03/09/2026 WCSD Board Meeting

001do that. Great. Please stand for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay. Thank you everyone. Um Jeremy, will you please do the honor of reading the mission statement and strategic priority number one? >> Uh mission statement will priority lifelong learners drive personal excellence before priority one increase student opportunities that integrate real world focus and application based learning to ensure all students are college career and life ready. >> Thank you sir. Next up is conflict of interest declaration. Now is the time to declare if any of the agenda agenda items pose a personal conflict of interest. Hearing none, we'll move on to approval of the agenda. Any changes

002or corrections? >> Nope. Not. I entertain a motion to approve the agenda as presented. Move. >> Motion by Tim. Is there a second? >> Second by Ross. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Next up is public comment. Anybody from the public? Is now's the time to speak? Nobody. Perfect. All right. Moving on. Information only. Construction project update. >> Yep. So, we'll start with uh John. If you want to come on up, I can pull up >> shortly. Come along. I'm gonna let her talk through some of the stuff though. I don't >> No. >> So, John got the John's got John's got the PowerPoint that's up and links in the agenda and then Kylie's got the handout that's at your desk that goes over the budget.

003So, I see that. >> Yep. >> Have some first reformation. So, she'll talk in more detail to those with what she handed out. So, forward. So, the last time we talked to you was in December, uh, which doesn't seem that long ago, but amazingly, a lot has happened in terms of progress on the building. As you would expect, we do a lot of work. Uh, and so, uh, if you want to click forward back when we met before, we were just wrapping up schematic design. So, that's like big picture moves. You're making big moves around. Then we moved into design development which is fine-tuning. So that's kind of working with staff. We did a lot of um what we call user group sessions. We met with staffs from the different departments. We met with students

004who were fantastic to engage with. Um helped us kind of really refine what was needed in the spaces and then that has us kicking forward the construction documents. So that is uh where we currently are living. There is one project out for bid, but we're deep in the throws of construction documents. That's all the information that contractors need to be able to build the the facilities. Um, so if you recall, uh, we have kind of this the seven different pieces of of work. Uh the piece that is currently out of the bid would be the number one, number two, and number seven, which would be and and a little bit of six. Uh so that's the north lot, the south lot, the main hallway that's reworking some piping and we'll replace the ceiling and lightings.

005And then six, we're going to do some of the door security improvement. And then the rest of it happens with the bigger project. So, uh, that package is out now for the the parking lot improvements and the the main hallway work. Uh, I would show you the whole set, but it's very detailed information. But, um, generally by the start of the school year, you will have the north parking lot done. They will still be working on the south lot and then the main hallway will be done. Uh, the door security prep work will be done. So that te's up the rest of the work that'll that'll start in the summer. >> And so then this is kind of the bigger plan. So if you recall in the uh north uh east corner, the upper right,

006we're expanding the auditorium. Over on the left, we're expanding and renovating at the uh what we call the CTE wing. And then down towards the bottom of the screen, we're adding the wrestling room, relocating where Alt Ted is. So, part of this got really exciting. We have a lot of fun stuff to show. So, we're going to break it out by weighing the first would be the auditorium. So, we're uh over 700 seats in the auditorium. Um, we're ironing down what the bull count is, but it's uh somewhere in the range of 720 to 750. Uh, why is it a range? Because we're still designing a little bit and that'll get ironed out. Um, the stage stays, but we're adding stage craft to the back uh to the uh to the uh main entry part

007of the building. We're adding the new entry lobby. We're adding the secure entry uh in the AD office suite will move right inside that that secure entry for the students. The lobby has its own secure barrier. So if we want to run an auditorium event and keep it separated, it has its own functioning bathrooms and can be securitized for the rest of the building. Altad space gets turned into dressing and some uh stage storage. And then we add the scene shop which is a higher scale. Um so the fun part is we've got a little bit of sneak preview of how the interior's developing. So uh in a section view if you just cut the building open and looked in from the side you can see how uh the stage is on the left and

008then that lower seating uh is kind of that slope that's already there. And uh instead of being concourse style seating, now you'll have se uh like a main center aisle and a couple of side aisles. A little easier to get in and out of seats. And then towards the back, we call it stadia seating, but it's a little steeper slope creeping up to the back. And that's where we get a lot of those extra seats. And those kind of go up and over top of the bathrooms. Um and then our uh dressing room that is the space that was occupied by one of the old head programs. Uh just modifying that. There is already some some bathroom there. We have to add a little bit more bathroom and then some changing space and then a

009lot of uh bench and mirror. So there's ability to get dressed and check your costumes. And then this isn't the final of what it's going to look like. We've got several different iterations, but it just is exciting to kind of get a sense of the volume of the space. So, this would ending on the the it was called the back course, but it's the aisle away behind the lower tier of seating looking towards the stage. Uh some of what's there architecturally stays, but we're going to make it look a lot better. And just forward, >> this is uh uh the main entry. So, if you go in through the performing arts entry, uh you get a nice tall space, lots of natural light coming in. Uh to the right would be uh the first doorway

010on your right is the uh entry into the uh uh auditorium space. Further down, we have uh some bathrooms and then at the far end is the other entry into the auditorium. And then what you're seeing along the right side is some display cases. So any of those trophies, any of those uh things that are uh proud moments to be shared uh can happen in there. There will also be some other technology and and electronics in this space as well. Uh this is just a a view towards one of those uh entries in uh to what we call a light trap. So there's two sets of doors to get into the auditorium. That's so that light from the lobby doesn't flood in when you have a darkened room. And then the doors on the left

011side take you into the cafeteria area. And then this is looking back towards that main entry. So that kicks out a little bit to the right because the parking lot where most people are going to park in is across the street to the right. So we kind of wind it up uh to to address that parking lot so it's clear and definable as to where an audience uh would park and where they enter. And then that's just a little bit closer up view. And then you can see some of that electronic display and from the outside uh trying to tie the aesthetic of the addition together with other materials that you have uh around your building so that feels like it was part of this campus uh but yet is a beautiful and and desirable

012space to want to uh have an event in. And then uh what you're seeing the big volume behind because uh we're expanding the uh auditorium for stage craft just wrapping that with some new siding to unify that whole look. So then jumping forward just a quick slice. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Um the loading dock and the door to the south of the loading dock. What happens to those? So the for the stage craft that we're adding, there'll be an overhead door that shoots out towards the north lot. >> You mean more for the kitchen? >> More for the kitchen where our garbage changes there. >> We're going to keep that door there. >> We're going to >> Which one? >> I mean, >> so the north to the south of it south where kids always

013come in. >> That's to the north. >> The dumpsters right there. the dumpsters right here and then to the south. >> The old the old parking lot he used to use. Yeah, that was our main door. >> That will be there and next year will be the the entrance they have to use during construction. >> Construction, >> but the main door >> there right now. If you look at this view right here where it says student entrance, they'll start using this one. >> That's the one that they currently use. >> Will they? No, >> that's the one most of them I don't see too many going down to the generals anymore. Yeah, that's always been an unsecured area that >> Yes. >> I think we really need to focus. >> Yeah, this will be the

014secure entrance that you're talking about. >> Yeah, >> perfect. >> We were a little bit of screening to shout the viewer. >> Correct. A little bit of an ice like that. >> Yeah. >> Corner right there. >> So, extending it out, you know, the fence that's there right now. >> Yeah. >> The fence that's there, some of that comes out because Nick's office comes that way. Nice little shield even >> will block even more. >> Block even more. >> Yeah. >> And then that where it says student entry, that will be the securitized entry. So students parking in the lot, uh that will be their secure sequence to get into the building after the building's locked down. >> Um and then with the doors to the lobby that gets locked off so students can't go

015through that auditorium zone. >> Perfect. >> Thank you. uh over at the CTE end uh taking the north wall of the building off so that we can expand for a larger art room, larger FCS lab which then puts our you know our career pathways together um with with other CTE pathways. So on the left side you're you're getting a new FCS lab and classroom. Uh there's a little bit of transparency between the classroom and lab. That visual connection allows different activities to be happening at the same time. The uh number of workstations in the kitchen is based off of uh what they need to service that class large storage room. And then we still have that we're calling it the FCS shop, but there is a serving window into the vestibule. So, if there's a

016big sale or a fundraiser or even if we want to pull anybody from the exterior in for sale, uh that's a secure vestibule where somebody could come in purchase and then not get any further into the >> and this built just for my mind clarity. This is where the old building ends, correct? >> Actually, yeah. Right there. >> Right across there. Yep. >> So, that's all new and then Yep. And then for art, uh, they just needed a better size of classroom and a better separation of where, uh, pottery works or clay works were from where 2D and 3D art, uh, happened elsewhere. So, uh, to the bottom of the art room on this screen is our kind of our clay works area within a separate area for the kiln. And then to the north

017side, the larger room is all the uh tables and and chairs for where that 2D and 3D uh work happens. And then a lot of storage, a lot of ability to uh just handle the the artwork that they're producing as well as supplies for that space. the space that was art uh is now our our uh uh video production, our graphics. And then uh actually just to the lower left, we're doing a little bit of an update to the uh what's called the uh esports and and uh tech room. So that's kind of our technology space. So if we kick forward, just a little bit of a 3D view of those different spaces. on screen is the FCS lab. You can get a peek in on the the 3D on the right. You're getting a

018look towards that serving window just how that lab space lays out and then the glass doors uh leads you into the next slide which is the classroom space. So the classroom then is visually connected to the lab. uh those doors can slide open in between so you get a nice free flow. If you're just doing coursework for a day or just lab work, you can close them off, but if you're migrating between the two spaces, you can open it up and it's an easier sequence uh for students to move between those. If we look into the next slide, you'll get a view of kind of what that looks like. So, um matching the window size and pattern of what's on the building. uh nice big open workspaces and then you see that glass connection uh

019in between the two rooms. Then the next uh slide would give you a look towards the classroom space uh just showing how well the teacher can monitor both spaces. And if we kick forward we'll take you into the classroom space. And then on the next slide uh that is inside of that uh secure entry vestibule. So you would be standing in the serving window looking out. Gives you nice visual control of the lobby and then there's nice display case there for any uh problem moments that want to be shared from the CTE program. And then if we kick forward, little bit of entry uh from the exterior. The next slide will be your art room. So that gives you a better sense of how it lays out for uh some of the workts on the

020left side of the 3D and the uh kind of pottery area on the right side. Shows how we have our kiln and then some uh shelving for uh drying and curing. And then around the perimeter of the remainder of the room is just a lot of uh drawers and shelves for storing supplies and materials. Uh here's a view of what that is if you're standing in the uh northeast corner of the yard looking towards the pottery area. Gives you a sense of how you get the entry into the classroom. Two kind of distinct instructional areas. Lots of lots of storage. We kick forward. This one's kind of standing in that pottery area looking towards the 2D yard, excuse me, 2D art area. And then our next slide uh just kind of shows how we're breaking

021up our video and and uh studio space and our graphics. So that uh gives them a nice resolution of those two programs that were currently kind of crammed into a single space that's about the size of what's shown for production and and studio uh on this slide. And then on the next page, uh this is our cyber tech esports area. There's updating the finishes, getting some new uh tables, chairs, uh countertops so that we get a better layout of that space. And then the next slide is kind of the exciting shot of what will be the new north end of the building. So what you notice here is it really ties in with how the main entry to the main office area looks. So, uh, currently with all that pre-cast concrete, it's a little bit

022disconnected. This brings some cohesion now to the building. >> Just quick question. >> Uh, this is this is the north >> sidewalk will connect around. >> Yep. >> Like current like all the way around to the west side of the building. >> That'll actually ramp up towards the drive and then catch the walk around. >> Okay, perfect. Because that's my four mile walk every day. >> Yeah, still there. >> You'll still be in line. Thank you, Cor. Yeah, keep me happy. >> And then the last little area is our u >> we've got our altad. Uh so this is currently where FCS is. On the left is the current FCS classroom. On the right is our uh our FCS lab. So now we've got our success and bridges program. Uh on the far right, one

023of the kitchen workstations is staying. That is being able to address life skills uh uh programming. There's a couple of small rooms that we just have to slightly modify, but then those allow for some small groupoup instruction. Uh we have some variety of uh movable furniture, dropping a small bat into this area and then some private corral work areas. So for for anybody needs to pull away for that private work moment, we have those. And then the uh success classroom is largely unchanged. And the corridor leads you back out to the vestule which will be securitized. So now we got a secure vestibial entry into the stone. And then this just gives you a little bit of a 3D view of how those two rooms uh link together. And in that corridor that uh you

024enter from the vestibule and go either to successor bridges that they have their own locker uh bank inside that corridor as well. And then on the next slide just a couple views of uh what those areas is. So this is uh uh some of those private work areas in the uh bridges program. Then on the next slide, uh looking towards that life skills area with the couple small group instructionals. Then the next slide is inside that uh success room. Then our wrestling room. So uh we are adding the new wrestling. Uh we're kind of matching the length of the current wrestling a little bit wider which is affords us the ability to build some storage in between the two spaces. So now you have storage accessible from the new wrestling and the current wrestling with

025a little bit of a a division in between. So if we're storing things for the different programs, we have those separated. Uh, so the entry from the south, so from the parking lot side on the south, you'll have a secure vestibial in to a corridor. There's a door into the new wrestling room. Just inside that is that zone where you might have your uh cubbies for taking off your shoes or sticking your bag and then some exercise bikes. Then you have your two mats. There is a doorway that connects to the current wrestling room which is also accessible off that corridor. Inside the corridor we have um benches so for club activities or you know parents are waiting we have some benching there for people to sit. We'll have some displays within that zone for

026anything you want to advertise or promote. And then on the current boys wrestling room uh just kind of reworking a little bit building some cubby storage into there and and making sure that's uh freshened up. And then just reworking the weight room to allow for that corridor to enter in. Um we do have uh somewhere else there's an exciting drawing that shows where all the equipment goes. So we have it all laid out. So here's a couple shots inside of uh what will be the new wrestling room. So that's looking from the corner on your left is the storage. You're looking back towards the uh entry into this space. Then if we pick to the next slide, this is kind of one of those entry corridor areas where you can come in the low pieces

027of bench where you can sit on and where it says branding, it's we can put some school spirit in there. We can put some display information. So uh that can really lighten up that space. And our next slide is the next extension of that. So the door uh up here on the left is the entry into that what will be the boys wrestling room. And then uh next slide gives you a sense of how we're building this from the outside. So when people come to play baseball or softball, they're going to know they're in husky kind of country. So um this will be back lit, so it'll it'll glow. Um and you can see that new doorway in. Uh otherwise, we'll just be matching really the aesthetic with the materials on the building. And then

028I think there's one more shot straight on. That is your exciting projects that started this summer. So Justin, if you want to kick forward. I know it's kind. >> Okay. Um what you can see here is our construction facing plan. Everything in green is phase what we're considering phase 1 A. Um, as John mentioned, this is your north and south parking lots, the drive lane on the south, and then some door security, um, updates throughout the building and the main hallway. Um, getting rid of the galvanized piping, installing new piping, and just updating some of the finishes in there. Um, anything in yellow is, uh, phase 2 AB work. Phase 2 A will include the footings and foundations um for the all three additions and then phase 2B will be the finishes. So walls um

029any finishes, roping, all that type of stuff will be included in phase 2B. Um that was mainly just to get ahead on do some early big package work for uh these additions to um you may skip to the next slide. Um so this is where this packet comes in to play. Um so what you're seeing here is the first slide kind of or sorry the first page in your packet goes over the construction budget. Um these are broken out by phase area phase and area. So you'll notice in the phase column these phase 1A items are out for bid currently. Um we are expecting bids due on the 19th. So getting ready and uh making sure all contractors are um any in the area making sure that they're bidding on these projects and are excited

030about um what what's coming out when they're set. Um you'll notice that um 2 A and B are also on here. They're not broken out by 2 A versus B just because it's a lump project. Um these pricings do reflect um updates from the design development phase um with some subcontractor input um as you're prepared to move into construction. Uh the next page that I gave you guys includes um value management. Um so this is something we call smart choices at Essos Construction and these are just opportunities to that we've um worked with Bray on reducing cost while maintaining design intent and performance of the existing spaces. Uh this 22 item list is not everything. It is something that we are working towards and will continue to develop as construction drawings are further progressed. Um

031anything in green is reflected in the construction totals. um that you'll see on the next page. Anything yellow, some of them haven't been incorporated. Um others may have not, but they are uh they're items that we've caught between 25% construction doc drawings and 50%. So when those 50% construction drawings were not, those will be reflected in the those drawings. They just didn't get a chance or they didn't get a chance to update those in our last um pricing um exercise. As for the red, these are just ones that um we've all deemed are not worth further pursuing. Um today, we've identified approximately $500,000 of worth of potential savings. And as I mentioned before, this list will continue to develop. We'll continue to present new ideas and uh make sure that we're staying on top of

032the construction budget. As for this third page included in your packet, this is the total project budget. Um it compares the current project construction cost with the original budget. Um currently we're at 17,449,713 um versus our construction budget of $16,714,999. Um we are currently slightly over budget by 2%. these percent values that you see on your right hand side, the first two percentages um are comparison against the SD budget and then the 2.7% and 2% are compared to the original budget. So currently over um 2% from our original budget, but as I mentioned before, we these smart choices are um instrumental to bringing the project back in line with the construction budget and we'll continue to um evaluate them as we move through our um construction process. As far as next steps, Yeah, we can

033tight teaming. So, uh we started conversations with the city uh both with utilities coordination and uh code. Um one of the things we did talk about from a code standpoint is uh state of Iowa has an exception which says you're not required to have storm shelter and uh the code consultant wasn't sure if this is enforced under city of Winterside or not. Uh we've had luck in other jurisdictions asking for the city or county to match the state's ruling uh which is Iowa administrative code 661 uh I believe uh so 661.3 I I sent Justin the exact but um the uh our goal is to ask if they would consider a varian if if at all required uh to accept this requirement. Uh otherwise uh what you have to do in terms of the storm

034shelter is whatever additions are being completed, you have to provide enough storm shelter to cover the occupant load of just the addition space. So it's not like you have to build a giant storm shelter for the whole building occupancy, but you would have to do something. Uh our goal is to to uh see if the city will either wave that requirement uh by means of matching the state's uh ruling or uh hold a variance request hearing for this which would go to the board of appeals. Um so that we'll keep everyone posted on. Uh we're going to do our best to try to work around that. Uh some cities are sticklers and some are not. So we'll we're not sure yet. Um, as Kylie mentioned, the value engineering log is critical for staying in budget.

035You only have so much money and we don't want to spend more than that. We also want to make sure we're protected with enough funds to cover all the unforeseeable things that happen during construction. So, we uh together are really working hard with with Justin, Cam, and team just to get that budget to a spot where we all feel comfortable. Um, today we did a pre- bid. Yes, we had a successful pre-bid this afternoon. Um got some contractors on site to really look in the spaces and talk through logistics. Um construction will be starting on May 4th pending um board approval on the 30th of this month. Um that work will take place through August 21stish um right before school starts. And then we will as far as phase 2 A and B, um public

036hearings will be the notice to biders will be roughly April 1st for 2A and June 18th for 2B with approximate approval around a month out from those dates. Uh with commencement for construction starting on June 5th. So, we'll we'll have two more public hearings for issuing plans and specs and then uh board action will be required for uh whatever bids we get and the recommendation that comes from Estus and Bray for direction on all those different bid patterns. >> Questions? Clear as mud? Yeah. So, we they sent us about 550,000 roughly and you'll see it'll be approved through later. Some of those say pending because we're still evaluating them. Some like we took the dust collector off. It was the team that we needed to replace the dust collector. It was 30 years old. Um

037trying to keep it around for 50,000 didn't seem like a wise choice. So, that one stayed. You notice in the drawings on the inside auditorium, they showed the limestone One of the the savings was to not put limestone on the inside and to put >> laminate. >> Plastic laminate veneer laminated. >> I'd like to build it as an altered. I think it sharpens it up if you're able to do it. Um so we are going to probably put that as an option when they come back. Um yeah, we're working through some different ones that we make sense to slope floor now to for example instead of turning it all out and laying it back. When when will we know about the show? >> Hopefully soon because we'll we'll need to uh have some sort of

038direction before we're going out for bid. So, uh, within the next month, >> if they don't, you'd have to scale this project back. >> Generally, shelter construction is a 15 to 20% up charge on the area you're building. So, some portion of the building will increase in cost. Um, then the decision is if you're going to do it for a small crowd capacity, do you do it for a whole building capacity? Because now you're not having to decide who gets in and who gets out during a storm event. Yeah, I reached out to Drew um last week and he was going to visit with their inspector. Um, I haven't heard back. So, but it would if it's not and you we would be laughing things off of of the project. So, yeah. >> Any other

039questions? >> No. >> Thank you guys. >> Thank you. Now you got a project. We're gonna have Travis review again how we're gonna pay for it. >> Good information only. Travis. >> Yeah. >> Money on trees. >> I thought that's what you did for us. >> Um I asked Travis come again uh to go again. We talked about this back in July, >> but there are some pending changes at the base with regards to >> uh PEL and save revenue. So asked Travis to run you through a couple potential scenarios and ways to maybe mitigate against that as well. So >> you should check see if you have me just now. >> Figure maybe you want to pop it up on the screen today. I always ask Cammy before I write on things to make

040sure she had >> presentation. Sure, that works. I guess it's not wider, but um I thought I'd just kind of walk through real quick kind of uh detailing through your debt profile real quick. Just a few reminders there and then talk through the financing scenario as we have it. And it's been a little bit kind of in flux. You know, the budgets kind of range from 171 to 174. So you'll see numbers at 171. uh you've certainly got the ability to cover to the 174 if you chose to do so. Um but again, that'll be your choice as you guys work through. We'll solve back for whatever number is needed. So, you want to go ahead and slide through to the debt profile. A couple things here. Um we do have a little bit of

041uh information here on valuation history. We kind of scroll up just a little bit more. um the on&m valuation coming in did result in actual valuation growth of about 13% for the district this year. So that really relates to your voter pebble revenues. So the big kind of component there is you will now have the ability to collect more on your voter pebble. That relates as we get into talking a little bit more about some of the property tax reform proposals that are out there. Uh the next slide then does pick up your tax rate history going back uh 2010 to 2026. Do not have your newest proposed. I'll let Jill have that uh when she goes through the budget, but you can see this uh downward trend in tax rates uh for the district

042specifically over the last four years uh where the district's tax rate has gone from 1720 to 1565. And I think you're about the same spot this year. Correct. So if we put 27 on there, it look very similar. Again, important to note that this project in itself does not, you know, go against your property taxes or debt limit. So we're just showing that as an example. Um, as you move to the next slide, um, where it says outstanding debt, the key component there we're highlighting is the ability for the district to do a prepayment levy. here again this upcoming year. So that's FY27 and proposed to do 2.24 million of debt prepayment. Um and what you'll see at that kind of orang-ish column in the middle there that shows the debt or the funds that

043will be prepaid uh by this existing levy. If you were to continue at the pace you're going right now, um you will have all of that voted property tax debt paid off by FY 2030. >> So that's three more budget years. So effectively paying that debt all off in what amounts to 11 years instead of 20. So very substantial uh opportunity there. I think the numbers I'll have to double check this, but I believe the prepayment levy you're looking to implement this year has savings in the neighborhood of a half million dollars of interest cost uh saved for the taxpayers. So we'll we'll have a more exact number when you adopt that resolution. And so then off to the right you can see if you were to do nothing beyond this year after the 405

044you could keep levying much smaller amount you know $160. Um, so obviously some opportunities to uh keep lowering taxes um at the district level. All right, outstanding debt. Second pagement deals with your sales tax prior to the new issue. You can see you're getting really to the end of getting that debt paid off. Um, in fact, you could pay that off now if you wanted to. You have balance on hand to be able to do so. Uh, the reason to not do that, the outstanding debt only has a rate of 2.22% 22% which is lower than what we're anticipating. So if you were to want to get rid of that debt, I might instead say, well, maybe it would just make sense to put more cash into this project and then still overall lower the

045amount of outstanding debt. I'll talk reasons we may not want to be doing anything with uh paying down balance or or or spending balance with some of the pending property tax reform. We'll let that later. Uh go ahead and skip through debt limit. this is not a concern for your district. You currently have available that limit in the $80 million range. Um when you kind of take into account what's left uh for geo bond issuance and sales tax. All right. So the example we've got here is at the 17.12 level. Obviously as you get bids we'll make adjustments here. But a couple of the highlevel things here. Obviously we're not doing anything with voted geo bonds. with the save bonds, you've already completed the public hearing. I think 18750 is the maximum borrowing amount that

046you have. Um, and the current debt to be issued is scheduled at 17,940. Again, that 17940 produces project funds of about 16.76 million. And then you have to fund a reserve fund, which is about one year's payment. Um, has to be set aside. um aggregate payments around the the 1.445 million range um on the new debt. Uh keeping in mind you do have debt outstanding. So the new debt portion of that will be aggregate when you combine it with your existing debt. So you won't go up 1.4 million. You'll go up about 800,000 from where you're at right now and then settle in at that $1.4 million total mark. Um the other component that gets us to the end of our I guess I'll say our uh project budget that is anticipated investment income uh

047with the phasing uh you may be borrowing as soon as this summer um and then having that money on hand during the construction period invested I I think I used a 3% number which I think you do just a little bit better than 3% right now um would grant you about $360,000 of project funds. So we don't necessarily have to borrow for the full 17.12. You could use some of those invest well any investment earnings you have you do have to put towards the project. Um so if you elected to borrow for the full project budget you would have investment earnings for contingency. So however you want to look at that in your mind is fine. Uh just know that we're including both of those when we get to your total project budget. So let

048pause there. Any questions before kind of moving through. See, I'm already at slide 10. You shouldn't worry about the thickness of the packet. >> I thought it was fat more if paper's usually patented in. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So, worst case scenario, we don't get the variance on the storm shelter. We rather than lop stuff off, we could reduce our prepayment and still keep the project the way we wanted it. No, you got apples and oranges in terms of like pots of money for those unfortunately. >> Not the same silos. It's not >> I hate those silos. >> All right. Well, we'll talk we will talk two silos that do blend again which will be the next page. So I think we'll add a little bit to that. Go ahead. If that happens, segue with

049your prepaying and paying 2030, you could then go for a geo bond to pick up what you don't get done in this project, >> which we have would be voted. >> It would have to be. Yes. >> Yeah. >> I I I know the trepidation of voted bonds, right? But let's think of this maybe a little bit different than you have before. Like if it comes back that you need to do a project that includes a storm shelter and you paid off all your debt and you got to 2030, you could essentially say, you know what, voters, will you please authorize us to borrow $3.5 million, we'll pay it off in one year, right? That's the amount of revenue your 405 levy rate could generate. So it could be something that hey we're not asking

050for 20 years of this but we want one year of property tax investment to do that. So there are some ways to think of it a little bit differently and it wouldn't be in this case increasing taxes you'd be extended extending your payments one year. So instead of getting your original 20-year bond paid off in 12 years it took 13 right so there are some ways to look at it. Um, I think if we try to stay in the silo of not having to vote, um, the avenues you would be looking at are resources available with bundles on hand. Um, we've not gone down the path of committing any of your resources on hand. Um, what's a good number? You've got 5.4 million there, right? Could you spend down a million5 of that and still

051feel comfortable um with your project budget? In other words, we're going to keep our borrowing the same, but are there cash resources that you would want to put towards that? I think that's a good kind of segue conversation piece for the board. If I were to look across districts, you know, carrying 5.4 4 million in your what I'll call your capital project fund when you have about 4 million of revenue coming in. A lot of districts might just target the 4 million mark. You know, at least have a year's worth of revenues in reserve so that we can be nimble to take on other projects. And that being said, I don't know your deferred maintenance list, right? So, if your deferred maintenance list says otherwise, then go with that. But I would say based on

052the things that we penciled out and we'll kind of walk through this again um we did see a bump obviously with the OM valuation coming on um in addition to just your valuations in the district growing you know we would expect about 180,000 of additional ple revenues going into next year alone right that's without factoring in any additional growth um so if you kind of follow the spreadsheet across uh the way that we've put this together and you'll see some of the supporting data for yearly expenses and payo expenses later. We stack the revenue on the farm left currently at 3.527 million going into next year forecasting 3.7 million with the increased peel due to the valuations and then really about a stable sales tax position. um you do have that existing debt from the

053sales tax about 450,000 per year. Then as we kind of work our way over um you would see what's left over after your debt payments. And you can see we have an allocation for yearly expenses, pay as you go expenses and new sales tax payments. Um in this case you can see your budgeted obligations run about 2 and a.5 million per year between things that we've identified. that leaves you with a million left over plus your balance. So, if you were to make some changes in how you're allocating those PGO expenses, you know, certainly you're going to have things that come up. You're going to need to replace some roofs. Although we we've got some allocations for dollars, there are going to be bigger ticket items that do come up and we'll need to spend

054some of that surplus. I don't expect you to do this project and end up with $58 million left over at the end of 2011, right? there's going to be ongoing needs that the district will have. You know, one of the things that was so great about your last round of projects is that your voters did approve a substantial property tax investment in your facilities. As we move forward, we don't have any new geo bond debt issues identified, right? So, a lot of this will kind of flip over to trying to cover it with your voter ple and your sales tax moving forward. Um, obviously your voter pal does have to come up for renewal every 10 years. So that's an important component that you continue to use those dollars responsibly. So as we kind of

055look at um what's in that next page of what's we're setting aside for ongoing expenses, uh, you know, this is copy leases, technology, software, transportation, kind of a general maintenance budget of about three4ers of a million dollars per year. Now it's going to give or take. It's going to adjust. I just put an inflationation adjustment on it going forward. But this is the component that comprises the yearly expenses from the page. Right? If you flip one more page forward, uh you run into what I'll call kind of the pay as you go. In this case, you know, there were some hypotheticals thrown into a we'll call a maintenance plan over the next uh you know, call it eight or nine years. And you can see really we do have some searchcharge maintenance projects in there.

056$8,600,000 a year. Uh there are some dollars allocated for office remodel. Whether or not those are spent on that project or you change the name of it. I really care. We just are saying that, you know, we're identifying dollars to go into a bucket for pay as you go projects. Um, so I would say, you know, from a public perspective, right, you're you're being planful about it, but you don't have like the nitty-gritty detail of what each of those projects will look like. So for us, it's just important that you do have allocations going forward. Um, so that you're not going into a borrowing and then all of a sudden you're like, well, I can't put a roof on. I can't replace windows that need replaced. You should have a nice allocation there going forward.

057Again, debt limit after this issue, again, we kind of skip over this page. Even after the new debt should be in the 61 to $65 million of remaining debt limit for the district. So, if we get to the cash flow component, which is the last one, again, we have not synced up with Bray or Estus on a really detailed schedule here. It's really pretty early to ask that. We do just have, you know, kind of an 18-month construction cycle rolling out. um with equal payments. You know, certainly I do think, you know, it could go slower than that. There will be some months that'll be heavier than 900,000 in your billing. Um but just trying to put a number to that. Um certainly if we're going to borrow money, we're going to want to kind

058of squeeze in on Estus and Bray to get us a little bit more detail on just okay, what should we anticipate? Do you feel comfortable with it? Should we add some allocations for phase one, phase two, and just kind of run those each separate? But that's usually something that we work on over the next six to eight weeks before we get into the barley. All right, questions on the base scenario before we talk a little bit of property tax. All right, I will caveat this next section as not having really strong opinions either way and these are our best guess. Um, I will try to keep the political comments to a narrow scope, but you should be aware there are three main property tax reform bills out there and they all have impacts uh that

059would uh come into play with either the timing of your borrowing or the resources that are available for the district. Um the first component that I want to talk about is the house bill it's commonly called and the big thing there is there are new restrictions put in place in that proposed bill uh that would force sales tax projects after July one of this year to have to go to a vote. Um, and right now there's no provision for wait a minute, we held a public hearing, aren't we okay? Uh, there's not language that allows you to rely upon that prior public hearing to give you a green light. So, you're probably sweating there a little bit. Um, certainly one approach here is you at least have a valid project rolling, right? So, we know

060you're going to be taking bids. uh we have a pretty easy pass with your bond attorney to say hey we took bids we need money let's get this thing fasttrack to borrow now certainly an approach would be wait until you find out phase two projects right this summer so you only borrow relative to your project budget I mean just sitting on money in the sales tax account that would give you lead time to not have to borrow right away I think the House bill, whether or not you believe it's likely to pass or not, would seem to dictate that it would be a good idea for you to get the financing timeline moving faster than slope. Um, I'm not hearing a ton of momentum on the House property tax reform bill, especially as it relates

061to the provisions related to votes because it's not only you as a school district facing these new restrictions on sales tax. cities would face the same thing on general street projects now where before those would be things that would fall under what we call essential corporate purpose. Now if it does go to this scenario they have to go to a vote and get 60% approval. Then there's also provisions about mixes between private money down payments and borrowed money but we don't need to get into a lot of those right now. Um, >> so if we get our project started before this starts, ask forgiveness for our event permission. >> Well, you you're not under that statute. So, >> before one >> because we already started bonds borrowed money. >> Yeah, >> it's it's on the

062sale of the bonds, not the uh not the project start. >> So, bonds would have to be sold prior to July one if this gets signed and moves through. So if that were the case, think through what's your risk scenario there. It's well, what happens with phase two? We have a borrowing allocation for phase two. Um what if we miss? What if we're over or under budget? What do you do then? Well, the over budget um is then you would probably go back to your value engineering, but you also have $5 million of cash sitting there. Um there are not current restrictions on sales tax or sorry on pebble borrowings under that law. So you could leverage your vote to pebble would be the other option if you felt like you needed borrowed funds. I

063tend to think you'd have some ability to adjust. And again I don't what's the breakout on phase two of total >> but you have a little over 129 >> you say what 12 >> 12 yeah so the bulk of your project rest then is is on a phase two not phase one that being said you know they're professionals they do a good job. I'm not holding them to the penny, but you know, they're going to be within the bulk of the main project. So, you just have to make a determination of how confident are we in the budget. And most likely, you would want to kind of get through the rest of this and not say wait till the last minute to borrow, but I'm not saying we want to go borrow four weeks from

064now, right? It might be a little bit closer to the end of May. It would still give us time to close the financing before July one. You got you got a little bit of time there. Second bill. Um we'll call we call this the Dawson bill. It's the same bill that was out last year for property tax reform. Uh the main restriction we see there I don't have any numbers on this. Sorry. So um the main restriction we see on Dawson's bill um is that the shifting valuation metrics is essentially is the proposal is to change the way the roll back systems work. Um most districts end up with a loss in your voter pal revenues. Um most districts fall in between this 10 and 20% reduction over the next couple of years. Um, by

065and large though, by the time you hit years 7, 8, 9, you're going to see a return to close to normal cutting renders. So, it's just more of a shortterm shift, uh, that you would have to to deal with. The governor's proposal, um, third one, probably the most ownorous, um, the one that certainly has the biggest impact. And so this takes you back to when the sales tax was passed in 2019. Uh there was a provision in the law that up to 30% of the statewide sales tax would be diverted to property tax relief. Now that's not at the local district level, but that's at the state taking it before they distribute it to schools. Um at the time that they passed the law, it was 2.1% and it was automatically shifted to 3.1. Um

066and then the provision allowed that any year that growth was greater than 2% the state would take 1% to go from 3.1 to 4.1 to 5 to 6 to 7 all the way up to 30% um by 201. Well, we're a couple years in and we've already missed twice or three times probably this year. So that we should be having 9.1% diverted and it's only 7.1. Um the good news for schools over that same period of time is you've seen you know a 10% growth year in sales tax. The state only intercepted one of them. They don't have the ability to claw back the years in which they lost. So what they've said is a component of their property tax reform is that they would move from 7.1 this year to 15% next year to

06720 the year after that. 25 and then 30% by the time you get to 2030. So a full 20 years in advance of otherwise wouldn't would happen. We've done some preliminary numbers just kind of looking big picture across the state. It's essentially the state intercepting, you know, somewhere between 1.5 and two billion dollars of school sales tax money and moving that to property tax relief. Um, so this money would stay, at least our current understanding of the proposal, it does stay quote unquote in house, but it moves it to property tax relief for districts that are higher than the average property tax levy for pupil. So districts would benefit. The problem is is for most districts, if you assume a regular growth rate over the next couple years, you're going to be looking at sales

068tax revenues that are 15 to 17% lower than you're receiving today. So, if you play this out and essentially what I did here on this sheet, if you look at the far right column, you're going to see a blue line that shows a current revenue per student and then an SSB 3034 revenue per student. You see those at 1,357. If you move that down to the next year, you assume, you know, enrollment dropped statewide and we had and you assume the average 25-year growth rate at 2.44%. Revenue per student would go to 1411. If you're under the SSB 3034, revenue per student goes to 1291. You're essentially going to lose amounts to $66 per kid. And you can see this continues over a couple years till you hit a low of 1,155. Whereas if you

069were receiving the normal growth rate, you would be at 1,487. So not a small chunk of change off the the sales tax bought there. Um, now what you see going forward is the growth rates basically mirror then right we get to 30%. So then you get all of the 2.44% revenue growth instead of just getting 1.44 since the state would have been taking 1% of the growth. So you see when you get out there now beyond 20 30 you're starting to see yeah we picked up 20 $30 per kid going forward on those figures. So revenue per students probably not the easiest way to look at it. So the next page does pick up more of a revenue stream. In this case, I've tried to pull in your debt scenario. So once again, you've got

070your existing plus the proposed new your total obligations sitting there. And then you're seeing revenues, what's left over under scenario one versus what's left over. And again, look at the year 2030. 890,000 left over versus 370. Uh that amounts to about a half million dollars of revenue diversion or you now it gets it gets better, right? It it tightens up, right? If you look at the last year, it's the same revenue, right? Um but again, it takes a while to catch back up under those scenarios. So longterm, you know, you're getting a diversion. In this case, if you look at the estimated revenues FY26 and beyond, it's an $8 million, well, not quite $8 million, $73 million shift between those two scenarios. So, anything you can do to protect yourself besides advocating that we'd like

071for this not to happen or to happen at a different pace, right? I mean, I can I can get my arms around the fact that the way the formula was written in 2019 has not gone in the state's favor. Right? If we were to look at growth rates over the last five years, total sales tax revenues in aggregate have grown a little over 4% per year or 20% in aggregate. Schools have got about 20% of that growth and the states got two. But hey, that's how they wrote the law. So, I mean, it's not that unpredictable, right? They're not handing you back money on yours when it's when it's negative either. So, it's a function of the law. Um, an option for you if you go to the next page is to consider changing your

072debt structure slightly. Um, we were currently going out 2046. If we went out to 2050, um, we would lower the annual payment by roughly 130,000 per year. Now, again, I'm showing net payments. So, you're trying to figure out, you said 1,460. I see 1,ion46. What's the difference here? You know, you do have that reserve fund and does earn interest. So, this is a net payment. So, we are seeing you could lower your annual payments by about 130,000 by stretching your debt out four years. Now, if things get better, you can always hit a prepayment date, but it would give you a little bit more annual breathing room. Um, I'm not convinced that this makes a lot of financial sense for you. it is a significant amount of additional interest cost under this scenario. Um, you

073could hop into the 20-year schedule and if things got tight and you needed to restructure, you could always restructure at a later date. Um, that being said, even if we went back to that original scenario that was what on page 10 or 11, wherever it was, find that for me, please. I think 11 11. >> Look at that. I did remember it was on. You can even see in this scenario like we've got yearly expenses, we've got pay as you go expenses, we've got surplus. So, if you're to focus in on that surplus column, you know, it's going to be cut by about 500,000 over the next eight years. And then eventually it starts to gain a little bit more closer to the other revenues. So, I'm not not super in love with this alternate

074scenario, but I don't think you should rule it out because it does give you some flexibility, but I didn't want to come with just like here's the problem. We have no solutions. Um, >> we appreciate that, Trevor. >> Yeah, this this would be a solution to do that alternate scenario if you do have some concern there. Um the other thing that you could look at, you know, specifically as it relates to um you know, your your existing debt projects would just be, you know, is there amount of your surplus you're fine with spending down to keep the payments lower. >> I'm more of the mode that you keep the 20 year schedule and you keep your balance. And if we need to borrow a little bit more now, then, you know, go up to your

075your cap. um especially if we're running into the unknowns of what happens with bid day. Good news is is you're going to have bid day for phase one. Typically, you'll see, you know, Bray and Estus look then at the costing and decide, okay, do we need to make any adjustments on phase two? Um so, you at least have some real data uh to play with there. But really, that's all I had gone through. Um you know, I don't know if there's anything else that we need to cover, Jeff. And I know we've had a lot of conversations. >> Yeah, Travis has been great. We've just been talking through this. When we talked back in July, the margins were really good. I had no concern. I really didn't with ongoing expenses. These two property tax bills

076give me a little bit of pause. However, with the 5 million, I think you sit on that. I don't think. And you let it continue to grow interest. And then if you get in those five, seven, eight years, you have that additional to carry you through it. Does that make sense? One thing that's crucial to this is the vote of Pebble, keeping the vote of PEL in place. >> And that's up in 20 204. >> Do you think one of these will pass? >> Not necessarily. Is there a chance that none of them? >> There is a chance that none of them will. I would also say there's a chance that the governor's 15, 20, 25, 30 could become a different pace down the road last couple years. So, >> yeah, it seems like they're

077motivated to get something done, but there's not like a strong like hitching of everybody to the same bandwagon. you know, there's a bill that seems to look better for the schools. There's a bill that seems to look better for cities. Um, so I think there's going to be a lot of talk this week. Um, you guys are getting kind of first eyes on that last component of how this impacts each district. We've actually, well, we spent the weekend pulling every school district's database into one file. Ironically, that doesn't exist in a consolidated place. So all of the stuff on like slides uh 17 and 18 are all likely things that you're going the other districts in the state are also going to see. And we're also trying to be mindful of communicating with the governor's

078office and the the folks at the department of management. You know I've had good dialogue on hey based on this bill they think these five or six districts will have issues. You know based on the debt database it's probably more than five or six. are. I mean, we're going to share with them the data that we have as well. Um, so there's good dialogue going on. Um, if you kind of boil it back to the things you have to contemplate would be, you know, if this was a half million dollar u hit for you guys and I was showing you that you had basically no surplus, you'd have to hit pause uh and think about this. Uh the bigger thing right now is that that House bill, which I don't I don't feel super confident

079that it's moving anywhere, but I'm also not going to say, "Hey, don't move forward." And then you guys get caught with, you know, like, "Oh, wow. Now we don't have time to move forward." So most of the districts that are in the middle of projects, either like you guys, you're ready to bid the first part of the phase. We're ramping up getting moving on that. um because otherwise you're you're stuck paying phase one out of cash if this bill goes through and you have to vote. Really not a a reason to not move forward. It would just be whether or not you thought we should only borrow from phase one and wait to borrow from phase two. Um I don't see that as helping you at all. Um and most of the districts we're having

080these conversations with that are as far along as you are saying go ahead and go. We even have districts that aren't bidding till September, October, November. The fact that they've got schematics started and ready. They're borrowing based on their expectation of the budget, which probably makes the architect and CMT like you don't have any wiggle room now. Like this is you're stuck. Um so, you know, that that's the case where you start looking for the districts like, "Hey, make sure you've got balances. is you might have to decide to delay a couple bus purchases if you know you run into some I mean all budgets have room to move. It's just the choices you make. Um you know maybe won't be as pleasant if we lose half million off the revenues. I tend to think

081that there could be a compromise but that's my optimistic side which is getting beaten out of me the more years I do this. Other questions? Anything to add, Jill or Justin? Questions from the board? >> Thank you, Travis. Thank you very much. >> Action step timeline. Get it rolling. Would that be a fair assessment? >> You know, we we have the ability to we have the ability to hit pause, right? So, we're not like comm you're not committed to it tonight, but you know, we'll probably get to the point based on the the work of all of our colleagues and I think there's somewhere in the neighborhood there 30 different sales tax bonds on the on the calendar between now and July one. So, you're on the lead now. Well, thanks for the time. I

082know I >> Oh, I appreciate Thank you. >> Wasn't too painful. I I I hope it was not like a roof. >> Um, building level reports. >> Uh, Doug's gone, so we'll he's did have his attached for you to check it out. So, if you have a chance, I go ahead Julie touched in there. So, for priority number one, I just went through what we have been doing recently. students are in a science they're designing projects around so they design and science and then they drop them from the second all kids are revamp their design so just an opportunity for us connecting to live um we also last month I talked to you about national hearts project for priority number to uh the TIG program. The kids were working on ping pong ball runs and

083roller coasters and really thinking about problem solvers, innovative thinkers. That's a program that I don't highlight a lot, but we have a lot of students who are participating in that. Really proud of Sam work that she's done with that as well as opportunities for being a collaborator and effective communicator there. If you don't have this Friday from 1 to 2 and could you want to attend a poetry slam uh the fifth grade does a really nice job of that so you're more than welcome to come see us um the development of self worth connection to others I highlighted this this month really through our fine arts the band program those three gentlemen really do a nice job of collaborating supporting the programs that happened um outside of their building. So the picture here is uh

084Mr. Lady brought in I believe it was seven eight jazz band um for sixth grade and to sit and listen to and they're just they're very talented kids. um and to hear those conversations. I haven't looked at the numbers yet, but the amount of kids that from the middle school going into junior high that are going to stick with those by programs. Um got through junior high registration. It's great. >> And the last one highlighting our Best Buddies program. This is Best Buddies Week. So if you do happen to stop by, our lunch groups are going and their activity will be at the end of this. It's a really fun as well as uh looking at our memorable moments survey that we give kids. We're getting a lot of positive feedback on our mentorship program.

085We're in our second year with the high school sending mentors down once a week to hang out with our kids. A lot of fun to watch that happen. So, I've given you some dates upcoming. It kind of feels like after spring break where it's the race. I don't know why it quite goes so fast, but I gave you our testing dates and other activities that are going to be happen. >> Question for Julie. >> Thank you, ma'am. >> Thank you. >> Uh Josh. All right. Tree party one. Last Wednesday we took the eighth grade over to AC of Iowa in crimes. It was a good experience for them. They got participate in four sessions. One was an overview of their apprenticeship program. They learned about the opportunity to learn and earn um while attending ABC

086and they participated in three 30 minute sessions around HVAC, plumbing and electric. So that was that was well received by students. So going to get engaged often to see it's our second year doing that. So it's going to be good relationship for us to develop that. If you scroll down talk about private 2 integrating 21st century skills um we had a public speaking workshop a few weeks ago that that was really positive. All the students who participated in the showcase that took place last Tuesday uh ran through the workshops and got feedback on the presentations which uh they really en the students really enjoyed. They were very upbeat and positive following that and then we were able to take that feedback and prepare the next two weeks and lead up to the showcase. So that

087was that was really good. I saw a lot of um feedback forms out during our win time uh instructional block teachers. They're practicing in hallways. It's pretty pretty cool. Keep scrolling. Uh expanding uh opportunities for selfworth and connection others. We are we are on the books at Wildwood. We have reservation for the first week of school. Got the deposit made. Um still doing some active fundraising, but I think we're in good shape. We will be sending out information to current sixth grade families, future seventh grade families beginning of the fourth term uh to get their signups, get their waiver uh information locked in um and all that. So we're going to book a similar experience for next year there and that's all about selfworth and connections to others. And then finally um strong relationships of

088community and staff and students. Um we had our showcase last Tuesday that was really positive. We had who 13 on site. Um their recap video, their highlight spotlight video was released today. >> Yep. >> Um it's really good >> and it was really good. I don't know. We have time to play it. We're gonna >> I don't know that I have it because I uploaded it Friday. >> Uh can you pop in your email? I just sent it to you. Or if you rather not, that's all good to just keep moving. >> Keep moving. Yeah. All right. Check it out on Facebook. That's it. Thank you. Any questions or Josh? >> Thank you, sir. >> All right, Kim, I have yours. Then Cam also has the longer one, so we're just gonna let him go

089for a bit today. Um, yeah. So, college career fair we've got going. Um, just highlight a couple of them. We'll read through all of them, but u really good time there. Kids kids took away we revamped our reflection piece on that. kids starting to make connections on schooling and what they need to do to get to a job that they need to have. U we really appreciate the local businesses that come and come and work with our kids on that as well. Uh physics day is probably that's a really exciting one. This is two years in the making that Tony's worked with. Physics heads for the University of Iowa, Iowa State. Uh helped write a curriculum with a guy out of say it wrong. I think Southern Illinois uh southern Illinois, Southern Indiana, same thing.

090I got uh anyway, uh Rous curriculum. And so now that's a that's a go on May one. U there's a flyer in there. It's a little pricey. We're going to try to send our we have 15 physics kits uh to go. So with lunch it's 50 bucks a kid to go. But that's paying for all of the measurement tools all the all the physics work that goes into it. So that that's kind of kind of a cool thing. >> Uh FA is going with the coffee shop again. Hijack had one, two, three, four, five, six, seven different uh events qualify for the CDC state uh competition that's going to be held on March 26th in De Mo. And we don't have we don't have a current teacher. So, Mr. Sussex, who was a former business

091teacher, is going to accompany our JAG group along with the long-term sub on that competition day. So, uh yeah, put some algebra slope project pictures in there, too. uh biology C group um on the 23rd of February they went and presented at the I always say around Ber Berlin blank bell and blank bell and blank sorry um some of their findings research findings and it's a great opportunity for them to practice sharing research findings how they went about their research project how they came to their conclusions that sort of thing but >> before you leave their posters are back in the back they brought them back will be hanging some district office so sorry >> yeah they're back there And then for our kids, it's it's a really neat opportunity. Uh Mrs. Kane goes above

092and beyond to give them opportunities to do those things. Um not pictured here is another example. Last Friday having Mrs. Vilsac on campus have to listen to the World Food Prize posters and other experts come in and listen. It's a really neat thing. Um sorry, Miss Kalin, it's kind of a weird thing. We'll highlight of a connection. She's got a uncle who's from Sierra Leon and they did a live zoom with our world geography class. Here's what a village is. This is what it looks like in Africa and our kids like eyes were open, right? Not even understanding that there is no running water in this village and this is where it would go. So just a cool connection that she was able to make. Rat club first recognized school of kindness in Iowa. So

093that's our random acts of kindness group. It spurred from the uh oh my heavens was an assembly we did a couple years ago friends of Rachel >> there you go the friends of Rachel talking about the Coline uh shooting and then what spurred out of that just being kind to others so it's it's a cool group it's a wonderful group they uh yeah they do some great things varsity vocal jazz this is a late edition so I don't know if it's on the Friday one or not the new one anyway they qualified for state vocal jazz on April 1st Uh the new one's got a picture in there. >> There we go. >> Strategic four. Uh kind of a cool project. Our first year of civil engineering and architecture. Mr. Thompson gone above and beyond

094with this. So our students had an opportunity to work with Habitats for Humanity where they went through and actually designed what a Habitat house would look like using CAD software. They met with uh with some of the members of Habitat for Humanity about like how do you go about these homes? How do you design these homes? What are the constructions? And then on the 25th of February, they went and actually uh helped put up walls for these homes. So, most of our members were under 18. So, Mr. Thompson was running the power tools. They were doing a lot of the other stuff to go along with that. But just just another idea of like how they're, you know, how they're making connections. So great FFA week um as well CSI again having a lot of

095different law enforcement agencies come in and listen to our presentations. And then one last thing to highlight, white team uh put on the prom shop again was last week over 150 dresses went out the door on night one from kids from I35 all through Madison County that came were able to grab dresses for free. It's just kind of a really neat program. Your kids give back. So to highlight the long part of the program, I don't know. I put a link on there too. Mr. Gross on the new one. It's no big deal. >> Thank you. Right. >> It was talking about it's talking about sequencing. Basically, he's just going to share how we're sequencing college, career, and life ready work. Um, with your freshman year being uh really the the husky ready going through

096DISC profiles, career exploration. Um, our freshman then go into some of the employer stuff. We don't usually take them to college visits as a freshman. Wait till their sophomore year, but they're doing that. Uh, some of them are participating in SADEs. Yeah. It's that top SAES um for agg they all participate in the career fair and then creating their four year plans 10th grade it's really more on the explore option so we're looking at moving IAG from 1112 to 1011 so the reason for that is they get more of the exposure piece that goes along with uh which is really about business connections it's about guest speakers it's about understanding what goes into those things so um so like your freshman If we're just going down that work sequence, disc profile, what do I want

097to do? What's a career 10th and 11th grade if you're going through JAG, you're you're doing more of that. You're hearing from business industries, you're going and touring those places. Um, and then senior year, you're kind of doing the most thing. So, as sophomores, as freshman, you learn. As sophomores, we do a little bit with mock interviews. As juniors, we do job shadows. And then as seniors, you start to do more work-based learning and MLC programming. So from a work perspective, that's kind of what that looks like. From a college perspective, your freshman year is mostly your required, a little bit of elective. Your sophomore year is where you start to see more elective and more advanced work. U they'll take the PSATs, so the first their first guess at a standardized test. They'll also

098take advant as a junior. Uh but you start to then see what is it that I want to do? What do I have an aptitude for? Uh their junior year is going to start to see them ramp up in their college coursework. Most kids in their junior year will take the ACT uh because they finished algebra 2, which is the highest level needed for the AP. Uh and then their senior year, it's more along lines of college courses that align with my major. So you have this you have this continuum as well. Now, if I'm somebody who's going to a trade school, and that's my college, um about your 11th grade year, we start to have those conversations and they start to get a lot of the math out of the way, the English out

099of the way so that they can do the automative programs at Swift, so they can do the EMT courses, so they can do that stuff their senior year. and life ready throughout uh kind of through our guidance program. We started talking to them about this is an area of focus for us this summer is how do we have more social emotional learning? How do we increase our ability to teach executive functioning to young people? Setting goals, how do we organize things? How do we understand what dates and deadlines are? And I I thought this was silly and yet at the same token I I still am amazed every year local scholarships how many kids won't even turn them in. And these are simple deadlines. The deadline this year was on Sunday, March 1st or excuse

100me, yeah. Yeah, March 1st and Sunday. Uh and and we had people trying to submit them on Monday, March 2nd. Great. >> Like the need is there. So we are going to have to use some of that advisory time and teach them that stuff. And that's the life ready. So at the high school, we say our goal when they leave us is to either be enrolled, employed, or enlisted. We try to avoid incarcerated. That's that's what we're trying. So you can do one of those first three >> not the we're just going long term. So, >> uh, so we interviewed a a young man last week, Thursday, who I think would be a fantastic fit. U, they're finishing up their background check, uh, to make sure that he'll he'll be okay. He would need to

101put two weeks into his current employment. Could be with us as soon as mid to April. And the goal would be that he stays with our long-term sub for about a week or two to do the transition part and take over. So, and and hats off to our long-term subdate. I will butcher his last name. Coach O is what we call him. But, uh, he has done a fantastic job. He has turned that program into what it should be, what it's supposed to be. So, hats off to him and I'm excited for if this works for the new guy. >> Good question. Um, I was going to say I stopped out to the college and career fair um, as kind of a board member and as a parent as well. And I will say it

102was really nice to talk to the businesses and see that they were extremely excited to get that foot in the door with our students um, at all ages, not just seniors, you know, that already kind of have their mind made up, but kind of talking some of those freshman sophomore kids. So, they're starting to kind of plant those seeds a little earlier. So, that was very nice to see. And all the kids actively involved. Nobody just standing in a corner. >> Yeah, it was very good. Anything else for Cam? >> Thank you, sir. >> Um, we're on the consent agenda. We have the minutes from the regular board meeting on the 9th and then the special uh set work session from the 25th. Paid bills and invoices. Anybody have any questions for Jill on those?

103Gina got yours answered. >> I got mine answered. >> I had one and I I just and we I was on Lake View Country Club paying our membership fees out of general verse out of activities. And I just she clear she said we've been doing that since 2007. So I just didn't know. Oh >> either way I just it was one of those ones that I was like oh that's she goes you've probably seen that before. I was like, "Well, I think it's a little higher than what I've probably seen before." This is the third year for the increase at 425. 4,250. We were at 20. >> It was 425 last year, too. Before that, it was 22 >> 22 something charging for >> cross country, >> other things out there. Yep. >> So, that's

104the only one I had. And then she explained I had a couple others that have changed names. Any other questions on those? Okay. personnel report is presented. Anything else, Justin, on that? >> Uh, just the I think I told you this before, but Spanish teacher, you know, letter intent. So, she's working on getting all of her lensure and should have that in place by August. >> She's done a really nice job filling in. Um, actually taught in Spain, taught English in Spain before she came back here to teach Spain and US. So, um, K's really excited in there about keeping her and then some resignations. Um, and then I talked to you a little bit about cleaning the situation up with Zach Sweeney. We've got that in there to get that taken care of and

105cleaned up. Um so that's why that's there. Um any questions from any of those? Not sir. >> Okay. Open enrollment is presented. Looks like we have several um coming in due to the change of OM and Valley and consolidation. So >> I actually had to add two more to the list today. So there's now seven and 12. So >> okay. >> So that list that's on there as the updated ones. >> Okay. But we're still approving. >> Yes. >> Everything. Y >> Okay. Everybody met requirements. Uh financial report. >> Uh yeah, if you look at your the expendenture and revenue report, um the the our spending has went down just a little bit. So that was a little bit better for the month of February um compared to January. So I'm still waiting. If you

106look at the statement of um position, I'm still waiting on a lot of heart bills revenues and I've actually contacted them all today and say, "Okay, where's your payment?" Um, so a lot of them are being approved tonight at their board meeting. So I'm hoping to get the rest of that money there. So that that receivable amount that's on the statement of physician, that's what that's from as our heart bill of billing. So yeah, any questions with that? Any questions on financials? >> All right. I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. Oh, >> you have contracts and agreements. >> Oh, sorry. >> Sorry. Farm lease. >> Yes. On here. Again, I've been playing phone tag with the uh u renter. Um Jared brought up, you know, potentially our FFA utilizing for being

107more involved. Um I called him out message. He called me out message. We called back. where she'll plant tag. Um lease we did in you know talk to her uh Kaylee about potentially if they would farm it. It's just a long ways away to get volunteer but more just like what are the input costs? What's the >> some part management? I'll continue to try and connect with him but we'll continue to sign a lease moving forward. >> Um >> any questions on that one? >> And I just talked to Jill about the termination of the lease. the dates were wrong. >> I didn't even respond to that piece. >> Sorry. >> Um, local government risk pool participation. Uh, this is a change um, the district made uh, shortly after I got here. Um, which has

108been good to help us with shifting some of our exposure in the general fund into the management fund. You have to prove it um, every year. So >> the relay agreement is from rea Timberline Building Services and now it's called they bought they were bought out by relay hub. So that's just our new agreement with them. So as far as building >> second or third name changing like >> just at least three times I've been >> I was going to say it just keeps changing >> on who does the who has the contract. Yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. >> And then Swick Automotive and Carpentry. >> Yep. We approve every year based on our kids with some interest. So that's back to you. Okay. Turf tank agreement uh included this. So this was something that the

109uh maintenance athletic department wanted last year. Everybody wants to make you aware of it. Um it would they would take over the marking of all of our athletic fields. Takes those guys about six hours uh when they do it. This thing will do it in about a third to half that time. Um and also doesn't require us to keep it painted all year long. So if you go two weeks, for example, you have a football game, once they mark it, they'd have to paint it. Now they can let it go without, turn it back on, and it's done GPS and we'll paint it. Um, we talk about, you know, radar's position. Um, this is a way to free up manh hours, too, um, by shifting some of their workload to this. Um, Nick had reached

110out, Van Meter has one. They're becoming very, very common place. So anyway, Timmy looks like you got a question. This is This is doing what the quarterback club does. >> No, it'll paint all the white lines, all the hash marks, but would leave whatever they wanted to do. So, what our guys >> the W's. >> However, they did say that if it would paint the outline for them in the the center that they would come and paint like the middle of it. So, you look at the Huskys, you can set up to paint the outlines of it and they would paint the middle so it' be center. >> They're okay with us. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. They those guys are pretty territorial. >> Yeah, we would we'll still we'll see those much as

111they want. But it also paint your band fields practice football field, soccer field, practice soccer fields, >> middle school B all it eventually could do baseball and softball lines and boxes and all that too. What about shar like sharing the cost with like the city for >> if the Yeah, if the soccer club wanted to purchase um yeah, we could work something out. I think that's um I'm going to mess this up. This is a year ago. Nick talked to somebody else who already had something like in place where a city entity was also purchasing time off of it for the district. So, there's potential there as well. >> Yeah, there has been communication with the soccer club. >> Yeah, they get two baseball fields. >> Yeah, make deal. They wave those corn. We pay

112for it all. Just parking our new uh R wanted to prove it. But it's it's that's why it's here. >> Okay. >> It will it'll paint. Oh, it'll do everything. >> Paint parking lot, too. >> That could be convenient. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. If nothing else and I would enter a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Make that motion. >> Motion by Gina. Is there a second? >> Second by Jeremy. All those in favor say I. I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Old business. It's the second reading of the review of board policy the 300 series and the proposed changes that Justin presented last month. So unless anybody has anything major that they found in their second reading, I would entertain a motion to approve them on their second reading. motion.

113>> Motion by Ross. Is there a second? >> Second by Gina. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Next up is new business. Jill or is this you, Jill? >> Yeah, this is the resolution that Travis was talking about earlier, how we were going to pre-levy our that 2018 bond series, GEO bond series. So, we would be um pre-loading to what 2.24 million to help out with our tax rate. So we'd be maximizing the 4.05 rate. >> And this is the same one we've I mean >> we've done this in the past. Yes. >> Okay. Any questions on that? Okay. Not I'm not going to read the entire resolution there. Sometimes I have. I won't tonight. I would entertain a motion to approve the resolution as presented.

114>> So move. >> Motion by Tim. Is there a second? >> Second by Gina. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. >> Motion carries. Next up, we are into public hearing. Right. >> So, I say we're in public hearing. >> Yes. We are in a public hearing at 6:37 p.m. um regarding the approval of plans, specifications, form of contract, and estimated total cost for the North Community School District high school additions and renovation project. >> I was looking around public >> John Gale. Fun fact, um Jill and I are learning to go through like I've been through construction projects, but not in this chair as a principal. Um, in order to avoid you having to have special board meetings, they said it's all right to put it

115out to bid and then actually approve, have your public hearing approved. So, this may be the sequence. They may put bids out, then you'll approve that public hearing. Does that make sense? Seems backwards. Seem backwards to us. Danielle is has given us a blessing like, yeah, it happens. >> It always seems backwards every time we do this. So, >> that's why. So it's just everything from phase one. >> That's what is out for bid. Yeah. >> That part face all the concrete, >> right? >> And the interior of the hallway. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> One minute enough. Jill, you want me to go two minutes? You want to roll through the slides? These are always the most awkward thing to do in public hearing when there's no public here to sit here and like >>

116Anybody have any questions from the group out there about it? Kendra, you don't have a new office in there. Sorry. No sparkle >> then. I'm good. >> Doesn't affect Kendra. Okay. All right. I'm going to close public hearing at 6:39. We will move on next to the resolution adopting the plan, specs, forms, and contracts for the Winter Community School District High School edition and renovation project. Would anybody like to make that motion? >> I'll make that motion. >> Is there a second? >> A second. >> Second by Jeremy. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. same sign. Motion carries. We're on to some buses. >> Yes. So, Ben submitted the bus bids. Um he's provided you an overview uh of the bids that were selected and the school bus sale proposal

117and the actual bus prop the two bus proposals. He's asking that you approve the bids that received on Friday, February 20th to award the contract um to uh school bus sales. >> Well, this I read through it. I didn't see it. Seat belts, no seat belts. >> Uh any new bus will have to >> They have Okay. It just didn't like some of these we've spells out that it has the seat belt after >> it was after 23 I think roughly. S >> I just want to make make sure we're in compliance with that. >> I know Ben's aware of it. I know. Okay. Yeah. Even >> it just wasn't in the specs on either one of them. So, so it looks like uh Ben is requesting the school bus or school bus sales proposal

118of 191,720. I would entertain a motion to approve that contract. >> Motion by Ross. Is there a second? Second. >> Second by Tim. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Uh lastly for new business, we have approval of additional fundraisers. Looks like track has two and softball has one. >> Yeah. So clarification Gina asked what the track are actually for sport. Their speed and agility. So they run one during uh spring break and they'll run one during this. >> Glad you asked cuz I was going to. >> So that's what they're for. They're on the other sheet that Nick has. It's pretty vague. >> Yeah. And then >> Anita gave us a little more information. >> Uh so and then softball has um >> Oh, she had

119what they >> Oh, the dead. Yeah. >> Yeah. Couple different fun. Yeah. Partnership things. >> Yeah. >> Funraiser. >> All right. I'd entertain a motion to approve the additional fundraisers as presented. >> Motion by Jeremy. Is there a second? >> Second by Gina. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Board member reports. Brooks, that's what you've been waiting for. >> Um, we have teacher appreciation week coming up, so we're getting a lot of stuff done for that. Lots of cards. Um, we're going to throw on the cart, I think, and stuff. Um, and then we have the Mother Sundance coming up on the 27th. That's pretty pretty big one for us and we went for a couple months here. Uh the Von Exchange got moved. It was supposed

120to be tomorrow. They ended up not being able to come because they don't have enough buses. Um so one of ours coming um and then we have Husky Day starting on so >> that's May 12th. >> Oh, it's earlier. Um, I think it's week week of my birthday. It's on the calendar. Yeah. May 12th. Rain day. May 13th. >> That's a question from Brooks. >> Thank you, Brooks. >> Brooks. >> Ross. Uh, I will say I went to the authentic learning showcase. Was there for an hour and a half or so and fantastic time. A lot of good speeches, presentations I listen to. So well well put together. So thank you. >> I went to the authentic learning showcase and I just can't say enough about the opportunities our kids have that it's when I

121talk to people that's what I try and focus on is we don't know how fortunate we are that our teachers offer all the things they offer. I'll piggyback on that. I helped with the clinic. Sorry, I was ill last week. Wasn't able to make it. Was not even aware of what day of the week it was. Um I also I just I was sitting here got an email from Miss Kaine about a project another project she's we just started a couple weeks ago in college the genetics class. I think Addie's in there. >> Yep. >> And then they're doing a family genealogy project. So they're presenting those Thursday. So I got an invite at >> six o'clock for a Thursday. So that's appreciative. And then also board members, if you haven't taken the chance, um,

122under the IASB website, the legislative session, they do keep a good list of bills to keep an eye on. So if you're ever looking for something to read, and they keep that pretty well up to date. And then also every Friday under the Golden Dome, Emily and Michelle do a good uh update of what's going on in the week. The big one um we're also looking at how there's the banker's bill against um ice jets which would be a big and not be a positive outcome on ice jet. So that's had some traction in the positive light in the last two weeks. So that's all I have. >> Education foundation trivia fundraiser was a lot of fun. Really smart team won. >> I think it was yours, right? A lot of government questions. Thanks very

123much. It really was a great time. Really enjoyed. I hope they raised a lot of money. >> About 5,000. >> That's excellent. >> We have about 5,000 for the night. So, yeah. >> And we have the golden grind at our house. >> Oh, we got it away from >> Hey, they've had that for >> the Optimus. >> No, Hosteller. His team. It's >> Optimus one last time. >> Oh, Optimus. Oh, >> yeah. >> They were right behind us. Contentious, man. That golden brain. There's that the the >> what was it the mascot one which you got St. Your team got St. Louis which was a tough one. >> We they had some smart kids in the room with her ringers. >> That was like the St. Louis mascot. Very few people got that one. Well,

124the girl that was uh Kaitlin Clark broke all her scoring records that she had at Lincoln and she played at Drake. Her name was Turk, I think. And yeah, she knew all. Yeah. Yeah. >> Jeremy, >> I've been out of town a lot the last three or four weeks. So, I've got >> uh Justin. >> Yep. Gave you a quick one right there. So, the first one is the Iowa State Spencer Foundation research practice partnership letter. Um they're applying for this uh partnership. It would be a really great thing for our teachers. Um teachers who wanted to opt in, they'd want to get to 30. So 10 the first year, another 10 the second, another 10 the third. Um they would get money to participate in some co-design with members of Iowa State. Uh there

125would be an opt-in. Um and then our kids would also they're looking to work with our kids to provide opportunities for them to develop some industry recognized credentials through their work with Iowa State. Um, so this is just a partnership letter that I'll send saying we're interested in continuing the partnership. So I wanted to share that with you. U Wagger uh with uh Radar's resignation, we reached out with them about a service agreement. Um that's the price um that they shot us to do that. Um we're entertaining it. Reason a lot of this could be paid out of ple and save. >> Yes. >> So that would shift the expense from a general fund into a peple and save expense. I am meeting with um Ry and all of the maintenance guys tomorrow to understand

126what am I missing like what happens if we don't what are some things that I'm not aware of um talking real quickly for example we may have to um contract some people or pay some people on a we snow removal we throw a radar in a in a truck we may have to have somebody come in on more part-time so it wouldn't be a total cost savings but going to entertain if we can ship that expense from a general general fund to a large portion of being able to be paid out of ple and s for um improvements >> in between radar salary and >> that's almost >> so that's almost exactly when you you pencil it what it would be >> um but they'd come on site twice they replace all just general maintenance

127ray is reviewing the actual agreement we just got it um late last week so he's going through it to see what all is good but it's um they've come and service all the units uh change the filters There's two of the three times we responsible one time replace belts, do an overview um and would more than likely have the uh the tech that is here almost all the time >> would be the one coming knows our system pretty well if he's available. Um I think it could work. I just need to understand what I don't understand about what I'm missing. >> So and if it doesn't work then we cancel the contract. I mean >> and we replace it back. >> I don't think it's finding somebody took forever. >> You know I have a

128little bit of concern. are we able to find somebody with those with that ability and skill too. So again, we're just entertaining but that's the cost. Um if we get to that point, those would come back for approve, you know, approval. Um so we're just investigating that. Uh the comprehensive threat assessment guidelines, you know, last week I shared with you that was the question I got. How do you determine if it's noncredible? You remember last June, majority of our admin team went through the training with officer Garrison. We developed this playbook that's we ask our staff to use. Um I've got a a time on the schedule tomorrow for officer Garrison record a short video just to talk a little bit about when there's threat, how we assess whether or not it's credible or not.

129And then also the board policy that you've adopted that we use to govern what discipline is. And thirdly to encourage parents to have conversations with their kids about what they're saying. Hopefully that will help. Um, so that's plan. Uh, frontline comparative analytics. We haven't had a demographer in quite some time. Um, I think my first year here was the second year of an agreement with them. And you know, at that time they said we'd be down about 100 kids in five years. They're real close um to that. Front lines got a project uh product for about $5,000 annually. Um, one of the things they offer is this um enrollment projection. and I sent it to Corey had Corey review. In addition to that, there's a lot of staffing data. So, we talked about staffing reduction.

130It's a way that I could go and pull how how other districts are staffed, what's the salary. Um, I think it would be a decent investment to have that toolkit. So, I'll probably more than likely work with them to put that in place for next year. Um, the fieldhouse project, lots going on online. I'm not going to get into whether you support or don't. Um some of the claims about the impact it would have on the district's um finances are just inaccurate. Um for example, we will not see a loss in revenue. Um and I tried to explain that on the phone call with somebody the other day. Uh your number of kids, district cost per pupil tells you a number you have to get. Then you take your assessed valuation times that 540 that

131gets you so far state backfills and then your additional levy. Could we see an increase in our levy rate? Potentially, but not in loss in revenue. Um, PEP save debt service are held harmless by TIF. So I worked to put together a document I sent to Travis to review. Jill looked at it today. When I get it back, I'll send it to you. just kind of gives you some a better understanding of so when people ask you you can you can reference it. So I sent it Travis I talked to him before he came today he's going to review it once he gives me the go ahead I'll share it with you because there's just some misinformation out there and I don't fully understand how they're planning to finance it and all that but just

132know that we wouldn't see a loss in revenue. We could see a change in our tax rate u depending on how that works. um March 30 board meeting. So, a little update. We need to do a 4:30 meeting if at all possible to approve bids. So, bids will come in on the 19th. ESIS will review the bids. They'll make a recommend. They do a certify the bids. They'll review them. Um if there's anyone that they want to reject based on certain criteria, they will they'll come with a final uh recommendation. They'll meet with us on the 24th and that'll come down on the 30th. will just be approved that if I can get negotiations done um with some of our staff, I would bring them at that date, too, to get the contracts out sooner.

133So, if we can do a 4:30 meeting real quick before that taxpayer hearing. >> We're leaving as soon as this is done. Casey's husband's being sent out. His name is being sent out. So, we're going to Virginia and we don't have a return date, but >> Okay. >> Can you We'll try to be back >> before. Okay. So we we would have four. >> Yeah. Have a quorum. Yeah. Um and I'm pretty sure. >> Okay. So, just want to put that on your radar that we gonna hold a 4:30 board meeting to do that >> right ahead of uh and I have a conflict on the April board meeting um for the ASU DSC summits in San Diego. Love to join virtually if I can. Timing will be but I think based on the schedule

134I have right now, I should be available to just jump on Zoom like I have in the past. I'm just putting that on your radar. um schedule. I'll be here the rest of the week and then I'm gone Saturday through Thursday taking a little vacation with kids and some stuff. So, I'll be out next week, be back Friday. Um we do have a city, county uh safety meeting on Wednesday afternoon, uh which is a joint effort between city, county, and school officials. We'll talk through prom girls drills coming up and then a little bit about this threat assessment. You'll be on the same page, too. Uh Leslie, to Jar's point, I didn't get in there, but I've sent you the impact on the two enrollment count for us and the uh and the board update,

135what that could look like. Um that's already been finded and done. Uh Cam and his team are looking at um you know, what other things we can do to try and keep some kids. They're not all high school kids, but a large number were early grads. You have to have an early graduation um policy. You can't not have one. Um, so what options do you have trying to keep kids there uh more frequently next year? Because the way our calendar falls, they're through the 15th of January anyway. So, as long as they're not a first quarter early grad, right, we get a count, but that's a big deal. I mean, to going from, you know, Yeah. a negative of 30 versus five is a is a big deal. >> Yeah. >> So, we'll keep an

136eye on that. And then this bill that they've got now that's I think the House and the Senate make Iowa healthy again. The PE requirements in there would be cumbersome and it would cost us money. Yeah. We'd have to look at how we would even go about putting them with PE in. Um and the fact that every high school kid has to have an extracurricular or co-curricular activity. It's yeah, >> I don't know where you find sponsors and get something that kids want to be included in, but I think people are pushing back, but if you feel inclined Yeah. that there's some there's some not great things in that bill as well. >> Who'd want to be the sponsor of something that you're forcing kids to do, right? High school kid to be had. Yeah.

137>> So, again, um couple that are on my radar and then obviously, you know, Travis's property tax thing and how it how it future meetings. We do have the 30th moved up to 4:30 which will be the special session and or the >> the extra and then the special session public hearing A and then the 13th regular time at 5. Correct. And we just mix in part B hearing and regular session. >> April 13th. >> Yeah. >> Yes. Yeah. >> So it's 4:30 on the 30th. Five o'clock. >> 4:30 be your meeting and then you have your taxpayer hearing at 5 >> at 5. Yep. and then yours pretty quick. >> That should be in the paper tomorrow. >> Okay. >> Um it'll be on our website and also social media. >> Have they been

138mailed out yet? >> I haven't seen it. >> I don't think I've seen mine at all. Have you the the statement from Huh? That's interesting. Wonder when they'll come. >> I can. >> We hit our deadline. >> Those all should be getting mailed out soon. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Um we have exempt session after this or not? >> Yes. >> Okay. So I will adjourn and then we will stay for exempt session. So we are adjourned from regular session.