001Good evening everybody. We're going to get started first with the public meeting, Tom, and we'll go into our regular meeting and the pledge of allegiance after that. So, uh, if everybody we'll, uh, like I said, we're going to start with a public meeting on the revision of the budget, right? Yep. Uh, public hearing for the amendment of our current budget FY25 budget. No increase in taxes. Um, it's just a simple increase in um, total expenditures. Most of that comes from the fieldhouse expenditures. Um when we when we create that total expenditures like we did two months ago or last month. Um you know it's it's an estimate without a doubt. You're just taking numbers from the current year and increases. We didn't have enough of the fieldhouse put in there. Um, also some of our
002operations um that would typically maybe fall into uh pebble expenditures uh have moved into some general and that's all that's all uh from the building project as well. Um and then some insurance increases. So overall it's a large um amendment increase of 4,435,000 and we'll approve that later in the meeting. Any questions from the board? Any questions from our audience? All right, seeing none, we'll close this public meeting here at 5:32. We'll call it. Um, all right. We'll go into the regular meeting and we'll stand first of all stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. Like to thank Flynn first of all for being
003our videographer tonight. As we get going, um we'll get the meeting called to order. Uh we do have uh enough for a quorum. Hearing negotiations is none. We need a motion to approve the agenda. Motion to approve the agenda. I'll second that. Gotcha. You got that both, Lisa? All right. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Agenda approved. Uh I did mention that I will be stepping out. Okay. Go before 6 o'clock for kids concert. So yes, if you see that happening, you'll know why. Um all right. Um All right. Uh, communications to the board. Is this one we're going to do? No, we'll do that. We'll do that later. Okay. No communications to the board at the time. Well, the consent items, you were sent to you
004in your board packet. Uh, I think you do have a few other uh invoices in front of you also. Uh, any any comments on that? Everything's routine. You will see that our revenues have surplus surpassed our expenses. Once again, you know, there's always timing in those. So, our current revenues are about a million dollars above ahead of our expenditures. Um, that that would be expected this time of year that will close when we get to the summer and uh pay out our last uh few months of of salaries, but uh you know, we're expecting to be about about even maybe small surplus for this year and it looks like we're on track for that. All right. Uh any other comments or questions from the board? Hearing none, then we need a motion to approve the
005consent items. So moved. Thank you, Todd. Do we have a second? I'll second. All right. Thanks, Brent. We have a motion in a second. Any further discussion? Tubas are expensive. Yes. Holy cow. Yeah. All instruments. All right. Uh we have a motion and a second then. All in favor say I. Opposed. Consent items approved. Uh we're into our administrative report report and tonight we have uh the student support leads. Yep. Student support leads. Um Mrs. Shuter, Mrs. Kramer, Mr. Sudall, and Mrs. Curry are here. They were here in September. Um kind of as we have kicked off uh this program. Um we have a student support lead in all three elementaryaries. And I got to talk a little bit about how this has went this year. Well, as Mr. Carter introduced us. Um, our student
006support lead at Bryant is out on leave right now. So, um, Devon's been covering Bertha and Bryant. So, kind of some of the things look a little different between the two buildings. Uh, Devon also student taught this spring. So, as you know, we hired her for a four-year-old preschool teacher, at risk teacher. So, um, you know, things look a little different for those two buildings and Luca a little bit with that. But um as you go to the next slide there, our purpose. So we talked about in September uh keep students learning as much as possible, keep teachers teaching as much much as possible. Um and I feel like as these guys talk, I really think that we've done that this year with this position. Even with Devon going between the two buildings, I think
007it's been successful that with that and I'm really looking forward to next year um to having, you know, a person at BG and at Bryant with that. um as you go through there, just some of the things that we talked about in the September meeting, those things that we shared with our main goals, just building those positive relationships, being um out and accessible at recess and lunch, um check-ins and checkouts with students, um being on call for those major situations, working together with staff, um and leading those restorative conversations. Those were kind of our big goals right away in the beginning. um that's what we envisioned this job to be. Um and so then if you keep moving on, um it's kind of what we were able to do this year. Um I was able
008to meet with about 27 students consistently, give or take a couple. Um I meet with kiddos just periodically, some too that aren't counted in there. Um and that's everybody from three-year-old preschool all the way through second grade. Um I've able to work with teachers and help collect data or provide resources and accommodations um if teachers need things like that. Um, I've been able to collaborate with guidance counselor to work on things with a specific student. Um, Aea, I've been able to collect data and help with like identifying goals for IEPs. Um, I've interacted with students just from a simple hello in the hallway all the way through like small group and working on skills together. Um, my main goal was just to build those positive relationships with as many students as I could in a
009day. Um, and then when working with students, the things that I worked on were those regulating emotions, making safe choices, controlling our bodies, um, not blurting out every thought you have in class. Um, some following some of those classroom expectations. Um, recess rules and just being safe. Um, I've taken students out on scheduled breaks, earned breaks, or just needed breaks. Um, some students I we just chatted about how they feel about school. um holding focus and moving along and not, you know, doawling everywhere we go. And then um I've been able to meet with some students on attendance and get them excited about making sure they're coming to school and they're coming on time and we want them there. And so those are some of the things that I've been doing when I'm available and
010bouncing back and forth and just meeting with lots of kids at different times. So some feedback from staff if you can I have mine here so blow it up a little bit. um getting old. Uh the student support lead, this is just some comments that I received from staff members that uh Devon was able to work with with some students in their room was student support lead has played a vital role in supporting students across multiple areas including achievement, social emotional well-being and overcoming barriers to success. This position has ensured that my students needs were effectively addressed while allowing me to maintain the focus of instruction in my classroom. Additionally, the opportunity to collaborate with the student support leaders provide a valuable insight and alternative perspectives enabling me to better meet the diversity needs of
011all my students was from a teacher. Another one was the student support lead was such a nice addition to our staff this year. They allowed me to be able to focus more on my lessons and teaching for the whole class when a student was having a tough time. It allowed it also allowed for the student to get some one-on-one help more in the moment. Uh this was from another teacher associate. Uh the student support lead helped me so much this year. I had a child with some behavior needs. They supported me and would also give me different ideas to try when one idea wasn't working. They would also make sure they stopped in and checked on how my student was doing when they had time. So that was just kind of comments from some of
012the my staff there. Um we also have some data from Musha Wallace. Um we had Mrs. Kramer um all year and we kept her very busy. So what we did was each time um as best as we could each time that the student interacted with this Kramer or sometimes it was myself or another teacher or something too, we tracked a lot of that data just to [Music] see the century most frequently. And then we worked with the fashion teacher to help determine like skilled focus areas. So maybe it was like regulating emotions, maybe it was a long time and then we put um some plans in place to help improve those and then we also worked with the guidance counselor to make sure that those students also met with her. So we tried to do
013like all hands on board and it wasn't just Mrs. Kramer's um work though she did a lot of the heavy lifting to make sure that those kids were successful then. So then based on that, our successes, out of the 15 students that I worked with this year for the first semester, two of the 15 had behavior goals from their IDEPs. Two moved to a different school, um, plans were shared with that school district. Um, one went to a special education email and you they used the plan data that I had and then 10 showed improvement and the plan was today. I have no students on plans. We just have daily check-ins and legit they I mean every hour I'm finding somebody and they're telling me about their day. So, I'm just kind of keeping that
014positive. And with third and fourth graders, they've had to learn you have to build their trust. So, I really work with building their trust, building that relationship with them. Um, and now when I see them help just like in the hall, they come give you a hug. Hi, Miss Kmer. I hope you're coming to the band concert, you know, things like that. So, yeah. So, we felt I feel really proud of the work that Mrs. Kramer has done because we do have some students who struggle with some things, but I feel like the plans that we put in place helped them learn the things and and it was also like working with the teachers to know what and how like what would be best and trying different things. Like it wasn't like we made one
015plan and then it was magic and the next week it worked. like it took time. Does she still have things that she's doing all the time with kids? Yes. But the specific plans that we put in place, we were able to move forward from. And the next page shows um we had just with the data that she put in the system that there were over a thousand interactions that were reported. That doesn't include um her check-ins when she goes to almost every classroom every single day just to check in. um 790 of them were five minute reset times. So that reset time maybe when they come in and they're feeling whatever emotion and they help and we help them Mrs. Kramer helps them like regulate again and make it so they can go back in
016the classroom and be ready to learn. So a lot of them were short times I think is a good thing. There were some that they spent a longer time like Mrs. But most of them were short and it was basically 50 students that needed to reset for various reasons throughout the year just in the data we collected and it could just be calm down. Some of them we scheduled we knew that in between specials was like a hard time. So it's like okay you can come to the office for 5 minutes and like get yourself prepared to go to your next special things like that. So, anything else? Um, and then I won't read you the feedback, but I will say that the feedback that I received from the teachers was all very positive um
017about Mrs. Kramer. And on the same form that I asked them to complete for feedback from teachers, I also asked for like ideas or suggestions for next year because obviously um we've learned a lot this year and we want to keep improving and making it better every single time. Um, and some of it was is that Mrs. describe her did a lot and we might need to like figure out what's realistic for her to do because she can't do it all all the time. So maybe one thing that we'll work um a little bit better to do is to determine what should we let teachers do more figuring out, let me do more, let her do. So just kind of some of those lines may have been a little blurry. So just clarifying some of
018those things. So if you rewind a year when we talked about adding these positions in the elementary, you know, we we knew we we were seeing more behaviors than we'd ever be seen, you know, at those ages before and they're more severe than ever before. And this was one of our responses to our our realities in the elementary and uh putting it in place as years went on uh our data has improved you know uh to that the kids that we're working with were not seeing those and we're allowing for teachers to teach and students to learn which is what the objectives of the program uh were. So really successful year um really excited for Devon to move on to the classroom. Um and we've hired a different um student support lead at the Asher
019and um we'll we'll get to our program running at full speed at all three buildings next year which will be over all those steps. Is there a plan these fourth graders for transition to fifth grade? Yep. So, another thing that we do, it's not part of the the lead position. Um, it we do something called relationship recipes and it's from somebody named Jessica Minutean who's like a education person, talks about behaviors and stuff like that. And so, we have learned so like after you have kids for a whole year, you kind of figure out like, oh, Jay's really into football and wrestling. So, when he comes in, if I can start talking to him about that stuff and build that relationship with him, he really likes to help. So then I know that and I
020can have him be the one that can help pass out papers or we run this to the office for me. So we have teachers pick a few kids. So like fourth grade teachers going to fifth grade, the kids that are in their room this year, they write relationship recipes and it's just basically a positive note for their future teachers to know how the teacher this year helped them be successful. So we do that as we pass the kids on from each grade because sometimes it's like, "Oh, watch out for Todd. you know, he's going to give you a run for your money. So, we don't want to send that negative message. We want to send the positive message like that this is what works well and so we can help start from day one and
021instead of me figuring out it takes me four weeks to figure out like what you're interested in. So we passed that along with the next one. And then like even when kids moved, we made sure their other school, they may not have been able to do exactly what we did with the things that we had in place for those kiddos, but at least they knew we had something in place and they could at least try to do that. Another connection we have, Todd, from uh the work they're doing to the middle school is it it's all based in restorative practices. Rudy Reeks, our restorative lead. He works with these guys uh throughout the year on um you know just best practices uh and to work with kids. He's at the middle school so we have
022that connection. Uh so philosophically the work that they're doing with kids and that Mr. Week does with kids at the middle school is the same thing just different people. [Music] Glad to hear about all the successes and glad it's worked so well. Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you. All right. Superintendent Board, sorry. Yeah. Um, first of all, um, school board appreciation month and we're very appreciative of all of you and everything that you do for us. Um, you should have a certificate um, from us in the Iowa Association School Board and provided the pizza and the cookies tonight um, in recognition of school board appreciation month. Our last day of school will be May 21st. Um on that day, we'll have a celebration at 2 p.m. in the high school commons and that's when
023we'll celebrate and honor Marie Berkkey, Sarah Curtis, Zohider, Cindy Schmidt, Julie Stein, and Tanuk Ye who will all be retiring from Alona Community Schools. um over 125 years of service with those people and that's just an opportunity for us to uh say thank you and express our appreciation for for that staff and all that they've done. Recognize our winners which are people who have 25 years of service and education and the class of 1979 teacher of the year has announced at that. So, uh, you are welcome and invited to attend if you're able on May 21st at at 2:00 p.m. We will continue to have our new teacher day. It's something we started 3 years ago on June 9th when we bring all new uh, teaching staff to the district in um, one time before
024we get going in August. And this is an opportunity for us really just to get started so that when they get here in August, um they have their computer, they have their keys, uh they know how to log into everything we need them to uh to use. Um they meet with their mentors if they have that. They meet with Mrs. Aishin and on some instructional uh pieces and they meet with Mr. Mr. Week in our restorative practices. So, it's just kind of a kickstart uh so that when they come in August, we're off we're off and running from from day one and we end that day with lunch at the feed mill. And again, you're also welcome to attend that uh lunch if if um interested. We usually start to talk about board retreat. Um
025we've unsuccessfully kicked around June dates the past few years, so we're going to skip right to August. uh this year. Um and one date we're going to throw out right now is August 6th, Wednesday, August 6th. I believe that's the week after the fair. Uh we looked that up uh um last week when we were looking at it. So, we're going to throw that data out there first to see if Wednesday, August 6th, is an option. Um some tossible topics and always looking for more of those. The cell phone policy, um Governor Reynolds cell phone bill passed. really our policy matches it. So, we don't have to make a change, but I think it's um worthy of an open discussion with you guys on our cell phone policy, our current cell phone policy and the
026reality of what our principles see in the buildings. Um that policy we have we have a policy I don't know how to enforced. Yeah, I think that's why um having the principles that conversation I think is valuable. Um and not to pick on my kids, but I would love to see a period of time where cell phone is completely out of their hands. Like and I mean as a parent I should do a better job at home, but like it's Yeah. Yeah. I think it's a good discussion to it's a barrier to learning. Yeah. I only hear from Mike at lunch. Yeah. Dramatically lower. Yeah. Um, you know, they we put the reinvented policy in place a few years ago, which is no cell phones in instructional places. No, no, not in the classroom. Um,
027you know, I think it's effective when enforced. Um, I think there's there's probably a little I'm not in the school, so see talking about kids. I think it's teacher and room dependent. Yeah, I think in some places we have that for sure. Um, but anyway, that's beside the point. It's something to talk about in the future. Sorry. Yeah. And I think philosophical it's good to discuss do do we want to go further um further than in class time in in classrooms because uh um that's that's something that could be done and because we had discussed the locked pouches before or something like that but that doesn't fix the Apple watches and that no there's other other devices. Yeah was going to find a way around but kudo to them I mean at least it's creativity
028if they find ways around kudos. So, good discussion. I think at uh at a retreat this summer. Um facility updates. We'll have the fieldhouse uh updates for sure. Hopefully, we're our update at that point is us moving in. Um but also time for us to continue uh talks of uh a new prek5 elementary down the road and uh the reality and our timeline to make that happen. Um property tax reform, I think, is a really valuable conversation to have with our our board. Um that was a legislative priority this past year. Um there there hasn't been any property tax reform passed this session. Um I don't know. It really sounds like there probably won't be, but it's going to happen. So talking about that and uh the impact it has um on our district, I
029think is a valuable discussion as well. Uh Wednesdays would work well for me and August would be a better time than June and July. So I think that I think that works. That day would work. What time of the day are you thinking? Usually we go in the evening. Yeah, we've done 5 to 7. Yeah, something like that. 4 to Yeah. Well, if you have if you know August 6, just know um let me know. Send Lisa or I a message and we'll cross that off and start looking for the next date. If we think it's a a pretty good date to keep in place, uh maybe we'll we'll lock that in and work towards that date. So sooner, you know, or if you know, let us know. Be better to lock it in or
030just lock it in and people are going to miss regardless. Okay. Or we're going to have I would You're not going to find one date where everybody says they'll be here. So So just pick it and we'll make it work. Okay. Yeah. I think that Wednesday it's before churches are going to probably start fall activities on Wednesday nights. And so I think it's where the the calendar falls. Um Cass County Fair is really kind of a week earlier and this is before some of those other things start. So I do think we have an opportunity that week to maybe have a date fair to 6:30 to get it done with. Okay. Does that work for Andrea? Because we use We'll have to talk with her. Yeah, we'll have to talk with her. All right. Very
031good. All right. Any other questions for Joe? Okay, hearing none, we'll go to old business and we just got one item and that's approving second readings. Yep. Um, second readings. Um, we went through these uh last month. There's one of these. It's the board policy 9052. Uh, the nicotine tobaccofree environment. there was some revisions and lang just specific language revisions to update from uh the ISB recommendation doesn't change the policy or the uh how that's enacted but I would recommend that one change to board policy 9052 nicotine tobaccof free environment so moved thanks Jay do we have a second I'll second thanks we have a motion and a second any further discussion hearing none all in favor say I opposed uh Second reading's approved. Uh we'll move into new business and uh we'll start with
032some change orders for the fieldhouse. Um I I listed a number of things. I'm going to go through all of those, but again la like last month um kind of just wanted to be transparent in the process. So uh the first change order listed PR35. It's some plan height discrepancies. The drawings contained an air. Um there is a change order that has to take place but AUR will cover that cost because it was a mistake in the drawings. Uh PR 391 U paint the view deck wall. So we have our view deck that's uh 36 in above the um fieldhouse surface. The the pores of that wall there's there's two different pores. So there's it's it's not uniform that wall. You know it looks bad. something has to be done to make the which stretches
033the whole length of the fieldhouse, make that uniform. Um, so the change order is to put kind of a textured finish on it. Um, they say it's durable, it can be kicked, it can be uh, anything can be done with it. That change order is $10,927. PR392 on the view deck. Um the first probably 8 to 10 ft of the wall are cement, our poured cement walls and then it's sheetrocked from there up. Um in design it was intended for that to be exposed concrete. Um but that does not look well enough how it looks to just have that to be exposed. Painting will resolve that. Um but that $7,848 is to paint that cement wall below the sheetrock. PR40 eyebrow fascia material changed. Um out in front there's some um architect architect design. It's
034dry design provided material. Um it has red elements on the front walls. Um it was discovered that when the material is bent, which is how they they install it, the bending takes the paint off and needs to be repainted. Um this is typical for dry design systems but um in reviewing it we're not satisfied with the solution. It doesn't give us a long-term durability. Um the architects have requested a different material be used. Um Atura will cover that cost as again that's a design issue. PR42 um security door roughins. Um this is just an emission that wasn't on the original drawings. uh we have to have the the security security doors. Um so this is necessary for our security system. So we do recommend that $5,36. PR43 the fire alarm revisions. The electrician requested a
035change to the fire alarm system to have devices located on columns instead of between the columns. Um this was approved but after that we received a change order for the cost. Uh we have rejected that change request and directed the electrician to install the firearm as originally designed with no price change. PR44 there's a concrete uh it was discussed to add a possible concrete apron along the line jump long jump for $7,654. We don't have it on new. We had it on on our old one at that cost. We will look at that at a different time. So that's not something we're going to do now. uh PR48 security camera roughins. This is a legitimate change order to add conduit uh to the camera locations. However, um in the process of with the electrical subcontractor,
036uh they've included in their change order a 15% markup for mileage. You know, they're already here, so we don't know why there would be mileage. So um we do need the security camera rough in change order but we are disputing the amount right now. Um but we think it will be below you know below $10,000. So overall the the changes of 391 392 42 and 48 are around $34,000. Um we're we're still paying out a save fund, still budgeted, you know, within where we where we could be. So we do recommend those those change orders. Right now um in our ongoing planning meetings, we we just say we are we are closed to any change order unless it involves security um or um you know something for design that has to happen for the structure.
037That's that's really what these are approving right now is that stuff that has to be done. Motion to approve the change orders. Thanks, Jade. Do we have a second? Second the motion. Thanks, D. We have a motion to second. Any discussion? Ask them to encourage them to keep it speedy and get it done. Yep. Um Todd asked a question earlier. Are we on schedule? It's a good question. I get asked it a lot. We are not on schedule to finish at what was the original substantial completion. we are on schedule to finish um to allow us to be in it to start the school year. Um there's probably about a four to six week difference in those two things. So it is uh any setbacks at this point would be detrimental for sure. On a
038question on a couple of those the um you could go down the the concrete one. I mean isn't that something shouldn't have they done it better? finish. I mean I mean you know that that's the profession that you know hey this is going to be a finished wall. Let's do a knockout job so we don't have to spend another $11,000 to I I talked with them I was out there today on that and they said you know there's always a lot of fingerpointing but it was not spec to use finish forms um in doing that. So they didn't and sense. Okay. So, um, again, um, not designed in a way that allowed that to be finished. So, yes, there certainly is a way to do it. They acknowledge that, but it wasn't spec to be
039done that way. So, they Okay. So, they just they just did it. I think the same argument can probably be made with the the painting. It was intended to have exposed concrete and it does, but it's, you know, doesn't look good enough that you would leave and like that. Um, it needs to be painted. you know, then the other one is this is an omission on the electrical drawing. Well, who who did the electrical drawing? You know, why are we paying for somebody else's omission? You know, I guess is and I uh again, not to, you know, I'm not supporting it, but you know, we we hired um a design team, you know, that involved architects, uh civil and electrical. um you know they make mistakes were the ones who are have to pay for
040it to to be done and there were things that just weren't in original design that have to be part of the project and that that's what you go back three or four months that we've been doing this that's a lot of what we're talking about things that just were not in original design. Mhm. All right. Any more further questions? Hearing none. We have a motion and second. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Uh change orders approved. We'll move into uh the budget amendment approval. Yeah, we started today with the public hearing for the budget amendment. Um it's needed to allow for incre increased expenditures in the total support services. A lot of that's a fieldhouse project. you know it uh when we estimated a year ago the budget how much of those dollars would
041be expended in this year you know we really didn't know how much it would be so the that's where a lot of these expenses and these increases come from um so I do recommend the approval of the the budget amendment for this year again um this isn't you know no taxes are increased and no dollars um you know it's just allows us to spend more of those fieldhouse dollars in that fiscal year. And this was be done in timely for for like auditing purposes. Okay. I just wanted this question. And we've done uh budget amendments every year and and probably always will. Um you know, it's not an abnormal thing. We I think we always need to explain why we're doing them. Um and we have but it is a typical process. I think we
042need to move up the date. Yeah, we probably need to do it in March or or April in April rather than May. Yeah. Yeah. Motion for the budget amendment. Thanks, Jade. Do we have a second? I'll second that. Thanks, Lanny. Um, we have a motion to second. We've had discussion. Any further hearing? None. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Budget amendment approved. Approve a Pepsi contract. This is a five-year renewal of our Pepsi agreement. Uh, the agreement provides a $4.50 50 cent rebate per case p purchased by our district. Also provides $1,800 a year in support funds just just cash uh to our district and $600 a year in Gatorade sideline kits for our teams. Really strong agreement. We did receive other proposals um from other other companies um but just they just simply
043didn't match specifically in the rebates for case. So this is a good agreement um for us, good for our booster club, good for our the school, good for our kids. I think you just answered. Did you say booster club? Yes. So this is part of Okay, that was my good certainly. And the booster club is who works the most with this. Probably the cash comes to us. The Gatorade kids come to us. Um but uh yeah, most of this is through our our booster club, but you're going to school. Okay. Coke didn't fight harder. They we did get a proposal from them which we have not in years past. So, I think they did fight. I'm just um this is the best agreement for us. This is the booster club's recommendation. I'm in favor. We
044got a motion by Jay. Do we have a second? I'll second. Thanks, Todd. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Thank you for all their work they do, too. They're phenomenal. They are. You're right, Jim. Definitely. All right. additional volleyball positions. Earlier in the year, we approved a an additional middle school girls wrestling coach. Um when our girls wrestling team, just like boys wrestling team um go and compete, oftent times girls will be on multiple maps. So um we needed to have a second coach so that we always had uh people with our kids if possible. We have the same scenario in volleyball where our seventh grade girls are going to go play volleyball at Humble and they're going to play on two
045courts, but we send one coach with them. Same thing in eighth grade. Um, and we we really need to be better than that. We need to have a second coach um at both seventh and eighth grade um to coach our kids in those those competitions when we we go play. We play the same way at home. It's not a it's not a location specific thing. It's how the North Central Conference uh plays middle school volleyball. We need to add those two assistant middle school volleyball coaches to be there with our kids. Seems like a logical thing to have. Yeah. Make a motion to approve the two assistant positions. Thanks, Todd. Do we have a second? I'll second the motion. Thanks, Tom. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Quick question. They'll be
046able instead of all practicing there, they'll be able to use the fieldhouse. Yeah. You know, again, this year and again and a second coach helps with that, too. where before we just had a seventh and eighth grade coach. So drill-wise, you know, they probably kept them together, although it put maybe 70 kids in a gym. Now we can go eighth grade in one place, seventh grade in another place, two coaches with each group, and get a lot more done, I think. Okay. Good question. All right. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all in favor say I. I. Opposed. Positions approved. um approving some substitute rates. Last month we approved uh new substitute teacher rate of $150 a day. Um good change that puts us where we need to be in comparison to others. Um these are
047substitute rate for teacher associates at $1450 an hour. That is also our hiring rate and also for a substitute rate for uh secretaries in our office at 1530 an hour which would also be our hiring rate. So just to match those two those two hiring rates. Make a motion to approve the two rates. Second. I will second. All right. I'm sorry. We have a motion in a second then. Um any other discussion? All right. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Substitute rates approved. Uh looks like we have some uh Iowa Lakes Career Academy agreements to look at. There'll be uh there'll be four different ones. Um motions for all of these, right? Yeah, we have two separate. Yeah, four separate ones. Um I'll just start with the the career connect. So each year um
048we contact with Iowa Lakes Community College to provide college level courses for our students. Um that could be online um through ILC instructors. We pay 80% of tuition and course fees when we do that of 16 $1668 per credit hour. We also have courses taught onsite um by our instructors um that cost us $42, so only uh per credit hour, so only 17%. So this is an agreement of those two rates is what it is. Um which are set every year by Iowa Lakes. um great opportunity for our kids and this allows for them to expand uh their learning, get started on college courses which um hundreds hundreds of college level credits are taken by our kids every year. So I would recommend the approval of the career connect contract. Make a motion to approve
049the career connect contract for fiscal year 2026. Thanks Tom. Do we have a second? I'll second that. Thanks L. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? I tend to agree with you. It's been a great program. Yes. Um all in favor say I. I. Opposed. Uh motion approved. Uh nurses aid I likes community college nurse aid supplemental agreement. Um also we provide um nursing classes for our students. Um the total cost $19,000. We reduced some hours to keep that cost um in line to what we've had previous years. Uh but again, great opportunity for our kids who can um get some advanced degrees while they're in in high school with us. So then the credits they receive would be in addition to this, correct? That because they receive they receive legs credits
050for the nurs that would be that's not covered by the 19,000. That'd be an addition. It is that would be based on the previous Yep. This 19,000 is to pay the instructor to provide the credits when you pay the the credit hours that we just uh prepared. Yep. Exactly right. This program is well utilized. It is it it's different every semester. um you know there there might be just a few there you know might get up to uh five or six but um and we are we're built by an hourly so it could be less than this like if you didn't we didn't have anyone in um the course there wouldn't be any hours you know for the semester so um this this would be a max number I can speak firsthand our our daughter
051Ellie took advantage of this her sophomore year I think and then uh she did CNA1 one and then see an A2 in the spring semester and it really benefited her. She was able to, you know, work in the nursing home and stuff and then she even had an inhome care gig at Iowa State when she was down there because of this. So, it was we have a lot of kids who get certification and it allows them to have really good jobs as young people to either while they're in college or in high school or even beyond. So, great opportunity. Great. Make a motion to approve the contract with nurses aid. Thank we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Nurses aid contract approved. Uh
052automotive tech contract for uh automotive tech looks different. I'll explain that, but it is it is the same contract. Um we have the uh Iowa Lakes Community College automotive um technology in our building. Um, you know, that's a full-fledged college program. You know, we went through a college audit this last year that took place here. Uh, so really a cool thing that we have this in our program. In the past, we have always paid half of the contract um to Iowa Lakes and then we paid the instructor the other half. Um, I really don't know why. Well, I do know why. Originally, we only had a half-day program, but even when we went to whole day, we kept it split that way. Um, so talking of fabric, there there's no reason for it to be
053that way. Uh, so we're just moving the whole contract to them. Um, which is similar to the the broadcasting one that we'll have uh have next. Um, so the total cost is uh 105,870 uh for the automotive tech contract uh for next year. And the instructor's aware of instructor's aware. I've talked through it. You know, really the biggest thing is um insurance isn't provided by Alona Schools is provided by Alex Community College. Okay. All right. A motion to make a motion for approval. So moved. Thanks, Lanny. Do we have a second? Second the motion. Thanks, Tom. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Automatic automotive technology program approved. Uh broadcasting Iowa Lakes Community College broadcasting technology contract uh for the 200 2025
0542022 school year has a total cost of 140,000. Um this this is the 38th year of the program. We had 41 students enrolled in classes this year. Um 29 of those took multiple classes. Um nearly 800 local programs um are currently posted on the AHS broadcasting YouTube. Um 2,000 hours of local programming. Just giving you some of the information of what this uh this program does for us. We are in year two of a new cont at the high school. The new schedule allows for a lot more kids to be involved with the program and I know Brian uh is here tonight if you have any questions for him. So 41 students enrolled in those classes is is uh awesome um and great opportunity. 29 of them taking multiple. We we were not able to
055get that many kids through the program um in the previous schedule. Uh so that's been a really good thing for us and I recommend uh the broadcasting technology contract for next year. All right. And any questions in both these automotive and broadcasting? Who owns the equipment? Is that the schools or is that Ivy Leagues? Um, they own the equipment. Um, they also pay for some of the equipment. Um, we we pay for some as well. Um, Brian, you can probably speak to the technology stuff which we have a lot of in there. Most of that comes from Iowa Lakes. Am I correct in saying that? Actually, it's a program between the city of Alona, Iowa Lakes, and the Alona Community School District. The city of Alona pays for most of the equipment. So there's not
056any equipment cost at all to the school district. That's all provided by the city, but it's all housed here. Yeah. And as far as ownership, I don't know how that would work, but go ahead. Um there's some things in automotive like a few years ago, we approved a new lift. That's ours, but we felt we needed it um uh for the program. you know, uh, when I meet with Carrie Hampy from I Lakes Community College, we're always talking about budgets and, you know, what we may need or or what they can provide and, uh, broadcasting is is taken care of for the most part. There's there's nothing that we really need there. We have spent some money in automotive. I think there's probably some more to be spent there by either us or Iowa Lakes
057as far as equipment, and that's something we got to keep working with with Tim. Make the motion to approve the broadcasting department. Thanks, J. Do we have a second? I'll second that. Thanks, Lane. We have a motion in a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Uh broadcasting approved. Uh we'll move into open enrollments. Yep. We have um I think it's nine nine open enroll uh and they have all met uh requirements for approval from us. Um and I I say it that way because in some ca most of these are in to the district. So the resident district would have to approve it but um they had met the approval um um requirements u for the receiving district. You'll see some of those as dual enroll. So, what
058that means is uh that's a a student who's currently homeschooled and they're open enrolling to dual enroll with us. Um so maybe they're going to be involved in at some activities or take some specific courses with us. So that that's not something we see a lot is an open enroll dual enrolled student, but there's a few of those on there. Make a motion to approve the open enrollment request. Second those Todd and Jay. Thank you. Any further discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Open enrollments approved. Uh got some first reading of board policies. First reading uh some 100 series um over legal status of the school district. Also the educational philosophy of the district, athletic department philosophy, um assistant animals. We get into the 200 series for the legal status of
059the board, organization of the board, powers of the board, responsibility of the board, and then last one is 604 private instruction. Um all of these right now there there are no changes. They all meet uh ISB recommendation. Um but there is no action tonight. Um just for us to review uh before action next month. Okay. Please review those and we'll look them over next month. uh adopt resolution to flex to approve flexible benefit plans. We've had flexible spending uh plans, cafeteria plans in the district for a number of years. Um this is a compliance uh motion today um that when Lisa was working with uh our compliance people that we could just not find the resolution needed for that. Uh so this is a resolution um that we can have a cafeteria plan and a
060health flexible spending account and dependent care flexible spending account effective January 1, 2025. So that's uh that's that's back a few months. So we need this resolution to be compliant um with with our our people. All right. I guess we better get it done then. So is that a roll call since it's a resolution? We got a motion first. I do a motion to approve the Vista accounting system software agreement. One above that. One above it. Tom, we're at the resolution to approve flexible. Sorry. Resolution to approve the flexible benefits plan. Thanks, Tom. Do we have a second? I'll second that. Thanks, Jay. We have a motion in a second. Any further discussion before the roll call? All right. Go ahead, Lisa. Uh, Tom, yes. Jay Limbbo, yes. Ronnie Davis, yes. Waji, yes. Lady Mitchell.
061Yes. All right. Motion approved or resolution approved. Yep. All right. We'll move into the Vista accounting software. The Vista software. That's the software um and support program that we use for our financial for our payroll personnel programs. Um and we approved this annually. Total total cost of the program is um $19,300. and we'd pay this quarterly. This is an increase of $780 and it's a per pupil expense, I believe. So, yeah. So, not that high of a software cost. No. And great program for us um that does a lot. Um there may be some things we in the future look to add to it that we do with some other programs. Take away somewhere else. Take away a different one we have. So, um yeah, good program for us. Small increase because of increased enrollment.
062I'll make the motion to approve the Vista software. Thanks Jay. Do we have a second? I'll second. Thanks Todd. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Software program agreement approved. Uh we'll look at approving resignations. Uh three resignations. Tyler Craft from Assistant Varsity Wrestling. Corey Keer from assistant varsity wrestling. And Bob Arnold from middle school wrestling. None of those are per pending uh uh Cory's would be pending suitable replacement. Okay. Although Cory and Tyler shared a contract. Um All right. But yes, Cory's would be pending suitable replacement. All right. We need a motion to approve resignations. I make a motion to approve the resignations. Thanks, Joy. Do I have a second? I'll second. Thanks, Todd. Do we have a motion and second? All
063in favor say I. I opposed. Resignations approved. And now we're looking at contracts. We have two contracts as Seth Schlinger as the high school teacher associate and also full-time bus driver and Terresa Walter, middle school yearbook and middle school student senate supplemental contracts. How does the TA and bus driver position work? Yeah, we got some others who do that. They they drive their routes in the morning and then um start their assignment. um they they probably leave their assignment closer to three rather than 3:30 to go get their bus. So, we just schedule that um to make to make that that work. Need a motion to approve uh contracts. Make a motion to approve the two contracts. Yes, it is. I'll second those. Thanks, Jay. We have a motion in a second. All in favor
064say I. I. Opposed. Contracts approved. Well, we've come to that adjournment, but before we get there, I just want to thanks again, Flynn, for being here. I want to thank the elementary uh staff for the pizza and delicious I think like fruit cake on a cookie. So, that was really good. Uh they're encouraging to finish it up, anybody? And then also, uh graduation this weekend, 2:00, right? Yes. 2 o'clock. And I know Jay and I plan to be there. Um and then obviously any of the board members are invited to walk in with staff. So, if you would please and if you are going to do that, um, let me know because Jared will make sure we have you and, you know, have a have a spot for you in the Yeah, not chairs. If
065you are planning to walk in with staff, um, let me know. Yeah. All righty. With all that said, we need a motion for adjournment. So, moved. Thanks, Todd. We'll second. Jay, we have a motion and a second. We are ajourned.