January 10, 2023 at 6:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

Discussion:  Superintendent Lambert called the meeting to order at 6:01 PM.

Discussion:  Mr. Hauxwell's report listed all the students submitted for the high school fall academic all-state. He noted that 21 teams would be participating in the home wrestling tournament on Saturday. There will also be a wrestling triangular on Friday night and the youth wrestling tournament on Sunday. On January 14th there is a NSAA district 5 meeting in Holdrege to discuss and vote on 42 different district proposals. SPVA basketball tournament seeding and brackets will be released on Thursday. He also thanked Dallas Baney and his crew for their help installing the new Hudl camera in the auxiliary gym. He lastly mentioned that April Lambert had resigned as the head volleyball coach and thanked her for her time and energy spent on the high school and youth volleyball programs.

Discussion:  Mrs. Odens gave the board a summary of the 2 hour in-service on January 4th, which included the K-2 staff getting an update on their winter MAP data and the middle school interventionists meeting to go over their documentation process. She gave an update on the PBIS online cake raffle which raised just over $1,000 and the pop hoop shoot that raised $344. She also noted that she started her second semester observations and the second quarter report cards would be sent home this week. Lastly, she mentioned that the 5th and 6th graders would be attending Healthy Habits Day on February 1st at the fairgrounds.

Mr. Barr gave an update on student enrollment and student discipline numbers. He noted that the administrative team met with a representative from the Raptor Emergency Response System as well as Maika Leibbrandt to review the 1st semester teacher survey. He mentioned that the scheduling team has been meeting with departments to get ideas on classes for the 2023-2024 master schedule. He thanked Jacci Paisley for coordinating staff appreciation days from December 12th - December 20th. He also talked about the great turnout to the family night held on December 19th by the Multicultural Club.

Discussion:  Mr. Lambert began with an update on academics and students. He mentioned that NSCAS testing started this week and the final NSCAS tests will be in April. He talked about the implementation of the storm routes for the transportation department that they had to use due to the snow storm and they seemed to work well. He noted that they were looking into a new system that would make student enrollment an online process and would link with infinite campus and save the secretaries months of work. He told the board he would present the data from the teacher survey conducted with Maika Leibbrant at a later board meeting and he would also provide an update on the data Jacci Paisley had been collecting from past graduates at the February meeting. He next went over building and grounds and thanked Dallas Baney and Doug Reinke for their hard work to clear all the snow over break so we could start school on time. They also helped to rearrange the concession stand so it would flow better during the games and create more prep space. He lastly noted that there is currently 3.4% savings in the budget and gave an update of all the cash balances.

Discussion:  Executive session ended at 6:45 PM.

Discussion:  Meeting adjourned at 6:46 PM.