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MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE SCHOOL BOARD OF ORONO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 278 HELD ON SEPTEMBER 22, 1986 The regular meeting of the School Board of Orono Independent School District No. 278 was held on Monday, September 22, 1986. Present: Dave McKown James Franklin Thomas Mich Don Anderson John Maresh William Fenholt Kitty Crosby Lucie Taylor Don Anderson requested that the agenda item regarding van bids be removed from the Consent Agenda for discussion purposes. UPON MOTION by Jim Franklin, seconded by Don Anderson, the consent agenda was approved as follows: - approved the minutes of the September 8, 1986 regular meeting; - approved the appointment of Al Kreb as assistant football coach; of Steve Boylan as assistant football coach; of Lowell Seashore as head soccer coach - boys; of Brad Carlson as assistant soccer coach - boys; of Jim Krueger as assistant soccer coach - boys; of Francis Eisinger as assistant soccer coach - girls; of Debra Lynch as assistant volleyball coach; of Denise inreis as assistant volleyball coach; - approve. variance requests for the following students to attend Orono Schools: Tammy Lentz and Jayne Gahlhar; - approved variance requests for Jennifer Johnsrud to attend Bloomington Schools; for Christopher Larsen to attend Osseo Schools; - the Board of Education declared its intention to develop projects which expand and improve the educational programs of the District, and said Board authorized Dr. Thomas B. Mich, Superintendent of Schools or his designee, to execute and file application for and in behalf of the school district, and otherwise to act as its authorized representative in State and federally funded programs and the Board declared its intention to comply with all of the requirements set forth in the "Applicant Statement of Assurances"; - approved the bills as covered by vouchers 052484 through 052640. Don Anderson expressed concern as to the necessity of inclusion of certain spe- cifications for the eight -passenger vans. Jim Franklin stated that, in his estimation, the specifications are written in such a way that will limit the dealers who will be able to bid. Bill Fenholt explained that the District has the prerogative to allow reasonable deviation from the specifications and that notification will be sent to all dealers that would be affected by these specifics/deviations. UPON MOTION by Don Anderson, seconded by Jim Franklin, the Board authorized Bill Fenholt to proceed with the specifications as written with the understanding that two Board members will review the bids for acceptance. Dr. Mich welcomed the high scl— of students from Sue Sjeklocha's "Contemporduy Issues" class to the Board meettnq and also expressed thanks to Kent Winter, Pat Headley and Dave Gorder for the keyboard presentation to the Board earlier in the evening.