August 13, 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 $215,277.08
Payroll for $524,883.90
Total $740,160.98

Items to Point Out:

1. Once again we have a lot of our yearly expenditures.
2. $18,248 to Best Buy is through our grant and we purchased virtual reality equipment for both buildings.
3. $3,037 to Oswald was for the wiring required for the portable building.
4. $1,185 to Harris School Solutions is our yearly fee for our Activity Fund accounting software.
5. $1,221 to JR Welding is for the barriers we put around the lights in the high school parking lot.
6. $1,400 to MC Enterprises is for roof repairs at the elementary.  We needed to repair areas where the roof material had pulled away from the walls /edges on the roof.  This happens every now and then due to type of roofs we have.
7. $84,414 to ALICAP is for our workman's comp, property and liability insurance.  This includes our insurance education program for our staff, our MSDS safety program and our insurance safety visits.  We have been very pleased with our membership in ALICAP.
8. $26,526 from Depreciation is for final payment on portable building, concrete work at track, and a walker mower.

Please email questions.

More Information:  Coach Kontor and some team members are going to present information on the summer camp they attended in Iowa.

More Information:  The report is attached.

More Information:  PK - 33
K-6 - 418
7-8 - 94
9-12 - 220
K-12 is 732

These numbers will changes when school starts.  We have 43 more K-6 students enrolled now than what we did in May of 2017.

More Information:  We have attached a report on the history of option enrollment.  You will see that we have 73 option into the district and 30 out for a net of 43 students.

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Open discussion as needed.

More Information:  We have been invited, see attached letter, by Crete Public Schools for a two year cooperative for baseball.  High School baseball is a spring event and would compete for athletes with golf and track.

Crete has no financial requirements attached for us to join this cooperative.  We will have to have a staff member drive the athletes to practice and games or a location on the route to games to meet the Crete bus.

Obviously, my concern is how our other two spring activities will be affected.  We know there will be some athletes that will play baseball that were playing golf or in track last year.  Truly not sure how many athletes will be interested in baseball.

More Information:  I attached our current regulations.

I have 3 requests that I have been asked to bring to the board.  One is for a 3rd grader, one is for a 5th grader, and the last one is for 10th grade.  The option limits we just re-approved are attached.  3rd grade is closed due to size, and the 5th and 10th graders have IEP's and all of our special services programs are currently closed due to size and uniqueness of current disabilities our resident students have.

I have already denied several this summer that would have required special services.  Also, with the year just starting and having a number of new students in the district, we have no way of predicting how are numbers will change in the next month or so. 

You will see in my recommended motion that I would ask that you deny these requests.  I do not like that we are in the position of having to deny option requests but we do not want to put the District into a position that increases our space issues or increases case loads that would force us to add another staff member.

More Information:  Both documents are attached.  We added to the length of the documents as we placed actual policies in certain areas instead of just referring to a policy number.  We will point a few items out at the meeting.  Overall, we added information to what was already present, or updated the sections related to our last policy updates you approved, and did a lot of editing.

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We review these policies every August.  For this set, we must ask if there is any public input on the policies.  If none, we just make a motion to reaffirm the policies.

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These are policies we want you as a Board to be aware of and will answer any questions you may have related to them.  No action is needed.

More Information:  We need to act on the special meeting date.

More Information:  We need to act on the agreement.  We already verbally approved the new base to be set at $37,000 and this reflects a 2.78% increase in the salary package.  We updated the wording on items e), f), and g) to clarify possible deductions of pay.

More Information:  On August 1st we received the following survey question from NASB:  "if allowed by law...would our board advocate for trained teachers to be able to conceal/carry?"

We will discuss this at our meeting.  No action is required.  Will be for discussion purposes only.

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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.