A review of Omaha Public Schools Board of Education meetings.
June 7, 2022

Following each Board of Education meeting, the Office of District Communications recaps the board meeting in the Board Digest.
Board of Education Consent Agenda
Consent Agenda Items
Consent agenda items are packaged into one agenda item. They are often routine and garner very little discussion.

The consent agenda items were:
  • Staff Adjustments
  • Approval of a 1-Year Extension of the Contract with Eastern Nebraska Community Action Partnership (ENCAP) for Transportation of Pre-Kindergarten Students ESL/Migrant Students for the 2022-2023 School Year
  • Approval of a 1-Year Extension of the Contract with Eastern Nebraska Community Action Partnership (ENCAP) for Transportation of Title 1 Pre-Kindergarten Students and Homeless Students for the 2022-2023 School Year
  • Approval of the Addition of Schedule 85C to the 2021-2022, 2022-2023 Collective Bargaining Agreement with Local 226 Operations Division
  • Approval to Award Bid No. 22-040 and Contract to MMC Mechanical Contractors, Inc. Company of Omaha for Closed Circuit Cooling Tower Addition at McMillan Middle School, Spring 2023 ($824,613.00)
  • Approval to Award Bid No. 22-042 to SprinTurf, LLC. for Blackburn High School Field Turf Replacement, Summer 2022 ($404,100.00)
  • Approval to Award Bid No. 22-074 to Rotella’s Italian Bakery for Bread Products for the 2022-2023 School Year ($663,000.00)
  • Approval to Award Bid No. 22-077 to 9 to 5 Computer Supply Distributors, Inc. for Headphones with Controls for Bluestem Middle School, Buena Vista High School, and Westview High School - 2018 Bond Project ($36,520.00)
  • Approval to Award Bid No. 22-078 to Greenberg’s Produce and Pekarek’s Produce for Produce Products for the 2022-2023 School Year ($1,250,162.00)
  • Approval to Award Bid No. 22-081 to Bracker’s Good Earth Clays, Inc. for Pottery Wheels at Buena Vista High School and Westview High School - 2018 Bond Project ($80,000.00)
  • Approval of a Contract with Silverstone Group LLC., a HUB International Company to Provide Consulting Services Regarding Employee Insurance Coverages through December 2024
  • Approval for Declaration of Surplus Relocatable Classroom Buildings at Morton Middle School as of June 6, 2022
  • Approval to Extend Licensing for PebbleGo Modules with Coughlan Companies, LLC (Doing Business As Capstone) and the Attached Licensing Agreement from November 30, 2022 to November 29, 2023 ($85,756.44)
  • Approval of Extension of Agreement with Mersi Distribution for Nitrile Gloves for the 2022-2023 School Year ($164,850.00)
  • Approval of the Group Travel Agreement with Travel With Barb, Inc. for Central High School Music Department, April 2023 ($73,800.00)
  • Approval of a Memorandum of Understanding with Omaha Education Association Permitting the District to Contract Out Temporary Nursing Services for the Remaining 2021-2022 School Year and 2022-2023 School Year
  • Approval to Purchase Lingual Latina Textbooks for High School Latin Courses ($2,581.96)
  • Approval to Purchase Savvas Elevate Science Instructional Materials and the Attached Contract for Forest Station Elementary and Pine Elementary ($91,454.40)
  • Approval to Purchase Apple TVs and HDMI Cables from Apple Inc. for a District Wide Classroom Display Technology Refresh for Elementary and Middle Schools for the 2022-2023 School Year ($341,850.29)
  • Approval to Purchase Saddleback Emergent Reader Literacy Libraries for the ESL Teen Literacy Center for Beginning Level High School ESL Courses and Approval of the Attached Purchase and License Agreement ($312,988.22)
  • Approval to Purchase Reading Intervention Teacher and Student Materials from Savvas and the Attached Contract for Buena Vista and Westview High Schools for the 2022-2023, 2023-2024 School Years ($15,188.90)
  • Approval to Purchase Additional Copies of World Language Resources from Vista Higher Learning to be used in the District’s Middle Schools and High Schools for the 2022-23 through 2028-2029 School Years ($170,213.56)
  • Approval to Purchase Active Panel Stands from Kansas City Audio Visual for Use in Elementary, Middle, and High School Classrooms for the 2022-2023 School Year ($207,818.93)
  • Approval to Purchase 75” televisions and 55” Televisions from Striv AV for Use in Elementary and Middle School Classrooms for the 2022-2023 School Year ($1,613,730.00)
  • Approval to Purchase TV Stands from Kansas City Audio Visual for Use in Elementary and Middle School Classrooms for the 2022-2023 School Year ($474,479.46)
  • Approval of Second Option Year of the Contract with Hiland Dairy for Dairy Products for the 2022-2023 School Year ($2,999,272.00)
  • Approval of Second Reading of Policies 5403, 5404, 5405, 5406, and 5407
  • Approval of Superintendent Logan's Evaluation
  • Approval for Third-Option Year Contract with Cybersoft Primero Edge for POS Software for the 2022-2023 School Year ($29,000.00)
  • View the entire consent agenda.
Board of Education Action Items
Approval of the Proposed Amendment to the Plan for Expenditure of $280,841,096.00 Allocated to the District by the Nebraska Department of Education (NDE) from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) II Fund and the ESSER III Fund which was Previously Approved by the Board of Education on September 9, 2021
The Board approved the proposed amendment for the ESSER Plan. The second ESSER amendment allocates a shift of $82.6 million. The new spending initiatives are:
  • Retention stipend - $72.2 million
  • Teacher home visits - $5.2 Million
  • Hybrid class instruction - $0.2 million
  • Loss of plan time - $5 million

Changes made to the following categories to allow for the shifts in spending:
  • Internet Connectivity (Pillar I) – reduce by $9 million
  • Lower cost contract starting in 2022-23; no reduction in service or coverage
  • Technology Refresh (Pillar I) – reduce by $10 million
  • Change the anticipated iPad replacement cycle from three years to four years
  • Tutoring (Pillar I) – reduce by $3.2 million
  • Full amount of the current budget not needed to deliver the solution
  • Curriculum Adoptions (Pillar I) – reduce by $3 million
  • Small reduction to the $24 million original budget for adoptions over two years
  • Employee Wellness (Pillar II) – reduce by $3 million
  • Reduce coverage for initiatives in Pillar II
  • Infrastructure Projects (Pillar III) – reduce by $54.4 million
  • Reduce coverage for projects in Pillar III

The proposal will now go to our labor partners, who need to accept the stipends for their members. The Nebraska Department of Education would give final endorsement to the ESSER amendment before it goes to the U.S. Department of Education.
Next Omaha Public Schools Board of Education Meeting
The next regularly scheduled Board Meeting is tentatively scheduled for June 20, 2022. It is tentatively scheduled to start at 6 p.m. Please be aware that meetings in June, July and August 2022 will begin at 6 p.m.

Board of Education Agenda
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