November 12, 2018 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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General Fund for $106,920.71
Payroll for $558,617.00
Total $665,537.71

1. We had a Bond Fund payment of $239,717.84
2. $3,989 to Cornhusker for the 98 bus was for diagnostics and repairs to the steering gear box, driveline, differential repairs and miscellaneous other engine repairs.
3. Hometown Leasing is on twice as we are paying last months bill also.
4. Krauter Bosn bills are for replacing 2 condenser coils on the HS chiller, refilling with freon, expansion tank and line repairs.
5. $2,500 to Matt McNiff  - Matt was our speaker at our staff in-service.  He specializes in dealing with various student behaviors.
6. $4,000 to Mierau was for our financial audit.
7. Bus inspections - you will see a number of these in the bills.
8. $4,150 to Striv is our annual fee and for training activities for our students.
9. Vex Robotics is for our class curriculum and supplies.  They were ordered in July and finally arrived!
10. $1,886 to White Electric is for bulb replacement in the theater.

 

 

More Information:  The report is attached.
K-6 is at 417
7-8 is at 93
9-12 is at 229
K-12 total is at 739

We were at 735 last month.

More Information:  Mrs. Mowinkel will be demonstrating our virtual reality equipment.  This was purchased through the anonymous donation grant and has some great potential to expand our curriculum.  Hopefully you saw the piece on Facebook showing our fourth graders "visiting" a coral reef as they had been reading about them in their curriculum.  The video is attached and can be seen at the following link:  https://www.facebook.com/milford.eagles/videos/968462733362690/

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Open discussion as needed.

More Information:  Painting of the lines is all that is left to be completed by Fisher Track.  They actually said that if we can get a string of 50 degree days they may even paint yet this fall.  If not it will be mid March to early April depending on temperatures.
 

More Information:  Carlson West Povondra is moving forward with the bidding process.  Bids will be due on Thursday, December 13th at 4:00 p.m.  CWP will open the bids at that time but no formal school board meeting will take place. There will be a pre-bid conference that will take place on Wednesday, November 28th at 4:00 p.m.  This is an opportunity for anyone interested in bidding on any aspect of the project to visit the site and ask questions.

After visiting with CWP, my concern with the project at this point is that the estimated costs associated with making this addition meet the 250 mph wind storm shelter requirements is adding significant costs to the project.  CWP is working with contractors to get me an estimate of what that part of the project is adding to the overall costs.  The reason for the increased cost for this is that we  have a reinforced steel/concrete main structure.  This reinforced section is obviously more expensive than "normal" construction.

More Information:  There were no surprises in the 2017-18 audit.  We have our yearly deficiency of not having enough office staff working on monthly bills. 

We had reported during the budget hearing that we anticipated $7,869,011 in receipts in the general fund and the audit has us at $7,724,390.  We were estimating $7,648,931 in general fund expenditures and the audit has us at $7,691,275.  We generally trace these differences back to grants and the final payments we make at the end of each year.

Our general fund expenditures were down $264,408 in 17-18 or down 3.32%.  General fund revenue was down $900,000 or down 11%.

More Information:  The 5th and 6th grade band concert is on the same night as our December 10th regular board meeting.  We can start earlier or find a new date.

I am recommending that we move our meeting to Monday, December 17th at 7:00 p.m.  Moving the meeting a week later would allow us to review the bids that were turned in on our proposed elementary project.

Please check your calendars for conflicts.

More Information:  Riley Scheidt, Class of 2020, has made a request for early graduation.  Riley would graduate is December of 2019 if all requirements are met. 

Riley's letter and the policy are attached.

We recommend approval of the request.

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The Board of Education reserves the right to enter into Closed/Executive Session for 1) the protection of the public interest, or 2) the prevention of needless injury to the reputation of an individual, and/or the individual has not requested a public meeting. When making a motion to enter into Closed/Executive Session, the member making the motion should be as specific as possible as to the reason(s) for executive session.

The Board President will restate the reason for Closed/Executive Session after the motion has been acted on.