November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

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 the review of monthly bills, credit card transactions, and district fund balances.

4.  Approve superintendent's expenses (mileage & reimbursement).

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

6.  General Fund Review-Monthly General Fund Balance Worksheet Attached

7.  Payroll Ledger Review

8.  Insurance Billing Review

9.  ACH Payroll Review

10.  Annual Audit

 

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: 


 

Rationale:  The board approved up to $20,000 for the purchase from the Depreciation Fund of a UTV for use by the school.  The superintendent advertised and requested bids.

Rationale:  The Buffalo County Sheriff's Office is interested in creating a "County-Wide SRO" position, which would allow an SRO to serve all of the school's in Buffalo County.  The primary function of the program would be to have the SRO be a positive police presence at the school, do some teaching (perhaps DARE or another anti-drug program), and assist the school when local law enforcement is not available.

The board will need to approve an MOU with the Buffalo County Sherrif's Office and adopt a policy on the use of SRO's (such as the one attached) in order to participate in the program.

 

Rationale:  The superintendent was authorized at the October 13th board meeting to purchase a van with the following limitations "no more than $50,000, no more than 50K miles, and no more than 5 years old."  

Rationale:  The superintendent is to be evaluated each contract year.  This agenda item is to provide the board of education notice of this need to evaluate the superintendent at the regular December Board Meeting.

Also, as per the language of the superintendent's contract below.  The superintendent is to remind the board of the terms of his contract renewal in writing at the November Board Meeting.  That informational reminder appears below:

Section 2. Renewal of Contract.  If a Board representative does not inform the Superintendent in writing on or before the seventh day after the regular December 2024 board meeting (and each December thereafter) of the Board’s intention to consider the non-renewal or amendment of this contract, the contract will automatically renew for a period of one year from and after the expiration date provided in Section 1 of this contract.  The Superintendent shall remind the Board in writing of this provision no later than its regular November meeting of each applicable year in which this contract may renew, starting in November 2024, and shall make the renewal of the Superintendent’s employment contract an agenda item for the regular December board meeting during each applicable contract year.  At the time of each contract renewal and/or amendment, the Superintendent shall be responsible for taking all necessary steps to insure that the School District has complied with the Superintendent Pay Transparency Act.
 

Rationale:  Parent/Teacher Conferences
We had a good turnout with an attendance rate of 88%.

Youth Leadership Conference
I will be accompanying 6 sixth-grade students to UNK on October 21 for the Region IV Youth Leadership Conference.

Fire Safety Presentation
A thank you to the members of the RFD who visited today to talk to our elementary students about fire safety. The students also had the exciting opportunity to see some fire trucks up close!

 

Rationale: 

Principal Report October Board Meeting

 

Academic

• Beginning in the 2nd quarter, junior high students will work on different IXL skills in their study halls to help improve their reading skills. 

  • They are expected to complete two skills per week and this will be tracked by their study hall teachers and Mrs. Maulsby.

• High school students will read the first 10 minutes of each study hall starting in the 2nd quarter. 

Student Behavior/Mental Health

•  Suicide Awareness Week - September 22nd - September 26th

  • Grade Level Change War

    • The seniors won in high school.

    • The money raised went to the mental health fund. 

Activities

• Girls Golf Team - Conference Champions 

  • Jordyn Larsen - 1st Place 

  • Makenna Treffer — 4th Place 

  • Emma Gentrup — 8th Place

  • Brooke Reagan — 9th Place

• Girls Golf State Qualifiers

  • MaKenna Treffer

  • Jordyn Larsen

• JH Cross Country

  • Remi Behrendt and Abigail Osten qualified for the state cross-country meet held in Papillion. 

  • Remi placed 24th and medaled.

  • Abigail placed 35th.

Rationale:  1.  Building Project Update

2.  Thank you sign for the construction site (See Attached Options or we can create any option you would like)

3.  High school hallways are not included in the current scope of work.  Budget pricing for painting these areas is attached.  $3758.  Would like board like for me to put this out for bid and get some numbers for ceiling replacement tiles in this area?  Or do we want to wait to see how much of the contingency budget for the building project is left over and then go from there?

4.  Annual Rule 10/ALICAP Safety Audit Report (Attached)

5.  Area Levy Rates for Buffalo County Schools (Attached) :

• Gibbon: $1.032
• Kearney: $1.073
• Elm Creek: $1.068
• Shleton: $1.007
• Ravenna: $0.688
• Pleasanton: $1.154
• Amherst: $0.796

6.  Audit — The fieldwork has been completed, and the school district is waiting on the draft of the annual audit from the auditor.  The superintendent will pass along the draft and add it to the following board meeting agenda for review and approval by the board of education.

 

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Upcoming Learning Events:

• State Education Conference 

Rationale:  A special thanks to our High Ability Learner Students and to Mrs. Maulsby for their continued work creating video updates on the Ravenna Public Schools Building Project.  We can't wait to see your next video update. — Misti Fiddelke, RPS Board President