001[Music] hello Falcons Mr fleshner here bringing you our March Schoolboard meeting update now you're probably going to notice over the next couple of months uh a little bit longer a little more lengthier uh Schoolboard agendas really because as the school year starts to wind down honestly things for the school board really start to ramp up as we're really making plans for for the next school year but let's kind of get into some of the agenda notes also you're going to see um some things with public hearings okay whether that's on the tax rates and on budgeting um these are requirements that the school district um has to follow and we do um but these are offer times where uh we'll talk about things uh with tax rates Etc and you can come and talk to
002the board about those things but as always if you've got a question particularly like on your tax statement that you just received received maybe a week and a half ago or so please don't hesitate to reach out to me here at the school so we open the meeting out for the public hearing now the next few pieces we set a second hearing which is a requirement for the school district to finalize our budget for the next school year so that'll that'll happen in April um sign some agreements we we participated in a natural gas RIS poool insurance program it allows us some flexibility and funding and how we pay for our natural gas costs and also an AA agreement that's kind of a traditional thing the school board did also approve purchasing a a new
00312 pass your band new used okay um that really we used for lots of activities not just necessarily Athletics but speech other Fine Arts things they're very very useful things to have and we'll be picking up another one of those School Board also approv seeking bids to for a new school bus okay school buses can range from you know 55,000 to 175 to 180,000 so pretty substantial but we like to put those out to bid to get the most competitive price for those things so they approved going forward with that uh something else that's going to be taking place is we're going to enter into a sharing agreement with agwsr and Grundy Center to help support some special education services inside the district and that'll be a shared person between those three districts um we're
004excited about that opportunity and some of this is really being proactive particularly now with some uncertainties at the AA so we really trying to be more proactive to help support some of our students that are have identified special ed services um and the last one you may have noticed uh the school district is uh we'll hold a public hearing on this but our plan is to transfer some land ownership this would be just north of the basball diamond to help complete a bike and walking trail in in parkerburg so we're going to to plan to deed that property over to the city um so they can continue to put that trail in will be a nice addition to the town and the school is glad to help out to get that completed couple other just
005really kind of program notes um we'll be doing a lot of things with budgeting here over the next month or so and contracts for next year so you'll see some of those things on agendas some facility updates um we've hired site logic to kind of lead our facility work in our next round uh they've already been through buildings lots of photographs and getting Blueprints and all those things ready to go but be on the lookout in the next week or two somewhere right in there for a community survey so we're going to be sending all of you information asking you to participate give us your feedback um you know from the last Bond referendum that we put out you know maybe things that you liked in that maybe things you didn't like in that things
006you could support uh inside of that as we kind of look at all of our facilities across the entire School District uh really now we've kind of got spring last couple of months of school spring activities are firing up lots and lots of things going on and uh hopefully you have a chance to come out and see some of the kids participating in those and as always go Falcons [Music]