April 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting
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1. OPENING PROCEDURES
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COPY OF OPEN MEETINGS ACT: The Board of Education makes available at least one current copy of the Open Meetings Act posted in the meeting room at a location accessible to members of the public. The Act is posted on the south wall of the meeting room. ORDER OF AGENDA ITEMS: The Arlington Board of Education reserves the right to adjust the order of items on this agenda.
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1.1. Call Meeting to Order
Discussion:
Chase Kratochvil called the meeting to order at 7:03pm
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1.2. Roll Call
Discussion:
Jason Arp: Present; Cassie Flesner, Present: Chase Kratochvil, Present: Brian Laaker, Present, Steve Slykhuis, Present, Shanon Willmott, Present
Also Present were pricipals Dr Jacque Morgan, and Aaron Pfingsten. Superintendent Lewis and Jennifer Arp Recording secretary were also present. James Shada was not present due to an activity this evening at the ballfield. |
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1.3. Pledge of Allegiance
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1.4. Approval of Regular Meeting Agenda
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Action(s):
No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
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2. WELCOME TO GUESTS AND PUBLIC FORUM
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO SPEAK DURING PUBLIC FORUM: Getting Started: When it is your turn to speak during the public forum portion of the agenda, please come forward, sign your name and address on the sign-in sheet and state your name to the Board of Education. Personnel or Student Topic: If you are planning to speak about a personnel or student matter involving an individual, please understand that our policies require that such concerns initially be directed to the administration for consideration. Board members will generally not respond to any questions you ask or comments you make about individual staff members or students. You are cautioned that slanderous comments are not protected just because they are made at a board meeting. General Rules: Please remember that this is a meeting of the Board of Education held in public for conducting the business of the Board of Education. Disruptions, offensive language, personal attacks and hostile conduct will not be tolerated. |
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3. CONSENT AGENDA
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No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
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3.1. Minutes of the Previous Board Meeting(s)
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3.2. Monthly Financial Reports
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3.3.
Resignations:
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4. CURRICULUM/INSTRUCTION REPORTS
Discussion:
Allison Mastny was present to share with the board about Instrumental and Vocal Music.
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5. REVIEW OF ANNUAL DISTRICT PLAN
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6. PRINCIPALS’ REPORTS
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6.1. Mr. Pfingsten's Secondary Report
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6.2. Dr. Morgan's Elementary Report
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6.3. Mr. Shada's Activity Report
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7. SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT
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7.1. Review Community Engagement and Discuss date for board retreat and strategic planning with NASB
Discussion:
Discuss date for Board retreat- Dr. Lewis will send out a date survey to board to get a date set for the retreat.
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7.2. Legislative Report
Discussion:
Dr. Lewis went over the current legislative report and updated the board with some of the education bills, and how they might be effecting schools and student aid. Some of the bills are being combined to make more of package bills, but keeping an eye on these bills to see how they will change and what the impact might be statewide.
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7.3. Review Supt Leave Log
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7.4. NRCSA and NASB reports
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7.5. Discussion of Ad Hoc Grade Scale Committee
Discussion:
The board is continuing discussion on the grade scale. Shanon Willmott discussed how she feels the changing the grade scale would be very beneficial to our students and would like to have the committee meet again to continue the discussion on making some changes. Mrs. Holly Toft- HS counselor was also present to discuss her thoughts on the grading scale. 4 years ago when this was discussed, the committee decided to make a slight adjustment to our 7 point scale.
Many Larger schools are using or adapting a 10 point scale, where as many of the Class C and D schools who are smaller utilize a 7 point scale. Arlington uses a 7 point scale, and our identified classes use and follow along with Metro on the 10 point scale. Mrs. Toft said that it is really important to hold our kids to a higher standard, and keeping our grading scale at a 7point scale it isn't as easy to pass and graduate students at the lower end of passing. Chase Kratochvil addressed the board and decided he would not suggest having the committee reform at this time, but if others on the board felt it needed to be addressed he would entertain the ideas. Mrs. Willmott stated again for the record, that she strongly felt we needed to revisit and it would be very beneficial to our students. |
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7.6. Discussion of Concrete from Street Project
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7.7. Report on Storm Damage
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8. COMMITTEE AND REPRESENTATIVE REPORTS
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8.1. Buildings and Grounds Committee
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8.2. Finance Committee
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9. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
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10. NEW BUSINESS
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10.1. Discuss, Consider and Take Necessary Action to Approve Bid to Paint Lines on the Track from Depreciation
Action(s):
No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
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10.2. Discuss, Consider and Take Necessary Action to Approve South Parking Lot Grade Work
Discussion:
The board discussed that this might be something that needs to be tabled until they know further what needs may be for transportation.
They will wait until after more decisions are made. Tabling this item until later in the summer with the deadline of getting things done before the 25-26 school year. |
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10.3. Discuss, Consider, and Take Necessary Action to Approve Concrete Repair Work in North Parking Lot as Presented from General Funds
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No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
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10.4. Discuss, Consider and Take Necessary Action to Approve Roof Repairs from Depreciation
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No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
Discussion:
Cassie Flesner added to the discussion that she feels that if we looking at getting jobs/repairs done, she feels like we need to make sure to get more than one bid rather than just one. She feels the board should see some different options for pricing .
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10.5. Discuss, Consider and Approve .60 FTE Contract for Nichole Knight for Occupational Therapy Services for 2025-2026
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No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
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10.6. Discuss, Consider, and Take Necessary Action to Enter into Interlocal Agreement with Fort Calhoun for Occupational Therapy Contract for 2025-2026
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No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
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10.7. Discuss, Consider, and Take Necessary Action to Approve Contract for Physical Therapy SPED Services from Learn2Move for 2025-2026
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No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
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10.8. Discuss, Consider, and Approve Proposal for 2024-2025 Audit
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No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
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10.9. Review Policies 5001-5006:
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10.10. Discuss, Consider, and Approve Building Level Budgets As Presented
Action(s):
No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
Discussion:
Finance committee met prior to tonight's meeting and went over the general education budgets for both HS and Elementary. Both Principals were present and discussed their building level budgets and answered questions based on needs for departments. Both budgets are very similar to last school year with both budgets making minor adjustments due to curriculum and staff needs and classroom sizes. All and all, budgets are in line with requests from prior years, and the committee felt comfortable with the budgets as presented, and felt the request for this year was pretty flat in the general amount for asking. The board agreed both sides and principals do a great job of keeping the budget in line.
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10.11. Discuss, Consider, and Take Necessary Action to Approve Early Graduation Request
Action(s):
No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.
Discussion:
Board has a policy that a student has to meet a deadline of April 1st of the prior year for a student to be eligible for early graduation in December of the following school year. Mr. Pfingsten spoke of the requirements, and how the student expressed the intent of graduating early.
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11. ADJOURNMENT
Discussion:
Chase Kratochvil adjourned the meeting at 8:58pm
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