I. General Business



I. Regular Meeting

A. Roll Call

The Board of Education of Wesclin Community School District # 3, Clinton and St. Clair Counties, Illinois, met in a regular session on Friday, the 18th day of May 2018, at the hour of 5:30 p.m., at the Wesclin High School in said district.

At the above-named time and place there were present the following officers and members of the Board:

Members Present Members Absent

Sandy Padak, President: _______x_______ ______________

Matthew Fridley, Vice President: _______x_______ ______________

Stacy Wellen, Secretary: ______________ _______x_______

Aaron Hoerchler: _______x_______ ______________

Tina Litteken: ______________ _______x_______

Connie Elmore: _______x_______ ______________

Paul Josias: _______x_______ ______________

A quorum of the Board members being present, the president called the meeting to order and declared the Board to be in session for the transaction of business.

Administrators present:

Jennifer Filyaw, Superintendent: ______x______ _____________

John Isenhower: _______x______ _____________

Angi Woll: _______x______ _____________

Roger Freeze: _______x______ _____________

Jamey Rahm: _______x______ _____________

B. Approval of Minutes

Minutes of the previous regular meeting and of the executive session of April 16, 2018 were approved on a motion by Matt Fridley, seconded by Connie Elmore.

Vote: Connie Elmore-aye, Matt Fridley-aye, Aaron Hoerchler-aye, Paul Josias-aye, Sandy Padak-aye.

Motion passes 5-0

C. District Finances

Motion made by Aaron Hoerchler, seconded by Paul Josias to approve The Treasurer's Report and payment of payroll in the amount of $838,833.88 and bills in the amount of $533,741.25.

Vote: Connie Elmore-aye, Matt Fridley-aye, Aaron Hoerchler-aye, Paul Josias-aye, Sandy Padak-aye.

D. Agenda modification

Motion made by Matt Fridley, seconded by Connie Elmore to approve agenda as presented.

Vote: Connie Elmore-aye, Matt Fridley-aye, Aaron Hoerchler-aye, Paul Josias-aye, Sandy Padak-aye.

Motion passes 5-0

E. Superintendent Report

• We have a Chevy Truck that a student is interested in purchasing as well as other school furniture/desks that we are looking to get rid of. The administration will advertise these items for sale.

• Our reading series is very out of date. We have not adopted a series since 2008/2009. The district started reviewing reading curriculum in 2016/2017. The Readygen series seemed to be the most popular with teachers and so we were looking into it more closely with school visitations in Chicago and Fort Zumwalt, as well as teacher meetings for input. We are still finalizing a price on this curriculum. The staff is ready to start implementing. Our curriculum needs to be consistent district wide and currently we are not. All teachers in grades K through 5 will be adapting this new style of curriculum.

F. Principals’ Report – no oral reports were given.

II. Public Comments:

Lindsay Langenfeld – Concerned with how many minutes will be spent with the on reading/writing per day, per week. Wanting to know if the curriculum is available online to look at and review. Wanting to know if there will be English books for the students to have with this curriculum.

 

Kayla Athmer – With struggling readers, how will students transition and how will this curriculum work?

 

Lena McCarthy – How are the teachers liking the new proposed curriculum? Are we looking at hiring teacher to aid in class size reduction? How will students transition with the curriculum?

 

Jeanice Anderson – If teachers are following a certain scope/sequence of teaching and there is success with that, why can’t that teacher keep going with that scope/sequence?

 

Kristen Oster – Concerned about losing creativity with the adoption of the curriculum. We lost a good teacher because the curriculum seems to be very scripted and appearing as we are teaching to the book. The teacher would like more creativity to teaching. Adaptation and flexibility needs to be there in the teaching.

III. Celebration of Success

A. WMS State Track competitors, Gavin Hill and Cale Frisse

B. Larissa Kloeckner and Trenton and New Baden Parent Groups for their Health Awareness programs

C. WMS Academic Award Winners Cameran Haag, Christian Gonzalez, Nevaeh Coleman, Chloe Brede and Kameron Monical

D. Music Department consisting of Rodney Washburn, Pat Bringaze and Amy Page; and all end of year programs

E. New Baden PTO and the Muffin with Mom event

F. Angie Wegman, STEM grant recipient

G. Ellie Wessel, St. Louis Post Dispatch Scholar Athlete

H. Time for Change signage and building improvement donations

IV. Discussion

A. Fees

B. Curriculum – We are looking at adopting an Algebra 1 textbook. We will start looking and adopt the text at the next board meeting.

V. Items Requiring Board of Education Action

A. Final 2017/2018 Calendar

Motion by Aaron Hoerchler, seconded by Matt Fridley to approve the 2017-2018 final calendar.

Vote: Connie Elmore-aye, Matt Fridley-aye, Aaron Hoerchler-aye, Paul Josias-aye, Sandy Padak-aye.

Motion passes 5-0

B. Rice Sullivan School District Auditor

Motion by Matt Fridley, seconded by Paul Josias to approve Rice Sullivan as the school district auditor.

Vote: Connie Elmore-aye, Matt Fridley-aye, Aaron Hoerchler-aye, Paul Josias-aye, Sandy Padak-aye.

Motion passes 5-0

C. Consent Agenda

Motion by Matt Fridley, seconded by Aaron Hoerchler to approve the consent agenda as presented.

Vote: Connie Elmore-aye, Matt Fridley-aye, Aaron Hoerchler-aye, Paul Josias-aye, Sandy Padak-aye.

Motion passes 5-0

1. Retirement:

a. Kay Jackson – Mrs. Jackson is requesting to retire at the conclusion of this school year.

b. Janey McKillip – Mrs. McKillip is requesting to retire at the conclusion of the 2020-2021 school year.

c. Rodney Washburn – Mr. Washburn is requesting to retire at the conclusion of the 2019-2020 school year.

d. Dennis Hermanson – Mr. Hermanson is requesting to retire at the conclusion of the 2020-2021 school year.

e. Tamara Kleinhoffer – Mr. Kleinhoffer is requesting to retire at the conclusion of the 2020-2021 school year.

f. Rita Wuebbels – Mrs. Wuebbels is requesting to retire at the conclusion of the 2020-2021 school year.

g. Matt Fisher – Mr. Fisher is requesting to retire at the conclusion of the 2020-2021 school year.

2. Hires:

a. Eric Wuebbles- middle school cross country coach

b. Clare Sedlacek – middle school cheerleading coach

c. Darci Materkowski – varsity girls’ basketball coach

d. Sara Beer, 2nd Grade Teacher at New Baden Elementary

e. Rehire the following aides that were Reduced in Force: Christine Sohnrey, Lydia Banker, Heidi Angermeier, Renee Holmes, Lisa Middleton

3. Resignation:

a. Katie Mense – Mrs. Mense has resigned her position as a kindergarten teacher in the district.

b. Jessica Lucas – Mrs. Lucas has resigned her position as a special education teacher in the district.

c. Lori Brandmeyer – Mrs. Brandmeyer has resigned her position as an aide in the district.

d. Cassi Brown – Ms. Brown has resigned her position as an aide and as the varsity softball coach in the district.

e. Richard Johns – Mr. Johns has resigned his position as the varsity football coach.

f. Clay Macke – Mr. Macke has resigned his position as a 5th/6th grade basketball coach.

g. Becky Musso – Mrs. Musso has resigned her position as an assistant high school softball coach.

4. Leave of Absence:

a. Emily Weber – Mrs. Weber (6th grade math) is requesting a leave of absence for the 2018-2019 school year.

b. Nicole Wilkins – Mrs. Wilkins is requesting a leave of absence for the 2018-2019 school year.

5. Day Without Pay

a. Katie Mense – Mrs. Mense is requesting May 16 as a day without pay.

D. Closed Session

Motion by Connie Elmore, seconded by Matt Fridley to move into closed session for the purposes of discussing personnel and negotiations. 6:12 p.m.)

Vote: Connie Elmore-aye, Matt Fridley-aye, Aaron Hoerchler-aye, Paul Josias-aye, Sandy Padak-aye.

Motion passes 5-0

Motion by Connie Elmore, seconded by Matt Fridley to return from closed session into the regular meeting. (6:50 p.m.)

Vote: Connie Elmore-aye, Matt Fridley-aye, Aaron Hoerchler-aye, Paul Josias-aye, Sandy Padak-aye.

Motion passes 5-0

VI. Adjournment:

It was moved by Matt Fridley, seconded by Aaron Hoerchler that the meeting be adjourned. Meeting was adjourned at 6:55 p.m.

Vote: Connie Elmore-aye, Matt Fridley-aye, Aaron Hoerchler-aye, Paul Josias-aye, Sandy Padak-aye.

Motion passes 5-0

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President Secretary

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