March 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM - Board of Education Meeting Agenda

Bellevue West student, Bailey Secrest, will be recognized for placing 1st at Girls State Bowling.
 

Bellevue West student, Farrin Thiemann, will be recognized for placing 2nd at Girls State Wrestling. Bellevue East students, Kaliyah Evans and Jameiah Johnson, will be recognized for placing 2nd at Girls State Wrestling. 
 

Bellevue East students, Cota Barmore, will be recognized for placing 1st place and Rafael Almanza, for placing 2nd at the Powerlifting State Championships.
 

Bellevue West students, Alex Jones, will be recognized for placing 1st in the Boys 500 Freestyle and placing 2nd in the 200 Freestyle, and Zach Decker for placing 2nd in the 50 Freestyle at the State Swim Meet.
 

Administrative Recommendation:(1) Ananya Amarnath, (2) Gregory Bachman, (3) Dylan Boutin, (4) Nora Boyd, (5) Patricia Doss, (6) Bailey Hlopak, (7) Samantha Johnson, (8) Lisa Keene, (9) Kylie Lenear, (10) Kathleen Liebenguth, (11) Amanda Linder, (12) Jodi Parnell, (13) Allison Perkins, (14) Scott Petersen, (15) Amanda Peterson, (16) Lynnae Pierce, (17) Amy Quantrille, (18) Mary Reding, (19) Amy Rohlfs, (20) Emma Soppe, (21) Lesley Sprague, (22) Meredith Starr, (23) Latunya Sumpter, (24) Colleen Veys and (25) Scott Zimmer be released from their contracts effective May 21, 2026 and that (26) Larry Murry be released from his contract effective June 30, 2026.
 

Administrative Recommendation:(1) Faith Babb-Sandison, (2) Danielle Braggs, (3) Philip Crawford, (4) Shannon Cutright, (5) Christopher Hancock, (6) Alexis Hennings, (7) Emily Korth, (8) Annika L'Ecuyer, (9) Michelle McGrath, (10) Valerie Miller, (11) Alexander Plambeck, (12) Payton Royal, (13) Jordan Simmons, (14) Benjamin Skoff, (15) Hannah Velehradsky, (16) Savannah Vogel and (17) Nathan Walther be elected to the certified staff for the 2026-27 school year effective August 7, 2026 subject to their release from any contractual agreements with other school districts.
 

Administrative Recommendation: that the following addendum to the contract between Annika L'Ecuyer and the Bellevue Board of Education dated March 9, 2026 be approved: the salary schedule(s) or ranges applicable to this contract shall be the official JROTC Minimum Instructor Pay as adopted and communicated to the Bellevue Public Schools by the Department of the Air Force for each contact period or A01A-02 on the adopted teachers' salary schedule for the applicable school year, whichever is greater. Nothing in this contract shall give said employee any right to positions other than those of the JROTC program. Certification requirements applicable to this contract shall include both Nebraska Department of Education and Department of the Air Force requisites.
 

Budget Parameters are annually established by the Board of Education. The parameters are the guidelines for staff as they develop the proposed budget to be brought back to the Board in July.

A copy of the proposed Budget Parameters is attached.

Administrative Recommendation: The administration recommends the approval of the proposed Parameters for 2026-2027 Budgetary Planning.
 

Tonight, the administration will ask the Board to approve the revision to the 2026-27 school calendar.
 

Each year the Board is asked to approve the school calendar two years in advance, tonight the 2027-28 calendar is being presented. After receiving feedback the proposed calendar was finalized.

Attached is the 2027-28 proposed school calendar.

Administrative Recommendation: The administration recommends to approve the proposed 2027-28 school calendar as presented.
 

Each year the Board of Education considers the compensation package for non-union employee groups. For the 2026/2027 school year, a 3.99% total package increase is proposed for the Administrators (B), Secretaries (E), Sign Language Interpreters (I), Supervisor/Specialists (K), Custodial and Maintenance (C), Full-time Transportation (G) and the Part-Time & Temporary Staff (T) schedules. Summer School Teacher, and Curriculum/Instruction Pay continue to be competitive within the metro area.

Administrative Recommendation: Approve the compensation package for non-union employee groups as presented.  
 

A one-year salary agreement representing a 3.99% total package increase has been reached and ratified by Local 226 representation employees from the Paraprofessional group.

Attached are copies of the current and proposed salary program.

Administrative Recommendation: Approve the one-year Paraprofessional salary agreement as presented.
 

A one-year salary agreement representing a 3.99% total package increase has been reached and ratified by Local 226 representation employees from the Food Service group.

Attached are copies of the current and proposed salary program.

Administrative Recommendation: Approve the one-year Food Service salary agreement as presented.
 

Congratulations to Bellevue East student, Sofia Burton, for earning 4 Scholastic Art Awards in the Scholastic Art and Writing competition. Sofia earned 2 gold Keys and 2 honorable mentions. Sofia's artwork will be exhibited from March 9th through April 17th at the Omaha Public Schools TAC building located at 3215 Cumming St. Omaha NE 68131.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B-jgUdrqwgASe5uV-twlwsYG0JINM64M/view

Congratulations Bellevue West musicians that participated in the Elkhorn Band Olympics a week ago at Elkhorn South High School.

Kellen Pentico - Trumpet solo (Division I "Superior" rating and 1st Place overall)
Alessia Garton - Flute solo (Division I "Superior" rating and 3rd Place overall)
Xavier Fuentes - Tenor sax solo (Division I "Superior" rating and 3rd Place overall)
Charlie Sullivan - Trombone solo (Division II "Excellent" rating)
Declan Darling - Clarinet solo (Division II "Excellent" rating)
Chloe Oostra - Flute solo (Division II "Excellent" rating)
Kingston Rains - Horn solo (Division II "Excellent" rating)

Trumpet Trio: Kellen Pentico, Matthew Merchant, Kingston Rains (Division I "Superior" rating and Best Ensemble - Center E144)
Trombone Trio: Sayer Kearns, Charlie Sullivan, Abigail Cox (Division I "Superior" rating)
Trumpet Duet: Matthew Croteau, Henry Reimer (Division II "Excellent" rating)
 

Congratulations to the Bellevue West Forensics team on their last regular season tournament at Lincoln East. The team finished in 5th place. Individual medalists included:

Isaiah Perry, 4th Oratory, 3rd Extemp, and 3rd in Honors Impromptu
Zoey Loss, 2nd in novice Oratory
Kalyssa Williams, 4th in honors POI and 6th in Dramatic Interpretation; Kalyssa also earned her second NIETOC bid in DI, qualifying her for NIETOC in May.
Anyieth Bior, 5th in honors Poetry
Carson Mitchell, 6th in honors Poetry
Katie Braxton, 6th in novice Informative
Gavin Moreno, 5th in Entertainment
Talia Bender, 2nd in novice Poetry
Connor McCary, 3rd in novice HI

A special congratulations to Bellevue West Forensics Coach, Becca Hier, on receiving the Matt Davis Distinguished Service Award from Lincoln East for her dedication and service to speech. Specifically they mentioned her participation on the NIETOC board and serving as the chairperson for our National Speech and Debate district.
 

Congratulations to the Bellevue West marksmanship team, they competed February 28th at the NRA Sectional 3-Position Air Rifle competition in Beatrice. They had five of their 15-cadet team compete: Senior Alexys Barnes, sophomore Eliany Felix Perez, and freshmen Jazel Tuff, Evan Williams, and Michael Dolezal. Alexys Barnes and Eliany Felix Perez each placed third in their respective divisions.
 

Congratulations to Bellevue East AFJROTC on their success at the UNO Drill Team Competition at the end of February. Results are 1st place in Unarmed Exhibition, 2nd place in Armed Regulation, and overall Unarmed Winner.
 

Congratulations to Bellevue East Student Media on their success in the 2026 Journalism Education Association Nebraska Winter Contest. Submissions are rated Superior, Excellent, or Honorable Mention. We are very proud of our student journalists!

Bellevue East Yearbook Staff - Excellent in Yearbook Theme Development

Victoria Bogatz - Superior in Column Writing, Excellent in Review Writing, and Superior in Newspaper Feature Writing

Rudolph Bonilla - Honorable Mention in Entertainment Writing, Honorable Mention in Feature Photography, and Honorable Mention in Action Photography

Lailya Duncan - Honorable Mention in Entertainment Writing and Honorable Mention in Newswriting

Edher Luqueno-Glavan - Honorable Mention in Feature Photography, Honorable Mention in Action Photography, and Honorable Mention in Yearbook Layout

Jaidyn Gaddis - Excellent in Yearbook Feature Writing and Excellent in Yearbook Theme Copy Writing

And, last but not least, congratulations to Lailyah Duncan for winning the Best of SNO, a national level award from School Newspapers Online.
https://bestofsno.com/83554/features/former-bellevue-east-student-cured-of-sickle-cell-disease/

Radcliffe, Gilbertson, and Brady the District's lobbyist will report on the 2026 Legislative session.
 

The administration will give an update on the Nebraska Department of Education Comprehensive Literacy State Development (CLSD) Grant for the LB 79-2607 required K-12 science of reading training.
 

The administration will provide the Board with an update on the Strategic Plan Priority #3 Student Programs and Services.
 

Public comment pertaining to items not otherwise on the Agenda must be submitted to the Secretary of the Board five days prior to the Board meeting.  There were no items submitted for Public Comment for this meeting.
 

April 6, Board of Education Meeting, Welcome Center, 6:30 p.m.
 

Adjourn to Executive Session to consider matters relating to strategy sessions for personnel, which are necessary to be considered in closed session for the protection of the public interest and for the needless injury to the reputation of an individual.