North Platte board approves multiple policy updates, adopts athletic‑assignment and behavioral‑intervention policies

The North Platte Public Schools Board of Education on Aug. 11 approved a package of policy updates, revised its purchasing‑credit card program and adopted two new policies required by recent state legislation.

Board members said the purchases policy change will shift most district purchasing cards from individually issued cards to department-level cards and adds language authorizing occasional single‑day charges above $250 for items such as utility bills. Dr. Janelle McDonald, the district treasurer, told the board the district has been reducing the number of individual cards and moving to departmental cards to improve oversight.

"We will have no individual cards across the district with the exception of maybe an activities director card," Dr. McDonald said, describing a multi-step checkout and receipt-review process that will…