March 17, 2025 School Board Meeting

001[Music] he [Music] okay we will go ahead and start our lisis Central board of directors meeting uh we'll call to order can we get attention please miss Atkins here Mrs McDaniel Mrs Peterson Mrs Shuffle here Mr senson here Mr Sturm here Mr rright here approval of the March 17 2025 agenda can I please get a motion to approve motion to approve second vote please miss Atkins yes Mrs Shuffle yes Mr senson yes Mr Sturm yes Mr R yes okay at this time I would like to open the public hearing per Iowa Code 26.12 for public Improvement project uh for the high school roof um yep so we basically the drawings what so high school roof we have drawings prepared prepared by uh Rick mser and he is estimating we and we we had a previous

002hearing on this we just had an issue with the drawings that we had to revamp and when you revamp the drawings and you have to revamp the hearing so um we had down the right area okay so high school roof uh estimated price right now uh by Rick mser is $800,000 and that would take care of kind of all the Second Story uh sections on the on the high school area so kind of two phases first phase is last year this is the second phase let's take care of the rest of our roofs okay do we have any public comment uh regarding the high school roof okay if not we'll adjourn that portion and then move to the public hearing uh regarding the high school parking lot uh so we currently have a design and

003RFP out for the high school parking lot the design was completed by lamper nerson includes a parking lot parking lot lights and a join adjoining pavement um it does not include the new Lane as we're still working uh that piece through with the city um we're hoping to come to kind of a conclusion on that so we can hopefully get people in and out of our parking lot a bit a little bit easier and help alleviate some of that traffic flow off of Harry langon uh bids for the parking lot are due on April 4th uh and will be available to review and approve on April 7th uh for you guys the budget for the um the budget lamper neon's estimate right now for the high school parking lot it's 2, 43,4 is their is

004their estimate now does that include the small lot that does not that does not no so any additional lot or um Lane this this would not include this is strictly uh pavement for pavement replacement of what we currently have which would go start at the athletic building at the middle school be the road that runs clear around the back of the of the uh football complex or the athletic complex and then not the new pavement from when they just re put it in for like the new kind of parking lot that's the Western most parking lot not that one cuz that's new when they put the auditorium in but then the rest of it clear out to the front um we would not not do much um with the um portion of the parking lot

005that's towards the high school so that's all relatively uh new it's more or less you know the drive and then the main parking lot area so the idea is they placed a middle section first the big section and then they would do the front section down by the road and then they would do that back Lane so that way we always somebody always has access to the school okay I said that all right did I Brett I was double checking numbers but okay we're going to phase the to where yeah there's always access from either the North or the south deping on which we're working on and school always be accessible so when would the little parking lot come into what phase would that be that that would be the lane so we would do

006the lane because it depends if they want the lane to go south of the current where the current opening is now like they wanted it if the city says no we're not going to allow you to extend the current Lane that we have now that goes in and out they want us to put a new Lane in down that'll be congruent at that time with with where we put the new Lane so if they we have two options we're looking at one is widening the existing north entrance to create a double turn lane out of the head north and one lane heading south um the other option is the original of an actual separate entrance where the tennis courts currently are um so we're debating between the two of them and using those two as

007negotiating to us with the city well as far as the lane is concerned I mean that that helps get people in and out but I guess I would look for the actual parking lot if we go with the north widening we will add a small parking lot where the tennis courts are if they don't allow that and we go with the drive-through Road through the tennis courts to the highway we would try to put some parking off of that but it won't be as much does that make sense and part of it's just waiting to see what the city wants to do with Harry langon yeah have they given any sort of time frame no there traffic studies done so we're trying to we're currently trying to set up a meeting with them I know

008pami county has a lot of interest too in in fixing Harry langon right now and that especially that intersection at 92 so there's a lot of different individuals who have a lot of interest in in develop in changing up how that works right now um we just got to get everybody to the table and start deciding what what's going to happen so okay I'm available tomorrow were there any additional public comments regarding the high school parking lot when will the specs be out for what is going to be coming back they're currently everything is posted on technical as of today it was actually went I think Friday and then when did we say they were due April 4th yes can I see a copy of the specs I said them M to you it's all

009sorry no you're good there's a there's a there's also links on our website so if you go to our website on the main page if you scroll down there's a little yeah there's nothing on there on the website there yeah I was going to say uh it's under the news and update section there's a bid notice piece Lisa can you Dr Herman can you switch over to Louis Central scroll down bid notice yeah go to high school parking lot all the specs mid draw the okay okay that's probably good majority of us don't know what we're looking at anyway so yeah perfect thank were there any additional public comments regarding the parking lot okay if not we'll adjourn that portion and then move into the High School tennis courts um let me get my document

010back up there I switched on okay uh High School tennis courts so regardless of the plan we pick for the high school widening the lane or moving the lane um the high it'll run through a portion of our current tennis courts so U those are decrepit anyway so we need to replace them um so the idea is we're going to go where the Cent courts are tennis courts are now we need to move the tennis courts this is the time since they're all kind of junk anyway we'll move them so we're going to move them to the west side of the of the high school on the on the area of grass that's closest to 92 and um budget for the so when we looked at it um we kind of lumped the tennis courts

011in with the drainage so we know we have to take care of a lot of drainage on our property high school and middle school and as well as our operations building everything drains towards the old railroad railroad tracks and we need to get that water to then run south right now it just kind of pools or doesn't even collect it back in there so um so as part of the tennis courts we're we have permission from the city it's in your consent agenda to be able to clear out from the northernmost section by the tennis courts all the way down until you get down a little parking lot for the w w bash Trail so kind of that whole section will get cleared out um be huge for us for water mitigation but that's lumped

012into the tennis courts here um lerson estimate for it says parking lot supposed to be tennis courts for the tennis courts and all of that drainage work is uh 1.55 850 so 1,1 155,50 our total budget for the parking lot tennis court and the drive lane which is yet to be announced was 4.2 million um that this puts us at roughly you know 3 3.2 million so so far so almost a million dollars left for the whatever additional parking lot and Lane we would we would need so well within our budget so far are there any public comments regarding the tennis courts okay hearing none we will move into the Titan Hill parking lot replacement and additional queuing Lane so so this will add so right now we have two lanes that go up one

013is supposed to be for parents one's supposed to be for buses the problem is is we get parents that if they're new to picking up or if they get a grandparent or somebody picks up they'll get in the bus lane really backs everything up and so and the other thing we don't have enough to get people off of Harry Langdon so we're going to do an extra Lane so we'll have two planes for parents and then one lane that's an extra wide Lane for buses and ERC um uh for staff members only to be able to go that way and then so there'll be two lines of parent cars that'll go all the way up and around that'll hopefully make for a smoother process for picking up and dropping off um uh budget we had

014for this is about $1.5 million lamper nerson who did the design and estimates for us right now is estimating that at just shy of 700,000 about 697400 so um well under budget so that's always a good good thing now we just have to see where the bids come in so this is also on that website so any of the Titan Hill stuff is also uh in the posting rooms and on the website as well and for for clarity uh we're replacing the parking M portion that is mainly where the teachers park that's the worst of it the one to the South here is in good shape it's stay in the main drive lane along the building is staying so it's mainly the parking lot to the West for all the teachers par and then um

015probably 80% of the sidewalks up to the building are also going be replac with this bun of so people out there can't hear because Brett's off to the side uh he's saying that it'll be the the the worst area of the parking lot we're not replacing pavement that's already good additional lane and then about 80% of the sidewalks that run along around the front of uh of Titan Hill so a lot of tripping hazards potential tripping hazards around there do we have any additional public comment regarding the Titan Hill parking lot replacement okay then we will move from that on to the Middle School roof okay um so again we already had a meeting or a public hearing on the Middle School roof but we had to make a design change so it's back up

016there so Rick mswe did our um design again on this um estimated price bids were due last Friday they were open last Friday um we just have to have a board hearing again just to make sure that everybody's aware that they the board will be voting on uh this this uh Project tonight um estimated price is 200,000 um we just need to have the the board approve the specs and then the um the the next Board of action will be to approve the bids we did get bids in so okay any public comments regarding the Middle School roof okay at this point we will adjourn the public hearing portion of our meeting and we will move to commendations Good News all right we have some guests uh today thank you for sitting through that long

017and boring um hearing portion so we have the middle school student council girls want to start by introducing who you want attention hi my name is Jay long and I'm the president of student council hi my name is Olivia zerovski and I'm the vice president of student council hi my name is secretary in stud coun hi my name St hi my name isia stev not just I was GNA say there's no such thing as just student council member I'm missa Danielle I'm lucky enough to work with these amazing kiddos special a teacher at the middle school but also the student council sponsor great group of kids um today we're going to be talking about the student council's accomplishments and like what we plan on doing in the near future stand CL yep whoever's going to

018talk need to stand right up here there you go okay so to kick off our um student council fundraisers uh we decided to do a Bo grams during October and basically what it was it was just a sucker and it has like tissue paper around it shaped like a ghost obviously for that uh holidays and um we raised a total of like not like $50 which is very nice and it spread positivity around the the central midle school um yeah just a dumb dumb candy about it and you could include a little note for a friend so attached you s it specifically you wanted to give it to okay and then we also did a food drive donating to the thriving Titans and we raised 5 87 cans that delivered to thriving Titans and every

019year we do it but um due to weather we didn't do as well as we wanted to so we will be doing another one at the end of the year to help make up so that we have more food for the thriving Titans coincided with the cold weather week unfortunately it's kind of hard to remember yeah sounds like it's going to be potentially that again yeah hopefully not we also did conference tours where the student council members showed parents in need where the children's classrooms were instead of taken up more conference time to ask a teacher where a classroom is or even worse getting lost students could ask one of the many student council members that were walking in the hallways waiting to help this was very successful and made conferences go by quicker we

020also did door decorating contest the students in each Home Room got to design a Christmas door with paper and markers and then the at the end janitors and faculty m MERS got to walk around and judge who did the best door decorating um spirit week was also one of our activities that we did student council we dressed up festively according to given spirit days um the week before winter break the students got to dress up like to just holidays Spirit um Lori took a picture of each student that um weared according to the calendar of the day and then um there was also movie days and dress up days for just or pajama days too it was very fun and then these are just some pictures like for the Christmas St decorating um that was

021a couple of students that were doing it like the process of it and then there was the winner I can't see who it was up wers Mrs wers and then for the food drive there was a thank you card from the thriving Titans and they were just thanking us for donating and helping out the families that needed it so yeah oh okay sorry um spring uh teacher appreciate appreciation fundraiser was to show our love to each teacher at Louis Central um when we showed teachers we cared about them and giving them like positive feedback uh during uh when they're working around the clock uh the second trimester was probably a really hard time for them just showing that we cared about them and to stay positive really helped probably and um the teachers to give

022them a gift or their teachers they doing the paper flower and they'll write the message on it oh yeah paper flow and you'd write the message on it and just to show that I mean we appreciate them a lot the paper flowers can symbolize like just how we care about them spring Spirit Week dress up to celebrate weather warming up all the at the beginning of Spring Break everyone gets very excited and rambunctious for the warm weather that is to come so why not get some of the energy out by having some fun dressup days where you can wear a cute pair of sunglasses and shorts this will also act as a reward for good behavior from the is ISA is testing oh okay food drive food drive end of the year stock up in

023order to make sure kids that don't have the right resources to still get fed oh I heard you did this one okay so the how we'll do it at the end because due to weather we didn't get as much food as we wanted for the kids that needed it so we'll do it at the end of the yeartime soon again thank you eggs the members of student council will fill a Easter egg for each and every teacher in the building in order to show our appreciation how hard they work Penny ORS for competing for pennies classes will have have a jar to fill with pennies they will com they will compete to get the most pennies and our earnings will go out to help beat cancer and then for spring conferences showing parents around the

024school this is just like the last time we were showing parents around but this time it'll be there in the third time trimester um so what we're wanting to plan next is a school dance for the Middle School um so student council has come up with the idea that we would like to plan a dance for the middle school this is because it would benefit the entire school by increasing our amount of school spirit letting everyone get some energy out which will hopefully decrease the amount of referrals given out and even though we will need to fundraise a little bit for the dance to be set up it'll be a Hu huge fundraiser in itself if we have people buy tickets and to make sure that everything goes smoothly we will have teachers and maybe

025a couple of parents volunteer to shaa run back bathroom security bring anything unnecessarily to into the dance oh iip and be ready at the entrance to deny students who have big bags or bringing anything unnecessary into the dance we've also decided that we should not allow access into the dance for kids that have any major referrals this year student council can speak for the middle school and we are willing to plan this event out to plan this event out and take the safety precautions in order to make it fun and safe environment for everyone and that's it so that's what we're planning to do or wanting to do and what we've already done good job they showed a ton of incentive also for the dance um they put all of this together on their own

026their initiative of this group is amazing they even said Dr Reynolds is can to ask about this so we need to make sure that we have this in place so they've done a really good job coming up with all of the things that they would need in place um and this was all them so I want them to have full credit for coming up with everything that we needed great group of kids I'm luy to get to work with them do you guys currently have a dance uh no we're trying to get approval from Dr Reynolds Oh tell you what uh Dr hazing would donate towards the dance if that's a barrier he donate his time he won't donate time but I will donate dollars so make sure this dance happens I would second that

027there we go look at this you'll get the stance funded in no time they didn't know me they didn't tell me they were putting this into the presentation but it is a really good group and they do play a good we have good kids and I will say that all day long um Louis Central top to bottom has great kids so when you have good kids advocating for other good kids it's easy to say yes to this group so I don't think I've said no to anything they've asked me this year um but they didn't ask for a dance until right now so we'll see do you girls I think we can probably get it figure do you have a plan like are you going to charge an admission and what will that money go

028for so obviously the dance would probably be a little bit expensive in itself cuz we would have to buy a DJ and decorations um so we would probably have to fundraise it just a little bit to get it like started and stuff but if we did charge admission like about $5 per person I mean if you get a 100 people to come that's $500 so bet Dr is there is there a goal for any extra I mean do you just put it in the student council pot for the future yeah that I think it's a great idea I do too it's pretty good we'll try to I just want to say that I was at the middle school this week um Corporation and Company went over and this isn't student council specifically related um but

029I was so impressed that they brought all three grades into the auditorium and I was sitting way up in the Crow's Nest by the way I had never been up there before but I sat and I was so impressed with your students and their focus on watching what was going on on stage um and just the the leadership within the entire room was phenomenal so thank you for being outstanding leaders it is noticed by other students because I've been there for that exact same performance before and the there was some chaos so I think whatever it is that you're doing it is it is being noticed not only by staff but it's also being noticed by your peers and so for that I would like to congratulate you all for your hard work thank you

030thank you thank you um and then I just handed out uh so thanks so much to student council kiddos for coming appreciate you they might have a few questions based on this information you can ask any questions you want we don't get an audience of the board very often so I do always want to provide a little bit of information about the middle school so I put this together quick just for some informative purposes so um this is our district Mission Vision and values on the front and then as you open it up it just kind of gives you um a glance at what Louis Central is like how many kids we have we currently have 715 kids outline staff it shows just kind of the course offerings we have by exploratory which have changed

031a lot in the last few years and lots more opportunities for kids which is fun um we've talked a lot this year as a district about having like a a visual scoreboard like how are we doing and meeting our goals um a couple things that I want to highlight um if you look all the way on the culture climate goals on the right we have a goal that every student in our building receives a postcard from a staff member and we actually met that goal in early March this year so every student has received a postcard some have received two or three um for 715 kids we're at 912 postcards on the year sent by staff so that's an exciting one um get pretty excited about that the other one um if you go down

032to like when we survey kids so I know that I've um shared in my updates that we do survey students just about building expectations because it's really important for students to do well they need to know what's expected um so for example 90% of students will understand how to be academically successful and currently 98% of our students say that they do understand that and then in terms of I understand Behavior expectations 99% of students say that they understand what that looks like the other one that's really important to me is that every student who walks in the building feels like a staff member cares about them so that top one we're almost there our goal is 95% I would say our the goal in our heart is 100% we want every kid to know that

033we care about them um we're currently at 93% in our spring data so those are just really things that we hold really really important to us um and then if you flip to this back side the other thing we know that activities at the middle school level feed activities at the high school level so it's important that we have kids participating so I just kind of included the numbers that we saw so far this year of how many kids we have out for our different activities um so that's really exciting we have a lot um lot of things to celebrate there history day we had 30 students participate in the class and four have now made it to the state level which is exciting too so um good things happening there if you look our

034honor band and Honor Choir always have really good participation those are qualification everything else is opt in um if you note you might want to go to a middle school track meet because we have 73 and 75 kids out for track girls and boys um so we should be able to field some teams which is awesome we want to get kids as involved as they can be um at the middle school level that translates to to participation overall so just a few things about us um raise your hand if you're something in something besides student council yeah and I would say that's pretty much the norm so um we want students to be involved in as much as they can are you all eighth graders I'm a seventh grer seventh seven seven so 28 28

035okay any other questions for any of our kids or me what's been your favorite activity so far this year uh to do a student council yeah um in my opinion I really like the boo GRS I thought that was a pretty creative idea I'd says too just because it's that time year anding ghost yeah the boo GRS are fun especially when you delivered them to see everyone get so excited they got Bo uh the boo GRS because you got to see their smiles on their faes um I like the food drive because I know that other students that don't get as much help at home they were like getting very cool where will the dance end up on your list his excitement for this dance is going to be number one is it going to

036beat out the mid school dance I've ever been at wow pretty sure promise all you know you could couple the dance with your food drive a lot of times it was oh entry in a dollar and a can of food yeah a dollar and a dollar a can of food and I'm just going to throw this out there that 30 some years ago when I was an eighth grader at the Middle School uh we had an eighth grade dance that was semiformal so I'm just throwing that out there that get dressed up and really make an evening of it no pressure no no pressure I feel any good all right so if each of you had an opportunity to proceed with student council As you move forward with Louis Central how many of you would

037do it again I would definitely do it again it was pretty fun um and for these kids all being kind of their first year participating and definitely participating in the leadership roles that they have been I've walked through their meetings before like I don't think anybody needs to run the meeting sometimes like they are just so organized dedicated and wanting to do good things they came to me first two weeks probably and had a plethora of ideas um so I think that it's just an example of kids just wanting to do good things for one another and and the school as a whole and than kudos to miss mza because she has assembled a great team and does a wonderful job supporting and advocating for them um and organizing all the things that they want

038to do so it's awesome kids awesome sponsor it's a great program can you talk about how you guys were selected for a student council yeah it's a great question um so if I have an incoming sixth grader seventh grader eighth grader how would they get involved or um so at the beginning of the year we just kind of everyone that was really interested in it we all kind of talked to Miss Mendoza and then we sent in teacher recommendations and forms to Dr Reynolds and Miss Mendoza and they filtered through everyone and saw who didn't have any referrals who had the best recommendations grades attendance all of that and basically just the best got selected and then it was a vote between it was a uni vote between the student council the ones that got

039in who was our president vice president Etc and yeah and then M has already started to think about what who which students will be on next year interested in it and you're on it right now talk to her so that you get a head start and they came up with the idea they're incredible um they want to hopefully come and talk to the students at Titan Hill the fifth graders that are going to be incoming sixth graders to kind of give them a presentation on what student council would be and explain to them the process for the incoming sixth graders so that they know so that we can have them assembled before the beginning of the school year so that we can help with back to school night if we need more bodies navigating people

040so so um yeah lots of lots of good stuff that they they've come up with their great group kids and we're we have 30 members and we had we're like oh we can dwindle it down we really couldn't I mean it's a good problem to have when you have that many kids that are qualified and just great um and want to do things so it was really hard um we kind of filtered through if you were on leadership and PBIS we kind of wanted other people to have an opportunity to be on student council since they were already in leadership roles um yeah they it this has been awesome they're they're an amazing group of kids very lucky and I might be telling you something that you already know but wouldn't you go talk to

041the fifth graders make sure that you take examples or pictures of things because they need to see those tangible things so you could take examples of what your suckers look like or what your notes look like or you know the amount of can I know that a few years back well last year the year before when Timmy was there there was the picture and Dr Reynolds office with all the food that was raised you know give them something tangible to look at Titan Hill comes in well the fifth graders come from Titan Hill to visit the middle school and we usually give a pretty big presentation to all of them so I'm hoping that these kids can just come talk at that point when they're in the setting and be awesome be able to provide

042some of that info to them then and get them excited for sure thank you for coming we're definitely excited to see what you guys do in the future keep it up and we can't wait to hear about the dance we will we'll have uh Mrs Schaller put together a um video of all the fun things that happen at the dance sounds like you're also supervising can I get aot you before thank you for coming thank you for having us and thank you parents for bringing them oh no you got to come back in for the rest of the meeting they always leave I know they probably took a GL they probably took a glance at the agenda and they're like H I'm out I took a glance at the agenda and thought I'm out did

043we have any other additional commendations good news I I just I just wanted to give a big kudos to everybody who runs Clash that was quite the event I mean how many different groups did we have have there so we had um nine competitive performances on Friday night for the middle school we had 19 competitive performances on Saturday for high schools and then of course our three own middle our middle school on Friday night in company and Corp on Saturday um we probably had at one point 16 17 18800 people in the auditorium who were there for awards um and it was it was a phenomenal day we it was off only 1300 cuz we did not have more than what was no we didn't have more it was a filtered in and out yes

044yes so there were people who were watching overflow in the gym yes there were but there were people everywhere um the screen that was put up this last year in the cafeteria huge that was amazing um people who were standing in line could still very easily see what groups were performing um we had a meeting Thursday night uh to determine what we need to do different for next year what needs to change um we're losing 36 seniors out of Corp company and admin the administration um so if you have a kid who's in show choir boy let's make sure we get them out auditions they'll be in May this was this was our 31st clash and by far the most financially successful and probably the smoothest run um people choose to end their season with

045us because um they enjoy our fac facility so much so um lots of compliments throughout the entire day from parents staff students alike the day had name started and I heard this group of kids come and I'm not sure they were either from Millard Millard South or Papio L Vista South and there wasn't a lot going on and probably group of six kids or so and they said I am so glad we're back here this year this is just the most awesome competition the greatest space the people are nice and I caught her and I said hey you want to write that down for me so that I can put that in the program for next year and she laughed and she goes no really this is our favorite competition to come to so we

046have a standing room only line in order to come to clash and so it's um I get a little emotional it was an amazing weekend with a lot of amazing volunteer years and a lot of amazing kids who pulled off just a phenomenal show um I don't have final numbers but I know that our gate was more than it has been in the past and I think we looked at $40,000 plus just at our gate that does not include whatever booster club sold well so or V or vendor Kickback you have a couple vendors there too right and we had three vendors who will also provide a percentage of their sales um Khloe was actually one of my daughter was one of the vendors this year she more than doubled what she sold last year

047at Clash and so she will be able to donate um probably enough to help two different kids pay for their costume fees for next year if they need it so um pretty phenomenal weekend pretty phenomenal and if you have never been to clash can I just say that it is March 6th and 7th next year it's always the very first full weekend in March um swing by and just see it you you don't have to spend the whole day I mean yes I'd love for you to spend the whole day we're always looking for bodies um but just come by and see it it it is truly like nothing else that happens in this District so it was awesome is there's a lot of heart and passion that go into that thing yes there is

048very impressive I won't tell you how many hours and how many dollars that I put in yeah no it was amazing amazing time yes uh the next one we have is we had our uh special Olympic State basketball this last weekend we had four uh students earn medals um so that is phenomenal those four students oh my goodness just moved on me awesome sorry one second those four students we had Bentley Conrad get first place in speed dribble um blessing uh s got third place in basketball skills Darnell Dale got fourth place in basketball skills and uh Veronica Willie got fifth place in basketball skills and we had um several other athletes that were there as well competing and I heard they all had a great time and it was it was good competition so

049sometimes the ball doesn't go on the hoop but that's okay that happens with the best of us including me once in a while so um we also had two students that uh are 2025 uh United States presidential scholar candidates and that would be uh Jacob Koloff Sadler and Ella busy so I'm pretty excited there so those are kind of the main things as we continue on you'll see clear throughout the the year every single board meeting has a different student group that's going to come in and present similar to what we've been doing so um we'll have people continue to join us so that's all I got were there any additional commendations good news Okay hearing none we will move on to comments and suggestions this is the first part in our board of directors

050meeting where we open up the floor to any public comment that you'd like to share or direct towards the board do we have anybody here online no okay hearing none we will move forward to our consent agenda can I please get a motion to approve the consent agenda so moved motion to approve vote please oh there is an updated Personnel she up just to make it a little bit bigger if you could there oh there we go I turn this way okay Mrs Peterson yes Mrs Shuffle yes Mr senson yes Mr Sturm yes Miss Atkins yes Mr R yes reports 7.01 Financial update uh so this is new we're going to do every uh meeting I will have uh both CU they're here anyway so we might as well have uh Mrs Ray and Dr

051Hartman will give updates from their respective Fields Mrs Ray focuses on she's all of our business upside of it so uh Finance HR um you know she'll come in and she'll have different different reports um every other meeting is our finance she'll a finance report and then on off meeting she'll have a variety of other things she'll share and then Dr Hartman will also cover one of her areas of curriculum instruction assessment um to make make sure that you guys feel like you have um the information you need so I'll let Mrs Ray go all right so uh the report that I picked uh to talk about uh this week is the certified budget comparison that you guys get monthly uh the reason that I picked this one in particular is is that over the

052next uh two meetings we will have our public hearings for the certified budget and uh then ultimately certifying our budget for uh FY 26 so this report is always going to be based on the budget that we set the previous year in April um and this is our overarching budget so when we set our certified budget we set it in the different categories that are listed their instruction support services non-instruction and other which includes facilities acquisition and construction debt aea flow through and then any downward adjustments that would need to take place um so in each of those groups uh you cannot exceed the budget uh for those um in any in any individual one but for a districtwide um so for example with the instruction majority of that um expense is in the general

053fund but we do have some of that as well in the management and the activi so when we set our certified budget we will set a budget for instructions in activity and management but if we go over a little bit in those as long as we're still under as a whole then we are within our budget according to the state so as of the end of February uh we right now are at 50% of our budget and instruction which is exactly where I want us to be for instruction at the end of February and the reason for that is because majority of instruction is going to be our teacher salaries our teacher salaries are paid from August or September to August so there's two months in there that is a little bit of a cushion

054so you wouldn't want all of that to be so as of the end of February we have paid six payments and we have six payments still to come out of majority of the contracts that are in there so uh 50% is right where I would like that to be the next two is our support services and non-instruction so that's going to be where you see some of your um admin expenditures uh some of our expenditures uh for our uh non-instruction side which is our nutrition fund our daycare um some of the support services also includes Transportation um that's where the big one comes in our management fund is also the ins insurance would be our support services so right now we are at 54% um so right on target there um for support services and

055then the same with non-instruction we're at 58% um the one that looks like we're running really uh low with the exception of our debt service and that's because of when debt payments are going to be made but our facility acquisition and construction uh that one is set a little bit High um and that has to do partially with the fact of depending on when our construction payments take place they take place in June of this year they would need to be on this year's budget if they do not take place in this year and take place in July or August or whatnot for our summer work then it would be rolled over into the next budget so when we look at certifying our next month's budget I will look and see where we're at with

056all of our construction planning and determining which payments if any of them will be made in June and then whatever amount won't be I can reuse that those funds into our next year's budget and set that budget based on that as well the other thing you're going to see when we set that number for next year that is going to include all of the projects that we are planning for this summer and part of them that we would be planning for the next summer as well so that number is going to be significantly larger than what it was uh this year uh since we'll be having the $20 million bond that we'll be issuing here in May and then the additional 10 million that we'll have in the following year as well so total wise

057we're running about 46% so we are right on target of where I would like us to be for the year based on our published budget from next year for last year and then um I will do the same for this and figuring out what we're going to spend next year and that's what we'll be looking at at the April 21st meeting the uh next meeting at April 7th we will have our budget public hearing for the maximum Authority that was sent and those notices uh did go out so everyone that is here should have received those in their mail and then if your spouse opened them and said what is this piece of paper that I'm looking at you can tell them to call me and I can explain what they're looking at but we

058will go in that in more detail um and just a reminder on that that was set higher than what we were expecting it to be uh once we know what state supplemental Aid will be I will be able to set that to an accurate amount but as of today we still don't know what that will be so hopefully I'm crossing my fingers that within the next 3 weeks they'll have it figured out so I can come to you guys with a better number are there any questions okay okay then moving on to curriculum construction upate and assessment so I can call it the CIA report that youting uh I was going to include a couple different things but I saw the agenda and I was like I'm just going to stick with one thing here

059so uh I'm going to talk a little bit about fast Bridge just because some of the things I'll talk to you guys about in the future there's lots of tie-ins here uh but this is the first year that we're using this program called fastbridge and this is what we use for screening for K through 8th grade on both literacy and math so we're looking for a really quick way to see where our kids skills at when it comes to math and literacy so before we had I ready it was really expensive it also did very different things um you guys have a copy of this presentation so I won't go into all of this but this was some of the teams we sent this out to them just for some talking points but um just

060for people to understand that the difference between I ready and fastbridge it's really apples to oranges we are not measuring the same thing um with fastbridge we're really getting indepth um detailed information about skill levels specifically when it comes to literacy and math uh I already was a little bit more focused on like your course standards and how well kids were meeting standards so uh just different information that we're getting um this is the Iowa reading Research Center puts out a lot of great information um they're connected with the University of Iowa um and so people can go to this fastbridge doir rc- learning.org website and it walks you through everything you could possibly want to know about screeners um fastbridge um what it looks like to use uh those screeners what it's intended for

061um I'll just show you some highlights here but you can see one of the assessments that we use we're looking for kids their words correct per minute we're getting we're looking to see are they accurate we're also able to see um are they fluent and then depending on how things go then we're looking at maybe some different diagnostic tools to figure out where are their gaps and where do we need to intervene um so here you get a little bit more information just about each of the different assessments that we have what are they for so you can see early reading that's what we use at CFT um and that's again for screening we can use it to monitor progress for kids over time um we also do CBM reading which is where kids are

062reading out loud to us and so we're using time and looking at fluency um and then a reading as they start to get a little bit older um and that's kind of this broader reading assessment we also use it for screening too for kids um so there's just a lot of information on this site I won't go through all of it but if people wanted to dig in a little bit more I would highly recommend this site um just lots of really good information on there um so all of that background to show you here um is where our fast bridge data is right now so this is literacy uh red uh means it's between zero and 59% the goal would be 80% we want 80% of our kids to meet Benchmark that's how we

063know what we're doing at the classroom level tier one is effective um so in the fall we had the first round of our screening data and then you can see in the winter what scores look like um this one here the fall to winter growth is answering the question are the students who were below Benchmark before improving and now scoring above Benchmark so you can see for example in kindergarten we had 31% of kids who were below Benchmark who were then scoring above Benchmark it's kind of an interesting data point there and then the fall the winter maintain where we've got a a lot of yellow this answers the question are the students who are not at risk remaining above benchmarks we want to make sure kids aren't falling behind if they were at Benchmark

064are they staying there so you can see the data there so that's literacy we'll test again um in Spring and then on the other side here is what math looks like so again you can see we measured in Fall then again in Winter you can see the differences we've got some areas where some scores went down um you can see those kids who were able to um then meet Benchmark and those who stayed on Benchmark um so that that data is really important to us I'll talk through a little bit about what we do with that data um but I think it's important as we continue to look at um some of the different decisions that we're making that we're you know aware of where kids are at with their data and constantly looking to

065improve um so here are some different things building level teams are always looking at that data they're making analysis they're determining some next steps in their own buildings um I plans are created based on that data so um part of that too is part of legislation where each kid if they're persistently at risk um needs to have a plan um we determine interventions based on that data um that could also mean um course placement in certain areas um the data is reported out to our district leadership team and then the data is used for instructional decisions so for example our curriculum review process now the very first stage of our curriculum review process asks us to look at data so we're pulling in things like this we're pulling in things like our ISF scores and

066we're using that to ask some questions is are these materials working for us um that's the starting point is looking at our data um also we've also used it in the Samy process all of our buildings um were identified on the state assessment as having a subgroup that was in need and that was our special education population so all of our buildings minus CFT because they're not part of that uh isas um all went through the Samy process which is looking at your internal systems and determining some next steps and so um this data was also used for part of the Samy processes so what's next next um so we will have our spring screening window in April um April 21st is when that window opens uh we are really hopeful that we see some

067increased scores we've been implementing uly now at both CFT and Titan Hill and ufly is a program that um is phonics based it's one of the gaps with our current tier one um curriculum materials um we've had teachers um finding some success with that we've done a lot of implementation studies and learning Labs with it so we're hopeful with that um implementation that we'll see some growth uh we'll continue to train our teachers with letters we've invested very heavily in letters um and if you're not familiar with letters um it is really just the science of reading it gets down to the nitty-gritty like this is how little kids learn how to read um and so a big part after we've gone through letters training has then been how do we take our knowledge and

068then incorporate that into what we're doing so um this has been almost two years in the making but the last year and a half our elementary teams got together and develop this District literacy plan um and part of the goal with the literacy plan too was just like as new people come on we want to be able to say like this is how we approach literacy at Lewis Central um and again we wanted to take some of that knowledge we've been learning through letters and apply it to how we teach literacy um the other thing that we did with this is after we created this we then created a spreadsheet that is basically like a matrix where each building will go through and rate themselves how are we doing on these things and if there's

069gaps then the building is going to work that into their building plans for next year so just met with one of Titan Hills lead teams they scored themselves and we'll include that in their planning um and then in a couple weeks we'll meet with c's team as well so just a way to kind of keep this as a living document um so Elementary is living that right now and then secondary is currently working a process where secondary is going to add their flavor into this District literacy plan because right now it's just focused on Elementary um but we want a congruent document that's you know prek through 12 how do we do literacy at leis Central so that's really quick um a little bit about screener we'll talk math probably at the next time but

070just want to give you a little bit more about what that looked like for literacy and where we're at with some of our screening data questions can we compare the fast data Like A literacy across districts similar to us or is that uh just because I know that we were below 59% yep I'm just curious is that something that compared to other schools kind of in our district or at least around us if we're lower or you we're lower than the average greenhous average um there is part of you know it's a new assessment that they're taking thinking there's a little bit of that to get used to um but yeah currently we are a little bit lower than those around us and it's the assessment is is provided strictly by teachers so a lot

071of it is just that process of at some places so in at C we've taken like a assessment team so like we we really dove in on some of the training and we've tried to be really consistent then about how we test kids and we just run kids through this this assessment team titan Hill right now is doing a little bit different so to Brent's point it's classroom teachers who are doing the assessment and there can be pluses and minuses to both of that but then you've got a lot of different people testing and you know you hope it's not too different but sometimes when you get a lot of people doing it there might be a little bit of difference in initially once people I get the hang of it and we'll see it

072we'll get we'll see balance out uh one of the things that's nice is the majority vast majority of schools across state of Iowa do the fast that was one of the reasons for switching there are very few schools across the state of Iowa that were doing I ready very and so we really couldn't find peer data so that's why we made the switch over to fast because we wanted to see more peer-to-peer data M yep and the testing is April 21st that's when the window opens so we then have like 30 days to okay do the test yeah and how fast results come back immediately as soon as the kid takes it it's the results are in okay mhm so for the fall winter spring was that currently aligned with our trimesters and then does

073that change if we move to semesters next year no so the state sets the screening Windows okay and so you have to screen three times per year yep is there anything with the the fast bridge program that we don't currently have that you'd like to see us have in the future no not necessarily I mean there there's options to do some screening with like behavioral kind of stuff but the state's really kind of you know put the kabash on what we should or could be asking when it comes to that you can also screen now up through the 12th grade level um I think that gets really challenging at the high school level when you're taking you know different kinds of courses and you're you've got lots of different options we've talked through that a

074little bit but I don't think there's anything else that they have that that we're like oh we'd really like to have that it's it's working for I mean the tool is providing us the information we need right now any additional questions nice sh say nice job uh we'll move into facility project update project Advocates uh so I actually sent you guys a document and an email um it's got our new and I'm going to have you Dr armman I'm going to pull up that email that I just sent it has a spreadsheet yep so the second one down oh scroll down the document the spreadsheet document okay so if you can zoom in so this you guys all have access to this I emailed this to you as well uh so this just talks about

075kind of where we are with projects high school parking lot um obviously we're that's out to be bid on right now you guys will have an opportunity to review those bids on 47 kind of gives you probable costs and then um we'll also have some contract amounts in there as well uh if you go to the bottom uh look at the tabs like for instance click over on the Middle School roof tab you guys will see you can actually see the individual bids what they came at it you know what the company was the bid um any additional comments um that we have um will be on those as well so like that'll be a working document that um project Advocates will send to me weekly and I'll just forward off to you guys so

076you guys can review and kind of keep keep up to date on it so any other additional um comments Brad you said at one point we're going to have how many different projects going on this summer and this is just Bond related projects tab I kind of created Tab2 projects so just for my own piece of mind um keep track everything this is on the Slate for this Sumer and rolling into the fall if you but we're at 13 projects um by 12 be active and hot through the summer and a couple others kind of in a good started phase so that's what we're looking to tackle through the summer really busy l going on next week for next board meeting seven of those should be appr between bids and some other um just contract

077approvals so I'm sure you've noticed little bit more starting to show up on board meetings and it's just going keep coming and we're also reaching out currently to architect teams to start talking about the Middle School renovation the next year that's going to take a lot of time to and design so that was our sum out and this is again this is just the bond projects so project ADV this basically what project Advocates is man managing for us project Advocates going to manage all the big projects but we're going to have other projects like um painting and flooring and um furniture and you know those types of things that on an annual basis just come in and out uh one of the things we don't have in here that we should put on there for

078would be like the uh safety improvements so the cameras the door like that'll be something to put on here project Advocates won't necessarily manage that piece kind of like playgrounds all manage playgrounds um um Chris evangelist Ste manage the all the it things so but those are just I mean you we could have at any point we could have 20 different contractors for 20 different projects going on the summer so it's going to be it's going to be a very intense summer so and you talked about having like a state of the district with teachers and staff so that way they know who's coming in when yeah yeah we'll have estimated timelines and those types of things so um and again we'll make sure we have that Bond uh page um we'll make sure we

079get that updated so that way people can catch our progress as we continue to move forward C estimated timelines uh project costs those types of things we want to be as transparent as possible uh to the general public so yeah it's going to be it's going to be a doozy of a summer any other questions for Brad or I regarding facilities I it's the only thing that I have I think I've touched base is when they do since you have link or put the drainage cleanout with the tennis court those almost have to be done prior to them tearing out the high school parking lot because if you get a 100 loads of dirt going across the middle school parking lot you're going to end up destroying that before we're ready to replace it so

080it almost they have to go out the the high school parking lot yeah that's good thought yeah we just had a dumped or uh garbage truck fall through the the Middle School Road so parking lot so we're going to we're just going to patch that up for now and kind move forward so yeah hopefully we can get that bit out and get that going so any additional comments questions I'm looking forward to it getting fixed it's a disaster God is bad yeah okay we'll move forward with the superintendent update uh so I got a couple things on here first of all I got a couple phone calls this weekend um regarding the tax form that um Mrs Ray had mentioned uh during her report um just again reiterate with the public like this is what

081we talked about when we originally approved the the maximum Levy um a couple board meetings ago was specifically that that that Levy is is it's a false Levy it's a it's a fake Levy because we're never going to end up at that when we when the state requires us to report that out they're supposed to have our state supplemental state or state supplemental Aid set at that kind at that time so we're supposed to be able to communicate consistent accurate numbers but when the state doesn't have their their supplemental Aid increases approved then we have to create a budget that's essentially fake because even though they move their timelines they're legally obligated it's supposed to be to have a set at a certain date so we're supposed to report at a certain date they move

082their timeline our timelines remain the same so we have to send out a a budget basically saying that the state's going to give us no increase and that 100% of the bill is going to fall on the taxpayers we know that's not true the state knows it's not true however that's the way we have to publish it and so um again that's just an estimate we won't actually set the budget until after the state has set their SSA rate um and so it's going to be significantly lower even if you look at the document the document will show that we went from a $10.30 levy to $160 Levy that there's about 30 cents of wiggle room in there um we won't go above 1130 that'll be the levy that we set um essentially when it

083comes back what you're not seeing in there is it says act or uh like State Levy and then it says realize Levy which is lower and that's the portion of money that the state lowers based on their supplemental Aid increases and right now that's zero so it's not lowering that at all so that's why you're seeing a 30% increase it's not 30% we did the community did vote through a dollar increase so you will see a dollar increase from $103 to $11.30 um and that's if the state doesn't follow through with what they're talking about right now which is lowering the amount of money that the state contributes for education or this increasing the amount of money that the state contributes for education and lowering the tax burden for Education right now they're looking at

084over $400 million that they would like to come out of the state's coffers and that would actually continue to lower the the the property tax for our local constituents so again just begging people have a little bit of patience we have to report on a timeline regardless of whether it's fair regardless of whether or not it's accurate we still have to report and that that Levy actually won't be set until the very end of April so um lots of time if you have questions if you get that form it's just an estimate just know it's not going to be correct if anything if the state says they're going to give us just a modest increase you will see the levy go from $10.30 to $11.30 and that's strictly because we approved a $1 increase to

085our to our um for the bond and so that'll be less than a 10% increase so the 30% or 20 saw 27 and 28% um on forums this weekend that is not true it's just it's what you're getting right now it's all estimates so um you can breathe you know breathe deep it's okay like that we'll we'll have accurate numbers out by the end of uh April so the only way it would be above $11.30 is if the state decides at the last minute that they're not going to fund as big of an increase they have in the past years which is roughly a 2 to 2 and a half% increase so if they come in with less than that then they will set their increase our increase is still going to be that dollar

086but the majority of our Levy we have no control over so the state's going to be has 100% control but everything they're saying so far is that's going to actually be less so we'll hope that that's the case there just wanted to state that so that way might we have more phone calls I be like check out the board meeting meeting there's more information there um excuse me legislative updates uh again we're just waiting for for SS to kick in um Staffing close to we're close to full um we have an elementary tag that just became open and we have a high school science um we do have an elementary teacher uh position open at Titan Hill but we're interviewing this week so hopefully that'll be filled so if you know of a talented and

087gifted teacher or a high school science teacher uh have him reached out and apply um lcef or Education Foundation is hiring a director you guys did approve for us to then uh contract with the director our lclc services so hopefully they'll um we'll start getting um some applicants in and reviewed and then we can um help lcef move forward with that you will see that underneath our job openings because they are brand new to having employees and they just don't have a system set up right now to collect applications for that so we're essentially collecting the applications but the foundation will be hiring um snow day so we are looking at potentially more snow here on Wednesday which is awesome it's almost 80 degrees today and then snow on Wednesday and then back to 80°

088this weekend so that's great um however what's not great is we are officially completely out of additional hours so I've been very careful I drafted an email on Friday to to send out people that says um congratulations we've made it through with no time left to spare um we're going to have a regular um dismissal date and then all of a sudden they decided we're going to get a a blizzard it's like 98% chance of a blizzard on Wednesday now there's lots of time we live in Iowa it's the Midwest that storm in the next 48 hours could shift a little bit to the north and we will get nothing but so I'm not going to cancel school until we get a little bit Clos to that time we are we are however planning because

089if we end up cancelling or we do a late start or anything like that we will have to make up that time and so and that's not our decision that's a state decision we have to keep so many hours with the state which means that we would right now the plan and I will email this out tomorrow just to give people a heads up if if we have to cancel on Wednesday my recommendation to the board because the board will have to approve the calendar at the next meeting will be to add Friday May 30th as a student day and then have staff come back to report clean out their rooms check do their check out on Monday June 2nd so um try to get try really hard to get out before June this year

090not sure Mother Nature um is going to let us do that so well that's out of our control though so we we we talked about a lot of different options this is the only one that that really makes sense it's not we we don't do um online learning days because honestly there's there's not enough time to be able to kick that in we've never done it before even between now and Wednesday whatever we put out would be non-educational and and I'm not okay with that so um the community we just talked about taxes Community pays a lot of taxes to us to provide a quality education experience and so we're going to do everything we can to have a quality education experience even if we have to go an additional day so um but I

091will send that out uh calendar update we're going to actually have to update the calendar anyway because if you guys approve the or ratify the collective bargain agreement with the Education Foundation today that does change some of their reporting dates and so I'll bring a calendar for you guys for next year 2526 to approve anyway just some just some small changes there spring sports are getting dialed up winter sports are officially done winter activities are officially done um booster club auction night is uh March 29th is coming up here if you guys want to support a great C uh sign up for the booster club auction um it's a great night good food um I get to entertain people by giving a Rockstar speech so um come out and come out and join us for

092that kindergarten registration is May 1st and 2nd so people have been asking about that a lot we'll me we'll do a another push we just did one on on social media um but yeah that's been a big question is when's kindergarten registration so that's about it for my updates I was the only one of the three by the way that kept it to five minutes you did you really count it was like seven I was gonna say anybody have any questions oh all right trying to keep that under two hours yeah were there any questions on the superintendent up okay then we will move forward to discussion items 8.01 the high school roof spec approval uh so you just need to uh approve that we're going to be doing the the other sections of the

093roof and that the estimated cost is $800,000 I did I did I did send you links oh sorry any questions comments regarding that is that a different contract than what was used the last time so yeah um essentially there was a misunderstanding the previous contractor previous architect we had used um on the first portion of the roof um we were under the understanding we' been told that we could use that drawing for the whole roof we actually only paid for a portion of the roof and so we were having Rick mswe do the um do the specs on the second half of the RO or on the on the Middle School roof reviewing the those for us anyway so we asked we asked both companies to give us a bid and Rick came in significantly

094under what the other company did uh the the one wanted $338,000 for um just drafting or coming up with plans for the second half of the high school riff riff Rick wanted 3,000 so um we ended up going with prick he had the plans back to us in about four days I think three days really fast so um it will move forward there so yeah that's why we kind of had to redo the do the but it's a very it's a very simple roof it's just rubber membrane like it's not like you know all the Curbing and everything else is pretty pretty simple any other questions okay then we'll move to 8.02 the high school parking lot spec approval uh so again uh this one we talked about before design was done by lamper nerson

095um includes parking lot parking lot lights adjoining pavement um budget for the parking lot tendis court and drive Lanes 4.2 million this is estimated at 2, 43,4 so we'll see what the bids come in at but any questions comments on that okay moving forward to the High School tennis courts heiring approval yep sound like a broken record it's just lamper nerson designed this this includes the tennis courts and drainage clearing um there'll be uh six courts we have uh four currently so three or four currently four right so this would be expanding by two um which is great we have growing program so um estimated cost for this is 1,1 155,50 so be easier if lamp just did round numbers but surprised they didn't get into the sense they usually never round your way though

096that's the problem oh yeah t any additional question okay Titan Hill parking lot replacement and adding the queuing line yep so estimate for this project is 6974 includes replacement of the bad section of the parking lot where the teachers park right now um the adding an additional lane and then the pavement that's uh adjoining around the the front of the Titan Hill any questions comments on that okay Middle School roof hearing approval yep so uh Rick we we had him go ahead and and review that um we just did he's estimating that at $200,000 as you'll see we actually got a bid for significantly less than that so that's a positive but just need to officially approve the specs and the estimate before you can approve the the Middle School roof bid okay so we

097won't be doing the bid approval yeah you'll still do the bid approval okay that's that's the next line item so you can do them on the same night okay were there any questions comments on the the hearing approval for the Middle School roof okay moving forward to Middle School roof B approval um yep so we have uh pull it up here I just sent this to you uh so we have Middle School Ro um we had eight bids come in um and we out of the eight bids uh Jr Roofing came in the the lease at [Music] $143,700 able to do the work do the work in the manner the in the time frame in which they had discussed it and just see if there's any reason why we should not select uh the lowest

098responsible bidder and um so they did their due diligence and um said that there's nothing they can find that would prohibit uh Jr Roofing from being able to perform the contract any other questions comments okay moving forward 8.07 high school fire alarm bid approval um so we uh we had it out there the same time frame as a roofs um the we got one bid back from uh total Fire and Security INC now we did bid a very specific uh fire system because it's the same one that the other buildings have so we wanted to be consistent in what we have make sure we have the same parts and you know everything else uh there were three companies that entertained bidding only one came through the other two did not and if I'm not mistaken

099it was mostly because they didn't you know the electrical component of it the other two were afraid of a time frame constraints to get it done during the summer um smaller companies didn't have the m to do it so they chose not to for it we checked out very well provided project plan I call it how heend perform building up the monitor while hearm system temporary satell yeah you said when he was in that meeting that they would have anywhere between six to eight people there pretty much at all times so that's pretty good one of the reasons we had the we had that budget at 250,000 um or estimated 250,000 um it came out at 260,000 770 so Ford always when we go through these things you guys always have the right to reject

100all bids you know you can say sometimes if you only get like a single bid you can say we're going to reject the bid um the risk you take is that when you go out and bid it again it comes back in higher um this is relatively close to where we had estimated my guess is it's a little bit elevated and he said this in the meeting that it's a little bit elevated because he put in some some tariff tariff escalation like he just put it in there and then if that ends up not being the case he would provide us you know kind of a deduct back if if he doesn't have to pay that the other thing is they had to you know when we when we get an estimate on the insulation

101the estimates insulation of the of the uh um of the stuff you know like like putting the fire alarm in they also have to come up with consideration for making making sure that our fire alarm system does not go down like we still have monitoring and Reporting and you know because when you're switching out one system for another you can't just it's not like the high school can just go without fire alarms for a year you know or for a for a summer like still yeah so so they coming up with a little additional plan probably is also what makes up the difference a little bit so so it's in my opinion as well within kind of that margin of error you know if we if we had B if we had budgeted 250 and

102it came in at $500,000 I would say whoa like let's rethink this a little bit so but that's not the case with the tariffs that he built in what did he say I thought uh at the bid letting I thought he said it was $117,000 maybe, matal they don't kick will yeah I think actually put it under the budgeted amount just slightly get it okay so yeah I mean we'll see what happens with the with the tariffs but either way we're right around that budgeted about so were there any other questions on the fire alarm excuse me okay moving forward to 8.08 Van purchase uh so again we are looking for one more 12 passenger van to purchase for this year they're kind of unicorns we just happened to stumble across two unicorns and the

103same field in the in a twoe time frame so um just bought the last 12 passenger van last week uh this one they have 12 passenger again Edwards does um it's a 2022 3500 39,000 MI um they're F they're asking price is $49.90 um they're going to give us a consideration of $600 on a trade we think that's probably Fair because we couldn't even get the van started so um are you supposed to say that well they've already said they'll give it to us yeah so well they know I mean that's why they gave us 600 bucks I think they basically gave us trash value for it so but at least they're going to take it away um they get a little bit of a dealer dock fee on there and then a final purchase

104price of 41570 um that's really in the realm of what we've spent I mean we've gone as far as topa Kansas to pick up vans that we spent more money on so with essentially the same miles it's really hard to find a used 12 passenger van with less than 30,000 40,000 mil so um again we run them until they got about 170,000 Mi on them so until they don't work anymore and then we park them and then they sit around for about 4 years and then we trade them in for 600 bucks so one good thing we're doing now is getting something out of we traded in yeah our last we traded in I think we did we get like $2500 out of that yeah that there was pretty good that's better than selling them

105out run over scale and then we're not pay insurance g yep so um so yeah the recommendation would be um to uh purchase that van for 41570 you'll have some happy van drivers and well one at a time happy van driver so any any other questions regarding the van purchase I do like that we can buy it here rather than drive to TOA Kansas so we're still dealing with title issues from that plus 8.09 wireless access points bid approval um so yep so we went through um we had quite a few bids for this one uh basically what this is is it's so eate which is um money that we get from the federal government to purchase connectivity devices um they give us x amount of dollars per year based on what our free introduced

106lunch population is we have about 50% uh free introduce lunch population so they give us not 50% we about 30% free IND lunch population so we actually get reimbursed 50% of the funding our free introduced lunch population has actually declined a little bit we used to be at 60% funding um for this for this e rate now we're down to 50% which just means we split the cost with the with the government they give us half of what we need so um and there's a certain amount of money that we get each time so Chris manages all that his recommendation is to do he he does things like this year it's specifically 67 out of 196 of our wireless access points because that's how much money we can get from eate um so he just

107says phase one depending on how much money they give us it we the last year a fiveyear phase so depending on how much they give us in the next 5 years we'll finish out the the transition but um bid it out to all these companies a winning bid came in from Riverside Technologies Inc at ofous City uh for any other questions comments on the wireless access points okay 8.10 local government risk pool natural gas agreement uh this just basically it's it's like the you think of it as like the budget Bill plan on that you're paying for your energy bills you know it's the instead of a consistent amount every month it's a consistent amount every year you pay one cost and regardless of how much gas you use a little or a lot it's

108usually the same and then they adjust it the next year based on you know if you overpaid one year the next year you're going to pay less you know so it's just we used a lot last year and so or this year last last year so now their S price next year is going up uh 24,44 nice thing is this is an insurance plan so we can use our um management fund for this instead of our general fund which then we can use general fund specifically on uh more instructional so any questions comments on this especially with all the the tariffs you know you know it' be interesting to see what Canada does with energy if uh that impacts you know gas price you know natural gas prices at all I mean this is also

109sets us in I mean it could be a shortlived tariff but if it goes on I mean this gives us some protection so okay moving on to 811 bus purchase um this is why I have Chuck here you can kind of talk about so we need to purchase two more buses we still have not received the buses we buy last year which tells you that you know you got to keep purchasing them because you're not going to get them for 12 to 18 months so um we did get uh multiple bids from both Bluebird and Thomas uh Bluebird was cheaper in both of these the stub noose and the conventional we currently uh drive all stub noses except for one um these are rear engine step nose buses um so their bid is 171,50 64

110the conventional Bluebird which is like the regular front on it it's not a flat front 14,890 difference between the two they're the same length but because you have the engine in a front versus the back and our conventional bus the seat space is a little bit restricted you can get a Max of 77 passenger in the in the seats there and the um blue and the stub knows you can get SE we do a 78 passenger configuration out of an 84 passenger bus and so we actually but there's quite a bit more leg room we take these buses with our high school kids to show choir and football and everything else and I can tell you that gets a little gets a little tight if you get 84 passenger in there which would be similar

111to what the 77 would be the other thing is is our drivers are used to driving stubn they their recommendations they prefer to drive stubn I've driven both I actually prefer the conventional it took me a little bit to figure out the stub nose but it's just what do you grow up on right like what are your so I guess Chuck's here to kind of talk a little bit because there is a there is a significant price difference we're talking about purchasing two so you know roughly a $60,000 price difference for two buses um again you know CH and Chuck can speak to this my biggest thing would be if our if our drivers are used to driving stubn they want to drive stubn we can't find any drivers I don't want to give any

112dri an excuse not to come drive for us so we have at the age of our the age of our drivers this is what they've driven this the St knows is what they've driven for years majority of them 10 10 plus years we have one of the key things with the snse versus conventional is the maneuver maneuver ability when you get into tight spaces uh you look at our trailer parks where you're you're making Corners with cars park on both sides of the road it's it's much easier when you're sitting right up front this is my opinion and this if you talk to our drivers our drivers are going to tell you the same thing you're sitting right up you can see everything you're not dealing with that extension on the front which your stubs

113are going to turn tur r is going to be a whole lot sharper than your conventionals um it's going to take more room to tur um that's when you have older drivers who are used to driving uh the Stu knows uh my recommendation would be that we stay with what we have um the front engine buses are are the conventionals are not like the front engine noes so we only have one so I'm not sure mechanic wise how much there's going to be savings getting in them and working on them because you don't have to dismantle the whole front of the bus to get at the engine um with the with conventional the motor is out in front uh depending on what you have to work on to hard it's going to be you open

114up back of the bus that's right there guess any questions for Chuck and I believe your recommendation chuck would be to buy two of the stub nooses is that correct to stay with what we got that there helps too on a mechanic side of it we can we can we can get the parts that we need that we know most generally we're going to need we can have them on hand we don't have to worry about order and these these these do come with seat bels because everything we order now has to come with seat bels they do not come with air conditioning or the the under under under storage so the big thing of it is with uh with the seating and the no leg room is has to do with the seats set

115up with seat belt set them now and all of them will become when you get them they're going to have seat belt so that's why we chose the ones the buses that are coming in will be uh 77 passengers on an 84 passenger chassing so that will give more leg room uh if anybody would like to see how cramped the leg room is sometime we stop down and we'll take you out and show you uh uh our bus numbers are 21 and 27 and uh a lot of your trips for your football and show that are going on a long trip they would almost rather have a non-air conditioning bus than one of them to buses just because there's just no are we still looking at like a 18 month time frame about 12 12

11612 to 18 months 12 18 12 18 months okay and that's one thing uh you know tariffs could be coming in on coming in with these two uh if we uh if we order before April 1st uh we lock them in that's the price that's up there uh otherwise there could be a I think up to a 3% increase T we haven't had any or heard of any delay for the previous month we ordered last year right no uh we heard early on that we were going to get them the rumor was is we're going to get them like in December mons yeah cuz we bought them in May so and then all of a sudden everything just kind of but they're due to come in anytime not a moment too late we are going

117to we are we do have kind of a a bus graveyard we're working at two to try to figure out how we can one of the things we don't want to do is turn into a turn into a junk lot so well and some of the some of the older buses that that we have set back there we have robbed Parts off of them because believe it or not some of the old ones that are sitting back in the still match a few of them are run so if we break a window we Cann a lot of them still light off of them uh but they're pretty much stripped out so they need acoss the scale okay any other questions for CH thank you check 8 8.12 ratification of collective bargaining agreement with LCA um

118yep so you guys will have the actual Collective Bing agreement is a new email that I sent you um just kind of over go over the the big things is um this does Set uh final pay for next year um moving forward we'll no longer have a traditional salary schedule as we have right now which is you know lanes and steps we're just going to have a base for each one of the of the lanes which is an educational lane and then at each lane it'll increase $2,000 this has been a long process we've looked at a lot of different um types of salary schedules uh Tim and Amy or no Tim and Aaron are both have been a part of that so um I think everybody feels real good they had a real High

119um turnout of Voters so as far as who I think it was close to 75 or 80% of them voted yes on it so um so it has been ratified by the AA so limiting the salary schedule um going with base salary and lanes for Education only the biggest question was is when you don't have a salary schedule how do you place somebody new like if if Miss director Peterson comes in and she's a new teacher and she's got 10 years experience in a masters if there's no salary schedule how do we how do we set her rate of pay well what you do is they we've made the the recommendation and and they accepted that we're going to have a committee which will in include Mrs Rays myself the um education uh or the

120Education Association president and then their Chief negotiator will get together um Mrs Ray will bring the the comparable salaries to the table so if Alex got 11 years in a masters and and uh doren's got nine years in a masters and you know Air's coming at 10 years in a masters that the group will take a look at those salaries and say okay let's split the difference this is what we're going to offer so it's nice because before I I just have the salary schedule and I go off to salary schedule and make an offer without the salary schedule I really didn't want the be the one to say I'm going to set all the set all the uh the pay because sometimes if I set it too high or too low then you know

121people there's a lot of hurt feelings well if the committee does it it is what it is right so um so the committee is going to be the ones to kind of set that uh we're going to move from a 35 minute dutyfree lunch to a 30 minute dutyfree lunch and then move from 190 day contract to 192 day contract to 190 day contract if you take the 5 minutes a day over a period of 90 days it actually ends up to being just slightly more than two days and so that's kind of where we're going to have work five more minutes a day and then take two days off their calar or off their off their contract so um there's a little bit of language um that they that they cleared up in there

122um having to do with like defining who like children are before is like in their children well what is what is a child so if a you know so we Define it as foster children um children you know your own children stepchildren that's kind of what we put in there so if if you know aon's my sister and we live together and her kids are sick like that's not my kid I can't take off a day to to watch you know my sister's kid like so just kind of clarifying some of that kind of stuff um somehow I messed up here I clicked the wrong button no I don't want to retry there we go okay uh next one is on the supplemental salary schedule which is how we pay our sponsors and our coaches

123we're going to eliminate right now it's uh 456789 like all the different lanes and every year you're here you move over a step well we're eliminating step I call them lanes because it's it's vertical but it's actually steps we're eliminating steps four and five and just starting everybody on steps six and the reason is is there's just too many of them and our starting is too low so by just eliminating the first two moving here I think eventually we'll find that we will go kind of away from like Steps all together and just have a common like if you're going to coach this is what you're going to get paid regardless whether you're here for a year you know five years and then it'll adjust based upon what we do at the for what we

124call the base of the supplemental the supplemental base you know as we increase that that's people get paid more so um we're going to increase pay for assistant ban inquire uh sponsors and coaches just that's almost like a clerical right now we pay SP sponsors and coaches based on OB just use football coaches for instance we pay in based on what football coaches make which is we consider our long our long season and then we pay the assistance based on what like cross country makes that's considered a shorter season right so we just want to increase their pay to be the same is what we pay assistant football which is you know so if you're going to pay the head like a long season you should pay the assistants like a long season too because

125it's not like they get a check out early they the whole time so um and then finally uh we settled at a 2.6% raise uh for the 2025 26 and 26 27 school years so it's $1,650 it's a flat raise for two years in a row it's kind of nice because when we know what it is it's set we don't negotiations next year it's just our contract right now sets to expire at the end of the 2027 year so we'll review the entire thing at that point but at least for the next two years it'll be settled we would go back in negotiations if SSA is less than 2% or if it's more than 2.5% so we're kind of leaving if it's within that 2 to 2.5 area you know we're just going to kind

126of leave it alone I've done two-year contracts in the past it's they're pretty nice so everything just kind of stays status quo so that would be you know recommendation obviously be to ratify that so then we could get contracts out um and tomorrow really so people have them any other questions from you two I mean you these two and uh director McDaniel have been you know part of these conversations now for feels like two years I mean really has been so so like the vocal music director and this is obviously the one that I'm most familiar with they have a 9mon season that was taken in I mean I realized that football goes from you know probably march to might even be year round but so those are going to be more comparable correct now

127that okay yep so it'll be the same I think the only comment I would have is to um thank the Education Association for being so willing to work with us yeah coming to A A resolution like this so it's been very it's been just a very easy Pro I mean not not an easy process but like nobody's gotten worked up it's been very much a collaborative process and I think on both sides there's give and take it's not the old negotiation style where it's like sitting a dark room with one candle in the middle of the table like staring at each other like that's very intimidating that's not been how this is there's been times where they've wanted something and a recommendation but through conversation it's like I don't know we can possibly give you

128that without sacrificing these other things and on the flip side you know the board's job is to be fiscally responsible and and I think that you know it's a little bit of a give and take you know being able to say we're going to set two years in advance taking out a little bit of risk of next year because he knows the funding is going to come in but that way teachers feel like they you know you know they're set for two years you know so that's I think there's it's been a good process so and I think the association would say the exact same thing so any additional comments question okay hearing none we move to 8.13 open enrollment requests so a Clos sessions recommended to discuss complete filed open enrollment application good Brett

129for Iowa Code 21.51 a close session is 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 post session please motion to move to close session second V please did you run out of paper Andrea huh said you run out of paper yes uh Mrs Shuffle yes Mr senson yes Mr Sturm yes Miss Atkins yes Mrs Peterson yes Mr Wright yes e [Music] all right good everybody got their mics on okay uh we will go to comments and suggestions so this is the second time during our board of directors meeting where we open the floor to any public

130comments Direct Ed towards the board do we have anybody on no comments no comments okay then we will move forward to action items 10.01 High School roof hearing approval Mr President motion to approve the high school roof specs and RFP as presented second vote Please Mr senson yes Mr Sturm yes Miss Atkins yes Mrs Peterson yes Mrs sheffel yes Mr Wright yes 10.02 high school parking lot hearing approval Mr President yes Mr like the motion to approve the high school parking lot specs as presented second vote please Mr Sturm yes Miss Atkins yes Mrs Peterson yes Mrs sheff yes Mr senson yes Mr Ray yes 10.03 High School tennis courts hearing approval Mr President like the motion to approve the High School tennis court specs as presented second vote please miss Atkins yes Mrs Peterson

131yes Mrs Shuffle yes Mr senson yes Mr Sturm yes Mr R yes 10.04 Titan Hill parking lot replacement and addition of queuing Lane hearing approval Mr President just second I would like to make a motion to approve the Titan Hill parking lot replacement and additional queuing Lane specs as presented second vote please Mrs Peterson yes Mrs Shuffle yes Mr sson yes Mr Sturm yes Miss Atkins yes Mr R yes 10.05 Middle School roof hearing approval Mr President like to make the motion to approve the Middle School roof specs and RFP as presented second vote please Mrs Shuffle yes Mr senson yes Mr Sturm yes Miss Adkins yes Mrs Peterson yes Mr Ray yes 10.06 Middle School roof bid approval Mr Mr President I'd like to make a motion to award the Middle School roof contract

132to R Jr Roofing um for $43,750 second vote please Mr senson yes Mr Sturm yes Miss Atkins yes Mrs Peterson yes Mrs Shuffle yes Mr rright yes 10.07 high school fire alarm bid approval Mr President yes i' like to make the motion to award the high school fire alarm contract to Total file Fire and Security Inc for the bid of $ 26,7 31 second vote Please Mr Sturm yes Miss Atkins yes Mrs Peterson yes Mrs Shuffle yes Mr senson yes Mr righ yes 10.08 van purchase Mr President like to approve the van purchase from Edwards for $41,900 is that the right amount no it's a five is it 570 41570 4157 oh 41570 sorry no you're good second vote please miss Adkins yes Mrs Peterson yes Mrs shffle yes Mr swon yes Mr Sturm yes

133Mr R yes 10.09 wireless access points but approval Mr President Mr President go ahead okay I would like to make a motion to recommend the recommendation to approve the wireless access point bid from Riverside technology Inc for 9,319 second vote please Mrs Peterson yes Mrs Shuffle yes Mr senson yes Mr R yes Miss Atkins yes Mr R yes 10.10 local government risk pool natural gas agreement Mr President yes I'd like to make the recommend recommendation to approve local government risk pool participation agreement with the local government risk pool commission for the amount of $214,400 second vote please Mrs Shuffle yes Mr soron yes Mr Sturm yes Miss Atkins yes Mrs Peterson yes Mr Wright yes 10.11 bus purchase Mr President yes I'd like to make the uh recommendation to approve the purchase of two stub

134noose Bluebird buses from School Bus Sales in the amount of $343,000 $ 343,387 ratification of collective bargaining agreement with Central Education Association Mr President I'd like to make the recommendation to ratify the changes of the collective bargaining agreement with lcea as presented second vote Please Mr Sturm yes Miss Atkins yes Mrs Peterson yes Mrs Shuffle yes M Mr senson yes and Mr yes 10.13 open enrollment requests from closed session Mr President I'd like to make the motion to deny the Open Enrollment request for student a as presented in closed session um for the ability inability to serve their individual education plan second vote please Miss Atkins yes Mrs Peterson yes Mrs Shuffle yes Mr senson yes Mr Sturm yes and Mr R yes and then for open enrollment request for student B and C Mr

135President I'd like to make a motion to deny the Open Enrollment request for student b as presented in closed session um for the inability to serve their individual education plan second vote please Mrs Peterson yes Mrs sheffel yes Mr senson yes Mr Sturm yes Miss Atkins yes Mr R yes and then open enrollment request for students C Mr President I'd like to make a motion to deny the open enrollment request for studenty as presented in closed session um per the inability to serve their individual education plan vote please Mrs Shuffle yes Mr senson yes Mr Sturm yes Miss Atkins yes Mrs Peterson yes Mr rright yes items of Interest future board meetings uh for the fiscal year 2026 budget we will have a public hearing on April 7th 2025 at 6: PM uh which will

136be followed by our regularly scheduled board meeting uh same day at 6:30 p.m. uh if you guys would double check your Doodles um I sent to your email get those filled out so we can get a work session um on the books and then there's also uh I told Mr Kern I'd mentioned this we have a so his leadership or southwest Iowa Leadership Academy does a golf tournament every year April 26 so if you're a golfer or you want to support they also take whole sponsors and everything else uh 9:00 a.m. April 26 Whispering Woods Golf Course group y it's a yep it's a fourman scramble S four person scramble sorry my apologies so and they have literally been working around the clock on that golf course and it does not look anything like it

137did so it's very lots of improvements it's pretty cheap comparatively I mean it's you know 360 a team that's less than what you'll find usually anywhere else uh includes 18 holds of golf the cart prizes and then post event me meal so and when is that the 24th it's 26th 26 Saturday yes so having no other items can I get a motion to close this board meeting all in favor say I I all opposed did you need a motion can I get a motion I'll I'll make the motion to adjourn second almost perfect I all in favor say I