November 11, 2019 at 7:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

More Information:  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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More Information:  Approving minutes of the October 14, 2019 Regular Meeting

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General Fund for $99,031.27
Payroll for $600,406.29
Total $699,437.56

 

More Information:  K-6: 436
7-8: 96
9-12: 222
K-12: 754

You will notice in attachment that we lost 4 students this past month.

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Open discussion as needed.

More Information:  Areas of Concern:

1. We received our yearly deficiency of lack of personnel which leads to a segregation of duties deficiency.
2. We also received a compliance concern related to the Special Building Fund.
   1. Mierau & Co. feel we need to budget for the actual amount of our approved note with Farmers & Merchants Bank - $1,395,557.
   2. I do not feel this is any different that the Bond Fund.  We don't list the total amount of the issued bonds as an expense, only the amount due that year.
   3. I will try to get further answers on this item from the State and the State Auditor.
   4. For us to show an expense of $1,395,557 in the Special Building Fund, we would have to be able to show revenue in that amount.  The only way to generate revenue in this Fund it to have a tax levy.  We would need a levy of nearly 21 cents.  This is not even possible!  I will provide you with more information when I have answers.
   5. We may have to hold another budget hearing on the Special Building Fund once I have answers to my questions.
3. Also, I do continue to have concerns with the amount of property tax revenue we have and what the accurate county treasurer's balance is.  I will have more information for you on this at a later date.

More Information:  We have attached the Board policies associated with the Superintendent's position and evaluation.  We also attached the form we currently use.  Please let President Welsch know if you would like to see any changes to our process or to the form that we currently use.

More Information:  You will see this item is presented in a different manner as we will consider this one of our "hearings" that are now required through the Americanism Committee/Committee on American Civics.  I would like to see all our Americanism Committee meetings be with the board as a whole. 

We will still have our three members on the committee, but in my opinion it makes sense for the committee to meet with the board as a whole.Current committee members are Jessica, Tony and Dave.

We have several attachments for this item.  Dr. Kubicek will lead the discussions with input from the administrative team.  There will be no action taken by the board during this meeting.

 

More Information:  This item is for information purposes only on Monday night.  With only four members present, I believe we need to have discussion and input from all board members.

We received a request for a property exchange from Curtis and Jamie Hackbart.  Curtis and Jamie are making a request to exchange their property that is in our district with their neighbors property owned by Blaine and Sharon Clowser.

During discussions on this request we must follow the process located in the following document:  Title 92, Rule 83: State Committee for the Reorganization of School Districts.

We have attached their formal request, the assessor documents related to each property, and a map that shows the surrounding properties and the school district in which the property is located.

Couple of items to point out:

1. The Seward School Board has this item on their agenda and may take action on the request.
2. The Hackbart property, which is in our school district boundary, has an assessed value of $256,014.  The Clowser property, which is in the Seward district, has an assessed value of $238,960.  A difference of $17,054.  Currently, this would be a loss of $157 of property tax revenue based on the current valuations and levy.
3. If an exchange were approved by both districts, the Clowser property would move to our levy structure and would have to keep the Seward Public Schools Bond Levy as well. 
4. I will want to look at the attachment of the additional map.

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