04/14/2025 WCSD Board Meeting

001Will everybody please stand for the pledge of allegiance? 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. Emily, yes. Would you do strategic or the mission and then strategic priority number two, please? Yes. Yeah. So, mission and then number two. Okay. We will empower a community of lifelong learners striving for personal excellence through meaningful relationships and real world authentic learning experiences. And number two, yep. And they're grading 21st century learning skills and student opportunities. All right. Next up is declaration of conflict of interest. Now is the time to declare if any of the agenda items pose a personal conflict of interest. Does anybody have anything to declare? If not, we will move on

002to approval of agenda. Um, are you good to go? So, I should have asked if you were okay and you ready for Okay, good. Approval agenda. Agenda is presented. Um, I would entertain a motion to approve the agenda. Motion by Emily. Is there a second? A second. Second by Jeremy. All those in favor say I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Uh, greet visitors. Anybody here to speak to the board? It's now time for public comment. Chris is later. Correct. Yes. He's on the Okay, perfect. I saw Chris turn. I was like, I have you somewhere. I believe Chris, we'll get you. All right. No public or no uh public comment. We'll move on to information only building level reports. Yeah. So, let's uh start with Doug. I think he dropped his off on your desk

003there. So, we'll go ahead and start with Doug. All right. Just quick ones this month. Uh we just had a an author visit. Coach Sloth uh who was an Iowa State football player. He coached at Iowa State, was the coach of Barntormers for a while. Uh done a lot of things, but now he's an author. Uh he talks to kids about perseverance and all the kind of trials that he had uh getting through the becoming a go through that process. um second and third one there just kind of stuff that's going on. Third group's doing a lot with the AI group this Iowa State people just went through as well as creating some documentaries. We got some young Steve Irwins because they're making documentaries on uh some animals. It's kind of fun. Uh the bottom

004one down there is just it was your principles week uh and we had a water bar and the funny thing behind this one is for years Katie's been telling me we didn't have water bar. People love water bar. I said water bar are you serious? I tell you what, we put the water bottle and we love water bar water bar water bar water bar water bar water bar water bar water bar water bar water bar water with some flavorings. So it was a fabulous fabulous time. Good stuff. Lots of good stuff happens. All right, we'll jump to Julie. I think Julie's in the agenda for you. it would be nice. Uh the first one we've started getting some preliminary uh assessment data back from our state test. So I just linked in there kind of

005a comparison where we were last year to this year. Right now we just have the math science uh ELA is a little bit slower to come back to us. We'll get preliminary scores maybe by next week for reading, but we won't get our writing scores until probably closer to the end of school. And so reading can always adjust once those writing gets scored uh because it'll be a total composite. As you can see, we've got some really good growth happening in the building. uh those the math this the sixth grade class right now is the third year building thinking classroom. So when you think of those vertical whiteboards um we didn't have those until last year but prior to they were the teachers were learning and digging into that framework for instruction and I think

006that we're having a really good outcome with that. Um, so and with that we have eight makeups to do. So our attendance was really, really good. Hopefully that's from just communicating out and letting encouraging parents to get their kids to school and what they could do to be successful. So you have that that data there. Um the next thing you might have is in strategic priority number four. So our yearong goal at the middle school is really about creating those memorable moments. We hit that in March. Um with all grade levels being over 90%. Meaning kids are pointing to an experience at school or has something they can tie it to school in some way that's making impact on them. went ahead and shared the themes that came out with student cont uh what they

007shared with us and then at the bottom there's some quotes. Um so the eating crickets fourth grade during that time every year they love it. Yeah. Yeah. This year the teacher AI tools and the kid wrote songs and performed the songs and then not zero for same zero for You've never had one yet? I'm over I'm over eight. Can't do it. And then just the last thing on there I went ahead and I linked for you. We call it the road mapap to summer. Uh those are important dates in the building. As always, you're invited to come in, see what we're working on, be part of any of those things. We've got wax museum coming up. We've got lots of transition things. We'll have field day. Um this Thursday the department of ed has been

008working with our instructional coach Tamara Bane and they'll be making some rounds to math classrooms because strong results any questions any question have any questions but I want to say that my fourth grader got an we got an email to send her like a personalized message via email to like encourage her for ISAFS. She was in heaven. And then the teacher also included one the next day for that. So, great job. Awesome. Uh we're going to jump to Cam because uh Josh has got a little longer update this week or this month. So, jump to Cam. Perfect. Yeah, high school. We're just coming off the heels of prom and postp prom. So, kind of a quiet day in our hallways today anyway. Some walking zombies. Tomorrow we'll be back. So, um, yeah, April, April, May

009for us. A lot of a lot of kids gone, a lot of different activities, golf, track meets. Um, we're lucky enough to host large group ensemble. May 9 at the building. May 15th, we're going to host district track or state track qualifying meet. It's an opportunity for us to showcase our facilities and connect with community. We just have a lot of people on campus uh those two days. Um right now we've got FFA members at state convention that just got told by Barry. We've got two that made the stage. So our chapter program and public speaking Carly made stage. That's good. Then tomorrow we'll have oh five one two three four five six of them receiving their Iowa degrees at Iowa State which pretty big accomplishment. So kudos to those guys. Um, this is also

010the time where where we will do our blood drive, annual blood drive on the 23rd. Uh, that's a Y team activity. Uh, I want to highlight our student council know is in the board update, but uh recognizes the national council of excellence. Again, gold standard. So, it's a kudos to our kids and Dr. Gibbons for the work they do with our student leadership, student council. Um, seniors, seniors kind of our our forefront right now. Uh we've got decision and donut day on the 9th uh which they come in and they kind of wear some gear that that symbolizes what they're doing. It's opportunity for us to recognize them, congratulate them. They're going to school, going to the workforce, going to the military. Uh and then we take pictures, highlight them on social media. We've got

011Husky Health Day on the 13th coming up. Our last senior meeting April 30. We kind of give them that last you can do it, you can make it type of talk. Um, but it's really we're getting down to the time where seniors are counting down days pretty quick. So, it's it's really exciting. Um, other things we have going on really I I listed all the home events there for you, but we'll have like the RC art show on the 23rd. So, we'll have a lot of kids to go and get to showcase their talents there first part of May. Then, we'll have the district art show in town, which is just a neat opportunity for our kids, too. But, yeah, to showcase their skills that way. Well, excuse me. And then one last thing, I

012guess. Uh, first time that I'm aware of, we've got a Best Buddies field trip, uh, scheduled for April 18th, and we're going to go to Blank Park Zoo. So, we've got some lunches lined up and, um, our our students and their buddies is going to enjoy a day together, uh, interacting and getting to have that opportunity together. So, we're excited about that. That's about it for us right now. questions for Cam. Thank you. All right. Thank you, sir. Mr. Susman. All right. What I did here is kind of laid out what our goal has been for the year and how we are accomplishing that goal. So, we've been saying it since day one. Our goal is to be the best junior high in Iowa. Um, we've been very explicit on the way we're going to

013get there is by um enacting the four strategic priorities laid out by uh by the board and we've been charged with implementing. We use the uh acronym RISE at the junior high. real world application based learning, integration of 21st century skills and student opportunities, self-worth uh and connection with students and then encouraging authentic relationships um between student staff and community. And so um what I'll do here is just kind of lay out how we've done that and then we have some videos that just gives you a clear picture of what's going on. So Mr. Gross, if you want to put on the uh that first video, this is a recap of our strategic priorities being accomplished in the first uh three terms. this one the speakers. I'm sorry. CS going uh park. Um students may

014deploy for kids. Yeah. and these videos you're going to see kind of comes back to this idea that's been a huge another theme for us this year is our school our story and really being able to communicate out um the stuff that's going on and what makes us uh this best junior high in Iowa. So about going into strategic priority one um recently last week we had the opportunity to take all of our eighth graders to Associated Builders and Contractors of Iowa uh for our post-secondary visit which is a priority of ours. Get every every student on a uh a campus of some sort and our eighth graders got to explore uh different apprenticeship programs at ABC. And so they saw HVAC uh electrical and plumbing and they learned a broad overview of the entire

015program. And so students spent about five minutes uh in the classroom setting and then got to go into the lab and get some hands-on work. And it was it was cool because they had their instructor uh talk a little bit, but then it was really the actual Princess uh students who um were leading the our kids. So it was students teaching students. It was kind of it was kind of fun to watch. Um and we got some really good uh interview here. Something that touched me was a student who you could argue that maybe this trip could could have changed the trajectory. People have no clue that in educational experience. So go ahead. Uh Mr. Jumping ahead. My bad. You're fine. See, it was an interesting 25. There's a hidden law that allows any American

016to launch their credit scores into the seven. Fantastic having young kids here. Um, the trade is in desperate need of of uh new new blood and this is great. Eighth graders getting ready to to enter the trade would be fantastic for the for us. Uh, the opportunities are limit limitless and so I'm excited about this opportunity to show and share with them uh our experiences. It's been a great experience for us. Never planned on going into the train like this. I think that all the professors did a good job in explaining everything and it was a really good experience. Um, and why? Um, I think I learned very valuable skills learning. Out of high school, I thought I thought I was going to work like at Fairway or something. Now I think out of high

017school I'm probably going to come here do plumbing and then once I'm doing plumbing I get good money I'm going to switch it over to a lecture and I'm going to work at lecture. Yeah. But I thought that was really neat. Got to see the perspective of of a student and kind of how it impacted them and got them. The whole purpose of this is to get kids thinking about their future and planting seeds and just making them more aware uh of what's available. And uh the instructors there were very explicit with us. There's two million unfilled uh trade jobs in the United States. You can uh earn while you're learning there. Uh they work for three weeks and are in school for one week. Oftentimes your employer will pay for your schooling there. Um

018and then the cost out of pocket is over a few year is like $3,000 $4,000 for four years. So they're really making that case. Um and I saw a lot of light bulbs going off with our students. Um, actually Friday, we got to go to Pulse Radio station. Our eighth graders got two field trips this last week. Um, this is our uh, employer visit. So, they do a post-secary visit and employer visit. Um, and we got to go to Pulse Radio station in De Mo and see the inner workings of a uh, radio station. And, um, the kids the cool I think one of the highlights here was the kids got to cut a commercial uh, in the studio and then they went upstairs to the uh, editing with the editor and the guy showed

019them how to uh, edit and produce a video and all that goes into it. And the guy on the right, he was he was probably he was young. He was he wasn't much older than the kids there. And he's like, "Yeah, um you know, I just I sort of figured out how to use Adobe production. Anyone can do this. It just takes some some practice." So that was that was that was fun as well. I I lasting on this priority, I did link in um our showcase evening highlight video. I think this is really the highlight of our of our school year. This was a week for us. Um I think this has laid the foundation for some really powerful work moving forward. that's going to be happening in our building. Um, and this is

020presentations of learning. Um, we had 110 112 kids end up presenting at the showcase. Um, it was very well attended by uh parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles. Uh, I thought the experience of our students was really fun and I thought it was it really kind of captured all the priorities because it got you know kids were building self-worth, they're building connections, building relationships with families. Um, so just we just play a small little piece of that just our building is really proud of this work and so I want to highlight this. This incredible mold remover gel can restore your bathroom and tiles in just 15 minutes. That's great advertising right there. Josh here, Jimmy Wet. Really excited to have our first annual authentic coding showcase. This year is all a bit about our

021school, our story, and tonight's our our opportunity to tell our authentic. We have students uh presenting a wide range of projects, grades seven and eight, uh ranging from utopias to podcasts to meal plans, u national history day projects. So, it's really been a nice wide variety. Um, and it's been great to get parents in here to actually see what their kid is doing. I think this formal conference is better because it's a lot more interactive and there's so many different kinds of presentations. I think it was a really important teamwork experience. We had to work really hard together and it was a really neat experience coming and serving it to people and seeing how they felt about the food and their opinions on what we served. Authentic learning is a is a strategic priority of

022our district and something we're deeply focused on. Um, and it's really nice to see it all come together this year and have all these parents in the building to watch their kids shine. Definitely saw a lot of uh teamwork, uh, working together, collaboration, public speaking, obviously public speaking for anyone is something that's very scary and be able for those kids to get up and do it not only in front of their peers, but in front of adults and parents was very impressive. Can you tell that they prepared? They thought everything through. They did their research. We were talking last about like how how I want to pause right there. What you're ready to see here is Arthur Davis. He's talking about the profile of a graduate and how this was implemented into his classroom. I

023want to give a shout out to Mrs. Kerr. She helped the students prepare this. His project actually failed initially. Uh I think and Mrs. Kerr was like, "No, this is exactly it." like, yeah, yes, you you should fail and you should grow from this and you and you're really it's this perfect growth mindset. And so I think Arthur here is articulating what we're trying to do at a really high level for for a seventh grader. Go ahead. How school has changed. It used to be all about learning facts, memorizing things. We were talking about our school's support for writing standards. It's less involved in facts and more, you know, things like being a critical thinker and a selfarter and having a growing mindset like that's what you need to use in life. I suppose anything

024that is fresh like this is is fun to keep the kids in ways that they have. Yeah. So, I I just I can't say that when he when I saw him speak and how he articulated that uh really really really neat. Um, if we can get all of our kids having that vocabulary and understanding the purpose of what we're doing and seeing the connection, the value to their work and our teachers, I think it's the sky's is the limit there. Um, I'll go real quick here priority uh teachers priority to integrating 21st century skills. Um, in preparation for the showcase evening, we had a public speaking workshop. Um, I don't know if I had a chance to talk about that uh since last time we met, but um, we did have 10 public speaking professionals

025in our building. Um, Mr. Gross and uh Mr. St. John served as uh the cons uh clinician giving feedback to kids and we ran every kid through a 30 minute block uh that day to get them prepped. Oh, and Miss Alexander, sorry, she stepped up too. Sorry. Uh she um it was I think it was I think it was a great preview for the actual event because they get all the kids uh prepared um and they were able to implement some of that feedback as well. So I won't make Mr. girls play it, but there is a another uh video there that um highlights that day as well. Um and then priority three and four um kind of excited to share priority three um expanding students opportunities for selfworth and connections. Um we have uh

026we're in the planning process for April 28th to bring about 160 students out to uh Wildwood Horse Ranch. Um, these are students who uh qualify for our best junior high in Iowa reward day for the third term. Um, and they are going to get to do horseback riding, kaying, swimming, fishing, playing the blob, archery, um, or sports, playing the sports fields. And this is going to serve as um kind of a trial run for my plan for the first day of school next year um to get all the kids on a bus to go out there to do not only these activities but my vision for the first day next year is um to really to incorporate uh team building, leadership building, um talk about what it means to be a Winter Junior Winter Junior

027High community to be a part of the best junior high in Iowa. How do we carry ourselves? to bring in those pack behavior expectations there um and create this opportunity to bond the kids through this this memorable moment. So the 28th will be give us an opportunity to see kind of how things function out there and how the movement of students works, how the activities run and all that good stuff. Um and then the first day next year I hope to be able to do that. Um and then party four is just kind of a recap of what we've done this year. um you know getting out into the into the community and meeting these uh different business leaders, going to ABC, going to Pulse, going to Aggravision, having the families come in, having the

028business partners come and talk about the profile of graduate competencies, um doing the color run, all of these things. I think you could you could find alignment to our priorities and the videos just highlight our focus on telling our story as a school, getting this stuff out there, uh not leaving gaps for people to tell their own story, but here's the actual receipt. Like here's the video of what we did. This actually happened um and getting people excited about what we're doing. So that's a kind of a a recap of the second term of the the junior high, the second semester. Question question, Josh. Thank you. It's been busy. Very active in that building. It's been a good All right. Up to Interet Rotary. Yep. Mr. Burlesen. All right. Who here has heard of the

029uh peace points? Anybody heard of the peace bowls? Have because I read about your report. I just read it. Rotarians should be raising their hands too. A rotary peace bowl is a monument that displays the message, may peace prevail on earth uh in the language of the country where it's placed. It usually displays up to four uh languages. The message is referred to as an affirmation of peace and his placement furthers Rotary's goal of building a culture of peace throughout the world. They're intended to inspire unity among all cultures, ethnicities, and backgrounds. Um, it was thought up by a guy in Japan after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and it's now an international message of peace with over 250,000 polls in every country in the world. Peace is one of Rotary's seven areas of

030focus and as humanitarian organization, Rotary believes that peace is a cornerstone of our mission. Um your core values of course are excellence, innovation, pride and a sense of belonging. Uh running through all of that is respect. And just as respect is an essential element of the learning environment, so is peace. Rotary peace polls can send a message of peace much needed these days. Peace among students, among our teachers and leaders, and among students and community uh members. All stakeholders benefit from a peaceful environment. So the details are these are vinyl poles. They look to be about 4x4. They're foursided in four languages with a rotary logo and can also have a QR code that links to a website that talks about all the places these are placed in the world. They can be six, seven,

031or eight feet. I figure with a foot or two in the ground, probably want to get uh you know a seven or eight footer. Rotary will cover the cost of the pole and the installation of the pole. Uh plan sites in the community include the new uh nature center out in Pamel Park. Um the library, we're talking to them, various churches, and hopefully school sites. And we have funding this year to do up to four peace polls on school grounds. And there is a long list of different languages that can be uh selected to go on these. Now, I was talking to a Rotary friend of mine in Australia and they said what they do there is they choose the Aborig uh language wherever it happens to be placed. So, I don't know if one

032of these languages was ever spoken here when Native Americans inhabited or displaced. Uh but the students could decide. We have a uh a student that's interested in starting an interact club which is like a junior rotary club at the high school. So uh they could participate in this project as well. Any questions? What's the average cost per pole? I mean just I think our cost is it ranges from 320 to 380. So, I figure with a bag of cement and digging a hole, we have $500 and spots they could go, you know, usually in front of school buildings, there's a planter or some area there that it could be out of the way but yet uh seen side. Okay. Yeah. So, this is a chance for you to ask your questions. Uh the made a

033request and then there's an action item later in the board meeting for you actually to vote on it. But this way you get all the information you want. Ask any questions of Chris so that when you come up later in the agenda you can make an informed decision. So anybody else have any questions? How many you want to put in the on the schools? Uh well you have four sites right? Four sites. Yeah. Yeah. So we can do four. We could put one over Gina's apartment too. There we go. There we go. We can put one for one. Do you know how many are in Iowa or around our area? Um, there's a map you can go to. I don't know if there's any in Iowa, so we could be the first. Okay. Yeah, there

034we go. I don't have any question any other questions. Great. Well, I appreciate your time. Let me go early because I got another poor fe. Okay. Sorry, I was looking at the interactive map to see how many were in the state of Iowa. Are there any? I don't know. I haven't got zoomed in far enough. There's some in Hawaii. Oh, there are some in Iowa. Be the first in Madison. One in Iowa City and one in in Newton. Okay. When the whole state, I don't know. It's at a church in Newton and a church in Iowa City. There we can be those guys. Thank you. Thanks Chris. Okay, back to next up consent agenda. Um we will go through these Jeremy. So since your first time, so we'll go through them and then we'll approve

035all of them as one big piece. Um personnel report we if there's questions we don't ask we can't discuss personnel in public and open enrollment also dealing with children's names. you know, we have the information, but uh there's not a lot of open discussion. So, first off, we've got a um several uh minutes. We have minutes from the last regular meeting on March 11th and then we have meetings from the special session to fill a vacancy and then uh minutes from the budget hearing a any additions or corrections to those minutes? Okay. Paid bills and invoice Cammy and Jill. I got a couple questions. So, I'll I'll and I'm also going to hit the ones that I had a question on. On the very front page in the general fund, Amazon.com office share for text

036tech office $3,25.66. There must have been 30 line items in the Amazon bill. And the first one was tech center chair. Cost of the tech center chair was $229.99. Let's say three grand for a chair. Must be a nice chair. Matt has a $3,000 chair. I want everybody's aware that that was just the first line. That's all it can grab is the first line. CDW governmental is in two places. It's in the general fund that was for investment projectors, a new laptop area at the admin office, but there is a much larger purchase back in fund 33, which is your sales tax, and that's the one toone laptop rotation that's built in to the five-year facility plan. So, that's the larger one there. Uh, let's see. Did I have another one circled? Hartland Aea 13,363

037was a little large. That's all printing. Uh, Lake View Country Club, that's rent. And this year, for the first time, we were also charged for cross country. They've never done that in the past, but just wanted you to be aware of what that was. Those are the only things that stood out to me. I just had a question on in the agency fund. I'm sure you've told me this and I always forget like Crestston's in there, interstates in there and I'm sorry and that because I have notes on that because I would assume it's a pass through for something. It is it's the TP teacher parent registered apprenticeship. We are the fiscal agents again just like we are for the heart program. Okay. So we file the claims we got the money and then we

038checks back to that's exactly right. Thank you. because I'm like usually we don't have tuition in agency. We do not. And actually I I would have preferred if that comment said TP. Okay. Okay. Any other questions on paid bills? Um personnel. Yeah. So we have some new contracts obviously. Uh some of those are you know tracked due to numbers. some um are moving of a custodian into Rodney Ryan is leaving from the is retiring at the end of the year. So that's a transfer. Um we have a letter intent for a couple of uh of our teachers and those are because they are finishing up their program. So they need to finish their program, get a license and then they get a contract. So we it's pretty common when you have somebody first out of

039first teaching job that that's how that works. So that's what those are. One's for the special education job and one's for the high school business which we just wrapped up today and then some resinations. So any questions for me? I have none. Okay. Open enrollment. Cammy gave us our worksheet and her um recommendation. And Jeremy, just so you know, um it's the receiving district that acts initially on the open enrollment. All five of these applications are out of our district, but they also have to meet timelines. If you meet timelines, you will be approved. It's anything in between. So, the kindergartener ones are making timelines or if there's good cause criteria and a lot of these have to do with changing a family location. So, if you move, it's an automatic good cause and it

040goes into that. So, these are five applications, all meeting good cause or timelines. So the recommendation then is to approve all five. Okay. Next up is financial report. I didn't have anything extreme that that popped out where um which one do you want to look at first? Statement of position. Yes, please. Statement of physician. You can see that in the general fund balance our fund balance is down 220,000. Remember, as we approached the end of the year, we were on track to chew through cash of of closer to 450. So, this is should not be surprising. This is right where we were budgeted to go. Um, there's nothing really else that pops out at you. Uh, we do have our first prepaid expense of the year. You know, we work on a cash basis until

041you get to the end of the year. Then, we switch over like magic to a modified acrruel accounting basis. And so these this is a prepaid expense for professional development that will occur in July which falls into the next fiscal year. So we pull that back or we we're not pulling the expense back. We're pushing it out and currently it's just sitting there as an asset prepaid expenses. Questions for me on that one? And then when you go to the revenues and expenses, remember this time we're only looking at the general fund. And what we do is we look at all of the expenditures. We do a line item budget at the beginning of the year and that sets our our spending for the year. We have revenues down below. We do our line item

042budget on revenues. And then what we do is we track the last three years average to date because our expenditures don't come in evenly. They come in in big clumps. So to look at it month by month doesn't help us in comparison to the yearly balance. So we compare it to prior years. So we are right on track. We have very little wiggle room there. We're We're right where we should be in both expenditures and revenues. Slightly above in revenues. I think it's a good solid line item budget. Questions for me on that? You were worried earlier. You know what? You really swung that one direction. We really got way out there. It settled back out. Any other questions on the financial report? contracts and agreements. We have a final completion for the junior high

043fluid cooler replacement, also known as the chiller. The chiller. They call it just chiller. And that's just completed. That's the one that was just put on. Yes. Last summer. Last. Okay. The one with the hold didn't fit. We had I was going to say this is the one that is not leaking. And I haven't heard that it's leaking. If no other questions on that one, I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as submitted. I'll make that motion. Motion by Gina. Is there a second? Second by Emily. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. I lost track of where I was there for a minute. Um, old business. Second reading of board policy on naming of facilities. So, it looks like it's going to be board

044policy 909. Yeah, that's where I put it. Um, again, not every district has it. I didn't have a sample one, so I spelled it at 909. Um, we'll put it there. But it's the same policy that we had two last time, one from Minneapolis and one from where was the other one? But this is the one that we like. Yeah, this is the one we like. This is the one we like. So, it's been updated with our name board 909. And so it's just second reading. Uh if you vote to put it in place, it'll be the policy will be used for naming a facility. So any any questions? Not. I entertain a motion to approve uh board policy 909 on its second reading. So moved. Is there a second? Second. Motion by Gina, second

045by Emily. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed, same signed. Motion carries. Uh, new business. Now is the time for public hearing for fiscal year 2526 certified budget. Um, do I read something, Cammy, or we just say we're in That's just I just need the time. I have 537. I don't believe anybody has signed up to address the board on the budget. Nothing was submitted. comments presented. I guess I just want to share with the board that now that SSA has uh supplemental state aid has been set at 2% that some of our risk came out. Remember we published a little higher because we had these risk elements. Now that that has come out, we're very comfortable and we've already made some changes to bring it down to the 1570 mark.

046Okay. And then we will wait for final reports to see if there's any additional room. wait for all the legislative dust settle. Uh any additional property tax relief. Um of course they won't fund the ISL. They never do. So I mean there's just some things still built into the formula into the budget formula that won't come to fruition. So we have one last chance to tweak our budget. We can always lower a levy, but we can never raise a levy. But we will have that opportunity again in May. Okay. So you one question. So we published at 1589, correct? Going down to 1570. If something happens between now and May, can we go back to 1589 or we can't go? We cannot certify. Just wanted to double double check that. I was Yeah, I'm going

047to ask you to adopt the budget at 1570. Perfect. Um and that's an action item away because remember this budget does include pre-levying on our debt. Correct. in 40. Okay. So, this is proposed tax hearing. This is B, correct? So, this meets all of our requirements for for the state on all those new things. Correct. Hearing B. We published in the newspaper. We only had one speaker at hearing A and apparently there were no other questions that arose and so we don't have a lot of participation in hearing B. So I can close public hearing. Yes, you certainly can. How about at 5:40? 3 minutes. Okay. Next item is the resolution authorizing the redemption of general obligation school bond series 2018 dated July 24, 2018 and levy a tax for fiscal year 2026 for the

048redemption of general obligation school bond series 2018 dated 20 July 24, 2018. That's a lot of words. Correct. This is the legal action allowing us to pre-levy on that debt. And we would need to do this before, of course, we adopt a budget that contains it. Yes. Any questions on that? Because we do this every year. We always in the years that we pre-v. Correct. When Yes. When we pre-levy, we always do this. Yes. Any questions on that? If not, I would entertain a motion to approve the resolution as presented. How's that sound? Certify budgets after we approve this resolution. Yeah, I'll make that motion. Motion by Gina to approve the resolution. Is there a second? Second. Second by Jeremy. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Now,

049Miss Emily, as we are ready to adopt the 2026 certified budget at 1570. Is there a second? Second. Motion by Emily, second by Gina. Uh, any other discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Okay. Next item is the U. Winter Community Education Association uh 2026 fiscal year 2026 contract. Yeah. So we went through negotiations. Uh they were able to ratify the agreement as presented in front of you. Um so we would ask that you would approve this agreement. This will allow us to get contracts out start the 21day window for them to get returned. So okay, it's 21. I can remember what the what the window was. 21. IP first first week of May sometime, right? Is it in my contracts are dated tomorrow? That mean that you would

050approve them tonight and then the date that they are due back is at the bottom of each contract. May 6th. May 6th. It does also contain the stuff that we talked about during exempt session that we were talking with regards to uh adoption, paternity leave, uh $15 per day for any days they would lose once they meet their maximum for carryover and sick. Um some additional schedule B changes that have been in the works. Remember three years ago we started um updating schedule B in three chunks over three years. Um so that's included as well. We made some adjustments to the salary schedule just to reflect um to be able to hit the new state minimums on some of the lanes. So those are some of the other things outside of the $1,400 as well.

051Okay. Any questions on the contract as presented? Hearing none, I would entertain a motion to approve the master agreement and certified staff contracts for fiscal year 26. I can make a motion. Motion by Jeremy. Is there a second? Second by uh was that Emily? Sorry, I I heard a voice by Emily. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Uh, next item is the Winteret Education Support Employees Association uh, contract for fiscal year 26. Yeah. So, at the last board meeting, they presented their opening offer. Um, we met with them and were able to settle at $45 per hour raise. Uh, that also went on the base. We did address the activity bus drivers which was 14 to an $18 an hour um, just to fall in line

052better with what other districts were paying. And then we also uh raised the DOT physical reimbursement to $110. It was 85 K is that right before it was 95 95 sorry but that again just to cover that cost. Um and the total package with that diapers is a 3.03 the 2.84 on the base for them as well. Any questions regarding those contract that set of contracts? If not, I would entertain a motion to approve the master agreement and class not classified staff contracts. That's what that motion says down there, isn't it on there? Sorry, I was pulling out that paperwork. No, yeah, they'd be classified. Yeah, sorry. Sorry, my brain. Yeah, this is classified master agreement and classified staff contracts. Entertain that. I'll make that motion. Motion by Gina. Is there a second? Second by

053Emily. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Uh next up is the confidential employee contracts which would uh be administration as presented there. Yeah. So this would be administrators all of your uh department heads as well. uh anybody who's not covered by a an association either the certified or classified uh working through that um is it you know we offer a 2.67% increase to them outside of a couple of positions that we tried to adjust because of uh conference averages. So, um those were given a market exemption which we do from time to time. And also unlike um the hourly staff who are in the confidential agreement uh and our other hourly staff, they get uh years of service that bump them up incrementally. That's not built

054into there. So, they typically get um just a a flat hourly rate. We looked at their what they were being paid. Uh we felt they needed to adjust those as well. So, they'll get a dollar increase on those. Um, so that's how we got to those figures. Okay. Any questions on the confidential employee contracts? And yep, sorry. Um, if none, I would entertain a motion to approve the confidential employee contracts as presented. Motion by Gina. Is there a second? Second. Second by Jeremy. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Next up, superintendent contract for fiscal year 26. I have to leave this one. Is that right? Yep. You guys So Justin does a one-year contract and it rolls a a rolling three threeear three-year contract. I would ask

055that I renew a rolling three year one of a three-year contract going forward. And then for his package, you know, we had talked about different ways to looking at that. Um uh we discussed that with Cammy and found out everything would have to go on no matter how we we do it. Um I talked with Justin and we are looking at I'm okay to share this. It's public, right? Okay, that's um adding 5,000 on the base and then he also um is has applied for that Google Google fellowship and we would uh reimburse any travel up to you say a thousand I don't know what it will cost there's three convenings of it um two Chicago I won't hear back until May if I am accepted or not so um I don't know what that

056would be but That would be and we could say up to we could benchmark that you know we could set a stop on that or say just reimburse it. It's up to you guys. I mean I just wanted that was what we had talked about. Thoughts would the conferences be during the school year? Two are one is not. Two are. Yeah. There's one in the fall in the spring, one in the summer. Yeah. And they're two days if I remember correctly. Yeah, they're two days. Um, that's if I get selected. Yeah. And would you do you foresee driving to Chicago or Very easily could. The only one that would bother me would be the February one. Oh, yeah. The fall one, summer one. Uh, I think the summer one is the one that's in California

057out in Google actually, but the other two are in Chicago. And I told Jerry that I could drive those. And um, yeah. You want to say 1,00200 the way flights are going I think 1,200 is [Music] easily knowing what they are right now. Okay. Okay. That's going to be a new three-year contract. That would be great. and 5,000 on base and up to 1,200 in travel expenses. What does that include? Is that per trip or total? T total total? No. Okay. Uh I was just thinking I was thinking travel like travel to get there. I had thought about we didn't discuss that. Yeah, I Yeah, I shared what I knew about the application. I don't know um the hotel expenses. I I have no I have no idea. I shared that they meet I know

058they meet in Chicago twice and once up there if I would be selected You get an average of 700 a trip. 600 just for a thought. Maybe it needs to be 2,000 for food, travel. I don't know what else is in there. Food and travel if you have to have any books for this fellowship or No, I wouldn't ask that. You know, I understand this. I'm also trying to invest in myself too. So, I'm willing to to share some of the costs as well. So, 2,000 up to 2,000. I will. We haven't made the motion. We haven't made the motion yet. My thoughts. Is the 5,000 is that kind of on par for the two and a half% like that is with Yes. Is it you got to go two and a half for three

059years? So that's two and a half two and a half two and a half. So it's it's not the 267. It's less than it's less than the 26. I didn't run a I don't know what the percentage was. We just picked a number round number to add on to the base. Is the Google more than one year? One year fellowship fellowship. Yeah, it's a one-year fellowship. Yeah, I told Jared like I I think I put forth a good application based on what we're doing. Um there was a a piece in there around um the demographics of your district. So if they're looking for a highly diverse district, we just I can't that's how I serve, right? So I don't know how much that goes into your goes into their determination how much that was. If

060you are accepted, did they tell you how much? No, they just said three convenings that you would you would commit to to attending the three convenings. Okay. Awesome. I thought I can see and I can happy to share if I just love to bring that back. Any other discussion? Is the 5,000. Do we want to bring closer to the 2.67? I'm good. I don't even know what that would be. Is this something we can look at again? It's a three-year contract, right? Can we bring it back next year and change that 5,000 if we need to or Well, how my how the contract reset it is when you approve the contract is that it's a three-year rolling contract and that it won't be less than the first year of the contract. Correct. Never. It doesn't.

061So, we typically look at the compensation piece each year. So, you're not committing to this for the next three years. It's just this year. Are we good? I'm good. Okay. Yeah. So, would somebody like to make a motion? I will make a motion of $5,000 increase on base or increase. Okay. And then up to $1,800 on that two 2,000 on expenses for the Google fellowship should be chosen. Reverseful travel up to 2000. Yes. Okay. Motion by Gina. Is there a second? Second. Second by Jeremy. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Congratulations, sir. Thank you. Congratulation all staff. Glad to have that. Next up, softball booster club request um to rename high school softball field. Yeah. So, we came three months ago. We had to get policy in

062place first. So we have second reading and then uh Cam worked with them to update the application based on what's in board policy. So we have here is the request and it goes back to uh ultimately uh named the softball field after coach Steve Corkran. Um we were approached pretty quickly after his retirement about this and um then I got a formal request and the softball boosters willing to cover the cost. Yeah. cover the cost of the signage for it as well. Uh, and we just, you know, I think wisely decided to put some board policy in place first. So now it's back for you to consider sharing that cam other than what's there? No. Yeah, Justin hit on the head when he said request. I mean, it was less than 10 minutes after he

063said he wanted to retire. We had citizens and I received emails that night. Mr. only received emails the next day. So, it's I mean it wasn't we've got a lot for that. Booster Club is on board with purchasing signage with a fix to our our current scoreboard. So, it's just going to hang kind of down below or like they actually redo what they currently have for the signage. So, it won't it won't drop any lower. Okay. It'll actually shrink the current kind of the rest of that other piece. Okay. Yep. That was my only question was where was it going to go kind of on the scoreboard and all of that. So we looked around put in center field along fence lines but really the the scoreboard is just a great thing. So working with

064varsity group who's the ones who we work with in the past so it's something they can easily put up if it's approved once it's approved and we work with them and we get it rolling. Uh once we have a delivery date, um we would work with coach and uh Mr. Boulder and figure out a day to do a celebration of the naming, be able to invite former players, um community members, that sort of thing onto the diamond that night, unveil that. So have that on a night when we can have most people back and be able to celebrate the accomplishments of coach Any other discussion? If not, I entertain a motion to accept the uh request to rename the high school softball field to the Steve Corkran field. So, is there a second? Second. Any

065other discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. You don't want it to be the Jared McDonald's? No. No. Nothing. Nope. I don't need any of that ever. Just a big bronze statue somewhere. Um, next up is first reading of board policy updates due to legislative changes at the state of Iowa. Um, I don't know if you all took a chance to read all 30. Is that what it was approximately? I actually held a couple back too. They had updated the cell phone policy. We put a lot of work in our policy and before I go into I saw that it wasn't in there. I was wondering before I go into changing it, I want to see what actually the de's model policies are. I mean, I feel I feel

066very confident about the process we went through to get where we're at. So, I just there is some updates, but we'll wait and see what because our policy meets the need of what what I'm hearing it does. Okay. Yeah, there may be some training on social media. I don't know if that made it through in the bill or not, but I think that got cut as if I I think it did, but again, until I actually see it, I don't want to go. Yeah. So, we'll make those changes when we have to because I think ours does. I think our policy meets the intention of her of the bill. So, and most of these are just verbiage changes due to they are when they took um as you know, there's lots and lots of board

067policies. They used to be 17 protected classes. One of those was gender identity. Um, and they made the decision to pull that out of the protected classes sub rights. Then essentially it had to be every policy that we have that has it uh needs to be removed to be in compliance. It did give you um something from allers. I just got um literally at like 4:30 um and it's their guidance on uh there was a deer colleague letter that was sent out and then there was a uh all the assoc the state associations received notification that they needed to get um compliance from the districts and sign off on that through Cassa. So, I was going back and forth with our attorney on what we should do. Um, ultimately, they have advised us to sign

068it. However, to ensure that we're in compliance, I said, "Well, we're updating our policy first reading tonight." Um, the affirmative action policy that the bullet had that had been taken off of the website and removed that was a two-year if you remember. We looked at hiring and how many we had in each category. And um, that's been pulled off the district office and off the website to be in compliance. I did send her our job descriptions at the end of our job descriptions. There was um equal employment OC statement asked to revise that and if that needs to be removed her if you read through that um and my conversation about was here's the guidance but ultimately you we advise you sign it but then you take steps to ensure that you're compliant. So a

069lot of this is all tied into that um with the state and federal. Uh most of those policies are tied to that. Some of those there's some others. There's some uh a video in uh of staff members that they shouldn't without consent. We have consent that we get when we do registration. So um these were all just generally we get policy prim uh at least quarterly it seems like sometimes more frequently where they go through and update policies based on recent court law. This is a lot uh for one time, but that's what those changes are from. Only question I had is the bullying harassment forms. They made a lot of changes to that, which I think were in align with some of this, but there's also changes at the state level with regards to

070bullying harassment. So, um we may end up having to bring that back if this doesn't hit the mark. You know, you probably pay attention to Jared. They um basically asking districts to intervene more often. Correct. And when people bring up bullying harassment, they used to had to hit one of these 17 protected classes or other and had to have hit meet one of the four criteria that they laid out. Um, basically they what I interpretive been told is they back that off to where districts will have to intervene more frequently which will be part of it. So that but they did make changes to those policies already. I think in anticipation of that and in light of the gender identity uh being removed from civil rights protection in Iowa. So that's what what I'm providing

071you is exactly what they've given us as far as how to update those policies. So there's a lot that always seems to be that way after session is winding down and I apologize too trying to get I got this Jane was gone. Jane does all the updating of those. So, they got out to you a little later. You know, typically I try to get them in a board update. Um, so they did get, you know, just in the board packet. So, I apologize for being a little little later and getting them out frontier than typical. Any questions on any of them? if there's like a case where someone is going against this. I thought if I remember correctly at one point if there was an open case we didn't have necessarily adopt what they proposed.

072Again I did not research exactly what's been going on active thing against order but if there was so yeah so yeah the gender identities in Iowa law I mean they went in and actually They removed it from the state. Yeah. Of Iowa civil rights. I'm I don't know of an active lawsuit. I There's probably one being put into place. Um and Siobhan was at the sum suit meeting last week. The reason for getting them out is to be able to have them in place by the time they're it's enacted or where it actually becomes law. They take is it July one? July one. So um with the two readings or if there was questions she wanted to get them on ahead of you. So and some of these we've done it before you know during

073was it co or after like there were things that we approved and then a month later we resended and went back we have the opportunity at second reading if something changes in the next 30 days to not adopt them to not adopt them. We can restart the clock and do first reading again. Yeah, you're exactly right. The immunization was the one. Yes. There was something with co that we read and then yep we did first reading because we needed to and then they they sit there actually sitting if you if you guys can see draft version they're sitting as a draft they were never enacted so they're sitting in board policy after um they're not actual war policy there's a draft that never got enacted because it takes two readings unless you wait we uh

074that was on the books on some of the book stuff two years ago we we paused and waited and then we did enact to meet the law but then it was challenged. So we it's well you have to have well you guys approve of board policy was you had to um have the policy on the review of library books right and the process of and the process of how that goes correct the law when actually removed board policy doesn't say right it's just if somebody wants to review it you had to take the students off of the committee we had to clean that up and that was what the policy handled like board policy didn't say these books can or can't correct uh law does board policy does. Correct. Yeah. So that's what that and

075that's still playing out back and forth a little bit. So but there was something on health. There was a was adjusted but that wasn't books. That was board policy on health. Anyway, any other questions discussion? It is a lot special. Yeah, we'll wait and see what that has to be considered. Yeah, we'll wait and see if that's changing more. Um my guess is Siobhan's pretty close to it. I know they're working hard at this time of year, Siobhan and her office, it's busy, busy, busy. Okay, no other discussion. And I would entertain a motion to approve um the presented board policy updates uh for their first reading. Make a motion. Motion by Jeremy. Is there a second? Second by Gina. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries.

076Next up, board action on the Rotary Peace Poll request. I think it's a I I have no issues. I think as long as they work along with Ry and ground staff to put them where they're not having to worry about being mowed around or hit by when they push push snow in the in the winter months. And I mean try to keep it out of maybe where kids aren't going to use it as a Yeah. My only was um do you want to I mean you set a limit. Do you want to do four? I mean you wanna it's up to you. Well, and I guess I want to ask the principles, are you okay with this? Is there a issue with any of you? Do you want one at the junior high high school?

077Do you want I mean, is there a place for two? The only thing I thought was make sure at least because you talked about different heights and I make sure it's tall enough kids can't like try to jump over that. Oh, I'm just thinking about the right. I was looking at like something in my mind I was thinking something by the high school office and then something down like in the stadium and that rock leading down to the football stadium. You know, it's kind of isolated out there. You could just be out there and then same at the middle school. You know, there's some areas that are rocked and a little off limit. And then elementary school, good luck. So you could, that's what I wanted you guys to think through is you could say,

078"Yeah, we're going to approve whatever at these sites in Catholic." When Chris originally reached out to me, it's a great project. They were looking at other like churches and or they say, "Well, would the district consider said, "Well, that's a board decision." Yeah. Um if we put those on our property or not. So that's why I brought it to you so you could weigh in. I mean, it's no different. We'd have we'd have an ag Oh, Cammy's looking at me funny. Oh, no. We've done this. Oh, funny. Okay. We've done it. I mean, we've done it with uh we've had the little not the libraries. What did we have for a while? We had the little libraries for a while and then we had the little food banks, supplies. That's what it was. Yep. And

079I think I mean I think as long as I think with those we had a some sort of agreement in place that if it became a hindrance or whatever, we didn't. No. Okay. It they weren't stocked and they weren't maintaining. So, we removed them. Yes. Right. So, what happens if these That's that's that's what I'm going to say. You know, do we need to have some sort of agreement with them that if it if it's deemed necessary, needs to either be replaced or, you know, we have an agreement with the lions on the AEDs. You're keeping maintenance on it. Okay. Like you're paying they put them in 600. Uh what's the yearly maintenance maintain and then there's electricity there's electricity right yeah so we that was a little more in depth because there's electricity ongoing

080upkeep um but I I mean I would say anything in your property that you grant permission for and then it becomes an eyesore or you notify them to either replace it or they can remove it. So that's I'm saying do we need to have that in writing with them in some capacity? I can check, but again, I don't know that you would have to. Okay. Um, but I can check. I can look into that if that's what you want to do. But yeah, the video. So, you heard the project. I I agree. I think it's a great project. Um, but then how many do you want? Do you want all four of one district? Do you want to say, "Hey, well, I want whatever we say it it goes Ray to with the buildings." Yeah.

081between somebody else comes in asking us to put something on our ground and we have to approve that. I just don't feel like when do you stop? That's a great question. Yeah, I support it. I think it's a great thing, but maybe one versus one at everybody. It's a motion you get to make. I guess I'm saying that. But I wanted you all to know my what I'm speaking of when it comes to when do we stop and who do we stop with? What what group? What what project? What organization comes to us asking for that? Do we finally just say no? I promote peace. [Laughter] That was my only question. I went through all read through all the notes. So with that we have you know we we we can do nothing tonight. We

082can charge Justin with saying hey you know let's form a uh you know some sort of contractual you know agreement between this or create a board policy on something of this nature just like naming a fields. I mean what you know because maybe not on a on the like a school property like maybe it could be at that stadium or a school property still okay sorry like on school grounds if you understand what I'm saying for children not right in front of an entrance or something along that nature you're I see all sides of this when sex I do I see all sides of of this of why it's a good thing you support it. I it's always like when so when do you say no and or do you let anybody that comes with

083a plan? Um you know they I'm not I think the property that they put the skate park on was school was that school property as well? Yes. That they're already put the skate park on. So yeah, these are all valid questions. It's a great project. Um, does every great project have to be on the the school's property? Um, you know, one of the project that we're that we gave information that we've tried to partner with them is this fitness court. I think I share information with you um with the walking trail and that's a project we would like them to pursue. That's the peaceful. Well, we kicked it up this year, but how about Peace Bowl? And again, I get it. They're trying to they're everything they do is to try the betterment of the

084community and and the values of Rotary. And I 100% understand it. And what are what are their expectations within our staff? Are they expecting our staff to go out and do learning around the peace pole? Like this is what it stands for. This is the meaning. These are the people. Not I that was never I love peace but I want to we don't need to add more things. No that never came up in my conversation that there would be curriculum around it or discussion around it. Um is more of like it's there conversation started. Um he never brought up that it would be required or that. So I'm very undecided on this. So sleep on it. I'm just I I Yeah, whatever you have to say. I have a feeling of the board that more

085information is needed, more parameters are requested. Okay. Um so we'll punt that to you and I can follow some I love to punt some days. Why don't I get you know building level support? Got Ray. What's Ray's concern? Yes. Right. And why for like why the um because they can my my assumption is and and going to rotary listening conversations is they have enough funds to purchase and install four of them. So they would like to put four around the community. Um we agreed to let them present here. If they can do get get all four of them without having to go and talk to someone else is probably just easier. Um, and the school has lots of foot traffic. There's lots of people that are going to visit the district. So, I think there's

086a couple of those things. Um, as to why four. Um, I think they would welcome any opportunity. So, we can do sports facilities too. It wouldn't have to be schools. Could be football field, baseball field. Just that like Yeah. You Yeah. If that's something board you like the auditorium, you know, where it's not necessarily an entrance. Yeah. I Yeah. I guess my first thought once it's outside the front door and everybody Yeah. Because if it's by the school just the kids are seeing it. It's by the football stadium. Yep. Everyone sees it. Got your marching orders. I have building admin support. I have race support questions and then I have board policies procedural questions. Yep. I just did a quick search, but who knows what word you would use on assembly to find any other

087policy across the nation that's like that. But just read table for additional. Perfect. You nailed it, Cammy. Okay, that one is done. Next up, 2024 25 calendar update staff work days. Yeah, so um we had one day they worked virtually. of the three days we missed um and we had two other days. Um I would suggest that we comp one of those days for other time and then we worked really hard to try and get uh some options for staff for a day of training. Uh our last day right now was scheduled for June 2nd. We tried for June 3rd. We couldn't get one of the presenters here on June 3rd, so we move them all to June 4th. Um we are um we're have a really hard time finding time with all of our

088staff together. Um when we took the February date out of the calendar the last two years because of just you can't start till the 23rd and the desire to try and get done before Memorial Day and then the desire to try and get done before June with students. It makes it really really hard. Um and that's something that um staff have shared like there's not a lot of time to to work administratively feels it. Uh we think these topics are timely. You know the K12 building thinking classrooms all our math teachers with the day with this individual um we think would be good. Cory's worked to get a PBL 101 trainer that can accommodate 35 staff. Um and then Chad's done a lot of work with artificial intelligence and um helping staff how to leverage

089those tools for part of a day. And then Andrea Ster's done a ton of work with our Pog uh she would be here to kind of help frontload some of that stuff going into next year. So that's what we would propose is that they we comp one day or one day and that they would ask we would ask them to work June 4th and choose um well ask all of our math teachers across the district. but uh provides some options for the rest. So they would work June 2nd, off June 3rd, not Tuesday the 3rd, back on the 4th. Yeah. And then be done. Yep. Okay. Again, we tried really hard to get June 3rd. And kids are done. It's the Friday before. The Friday before the 30th. Yeah. Okay. thoughts, questions, ponderings. I mean,

090the other option is to not compliment and have them come June 3rd and June 4th, which that sounds like a terrible idea. That's that sounds awful. Um, go ahead. I don't there be something where they could work June 3rd and there would be other things that could be similar to this that would show that they have crossed the day and or if they wanted to come back and forth come back for these or are these like four things that need to be um yeah obviously the building thing in classrooms you know, you saw the the data, you've seen it in action. Um, we're starting this. I was in elementary today and the kindergarten classroom had whiteboards and they were they were working and um so it's it's across the district. We're starting to see some

091at the high school level. It would be a way just to get that whole team around this work. Cory went through a day with this individual. Yeah. And we sent 11, six or how many? I I think we end up sending 10 or so to one or two different because they do a 101 and like a two like finance 101, 2011, 301. He does like an introduction one day and he does more of an advanced version the second day. And part of the inability to get a larger group of people together when there's no kids in front of him. This gives us an opportunity to give all of our math team a huge boost going into next year and really create an opportunity where we can start the school year off with this mindset versus,

092you know, sending people five at a time and things like that. And so it's contingent on his our trainers availability. Thus, for the June 4th, I worked really hard for June 3rd. I I we were Yeah. Yeah. And then the PBL is, you know, the authentic learning which we're doing and you're seeing some of the fruits of labor with some of the teachers we sent last year. Yeah. Um the crash course for them. And again, understand training in June is not great. And yet that's what we sent them. We sent a 101 training in June last year. Um there's a two-day training the fifth and sixth Kendra uh in De Moine um that is open to staff. So, it's just the nature of how school works, unfortunately, to get staff together. So, what happens if

093they said, "I'm not coming soon for a contract." They'd be preaching contract. Okay. I'm just Yeah. Now, if they've got something already planned, we've always worked with staff that that's the case. Absolutely. Um, we've always tried to work if they've got something um Yeah. already scheduled. I mean to me if we've done our due diligence on trying to get June 3rd yes it's as the the day you know we don't have much choice to to go ahead to say sorry we tried our best we did everything we could here are some options I I say we have to go for it [Music] and building thinking classrooms has made one of the biggest impacts right now in our district. The AI information that Chad's brought us and Cam has brought us from at the high school

094Well, and yeah, I agree. And OG going back even before building pig in classrooms. We had our K4 for four days in June. They leaned in hard. Yep. Um and we're seeing that pay up, too. I mean, our reading scores at elementary are better than they've ever been. Um Yeah, I think Justin suggested it's not ideal, but it is what it is. We realize it was just can't get the We talked a little bit. Do we have math? That didn't feel right where you have one and split them either. Y does that make sense? Yeah, I I trust Justin's advice. So the recommendation is to approve the update updated 202425 calendar staff work days that was presented. There's an entertain to approve what was submitted. Yes. Okay. Is there a second? Second. Any other discussion?

095All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say nay. Emily, did you I said I Okay. Sorry. Just Sorry, I didn't hear it. If not, I have to vote. I'm kind of Well, I I would have vote I. So, if if the record let the record I voted I. Okay. All right. Board member updates. We do have McKenzy's submitted here. Um she's in Crestston. She is running at the crack me. So um they talk about the council, the national gold council of excellence, which is awesome. Um mother Sundance update, which I saw a lot of fun things happening at that event. Um teacher appreciation baskets and notes. Um Kim, do you have one of these or do you need one for the Okay, perfect. I I don't write on them until after I

096make sure you have one. So that's her update. Um I will start down with Emily. Um I told Julie personaliz to make iceax seem you know we're not all test takers but to do their best Gina and I just continually am in awe of everything that everyone does. I love having all the positive things on social media and being there. Perfect. I will echo all of that. Then also add on that Justin um and I were asked to present at the students uh success summit in June um for IASV about all of our work around profile graduate and how we're keeping students focused um at our board meetings and all of that um great information. So Luca Vista reached out and Justin's got it on the calendar and I'll be there as well. So yeah,

097I think it's a pretty good conference. If another board member wants to attend, it's June 11 and we'll be doing a session there. Um I met with Luke last week and ran through a proposal. It doesn't seem novel to me what we're doing, but apparently it caught their attention. So, we'll we'll go and share what we're doing. And then also attended a phenomenal junior high jazz band performance over the weekend. They got a one plus rating. So, that's awesome. They're really good. Just get my feet under me. Welcome aboard. Um, if there's anything that I can do for you guys to promote our students or help anything, let me know. I'd be happy to show up, support, any ideas that I can that you'd like to share with me. I'm all ears. I heard he's

098really good on picture day. [Music] Picture day in here. First year hot dog day is coming up. Hot dog day. Lot of mentoring opportunities. We'll get you. We'll break you in. Don't worry. Ice cream. Yeah, that's the best day. They all love you then. See us. Um, if there's anything I can do to help, let me know. And if you need support for anything, Justin, appreciate. Yeah, a lot of the things that Julie shared on that calendar, um, the wax museum, come in and see that. It's just, yeah, I think the more you see what's going on, I mean, people get up, you talk about it. So, any of those opportunities, they mean it. They'll invite you. Feel free to come in and participate, see what's going on. So, yeah. Yeah. Justin. Yeah. So, some

099of you already hit uh transportation bus. I just put that on there. I just need to know if this is something the board wants to entertain for me and bring back. It's 7:11. Um, so Ben was asked about a family who wants to host a foreign exchange student who they would be within the three miles um from the high school which according policy 7101 they would not qualify to to ride the bus. I see it. They can't drive. Um, but we would we would need to update policy. So been I don't know if you would bring it back or not had foreign exchange students for years. Again I get I don't get to get guidance from the board as a whole except for in a session like this. So I just need to know yeah

100I I mean we we haven't amended that before for things. I mean we've always held held fast and true to that policy because it's kind of like signs on the grounds. You amend it for this one then then it just starts unraveling and for a foreign exchange student because they can't transport. Well, and it's way back in odd eight when I was there, foreign exchange students always had a high school came to a high school family with a high school. So, they had a ride, they did all those things. Now, they don't necessarily not always have that built-in ride. So I guess I'm leaning toward changing it forward for Is that Ben Messer? Yeah. Yeah. So it's not We couldn't necessarily say so many miles because he lives quite a ways. No transportation director. Sorry.

101Okay. Ben, a transport chase director brought it. It's a family who used to hold host boarding students when they had students. Yes. Don't want to host one now, but because of what Gina said, they can't always ensure that they can get the student to and from. So, they're asking for the ability to ride the bus. Um, and board policy says if you're a high school student and you live less than three miles away, you don't qualify for transportation unless um, uh, special ed or or just some kind of disability that would warrant that. So, they asked that the board would consider, but they can still walk to the elementary and do the transfer or shuttle just like the rest of our kids of all ages. I don't know how close they live to the elementary.

102I don't think that it's five miles. It's fine. No, they're not. They're just on East Jefferson. Shuttle where you can you they shuttle high school kids. Yeah, they shuttle K12. Yeah. I mean, it's junior high. Sawyer, right? I mean, there's something that I know now. Didn't know before. No. Yeah, they shuttle. I mean, they shuttle out to the junior high school. I mean, I' I've always They've always I know where they live. East Jefferson. Yeah. Now I do. There's a thing called the Beacon. You know, it's a great assessor's website. Again, I transportation director is supposed trust to make decent. Yeah. I I just I get it as well, but again, it we had just discussion about things on grounds too. You open it for one and then then it's an X and it's an

103X and now it's oh well, you know, it's three miles. Okay. Can we do three and a half miles? Can we do four? Transportation for Exchange has no other way. Like I mean, they've got classmates. Well, and that's they're building relationships. They're I mean, that's what they're here for is No. Well, I mean, I think you're talking about an exception that's one a year possibly. So, you're not saying you want to wait and hear where they areated. I'll bring back policy. Why don't you bring back an amended board policy next? Yeah. It's not on the agenda. So, I'm just saying like if we ever have to entertain this again to the address of the foreign exchange it I will I'll just add it absolutely softy uh as Jared mentioned the student success summit uh if

104you're willing to attend great um just basically of alignment of our work from the board table to the classroom so for that uh Cam already talked about the state convention, but the FFA banquet. You should have a letter. Yep. They invite in front of you inviting you to the FFA banquet. Um, five FFA members getting the Iowa FA degree is the most that I've That's massive. It's all their officer team. Yeah. So, quite an accomplishment for them. the Department of Education visit. You saw the the data that Julie shared, but um I actually reached out to the DE back in February when they were talking about um the governor's math bill and spoke on the basics and I'm like, well, we're having a lot of success what we're doing. Let's, you know, without just telling

105us what to do, maybe come see what's going on. Um, and they agreed and actually Tamara has been meeting with April Forks and communicating back and forth about the visit. April can't be here Thursday, but you know, Tam shared today that, you know, our the data and improvement is it's really good and the department's noticed. So, my whole point is like let our people do the work that they're doing without trying to tell us what to do if we're having success. So, hope they'll see that. I know they will. It's great stuff. Uh, the board got to see it in November. So that's awesome. The district fund summary. So this was something we talked about. I think it was Gene asked can we make it or somebody asked can we make it more winner set.

106Y and so uh we going back forth with Don Group and Cammy and Jill and this is kind of what it would look like. So we've been updated now with the our budget set put out next fall. Uh we are getting there's some questions already and I'm not surprised. I'll try to address some of them when I come back next week. like um why reduce the class size? We're talking about building renovations. Well, you guys know those are two different pots of money. Um they can't they can't be used for vice versa. Hopefully, this document helps with some of that with other data. So, we'll we will try to update it with our new tax rate and those things once we set the line item budget and get it out for next year. Any comments

107on that? Again, it's been reported several times, so I like it. Yep. Okay. Uh, I gave you a document from John Stetzel, violent events response insurance coverage. This came up at Jill and I's um, uh, the meeting went to last week with Jester EMC. We have the insurance in place. We only have$100,000, I think, at the time for $1,000 a year up to a million. This would be the event that god for I mean pray we never have to go through but a violent event school that's the coverage that would would cover some of the things there for those involved. Um Perry had it and so um my my recommend would say that we up that to a thousand as part of our renewal or to a million dollars which is like $1,000 for us

108going forward. um classroom clinic uh data year one. So if you remember last year what Emily, Gene, and Jared um we went through uh and classroom clinic allows us to provide teleaalth therapy for most units and they take Medicaid which is not always the case with some of our providers. So we purchase one bundle, right? One unit unit. And so that's the breakdown. I got this today. This is the number of visits, uh the demographics, the service delivery, uh the ASUS scores, and then on the back is the parent feedback. Again, they didn't get got three surveys, but 100% think it's been beneficial. So, um I think it's been a good investment. It is serving some of our kids. Anything on that? I think so. I would say we didn't get started late, but maybe

109like the first term we were kind of testing it out. So I would say maybe we've been using it about half the year and the feedback from the counselors has been good and they're the ones that work the most closely with it. Yeah. Uh I didn't include this here but at your table is the ethis update. So that is their portion of the maintenance plan. Bray will incorporate that into theirs the larger document but uh Mark dropped that off this week. So that's for you to look through. And then they will Ray is planning to be here in May with that finalized plan. So um and then you roughly give me allers update. I had already off and and had we talked about that and last scheduation day. Um the conference started at 11:00. I

110could have flown out till the morning and got there. Um, but we are flying out as soon as it's over on Friday. So, I taking a day to go tomorrow. So, I'll be back uh Monday, back late Friday night. Um, have my cell phone. I have available to email. So, um I'm sure Cy Cory can handle it, but if anybody would come up, you need a hold me to call. No snow predicted this week. Andrew likes to hit the snow button. Yeah. All right. If nothing else, next board meeting, regular board meeting is May 12th right here at 5:00. And if there's nothing else, we are journed. I got to start signing papers. When I get cold,