January 29, 2020 at 5:00 PM - Board of Education Special Meeting

More Information:  Mission Statement - Milford Public Schools will prepare all students to be successful citizens: Our Mission is fulfilled when all students read with comprehension, speak and write clearly, compute accurately, reason logically, understand and appreciate the fine arts, apply suitable strategies and habits of mind to solve problems, utilize technology to communicate and to understand information and behave morally.

This agenda contains a list of subjects known at the time of its distribution.  A copy of the agenda reflecting any changes will be available for public inspection during normal business hours in the District Office.  Except for items of an emergency nature, the agenda shall not be altered later than twenty-four hours before the meeting.  The Board reserves the right to alter the order of items, as it deems necessary.

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Information concerning the Open Meeting Law, Chapter 84, Article 14 of Nebraska State Statutes, is posted on the bulletin board in the back of the meeting room.

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This is the public’s opportunity to speak to items on the agenda. This is also the public’s opportunity to speak to any topic concerning the school district – since it is not an agenda item the board cannot discuss or take action on the matter at this time. Future discussion can be requested as an agenda item. To be recognized, all participants must complete the Request to Address the Milford Board of Education Form. No complaints regarding specific staff members will be heard during a public meeting. The District has established separate procedures for complaints against individual employees. Thank you for your participation.

More Information:  The Mission Statement is Attached. 

More Information:  The Guiding Questions are attached.

More Information:  The board member responses are attached.  My current plan is to go through this document and have discussions on items as needed.
 

The purpose of the process is to review all ideas, confirm current ideas, and review those that are different from our current practices.  While some ideas in the survey may be only one board member’s vision, this retreat is the time to explore and discuss those ideas. As you will see, overall, there is a lot of consistency in the responses.

 

I want the focus to be on planning for the future.  The administrative team will have comments on some items.  We are looking forward to great positive discussions.  

 

More Information:  We will review these general items.  There are several attachments for the meeting.  The future housing development maps are for board and administration only at this point.  The developers have asked we not share the maps but gave permission to discuss verbally in the meeting or at future meetings.

More Information:  I have this as the last agenda item so that if the board sees some common themes from discussions tonight, we can discuss updates to this document.  We can only discuss updates, any changes would need to take place at the February Board Meeting as no actions can take place at this meeting.

The administrative team is working on updating progress on this document but just have not had the time together to complete it as a group.  We plan on having it ready by the Februrary regular meeting. 

More Information:  The Board of Education reserves the right to enter into Closed/Executive Session for 1) the protection of the public interest, or 2) the prevention of needless injury to the reputation of an individual, and/or the individual has not requested a public meeting.  When making a motion to enter into Closed/Executive Session, the member making the motion should be as specific as possible as to the reason(s) for executive session.  The Board President will restate the reason for Closed/Executive Session after the motion has been acted on.