December 13, 2021 at 6:30 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

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).  Hotel bill and breakfast from the state education conference. 

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

We are going to continue to wait to transfer $15,000 back to the general fund due to instability in the "supply chain" and uncertainty with our preferred vendors, availability of products, and possibly paying a higher price for desired products.  Targeting February/March to make the transfer.    

6.  Payroll Ledger Review

7.  Insurance Billing Review

8.  ACH Payroll Review

9. New stove and steamer are both installed and working.  Elementary scoreboards are also installed with updated wireless controls.   

10.  Jerry's has completed the HVAC updates Osburn's room and in Mr. Nielsen's room.   

11.  District Financial Review:
 

12.  Transferring $149,191 from the General Fund to the Depreciation Fund.  These are ESSERs II funds for the 9-12 computer refresh and server updates.    


 

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?"

Agenda for Negotiations Between REA & Board of Education:

1.  Review the timeline for the negotiation process.

October 1st:  If the local association has not been certified by the CIR, the board must respond to the association’s request for recognition.

November 1st:  Negotiations must begin.  You must conduct at least 4 negotiation sessions by February 8, unless you settle prior to the need for 4 sessions.

February 8th:  If the board and teachers have not reached agreement, the parties must submit to a resolution officer for fact finding and/or mediation.

March 25th * The fact finding/resolution process must be concluded.

September 15th The Commission must render its decisions. 

* Negotiations, mediation, and fact finding must end on or before March 25th of the year before the contract year in question or within 25 days after the certification of state aid for the contract year in question, whichever occurs later.

2.  Review and discuss ground rules for the negotiation process.

3.  Review the proposed list of schools to be used for array comparability calculation.  Those proposed schools include:

Centura
Wood River
Shelton
St. Paul
Loup City
Amherst
Gibbon
Pleasanton
Ravenna

4.  Provide Board of Education & REA of current "2021-22 Negotiated Agreement" for review.

5.  Discuss items that need to be researched by the Board of Education or by the REA for consideration at future negotiations meetings.

• 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

Veteran’s Day

• Annevar Quilt Guild - Presented Quilts of Valor to local veterans

• Mr. Schirmer did a great job of organizing both of these and showing Ravenna off.
• Thank you to the staff that helped out.

• Teachers brought in all different kinds of board games and card games.
• Great way to build community amongst staff and students.
• Good feedback from teachers and students

• Mrs. Ellis and Mrs. Zinnel did a great job with the Elementary and Secondary Christmas programs. 

STAR (Students Teaching About Responsibilities)/YAB (Youth Advisory Board) Food Drive

• Food will be donated to the local food bank. 

• Class competition to see which class can bring in the most food. 

• I really wanted to use this time as a chance for a check-in with them to see how things were going, a time they could ask questions, bring the two of them together so they would feel more comfortable working together.
• The first few meetings we talked about NEE (Network for Educators Effectiveness). This is the evaluation tool that we use. The NEE site has really good examples of what we are looking for when evaluating teachers.
• We have only missed a couple of Fridays throughout the first semester.