after remarks from the chair praising the superintendent's leadership; the chair said the superintendent had asked that his total package not exceed recently settled employee groups. The motion to accept the superintendent's contract passed on a voice vote.
Earlier in the meeting the board also authorized consultant Nexus to submit the district's review-and-comment package to the Department of Education to keep bond planning on the state's schedule; that authorization passed by voice vote.
All motions recorded in the transcript passed by voice vote; the transcript does not include roll-call tallies for these items.
