001[Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey. [Music] Heat. Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] hearing meeting to order. Can I get roll call, please? Miss Atkins. Oh, Amy, are you there? They just say I uh she's trying to talk it but it's not showing up. Okay. Okay. Miss that is Mrs. Peterson. Mrs. Sheff here. Mr. Sornson here. Mr. Sterm here. Mr. Right here. [Music] We'll move to approval of the April 7th, 2025 budget hearing agenda. Can I get a a motion to approve, please? Motion to approve. Second vote, please. Miss Atkins, yes. Mrs. Shuffle, yes. Mr. Sorenson, yes. Mr. Sturm, yes. Mr. Right. Yes. Okay. This public hearing is required as part of the district certified budget. The notice provided to each resident shows the maximum total property taxes the
002district will adopt as part of the certified budget which will be adopted by April 30th. The board secretary is hereby directed to enter any written comments into the record of this public hearing. For those of you in attendance, thank you for being here today. We value your input and are interested in hearing your comments. For those of you listening online, if you wish to provide comments, please submit those comments online. And board members will be provided a copy of the comments to review. If you're planning on speaking, please fill out the form on the back table, including your name and address, and handed in to the board secretary. Your names will be called in the order received. Each speaker will have a maximum of five minutes. Your public comments will be considered as part of
003the district's final budget decisions. As a reminder, board members are present here to listen to and receive these comments. Board members will not engage in dialogue or respond to questions during this meeting, but may address issues that arise at a future board meeting. Uh the superintendent, Dr. Hazing and the board treasurer, Miss Rays, will now address the public prior to opening up the oral comments. Okay. One second. Wait, I got to share the share my screen. We can't hear you. Yep. One second. Okay. Um, so I'll let Mrs. Ray talk about the budget for this year, or at least this is kind of the budget rate. All right. So, everyone uh would have received the proposed property tax levy in the mail. This is a copy of the public notice hearing that was published uh
004on our website on our social media and uh in the naparel. This levy rate was set uh as you can see on March 3rd, 2025. So when this was set, uh, this was in early March and we were not aware of what SSA is, the state supplemental aid, and we still do not know at this point in time. So we are doing this budget without knowing one of the biggest factors of it. This property tax notice sets our initial maximum property tax. So this does not mean that this is what we will set the property tax rate at. It is just the highest that it we could possibly set it at. Okay. And just to clarify, the state legislature is supposed to set the state supplemental aid by March 1st of every year. And that's
005in code. However, they don't do that. So, they don't set the safe supplemental aid, which then allows us to set an accurate property tax. So instead, what what ends up happening is they make us publish what we believe it will be. And unfortunately, if we were to go low and they end up going high, we're stuck with the low. And so they they make us play this game of we got to basically set a property tax that is the highest it could possibly be, knowing it's never going to be that way. And that's how we discussed it in the board meeting prior to publishing this was we're going to publish high because then if the state comes in high then then we're going to be able to cover it and if the state comes in
006really low then at least we can always go back down you know. So we have to we're really stuck on whatever the state ends up doing for us. So that's where we're kind of in this in between game because even though the legislature can push back their timeline for setting our budget, they don't allow us to push back our timeline. So we still have to publish and meet certain dates and deadlines even though we don't have all the information. So uh so what is up on the screen right now is uh the bottom of that uh notice and the number on there is the percent change which is 27.04%. That number right there I know is very shocking to everyone. So that is why we wanted to address that. A couple of things when looking
007at this published percent change. There are some inbuilt assumptions here. The first assumption is is that in the current year the residential property tax is assessed at $100,000. In the proposed property tax year, it is assessed at $110,000. A 10% increase in the value. This tax year is a nonassessment year. So, the only way that you could possibly have a valuation increase is if you did something to your own property and you would have an increase then uh if you pulled a permit and you know did an addition or whatnot to your home. The other assumption with this percent increase is that that is the only property increase that increases in value throughout all of the Lewis Central School District, which we know honestly that not a single person would have just one increase out
008of all of the taxpayers in the Lewis Central District. The other assumption is the part that Dr. Hazing and I just addressed is that this was based off of the unknown state supplemental aid amount. So we had to project it using a 0% SSA for this. So we have now looked at the actual projected percent change of what we believe it will be. This is based off of a proposed levy rate if state supplemental aid is set at 2%. Which we believe is now going to be the lowest that it will be set at. It could be higher than that and that would cause our levy rate to decrease slightly. So looking at this, we have the current tax year FY25 with an assessed valuation of $100,000 and the proposed tax year FY26 with the
009same assessed valuation since it is a nonassessment year. We have the taxable valuation which includes the roll back percentage. So of that 100,000 for FY26, $47,432 would be the taxable evaluation. The levy rate that we are looking at now with that 2% SSA is 11.29743 per th 100,000. So your tax rate, sorry, dollars per thousand. Your tax rate for $100,000 assessed property is going to be $536, which would be a 12% increase. And that increase does include the $1 increase from the general obligation bond that we voted in November. Okay. Now, I know that everyone just received the assessment notice in the mail, so I wanted to address that. So, assessments only take place every other year, unless work was done to your home or any other property that you had. The increase notice that
010you just received will be for next year, not for the current taxes that we are talking about now. And that increase is your assessed value increase and not your taxable value increase. So if the nothing changes in the legislation, you would still have that roll back which for this year the roll back is 47.43%. So of that assessed valuation increase only 47% of that would be considered taxable uh for figuring your taxes. That's it. Y yeah. So, just to recap, a couple things that we're still unsure of is there's still a tax bill out in the legislation right now that would completely flip up the current how they currently do property taxes kind of on its end. So, as a part of that total tax bill that both the Senate and the House are agreeing
011in the majority of it, so it leads me to believe that there's a good chance it'll be passed. uh roughly 400 million $450 million of uh funding that currently comes to school from property taxes would shift to the state providing that $450 million in school funding. And so if that happens, you would see this rate even going lower. So again, still not quite sure what the state's going to do. Um they're still requiring us to publish a budget based upon the timelines that they've set. We're estimating now. We we from a lot of conversations with state legislators, it's looking like it's probably going to be about a 2% increase. Um so then the only increase you would see on our property or on our tax rate that would go up would be the $1 levy
012that was voted in in the fall. And that's why we went from $10.28 to $11.28. 28 cents or 29 cents. So that would be the only increase that the school is looking at right now. If the state comes in and they rule, you know, that that they are going to pass that tax reform and they're going to move a lot of the funding from from um home homeowners to uh the state, you'll probably see a decrease. I don't know if that would be for this next year. I don't know if it'd be for the year after, but again, it's all dependent on legislatores on the what the legislature wants to do. What we're doing here is we're setting a tax rate based upon the information that we have and a timeline that's provided by the
013state. And the only increase that we have is the 2% increase provided by the state and then the $1 that was voted in in the fall for the for the uh general obligation bond. Okay, then we are ready to proceed with oral comments. Roger Williams. Hi. In regards to the statement you just made about the property tax situation, I state money comes off a lot of my paycheck. Sorry. it uh whether you're going to take me here or take me there, it's still going to get taken. So I I guess that's just a Rob Peter pay and I and this assessed valuation. Well, I know mine went up $40,000 and I listened to her statement about that, but I guess I have two questions. Reason for proposed property tax exceeds the current property tax. The
014district is on a budget guarantee due to the combination of declining resident enrollment. Well, six months ago, we voted on a bond issue that one of the big items in the bond issue was the increase in enrollment. But yet, I'm reading here, it's a declining resident enrollment. makes me very confused. So that dollar that uh you were talking about, we sure could have done without that at that rate. And your LED light and your Titan Hill lighting I'm reading on here are bid approval of tonight. I guess I would be very curious to know the cost of the total light lighting bid for both buildings and how long it would take to recoup the cost of any energy savings. 5 years, 10 years. And apparently nobody's going to answer any of these questions tonight. So
015I guess I'm done. Yeah. Now, one of the things I will address here is the LED lighting conversation is on the regular agenda. This is the board hearing agenda. They're two separate agendas. So, I'm not allowed to comment on the board here on what's on the board agenda. During the board hearing, we have to keep, you know, those separate. If you stick around for the regular board agenda, you'll hear all that. As far as the lighting goes, as far as the student enrollment goes, how how we receive funding, how every school in the state of Iowa receives funding is every student that lives in your district is assigned a a dollar amount per head. And so that's how we get our budget. And then what ends up happening is every student that open rolls out,
016we send money to those schools. And every every student that's open rolled in, they send money to us. So they collect the property taxes and they send it. We collect property taxes, we send it. We had a declining open and rolled out population. So the number of students that lived in our district that are open and rolling out is going down. The number of students that live in our district in general is remaining the same if not increasing. And one of the other things you'll see is we're now starting to track the number of students who are attending prochial schools or other charter schools in the area. So again, how the state continues to look to fund that. Right now they're saying they're going to take care of it, but we do have to track
017it. They do now set aside the money and we have to send it. Okay. So when we talk about that number, it's not that our student population is declining. Our student population is staying this last year stayed relatively the same after an increase of about 130 students. So our student population that attends Lewis Central relatively the same. The population of students who live in our district and open roll out. So the money that we would receive and otherwise send out that is what's dropped. And so because of that, it looks like we have a a decline in in student or in district enrollment as far as students that live in the district. But as far as those students that attend our school, no difference if that makes sense. Sorry. Randy, just two questions. Number one,
018how as a member of the this community make any comments about your assessment until we actually see a budget. I haven't seen them physically line by line how much is for this, how much for this. So, I can't make a decision whether your assessment is right or wrong without seeing how you're planning on spending the money. And number two, as a followup to that, once the state comes through with their money, whatever it is, are you going to hold a second meeting like this one to again inform us what the levy's going to do? Yeah. I mean, we have to hold another meeting. So, the actual budget itself is approved on January 21st. When that meeting going to be April 21st or April 21st, not January, sorry. April 21st. April here another. Mhm. Hopefully they'll
019have some the state will have some answers for us by then. Can public comment on the budget or is it committed before we even get here? How does that that one go? Yes, there is a public hearing uh that will be held on the 21st and there will will be public comment and then the board will set the agenda the uh levy rate that same evening. Okay. But it will be after comment. Do you know what time that's going to be? 7 p.m. is the public hearing. And this really here. Yes. Okay. Thank you, ma'am. Yes. Jody, my uh excuse me, my question was related by me. I feel for all the problems you're having, but I relate this to like the huge tariffs we're having right now, which are probably excessive to what we'll
020actually get, but they're really a shock for people and the the companies around there. I mean, my business is struggling to stay open, and we have a 28% increase in property tax plus a 25% increase in property values, even though we haven't updated in 20 years. I mean, it's it's huge. I mean, huge. I mean, I can afford it, but it's like crazy that that would happen. I mean, and you my house hasn't really been changed. It's got a 27% increase. I mean that that seems funny. You look at the things they have a over a 100% increase in management fees for this central this district for this time period and a $4 million deficit or that they're a debt payment that they're having to pay. I mean, I don't understand where all this is
021coming from and requiring everybody to pay so much, which is, you know, that's what's taking our country down right now is what's happening right here in our own district. And I know maybe it won't be that bad and maybe it won't be that bad nationally, but it's it's bringing everybody down. The business owners and the property owners in the area have a problem. Additionally, I mean, we have to pay, you know, increase in taxes for our state income taxes for living in this area. I mean, it's it's you're you're asking to drive people out of the area. I'm not I'm not sure where you're getting the the as far as the district here. So the management levy is actually a zero levy, right, that we're recommend. 900,000 before and then if you look back it
022went up to $2 million and then this year it dropped to zero. How does it drop from 900,000 to zero and then increase their debt level to $4 million? It's an accounting shift in money. Accounts constantly do things like that to hide where they're putting money or spending money. I deal with that all the time where they put money off into another year and another year just to make it look like they're making or losing money. That's what's happening in your district. They're pushing money that's going into management maybe into debt or somewhere else because the year before you had a nine $900,000 bill and the year previous you did and it sub suggested you were going to have a $2 million bill and then suddenly went to zero and then suddenly your debt service
023went to $4 million. So where does that happen? So, so the debt service, that's the that's the go the general obligation bond that we that we haven't had since 2014. So, that's new. That was voted on. Okay. And then the management levy, the state really came down and said if you have an amount that's over x amount, you shouldn't be levy management levy. And so, in the past, what the management the only thing the management levy pays for, and it's kind of a misconception. It's called management, right? The only thing we're allowed to spend management levy on is our liability um insurance. Um any kind of insurance we have to cover like the cost of gas expenses, those types of things. Like we have an insurance policy so that way we don't get hit with
024a really hard winter and have to figure out where the money comes from. And then any time of early retirement benefits that we would have that we would spend money on and we don't offer early retirement benefits. And so at this so that's why it's misleading. It's all right. Management suddenly disappears, then something else reappears. What's happening here? Yeah. Right. And that's and that's not meant to be misleading. We we adjust those things every year depending on what we think our rates are going to be. We might have a management levy in the future, but right now we have enough from reserves that we don't think we're going to have to levy it for at least a couple years. So there's no reason to add that tax on to the community members like labeling it
025something other than management like or payroll. Yeah. That's that's state code though getting the money is what it looks like. Yeah. No, definitely not. No, that's state code. So each one of our each one of our accounts is they're labeled by the state code. So management actually cannot pay a single person in our district. Nobody gets a dime out of management. Can't even buy a book with it. Can't buy a bus. We can't buy anything with it. The only thing we can buy is insurance. Okay. Well, that's reasonable, right? Yeah. Okay. Great. Thank you. Yeah. And unfortunately, insurance prices are Well, Right, right, right, right. That's not what it said. Right. Who's next? Um, I'm unsure what the name is on this one. Was who was the other person that turned to? Yes, Doc. Thank
026you. I have only two questions. We live in Greenville Road. First of all, is this also include the country club? Yes. From the city. Mhm. We live in Greenville Road. You have been there for 30 years. I want to know if that's assessment. What is it going to do? Improvement. You are going to see we paying more for here. What what plan is it? just giving you the money and also in the country club the country club has been losing money all the time you can you are and we have a lot of problem with the city with Mr. wash because they put all the water from drainage from 11 street to our golf course and we have to put pump and we cannot play golf and we damage the golf course and then they
027bought the land east of golf course a land for I think it's 100 two acre and co money they give $4 million to city Kubla to do something for the city and the city bought that land for $4 million which was not even worth that that money and they are going and putting housing there and they threw all my fence from the club to the land. They tore it all up. He's still fighting with them to replace our fans but I don't know what what they pay all that money for no service right is idle right yeah maybe the rest of you guys are happy but we are we have a lawsuit against city because they put all the water finally we got s but the country club is not money maker and I can
028show you guys the statement at the end of the year and how much we lose money but I had it because I want to cons country cons maybe attract more people now they are going to 530 unit house to east of us and then they have damaged all our fans and all the wind all the dirt is coming to the golf course and we cannot function But I don't know now you want to increase my taxes and those property with more service right and that's and that's all of the all of those those services I am old I'm hearing I appreciate if you anybody has a question a little louder please absolutely yep and and I think what you're referring to as far as those services that are that are out there from the city
029that's more of a city service from the schools aspect. We when we had the bond approved last year, we put out a very clear plan of what the bond was going to cover. You know, parking lots, uh, lanes, safety upgrades, um, classroom upgrades, um, camera systems, those types of things. So, any increase from last year's bond vote, which would be that $30 million bond vote that was voted through, that's the only increase that we're that we're looking at. And that would be because it was voted through and that's all for safety upgrades and and things around the district. And if you I mean we've been approving a lot of those things. We're trying to get that work done quickly so people can see, you know, this is what we've approved. And we're also trying to
030do it in a way that that is transparent so that way people can see, yep, we are we are doing what we said we were going to do with the money that was that was uh provided to us in that election. I I appreciate and congratulate you for that job. But far as I am concerned, you haven't done anything for me. Not the road, not the thing. And you are increasing my tax value on quite a bit, the golf course as well as the house. But you have done something. But nothing that I can say to you. I'm happy you got all that money and did those things for the city. Right. And we and we can't spend that money on the city because it was only approved to help the school. So the money
031that's so that's all that money can do is help the school and the students here. We don't use the we don't use the water of the city. We don't use septic tank and we don't use the school. My wife and I we are old. We have no nothing. You get no benefit, right? Except continuous increase in taxes. Mhm. Yeah. Yep. That was it. That was all the names. Okay. Did we have any written comments submitted? No written comments submitted. Okay. Was there anybody else that would like to speak that didn't get a chance to Monty? Go ahead and Okay. So, this property increase, this tax increase is strictly for the school. You telling me? Yes. So, all these homes around here, average increase is going to be around $2,000. That's a lot of money for
032school for for kids for every year. Where's it all going? Seriously. I mean, that's a that's a lot. You just basically took my house and I can't even sell it now. It's so high in taxes. Well, we don't set the valuation. Yeah. Right. So, the average increase as as uh Andrew 500 per thousand, not 500 per thousand. I can go back to the presentation. This is the total the total tax impact. All right. Would be 536 per thousand. And then,00 average home here is well over 400,000. 400,000, right? Per 100,000. Per 100,000. So last last year it was 477 per 100,000. Yeah. Right. So you're going up almost 2,000 a year on an average house around here. Average homes around here around right around 400,000. Right. So there's 2,000 a year. Your taxes are going
033up. And I live on a septic tank, well water, and get no services from the city whatsoever. And my taxes were actually cheaper on a farm in Harrison County than they are here. So, so $536 proposed for next year minus $477 that you're paying this year is about $60 per thousand or per 100,000. So, if if you have an assessed value, now that's the taxable value. So, if you have an assessed value of $500,000, that's five time 60, that's about $300, right? Increase. Increase. And that's and that's on the that's on is that in total value or assessed value? It's on to total value. So then the assessed val or that's on the assessment. So yes, assessed value. So then the taxable value is roughly half of that. That was my question. Where's it all
034going to to the bond to the bond? Yes. $30 million that was voted on in November. Like he said, we live out over there in the county and we're getting no support. I'm paying for a lot of well a lot of water towers that I don't get to use. Why am I paying for you know public sewer? I don't use it. Don't have it's not offered to the county. I live in the county. Don't get it. But yet I'm going to get nailed with all these taxes, right? And we don't have anything to do with the city or the county taxes on the notice that you guys received. Everyone, there is a public hearing for the county and there is a public hearing for the city that is similar to this. Schools are just listed
035first. I know the city of council buses is tonight. I'm not sure when the when the counties is, but everyone else has public hearings that are similar. Yeah, ours is strictly for the school. And so you would look at probably an average increase of a couple hundred dollars for the school. And I have no kids here. Yeah. Right. I sent my dog up here. You see my money out of it? Can I do the meeting? I'm not sure on when that is. I just happened to look at the city one. Okay. Yeah. Oh, gotcha. So, both of those were listed on the notice as well. Okay. Were there any other oral comments? Well, with the the thing is that people are are reacting to is with the combination of the increase and the increase in
036assessed value, that's what's magnifying what's happening. I I absolutely agree. 12% increase is not that big of a deal. I mean, it's not comfortable, but it's not bad. But you add another 25% under that and you're looking at almost a 20% increase in cost. And that's what's bothering. Well, and I think and I think remember it's not your fault. That's just what's happening. Yeah. And that's what it looks like. In reality, it's 12% on your current valuation because next year your current valuation goes up. Well, for the next year, right? So, so for this for this for this uh fiscal year we're talking about that the taxes that the 12 12% increases going on, right? The taxes are the same. Well, right next year I mean hopefully I'll live next year and then trying to
037project forward, right? And I and I hope so. Don't get me wrong. I live in the district. My house also went up. I also pay property taxes. It's one of those situations where But we're just saying like, "Oh, please." Yeah. We're just trying to say that that's just like more than we're accustomed to. And that's that's the thing, right? Absolutely. It would be probably easier if it's like, you know, line item that say this is for, you know, our what we agreed upon and the new thing versus making it seem like it's going somewhere else, right? So people say, "Oh, that's what happened to me." You know, they would understand better rather than, "Oh my god." You know, here it comes. Yeah. And even though you're not going to actually pay it for 12 to
03818 months, you know, you're still aware of it now. And I guess we're glad you're tell, right? Okay. So hearing no further oral or can you tell us what attempts were made to cut the budget to to cut the budget to cut the school's budget before you made that? So So the state sets our budget. So the state says the budget is x amount of dollars per per thousand like per or x amount of dollars per student. That's what the state does for a budget. The state sets probably 85 to 90% of our budget. The only thing that the board has authority over are things that are related to um our facilities. So they have a they have authority over a small physical plant and equipment levy and that's essentially it. Outside of that, it's
039it's whatever the community votes in. So the community voted in a a plant and equipment levy and then they've also voted in a general obligation bond. Outside of that, the school has no jurisdiction, anything over the amount of money otherwise that's provided to the school. So that's that's strictly state state driven. So you're saying the state then requires you to raise the living to meet that? The the only the only levy that's being raised is the one that the community voted in in the fall. That's the only levy that's being raised, which is the general obligation levy. Yes. So, is there any way that we can encourage the state to provide more assistance because the state has a surplus and they're cutting taxes across the board. So, why don't they provide more support? And I
040think that's and I think that's what they're trying to do in this new tax bill. I think they're trying to take on right now how school funding works is the state sets the amount per people. Let's say it's $8,000 per pupil. Okay? It's what the state says. And then they say based upon with your valuation in your district, how much of that falls on the taxpayers and how much of that falls on the state. So there's the they're the ones that figure that piece out and then they pass that on to us and we have no other duty but to say, "Okay, yeah, that's the way it is." How could we influence? So, what they're trying to do, from what I understand, is they're trying to pass a new tax bill that would essentially raise
041the amount of money that the state's providing out of their surplus and then lower the amount of property taxes that you're paying for schools. Now, whether or not they'll get that passed, I I would assume so. Both of those are very similar in the House and the Senate. Yeah. I Yeah, again, we we are very much outside of what the community votes for. We are very much at kind of the the mercy of the state. So maybe we should organize a way to achieve that goal. I pass on that. Okay. Then at this time we will move to adjourn uh the budget public hearing meeting. Can I get a motion to close? Motion to close. Second. Okay. Vote, please. Just all in favor. All in favor say I. I. I. I. Okay. [Music] we start
042uh did she know what time she came in? Our regular board meeting. Uh so sorry we're a little bit late, but thank you. We'll go ahead and call it to order. May we get a roll call, please? Miss Atkins here. Mrs. McDaniel here. Mrs. Peterson. Mrs. Sheff here. Mr. Mr. Sorenson here. Mr. Storm here. Mr. Wright here for approval of the April 7th, 2025 agenda. Can I please get a motion to approve? Motion to approve. Second. Okay. Vote, please. Miss Atkins. Yes. Mrs. McDaniel. Yes. Mrs. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Sorenson, yes. Mr. Storm, yes. Mr. Wright, yes. At this time, I would like to open the public hearing per Iowa code 26.12 for the 202526 school calendar revision. Okay. Uh so we because we had um a change in our master contract, the teachers went from
043192 days down to 190day contract. Uh we are looking at we have to make an adjustment to the calendar. While we were making adjustments, we kind of sent it back out and said, "Are there any other small adjustments when we made?" Uh, couple of small ones I'll note out here that are different from the last one is the high school used to do this mix start date um at one second here. One second. Pause this. Got the wrong one up. Okay, right here. That's probably going to be too big. There we go. So, a couple couple of things. Um, one is they would like to on the first day of school on the 25th, we always start with the new people new to the building. So, kindergarteners, second graders, uh, sixth graders and 9th graders.
044They had been having the rest of the high school kids join at like noon on the 25th. Um, but that was kind of a hassle. So, they're going to have we're gonna have that first day is going to be people new to the building so they can get acquainted with the building. The second day is going to be just all students joining. So, that's a change. Uh, if you go down, we are aligning our parent teacher conferences. uh before it was like like it is right now where the high school middle school have one calendar kind of one schedule, the elementary has the a different one. So, they're all going to be the same. So, we're going to have uh Monday is going to be regular dismissal and then Thursday of conferences is going to
045be no school for everybody and they'll have conferences all day and evening on those days and then still the teacher comp day uh following that. Um, if you go down, um, originally we had the 22nd as a as a staff attendance day, uh, for PD that has now just kind of gone back into, uh, vacation day for, uh, winter break. Um, everybody, because according to master contract, we can't have um, anybody work on the second or any of the the certified staff work on the second. So, everybody's going to join back in on the 5th. So, we like to have a transition day coming back. So, staff can come back. Unfortunately, because we have to run our end of our semester testing that week, uh, we'll just have everybody come back on the 5th and
046then the 9th is going to be a grading day and we'll start second semester on the 12th. So, you will see we are going to come to school on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Um, the reasoning is is because we just got off of a long break and just had another uh uh PD day on the 9th. Um, and if we come on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I can get all students out before Memorial Day next year. So, I don't know when the last time Lewis Central was out before Memorial Day. I think it was a very long time ago. And so, um, you'll see second semester's kind of the second semester, uh, conferences are the same. Class on Monday, uh, no class on Thursday. Uh scrolling down here, this is kind of our
047uh spring break over Easter. We'll have Friday and Monday off of that. It's a shortened spring break because we have um we have to start on the 25th. You're not allowed to start earlier than the 23rd. 23rd falls on a Saturday. So that kind of removes a couple extra days. So as we, you know, next year we'll start the 24th and next year we'll start on the 23rd. So you'll also see that spring break get a little bit longer. And then we have seniors last day on the 20th. Graduation is still on uh the Sunday before Memorial Day. And then we have the two teacher work days at the end of the year. So, but we have all kids are out on the 22nd of May. I'm going to knock. Pending pending. Lots of weather.
048So, okay. Do we have any public comment related to the calendar for next year? I have a question even though I'm not involved anymore. Uh what about teachers that have students in the district? If all the conferences are at the same time, will they be able to attend a conference in another building? Yes, we we always allow that. We allow you to go and attend a conference. I'm not I just I just Oh, yeah. That's that's a perk of working for the district is you get to go to your kids' stuff. So for a long time Yeah. Did we have any online? Okay, then at this time we'll adjourn the public hearing regarding the school calendar revision and we will move into commendations. Good news. Uh so I have welcomed um I have some high
049school academic award honores. So I'm going to have Mr. Venattle, our high school principal come up and introduce. Thank you guys for waiting. All right. Seniors are probably mad at us because they didn't have that nice of a calendar. Did you? I was thinking that as you're going through that though. I was like, "Oh, they missed that." Um, so I'm super excited to be here tonight and uh share some great news with you. I think uh and after sitting through the um open hearing, I think this is a good reminder of what we do with our taxpayer dollars um and these phenomenal kids and how we support them and and grow them into fine young individuals. Um so I'm here to share about the Hawkeye 10 is our conference uh much like the Big 12
050or the Big 10 only much smaller. Um but the Hawkeye 10 is our conference that that Lewis Central is a part of and as a part of that we are one of the only conferences in the entire state of Iowa that actually does an academic team. Um we're pretty proud of that because most of it is around sports. Um but we do an academic team. The team is comprised of uh 22 students. uh and every t every uh school gets one uh participant. So that means 11 of the 22 are already kind of accounted for. So there's 11 atlarge spots. Um and this year Lewis Central uh was um honored with six of those spots as the Hawkeye 10 team. So we're pretty excited about that. Um but first I want to talk about the
051character award winner. So each school in Hawkeye 10 has the ability to pick a character award winner. Um, this person is uh is voted on by the staff. Um, and they're nominated or voted on by their because of their beliefs, attitudes, and actions that exemplify the six pillars of character. Um, this year was a little bit unique because we've never had such a landslide vote. And I already told her this. Where you at, Hannah? Come over here. Um, I've never had a student earn over 50% of the votes from staff members on the character award winner. So, it just speaks very highly of her and of her character. So, congratulations to Hannah Moore. is our character award winner. Thank you, Hannah. Um and then the Hawkeye 10 all academic team um as I mentioned is
052uh 22 total members of the Hawkeye 10. Louis Central has six of them. Um to be eligible students must earn a 29 on the ACT, a 1200 on the SAT or have earned an average composite score on the ISAFS of 660 um which is our state test. And then the team is then the students fill out an application and they're they're pretty thorough applications around leadership, character, activities, and academics. Um, and they're blind scored on a panel of judges of of Hawkeye 10 principles and community members. So they take all the names and the schools off of them and they go through all of them and they score them individually. Um, so we had again six members. Um, and I'm just going to kind of raise your hand and and or say your name and
053if you would raise your hand. They may have questions for you when I'm done, but as I go through them. So, Ava Busy and Ella Busy, Jackson Cox, Alyssa Griffin, Brody Hilton, and we have one member, Jacob Kolaf Sadler. Um, he's actually at uh at the uh State Jazz Band Festival in AI, so he wasn't able to be here tonight. So, let's give them a round. Um, they will be honored. We have a banquet uh on Wednesday night, actually. um and they will be honored in front of the entire Hawkeye 10 um with their parents and then they select also a staff member that has influenced them um in a in a positive way that will come as well. It's a nice dinner um nice presentation I believe actually coach Joe Meyer will be speaking
054to them that night. Um so that will be Wednesday. Do you want So I told them to prepare their names and where they're going to school next year. Do we have time for that? Oh yeah. Okay. Awesome. and then and then you're welcome to ask any questions you want of them. Hello, my name is Jackson Cox. I plan to attend the University of Iowa as an honors student double majoring in accounting and finance on a pre-law track. Hi, my name is Hannah Moore. I will be attending the University of Iowa and I'll be studying pre-law. Hi, my name is Alyssa Griffin and I'll be attending Oklahoma State University studying architectural engineering. Hi, my name is Ella Busy and I'll be attending the University of Iowa studying psychology on a premed track. Um, hi, my name
055is Ava Busy and I will be attending Simpson College um to run cross country and track for their women's program and uh major in sports administration. Hi, I'm Brody Hilton. Uh, currently undecided on the school, but I plan to dual major in math and physics. Okay. You guys have any questions for um who who do you think did influence you guys as a start as a leader in your class? Like who you're talking about? What what what teacher have you guys invited to to go to your dinner? Um Miss Stoop, Mr. Nickman. So, Aaron Nickman, Tracy Stoop, uh, Brett Ford, Taylor May, Dan Tucker, who am I missing? Molly Pettit. Is that all of them? I get them all. Miss Huber and Linda Huber. So, um, yes. Awesome. It's a big accomplishment. And congratulations on
056the last four years of high school to get to this point. Big honor. I was excited to see so many future Hawkeyes around there. No, no offense to Oklahoma or Simpson, but can I grab a group photo of you guys before we take off? Well, thank you guys for coming. Good luck and thank you parents. Yeah, hats off to you guys. I have a couple other um uh just wanted to recognize um so the the high school just finished their musical last or last yesterday uh Into the Woods. It was fantastic. I uh told Mr. Strait and it's my third year here and it's the best uh play musical I've seen yet. So I was it was very uh brought my mom and my mom is a longtime play director. uh she judges a lot
057of different plays. So, you know, it's a little bit of a risk bringing a play judge in to be like, you know, how's our play? And she had really nothing but really positive things to say about it. So, um so that was really, really neat. Uh Chloe Perfect, she's uh one of our students. Uh she just finished yesterday. uh she qualified for the national uh drive chip putt contest and that was out in Augusta at the Masters and so yesterday she just finished second in the nation. Wow. So that's awesome. possible. Uh we had three national qualifiers for our invention convention and uh those are well we had there was seven of them that competed at state and then out of the seven three of them move on to nationals. Uh Jeremy Lman and uh
058Gus Vote those are they were kind of a a partner group uh fifth graders and then uh Reese Hazing uh third grader also qualified so uh good for them. And then we have our mock trial went to state and they won three ballots and had 12 honorable mentioned participants. So it's awesome. Kind of all over the board academic and actually almost all academic. We're in between seasons. No athletics yet. Yeah. For the invention convention was that was that in Iowa City? That was in Iowa City. Yep. Yep. I Yeah, we we had to drive around that city of yellow and so had to remind That's right. You're a Husker fan. I am. Yes. I had to remind my girls that uh it would be preferable if they didn't attend there, but I would support whatever
059decisions they made. So, very good. Do we have any additional accommodations? Good news. Okay, we will move on to comments and suggestions. This is the first part of our meeting where we open the floor up to the public should they have any um thing that they would like to share directly with the board. Um do we have any comments suggestions? Yeah. Do we have anybody online? How come you did the whole school couple snow days and alternative learning instead like some of the other schools? I don't I don't I don't believe in alternative learning. I as far as the the unplanned version. So that's that's what a lot of those are. You're not you're not prepared. You go into it. Yes, you can count it as a school day, but is it going through the
060motions? And is the best use of taxpayer dollars because, you know, if if in my opinion the most effective teaching strategies we're going to have are going to be inerson learning. And so I want to maximize the dollars that the taxpayers are giving us by having kids learn in school. So, because the other thing is we can't control. You'll have some kids that'll do great at home because they have a lot of parental support and they'll have a lot of uh um opportunities to to you might have internet. They might have, you know, they're not worrying about those other things. And other kids honestly, they're kind of fending for themselves on those days because their parents are working or they're not able to help them with their assignments. They might not have internet. They might
061be more worried about how they're going to eat lunch that day than than learning. And so, there's too much of a wild card. It's not as somebody who really values education. I I don't I don't see that as a as necessarily a viable educational option. Um, another question. Are we standing at grade level grade levels for math and reading these days? You hear like Chicago is 300 schools or what? Oh, like that stand. I haven't heard these things for a while. Yeah, we're above we're above the state average and everything. What does that mean? Um that means we perform better than most the schools in the state of Iowa. Is 50% is that above average? I don't know. No, average is about uh mid60s and we perform between 74 and 82%. And how much of
062that's going into your budget to get that raised? Um every year, right? Forget the pool. Let's get another teacher if that's what it takes. or forget the track, put another teacher in there. But your your mission is to educate. The other stuff is all nice to have, but we our our goal has got to be get those kids educated first. Absolutely. Mhm. And you know how how many times in a math class do they take the calculators away and say, "Do it by hand." I remember my dad used to be a ma office manager in a company and people would come in to do whatever. One of the tests he gave me, he said, "Here's some math problems. Work them out. No calculator. Add, subtract, multiply, divide, you know, they couldn't do it, right?" No,
063no, those comments. So, the comments are more or less for the for the agenda. And so we are not talking about those tonight, but if you want to ever make an appointment and stop in, I'd be happy to talk with you all about that and talk about our educational opportunities and what we provide for kids and um but yeah, absolutely. If you want to just let me know. Okay. Do we have any additional comments and suggestions? I guess I don't know where we're at on this list because I lost track. Oh, we're we're right right up here. Number five. Number five. So, now we'll move into the consent agenda. I'd like to make a motion to approve. Second. Do we have an updated personnel sheet? No updates. Okay. Let me Did you say there was
064an updated one? Well, no. Sorry, I'm not used to running this. So, Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mrs. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Sorenson, yes. Mr. Sturm, yes. Miss Atkins, yes. Mr. Wright, yes. Reports, financial update. So for uh the finance report tonight, I knew that I was also giving the budget presentation. So I wanted to give you an update of our FY26 budget timeline. So obviously as of March 5th, I submitted the initial maximum property tax to the department of management to the county auditor and that was the document that we looked at earlier this evening uh with the taxpayer statement that was sent to all residents by March 20th. This evening we did the first public hearing. Uh that notice was published in the newspaper and on the district website and social media on March 20th. So
065now going forward, uh hopefully they get some SSA figured out so they can make this budget process a little bit uh easier for us. Uh April 1st, we will have our second public hearing for the budget. That notice will be published on April 10th later this week to meet the uh 10 to 21 day notice prior to the public hearing. That evening, we will also adopt the 26 budget and then by April 30th, I will file the budget with the department of management and the county auditor. I know this is a new process that we started last year with the legislation change. So, I just wanted to make the board aware of where we are in the process and where we are going from here with it. So, do I have any questions from the
066board about the process? Okay, then we will move into 7.02 curriculum instruction update. So, uh, Dr. Hartman is ill today, so she will not be doing that. So, that save us a little bit of time. Then we'll move into 7.03 facility project update. Project advocates. Yep. So here is close that. Okay, let me make it a little bigger. So here's our update right now. Um, so as you can see what you guys will be voting on tonight, uh, high school parking lot. U, we got a lot of really good good bids. The budget estimate on that was 1.9 million. Low right now is 100 1.3 million. So about 559,000 below budget. Um the the relocation of the tennis court we thought was going to be about 1.2 million. Looks like it's about 1.55 million 1.055.
067So that's another almost $150,000 off what we lower than what we had anticipated. And then the Titan Hill uh parking lot queuing lane was originally budgeted at 1.5 million. Um the bid we got in was 438,000. So um significantly below. And then we also have uh the secure entrance bid which would be the craft secure entrance so we can funnel everybody through into a safe way into the elementary. And then we have um a Craft LED lighting and a Titan Hill LED lighting. And uh all three of those came in again under budget. So So um so far um about $7 million uh is is what what we have allocated or soon to be allocating. Um that is $2.3 million below uh the original budgets, estimated budgets. So, um, and then we will have, we
068just opened up, I guess, the what you guys will approve tonight. You won't prove parking lot because we have to do some due diligence with that with our engineers. Same thing with the tennis courts and the Titan Hill. Everything else um will be uh approved and move forward with. And then I will have um Titan Hills playground and Craft's playground uh tomorrow. Oh, they're doing the presentations for um the teachers and then they'll select a a final company to work with and then we'll move forward from there. So, and then the high school renovations, those are being planned right now, but we won't go up for bid until this summer. So, lot of lot of action, a lot of lot of movement. And then, uh yep, I guess that's that's really all I had for
069that. Are we are we from Oh, go ahead. Are we getting an architect? Uh when are we starting the architecture for the middle school? So, we've we've started the process of vetting um architects. We're going to hopefully bring three to the board. That's what right now we're kind of at five. Hoping to bring three. We started at like seven. Some people have backed out based on their current schedules or just lack of interest in the project. And so, we'll be down to down to five. and then we'll kind of determine from there um uh who we're going to bring bring to the to the table. So, still probably about a month away from introducing those those conversations. And you did talk to project advocates about keeping the material that we currently have. Yep. Yep. So,
070they're still working that through trying to determine um how much of it we can keep and how much of it, you know, as as far as on that site. The other thing is we got to still work with the city. I haven't I haven't requested from them any permits or anything for act to actually move it to that area and stage it. So there's still a little there's still a couple steps in there to determine what we're going to do with it. So we don't want to get rid of any of it. I know. [Music] Any other comments from the board? Okay. Then we will move to 7.04 superintendent update. Okay. And then so I have just a couple things. Back to the agenda here. We go. Um, sorry. Just so people can refer to
071this. So I have um, so we went through the bond uh, project schedule. I talked about playgrounds a little bit. Uh, the high school vestibule. Um, the only other thing I have is just a reminder of the board that we're going to do that board work session uh prior to the meet, the regular board meeting, the board hearing on the 21st. So, from 4:30 to 6:30, we're going to talk about um strategic planning stuff. And then we do need to have a uh special meeting to approve those those uh concrete bids probably on the 14th. I'll I'll be reaching out to you guys as far as trying to determine a time. Um they really want to do it on the 14th so they can get them scheduled. So if we can figure out a way
072to do it even if it's before school or it only really needs about 15 minutes so doesn't really need a lot of time. So um otherwise we're just kind of moving forward. We're doing ice testing right now. So in the next 3 weeks we should have some updated scores. So hopefully we get to see those. But that's about it. Okay. Then we will move to 8.01 discussion items. 202526 district school calendar revision. Um and that's just whether or not you guys agree with the revisions and are good. Do you guys have any additional questions about the calendar? It's new. I know we'll have some people that don't necessarily like that we don't have a full spring break, but at the same time, parents kind of take spring breaks whenever they want anyway. So, we just
073had people out this last week for a week, you know, so they'll kind of pick and choose and it's just a one-year deal and then hopefully we'll get some more spring break days the next year. So, okay. Any additional comments from the board? No. Then we will move on to high school roofing bid approval. Yep. I'm going to pull up uh so we had we received six bids for the high school roofing. And if I go back to this right here, you can see the bids that we have here. Six bids from the right school roofing. We had Blackhawk roofing was the lowest at 433,500. Otherwise, we had JR roofing at 807, 10men roofing at 448, stag roofing at 549, Stonebrook Exterior at 457, and then Murray exteriors at 775. So, we had three in
074the 400s. Um, just to remind you guys that the uh the estimate that they had brought in was about 1.6 million on the on the roofs, which was two phases. So, it's $800,000 is what they're estimating for this first round. So, about 300 300 or 366,000 below what they had estimated. Any additional questions, comments from the board? Okay, then we will move on to 8.03 craft entrance safety vestible bit. Um, Yep. So, we got we received four bids on that estimated um I don't want that. Estimated cost for the uh safety vestibule was uh 80,000. Lowest bids came in at 74,000. So, pretty much right on what they were estimating. Um the two they received four bids. Uh K Flex at 119, Anderson at 88 86 886. Uh KC Peterson at 75. So four bids
075250 and then Elkridge at 74 uh 554. So they are the low bid. There's no reason not to proceed with that one. Any additional questions, comments from the board? Okay, then we will move on to 8.04 CRF security camera. Bid approval. Um, so we use a a proprietary system with this um that we use the same cameras, the same storage. Let me get back to this. the same uh um a little bigger for people audience and the same uh security software. Um so we prime communication was the only one we got we could get a bid for from. Um and they are doing so remember craft has no security cameras interior right now and only a handful of exterior which are really pretty bad. Um, so this would install cameras throughout the interior and exterior
076craft and it would also provide door contacts. So that way anytime a door is open because we sometimes get some get some active children that like to try to escape. And so now anytime a door opens, it'll send an automatic alert to the principal on their app. So that way they can see right now that a door is open. Um, same thing with and we're going to put door contacts on all the doors throughout all the exterior doors throughout the district. Um, so if anybody leaves a door propped open, um, that'll notify us as well. So that way bad actors can't prop a door open and come back later and get in the building or anything else. So we'll know if there's any door that's that's open at all in the district. So um, bid
077for that is $148,8.91. Okay. Any questions, comments from the board on that? Now we will move to 8.05. 05 middle school epic intercom and bid approval. Yep. So, this is another one. So, right now, Craft, Titan Hill, and and the high school all have what's called an Epic intercom system, which is one that's um you can you can easily change spells. You can you can activate from your phone. You can do a lot of different things uh using the Epic Bell system. You can't do that at the middle school. Middle school is like old school, almost like a PA system. And the downside of that is if something happens in a building, you know, we're buying that new uh Raptor safety safety um kit. And uh if anything happens in the building, you would have
078to get back to the middle school office and then know how to run the thing in order to make an announcement versus with the new system, if something happens, you can activate um from basically any phone throughout the whole throughout the whole district if you know the code. So that's the difference. So the old PA system I got to get back to the office so I can make announcement. New PA system the Epic system I can make it from any phone in any classroom throughout the district. So um again pretty uh proprietary. This is not the Hold on one second. That is not I think there's supposed to be a one in front of that. One second here. 132834. Yeah, I think it's 132 but let me double check. If you send an email's a
079clerical issue was that Yeah, the bid is attached. Oh, the bid Oh, the bid's attached. 132 $132,834.85. Yeah. Okay. I had talked to Mrs. Reynolds earlier today and she had mentioned uh how many more steps there it is they need to take compared to what they're doing at the other buildings. Now one of the reasons it's so much is because they have to run all new wiring because this is not the same same system as what we have. So and this will hit every single room. Yep. Every single room, every single speaker throughout the entire district or throughout the entire building. Right. Middle school. And the nice thing about the Epic system is you can technically line up all of the buildings together. So, yep, you control like I can control all four buildings from
080one location. So, if there was an active intruder event and I'm at the high school and I want to quickly notify every building, I can just dial a number and I can not verify in every building that there's an active event going at the high school. Like, and I think that's what counts, right? Like, how fast can you get that notification out there? So, okay. Any additional questions or comments from the board on the epic system? Okay. Then we will move to 8.06. Craft LED light bid approval. Um, so the craft bid approval is this one is for that's Titan Hill crap is here. We go. Okay. Voss Electric. Um, so they are a state vendor. So we don't So we just get one bid and then they go out and they get different bids
081from electricians cuz they provide the product but they organize everything. So they got two bids. They got one from uh Bluffs Electric and one from Action Electric for um for both schools. And at um Bluffs Electric or at at Craft the recommendation is to go with and here's the cost right here. We had one they had one bid from Bluffs, $184,40. One from Action, $153,310. Um the payback on this um cuz they are LED lights is they give you like a range. It's on the low end 8 years, on the high end 10 years. So 8 to 10 years, they're estimating um for for payback. So I think at at Titan Hill, I know it was over $20,000 a year. um at Craft, you know, I maybe closer to 15, 15 to 16, 17 in
082there, somewhere in there. So, but 8 to 10 years is the estimated payback. And then these are uh 20-year fixtures. So, should get more than our money's worth out of them. And then, uh along with what it is is it's changing out every nonLEDD light to an LED light. And then it's changing out all the switches to dimmer switches and then putting because teachers a lot of time don't they don't want that bright light all the time which is good for energy consumption if they'll tone it down a little bit. And then um they'll they'll also have uh uh sensors like motion sensors in the classroom. So if a teacher leaves a classroom the light will turn off. That'll that'll be energy savings too. Kids are notoriously bad at leaving the lights on at least
083in my house. So, you know, now they can't do that anymore. They leave the room, they'll go off. So, question. So, not with fossil lighting. Sorry. 153. Go with the lower bid. Don't go with the higher bid. I was going to say that's what I was going to ask. When I sent that last Friday, we'd only have the one bid. Okay. So, we're going not or with boss lighting. It's just boss lighting. You don't have to say action, but boss lighting for the 153 uh 310. Okay. Perfect. Was this just internal lighting or exterior as well? These are just these are internal. Yep. Okay. Just Okay. Any other questions, comments regarding the craft LED light. Then we will move on to 8.07 Titan Hill LED light. Bid approval. So, this building is quite a bit
084bigger than Craft. Um but a portion of the building had already been switched over like the gyms and that kind of stuff had already been switched over. So this will be uh all the other areas, all the other classrooms. Uh the recommendation here is actually with Bluffs. The Bluffs electric bid with Voss. Um Action came in cheaper at Titan or at Craft. Bluffs came in cheaper at uh Titan Hill. So it's actually works out better because I think if you give both buildings to one company, I don't know. I mean it'd be really pushing it to get it done this summer. So So, uh, uh, splitting it up is not a bad thing either, but I would recommend going with the 214,000, save $40,000. And is that the same time frame, the 8 to 10
085years return on? Yep. Same thing. Yep. Like I said, I knew I knew this one was over it was over $20,000 a year is what their is what the payback is. So, and since you're asking on that, Tim, too, just reminder board members, we do pay electric out of our general fund. So, the payback would be coming into the general fund where we can buy more instructional materials, paper, teachers, things like that. And this is not being paid with general fund dollars. So, it is something that does help us out from the instructional side as well. Good. Any other questions, comments from the board on that? Okay, we will move to 8.08 Chromebook purchase bet approval. Uh, so this one's kind of exciting. They uh we the Chromebooks that we had been purchasing um were
086ones that had a what's called a digitizer screen and um they came with a stylus and so we've kind of gotten the point where we don't necessarily use the stylus in anything. Like the styluses are expensive. They're $45 a piece. The digitizer screen runs up the cost of the device about $100. So, I asked them to get me a bid without any stylus, no digitizer screen, but still like a touchscreen you it's flippable. Like kids aren't going to notice the difference. And uh um we typically pay like last year we paid $360,000 for the Chromebook renewal, which is 800 devices. Uh this year we got a bid from uh SHI for $200,000. So that's a savings of $160,000. So, were there any questions, comments? Okay, we'll move on to 8.09 resolution directing the advertisement for
087sale, approving electronic bidding procedures, and approving the official statement. And this is just you guys. This is just a procedural thing. Sorry. Yeah, they're going to sell the bonds either way. Just this just allows it to be done electronically. So, somebody doesn't have to fly in with a bag full of cash. So, I know a guy. You know a guy. Wish I had wish I knew that guy. All right. So, 8.10 the AEA memo of understanding. Um, so this is different. So, in the past, all of our money went directly to the A.E.A. and then they would kind of give us the employees and we we would pay extra for things like um school psychologists and that kind of thing. Um now with the new model, the money comes to us and then we have
088to purchase it from the AEA. So, it's looking like we're we're spending more money to the AEA, but in reality, it's just because the money's coming to us. And so, um, we are we have leaned up our services because there were things that the AA provided that we didn't necessarily utilize or or you know, it wasn't necessarily a priority for us. And so, that's the other thing. You got to be a little bit more picky and choosy when you when you have the dollars instead of just flowing through and you're purchasing purchasing things. So, these are the the items that um we would like to continue to purchase from them. Access the AEA statewide dashboards. That's all of their uh reporting from um mostly it's a uh student assessment data um e-ate which they help
089us provide um or work with the government to get uh federal funds for our technology. English learning English language learner consultant days. We do not we we have a couple ELLL teachers. I don't know that we necessarily have an expert. So, it's nice to have um 10 days of somebody that will come in and work with our because we're having we have a growing ELLL populations, English language learners. So, it's nice uh to have that additional support. Um again, in the past, we wouldn't have to pay for that like we wouldn't have to write the check. We would just flow through and we'd automatically get it. But um unlimited access to AA super. So, this is digital resources 18,000 early childhood consultant days. So, this is who works with our preschoolers to make sure that
090we're compliant. we receive funding. Uh that's at 53,000. Uh mental health, social worker, uh 85,000. Um we do get some operational sharing dollars with that. So it's $85,000 we pay up front and then we get about $16,000 back. Um and then we are going to expand our uh schoolbased interventionists and our um special education uh representatives. So, um, so 132,000. So, overall, um, the amount that's on here is is about $250,000 less than we had been than the money that flew flew flowed through. So, we had the money would just flow through before. Now, we pick our services. So, we're actually saving about $250,000. So although before it was just nice and neat that we didn't actually have to approve anything. So the last one with the special education days, how many days is that
091adding for that? That's that's now uh so that's five addition. So this is how it works out. It's so we can get everybody for 5 days a week. So okay. So they they have x amount of dollars because we still have 90% of our special education dollars go straight to the A.E.A. So then they allocate you days of services based on your need, what they perceive your level of need are. So we were getting um approximately three or four days depending on building per per building for services and for the special education representative. And so we're we're just purchasing the other days just so we get them full time. So, okay. But were there any additional comments, questions on the memo of understanding? Then we will move to 8 11 high school painting bid approval.
092Um, so this is an exciting one. So, we have we were looking to um paint the commons area, the the hallway that runs down the athletic hallway, and then the gymnasium ceiling and walls. And because we're redoing the HVAC in there, so when you tear out all the old stuff and put the new stuff in, we got to we got to paint. And then uh uh the wrestling room because we're tearing out all the HVAC in the HVAC in there, we're doing the same thing. We're tearing out the floor in there as well. Um, so we I had originally budgeted based on my knowledge of painting about $90,000 for this work and uh low bid came in at $46,400. So it's a it's a ton of painting. Um it's company out of Neola. The they
093actually were the ones that painted our auditorium. So but used them before. What's that? So we've used them and had a good experience. We have. Yep. I've had good experience with them. Yeah, I don't know. Uh, but Paint Pulse and Larson are also great companies, too. Um, just it's hard to say no to about a $20,000 savings. So, any additional questions, comments on the high school payment? Okay, then we'll move to uh 8.12 and 8.13. So 812 is discussion regarding matters of employment conditions for employees not covered by collective bargaining agreement. So per Iowa code 21.9 refers to a meeting of a governmental body to discuss strategy and matters relating to employment conditions of employees who are not covered by a collective bargaining agreement under chapter 20 and it's exempt from this chapter. Uh so
094for the purpose of this section employment conditions mean areas included in scope of negotiations listed in section 20.9. Uh, the board is exempt from having these discussions as part of an open board meeting. So, I'd like to recommend that we move to close session. May I get a motion to move to close session? Exempt session. So, we need no motion. The what? You just make the It's an exempt session. So, you just say that we're going into exempt session. No motion needed. Okay. Do you want us to [Music] move Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, baby. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey.
095[Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Okay. [Music] Heat. Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hello. Hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Thank you. Nice. Still and then just turn your mic on. Okay. Okay. And we are back from close session. So we will start to move through our action items. Uh 10.01 1 202526 district school calendar revision. Mr. President, like to make the motion to revise the calendar as presented for the 202526 school year. Second vote, please. Mr. Sorenson, yes. Mr. Sturm, yes. Miss Atkins, yes. Mrs. McDaniel, no. Mr. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Wright. Yes. 10.02 High School roofing bid approval. Mr.
096President, I'd like to make the motion to approve the high school roofing contract with Blackhawk Roofing for $433,550. Second vote, please. Mr. Sturm. Yes. Miss Atkins, yes. Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mr. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Sorenson, yes. Mr. Right. Yes. 10.03. Craft entrance safety vestible bid approval. Mr. President. Yes. I'd like to make the motion to approve the Craft Safety Vestule contract with Elk Ridge Construction for $74,554.98. Second vote, please. Miss Atkins, yes. Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mrs. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Senson, yes. Mr. Surm, yes. Mr. Reich, yes. 10.04, Craft Security Camera Bid approval. Mr. President, yes. I'd like to make the motion to approve the craft security camera and door contract contract contact contract with prime communication for $148,8.91. Second vote, please. Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mrs. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Saon, yes. Mr. Storm, yes. Miss Atkins, yes.
097Mr. Wright, yes. 10.05 5 middle school epic intercom bid approval. Mr. President, I'd like to make the motion to approve the middle school Epic Intercom contract with KCAV for 32,83 $132,834.85. Thank you. Second vote, please. Mrs. Sheff, yes. Mr. Mr. Sornson. Yes. Mr. Sturm. Yes. Miss Atkins. Yes. Mr. McDaniel. Yes. Mr. Wright. Yes. 10.06. Craft LED light bid approval. Mr. President. Yes. I'd like to make the motion to approve Craft LED light project contract with Fost Lighting for uh $153,310. Right. Is that correct? tape is a let me double check. You double check that one. I think they chose the craps. Is that right? Okay. Yeah. I have written down. Check. Double check. Said 153 310. Correct. I believe that's the That's correct. Yep. Second. Yep, that's right. I knew I had it written down.
098or again was a second. Sorry. Um, Mr. Sornson, yes. Mr. Sturm, yes. Miss Atkins, yes. Mr. McDaniel, yes. Mr. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Wright, yes. 10.07 Titan Hill LED light bid approval. Mr. President, yes. I'd like to make the motion to approve Titan Hill LED light project contract with Foss Lighting for $214,350. Second vote, please. Mr. Sturm, yes. Miss Atkins, yes. Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mrs. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Sornson, yes. Mr. Wright, yes. 10.08 Chromebook purchase bid approval. Mr. President, yes. I'd like to make the motion to approve the Chromebook purchasing contract with SHI for $200,000. Second vote, please. Miss Atkins, yes. Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mr. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Senson, yes. Mr. Storm, yes. Mr. Wright. Yes. 10.09. Resolution directing the advertisement for sale, approving electronic bidding procedures, and approving official statement. Mr. President, I would like
099to introduce the following resolution and move for its adoption. Resolution directing the advertisement for sale of approximately 20,500,000 general obligation school bond series 2025 approving electronic bidding procedures and approving official statement second vote please Mrs. McDaniel yes Mrs. Sheff yes Mr. Sorenson yes Mr. Stern yes Miss Atkins yes Mr. Right. Yes. I declare the resolution adopted. 10.10 A.E.A. Memo of understanding. Mr. President. Yes. I'd like to make the motion to approve the memo of understanding with Green Hills Aea as presented. Second. Vote, please. Mr. Sheffle. Yes. Mr. Sorenson. Yes. Mr. Sturm. Yes. Miss Atkins, yes. Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mr. Wright, yes. 10.11, High School painting bid approval. Mr. President, I'd like to make the motion to approve the high school painting contract with a cut above painting for $46,400. Second. Second. Sorry. So, please, Mr.
100Senson. Yes. Mr. Sturm. Yes, Miss Atkins. Yes, Mrs. McDaniel. Yes, Mrs. Sheffle. Yes, Mr. Wright. Yes, 10.12 Certified Profession and Classified employee salaries for 2025 2026. Mr. President, yes. I'd like to make the motion to approve the certified profession and classified employee salaries for 2025 2026 as presented. Second vote, please. Mr. Stern, yes. Miss Atkins, yes. Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mrs. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Sorenson, yes. Mr. Ray, yes. [Music] 10.13 Administrator salaries for 2025 2026. Mr. President, yes. Yes. I'd like to make the motion to approve the administrator salaries for 2025 2026 as presented. Second vote, please. Miss Atkins, yes. Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mrs. Shuffle, yes. Mr. Sorenson, yes. Mr. Sterm, yes. Mr. Wright, yes. 10.14. Employee request for leave for employee A. Mr. President, yes. I'd like to make the motion to approve the request
101for unpaid leave as presented for employee A. Second vote, please. Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mrs. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Sorenson, yes. Mr. Sturm, yes. Miss Atkins, yes. Mr. Wright, yes. 10.14. Employee request for leave. Employee B. Mr. President, yes. Like to make the motion to approve the request for unpaid leave as presented for employee B. Second, vote, please. Mrs. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Sorenson, yes. Mr. Sturm, yes. Miss Atkins, yes. Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mr. Wright, yes. 10.14, Employee Request for leave, employee C. Mr. President, yes. like to make it the motion to approve the request for unpaid leave as presented for employee C. Second. Vote, please. Mr. Sorenson, yes. Mr. Sturm, yes. Miss Atkins, yes. Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mrs. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Rick, yes. 10.14 Employee Request for leave. Employee D. Mr. President, I'd like to make the
102motion to approve the request for unpaid leave as presented for employee D. Second, vote, please. Mr. Sturm, yes. Miss Atkins, yes. Mr. McDaniel, yes. Mr. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Sorenson, yes. Mr. Wright, yes. 10.14. Employee request for leave. Employee E. Mr. President, yes. like to make the motion to approve the request for unpaid leave as presented for employee E. Second. Vote, please. Miss Atkins, yes. Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mrs. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Sorenson, yes. Mr. Sturm, yes. Mr. Wright, yes. 10.14 employee request for leave employee F. Mr. President, yes. like to make the motion to approve the request for unpaid leave as presented for employee F. Second. Vote, please. Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mrs. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Sorenson, yes. Mr. Sturm, yes. Miss Atkins, yes. Mr. Ray, yes. 10.14, Employee Request for leave, employee G. Mr. President, yes.
103Like to make the motion to approve the request for unpaid leave as presented for employee G. Second vote, please. Mrs. Shuffle, yes. Mr. Sorenson, yes. Mr. Storm, yes. Miss Atkins, yes. Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mr. Wright, yes. 10.14. Employee request for leave employee H. Mr. President, yes. Like to make the motion to approve the request for unpaid leave as presented for employee H. Second. Vote, please. Mr. Sornson, yes. Mr. Sturm, yes. Miss Atkins, yes. Mr. McDaniel, yes. Mr. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Wright, yes. 10.14 employee request for leave employee I. Mr. President, yes. Like to make the motion to approve the request for unpaid leave as presented for employee I. Second. Vote, please. Mr. Sturm, yes. Miss Atkins, yes. Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mr. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Sorenson, yes. Mr. Right. Yes. Items of interest, future board meetings
10411.01. Uh we have a board work session scheduled uh prior to our next board meeting on April 21st at 4:30 p.m. along with our regularly scheduled board meeting uh later that night at 7 p.m. Do I need to add anything for the 14th? Uh yeah, that's just a note that we're looking to have a special agenda on the 14th, but I'm going to reach out to you guys directly for times. So, okay. And just a reminder, the board meeting on April 21st will begin at 700 p.m. And there will that will be the second public hearing for the budget at 11. It will be a 700 p.m. start instead of 6:30. Okay. Then at this time, seeing no other items on our itinerary, can I get uh a motion to close? Motion to adjurnn. Second.
105All in favor say I. I. I. I. Thank you.