• Superintendent Laura Schuster reported that there are 50 students coming from other school districts to attend classes in Groton, most of them from the Aberdeen School District. She also voiced some concern that 77 students are leaving the school district to attend classes in other school districts. About half of the students leaving the district are from the Bristol area. The widening of the gap between the two numbers is some cause for concern.
• Groton School District business manager Mike Weber presented the final 2012-2013 budget to the school board members during their regular meeting on Monday. The budget has undergone some changes since being published on July 9, 2012.
• Changes to the budget include changing Revenue, General Fund from $3,696,948 to $3,714,180 and total revenue from $6,056,733 to $6,073,965. Expenditures changes include general fund changing from $4,123,227 to $4,175,803; Capital Outlay from $1,132,720 to $1,161,645; Special Ed from $667,301 to $654,057; Enterprise from $336,527 to $336,556 and Total Expenditures from $6,720,825 to $6,789,111.
• The changes will result in an increase in the Special Ed levy, but a decrease on the Capital Outlay levy. Weber was authorized to notify the county auditors of the tax requests.
• Approval was given to hire Gail Kyar as para-professional at the elementary school and Whitney Daly as the OST coordinator. Several work agreement changes were also given approval. Changes were made to agreements with Joann Donley, Bill Duncan, Jill Hansmeier, Becky Lewandowski, Kami Lipp, Kara Paulson, Sherry Raap and Debra Tollifson.
• A list of items from the elementary school was declared as surplus items.
• The meeting moved into the second executive session of the meeting to discuss personnel issues.

• Char Telkamp

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