001[Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] I went ahead and just walked in. Your name is on it. I stay here. Okay. We will go ahead and call the June 2nd, uh Louis Central Board of Directors meeting to order. May I get roll call, please? Miss Atkins, Mrs. McDaniel, here. Mrs. Peterson here. Mrs. Sheff here. Mr. Sorenson here. Mr. Storm here. Mr. Wright here. Approval of the June 2nd, 2025 agenda. Can I get a motion to approve, please? Motion to approve. Second. Vote, please. Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mrs. Peterson, yes. Mrs. Shuffle, yes. Mr. Sorenson, yes. Mr. Sturm, yes. Mr. Wright, yes. accommodations. Good news. Uh so I do have a presentation. So the great news is we are all out of school. So uh we had um kids were down on Friday. Uh
002just just really had a you know a really good day Friday. You know I was over at Titan Hill a lot. They had a lot of celebration there. I went down to the middle school. The middle school had a great celebration. and they had um their kind of their eighth grade graduation and then they had a lot of activities outside and and uh Mr. Sturm was there. He was he was grilling grilling up a storm. So I guess your daughter's a part of that. Like does she did she have a good time? She did. She had a great time. Yeah. So um yeah, I mean it was just a lot of fun. Uh it's always like a very uplifting day, too. Kids are excited. Um you know, staff's obviously excited and even parents pick them
003up. The a the end of the day was absolutely insane with because everybody decides they want to pick up their child at the last day of school. Me included. I I was talked into it by my kids. I didn't want to. I was going to uh make them ride the bus, but they said I would have been the meanest person ever if I did. So, not the first time I've been called that, but I thought what the heck. So, uh and then today was the uh staff's last day of the year. And we do a celebration, too. So, we two times a year we get all the staff together and we just kind of talk about uh beginning of the year it's about this is, you know, hey, we're great. We're back for the summer.
004We're excited to be here. We're excited to get to work. This is what we have in store for the school year. And then the end of the year is more um this let's let's highlight all the great things we've done. Um we did have uh Mrs. Shuffle, Mr. Sturm, and Mr. Wright were there today. Um and so they got to come on the stage, got to hand out the retirement um gifts. Um we have different organizations come in. We have the PTA comes in and they talk. The booster club, the education foundation, um and um the education association all talked and they were all um just gave some highlights. I got to introduce uh Megan Conlin who is the LCF's first director. So that was exciting and talk a little bit about um them taking
005over LCLC uh in the future. Um, and the reason why we we're looking to do that, um, the association, uh, had some great things to say about your partnership with the association and and really our partnership in general with between the teachers and the administrators and and how everything just kind of works. And so, um, just a lot of exciting things. And then um uh director Ry gave a gave a great um uh talk and then I or with the high school I guess all the schools kind of go through their highlights for the year and then I get up and talk about I give kind of a shortened speech this year but because we had a lot of projects that we covered and then after I covered all the projects and all the changes
006we're going to have coming down the pike um we took a look at years of service and the retirement uh the retirees and So, uh, that's kind of what I'd like to highlight right now is is kind of celebrate, um, some years of service milestones. Uh, one of the things that's really cool about Lewis Central is we we we talk about like, oh man, we had to replace, you know, 14 teach How many teachers did we replace this year? 23. 23. So, 23 teachers sounds like a lot, except we have 200 teachers. So, you look at that and you say, well, that's about a 12% turnover. That's that's really not bad. That's an 88% retention rate just in our teaching staff. So, um, so when we talk about retention, we have teachers that have been
007around a long time. What's even more surprising is we have staff members that have been around or like non-eing staff that have been around for a super long time, too. I mean, um, Chuck Scoan's one who's been around for 40 years, you know. Um, you know, so as we kind of go through this, this is actually not just teachers. This is all of our staff in general that are celebrating their their milestones. So, five years. Uh this is kind of the list. I won't read them all to you, but you'll see we have um a little bit of everybody in there. Um pair educators, teachers, um drivers. So, if you go to the next, this is our 10-year group. Go to the next one. 15-year group. 20-year group, 25 year group, and then 35. And
008so, um, Anna, you guys know very well, she's celebrating her 35th year, um, with the district. Um, and you know, she's actually a graduate of Louis Central as well. So, she's been around here basically her entire life. So, I said it's amazing. She must have started working here when she was like 2 years old cuz you know, she's she hasn't hit 40 yet. So, um, but Anna does a ton of great things, including making this list. So, when she made these list this list for me and then uh I couldn't um help but say it was her fault that her name's up there for 35 years. So, uh, but all these people, thank you so much for for serving and I had them all stand up, kind of be recognized quickly. Uh, if you go
009to the next one then. And then here's our retirement. So, we every year we give out um kind of a small retirement gift at the end of the year. Um, if you're here for up to 10 years, 5 to 10 years, um, you get you get coasters and they're all kind of monogram coasters. They have LC on them, Titans. So, uh, cut you get a cutting board. um if you're between uh 10 and 10 and 20 years and then if you're more than 20 years uh you get a shakureri cheese board. So it's kind of a nice little set. Comes with a you know little little cheese knife and a so um so yeah so all of those individuals uh Lenel Rogers um has she actually retired in January so she received her our shuri
010board and she's born in January. Um and then Denise Johnson wasn't unable to make it today. So she got hers last week in a presentation. So um so they they gave it to her then. Uh otherwise, you know, the rest of them uh with the exception um of Cheryl Casey, she wasn't able to make it today, but everybody else was there to celebrate. Um and then we had some cake out in the commons afterwards, and that's Costco cake. It was delicious. And um then they all kind of went back to their buildings. And I know that a couple of them continue the the retirement parties. I know Linda Han had one um down at Cret uh in the afternoon. So, um but yeah, it's just a just a really uplifting day and a good it's
011a good way to go out on top. You know, I know teachers got a lot have a lot to do and our staff have a lot to do to close out their classrooms and get checked out for the year. Um and I know but it's a relatively short. It's less than two hours. We get together, we have breakfast, we have fun, and then we send them on their way. So, Any questions about about the celebration? That's really all it No, you're good. Yep. All right. We will move on to comments and suggestions. This is the the first portion of our meeting where uh we open the floor to the public for any um feedback they wish to share with the board. Do we have anybody? Possibly. Might want to give a minute or two. Okay.
012Well, we wait. There was there was some um individuals that made it to state track. Oh, yeah. uh and postseason stuff for some sports. I mean, soccer and Yep. So, we So, the plan right now is on the on the 16th to recognize all of the spring um accolades. Spring accolades. Yep. So, so that'll come on the 16th. So, that'll because soccer just wrapped up. Uh we have track, uh tennis, um baseball softball is just getting underway, but I'll touch base on them when those seasons are done. But so we just have comment online. Congrat congrats to our retirees and to our students for the year. Oh, nice. Very nice. Moving on. And our first year at LC was wonderful and I thank you all. [Music] Okay, that's always good to hear. Okay. So, we
013will move on to the consent agenda. Is the personnel sheet current? Yes, it is. Then, can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented? Motion to approve. Second. Vote, please. Mrs. Peterson, yes. Mrs. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Sorenson, yes. Mr. Mr. Star. Yes. Mrs. McDaniel. Yes. Mr. Wright. Yes. Reports 6.01. Curriculum instruction reports. Mine is only seven slides. This is not very long. Uh, but I thought I would give you guys a preview of what we're doing in August for our all staff PD day. Um, I just started looking through like what are some things I've been working on. thought, you know, this might be an interesting one to kind of connect some dots with things. So, as you guys probably remember, um we are um utilizing an instructional framework called the Danielson
014framework. And so, our teacher leaders kind of got some practice with it this year. Um next year though, all of our staff will be using this Danielson framework. So, I'll tell you a little bit more here as we go. Um, so one of our days back in the fall is going to be a full day dedicated to learning more about Danielson for all of our teachers. So, um, one of the things we're going to talk about is just building some clarity on what effective teaching practices are. So, she has, um, a couple different domains. There are things like planning, things like classroom management, um, and then she has different components built into those domains, um, that give us kind of a similar language to be able to talk about effective teaching practices. Um, we're also
015going to be talking a lot about how to strengthen teacher reflection and growth. So, in the past, teachers all created a career development plan that's part of Iowa code. They have to do that. Um, but everybody's has looked the same. We've just kind of copied and pasted a building goal and then everybody's had the same one. And there's some benefits to that. But um the drawback is it's it's hard to be personalized and it's hard if you're a teacher in the classroom and there's a particular area you'd like to grow in, it gets harder to have some of those conversations with your admin or coaches. Um so it's going to be a little bit of a shift there. Um and then this we're going to talk to about just how this supports the alignment with
016some of the other things that we're doing in our district um and within the state. Um so why this matters um obviously Iowa code requires that we do some sort of evaluation um and so we are connecting the Danielson framework with our Iowa teaching standards. So a long time ago actually the Iowa state level association group like created the crosswalk that shows like how these components of the Danielson framework connect to the Iowa teaching standards. So um we'll go over that too. Um, and then all of that, just being able to have this framework and being able to support and coach teachers with that framework supports these district goals. You know, wherever we end up going as a district with some of our strategic planning, I would think it probably all aligns to increasing student
017engagement, strengthening outcomes, and then just that consistency and equitability. Um, so here's what the day is going to look like. We're going to start uh with just talking about like why the data framework, how do we get here? We actually did a little bit of this this past year, just knowing that some of our teacher leaders were going to use it. So, it's it'll be kind of a refresher. Um, talk about how this connects to our district and billing goals. Um, and then we're going to have a teacher and principal share a little bit about how they've used Danielson this year. And I actually read um tomorrow one of our teachers is coming in to kind of pre-record this and I read what she is sharing and she's a specials teacher and it's really really
018cool what she talks about how she got out of this framework and how she grew in her practice and outcomes for kids and I think it's really cool that a specialist teacher is going to talk about it because sometimes that's a a group that sometimes feels like how does this apply to me? you know, it's maybe easier to think through how we apply things to the general teachers. Um, so we're excited about that teacher sharing and our principal sharing how it's gone for them this year. So then we're going to kind of run it like a conference. Um, we're going to have some different um sessions. Everybody's going to get through all of them. Um, but the first one we're going to give some more clarity just about how this framework aligns with our Iowa
019teaching standards. uh where it fits in with the evaluation process and then how to make connections with your career development plan and then again that shift in the career development plan about how this is going to be on that teacher's personal growth goal. Um next last year we purchased a powers school product. It's called perform. Um and in some of our buildings our principles got a lot of experience and practice with it this year. Um next year everybody will be using it. Um, but this is where we're going to house all of this information, all of your evaluation forms, um, all of your walkthrough data, all of your career development plans. Um, so it's just nice not to have things living in the Google Drive in different places or, you know, paper copies of things.
020So there'll be a whole session just on how teachers and admin can access those documents, those resources. Um and then a whole other session is going to be kind of devoted to vocabulary within the Danielson uh framework. One of the things that we really want to focus on is um it's all about growth and you identify um as a practitioner where you feel like you land in certain areas. And so it's there's ratings on it and it's basically like proficient basic. I can't remember the other ones but nobody likes the term basic. So, we kind of need to have some mindset shifts about what some of these terms really mean and like what the whole purpose is. I think the final column is like distinguished. Um, but to be distinguished in every category um would
021be just an insane feat and that's not really the point either is to be but you know most of us who are teachers we like the A and we like you know so that session is going to be really important because we're just really going to have to talk through like what this means, what's it all about. Um, and then the very last one is then kind of taking all of that and then shifting into their career development plans and then having them write their career development plans there on the spot. So, they'll leave by the end of the day with their career development plan done. So the impact we hope it will have is that they'll have some confidence just in what that career development plan process looks like, their evaluation process for the
022year. Um that we will all be aligned on expectations and some of the vocab vocabulary. And then um as we always are just ready to focus on what matters most is the student learning piece of things. Um so then looking ahead like this is really just the start this day in August. Um we've really tried hard to build in some ongoing coaching with our instructional coaches and provide layers of support for teachers as they dive into this. Um one of the other things we want to build in in our admin team meetings is just building that leadership capacity in the evaluation process and making sure as an admin team like we're consistent. Um and then just this continued focus on teacher growth and equitable outcomes. And that's it. Did you time me? I feel like
023that was pretty good. Any any questions on Danielson or um the PD in the fall that we have scheduled? When you go to the breakout sessions, will will like Craft be together? Will Titan Hill be together or is it No, I think we're going to totally mix it up. Um but that's a good question. And so the other way that we're able to do this too is we've tapped some of our principles too and they're going to help facilitate. So, like the first one, I might lead that, but then I think Dana's leading a session of it and then let's say Mandy's leading a session of it. And we've got like a partner facilitator, too. Um, so I think because of that, too, we're just going to kind of mix it all up and have
024them go. It's all going to be in the high school. I think we're going to use the auditorium, the commons, and maybe the NPR uh for it. So, just be nice to get some movement, you know, between sessions. Any other questions for Dr. Herb? Okay, hearing none, we will move on to 6.02 finance report. So for uh our finance report tonight, we are going to talk about the nutrition fund. Um, so as majority of you know, the nutrition fund is a completely separate fund. Runs completely separate from the general fund or any of our schoolhouse funds like the ple fund or sales tax. Um, so all of their revenues uh from uh for the nutrition fund come from federal funding based on the number of meals that are served. Our uh parental fees which obviously
025are when parents or guardians are paying for lunches and breakfast or allocart items. And then we do receive some state funding and then also um some donations from families or organizations that want to help um with students that are unable to pay their balances. Um so on the flip side we have the expenses. The only expenditures that are allowed out of the nutrition fund are ones that are directly related to the actual nutrition. So it's the nutrition staff and their salary and benefits only. any food costs obviously and then any equipment and it has to be equipment used specifically for the nutrition fund. So for example, we can't even buy lunchroom tables because we use them for other items. So really it's uh very specific on the equipment that we can um use for that
026fund. So I did take I did look back uh well I did put a slide up here to show um our revenue and expenditures um throughout um obviously FY20 all our revenues were a little bit lower because of COVID and us closing and then in uh 2021 we started to uh get back into things uh throughout part of that year. Then they started to make uh lunches free for everyone. Um so we did see um us start to close that gap a little bit and um not have quite such a large loss. And then in 22 we saw a drastic increase in our revenue. Um that was because everyone was having their lunches fully funded by federal funds. And then we also with that saw an increase in the number of students that were eating
027lunches as well due to it being free for everyone. So over the last couple of years though we have trended back down. Um and that was partially because of the fact that we don't have all of the federal funding and then as we've started to move away from the time that it was all free, we have seen a little bit of a decrease in the amount of students that are eating now. So, our expenditures have stayed uh pretty steady um throughout. We did obviously see we have seen a little bit of an uptick just with the amount of food costs um that has been happening throughout the past few years. Um but we are starting to uh study back out um here this past year and for the first time in um all of my
028time and prior few years prior to me uh at the end of FY24 the nutrition fund was actually positive. So um we were very excited about that. And then moving on, uh we are projecting uh that we are going to continue to kind of level off here with our revenue and our expenditures. And we're hoping this year that we're going to have about a $50,000 gain. Um and with that in mind, that is uh why we did go ahead and um make those market adjustments because it is something that the nutrition fund now can sustain um with those market adjustments for the salaries. So, does anyone have any questions on the nutrition fund? What fund does the gain go to? Uh, so it's all self. So, yep. Does it stay with the nutrition? It continues
029on. So, yes. Uh, that was the first time that it had been positive. So, there for a while it did have to borrow money from other funds. Any other questions for Andrea? And they do cap you on how much you can carry over from year to year. So we, you know, so the the goal out of the nutrition fund is not to make money. It's to break even with a little a little positive. So that way we need to replace equipment. We can't. So, well, the money that we put into it, we can use it for the tables or whatnot. Uh, or does it go back to the fund that is restricted? Yeah. So, it's everything is everything is uh is self-contained. So, think of it as like an enterprise that that's that's just working
030under our umbrella. Like, we don't put any money into it. Uh, they they can't give us any money back. It's just got to operate completely on its own. Really? Any other questions? Okay, then we will move to 6.03 superintendent report and we have uh so my update today it's going to be um a lot about uh what we're looking at for changes for next year. So these are just some some of the PowerPoint slides that I shared. um with our uh staff today. Uh so some of the things that um we can expect to see cell phone legislation that was a big point of emphasis for uh the governor and and legislators this year. Um again I think what we what what was communicated and what ended up being put into practice are maybe two
031different things. And so, um, I think in the beginning it was very much we're going to eliminate, uh, phones from schools, like we're going to take them out of schools and they're never going to be in there. And that was really what was communicated by, you know, the governor as as far as what she really wanted to see happen. Um and then through the process of legislation, uh it ends up being well instead of getting school phones completely out of school, we are going to ask that they be restricted from instructional spaces. Well, that's that's pretty much what we do now. you know, like right now we already have policies and practices in place that restricts cell phones from being used in classrooms during instructional time. So, um I'm waiting to hear more. We have
032not received any uh formal guidance on how that is to be interpreted and what they want to see from that. if there's any sample policies as well. I've heard it could be anything from the school has choice as long as the phones aren't used during instructional time, which means that they could potentially still be in the classrooms. They could still be, you know, on them throughout the day. They just when they're instructional time is going on, they're not to use them to know the intent of that was they are not to be in school at all. And so cell phones are out the door, not to be brought in at all. And so we're still waiting for some clarification on that. Um what's most realistic when talking with the attorney is is that um we'll
033probably end up with some sort of policy in which cell phones are not allowed in the classroom at all at any time. And that includes headphones, earbuds, um supposed to include watches. I don't know how you can possibly um maintain, you know, that sort of level of of uh of adherence to the code, but you know, we'll do our best. But at, you know, we'll probably end up in that realm of you can't have them in the classroom anytime. You can have them at lunch, you can have them in the hallways, but um but that'll be it. And so, um, also need to figure out like what does that look like for disciplinary action. You know, student pulls out their cell phone, uh, staff member allows them to have their cell phone. What what does
034that mean for that staff member if if we find out, you know, if the student has it out and the staff member asks them to put it away, what does that look like? You know, they had it out in the classroom. So, there's a lot of pieces that we need to vet. Um, but again, it's just it's not as cut and dry as not being able to have it all together. I will say that that I think one of the reasons they didn't go that far is because they had a lot of push back from parents who um for a safety reason want their children to have access to phones. I'm not sure it's as much of a safety reason as it is a convenience reason. You know, because back when I was in school,
035my parents used to have to call the office and they used to have to take a message down and then they have to get me to come down to get the message or deliver the message to my classroom. um versus now a mom can just or I can just text my daughter and say, "Hey, after school, don't forget this." You know, or my daughter can text me and say, "Hey, I'm not feeling well. Come and get me." Okay. So, I think we've gotten used to the modern convenience of of having that instantaneous contact with our children at all times. And I I don't I don't think it's going to be bad for us to take a step back in that a little bit to allow students an opportunity to problem solve on their own. Um
036because right now, I mean, we'll we'll have we'll have students text their parents, hey, I'm I'm sick. Come and get me. And before the student even ever came to the office to report to a nurse or to stop down, the parents are at the door saying, hey, my child just texted me, said come get him. you know, well, sometimes it's because they are sick and sometimes it's because they're trying to escape from something, whether it's an assignment or a test or a social situation. So, by requiring them to come to the office and do it, we're going to we're going to have them work through some of those issues. They're going to be able to grow a little bit. I don't know that it's good for anybody to be on social media or to be
037on their phone at all times. So, I think there really is going to be a balance. It's going to end up being a pretty good thing. Um, but it's it is going to change and impact people. So, again, we'll see what comes out through there. We're obviously making a huge shift from trimester to semesters for next year. Um, the biggest thing is for parents is that, you know, the your your children's um classes will change once throughout the year unless you're going to be in middle school exploratory. I think they're sticking with trimesters, which they can uh because it is a middle school exploratory. I used to do that when I was a middle school teacher. Uh and then the new web we have an Oh yeah, except for the fact we're only have two
038conferences a year. So that's depending on h how how much you like that. That could be a good or bad thing. Uh we already made that shift with elementary this year. Uh we have new web page. Uh we'll show that in just a second. The cool thing about the web page is is we think it's going to be more easily navigated by parents and by community members. And there's going to be a parent or there's going to be a a specific staff portal that you have to have credentials to log into, but we're going to be able to load all of the staff um items instead of relying on bookmarks and other other things to um give our staff access. Right now, it's kind of a I feel like I'm constantly hunting down certain things
039to try to figure out where where certain uh portals are. This will all be in one area. We're going to be getting new phones this year. Um you guys just proved that a couple meetings ago. new online transportation maintenance request system. So, we're we're I'm starting to vet some of that. Right now, all of our Don't shut down on me. Right now, all of our requests are are paper copy or email, and so those can get lost easily, and it's hard for our staff members to track them. So, um looking at a a system for that. Uh LCLC will be transitioning to the Lewis Central Education Foundation under their umbrella. That's going to take about a year. So, nothing that's that's immediate. And then we are we do have some behavioral instructional coaches this year,
040which is new. So, that's going to be a great resource for our staff as well. So, this is a copy of our new website. Uh uh Emma's put this together. This is the same company she used when she was with the tourism uh board. And so, um she's very familiar with the back end of this. Easy to update. It's got kind of a a different look, kind of a clean look, big buttons. Um we're hoping that um we can get some parents once it's developed to go through it with us. So that way we can see from a parent perspective, you know, what is what when they're looking for something, what are what are they looking for and how can we make sure that it's one to two clicks away. So So that's pretty new.
041And then here's a long list. 25 major summer projects going on. That's why I shared with this and I went through all these projects. I won't go through with you guys. Um, but starting next week, we're going to have the high school parking lot. Uh, we already have the Titan Hill parking lots already being torn up up here. Uh, the high school chiller that's already been delivered and they're looking to install this week. Fire alarm starting this week. The roof's going to be starting this this week. the tennis courts and the drainage where they're going to take and wipe out uh all of the drainage ditch that's currently overgrown with trees and everything else. It's going to be all cleared out. Should do a lot for our drainage for the parking lots and the buildings
042in general. Uh we'll all start this week. Uh Titan Hill and High School door contacts security storage. So, this is going to be huge. This is something you guys will potentially approve if you guys approve this tonight. Um, what this will do is this will put uh contacts on every exterior door at Titan Hill and the high school. You already approved this through the camera project for Craft and then the middle school will get it through the renovation. Um, but this will this will mean that anytime a door is open that's not supposed to be open, it'll send us a notification so we can we can track that. It'll also tell us if a door is open for too long, meaning that uh somebody is, you know, has blocked it open or a student has
043stuck a rock in the door or they a piece of mulch or something like that. So, that'll notify us too to say, "Hey, this door isn't locked for a while. You want to go check on it." So, that should increase our safety um uh significantly. And then our security storage, depending on which camera and which building is is taking the video right now, it might only store it for as few as 5 to 7 days. We really want all that storage to be available for about 30-day period. And so, uh that'll update that as well. If you go to the next uh middle school roof, so looking to replace a portion of middle school roof, that's going to be starting here real soon, too. Titan Hill and Craft LED lighting. Uh Titan Hill HBAC will
044start more second half of the summer into the fall. Uh just with lead times on some of that equipment. Uh Titan Hill and Craft Security Vestibules. So, I just got to see um some of the initial drawings of the high school vestibule and it's it's it's pretty exciting. And so, uh they're hoping to go out to bid here soon and and uh I want to be able the next meeting share with you guys the conceptual drawings uh for that. So, um kind of a reconfiguring of that space. Athletic uh field under the beach storage. This is that pavement we talked about. And then Titan Hill and Crep playgrounds. if you go to the next one. And then we also have the middle school epic system, high school painting, wait room renovation equipment, district-wide phone system
045replacement, crep security cameras and door monitoring, high school trophy case renovation in addition, and raptor emergency response system and visitor management. So that was part of that grant that was given to us um last December. So they're now next week they'll be on site. They're coming actually they're coming this weekend, Friday, Saturday to install all the strobes in all the all the classrooms and buildings. So, like I said, there's 25 major projects uh that are going to be going on this summer. It's just going to be chaos. If you go to the next one, so here's an example of how it would affect our community and and uh our teachers and our students. Um right here, you'll see that's a picture of our high school. The purple area is what they're calling phase one. So
046by the end of potentially next week or the week after all of that purple will be torn out, every bit of it. So it's going to be completely gone and then they'll start working on the subbase and the electrical poles and those types of things. And that's going to be quite the projects. But uh once that's out, obviously there's no access to the front of the high school building for, you know, potentially months. And so all the access is going to have to go and there's a red red dot system there around through the middle school around the back and then uh entry through kind of the athletic wing or the um the blackbox theater which we're kind of sorting that out right now. Um there's a good potential that we'll move the high school
047office if we can't figure out a configuration to leave it over in the blackbox area um over to the middle school. And so we'll actually end up taking um uh any of our uh deliveries and and visitors and those things over in the middle school during that time and just kind of vacate the high school because they're going to be down without a chiller anyway. So there's not going to be air conditioning. It's going to be really warm. Uh the fire alarm system is not going to be fully active. So um we're just leaving it on certain areas as we change out that system. Um so there's just some things like that. Uh but otherwise the we'll still have the weight room over there that's currently in the gym that'll be used on a daily
048basis. Our students are going to have to park in the middle school parking lot which is the the white area there. Um and they're and the the coaches are configuring where they would start in the middle school parking lot. They would go on to the field for their warm-ups and calisthenics and they would go and then they would walk over to the weight room for their for their workout and then at the end of the day then their walk back to their car would be kind of their cool down. So, um, now staff and visitors can still park, uh, as close as you can to the building. That back lot, uh, by where the green roof is, that's going to get replaced. That will just be a staging area. Nobody will be able to go
049back there. That's for the um the tennis court edition or the tennis court edition, the the um roofing, and then the chiller. So, that's going to kind of be off limits. So, it's going to be a little bit of a mess. Um, if you go to the next slide, this is uh Titan Hill. They've already, the red is what's going on right now. They've already uh torn up that area, the intersection area, and they started tear out of the pavement in front of Titan Hill. Um, and then they will be add then once that's all done, then they'll go back and and do the purple areas, which will be kind of phase two. And that is adding that additional lane. Um, so as you can see, there's some rough sketch on there as far as
050um how people will get around once once they start those areas. So, uh, right now all the pool entrance is on the side of the pool on the side of the building. Um, all of the LCLC entrance is right through the regular doors. And then once they switch over to the purple phase, phase two, then all the LCLC entrance will be through the pool door. And then we'll actually continue to have the pool entrance for people coming to use the pool be the side of the building, not the actual pool entrance. And that just kind of keeps separate the summer swim program from the LCLC kids. And then um once that's all wrapped up, it'll be it'll be really nice. But in the meantime, it's going to be little logistical issues. So, and where can
051you remind me where the HVAC and everything where that's going? Yep. So that is if you look up by um so the mechanical room for this is in the very north side of the building uh to the left of the playground. So if you go clear up there you go right up in there. Okay. So that's where the mechanical room is. So the boiler is going to go inside the mechanical room and then the the chiller is going to be set in a platform right out in that area there and then that that's where that that'll go. Okay. Yep. Any questions about that? If you go to the next slide then, so this was just actually sent out today to all of our stakeholders. You guys should have received it in the mail. Uh if
052you click on that, this is an active website and we'll continue to up uh update this on a weekly basis. Um and it just kind of again those maps, those logistical maps are right up front, front and center. Uh if you keep going down, keep going down, you'll see all the current projects that we have have their own tab. So when you click on it, there is a narrative about what the project is. And there's also a part in there that says, you know, you probably can't zoom in, but it says, you know, this this project, if you go back up, this project, it will highly affect our ability to use the high school facilities as we normally would during the summer. So there's also not only is there a narrative about what the project
053is, but there is a little blurb in there about how this will affect our our summer routine as we as we go throughout the summer. You also see that for every project the the engineer, the contractor, the budgeted cost, the contracted cost, the number of bids, funding source, and estimated timeline are all in there as well. As well as any particular drawings we have in there. Um, excuse me. Uh, and then as as we go on each week or every other week as we have some major progress, uh, it'll be Emma's job to go and take pictures of the progress as as it happens and then they'll up she'll upload it underneath each one of the tabs. So, you'll be able to pull up and see all the parking how the parking lot is coming
054along as well as any of the other ones. So if you click on for instance the go to like the craft craft playground or the Titan Hill playground. Are those ones in there yet? Should be. We'll go back and double check that. If you go to Raptor, go to Raptor. It's the second to last one. So that's a desk desk or a uh explanation as well, but like for instance, that one there actually has a site, a link to the website where you can watch videos on what the uh Raptor Emergency Management System is. So that's just kind of a variety of things that we'll have in there. So the goal here is to be as transparent as possible with the publics and so they can follow along and and um as we continue to
055move forward through these projects. Do you guys have any questions about that? This is great. Yeah, it's it's Yeah, it's it's come together really nicely. Emma's done a really nice job. So, do you uh is there any more? I think that's at the last the last or slide. Dr. Hartman. Yes. Okay, that's the last one. So, that's it. So, that's kind of my update, but yeah. Are we tracking how many hits are on that website? Current our current website does not have analytic tracking, but our new website will have very indepth analytic tracking. Good. Okay, that was all your stuff kind of wrapped together, right? That was it. Y Okay, we'll move on to discussion items. So 7.01 Titan Hill HVAC bid approval. Uh so we did receive five bids for the HVAC um updates.
056Um, so just a reminder what they're doing for HVAC is they're going to be in installing a boiler and a chiller to the current system to supplement the geothermal loop. Uh, the five bids are listed as as you can see them there. And so my recommendation at this point, the engineers recommendation actually, they're the ones that take the bids, review the bids, make sure that they're appropriate, um, would be to approve the bid from Grunwald in the amount of $46,489. And a reminder in the timeline, uh, upon approval, they're anticipating the boiler should be in, um, in late August, early September. They'll have that installed by the time the winter months or the the colder weather comes. The chiller won't be here until October. Um, and then they'll install that um, before we get deep
057into winter. And then, so they'll have to go through one more fall of kind of fluctuating temperatures and then we should have it figured out. So, have we worked with Grunwald before? Um, we haven't. Not that we know of, but um, the engineers have, so they they didn't have any problem with them. So, I think it's a pretty reputable Is it? Okay. Any other questions on the HVAC bid? Okay, we'll move forward with 7.02 high school trophy case improvements. Okay. Um, so if you go to uh so basically Mr. Germany puts it best, you know, he talks about how, you know, winning is winning is expensive, you know, so the further you go along in the in the year, the more events you have to travel to, the you know, you go to state, do
058you have to get hotel rooms and everything else like it's expensive to be good at stuff and fortunately we are good at stuff. Um, or our students are very good at stuff. I'm not that good at stuff, but students are good at stuff. Um, and so that means that they bring home quite a bit of hardware. And one of the issues we've been running into is kind of this little uh internal battle about trophy cases because everybody wants their stuff displayed, but it's imposs impossible to display everything, you know. So, we went down to saying, "Okay, we're only going to display state trophies, you know, state trophies, um or or you know, major honors if there's not a state trophy available in your particular uh group." Well, now we've run out of places to put
059state trophies and large honors. And so, uh, really what we need is kind of an overhaul of the of the of our current trophy cases. So, that means cleaning them out, adding a few, uh, reorganizing them, trying to figure out and and when I say like reorganizing, like switching up the shelving in there and making it so it's more, you know, when we design trophy cases at the beginning, you know, you have trophy cases that are designed for one set size of trophy. Well, not all the trophies are the same sizes. They're different sizes. So, you got some that are shorter, some that are taller. They're all over the place. And so, um, Mr. Vincent has worked with, uh, Cormacki. They're the only ones. We've reached out to several different organizations. Nobody really wants to
060tackle the project. Cormacki was the only one that would engage with us. Um, they've come very highly reputable or were highly reputable company out of Omaha. Um, do they do a lot of work for schools and they came through and I guess have a pretty good master plan. And we're going to do it in phases because the overall um budgeted number was in my opinion pretty high. So this first phase uh $59,584 is basically giving them the money to push forward with creating new trophy cases. Like let's get those let's get those started to be created and then um once those are created then the next phase will go in and kind of renovate the current trophy cases that we have. So, uh, with the goal of being done by, you know, late fall, winterish,
061somewhere in there. So, and so we're getting new more trophy cases. More trophy cases. So, will they be basically in the commons and down by the gym? Um, Yep. Mostly in the commons. So, um, I think there's a total of three new trophy cases is what is what is included in here. three new trophy cases and then the renovation of all the trophy cases that we currently have um that that run along the walls. So they go clear down to the high school office. So Right. Yep. Right. Because when you walk in, they're right there and then that corner by the gym and down that way. Right. There's a couple trophy cases. We'll probably combine some activities through this process, but the way the trophy cases are currently laid out, it doesn't allow for us
062to really combine them in a way that that is equal for the two programs. One's going to be prominent, the other one's going to be, you know, secondary. So, uh I think they have a plan to kind of create um some options where we can combine um some some smaller uh groups into a single trophy case, but set it up in a way where they both feel like they're on display. So, and this is the cost for the three new ones and and some of the some of the beginning work. Okay. So, yep. Any idea how much the second phase Yep. So second phase um will be so we'll probably break that into two two chunks. So it's like uh 60,000 for the first phase and then between depending on how how crazy they get
063between 16 and 19 for the next two phases. So 16 and 19 16 and 19. Yes. So I asked them to break it down into at like three different phases. So we knew so we could do it and if we have to you know pull back because something else becomes more of a more of an issue then we hold off in certain areas. So we could do it all at once it would it would blow our budget a little bit and I just want to make sure that we're staying within my budget. So So I know Cory is a construction outfit. Did we contact cabinet builders? Uh Mr. Vin channel contacted I think four different cabinet builders including every recommendation that we received from people who you know have connection to Lewis Central. Mhm. That's
06420 grand a piece. Yeah. Now that includes that includes some of the initial some of the initial work for the some of the other trophy cases as well. So we right now we have kind of three standalone trophy cases. This will add, I think, three trophy cases and then make the other three match this these these three trophy cases. We don't want to put in like random trophy cases that don't that don't match anything. So, and then the two other phases, one phase is to make is to redo the trophy cases that are currently like closer to the gym. And then the second one's to do the redo the trophy cases that are closer to the offices. Do you know are they knocking holes in the walls to create those or are they actually like
065going to do masonry at bricks? No, we're trying to stay away from masonry. It's literally uh we're going to reuse the glass, but take out the glass, take out all the shelves, redo the backing, and then put in a new shelving that fits what we need in those areas. So, the original bid was over 200,000, but it included all new glass for everything, and I just said, I don't we don't need to redo. We can reuse glass. It's fine. So, it's good. Do you have a drawing of their proposed uh uh layout? I just have the bid of these. I just have the bid. I've I've seen what they're looking to do. That's when I asked them to break it up into the three. Um but yeah, Mr. Venchettle has been working with them directly
066for for this work. One of the statements that Mr. Ben channel said today at our end of year presentation that we're at is that Lewis Central has had a state championship in nine out of the last 10 years in in different events but still that you know um so to me the only year we didn't was co 2020 yeah so just making sure that we uh equally honor each of these teams things like that in a way that's still uh within the aesthetics of what we want uh people to see when they come into our buildings. I think that's a big thing. Any other questions, comments? I do know that he's been wanting to do this work for at least two years and Cormarmac is the first one that's even given us a bid on
067it. So, and if I know Joe, he's contacted everybody cuz when he decides he wants something, he really wants it. So, well, and how do you know these trophy cases are going to fit all the different size trophies? I mean, they're still going to change sizes. Yeah. So, I mean, I I'll be honest, I don't like the cost, but I mean, I if you're going to spend it, I want to know that it's going to it's going to work for years to come, just like the trophy cases that are there now, right? And that would be the that would be the expectation is that the shelves are more easily adjustable. Right now, the I know the issue that we come across is that that the trophy cases are fairly wide and the there's only one
068shelf that goes across. So, I know that one of the things he's trying to figure out Oh, you just you might want to wiggle wiggle your mouse. There it is. Is uh way that we can adjust different levels within there. Um so, that's that's the goal. The goal is to to create a system that's going to fit us for years to come. Just to your point, Any other questions, comments? Okay, we'll move to 7.03, door contacts and camera storage safety improvements. Uh, so this is I kind of touched base on this a little bit before. This is for all of the high school and Titan Hill. Um, this will put all of the um, uh, door contacts on all the exterior doors. So, we're going to be able to monitor all of our doors as
069they open. Um, and then that we'll be able to increase our storage as well. So, so I did put in there kind of the next phase because I know I had some questions about like what about the middle school? Well, the reason the middle school is not on the list is because potentially in the renovation, we may have to replace some actual doors, like exterior doors and door frames. So, I don't it's very expensive to have people come in and install these. I don't want to have to rip them out and then redo them a year later. So, um so they'll kind of be in phase two. Craft you already approved with camera bid, but uh these would be two of the other ones or two of the other buildings. And then we have a
070second email with the you do. Yeah. Cost for prime. Yeah. I think it's 123 150. Yeah. 23. Yep. So it was Yep. 123 15023. And as for prime storage. Yep. It would be prime. Prime security. Yep. Any questions, comments on the door contacts? Oh, for the camera storage, how much storage? Um, yeah, I know that we're going to get to a minimum of 30 days per camera. Okay. So, that was that was what I that was what I instructed them. I said, "It doesn't help when I have somebody call me and they're like, "This happened last Tuesday and it's a week later and I and their camera footage doesn't go back to last Tuesday, you know." And are these included with the new cameras that we're getting, too? Correct. Yep. So, they'll they'll have enough
071storage. I mean, uh, Mr. Evangelisti said that for some of our cameras, they potentially store up to 50 or 60 days. So, I mean, I told him, I said, "Get enough storage that we don't have to do this again." So, one and done. Any other questions, comments? Okay, we'll move to 7.04 IASB's policy updates, legislative updates, and annual review. Yep. So, if you go to uh Dr. Hartman, I sent an email. It's called board meeting documents. There's a IASB board policy review. So, you click on that link right there. Oh, request. That's weird. This is just the uh the first reading here. Okay, you should be able to get it out. All right, so zoom in, please. So, these are all ISB's uh definitions of what of what changed within the law um and then
072their recommendation for a change in policy. So, if you click on any of the policies, uh let just click on that first one. Uh you'll see you'll see where it just crosses out. A lot of these are due to the um changes in in federal policy. Um the word gender identity has been taken out of of any of the language throughout our entire uh board series. So this is all the policies that mention anything about gender identity um and how that's um taken out and then affirm affirmative action too is something that they've taken out. Again, these are not this really isn't our it's not our prerogative whether or not we want to change them that language. It's this is what the law is dictating we change it to. So, but but you can go
073through and you can, you know, look at all of the all the policies. If you look through, I'm pull up one here. Um, if you go to 102.E4, please, that's one I want to highlight. So, one of the things that they that they removed in legislative session this year was they removed a lot of the attributes that when they talk about bullying and harassment, they had a whole lot of attributes that basically you we had to find in order for it to be considered bullying or harassment. They they've cleaned a lot of those up and now in order for um us to find you that yes, you you participated in bullying harassment um we had to prove that it was based on age, disability, marital status, um uh race, color, uh sex, sexual orientation, or
074socioeconomic um status. So, if it's not one of those, it's probably not it's probably not we can't find it at least as far as bullying and harassment goes. So, okay. Are we able to do anything as a district or do we absolutely have to follow the law on this as far as the gender identity and the other changes that are the protected class. So again, that's this is change in Iowa code and so if if we don't change our our policy to reflect Iowa code, the question will be if something were to come up and let's say gender identity is one of those things, right? So if something were to come up and somebody were going to be discriminated against for gender identity and we as administrators would be put really between a rock and
075a hard place because board policy would dictate that I would have to discipline because somebody was being discriminated against for gender identity. However, the law I would be breaking the law by doing so. So, it really puts myself and the other administrators in a really tough stance between I'm either out of compliance with my job or I'm out of compliance with the law, you know. So, that's where having policy that replicates law is always preferable. Otherwise, I don't know which one I break. Thank you. when it comes to like the bullying and harassment stuff, honestly, we're going to make sure kids are taken care of, we always have like um just because something, and I explain this to parents a lot, just because we can't find it as bullying and harassment or discrimination, doesn't mean
076it's right. It doesn't mean that, you know, if if Director Sturm, I'm going to pick on him, is picking on me and I go and they're like, "Well, it's not one of these criterias. It's not bullying and harassment." It doesn't mean his behavior is warranted or accepted. And so we can still discipline Mr. Sturm for inappropriate behavior, for uh inappropriate interactions, for um you know, being mean. Like we can we can still discipline Mr. Sturm for picking on um Little Brent, but you know, at the end of the day, we it might not be bullying and harassment, you know, but we can still have similar consequences and everything else. Again, these are all this is all terminology that that is dictated by the state, but at the end of the day has no real bearing
077over what our response is going to be to inappropriate behavior. So, um, if you go down to, uh, let's see here, another one would be I mean, a lot of these all have to do with that. That that was the biggest change right there. A lot with gender identity. Um, Secretary Treasurer 2063. This is one that's a little bit different. So current zoom in on that please. So current policy would dictate that it is the sole responsibility of the board secretary to take care of certain records. This change in language actually loosens that up a little bit and would allow our board secretary, which is Mrs. Rays, to designate an individual to assist with that. So, um, that's really what this does. It just kind of makes it a little bit more open for um
078her instead of having to be the sole person responsible for all of these documents to be able to say, "No, I'm going to have somebody else help me with these." So, um do we have to formally say who that individual? Nope. Nope. This is the language that they've provided. It basically allows her to say her designate. So, okay. Um, it'd be very similar to a lot of the language that's in the policy says the superintendent's designate or the superintendent or his designate because depending on the certain on a on a situation, I may have a different design. So, right now, all the bullying harassment um uh stuff would call on um me to select a design to uh investigate. Well, if it's an elementary issue, I'm probably going to select an elementary principal to to
079investigate. So, um, another one that's new is 806 or 8046 if you go to that. So, this is actually a new policy altogether um that they passed. It basically requires us to it just basically uh um requires us to monitor um or clarify it clarifies the district's obligation to monitor the use of nond district generated recordings and then staff obligations for making recordings. So um this is one that you know through this review process this is this is a well these aren't review process this is uh first and only because this was a change to change to state law. Um this would be the one that this is probably the the major new policy. Um basically it says that recordings of students are are public record considered educational records. Employees are not should not record
080students or staff without their knowledge. Doing so may subject employees to disciplinary measures. Uh recordings will be digital digitally maintained and stored for an appropriate amount of time. The main safety maintain the safety of the educational environment. Uh the use of nondistowned recording device school property uh may be regulated at the uh discretion of the district. People are not allowed to take recordings of other students, employees or community members and the recording is related to education or curricular co-curricular matters unless we've authorized it. So, um, we actually kind of have a lot of this policy already, like you're not allowed to come on school grounds and record people without their knowledge or record people without permission of the district. So, this just kind of aligns with that. Um, if an employee if a school employee
081records uh students uh as a, you know, during an academic session or something like that, you know, they need to do so with discretion. They need to make sure they have permission. and they need to make sure that um and a lot of it's I think a lot of it has to do with bad actors, people who recorded students or recorded people um during instructional times and then have have shared it inappropriately on social media or other other avenues. So um it's not anything that's that's really out there. It's just something that's um now being regulated by the state. Um and then the other one that we have on here is the post issuance compliance regulations. So this is about depth depth debt management. This is actually one that is not required by IASB but
082is required by our attorney in order to um issue us our bond. So because of the timeliness, this this one can be one and done as well. Make sure I'm not overlooking anything major. Oh, one more. If you go to U for me 104.R1, R1, this is our regulation. So, this one is probably the biggest substantial change to what our process has been here at the school. So, state law only requires us to go through um so a parent can file a parent or student can file a complaint. That complaint gets designated to an an investigator um that's designated by myself as a superintendent. And then the investigator uh investigates the complaint and then it's it's founded or not founded and then that's kind of the end and then the parent can always you know
083go back to the state level if they want. Our current process has it going to the building administrator then to Dr. Hartman as our level two investigator then to the superintendent and then to the board if they if they so choose it. um that is not something that is practiced in any other building or in really any other district. This was meant to be a discrimination um policy, not a bullying and harassment policy. Bullying harassment only requires one review, one finding, and then it goes to the state. So, so this just cleans that up. So, instead of four levels, we're down to like one Well, they they always at the state level, but yeah, it' be one level. exciting. Yeah, this was one that that we had something that happened this spring and after the
084state changed their bullying harassment definitions and in law, the attorney is like, "You need to change your policy." He's like, "You need to go from one, you from four, you need to go to one and then they need to go to the state." So, I said, "Okay, make sure we fit that in there as well." Any questions about that? Again, these are all changes that are required either by our attorney or um our bond representation attorney or the state uh based on changes to state, state or federal law. So, don't have a lot of jurisdiction over them. Again, you guys can vote not to change them, but then I have to decide, do I follow board policy or do I follow the law? So, Well, and in a sense, if you don't if you don't
085approve it, you're kind of opening yourself up for legal battles down the road, wouldn't you? Potentially. And a lot of this, I mean, you think about it, I've not had, and I mean, I'll knock on wood, but I've not had any discrimination complaints about really anything tied to that, you know, at this point. So, the likelihood of happening are not great. Again, if it's if it's something that somebody feels like they're being discriminated against based upon their or bullied based upon their um their gender identity, um chances are they could probably find another one of those areas to say, you know, that that are closely related, you know. So, at the end of the day, again, we we treat people well regardless of who they are. And so I want to make sure that we
086are, you know, kind of following through on that, you [Music] know. Any other questions on policy updates? Okay. 7.05 medical leave pool policy first reading. Okay. So this is um can you scroll down to the policies? So this is something that um you know we kind of um Mrs. Ray and I we we went through and and compared a lot of different uh schools, talked to our attorney, got his recommendation. um at the end of the day, he's not a big fan of certified employee medical leave pools um just for the simple fact that they're they're hard to oversee, they're hard to be consistent, etc. However, he has he has given his blessing on this particular policy. Um what this policy would do is ensure that those who um who participate in the pool, which
087just means that you're going to donate one of your days into the pool in order to be an active member of the pool. that if something were to happen that's med that's severe a severe medical condition um that you could draw from the pool to you know make the difference between your leave that you have that will run out and then long-term disability when that kicks in. So it kind of covers you in that in that meantime. Otherwise right now you could go up to 15 days non-paid before your long-term disability uh kicks in if you're out of leave. So this really kind of protects uh those individuals. Um it is what it is not it is it is not a something that can be used on maternity leave. It's something that's really uh for
088the case of a terminal illness, a life-threatening illness, serious injury required hospitalization um or a long-term care of one of your one of your family members. So um and you have to use all sick and personal leave in order to utilize it. Um I might go over there and move it down. One second. A couple of the things is here is uh they'll contribute one sick day in order to use it when the bank is depleted. Um if it's depleted in that particular year, they may donate another sick day. The number of bank days will never exceed the number of participants. Uh donated days will not be returned to the donors. And then there's no accumulation at the end of the year. the pool reset to zero on July 1st of each year. This kind
089of makes it so there's not a huge accumulation of of uh leave and and surprises the districts. So again, this this is the first time we've had uh a policy of this sort. And so, um, we would like to to start fairly conservative and then, you know, as we move forward in the future after we've had it for a few years, we can reconsider, uh, or the board can reconsider, um, the policy. But as of right now, this is this is pretty restricted to those who really need it based on extreme medical conditions. So, uh, if you scroll down to the next one, which is the this is how they would get it. they would fill out this application. Um, keep going down. There will be a group that meets to discuss uh this this
090uh or each one of the applications. The groups are made up of two uh LCA members, um Mrs. Rays, and then a board member. So, that'll be the four four people that meet to to review this. So, I thought it said two board members. Oh, is it two board members? Yeah, there's Oh, two board. Okay. Yeah, two board members. Sorry, I was looking for that. That was going off memory. That's not very good. There you go. But again, this is this is just a first reading. So, think about this policy. Think about maybe read through it. Think about how maybe you'd want to see it changed or or the same and then we can have that conversation on the 16th. So, so if an a teacher Yep. would come to the board and ask they
091they have their sick time but they have a child. We could extend that to they'd have to be all out of any potential sick time. Yeah. So right now they have 10 days they can use for a for a for a child. Let's say they have you know 30 days in their system. they would have to come to the board and request that they can convert part of their 30 days or beyond the 10 days to care for their child for that process doesn't change. Okay, that's what I was wondering. Yeah, the process would change if once they're out of those 30 days, if they need to continue to be at home with their child, um then they can fill out this application. It would not go to the board. They would fill out this
092application. would go to the committee and the committee appro can approve up to 15 days a year to go to that to that employee um to help fill that gap. So does this impact only LCA members? No, this is any this is a policy. So it's also anybody that Yep. any certified employee cert. I'm sorry if you already said this. our attorney. What did we add that made him uh not opposed to going down this path? Was it just that it's purely for the major health issues or was it some verbage? Yeah, he liked he wanted it to be as restrictive as possible to start because characteristics. Okay. Yep. So, and he liked the language of not not being able to carry forward days because then it becomes, you know, well, how many days do
093you carry forward? what do you do once it has all this? Because then they think it has some sort of monetary value. Like there was a lot of conversation around that. So if the days, you know, at the end of the year the days go away if they're not used, you know. The other thing that he liked was um putting a cap on how many days, you know, so you can draw up to 15 days a year, you know. So putting some of that language in there um made him say, "Okay, that's you know, start with that, you know." So, so the committee is the one that would either accept or deny. Correct. Does that open the committee up for uh you know like John's kid was sick. Why you know and he got it
094and I didn't. Yeah, potentially. I mean, that's that's regardless of whoever's in charge of making that decision, whether it's the board, the administration, or the committee, like that's always a consideration. I mean, is it is it pretty black and white what what is approved and what is not? I I believe it is. I believe it's, you know, you have to use up all of your sick leave. It's for a serious illness or hospitalization. Um, so if if you come to me and say, "Hey, my daughter's got bad allergies and I'm out of sick leave." the committee would say that's not considered a serious illness or hospitalization like you're you're you don't get any days. So the request goes out to employees at the beginning of each year saying do you want to contribute to this
095or not? Yeah. And so it's managed by admin. Yes. Okay. It'll probably go through our records. Is that how we do that right now? Yes. the form of both the records and then I'm checking with a couple other districts on how they keep those on how they keep track of of theirs from that side of things. Okay, any questions on this one? And again, this is just a first reading, so there's no action on it tonight. Okay. All right. The school improvement advisory committee approval 7.06. Uh so we do have a meeting for this set up on uh Tuesday, June 17th. Uh and it's going to be something we have to do every year. It's by Iowa statute that requires us to have a school improvement advisory committee to review major educational needs, student learning
096goals, long r and then provide feedback uh for long range and annual improvement goals um in the areas of math, reading, and science. Uh what they would perceive as appropriate student performance and then progress to, you know, what they would see as progress, you know. So they're it's us giving them an opportunity to look through our data and then really sitting back and having them giving them an opportunity to give us feedback which this year will be really focused towards kind of your strategic planning that you're doing in those three main bucket areas. So um you guys have to actually approve the committee. So I do have I sent you guys a committee list in that email. Um do I have to recuse myself since I'm on the list? Uh probably that would probably be
097good. So um I put I put Tim on there as board president. We can actually have up to three uh board members join. I didn't know if anybody else wanted to join. It would be the 17th from 5:30 to about 8:30. Um but right now those are the parents who have said that they would like to be a part of it. Uh, one note, we have um uh Oh, did I take her off? We have uh uh Osore. Um, is that Sarah? Sarah. Yeah, Sarah Osdeore. She she would like to be on it. She can't be here for uh this year, but it's a it would be a two-year um it'd be like this year through next year. So, um, I would like to make an amendment to add Sarah Osdeore on there. I forgot
098I took her off of that. So, uh, I think I took her off and she said she's going to be there this year, but she'd like to be there next year if she can. So, who did you reach out? I mean, just to parents to see if they Yeah. the ones that have been on previously. Uh, it was a mix. It was a I was trying to hit all three grade levels. Um, and then I was trying to hit some um some Am I missing? I'm missing a couple on there. I'm also missing uh um Travis Hston. Travis Hston should be on there. I don't know what I said. I don't know how I got those guys deleted. So, Travis Hston and Sarah Osour should be on there. I try to hit like some parents
099that I knew had some um tag students and then some parents that I knew had u maybe some struggling learners or had an I you know student that's on an individual learning plan. And then um for the staff I try to get a a teacher at every level so elementary, middle, high. Um Amanda Clanton's on there because she's kind of a health um recommendation. Uh Carrie is a is a support staff member. So tried to just kind of take a a variety of people. I didn't know if anyone from the community has been asked. They they don't have students in in the school. No. If you would like to make a recommendation to add somebody. No, Travis. Oh, Travis would be Travis doesn't have any students in the school right now. Is Aninsley. No. Yeah.
100She's not continuing. Uh she is through a separate program. Okay. Yeah. But yeah, if you guys have any other recommendations, I mean, I've always tried to keep it relatively balanced between parents and staff, but if we have I would rather have more parents than staff than more staff than parents. So, if you guys have um other recommendations, I mean, I I could sure I could sure take them. Those are some good parents, too. Uh, honestly, I picked pretty in involved parents. Uh, because and parents that I knew have given me really good feedback in the past. Um, and it doesn't mean that I don't want to reach out to any other parents. I just know that these these parents right here have given very honest feedback and they're pretty knowledgeable in in uh different areas
101and there's a couple different demographics in there. Um, so Any other questions, comments on the the site committee? Okay. Then we will move to and I'll combine these two 7.07 and 7.08 superintendent evaluation and we'll talk a little bit about contract. So per Iowa code 21.51A, 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 condition for that governmental body's possession or continued receipt of federal funds. Can I get a vote to move to close session, please? So moved. Second. Second. Vote, please. Mr. Shuffle. Yes. Mr. Sornson. Yes. Mr. Sturm. Yes. Mrs. McDaniel. Yes. Mrs. Peterson. Yes. Mr. Ray. Yes. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music]
102Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. [Music] Come on. Hey. Hey. [Music] Natal. [Music] Hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. Nat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Nat. Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Mic's on. Mic on. Okay. And we have returned out of close session. So, we're going to move to the second portion of our meeting where we offer comments and suggestion for anybody in the viewing audience to share any comments that they have with the board. Do we have anybody online? Give me another minute. All right, we'll give it a
103minute. Okay. All right. Then we will move to action items. So 9.01 Titan Hill HVAC bid approval. Mr. President. Yes. like to make the motion to approve the bid from Grunwald in the amount of $46,489. Second. Vote, please. Mr. Sorenson, yes. Mr. Sturm, yes. Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mrs. Peterson, yes. Mrs. Shuffle, yes. Mr. Wright, yes. 9.02, High School Trophy Case Improvements. Mr. President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the high school trophy case renovation contract to is it Cory for 59,584? Second vote, please. Mr. Sturm, yes. Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mrs. Peterson, yes. Mrs. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Senson, yes. Mr. Ray, yes. 9.03, Door Contacts and Camera Storage Safety Improvements. Mr. President. Yes. I'd like to make a motion to approve the bid from Prime Secured for $123,15023. Second vote, please. Mrs. McDaniel, yes.
104Mrs. Peterson, yes. Mrs. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Senson, yes. Mr. Storm, yes. Mr. Right? Yes. 9.04 4 ISB policy updates. Mr. President, yes. Like to make the motion to approve the first and final reading of the board policies provided due to changes in Iowa legislation. Second vote, please. Mrs. Peterson, yes. Mrs. Shuffle, yes. Mr. Senson, yes. Mr. Storm, yes. Mrs. McDaniel, no. Mr. Wright, yes. 9.05. 05 school improvement action committee approval. Mr. President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the school improvement advisory committee as presented. Can you with the uh additions of with the additions of the Sarah Osour and Travis, the two you mentioned? Okay. With those additional people. Second. Vote, please. Mrs. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Senson, yes. Mr. Star, yes. Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mrs. Peterson, yes. Mr. Right. Abstain 9.06. Superintendent contract
105renewal. Mr. President, I make a motion to approve the contract renewal and um everything that was um presented as in closed session. Second vote, please. Mr. Senson, yes. Mr. Star, yes. Mrs. McDaniel, yes. Mrs. Peterson, yes. Mr. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Wright, yes. Items of interest, future board meetings. Should question. Should that be June 16th, Monday? Is that the wrong date on here? Oh, June 17th. June 19th. Uh, oh, you're 16th. Oops. Yeah, correct. Regular board meeting is on June 16th, Monday. And then the 17th, the SCAK meeting. And then just a reminder for those uh sitting in on the I guess it would be uh Mrs. Sheffel, M. Atkins, and Mr. Sturm will be interviewing middle school renovation architects. There's just two of them. The third one dropped out. So, uh just two of them
106next uh Monday night. So we'll hopefully have a recommendation uh to the board for June 16th also. Okay. No other items on the board. We were on the on the docket. We will move to close the meeting. Can I get a motion to close, please? So moved. Second. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed.