June 8, 2015 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.

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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:  $88,576.27
Payroll:  $459,770.60
Total Expenditures:  $548,346.87

Items to Point Out:

1. FCS/FCCLA expenses are for/from State and National Contests/Conventions.
2. $121 to Biltmore Hotel is for National FFA.
3. $1,509 to C & H is for supplies and storage racks for high school office.  This is related to last year's project and moving of offices and supply room.  Finally trying to finish it after seeing how the year went and what they really needed.
4. $11,000 to Contemporary Woods is for storage cabinets at both buildings and a desk unit.
5. $1,249 to DakTech is for the computer cart (storage and charging cart) we need for the computers we ordered a couple of months ago and ones we already had in the district for the industrial arts area.
6. $8,000 to John Baylor Test Prep is for our annual fee for John coming to our district and the supplies needed.  This year we are adding some online test prep items as well.
7. $1,159 to Other World Computing is for additional memory for a large number of our computers.

The other items are yearly items or items related to our summer projects or annual cleaning/maintenance. Call or email with questions.

 

More Information:  Report is attached.

More Information:  The student enrollment report is attached.  The last column is our first attempt at estimating class sizes for 2015-16.  Obviously these will change quite often over the next two months.

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1. Most projects are in the holding stage until we get the mud jacking completed.  They are scheduled to arrive next week.
2. Fire marshal updates - the doors in the shop area will start on Thursday, June 11th.  The north end of the building does not have a start date.  We also will have a software update to our fire alarm panel and hopefully this does not create more issues.  Software updates are sometimes not a good thing!
3. We are using Oswald Electric and Milford Plumbing for a number of items and most of them are related to normal summer updates.  We do have a number of things that just need updated that are related to electrical and plumbing.
4. We have added emergency (night lights) in the elementary.  Basically, this means two bulbs in about every 4 fixtures are left on at night to give us some "night lights."  The electricians did this at the high school last summer as part of the remodel project and were very pleased with the results.
5. Scoreboards.  I have commitments for nearly $13,500 for help with the scoreboards.
6. Obviously, the normal cleaning, painting, and summer items are taking place where we can.

More Information:  Only on here in case someone has follow up questions or discussions.  Will be last time on the agenda if no discussions this month.

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1. July Meeting:   Just want to see if the Board would consider moving the July meeting to the 20th.  If moving the date is considered, we will need to take action on it at this meeting.
2. Final Meeting for 2014-15:  I am proposing Thursday, August 27th or Monday, August 31st.  We will discuss the dates at this meeting and then act on it at our July meeting.

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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.