001like >> and then you should be able to close that window out next. There you go. Good job. Good to go. >> All right. Good evening everybody. I'm going to go ahead and call this meeting of the Charles City Community School District to order. If we could have a roll call, please. >> President Kendrick here. Vice President Mack here. Board member Dr. Schro here. Board member Fox here. Board member Joerger here. Uh we'll move on to the reading of the district mission and vision statement. Dr. uh our mission to challenge all students to achieve their full potential through engaging, responsive educational experiences that inspire innovation, critical thinking and collaboration. Our vision to develop learners who are competent, compassionate problem solvers. >> You I will take a motion for the approval of amendments of these phase.
002I'll make a motion to approve the extended agendas as presented. >> Second been properly moved and seconded. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposite. Motion will carry. We welcome all our visitors this evening and we will take public comments. Okay. First one is Nicole Ashley. Good evening everyone. I am here about the imposed e-learning snow days and I am greatly opposed to this. I understand the state has allowed this. I understand that it is a benefit to some extent. I would highly encourage you as a board to look at next year putting into implement taking away some of the spring break. We don't need 5 days of spring break. We don't need 10 days of winter vacation. We certainly do not need extra days off if we have snow days. And
003the most common thing I saw on Facebook was, "Well, it's going to interfere with people's vacations. If we go into June, don't plan your vacations for June. Plan them for the middle of June." Well, it's going to interfere with spring break if we take spring day break days away. Okay? If you choose to plan a vacation for spring break, you choose to plan it for a time where you know your student may miss some school. Same thing with winter break. It is absurd to me how co did not work. E-learning did not work. We are asking students to be present for 20 minutes of each one of their core classes and to do additional work. Find a time at school if your internet's not reliable. Download it at school, but then your teachers are only
004going to be responsive twice a day between 10:30 and 3. That is not sufficient. If you are expecting the students to be present 20 minutes of each one of their classes, there is no reason why those teachers should not be present during those classes. and saying, "Well, they have two days to make it up." Great. They have two days to make it up. What about the parents that have jobs? What about the elementary parents that still have to go to work? I most certainly don't get a snow day when it's deemed a snow day. I still have to go to work. It is not fair to your students to expect them to do things that the educators are not expected to do. It's simple. If we are going to ask the students to be present
00520 minutes for each class and do x amount of work and turn it in, that teacher should be present for each one of their classes to turn it in. I would highly, highly encourage you to take a look at the calendar next year and put some snow days in on Christmas break and spring break. Thank you. Is there anyone else that would like to make public comment? Seeing none, we can move on. Uh we will go do the good news. >> Dr. Shilling. >> No, >> we're going to go with Michelle Dolman and the FA. Can >> we put our slideshow up here? Okay. Um maybe It has to be linked to the the broadcast. So, what do you want? How do you want to do that? Do you want to >> we do it
006over there? >> You could show it. You could show it there, but then people can't see it at home. So, would you like you want to email it to me or share it with me and I can display it on screen for people at home? >> Yep. >> You guys got to come up here so they can see the fancy corduroy. >> Oh, they will. They're so excited. >> There you go. >> You feel like there was some sarcasm in that. >> Was there I mean I can tell >> you only get to wear them so many times a year. >> You gota got to show it off. >> Did you get Dr. Bernard? >> No. nice if we had a winter attire and a summer attire because when you take them to Washington and
007they're wearing the >> Yeah, if they had the polos for like the summer that would be a lot nicer. >> So, couldn't you guys like recommend or suggest that? >> We could, but it'd be a very long shot because there's so many members and they get so many suggestions and like >> I just hit the maximize and away. But that seems like one that everybody would be like, I can get behind that because that affects me directly when I go to Washington or, you know, the summer when I'm out at the fairgrounds and I want to, you know, wear my bay attire. >> It's still showing over here. Okay, >> you're still still live. >> There we go. >> Perfect. Oh, you starting. Okay. Hi, my name's Aubrey Michael. I am a senior here at
008the high school. I currently hold reporter for our office, our chapter office. Um, I currently have my chapter degree and my next contest is public speaking. >> My name is Bryce Walker. I'm a senior and I currently hold the office of president for our chapters and in next fall I plan to attend Iowa State and major in tur grass management. >> Hi, I'm Isaiah Watkins. I'm a freshman. I currently hold my greenhand degree and I am my next contest is uh Creed speaking for our chapter and I will be running for office. >> Okay. So, kind of our overview, we had 13 members travel this year. Um, and obviously our two FFA advisors have to go because we're all a little crazy. >> We have to drive. >> Yes. And we need drivers. Um, there
009was over 70,000 um other members at the conference there. There was um 51 states there in attendance. Um, it kind of is weird because there's only a couple people from Hawaii, like and there's only a couple people from Mexico. So, like you get to experience kind of seeing a little bit of everyone from every state. So, it's kind of a cool experience. And then that's kind of our overview of our day, but we'll go more in depth. So, our sessions, we attended a session each day from Wednesday to Saturday. Um, Wednesday we had our public guest speaker. Typically at a convention on the first session they do a guest speaker. His name was Eric Johnson. Um, he was a very fun guy. He had a very fun positive attitude and was just the brightest spirit
010in the world. Um, the big thing that I took away from that session is he had an acronym haters. Um, and bear with me, it's having an attitude towards people reaching success. So, that was probably my favorite thing that I learned from him. Um, Thursday, if you want to go to the next slide. On Thursday, we had board members walk across the stage for two different chapters. We had ours and then we had for another chapter because they kindly asked us to go. We accepted the star chapter award. What did we talk about? What was the other thing that they had during that session? >> Uh they also announced the finalists for the national FFA talent. Uh so through uh different states at the state competition, you're allowed to they do a talent show and
011if you win your respective state, you move on to the national level and then they pick between the 50 or 51 different talents there and then they announce the winner. They announced the finalists at that session and then had a few of them perform. >> Next slide. >> Yep. >> So this is from our Saturday session. We watched the American degree session and towards the end of the presentation you'll also see the newly elected national officers. So but we watched two of our people from a couple years ago. They were a couple years ago they graduated and they accepted their American degree which is the highest degree you can accept in FA. >> So Braden Quaid was one of them >> and then Natalie White >> and then Brady Frost was also the other person
012we got there a great >> um and on Friday we watched Brady Frost accept his American Star Finalist award. Um >> he went against five other people, four or five other people >> other people from around the nation uh for star farmer uh in the nation and uh sadly he didn't win but he was one of the four finalists. So >> this is a good experience. So another thing that we did was workshops Isaiah and I here we went and sat through the power of questions. In that one, it was a lot of breaking down how do you ask a really in-depth question? How do you get to know the person more than just asking a what's your favorite color? It's asking a more in-depth question to get more of an answer out of them.
013And then the other titles or the other names up there were all kinds of other ones that they gave. And like all of those ones, that's not all of them, but like they would repeat them. So, if you didn't make it to one and you decided you wanted to go to that one, you could go to it a different day. And like the big thing about the workshops is they give out pins. I didn't bring mine tonight. I'm kind of sad I didn't, but like me and him got a star. They hand out different pins and there's pins at different ones and like they have challenges all throughout um like convention and one of them was who can collect all the pins because then there was like a big tin at the end that you
014could proceed if you collected all of them. >> Uh then moving on we also throughout the week we had the opportunity to go to the expo and the shopping mall. Uh so inside the Indianapolis Convention Center they have two larger rooms. Uh, one of them was the expo which was uh, kind of like a college and career fair. They had a lot of different colleges from around the nation there. Uh, they also had different businesses. Uh, I know some of the popular businesses there were like Domino's, Culver's because they were handing out free food, but they also had a lot of agricultural businesses too like John Deere, uh, Case, they had Pioneer Cortiva. >> Yeah. Caterpillar. They had a lot of different agricultural brands there that had boots too. handing out free stuff and just
015uh teaching FFA members about the opportunities that they have in their company. Uh some of the different colleges that they had there were Iowa State, Minnesota, uh Tennessee, Texas A&M, just from all around the country. Uh but it wasn't just like major big schools, too. They also had Kirkwood, and they had some other community colleges from around the nation. So, it wasn't just like a thing that larger colleges go to. So, it was really a cool thing that you could go to and just learn more about. Uh, and then at the uh shopping mall, they had a bunch of different uh booths for different stores. They had like the FFA uh mega store. They had uh I know Arot had a booth um >> Wrangler. >> Yeah, there were a lot of different uh businesses
016that had their own booths there selling stuff. Uh so if you wanted to go there and get your own stuff, you could. Um, if you see the uh picture up at the top left of the screen, that's where they had the national FFA talent competition. So, if you wanted to go watch them give their because there were only the finalists that gave theirs in front of the sessions. If you wanted to watch someone uh do theirs, you could go watch it. But, uh, it was just a lot of different opportunities there throughout the expo and the shopping mall that you could have do done through exploring. >> And with the expo, kids could stop and you saw some of the girls with flowers. You could do they usually do leather making. Um they there just
017so many experiences. I mean to you know there's lots of picture opportunities. I think there was a lot of bull riders there were. >> Yes. >> So the kids could get pictures taken with bull riders. Uh I mean you name it. They were probably you could probably find it somewhere at the expo. >> Isaiah what were you going to share about the expo? um just that uh like you could go at any time of the day. Um you could go to any other one. There was more than 360 different businesses and colleges. Uh you could go up to any one of them, ask them like certain questions like and then like for the colleges you could go up to the colleges like they will ask you like questions on like well like what what do
018you want to major in or like where are you from like and then you get like contact info to them and then you can receive emails from the colleges like telling you so and So on like what you want to major in and stuff and I just thought that was pretty cool. >> Uh while we were there we did three educational tours. Uh our first one was to Purdue University and that was specifically their engineering department. >> So uh here's some pictures from uh when we went. Uh my group was the one that's a little bit higher. Uh we went around campus uh that both groups did similar things. Uh we didn't see some of the things that the other group did, but uh they just showed us different classrooms, different labs, different uh machinery
019that they use there and told us a little bit about the curriculum. Uh told us what we would have to do to get into Purdue and it told us uh like what was it about? It was more um what they do once they get there. showed us different facilities like they showed us their library. Uh they showed us >> their tech labs. >> Yeah. A lot of their like smaller classrooms so they were more one-on-one with the teachers and uh showed us some bigger lecture halls too. So it was just a large variety of stuff that they have there. >> I think that one group of kids we walked by just was the whole side of the building was all the same class. So they were all interactive working >> and like the cool thing
020about it is they would ask us questions about like what we do it here at the school and they were like connecting it. So like it made sense to us and they were oh well this is kind of connected to this class like struct like power structure tech like this is kind of what you would be doing in this class and that's how it's connected like they were getting to know us and I think that was the really cool part is they connected it to us and were like explaining it to us to make it easier. Thank you. >> Um on Thursday we went to the Ozark Fisheries outside of Indianapolis. Uh this is one of their two facilities. Their other one is in St. Louis, Missouri. And um it's just their they show like
021their uh breeding hatcheries and um their shipping department. Um they have uh they ship and breed goldfish boy and uh crawads and um all their facilities are outside uh in different ponds. They have uh 50 different ones. >> I think that's what it was around around that number. >> But they were like 50 different like I don't remember what they said. It was like 20 ft by 20 ft ponds something like that. And they were of different breeds of fish. So, like they don't do just specifically an orange goldfish. Like they do like different types of goldfish and like that was a part of the educational thing is they took us inside and she was showing us different pictures of like the koiish they do because like I think my favorite one when we were
022learning about it was the butterfly koish because their fins are just so pretty and like yeah. It's also interesting though because uh they sell directly to the consumer if you would like to do that, but they also ship out their goldfish to national retailers like Petco and some other pet stores around the nation. So, it's just a cool thing that they get to do. >> Uh and then on Friday, we went to the Indianapolis Zoo. Uh it was pretty cool, especially for me. I liked going to zoo. Uh it's a lot bigger than I was expecting, a lot bigger than any zoo that I've been to before. I think uh we were there for around three hours and I didn't even explore the whole thing. So, it was just cool though. You got to walk
023around. You got to see a lot of different things. Uh in the bottom right picture, uh they have inside this one building, they have where you can sit and interact with the chimpanzees in an enclosure and just uh mess with them or play with them. And then they also have treats in there like in that pumpkin they had different treats that they could get. And it was we went around Halloween time of course. So it was all like Halloween themed stuff. So it was they had a lot of different cool things that you could get to see there that you normally don't see at other places. >> I think my one of my favorite parts was the interactive part. They had like this one big giant room full of like their fish and everything and
024they had this big giant pool and they had sharks. If you look in that top picture, they had sharks and you could touch them. And they had stingrays in there also that you could touch. So like for me it was really cool because I got to touch a shark cuz like who gets to touch a shark very often? And I think my other favorite part was like we'd go off in our own little separate group. So there would be like a cluster of like three of us walking around. Like we always made sure that we stayed in a group but like being able to stay in the group was really fun. And like it was fun cuz like Spurgeon would pop in and like be like, "Oh, this is a cool fact about this animal
025like and would give us more education to like it walking around." So this is a highlight of the new national officers. If you skip to the next one also, um these are kind of just our na new national officers. And I think that my favorite part was the old officers. They created they made the convention a very fun welcoming place. Like it was a very fun >> like when they were doing the sessions uh they just would talk on uh the stage and it would just feel like like they were just talking in a small group. It wasn't like you were sitting in front of 70,000 people and you were just you know it was kind of interesting the way that they were talking and doing like leading the sessions but >> very personal right.
026>> Yeah. Uh so some of the best moments uh me personally I enjoyed meeting new people and trying new foods. Uh throughout the convention we went to uh different places for people to eat to expand their horizons or learn new things and Spurgeon Dolman pushed us really to meet new people and talk to new people and form new connections uh throughout the trip. So I think that was a fun part especially for me. >> Yep. So kind of tying three of those together. um opening of the second session kind of dancing and being able to create the tunnel. So at the beginning of sessions they host dance parties. They have like their own little like DJ spot but next to the stage and everybody would go around that and would dance like we were line
027dancing and having the time of our lives dancing. Um, and the other like favorite part when they say tunnel is you create tunnels like around the stadium and the officers would run through them to go up on their stage and then they would do like handshakes up on the stage. So like being able to be an FFA member, creating a tunnel for another FFA member who's way older than me, has a lot of experience and getting to just like be surrounded by that was probably my favorite experience. Uh again, uh one of my favorite experiences was just going around and visiting uh to the different businesses, but also meeting the different people at the expo. Um because again, just going around to the different businesses, you meet a lot more FFA members. Like, uh I
028personally met one from Connecticut. Uh he's a really cool dude. Uh we were at the um I think we were at Texas A&M's booth uh because he came up to me and asked if I could sign his t-shirt uh for the state of Iowa and uh we just got to chatting a bit and found out we had a lot in common. So just meeting all the other people was really fun. But just going around to the expose and getting some of the free stuff is also kind of cool too. >> Uh then we got some quotes from uh other FFA members who went. Uh here is one from Riley Quage. She was a freshman. This was one of her first FFA events she uh went to or experienced. So, uh, kind of paraphrasing, she had
029just said it was really cool going to the sessions and just walking into the massive Lucas Oil Stadium and just, uh, feeling the energy and feeling what the officers were throwing out in the sessions. It was it was really cool just uh, experiencing all that and just showing what they can take you and you can do in it. So, >> and then Debbie, she's a sophomore this year. Um, her favorite part was not only going to the convention and being as a chapter, but we got an Airbnb, so it made it a lot more like we could take the time to be with each other. We weren't in separate hotel rooms, so we could come together. We had a couple game nights where we kind of played games and like we're just in each other's
030presence and that was her favorite part of being at convention. We want to thank you guys for letting us come and present our experiences and our educational part of national day. >> Quick question for you. So, can you go back through your course slides for me? Go more. One more. One more. So, go back. Go forward one, please. Um, so obviously these uh members are from all over. How do you get elected to a national office? >> So, uh it's a really long process. So, first you have to get elected to state office. Uh, which is you do I know for Iowa specifically, you go down to De Moine and you do a week-long interviews and then if you get selected to be balloted, you then have to give a speech in front of uh
031different people at your at the state convention in Ames. So, like if uh when Taylor did it, she was up for central region vice president. So she gave a speech to a certain group of people from of delegates from our region and then they voted uh between her and a different candidate and then if she got elected uh she would serve as the state and then uh the after the year so the year after uh she is done serving as or they would serve as a state officer uh they then get picked as they go through a selection committee uh from that state and then if they get nom nominated, they then go to the national uh section of interviews and then it's an even longer process for the interviews and then they have to
032give a speech uh from delegates and then they uh vote on it and then they are the last thing introduced at the end of convention at the I think it's literally the last thing that they do before they >> end session. It's on the Saturday but um that's just a list of the different uh new offices that got elected >> or published today. They're mainly college students, >> right? First or second year >> because state is normally kind of juniors or seniors of high school and then after getting out of high schools to say that one year process then you'd be like a freshman. >> Thank you. Thank you. Very nice. Dr. Sheing, did you want to talk about the >> Yeah, I just came from shift literacy meeting and that's why I was that
033shares a lot of the key points of the grant that we received as a subgrantee. Um the comprehensive literacy state development grant is basically a federal grant the state of Iowa received uh at the end of October. It was $24 million to the state of Iowa for the next five years. Um, as part of that, 28 schools were awarded 3.8 million in the initial subgrant awards and Charles City was one of those 28. So, right now, we are in the first year of this grant, which is the planning stage. Uh we just met with our um support provider for part of the grant is that you have to hire a literacy um professional development organization of some kind to help you develop your district literacy plan. So we just had our first meeting tonight with
034our district lit literacy team um to approve that because the plan has to be turned into the state to get approved for the next four years of funding. So they're they're assuring us that our plan will be viable and Yeah, meet the expectations of the state. So, um what is shared here like I said the grant will focus in this first year on planning um also around the district leadership, excuse me, literacy team plan, but it will also focus on professional learning for teachers. Um that could be just ELA teachers, that could be teachers across the board in all content areas. Um, and it also will look at reviewing the curriculum, um, which we we're implementing a high quality curriculum, but it'll also help us continue to implement that with fidelity and review it as
035we move on, as we move into years 2, three, four, and five. Um, we can use the grant funding for continued curriculum resources, intervention resources, um, in any any essence we would like to. Okay. Um but it basically is helping us approach literacy instruction at at a systematic level. The goal is based around the state's literacy plan. Um the state has their own literacy plan for improving literacy across the state. So the grant is based on that. Um and some of those goal areas you'll see at the bottom. um will focus on obviously including improving reading achievement but also focusing and targeting those subgroups of students for example that we're dropping in with our designations um students with IEPs e students students of color those types of things >> do we know why we were
036chosen >> we were chosen um because we cleared an applicant applications in to be honest but it was based based on um our current population um distribution of diversity um our subgroups um the the sizes of our subgroups and our and our achievement scores with our subgroups and our achievement scores overall >> in reduced lunch >> not being as high as for reduced lunch >> but do we know who the other 28 are >> it's on the it's on the state I said yeah >> and will like they create a system to like collaborate with each other or is that everyone's kind of isolated in there Um actually the the service provider we have is is providing the same services for like five of the other 28 in the state. So we met as a
037leadership well I should say the whole leadership team. Joe Carney and Chelsea Mo and I met at the state level with our service provider on Tuesday with other districts there is one of them. Um Spencer is one of them. So we got to collaborate with some of those two dis teams from those districts as well. >> And this my other question. So if it if the state of Iowa got 24 million and they're giving out these $3.8 million grants, where is the other 21? >> That's for a fiveyear period though too with the state of Iowa. >> So 38 per year over five years 3.8 for the initial year they got 24 from five years. I'll still be like chunk each year. >> They're they're projecting that we would get because we got about $95,000
038for the Charleston city according to our population. um they were they're projecting we'll get it that or maybe a little bit more for each of the subsequent years. >> So they do they have specific outcomes that we have to meet per year to get the following year. >> Yeah. professional learning time, um the use of high quality instructional materials, um which I think you're going to be seeing from the state in all content areas as as we progress. Um obviously student achievement. >> Do we have to reapply every year? We have to reapply just one more time. They will review and critique every year. Um but again I I with the the support they're giving us with the service provider I think there you're assuring that those service providers do their own training with the
039state so they know exactly what the expectations are for the districts to help us get there. >> Good job. That's great. Thank you. Okay, we can move on to examine financial accounting books for end of 2025 fiscal year. >> Yeah. So, the end of FY25 um ended on a positive financial note. Um, looking back compared to at 24, we were close to $3 million less in expenditures, which a majority of that was, um, we didn't fill several teaching positions. So, that was a lot of it. Um, 80% of the general funded salaries and benefits. So, a big chunk of it right there. Yeah, we are continuing to head in the right direction um with declining enrollments. We'll just keep watching the expenditures and that as we go. If you have any questions on those reports
040No, it was just to examine. >> Okay, just examining action. >> Okay. And move on to acceptance of abstract of election recommendation for the board to approve the abstract. Make a motion. You need a motion for this. >> Yep. I'll make accept the certification of election. >> I'll second >> and properly moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, we can proceed to vote. All those in favor state I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Motion will carry. I will now take a motion for the adjournment of the end. >> I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> Been properly moved and seconded. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed, same sign. We're adjourned from the annual meeting. We can now call to order the regular meeting and we
041can take a motion for the consent. >> Make a motion agenda as >> second properly moved and seconded. All those in favor. All the same sign. Motion carries. on to the administrator, director, and superintendent. >> So, we're wrapping up our community stakeholder survey. We'd love to still get some more numbers. So, we're going to meet with the team tomorrow and talk. We continue that survey a little longer. We have about 260 responses from our community communication survey. We also added some feedback on the bond trying to get information from the public as to what we could do differently or what were the main factors and why people maybe decided not to support the bond. So, so we are getting some good information. It would be great to have a few more individuals respond. So, if
042anybody hasn't taken it yet, um please encourage everybody to take it. We've sent out multiple emails. It was in the paper. Um, I handed out flyers at Rotary. I visited with the SE or not senior community center. Um, and so we we have been reaching out trying to get more participation. So we welcome feedback through that. That means we're getting a lot of good feedback, but we just love more more feedback on that. >> Dr. How many you have so far? >> 260. So it is a little smaller. >> Yeah. Um, we also tried to do some convenience surveying where inside of the basketball programs, we put a barcode to read to to try to get some extra numbers. I believe when we had the 700 responses for the bond, the former bond, I think
043some of that was we also had a parent teacher conference in there. I think maybe we captured some more people through the parent teacher conference. Um, and we don't have that currently at this point in time to capture some of those. So, so any we'd love some more feedback. We'll talk tomorrow with um AA who's helping us with that that strike um and just to see if she if we keep it open a little longer to try and get more statistically significant number. I mean, every number has a certain statistical significance. It's just your reliability is better if you have a larger number. One that I add on that is do we ever partner with like other entities and charity like the commerce post Facebook page or you know other just to kind of extend
044the reach that may be >> I did bring it up with both Chamber of Commerce groups and I you know and then and then I I don't know if they retweeted it retweeted it or re uh published it onto their Facebook pages. I know um we did have some repost from different groups. Not specifically sure about those two, but I do go to both the chamber and the main street partners meetings when they have those. So that I can bring that up, especially if we extend it, see if we can get a little more traction. Um chamber specifically was pushing it out to all their members though because they did send a special one to them. So yeah, yeah, any other good ideas? We'll continue to try and reach out to boost our numbers. Some
045other great exciting news, Charles City Robotics team, and Josh correct me if I'm a little off, but the robotics team distinguished themselves in Cedar Falls. Third year in a row, we won the overall competition, I believe. Um, and we had a team that took second place. So, for the robot competition specifically, I believe we took second and then we had a team take fourth, sixth, eighth, and ninth place. Uh but overall we won the competition and so we really in some ways kind of were the dominant or swept the top 10 in many ways with great work from our students and also some great work from the IC students that come to us. So lot to be proud of there. The kids just did a great job. So in addition our girls wrestling program did
046had a great outing at the Dan Gable Donny Brook which is just kind of fun to say. That's an Irish term for her fluff. maybe a little bit of a scrap. And so, uh, so they did a great job. Uh, Sophia, who also goes by Gab, um, Lito, u, she's the third ranked in the state currently, and she finished the Donny Brook in second, which has, you know, regional competitors to come in from all over. And so, that's fantastic, fantastic finish on there. Also, the boys wrestling team, I believe, has almost a full team. So, that's fantastic growth. They've got a lot of positive energy. They're really doing a good job and improving constantly. Boys basketball and girls basketball both have a nice group of kids um out there competing and doing a good job.
047Um so a lot of fun things to come and watch. Also this week, and I forgot to put in my in my notes here, but we also have upcoming I believe a middle school choir concert tomorrow. So, um do um make a chance to go to that if you have an opportunity. That'd be great. But lots of exciting things happening in December. Lots of kid activities and it's it's good time to be a com. So, >> very good. Good. We can move on to the board committee reports. We had facilities and finance committees. facilities committee we discussed capital projects for fiscal year 27 and >> 27 26 27 and then finance committee we discussed the five-year projection model from ISPs workshop so I would say one of the takeaways from the five-year projection model to
048piggyback on that is that you know we're in a great shape right now we did save $3 million in expenditures based on being really smart when people um left the district, we didn't replace some of those positions in FY25, that that's the prior year, we disclosed the prior year's budget. Um we also shifted people from coaching positions back into the classroom and did a lot of smart moves like that to save funding and insurance savings also helped us. So the five-year projection is good. Uh but with declining enrollment um it does um in a couple of years uh we do start to lose significant revenue. So we have to be mindful of that and make sure that we're staffing appropriately class sizes that are appropriate for the number of kids we have over time. So
049we're going to continue to monitor our staff numbers and student ratios carefully so we can stay in great financial health. >> Did you have anything to new business items. We'll start with an update from our food service folks from SFB. >> Yes. >> Hello. >> We have a little hangout for everyone. >> Just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Sunny. I'm with SF. Uh five years in the company. I am a senior GM located out in Minnesota. I do the Wisconsin, Iowa uh area. Uh we just hired on Diane who is actually the GM here at this location. I know that there's been a couple changes throughout the years, but I wanted to at least assure you guys that I'm here to stay. So, I'm here to make sure that we can make things
050better and look forward for the future. And so a couple things that we highlighted this year for 20 256 was that we did a Thanksgiving piece. I know we did last year, but this year we want to really touch base on the kids that really enjoyed the meal. Um as you guys click through the pages, we have some thank you letters from the kids. Um we are looking forward for more like a scratch type cooking type deal. So, we are asking for feedbacks, asking for surveys from the kids to actually entice that meal program. Um, and I know we have our faces, right? We have the the pizzas, the chicken tenders, the the pizzas that we do, but at the same time, it's like, how can we entice kids? What do we want them to
051try? Instead of parting up this year for January, we're looking to partner up with the home net team for the high school here or the fax team uh schools with K and make sure that we can actually do like an education for the kids. Uh a show and tell teach them how things are how it's grown the farms and how it's processed and how we're able to make things happen. So that's when you get to the last page of being a chef. And so what we did, I used to do what I done at the lakes academy was that we were able to incorporate that with the farmers uh FFA team in our area and teach them how the tomato was grown, what it's used for, ketchup, tomato paste, spaghetti sauce, uh pizza sauce, and
052being able to do a roing chef so that we can actually teach the kids how it's processed, how it's made, and then us as the our cooks team will actually cook the food and they actually get the pizza in in house or in the So, we do want to incorporate that for this coming January as well. So, that we are going to be able to educate that for our kids here. And then our meal that you guys actually had out here today, it is a national school lunch program. It is certified. That is something that we're going to be incorporating starting January. And then every other quarter, we do something special as well. So, like this year, we did the Thanksgiving dinner for uh November. So, in Janu January, we'll do more like a like
053a pot roast type deal for them. uh different flavors a little bit. I know that a little bit more of the enhanced flavors here, but we're going to go back to again the basics of what it is. Making sure to perfect it so that again I want to make sure that the kids are actually enjoying the food and not just eating it and then it's like well it's okay. I want to make sure that wow what are we eating for? Why do we how are we seeing the increase in number? It's like in middle school right now, we've increased the middle school numbers for breakfast by 15% from what I'm seeing from last year's numbers. This year's numbers, lunch numbers are about 4% increase for the middle school and then 2% increase for the high
054school. So what are we doing that's going to capture business changing listening to the kids and acknowledging it? And so now we also have Diane here who is here to stay and being her being on the floor boots on the ground to ensure that we can uh capture every single thing of what the kids are saying so that we can make the difference for them without having an actual proper GM here. Again, that's where kind of see the fluctuation of like the meal counts, fluctuation of staffing, and so we want to make sure that we hit it out of the park this year and make sure that we're actually keeping keeping track of what we need to do here. >> So, yes, Diane, are you um just our school or do you do other schools
055as well? >> So, I am primarily Charles City School District. So that would be your high school, middle school, Washington, Lincoln, as well as some things with um the Immaculate Conception. >> Okay. Um so this is something I've been I've brought up a bunch of times this year. So I really appreciate you guys want to share this. This is crazy. So I was part of the group um I think some of the actually maybe Katherine was because we did this contract a couple years ago and one of the things they talked about was the Roing Shop at the time. So I guess that just maybe just hasn't happened yet. And so correct >> and with me being here like with FFA the gorilla we've been here to be able to help out with family last
056year. And so it's just process of what's going now is that I'm actually I'm all about making sure it happens. We're coordinating with Mariah to make sure that we can actually make this a go make sure that it's actually going to happen. So it's not empty promises that's going to be here. It's actually going to happen. Uh so the other one that comes up so my son is in seventh grade and this is very specific to me but um he he says like they have a rotating lunch schedule and the last the last group in the specific in the seventh grade seems to run out of options and then there's no uh there's no extra food at that time. So I unfortunately have not been able to go and I've talked with Dr. B a
057couple times and I just haven't made it. So I'm curious is that still the case? Do you know or have is there is there been a way to offer you know fruits vegetables or something for the kids who are >> so what I have viewed is at certain times one side will run out it is available on the other side so there's certain options because they give them more than the one option and unfortunately we can't always look in our crystal ball and say you know 50%'s going to take this one 50%'s going to take that So, it's kind of a guessing game. And if 75% swing over here to take it, then what we do need to do is go over to the other side and grab from that other side >> because there's
058two. >> It is. It is usually from what I've been seeing is will run out on one side, but there's great plenty of it on the other side. >> Great. >> There's like two lines. >> Two lines. Yeah. There's basically when you come to the middle of the pathway, there's the there's there's the left side and the board side. I think that's pretty good. Like I see I know I do notice that as well. Like >> if you're with your friends, then it's like, okay, here's 20 of us going on this >> on this this line and there's like only 10 of them going on the right side. Then it's like, well, maybe we should communicate between each other. And that's where Dian's going to be outside to actually >> and this is where they
059just have to pick up the phone and say, "Hey, can you bring this from this side over to us because we're starting to run short and we have done that and Sunny has done that too from the high school thinking items to the middle school." Yeah. So we're we are taking every every measurement ensuring that we have the production records so that we are not going to be running out. Yeah. >> So to to answer your question Josh, yes we are we do see it. We do see the trend and we're going to fix that trend and we have been adding more to it. So for now by 15 we're going to 25. We're not going to make 50 extra but we can pull from the high school. We can pull from the other location
060of the middle school to make sure that both site has enough. Yes sir. And then with that being said that we we have that like a threem minute gap period where we can coordinate with each other as well to fix that issue as well. >> Do you have a system then if like kids let's say they all want the pepperoni pizza for example we're running out of pepperoni a few days a few times you bring it up in a row you're running out. So then do you go back and okay we're gonna do more pepperoni and a little bit less of the >> boost our numbers for the next service that we have that idle. >> Yeah. So to answer both Dr. Brian your question and also Josh as well that the statement is that
061yes we have a production record that we may keep track and we run out now we're actually moving forward to making extra more. So again if we made 20 for the day now we're gonna make 25. So that again if we don't use the pizza we can put it back in free >> again. So the whole process of it is that I don't want to have kids the first class have everything the middle the second class have some things in the third class it's like what happened that's that's not what we're doing our goal is to not make that happen. So >> we are doing batch cooking which means that when the first come through for their service then we cook for the next ones. So all of the pizzas don't get made up front,
062for example. They're batched out per the actual groups coming in. >> My preschooler enjoys hot lunches. So that was always I didn't know what to expect. >> I ate all of a chicken patty sandwich. I ate all cheese. She likes the sides, so that's good. >> What other questions may you have for us? My son loves the breakfast. >> Well, I appreciate that too, Mr. Bruce. >> Unless you want to start sourcing beef for me, then you give me a call. >> We could connect. We could definitely connect. >> Okay. Lock our appointment tomorrow. >> Good. Thank you. >> Thank you for coming. >> Thank you. Thank you for having me. >> Have a great day. Thank you. >> I'm having the unified champions. >> Put my presentation. >> I'm working on it. >> Thank
063you. Hi, I'm Tammy Jacobson. I am one of your new special education at the middle school and high school. Um, and while we're waiting for my presentation, um, this program was brought to me by a parent emailed me and she said, "Hey, have you heard of this? What are the chances Charles City can do it?" And the more I read it, the more I thought that not only could it be good for our special education students, but it could actually make a difference in our whole school culture and environment. Um, it's a pretty cool program. We're going to skip around some slides. So, Mr. Bernite, could you go to the next one? If there's 27 slides on here, Mr. Mr. Bernite told me I have 10 minutes. So, I've been practicing it and I think
064I'm down to six and a half. >> You're fine. >> But if I talk fast, tell me to slow down. Okay. So, Unified Champion Schools is a national movement. It's a comprehensive program that combines inclusive sports, clubs, and classes. Um, as well as creates youth leadership opportunities and whole school engagement for all students. Um, one of the goals of the program is not only to improve inclusivity, but also to decrease bullying, which is kind of exciting. Um, Mr. Bernard, you can go to the next one. Perfect. There are four core components. The first one is unified sports. These teams do not join our already playing teams, but they would be additional sports teams. The recommendation is that they practice when other when other teams are out at games. Oh my goodness, I'm nervous. games and
065events. Okay. Um and then they have to have one competition at least per year and there are multiple opportunities for that within what we're already running. Um and then the second core is inclusive youth leadership. So this would be a schoolwide club. You need two people from each team or from each grade level. One would be neurody divergent and one would be their neurotypical peer. And then you would have as many volunteers as possible. They would meet monthly and they would plan the whole school engagement as well as um attend a youth leadership summit down in De Moine. The third is whole school engagement. We would have multiple schoolwide activities based on inclusion and I have some listed out for the first year coming up. Um and then the goal is to have a long-term
066cultural change. Um creating accepting environments for all students schoolwide. Um, it does cost money, but I think it's doable and we'll talk about that later, too. So, I put it into four phases. Phase one this year, just planning, getting our feet underneath us, figuring out what we want the program to look like, planning our initial activities. Year two, launching our first sport, our first pure class and our first clubs, and holding our first school events. Year three or phase three, year two would be adding our second sport or more enhancing our leadership for the like students in their club and then also increasing the whole school engagement and then by year three we can apply for national banner recognition which is a pretty cool thing. It's pretty cool. So then phase one well yeah you
067can skip this one. Trying to skip this one too. We'll talk about that later. Okay. So, the sports strategy, we would choose based on student interest. And then the popular ones in Iowa are basketball, track, botchi ball, and cheerleading. I didn't know botchi ball was a sport. I had to look that one up. Um, and then we would have to coordinate with the athletic director. The sport has to be treated like any other sport. Has to be in the budget. The coach has to have a salary or a stipen. Team information. The coach has to have a NFHS unified sports training. It's free online. It takes two hours and I did it in my free time because I wanted to see what would we would be asking the team to do. It's really doable. Um,
068you have to balance your athletes with and without disabilities. So again, one year divergent to one your typical peer. You get the idea. And then you have to have a regular practice schedule. Again, they recommend that you do it while the teams. So, like if we do it during basketball season, when our basketball team has competition or a game, then our students will practice in the gym while it's not being used. Um, competition, you have to schedule games at least one game with a nearby school. We do have one other school in our district. I don't remember what it's what school um or in our conference that has this program. So, we could set up our competitions with them. You can schedule games during halftimes and events. um you can participate in all Special Olympics
069events and then we can integrate um into our school athletic calendar or we should that should be our goal for year three. Bernite you want to go to the next one. So our youth club the goal is to empower students to lead inclusion efforts through structured clubs advocacy programs and then again to create a lasting cultural change. So the unified club would have a monthly meeting with again our two peers that we talked about. They would attend the youth summit and then the goal would be to have them advocate and put on some presentations to you guys and the community as well as other students and then to plan the whole school engagement activities. You can skip this one and this one. Keep going. Wait, no, never mind. I do want that one and I
070want the next one. Okay, so the whole school engagement activities, these are just two. Um, Special Olympics Iowa actually provides a kit for this first one free. So, that would be a really easy one for us to put on. It's a spread the word campaign. They put it on during um, inclusion week in March, which is like a national holiday week celebration. Um, they have pledge banner signing events, social media awareness campaigns, and they run a exchange for inclusion drive. So, it's like a penny drive. Pretty cool. Again, they provide a kit. The second one is fans in the stands. The goal is to have a unified sports event that you invite the whole school to and the community. You provide a student section with signs and then they recommend having a staff versus student
071exhibition. And I think that would be pretty cool. I think we have some teachers that would really show up for that and I think our students would really enjoy that one as well. Um, you would have to have a pep rally as well. You're supposed to treat it like any other team and event. All right. So, this is the big the big ask. It is around $8,000 if we were going to do it all out, but this is doable. Okay, so some of it's optional. We probably don't need end of year awards, but it would be really cool if we could do that. Hotel expenses for traveling because if we do the Special Olympics events, there are not a lot in our area at this time. So, we would have to travel. There is the
072potential for hotels. Um, a lot of this is based on Central Dwitz. They have a successful program. They've been running it for over 10 years. And I got to talk to their school leaison about what that would look like. Um they spend about $3,000 a year on hotel expenses. Um transportation about $1,000 here or there for gas and driver expenses. Um uniforming, we do have to have a uniform. We can use old uniforms. We can get donated uniforms or we can buy new ones. The thing is you have to have a Special Olympics emblem on them. So some money somewhere. coaching salaries as we talked about. I just went onto the schedule F online and took kind of what I thought would be comparable hour-wise. Um, so I chose level H. That's like the middle
073school coaches. And then the club leader, it's meets once once a month. So I picked the lowest one for an estimate. Um, we know that shoes, shorts, and materials are going to be a roadblock for some of our students. A lot of them will not have access to it. So, if it if we could put on a drive or find a way to get those donated or even fund them, that would be that would be really awesome. Eliminate that roadblock. But, I know that's a lot to ask. Um, specialized equipment, we don't know exactly what we would need yet. Um, a lot of it is rentable through Special Olympics Iowa for free, but there is a potential to have some cost there as well. And then for the schoolwide events, they said they use about
074$200 a year for handouts and banners. So about about 8,000 a year. That's all right. We have fundraising strategies right here. Okay. Special Olympics will let us use their plunge tank for free. Central DIT raises $8,000 a year on their plunge tank. It's $30 a pledge. The class with the most gets to dunk the principal. >> I think everybody would do that. >> Yeah, I was gonna say I think that sounds so cool. Um, we can also get a UCS grant application into Special Olympics Iowa and get $1,000 there. We can partner with the community, local businesses and scholarships, you know, the Rotary and Lions restaurant restaurant fundraiser nights like the Pizza Ranch tip nights and the McDonald's one. We can do school week or schoolbased fundraisers. So during spirit week, we can do some
075fun challenges. We can do concession stand proceeds and then that change for inclus inclusion drive that I talked about earlier. So that's why I think it's doable. We can do it. I believe in Charles City. Okay. Who can skip the next slide? And that one. We can skip that one. Okay. So in the presentation there is a whole bunch of these next step slides for what it would look like. I'm just going to go over this one because this is the most important one. So first we have to designate a district UCS coordinator. That has to be a special education director, a principal or an activities director. Um I've talked to Lindsay Stout and she has said that she would be interested in helping us with that. So we do have that option. Um, for
076the school leaison, you need one for the high school, one for the middle school. I have volunteered to be the high school. Maggie Lucas has said she would be like to be the middle school. So, we have your two there. Um, we have to negotiate the coaching salaries. That depends on who you guys are. Um, and then once we have those negotiated, we have to post and find the coaches. Post physicians, find coaches. Then we need to submit our final UCS budget to Special Olympics for next year. Um, start that $1,000 grant. And then we can start actually planning and beginning to put it on our schedule, which would be really cool. So, you can go to the next slide. And the next slide, we talked about that a little bit. This is a breakdown
077of them. I'm not going to go over that because I talked about it a little bit. You can see where I got it from. Um, and kind of what I was thinking. We can skip that one. Um, skip that next one, too. We don't have to go over all of the trainings. It would be cool. Keep going. You can go almost down to the end, I think. Yep. Keep going. I had to cut it down a lot. Can you go to 26? Way down there. This one. Okay. So, Special Olympics Iowa um and their unified champion program specifically has this philosophy that inclusion is not just about bringing people together. It's about creating a culture where everyone belongs and contributes. And again, one of their key metrics for success is that we lower bullying in
078our schools, which I think is really cool. And we do have to report on that every year. That's what the middle school layout, well, the liaison would do. We would take data from school participation surveys, um, all behavior incidents and like reports of bullying and hopefully we see those go way down. And that would be how Special Olympics Iowa would measure our success, which is pretty cool. And then you can go down to the end and it's just a thank you for letting me come here and talk. You have questions for me. >> I guess I was probably addressing one of the slides. Is this page 12 or 712 or what? >> So right now this is 512. They do have a banner recognition program and toolkit that we could use to start at the
079elementary level as well. I figured start middle school, high school, and then we'll expand. We got a few years to figure out. Do you have any idea how many students would want to or would be able to participate in this? >> I'm hoping 50 total the first year that Central DIT said that they have about 100 every year and they've been doing it for 30. So it might be hard at first, but I also believe in our school district. I think that we have a lot of students who want to do well and I think we have a lot of students who are looking for ways to engage in our community and this would be an easy way for them to not only feel welcome and included but also to have that opportunity to include
080other people as well as be a leader. >> So 50 being the neurode diverent or half that >> so is it any type of disability or just neurode divergent >> any type any type of disability can come on in and join us. It's a pretty cool pretty cool activity. >> So, from a competitive perspective, you talked a little bit about some other teams. Do you have do you have other teams, you know, because you you didn't really you don't really have a sport who's specifically picked? >> No. >> Um would that kind of be dictated by what other teams we could play against? So, like if ball was a very common sport for the other teams, we like, "Hey, let's do a ball." >> Um, as well as student interest, I think we need to
081figure out what our students are interested in first. Um, I know basketball has been recommended multiple times. Okay. >> Um, so I think and I think basketball would be easy to start with because we can use old jerseys practice practice jerseys for our students. >> The facilities too. >> Yes, exactly. And it would be easy that and cheerleading. Cheerleading would be a really to do as well because then they just have to te cheer at two of our football games. Um, I graduated from Warper College. They actually have the college version of this at Warper College. Um they have their program called Sparkles which I helped at all four years that I was in college. Um and that is their cheerleading version. So it would be really easy to set that up here too as
082well. >> I kind of exclude boys a little. I mean I wouldn't >> if they could passionate about >> I think they could but if >> I think basketball that's what I've seen the most interest in in my students and again I'm I'm level three. I don't see a lot of students, but I do see um some of our students who would benefit the most from this program. >> Are they Would they be co-ed teams? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> And we have a great tradition of bowling, too. >> And bowling is one as well. >> Really good bowlers. >> Yes. >> Yeah. I forgot to mention that, but our bowlers are killing it right now. They're doing great. >> Yeah. I think this would be great. I know Dana has spoken before about just
083like the percentage of students involved with things and I know she's always wanting to get that percentage higher. So any avenue to create opportunities no cost to the parents? >> No free well the goal would be to be free. Um parents can be class A volunteers. They have to take a training and then they also have to take a safe adult training as well in case of behaviors. That is a possibility anytime you work with students who are >> so a parent could coach >> if they went through that training. >> Yep. >> I know we have at least two parents interested in voluntar we just wanted to present it to the board and then get going get going on this. >> I was excited about it. I wanted you to hear >> the great
084idea she had. >> Yeah. Yeah. Seems like you're very passionate about it. >> I am. I'm really excited to see >> you have experience, too. >> It's a big part of success. >> It's going to be good. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. >> I'll be there if I brackets. Okay. >> You should do pickle ball, right? That one. >> Yeah. Pickle ball. They're doing pickle ball. I'm ready. >> Well, I was say, don't we have the space at the Oh, no. Just that fort. >> Oh. Oh, the pool area. Yeah, the pool area does have space. The lighting's not >> the lighting's not great for but yes or >> there you go. >> Absolutely. >> Was the best. >> Thank you. Move on to the SBRC application for administrative cost for the lead center
085consortium. You have any comments on this one? It was a pretty solid point. >> Um, so we're a member of the Lead Center Consortium and this is where students with behavioral needs. This is one of the facilities that helps support our students. I move that the board of directors of the Tri City Community School District approve the application to the school budget review committee in the amount of $5,496 for special education administrative costs associated with lead center consortium program for the 2026 2027 school year. >> Second been properly moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, we can proceed to vote. All those in favor state I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Motion will carry. Moving on to section D. Uh motion to approve SBRC request in the amount of 187,775.50 due
086to open enrollment out. >> Motion second. >> It's been properly moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, we can proceed to vote. All those in favor state I. >> I. >> All those opposed, same size. Motion will carry it. Move on to motion for the NYAK agreement for experiences. >> What about number? >> Oh, I skipped. I'm sorry. Second motion for approval of the SPRC request in the amount of $14,254 for EL construction beyond 5 years. >> A motion been properly moved and second. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor say I. >> All those opposed, same sign. That motion carries. Now we can move on to the NYAK agreement for experiences preceptorship the associate degree nursing and practical nursing programs. >> So I
087just have a quick question. There's there's no cost to this one. Right. I >> No, no, there is not. Whitney Johnson, I believe. >> Whitney Johnson, our newest nurse in year two now. Uh but she has experience working with a rotation, a practicum rotation for nurses from NYAK. And so she thought that'd be a great opportunity to get more support and and help train future generations of nurses. So I thought this seems like just a real positive. >> Perfect. >> Um yes. >> Oh, yeah. There should be a recommendation for approve the agreement. I'll make a motion to approve the NIF agreement for experiences receptorship as presented. Second >> promptly moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, we can proceed to vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All
088those opposed, same sign. Motion carries. Move on to parade deck the high school science license. >> This is a growth need, right? I believe it's these licenses, >> right? Right. This Yeah. >> Is this the same as the Didn't we approve some science curriculum last year? >> Yeah. The pair deck is is more of a tool to um share work. Um so a teacher can have things um interact on the screens with students at the same time through pair deck. It's a kind of a shared presentation tool. So kids can present through the whole class through pair deck or a teacher can share. So it's it's just like a more robust tool for those kind of programs like like PowerPoint was more interactive. People could share and then display and go back and forth. Perk
089is like that. It's just a more advanced tool. And so it came from the science department, but the license is actually for the whole high school. So >> 450 licenses for pair. So all all students could then use perk in the high school and in the alternative school. >> But we pay that amount that's attached to. >> That's right. Yeah. >> That's for one year. >> Yes. It says I think quantity is 450. >> Right. Right. So then everybody in the high school can use it. >> So this was presented or this was brought up by the science department. >> That's where it originated but the license allows all kids to use it. Teachers >> something the teachers expressed an interest in. >> That is correct. Yep. It's a good I've used it. It's a
090good program. I'll second >> been properly moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, state I. >> All those opposed, same side. Motion carries. Next, we'll have the FH notice agreement. So, do we have like an um like an estimated cost because it just has like kind of time of materials and a list of costs per person >> under AE fee for modus study. It talks about that's a paragraph second page >> not to exceed 10,000. >> That's correct. So, it's yeah not to exceed 10,000. He thought between five and 10,000. >> Okay. Okay. >> Would be the range of that. And then um additional hourly fees is what it describes for FE as far as if they're going to come do extra community presentations
091or things like that. So they you have to have an architect on the projects that have a certain scope and size to them as as we know. And so some of the u renovations that became apparent through that bond process, you know, for bathrooms and those kind of things probably warrants having that architectural lens. Um in addition, um Modus uh was not fully finished with the level to implement their projects. Um, and I talked to Matt today a little bit and he mentioned that no peeling off like the switch gear and and doing that is a separate thing with modus. He's like there'll be things where you don't need me for and I'm okay with that. Um, so so this was the proposal that he wanted to bring forward so that we he can help
092get modus ready to go um up to speed and then also help us um >> have we talked to modus? Are they aware that that we're in the process of getting >> Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Matt Matt has made them up to up to speed and aware on that and they needed some time. So Matt would like to come and do a work session. Um and I said we have one already on the calendar in February. So I think that might be a great Well, when the board approves the calendar, we have one tentatively scheduled to be on the calendar then. And so Matt thought that would be a good timeline for a full work session to kind of go through. Okay, here's when we can get started on this. For example, the HVAC, which
093is such a big part of it, that project that we talked about last March, most of those which they can't be here in time this summer at this point in time, unfortunately. So, we have a little more time. So, that's where he thought putting this together with modus in a more comprehensive manner, coming forward and explaining to the board, okay, here's the the options we have on what we can fix for the $4 million. And if we're going to make >> sequences. >> Yeah. Yeah. And then and some of those bathrooms, if we get them up to ADA compliance and have to do a little more of a renovation on those um you know, then where do we put the HVAC units and how can we maximize all that? So that's something just to update
094the rest of the board. That's something we discussed in the facilities committee >> with the four million and moving forward in that in the HVAC is how we had to use FE as a architectural firm. make sure we make code compliance and all that as they put stuff in and then maximizing the efficiency of that four million to >> get the most >> implement it biggest bang for our buck without doing anything that would hinder a future project or anything of that nature. And then we also talked with Jerry about the switch gear and some of that stuff implementing that into his annual budget because he had extra money or not extra but he had a spot in the money that we could use there to utilize that 4 million towards more of the HVAC
095concerns with inflation issues. So >> switch the electrical so we could do that sooner and implement it that way. So, >> and Matt thought Motus would be a great resource because they could make sure you have enough power for any future needs. You know, if you do some kind of remodel or renovation, >> right, >> replace it with enough power to meet future needs. >> Modus was willing to do the engineering side of things where FH didn't do the engineering, but they did the architectural stuff. >> That's where we're at with this and why we're asking for. So, is it I mean different than what we did before when they built out the plan to to you know to to do this work >> the $4 million plan. >> Yeah. >> No, this is just
096it's still the same plan. It's just >> Matt is going to make sure that it's not going to hinder anything and that it meets code. >> They did the general overview, did the inspection of what we would need. He's just making sure that it's all going to be plugandplay for anything in the future and seeing if the ADA compliance is still going to be there with what inspections he did as part of our bond process. >> Matt's impression was modus hadn't gone. >> Yeah. And all the way modus was u they did the engineering part of it, but I don't remember them being in charge of things like ADA. >> Right. They hadn't they hadn't done that kind of work. >> Yeah. So they'll they'll do their part of things and I think they'll do
097the job. But we still need the architects for ADA >> for a certain dollar amount. Yeah. You have to have an architect >> to be able to line up the contractor basically. >> Otherwise modus would have to hire an architect. We don't know >> if it's certain dollar amount. Right. So, >> I'm just >> We need a motion to >> I'll make a motion that we approve the motives agreement FH modus agreement as presented. >> I'll second. >> Been properly moved and second. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, we can proceed to vote. All those in favor state I. >> I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion carry. Now move on to the teach town special education curriculum. Agree. >> So uh Lindsay Stout is a is a helping with our special education team
098across all of the district and she worked with Dr. Schilling on Teachtown is a tool that really helps smaller group, our level two and level three students that you probably know more details to, but our current curriculum is not very robust. And so this is really standards aligned tightly. And I thought with our um authority being really good and the savings that we had recognized a one, you know, to pay five years at once, which makes it this larger dollar amount for a really stronger curriculum piece that has both materials. It's not just all online. It comes with materials and manipulatives and things. It comes with a and maybe you can speak to some of that too, but >> it comes with um like for our essential elements which is what the level three students
099or most of our 11 or level three students learn with. We don't have a lot of choices for it. We have the N2Y curriculum which is really really limited. Um and I haven't been able to access it for like three weeks now even with Jen and I emailing them constantly. Um it just it's kind of a mess. Um, but this program not only is for that, but it goes up. It has three different levels for everything. You can take data in the program. So, our progress monitoring would take like half the time, which would be amazing. Um, on top of that, it adapts general education materials to special education students. So my students who might be in a literacy class more for the social interaction and the engagement would actually be able to like they
100do holes in seventh grade. My students would have a copy of holes that is adapted to them in their level. Um so they could be in the gened class and be participating with their peers using the gened curriculum which is so cool. You can also search the gened standards in that program and it will find the ones that are adapted to the same level that my student is. So it it would make their partic participation in like the science classes easier as well. It it's a really cool curriculum. >> So So the team was very excited about it and so thank you for jumping in. I appreciate it. But the team is very excited about this program. It really it would start in January. we would go that quickly and then by doing a five-year
101license since we had a little more authority right now, a little more cash reserved, uh we would spend more now and then if let's say five years from now, maybe we just do one year at a time if if finance finances are a little more lean, we could do one year at a time at that point in time, but it came highly recommended by teachers and then Lindsay and Jen. I'll make a motion approve that town special education curricul one question though with all this software stuff that we've been buying. Do we have the equipment to run all of it? Are we up to date with hardware that will run this stuff? >> So, April will April will have future, you know, refreshes of our devices as she does. So, she's got a timeline mapped
102out for that. But it does all our all of this will work on our existing materials. >> Okay. >> It'd be nice to know and hear about we need hardware to keep running our stuff that some >> it would all the things we're purchasing will run in our existing hardware and we'll have a refresh cycle that will don't need to replace a certain percentage of devices. >> Yeah. Not necessarily had to do with this particular thing just occurred to me. Good session >> been properly moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, we can proceed to vote. All those in favor I. >> All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Go to policy. Just have >> I don't think that should be in there. I think I I meant to remove that. I meant
103to remove that. Let's Let's table that if we can. >> Okay. I'll make a motion to table that. >> Thanks. Need a second >> properly moved and second at the table. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed. Same sign. Comments. >> Comments. I'll make a motion to the regular meeting. >> I make a motion to adjourn. >> Second properly moved and seconded. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Same sign. Regular meeting is journed. We can now call to order the organizational meeting. We will start with the election of four president. I think it got >> I will call the organization meeting to order. >> Made a roll call for that. >> Not necessarily. >> No, it doesn't. It didn't happen. We're on number 19. Make a motion
104that we or I would like to move that rose paper continue to be president of the board. >> Second do a roll call. Guess we have to do a roll call. >> Yeah. Let me just >> Oh, are there any other nominations for board president? >> Okay. Uh, we will do a roll call for vote for Bruce as president. Um, Josh Mack. >> Yes. Dr. Shro. >> Yes. Katherine box. Yeah. And test >> you can vote against himself. I will call for nominations for vice president >> Josh M. >> I'll second just keep it the same. >> I nominate Council Fox, but you can >> Okay, I'd second her nomination. >> I'll withdraw yours. All right. >> I appreciate that. Thank you. >> Josh's question. >> Yeah. >> So, I'm out. >> He just did
105Josh >> or or Josh declined. Either way. >> Yeah. >> Either way. >> I can't wait to see this. >> Oh my god. >> I'm gonna need some help. Um, okay. Roll call vote for Katherine Fox, vice president. >> Josh Mack, >> yes. >> Dr. Shro, >> yes. >> Katherine Fox, >> yes. >> Daryger, yes. Oh, no. No, he >> was received. >> Okay. >> No, that's okay. >> I appreciate that you did that. That was very nice. >> So, then do you hand it back over to the board president for the election of the board secretary, board treasurer? >> Yes, that is I'm at the appointment board secretary. We have to do this. Oh, yeah. >> Oh, >> you need to sort of man. Yeah. >> Yep. >> Oh, yeah. >> We're circling back.
106>> Yeah. Officially I do. Yeah, he does. You're not going to say nothing at all. for the paper. >> Well, there's not going to be room for a picture. >> Standing here. >> Okay. Okay. So, I can read just read. You can do I think you do them individually. You want to do them individually? Yes. Okay. Do you solemnly swear that you will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Iowa and that you will faithfully and impartially to the best of your ability discharge the duties of the office of school board president in the Charles City community school district as not and hereafter required by law. >> Okay. Do you solemnly swear that you will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State
107of Iowa? >> Leave a plate for Catherine. >> Leave a couple plates back here. >> We have a Yes. that you will faithfully and impartially to the best of your ability discharge the duties of the office of school board vice president in the Charles City Community School District as not and hereafter required by law. >> Yes. Thank you for the secretary to >> Danielle. Do you solemnly swear that you will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Iowa and that you will faithfully and impartially to the best of your ability discharge the duties of the office of school board secretary and treasurer in the Charles City Community School District as not and hereafter required by law. >> Yes. Move on to settlement 2026 board meeting dates. >> I'll
108make a motion that we approve the um school board meeting dates and the school board work session dates as listed. >> Second. Been properly moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion? >> I appreciate Dr. Shley. Me too. Please note we also set the time for the work sessions to match at 5:30 at 5. 5:30 is better. >> Great. >> No further session. We can proceed to vote. All those in favor state I. I. >> All those opposed. Same side. Motion carries. We'll designate official source of legal publication. Make a motion that Charles City Press will be our source for legal publication. I'll second properly moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion? In favor state I >> I all those opposed same sign. Motion carries. Designation of legal counsel. >> I'll make a motion
109that we appoint Alex and Cooney PC attorneys on the legal counsel. >> I'll second properly moved and seconded. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed same side. Motion carries. Committee membership and assignment. >> You have a question. Does anybody want to do something different than we did last year? >> Uh, I'd like to do facilities. So would I have you, Bruce? >> You guys want me to step down? >> Agree. But then we'd have to have a meeting. >> We have to set our announce them all anyway. So it's whatever you'd like to do. So what's that? >> We post them all. We post them all the time anyway. So you can have three on there. >> Good. >> We can all >> go for it. >>
110Anybody else got anybody? Anything else you want to do? You still want to do the other ones you're listed on here? Um Josh, the negotiations, compensation that >> Yeah. And the conference board. Yeah. I mean, Katherine does policy. She reads them all, tells me what I should do. Just like a really good uh >> No, overnight. I'm fine with everything. >> Yeah. Do you have anything? >> Yeah. All right. So, that would be it. >> Adding the facilities. >> And everything else will remain the same. I'll make a motion that that's what we do. >> I'll second. >> It's been properly moved and seconded. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed. Same size. Motion carries. Any further comments from the board? Great. >> Your hair >> went to the uh
111the robotics thing. It was really awesome to see. There was a lot of really really really exciting >> that so they're going they they get the seventh grade team gets to go to state and I was talking with Mr. I heard I think he was hoping they were going to do like a pep rally for six to stay the night before because these all day. So >> when when is it? >> So it's February 7th at Iowa State University's College of Engineering building. >> Yeah. >> The last year it's really really neat to see. So if you're looking for something fun to do coming for our meeting, thanks for being here. >> Motion for adjournment. >> Make a motion to journ. >> Secondly, seconded. All in favor say I. >> We are journ. >> You
112can be a regular with Christine and Jack. We now have an audience. two reasons I was going to be here anyway being part of the MFA for the presentation. his girlfriend, >> right? to do in five. >> No, we've not used none of these. So this is in >> the progression from like freshman year that it was coming >> like hearing like freshman talking to all the people >> and then light up a little bit on the community chat and >> I would say it was pretty. >> There was quite a few that were supportive about the idea, >> right? >> And I would say in the conference, most schools have this. So because we also take some flags >> for your siblings and your mom >> take a day that was scheduled for kids
113to be >> and then show up. >> We can definitely calendar next year student days and take two of the teacher work days off >> and then drop this all together for this year. I think it's a nice >> ceiling like in the sheetrock or >> cracks along there. >> Right. >> No, it's not. It's not a direct connection. I mean I don't think you can ever say 100% it's perfect. I I think that that you fix the issue so if it's comes back I absolutely get for sure. >> I appreciate you letting me know. Yeah. >> How's that call? stairs. >> Oh, he did? >> Yeah. Oh, sure. >> Well, I just want you to know that it's there. >> Yeah. >> Best way to balance all of this. But >> I just thought
114we were going to switch to four day school week and every time. holiday on there >> two weeks. >> Well, Christian's going >> for four months. She come back. >> Oh, okay. >> That is >> work. A long time though. >> Yeah. >> I go back to work, >> right? >> Sure. >> Well, since my kids ugly, >> but still like that's >> you only miss this time of year. Long time 45 years. >> Yeah. >> New now, right? >> Yeah. >> All right. Well, >> yeah, she's the only one that's emailed that I didn't. So, I I check spam. I'll keep looking. >> I'm sure you've got ways that you can figure out how best to deal with that. Um, >> we can add more days to calendar too for next year. >> If
115we need to >> for students in person days. >> Bruce, thanks. >> Yeah, >> I'm gonna come tomorrow. >> Okay. >> So, this presentation was very similar to Okay. The last two months Um, it's it's up to our >> I don't it's not that's not the way it so it's a multi-year deal. We're not holding you can pull the contract. Who said that you got copy on? I mean, >> okay. You probably have one somewhere, too. >> Well, no, no. Pat price. Pat was the one that would have signed it. >> Okay. I thought it was a threeyear continuously rolling. >> Yeah. I think it was something to do with continuous or something, but >> we have to do 13 or whatever the whole >> Yeah, I don't know. >> I kind of thought it
116was a three-year contract, too. Started up. >> We'll look at three. Yeah, I'm not saying it wrong. I'm just I just want to understand what our options are. We're not saying we should be, but I just think they know right now. >> Oh, time's the concert tomorrow. >> Thank you. >> Where is changed since the email last week concert? I'm sure it's cold out there. >> You can weigh in on the conference convention >> practice. >> You're in the picture. >> You going to go and fix that? >> I don't know what I'm going to do.