Monday, September 9, 2024 Will begin immediately following the public hearing / tax request resolution - Board of Education Regular Meeting

1. Call to Order

1.1. Roll Call

1.2. Recognition of Open Meeting Law

1.3. Pledge of Allegiance

1.3.1. Oath of Office - student board member - Kyson Barger

2. Reports, Communications & Public Participation

2.1. Board accepts public comments

2.2. Finance Committee report

2.3. Facilities Committee report

2.4. Presentation by FFA - will be attending the National Convention

3. Approve the consent agenda, which includes the minutes and financials

3.1. Approval of Expenditures/Payroll for August 2024

4. Reports from Staff Members and Committees

5. Administrator's written reports: please review prior to the board meeting

6. Superintendent's report: 

Policy Update

• After reviewing the remaining policies following the recent update, I identified some that need to be removed and others that should be retained but renumbered. The process of aligning old and new policies took some time due to differences in terminology and structure. However, once the remaining old policies were identified, it became easier to determine which ones to remove and which to renumber for inclusion in the new policy manual. Policies that are specific to McCook Public Schools that require renumbering will need to be approved by the board. The renumbering process may take a month or two to finalize. The policies will remain active under the old numbering system until the renumbering is finalized.

School Improvement

• The school improvement (SIP) team met last week. In preparation for the school year, and the external team visit in February, the team reviewed and discussed several important issues. 
• Review of this year's key objectives: 
  • Continue to share our SIP goals with all stakeholders;
  • Update the district’s action plan; 
  • Collect multiple forms of data for the purpose of measuring how our school improvement efforts have impacted student learning and staff’ professional growth. 
  • Prepare for the external team visit 
• Reviewed the parts of Rule 10 that deal with school improvement
• Reviewed and updated the current school improvement action plan.
• Reviewed the technical assistance rubric.
  • Homework was assigned to building SIP teams to identify areas in need of improvement and actions to take.
• Discussed the need to develop and disseminate a survey to staff to measure their knowledge of the SIP action plan. 

Staffing

• Over the next two months, an administrative team will be attending multiple teacher recruiting events across the state. These events started last Thursday at UNK and will continue until the start of the spring semester. Some positions of need have already been identified, so administrators will be actively pursuing teachers to fill vacant positions for the 2025-2026 school year. 

Jr. & Sr. High Bond Information:

• The district will be hosting several events designed to inform the community about the bond and provide opportunities for patrons to visit the school facilities. Below are the dates for these events:
  • Bond information meetings:
    • Tuesday, October 8, at 6:00 PM in the Jr. High cafeteria
    • Wednesday, October 30, at 6:00 PM in the Jr. High cafeteria
  • Open house tours
    • Wednesday, October 16, at 6:00 PM in the Jr. High cafeteria
    • Thursday, October 24, at 6:00 PM in the Jr. High cafeteria

 

7. Director of Business Services report

8. Board member comments

9. New Business

9.1. Consideration of approval of the Budgets for all funds for the 2024-2025 school year

9.2. Consideration of approval of the 2024-2025 Tax Request Resolution

9.3. Approve the removal the following redundant policies: 
103, 201.04, 201.05, 203.08, 204.05, 204.06, 206.03, 206.04, 402.03, 404.04, 404.06, 404.06E1, 404.06E2, 404.06R1, 406.01, 412.051,
 412.052, 415.01,, 415.04, 501, 502.021, 502.032, 502.04, 502.08, 502.11, 503.01, 503.011, 503.02, 503.03, 504.11, 504.18, 507.04, 508.12, 606.03, 606.04, 606.011, 
607.06, 609.01, 805.011, 1003 E1

9.4. Reapprove the following policies and change their file numbers to correspond with our new policy manual. 

• Educational Philosophy and change File 102 to policy number 6025
• Student Board Member and change File 201.02 to policy number 8352
• Time of Board meeting and change File 204.01 to policy number 8353
• Provisions for Meals and change File 206.042 to policy number 8354
• Certificated Salary Schedule and change File 407.01 to policy number 4305
• Scheduling of Work Hours and change File 412.05 to policy number 4306. 
• Catastrophic Illness and change File 415.05 to policy numbers 4400 & 4400a 
• Student Photographs and change File 507.03 to policy number 5208
• Use of Video Cameras and change File 507.05 to policy number 3600
• Medical Clearance and change File 508.16 to policy number 6289
• English as a Second Language and change File 605.06 to policy number 5105
• Student Made Products and Services and change File 607.04 to policy number 5700
• Lesson Planning and Record-Keeping and change File 607.07 to policy number 6231

9.5. Approve Local Substitute Certificates

9.6. Accept resignation from Brent May - Sr. High Social Studies

9.7. Accept Resignation from Teresa Erickson - Jr. High English

9.8. Accept resignation from Patty Eisenach - 1st grade

9.9. Accept resignation from Lana Durbin - 4th SPED

9.10. Approve FFA trip to the national convention in Indianapolis, IN.

10. Positive Comments

11. Adjournment

12. Items for Review