September Board of Education Meeting Overview
The USD 399 BOE met for their regular meeting Monday, September 10th. All items on the consent agenda were approved without any corrections.
In my report, I informed the BOE the light problem we were having in the new building has been fixed. The hot water heater was making the lights flicker anytime it kicked on. The contractor contacted the maker of the heater and they sent a different computer board to put in and that took care of the problem.
Homecoming will be held Friday, September 21st. The parade will be at 1:00 PM on Thursday afternoon with the game being held on Friday at 6:00. Crowning will take place at half-time of the game in order to allow parents and patrons time to get to the ceremony after work. I suggested the BOE that we not allow floats and parade entries throw candy to our students. I have two concerns with this, the first being the safety of the students. The people driving the floats are concentrating on the parade and don’t see the students running after candy and I worry about someone getting injured. The second was due to the parade being so early in the afternoon, our students would have the candy all afternoon and that goes against our wellness policy. The BOE agreed with my concerns.
I have made a suggestion to our league to start holding their meetings on ZOOM, which is an interactive teleconferencing site that is free to use. This would save all of our Ad’s having to miss an entire day to attend the meetings as well as gas to get there.
I also reported to the BOE that we have had a few problems with students and parents going through the extended stop sign on our buses while they were unloading in front of the high school. I spoke to the HS students about this and informed them the drivers have been instructed to turn anyone in that goes through their stop signs. The fine for not stopping from either direction is an automatic $100.
Athletic Director Report:
Wilson is still interested in co-oping with Natoma for Girls’ basketball. Wilson would be bringing two or three girls over to practice and compete with our high school girls. No definite decision was made by Wilson yet so when they decide, we will make the decision at that time.
Wilson does not have a junior high football team this year so Central Plains has agreed to bring their C-team over the night we play Wilson in football and play our junior high. Game times will remain the same – 4:00 for VB and 6:00 for FB.
We are still in need of a junior high head boys basketball coach as well as an assistant for the junior high boys basketball team.
Mrs. Mettlen reported on what was happening at the elementary school. Several people took the time to put motivational sayings on the bathroom stalls in the elementary school. Local churches and organizations have collected funds to be able to purchase a book for every student this year, once a month for grades 2-6. She will be starting Bookworms for 3 sessions in September and three in the spring for 3-month-3-year old children. Fastbridge testing begun this week in grades K-11. The State Department has a new requirement for Kindergarten to do a Kindergarten Snapshot with parents doing the screening on their children. Parents have been notified and they can either do the screening at the school or at home. She reported the 4-Day week seems to be going well and kids don’t appear to negatively impacted.
There was no Old Business on the agenda.
Under New Business:
The sawmill agreement was reviewed in executive session with Mr. Brockelman.
Property Insurance was renewed with around a $2.300.00 increase over last year’s coverage.
KASB will be hosting regional meetings in Beloit October 18th and BOE members were asked if they wanted to attend.
Staff Meal Reimbursements were increased from $6 per meal to $8 per meal.
The BOE will have a retreat September 19th.
Under personnel, Corinne Masters was approved as the Concessions sponsor for both schools for the upcoming year.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:49 PM
