MONROE - At a meeting on May 11, the Monroe school board:
• Approved the Monroe High School FBLA trip to St. Louis, which was from Thursday to Saturday, May 14 to 16. Six students signed up to go with two advisors. The trip included stops at Edward Jones, Saint Louis University, Monsanto, Anheuser Busch, Busch Stadium and the Gateway Arch. Sherri Hendrickson, one of the advisors, said she wanted the board's approval for the trip because of the planned tour of the Anheuser Busch brewery.
"For some of our kids, they may not have another opportunity to see a world-class business in a huge industry to learn about their marketing, to learn about their sales, to learn what they do, how they make their industry different from the craft industry," she said. "So I think it's an opportunity."
The board members agreed it would be a good opportunity for students, and some indicated that the stop at Monsanto might be more controversial than the stop at the brewery.
• Recognized Kathy King, MHS art teacher, as the winner of the May Lamp of Learning Staff Excellence Award.
• Hired instructional staff: Amanda Graham, Parkside school counselor; Alicia Ziolkowski, MHS counselor; and Lisa Demuth, Northside first grade.
• Accepted resignations by support staff members Brett Ambrose, Northside custodian, and Christine Alston, Parkside aide; and instructional staff members Megan Kearney, Abraham Lincoln Accelerated Learning Academy third grade; Dan Henkel, MHS band director; and Ed Neumann, MHS technology and engineering.
• Chose Summit Fitness as the supplier of the MHS weight room equipment, costing $37,535, and the MHS fitness room equipment, costing $76,995, both to be paid by the PEP grant.
• Purchased 180 Ciara Technology computers from Hypertec at $471 each for a total of $84,780 to be paid from next year's technology budget. The computers will be used to update the middle school. They come with a three-year warranty backed by Hypertec.
• Chose Heartland Business Systems, using Cisco wireless, as the supplier for the elementary wireless project at a cost of about $86,933 to be partially funded by the Colony Brands and Kubly Family Foundation. The rest is already budgeted. Heartland was the supplier for the MMS and MHS wireless systems, which are also Cisco.
• Accepted donations totaling more than $24,000: $1,000 from Donorschoose Donations for Abe Lincoln classroom tables; $5,000 for books and $5,152 for 23 Chromebooks from Abe Lincoln PTO; $500 from the Optimist Club for MMS Special Education field trip; $1,100 from Monroe Arts and Academic Booster Club for MHS Digital Learning Day; $1,000 from Monroe Athletic Booster Club for the MHS golf team; $1,000 from Monroe Arts and Academic Booster Club for MHS PAC Digital Mixer; $4,950 financial commitment from Colony Brands for the community survey launched in early May; $2,500 financial commitment from Monroe Clinic for the community survey; and $1,452 for German Exchange and $798 for Costa Rican Travel from Courthouse Quilters.
• Approved open enrollment requests for 31 students to enter the district and 43 students to leave the district for 2015-16. Seven of the 43 students requesting open enrollment out aren't currently in the Monroe school district. Business Administrator Ron Olson said some out requests come from families that are expecting to move to Monroe but want to keep their kids in their current district.
• Made Prairie Farms the district's milk vendor and Pan-O-Gold the bread vendor for 2015-16.
• Gave final approval for 19 policy revisions, reviews and deletions.
Board members Amy Bazley, Michael Boehme, Bob Erb and Scott Schmidt were absent.
- Susan Endres
• Approved the Monroe High School FBLA trip to St. Louis, which was from Thursday to Saturday, May 14 to 16. Six students signed up to go with two advisors. The trip included stops at Edward Jones, Saint Louis University, Monsanto, Anheuser Busch, Busch Stadium and the Gateway Arch. Sherri Hendrickson, one of the advisors, said she wanted the board's approval for the trip because of the planned tour of the Anheuser Busch brewery.
"For some of our kids, they may not have another opportunity to see a world-class business in a huge industry to learn about their marketing, to learn about their sales, to learn what they do, how they make their industry different from the craft industry," she said. "So I think it's an opportunity."
The board members agreed it would be a good opportunity for students, and some indicated that the stop at Monsanto might be more controversial than the stop at the brewery.
• Recognized Kathy King, MHS art teacher, as the winner of the May Lamp of Learning Staff Excellence Award.
• Hired instructional staff: Amanda Graham, Parkside school counselor; Alicia Ziolkowski, MHS counselor; and Lisa Demuth, Northside first grade.
• Accepted resignations by support staff members Brett Ambrose, Northside custodian, and Christine Alston, Parkside aide; and instructional staff members Megan Kearney, Abraham Lincoln Accelerated Learning Academy third grade; Dan Henkel, MHS band director; and Ed Neumann, MHS technology and engineering.
• Chose Summit Fitness as the supplier of the MHS weight room equipment, costing $37,535, and the MHS fitness room equipment, costing $76,995, both to be paid by the PEP grant.
• Purchased 180 Ciara Technology computers from Hypertec at $471 each for a total of $84,780 to be paid from next year's technology budget. The computers will be used to update the middle school. They come with a three-year warranty backed by Hypertec.
• Chose Heartland Business Systems, using Cisco wireless, as the supplier for the elementary wireless project at a cost of about $86,933 to be partially funded by the Colony Brands and Kubly Family Foundation. The rest is already budgeted. Heartland was the supplier for the MMS and MHS wireless systems, which are also Cisco.
• Accepted donations totaling more than $24,000: $1,000 from Donorschoose Donations for Abe Lincoln classroom tables; $5,000 for books and $5,152 for 23 Chromebooks from Abe Lincoln PTO; $500 from the Optimist Club for MMS Special Education field trip; $1,100 from Monroe Arts and Academic Booster Club for MHS Digital Learning Day; $1,000 from Monroe Athletic Booster Club for the MHS golf team; $1,000 from Monroe Arts and Academic Booster Club for MHS PAC Digital Mixer; $4,950 financial commitment from Colony Brands for the community survey launched in early May; $2,500 financial commitment from Monroe Clinic for the community survey; and $1,452 for German Exchange and $798 for Costa Rican Travel from Courthouse Quilters.
• Approved open enrollment requests for 31 students to enter the district and 43 students to leave the district for 2015-16. Seven of the 43 students requesting open enrollment out aren't currently in the Monroe school district. Business Administrator Ron Olson said some out requests come from families that are expecting to move to Monroe but want to keep their kids in their current district.
• Made Prairie Farms the district's milk vendor and Pan-O-Gold the bread vendor for 2015-16.
• Gave final approval for 19 policy revisions, reviews and deletions.
Board members Amy Bazley, Michael Boehme, Bob Erb and Scott Schmidt were absent.
- Susan Endres