July 21, 2025 School Board Meeting

001[Music] Hey, hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey. [Music] Hey. Hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Okay, we will go ahead and call this uh special board meeting to order. Can we take roll call, please? >> Miss Atkins, Mrs. McDaniel, >> here. >> Mrs. Peterson, Mrs. Sheff, here. >> Mr. Sorenson, Mr. Mr. Sturm >> here. >> Mr. Wright >> here. >> Approval of the July 21st, 2025 special agenda. >> Can I get a motion to approve, please? >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Vote, please. >> Mrs. McDaniel, >> yes. >> Mrs. Sheffle, yes. Mr. Storm, >> here. >> Mr. >> Yes. Uh, discussion items 3.01 101 activity conference realignment. >> Okay. So, I do have um Mr. Germany's going to come up here and talk real quick. I'm just of course this thing is not

002working for me to display. So, I'm going to see if we can get an HDMI cord and then I can display some of the stuff that Mr. Germany's going to talk about. I really need to turn this on. >> Yes, >> I do. >> Yeah, cuz that's how they hear you. >> Okay, it's on. >> Yeah, you're on. >> Okay, perfect. Do you want your laptop here? >> Is that Do you want this one? >> I'm trying to see if I can get the EV to pop up here. There it is. two seconds. Okay. So, I do have just some information here. Uh security has asked me to display So, how this will work is Mr. Doue will give us kind of a rundown of why we're even having this conversation and then um just

003a brief overview and then we'll allow for public comment and then after the public comments are done then during the board meeting you guys will will then ask uh there's another discussion item in there you guys will ask uh any clarifying questions of Mr. Germany that you would like to you know uh so even though this is technically all a discussion this this particular session is mostly so we can hear from the community and those who want to come talk so >> okay ready all right um thanks for having me um I guess first off I'll just kind of give you a little summary of how we got uh to where we are right now I'm not sure everybody actually knows um so I think it was in in May toward the end of the

004school year, uh, Shannondoa and Red Oak were invited, um, to the Western Iowa Conference and both schools communicated to RAD group that they were they were strongly considering a move to the Western Iowa Conference. Um, and actually about an hour ago, Shannidoa did vote 50 to move to the Western Iowa Conference. So, Shannidoa is leaving uh, for sure to and going to the Western Iowa Conference. So, um, the the remaining schools or or some of the remaining schools felt like it was important for the Hawkeye 10 to not just sit idle, um, but kind of look at our conference makeup and and, um, and react in some way. They they didn't feel as though, uh, staying with nine schools with with the shakeup and and the size of schools changing uh, so much that that

005was an option, which was a little bit disappointing to me cuz I I didn't think that was a bad option actually. But that really wasn't wasn't really on the on the table, so to speak. And and I probably should preface that is, you know, I see a lot of social media stuff where Louis Central should do this and Louis Central should do that and we need to go to this conference and this and that and and ultimately I think what everybody needs to understand is we only get to control Lewis Central. Um, you know, conferences, I had a couple people mention why didn't we look at conferences toward De Mo and and that we don't get to just decide where we go. you know, a conference has to invite us, a conference has to to

006vote us in. There's a process that goes through just like the Hawkeye 10. So, um, ultimately, as the conversation started to happen with the Hawkeye 10, um, I think the goal with the group, um, collectively was to to take any measures they could to keep Shannondoa and Red Oak in the Hawkeye 10. That collectively that was the group's decision. Um, so conversations went in a lot of different directions, but um, ultimately to to try to appease everybody, but I think mostly those two schools. Um, the discussion or the decision was made to try to to invite schools in that would be able to um form a big school, small school, uh, two divisions, big school, small school divisions. Uh, then their conversation was was it are the divisions going to be by size? Are they

007going to be by competitiveness? And so I don't know as though that was ever actually decided, but through conversations um formal invitation was sent to Trainer and Carol. Uh there were other schools that were that were um that were brought up that others thought would be a good fit. Um but I think ultimately they thought Trainer and Carol had the biggest level of interest at this time. Uh so formal invites were sent uh to those two schools and and we uh these meetings were with superintendents, principles and ads al together and and Dr. Hazing and Mr. Mach and I discuss it and we we actually did not vote uh we voted against sending um an invite to for for trainer to enter the Hawkeye 10 just because of their size. We don't feel that that's

008a great fit for us in a conference. Uh we did vote for Carol as an addition um just so you know. Um but those invites went out and um Dr. crazy if you remember is it >> like a week ago >> officially. >> Yeah. Did we give them a deadline? >> Uh we did not give them a deadline. >> Okay. Um so that's kind of where we're at. Um and over probably the last four or five years I've had a lot of informal conversations with ads particularly council ads but even sous city ads sitts because we play them in and a lot of things. Um and the the conversation is counseling them asking me when are you guys going to join our conference? When are you guys going to join our conference? So, um, you

009know, with this shakeup and, uh, our conversations with smaller schools being invited to the Hawkeye 10, um, we started to to maybe question our fit a little bit was if if it was only going to be smaller schools. So, um, had a conversation with the Missouri River um, conference, a couple ads, uh, they met or had a conversation and they, um, decided to invite Lewis, Central, Glenwood, Harland, and, uh, Dennis Slashwick. And I think the goal for that was to have six schools uh as a south division and six schools as a north division. Um which you know sounded like a great option you know but again we don't get to control that. You know every every school gets to decide and and at this point I think of the four we are the only

010ones that are considering the MRC option. I think the other three hocket 10 schools that were invited are not interested at this time. Um uh so from there we just obviously with with the invite from the Missouri River Conference um the landscape changing of the Hawkeye 10 uh we felt like we had two options that we really needed to consider. And so um our next step was Dr. Hazing and I put together a lot of information just some comparison data uh with the two with the two conferences and how we kind of how we kind of compare um with with a number of different factors and we put that together. Um, we've shared that with our public um, as much as we could. Um, sent to coaches, sent it out through bound to all of

011our parents, our athletes. I think it was shared on social media. So, hoping to get as much information out there as possible uh, to our public. Um, and so just quickly, I'll go through this. I think you most of you have seen this and there's a there's a lot there. Um, so I'm not going to go through every little bit. I'll certainly answer any questions that that any of you may have. That first that first page is just um some of the some of the things that we think are important to consider. Obviously the size of every school and you can see up there that the yellow are all the schools in the MRC. The blue are all the schools in uh the Hawkeye 10. So you can see kind of where we compare from

012a beds count. That beds count or enrollment count. That's that's in order of biggest to smallest up there is what you see. >> Freshman to junior classes. The total number. >> Yeah. Beds. Yeah. freshman through junior classes. Um, travel time obviously was important. Um, you know, type of travel. You know, somebody somebody asked me like, "What what does it matter whether it's interstate or county?" I said, "Well, you know, some some parents don't like their kids being on the interstate. You know, some some like don't like their kids being on county roads." We just thought it was important. We talked to our to uh uh Chuck Skoken and he he said our bus drivers would prefer interstate travel. So, just thought that that was a consideration that we need to put in there. And then

013the enrollment trends, which I think is is really important. Um, where the the schools in Hawkeye 10 particularly are going from a from an enrollment standpoint, but but even the the MRC, I don't know as though whatever whatever we decide um as a as a board in the next two weeks, I don't if I think things are going to continue to change. Enrollment is changing so much um with with the schools that we're talking about that that I don't think the conversation's over. So, I thought it was important to have enrollment trends in there. Um, travel time obviously is is important. Um, and then going from there, uh, we went I we kind of dove into classification summary, uh, meaning what class, uh, the the Hawkeye 10 schools play in versus the class that MRC

014schools play in. And then us. So, you can see uh the four categories is there are some schools in the Hawkeye 10 that are two or more classes below us. um some a class below, some the same size, and then larger class. There are some MRC schools that play in a larger class than us. Classification is a really difficult thing to look at, honestly, because the way the state does it. We have we have um you know, with football, you have five classes plus you have eightman football. So, football is entirely different. It's not a conference sport anyway, but but classification is different in football. Uh you get a sport like wrestling. Wrestling has three classes. Um our our boys in uh basketball, baseball, track were 4A out of four classes. Girls is different because

015girls is a different athletic union and they have five classes. So our girls are are pretty much 4A across the board and everything except for cross country. We are 4A out of four classes. So cross country or looking at classification is is um is tough from from our perspective at Lewis Central because we we are from a boys perspective most of your class classification is your top 48 schools your biggest class in in in most sports and we lie kind of at the bottom of that 40 I think we were 46th in enrollment this year. So, um, but girls are in a 5A class, so they're more toward the upper probably third of of 4A. So, when you talk about going to a postseason and and uh getting to state tournaments, um, softball was obviously

016a little bit different than baseball. Use those examples because they're close. baseball is is competing with Valley Ding Walke schools whereas as softball um schools some Hawkeye 10 size schools but more you know Dallas grimes um Crestston winter set schools that size so looking at classa classification is difficult just because of the state of Iowa with two different associations and the way they do things it's hard um but you can see uh through this chart that that uh we you know we probably fit better in the MRC if you're just looking at classification. We match MRC schools much closer than we do Hawkeye 10 when it comes to classification. So, if you're looking at classification, obviously, um you know, that's a better fit probably. Um scheduling, again, scheduling is was kind of the next thing

017we looked at. And scheduling again is very is very different uh for every sport. So, I have three coaches behind me. Um, Coach May coaches cross country and what conference you're in really doesn't matter honestly because you're you go to one conference meet a year and the rest of your schedule you decide where you go. No different now with the Hawkeye 10. We have the Hawkeye 10 cross country meet toward the end of the year. The rest of the meets we go to, we decide where we want to go. So the MRC would be no different. It's really really not a huge effect on cross country. Um, uh, Coach Mans and wrestling probably one of the sports similar to volleyball that's kind of in the middle in terms of your your conference and and how

018how much that affects you. Um, wrestling we go to, you know, we wrestle pretty much every Saturday and and we decide where we go during the week. We wrestle duels against our our conference opponents. So, it's just kind of how that schedule would look. You know, we wrestle uh four I think four four or five throughout the year. Now we do either triangulars or or quads where there's three or four schools there. Um so coach Mans and I have had conf conversations about you know what what um that would look like for wrestling now with with uh with boys. He was in coached at TJ previously so he's been in that conference and kind of knows the landscape a little bit. Um so wrestling is kind of one of those sports that's in the middle.

019Coach Riggs is here with softball and softball and baseball. uh probably basketball are the are the sports where you do play a lot of conference games. Um so they would be affected the most. So again going back to scheduling it's hard to just say that scheduling is better in one conference or the other because every sport is a little bit different if that makes sense. So again I can answer any questions you have there but but um made some notes there uh as far as you know having lower levels. Um I I till we really dug into the MRC scheduling and and what their numbers look like. I I I I can't tell you that there's a huge difference there to be honest with you. Um and then just in summary, we just kind of

020summarized at the end travel time um between the two a little bit about um kind of what I just said are the sports that the the activities that have probably the biggest effect. I I kind of laid that out there in there. Middle school implications. Um, honestly I think it was probably I would I probably I was probably at Louis Central three or four years as a middle school principal when we went through this change. The Hawkeye 10 schools, the majority of the Hawkeye 10 schools couldn't offer us, you know, the three levels of of teams like we have. I mean sometimes our middle school we could we could have five levels in some grades. We had such good participation and the Hawkey had 10 schools other than maybe Harland uh Glennwood and Dennis that

021we were lucky to get two. So, we kind of went away from scheduling with the Hawkeye 10 in middle school um athletics and went to kind of are a kind of a member of a conference middle school conference in Omaha and it's served us pretty well. We don't travel very far and so that wouldn't change middle school. We would stay the same. I know the Kern and Wilson right now currently don't go to Sous City for middle school athletics. They don't compete in the MRC as middle school. So, really has very little implication on middle school. So, I know there's a lot here and and uh I went kind of fast after uh we talk we like the Hawkeye 10 right now does an art show that's a pretty big deal. Um our kids really

022enjoy that. Um unfortunately the MRC does not have that. Um there's some conversation I think at one point in time they did uh they would be interested in having you know having conversations about starting that back up. fine arts. Uh we really don't do anything from a fine arts perspective conference-wise anymore uh because of the size of schools um and the numbers that each school has in their fine arts programs. MRC doesn't do a lot either. Um academic awards, the Hawkeye 10 annually runs the academic awards banquet. Um that the MRC does not. Uh I know that Al and TJ uh both conversations with them is they even before this conference conversation they they were have approached us about doing a city one where we do a city similar type of thing where Denopriel would

023maybe maybe uh cover that for us. So there are possibilities there, but I I as of as of now that's just a maybe. >> And we did have these are the graphics that we shared out just same information just in a quick scan thing. Okay. Uh we did look into I know we had a question about um we complete you about what did you look into any other uh conference conferences. Well the other two kind of viable conferences um would be like the Raccoon River which would be a lot of the schools we play both these schools we play in districts um and then throughout the year if we can get them on the schedule. The problem is is when you look at those uh just from our perspective, you know, you look at the

024Raken River, um there's only two couple schools in there that are below two hours and then every other school is in the mid 2 hours. So, it's a little bit further. Uh Mr. Germany did have a conversation with an an AOD or two over there and they are not interested in neither one of these conferences are interested in extending in invite to Lewis Central because we're so far away from them. like they're all pretty centered to each other and then I don't think hardly any of them make a trip close to two hours and now they would all make a trip two hours to see us. So not really interested in that. Little Hawkeye the same thing you look at that's the Indianola Norwok Pella you know some of those some of those drives are

025you know 3 hours or close to three hours so it's a it's a long drive on a Tuesday night three-hour drive. So, um, again, no interest in inviting us because we're 2 to three hours away from them. So, not really. We're kind of landlocked as far as what our options are. So, that's why looking at the only two viable options that we have and then we did do a conference survey. Um, and to get the survey, you either had to be a part of our school infrastructure. So you had to you had to have you had to be registered through powers school because we wanted to make sure we didn't get people from all over the world taking this thing. So you had to be a part of uh powers school or you had to

026like we did put an option out there um online for if you wanted to and you're not a power school and you didn't get the email you could submit basically your credentials to us and then uh request a survey and then we would send it back to you. this kept, you know, people from, you know, let's say Oregon saying that, you know, or these bots that are, you know, very interested apparently in what we have going on here in Western Iowa. So, um, so here's kind of the the results of the survey um, as we have them right now. And surprising on that first one, I I actually sent some follow-up emails to to our coaches uh, once and just said, "We we don't have a lot of coaches that have taken that. I I

027urge you to, you know, give us your feedback. Um, I think, and our coaches could can maybe speak better than than me or than me speaking for them, but because every sport is affected a little bit differently by conference, I I think most of them um most like Coach May, and again, I'm not speaking for him, but in our conversations, he said doesn't matter to me. Like I don't I don't I would I would rather just let the people that it really affects greatly vote and and decide. So, I did and so we did get some more coaches to fill out the survey because I said, you know, we we want your feedback. Um, and then we weren't getting a lot of student feedback, student athlete feedback. So, I emailed the coaches again and said,

028"Hey, send us out to your kids and urge your kids to fill it out." Uh, so we did get some more kids, but surprisingly, we didn't get a lot of kids that were that were interested in in filling it out. >> Yeah. And you'll see here kind of the the main ones that they focused on were uh level of competition and then travel distance time. you know that they thought as most important. Um surprising to me rivalries wasn't I mean that was some some of the most least important. Um that kind of surprised me. I thought rivalries would be a big one. Um and then as you scroll down here um you'll see this is kind of all the this is all the feedback right now. So as it stands um and actually we got

029four more responses since I ran this data. So, the top one's actually 47.9% now, but you'll see 47 roughly 48% now of all the people that filled it out uh say they prefer to go to the Missouri River Conference. 31% would prefer to stay in the Hawkeye 10. And then roughly 22% um don't really have a a standing opinion. And then, oops, hold on. We are here. And then broken down by group. So this is kind of by group. Make this a little bigger again. Sorry. Uh you'll see approximately, you know, we had 25 coach responses, 60% MRC, 16% Hawkeye 10, 24% don't have a strong opinion either way. Uh parents community 58% u which is actually there were the most respondies were our parents and community members. 58% MRC, 22% Hawkeye 10, 20% not

030no strong opinion, and then 57 for uh 57 responses from the students. Uh the vast majority of them Hawkeye 10. Um and then MRC was last there. So, oops. Ah, I keep messing this up. Sorry. We'll scroll. So, that's kind of the that's kind of So, two out of three groups kind of gave the responses. So again, we had this up for two weeks roughly. >> So, um, so I guess this time, uh, I'm just going to ask you guys just kind of let that marinate a little bit and then I'll just I'll let people come up and and kind of talk about their initial responses and, um, just when you come up tell, uh, >> they already filled out sheets. >> I already have their sheets. >> Oh, look at that. We're ahead of

031the game here. So, okay. So, whoever wants to come first, >> Robs. >> All right. Um, I'm just speaking tonight. Um, this just to represent softball because, you know, I coach softball. Um, but also I got two daughters that'll eventually, you know, play softball and everything. Also, I got a son that's going to play, you know, he's starting his freshman year this year. But, um, I yes, it highly affects softball. I just want to make sure, you know, like Mr. Germany said LC can learn about LC but when I'm specifically looking at softball and I guess baseball as well right now we play 20 conference games if we were to go to the MRC that number as it stands how their conference runs we'd play 32 games we are allotted 40 total games for our

032entire varsity season so it only leaves us eight other game slots if we choose to have a full schedule which depends on numbers and availab like what we can do along with also building a schedule our postseason play if we have rain outs have to make things up. So those are all logistic things that are out of our control. I just want to make sure that's that's just aware. Um that also being said, the way the the MRC stands now and I know they've talked about changing things is they play double headers home and away each. So that means we'd be going to Sous City um for our conference schedule. So even though the travel looks different, we're traveling more. Um and I'm not sure how the lower levels work. I think JV runs the

033opposite days but means our JV level would also then be traveling six times as it stands currently. Um which now in the Hawkeye 10 like this year we didn't go to Clarinda because they came to us for a double header. Um last year Crestston came to us um and vice versa. So, so there's some things you if you really want to look at travel and that's a big concern for people is baseball, softball specifically, there'll probably be more travel. Um, especially in the summer, I think currently, and I could be wrong talking to Chuck this summer, I think we have two buses with AC. Um, one wasn't fully AC working, made a little hot. So, I think as as a district, if we make this transition, we're going to have to look at what we

034need to do to support our athletes better in those terms and making sure we have the right accommodations and everything else. Like I said, I I I trust whatever's decided. I just hope that the MRC is willing to look at changes and how they do, specifically softball along with baseball as well, just to make it a better experience for kids or otherwise, you know, out of our 40 games, we're playing 32, we don't have many chances maybe because like it's kind of like wrestling on the weekends, we go to tournaments. Um we have a chance to play other teams. Um, in the Missouri River, there's only a couple teams in our our classification that we play postseason as it is right now. Um, for us to go to state out of the three games we'd

035had to win, we had to play two conference teams, one being Crestston. Um, I'll also say to this, I believe MRC had one ranked school in the state in softball and and Hawkeye 10 had three. Um, so level competition as well. just again completely depends on the sport. But I just hope whatever is decided that we do what's right for kids and supporting them in whatever conference we're in and then also um the conference also accommodates and makes it you know best for all. So if it is the MRC that we're not just locked into our schedule and everything else so it still allows for some adjustability and some flexibility for the kids and families. But that's all I got. Thank you. >> Thank you. August means uh thank you. Appreciate the chance to speak.

036Uh I know Coach Derm said it uh a little earlier, but I have coached in both conferences that we're looking at. So I have a firsthand knowledge of what it's like to be both conferences. So, I'm kind of going to speak from that standpoint a little bit and uh go from there. Um like like coach Rig said, for the sports of basketball, both boys and girls, softball and baseball, every one of those sports will have to travel to the north six times, no matter what. And unlike what we're doing right now, Yeah. You'll go to Crestston every other year. You'll go to Carol every other year. So, it's the travel is kind of it's not doesn't look as accurate as what was uh put up there by mileage. Um when I was coaching the MRC,

037not one basketball or baseball or softball coach was happy about that travel. Um they did not like having to go up there every every year. And as you know, the Missouri River floods. So in the summer, there's been times where the interstates shut down and you're taking a two-lane highway all the way up to Lamar's or Sous City. Um, obviously that's not something that happens all the time, but it is something that does happen and and it does um take more time away from athletes and coaches by being on the road more. Uh the the conference itself uh the MRAC I I can tell you from just personal it was one of the worst ran conferences compared to the Hawkeye 10 which I think is one of the best ran conferences. And the biggest part

038of that my reason behind that is the Hawkeye 10 cares about the kids. They want what's best for the kids. Uh uh my experience in the MRC was what's the least amount of work we can do to make this tournament or this match happen and get out of here. It was never about what's best for the athletes. Uh the other thing was AL and TJ were always outvoted by the Sous City schools. So it when you go to the MRC, it's not what's best for the conference. It's always going to be what it's what's best for Sous City. and and they'll always look out for themselves and they'll vote that way in every every aspect. Um the other thing that we noticed when we were at TJ was uh travel costs went up. Um, and

039so they had uh travel budgets that that would then reflect into who you competed against in non-conference play because you didn't have as much money to uh use towards travel for those uh experiences. And then gate gate fees went down after we joined the MRIC. the Sous Cities uh are not very good about traveling and supporting their teams. Um obviously if it's two really good teams, you'll probably see a little bit better gate, but them knowing say in a really high highly touted basketball game, if they know they get to see it in their backyard, they're probably just going to go watch that one game and not travel down to watch the other game. So, you're probably only going to get some parents. Um my uh my my true gut feeling is if we're looking

040out for what's best for Lewis Central um and I know like Mr. Germany said uh we need to we can only hand we can only take care of Lewis Central but uh I think both conferences need to look at working together and becoming a super conference. the eastern side of the state does not care about anyone on the western side. And for us to get noticed and to help our elevate our uh our activities to the level they need to be at, I think a super conference would be something to look at. And I know it's not going to be a quick fix and I know it's not going to be easy. Um, but if you formulated a a bigger conference, you can change the dynamics of it. And you don't have to always play

041everybody. It could always it could be based off geography. It could be based on that sport and what the best teams in that sport is. Could be one division, a middle division, and even a bottom division. So, everybody's competing against schools more more at their level. Um, there's just a lot of different uh opportunities there. But I think and like the Mr. Dermy said uh there is a invite to Haron Dennis and Glennwood along with us but only we're the only ones looking at it. That's why I think it it needs to be something where we get both sides in this on the same page and and work towards that that goal. But I also know that we can only do so much. So appreciate your time. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. >> I did

042get an email from Kelly Bergman. >> Yes, she asked me to read that. So, next. Yep. So, I got an email from uh Kelly Bergman. So, she asked me to read it. Um this is Kelly Bergman, 1995 LC grad, parent of two LC alumni and two high school students, LC booster club, board member for four years plus two years as president, Southwest Iowa sports junkie. Smiley face. So uh she says Louiswis Central is pre is a premier community school district in southwest Iowa. We are not part of council bless public schools. We are proud of the identity of being hardworking having having a community feel and striving for excellence. We are a great fit in the Hawkeye 10 conference. The majority of sports at LC are competitive in the conference. Few dominate annually to the

043to a point of low competition. LC along with the Hawk 10 conference have a history of excellence and support of one another. There is pride with being part of the Hawkeye 10 and tradition going back 55 years to the Hawkeye 8. Driving to events of Hawkeye 10 schools are scenic through the beautiful countryside of southwest Iowa. Presenting only two options to parents in the survey did not give the whole picture. The MRC is a fine conference but is not a good fit for Lewis central. We would primarily play we play primarily CB schools and sous city schools. We already play the MRC schools and the sports they are competitive in. The MRC is not competitive in many areas. Some schools are good at some sports. It would be hardressed to the state the level of

044competition across the board is much different than the Hawk 10. The state of Iowa has historically disrespected Southwest Iowa and Western Iowa in general in state rankings and seedings. Playing more Western Iowa schools won't improve that disrespect. If Elsie truly wants to move on from the H10, which I don't think is a good idea, higher consideration should be given to a De Mo area conference. With slightly longer travel times, we can compete with non- urban schools of similar size. I would rather drive east on interstate than north. I encourage the district to provide data and information to the parents, athletes, and community for the central Iowa conferences in addition to MRC and consider responses. I grew up uh going to LC games as far back as I can remember. I faithfully read the nonparel as

045a kid reading about Jan Jensen at Elhorn Kimbleton and Karen Jennings at Tri Center. Now I spend way too much time reading KMA covers of Southwest Iowa. I played four sports through the H10 in middle school and high school, watched three siblings compete, and have four kids playing many sports, leaving us very familiar with the H10 facilities. What is wrong with them? I think humble, hard-working communities supporting their athletes the best they can, as the H10 schools do, provide much better learning environments for our student athletes and should be a higher priority than playing everything and top-of-the-line facilities. It just isn't necessary. Along that line, a quick plug for leaving the LC softball and baseball fields on the main campus and abandoning the Iowa Western game sites. If the driver is postseason rankings, a couple

046things. Our programs have experienced massive success in the past 10 to 15 years. We don't need any more competitive advantage. Hard work, teamwork, discipline, integrity, those are benefits most students don't or get from participating in in team sports. Our coaches, sponsors, parents, and administration prioritize these things already. Making a conference change for competitive advantage is unnecessary. If there's a if there is a desire to play more teams uh our own size, let's look at the central Iowa conferences. There are more options to consider. I urge the board to vote to stay in the Hawkeye 10. If the H10 conference votes us out, let's evaluate several conference options and present multiple options to the public for consideration, not just the MRC. Uh, so she sent me that and then I won't read all these, but we

047I did send you guys a copy of all of the uh give me one second here. Uh um the survey responses. >> Yep, the survey responses. So, I'll just um I will resume and switch over to this. Sorry, I'm playing both the uh so in the survey responses um there's obviously there's there's uh a lot of um comments as well and and you know we can see as you follow through the comments you know there's um a lot of comments you know both good options um you know some obviously for uh a move, some against a move. Um so there's just, you know, I would just ask the board to read through all the comments here. Um so some people say Missouri Valley will help us on the long run when it comes to competition

048and security. Uh Hawkeye 10 has shorter travel times, higher lift on competition. Um so there's there's just a lot of comments there. So, as you as you guys go through, weigh the comments. Um, again, there's no decision being made tonight. That'll be made on August 4th. Um, as if the board feels like they're uh prepared. Tonight's just simply an information gathering session. So, all right. Any other public comment? >> Anybody online? >> Okay. >> No comments. All right, then we will move to well was there any other discussion at this time anyway primarily just the listening session. So >> we'll move to comments and suggestions then this is uh an opportunity in this special meeting where we open the floor to the public for any additional comments uh directed toward the board. I think we've

049already had from the coaches here. Do we have anybody additional online? Okay, then we will move from there to adjourn the special meeting or can I get a vote to >> make a motion to adjourn the special meeting? >> Second. Vote, please. Or all in favor say I. Just do it that way. I >> Okay. And then we'll move into the regular board meeting. We'll call that one to order so we could take roll call. Or do we need to take roll call again? Okay. >> Miss Atkins, Mrs. McDaniel >> here. >> Mrs. Peterson, Mrs. Sheff here. >> Mr. Senson, >> Mr. Sturm >> here. >> Mr. Right >> here. Approval of the July 21st, 2025 regular agenda. Can I get a motion to approve, please? Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Vote, please. >>

050Mrs. McDaniel, >> yes. >> Mr. Sheffle, >> yes. >> Mr. Sturm, >> yes. >> Mr. Wright, >> yes. Public hearing. We're going to open for Iowa code 26.12 for public improvement project for the high school safety vestable addition and renovation. Yep. So we have uh there we go. So the estimate that we were given um from uh Lamberson was about 1.5 million for the building and another they're estimating allin price with when you talk the the pavement as well it's going to be about 1.7 uh million. And that's the when we talk about pavement, we're going to redo the the uh pavement out in front of the middle or out in front of the high school. So that way it more directs you towards uh the new entrance. Um that 200 extra 200,000 was originally

051factored into the parking lot renovation. Then when it was decided we're going to do a vestibule entrance, then obviously just got moved over to this project. So it's not like an additional 200,000. It was something that was factored into the uh uh original parking lot. Um, so here is the, and you guys have already looked at this, but here is the schedule of drawings. It's essentially what it's going to look like. Um, and it will add a new entrance, um, and a safety vestibule there. Here is the, uh, general plans. It does include kind of renovation of the current office space to create more space so that way we can have people enter the building. Um, again, this will be for, uh, kind of outside of the main arrival and dismissal times. So main arrival

052in dismissal won't necessarily change. What will change will be what goes on in between those times. So you guys have any other questions about this? No. Okay. Do we have any public comment on the high school safety vestible addition and renovation? Nobody online. Okay. Then we will adjourn the the public hearing and we will move into commendations. Good news. >> Uh really it's just kind of summarizing the summer sports. Um softball had a really good summer. Um too bad I should have got Rob to stick around here. You could have talked about the season a little bit but um had a really good really good summer. Um uh they finished in the uh semi-finals or quarterfinals. >> Regional semiinal. >> Regional semi-finals. That's right. Regional semi-finals. Um, so any other kind of baseball made it

053to the regional finals? >> Baseball got beat in substate final by number one team. >> Yep. >> City East. >> Yep. It's got beat by Sous City East. MRC school like number one team in the state um in the in the substate finals. So one game away from going to state and and then uh and that's again that's 4A versus 3A and you know you have always been very successful in 3A. It's nice to see that we can hold our own in 4A as well. So, um, so yeah, other than that, we have I mean, we're gonna we're getting real close to, uh, back to school talks. So, the good news is is that I don't know if it's good news for a lot of people, but we're getting close to the end of a

054lot of our projects this summer. And, uh, looking forward to kind of starting, we'll have staff start reporting back here uh, the week of the 18th um, in mass. We'll have some come the week prior for back to school, like the early teachers, new teachers, that kind of stuff. uh week the 18th and the kids will be back 25th. So just all it's all just a mad dash here at the end of the summer. So >> did they also see our volleyball team won an all academic award? >> Uh yes they did. Yes. I just saw that today. >> Is that posting today? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Fifth year in a row. >> Wow. >> Good job ladies. >> Any other commendations? Good news. Okay. Hearing none, we'll move into comments and suggestions. First

055partner meeting where we open the floor to uh comments that the public may have for the board. Do we have anybody? Okay. Then hearing none, we will move into the consent agenda. Can or is everything current? Uh there is a couple of updates on the personnel sheet. Just give me two seconds and I will just read them. Uh the two additional um are to add Kaylee Maine and Bailey Ewald as PAR educators for this school year. Those were the only two changes to the personnel sheet. >> And can we get a motion to approve the consent consent agenda with the the updates? Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Vote, please. >> Mrs. Sheffle, >> yes. >> Mr. Sturm, >> yes. >> Miss McDaniel, >> yes. >> Mr. Wright, >> yes. >> Reports 7.01 facility project

056update project advocates. Yep. So, okay, >> Jim, you're welcome to come up whenever you want. >> Um, Did you happen to get that slideshow from Chase? >> Um, as you've all probably seen, uh, lot of activity going on out there. Um, glad to report all is going well. Um, on schedule, no major red flags anywhere. Uh, haven't had any big surprises costwise. So, um, other than the previously approved, uh, sidewalk additional work that we did on both both facilities, um, really nothing major to speak of as far as costs. So, um, everything's holding really good, but, um, we've got a little presentation somewhere in there we emailed over that helped me guide my way through. There we go. Um, so, few pictures on here and just kind of do a quick recap by school. Um

057the high school is kind of the largest one going on right now. Um go ahead and click through it a little bit. Um next slide. So paving project. Uh we are coming to a uh end of the phase one, let's call it. Um the the large parking lot is poured. The remainder of the road was poured today down to kind of the south part of the existing or the new lot there. Um tomorrow going to be pouring sidewalks around the building. So things are moving good. Uh looking to uh put the striping down at the end of this week and look to well we're going to let some administrative staff into the admin lot here um starting tomorrow a little bit to alleviate some parking on the bottom side. Uh get you guys back into

058the building. But we're looking to flip to phase two, which is the road to the south. Um, probably mid next week, which would be good timing with dead week showing up and not a lot of kids around. So, we'll kind of do a transition, open up the north entrance, shut down the south entrance. So, paving is going really well. Um, go ahead to the next one. Uh, roofing projects, they went really quick. Uh, they do have a little bit of work to come back and do. They've got to uh put all the parapit cap flashing on which I heard today. They're supposed to be here tomorrow to do that. Um so that went real smoothly. We've done some repair work on the tracks. You can kind of see in that picture where they ran the

059lift around the back of the building for access. So that's all been regraded and we just have to patch a little bit of sidewalk out of the back of the building over there. Next, uh tennis courts. Kind of fought the weather with these. We had to do quite a bit of uh soil prep work to get everything stable for the new slab going down. Right when we took out 12 in of dirt, all the rain started the last few weeks and we kind of had a pool back there. But uh we have got the field dirt placed. It has passed all the compaction tests required and they're starting to put some underground drainage fields in right now. um a little bit more electrical rough in and then a layer of rock and we'll be seeing

060that slab here in the next uh week and a half, two weeks. We'll start prepping to the slab for that >> potentially. >> Just got we just got word that we have potentially have to do some more flood plane testing. So, >> yeah, >> trying to work with the city on that. Yeah, navigating a new issue that came up that has never previously been done with a flood plane development permit for this facility. And >> we've done many projects on the same flood plane. I've never had to do this type of testing before. So, whatever reason, that's what we're going to hopefully get some answers from the city. And why now? Because this could potentially set us back 3 to 6 months and cost the taxpayers an additional 10 to $20,000. So for whatever this

061new testing is that we've never had to do before and all of a sudden may have to do now. So >> and this is a tennis court. >> Yep. Just notified us last building last Wednesday. So >> and this is city property, right? >> Uh portion of it is. Yeah. >> Okay. >> But it has to do with some kind of a a flood way versus a flood zone, but it's all rated the same. So, we'll have to hopefully we can have that meeting with the city soon and talk about it. >> Uh, fire alarm system moving along good. They pretty much have just the gymnasium wing left to what you call device out. All the wires pulled everywhere. They've just got to go along around and put on the the smoke heads, the speakers,

062and the ceilings, all that kind of stuff. The uh the new panels are being assembled and wired currently, so that thing's tracking very well. Um the chiller and the rooftop units. Uh good news. This last week was a big week. The chiller got started up um on Monday of last week. Got the building starting to cool down. It's pretty much all in cooling right now. And then Wednesday last week, we did a startup on the three new u air handlers that are on the large gym and the weight room. Um huge performance difference. Um just cool the buildings quickly, get rid of the humidity. Um, so it's not a 100% done. There's still some control wiring work to do um to really get everything talking to the computer and and be able to be fully

063tuned, but the building is back cooled right now. So, that that's starting to go pretty good. Uh, middle school, not a lot of work happened at the middle school this year. Uh, really the only thing we did was about 11,000 square foot of roofing on the south side of the school. Um, that is complete. They do have a little bit of punch list list work to do, which is just some detail work on reinstalling some gas line uh support blocks and stuff like that. So, um we we are starting some larger planning for next year's middle school work right now. Um just had some kickoff meetings today, so we're getting the ball rolling on that. Uh, Titan Hill. Um, paving on this project is essentially complete. Um, as far as the paving work itself, we

064still have to do the striping, uh, back fill, seating, just kind of the cleanup work. Um, click on the next picture. Um, we we got the drive road in last week. It has been opened up for for use. Um the extra really all that's left to do as far as putting concrete down is part of the extra uh change order that we approved. We just have to finish the site along the pool, which uh Jim and I have talked that's not really a critical item right now. Um so if needed, we're kind of telling the concrete crew to take the ex the crew that's been up here, take them down to the high school, start with some of the sidewalks following the uh the crew doing the paving there. So, um, all has gone really

065well with the paving job and they're kind of in cleanup stages right now of it. Uh, the lighting project, uh, they're kind of coming to a close. They have all but two classrooms complete right now that they just need to get access into them to to get the lights out there. But they're starting on the hallways. The hallways will go much quicker because they're literally just changing the light out, powering it up, and moving to the next one. they don't have to do controls and switches and all that. So, they'll probably easily double, if not more, their productivity every day when putting those in. So, they're projecting right now to be complete August 7th, um, which will give us a couple weeks ahead of time of of staff getting back. Uh, the geothermal supplement project,

066we got started with a little bit of prep work on that this last week. um they came in and shut the system down for a day. And in that picture, you can kind of see they they had to tap into the one of the return lines to allow for the hookups of the the supplemental equipment we'll be putting in. Uh by doing that, they they made it much easier, did a quick shut down, valved it off. Now everything they're going to do is kind of just bolt up and when the equipment shows up, they'll bring in pre-fabricated piping, bolt up to what's there and just turn valves and be able to get things going. So got the invasive work done early so that when the equipment shows up, even if students are in session, nobody

067will really even know anything's going on in there and um it'll be pretty quiet and we won't have any more shutdowns or anything. So that that's going good right now, too. Uh Craft is the last one. Uh the Craft lighting project finished a couple weeks ago. There are a few like four or six miscellaneous lights in bathrooms and and oddball places that we're still waiting to get, but that job is essentially complete other than a few hours of chasing or putting some lights in. And then in the last week, the secure entrance has gotten started. Um they uh they put some duck work in a week or so ago and then just today the door frame showed up and has been installed. The doors already on it swinging. Um glass is in and they're doing

068all the door hardware wiring right now. So there's quite a few bodies in that little space just to knock it out and and I I expect that to be done probably mid next week to where the doors are actually working and communicating and all the security hardware is working too. So, um, things have gone gone really well overall and, uh, no incidents with anything. The the kids have been really good. They're aware of their surroundings and, you know, we get some traffic jam-ups every now and then when we've got 15 concrete trucks lined up at the high school. But overall, it it's gone really well and I appreciate everybody helping out to keep it going that way. >> Jim, you want to give an update on your little jobs? Well, uh, a lot of our

069projects are moving along. Obviously, with everything going on, I'm a little bit nervous. I mean, we're still trying to do the summer things on top of all the other activity that's going on. So, I mean, our cleaning is a little bit behind schedule in some areas. Um, there's some repairs that we haven't been able to get to yet that we're concerned about getting to, but I mean, that's kind of was expected for the summer. Um, but in general, things are going well. Projects are progressing really well. Um, I I think I'm really happy with where we're at right now for what we're dealing with this summer. I mean, that's just the painting is starting to look really good in the high school. I don't know if you've done a walkthrough, if you've seen the commons

070yet or the gym or or any of that. Um, that's obviously outside the bond. There's just um gosh, there's just so much going on. I don't even know where to start other than do you guys have any questions for me as to how things are going or or specific things of interest or >> well we can go through and and briefly you know a couple other things that we've been doing on there um obviously the athletic field under the bleacher storage we'll move forward with that the pavement's done we got a basic plan from the city of what they want to see from us from uh plans to put some storage underneath there uh the middle school epic uh intercom system that should be they should be here next week and installing that um high

071school painting. It's it looks pretty cool. I mean, it looks really nice right now and uh should have pulled up some pictures of that. Um but uh it's it's coming along. Um the uh weight room renovation, the flooring's down, it's all painted. Um it's looking really nice. The equipment should arrive tomorrow. >> Tomorrow morning at 9:00. >> Tomorrow morning. So, they'll get that kind of knocked out. >> Uh, >> Wednesday, >> phone replacement. The Chris just started doing that, going around and uh switching out all the phones for everybody. Craft uh security cameras, door monitoring. I just heard from um uh Prime and they should be starting that as well next week. Um >> Oh, they have earlier. Oh, they got on early. Okay. I had them scheduled the last week, so that's good. >>

072Yep. So sweet. Um, trophy uh, high school trophy case renovation. Joe asked me not to share pictures of it until it's done and then when we do our walkthrough, you can see the trophy cases in the comments painted. And, you know, Joe's really our kind of or Mr. Vin Chhattle is really our um our our designer. Uh, he's got the designer eye. So he uh we're going to go down there and and um before school starts and we'll do a tour of all the all the updates and and you know again talk about you know big bang for a relatively small cost. You know paint does wonders and you you I think you'll be very happy to see how the how the gym and the in the hallways and the in the commons area turn

073out. So, and uh Raptor emergency response system, they've been in all summer long um installing the the LED lights and the and the system throughout. We did now we just got to get some training and and get that um up and going. Um Titanel uh and high school door contacts, districtwide storage. Um I'll have to double check with Chris. I'm not sure where we're at with that right now. Uh craft playground, they'll be here next week do the demolition of the craft playground and then they'll move up. So plan is they'll demo Craft Playground and then they'll go demo Titan Hill Playground and then they'll go back and install uh Craft Playground and then they'll install Titan Hill Playground. So Craft right now has a um done date of um August 22nd. So kids come

074back the 25th. So um I did see some advertisements out there for popsicles on the playground. Um, I would not anticipate having popsicles on the playground. So, popsicles in the playground might be popsicles >> In the parking lot. So, that'll be our playground for until and then Titan Hill. Um, luckily they're a little older. I mean, they'll have to make do with some of the grassy areas and that kind of stuff until approximately the second week of September and then then they'll be all done as well. So, uh, and then we already talk about the high school. We already talked about these two things. So, um, yeah. Do you guys have any other questions, comments of of Jim? I mean, I I want to give big kudos to Jim and his staff. They every summer

075it's, you know, it's it's funny like if you work for a school, people automatically think that, >> you know, you get summers off, so I can't tell you how many people >> come up to, you know, me. I mean, and and I'm not I mean, I'm not even as busy as Jim in the summer, but I'm sure there's people go up to Jim be like, "Aren't you glad it's summer?" And >> no, no, I'm not. >> No, he's >> We have made a lot of progress this year, though. Things are starting to look really good. It's really exciting. I think it's an exciting time to be here. So, I mean, there's a there's a lot of buzz. A lot of people, you know, you see coaches come into the weight room and they're like, "Wow,

076this is great." And you see them going to the gym and they're like, "Wow, this is great." And so, there's a lot of activity. You're seeing some jealousy between middle school teachers who haven't had their project yet and high school teachers. And the middle school's a little bit jealous at what's going on over there right now. So, I mean, but there's there's a lot of buzz. A lot of people are talking. Lot of progress being made. So, it's stressful. It's >> Jim must be feeling pretty good, though, cuz I did notice he he he has taken a whole two days off this summer. >> I did. I did. I took two days off and that was two more days than he's taken out the last two summers. I'm like, Jim, you got to you know,

077>> you got to breathe, man. So, >> my wife treats me pretty good and I kind of like to keep her. So >> yeah, that's good. That's >> I figured I better I better take her somewhere. So >> yeah, for sure. >> Yeah. But I will say part part of the projects that we're doing, especially repairs, have become more difficult because the EPA has changed refrigerant guidelines. So now they're coming out with all these new refrigerants. The old refrigerants are obsolete. So now all these manufacturers have chosen their refrigerant and trying to keeping everything kind of somewhat uniform with the new refrigerants and all the new guidelines. um the new equipment, it's really hard to get sometimes. So, that's also delaying some things. Just getting equipment in and being able to schedule projects and repairs

078and even get parts has been a challenge. So, something doesn't get done. That's part of the reason. >> You can only do so much. I mean, >> that's right. >> Time and money. There's not unlimited >> amounts of either. So, >> correct. All right. Anybody got anything for me? >> No. When when are the security cameras going to be set up in the parking lot? >> Well, I don't even think they're pulling they're running. Okay. When they did the parking lot project, they ran all of the piping and stuff to the lights, >> but they didn't feed it yet. >> It has not been fed yet. So, that I don't anticipate that being done definitely by time. >> We don't even have quotes yet on on cameras for the parking lot because we wanted to

079make sure the layout was done and ready to go. So, >> I was just asking, so in in relation to the parking lot, we talked about opening up some of the spots for admin as of next week. uh in the front some sort of monitoring out there then >> with the >> Okay. >> Right. And also we're still going to leave what we're going to do is is once we open up that front lot completely we will move all the cones and everything back and it will only be open to that front parking lot. >> Okay. >> And so the rest of the lot will still be not accessible until that concrete's cured, the lines have all been painted and we're kind of back to full business. Yeah, that was my main question as to

080when when the full lot's going to be open again. So, >> yeah. >> Okay. >> The track surfacing security for that will be a challenge. Um, just simply because we're going to have to do it with that 4ft fence that's around the track because part of the fencing is still out where the where the sidewalk is being added by the football field. So, >> okay, >> we'll change out all the locks. We'll put up signs. We'll we'll do everything we can. We just hope people follow the directions. >> Yep. >> We're we're taking we're taking uh a pool going as far as uh who's going to be the first ones to put the black marks down in the new parking lot. So, >> that that was kind of what I was thinking was uh the

081midnight cookies or something like that. >> Yeah, I think the maintenance guys would like to take the maintenance trucks out and just get it over with. But >> that was it. Any other questions? Okay, thank you. >> 7.02 superintendent update. >> Um, I kind of shared mine during the good things. I kind of jumped the gun. Yep. Basically, my only updates right now are we we are um full boore going into uh school is going to be starting here soon. Uh registration is August 4th, so excited for um parents to come out. Um we have all the back to school stuff out online right now. If you're watching and you know you haven't filled out your registration stuff, get get on that now so we can get going. And then uh um we'll have some

082back to school nights. Um we will have our our whole teacher just for the for the board to know we will have our um when the whole staff gets together will be on the 20th. So we'll have a 20th at 8:30 a.m. we'll have a welcome back staff. So um that'll be in the auditorium. Um well, breakfast and that starting at 7:30 that morning. Uh same thing we've done the last few years and then um uh outside of that, yeah, we're just trying to trying to button everything up this summer and and get going. So, okay, any questions, comments? Okay, we'll move into discussion items. 8.01, 1 high school safety vest build edition and renovation hearing approval. >> This is just to approve the specs as you saw them and then the the you know

083we sent an RFP that was what you guys saw and then um understanding the estimated uh price was 1.5 million and we did get the bids back and I'll we'll do that next but >> okay then we'll just move into that 8.02 the bid approval. Uh so we did get back on last Thursday. They had to submit bids for us. Um the bids that we got back were uh Mechcohenny uh 1.512 uh Keylex 1.631. The lowest bid was uh Elevate Construction at 1355. Becken Hour Construction 1550. Uh Mark uh is Mark B Mark 7 >> Mark 7 Enterprises 1.906 Dr. Anderson 1508 and then Pinnacle Construction uh 1338. So Elevate Construction did get the bid. Uh what ends up happening is then we um our architects will go and vet them and go through all

084the documents and make sure that everything was uh provided you know true to spec. make sure that and then they'll check references. Um they're currently working with Elevate right now in two Millard projects and then Elevate has a very um successful presence in Omaha. They've done everything from retail to schools. They did the UNO Mavericks um performance center. Um so they've done some really big projects and and they have a very good reputation around town. Um, so then again I I send out the information to to our attorney and just say, you know, have you heard of anything? You know, have they declared bankruptcy or anything like that? And the only way according to the state of Iowa in in Iowa code that we can deny a bid is if um is if they are

085not a responsible or a um responsive uh partner. And there's nothing to say that Elevate wouldn't would do nothing but, you know, provide us a a quality product. Um, and then in addition, Holly Hunt, who's one of the co-owners, she's actually a 2003 graduate of Lewis Central. So, that's a that's a good thing. Anytime we can see people who are invested in Lewis Central in one point or another, we actually had a couple people on here that bid that were invested in Lewis Central. I always like to see that. So, very positive, very positive things. So recommendation from um uh BBH is not BBH BCDM is to uh go with Elevate Construction for $1,355,000 $948. But I will say the fact that we got seven bids was I mean that's great. I remember 2019 when

086we got bids for my pro last project Missouri Valley I think we got like one for this or two for that. So getting seven to eight, nine bids on all these projects is I mean I'm still like holy moly. So >> the market is very good for the school. >> Any other questions, comments regarding the bid or the process? Okay, then we will move into 8.03 activity conference realignment. So, this is just a good time. Again, there's no um there's no decisions being made tonight. It's simply if you guys after hearing a couple people give feedback, listening to uh Mr. Germany and I talk, you know, is there do you guys have any additional questions for Mr. Germany? And again, I would highly recommend you guys go through and read all of the comments that

087were submitted. Um there's some really, really good comments in there, both sides. Uh, so >> I do have a question and um, one of the coaches brought it up and it was a question I actually had even before they spoke, but I've heard that in the past that because Sous City it is so topheavy, the votes always obviously go Sous City's way. um any discussions that have been had or you know talking about Harland Dennis and Glenwood not moving why they didn't move or if there will be maybe something to help that in the future. I haven't had a lot of conversation with those schools other than you know from a I think most of Haron Haron did mention I've had a couple different conversations with Haron over various things from scheduling football to this

088and they've got a declining enrollment and I think they they see that they're just as time goes on maybe right now they're they're an okay fit for that conference but two or three five years from now they're they don't feel like they're going to be because of their enrollment trend. I know that's where Haron's at. Um I think Glennwood um and and talking to Jeff and just again informal conversation. I think the travel distance was a little bit a little bit of an issue with him because it's obviously a little bit farther for them. >> But all of them uh Dennis I believe is the only one that inquired. I think Dennis checked into you know what the constitution of the conference looked like. Uh so they did but but I feel like they they

089believe because of their enrollment you know they're they're fairly close to us. They're the only school in the hockey 10 that really is fairly close to us from an enrollment standpoint. They did. Look, I just don't think they feel like the timing is right for them. >> Okay. >> Um, and you know, I the the, you know, the voting thing and, you know, I was a coach in coach baseball and, uh, at TJ years and years ago. Um, and from a coaching perspective, you know, you're very, very competitive and, you know, sometimes that perception happens. And I just my conversations with Jeff Noatne, who's the AD at AL right now, I know he doesn't feel that way. he feels like um the the conference as a whole looks out for council. I know that they've

090had uh schools to the north. Um I believe MOC, uh Storm Lake, um I can't remember who else. I think there were three schools, Sous Center maybe, but there were three schools that inquired about coming into the MRC. Um and the and they told them no because they're not looking to expand to the north. That's a a question I specifically asked him like if we do this, are you going to look to expand to the north two years later and we end up driving to Marie Orange City? And he said no that they they have repeatedly told those schools that they have no interest in in expanding to the north. Um so that says a little bit about how they feel about Council Bluffs. Um is so and I think that that was their goal.

091I think they thought that that would be an ideal situation if all four of us would do that and we'd have six and six which would be in my opinion would be great. Um, but going back to what we said before, we can only control us. Um, it's I just don't think those the other Hawkeye 10 schools that were invited are are there yet. Um, again, more my opinion, but I just the, you know, the the growing sentiment of the Hawkeye 10 that Lewis Central is not a fit concerns me a little bit and and where the conversation is going to go down the road. Um, and and I'm not saying they're wrong. If you look at that chart right there that's up there and you're just looking at classification or enrollment numbers, it's easy

092to to to formulate that opinion that Lewis Central is not a fit for the Hawkeye 10 when you're when you're looking at those things only. So I think some of those schools are the sentiment is growing that Lewis Central is not a fit. So I you know I don't know where that goes. At some point in time do they vote us out? You know, I I know that, and again, I don't know this, but I I know that the schools that they're trying to invite in want to know what we're doing first because they're they're probably more likely to join the Hawkeye 10 if we're not there just because of our size is what I hear. Um, so I don't, like I said before, I was kind of hinting at it and I guess I'll

093just won't hint at it now. I I I think this our fit in the Hawkeye 10 and is going to continue to be a question and and so I part of me worries that we're kind of kicking the can down the road so to speak if if but but I you know ultimately that's that's a community decision but I do have concerns in that area. Well, one of the things that didn't didn't get discussed was the state passed a law that uh requires the both the boys and the girls associations to develop a conference um committee. So the uh Iowa Association of High School uh sports for the boys and the girls association both now have a are they doing a joint committee? Is that what they're doing? >> Yeah. So they so they're doing

094a joint committee which is supposed to be reviewing conferences and making recommendations or final says or on who gets to be in what conference. So >> Oh, so the state may take the decision out of our hands anyway. >> The state may take the decision out of our hands anyway. So all it would take was is a couple complaints. From what I originally I I assumed that the committee was going to be very much a uh like a like a sounding board or an investigative committee, but they actually if you want to move conferences from one to the next, you actually have to apply to that committee. So, and from what I understand is if you want to be in a conference and and they're not letting you in, you can appeal to the committee.

095So I just think it's a matter of time before they make the concession of and I don't know this for sure but the concession of somebody saying we want Louis central doesn't belong in this conference and they make an appeal to the committee and the committee just says okay you you got to go find a new conference you know >> they'll make a recommendation so there's there's more there's more at stake than just us saying you know let's let's take a look you know it's I don't I don't want to you know again I'm I'm not from here. I've been here three years. I like it here. It's a great place. But, you know, I don't have the memories of taking a nice uh countryside stroll, you know, to Crestston or or, you know, Atlantic.

096You know, I I've I've not I've experienced the rivalries between us and Glennwood and us and Harland. And those are a lot of fun rivalries. And I think those rivalries will continue to stay. Just like if we stay in the Hawkeye 10, we'll continue to play MRC schools. There's only so many schools on this side of the state that that we're going to play. So for us saying, "Oh, we stay in the Hawkeye 10. We're not going to go to Sous City." That's false, too. We went to Sous City three times this summer for baseball softball. Like that's >> So the difference is is when you schedule games, and I think uh Coach Riggs, you know, kind of mentioned this, the difference between the the main conversation about the conferences is um is it going

097to change who we play? No, not necessarily. We're going to still play a lot of the Hawk 10 schools and we're still going to play a lot of the MRC schools. The difference is right now is we have to schedule all the MRC school or all the Hawk 10 schools first, which means that we have to schedule the St. Albert, the the uh Shannondoa, the Red Oaks. We have to schedule all those schools that um are shrinking in enrollment. But not only that, but they can't offer us, you know, a varsity JV reserve uh and freshman game. They can only offer us two. Can >> Oh, >> so on that >> on that train of thought. >> So, can the Sous City schools offer them? >> Because I'm kind of doubting that Council Bluffs can

098offer us that. >> Again, kind of goes back to to um sport. So, I'll use volleyball as an example. It's coming up and I was actually working on some of the schedules for we do a reserve. So, we do four levels in volleyball. Um, Glennwood is the only other Hawkeye 10 school I've I've been able to get to play in that fourth level. It's actually the third level, but of the of four. Uh, TJ and AL now do. We We play them. Um, I I struggle. We play in Omaha a lot with that group because I I have a hard time finding schools that have that fourth level of volleyball, for example. That's one example, but we play a lot in Omaha because that's just makes it easier. It's it's less travel. Uh, but we

099do play TJ and AL. Um, so in those sports, um, basketball, you know, girls basketball, it's hard to use as an example. The numbers in girls basketball are down everywhere. Um, so it's it's hard to say. I I think from a number standpoint, you're going to you're going to have a a better chance of of scheduling all the levels that you need at the MRC than you are the the Hawkeye 10. >> So, it's possible, but it's not a guaranteed enrollment is high. So, athletics is high. you get to pick from. I mean, the the numbers would >> Yeah. I mean, you look at those numbers, they're they're just automatically going to have more numbers. I mean, yeah, I I think if you look at the the top of the Hawkeye 10, it's going to

100be the same as the MRC. It's where you get to the bottom and the lower numbers. >> So, the the difference, like we talked about, I was talking about this with one of the community members, and they said, "We really like those rivalries with Glennwood and Harlland." And I said, I think I think the difference is is instead of scheduling the Hawkeye 10 first and and having to schedule the the the St. Albert, the Red Oak, the Keer, the Shannondoa, and then after that finding filling games with with the western area of De Moines and Sous City schools. Now, if you if you were to make the switch to MRC, you would schedule the MRC first and then you would fill your the rest of your schedule with the Dennis and Glennwood Harland. Um, Crest

101So you'd fill it the upper half of the of the of the Hawkeye tent. We probably wouldn't end up playing the bottom half of the Hawkeye 10 unless we had a lot more openings, you know. So um so that's probably the the difference is which one do you fill your schedule with first? You know, schools your same size or school smaller and then try to fill in. And then the the question that um uh that I read that statement that I read out loud about going you know looking at the de mo area schools again both of those conferences you know the the the travel is increased almost double and then and then uh one or two they they don't want us you know they so >> a comment I saw a lot and you

102two can speak to if this would be a complete nightmare but I saw a lot about being independent is that even an option >> we talked about this a little bit today. >> I I don't I I said to Dr. Hazing, "Tell me tell me a school in the state of Iowa that's independent. There isn't one." >> So, I mean, it would make it very very difficult to come up with a with a 40game baseball or softball schedule when you're an independent. You don't have any conference games scheduled for you. >> And logistically, I just feel like scheduling that would be >> Yeah, it would be it would it would almost be impossible. >> Well, one of the things he talked about was like look at volleyball for instance. All the conference volleyball games are

103played on Tuesday and Thursday night. So if you're not in a conference, you have no Tuesday, Thursday night games. All your volleyball games would be played on Mondays and Saturdays. So >> thank you. >> Yeah. And coach Riggs talked about and he made a great point about the 32 game schedule. Um I liked 32 game schedule to to some extent. I I know he said you'd go to Sous City times during the year. We go there three or four times now. Um, but now your kids are only playing twice a week and we play four or five times a week now to try to get to that 40 game because we we only only certain schools in the Hawkeye 10 will play do we play double headers with. So yeah, you're on your you're on

104the road to Sous City during the year. You also get probably at least two nights a week off where kids get to be kids rather than playing four or five nights. >> When I coached the Missouri Valley, we traveled six days a week. We practiced on Sundays. That was a small practice day. >> So, I I there's not a there really isn't a perfect scenario to to either one of either one of the conference choices. It's it's a matter of to me where where we fit best and and all of the factors that our community think are important. >> What do you think is the biggest Well, for me, it's like a pros and cons list. >> So, what would you say is our biggest pro and what would you say is our biggest con

105for moving to the MRC? >> Um, you know, looking at what what our what our people think is important. I think the biggest pro obviously is the level of competition. I know some people don't don't think that that the Hawkeye 10 or that the MRC is that much better than the Hawkeye 10. Um but I think top to bottom it probably is. I mean just just the size of the schools and and the number of kids they have that that that play sports. You're just you have more kids to choose from. So I sometimes how good your middle is determines how how tough that conference is. Um so so I think that's a huge pro. I think preparation for um for postseason which was another one that was really important I think as a pro

106our baseball team um our baseball team went 19 and one in the Hawkeye 10 this year and didn't have very many close games and then we went to um so we we played Sous City East who's ranked number one state to to go to state and you know very close game a couple mistakes here or there so we were right in that game and so to myself I'm thinking if we have a little bit tougher um schedule night in and night out. You know, are we are we a little bit more prepared for that scenario? You know, I I I think from a competitive standpoint, I think that's probably the pro. The con obviously is going to be the the travel, particularly in in your basketball and your baseball, softball. That that's just those are

107the sports where you play way more games, so you'll be on the road more. I think one of the one of the other notes is, you know, people talk about when you read through the comments, you know, somebody made a comment about uh there's more ranked schools in the Hawkeye 10 than there are in the MRC. And I think there's also schools from 1A 2A. you know, those hockey fan schools are ranked in 1A2A, you know, and I'm not saying there's anything about 1A2A that's not competitive for 4A, but you look at us, our baseball team was consistently the last since I've been here, we've been ranked like number one and 3A like all three years I've been here. We get to 4A and now we're not ranked number one like because there are there's

108just that many more schools. So when you have a lot of schools that are playing in that 3A4A division, it's much harder to be ranked in 3A 4A than it is to be ranked in 1A2A. So, and I and I'm not trying to discredit anything about those schools as trying to, you know, say, you know, because if you're ranked, I mean, good teams a good team, but it's not very often that you'll find a top ranked team in 1A or 2A that can also compete with the top ranked teams in 3A, 4A. True. You know, it's just it's it's just different bodies. It's different. You know, we we see that with like going to track this year. How many state records did we break in girls track this year? Or not state. Yeah. Our school

109records in track. >> Yeah. They probably half of them. We probably broke half our school records this year in girls track and two two or three places at >> We won three medals at state because we were in 4A instead of 3A. And we broke half of our half of our school records. So, it's just the level of competition is just very different in 4A than 1A or 2A. >> All right. So, we switched conferences. We're not in the top three or five and now the community wants or you know your community support is diminishing, your feeder programs are diminishing. What does that look like to you? Well, hope that never happens. Um, I honestly I I just don't have a lot of lot of conversations about conference championships. And and if you look up

110on there, that that was that didn't rank very high on on importance to people. I I think postseason I think postseason and and I think we've been a little bit spoiled. We've had a lot of success and and so people just expect us to to go to state and and have success. And so, you know, it's hard to say, but I I I think ultimately the success that you're having, whether it be at a state level or a conference level, that's always about looking in the mirror, not looking at who you're who you're playing against. >> You'll see preparation for postseason play is actually number two uh as far as most important. and um conference conference championships. Uh I go over here that a lot of people ranked at three, you know, that was in

111the middle of the road, first conference championships. Um it here's the deal. Conferences are just different than they were like when I was in high school. Like if we I played in the NAK in northeast Nebraska and if the championship basketball game in the NAK was it was like a state level event. like gym was just packed to the gills. I've been to championship games in both the Wick and the Hawkeye 10 for, you know, basketball or volleyball as well. Just not the same. Like the the it's just almost like college. Like nobody cares as much if you're a Big 10 champion anymore. Nobody care like not to say the conference aren't important. I don't want to say that. But people want to see how are you going to finish at state. I think a

112good a good point you made to me one time, Mr. Germany was when you talked about uh football, the best thing that ever happened to us was getting bumped up a class because in that people were nervous about us being able to compete when we went to 4A and not only did we compete but been in we've gone to the dome six years in a row. >> Yeah. Seven out of last eight >> was that >> seven out of eight. seven last eight, you know, and uh so I think and all it took was for us to be forced to play a little better competition and it was like boom. I mean, a lot of other factors. I mean, we have you we have probably one of the best run youth football uh programs in

113in America, maybe. I don't know. It's fantastic. So, >> yeah. Yeah, and I think conference championships have I think the um the value of winning the conference championship has diminished a little bit um from a Hawkeye 10 perspective because when we win the Hawkeye 10 conference, we've we won the conference that we're twice as big as every school except for two. So sometimes you look say, well, I mean maybe we should be winning the conference. Well, we talked about that. When a 4A school plays a 1A school, even if the 1A school is ranked number one in state, when the 4A school beats the 1A school, >> people don't think that's a big deal. They're like, "Oh, yeah, but you're a 4A school. You beat a 1A school." Be like, "Yeah, but they're number one

114in the state." They're like, "Yeah, but they're 1A. You're 4A. You're four times the size." But when a 1A school beats a 4A school, even if they're number one in the state, that makes a 4A school look really bad, you know? So playing 1A schools even if the competition like even if it helps our players get better from a from a perspective like if you're talking about perspective like that that's not a positive for us you know but so you got to balance that like I said having the occasional great game with a 1A school and getting our kids prepared because they're a really highly competitive team that's great paying a bunch of 1A and 2A schools most of which are not very competitive Not not great. >> Well, and you talked about the added

115cost to Sous City. Do you have that in your budget or what will be removed to make up for that? >> Um, again, as far as travel budget, that's that's somebody else's somebody else takes a closer look at than I do, but um hopefully we're taking we're we're traveling less in our non-conference schedule. um you know because because we have you know a little bit more competitive schedule you know I I look at that you know if if that were to play out I was just thinking in my head after coach talked about that in baseball and softball we've we went to uh we went to De Moine or or on average we go to De Moines probably four times a year in baseball u we were we were we were going to Sous City

116already um so we may we may go to De Moine less I I don't know If you look at the travel time and you look at the averages, I don't I don't know as though it honestly is is that much more to be honest with you. >> I I'd have to pencil and paper. >> I mean, to me, I'll be honest, the drive time to the schools doesn't mean anything to me because I don't drive a horse and buggy. So, I mean, whether I go north, whether I go east, >> really doesn't matter. There's six schools if there's six schools in the in the MRC that are beyond an hour 20. There's four schools in the Hawk 10 that are beyond an hour 20. So you're talking about two more trips. But again, we're already

117going to Sous City for part of the games. And even if we go to the MRC, we're still going to go to Harlem and Harland is, you know, an hour away. So >> the flip side of that is we have one school in city in our current conference, but we'll have two schools within 10 minutes. >> 10 minutes. Yeah. >> 15 minutes. Yeah. Yeah, that was obviously one of my biggest things looking at it. And comparisonwise, I I don't think that there is going to be a significant difference um in that um realm of things. >> Thank you. >> Is this the first time we've been in um given an invitation to join the MRC? >> I was thinking about that today. I know that there were conversations about this more than six years ago

118because I wasn't the ad at the time. I remember there being an article in the paper. I don't think that there was a and you may I don't think there was a formal invitation then, but I know that it was a topic of conversation. Yeah. >> I I don't remember a formal invitation. I remember >> conversation. >> A conversation. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> And if um we would vote this, what's the timeline? Is it two years from now? A year from now, two years from now. Is that >> So, we'll have to figure that out. The the invitation was for 2627. >> Um Okay. >> But the Hawkeye 10 bylaws say you are um expected to give two years. >> Two years. Okay. >> So, we'll have to we'll have to figure we'll have to

119figure that out. I my goal would be that would go 26 27 if you're going to make the move. Get it get it done and go. Um, but at the same time, if the Hawkeye 10's going through change and they're they're having schools come in, they're going to they're going to want us to leave. At the same time, those schools are coming in. So, they're not continually doing conference schedules over and over with schools leaving and coming at different times. So, haven't gone down that road yet, but the invite was for 2627. >> Okay. And then if the board wouldn't vote for this, the Hawkeye 10 can vote us out and we have to move somewhere. >> Yeah. >> Right. >> Correct. >> Okay. And so basically we're looking at it now. So we're making

120decisions for Lewis Central, not being forced by the Hawkeye 10 to make that decision. >> Correct. Correct. >> Or or potentially the state >> if that committee wants to get involved. Right. And like I said, we don't know how that's going to get involved yet. >> And what is that time frame? I mean, they have committee already in place. >> They're developing the committee now, right? >> Yeah. talked to one of the associate directors at the >> July one. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So, July one >> they they have not been given a lot of guidance. So, that I think the law just passed and now people are in the process of of trying to interpret what the law actually says. >> Um, I talked to one of the associate directors from the boys association

121today and he said they are awaiting guidance from the DE. So I think right now the the department of ed's trying to interpret their role and what it needs to look like and then the associations they'll give them guidance and then the they'll go >> to be a year before they even >> he told me that they will they will they are getting that information they're going to return um that they'll try to get back to me by Thursday. >> Okay. I mean, the way I view it right now, the RC with or the MRC when it comes to voting is you have the three Sous City high schools. That's three votes. I'm sure that Sergeant Bluff doesn't always get along with two Sou City schools. >> You know, sure that Healin doesn't always get

122along with two city schools. If we were to join, we would join the CB schools and we would have three boats. So, it' be this like right now >> it's two versus three really, you know. So, then if you add us, it's three versus three. So it evens the playing field a little bit. >> My and like again the easy path honestly is just stay with the hawk tent. Like that's the easy path. Like that's that's you stay we know it. We know the way it is and we just we let the cards of fate be where they go you know and uh this this would be this would be the alternative. This would be something new. But at the same time as I think about it you know a year ago I told Mr.

123Germany absolutely not. I'm not doing that. But then as you start looking at it, you're like, I don't know much changes for us, you know, as far as scheduling or anything. I I don't know that we'll still play all the same teams that we do now. It's not nothing really changes. So then the question is is do you and I I love playing devil devil's advocate, by the way. This is why I'm doing this. So because it's your job to make the decision, not mine. So I'm going to make it more complicated for you. So to play devil's advocate, if we're going to play all the same teams anyway, you know, why make the switch, you know, >> right? But at the same time, again, I'm not one that likes to sit back and have

124people tell us what to do, especially when I feel like we're we're, you know, we can stand on our own two feet. So, it's it's just it's just a tough decision. But again, I don't think it's I think fortunately, I don't think there's a there's a I don't think there's a lose option here. You know, we go to a new conference, we play a little bigger schools, but we get to still play at the same rivalries that we have now. little bit more of a travel for some nights, but then like baseball softball, we have more nights free during the summer because we play all double headers, you know, so you know, versus stay in the Hawk 10 and then we'll still go up to Sous City and we'll still play those teams because that's

125really the only options we have. So, >> and then they can vote us out. >> Yeah, MRC could vote us out, too, if we go up there and start beating them, you know. >> Is there a chance that the state committee ends up making new conferences? I don't I don't know if they would go that far to where they go in and and give everybody a conference, but they do it in football, so you never know. >> Well, we've heard that that that's the there there's a possibility cuz like what they do districtricting in football is what it's called, right? So, you have districts, so there's no conference sports in football. They could end up doing districtricting in a in a lot of other sports as well. Um, so there's there's a couple people that

126are on their their board that would like to see that happen, but they don't have the votes to do it. Um, from what I understand. Uh, that would be interesting, too. Again, it's we can't control any of that. Like, >> it is interesting though because at first when they started this committee, that's what the legislators were talking about is they wanted and it all starts because of those eastern schools and really because of private schools because people don't like the private schools in their conferences because they win. And so then they wanted to make a law that basically said, you know, this the the state association needs to come up and they need to create conferences. Okay. Well, a lot of people are like, wait a minute, don't don't mess with our conferences. So now

127it's then it became a we're we're going to have them do advisory. You're going to advise schools of who should be in what conference and how you're going to do it. So that's I anticipated this committee coming out and basically giving like recommendations for schools. But now I'm being told by the schools that are looking to move or shift or whatever that they have to apply to these to this committee to approve their alignment with this new conference and if they don't get in the conference they can apply to this committee to basically force their way into the conference. It's so now it feels like the committee is expanding again and again it's all probably based on interpretation and what they're trying to figure out what is their scope. So, >> and if the state

128does step in and start to determine who's in what conference, that's that sheet right there. That data that's up on the board, that's that's what will be used that those will be the the the factors. Football is the same way. football and I and and and I don't mean this in as a negative in in on Haro at all because it's football and it's not even conference related but it's a little bit of how just the shift in enrollment is is changing how how people do things. So in football we we have a district that state gives us so those are that's the five games we play in district the four non-dist also determines who those are but they give you a little bit of a say on who you play. So we we all

129put seven teams on a list that we would like to play for non-district. And if you put somebody one or two and that school puts you one or two, they'll guarantee you that game. Well, we redistrict this year and so when we went in, we put our seven teams that we want to play for non-distric. Zero teams in the state put Louis Ventro on the list. Nobody. And in the past, we've always had Harland. Our own Harwin was always a that was always our a simple conversation. Hey, you you're putting us one. We're going to put you one. Well, after we played them in football last year, after the game was over with, they told their coaches told our coaches, "We're done playing you guys. You guys have gotten too big. Uh, you're twice our

130size. It's just not a good game for us to play anymore." Um, so Harland, Harland's, uh, they're they're playing Underwood. Actually, the state is making them play us one more time in football. So, they did put them on the schedule, but but Harland Harland's playing Underwood. Harin uh, you know, they were trying to get Trainer and Clarenda to play non-district. Um, so again, I'm not telling that telling that story to to diminish Haro. I'm just saying that where the conference is going from a growing standpoint, from an enrollment standpoint, um, I'm just concerned about Louis Central future in the conference. >> Right. Well, and then that also supports that even though we've been in the Hawkeye 10 for all these years, 55 or it was Hawkeye 8 first and Hawkeye 10, things change. we're growing,

131so we need to change, too. And um I don't know if right now is the time, but I'm glad we have the discussion so we have this information when we have to make the decision. >> Any other questions, comments for Mr. Derby? So, if they were to vote us out, does that automatically give us an invitation >> to go to the Missouri River? >> No. So, if we if we were to decline the invitation now and then turn around and that happens, then we would have to then we have to go through we'd have to apply to go to the MRC. Um, which concerns me. We tell them no now and then >> we get left out and then we come back. >> Yeah. Hey, never mind. We want to come with you. >> Well,

132I get I get more nervous about the fact that then if we deny and they have three schools in the north that say we want in, >> right? >> Is it easy is it easier for them to say let's go north and even if we lose council bless and I guess we could just have an inner city league with us three schools just our own little tiny conference. So, >> but you know, like I said, we we you guys just it's just based on what can we control right now with our and I would I would go back and read the comments again like the people that spoke tonight were obviously very in favor of staying with the Hawkeye 10. There's a lot of people online that obviously the majority of people online are in

133favor of going to the MRC. >> So, I think even though they didn't come and talk, I think you need to read through their comments and take their feedback as well. So, >> some insightful comments. >> There are some funny comments in there. Yeah, >> just like anything. >> Yeah. Thank you guys. >> Thank you for all your time tonight. >> We'll move on to 8.04 blackbox HVAC re repair bid. >> Okay. Um, so this is that this is that and if Jim was here, he would he would cuss out new uh new technology because apparently they put in in this new HBAC. Now they put in these aluminum coils instead of used I don't even know what this is. Like used to be steel coils. Now they're aluminum coils and aluminum coils these things

134are junk, but that's what comes in all new stuff now. So, but they can be good if they're installed the right like a certain way. Now, the this our blackbox HBAC was installed to spec, but it was done not in the way in the best way, you know, it was like you're good enough type of deal. So, we've been having issues with it ever since we got it going. The second we ran out of uh warranty with it, they the company that installed it had nothing to do with us, which makes sense. We're out of warranty. Like that's it is what it is. So Jim has worked with a couple different companies trying to figure out how to how to fix these. And now I think we're just going to go straight to train. It's

135it's a train uh technology. We're going to have them come out and they'll fix it and then they'll give us a small warranty to be done with it as well. So, um, but there's two circuits need to be repaired. Circuit one, 21,156 and circuit two. So, Jim's recommendation is just do it, be done with it, and then that way we we know it's we know it's good. um if they come out and do it at the same time that we're still having those other HBAC work done, he thinks he can make sure they he thinks our like lamp will do us a solid and and kind of help kind of look through it when they're done and make sure that like at least another engineer has had an eye on it so they know it's

136>> you know fixed the proper way. So >> any questions, comments? I hate sometimes you just get a dud I guess you know just like trucks and everything else but >> I think that was part of the co I guess um >> since we were building during that time I think this is kind of the casualty or something from it because I don't think >> I know >> we had issues with contractors and getting supplies and getting everything and so I have a feeling that's what this mostly. >> It could be and I like I said, if Jim was here, he could tell you, but he's like, "Well, you're supposed to install it using using these materials and this and this." And he goes, "And they didn't use it. They used an inferior material, but

137it was still >> okay, but it's >> up to code. >> It's up to code, but it's not the right." >> So, anyway, right. >> I know you talked about it one time with him. I can't remember what he was talking about, but >> the A coils. >> Yeah. I have no idea. >> Didn't go to HBA school, so HBAC school. Apparently I didn't go to alphabet school either. Can't get them all right. >> So was that for complete units? They couldn't have been. >> No, that's just doing all the >> just coils and stuff. >> Yep. Yep. Doing all the coils. Basically replacing a lot of the a lot of the mechanical portion of it. So >> way less than replacing them, but still. >> Yeah, that's after I asked >> change. >> Yeah,

138you're not changing at all for that. >> No, it'd be a couple hundred,000. We move on to 8.05 track maintenance bid. >> So track is uh was installed in 2014. Um obviously we're 11 years you're supposed to do um they're only made to last about 8 to 10 years. So we're a year beyond it. uh they can do one maintenance coat on it and basically what that is is they take a like a rubber fill substance and they go and they spray it all on all the way around the track and it fills all the cracks and it basically makes it like a new surface and then you can get another 8 to 10 years out of it. Um we are right at that cusp of them not being able to do it. They came

139out and gave us a quote in the spring but all their dates were chosen and we I'm like well because you have to basically be off it for a week and I'm like and the only dates they gave us were like football season. They're like, "Oh, we can come in on a Monday and you'll play by Friday night." And I said, "We're going to practice. We also have like JV games and junior high games and freshman games and reserve games and you know that happen during the week. We just can't abandon a field for a week during the season." So then I said, "I'm going to carry it over to next year. We'll do it next summer." And and they said they said, "Well, if you have a tough winter," he's like, "You might not

140be able to. You we might have to scrape it and redo it, which could cost, you know, the budget for that is $300 to $400,000." And I said, "Well, that's not good." But we didn't have any other option. I couldn't be off of it. So then apparently they're ahead of schedule somehow or somebody fell off the schedule and they had June 28th, which is next week or July 28th next week, open. And that happens to be our dead week. It is like the prime time to do it. So I'm going to make the recommendation that we lock it in and just get it done and then we get 8 to 10 years. It's all whether we do it now or we do it in June, it's all in the same budget cycle anyway because our

141budget runs June July 1st through June 30th. So it'll come off of our yearly maintenance budget. So it was right now spec to be done in June. We'll do it now, be done with it, and at least we'll um we know we can get it done and comes out of the same pot of money. We did have another company reach out to us uh came out and kind of walk through. was the only other company I know in the area that does it. And their maintenance quote was somewhere in like the 118s and 120. And so I said kind of asked them, I said, you know, I said, "Well, the other bid we got was like in the 70s, like upper 70s, low 80s." And they're like, "Who's doing that? They can't do that." I

142said, "Well, we got another bid for that." So, I mean, they didn't even turn in a bid to me then because it was going to be $30,000 more. So, I do only have the one bid, but Midwest is actually the one that installed the track. They've installed our football field. They've done all the work for us. I love working with them because if we have any issue whatsoever, they come out and fix it and they don't charge us anything. So, versus getting these companies out of Kansas City or Oklahoma come up and do it and then you never see them again. So, >> any questions, comments? Is there any way to make it last longer? >> No. 8 to 10 years is kind of the deal. >> You could do like old cinder track. We

143had that in Missouri Valley for a long time. That lasts forever. >> The what? The cinder track. >> Oh yeah. >> What is that? >> It's like a >> Gravel. Hard dirt track. >> Like red. Little red cinders. >> Yeah. Ours is white though. >> I'm sorry. Valley was white. >> Ours was like a covering or protective coating that >> and when you fell >> Oh gosh. >> Yeah. I don't Yeah, I know. I know. This is kind of that coating, but you can do it once and then you're toast after that. I know that the track guys wanted me to be blue. When is this truck? >> Uh 20 20 actually it might have been No, it's 2014 it was installed. >> So yeah, >> I was going to say 2012, but Missouri Valley

144was 2012. This is 2014. >> Any other comments? >> Okay, we'll move on to 8.06 6 to a central radon mitigation plan. >> Um so by state and by state law we have to have a radar or radon mitigation plan that was put in place in 2022. Now we didn't we had until 2027 to actually do the do the radon mitigation. Um so I wasn't concerned about it but Jim just came to me and said it's got to be on our website. So we've had a radon mitigation plan. It's just it's um super simple. Uhoh. Where'd it go? Hold on one second. >> We don't have a plan on ours. >> Yeah, apparently we don't have a plan. I swear I sent it to her. One second here. Let me pause this. Thank you for

145your patience. Go back to the I'll show that for now. You out there in the community can take a look at that page while I go over to my email and find All right, let's bring the audience back to the uh All right, here is the radon mitigation plan. This is He got this from another school. Um, order to comply with the law. Lewis Central School Board. Um, shoot too far. Will adopt the current and or future director of building and grounds to be in charge of implement all testing and mitigation necessary to comply with the Iowa code. We'll contract and schedule an outside firm who employs an Iowa certified radon measurement specialist to complete the required testing. It test for 5 years. will perform testing in the following buildings uh on the following dates.

146So, he would like to do Craft uh and Titan Hill this fall and then the high school the next one and the middle school the next one. And then you'll be put on a 5-year testing schedule following the initial testing. And Louis Central Schools will post the plan and all test results to the school website. We'll follow up on any testing indicates radon levels above a four PCIL um by contacting radon mitigation specialist. Mitigation is required to be completed within two years of first test and then we'll incorporate radon resistance construction techniques into into uh future building projects. Um so that's it. That's all that needs to be approved. But one of the companies that does all of our a lot of our um like elevator testing right now they do radar radar mitigation. One

147of the things we don't want to do is we don't want to hire because the first people that radar reach out about m or radon mitigation testing are the radon mitigation companies who love to do the work. So we're going to make sure that we get it done by an independent firm and then if we need to employ the services of radar mitigation radon mitigation company then we will. So >> and and what's the timeline? What was the this fall >> right here? So we would do Craft and Titan Hill this fall. And really what it does is you hire a company. They come in, they put a little box in every room and I think it's there for 24 or 48 hours and then they come collect the boxes and then they do the

148testing and then they send your results. >> I was hoping the middle school was later. >> Yeah. Yeah. Middle school would be last because we want to do it after after construction. Yep. >> Should we do it prior to or during construction? That way if we would have to put in the radon vents, we're not tearing stuff out again. >> Yeah, potentially. Do you know uh Andrea, do they do they uh treat radon mitigation like they do asbestous mitigation? You can pay it out of management fund. >> I have not seen it on there, but I have honestly not looked specifically for that because I've never had it be. So if you have to abate if you have to abate uh asbestous you can actually reimburse yourselves out of the management fund. So if that's

149the case that would be preferable to having to spend you know bond money on radar because radon mitigation gets so expensive. But to your point if we're going to have to do the mitigation anyway why not do it at the same time as the construction. So, yeah. I mean, we could we could just flip-flop these dates and do the middle school now and move Titan Hill to later if that's >> Well, if >> that would make sense. >> Well, I was just thinking like if you if you do it on a new home, you can build it into the wall, >> right? >> You do it on an existing home, then you have the PVC and the canister outside the house. >> Touche. So, I was just thinking >> that makes the wall's torn apart.

150We could kind of hide it, you know. >> Yep. 100%. >> Do you guys have any problem with doing that? Just flip-flopping? >> No. But, um, I'm just wondering if there's anything that would, if they're working on drainage or if they're doing things, would that change it then? And then you would have the issue >> have an issue after they disturb the >> they right right >> potentially but then you'd be retesting in five years anyway >> I guess the question I have is are the mitigation steps for a house the same as what you do in a school or would they have to do something different? Oh, I don't know. In a house. In a house. I have one in project. >> I'm going to phone a friend quick. >> Okay. >> Well, and

151then that can be discussed >> later. Yeah. If you guys are approving the plan though, I'm just going to ask Jim. Let's just call Jim because he's been doing the research on this. I'll pull it up the microphone. Can they hear it in the microphone? >> Let him know he's on the microphone. >> He's on air. >> Hey. Okay. We're in the board meeting. We're talking about radar mitigation. Can you talk real quick? >> Yes. Okay. >> You want to come back? >> No, no, you're good. Hey, uh, one question came up. Should we move the middle school radon mitigation to like right away so that way if we have to do any mitigation that we include it with the with the with the addition with the renovation next summer? >> Um, you have you

152can't do it during the summer. The school has to be in session when you do the testing. >> No, no, no, no. We would do the testing this fall. >> Oh, I mean, >> but that way, but that way when we do the when we do the the renovation next summer, if mitigation is needed, then we would then we would do the mitigation the same time as the renovation, so we could hide the pipes and stuff. >> Oh, I see what you're saying. Uh, yeah, that would make kind of sense. now because if it's bad levels, do we have to test again in five years or do we have to get the work done within two years? >> Yeah, there's there's a process that you have to go through and there would be a retesting.

153Um and then I mean we could move straight to mitigation if we thought it was a problem, >> but there there is a process that you have to go through that you have to retest. I don't have it in front of me. I am in my truck. >> You're fine. >> But there is a process that you have to go through. Um, and event that would eventually lead to mitigation if if it didn't remedy itself. >> Or would it be better to do it after the soil and stuff is disturbed? >> Or is it to better better to do it after the soil is disturbed, like when they do the parking lot next summer? Well, I I was going to um I thought we would we'd be better to wait till after the project's done,

154but I hadn't really considered the the fact that when we're renovating, we can hide pipes and stuff on part of the mitigation. So, I mean, that's a valid point. Um >> I think it's probably any building that's going to have have it. It would probably be the middle >> the lower levels of that. Yeah. >> Yeah. I do agree. >> Okay. Okay. So, why don't we move since Titan Hill is elevated, why don't we move Titan Hill to to 2026 along with the high school and we'll do Craft in the middle school and we'll just change it on here. >> We'll do Craft in the middle school this fall. >> Yeah. Okay, that sounds great. I will uh I will get a hold of Atlas and make that change. >> Okay. Okay. >> And I've

155got one more question. >> Yep. Yep. Tim's got a question. So if if we find out that mitigation is needed, is there a timeline as to when we have to have that completed? >> Two years. >> I think it's three years, but I'm not 100% certain to be honest. >> You you Jim, I have it pulled up. If testing indicates radar levels above 4 PCI for a leader, >> he has it right here in the plan. He curies. Yes. Y in the plan. If it's >> the mitigation plan must be completed within two years of the first test date. >> You have it in your plan, Jim. How do you not have this memorized? >> Thank you for not looking at it while you're driving. >> Okay. So, we'll do we'll do Titan Hill and

156uh in the high school in the fall of 26 and we'll do Craft in the middle school in the fall of 25. >> Okay. >> I can make the changes. >> Okay. Is that what I'm hearing from you guys? Is that good? >> That works. >> Okay. >> All right. Sounds good. Thanks, Jim. >> Thank you. >> Byebye. >> All right. There we go. >> Good idea bringing that up. >> Yes. Very. Yeah. Look at Director Sturm coming coming through in the clutch. Good job. Any other questions, comments? >> All right. 8.07 7 operational sharing agreements. >> So, we had two operational sharing agreements last year. I'm just looking to continue them this year. One is transportation director um sharing with Missouri Valley. Um it's like on a consulted basis. They pay us $10,000 and

157then we each get four students at roughly $8,000 a piece uh at our account. And then um HR director uh we've been sharing uh Jenny Wright with Underwood again. Uh Jenny uh does consulting with their HR department and make sure that helps them with a lot of their um rules and regulations and making sure that they're um up to date. Again, they reimburse us $10,000 for her time and then we both get, you know, four students at $31,000 total um added to our state funding. benefit for both these is is like according to state you have to have an HR director and you have to have a transportation director well the smaller schools don't necessarily have the budgets for a full-time director so they get you know incentivized through the state to then share services

158so on paper you know Mr. Stokens, Missouri Valley's transportation director, and he'll consult with them on a weekly basis. And same thing with uh Jenny Wright with HR and Underwood. So, >> has there been any issues or anything with them? >> No, they both reached out and asked uh asked to continue and neither uh Chuck nor Jenny have any issues with it. >> Okay. >> They're not utilized that frequently. Um but so >> it's not a it's not an additional burden at all. So >> any other questions, comments. >> Okay. Moved to 8.08 student personal electronic use policy second reading. This hasn't changed. I didn't really receive uh much feedback from last time. So, if if uh there's anything you guys want to necessarily change on here, again, we we're ready to communicate it out.

159We have a um Emma has a easy to read. I can show you guys uh real quick here. >> I think the latest one I sent you through chat. >> Oh, did you send it in chat? Yep. So, this is just mimics the policy and it's just a one one page. So, if you guys approve this tonight, she'll have it up on the website and sent out to parents tomorrow. Do we have any place where they have to acknowledge parents have to acknowledge that they've read things or they've received the handbook or >> Yep. So as part of registration they have to acknowledge they've received the handbook and then that's in the when we look at the handbook changes. This is primarily the handbook changes. So, >> any additional questions, comments? >> And does this

160say by Iowa law? >> Oh, right here. In accordance with Iowa House File 782. >> Okay, I see it. >> We've adopted the following policy. >> Okay. >> And then again, uh here's copy of the policy here. This talks about what an electronic device is may face disciplinary consequences up to including suspension or expulsion. So, and then that's that the then the disciplinary action changes in the handbook. So, it does once this becomes a policy it the one thing that I just want to make clear is once it's a policy all staff are required to enforce all policies. So if you don't, it's just like anything. If we have a policy on, you know, on uh I don't know, chewing on school grounds, can't chew on school grounds. If you chew on school grounds, you're

161probably going to get written up. Like all all staff members are required to ensure that students aren't utilizing technology in their classroom. So if they allow technology use to be happening in your classroom, they're technically violating court policy just like any policy, you know. So we will reiterate that to staff and just say please. And honestly, like that usually becomes the biggest um source of conflict among staff members themselves is when one group of staff members is allowing or individuals are allowing students to do things that the other ones say they're not supposed to. And so we're just going to take it off their plate and say it's board policy, you're not allowed to do it. So just FYI. >> Yeah. >> Any other comments, questions? Okay. 8.09 Titan Hill exterior envelope and door frame

162design agreement. >> Yep. So, this is uh BCDM um who's doing our uh high school edition and and middle school renovation. Uh they gave us a quote to go around and do all the Titan Hill exterior envelope and doorframe design agreements. According to the city, we got to have um engineered drawings for all this because they're structural in nature. So, but so this is the uh this is the recommendation or this would be my recommendation is to have BCDM. They're getting pretty they've done great work for us so far. I feel like they're very competitively priced. So, >> is there anything you're changing >> that? Just basically structure for structure is kind of what we're looking at. So, taking outdoors, putting indoors. Um, same thing with windows and the outside. There's a variety of masonry

163issues as well, like uh tuck pointing and that kind of stuff that >> needs to be addressed. Any other comments? Okay, we'll move to 8.10 10 2026 high school mechanical design agreement. >> Uh and again here you go. You can just see this is the time. Sorry, I'll go back real quick. Forgot they had a timeline here. So they've already been on site to look through it. They've done a couple walkthroughs. There have construction documents truck created so that way we can get early bidding on it so we can try to get some preferential pricing. And then um obviously uh uh yeah, I mean they'll kind of knock it all out. They'll be done by see when are they bidding. They would bid this November is what they would do. And then they would be

164done August 26. So all right. Sorry about that. And then the next one, high school mechanical design agreement. This is the same thing. This but this is for kind of the second part of the high school um mechanical. So this includes uh like the HBAC systems over like the locker rooms and the wrestling room and the band areas. Uh we would like to take that whole wing off of the chiller. So then the chiller just focuses on the remainder of the building. Um and then also uh a lot of the little controls and that kind of stuff. So we kind of did the really big stuff this this summer and then we'll do um kind of the second half next summer for the high school mechanical. So Morsy Engineering who um we had design our

165current um chiller system. So we'll have them do the next section as well. $57,250 to to do 2026 stuff. Do we know that the new chiller won't keep up? >> Um, I think it was kind of designed with with the thought in mind that we are going to do like this kind of phasing was kind of in kind of kind of pre-esigned when they when they did it. So the like for instance the wrestling room is one that they would love they have access to control their own because they of course want it 95 degrees in there when they wrestle you know. So >> that's one of the areas that they wanted in um I think it's only two units though if I remember right. I think it's one over the wrestling room and then

166it's one over like one that controls the the whole wing of like the band uh choir and then locker room area. So, >> but this is only for designing it. >> This is just for designing it. Yeah. And then there's a bunch of the controls controls that are in there as well. So, >> this is where they get you all the all the design stuff. >> Welcome to government government construction. >> Doesn't mean I have to like it. >> I agree. I don't like it either. Any other questions, comments? Okay, then we'll move to 811, student handbook updates. Uh, but still more stuff. All right, so here are the updates uh for this year. So, elementary member Titan Hillen crafted the same handbook. So, they updated the staff names, updated the board policies, updated uh

167the lunch cost, changed the field trip policy to state that parents may sign their children out after a field trip. So, originally it said that all parents must ride the the the bus back or the kids must ride back after the field trip. We weren't really doing that anyway. So, I said, "Well, if we're not doing it, don't leave it in there. Change it." Like, because we've allowed parents to sign out their kids. really doesn't make any sense if you're leaving the zoo at 2:30 to have to follow them back to school to get them. Like just take them with you. It's fine. >> Um the cell phone policy update uh that you guys just uh will vote on here in a bit. Uh updates start time. So this is the biggest change. So we've

168rolled back the start time a little bit. We've added five minutes to the day at both Crept and Titan Hill. that actually allows us um to be more in line with middle school and high school when it comes to instructional days. So, there's times where, you know, with snow days and stuff, just by adding five minutes to a school day, I I add like two and a half school days onto the calendar. So, it's just important when it comes to snow days and those types of things that I don't have to run up against that that ending. And then um visitors uh will need to show ID along with getting so that's part of that raptor visitor management system. So they are updating that uh the disciplinary matrix this is their major minor system. Uh

169they're to update one thing when it comes to student threats. um changed his from trimesters to semesters. And then uh Manny Clanton, our um head nurse, changed uh a couple uh uh policies here. So feverree without medication to return to school. That replaces the 24-hour feverree, you know. So before it was like you might be feverree, but then you have to wait another 24 hours. Well, now it's just just feverree. I mean, that's so hard to track when it's like 24 hours. People lie anyway. They're like, "Oh, yeah. They didn't have a fever since yesterday when they just broke, you know." So, come to school, don't have a fever, we'll move on. So, um, middle school, same thing here. Uh, a lot of the changes are due to semester. Uh, trimester semester changing staff names.

170Um, uh, let's see. When the board policy was updated, they changed that. They updated the fees. They removed the Titan honor role. It's now part of the wall of fame criteria, so it didn't need a section of its own. Disciplinary matrix, they make a small um couple small changes there. Cell phone policy be updated. Remember, we combined the anti-bullying, anti-harassment, that was two policies. This ISB recommended changing it to one, so they put that in there. Uh wall of fame criteria was updated to include semesters And then um really that's about it. Nutrition services, we have a new payment program. We're going away from e funds and we're going to what or not? Yeah. >> Uh we're going from total K12 to meal magic. >> Oh yeah. Total K12 to meal magic. Is it magical?

171>> Well, it's our uh we didn't really have an option since total K12 told us they were closing. So >> Oh, okay. >> And this one integrates with P school and with e funds. So >> Oh, good. So still e funds. So I'll still put money in >> eons or you can actually go through straight through magic meal magic if you'd like to as well. You have multiple options. >> Can I can I put money on certain students accounts versus like just as like a family account? >> Yeah. Meal magic will be separate. So each student will have their own account, but you can move it between if you wanted. >> So I can one of your children, say you put a $100 on each child at the beginning of the year and one of

172your children donate, you could move it to the other. >> Cuz here's the thing. As a kid going into middle school, I really want to track how many cookies and Propel waters that she's buying at school. >> Yeah. And you can also restrict those if you don't want her buying cookies or Propels. >> Very cool. Yes. Okay, that's good. >> The good news is she can even buy it for her friends. >> That's great. >> That is great. >> We had that problem. Yeah. >> Yeah, that's how that works. >> Okay, good to know. It'll be uh it's like a country club all over again where >> it's all free because it's just a number. Yeah. Don't have to give them any money. >> What was the name of that program again? >> Meal magic.

173>> Say it one more time. >> Meal magic. Just to clarify. >> Meal magic. Cuz I kept hearing 24K magic and I was like Bruno Mar >> total K12 was our board policies that we're changing. It's just the changes we've already approved. >> Correct. >> That's okay. The only one that's not yet approved is cell phone. You guys will make that decision in >> in separate vote. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> One thing in the the handbook that you were just reading off um the uh graduation credits, are those updated? >> Yeah. So, that's that was just middle school so far. Yep. We're just getting to high school right now. >> Oh, sorry. >> Nope. You're good. >> Luckily, there's no graduation credits in middle school yet. So um so high school work trimester was

174updated semesters in several location here they updated fees the price of the yearbook actually went up the publisher sets the price there so it goes from 65 $75 a year um they eliminated all of these this these words here let's see we all went to the same language across the >> nutrition accounts >> for this. So this is the language that was changed for everybody. So prepayment accounts can be made through meal magic and e funds. Look at that. I can set monitor set spending limits. That'll be be useful. Sorry Ryland be able to buy your popularity. Um, a lot of language is still very consistent with what we had before. So, they updated their bell schedules because they're going from a sixth period to 8 period schedule. Digital ID, so all students will be

175assigned a digital ID. Digital ID, which they can access on their cell phones or school issued Chromebooks. You can also get a printed. This is the This is ID. When kids come to school, they'll scan themselves in. If they're coming after arrival or leaving before dismissal, they'll scan in and they'll scan out. So that way we have an accurate it'll be reflect in their powers school that you know they scanned in, they scanned out. So um that'll help too with a lot of times we'll get like a like a kid will just leave and we'll count them absent and then the parents like well my kid said they were there. you know, be like, "Well, they weren't they weren't in class." Like, that didn't happen. Or even worse is they were there, but they were

176counted absent at the beginning because they weren't there, and then when they showed up, the teacher didn't go back and fix the absences. Everything will be every time you leave the building in the middle of the day or arrive, it'll be like the student's responsibility to scan in and out. So, as a parent, you'll know all the time where they're at. Shoot. Um, cell phone policy that changed. I want to go back here. Sorry. High school had the most changes. Um, students participating in school activities must be in five classes the day for the event to happen. So, seniors must be in three classes they participate. This used to be different because there was only six period days. So if you uh want to come, you have to be there for over half the day.

177They talked about instead of doing excused and unexcused absences, we're using the words verified and unverified absences. Um and then this reflects, you know, if you have more than nine absence in a class during a term because our terms change, trimesters were shorter. They were, you know, 12 weeks versus 18 weeks. Um, college visits. We're encourag encouraging kids to visit college. Same the same language on weekends or school holiday. However, if they cannot be arranged, please notify um the office because we need to verify your absence now with the new truency laws. So, dances. So, this is kind of new language. We've been doing this with the dances. We're not these are not public events open to all because of the number of students that we have now like at the high school. We actually

178allow juniors and seniors to bring um guests to like the big dances like the homecoming dance and a prom like as far as out of town guests. So freshman and sophomores they can attend the dance, they can attend with their friends. We do not allow you to bring out of town guests. Freshman, sophomores, it just becomes a it becomes a nightmare. So we become the place to be in council bluffs at night. So um we had an issue with this last year. So we're putting in the policy students are prohibited from wearing costumes at school um including holidays that promote costumes unless there's special permission provided by administration like homecoming days etc. We had an issue with students wearing fullon costumes to school and it cut being a distraction and there was nothing in, you

179know, so they're technically abiding by the the dress code. So now we're just kind of eliminating that. So now they will not be abiding by the trust code. Um, this is just nuisance items. They took out all the cell phone stuff because that has its own policy now. So now it has its own cell phone policy and then again the anti-bullying anti-harassment policy changed. You had already previously uh changed that. Restrooms. So they added a restroom policy in here. Uh students are expected to use the restroom facilities only for intended purpose. Loitering or hanging out in the restroom is prohibited. To ensure a safe, respectful environment, students must use stalls individually. No more than one student is allowed per stall at any time. If students are found sharing stalls, they'll be subject to searches and

180disciplinary action. Failure to follow these restroom restroom rules and expectations may result in consequences ranging from detention to suspension. Additionally, students who violates policy may lose use the privilege to use multioccupancy restrooms, which means they'd have to go to the staff restrooms, you know, to be able to use those. Additionally, students who violates policy may lose privilege. Oh, wait. In such cases, supervised restroom plan will be implemented. That's our number one biggest issue at in any really in any building is restrooms. Kids love hanging out in restrooms. They love >> Really? >> Oh, >> I never found anybody that wanted to hang out when I was in the restroom. >> I I never did either. I thought it was weird, but No, they >> It's a thing. >> And And you'll walk in I'll walk

181in the bathroom when I'm there and there'll be three, four boys standing in a stall and I'm And you know, chances are they're not doing anything great. like you're poor guys hanging out in the stall like so >> that's that's a they love to do the the vaping and the other things in there. So >> So yeah, that's the biggest hangout place. So we have a policy in there now. So please don't hang out in the restrooms. Um and then they added weapon replicas and lookalikes. And then they just changed some of their some of their uh rubric behavior here. So, and added, you know, detention suspension one to three days based on cell phones. One of the things we did talk about and just and this is actually in the policy that you guys

182looked at is if a kid has their cell phone out and you say put it away and they put it away, they can still get disciplined. Be like like first, you know, maybe the first time is like a warning like hey like next time you have it out like you're going to I'm going to have you take it to the office. Okay. Next time you take it out, I'll be like, "Hey, I'll pick on Director Sterm. You got your cell phone out again. You got to take it to the office." If you get up, take it to the office, no issue. You know, you're going to lose it for the rest of the day. It's going to be in the office. But big deal. If you argue or you say no, that instantly is no

183longer a cell phone electronic device issue. That's now an insubordination issue, which is an automatic suspension. So, so the biggest thing there is if is we will not cuz people will get that mixed up to be like my kid got suspended for having her cell phone on. No, your kid got suspended because they refuse to follow a directive. That's called insubordination. That's the best thing we can do for our teachers and our staff is to be really strict on that because that's what's going to get that's what's going to make this an easy thing to follow. You know, like if you just comply and say, "Yep, you're right. I'll take my phone down there. Shoot. I can't have it out anymore. Like, no issue. But you argue, then it's going to create a nightmare for

184our staff to try to enforce. So, uh, concurrent enrollment, uh, that's just they just kind of add to the same language that the state has. Uh, learning lab. So, this is a dedicated intervention extension period designed to support student learning on essential standards. Provide students a focused time to receive additional help. they're struggling or to engage in extension activities, deepen their understanding, learning lab sessions are held every Tuesday and Thursday. So learning lab, so we always had we've always had Titan times, learning lab is like alongside Titan times like Monday, Wednesday, Friday then is like more of your Titan time. Tuesday, Thursday is your learning lab. Um and then study hall, we're going to have a lot of study halls and we've never really had time for study halls before. So, they had to have

185a study hall um period in here. That's it. So, a lot of updates, but they're all based on policies that you guys changed either in May or June or potentially tonight. So, any other questions, comments regarding the handbook updates? Okay. Okay. Then we'll move into the second portion of our meeting where we open the floor to comments and suggestions. Do we have anybody online? >> Okay. >> All right. Then we will move straight into action items. So, do I just combine 10 one or just go with >> No, you have to approve one and two separately. >> Okay. Then we'll go into 10.01 high school safety vestibial edition and renovation. Hearing approval. Make it a motion to approve. >> Mr. President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the high school roof specs and

186RFP as presented. >> Second. >> Vote, please. >> Oh, >> the high school uh safety vestibule renovation. Sorry, I might have I might have forgotten to change that. So, >> okay. I just read it as it stated. >> Yep. That's my fault. So it would be >> high school safety vestible addition and renovation. >> Yes. >> As presented. >> Is that what the motion needs to be? >> Perfect. Okay. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Second. Thank you. >> Then we'll vote. Please. >> Mr. Sturm. >> Yes. >> Mrs. McDaniel. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Sheffield. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wright. >> Yes. >> 10.02 High School Safety Vable Addition and Renovation. Bid approval. Mr. President, I'd like to make a motion to award the high school safety festival addition and renovation bid to elevate construction um

187for the amount of 1,355,948. >> Second vote, please. >> Mrs. McDaniel, >> yes. >> Mrs. Sheff, >> yes. >> Mr. Sturm, >> yes. >> Mr. Rick, >> yes. I'd like to point out that that's another $150,000 under budget. So, >> good. It's >> good. >> That's good. >> 10.03 Blackbox HVAC repair bid. >> Mr. President, I would like to make a motion to approve repair bids with train for $31,7761. Vote, please. >> Mrs. Sheffle, >> yes. >> Mr. Sturm, >> yes. >> Mrs. McDaniel, >> yes. >> Mr. Wright, >> yes. >> 10.04, track maintenance bid. >> Mr. President, >> I'd like to make a motion to approve the track maintenance bid from Midwest Tennis and Track Co. for $80,680. >> Second. Vote, please. >> Mr. Sturm, >> yes. >> Mrs. McDaniel, >> yes. >> Mrs.

188Sheffle, >> yes. >> Mr. Wright, >> yes. >> 10.05, Lewis Central Radon Mitigation Plan. >> Mr. President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the Lewis Central Radon Mitigation Plan as presented. >> Second. >> Vote, please. >> Mrs. McDaniel, >> yes. Mr. She shuffle. >> Yes, Mr. Sturm. >> Yes, >> Mr. Wright. >> Yes. 10.06. Operational sharing agreements. >> Mr. President, I'd like to make the recommendation to approve a transportation director operational sharing agreement with Missouri Valley and an HR director operational sharing agreement with Underwood as presented. >> Second. >> Vote, please. >> Mr. Sheffle, >> yes. >> Mr. Mr. Sturm. >> Yes. >> Mrs. McDaniel. >> Yes. Mr. Wright. >> Yes. 10.07. Student personal electronic use policy. Second reading. >> Mr. President, I'd like to make the recommendation to approve the second reading

189of the student personal electronic use policy 503.11 and regulation 503.11R1 as presented. >> Second >> vote, please. >> Mr. Sturm, >> yes. >> Mrs. McDaniel, >> yes. >> Mrs. Sheff, >> yes. >> Mr. Wright, >> yes. >> 10.08, 08 Titan Hill exterior envelope and doorframe design agreement. >> Mr. President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the design contract for the Titan Hill exterior envelope and door frame renovation project with BCGM for $47,765. >> Second vote, please. >> Mrs. McDaniel, >> yes. >> Mrs. She shuffle. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sturm. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wright. >> Yes. >> 10.09 2026 high school mechanical design agreement. >> And actually, um, you can tell we've done a lot of projects when we've already approved this one. And Andrea reminded me we did this during the special

190meeting in June. >> Oh, that's right. Okay. >> I She said that. I'm like, of course we did. Like, but I had it on my list. It's funny is I have a list of, you know, what's going to be in the next board meeting. I had this on my list and then because we had the special meeting, I'm like, "Oh, we moved it. Totally forgot about that until right now." So, >> all right. Then we'll move on to 10.10 student handbook updates. >> Mr. President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the recommended changes to all building handbooks as presented. >> Second. >> Vote, please. >> Mrs. Sheffle, >> yes. >> Mr. Sturm, >> yes. >> Mrs. McDaniel, >> yes. Mr. Wright. >> Yes. Items of interest, future board meetings. Our next uh regularly

191scheduled board meeting will be August 4th, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. And we also have a note here that our first day of school will be August 25th. Do you have any additional >> uh the only thing I was I need to do is we need to find I don't think it has to be a long meeting. Maybe an hour and a half or so. Um, and we can do it for the special meeting so we can kind of finalize our strategic planning stuff now that we have all the that information back. Just kind of look through the comments and kind of just firm. Basically, I just need you guys to firm up your final buckets. So, I don't know if we can do it on the 4th at 5:00 beforehand or if we can do

192it otherwise it'll be the 18th. Um, August 18th. I was thinking a the August 18th meeting would be a good one for us to do the walk walkthroughs. we could do, you know, start, you know, an hour and a half earlier, two hours early on that date and do the walkth through on that date. But if we did the week before, the meeting before and did our, you know, hour and a half should be plenty of time. I need about an hour to kind of go through and and ask you guys if you're firm on your buckets and then uh kind of review some of the feedback data we got on that survey and from Zak. And then um that's really about it. So >> the fourth or the 18th? the fourth. >> I was

193thinking the fourth we could do the the we could start at like five o'clock on the 4th for the board work session. Do a board work session from 5:00 to 6:30 then do our regular meeting and then on the 18th we would do uh walk walk through starting at 4:30 and then whenever we'll just start in one building and whenever somebody shows up like if you can't show up till 5 or 5:30 then you just will text me and I'll tell you where we're at. But we'll start here. We'll kind of open the meeting and then we'll go on our tour. So the high school will be primarily where we'll be because it'll be that has the most change. So but it we'll probably take a drive down to Craft so you guys can see

194the finished festival in Craft as well. >> And what time would that start? >> I think it'll start at 4:30 >> on the 18th. >> Yeah. Especially if we're going down to Craft. I think we can drive from here down to Craft. You know, spend about half hour to 40 minutes at Craft because they'll have the play you you playground will be pretty much done. see go see the playground and the vestibule and then I can show kind of show you the we'll have the visitor um the raptor visitor management system up so you guys can see how people will check into the building and that kind of thing and then we'll go to we probably won't do anything at the middle school probably won't do Titan Hill either because it's just LED lights and

195stuff at Titan Hill so we'll just do Craft in the high school and uh you can park in the new parking lot you know that fun stuff so um Speaking of which, does PTA already know about the popsicles on the plate? >> I I reminded uh Mrs. Jensen uh like two weeks ago when I saw it come out to tell PTA. So then she reached out to PTA and then PTA got back to her and said, "Well, we'll leave it like that and then we'll come up with the plan B." And I responded back with there is no plan. Plan B is plan A. Like plan A will not happen. That will be a giant mud field. So, >> okay. Do we need to do anything with this? >> Approve it or not? >> It

196was in the consent agenda consent agenda. >> Yep. >> It's basically so you could read through it. >> All right. >> That was added. >> You can announce it. >> Yeah. >> I think it's a rumage sale and stuff. Rumage sale. Bake sale. >> So, it looks like Dan's team is going to do a uh raise money for uniforms and other costs. They're doing a uh garage and a bake sale. Looks like >> July 25th, 26th. >> 25th and 26th. So, >> end of this this weekend, >> but it doesn't say where. >> I actually I just saw I think they put something on Facebook. I don't know. >> Okay. >> So, I think they were assuming you were going to approve it. >> Yeah. >> So, how these things usually happen like sometimes I

197even look at the date and I'm like that happened last week. Okay. >> They're better. They're they're >> it's Yeah, they are getting better. This is this next weekend. So, >> usually it's the new coaches that that kind of forget about it. >> Yeah. >> All right. Seeing no other items on our agenda, can I get a motion to close our meeting tonight? >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. on this post.