April 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting
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1. Call to Order
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Meeting called to order at 7:01 PM by Eric Wynia. Mike Kumm will be present at 7:15 PM.
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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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No guests were in attendance
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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 bid for $6,990 for Tri-State Irrigation for sprinklers on the new practice field.
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5.2. Discuss, consider, and make a motion and a second to approve the bid for $11,826.00 for a new sound system from Midwest Music Center.
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5.3. Discuss, consider, and make a motion and a second to approve the bid from Stadium Sports, O'Neill, NE for an amount not to exceed $122,351, while giving authority to the superintendent to dismiss parts of the bid if deemed necessary.
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5.4. Discuss, consider, and make a motion and a second to approve the quote for $12,236.50 for turf for the Football practice field from Kathol Turf in Hartington.
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5.5. Discuss, consider, and make a motion and a second to approve the quote of $46,000 to CM Builders (Clausen Concrete) for the equipment shed at the football field.
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5.6. Discuss, consider, and make a motion and a second to approve the graduation of the Wausa Public Schools Class of 2026 upon completion of their graduation requirements as authorized by the Wausa board of education and the Nebraska Department of Education.
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6. Reports
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6.1. Superintendent
Discussion:
Mr. Hoesing discussed district happenings. We have no staff leaving or retiring this year. Building and grounds committee will discuss further track updates and running tallies for the expenses. We preordered computers for 2026-27 school year to lock-in rates. He also discussed the LB801. It was advanced to Select File. He also discussed other legislative agendas and where they stand. We will wait for more information to come and see how it affect us as a school district.
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6.2. Principals
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Mr. Anderson discussed our statewide testing. ACT Testing was completed and we are waiting for results. We are a month away from graduation. Make sure May 9th at 2pm is available for board members to attend. We will graduate 16 seniors that day.
Skills USA attended their state competition this past weekend. We sent 11 high school and 8 middle school students to this event with Mr. Hamm and Mrs. Hoesig. The FBLA State Leadership Conference will take place this Thursday-Saturday. Wausa will sent 25 students to this along with Mr. Pfanstiel and Mrs. Baue. NECC Academic Contest took place and we finished 8th out of 26 schools in academic testing. We took 18 students and some took multiple tests. 10 kids scored in the top 10 with 4 medaling scoring in the top 3. He also noted some handbook items and certain cell phone policy options. AD Report: Boys golf will start their season Saturday. We have 6 kids out for golf. Our track team has been very competitive. We have a lot of depth with boys and high talent with girls as well. We have some competitive meets coming up which will test our athletes. Speech ended their season with a state runner-up trophy. We will be switching over our scheduling platform, Bound. We made the switch to Arbiter last year, which has been okay, but our conference decided to make the switch to Bound. Lastly, the basketball court design has been submitted. They will begin in July and will take 10 days. Mrs. Heimes Report: The In-school savings program sent kids to Stella Teller days in March. They got to meet Governor Pilden and had some other neat experiences. She also discussed the Targeted Improvement Plan. We had to provide evidence of sound instructional practices which we feel our MTSS process and administrative processus ensure our practices are aligned. Title 1 audit is underway. Mrs. Heimes will attend a workshop to ensure it fills out right. NSCAS testing will take place 3rd-8th. She also noted they had a great turn out for Kindergarten and preschool round-up. Upcoming events: Preschool field trip April 30th, Preschool Graduation May 8th, Elementary Track and Field Day May 18th and Elementary Field Trip May 19th. |
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7. Discussion Items
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7.1. Senior Tea
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Senior Tea plans are underway. We may have a possible speaker as well.
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7.2. Track/Football Field Update
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Mr. Hoesing discussed expected Bidding from entities as far as equipment from the track, as well as gave an update from Nemaha, saying that things are ahead of schedule at the moment, and all of the major dirtwork has been completed.
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7.3. Other discussion items from the board of education.
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No further discussions were needed.
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8. Executive (Closed) Session (If needed)
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9. Dates of Future Board Meetings
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10. Adjourn
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