June 9, 2014 at 7:30 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:  Tony is coaching a t-ball game and his older son has a baseball game.

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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:  General Fund for $71,182.43
Payroll for $452,540.11
Total $523,722.54

Special Building Fund for $608.40 (Carlson West Povondra payment)
Bond Fund for $28,823.75 (Interest payment)

General Comments:

1. There are several items on the list related to summer maintenance issues.
2. There are a couple of driver's education reimbursements for students that ended up not taking the course.
3. There is also several related to bus driver testing and physicals. 
4. $2,428 to Eder Flag Co. is for a flag pole for the high school.
5. $740 to Harding & Shultz is for personnel matters.

That is all I had to point out at this time.  Please call or email if you have questions.

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Superintendent’s Report

Policy Review - the administrative team has reviewed policies and needs to work on a few after receiving guidance from Karen or Bobby.  I will need to set up a policy committee meeting to review the new policies once we are ready,

Calendar Items:
August 11th - Staff Inservice

August 14th - First student day

Calendar of Trainings:

NASB Area Meeting is September 3rd in York.

NASB Labor Relations is September 10th and 11th.

NASB State Education Conference is November 19th - 21st.
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Future Meetings:

July's Regular Meeting is the 14th at 7:30 p.m.

More Information:  PK = 10

K-6 = 339
7-8 = 112
9-12 = 223
K-12 = 674    One student less than last month.


Here are the current projected numbers for 2014-15.
K-6 = 351     Twelve more than current.
7-8 = 109     Three less than current.
9-12 = 223    Same as current.
K-12 = 683    Nine more than current.

More Information:  I will have information for you at the meeting.  We still only have a couple of bids.  Called several companies.

More Information:  Asbestos abatement was finished on Wednesday and the air tests were completed the same day.  I would hope by Monday crews will be working.

Gene's electric has been working during this time.  There is some electrical work that needs to take place on the north end for the intercom, fire system, technology wiring, etc.

The cement work should begin again soon.

Doors and frames should be arriving in a week.  That is good news.

Just call and set up a time if you want to walk through the building.

More Information:  Board discussion on the State's process for school financing.

More Information:  I have attached a document that shows how we compare price wise with conference and area schools.  Several of the schools have not acted on lunch prices at the time of preparing this document.

This year we were $0.20 below the average at the elementary and $0.15 below the average at the high school.

I believe we could keep lunch prices the same for one more year.  There are more changes in the hot lunch program and we are not sure how this will effect expenditures at this point.  Some requirements are relaxed and some are increased.

We would need to keep in mind that we would most likely have to make an increase in a year.  I just want to make sure we keep a solid amount in this account.  Currently,  our balance is down $25,000 compared to this time last year and we have a balance of $63,000.  We added an oven at the elementary and had some other repairs which is our balance difference.  Also, we were told by the State we had too much money in our hot lunch program over a three year average so we are trying to keep it at that $60,000 to $70,000 range. 

I think we are fine unless some major piece of equipment needs replaced.  If that happens, we would use our Depreciation Fund.

FYI - 9 conference schools currently supplement their Lunch Fund with General Fund dollars.  The average is $36,388 with the high being $65,500 and the low being $5,000.

More Information:  I have attached a document with information on sub pay from conference and area schools.  You will see in 2013-14 we were just below the average for our daily rate.  Schools that have acted on sub pay for 2014-15 are in bold on the right hand side.  Majority of the other schools have it on their current agendas as well.

Substitutes are getting harder and harder to find. 

I am recommending that we raise the daily rate for substitute teachers to $110 to be at the 2013-14 average.

More Information:  I am struggling with this item at this point.

More Information:  We will move into Executive Session for this item.

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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.