May 12, 2020 at 6:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

Discussion:  Meeting was called to order by President Olsen at 5:59pm. Olsen directed attention to the Open Meetings Act that was uploaded to Sparq.

Discussion:  Kathy Christensen offered her reasons as to why she felt the school starting a preschool was not a good idea including unknown cost to the district, 2 private preschools in town, COVID-19 concerns, and holding ESU accountable to do their job if that is a problem.

Jill Bauerle extended her thanks to Jon Lechtenberg and his work putting together the video for the senior class.

Later in the meeting Sheila read a letter from Jayne Henry addressed to the board that stated she was against the school starting a preschool because they would be in competition with the 2 private preschools in town.

Discussion:  Mr. Hauxwell announced that the coaching clinic scheduled for June would be postponed to later in July due to COVID-19 and that the all-star games had been cancelled. He extended his congratulations to Alexis Richmond who was selected to serve as the FCCLA State President next school year. He also congratulated her sponsors - Alex Schilke & Sheryl Curtis. He congratulated Jozie Schilke on be selected to serve as the FFA State Vice President for the next school year. He also congratulated her advisors - Jason Speck & Jeremy Vlasin. He noted that certain COVID-19 restrictions would be lifted starting June 1st and that included opening the weight room, but he was still unsure what that would look like for the school. Specialty Installation was planning to come out to the school to check the bleachers in the gym and make sure they were functioning properly.

Discussion:  Mrs. Odens informed the board that they had placed flyers around town encouraging people that were new to the community to stop in and begin registering their kids for the upcoming school year. She stated that they currently have 43 registered for Kindergarten at this time. She stated that the teachers have been working with Mrs. Lambert to look at different curriculum options. She said they will set up time to meet with the curriculum committee to discuss what direction they are leaning.

Mr. Lechtenberg talked about the seniors finishing up and checking out last week. He noted that the graduation ceremony had been postponed, but their was a senior salute on Saturday to honor the graduates. He informed the board of the final days for the other students, as well as the staff. He said that driver's education had begun with classes being done over zoom with the hopes that they would be able to do the driving portion this summer.

Discussion:  Mr. Lambert complimented and praised all those that have helped with the lunch program. The lunch program will continue through June 30th however the current staff will not be helping with the meals starting May 15th so they are looking at different options including a possibility of pickup only one day a week where students would receive 7 meals. Starting June 30th students would have to start eating their meals in the building if we continue the program.

Later in the meeting Mr. Lambert discussed the opportunity of a preschool and what that would look like for the district. He stated that he saw a need due to the diverse population in the community and that the preschool would give all students the opportunity to go to preschool. He stated that he knew Chase County Schools had a favorable chance of receiving a grant, but was unable to give an exact dollar amount. He was able to show a hypothetical scenario of the costs to the district of having a preschool. He showed the first 3 years where the school would be receiving grant money as well as a 4th year when the grant money stopped.

Discussion:  Dallas Baney presented on behalf of the building committee and gave an update on different projects that were to be completed. He stated that Cornhusker Glass will be installing the glass between weightroom and track in June, Larry's Glass was to start next week with the west doors, the metal doors are finished and will be installed by Moul's Construction, the wiring will be run for the rest of the door systems this summer, bids are being received to repair the duct work and stucco damaged in the hail storm, and 2 of the 4 rooms they had on the schedule for the summer have been completed.

The technology committee stated that they are working to assess the need for computers in the future. The new technology coordinator, Jeff Einspahr, had been working to go through current inventory to determine what still worked.

Discussion:  This is based off the "Price Adjustment Calculator" for the 2020-2021 School Year that we use.

Lunch program's recommendation is that we raise K-8 each $0.10 ($2.85) and K-12 breakfast $0.10. ($1.60)

I thought maybe it would help to see last year’s and this proposed year’s prices.

2019-20                    Breakfast                    2020-21
K-12 $1.50                                                   K-12  $1.60
Adult $2.20                                                  Adult  $2.20

2019-20                       Lunch                       2020-21
K-8 $2.75                                                       K-8  $2.85
9-12 $3.00                                                    9-12  $3.00
Adult $3.75                                                  Adult  $3.75
Cruisin Café $4.35                          Cruisin Café   $4.35
Adult Café $4.85                                  Adult Café $4.85

Other Items Proposed Cost
**Extra Lunch Entrée $1.75 
**Extra Branded Pizza $1.85
**Fruit & Vegitable Bar Only $1.80

Discussion:  Meeting was adjourned by President Olsen at 8:05pm.