LUSK - The April 4, 2019 meeting was called to order at 1 p.m. The board approved the minutes from the March 7 and March 18 meetings. A motion was made to post minutes and make additional copies available for public review at the front desk. Motion passed. Treasurer’s report included the Operating account balance of $24,98.07, Nioco is $32,674.15 and Building account is at $5,070.96. Treasurer’s report was approved.

Activities and public relations report:

The bus trip to Torrington for Steel Magnolias was cancelled because of inclement weather. The interior key are being replaced on Saturday, April 6 and Donna Ruffing will be available to provide new copies to staff and those who have keys, however she needs an updated key list in order to ensure everyone who is supposed to get a key has one. Any new organizations or individuals that wish to use the space must check a key out and return it. Saturday April 20 will be an in-house bake sale including homemade dinner rolls. These can be preordered up until April 17. Some commodity items were sent to Nebraska relief efforts.

Old Business:

Ruffing reported that the revisions to the 2018-2019 WSSD grant was submitted to the state and accepted by the district’s representative on the board. This will be approved at the State Board meeting on April 18.

The board moved to accept the new business proposal from Robin’s Nest. The individual who provides foot care and blood pressure checks would like to begin using space at the Senior Center again. She will charge those individual clients but will be able to provide information on the care given on a monthly basis to the senior center and therefore it will be considered in-kind contributions for grant qualifications and she will not be charged a usage fee for the room. She will be available two Mondays a month from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. with both appointments and walk-ins welcome. If a non-client presents for services they will need to sign a release of information for Robin’s Nest to give information to the Senior Center. Motion passed and the contract proposal was accepted.

An interior painting contract by Dee’s Painting was presented to the board.

The board moved to accept Joyce Hammer’s resignation. Then the Board moved to go into executive session at 1:40 p.m. for 30 minutes to discuss personnel. They took a brief recess at 2:10 p.m. and moved back into executive session for another 30 minutes for personnel. At 2:30 p.m they resumed open session. The contract proposal was approved.

New Business:

Three names have been submitted for the board vacancy. This item has been tabled until the next regular meeting.

The board moved to change the policy regarding comp time to include both sick leave up to eight hours a year and unlimited comp time. Motion passed.

Sue Wilcox brought a proposal to the board to sell van #14. This van receives limited use, only 128 miles in the December through March period. It is difficult to get in and out of for both passengers and the driver and the seats are too high for passengers to comfortably sit in for long periods of time. The board approved the sale of Van #14.

Discussion was held regarding the purchase of the new oven for the kitchen. The board approved up to $3,000 for this expenditure and this item is covered in the WSSB grant revision previously mentioned. A note was made that Ruffing is to pursue researching why the company that all the kitchen appliances were purchased from charged the Senior Center tax and to correct this oversight.

The board moved to approve the President and/or Secretary to sign documents to be ratified at the next board meeting for the purpose of grant submissions and follow up documents for contracts. Motion was approved.

Discussion regarding the possibility of a community garage sales was held. It was determined that the board would stick to an early decision not to take this project on.

The Board moved to establish a salary of $40,000/annually for the position of Acting Director of the Niobrara Senior Center. Motion carried.

Proposed salary increases are as follows:

            Ashley Cummins to $14 an hour beginning July 1

            Merri Keller $14 an hour beginning October 1

            Tammy Jensen $12 an hour up to 40 hours a week

            Sydney Lemons $12 an hour beginning October 1

All salary increases were approved.

Meeting adjourned at 3 p.m.