April 13, 2020 at 7:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

Rationale: 

The mission of Gothenburg Public Schools is to prepare all students within a positive and innovative learning environment.

A copy of the open meetings act can be found at https://ago.nebraska.gov/open-meetings.

Rationale: 

The Board reserves the right to rearrange the order of items as needed.

Rationale: 

1. Approval of Previous Minutes

2. Approval of the Treasurer's Report

3. Approval of the Warrants / Bills

  a.  Petty Cash

  b.  Student Activity

  c.  Hot Lunch

  d.  Bank Statement

  e.  Summary of Accounts and Receipts

  f.  Monthly Expenditure Report

  g. Check Journal

4. Excuse Absent Board Members

5. Consider Option Enrollment Requests

Option In:
Nora Reiman - Kindergarten from Cozad
Hadley Stillwell - Kindergarten from Brady

 

Rationale:  Mrs. Sara Bullock has submitted her resignations for the end of the 2019-2020 school year.  Mrs. Bullock has taught in Senior/Junior high the past few years.  She is moving to Omaha.

Shelly Henninger has submitted her resignation effective on May 22nd, 2020.  Shelly has served Gothenburg Public Schools for 35 years.

Rationale:  Mrs. Kylee Malcom has been offered the Early Childhood/Special Education teaching position for the 2020-2021 school year.  Mrs. Malcom has taught at Lexington Public Schools and Cozad Public Schools.

Mr. Kurtis Lathrop has been offered the Industrial Technology teaching position for the 2020-2021 school year.  Mr. Lathrop previously taught at GPS and is teaching at Aurora Public Schools.

Mr. John Mckenna has been offered the Computer Science teaching position for the 2020-2021 school year.  Mr. McKenna has been the elementary principal at Garden County Schools the past two years.

Ms. Kassie Schuett has been offered the 7-9 Special Education teaching opening for the 2020-2021 school year.  Ms. Schuett has been teaching in Maxwell schools for the past two years.

Certificated non-supervisory contracts have been returned to the district office.  

Rationale:  Mrs. Tomye McKenna has been offered the Special Education director/Assistant Elementary principal position for the 2020-2021 school year.  Mrs. McKenna has taught for Lexington Public Schools and more recently Garden County Schools.

Rationale:  The Facilities and Transportation committee received and reviewed three bids to paint the North gymnasium.  The low bid was from Seth Denney painting out of Kearney.

Rationale:  The two 2010 Chevy vans have 100,000 plus miles.  The bid for two 2019 program vans is $51,000.  Pony Express will give $8,000 trade in per van.  The total cost for the vans is $35,000. 

Rationale:  Typically the Board of Education sets the last day for students at the April board meeting.  The school district experienced one no school day due to snow/weather.  The recommendation is for Friday May 15th to be the last student day. 

Rationale:  Due to the DOVID-19 situation a resolution is needed to waive local graduation requirements.

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Committee Reports (Chair in bold)

1.  Personnel Committee (Mr. Sitorius, Mr. Brundage, Mr. Fornoff)
2. Transportation and Facilities (Mr. Hudson, Mrs. Jobman, Mr. Wyatt)
3. Finance (Mr. Fornoff, Mr. Wyatt, Mr. Sitorius)
4. Committee on American Civics (Mrs. Jobman, Mr. Brundage, Mr. Hudson)
5. Policy Review (Mr. Brundage, Mr. Fornoff, Mrs. Jobman)

 

Rationale: 

Rationale:  May Regular meeting--May 11th @ 7:00

Personnel committee meeting

Facilities and Transportation committee meeting

Finance committee meeting