September 12, 2016 at 7:40 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting
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1. Milford Public Schools Board of Education Information
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Mission Statement - Milford Public Schools will prepare all students to be successful citizens: Our Mission is fulfilled when all students read with comprehension, speak and write clearly, compute accurately, reason logically, understand and appreciate the fine arts, apply suitable strategies and habits of mind to solve problems, utilize technology to communicate and to understand information and behave morally.
This agenda contains a list of subjects known at the time of its distribution. A copy of the agenda reflecting any changes will be available for public inspection during normal business hours in the District Office. Except for items of an emergency nature, the agenda shall not be altered later than twenty-four hours before the meeting. The Board reserves the right to alter the order of items, as it deems necessary. |
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2. Opening Procedures
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2.1. Call to Order, Roll Call
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2.2. Open Meeting Law
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Information concerning the Open Meeting Law, Chapter 84, Article 14 of Nebraska State Statutes, is posted on the bulletin board in the back of the meeting room. |
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2.3. Additions to Agenda
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2.4. Welcome and Introduction of Visitors
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2.5. Community Input
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This is the public’s opportunity to speak to items on the agenda. This is also the public’s opportunity to speak to any topic concerning the school district – since it is not an agenda item the board cannot discuss or take action on the matter at this time. Future discussion can be requested as an agenda item. To be recognized, all participants must complete the Request to Address the Milford Board of Education Form. No complaints regarding specific staff members will be heard during a public meeting. The District has established separate procedures for complaints against individual employees. Thank you for your participation. |
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3. Consent Agenda
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No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
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3.1. Minutes of Previous Meeting
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3.2. Payment of Claims
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General Fund for $128,998.40 Payroll numbers will be put on sometime this weekend or on Monday. Finding a few bugs in the new software and how it talks to the old program!
Once again there are a lot of "normal" yearly bills. Several are for yearly maintenance items and curriculum related items. A few to point out:
I may update a few more before Monday night when our system is running better. |
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4. Reports
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4.1. Administrative Reports
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4.2. Student Enrollment Report
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The report is attached. Our K-12 total is 713. You will see we are up 25 students compared to last May. Our preschool is up 15 students compared to last year as we now have a morning and afternoon session as we have more identified students which requires more peer models.
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4.3. Option Enrollment Report
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Report is attached. We have updated this report as there have been some changes since the start of the year. We have 84 students optioning in and 44 optioning out.
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4.4. Exempt Schools (home school) Report
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We attached a report from the Nebraska Department of Education. You will see that we have 54 registered home school students.
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5. Board Commentary
Discussion:
Ned Pauley shared his conversation with Steve Joel, Lincoln Public Schools Superintendent.
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6. Unfinished Business
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6.1. Track/Football Field Replacement
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I visited with Jon Carlson and he will be bringing final plans for me to review next week and then he will be ready to send it out to bid. I am anxious to see actual numbers.
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6.2. Elementary Remodel/Additions/Joint Project with the City
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Mayor Bruha will be appointing a committee at the next city council meeting. Once that is established we will continue discussions regarding the feasibility a joint library at the elementary school.
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6.3. Discussion on State Funding for Public Education
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We started this discussion at the August 29th meeting. I will continue to have it listed in case there are some comments a board member would like to make.
Discussion:
President Dave Welsch discussed the various funding sources for public education.
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7. New Business
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7.1. Act on 2016/17 Proposed Budget
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No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
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7.2. Act on 2016/17 Proposed Final Tax Request and Resolution
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No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
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7.3. Approve the 2015/16 Multicultural Report
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Dr. Olson will present his last Multicultural Report!
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No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
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7.4. Discuss and Act on the Following Policies: Revision to Policy 3018: Denial of Access to School Premises or Activities; Revision and Renumbering of Policy 5058 to 3039: Threat Assessment; Repeal of Policy 3040 and Addition of New Policy 3040: School Safety and Security; Repeal of Policy 4036 Crisis Response Team Duties and Addition of New Policy 3041: Crisis Team Duties; Revision to Policy 4019: Workplace Injury Prevention and Safety Committee; Revision to Policy 4059: Suicide Prevention Training; Revision to Policy 5010: Immunizations; Revision to Policy 5054: Student Bullying; Repeal of Policy 4047: Implementation of Student Assistance Team Process and Addition of New Policy 5067: Student Assistance Team Procedures
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We attached a document for your review. The first few pages explain and describe the proposed changes and the remaining pages are the red-lined versions of the proposed policies.
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No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
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8. Executive Session
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The Board of Education reserves the right to enter into Closed/Executive Session for 1) the protection of the public interest, or 2) the prevention of needless injury to the reputation of an individual, and/or the individual has not requested a public meeting. When making a motion to enter into Closed/Executive Session, the member making the motion should be as specific as possible as to the reason(s) for executive session. |
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9. Adjourn
Discussion:
President Welsch adjourned the meeting at 8:40 p.m.
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