001[Music] okay we will go ahead and call the March 3rd uh meeting of the board of directors to order uh can we take roll please miss Atkins M McDaniel Mrs Peterson here Mrs sheffel here Mr senson here Mr ster here Mr R here can I get a motion to approve the March 3rd 2025 agenda motion to approve second okay vote please Mrs McDaniel yes Mrs Peterson yes Mrs shffle Mr senson yes Mr Sturm yes Mr cor right yes uh at this time I would like to open a public hearing per Iowa Code 26.12 for a public Improvement project uh for the high school fire alarm uh so the high school fire alarm essentially what we're looking to do um is the whole system is kind of obsolete not even kind of it is they don't
002make parts for it anymore uh so we need to replace the fire alarm system in general uh some of the things that have changed since the fire alarm was originally put in for instance you used to allow a tone fire alarm now they require us to have like it's like a speaking fire alarm it' be like exit the building buildings on fire you know cuz if you can't tell that already like it's got to be able to tell it to you um and then you know visual sensors and those types of things so what's required now is different than what was required in 2000 when it was put in so in order to update it all uh take out all of the current equipment in the front end unit put in a new uh front
003end head unit the total cost is estimated about $250,000 so um this has all been part of the the the bond money um that's set aside for Safety and Security so making sure that we um have those systems updated is pretty crucial um at one point it was estimated that as many as maybe 10% of our sensors are not currently functioning so we need that's probably not great in a in a school so so uh we need to make sure that we go through and fix that the ones that are functioning tend to go off at random times so we'd like the ones you know just it's just time so uh so we'll go out to bid and um get those back in um end of the month beginning of April to uh have you
004guys uh review and approve so and then that'll be installed this summer okay and as part of the of it being a public hearing we now open the floor up to public comment if there's any nobody's here for the fire alarm okay all right uh at that point then we will adjourn the public hearing uh for the high school fire alarm and we will move forward with commendations of good news so I have quite the crowd here tonight yep you can bring them in so um one of the things we wanted to do is start bringing in more people to have the board board um recognize have a conversation with um so the first group that I'm bringing in here and we will throughout the next uh few months every board meeting bring in different
005groups so this time is just fresh in our mind we're just getting through with our uh Winter Sports Seasons so we want to bring in um our winter athletes to have recognized the ones that qualified for State um so we have a mixture of uh wrestling teams both boys and girls wrestling teams we have boys and girls bowling teams um we have swim teams we have uh and that's yeah that's what we have so what I'd like to do is just kind of have each uh coach with your athletes kind of step up to the microphone talk about just give a quick brief overview about your season um particularly State like how we did at State who qualified and then um at the end we'll take a few pictures and then we'll let you guys
006go on your way but just want to make sure we recognize you and your accomplishments cuz there's not a a lot of kids that make it a state ever and so especially not by the way we won uh we have a couple champions in here so that's awesome another medalists which is great so why don't we go ahead and have uh Coach man step up first I know he loves public speaking so yep to the m yep just to the microphone yep all right uh so we had eight girl state qualifiers they were the regional champs for the third year in a row we had six State placers and two State Champs with at the girl state tournament this year um one being her second time being a state champ and AA Smith being the
007first time state champ as a sophomore uh the girls placed fourth as a team in class 2A for the third straight year in a row uh the boys had nine state qualifiers three state placers they were uh West and Porter Joe mji and Paxton Blanchard and I'll go back to the girls sorry our state placers and the girls were state Champa Smith third place Emerson Greg sixth place Cy fella uh first place Mari mans fifth place Kaylin Westerfield sixth place and she's not here right now mad and right awesome uh the boys ended up placing 14th at the state tournament and uh both both both teams had a great tournament um it was really fun uh when they like the girls were got on a roll one started winning then another and another we went
008on a couple rolls like that in a couple rounds and um it kept us busy but as coaches and as a team we were having a blast at at the tournament and stuff and uh the boys um as everyone knows it's a very uh tough state tournament and they uh they had to get through some a really tough round on Friday to get into the metal rounds and uh um the three boys that place did a really good job representing the school and getting on the medal stand and competing with some of the best in the in the state and in the nation it's awesome thank you you guys how was what was experience like it State you want to talk about it it was fun I don't I don't know yeah oh um I
009would say because it was my last year I think I was more so looking to place so I wasn't like like having it as fun so like the first like day was all right it's serious and then the second day when I knew like I was going to place no matter what I was like all smiles and I was like I don't know it was more fun than last day cuz I knew it was the last day very cool the first day was fun yeah yeah not so much the rest of yeah the first day was fun the second day wasn't fun oh um the whole thing was fun except for the second day CU kind of got DQ but yeah it was a pretty fun it it was a cool experience yeah yeah I
010enjoyed this experience it's been a while since I got a wrestle so being able to finish on awesome I had a great time whole time yeah was fun being with the team for the last time in the environment was pretty cool very cool it's awesome how many of you guys are seniors okay is anybody going on to wrestle at the next level I don't know yet couple love you awesome very cool yeah well it's a great way to finish up your senior years and uh rest of you we hopefully see you back next year back on the podium that's great any any comments from the board or about wrestling how did you guys celebrate after you were done wrestling did you indulge in like ice cream or Freddy's yeah I had a a gallon or
011it was like half gallon of ice cream and we just sat in a hotel lobby and I at the whole thing well played I got home and just kind of ate everything night so I mean but yeah it's awesome now you get a break right you don't have to hit the mat again till what next October right unless you do freestyle yeah yeah I'm doing freestyle so I go back I'm just joking you guys are crazy probably back to the m next week so but well thank you guys for coming tonight rations congratulations congratulations congrats I'm going to have you guys while we talk to the next group I'm going to have you guys go probably right over here and I'll have Miss Hartman or I'll have uh Emma take a quick picture of you
012guys if you don't mind so thank you guys so much all right next up I'll have Mr Bruce Legend in his own right step up and talk about swimming yes thank you for thank you yep you thank you for helping me or having me over um this is this pool was built in 1979 so this is the 46th year of high school swimming at leis Central I have to tell you you have a great facility uh I've been to many I've been to many uh pools and in uh my time coaching and uh this is one of the top eight Lane pools which is very rare to a lot of the school districts and uh it is one of the top 10 facilities and you have done a good job keeping care of that and
013giving us you know school board and booster club giving us money for starting blocks Lane ropes whatever uh We've appreciate it um we have uh I've kept since I've been there the fastest top uh 10 swimmers and it's easy to do in swimming or track their time the top uh 10 swimmers in each event that have have uh been in the Louis Central top 10 in the last you know uh years 49 years or 46 years so I want to introduce um a couple of them tonight as Rio here she could be okay Rio Hammet uh a freshman was our we we have we do outstanding swimmer every year and it's really by points that they score during dual meets and invitationals and stuff and that's our leis Central top 10 uh and uh leis
014Central our girls winner this year and the Louis Central top 10 was real Hammet she's a freshman um um she's a freshman and like I said we keep the the top 10 in her freshman year in the 200 freestyle she was 6 fastest all time the I am she was individual I am eighth place eighth fastest 50 freestyle fourth fastest hun freestyle third fastest in the last 49 years and some reason I put her in h 100 breast stroke that she doesn't normally swim and now she's the six fastest in 100 bre okay that's good coaching I guess um I want to recognize Jimmy Cook is behind us here Jimmy come on up get a little closer here um Jimmy's a senior um this is his last year in swimming and from what I understand
015he's still going to be back in our pool next year because he's uh applied to be at iow Western Community College awesome very cool um so in the top 10 in the 200 he's second fastest in the in the 200 I 7th fastest in the 53 sixth fastest in the free fourth fastest the 500 free sixth fastest and 100 back eight fastest there's eight individual events since she's in the top 10 in six of those eight so again he was our uh team leader this year and uh in team scoring he's the seven scored the most seventh place in scoring the most points in the last 49 years Jimmy Cook that's awesome awesome thank you so how was how was State this year was it fun yeah it was a lot of fun uh I
016I really dropped like uh standing Wise from the previous years uh my first year was sophomore when I qualified and I I finished more towards the end and then Junior I didn't even make it back for finals and then this year I was able to make it back in all my events that's awesome and swim in the a final so it was a lot of fun being with the top guys in the state yeah very cool and you're you're done yet huh no keep swimming in swimming there's only one class yeah I know so if you're fourth place you the fourth fastest in the state in the whole state that's all one class and swimming nice are you like the wrestlers like as soon as you were done you couldn't wait to eat or you
017there were certain things that I wasn't eating up to the meat and then I was happy to get back what's your go-to thing to eat then um I mean I like I really like a a foot long from Subway oh there go yes there you go it's like a commercial going on here well thank you guys for coming congratulations on your success conr spending all this time with this this young man here so um thank you for all the work you do and our youth program he's been through that so I've been him for quite a few years oh that's awesome so yeah long time well thank you guys if you guys pop over here real quick we'll take a quick picture of you for thank you for coming thank you thank you all right
018and then last we have last but definitely not least we have our our state champions here or Bowlers so somebody want to volunteer to come up and so I get to talk about the bowlers cuz uh coach Odin is uh he's got um he's in North Carolina actually at a a family issue he's in he's in North Carolina so um I'm sure you all heard it maybe you saw the uh the kma uh video that was out there that was Caleb in the video um but These Guys these are the two seniors Caleb hwalker and Jaden Mullan they're the two captains of our of our boys bowling team um I think it was second meet of the year maybe first meet of the year they set set School record um and so we knew it
019was going to be a pretty good year and and um bowling is kind of one of those it's uh if you've ever been to a bowling meet it's crazy atmosphere it's really loud um and momentum it it's it I didn't I've never been on a bowling team until I first came to Louis cental and was watching bowling it was amazing to me how much much momentum played a huge part in it um when you get to State it's very fast and you're you're going against other teams and there's a lot of pressure because if you have an open frame that could be it for your team um so what these guys did was awesome they got hot um I know Caleb was uh is our anchor and and two I think at least two of
020our matches that came down it was our anchor against their anchor and and he came through and and Jaden obviously the rest of the team um so um I if you know I was actually in Hawaii when this was happening but thanks to technology the Derek mark from K was tweeting out you know and I'm watching watching and I start texting Dr hazing like hey are you paying attention to this like I think we're going to win stay TI bowling I was one who told you they won 12 seconds after we tweeted I'm like we won we won yeah so uh yeah it was awesome um these guys did a great job and and had a great year and and um you know there's a lot of ups and downs in in Bowling like I
021said very much momentum based and and these two guys are very even keeled and and we're great leaders all year long from so I know coach Oden would say the same thing so great job guys thank and how was how was the state experience pretty I mean you guys gone to State pretty much every year right except for one I've gone two years in a row now yeah so it's pretty exciting huh oh yeah it's it's very loud and everything's moving fast you don't know what's going on it's very competitive yeah so at what point did you guys know that you're going to win state um like on the drive like on the drive over there that's what they kept saying we weren we weren't fully convinced yet I think after the second game in
022the final Baker set I think we knew then that we had a really good strong chance of winning so that's a best of five right y best of five you jumped up 20 yeah so we were up 2 and at that point it said in like okay we could we could do this they can get one point and we're still fine you know and they ended up getting one more point but we didn't lose by much but I had a feeling all day I don't know I had a weird feeling like something good was going to happen I didn't think we were going to win like that oh man how exciting is thaty the nice thing about bowling is you can eat all the time like you don't have to wait it's not like the
023other ones you can be literally Eat A Cheeseburger as you're bowling so a back for snack nice do that create sodium in your fingers though a little SW use your opposite how did you that day uh we bued 24 games wow 2 for like 10 frame games yeah y j Chris crazy it was a long day what time did we start started at we got to the bowling alley at 1 I don't think we left until 10: so yeah jeez that's a long day that's awesome though I mean talk about I mean you got to stay focused that whole time no we w we W we're focused like we like to have fun and that's the way that keeps our team rolling is like we have fun we have like good energy and stuff like
024that but we also like we had open bow we we like lock in we know what we need to do and we execute our our shot so what's funny is when a lot of other people go to state like basketball uh wrestling Etc like to blow off steam they go bowl it's like what do Bowlers do like when you're at State like how do you like can't imagine you're just going to the bowling alley to like we uh we went duck bowling the night before so I tried that that is incredibly hard yeah okay we we used that to blow some steam the night before and swimming too nice just spending time together as a team helps a lot very cool are you guys either one of you bowling out the next level do you
025think I'm going he is for sure I'm still debating on it so okay awesome very cool anybody else have any for them just want to say congrats I know bowling is a tough sport thank you yeah it's really fun to see you guys killing it out there thank you I'm just curious how many teams you guys sub on because all my friends they're always looking for Subs when your names get out expect a call have you heard I'm starting a team myself they're both there you go there you go as long as they can carry my 107 average would be good so yep take thank you guys thank you congrat congratulations I'm probably the least public speaking coach of all of our coaches here at the high school uh my two young ladies that were
026supposed to be with me tonight were Alexandria Ford and Kendall KS um Alexandria will be bowling with College of St Mary next year awesome very cool and Kendall KS will be bowling with uh Midland so awesome pretty neat uh this year was the fourth year in a row that the girls made at the State uh the first two years that we went to State we won uh back-to-back state championships and then they came out with the Louis Central rule which uh basically just changed the format of the state tournament before you used to Bowl 15 Baker games and then it would place you one through eight and then one with Bowl eight two with Bowl seven and then you know everybody had a chance to win but uh last year they changed it to uh
027only the top four teams after Bakers gets a chance at the championship so we've uh we've been lucky quite a few times making it by five six seven pins and uh this year unfortunately in the ninth frame uh we had a split our freshman from Underwood Beth Ranson um and that cost us our that cost us our fourth fourth overall spot um Lamar was one I know that Lamar we go head-to-head with Lamar's we could have beat Lamar's three 0 and then uh Kia CS just man they're a different monster that kiau team is incredible um so we did we bowled 24 games also um are so we were fifth we had the bowl Oskaloosa and we tied one game so we had to go all the way to the sixth game and we beat
028them we were three and a half to two and a half games and then we went on to the bull Dennison and we just we wreck Dennison every year so they do not like us um we had three girls individually uh Kate Reid um Laura hargens and Beth rasmuson Unfortunately they did not make it out of uh the top eight so still a good year yeah um you know fifth in the state of Iowa yeah and you know that's nothing to hang your hat about I know we usually like to try to send our seniors out on top but unfortunately Fifth Fifth in the states pretty on top like there's not much more on top yeah I mean you you know we we live by the sword we die by the sword you know we
029um districts I think we won first place by six pins so you're talking one spare yeah basically mhm one more spare and yeah you're there so so you return you graduate two seniors and then you return the rest is well we're graduating eight seniors eight seniors so our whole JV yeah our JV team the JV girls team was uh one in first place in thee in this year wow okay uh first place in the city along with our girls um the girls took first place this is so TJ came up with a a big trophy because they had good teams back then and they were like hey we have Bowlers and and uh our girls have won five of the last eight city city championships wow it's awesome so remember a couple years you were
030struggling to fill oh yeah team yeah yeah and then then it got to like I was coaching 50 to 60 kids and when Mr hail was here I was like can I get an assistant no it's not in the budget it's not in the budget I'm like you ever try to take care of 60 kids at practice that's hard so uh you know we got Nick Oden this year he's been a great uh addition to the program really good guy so this uh sky's the limit for here for this bowling team sweet so well thank you guys thank you and and your whole team and everybody else so congratulations thank yous thank you all right we're good all right next I have um Titan Hill is here to give a quick demonstration or talk about
031their uh literacy coaching that they do so good evening I am Michelle Hoffman I'm the associate principal over at Titan Hill Intermediate uh we are excited to be able to bring some teachers to share their experience with our reading um our and writing literacy program at Titan Hill um with us I have a third grade teacher a fifth grade wait yeah second third and fifth sorry grade teacher with me as well as one of our instructional coaches uh Mrs Barker our school principal was unable to join us this evening but she did ask that I share a few words so I'm going to read um from her her message um she wanted to send her apologies for not being able to be here tonight her daughter has show choir banquet and she is quickly learning
032how fast those High School memories or years go by so she is attending with her daughter tonight that's why she's unable to be here Titan Hill adopted FAS and panel classroom and began its implementation in the fall of 2023 this resource includes the following components for reading instruction interactive read aloud reading mini lesson shared reading phonics and word study we added on the writing mini lessons this last year throughout the implementation Journey one of our priorities was to provide adequate support to teachers as they became familiar with the resource we have spent tens of thousands of dollars on Amazing support and training from hinaman and our personal consultant Christy Wright Christy has done full staff professional learning for each component of the FPC in four to six hour increments perhaps the most impactful experience with
033christe has been our one-on-one intensive coaching sessions she has visit us visited us for 4 days each for interactive read aloud reading mini lesson and just last week for writing mini lesson this provided every classroom teacher with the opportunity to have 20-minute observation with Christie along with a 20-minute feedback and reflection session tailored to each teacher's experience to create a lasting impact of this work our instructional coaches and both building administrators participated as well this builds our capacity to continue this work developing literacy instruction through coaching professional learning walkthroughs and feedback through our valuation process today we have a few of our coaches and teachers here to share the impact of these coaching experiences on themselves their instruction and their students one of the most amazing things are seeing with this new resource is that
034we have that we have not seen before at Titan Hill is that our students openly love reading and writing these have become their favorite parts of the day this is profound because in order to be a great reader and writer our students have to enjoy reading and writing and want to read and write our resource provides authentic high-interest text in which all students can see themselves represented we are so proud of our teachers for their hard work learning and flexibility through this amazing journey and we are excited to share some of this with you tonight one of our second grade teachers that was not able to join also wanted to share her experience um Kristen longm um is the teacher in second grade so I will go ahead and also read hers and then you
035can hear firsthand from some of our teachers Kristen wrote I am grateful for the coaching sessions with Christy as as it has changed the way I teach writing lessons rather than producing writing projects every day students are given more flexibility in what they write and how they write in their writing notebooks they're able to practice the principle immediately after the mini lesson and whatever WR interest them and I am able to interact more closely with them because I can walk around and confer as I go through coaching I have really learned the importance of sharing and repeating learning goals I have made it a standard within my lesson to State the learning goal repeat the learning goal and come back to it at the end and review the learning goal I have seen a drastic
036change in my students abilities to write and their passion for writing has improved significantly their writer's notebooks are near and dear to them and now I appreciate it that or and I appreciate it so much all right who next my name is Mindy Brewer and I a second grade teacher at Titan Hill and uh Dr christe right she's the um the person that's been coming to do our professional development and one of the things we're really lucky with with chrisy is that she's actually she helped to write a lot of the resource so a lot of times you might get somebody leading a professional development who knows technically the information but they don't know really know it from their soul and I'm sure these guys will tell you Christy knows it from her soul um
037because she helped her to write it so that's been a really great opportunity to hear kind of from the from the source how the different components can be integrated and that kind of stuff and also she's um this may seem counterintuitive but teaching can be a really solitary profession um you're surrounded by people but most of the time they're not your peers and so um it's it's so comforting almost it seems silly but to when you talk when you talk with Christy she's she's so warm and she's so enthusiastic and she just I two of I have not talked to one person in Titan Hill who has not felt that she was a positive influence in in their experience because like I said she's so warm and she's so friendly and she just really she
038gives you some of that that um that positive feedback that we get from others but like I said because she's kind of the expert it just feels really um feels really validating to hear that information from her so we've been extremely blessed to be able to have that input from Christine I'm Susan Drew and I teach third grade at Titan Hill and I would just Echo everything that they have already shared I have just so thoroughly enjoyed this new program that we have now had um some of us launched it a year earlier than the others in the building since we're on the reading and writing lead team and it's just been so fun to watch the kids excitement like they are really disappointed if for some reason we don't get to a read aloud
039for that day whether it's because we had a fire drill or you know a guest speaker came to the building like they want to make sure we get it in they are so connected to the books they you know they come in a collection and they they just adore this program and the writing this year that we added I've Just Seen it's like a breath of fresh air has been brought into the building that they are excited they have choice in their writing it's not so dictated that we've done before and then also like they've said our professional development with chrisy she understands she's been in the trenches she's been in the classroom she's been a principal and like they said she helped write both components of reading and writing so she can speak to
040the lessons and what's great about them and sometimes that they still need some tweaking to them and and it she's just very approachable so we've really enjoyed all of our time with her and as a staff working together so it's been great okay I'm like hearing everybody trying to wrap my head around things so um my perspective might be just a little bit different because I kind of fell in love with this philosophy of fontas and panel classroom of creating this authentic meaningful readers and writers and critical thinking um in the community as they grow up I fell in love with that 18 years ago and I'm a huge nerd and I teach classes on it and I read about it and I go learning about it and so me and chrisy like geek out
041and so my with her is just like super exciting and validating um but my thoughts coming here was more on a system level so it made me think of this um poem by Steven Lane he's um a children's author he writes books for teachers he travels the world talking to teachers about reading and he has a poem about a literacy and as he goes through this poem and talks about um a literacy he talks about how we're living in a world where um it's not so much the concern of illiteracy here here but a literacy where we have humans that know how to read but choose not to like never choose to read um and and that's an issue that concerns me um and so that is where this curriculum resource is going of um
042not only the science of reading of teaching kids how to read and think well but also creating this love of learning um and so that kind of teaching not you have to have the knowledge but also the art of teaching and you can't just buy this and put it in a teacher's hand and and pick up these skills you need people like Christie and the professional development to make that all come together um we could pick up a different curriculum where we all follow the same directions and do that um but be to be able to have Christie and be able to learn the skills to like teach in this deeper way um it's just like so exciting for me so thank you I'm Katie canella I'm an instructional coach at Titan Hill and I
043found this experience really valuable because not only did she help our teachers and coaches and administrators learn more about the resource she's helping to reinforce um strong instructional practices that are good teaching no matter what the literacy resource is and so I've felt like this experience has been um particularly helpful because it's reinforcing some of those those practices that we want to happen in all classrooms that kids have opportunities to talk about what they're learning that they have opportunities to write about it that they are um teachers are reinforcing that learning goal over and over so that students are hearing that rigorous academic language multiple times throughout a lesson um and so when chrisy is uh coaching she's modeling um for us as coaches and administrators how we might support teachers um um when they're
044um maybe they're struggling maybe they just need an extra little nudge um but she's helping us to see those connections as well so um I found a lot of value from the experience all right does everybody have any questions of our wonderful teachers here do you have any cool stories about the from the kids standpoint like any any kids who you've seen just Excel because of everything or your approach to the reading and literature I was thinking we got um some we some of our funding we have somebody I think somebody mentioned we have these text sets there usually five or six books that are on a certain theme and we got some additional funds to buy a second set that was available because we have to kind of keep our teacher set you know
045so it doesn't they don't get lost um so we were able to buy a second set that the kids have access to and it has it's just amazing that I have mine out on a little shelf and every every day they are going to that shelf and getting those books kids that are reluctant readers or they can't find anything they want to read they are going to that shelf and they're getting those books because they've gotten interested when we read them as a class now they're reading them individually as well I can elaborate a little bit on that too when we were in your room um just this last week for the writing um lessons your second graders were literally they were all Seated on the floor during a writing mini lesson and literally they
046were jumping up off the floor like they were so excited about writing that they were jumping out of their seats and I thought how beautiful is that when you have second graders that are literally can't stay in their seats because they're so excited to write um it's just I mean amazing a couple things came to mind I like bouncing all over the place last year um reading um reading aloud um I think it was one of the hatchet books um Brian's Winter um and one of the kiddos start not even during that book afterwards was like that sounds like something Bri said and they went and looked at the quote and they said well maybe we should start a quote from all the characters we could learn from as like um how to be good
047humans and so that year they just kept collecting quotes on those things um every year I do like a self-reflection at the end of the year of like how many books do you think you read this year how do you feel about reading those things and over and over it's I used to not read at all and now I kind of like it I love reading Miss wachman always says reading is thinking you know those types of things just creating those readers um and one that really touched my heart recently was um a kiddo with um really poor attendance and usually comes to school around 9 or 10 o00 who doesn't really care about school but he's not naughty he doesn't like to do naughty things but he just kind of sits there unless you
048you know nudge him along um the first chapter book no second so I started reading Coraline um out loud and right off the first dat he's like am I allowed to read that head I like you take it and he took this book home a kid that does not that comes to school every late brother takes him I've never met the parents these types of things he read this book at home all by himself within like a week um and he said so and you know is he picking up a book every day but if I read out loud a little bit he does the same thing he'll grab that book he found another one just um just last week and he won't put it down so um yeah pretty cool could you ladies guess
049about how many books you've read so far this year that's another piece of the program is just the amount of literature um and texts that our students have read I know it's totally on the spot I can tell you how many total there are okay that would work so there's 120 total books that teachers are reading to their students every year so when you multiply that across from kindergarten all the way through fifth grade they're just getting immersed in this massive amount of literature that's across genres from fiction to um non-fiction to poetry um it's just really incredible to see the variety of of resources that our students are getting to hear and be immersed in and we when we connect that to comprehension and test scores um lots of research current research about how
050do we build vocabulary and background knowledge read alouds variety of read alouds text genres so super important piece yeah third grade developed um response journals last summer during our summer work that go right along with each of the text sets and this last week since we're at the end of a trimester we had a pause where we didn't do it for two days I was the meanest person because they did not they Ador me so today came out the next T text said I went ahead and started it even though we have two days they were like oh my gosh finally what is it so what they have to do is after we do the readal out there's always something they respond to that connects back to the text for the day um today was
051um a non-fiction set that came out about oil spill and they had to say what did the author want you to learn from the text and it was it was interesting and they were like we should drive smaller cars and coming up with all kinds of things and usually we've also Incorporated like an art aspect into it and but they they just love it I mean it's not a Grumble to get out this text set and write a response to me of what you know connect with today out of the book so cool so it's been great is this only a Titan Hill or do you guys work with the Middle School to keep it all going uh it's at CFT um so kindergarten first and then at Titan Hill second through 5ifth and then
052it kind of you you just hope that it goes on or do you work with somebody at the middle school to know if the if it's following them uh the Middle School uses a different resource but they use a lot of the same instructional practices that we are implementing at Titan Hill anybody else I just want to say thank you I love how excited you guys are when you talk about it and um there's a teacher up here that got my children very into reading in general so it's just been fun to see their development because of what you are doing so thank you we appreciate your support yes thank you guys for coming for having us thank you have a great evening uh one thing I did want to mention about uh before we
053move on from uh good news is we had and I did I already mention this I don't think so uh Dustin ker who's a middle school teacher um it just came out today hot off the press we've known about it for a while but we haven't been able to say anything he is the uh stem teacher of the year for our region so wow awesome it's awesome we put on Facebook and um he's been recognized he'll be recognized at the capital so we you know pretty pretty really great honor very very cool so uh but haven't been able to say anything until just today so super excited to talk about that is there any other commendations or good news anyone would like to share okay hearing none we will move on to comments and suggestions
054this is the first part in our meeting for which we open the floor to any public comments or do we have anybody online no okay have people okay well we're listening if you're speaking so uh hearing none we will move on to the consent agenda can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda so moved and there is an updated uh Personnel sheet few ads on it okay uh one of the things I'd like to point out um is Kelly vinchattle has been um appointed the CFT uh primary associate principal for next year so she'll be um serving with Desiree um starting next year so but that's kind of the the big announcement so we're F that position I'll give it out like a minute and then we'll we'll call for a vote on
055the consent agenda maybe that Price is Right music anybody want to start the Jeopardy Jeopardy like when they're trying to guess the last phrase one of the things I would like to do is I'd message em over there as um I'd like to get some kind of little little token of appreciation for people who come in and speak to the board so just something really small says congratulations you just spoke to the board something like that you know so um so I think we'll come up with something because as we do have people lined up um every meeting moving forward um so I want to make sure that we you know if you come it's kind of fun that maybe we can give him a pen or something pack of gun I was really shocked
056I figured the fire alarm would be a real Hot Topic ouch I like it terrible isn't it dad jokes it is terrible we can go ahead and call for a vote then I think we have enough people to to cover it for the consent agenda Miss Peterson yes Mrs sheffel Mr Sturm yes Mrs McDaniel yes Mr R yes okay moving forward to the superintendent report uh so we have a couple updates one is I think we are super close at uh finalizing our um negotiations with the Education Foundation which is awesome um and so with the with that we'll be soon prepared to send out uh contracts on March 17th hopefully we'll have uh that for you guys to approve and then contracts to be sent out that night as well um it's looking like
057uh we're going to switch around some of the um required reporting that teachers have to do and so as a result of the negotiations there'll probably be a new a new calendar as well so um that'll be going out for next year just a small adjustment um um so that'll be something that changes I'm going to give a snow day update so as of right now we don't have to make anything up we've we've we sitting right at that threshold about the number of hours that we have to make up so we're sitting pretty good um if we have any more big cancellations or anything like that which I'm I'm super excited to see that the snow this week's not going to roll until after our students are done with their reporting days um and
058then it looks like the following week weeks are 60s and 70s so uh knock on wood here that we're done if so we won't have to make up any time we do have Iowa assessments coming up here in the next uh month those will happen in April board work session I'm I'll be sending out a doodle for you guys uh to just as a date um kind of organizer you guys can select a date for strategic uh the first strategic Workshop in April and then for the community we'll be sending out a survey as a result of that strategic work or strategic planning workshop um to get feedback from the community on priorities and that'll be going out in May um very beginning of June and then from there we'll continue our uh strategic planning
059sessions um throughout the summer and then hopefully have a new strategic plan in place for next year so um doesn't really impact everything that we're doing right now it just provides Ides US Vision and and feedback for where we need to be as we continue to move forward um last thing I was going to mention is you guys will have a u vote tonight for for the wait room that is and I'll talk a little bit more about that we are engaging in conversations with um some local entities and organizations and individuals about um getting us some um support in you know we've kind of gotten to the point now where we're big enough that we probably need some additional emphasis on like weight room training and so our teachers have done a great job
060uh leading that work up to this point we're kind of the point now we maybe having additional professionals come in and help guide what we're doing in the weight room how we're doing it those types of things creating a variety of plans kind of it's kind of the next logic step so we will be having some conversations around that so that's uh pretty exciting uh for the development and safety of our athletes uh so as you guys think about um the the new weight room Edition and those typ or the weight room renovation uh keep in mind that that's just part of it you know we're going to continue to evolve the program um and then the next part I have is facility project update uh project Advocates I'll have you throw that up on
061the screen there Dr h oh very cool tell her congratulations very nice awesome I I told you I said Jesus she looked like she wanted to actually be there this year we uh zoom in just a little bit so this is just uh update right here on where we're at scroll there we go perfect um so on track for the high school parking lot exit Lane tennis courts um that'll all happen here uh end of this end of this month beginning of the next month um as far as approvals go Middle School parking lots next summer a Titan Hill parking lot and queuing Lane will also take place at the same time we'll be sending up that for bid soon we just talked about the high school fire alarm High School Roofing will be uh
062taking place here uh actually we have to put that back we had an issue with the design and so we had to kind of pull it off we need to have another Board hearing we need to put it back on um just make sure we get everything correct on that and then we'll receive bids so those dates have actually moved from like 317 into April um High School mechanical so not a not as a part of the bond but as part as of what we're currently doing we're looking at updating the LED lighting possibly the summer the monument sign which is the entry sign as they come in it's not worked for now I think 2 years um problem is is it's it's very expensive to fix that's why haven't done it but again why
063have it if you're not going to run it so we'll figure out we're kind of coming to an end of how what we're going to do with that um High School mechanical we're expecting the chiller um and the new units to be here in May so we'll be installing those hopefully before the summer heat hits or kind of during that beginning summertime um so that'll be big uh Middle School Roofing that's still on schedule um we'll have those back here at the end of um next week to be able to have approved on the 17th and then we are starting to engage in conversations um with Architects about the Middle School renovation that is a big project there's a lot of nuances with it that we want to get Architects on board now because we're
064being told planning process for that could be a year so um so we'll start having interviews with architect text for that and then Titan Hill mechanical again we're we're finalizing design for that and should have um an idea of where we're going as soon as we get that designed back and then a playground conversation probably not going to be approved in March probably will be an April agenda item still working through design with three different companies haven't nailed it down yet to which company we want to go with um but one of those will will hit and then the secure entrance they're to the point now or they're going to start sending that out for bid so that way we can uh get that wall put in there and then again Safety and Security when
065we're talking about all the cameras door sensors um weapons detection systems those types of things those are still on track um it just takes a lot of there's a lot of back and forth that goes into it to make sure that the specs are right so um so you guys will have bids coming at some point for those so that's kind of where we sit um any questions about facilities do the air conditioners of the gymnasium and the weight room come in at the same time as the chiller as the chiller yeah so well the they're going to install them all about the same time so is there any with it already being crazy I think it's already March um is there do any of the bidding that we still have yet to do is
066there concerns with the delay or the how long it's going to take to get some of the material like like in on time to start this summer cuz it's already coming up on like 2 3 months out from no everything we've been told so far so like concern uh the roofing material is not not an issue the parking lots aren't an issue um we're still sitting really really good with that the mechanical at at uh Titan Hill that could be um a little bit of an issue but because we're talking about a small boiler and a small Chiller they think it can be done because you can pivot and kind of pick one that's really readily available so that's not a big deal as big of a deal uh playground stuff is depending on the
067company you go with six to eight weeks out so if we look at targeting in April beginning of April approval you know that still puts us you know beginning of June which we wouldn't be able to install until after school's out anyway so everything timing wise is still still working out it's just we got to keep moving like it's like every every day I'm talking to people on the phone or project Advocates or uh gy metal and trying to make sure we're continue to push forward I mean to your point you you set it aside for a week and don't come back to it well now we're now we're a week late so it's really it's a lot of it's a lot of work going on right now but of course my my daughter's mad
068at me because I waited until after she's going to be out of Titan Hill to redo the playground so I told her it's not about you honey first thing yeah they're they're pumped they let her he so that's it any other questions okay okay then we'll move into discussion items 8.01 high school fire alarm so essentially what I need from you guys is is I just need you to uh approve the fire alarm specs and rfps presented so essentially um the you know knowing that the estimated price is about 250,000 you just need to approve it as as it's given to you so okay any additional questions or comments okay moving forward to 8.02 weight room equipment um same thing uh presented we looked through several different companies um we went with the sourcewell company
069uh they have to give us government pricing uh we push pedal pole they provide Dynamic equipment um for the last two years we've set aside $100,000 so we had a budget that we knew we wanted to stay within at about $200,000 started off uh looking at about 230 you know you you ask you tell the coaches you know get what you need and then and then from there you're like okay get what you really need you know so started about 240 backed it off to about 2117 down to 200 uh down to 168,000 so this is uh going to set us up for I mean the next 20 30 years one of the things we did do is when you walk in the weight room now there's a lot of different equipment in there because
070we've bought in stuff secondhand used Etc we just kind of PC Meed it together the issue is is theyve just kind of kept throwing stuff in there so one of the my requirements is if we're going to do this we need to get better lines of sight and so U by going with the same equipment it all matches up well it all you know it's it all hooks together it's in a it's very linear um we're going to go from 25 units that are 25 stations that are in there right now down to 20 stations um sprad them out there's going to be more space for the kids to work out in we're going to have better lines of sight so um again it's it's just it's that's going to make me feel a lot
071more comfortable as a as a you know somebody who cares about kids and and wants to make sure that we're doing things the right way and safe safety wise um every every piece of equipment we put in there has you know specific safety ratings and and guard and those types of things to make sure that we are you know lifting it with lifting weights correctly um again um part of this is is this is kind of the initial investment and then making sure that um we maintain the equipment that we keep it up and part of that was renovating the weight room in general putting new HVAC which has already been improved in there which is humidity control um we will strip the the weight room down to nothing we'll take everything out I'm I'm
072sure with all the moisture we've had over the years there's a potential for mold so we'll make sure we mitigate all of that before we put new flooring and new equipment back in and then with the humidification control this stuff shouldn't shouldn't uh rust out like this the previous stuff we've had so um so yeah um we also on top of this so this is kind of the the main equipment that's going to go in here we're still looking into some different right now um we even though our lifting program really is designed to around overall well-being overall health um we don't have a lot of options in there so this equipment is set up so we can provide we can actually add options so for instance right right now we just do a lot
073of of um like weight training um we can throw in we can we can purchase some items and do some velocity Based training with this new equipment so instead of heavy weight lifting heavy weight if your goal is to be you know more explosive leaner we can do stuff like velocity Based training in which we're actually just measuring the speed at which you're lifting instead of the amount of weight you're lifting which then takes pressure off joints so providing options for kids is really what this is about couple questions yes um I know you said they started at 230 now we're down to 168 is there equipment that we're still going to keep in the weight room that's already there because it's not that old correct yep so big portion of that probably about 30
074some thousand were bumper plates so we will actually keep all all of our bumper plates right now they're used but they're black like they don't they don't look bad the rubber's still on them so we'll actually keep all of the bumper plates um that are in there we'll replace all the bars all of the the nicer stuff that we have will actually go over the middle school because they're they're operating right now just on stuff it's like old home gym equipment that I'm not even sure we should really have in there so we're going to move all of the good stuff we have over the Middle School um but yeah all the weights will stay the same all the kettle bells um we are replacing our dumbbells there's some dumbbells in there that are so
075old they don't have numbers on them and I'm like wow just like guessing how much that weighs so and then so so do we have I I don't know maybe it's hard to tell with weights but if you look out to the Future are we thinking that if we keep those bumper plates 5 years from now we probably should think about replacing or you know we have maybe a bigger purchase yeah the the next that'll probably be the next thing it was you know we all have budgets so how do we get within the budget that we had set for ourselves at that $200,000 if that means we take out the bumper plates for now and then in you know we set aside $110,000 a year for the next three years and then in three
076years go back in and buy the bumper plates like that's that's kind of the goal is how do we we don't need everything right now we need to do it in phases and we need to you know know definitely and we want to do it right you know we want to make sure so that was one of the conversations we had was you you we'll talk about flooring here in a second but the original flooring had had um like platforms cut into it you know nice wooden platforms cut into it for power lifting we probably don't need that you know so that was something that we were easily cut out and that cut out about $20,000 um so this was kind of another cost-saving measure of how do we how do we continue our goal
077of getting safe equipment in there without breaking the budget so yep very much so you kind of already answered this but some of the equipment that you said isn't that bad a shape yes we're moving over to middle school but it with the remaining stuff is that something we can sell we will they'll have to and stuff okay yep so they'll move all of it over the operations building they'll take pictures and then uh we'll use a website called Purple Wave um and we'll put it on there and and advertise it people can come and get it so if it's in if after the move we've determined that it's unsafe we'll scrap it because we don't want to sell something that's un you know something when you tear down stuff when you put it back
078together if it doesn't get put together together right so it's hard for me to say oh we'll have 20 stations available well if two of them break apart and don't put back together we're not going to sell those two but we'll have the majority of what we take out some of the some of the like the weights like there's literally one dumbbell that I think is or set of dumbbells I think they're 50 lb I don't really know like there's no number numbers on them there's nothing that might be something that we end up sending you know to the midle yard so but you know we don't want to get caught in a liability situation either will you guys repaint it too just make it look the whole place is getting repainted yep and new
079lighting as well so that be nice we have the old cage Lighting in there that hangs real low putting LED strips that are kind of raise the the footprint so good yeah okay any other questions comments okay moving forward and you kind of already touched on this 8.03 the weight room flooring yep so this is the same thing um I our weight room flooring is not in great shape there was a couple areas I was wonder what that was it was like gum that was pushed in the floor I think probably 30 years ago I don't really know so I mean it's really fossilized is what's happened um but the biggest thing is is when you look uh the floor has actually bubbled in some areas where air has gotten trapped underneath um we've had
080so much humidity in there cuz there's no humidity control I worry like what's underneath it So the plan is we're going to take up the floor we're actually going to move it into the small gym um so we can put the weight equipment back on it because we might be down for up to two months between equipment flooring HVAC painting Etc and kids need to continue to develop so we'll relocate everything into the weight room um we have two weight room bids uh push pedal pole came in at like 42,000 820 now this is minus they were going to give us a $3,500 credit if we do our own tear out and then Kelly's carpet came in at $35,840 again minus 7,000 if we do our own tearout so my recommendation on this one is
081to go with Kelly's carpet for 35842 they're both very similar products push pedal poles product is a 10.5 mm product um that's just shy of uh it's like 38 in is what it is and then Kelly's carpet is actually a/ inch so it's a little thicker rubber um it's black I mean there's nothing fancy to it there's no decals there's no platforms it's literally a black floor there's some specks of Blue and Gray in there uh just to kind of give it a little bit of color plus then if gum gets pushed into it then you don't really see it so you know got to than for that too perfect any other questions comments regarding the weight room flooring okay here in none we will move to 8.04 budget guarantee resolution uh so we are
082we will be eligible for the budget guarantee resolution for the 2526 school year this is based on the estimate that the state's going to come out with a two or 2.25% growth um that means that um well the budget I'll just read what she has the budget is adjustment is a safety net for districts experiencing declining numbers and a school district shall be eligible for a budget adjustment in amount equal to the difference between the regular program District costs for the budget year and the one and 101% of the regular program District cost for the base year uh we declined of Resident students this past October now our total enrollment is staying pretty stable but our budget's always based off the residential students so residential students went down open enrollment went up a little bit
083so we're sitting pretty a when we set the budget has to be off of our resident students so this just guarantees that we're going to have at least a 1% increase in our overall budget any questions comments about the budget guarantee okay we'll move forward to 8.05 Van purchase um we did these are uh finding used 12 passenger vans or like you know seeing a unicorn in the wild so when we when we stumble across one with pretty much less than 50,000 Mi at an affordable rate we just jump on it so uh this one just happened to come through right before we're getting ready to send our agenda on Friday uh 12 passenger van from Edwards 2022 Chevy 3500 uh they want it's actually uh I think I forward it to the actual price
084let me update that actual price they didn't they were looking at some um uh some trade in opportunity for a really old van that we had and so they actually they were going to re they were going to give us $2,600 for that um let's see Edwards 37490 it looks like okay so the recommendation would be um total price here so they wanted 30 oh they wanted $399.90 for the for the uh vehicle minus the trade allowance gets us down to 37490 so that's what uh U they were coming in at yeah the 38,000 was what they thought they were going to come in at after trade in so they actually came in a little bit lower so they came in at 37490 gave us a little bit more for the vehicle so any questions
085comments on the van okay we'll move to 8.06 setting the date time and location of the first public hearing and setting the initial maximum property tax I'll let Andrea talk about this a little bit um so this is our second year after the new legislation from 2023 uh so what has to take place this year is we need to this evening set the initial maximum property tax um so I can submit that to the county auditor uh the county auditor will then send out the the uh statement to everyone that is in the leis Central School District um that tax statement will also include um any county or city taxes that um a taxpayer may also have on there um it will also include the uh first uh public hearing that we will hold on
086April 7th at 6:00 p.m. so that has to be a meeting separate from a regular board meeting uh so that will be prior to our April 7th meeting that will also uh be published in the napel and posted on the district website and District social media accounts uh in March uh around probably the 20th uh then after we have the uh first hearing we will post the notice for the second public hearing um and then we will have that one on April 21st and then by April 30th we have to submit our budget to the Department of management and the county auditor so what we will be doing tonight is approving the um first public hearing to take place on April 7th 2025 at 6 p.m. here at the ERC and we're going to be
087setting our initial maximum property tax this number is the highest property tax that we can have of 2,785 1821 this number right now I have to take into consideration a lot of things that are still unknown uh the legislature has not set the SSA yet the supplmental state aid so I am doing this uh budget without knowing the biggest factor of how how much money we can possibly get for next year so uh this number is higher than what I am expecting it to be but without knowing what we are going to get for SSA we have to set it at that highest one um I my hope is that by the time that we have our first public hearing on April 7th that we will actually know the actual number and then from there
088we can move on with uh setting what that actual number will be and what the levy will be as well any questions comments okay hearing none we will move to 8.07 employee request for leave close session so we have evaluated the requests and have determined based on the review that it is necessary to hold a closed session under Iowa Code section 21.51 subsection I Clos session is recommended to discuss this employee request for other paid or unpaid leave per Iowa Code 21.51 subsection a close session as appropriate to review or discuss records which are required or authorized by state or federal law to be kept confidential or to be kept confidential as a condition for that governmental body's possession or continued receipt of federal funds can I get a motion to move to close session
089please motion to go to close session second vote Please Mr sheffel yes Mr senson yes Mr sterm yes Mrs McDaniel yes Mrs Peterson yes Mr Wright yes [Music] oh [Music] good everybody got their mics back on BR your dark over there there we go thought people heard nothing me all right coming back from close session we will move forward to comments and suggestions this is the second part uh in our board meeting where we open the floor to any public comments or suggestions do we have anybody online no okay then we will move forward to our action items 10.01 high school fire alarm Mr President president yeah like to make the motion to approve the high school fire alarm specs in RFP as presented second vote Please Mr swon yes Mr Sturm yes Mrs McDaniel
090yes Mrs Peterson yes Mrs shffle Mr Wright yes 10.02 wait room equipment go ahead you want me Mr President yes I'd like to make the motion to approve the purchase of weight room equipment from push pedal pole for $168,000 and or sorry $168,000 and7 vote Please Mr star yes Mrs McDaniel yes Mrs Peterson yes Mrs sheffel yes Mr senson yes Mr R yes 10.03 weight room flooring Mr President I'd like to make the motion to approve the weight room flooring bid to Kelly's carpet for 3,842 and55 okay vote please Mrs McDaniel yes Mrs Peterson yes Mrs sheffel yes Mr senson yes Mr Sturm yes Mr Wright yes 10.04 the budget guarantee resolution Mr President yes sir I'd like to make the motion authorizing the board of directors of leis Central Community School District to Levy
091property tax for fiscal year 2025 2026 for the regular program budget adjustment as allowed under section 25714 of the code of Iowa second vote please Mrs Peterson yes Mrs sheffel yes Mr senson yes Mr Sturm yes Mrs McDaniel yes Mr Wright yes 10.05 van purchase Mr President yes like to make the motion to approve the van purchase from Edwards Auto for $ 37,40 second vote please Mrs sheel yes Mr senson yes Mr Sturm yes Mr McDaniel yes Mrs Peterson yes Mr rght yes 10.06 setting the date time and location of the first public hearing and setting the initial maximum property tax Mr President yes like to make the motion to approve setting the first budget public hearing on April 7th 2025 at 6: pm. at the education resource center and setting the initial maximum property
092tax at $2,785 and 82 or sorry 20, 75,200 a big difference between we're about to cut a lot of people sorry about that vote Please Mr sson yes Mr Sturm yes Mrs McDaniel yes Mrs Peterson yes Mrs Shuffle yes Mr R yes 10.07 uh employee requests for leave for a or b a this is one time Mr President please yes i' like to make the motion to approve the request for unpaid leave as presented for employee a second vote Please Mr Sturm yes Mrs McDaniel yes Mrs Peterson yes Mrs Shuffle yes Mr Swanson yes Mr R yes speak other PID okay okay so for the employee request for leave for employee B Mr President yes like to make the motion to approve the request for other paid leave as presented for employee B second vote
093[Music] please Mrs McDaniel yes Mrs Peterson yes Mrs shffle yes Mr Sorenson yes Mr Sturm yes Mr R yes items of Interest future board meetings are our next regular regularly scheduled board meeting will be March 17th 2025 and then can I get a motion to adjourn this meeting motion to adjourn second all in favor say I I I hi [Music]