Lunch prices to increase at Nevada R-5

The Nevada R-5 Board of Education voted 7-0, to increase breakfast and lunch prices by 10 cents for students during the coming school year. This is the sixth consecutive year meal prices have been increased.

R-5 Superintendent Tyson Beshore told the board the increase brings the district to within 3 cents of being at the level they are supposed to be.

This will increase lunch prices at the high school to $1.90, the middle school to $1.80 and elementary schools to $1.65. Adult lunches will be $2.75. Breakfast prices at the high school will increases to $1.20 at the high school, $1.15 at the middle school and $1.10 at the elementary schools. Adult breakfast prices will be $2.

Beshore also told the board the district’s maintenance department has been making repairs to the old concession stand, which is now used by the booster club, at the football field and have installed metal siding and a new roof.

He said the gym floors have been refinished and are now open.

In other business the board:

• Voted 7-0, to accept a bid from Caveners Office Supplies for copy paper for the 2017-18 school year. Assistant Superintendent Jodie McNeley told the board Cavener was not the lowest bid, but they will store the excess paper for the district. She said the district does not have adequate dry storage for the 800 cases of paper, and without the storage option would have to rebid the paper at the end of the first semester. The three bids ranged from Sam’s Club at $21.43 to Caveners at $25.45.

• Voted 7-0, to accept the bid of $19,680 from Cash’s Quality Electric for new lights in the Middle School gym. Beshore told the board they also received a bid of $13,630 from Chris Davis. Beshore said the bids do not include installation cost. “The bulbs from Cash screw into the existing fixtures. Those from Chris Davis take more labor,” he said. “The installation cost savings makes the bids a wash.” The district has applied to KCP&L for a grant to cover part of the cost of the new lights if it is approved. The installation of the lights will begin before school starts, but if it goes into the school year Beshore said they could move the PE classes outdoors.

• Voted 7-0, to approve a district license for Edgenuity. The three-year commitment costs $27,000 per year, with the district paying 40 percent in the first year and 30 percent in each of the remaining two years. The unlimited licenses gives all district teachers from Heartland, Nevada Middle School and Nevada High School unlimited access to the online resources.

• Voted 7-0, to accept the sole bid from Springfield Striping and Sealing for resealing and crack repairs of the parking lot at Truman Elementary and the High School north parking lot. The cost for Truman will be $ 7,485 and the north parking lot $11,277.

• Voted 7-0, to approve the district curriculum.

• Voted 7-0, to approve the district’s Professional Development Committee Manual.

• Voted 7-0, to accept the cooperative agreement with the state of Missouri for the Cedar Ridge location. The prorated share of the facility is $23,031, or $2,002.60 per month.

• Voted unanimously to declare the following items surplus property so they can be sold according to board policy: Stratasys 3D printer, Tennsmith metal break, Hypertherm Plasma Cutter, athletic uniforms purchased over the last 25 years that are no used or needed, one Hobart Stand mixer, three Cres Cor warmers, three push mowers, one drag harrow, one two-basin stainless steel commercial sink, one Cyclone rake, one Hobart dishwasher and one set of tracks for a skid steer.

• Voted 7-0, to approve, according to board policy, a request from Dr. Phil Witt, Nevada Regional Technical Center director, allowing Amber Jenkins and Sarah Olson to attend the MBA Conclave in Vancouver, Wash., from Oct. 6-9.

• Voted 7-0, to accept the low bid of $44,950 from FJM for new band uniforms.

• Voted 7-0, to accept the bid of $39,300 from GovConnection for 180 Chrome Books, management licenses and six carts.

• Voted 7-0, to approve the superintendent goals for the 2017-18 school year.

• Were told by Assistant Superintendent Jodie McNeley that the districts transportation department received a 95.7 percent approval rating from the inspection by Missouri State Highway Patrol.

During the R-5 Board of Education’s executive session, the board approved the retirement of Dawn Jones, Nevada Middle School nurse, effective at the end of the 2017-18 school year and the resignation of Payton Hays — Bryan para.

The board also unanimously approved hiring the following: Nicole Lackey, educational diagnostician, Richard Daut, A+/scholarship admin assistant, Megan Murphy as high school para, Haley Reed as Early Childhood para, Courtney Palmer as Bryan para, Hannah Bruggeman as middle school para, Jan Leonard as bus monitor,

The board approved the transfer of Tracy Shumaker from Benton para from Truman para.