September 13, 2021 at 7:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting(following tax request hearing)

Rationale: 

1.  Review monthly bills using the EMeetings Software.

2.  Review all credit card transactions for the month

3.  Finance Committee Members Sign-off on review of monthly bills, credit card transactions, and district fund balances.

4.  Approve superintendent's expenses (mileage).

5.  Lunch Fund Review-Monthly Lunch Fund Balance Worksheet Attached

6.  Payroll Ledger Review

7.  Insurance Billing Review

8.  ACH Payroll Review

9.  Review Capitol Improvement and Fleet Maintenance Plans

10.  The $135,526 CD was not included in the end of year(August) General Fund bank balance.  Thus, the total General Fund bank balance is $3,621,234.  Hilary and Brad will be working with the bank as the maturity date comes due on that CD to consolidate it into the 9 month flex CD, place the monies into the General Fund, or earmark it for transfer into the depreciation account.  

11.  The second half of the ScoreVision installation bill is included in the bills for this month.  We are NOT paying it yet.  We requested that they invoice us in order for us to have record of the expenditure on this month's bills.  We are going to pay for this using G5 grant funds.  We have a G5 grant that must be expensed prior to September 30th, 2021 and then we can request reimbursement through January 31st, 2022.  Thus, this will end up being a General Fund expenditure and reimbursement from the G5 Small Rural Schools Achievement Grant.   

12.  F-150 Update:  It has been an epic.  Immediately after we sold it, on the way home from school, it started having engine problems.  In the end, we ended up losing money on the deal.   

13.  A Lunch Fund Transfer of $15,000 may be necessary to cover bills and payroll for this month, if we do not receive our reimbursements on time.  
 

Rationale: 

Members of the Public, 

This is the portion of the board meeting when we invite anyone in attendance to address the board of education. If you would like to speak to the board regarding any of the items on tonight's agenda or a public concern, now is your opportunity to do so.  Please review the orange sheet (found on the visitors' chairs) of paper that contains the guidelines for public participation.  If you wish to speak to the board at this time, please let me know.  "Would anyone like to address the board at this time?"

 

AFTER THE PERSON(S) INDICATE(S) THEY WISH TO SPEAK

1.  Please stand and state your name?

2.  What topic will you be speaking on?

3.  Are there others in the room who wish to speak to the same topic? (If so, ask that they be recognized so that 30 minutes of time for public comment can be apportioned as per the policy-5 minutes per person).

4.  Optional-"Please understand that public comment is your opportunity to speak to the board and present your concerns, thoughts, feelings, ideas, and observations.  Members of the board are happy to hear from members of the public, but the board will not engage in conversation or dialogue with you during public comment."

4.  "You'll have approximately 5 minutes to address the board, as we allow 5 minutes per person and a total of 30 minutes for public comment.  You may begin when you are ready?"

 

 

 

Rationale:  Meeting Pulse Rules

1.  The owner of the goal simply indicates if their goal is "On Track" or "Off Track."

2.  The owner of goal can provide ONE sentence explaining the status of the goal, if they wish.

3.  If a goal is "Off Track" it will be placed on the board agenda as a discussion items for the next month.

4.  The expectation is that if a goal is "Off Track" the owner will work to get it "On Track" by the following month.

Rationale:  The new staff members will be at the meeting to introduce themselves, tell you about their staff positions, and share a little personal information with the board.

Rationale:  It is the recommendation of the superintendent that RPS plan on having a traditional start to our school year without masks in the green and yellow operational zones.  This is based on the following: 

• The state of Nebraska is no longer in a pandemic emergency and has discontinued use of the "COVID-19" dashboard
• A vaccine is readily available to the public
• This aligns with stakeholder input from our survey which is attached
• Reviewing the plan every 6 months is required in order to receive ESSERs funding

 

Rationale:  Review the RPS Capital Outlay and Fleet Schedules.  Conduct a facilities and grounds tour. 

Rationale:  Staff to Staff Google Training
We had several staff members volunteer to present on a specific Google topic.  Mrs. Kjar presented on Google Slides and Bitmoji, Mrs. Yendra did presentations on Google Drive, Mrs. Nelson talked about using Google Docs, Mr. Christensen presented on Google Forms, and the Admin Team presented on Google Sheets.  Staff had the opportunity to sign up for 4 different sessions, and it went really well.  Survey results showed that 95% of respondents found that the training was worth their time and would like us to do similar training in the future. 

FastBridge Assessments Elementary Book Fair
September 13-17

Rationale: 

Staff to Staff Google Training

We had several staff members volunteer to present a specific Google topic.  Mrs. Kjar presented on Google Slides and Bitmoji, Mrs. Yendra did presentations on Google Drive, Mrs. Nelson talked about using Google Docs, Mr. Christensen presented on Google Forms, and the Admin Team presented on Google Sheets.  Staff had the opportunity to sign up for 4 different sessions and it went really well.  Survey results showed that 95% of respondents found that the training was worth their time and would like us to do similar training in the future. 

MAP Testing Secondary

• September 27th & 29th

Parent-Teacher Conferences

• Conferences will be held on Tuesday September 14^th from 4:00 - 8:00pm and Friday September 17^th from 8:00 - 11:00am.
• Due to the installation of the new score boards, conferences will be held in teachers' class rooms.

 

Rationale:  1. The annual Distance Education Incentive Payment-$27,016.96 was paid to the district through NDE for offering 32 distance education course units during the 2020-21 school year.