December 8, 2020 at 6:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

Discussion:  AD Hauxwell began his report thanking Jill Bauerle, Mary Fortkamp, the cast and crew for their time and effort on Play Production. The cast did a great job and felt they had their best performance at Districts held at Bridgeport, where they finished 7th in a really strong District. NSAA District 5 meeting will be held Wednesday, January 13 at 1:00 PM CDT/12:00 PM MDT at the Holdrege Tassel. Hauxwell stated Youth Basketball is held off until January before Saturday morning practice begins. Practices will look differently and be spread out. He noted the Hudl Focus Camera will continue to be used to stream basketball games at all levels, an IPAD is used Auxillary gym to stream the JV Boys games on Meridix. Hauxwell continued by stating Fall Academic All-State is to be submitted by December 15th. Academic All State includes athletes with a GPA of 3.7 or higher and a contributor to the team. Winter activities participation numbers are: High School-16 girls basketball, 23 boys basketball and 12 wrestlers (10 boys and 2 girls). Junior High-girls basketball 27, boys basketball will begin tomorrow, so will know numbers at that time. Hauxwell expressed his gratitude for the extra 2 days at Christmas Break. He is thankful for all the extra work and help to keep activities moving along. AD Hauxwell ended his report noting that the Kimball is in quarantine, so he is looking to add Wauneta-Palisade to increase wrestling matches. This would allow CCS wrestling to move forward and host the triangular with Leyton and Wauneta-Palisade. Colorado has had their Winter start date move to February 1st.

Discussion:  Principal Sorensen started his report noting that December MAP testing has started and will conclude December 18th. Teacher evaluations for this semester will be finished up this week. He noted subs were tight right now and we are seeing a small increase in teachers being out of the building due to sickness and pregnancy. Sorensen praised staff for doing a great job of stepping up and covering for absent teachers when a sub is not available. He knows that everyone is stretched thin, but he is grateful for the teamwork they are doing and pulling together during this challenging time. 

PrIncipal Odens was not available to read her report due to supervising the Elementary Christmas Concert. In her report she also noted MAP testing started this week and will be done by Winter Break and report cards will go home when we are back from break and those will include MAP results. Odens has completed the non-tenured staff's first semester evaluations, and is halfway through the tenured staff evaluations for the year. She will begin the second evaluations for non-tenured staff and the rest of the tenured staff in the middle of January. Odens noted the individual K-4 Christmas vocal concert is tonight. The kindergartners started at 5:00 and the concert will end with the 4th graders performing at 7:00. The 5-12 vocal concert will be Thursday, December 10th starting at 6:00 with the 5th graders and will finish up with high school at 7:30. PTO is sponsoring a movie again for the 3-4 grade classrooms on the last day of school before Christmas break. The students will have the opportunity to get popcorn and pop from the concession stand area nd then make their way back to the classroom. They will watch a movie and enjoy the treats from PTO in their individual classrooms. The K-2 classrooms all have themes this year and will be having Christmas parties and movies on the last day of school before Christmas break. Principal Odens report ended with her saying she has heard a lot of appreciation from the staff about having the extra two days off before Christmas. The staff is thankful for the extra time to regroup.

Discussion:  Superintendent Lambert began his report by stating the school continues to offer extra curricular activities with our health department in the red and the new DHM's in place. Academic leadership team studied all the department needs and will present potential personnel needs to the board. Lambert stated he met with MPCC President Ryan Purdy to talk through the offerings that we currently receive and started talking about future endeavors to expand those offerings. He also noted the stress levels have increased for both students and teachers as we near the end of 2nd semester. He noted he called off school for December 21-22, and stated the entire staff has been working extremely hard and this is a much needed break extension. Activities will continue as scheduled. Teachers and academic leadership teams have been doing a good job meeting their PLC's. It's great that our departments are meeting on a consistent basis to collaborate and discuss curriculum, standards and student needs. Supt. Lambert said principal evaluations are complete, noting there is always things to improve on, but he couldn't be more proud of the hard work and dedication our principals put in on a daily basis. Lambert feels like they all work as a team and will continue to grow as the year goes on. He stated the common theme he has observed and will continue to praise is that the entire staff is all hands on deck, whether it's helping drive a bus, helping out with custodial duties or subbing, it's impressive to see the dedication to CCS.
Lambert talked about the building and grounds improvements. New cameras continue to be updated on a weekly basis. There are two controllers that essentially split the building in half, which is a smart configuration. Concrete work on the west side of the building near the kindergarten classrooms has been completed and looks really nice. Jeff Einspahr has found some dead spots with our Wifi connections in the building and has been working to address those. Allo Communications will be running a new line into our building to take over phone service. The anticipated date for phones to be updated is by 2nd semester, with plans in place to hopefully have the entire school up and running for every classroom. Lambert did a walk through with Dallas Baney and examined carpet needs for next year & will be meeting with the building and grounds committee to get a plan in place for preparation during summer months. Supt. Lambert explained that there was a minor bus accident, the bus was traveling at 7 mph. The driver and the 3 students on the bus were all ok, and no injuries. As of right now insurance is trying to decide if they will fix or total the bus out since it is an older model with high miles.
Supt. Lambert ended his report discussing budget and finance. noting we recieved a $2,700.00 donation from Allo Communications frome their education program, and overall the general fund budget looks good. We should be good through January as it sits and should recieve tax dollars next month as well. 

 

Discussion:  No Board Committee report.

Discussion:  Board entered executive session at 8:05 pm.
The board came out of executive session at 9:00 PM.

Discussion:  Executive session entered at 9:02 PM and ended at 9:52 PM.

President Olsen adjourned meeting at 9:03 PM.