November 13, 2023 at 7:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting
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1. OPENING PROCEDURES
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COPY OF OPEN MEETINGS ACT: The Board of Education makes available at least one current copy of the Open Meetings Act posted in the meeting room at a location accessible to members of the public. The Act is posted on the south wall of the meeting room. ORDER OF AGENDA ITEMS: The Arlington Board of Education reserves the right to adjust the order of items on this agenda.
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1.1. Call Meeting to Order
Discussion:
Matt O'Daniel called the meeting to order at 7:00pm
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1.2. Roll Call
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1.3. Pledge of Allegiance
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1.4. Approval of Regular Meeting Agenda
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Action(s):
No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
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2. WELCOME TO GUESTS AND PUBLIC FORUM
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO SPEAK DURING PUBLIC FORUM: Getting Started: When it is your turn to speak during the public forum portion of the agenda, please come forward, sign your name and address on the sign-in sheet and state your name to the Board of Education. Personnel or Student Topic: If you are planning to speak about a personnel or student matter involving an individual, please understand that our policies require that such concerns initially be directed to the administration for consideration. Board members will generally not respond to any questions you ask or comments you make about individual staff members or students. You are cautioned that slanderous comments are not protected just because they are made at a board meeting. General Rules: Please remember that this is a meeting of the Board of Education held in public for conducting the business of the Board of Education. Disruptions, offensive language, personal attacks and hostile conduct will not be tolerated. |
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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 the Previous Board Meeting(s)
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3.2. Monthly Financial Reports
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3.3.
Resignations: Hires: Reassignments: |
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4. CURRICULUM/INSTRUCTION REPORTS
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5. PRINCIPALS’ REPORTS
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5.1. Dr. Morgan's Elementary Report
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5.2. Mr. Pfingsten's Secondary Report
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5.3. Mr. Shada's Activity Report
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6. SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT
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6.1. Discuss 22-23 Financial Statements Review Process
Discussion:
Will have a full board workshop for the financial statement presented at 6:00 by the auditors instead of the just presenting it to the finance committee.
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6.2. NASB and NRCSA Updates
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6.3. Discuss Timeline for Supt Evaluation to be Reviewed at December Board Meeting
Discussion:
Dr. Lewis completed her self evaluation last week, Mr. O'Daniel forwarded the evaluation out to the other board members. The member's evaluation is due back Nov. 22
Final completed evaluation will be presented at Dec Board meeting. |
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6.4. Review ESU3 2022-2023 Annual Report
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6.5. Rule 10 Compliance Visit Discussion
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A compliance visit was done last Thursday, Nov 9th by the Department of Ed.
Rule 10 is to make sure that the school is in compliance with all the rules and accreditation by the state. The state is just double checking that we are doing as a school what we say we are doing. The only thing missing was a policy on seclusion and restraint. That policy will be introduced at the December board meeting. |
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7. COMMITTEE AND REPRESENTATIVE REPORTS
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7.1. Negotiations Committee
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Negotiations met with the AEA on October 30th
Next meeting will be on Nov 28th |
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7.2. Professional Development Sharing
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7.3. Finance Committee
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Will Schedule for Dec 11, at 6:00pm for whole board workshop with Auditor.
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8. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
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9. NEW BUSINESS
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9.1. Discuss, Consider, and Take Necessary Action to Enter into Memorandum of Understanding with Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG) program beginning with the 2024-2025 School Year
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No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
Discussion:
The JAG (Jobs for America's Grads) program was presented to our administration. The program works by bringing in a teacher that works with students on employment skills, and is able to work with the students in other ways. For instance, to start by introducing career options to our middle school, the teacher is hired by JAG, but the school is involved in the hiring process. There is no cost to the school for the first 2 years, but then it will cost the school $10,000 in year 3. The school pictures this as being another electives class that will be offered to our students. This will be regarded as another post-secondary curriculum class that will focus on getting students ready to go on into the job field or job related schooling after graduation, career-focused type skills. The commitment for APS is for a 3 year commitment, with the knowledge that we will have to pay at year 3. This will begin for the 24-25 school year.
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9.2. Discuss and Consider Submitted Proposals, and Take Necessary Action to Approve Purchase of Digital Scoreboard(s )
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No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
Discussion:
A request for proposals was sent out in the newspaper from the last board meeting in October, and multiple proposals have come in. Mr. Shada presented the proposals to the board, Proposals were from Nebraska Companies, Iowa Companies, and one from Georgia.
At this time $147,500 has been donated and/or commitments to our scoreboards. The board had asked the committee to have $112,000 raised/committed by the November Board meeting. Daktronics offers a Daktronics University that will help our staff and students work on the digital piece of the boards- they offer that in their proposal. The other bids do not provide the education, support and signage for the sponsors, mainly just the board itself. Discussion was had on the costs provided by all of the proposals, there was a very big difference in costs between the proposals, the board discussed why such a variance in the costs, and what was the right way for the board to be mindful of the money being spent on the boards. |
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9.3. Discuss and Consider Community Engagement Meeting to be Held January 29, 2024
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Community engagement meeting:
Format, survey, time, place, Desire to bring in a mediator, such as Marsha Herring or someone from NASB? The board would like the meeting to feel more conversational, not lean towards just details and not community-based. Need to make some decisions on meeting- they will keep board up to date on planning via emails. |
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9.4. Discuss and Consider 9000 Section Policies:
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9.5. Discuss, Consider and Take Necessary Action to Approve Cooperative Agreement with Integrated Life Choices for Special Education Related Services for 2023-2024
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No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
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10. EXECUTIVE SESSION
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The Arlington Board of Education reserves the right to go into Closed/Executive Session at any time in accordance with Section 84-1410. A copy of the Open Meetings Act is posted in the board room for review by the public. |
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11. ACTION ON EXECUTIVE SESSION ITEMS
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12. ADJOURNMENT
Discussion:
Matt O'Daniel adjourned the meeting at 9:03pm
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