001[Music] whenever you hello Falcons Mr fleshner here bringing you our February school board meeting update before I get to the things that the board took action on I think it's really important we want to recognize all many many of the great things going on here at AP right now busy time of the school year so really even within the last week or so and kind of going forward and I had to make a list because we've got so many of them going on we've got girls and boys basketball into basketball tournament action we've got wrestlers competing down at the state tournament a robotics team here at AP qualified to move on to State archery team qualified as a team and Bullseye and 3D kudos to them several performances uh in our speech our group speech
002Department qualified for state and we're super excited our group improv was selected as an Allstate performer so good luck to those students down in ases in about a week when they perform also we were really excited yesterday AP schools and AP high school was visited by representative Ashley Henson stopped by for FFA Appreciation Week had a chance to visit with many of our students and Mr Putin in the FFA had a chance to visit with him stopped by and checked out Falcon Fuel and we're really uh thankful for her taking her time to come visit us here at AP so lots and lots of great things going on make sure you're kind of checking us out and following us on social media uh for a lot of those updates now let's get into some of
003the board uh action items the board heard two presentations from some facility planning groups as you know we've been talking about this a lot over the last year or so um we did uh listen to two presentations and we'll get into how that was selected a little bit later on the board approved our academic calendar for next year now there's a little bit of an aster beside this one because we know there's also some pending legislation out there that might change the start date if that legislation goes through we'll return that back to the board so we'll be publishing that fairly soon here but just know there is a good chance that could change or there's a possibility that could change with some legislation that's out there also for us in the district office it's
004really getting in a budget building season for next school year already we're already planning for all those things so you'll see some things about posting public hearings and tax rates as they pertain to the school and those will be mailed to you and also be published please do not hesitate to reach out to me okay if you've got questions about how that school tax rate all goes together and pieces inside of that really really encourage you don't hesitate Reach Out be glad to give you a call or sit out and kind of talk to you about that uh the school board also approved purchasing two new vehicles we have not bought any um really any cars or Vans for for a few years and we've got some minivans that are starting to get a little
005bit of miles on them they drive a lot of special routes for us transporting students to different places so the board did approve purchasing um two newer used vehicles to kind of help out that Fleet there as well some kind of General kind of cleanup items some second reading AP policies setting some things for driver's ed early graduation requests are all on the on the agenda as well something else we had the board purchase for our students um we'll be replacing and updating uh interactive whiteboards or uh displays in our elementaries all right we purchased new 75 in monitors that will work with our teachers and our students in our classrooms so we've got those ordered on the way and we'll get those installed for next school year so those are be exciting for our
006teachers and our students to use might notice there's a also an HVAC repair in here and really what I bring this out is you know this is a a piece of equipment that's here at the high school remember we kind of think a lot of times the high school is the new building but there's some things that also need to be addressed uh in the high school as well and just kind of keep that kind of in the back of your mind as we work through our facility planning process again that um you know there's some things out there that we do need to address especially when you have a really really cold week like we just went through here and finally as I mentioned earlier the board did hear two planning groups um they
007did make a selection of site logic site logic was a is a planning group based out of De Moine um but they're really in a seven state area had a really successful Bond uh completion rate this last uh go round in November so they're going to be coming on board with us at AP so be on the lookout for things with surveys be on the lookout for opportunities for Community meetings as we continue to plan and go forward if you've got some questions comments thoughts you know and maybe you can't make one of those meetings again please reach out to me whether that's in a phone call or an email I'll reconnect with you um love to have your feedback and input whether maybe you're a yes voter or a no voter that's okay we
008want to get everybody's kind of insight and opinion as we kind of build our plan going forward and then the last thing is really just the kind of consent items those are really just kind of paying all the fin bills and and getting people hired um for the upcoming school year uh talked a little bit about tax rate you'll see that in the in the newspaper the board did a work session kind of as a bud Budget Building kind of cleanup item at the end of the meeting um but all that'll be sent to you and you'll be notified so hope all of you are doing well and as always go Falcons [Music]