December 12, 2022 at 7:30 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

Rationale: 

1.  Review monthly bills using the EMeetings Software.

2.  Review all credit card transactions for the month.

3.  Finance Committee Members Sign-off on review of monthly bills, credit card transactions, and district fund balances.

4.  Approve the superintendent's expenses (mileage).  Hotel bill and parking from the state education conference. 

5.  Lunch Fund Review-Monthly Lunch Fund Balance Worksheet Attached

6.  Payroll Ledger Review

7.  Insurance Billing Review

8.  ACH Payroll Review

9.  Folding Chairs(quote attached) 

Per Dan Cyborn's request to replace folding chairs that were declared as surplus two years ago.  

80 Chairs @ $119 ea = $10,865

10.  Fund Balance Review

December Fund Balance Comparison
	2021	2022
General Fund Checking	$1,439,012.23	$627,905.93
General Fund CD	$2,161,818.44	$2,162,474.84
General Fund Total	$3,600,830.67	$2,790,380.77
Building Fund	$702,859.16	$819,194.32
Depreciation Fund	$131,195.85	$399,197.42
Employee Benefit Fund	$115,426.43	$115,797.94
Total Fund Balance	$4,550,312.11	$4,124,570.45

 

 

 

Rationale: 

Members of the Public, 

This is the portion of the board meeting when we invite anyone in attendance to address the board of education. If you would like to speak to the board regarding any of the items on tonight's agenda or a public concern, now is your opportunity to do so.  Please review the orange sheet (found on the visitors' chairs) of paper that contains the guidelines for public participation.  If you wish to speak to the board at this time, please let me know.  "Would anyone like to address the board at this time?"

 

AFTER THE PERSON(S) INDICATE(S) THEY WISH TO SPEAK

1.  Please stand and state your name?

2.  What topic will you be speaking on?

3.  Are there others in the room who wish to speak to the same topic? (If so, ask that they be recognized so that 30 minutes of time for public comment can be apportioned as per the policy-5 minutes per person).

4.  Optional-"Please understand that public comment is your opportunity to speak to the board and present your concerns, thoughts, feelings, ideas, and observations.  Members of the board are happy to hear from members of the public, but the board will not engage in conversation or dialogue with you during public comment."

4.  "You'll have approximately 5 minutes to address the board, as we allow 5 minutes per person and a total of 30 minutes for public comment.  You may begin when you are ready?"

 

 

 

Rationale:  Meeting Pulse Rules

1.  The owner of the goal simply indicates if their goal is "On Track" or "Off Track."

2.  The owner of goal can provide ONE sentence explaining the status of the goal, if they wish.

3.  If a goal is "Off Track" it will be placed on the board agenda as a discussion items for the next month.

4.  The expectation is that if a goal is "Off Track" the owner will work to get it "On Track" by the following month.

Rationale: 

Agenda for Negotiations Between REA & Board of Education:

1.  Review the timeline for the negotiation process.

October 1st:  If the local association has not been certified by the CIR, the board must respond to the association’s request for recognition.

November 1st:  Negotiations must begin.  You must conduct at least 4 negotiation sessions by February 8, unless you settle prior to the need for 4 sessions.

February 8th:  If the board and teachers have not reached agreement, the parties must submit to a resolution officer for fact finding and/or mediation.

March 25th * The fact finding/resolution process must be concluded.

September 15th The Commission must render its decisions. 

* Negotiations, mediation, and fact finding must end on or before March 25th of the year before the contract year in question or within 25 days after the certification of state aid for the contract year in question, whichever occurs later.

2.  Review and discuss ground rules for the negotiation process.

3.  Review the proposed list of schools to be used for array comparability calculation.  Those proposed schools include:

Centura
Wood River
Shelton
St. Paul
Loup City
Amherst
Gibbon
Pleasanton
Ravenna

4.  Provide Board of Education & REA of current "2021-22 Negotiated Agreement" for review.

5.  Discuss items that need to be researched by the Board of Education or by the REA for consideration at future negotiations meetings.

Rationale:  Meeting with NRCSA at approximately 9:00 pm

Rationale:  It is the recommendation of the superintendent that RPS plan on having a traditional start to our school year without masks in the green and yellow operational zones.  This is based on the following: 

• The state of Nebraska is no longer in a pandemic emergency and has discontinued use of the "COVID-19" dashboard
• A vaccine is readily available to the public
• This aligns with stakeholder input from our survey which is attached
• Reviewing the plan every 6 months is required in order to receive ESSERs funding

 

Rationale:  Thank you to Mrs. Zinnell and Mrs. Ellis for our elementary Christmas Programs last week)

The 5th and 6th grades held their annual garage sale on November 23.  They also had a "Coin War" between the classes.  They raised 1750 with both fundraisers.   The funds were donated to the Riek family to help offset the cost of Ky-Mani’s heart surgery.

Rationale: 

NSAA Sportsmanship Assembly

• It was a really good presentation, but might have been more appropriate for parents and other spectators to see. The big takeaways from the presentation are; officials across the state and country are seeing more and more sportsmanship issues, from youth sports to varsity competition, and there are fewer young people getting involved in officiating. 

Christmas Programs

• Mrs. Ellis and Mrs. Zinnell did a wonderful job with the secondary and elementary Christmas programs. 

Congratulations to One Act for their State appearance

• 4th place finish

• Outstanding Technical Crew

Rationale:  Please review your weekly updates from Mr. Kjar.

Thank you for the opportunity to serve the district for the past 7 years.  I truly appreciated our time together.  

Artist of the Month:  7th Grade Class