Mikkala Hup hired as Elementary Teacher; Lois Herrig named District Secretary
MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC SCHOOL (MLPS) School Board. Front, from left, Board Treasurer Pam Hoek, Board Chair Doug Standerwick, Board Vice-Chair Tim Swoboda and Board Clerk Julie Brugman. Back, from left, Board Directors Chad Pedersen, Tom Fast and Matt Gohr.
At its Monday, June 13 Mountain Lake Public School (MLPS) Special Board Meeting, followed by a Board Work Session, the group’s members made moves to fill staff positions.
Mikkala (Junker) Hup, a graduate of Mountain Lake Public High School, was secured as an Elementary Teacher at BA Step 6, while Lois Herrig was hired as District Secretary, effective immediately, with salary payment per hourly wage through June 30, and beginning July 1, a salary of $37,000 for 2016-2017.
Board Members also approved the resignations of Amberly Hulzebos, Mountain Lake Public Elementary School second-grade teacher and Amanda Korns, a special education paraprofessional. MLPS Board Chair Doug Standerwick thanked the two for their service to the Mountain Lake Public School District.
They also approved a listing of bills for payment. Action was needed to be taken at this meeting because of the way in which board meetings and office schedules unfold for the month of June.
Following this portion of the meeting, a Board Work Session was held, led by Sandy Gundlach, Minnesota School Board Association (MSBA) Director of School Board Services and Kirk Schneidawind, MSBA Executive Director.
The first half of the workshop was to focus on MLPS School Board teamwork self-assessments, identifying school board strengths and noting possible areas of improvement.
Goal-setting was to be the center of attention for the session’s second half. Discussion on this topic was slated to include:
+ Reviewing principals of effective superintendent evaluations.
+ Reviewing and discussing results from the Mountain Lake Planning Document – what the board members consider to be the top three strengths of the school district, the top three problem issues and/or concerns facing the school district and the three things/areas they believe should be the focus of the school district this next year.
+ Developing a working draft of three or four school district goals.
+ Developing two or three school board goals for the coming year.
Gundlach and Schneidawind brought the “draft versions” of the goals back with them in order to develop a working draft document, which will be sent to the school board for review and further development. They will also provide a summary of the meeting.