September 14, 2026 at 7:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

Discussion:  Mrs. Bailey presented the financial report.  August bill run had two separate runs this month.  The $400,000 transfer to depreciation occurred.  Bills for 26-27 were included with room under budget authority to do so such as Alicap.  An expense was discussed in regards to photo's.  Mr. McMurtry said that the payment was for athletic photos and not simply just the senior banners.  The digital design class took over senior banners this year.

Discussion:  Mr. Feeney presented the following report:

September Board Meeting - Feeney

Elementary:

• No School 9/7 Labor Day and No School 9/8 for Regional PLC in Hershey

• 9/14 First Parent Night for Elementary Students

• Testing is underway for the Fall Assessment Schedule

• Picture Retake will be 9/24; the process went smoothly this year at Open House

• 9/30 and 10/1 Parent-Teacher Conferences

• Ms. Goosey is doing great things in the 6th classroom and with 7 ELA and 7/8 Writing

• Sarah and Sheilla are greatly appreciated as our new paras and are very helpful

• Mrs. McMurtry is amazing, jumping right in with testing and getting parents informed about IRIP and assisting teachers with students until testing is completed. 

 

High School:

• MAP testing for 7th and 8th graders is underway. We are testing reading, math, and science this year. 

• We have set our dates for the PreACT and ACT. ACT will be September 29th. The 9th grade PreACT will be November 10th and the 10th grade PreACT will be on November 11th. 

• 7-12 current enrollment is 150

  • 7th Grade = 26

  • 8th Grade = 28

  • 9th Grade = 29

  • 10th Grade = 25

  • 11th Grade = 28

  • 12th Grade = 14

 

Activities Director:

• We will be hosting our first annual Maxwell Volleyball Tournament on Saturday, September 19th. This tournament was previously hosted by North Platte Community College. There will be six teams in attendance. 

• The Booster Club purchased a new net system for the Volleyball Team. 

• A Single Tackle Sled was purchased for Football.

• Four seniors were submitted for the NSAA Believers and Achievers Program. These seniors needed to have a 3.5 or higher GPA and have both community and school involvement. The NSAA will select 48 from the applications they receive. 

  • Jagger Kleewein, Kailey Engels, Mackenzie DeGarmo & LaChelle Benitez were Maxwell’s nominations this year. 

Discussion:  Mr. McMurtry presented the following report on behalf of Jason Sommer:

• The coach bus is down as of last Friday. Performance truck is coming to look at it this afternoon. 

• Bus routes are going well, thankful for all the extra help from Russ and Roger filling in while the rest of us are driving for activities. 

• Will have some information on lawnmowers for Mr. McMurtry to discuss.

• Hosting the first volleyball tournament here this saturday. 

• Safety inspection will take place tomorrow with Allicap 

 

Discussion:  Mr. McMurtry provided the following report:

• Lawn Mower

  • Ivan is supposed to be coming to give us an estimate on the value of our current machine.  

  • A new machine is going to cost us $25,000

  • This isn’t something that we will need to purchase prior to spring time.

• Turfing the fenced in concrete

  • I reached out to 4 different companies. 1 company got back to me

    • $81,782

• Area Meeting

  • Any share outs?

• Policy Review

  • I would recommend approving all policies and collectively and then we start grabbing some of the more utilized ones and diving a little deeper into those at future board meetings

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• Audit is tomorrow

  • We will be following it closely

• Chosen for a focused file monitoring for the IDEA process this year.  We haven’t been audited in this area since 2019

• We did have a parent that requested an appeal for a hardship waiver that was denied by the NSAA.  We chose not to appeal that decision and will move forward accordingly

Discussion:  Mr. McMurtry presented two dates for change due to hosting events.  On December 11th, Maxwell is hosting a girl's wrestling tournament.  With Sandhills Valley folding their tournament, we are over 20 schools attending our tournament and counting.  We will need to start weigh ins at noon.  

We are hosting RPAC Quiz Bowl on January 13th.  This event needs to start at 1:00.

Both days were requested to be changed to half days.
Along with that, December 9th was scheduled as a late start.  With the request to change the 11th to a half day of school, the request was made to change December 9th to a normal day of school.