November 14, 2017 at 6:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

Jill Bauerle wanted to say thank you to our Activity Director for his constant support.

Todd Westover, Alt. Ed. Instructor, gave an overview of his program, highlighting the alternative education program includes credit recovery, career preparation courses, foreign language, ACT test prep and elective courses. In summary, Westover said currently at CCS he has 63 students enrolled in 87 different courses.

Mr. Hauxwell congratulated the 9th Street Singers for their 1st place finish and Best
Choreography at the Best of the West competition in Scottsbluff. He noted we have already had three JH wrestling meets and they will compete at the Medicine Valley Invite on Friday. The team has been enjoying the new wrestling room allowing
kids to get started quicker and the shower availability after practice. Currently we have 6 JH wrestlers. HS wrestlers started Nov. 13. The SPVA BOD meeting will be in Bridgeport on Monday November 20th. The SPVA is looking at removing 20% of gate for home site when hosting basketball games, in order to cover SPVA overhead, with SPVA current fund balance approx. $3000, which Hauxwell noted is the lowest it has been. SPVA will also be discussing volleyball and wrestling site changes in order to try to generate more conference funds. At the August meeting the wrestling coaches brought to the board the possibility of joining the Western Trails Conference for the SPVA wrestling tournament. Winter Sports started practice on Monday Nov. 13th. Preliminary numbers for HS- 24 Girls BB, 27 Boys BB, 15 Wrestlers, 22 JH Girls BB, 21 JH Boys BB and 15 for One Act. Hauxwell attended the NSIAAA conference in Kearney November 4th -6th, noting it went well though attendance was down. Areas of concern were the expectations of students and adults at NSAA activities, football classifications and the two year classification period in regards to declining enrollments and participation. November 30 is declaration deadline for participating in 6,8, or 11 man football. December will be District assignment with FB schedules released February 13. Dual wrestling Championships were also discussed as this will be the last year UNK will host. Scoreboards are in and planning to install over Thanksgiving. Lastly Hauxwell summarized highlights from the District 5 meeting held in McCook Nov. 8th.

Principal Odens noted Parade of Costumes was held on Halloween for all of the K-4 students. The parade was well attended by family members and preschool students and parents. This year the PTO purchased pumpkins and the K-4 pumpkin decorating was done with Ms. Ramos during the art classes leading up to Halloween. The pumpkins were displayed on the lunchroom tables during the Parade of Costumes and students took their pumpkins home at the end of the day. The change was very well received and we plan to continue it again next year. The PTO Book Fair is currently being held in the auditorium, and during the week the PTO will be giving free books to several students at each grade level. Our annual Title I was held but will be rescheduled due to lack of attendance. Odens is finishing first round of teacher evaluations in November and saw some exciting things in visiting classrooms such as  blended learning, seesaw app, IXL, and engaging teacher led discussions. Odens closed by encouraging school board members, parents, and patrons to visit a classroom. Principal Scheel summarized the PD book the continues to be worked through during Friday afternoon PD, the "Energy Bus". Scheel noted eventually the desire it to push down this PD learning to students in order to deal with the negative people and forces in their life. Principals and three teachers attended the fall tech conference in Kearney for a day and a half of good, solid sessions. Veterans Day program by Mrs. O'Neil was fabulously down once again. Scheel noted he got into most 5-12 classroom visits last weeks, just observing and like Odens also noting tremendous progress in the classroom learning environment.

SBM Scott Wheeler brought up safety concerns 1) boy's lockers room tiles 2) parking lot activity at lunch 3) microwaves in the lunchroom  4) Veterans' program was really good! Wheeler noted the parking layout is much improved.

Supt. Lefdal noted 1. Main focus this month has been on working through the implementation process for our new policies. It has been daunting, but feels District is headed in the right direction. 2. We held annual Americanism committee meeting with members Strand and Stromberger present. 3. Six Board Members & Lefdal are headed to Omaha for the 2017 State Education Conference November 15-17. 4. We are continuing to digitize old basketball games and placing them on our Youtube page. 5. FFVF is going to use one of our buses for "The Polar Express" and will pay fuel and a driver. 6. Bus barn project is coming along and they are going to add a second exit. 7. We held our first negotiations meeting on the 1st. 8. Continue to work on staff and student document management. 9. Working through Ed-Fi changes with Mr. Herbert. 10. Finalizing state reporting. 11. Raptor check-in system has been installed and is currently being tested & learned and will be implemented in January 12. We have been working on setting up and saving all of our files on our shared admin drive. 13. ACT embargoed through December but MAPS data available next month. 14. Lefdal's goal is to havethe 18-19 class schedule available in Jan., but a teacher review will be conducted first 15. Transportation committee meeting will be held to discuss security on the buses and primary concern is with town route. 16. One set of external door bids have been received but Lefdal is awaiting another 17. CCS received farm credit grant of $2000 written for in-door use of drones 18.  Lefdal is planning for an after-school HAL program and a winter activity program for 5-8 non-sport students. Lastly, Lefdal also reiterated outstanding work that is going on by teachers and admin.

The plan is consistent with prior years.

Discussion tabled as data is still embargoed.

AFR complete and no audit report at this time.

Steel is up and they are starting to work on sheeting. ETA still end of January at this time. The addition of the south driveway will be approx. 20'

Olsen noted Supt. Committee met and well distribute same tool as the past and results will be presented in December.

Terryberry is setting up meal before interviews at the Broadway Steakhouse. Applications accepted now through 12/15, 4 currently completed and an addl. 13 in process. The search firm will present a summary list of candidates to the Board. Board will meet with firm 1/4 to review and pick interview candidates with interviews Jan. 16-19th. Final meeting January 23, 2018.

Executive session exited at 8:30 pm.

Meeting adjourned at 8:31 pm.