March 14, 2022 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.

More Information: 

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.

More Information: 

This is the public’s opportunity to speak to items on the agenda. This is also the public’s opportunity to speak to other non-agenda topics concerning the school district - since it is not an agenda item the board cannot discuss or take action on the matter at this time. To be recognized, all participants must complete the Request to Address the Milford Board of Education Form.  The District has established separate complaint procedures for any complaints, including complaints and concerns against individual employees.  As such, the Board requests that this complaint process be followed before discussion with the Board takes place.  Thank you for your participation.

More Information: 

General Fund for $138,627.77
Payroll for $668,791.73
Total $807,419.50

Depreciation for $17,375.00

Items to Point Out:

1. Depreciation is to Storage and Design group for 75 lockers for the middle school.  These are the lockers we ordered last spring.  They were installed March 10th and 11th.
2. $5,230 to Bus Safety, Inc. is for extended stop arms on a couple of buses.  I have information in an agenda item.
3. $6,500 to Dietze Music is for a new electric piano.  We generally have repairs done by Dietze and a contractor they use but they no longer provide this service.  We called around in Lincoln and Omaha for someone to give a bid for repair work and did not find anyone interested.  A couple of the groups mentioned that it may be cost prohibitive to repair compared to new prices.
4. $2,720 to Darcy Friedli is for our student CPR training.
5. The bills for Maxim Healthcare Services is 6 months of billing for our contracted nurse for a student.  This is expensed to special education, so there will be reimbursement a year in arears.  
6. $699.80 to Quadieant Finance USA is for postage on our postage machine.  In the past this has been an automatic withdraw and so this will be the first time Quadieant has been listed.
7. FYI - you will start seeing payments to Jackson Roth for bus driving.  He is one of our latest to get certified.

 

More Information: 

1. K-6 is at 434
2. 7-8 is at 136
3. 9-12 is at 222
4. K-12 is at 792
5. This is an increase of 2 students since last month.

More Information:  I have attached a couple of documents for your review.  Here is a link to a video as well:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4gB15MNcB8

We are having growing concerns about the number of cars that drive through the bus stop signs.  Our bus drivers do a great job of being prepared for drive through, but we need to do something to eliminate them.  We turn in vehicles that we catch on our bus cameras, but not all are visible through this process.  We experimented with some stop arm extensions a couple of years ago, and they worked, but the company does not offer the product any longer and those models were custom for the buses. We have traded those buses.  I found a company out of North Carolina that makes a different version.  They are a relatively new company but have a growing business and have a couple of states that they are working with to make these extended arms required on new buses.  We will be their first school in Nebraska, so hopefully we can take advantage of that if we like them. 

More Information:  We will attach a document on Monday with updated Legislative information.

More Information:  This is on the agenda monthly.  We will provide an update at the meeting.

More Information: 

Open discussion as needed.

More Information:  This is a monthly item due to the requirements of the grant money.  No changes have been made to the plans at this time.  Even though nationally things are changing, schools have not been asked to update their current plans.

More Information:  We have attached three documents to guide this discussion.  We will start with the document - Option Enrollment Limits for 2022-23.  These are the recommendations of the administrative team.  We will be acting on the resolution that contains these recommended limits.  The passing of a resolution is required by statute.

More Information:  The list of current option enrollment requests for the 2022-23 school year is attached.  The administrative team is recommending approval of the list as presented.

More Information:  We have attached two documents for your review.  The second option is being presented as a way to move spring break off of a state tournament weekend.  We received questions again this year as to why it is always boys state basketball.  This has been the district's practice and was set up years before my time.  The move was based on the number of students that missed school during the boys' state tournament and the number of staff that requested days off to watch the boys' tournament.  My opinion is that this has not changed.  So, to get away from the perception that one group or tournament is being favored over the other, we could move spring break back one week as presented.  In future years, we could run into the issue of state speech being held on that Friday.  For 2022-23, it will be on the Thursday before break.  I was also asked why we do not take a week off for an extended break.  I feel strongly that getting out earlier in May is more important than an extended spring break.

We can wait one more month if needed.  

More Information:  An update will be provided at the meeting.  We will most likely move this to the last agenda item of the night.

More Information: 

I am recommending Karissa Dierberger as an elementary special education teacher for the 2022-23 school year.

1. Karissa is currently teaching at Irving Middle School in Lincoln
2. She has also taught at Centennial Elementary in Columbus
3. Karissa (Bernasek) is a 2011 graduate of MPS

This position was open due to a current staff member accepting a position in another school district.

More Information: 

I am recommending Jason Weber for the position of Assistant 7-12 Principal and Activities Director for the 2022-23 school year.

1. Jason is currently the high school principal at Crete
2. He has taught math at Elkhorn Middle School and Anderson Middle School in Millard
3. He has also been an adjunct instructor at College of Saint Mary in Omaha

This position was open due to changing Sadie's position to student services coordinator.

Jason is planning on attending the meeting.

More Information:  Per Policy 6027 - Field Trips, out-of-state and overnight trips require preapproval by the board.  This is our annual look at trips that we know of at this point.  Obviously, there may be trips during the year that will not have board preapproval due to timing, but this is the list we know of at this point.

More Information:  Every March the board of education is required to review, appoint or reappoint board members for the Milford Schools Foundation.

This year, Dee Erb and Greg Dunlap have terms expiring and both have indicated that they would like to continue to serve as board members.

More Information:  We have attached the district's textbook and materials recommended replacement schedule.  As Dr. Kubicek has shared for a number of months, the district has been reviewing math materials for the 7-12 building.

Dr. Kubicek will briefly review the process and materials that the committee is recommending for approval.  The committee is recommending adopting enVision Math materials for algebra, algebra II, and geometry.  We will have a sample of the materials at the meeting.

The bid is $31,589.42.  As always, there might be additional materials or resources needed after implementation takes place.

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.