The International Falls School Board on Monday is expected to receive two petitions in support of the hire of Ross Johnson as an assistant hockey coach.

The petition is expected to be presented at the board’s regular meeting, which is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. at the Falls High School cafeteria.

An agenda is considered tentative until the government body begins the meeting and makes additions or deletions to the proposed agenda.

Sources say that Johnson, who served as assistant coach for the Broncos for the first time last season, was told earlier this summer by Independent School District 361 administration that he would not be recommended to the position for the upcoming season.

The driving force behind the administration’s decision is a YouTube video that features Johnson partying and drinking alcohol with others.

At last month’s meeting, it was expressed that Johnson was of the legal drinking age and was not serving as a coach when the video was made and that administration was alerted to the video halfway through the 2011-12 season.

The petitions are expected to come from residents and students of the school district.

In other meeting business, the board is expected to discuss and potentially act on a memorandum of understanding with the teachers’ union, Education Minnesota International Falls Local 331. The action includes an agreement on the district’s Quality Compensation Program, in which teachers are compensated for raising student standardized test scores. Discussion about the overall teacher contract is also expected to take place.

Ongoing negotiations between the district and the union since summer of 2011 have left the teachers working under a contract created in 2009. Teacher contracts are typically renewed every two years.

The board is expected to vote on the addition of a first-grade section for the remainder of the 2012-13 school year and to consider $1,500 in funding for maintenance and repair of Scheela Field. Also on the agenda is action on the revised graduation policy and the district’s chain of command document.

Superintendent Nordy Nelson is scheduled to give an update on the Falls High School swimming pool, which was closed shortly after its reopening in July because of tiles coming out of place at the bottom of the pool.

The meeting will end with a closed negotiation session with Local 331 and Local 510, the secretaries’, custodians’ and food service staff’s union.