July 13, 2020 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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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.

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General Fund for $191,818.99
Payroll for $522,484.60
Total $714,303.59

Items to Point Out:

1. $3,968 to Committee for Children is for bullying prevention curriculum and social emotional curriculum called Second Step.
2. $8,423 to Harris is our annual fee for our budget software.  This is for the system, backup program, and all updates.  We also pay $664 for a census program.
3. $5,661 to McGraw Hill is for our annual ordering of workbooks for our reading program.
4. $2,800 to Otus is our annual fee for our data management system for student assessment data.
5. $14,800 to Savvas is for science curriculum, workbooks and experiment kits.
6. COVID-19 - you will see we spent over $12,000 for COVID cleaning supplies, sanitizers, and masks.  We will have several more of these next month as well.
7. Bills to Cambium, CDW, and Wyebot for a total of $36,977 are for updating our wireless access points, Ethernet switches, control switches, battery backups, etc.  The E-Rate program paid for $55,176 of the project.

 

More Information:  *Attachment was updated 7/13/20

The numbers in the elementary report include the changes we know as of July 8th.  The 7-12 numbers are not completely updated.  PowerSchool will not be updated for a week or so.  Will share more accurate numbers as we get closer to the start of school.  We keep learning about changes daily.

The biggest change will be at the middle school. 

More Information:  Once again this month we have attached a general update that we will go through.

We also attached a document that is a very, very rough draft of a framework for returning to school.  This document will be finalized before we meeting in August and will be split into two documents.  One for the public and one for staff.  I am attaching it so you can see the type of items we are working and this document may generate discussion items for Monday night.

NRCSA Site:  http://www.nrcsa.net/
NDE's site:  https://www.launchne.com/

More Information:  I hope we are able to take a tour during or after the meeting on Monday.

1. I have attached a document that explains the final financial items on the elementary north addition.
2. The high school addition is moving along.  The flooring is going in the new rooms this week.  After that those rooms really just need micellanious items completed.
3. The remodeled rooms at the high school have to be painted and flooring install yet.  But getting close.
4. The SPED remodeling is moving along at the elementary.  Flooring and case work are the issues right now.
5. The wall project at the elementary is looking good.  This will be a great change for us in the long run.

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Open discussion as needed.

More Information:  This is a yearly item we are required to act on.  I do not have any recommended changes at this time.  We can change this policy anytime we feel we need to.

More Information:  We generally hold this meeting the last Monday of the month but that is on the 31st this year so that will not work for us budget wise.

Please be ready to discuss Wednesday the 26th or Thursday the 27th as possible dates.

More Information:  We need to set a special meeting for the week of August 3rd.  The purpose of the meeting to to review the plans we have in place for dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.  Right now I am open every night that week and do not have a preference on the starting time of the meeting.  This should be the only agenda item for the night.

I am recommending this week so that we have the most current information from the State and from Four Corners Health Department.

More Information:  Great news.  We will be paying off the high school north addition bond issue a year early.  The attached resolution allows us to call the the current issued bonds.  Once this process is complete we will pay our principle and interest to date. 

More Information:  Current Prices:
Elementary Lunch - $2.80
HS Lunch - $3.05
Adult Lunch - $3.75
Main Entree - $1.50

I am recommending that the above prices increase by $0.05.  I am a little worried about the extra supplies we will need for the lunch program next year.  Right now, the status of our salad bars is that we will have to have staff serving these items or we have to have the pre packaged for the students.  This will mean extra staff or a lot more supplies.  We have several meetings coming up related to this situation and will have better guidance coming out from NDE.
 

More Information:  We will move into executive session for this item.


Motion - Motion to move into executive session for Item 7.6 Staff Negotiations.  Executive session is necessary 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.

Dave needs to repeat the motion before moving into executive session.

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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.

More Information:  Board will move into executive session for Item 7.6 Staff Negotiations.