February 13, 2024 at 6:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

Discussion:  Mr. Hauxwell began his report with results of district wrestling and congratulating the wrestlers that advanced to State in Omaha. He also presented the sub-district girls and boys basketball schedules. The girls lost in the first round to Cozad and the boys will play their first round on February 19th against Broken Bow. He gave an overview of the upcoming speech events, including District speech on March 15th in Wallace and State speech on March 21st in Kearney. On February 12th, the school hosted the NCDA show choir contest. He had a chart of the past 5 years of revenue from the SPVA basketball tournament as well as the football schedule for the next 2 years. He and 6 others were able to line up officials for every home game in 14 minutes. He ended with a note on the SPVA and its work on adding schools to the conference and mentioned that he was on a committee to discuss classification and competitive balancing within the NSAA.

Discussion:  Mr. Barr began his report with an update on attendance, student discipline, and enrollment numbers. He note on February 8th the teachers attended a presentation on the JAG program and met in their PLC groups in the morning and then held parent-teacher conferences in the afternoon that he felt went really well. He has attended multiple meetings in the past month including a LB1184 meeting, a Health & Safety meeting, and a school improvement team meeting all on January 11th. The administrative team also met with Mrs. Paisley to work on finalizing the 2024-25 master schedule. The students also attended several events, which included the 8th grade students visiting North Platte Community College on January 31st, a vape presentation on January 12th, and a dental hygiene presentation on February 9th. All students in grades 7-12 completed a career interest survey and all high school students had begun registering for classes for the 2024-2025 school year. Mr. Barr has continued to conduct his 2nd semester teacher observations, and he is also holding parent meetings for students at risk of entering the truancy program.

Mrs. Odens was absent, but her report mentioned the 5th and 6th grade "Sharing the Love" fundraiser that raised $2,156 and the money would be donated to the Imperial Theatre, the Max Addition Park, the Imagination Library, the Giving Circle, and the purchase of egos for the Imperial Public Library. She also mentioned the in-service and parent-teacher conferences on February 8th. She thanked the PTO for providing a taco bar for the teachers during conferences. 

Discussion:  Mr. Lambert began with an update on academics and students where he mentioned that the winter NSCAS tests were completed and he would share the data later in the meeting. He noted that the last winter home event was complete besides a youth basketball tournament that would take place at the school in March. He completed the grant request for an extra $7,500 of Perkins funds and mentioned that the money would be used to purchase new equipment for the technology classroom. The plan is for the ESU to be the head of the consortium for the Perkins grant next year. The admin team was conducting interviews and had 2 new hires to be approved on the agenda. They also attended the UNK job fair where he presented on a panel with 130 students in attendance. He congratulated the E-sports team on winning State and thanked Mr. Anderson for helping the district get E-sports started. He mentioned Bridge of Hope came to talk to the K-6 students about body safety and appropriate touch. His last update was that the United Way had started advertising for the JAG position and he had posted this information on all social media platforms.

His updates on building and grounds included his communication with a scoreboard company to work on getting shot clocks and exploring other scoreboard ideas. He mentioned that a few shot and discus rings were going to have a few concrete pads redone for safety purposes. So far, the bleacher project and the parking lot project are still on schedule. He also mentioned that new vape sensors had been installed to test the functionality. He ended his report with the balances in all the fund accounts.

Discussion:  Executive session ended at 8:12 PM.

Discussion:  Meeting adjourned at 8:14 PM.