June 11, 2018 at 7:00 PM - Board of Education Regular 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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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.

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General Fund for $118,546.57
Payroll for $503,304.75
Total $621,851.32

I have nothing to single out this month.  The expenditures are "normal" yearly or summer expenditures.  Please call or email if you have questions.

 

More Information:  This month's enrollment report is based on projections for next year.  Our student information system is not currently updated as we are transitioning into the new school year. 

The  concern is the numbers at the elementary right now.  We are projecting 12 additional students as compared to May and this will put us at 43 additional students in the elementary building since May of 2017.

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Open discussion as needed.

More Information:  Just waiting for Omaha Paving to complete their work.

More Information:  Dave, the administrative team, and Tim met with Jeff Frank and Ron Reuerbach from Morrissey Engineering to review the Facility Evaluation Report that was in last month's Board packet. 

More Information:  As per policy, the Board is to approve all out of state travel. 

The cross country team is headed to near Des Moines for a camp.  Besides working on the running aspect of cross country, there will be team building activities.

The team members attending have already registered and paid.  Mrs. Kontor forgot about this policy and I just found out the last of May that they were attending this camp.  The team members will be paying all expenses for this camp.

More Information:  John Hansen, Nebraska Farmers Union, and Mike Lucas, York Superintendent, are asking groups to re-affirm the resolution we approved with Nebraskans United for Property Tax Reform and Education last year.  The resolution and membership roster are included for your review.

The next meeting for the group is June 14.

More Information:  Due to Easter being so late, the 2018-19 activity calendar has had a lot of changes.  The event causing the most issues is District Music.  Due to the Easter date this year, we will not be in school on the "usual" Friday so it was moved a week earlier.  Moving it a week earlier has not put District Music against other spring sports.

I am proposing this one year change due to calendar issues:

1. I would like to remove the late start on April 1st and have a regular day of school.
2. I would like to change April 11th to a staff in-service day.  No students.
3. District Music would then move from Thursday night to Thursday afternoon. 
4. Friday would remain a staff in-service day.  District Music would take place all day on Friday.

I do not want to lose hosting District Music.  In the past, we have had to go to Fairbury and other sites.  With the size of our programs, it became a travel nightmare.  There are a lot of advantages to hosting to our students.

As I said, this should be a one year fix as next year's activity calendar will be similar to past ones.

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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.