October 14, 2020 at 6:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting
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1. Call to Order and Pledge of Allegiance
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President Gould called the meeting to order at 6:01 PM and the Pledge of Allegiance was said.
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2. Motion to Excuse Board Member's Absence
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All members were present.
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3. Open Meeting Law
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President Gould reminded the audience that the Open Meeting Laws would be followed.
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4. Consent Agenda
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Motion by Blanchard, second by Black to approve the consent agenda as presented including the regular meeting minutes of September 16, 2020, September Financial Statement and October monthly bills. RCV 6-0. Motion carried.
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4.1. Regular Minutes of September 16, 2020
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4.2. Financial Statement/Report
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4.3. Monthly Bills
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5. Correspondence/Recognition
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Last week was Fire Prevention Week, thank you to our local volunteers on the fire and rescue departments!
Kudos to Patty and the cooks for making the free breakfast and lunch program work by preparing/serving more meals and cleaning up each day. They are doing an awesome job! Thank you to Nurse Amanda! She has a lot on her plate while navigating through Covid, and also ensuring we handle the health side of things in accordance with state law. She always remains positive and is definitely a great asset to RC! Shout out to the secretaries at RC for everything they do behind the scenes! They have been training with Peggy and training with Amanda, while also doing other duties that are needed. I appreciate all they do! The custodial/maintenance staff has also done a ton behind the scenes to keep our doors open. There were a few days when Chris even stepped in to help serve during lunch when we were short. They are simply the best. Another shout out to Mr. Gralheer for his extra time and work which has allowed activities to continue on. There has been a need for a lot of extra communication and restrictions but he has done a great job staying on top of it all. Activities would not operate as well as they have without him. Thank you to Mrs. Osten for everything she has done from ACT, PreACT, PSAT, covering for teachers, while also providing an open door for our students to go to in times of need. Thank you to ALL of our teachers that have been willing to step in and step up. We have been short on subs for a while now, and have had to ask them to help with coverage. They have helped out where and when needed! Thanks to all teachers and staff for their work supporting all students both face-to-face and remotely. |
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6. Public Forum
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7. Discussion Items
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7.1. Administrative Reports
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Submitted by Allison Stansberry, Jr-Sr High School Principal
The ACT was administered on October 6. There will be a makeup test on October 20 for approximately 20 students that missed the ACT due to various reasons. The PSAT is scheduled for October 14 here at the Jr-Sr High. Mrs. Osten has also been working with SCC to give our students the opportunity to take the Accuplacer in January. Discovery Ed STEM Work: On October 13-14, our teachers will do their first 1:1 session with our instructional coach, Mark, via Zoom. This will be more relationship building/get to know you time for our teachers and Mark. I am excited to see how our teachers grow over the course of the next few months. The staff at the Jr-Sr High that are participating in stem are: Jill Huck, Adison Kenning, Sydney Paige, Greg Wilmes, Carolyn Enevoldsen, Nicole Hummel, Rebecca Parks, Celia Newman, and Courtney Polak. We are still looking to hire a full time Special Education Paraprofessional. The job has been open for a while but we are hoping to get some applicants coming in! I met with our NCC Principals on September 30. It was a great morning filled with collaboration and networking. It was also interesting to hear what other schools are doing and how they are handling the current situation. As we prepare for 2nd semester, Mrs. Osten and I are looking at going to an A/B format rather than a 5 day schedule. It would still be a block schedule, however, students would have class every other day. We have sent the draft to teachers for input and so far, teachers were receptive to the idea and provided great feedback. We are hoping to make a decision and finalize within the next couple of weeks. Submitted by Brian Gralheer, Assistant Jr-Sr High School Principal/Athletic Director Our fall sports teams have continued to play (and play hard) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thank you to our parents, coaches, and athletes for helping us have a fall sports season. After enduring the spring of 2020, our student athletes have been giving great efforts this year. Softball ended their season in West Point after a hard-fought battle against Ponca in subdistrict play. They ended up 12-18 on the season. The highlight of the season was the Runner-Up finish at the Conference Tournament. With wins over DC West and Logan View, the Mustangs narrowly fell to host Ashland-Greenwood in the championship game. Great job this season ladies! Cross country was able to compete in our home Mustang Invite that was held at Branched Oak SRA. It was a beautiful day where many runners reported personal records. Thank you to Jared, Ron, and the many workers that helped make this event a success. They will return to Branched Oak this Thursday for the District Meet. Mustang volleyball is currently sitting at 16-7 with the Conference Tournament coming this week. The Mustangs are the #2 seed and will face Arlington in Round 1 on Tuesday. Make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel rc activities to be able to tune in. The lady Mustangs finished runners-up at the Fillmore Central and home Mustang Invitational. Mustang Football is now 5-2 on the season after a tough setback to Malcolm. They will be hosting Wahoo this Friday. The NCC Athletic Directors have continued our weekly Zoom meetings to begin the discussion of how winter sports will look during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bouncing ideas off of this group of people has been a wonderful asset in these difficult times. Here are some updates on our Disaster Grant through ESU2: Our staff was able to complete Part 2 of 3 of our Trauma-Informed Care training through Project Harmony. The focus of this training was on Compassion Fatigue and Self-Care. The final training will be over Putting it into Action: Trauma-Informed Classroom Strategies. The ESU2 has piloted a ticketing process to deliver Tier III mental health therapy services to RC, North Bend, and Fremont. The services will be "last dollar" where the grant will pay for residual expenses after billed through insurance. We are excited for this to complement our existing 2 full days of an LMHP in our building working with our kids. Submitted by Shelly Dostal, Elementary Principal at Valparaiso/K-5 Curriculum Director Assessment - Students in grades 3-8 completed fall NWEA MAP testing on line. Data will be shared with families at parent teacher conferences. I attended a webinar on October 7 regarding Nebraska Assessment updates. There will be changes coming in NSCAS assessment. On September 30, teachers met in professional learning communities. They reviewed beginning of the year data to create SMART goals for their PLC. Professional learning on October 12 will be held in buildings. Teachers will also have time to complete report cards and prepare the parent teacher conferences on October 13 and 15. I will be attending the State Curriculum Directors meetings on October 8-9. Topics include assessment, upcoming standards changes, NebraskaREADS, and Rule 10. Elementary conferences will be held on October 13 and 15 from 4:15-8:00 pm via Zoom; a few families have requested a phone conference. Parents will sign up for conferences via an on line program. You can go to https://www.ptcfast.com/schools/Raymond_Central to see how it works. First quarter Report Cards as well as MAP data and FastBridge reports will be sent home so parents can review this data with the teacher at the zoom conference. Breakfast/Lunch - Most students are participating in the breakfast and lunch programs offered. We are serving about 100 breakfasts and 130 school lunches each day. PTO - Fall fundraising items will be delivered soon for distribution to families on October 14. We usually distribute at parent teacher conferences, but we are modifying since we are having Zoom conferences. All students who sold 20 or more items will be in a drawing for an Amazon Gift Card. Students who sold 20 or more items were: Walker Hellerich, Noah Jamison, Tommy Mayo, Norah Vech, Ande Zugmier, BerLynn Gotchal, Kameron Karber, Chance Suchy, Quentin Virgil, Preston Zugmier, and Cortni Lovell. Thank you to all who ordered and purchased items from the fundraiser! Mustang Day Out will be held at Martin’s Hillside Orchard on October 16 when students have the day off of school. The PTO earns 10% of the sales when families mention they are from Raymond Central. A virtual family game night is planned for elementary families on October 22 from 6:00-6:30pm. Meals will be provided to teachers during parent teacher conference nights on October 13 and 15. Fire Prevention Week is October 5-9. A big thank you to Fire Chief Derek Matulka, Assistant Fire Chief Skyler Leggett, and all the volunteer firefighters from Valparaiso and Raymond for keeping our community safe. The Fire Department provided activities and videos for the teachers to use in their classrooms as part of Fire Safety lessons throughout the week. Students who want picture retakes will be photographed on October 14 by Inter-State Studies. The Scholastic Book Fair will be held virtually this year! Thank you to Ms. Janet Dannelly for organizing the online book fair. The Raymond Central Food Bank BackPack Committee will host its 11th annual fundraiser. The Hustle run/walk will be a virtual event to raise the needed funds to provide backpacks filled with food for student families on the weekends. We would like to thank our numerous sponsors for their continued support! You may still register at active.com, however you will not get a t-shirt. We will be observing Red Ribbon Week the week of October 26-30. Fall/Halloween Class Parties will be held October 30. We are making some modifications due to COVID, but we want the students to still enjoy Halloween. Submitted by Ann Egr, Elementary Principal at Ceresco/Special Education Director Elementary Students did a fantastic job with the fall fundraiser. The estimated total participation for both buildings is 37.9%. Great job!! This was up from last year. Finally, thank you PTO for all that you do for our students! PTO Fundraiser: Top sales for Ceresco are Caleb Bower, Bryson Benes, Beckett Wellman, Hannah Sklenar, Coleman Field, Kate Field, Mason Mumm and Rebecca Sklenar. NWEA MAP (Measure of Academic Progress) wrapped-up last week. MAP provides educators with detailed information they need to support the curriculum and meet students’ needs. Fire Safety is October 5-9. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, the fire department was unable to present fire safety information to each of the classrooms. Teachers discussed fire safety in their classroom. Parent-Teacher Conferences at the elementary are scheduled for October 13 and 15. The elementary schools continue to use the online system, PTCFast, for scheduling. New this year the elementary book fair is on-line from October 12-25. PTO sponsored virtual game night will be October 22. The 11th annual Virtual Hustle run/walk for Saturday, October 24-25. Thank-you, in advance, to all who participated. Proceeds from this event help support the RC Backpack program. Special Education: October is a busy time for Special Education. Reports for the Department of Education are due. Thank you to Mr. Rose for his work with the October 1 Child Count. |
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7.2. Curriculum Report
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7.3. Superintendent's Report
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The Free Breakfast/Lunch Program has been extended through the end of the school year! We have increased our student lunch count by 10% and our breakfast count by 70% since the program began.
Commissioner Blomstedt issued guidance to school districts allowing teachers more time for planning and preparation due to all the extra work required to teach during a global pandemic. Raymond Central will look at two dates for teacher work days - November 30 and January 6. The Wellness Committee met on October 5. Raymond Central will be awarded the silver level from Nebraska Healthy Schools Program on October 20. The committee feels the wellness policy has been accepted more in year three than prior years. This is a testament to strong communication and educating stakeholders about our "why". Since last meeting we revisited and re-verified our option enrollment numbers. We have closed the gap even more with 112 students optioning out and 94 students optioning in. Drug testing has went well. Kids are usually in and out in 5 minutes. On Mondays, Dr. Joel uses an App that randomly provides 3 numbers. Mrs. Stansberry puts all kids that are in the pool into an organizer and it generates a random ordered list. The numbers and random lists are combined together and filed. Students are called on Monday, Thursday, and Friday. The Fundraising Policy is a work in progress as is any policy. We must continue to be consistent and work with staff through the policy. The policy was intended for each club or organization to have one selling of a good per year but they can do as many concessions, grape picking, etc. as they want. We have been approved to present once again at the NASB Conference on November 20. Our presentation is titled, "The Importance of Visioning...Raymond Central’s Journey toward C-H-A-N-G-E!" We will send four Board members to the conference and one virtually. |
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7.3.1. Goal 1: Ensure continuing well being of staff and students by creating an equitable framework for responding to and recovering from a pandemic.
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7.3.2. Goal 2: Continue the creation of a 10-year facilities strategic plan for implementation that addresses maintenance and improvements for existing building assets.
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7.3.3. Goal 3: Develop progress monitoring tools to evaluate the effectiveness of district initiatives to ensure the sustainability over time.
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7.3.4. 2019-2020 Raymond Central Strategic Plan
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7.4. Facilities Report
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Thank you to Jared and Ron for their work on the Jr-Sr High School curb appeal adding several plants in the rocks at the front entrance.
We will prioritize the roof project at the Jr-Sr High School for this summer. The estimated total cost is around $250,000. The rating for this part of the roof is poor and needs replaced. Next will be a difficult decision on when and if we replace the roof at Ceresco Elementary. We know that the flat roof needs to be replaced at an estimated cost of $190,000. The remainder of the roof also needs to be replaced (all shingled areas) at an estimated cost of $850,000. More measurements and inspection will need to happen before anything happens. As part of the feasibility study, Mark and Carl will be walking through all three building sites on October 15. They will have a retired Fire Marshall with them to look for code issues. |
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7.5. Review of Technology Plan
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Progress has been made with the Mobile Application. We now have an Apple Developer Account. I have asked a panel of students what they would like on the app.
It looks like the new phones will be installed in the coming month. I have been communicating with the programmer to set it up on the back end and to assign the extensions for each phone. We have begun the process of getting quotes to replace some of our cameras and the camera server. Updates and additions have been made to the Website. |
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7.6. Update of Raymond Central Crisis and Safety Protocol
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7.7. Committee on American Civics (Breitkreutz - chair, Springer, Burklund)
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7.8. Transportation Committee (Black- Chair, Breitkreutz, Springer)
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7.9. Finance Committee (Springer- chair, Blanchard, Breitkreutz)
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7.10. Facilities Committee (Blanchard- chair, Springer, Burklund)
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7.11. Negotiations Committee (Black- chair, Gould, Blanchard)
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7.12. Curriculum Committee (Gould - chair, Black, Burklund)
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7.13. Policy Committee (Springer- chair, Gould, Black)
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7.14. NASB Monthly Update
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7.15. Review Public Forum Presentation(s) - Consider, discuss, and take all necessary action
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8. Action Items
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8.1. Approval to Waive 11th Grade Job Shadow
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Motion by Breitkreutz, second by Blanchard to waive the 11th grade Job Shadow Requirement due to current restrictions on travel. RCV 6-0. Motion carried.
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8.2. Approval of Substitute(s)
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Motion by Burklund, second by Breitkreutz to approve Christina Villarreal and Kari Joel as substitute teachers. RCV 6-0. Motion carried.
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8.3. Approval of Student Teacher(s)
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Motion by Black, second by Burklund to approve Tyler Polacek with Andrew Placke, Rachelle Hinrichs with Rebecca Parks, and Bailey Ballard with Courtney Polak as student teachers. RCV 6-0. Motion carried.
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8.4. Approve Snow Removal Bids for Elementary Sites
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Motion by Breitkreutz, second by Burklund to approve Snow Removal Bids from Pat Isaacson for $200.00 per snow removal event at the Valparaiso School, and from PJ Hass for $250.00 per snow removal event at the Ceresco School. RCV 6-0. Motion carried.
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8.5. Approval of Amended Policies 5008 and 8342
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Motion by Black, second by Blanchard to approve Amended Policies 5008-Attendance and 8342-Designated Method of Giving Notice of Meetings. RCV 6-0. Motion carried.
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8.6. First Reading of Policy 4031 - Injury Leave
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Motion by Blanchard, second by Breitkreutz to approve the first reading of Policy 4031-Injury Leave. RCV 6-0. Motion carried.
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8.7. First Reading of 4270 - Staff Payments During Closure
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Motion by Blanchard, second by Burklund to approve the first reading of Policy 4270-Staff Payments During Closure. RCV 6-0. Motion carried.
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8.8. Approval of Next Regular Board Meeting - Wednesday, November 11, 2019
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Motion by Black, second by Burklund to approve the next regular Board Meeting for Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 6:00 PM. RCV 6-0. Motion carried.
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9. Adjournment
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Motion by Breitkreutz, second by Black to adjourn the meeting at 7:11 PM. RCV 6-0. Motion carried.
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10. Important Upcoming Dates:
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