Special School Board Minutes
Wabasso , Minnesota September 10, 2007
The Special meeting of the School Board of Independent School District
#640 was held on
Chairperson Leon Plaetz called the
meeting to order with all members present except Dan Dahl. Also present were Superintendent Ted Suss and
visitor Raymond Rivera.
Orlean
Stage made and Margaret Wambeke seconded a motion to adopt the agenda as
amended. Motion carried unanimously.
Caroline Netzke
moved and Nick Welu seconded the motion to approve the minutes of the Regular
Board meeting on
Member Margaret Wambeke
introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION RELATING TO INCREASING THE GENERAL EDUCATION REVENUE OF THE
BE IT
RESOLVED by the School Board of Independent School District No. 0640, State of
1.
The Board hereby determines and declares that it is
necessary and expedient for the school district to increase its general
education revenue by $500 per resident marginal cost pupil unit. As provided by law, the ballot question must
abbreviate the term “per resident marginal cost pupil unit” as “per pupil.” The additional revenue will be used to
finance school operations and the property tax portion thereof will require an
estimated referendum tax rate of approximately 0.137334 % of the
referendum market value of the school district for taxes payable in 2008, the
first year it is to be levied. The
proposed referendum revenue authorization would be applicable for 10 years
unless otherwise revoked or reduced as provided by law.
2.
The question of increasing the general education
revenue of the school district shall be submitted to the qualified electors of
the district at a special election, which is hereby called and directed to be
held on Tuesday, the 6th day of November, 2007, between the hours of
3.
Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 205A.11, the
school district combined polling places and precincts served by those polling
places, as previously established and designated by school board resolution for
school district election not held on the day of a statewide election, are
hereby designated for this special election.
4.
The clerk is hereby authorized and directed to cause
written notice of said special election to be provided to the county auditor of
each county in which the school district is located, in whole or in part, and
to the Commissioner of Education at least fifty-three (53) days before the date
of said election. The notice shall
specify the date of said special election and the title and language or each
ballot question to be voted on at said special election.
The clerk is hereby authorized and directed to cause notice of said
special election to be posted at the administrative offices of the school
district at least ten (10) days before the date of said special election.
The clerk is hereby authorized and directed to cause a sample ballot to
be posted at the administrative offices of the school district at least four
(4) days before the date of said special election and to cause a sample ballot
to be posted in each polling place on Election Day. The sample ballot shall not be printed on the
same color paper as the official ballot.
The clerk is hereby authorized and directed to cause notice of said
special election to be published in the official newspaper of the district, for
two (2) consecutive weeks with the last publication being at least one (1) week
before the date of the election.
The notice of the election so posted and published shall state the
question to be submitted to the voters as set forth in the form of ballot
below, and shall include information concerning each established precinct and
polling place.
The clerk is hereby authorized and directed to cause a notice of the
election to be mailed by first class mail to each taxpayer in the district at
least fifteen (15) but no more than thirty (30) days prior to the date of the
special election. The notice shall
contain the required projections and the required statement specified in
Minnesota Statutes, Section 126C.17, Subdivision 9, paragraph (b). The clerk is also directed to cause a copy of
this notice to be submitted to the Commissioner of Education and to the county
auditor of each county in which the school district is located in whole or in
part at least fifteen (15) days prior to the day of the election.
The clerk is authorized and directed to acquire and distribute such
election materials and to take such other actions as may be necessary for the
proper conduct of this special election and generally to cooperate with
election authorities conducting other elections on that date.
5.
The clerk is further authorized and directed to
cooperate with the proper election officials to cause ballots to be prepared
for use at said election in substantially the following form, with such changes
in form and instructions as may be necessary to accommodate the use of an
optical voting system:
INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 640
WABASSO
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
SPECIAL
ELECTION
_______________________________________________________________
To vote
for a question, put an (X) in the square next to the word “YES” for that
question.
To vote
against a question, put an (X) in the square next to the word “NO” for that
question.
____________________________________________________________________________
APPROVAL
OF
REFERENDUM
REVENUE AUTHORIZATION.
The board
of Independent School District No. 640 Wabasso Public Schools has proposed to
increase its general education revenue by $500 per pupil. The proposed referendum revenue authorization
would be applicable for 10 year unless otherwise revoked or reduced as provided
by law.
YES
Shall the increase
in the revenue proposed by the board of
Independent
School District No. 640 be approved?
NO
BY VOTING “YES” ON THIS BALLOT
QUESTION,
YOU ARE
VOTING FOR A PROPERTY TAX INCREASE.
Voting instructions must be printed at the top of the ballot on each side that includes ballot information. The instructions must include an illustration of the proper mark to be used to indicate a vote. Lines for initials of at least two election judges must be printed on one side of the ballot so that the judges’ initials are visible when the ballots are enclosed in a secrecy sleeve.
6.
If the school district will be contracting to print
the ballots for this special election, the clerk is hereby authorized and
directed to prepare instructions to the printer for layout of the ballot. Before a contract exceeding $1,000 is awarded
for printing ballots, the printer shall furnish, in accordance with Minnesota
Statutes, Section 204D.04, a sufficient bond, letter of credit, or certified
check acceptable to the clerk in an amount not less than $1,000 conditioned on
printing the ballots in conformity with the
7.
The following
individuals, each of whom is qualified to serve as an election judge, are
hereby appointed as judges of election, to act as such at the respective
polling places or combined polling places listed below:
Polling
Place Election
Judges
Wabasso
Public School Marilyn Davis,
Dan Barnum, Glendon Dahmes,
Steve Prokosch
Vesta
City Hall Marilyn Kletscher, Floyd Kotval, Eleanor Paluck, Ardyce Alexander
Lucan City Hall Nancy
Plaetz, Mary Ann Kramer, Annette Rohlik
Wanda
City Hall Jean
Jensen, Lorraine Jenniges; Ida Eichten, Pam Vogel
The election judges shall act as
clerks of election, count the ballots cast and submit the results to the school
board for canvass in the manner provided for other school district elections.
The motion for the adoption of the
foregoing resolution was duly seconded by
Caroline Netzke and upon vote
being taken thereon the following voted in favor thereof: Margaret Wambeke,
Barb Hoffman, Caroline Netzke, Leon Plaetz, Orlean Stage, Nick Welu,
and the following voted against
the same: None.
Whereupon said resolution was declared duly
passed and adopted.
Motion
made by Nick Welu and seconded by Orlean Stage to hire Valerie Wyffels as a paraprofessional to fill a vacancy and be
placed on the current salary schedule at Step 1 of the AFSCME union contract
. Motion carried unanimously.
Chairperson Leon
Plaetz adjourned the meeting at 7:30 p.m.
Respectfully
submitted,
Nick Welu,
Clerk
Leon
Plaetz, Chairperson