Action of the School Board Action of the School Board 01/09/17 | Page 2

Other Post-Retirement Benefit( OPEB) investments report

Merle Waters, CFA, senior vice president and senior investment strategist for Wells Fargo, provided the annual report regarding the district’ s OPEB trust investment portfolio.

Anoka-Hennepin created an OPEB trust in 2009 as a strategy to ensure future post-retirement obligations are satisfied. The School Board monitors performance and reviews forecasts to ensure targets are achieved for the trust.

Elementary and secondary

Special education audit

Cory McIntyre, executive director of student services, and Kim Gibbons, Ph. D., associate director of the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement at the University of Minnesota, presented the first set of results of a comprehensive audit on Anoka-Hennepin’ s special education program.

The purpose of the audit is to provide the district with information to help prioritize, plan and implement special education services that align with best practices and needs of students. The audit is ongoing, and is being conducted under the framework of the district’ s continuous improvement model.

The first set of audit results looked at the River Trail Learning Center( RTLC), district office, staffing, developmental cognitive disability programming and autism spectrum disorder programming.

Gibbons said the program showed strengths in a number of areas, including consensus on vision, staff morale, supportive of individual staff development, well-proportioned resources and support to teaching and learning.

There were a number of specific recommendations made as well, including short- and long-term adjustments in the areas of staffing, professional development, communication, academic outcomes and continuum of services.

There will be at least three more findings reviews as the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement works to complete the audit in the coming months, McIntyre said.

General counsel

Approval of master agreement with the Anoka-Hennepin Paraeducator Association

Nicole Tuescher, executive director of human resources, presented an agreement between the district and the Anoka-Hennepin Paraeducator Association regarding terms and conditions of employment through June 2018. The contract was negotiated within budget authority and approved on a unanimous vote.

Approval of the superintendent’ s contract

Tuescher also presented an agreement between the district and Superintendent David Law on a new contract to run through June 2020. The contract calls for an annual salary of $ 194,000 with potential annual increases of 2 percent contingent upon satisfactory performance as determined by a majority of School Board members. An additional 15 percent as performance pay based on the district’ s review of goals and objectives accomplished. The contract was approved on a unanimous vote.

Consent agenda

The School Board approved all items:

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