001Heat up here. [Music] Good evening everyone. I would like to call the school board meeting for Tuesday, August 12th, 2025 for the De Mo public schools to order. Miss Rios, could you please take the role? >> Yes. Miss Alonso here. Miss Compos. >> Mr. Dixs >> here. >> Miss Knox >> here. >> Miss Martana >> here. >> Dr. Dr. Mayberry Mace >> here. >> Miss Norris, >> we have quum. >> Thank you. The first item of business is approval of the agenda. >> May I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda? >> Dix. So moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion by Dixs and a second by Marterano. Is there any discussion or questions? >> Board members, please cast your vote. The vote is approved. 5-0. Next on the agenda is
002public forum. Uh, Miss Compost. We provide speakers the forum an opportunity to address the board for up to three minutes regarding items that are not on the board agenda and up to five minutes for an agenda item. If anybody wishes to speak during this portion of the business meeting, please email rosa.reosdschools.org. The same speaker protocol applies to all individuals who wish to address the board. Speakers will be called on individually and we ask that they state their name and their zip code prior to providing comments. Students and miners do not have to provide their addresses. Guests of the board are encouraged to speak to matters related to the program services operation and operations of DMPS. Please remember that the that Iowa law prohibits us from discussing specific employees or their job performance. We ask all
003speakers to provide references to personal avoid references to personalities or character attacks as those type of comments do not contribute to the purpose of which the public forum exists. The use of inapprop inappropriate language will not be tolerated and individuals choosing to do so will be gled out of order and asked to be excuse ex asked to excuse themselves from the premises or escorted out by district security. As a reminder, the board and public to the board and public, the board will not engage in discussion with public forum speakers as it is our obligation to discuss only matters posted in a public agenda for sake of transparency, an opportunity afforded to all community stakeholders. Matters required attention will receive appropriate staff and or board followup at the time a at a time after the meeting.
004Thank you for participation. We appreciate your feedback and input. Miss Rios, are there any speakers? No speaker signed up. Great. We will now move on to the consent agenda. Yes. Oh, hello. >> Well, come on up. >> Barely made the two o'clock. >> It's okay. Great. >> Oh, no worries. >> Just make sure you provide us your name and location of residence. Uh, >> community. Yeah. >> Zip code or you want my address? >> Zip code is fine. >> It's fine. >> ODM. >> The mic. Yes. Get that one. >> Should be on. >> Candace ODM 50314. >> Great. Go ahead. >> All right. I have a son that is in the school district. We spent uh two years at Kalan Middle School for the last year and a half of his his duration at
005Kalan. He only went for 2 hours a day due to lack of support in the school district. Now we are head he's been on an IEP since he was 3 years old. Now that we are headed to Roosevelt, I'm being told that the education he has received up until now does not matter. That he is forced to go to regular education classes with with typical kiddos in a t in a typical math class, in a typical English class. We're talking about a kiddo that does not even recognize his letters and you want to put him into freshman English, something has got to give. The the staff is tell the staff at Kalan is telling me that I have no other options. This the staff at Roosevelt is telling me that I have no other options.
006You cannot put my child in that room. He deserves an education just like all of your children got, just like all of your children got, just like every other child gets. That's all I have. >> Thank you. >> Okay, I believe those are all the speakers. >> Great. Thank you. We will move on now to the consent agenda. As a reminder to the board and public, we will not engage in discussion or deliberation with a speaker regarding comments made to agenda items. Discussion and deliberation will remain among board members at the board table with speakers comments informing the board's discussion, deliberation, and determinations as deemed necessary. Miss Rios, do we have any speakers? >> No speakers. Great. Miss Campos, I believe you have the consent motion. >> I do. I move that the board approves
007the consent items in accordance with the recommendation action for each item on the consent agenda, including bills previously authorized, certified, and approved for payment by the board secretary in the amount of $25,926,3898 and the perurament card transaction in the amount of $320,8382. Is there a second? >> Second. >> We have a motion by Miss Campos and a second by Miss Alonzo. Any discussion or questions? Board members, please cast your votes. The vote is approved 7 to zero. Now we have items of privilege. I would like to ask our board members if you have anything you would like to share. Well, I just want to say how excited I am. Back to school is coming. Dr. Roberts, I'm excited for you. I'm excited for your staff. I'm excited for teachers and students who are getting excited
008about going back to school. So, thanks, I guess, to everybody, especially the HR team. Um there are some wonderful numbers that you shared in your report about how the hiring is going and that's not easy. So a special thank you to everybody that's involved in making sure that there's a full team supporting all of the students. Any other board members? Dr. Roberts, I'm going to turn Yep. Yes. Um >> I just wanted to echo Jackie's excitement and also invite our community to >> get involved with your school or your neighborhood school. Um, I know that North has been posting about their booster club and volunteer spots for their, um, upcoming athletic events in the fall and that is all dollars that go back into our programming. So, um, more volunteers help to drive revenue and
009help to support our students. So, uh, get involved with either your child's school, your neighborhood school, or look to all of the high schools who have ample volunteer opportunities for you to make a real difference. >> I'm going to put you on the spot. Do you want to say just a little bit more about the mediacom stadium and just the types of volunteers? No. Is that where we're looking for volunteers though >> for I'm I'm not I just know the North High booster club specifically is looking for volunteers. So I think there's a variety of uh opportunities for volunteers to plug into beyond football uh with all of the different athletics and >> concessions and needs taking stuff like that. >> Exactly. So, I think definitely contacting and looking into high school athletic clubs is
010a great place to start if you're not sure where. >> Great, Dr. Roberts. >> Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you for um your expression of gratitude on behalf of the board to our um um human resources team. They've certainly u done an amazing job. Uh even on today, I believe we welcomed somewhere close to 270 plus um new teachers to the district. Um I really appreciate uh Josie and Peter's team for calling out a couple of recognitions and that is not only teachers who are new to the district. Um but when the team posed the the question um at the Lincoln Auditorium for teachers who are returning to the district for them to stand um the numbers were impressive and it speaks volumes about the fact that uh teachers and leaders and staff uh
011who uh had left us at some point to experience other school districts have decided to come back to the brighter side and I say that unapologetically and so we are happy to welcome them back to D de Mo public schools. Additionally, madam chair, if I may use this item of privilege to also just express gratitude and last week uh as is customary, we um participated in the um Iowa State Fair parade to kick off um uh Iowa State Fair, which is now ranked as the uh second most desired I think in the country. And so we're excited to >> Not true. It is number one. >> Number one. >> Thank you. Number one. >> Thank you. I stand corrected board member Knox. uncertain. Every once in a while I have a slip of the tongue,
012but I was just going off of the the media data and which is not always accurate. Media friends, we still love you, but I stand corrected by our board member. Um, and so at at last week's parade, I certainly want to express gratitude to our um leaders and teacher, staff, student athletes, and students from Lincoln North, East, and Hoover High School um for being in in attendance and participating. executive cabinet members and board members um on a campus in uh Skylar Mayberry M. Thank you all for doing wasn't too hot, a little bit of heat and was a lot of fun. Um our students and our staff, some of whom are sitting in the audience today really brought a little bit of jazz to it and so we're excited about that. And secondly, our second
013um certainly recognition is just aligned to priority number five, cultivating community and collaboration. Um, several weeks ago, we we hosted uh at MCOME's Middle School the Caitlyn Clark Foundation for a second annual backpack giveaway, but we did so in partnership with with Musco Lighting um Meals from the Heartland and Scholastic Books, all of whom donated 500 backpacks to students. Additionally, um several uh books and out of school supplies uh were in those backpacks. And so we are excited and grateful for um just the willingness of um the district and our partners to continue to sort of develop these amazing partnerships all in service of students. And so I'm excited about that. And the last thing that I want to share because this is always near and dear to me is you know anything that that
014aligns to public law 94142 and that is actually um IDA or the special education law and act. Um there is a really rigorous process where students are either evaluated from through a multid-disiplinary evaluation or an independent evaluation and and I have the utmost confidence that our school leaders will always make decisions uh in in what sort of is within sort of the parameters of that law and certainly for for us to make sure that we are not making decision outside of what is stipulated in a student's IEP. And so it's always certainly concerning when parents, particularly of those historically marginalized students, come to the board. And I know that I saw our team went out to support a parent to get additional information. And it's something we're going to look into because we take any
015potential violations of public law 94142 seriously. We are obligated to provide what is stipulated as a FAPE or a free appropriate public education. We'll always continue to do so. So, we will certainly follow up and and again and as this is our our board meeting prior to us kicking off the school year and um I share your sentiments, Madam Chair, we were excited uh we were looking forward to welcoming all of our students back on um the 25th and and one of the reasons for this excitement is also another group that I want to recognize our BFLs or bilingual family layers uh or they will share with you their culture brokers. um they held a a uh series of middle school fairs where they were registering parents um and their outreach to those parents resulted
016in more than 1500 students and families um being enrolled as a result. And so want to shout out our BFLs and their team um for the continuous work that we're doing. So yeah, Madam Chair and board that concludes uh uh my comments and report this evening. >> Great. Thank you so much. Well, the last time we had a 15minute board meeting, I'm speechless. So much so that I put my script away. I was so excited. I'm gonna find it in a second because we are going to move into a close session. So, the next thing that the board will be doing is a close session. So, at that point, just a reminder, we'll be asking people to um exit. So, I'd like to now entertain a motion for us to go into close session. >>
017Who's got there? >> M Toronto. So, moved. Oh, we have to sorry volunteer yourself. This one. I move that the board move into close session by affirmative public vote of either twothirds of the members of the body or all the members present at the meeting in accordance with Iowa code section 21.5 subsection 1 subsection C to discuss strategy with council in matters that are presently in litigation or where litigation is imminent where its disclosure would be likely to prejudice or disadvantage the position of the governmental body in that litigation. >> We have a motion. Can I have a second? >> Can I have a second? We have a motion by Miss Marterano and a second by uh Miss Campos. Miss Rios, could you please take the vote? >> Miss Alonso, >> yes. >> Miss Compos,
018>> yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Sorry. Miss Knox, >> yes. >> Marana, yes. >> Dr. Mayberry, >> yes. >> Miss, >> yes. The motion passes seven to zero. At this moment, I'd like to ask all attendees to clear please clear the room so that we may begin our closed session. Thank you so much for coming tonight. This is for this speedy formation. This for this