July 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting
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1. Call to Order
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1.1. Pledge of Allegiance
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1.2. Excuse Absent Board Members
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2. Approval of Consent Agenda
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2.1. Agenda
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2.2. Minutes of previous meeting
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3. Guests
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4. Financial Reports
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4.1. Treasurer
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4.2. Claims
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4.3. Activity
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5. Action Items
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5.1. Discuss, consider and make a motion and a second to approve the review of Policy# 5416 (Student Fee Policy) and Policy# 6400 (Parental Involvement)
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5.2. Discuss, consider, and make a motion and a second to approve the Milk Bid from Hiland Dairy
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5.3. Discuss, consider, and make a motion and a second to approve installation of a sandbox on the preschool playground, donated from the Wausa Parent Council
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5.4. Discuss, consider, and make a motion and a second to remove Mr. Greg Conn from signing checks out of the activities fund (due to retirement), and replacing him with Mr. Shane Anderson
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5.5. Discuss, consider, and make a motion and a second to approve the 2025-26 School Lunch Prices as presented by Mr. Hoesing.
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5.6. Discuss, consider, and make a motion and a second to approve the bid from Clausen Concrete for the slab on the east side of the Arctec building (paid for by grant funds.)
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5.7. Discuss, consider, and make a motion and a second to approve dues and membership to the Nebraska Rural Community Schools Association (NRCSA).
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5.8. Discuss, consider, and make a motion and a second to approve changes in the Preschool student handbook as presented by Mrs. Heimes.
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5.9. Discuss, consider, and make a motion and a second to approve the 2025-26 WPS Student handbook as presented.
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6. Administrative Reports
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Mr Hoesing discussed custodial staff and their hard work. They are on task and doing a good job this summer. He also noted we will be working on the 2025-26 school budget and getting that all in order. He also discussed state and special ed reimbursement and preparing for the decrease in state funds due to changes by the state. He also noted that teams sports camps, summer weights and athletes are doing well with summer sports activities and its flying by. We are looking forward to this upcoming school year.
Mr. Anderson noted the new scheduler system called Arbiter. It's a live online calendar that communicates with all schools and syncs with our Google calendar, so every game and activity should be live. We are working out the kinks but it will be able to give lists for each sport and become beneficial. He also discussed more curriculum is in, everything is really in place academically for students to walk through the door. |
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7. Discussion Items
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7.1. Retreat Date
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Monday, July 28th was discussed and set for the retreat date at 7:00pm
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7.2. Potential Track & Field & Fieldhouse
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Mike Kumm discussed the potential track and fieldhouse. Make our building and grounds more enticing for possible mobile students in the future. He gave a presentation on a potential company and a steel frame structure with tension fabric wall for a possible fieldhouse. He had the company work up a 90x160 size building. Install sports court flooring, portable hoops and nets. He discussed the possibly of adding things to make this a fully accessible community-use building.
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7.3. Cooperative Agreement Update (Junior High Football & Wrestling)
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Mr. Hoesing gave an update on the cooperative agreement. He has had some good conversations with Bloomfield on JH Football. He also had some input from Creighton and possibly having some cooperative opportunities with us. He asked permission from board to act upon these to get something in place.
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8. Executive (Closed) Session (If needed)
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There was no need for closed session at this meeting.
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9. Dates of Future Board Meetings
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10. Adjourn
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