Thursday evening the Gladbrook-Reinbeck School Board approved increasing

administrative salaries. Supt. Tim Kuehl will receive$110,000 and

Principal Bill Parker will receive $90,000. Kuehl will be reimbursed for

his monthly Blackberry data plan and Parker was offered the same. Kuehl

was allowed to carryover vacation days to a maximum of 30 days and Parker

will get two additional personal days, from 4 to 6. Both Kuehl and Parker

were offered the HSA health insurance plan with a donation made toward

deductibility.

PCI made an offer of $4,000 to purchase the bus lot in Reinbeck and will

donate an additional $13,000 to the school.

The district will receive one-time stimulus money from the federal

government and Kuehl told how G-R can make the best use of the funds. Some

of the money will go toward Title 1 and special education.

The 2008-09 budget was amended to show a decrease of $30,000 in Total

Support Services due to less expenditures than anticipated, increasing

Non- instructional Programs by $30,000 due to greater expenditures, and

increasing Total Other Expenditures by $28,500 due to increased expenses

in capital projects expenses in FY09.

There will be changes in the high school handbooks next fall that pertain

to students participating in school activities needing to be present in

school for the entire day of the activity. Only under extraordinary

circumstances will this be waived. The other change pertains to students

using cell phones during school hours without permission.

On a 1st offense students will lose the phone until the end of the day and

serve a detention in the room where offense occurred. On the 2nd offense,

students will lose the phone until a parent picks it up and will serve a

detention in the room where offense occurred. The 3rd and other offenses

will be at the discretion of the principal.

New course offerings at the high school for 2009-10 will be: Math for

Liberal Arts, Exploring Physical Science, Psychology, Intro to Engineering

Design, Principles of Agronomy, Principles of Horticulture, Survey of the

Animal Industry and Natural Resources and the Environment. All are dual

credit courses that will be taught at the high school with own staff.

Nathan Wrage was hired as custodian at the Gladbrook campus, starting at

$12.25/hour.

Bus driver contracts for special education contracts were approved for

Deanna Spear driving to Dysart and Mark Bystricky driving to Devonshire.

They will both receive $27.14/trip. Karen Bassett will drive to River

Hills and will receive $44.40/trip.

The new head girls basketball coach will be Bruce Bailey. His salary will

be $4,257. Middle School volleyball coach will be Michelle Keller, her

salary being $1,330.

The resignation of Brynna Hemseth, high school social studies was accepted.

The district will pay gas and motel room for Angela Wrage and her mother,

Jennifer, to attend the Future Problem Solvers International competition

in Michigan.

Chris Frischmeyer reported to the board that they did get the $300,000

USDA loan at zero interest for the GR Daycare in Reinbeck. The district

will start payments the 3rd year as payments are waived the first two

years. The bid came in less than the anticipated $600,000 and will include

a safe room.

Mandy Gehring presented a revised budget for the Gladbrook Daycare and

said they are still working with the city on financing. She said there are

17 4-year olds and 9 3-year olds signed up for next years preschool

class. Kuehl has been talking with Piper Jeffries, bonding attorney,

regarding the schools portion of the daycare funding and want to combine

it with financing for the concession stand at the football field.

Gladbrook-Reinbeck and North Tama will share a junior high wrestling

program next year, as well as the high school program.

A contract with Timberline Billing Services for Medicaid reimbursements

was approved.

Principal Mike Studts reported another successful blood drive for the

National Honor Society. They were able to produce over 50 units of blood

which was above their goal.

Principal Parker said summer school letters were sent out to 61 students

(32 students at Reinbeck and 29 students at Gladbrook).Summer school will

be held June 29 – July 17. Sarah Block and Diane Staker will be the summer

school teachers in Reinbeck while Lindsay Erickson and Lyn Purvis will

teach summer school in Gladbrook.

Darin King, Val Ehlers and Supt. Kuehl plan to attend the IASB District

Meeting in Cedar Rapids on June 16th.

Board members were given the 2010 Legislative Priorities and are to select

their top five priorities and have them ready for the June 3rd work

session. The work session will be held in Gladbrook, starting at 7 p.m.

A picnic will be held at the park in Lincoln on June 5th for all employees

of the district, at 1 p.m. to commemorate the 20-year anniversary of G-R.

The next regular board meeting will be Thursday, June 18, 7 p.m., in

Gladbrook.