December 14, 2015 at 7:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

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General Fund for $101,593.02

Payroll for $507,208.06

Total $608,801.08

Bond Fund for $241,767.50

Items to Point Out:

1. This is our annual December payment - $235,000 towards principal and $6,767.50 for interest.
2. External visit mileage checks - you will see several of these in the bills.  We reimburse mileage to our outside reviewers.
3. $1,100 to CJT Construction is for repairs to some of our basketball units at the high school.  We had some belts that needed replaced a couple of safety straps worked on.  This is the company we will be using in the future.  UES - the previous company is no longer in business.
4. $26,970.75 to Creative Sites is for the playground resurfacing project.  They will be coming back in the spring to reinforce some areas after the winter weather does its thing!
5. $6,157 under First Bank is for the purchase of 10 pc laptops for the business and industrial arts departments.  They were sharing and just needed more.  In the business department, our students are able to become Microsoft endorsed (word, excel, etc.) but must be using the windows side of things - not Mac.  So sharing was becoming harder.
6. $4,713 to Krauter-Bosn - majority of the work took place at the elementary.  The old gas lines were leaking at the joints and some of the lines were thin.  Our only option was to replace joints and the lines that needed it.  As usual, labor costs make up majority of the bill.
7. $1,500 to Nebraska Educational Technology Services is our annual eMeeting membership fee.
8. $3,875 to Striv is our annual fee for our online broadcasts and live streaming and for their work with our students and curriculum.
9. $1,333 to Uribe was for a dumpster at the elementary for removal of the old playground covering.  We were able to recycle some of the materials but most of it had already been recycled once and so it could not go to the recycling system again.
10. $115 to Todd Vegas is reimbursement for coaching certification fees.  The NSAA now requires all coaches working with NSAA sponsored events to have a coaching endorsement.  So we are having all community coaches complete this requirement.  Many already have it in place.

That is all I had to point out.  Please call or email questions.

The attachment has the history of option enrollment in the district since 2007-08.  We have also included the latest home school report from NDE.

Overall, you will see that we have 82 students option in to the district and we have 33 option out.  We also have a total of 62 students on the home school list.  (I have 63 on the history document)

The project is on hold.  I think we have the water main located and it appears that it does not go through the middle of the lot as originally thought.  Tim found an old plan from when the bus barn was built and the city found the easement documents in a file at the city offices.  The city dug in one location and did find the line.  So we feel pretty confident in that location!

The city's engineer from JEO met with us on the 10th and he is having a survey completed of our lot, the north addition and the old Yeakley property to confirm locations.  We are meeting with Rick Fortune, city council member, as he is responsible for this type of project.

So...hopefully we can come to some solution.  Whether that means moving a water line, working inside of the current easements, or coming up with a plan B.  We will see.

I have this on here in case there is any other actions the board wants to take.  Otherwise, I will work with Dave on completing this process.

Just a reminder that my contract automatically rolls over after this meeting, so if you are looking to non-renew or change my job in the district, you would need to take action on that tonight.  No action is needed if continuing with my employment.

As you know, I have been trying to locate used buses and I am just not pleased with it at this point.  The buses are high miles, or have rust like ours already have or the buses only have 10,000 to 20,000 miles on them coming off a lease and just not sure of the quality or issues associated with them when a school is turning them back in so soon.

I have been working with Russ Foltz at Cornhusker International on new buses and would like to share numbers with you in Executive Session as I am not wanting to share bid numbers in public until we are ready to make final decisions.

That motion is in the Executive Session line.

I would like us to renew the contracts of TJ Meyer as Elementary Principal, Brandon Mowinkel as Secondary Principal and Cameron Soester as Assistant Principal/Assistant Activities Director.  We would work on the details of the contract over the summer. 

We have been renewing administrative contracts in December the past few years as this is the time when administrative openings are starting to appear around the State so if we are going to non-renew, it would give them plenty of time to find a position.

Obviously, I am recommending renewal of all current positions.

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The Board President will restate the reason for Closed/Executive Session after the motion has been acted on.