HAYES CENTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS DISTRICT #079

REGULAR BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING

JANUARY 13, 2014

8:00 A.M.

Call to order - The regular meeting of the Board of Education for the Hayes Center Public School District #43-0079 was held Monday, January 13, 2014 at 8:00 a.m. in the Board room at the High School.  Notice of this meeting was given in advance to all board members.

Roll Call - Members present: Joe Anderjaska, Britt Hill, Amanda Johnson, Marian Richards, Bob Rosno. 

Absent: Connie Brott

Pledge of Allegiance was recited by those in attendance.

Recognition of Visitors

Recognition of Open Meetings Act - posted and recognized by Board President Anderjaska.

Adoption of Agenda -  Rosno moved and seconded by Hill, to approve the agenda.  Voting yes: Anderjaska, Hill, Johnson, Richards, Rosno, Absent: Brott. Motion passed 5-0.

Election of Officers -  Hill nominated Richards for President, Richards nominated Anderjaska.  Nominations ceased. Vote by show of hands. Vote was 3-2 for Richards.

Hill and Anderjaska were nominated for Vice President. Vote was by show of hands. 3-2 for Anderjaska.

Hill, Johnson and Brott were nominated for Secretary. Hill and Johnson declined. Vote was 5-0 by show of hands for Brott.

Hill was nominated for Treasurer. Vote was 4-0 by show of hands for Hill.           

Services Report - None

Connie Brott arrived at 8:30 a.m.

Teachers Association Update - None

Board Member/Committee Report - none

Administrative Report

·         Superintendent’s report -

-          College classes - To date, 9 students have signed up.

-          In-Service update - staff learned about student differentiation and student engagement.

Action Items:

Consent Agenda - Anderjaska moved, Johnson seconded to approve the Consent Agenda, consisting of approval of December 9, 2013 Regular Meeting minutes, approval of December bank transfers, approval of December additional General Fund claim of $2,125.00, approval of January General Fund claims of $216,693.85  (Payroll - $163,098.89  Claims $53,594.96).  Voting yes: Anderjaska, Brott, Hill, Johnson, Richards, Rosno.  Motion carried 6-0.

Committee appointments and chairs - Rosno moved, seconded by Richards to keep the committee chairs the same as last year with the exception of adding Hill to the finance committee. Voting yes: Hill, Johnson, Richards, Rosno, Anderjaska, Brott. Motion passed 6 to 0.

Official depository of the district - Rosno moved, Richards seconded to make AmFirst Bank the official depository.  Voting yes:  Brott, Hill, Johnson, Richards, Rosno, Anderjaska.  Motion passed 6 to 0.

Official newspaper for the district:  Richards moved, Johnson seconded to make the Times Republican the official newspaper for the district.  Voting yes: Johnson, Richards, Anderjaska, Brott, Hill.  Voting no:  Rosno. Motion passed 5 to 1.

Approve 2013-2014 Technology plan - Anderjaska moved, seconded by Richards, to approve the 2013-2014 Technology plan as presented. Voting yes: Richards, Rosno, Anderjaska, Brott, Hill, Johnson. Motion passed 6 to 0.

Ratify Option Enrollment requests - The Heath and Keri Wilkinson family (with 4 school age children) have requested option enrollment to McCook schools.  They moved here from Lincoln over Christmas break.  Rosno moved to accept the request, Anderjaska seconded. Voting yes: Rosno, Anderjaska, Johnson, Richards. Voting no: Hill, Brott.  Motion passes 4 to 2.

Superintendent contract – Anderjaska moved, Richards seconded to accept the contract proposal as presented.  Proposal was for a 7% base salary increase as well as for the district to pay for propane. Mr. Howard also asked for his accrued sick leave to be able to be used to help pay for required college coursework, at a rate of .002% of his base pay, which is the same as the teachers, as stated in the teachers negotiated agreement.  Voting yes: Anderjaska, Brott, Richards. Voting no: Hill, Johnson, Rosno. Motion failed 3-3.

Rosno left meeting at 9:50 a.m.

Hill moved, Johnson seconded to give a 3.5% base salary increase to Superintendent Howard, with the rest of the original request left the same. Voting yes: Hill, Johnson, Richards, Brott, voting no, Anderjaska.  Motion passed 4 to 1.

 E-meeting presentation - We had a 30 minute presentation on this discussion item from NASB in the DL room next to the board meeting room. The meeting was to discuss moving the meetings to more of a paperless process.

Set date for Board retreat - This was set for January 20, at 5:00 p.m. in the Hayes Center Board room.

Board meeting times – It was discussed and agreed to leave the meetings in the evenings at 7:00 p.m.

ESU Board member workshop, January 22 – Two board members will be attending this workshop. Mr. Howard will have a vehicle if anyone wants to ride with him, and will leave at 4:15 p.m.

Correspondence - Thank yous - The board received numerous thank yous from our staff.

Meeting adjourned at 10:08 a.m.

Submitted by Connie Brott, Board Secretary

These are a full draft of the minutes that will be considered for approval at the next regular Board meeting.