001Call the meeting to order for April 7th, 2025. Roll call, please. Brown here. Grantham here. Nancy Hopper pres here. Smith here. Sarah here. Pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liice for all. You have before you approval of the board to approve. Second call. Hi Amy Grantham. Hi Nancy Hopper. Hi Katie. Jess. Hi John. Hi Smith. Hi Sarah Whitney. Hi. Next we have agenda changes. Approval of the Items report move to approve. Second roll call, please. Chris Brown. I ran. Hi. Nancy Hopper. Hi. Katie Jess. Hi. John. Hi. Smith. Hi. Sarah W. Hi. We are going to move down to A public comments. Anyone in the audience wish to speak to the board? for agon student representative.
002Good evening, guys. So, right now we have our spring sports going on. Soccer has a game this Thursday, then baseball has one on Tuesday and Thursday. Our track team had a meet this last Friday pretty well. We had a lot of people place. Um there wasn't play last over the weekend. It was a stunning beat and that was a hit. The seniors have have started a countdown and then promise on the 26th. Thank you. Next, we have board reports. beginning with this is an election year in November and so um we'll need an action item to designate Beth Mort as the district's designated election official for us as we will have three positions I believe for the school board and just our middle school will be participating in two track meets that are not in
003our area since there are limited track meets for the middle school athletes those states and places will be Sydney Nebraska April 16th and left by on May 2nd on the superintendent report. I think you guys heard quite a bit from me earlier. So I don't have a report tonight. All right, assistant superintendent of Sorry, I might make action report as normal for your approval tonight. There's any questions on that to answer those. Um we are seeing some movement now with hires uh starting to get certified applicants in and so forth. Um so we're starting to see a little bit of progression there. Uh postings, we have three administrative postings right now. We have 35 certified. Um mind you, some of those are uh folks that are permanent subs. Some of those are contract employees that
004we've had on the special service side people may end up having to that uh classified we have eight positions and then our standard coaching subs and insurance there as well. Our CBET uh insurance renewal we just signed that insurance that renewal for this year. Um we've been told that it was 5.5% increase which was great. Um our total numbers come in I forget it's like page six and talk about it too. So that kind of just breaks down each of our areas. Uh the percentages to the right are the plans that we have. Um our insurance rates are going to go 5.5% which on our standard PO6 and our high deductible plan that is um $47 a month per employee times 12 months for the year. Okay. So to go up from 861 to 908
005shows up there. The PO3 um has a out of pocket cost to our our employees. We apply their $750 H um towards that or HSA towards that and that buys that down and they pay basically half of what the increases. So good news there. Uh vision um down towards the bottom those two numbers at the bottom 10% 0%. Uh vision is not going up so no percentage increase will continue with $8 per month the district pays half of that at $4 for the employee uh out of pocket for the employee. Uh dental did go up a little bit by 10% going up $3 a month and again the district pays um half of that as well for the employee. So as a whole good news compared to what I've heard across the state. So, uh,
006job fairs. Um, Jen, I think we're starting to see the first part of our labor there. Um, we've had a number of UNCC uh, job fair contact us. Um, submit some applicants to secure some of those folks in the district. So, that's good. Increased numbers there. Um, in front of you guys tonight, you'll have the recommendations for advancement. Um, that is for all of our certified staff. You're welcome to, uh, entertain any questions that you have there. That includes all of our resignations um our retirements requesting go to critical shortage our credit critical shortage folks have that have asked to return um and I don't know how to straight though we do have a couple straight uh retirements that have been on critical shortage that are stepping away from um we will have our recommendation
007for advancement for classified and protect at our next board meeting any questions I can Thank you. Chief Financial Officer Tony. I have nothing to report discussion items. Third reading district policy revisions policy I KF graduation requirements policy JICA student rest code and then IKF- exhibit graduation requirements retire any discussion to approve. Second, Chris Brown. Hi, Amy. Grantham. Hi, Danser. Hi Katie Jess. Hi Johny. Hi Katie Smith. Hi. Hi. 7 A third reading district policy revisions board. Second call. Chris Brown. Hi Amy Cranon. Hi Nancy Hopper. Hi Katie Jess. Hi John. Hi Smith. Hi Sarah. Hi 7B approved designating an election official for the board election that will take place in November. The board move to approve. Second welcome. I ranth Jess. Hi John. Hi V Smith. Hi Sarah. Hi. Next we have last day of
008school for the 2425 school year. Second roll call, please. Chris Brown. Hi. Amy Grantham. Hi. Nancy Hopper. Hi. Katie Jess. Hi. Johny. Hi. Smith. Hi. Sarah. Hi. D. Approve board members abstain from voting for 2526 employment contracts of listed employees through this list. Um since we're approving so we have Miss Chris Brown abstain from voting for her son Mr. Michael Barkley PE teacher at Coline Mrs. Nancy Hopper abstained from voting for her daughter-in-law. Valerie Hopper, kindergarten teacher at Sherman. Mrs. Mindy Smith abstained from voting for her sister. Mrs. Valerie Hopper, kindergarten teacher. I didn't know you. Katie Jazz abstained from voting for her sister-in-law. Mrs. Sally Templeton, instructional coach at Coline. Mr. John Crowy from voting for his wife Amy Crowy at counselor at the high school. So then we'll need to take first. Oh,
009yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. We got to approve that motion. Pledge the board. Move to approve. Second. Roll call, please. Chris Brown. Hi. Amy Grantham. Hi. Nancy Hopper. Hi. Katie Jess. Hi. John. Hi. Smith. Hi. Sarah. Hi. Thank you. So now we'll do E. Approve the 2526 employment contract with Mr. Michael Park. Move to approve. Second. Welcome Chris Brown. Jan Grantham. I Nancy Hopper. I Katie Jess. Hi John. Hi. Smith. Hi Sarah. Hi. F. Approve the 2526 employment contract of Mrs. Valerie Hopper. Pledge of the board. Second. Roll call. Chris Brown. Hi. Amy Grantham. Hi. Nancy Hopper. Katie Jess. Hi. John Crowy. Hi. Smith. Sarah W. Hi. Approve the employment contract of Mrs. Sally Templeton. Pleasure. The board. Move to approve. Second. Wa. Chris Brown. Hi, Amy Brandon. Hi, Nancy Hopper. Hi, Katie J. John. Hi,
010Smith. Hi, Sarah Wy. Hi. H approve the 2526 employment contract of Mrs. Amy Crowley. The board to approve. Second. Welcome Chris Brown. I am Amy Grantham. Hi, Nancy Hopper. Hi, Katie. Jess. Hi. John Smith. Hi. Sarah Wing. Hi. And now we will move to the renewals of the certified staff for the 2526 school year. Pleasure the board. Move to approve. Second. Roll call. Chris Brown. I Amy Grantham. Hi. Nancy Hopper. Hi. Katie Jess. Hi. John Crowley. Hi. Smith. Sarah. Hi. Uh. The next meeting will be April 21st at the regular time. Meetings in May are May 5th and May 19th. There's no further business to come before the board. We are journed at 73.