School Board approves employee seniority lists
At their Monday, December 15 regular meeting, the Mountain Lake Public School (MLPS) School Board reviewed a letter of commendation from the Minnesota Department of Education’s Commissioner of Education, Dr. Brenda Cassellius, recognizing the school district for making progress toward reducing the achievement gap among students.
Each year, the Flexible Learning Year (FLY) Consortium creates an annual report that is sent to the Minnesota Department of Education. The report highlights student achievement progress among student populations in the district and among consortium schools.
The report also describes various professional development activities conducted by the consortium schools designed to improve classroom instruction.
Seniority lists approved
The school board approved the tentative seniority lists for non-certified staff and certified teachers as presented.
In other business
* Learned that the school district’s 2012-2014 Utility and Street Project assessments have been reduced by $30,579.71, from the first proposed amount of $122,766.76 to $92,187.05.
*Approved the 2014 payable 2015 property tax levy totaling $830,872.74, including a total General Fund Levy of $782,082.07 and a Community Service Levy of $48,790.67.
* Accepted the resignation of McKenzie Hopwood as Junior Varsity Softball Coach.
* Accepted the resignation of Cecilia Trejo as a Special Education Paraprofessional.
* Heard that a public hearing will be scheduled in January 2015 on The World’s Best Workforce. The final version will be approved at the January 2015 regular school board meeting.
* Noted that the school board will meet to pay bills on Tuesday morning, January 20, 2015, at 7:30 a.m. and will meet in the regular school board meeting on Monday evening, January 26, 2015, at 6 p.m.