Cedar Falls Board of Education Meeting, April 13, 2026

001to tonight's school board meetings. Today is Monday, April 13, 2026. As a reminder, the board leads and supports the district mission, which is educating each and every student to be a lifelong learner and a caring, responsible citizen. Our board goals are listed both on the agenda and available on the website. Tonight, we have two meeting agendas. Um the first is going to be related to our Iowa code procedures on the uh public hearing for property tax notice. Um just some logistics, right? We we'll go through that meeting. After we adjourn, we will move right into the regular meeting. Um, I'll make a note of this as well that during the second meeting, due to the length of the agenda, we anticipate that channel 15 will do a cutaway to broadcast the all city vocal concert.

002And additionally, two of our board of directors uh will probably depart as well to attend their students performances. Okay. So, we're going to move into our special agenda. Um, and uh, I call this meeting to order. And I have in my possession an affidavit of publication showing that the notice of time and place of a hearing for the proposed property tax notice for fiscal year 2026 27. Uh, this notice was published in the Waterl Cedar Falls Courier on March 31st, 2026. The board will now hold a hearing. Um, does anyone have comments to offer? >> I do have >> and we have a presentation first. >> That's okay. Uh, if we can go ahead and pull up the presentation. This really just is a review of what was presented at our last meeting in March,

003which seems a while ago, but wanted just to provide a quick overview. This really just is um a new process for our community. Uh, it's a second year now that we are now required to hold a a second public hearing. This is one of two. Our second one will be held on April 27th um anticipated. But this property tax uh this notice also uh provides to our community an actual property tax notice statement um which provides some information to our community. Um this property tax notice statement provides not only the district but the county and the city uh current property tax rate as well as the proposed tax rate. A couple things to note though in regards to this property tax notice statement. It is hypothetical and what I mean by that is is not

004tailored to the individual property owner. So the the statement in which you receive does not reflect the actual property tax associated to your particular home or property. It also generalized and what I mean by that there's a mandatory 10% valuation growth on that property tax notice. So though your home may have grown um it may not have grown that 10% mandatory requirement based on uh the legislation act. So what that looks like that property tax notice provides some information. It provides the current year uh property tax dollars levied and for fiscal 26 that was approximately about $35.9 million. If all things uh stayed the same, meaning there was no legislative changes, there was no SSA changes, uh there was um no valuation changes, those same dollars would be generated for fiscal 27. But based on

005those changes and those assumptions that are being made, those proposed property tax for fiscal 27 is approximately a little over $36 million. A slight increase from the prior year of about $81,000. What does that look like in the tax rate? Uh currently that tax rate is set at $1453 for fiscal 20 uh 26. We are proposing for fiscal 27 a tax rate of $14.11. So approximately 42 cents decrease um for uh the district's tax rate for fiscal 27. What does that look like in comparison? um on your property tax statement, you might have seen a comparison dollars associated to those those um mandatory 10% valuation changes. So on a home assess at $100,000 for fiscal 26 based on that roll back that's determined by um the Iowa Department of Revenue with those taxable values within

006that tax rate of $14.52, you'll see that tax is due for a home assessed at $100,000 of about $689. with the changes of that mandatory 10% uh valuation increase with the decrease in the roll back as well as then the decrease in a tax rate it is reflecting a an increase of about $2 $691 or about a third of a percent increase but in reality when we take a look at an actual property um within the Cedar Falls district based on the assessed valuation of fiscal 26 within the increase uh valuation in fiscal 27 what their increase was for their property. With those same roll backs associated for fiscal 26 and 27 uh associated to those tax rates then of 1452 and 1411, you'll actually see a decrease anticipated for um for fiscal 27 of

007approximately $74 for this particular property owner. So a decrease of about four 4% a little over 4%. So that property tax statement is really just information um provided to you to provide um what that currently is, what the proposed is, but also then has assumptions in it. So it's not individualized to your particular property. We'll get into that um as we have a longer budget presentation here really shortly in the next meeting, but this just is that first step um in regards to the certified budget. >> And I believe now And now I can ask um are there any comments for this evening? We do have one individual if you can please um state your name. >> Okay. Um Kim Jordan, Cedar Falls. Um, so as I was looking at this, um, we do have

008that property value, um, being at 1453. Um, this morning we're listening to the the news and Cedar Rapids is proposing going to 13.12. So their home values are a little bit higher than ours and yet they have a decrease. and um the budgetary things that we're making aware of of what we're looking forward to be doing um I think kind of play into this and just wondering if some of this is also looked at with proposed additional things that are going to be happening in the future. Um, and if so, like what things might might be deterring or affecting what you're proposing to um add to the tax base of Cedar Falls for the coming years. um just so we can kind of have a little bit of an um I I guess a feeling

009of where we're currently at a decrease in 27, but what is creating that decrease and then how quickly that might then come up in 28 or 29. What are some of the needs um based on enrollment? Um seems like that's down a little bit compared to projections. So, um, if you could just kind of explain some of that as well, that would be great. >> Thank you, Kim. >> Is there anyone else that wanted to make a comment? >> Okay. >> Yeah, I can respond a little bit just for public awareness. um from I guess the standpoint of what's coming down the road. Um when you and I know Dell will go through comparisons of of districts and like districts and uh we um compare very favorably as far as our overall tax levy rate

010compared to other districts. Uh there's different components that are built into that tax levby rate which for us uh we're a little unique because not a lot of districts have a general obligation bond or in our case two general obligation bonds that have passed uh uh with over 60% by our community. So both of those are in our uh overall tax levy rate. Um, you will also, if you've looked historically, which Danell will go back and look, I believe with the 5-year look back, our levy rate has consistently gone down over the last 5 years. And we said that during the general obligation bond process that as those get paid off as we continue to increase more and more homes, more and more businesses across our community, that is a fixed rate. So, or a

011fixed dollar amount that goes to pay those off. So, as we continue to grow as a community, those dollars are spread out more evenly across the district. So, that levy rate goes down overall. Um, I think the one of the other questions was um do we have plans in the future for anything that could increase the levy rate? We never know year to year with what SSA could provide or what some of those outside um decisions are going to be made, especially when it comes to property insurance. Uh uh casualty insurance that seems to be a little bit more um year-to-year fluctuations, sometimes increases that are what we would say maybe significant. Um, but those are things that are based on not only just across Iowa, but across the Midwest when it comes to property

012damages that are caused by uh significant weather events. Um, do are we looking at a general obligation bond anytime in the next few years? No. Um, that would be one of the biggest influencers in an increase in a levy rate. Uh, there are some districts that are looking at that, but uh, not locally. So when you say is there anything significant that is in the horizon I can't think of anything >> and why don't you just could you just touch on um the comparison for Cedar Rapids I think you said this but um we don't know what is all encased in that 13.53 right we need to see the list to say it's apples to apples right >> yeah one of the things that I know that they have worked on we've again very close

013with districts across the state, especially those that are like sizes, that they've been working to to pass a geo bond for um going on now close to a decade and have not been successful in that. Uh so I would say that's probably the most significant difference between their district and our district. as you look at districts that are are tend to to be growing um especially when you look at like a Walke or an Ankeny or Pleasant Valley a lot of those districts have a go general obligation bond that's included within their overall tax rate um which would be comparable similar to Cedar Falls. >> Okay. And from the board, any additional comments or questions? >> One comment that I would make is that one of the reasons our overall tax rate would be going

014down is because Cedar Falls is an attractive community and I'd like to assume that having good facilities would be one of the reasons why people are attracted to Cedar Falls. >> Thank you. Okay, I am now going to um call for this meeting to be adjourned. I would need a motion, please. >> So moved >> and a second. >> Second. >> Okay. All those in favor would say I. >> I. >> Opposed would be the same. >> This special session of this meeting is adjourned. Okay. Um I'm going to call to order our our regular meeting for this evening with again these just a couple of these highlights that um this is our regular meeting um and um during the second meeting because of the anticipated length of the agenda. Channel 15 will be doing

015a cutaway uh to the all city vocal concert um which starts at seven for those that might want to run over there and um and we will probably have two of our directors depart early so they're can watch their students perform. Um so we are moving into um item B which is the public hearing. Um, I have in my possession an affidavit of a publication showing the notice and time and place of a hearing for phase two of the new Shields Tiger Performance Center. This notice was published in the Waterl Cedar First Courier on April 2nd, 2026. The board will now hold a hearing. Does anyone need to um make a comment on this from our public? Um, this again, Kim Jordan, >> there was a $50,000 grant that was um gifted from the Sartorii

016Cedar Falls Health Trust Fund for this performance arts. I did not see that go through council approval yet. Have you are you um planning to add that to this phase or has that been awarded? >> Thank you for the question. >> Would you like to answer that? >> Yes. Um so I think uh that has been discussed. I don't think it's been approved uh by the council yet. Um, I think overall this is roughly about a eight or a $9 million project. um uh of which phase one was all gift dollars through our foundation that were naming rights or just uh gifts through our unbelievable Shields Tiger per performance u committee that was in essence uh working the last two to three years really focused on how do we make this uh concept which came

017out of design development probably 5 years ago uh when they asked you know hopes, wants and wishes outside of a general obligation bond and this was a hopes, want and wish and uh our parents, our community, our students, our staff said, "Wow, that would be kind of neat." Uh so we formed a committee that was focused on fundraising. Second, then um we applied for a federal grant. Uh thank you to our business department and their wonderful work. And that's what's paying for phase number two. So uh the $50,000 is a part of that. Um, but it's not uh a real significant part of that that um we will wait to see where the bids come at with phase number two to see um if the 50,000 is not received, what may not be uh done

018within phase two, but the 50,000 overall is not a significant impact over uh the entirety of the phase one and phase two. >> So, I think that probably answers it is it was recommended, but the city council has not yet approved it. Okay, I think we can move into our consent agenda. This evening's consent agenda um contains approval of the agenda, the approval of the last minutes accounts payable, open enrollment report, human resource report, student accident insurance for 2627, and then a couple of agreements. Uh our River Hills lease, um Agape uh junior high and high school training services, and the Wartberg College field experience and student teaching. I will take a motion for on the consent agenda. So moved. >> Thank you, Bet. And a second. >> Second. >> Okay. A second. Um hearing

019that. Um any comments or conversations? >> Our agreement with Warberg on student teaching. I take it that's not exclusive to Warberg that we do take some for instance you and I students as student teachers. >> Yeah. So, uh, our agreement with you and I, we first and prioritize you and I students. Uh, and then second, we go to, um, some of the partner colleges or universities that are local or the colleges and universities that do not have that you and I does not have a teaching major in. So, and that's where we we work with Warberg in a couple different areas. So, um, it is a three-year agreement. We've had it in place for now, I think, three-year cycles. So, this would be the fourth cycle. and and it's been a really good partnership. >>

020Great. Thanks. Okay. All those in favor of the consent agenda, please um say I. >> I. >> Um oppose would be the same. Hearing none, that motion uh moves. Okay. Uh we are moving into public comment and this follows our Cedar Falls school policy 204.4.1R. Uh the board recognizes the importance of citizens participation in school district matters. In order to assure citizens are heard and board meetings are conducted efficiently and in an organized manner, the board sets aside time for citizen comments. Um this is a threeinut um timing with uh topics germaine to the district business. Um and for our community to know, um individuals should contact the myself or the superintendent by 4 pm on the day of the board meeting. Um this evening we have two individuals to speak. Um the first is

021Jeff Brick. >> Good evening. >> Let's see. My name is Jeff Brick. Uh my wife Jean McDonald and I are longtime Cedar Falls residents and lifelong educators who have served this community for more than three decades. Our children were educated here. We're active in our church and support organizations committed to ensuring equal opportunity and protecting our neighbors across the Cedar Valley. In everything we do, we see education as both the heart and backbone of our work. It will soon be one year since Cedar Falls schools joined other districts across Iowa in updating policy language to reflect the state law enacted in Jul July 2025, which removed gender identity as a protected class. Early last week, we learned that the president took the highly unusual step of terminating multiple civil rights settlements that had been established

022to ensure transgender students access to equal educational opportunities. Given our understanding that at least seven school districts in Iowa have chosen to officially and transparently support this student population, we respectfully ask that you address the following questions, whether through a designated committee or as a full board. Have you considered reaffirming or restoring language that supports LGBTQ plus students? If so, is there a date by which you intend to revisit the current Cedar Falls policy? In what body is this policy decision re-examined? When are discussions on this topic made available in the public view? Have schools who have retained their LGBTQ plus policies experienced consequences? Have these outcomes been documented in a way that might speak to our concerns? And finally, have you had conversations with other schools implementing policies that challenge state level restrictions? If

023decisions are made out of fear, we find it difficult to support choices that prioritize the comfort of the majority over the needs of those who are most vulnerable. Teaching students to uphold the equitable treatment of minority populations is a lesson that should remain central to education and must not be neglected. If other schools are willing to act with clarity and courage in maintaining policies that support these students, we must ask why can't we do the same? >> Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. Thanks, Jeeoff. Okay. Um, we have a additional speaker and that would be um, Terry Wellman. >> Thank you for allowing me to speak. Uh, my name is Terry Wellman. I've been a resident in Cedar Falls for almost two and a half years now and have had the misfortune to

024see both the federal and Iowa state governments lean heavily on marginalized people. I'm here to speak up for the rights of our transgender children. Understand, no one in my family is transgender, but there are transgender children among my friends and acquaintances. I'm here to speak for them since they and their families are so few voices among us. I have the privilege of not risking my employment, my community, a church family or extended family and friends by advocating on their behalf and amplifying their voices. I know there are many people in this community that share my convictions but are unwilling or unable to speak up for their own reasons. That's why it's critical for people like me to continue to remind our civic and government institutions that transgendered children are here and need our protection. I

025am so angry at these bills removing gender identity from civil rights at both the federal and state level and am insensed by legislation that would financially extort communities and subsequently school districts to exclude any of their marginalized group civil rights. I understand the law firm that represents 99% of all Iowa's school districts council these councils these districts to minimize funding risks and not rock the boat. This is how the police take foothold. I do not envy the position of this school board relative to these pressures. This district may feel safe enough to hide behind general statements of no bullying allowed, but it has not yet been challenged with a situation that could call for more action. I recommend this board create an FMEA, failure mode effect analysis, not engineering in the room, of potential failure

026mode scenarios now so that the appropriate actions and policy are at your fingertips until such time as broader legal protections are put back in place. Be prepared so as not to have to respond in an emotionally charged situation down the road. To be silent is to be complicit. This political and cultural storm will pass and those in office today will be replaced with more compassionate leaders who will restore gender identity to our country and state civil rights. Until then, I ask that this board not be silent, be proactive, be brave, don't look away, and don't let the bullies get a foothold in Cedar Falls. Thank you very much for your time. >> Thank you, Cherry. >> Thank you, Jerry. >> Okay. Um, after public comment comes our communications. Uh, this evening we have our student

027board representative, Amanda Frink, who is here to give us an update. Hi, my name is Amanda Fink. I'm the secretary at Student Senate and April has been a busy month. So, starting Wednesday, we have two events. We'll go to Wind Haven um uh I can't remember what it's called, but there's a Walker Washer event, so we'll have some fun with the residents there. And then we also start our second annual 3v3 basketball tournament to raise money for the Do Better Be Better Foundation. um which was started by one of our PE teachers at our school. Uh all all of the proceeds will be matched and then given to a family in need in our community. And then later in April, it is teacher appreciation week. And so we will host a staff appreciation breakfast on

028Monday, I think the 26th, um to just show our appreciation and our love for all of our teachers. And then along with that, we've been writing cards to each of the staff members. um all the students have uh just to show them all the love. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Thanks so much. >> Thank you very much. >> And now we will have Janelle Darst provide. >> Good evening everyone. >> Uh have a few things to cover tonight. It has been a busy few weeks since the last time I was here. Um, first of all, there's those little ducklings over North Cedar enjoying their raincoats. Um, I'll mention later in the update that that the innovation celebrations coming up soon with caps and North Seedar is going to be there with these um, kindergarten

029students talking about their authentic learning as part of um, uh, the rain gear that they're using and all the um, play they're um, doing outside. So, just wanted to highlight that really quick. And we've had a got a couple of state champions in the district which has been very exciting over the past month. Of course, the men's basketball team had a really exciting week and a really close game at that state championship game right before spring break. Um they won. So congratulations to them and all of the young men. And then just this past weekend, our high school science olympiad team are state champions and they are looking ahead to nationals at USC next month. So congratulations to Mrs. Slowinsky who is the main coach for that team and then all of those students seen

030there. Congratulations to them. Quick update on school calendar and this has been in our e-news on social media as well, but just wanted to mention this coming Friday originally was going to be a noon dismissal for our PK-12 students and has now been changed to a full no school day. It's going to be a full day of staff PD. Um so no no school for students that day. staff will still be working kind of in response to the um February time frame where we had some inclement weather during some professional development. So, it's going to allow our staff to have some of that time back. And then pending no more inclement weather days. The last day of school for students will be Wednesday, June 3. Um sta teachers will still work two more days beyond

031that, I believe. I'm looking at other people that know that. Okay, perfect. Just want to make sure. And then uh we have our wellness and well-being night this Thursday, April 16th, starting at 5:30 at the high school. We really want to get the word out about this and encourage everyone, of course, our board members to share this information on your social media if you can and just send emails to invite people. This is probably the fourth time Lynn Lions has been a speaker for us for the district. She's going to she's phenomenal and um just really gets into the nitty-gritty of some things in regards to student well-being, especially in regards to social media. She's going to be doing a virtual keynote in the auditorium. She's not there in person, but she's going to be

032um doing it by Zoom and then it's actually going to be recorded. If you're not able to make it in person this Thursday, we're going to be sending out the link that you're able to rewatch it next week. It'll be in a specific time frame that we'll share as well, but we just wanted to let people know that we'll be able to offer that. But one of the extra exciting things about this night is there's going to be breakout sessions. And uh on the Facebook event are all the breakout sessions listed and it's all of our local experts including um some of our school counselors have developed sessions that are going to be presented. Mental health counselors will be there as well. So, we're really excited about offering that as an additional learning opportunity for

033our parents um and just community members in general. So, we really hope we have a great turnout. Um it's a busy time, so there's also a track meet. So, we encourage everyone you can park maybe more towards the west side of the parking lot to access to access that main entrance um very easily. And then, as I mentioned about those North Cedar students coming to the innovation celebration, everyone is invited. This is the annual event to showcase all of the CAPS um projects and also you'll see the other participating programs there across Cedar Valley Caps. This is going to be out at the Diamond Event Center on April 22nd again 5:30 to 7:00. You can just come and go when you're able to make it and you're able to see all of the projects that

034will be on display and talk with all of the associates. And then just this past weekend, the Cedar Falls Student Art Exhibition opened at the Hurst Center. This is a great partnership that all of our art teachers have with the HERS Center and they're exhibiting student work that they've chosen from throughout the year and that'll be on display through May 10th. So, we encourage everyone to go check out the student art exhibition. And then, um been a couple weeks, maybe a little bit more than that, the district was notified we were receiving a STEM best grant and it's going to be focused on exploring um some summer programming for students focused on AI learning. We're one of 17 districts chosen from across the state and this funding is going to help us provide a week-long

035summer program that's going to focus on students 6 through 12 and it's with a um connection with the Stanford program that Mr. Rosberg our executive director of secondary education has been working with. So it's a really top level um program. So we just sent that information out in our e newswsletter. encourage parents to take a look at that and you're able to fill out a form if you have interest in your student participating. And just right here in the same chamber, we had our Holmes junior high seventh grade student, Sophia Tibbe. She won the statewide grand prize on the essay of if I were a mayor contest. We've had a fair number of students that have been recognized by this um as regional congressional district winners. Bristol Miller and Jasmine Elgersma were, but she's the

036first home student to win the grand prize since they started the contest in 2014. So, congratulations to her. And also wanted to highlight our high school model UN team. They participated in the Musketine Future Leader Summit in Musketine and it brought together 100 students from Iowa and then 100 students from China as well for a collaborative summit. So congratulations to those students for participating. But then also Caitlyn Willis and Israel Kodega. They received diplomacy awards for their respective rooms. And then Kevin Dub was selected as a speaker for that event. I'll do a few quick highlights of some of our elementary and the great social media posts that they're sharing right now. This is the Hansen bike bus is up and running and special thanks to the Cedar Falls Public Safety that's part of that.

037their bike patrol joins um that first week back that they had the um bike bus. Of course, I think that's always weather permitting, but uh it was a great sunny day. They started that out. And then last week, uh some of our sixth graders focused on authentic learning are doing some CAPS projects that are part of celebrating America's 250th birthday and how we can do that in Cedar Falls. So, they presented ideas to Mayor Ladic. You can see that they're um presenting their ideas there. And then this was a really great opportunity in Miss Waller's authentic learning class at South Dale. They had a career exploration unit and they had a guest speaker, Alexis Vance, and she works in mission control at NASA. Quite timely in regards to everything happening. Um and she spoke with

038the six classes about her career and what led her do her position there. And then also wanted to kind of give a quick shout out to our Cedar Falls Schools Foundation. This was a post that Cedar Heights Elementary did and this is their third graders um experimenting with the keyboards that they were able to receive from uh one of the excellence grants that their school received and they were able to purchase 20 of those keyboards and it's a great addition to that building in their music program. This month of April is the give and grow school match program. So, if you give a donation to the Cedar Falls Schools Foundation, Green State Credit Union matches that um up to $500 through April 30th. The website's right there. We encourage everyone that can to give a

039donation to the school foundation till the end of April and you're able to get that wonderful match. And if you're not aware, it's our 150th commencement coming up next month and doing a little project focused on highlighting all of our commencements over those years. So, we've asked anyone that has commencement photos, graduation photos, wearing those caps and gowns, you can send those to [email protected] and just ask that you include the graduation year that you're um submitting. We got a lot happening, a lot of spring sports, a lot of spring activities, um concerts, um everything happening. So, there's where you can find out all that information. And we include everything um most of the time in our district e newsletter comes out every um other week. You're welcome to scan that QR code and get your

040email address added if you're not. And there you can follow along with everything happening. Thank you for the lengthy time. >> Thank you so much. Lots going on. >> Yes, lots going on. Any questions anyone? Okay. So, we are going into the um secretar's fe February financial reports. >> Absolutely. We'll go ahead and pull this up. We'll um we'll briefly review these. Um as you'll note, we have February and March on the agenda this evening. Uh part of that is due to the fact of timing. um in March we only had one meeting uh prior to spring break which didn't allow us to end those uh the financial books um to allow to present to the to the board in time. Um also all of these are audited accordingly uh with our uh annual audit

041that we do have uh each year. Um and so they are placed on file for the auditor to review um during that period of time as well. Uh but just a quick overview uh real quickly. You'll see our general fund management save and pebble and then debt service on this particular slide. Uh you'll note that the general fund is is utilized for our overall operations to include salaries and benefits. Uh we had a little revenues of a little over $5.1 million with expenditures of 5.8 with total cash investments of $15,483,45. We have our management fund which we'll talk about here shortly in regards to our property and liability insurance and workman's comp. All of those uh expenditures are normally paid at the beginning of school year uh for that uh fiscal year which then there

042are some expenditures that do occur um throughout the year as we make some changes accordingly to our bus fleet and and different things as well. Uh we have our save our save currently we had revenues of a little over 630,000 with our expenditures of 55,000 and then our transfer out our transfer out is for our debt service and you'll see that transfer in accordingly based on the screen here. Uh that is in order to make our principal and interest payments accordingly uh twice a year. Uh our PPE our PPE is uh the the revenues or expenditures are associated for March or excuse me for February. Uh you'll note that currently we are utilizing our peple funds um for the uh completion of the natiatorum as we finalize that as well as then uh the Shields

043Tiger Performance Center with those donations they are flowing through that ple. So uh you may see different uh revenues accordingly per per month based on those donations that are received and then our debt service accordingly for uh for those payments as I mentioned uh and those fund balances um for February. As we move forward, then we have our student activity, our agency fund, enterprise fund, student coffee shop, as well as in our River Hills. Um, our student activity, as Janelle has indicated, has been extremely busy over the last several year or several months. Uh, but you'll see the revenues associated to that within the expenditures. Um, with that total fund balance of 811,993 thou uh $3.89, we have our agency funds as well as then our enterprise fund. Our enterprise fund is our food and

044nutrition. Uh we had activity within the revenue of a little over $311,000 with expenditures of $230,000 for total cash in investments of 3.9 million. Our student coffee again uh coffee shop that's located at our high school uh activity for the month of February within our River Hills Consortium which is uh multiple districts within the cons consortium. Uh those dollars do flow through uh with then timely payments accordingly to the Central Rivers A.EA DA which includes um the approval of the lease that um that occurred this evening uh for the 2627 lease. Um and then these next two slides uh do show uh where we are sitting based on the certified budget set at um last year at this time um and if uh adjustments need to be made which we'll be talking about as well

045but where those balances are according to those um projections. Uh with that last um last screen showing those last items as well. I can certainly move into March if you'd like me to real quickly. Um, unless you have questions in regards to February. >> Good. >> Sure. We'll pull those up again uh just so you can uh see what those items look like for March and those balances accordingly. Again, it looks pretty similar uh with those expenditures that flow through uh for our general fund anywhere between five and $6 million. You'll see that revenue fluctuate a little bit and that's mainly because of timing. if you would look back on last year's those revenues might look a little bit different and some of that has to do with um uh the funding associated to the

046state and the timing associated to that and when we actually get payments and when they're released um as well as um payments from other district for open enrolled students and different things like that. So those revenues do fluctuate each each particular month as well. Again um the balances associated to each nothing really sticks out that's real different from um the prior month. uh it it's it's uh it's pretty much the same in regards to those expenditures associated to those revenues. You'll see a little fluctuation in the save based on some of those expenditures that are finalization in those projects that we heard um have and then a little bit of activity in in the um PPE as well. And then as we move forward um we have that student activity um you'll see a again

047continuous um activity within that regarding the revenues and expenditures associated to that. the enterprise fund. We continue to have those those costs associated to that. The one thing to note with regard regarding the enterprise fund that does include um not only the food and supply cost, but it does include the salaries and benefits associated to that program as well. That's a standalone program. So um in regards to our enterprise fund and then you'll see that activity a little bit increase in our River Hills Consortium as we've started to receive thirdarter billings um and payments receiving for that to make issues of payments. So, and then finally, those last two screens again just do show where we're sitting at in regards to um the certified budget for these particular funds as we move forward with those.

048So, any questions on February or March? Okay, looks like we're good to go on that. um those documents um as all of our financials are placed um on file and um are used within our audits. Okay, I believe we're moving to item H which is the um proposed plan specs and form of contract for the phase 2 Shields Tiger Performance Center with Tim Turner. Well, it's been a long road. There's some new faces on the board. I'm Tim Turnis, principal and architect with Envision. I've been working with the school district since 2019, uh, when we first started planning the campus at the high school there. And this is the last piece of the puzzle uh, that we're moving forward with here. Um, so tonight I'm just going to run you through kind of the scope

049of work that actually bids this Thursday will be receiving bids. So, crossing your fingers for good numbers there. Um, but yeah, if there's questions while I'm going through this, feel free to shout them out. Uh, this is an image you've all seen before. This is a lot of, uh, it's been out there in the public as part of that fundraising effort, obviously, with the generous donation from Shields. Um, we're we're highlighting them on the front of the building. Um, the building itself, what you see there, that phase one project is wrapping up today, or not today, but as you know, as we go through this next month or so. So, uh, all of the temporary walls on the south side of that building are going to be coming down in the next few weeks, and

050then we'll start to see what this building is actually going to look like here moving forward. So, the scope of work that we have on the outside of the building here is really just that signage um, highlighting uh, Shields and their generous donation. Um, and then we also have some exterior lighting and paint that happens on the outside of the building. So, phase one really encompassed the entire building shell um, and doors and windows into that. uh just a straight on elevation. Like I said, paint, lighting, and signage is the primary work happening on the exterior. There will be some rework just with some sight and sidewalks as they get damaged with construction materials going in and out of that building and construction equipment. That all get repaired at the end of the project. >>

051So Tim, all of the white boxes with lines, those are all the translucent pan panels, right? >> Yes. So there there's kind of two heavy lines that run across the page, left to right there. um below that second line um those are those translucent panels. Everything up in the clear story level uh similar to what you see in the gymnasium, those are actually solid insulated metal panels. So night no light transmittance through those. That was a cost-saving measure for us to be able to move forward with phase one. Um and in the end the aesthetic is is generally the same from the exterior. Uh moving to the interior of the space, uh these are just some very broad elevations that are inside this performance center. The performance center is really just one big space. And

052so what we're trying to do is indicate the scope of work that's happening on those pre-cast walls. Those pre-cast walls were planned uh five years ago uh with with you know larger, stronger foundations for us to be able to move up with this. And so this is the culmination of a lot of uh pre-planning uh to get this project moving forward. But uh couple things that I want to highlight here. Obviously with the interior finishes and the fit out of the interior space. We have a lot of paint happening on the ceilings and the walls. All of our HVAC will have uh be going in. Our permanent HVAC will be going in. Lighting uh signage and graphics. There's a few examples there that's in this package as well for signage and graphics. Uh with this

053amount of wall space, there's always opportunities to add to that. Um and so this is just the start start of what those graphics could actually be. Are we looking at the north? >> Yes, >> and east walls. >> Yes, you're looking at the north wall. The the the top drawing is an elevation of the north wall looking back towards the natiatorum. So that's the south elevation of the natiatorum. Um and you see some duct work coming out of there. All of our mechanical units for the the Tiger Performance Center come out of that existing penthouse on top of the pool. Um so that's the north elevation. The second uh the second one down there is looking west back towards the main building. You see two overhead doors. Right now today there's some curtain wall into

054place and that's our connection back to the wait room. When we talked about talk about day-to-day usage of the Tiger Performance Center, those PE classes are super excited to be able to use this space and having that physical ne connection to the weight room and to other spaces within the main building is super important to them. Um, and then the last bullet point there, and you'll see some some of this in the images coming up, is all the athletic flooring. We have three different types of flooring going in here. Uh, one, a track surface that athletes can actually wear spikes on as a almost a 200 meter track um around the interior space. And that uh encompasses uh some athletic flooring, some multi-purpose athletic flooring, which is essentially just rubber, which will be the basketball

055courts, tennis courts, and volleyball courts. Um and then approximately a 40 uh yard turf area inside that track as well. So getting into some images here. This is of the athletic courts that I spoke about. Um the orientation is north south of those. So two high schoolsiz basketball courts. U one thing to point out here is you start to see some of the gymnasium equipment that's also included in the scope of work. So, the basketball hoops, volleyball nets, tennis nets, um, and some track timing systems and scoreboards are also included in the athletic equipment package. These four hoops that you see here are actually being going to be relocated from the existing gymnasium. Um, talking with the coaching staff and the athletic director, um, those are are are used seldomly in the the competition gymnasium.

056Uh, so to save some dollars, we're just relocating them into the Tiger Performance Center. So, this is looking north back towards the natiatorum. Um, in addition to uh all of the basketball hoops and netting that I talked about, there's also divider curtains uh that protect athletes that or walkers that might be walking around the track uh from those playing surfaces inside. And so, when we talk about footballs and golf and baseballs and all of the things that happen on on the courts, uh we want to make sure those people who are walking maybe not paying attention are protected from that. So we do have a series of gym divider curtains similar to the curtain that's in the competition gymnasium. >> What is the what are the court surfaces? It's not entirely clear what >> So

057the court surfaces are actually a rubber material and so that makes it that multi- sport uh surface uh capable for volleyball, tennis, and basketball. So it's not going to be the wood courts that you see in the in the gymnasium. This is a little bit more versatile. And again, uh, in addition to all of those things that I mentioned for equipment, of course, some batting cages as well and working with the coaches and the athletics director again, uh, to support baseball, softball, golf, uh, the throwing events in track and field. Uh, all of and so all of these become very versatile pieces of equipment that can be that can be housed within this facility. Um some of the unique things with the track uh this the striping effect between uh red and black is a

058unique feature that uh really highlights kind of u school pride uh within the flooring material as well. Uh this is the actual layout from the track vendor. So um we've already been working with them to work out some of those details to make sure the scope of work is appropriate and um can be bid out. Um I'm going to go back a couple slides and highlight something that I didn't before. So if you look close to that curtain wall looking south there, there's kind of three columns that come down. Um within those some additional opportunities for all of those trophies for all those state championships that you guys keep winning. Um so uh just different opportunities to play maybe some of those track and field uh and different trophies and awards that students achieve. Uh,

059so more opportunity other than what you see in the main lobby of the of the building, expanding that out into Tiger Performance Center. Um, and then in mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and technology, and so working with Motus Engineering, who's been consistent throughout all of our projects here on campus, uh, implementing the the permanent HVAC system, uh, with duct work. Um, that bottom image there is actually the penthouse above the pool that I referred to earlier. So, uh, we pre-planned a removable hatch on top of that penthouse to be able to remove that section of roof and drop the mechanical unit in. So, we're always thinking ahead, uh, understanding that this is a multi-phase project and how do we best do that efficiently from the construction standpoint. Electrical, uh, most of the electrical is already in as

060far as the pathways, floor boxes, conduits, all of those things are mostly in already. Um, it's just a matter of pulling wire and actually installing those devices. Now, >> Tim, is it a separate HVAC system from the pool or >> It is a separate system. >> It's just kind of in the same area. >> Uh, the HVAC system that serves the pool is actually located on the roof. It's a roof mounted um air handler. >> I just recall one of the issues with the old high schools that some of those HVAC systems were tied into other parts. >> This is a completely separate system. Yeah. And especially with the pool environment, you want those to be physically separated. Uh so we you're not mixing those air that those different types of air. Uh plumbing wise,

061we really don't have any plumbing in the scope which is good. And and then technology, we've been working with district staff as far as audiovisisual equipment, overhead speakers, paging. Uh we do have some projection capabilities in there if classes are going out and using the larger space that there is some instructional capabilities within large space. And that's it. Not a lot of architecture there. >> It has been a very very long road and um there are many many people to thank and so um but tonight we will focus on this final phase two. >> Yes. Exciting >> comments, questions. >> Maybe just a quick comment. You know, you mentioned the final piece of the puzzle and just all the planning and patience. Um, you know, our committees were doing hard work raising money and I

062know, uh, you know, we we've been able to do that without levying additional dollars, which I think is critical for our community. And just all the forethought that went into, uh, making this work so we can pull out walls and ceilings and bring stuff in and piece it all together. So it's this has been a labor of love for over five years. >> Long time longer than that. >> Longer than that for planning for sure. >> Yes. >> What are the plans like in case of group wants to use the entire facility because of the different types of surfaces >> turf courts track. Is there something like in terms of like protecting that or is there is there like plans for what that might look like depending on the I mean I know it depends

063on the use but you know protecting those surfaces like I'm >> I guess I'm thinking like the unidome where I guess I the turf covers the entire surface I don't know if we have something in mind of like if there was an entire use of it that >> yeah we do and and that's not necessarily been a discussion with the design team it's been more of an internal Um the south side is where our main parking lot's at. So the main entrance into the pool for large community events. There is a small parking lot on the northeast side of the the niatorum, but most of the time for larger pool events, nitorium events, they'll be coming through the Tiger Performance Center, walking on the uh track surface, things like that. So, uh, we are working

064to get protective surfaces, some other things, but we also designed it. So, it's going to be a multi-use surface that, um, excuse me, it's simple, uh, cleaning, simple vacuum and go. So, we are very cognizant of that. The hope is it's going to be a multi-use, so there's going to be lots of activity going on at the same time. But, it's also designed to be kind of locked down. So if there is one event, one need what I can think of is robotics or our drone flying classes, drone building classes that we're starting next year where they need to be able to secure the the area because they're flying drones around inside. Uh that can be done. So we we have been really cognizant working for a long time on what the services will look

065like and that they will be adaptable for multiple things. >> Thank you. Anything else? Okay, I believe we have a um a motion. We do. I move that the Cedar Falls Community School District Board of Education approve the proposed plans specifications proposed form of contract for phase two of the Shields Tiger Performance Project. >> And I will take a second. >> Second. >> Thank you, LOL. Um, additional discussion or questions? >> Simply a thank you to the design team, all the individuals that helped kind of conceptualize this going on six years ago. Um, and also our Shields Tiger Performance Committee who has done an unbelievable amount of work to to get this from a concept to where we're at now. And then finally, Shields for the wonderful donation of naming this facility. So, >> second.

066>> Okay. All those in favor would say I. >> I. >> Oppose would be the same. And that motion is carried. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Um we will now move into the uh 2627 Teamsters contract. Um, a tenative agreement was reached on March 26, 2026, covering a one-year period from July 1st of 2026 through June 30th of 2027. The tenative agreement has been ratified by our teamsters local 238 members and is presented here for board acceptance. Um, the terms of our agreement, we are increasing all classifications base wage by 50 cents per hour. There is a wage increase for returning employees at all classifications of 50 cents per hour, a longevity pay of 15 cents per hour for employees with 10 to 19 years of service, and 20 cents per hour for employees

067with 20 or more years of service, and some changes within our job classifications. Um, we're changing our grounds keeper from a class three to a classification four and changing some job titles to better align with what the job responsibilities are. Um, the administration recommends acceptance of this tenative agreement because we believe it reflects a fair and fiscally responsible settlement that recognizes the contributions of Teamster's local 238 bargaining unit members and maintaining the district's long-term financial sustainability. >> Thank you. Um, questions. >> Yeah. Who's all part of those discussions just for my awareness? Um I serve as the chief negotiator for the teamsters and Dell Gon is also part of those discussions as well as Chris Tommy our director of facilities. Okay. And then are the members from the the actual bargaining unit >> of course.

068>> Great. Thank you. >> About how many employees do we have in this group? >> Gosh. >> We have about 50 employees in this particular group. >> Okay. And the job classification changes you said were just to align with >> So we're just making some title changes. The only classification change is the groundskeeper from a class 3 to a class 4. The others are just title changes. >> Okay. And that doesn't affect anything >> does not affect pay or rate of pay or anything. Just strictly a title change. Um their contract has specific titles tied to rates of pay in their contract. >> Okay. That's what I was >> that's that requires that that change. >> Okay. We appreciate your work on that very much. >> Yes. >> And Amber, just out of curiosity, are

069we able to keep most of those jobs filled most of the time? >> These positions have been filled this year. We've been extremely lucky um within this group. >> Excellent. Okay. Thank you. >> Anything else? >> Okay. Um, we'll take the motion then for this contract, which I think is Director LOL. There we go. >> You're right. I move that the Cedar Falls Community School District Board of Education approve the 2026 through 2027 Teamster Collective Bargaining Contract as presented. >> Great. And I'll take a second. >> Second. Okay, that was lots of people there. And um any additional that final discussion point hearing? None. We'll go to a vote. Um all of those in favor would say I. >> I. >> Opposed would be the same. And that motion carried. Thank you so much uh

070for your work on that very very much. All parties involved. Okay. We will now go to the CFSP contract. >> Okay. >> Next, >> um we've also reached a tenative agreement with on April 1st of 2026 covering a one-year period from July 1st, 2026 through June 30th of 2027, uh with our Cedar Falls educational support professionals, which covers our pair professionals and secretaries. The tenative agreement has been ratified by the Cedar Falls educational support professional members and is presented for board acceptance. Um the terms of the agreement are a base wage increase for all classifications of 30 cents per hour, a wage increase for returning employees at all classifications of 50 cents per hour, and uh longevity pay at 15 cents per hour for employees starting in year five, 20 cents per hour for employees

071starting in year 10, 25 cents per hour for employees starting in year 15, and 30 cents per hour for employees starting in year 20. The administration recommends acceptance of this tenative agreement um as it is again a fair and fiscally responsible settlement. >> Thank you. >> Any remarks or questions regarding this? >> Maybe just for my understanding the the 50 cents and the 30 cents are additive for returning because the base goes up plus >> it is not additive. Okay. It is 50 cents >> for the return >> for returning. And I think that's a great question that Grace had asked on the last. Can you tell us who sits at that table? >> Yep. So this table is myself as the chief negotiator and Danell as our financial planner. >> I would ask that

072similar question as we had before. Are we filling these positions as needed? I know this is a more difficult one to maintain staff in these positions. Yeah, this group is a lot more difficult to maintain. Um, I would say that right now I think we have about maybe between 15 and 20 openings. Um, and that's it just changes from moment to moment. Um, it's not at one point we might be full be close to fully staffed and then a week later it changes. >> And what is fully staffed? We have roughly. >> Yeah, it's um I believe this group is about 160. Nope. >> 230. Sorry. >> I'm thinking about the in the insurance eligible group. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> Excellent. We will take a motion. Amen. >> I move that the Cedar Falls

073Community School District Board of Education approve Cedar Falls Educational Support Professional CFSB 20 2627 contract as presented. >> Great. And um take a second. >> Second. >> Okay. Thank you, Nate. And then any final discussion >> hearing none, we'll take a vote. All those in favor would say I. I. opposed would be the same. And that motion carries as well. Again, thank you so much for your work on that. Okay. Um I think we're going to our summer roofing project presentation. >> Yeah, absolutely. We'll go ahead and bring that up. Um just as a reminder, we had a public hearing uh last board meeting in March. This is just a reminder of of those uh roof projects that we have in intended for this summer. Um those roof projects do include our Hansen Elementary and

074those sections identified as well as our North Cedar. I know Garrett was here um during our last meeting to provide an overall view of of what those anticipation uh and sections will be doing. Uh I am not a roofer so I can't go in depth in regards to materials and different things like that. Uh he did an excellent job on that. But as we move forward then we did uh he he also shared that anticipated construction cost associated to both Hansen and North Cedar with that total budget of uh 343,000 um for uh next summer. Um we did have bid opening on March 25th at 1:00 at the administration building. Uh this year we had five biders which was fantastic. Um we usually have anywhere from uh two to three biders. Um had five um

075from different areas uh within um Iowa. Um you'll note we had biders from uh Blackhawk uh roofing as well as for sure roofing uh freed construction uh roof service and service roofing. Um this year uh the low bid to replace um both the Hansen or Cedar uh came in at 243,000 and it is recommended to move forward with freed construction out of Cedar Falls, Iowa um as that low bidder um as well as then um those timelines accordingly to um uh bid opening awarding the contract for this evening with that recommendation uh with uh beginning construction of June 8th within that finalization of the project um of August of 2026. So, any questions specific in regards to our bids? We were extremely pleased with the bids. Um we were about $70,000 under budget associated to

076what our budget plan was with the um overall cost with um the agency as well. So, yeah. >> Right. Excellent. >> So, Denell, are we doing our own roofing bidding and planning now? I thought a couple years ago we were using a a roofing contractor. >> Yeah. Unfortunately, we were not able to continue to move forward with a particular roofing contractor at that time. We've we've changed into um C CGC um which is out of um De Moines, I believe. Excuse me. Um that was Garrett that you had met at the last board meeting. he has taken over the review of our um roofing um projects um to ensure we continue on that pace of um of the 30, 40, 50year warranties and to make sure that we're replacing where we need to. Um and

077so we work with them directly. Um he works with then um those different biders to provide the bid results. Yep, great question. >> Thank you. >> Okay, we will go ahead and take a motion. I move that the Cedar Falls Community School District Board of Education approve the 2026 roof improvement bids from Freed Construction of Cedar Falls, Iowa in the amount of $243,000 as presented. >> And we'll take a second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Lel. Um, any final conversation? >> Okay, we'll go ahead and take a vote. All those in favor of accepting um would say I. >> I. Opposed would be the same and motion carried. Thank you so much for that continued work in keeping our um buildings safe. Okay, we are now we've got um some um review items. The first

078thing is thinking next year 2627 school year budget proposal and to set a public hearing. >> Yeah. as um I get to talk again. So, I'll continue to talk. Um tonight, we are going to take a look at the the budget, the certified budget as to where we are um uh what we anticipate for next year. Um sort of a a prequel of of what we saw earlier in the presentation at our first meeting regarding that uh proposed property tax notice. Um this is a little bit longer presentation, so feel free to ask questions as we move forward. Some of this information will definitely look the same. And what I mean by that is we presented some of this during our district financials, but it's important to have that conversation because it does impact our

079certified budget. So, and to review that information at this period of time. So, we'll go ahead and get started, but ask questions as we move forward. Um, we'll also have conversation in regards to the amended budget if needed. So, tonight we're going to take a look quickly at those key factors. We've kind of looked at those previously and that comparison data as uh Dr. Pati had indicated earlier this evening. We'll take a look at the levy rates. Uh we'll also review the estimated property tax and then the 2526 amended budget. Um that's often um common for districts to um to as a need. Um part of that is because if you recall we're we're budgeting for um 12 months in advance, 12 to 18 months in advance. There are expenditures that do occur that are

080unknown and so we do have to make budget adjustments accordingly um during the year. So we'll take a look at that as well. So you've seen this slide before. This slide is our governmental proprietary and our fiduciary funds. Tonight we'll mainly focus on our governmental um uh silo as I like to say um which is our general fund which is our overall operations as as I indicated in our financials earlier to include our salaries and benefits. We'll also take a look at the special revenue fund which is our management fund and that management fund includes our property and our liability as well as our work comp um insuranceances. Uh we'll take a look at our capital projects which includes our um our physical plant and levy equipment um or our ple as I commonly state

081it as well then as our debt service and what that tax rate and levy will associated with that. So those other two columns, the proprietary and the fiduciary, we won't look at tonight, but we did previously look at those during the period of time of our district financials. So in looking at our general fund and and the determination of the general fund, it is a comp complex formula called the Aiden Levy worksheet, budget worksheet. Uh within your board packet, that worksheet was provided with all of the different calculations associated to that. But really overall it does implement the school foundation formula. It also calculates the amount of spending authority the district has and the state aid and property taxes for each school as well as it is formula first. Um it determines that total maximum

082spending authority and then it determines that state aid and property tax. So we will look at snippets of it. Um if I looked at that entire budget, we'd be here till quite a while. So, I tried to highlight some of those items that impact and what the community would like to see in regards to the overall levy and tax rate. So, again, as I had mentioned, we have four key factors that do um impact um our aid and levy or our budget, our certified budget, and these will look familiar to you. Um that's our enrollment, our equalization, our supplemental state aid, as well as then our balance. and um we will briefly take a look at those, but as as we continue to have those conversations, these do ultimately impact um our certified budget as

083we continue to move forward. So, as we move forward then when we're taking a look at the enrollment, enrollment is that first key factor and that enrollment is 75% of the total budget. Um in regards to our general fund resources, it is based on count performed as of October 1st. So for our for our planning purposes as for fiscal 27, this is based on October 1st of 2025. Uh you'll note that it's based on certified enrollment. It's not based on served enrollment. Certified enrollment are those students that uh live within the district. The certifi or the served enrollment are those individuals that are actually attending the district. One thing to remember though is those dollars do follow the students. So though they may be attending a different school district or attending our school district, those

084um those costs do follow that student accordingly. But we do um really review our certified enrollment. And this is just a projection or the actual certified enrollment over the last several years. You'll see that there has been fluctuations over the year. Most recently October 2025. The red indicates those that are attending Cedar Falls districts. Again, this is certified enrollment. This is not served enrollment. Uh you'll see approximately um 5,233 students um attending the district for served enroll or certified enrollment and then 162 are open open enrolled out. Uh you'll see from the prior year then that's a a deduction of um of about 69 students from the prior year. When we look at certified enrollment, we also take a look at those um schools similar in size as as Dr. Pat had indicated. These are

085based on um certified enrollment status in the sense of five higher and five lower. So Cedar Falls is right in the middle. Um those that are um larger enrollment five and then smaller enrollment of five. And you'll see with the exception of Southeast Poke um the majority of the schools over a three-year period have had a decrease in enrollment for 23, 24, and 25. And this is expected. The state enrollment is also declined. And so this is expected in this sense. Um so these numbers um do uh reflect that decrease as well for the state um certified enrollment as well. But this is a three-year cumulative change um based on that. We also take a look a key factor is equalization. And equalization is that legislation um established the law that cost per pupil across

086the state will be nearly equal. Um it's not equal, it's nearly equal. What I mean by that is um our state cost per pupil for fiscal 27 is $8,148. That's the minimum. The maximum is $8,283, a difference of $35. Now, there's 325 districts uh in the state of Iowa. Um of that, 230 are equal to that minimum $8,148. Cedar Falls is one of those districts. Um, but there are 95 that's that's decreased from the prior year. 95 that are above that uh state cost per pupil. Now, that $135 has fluctuated. Originally, when I started this position um in whatever year that was, it was about $170. Um, it has declined. The the legislation has made um minimal decreases to that. most recently in fiscal 27 now um a a decrease of $5. So it was

087previously $140, it's now $135. That's the difference in regards to those. So we do take a look at that equalization as well. The third one is our supplemental state aid. This looks familiar to you. We talk about this often. Um the legislature, it's governor controlled. It's an annual increase per student. Um it is a simple calculation surprisingly. Um, but it is that state cost per pupil from the prior year. Um, the state and the legislation has determined and signed the 2%, so it's $160 increase from the prior year for a total of 143 uh or excuse me, $8,143 and then that $5 additional for that um equity um to equate to that $8,148. The thing to remember really is is the state foundation formula sets the expenditure ceiling. That's a big thing to as for

088each school district and that total spending authority and so um it tells the story of the school districts and so that's what we really want to take a look at and how the school how it's funded in the spending authority. So what does that look like over a history um that supplemental state aid of what that looks like compared to our certified enrollment? Uh you'll see some fluctuations. Uh the red um line indicates Cedar Falls and what that um supplemental state aid was based on certified enrollment. um increases or decreases as well then as the state um uh supplemental state aid. And you'll see that over the state it's been an average of about 2% um over the last little bit. Uh if we would average over that period of time about 2.2% over the

089last several years. Uh for fiscal 27 once again it was approved at that 2%. the district due to the fact of that the DC decreasing enrollment will be on that 1% of receiving of funds accordingly for that. So we take all of that into consideration as we're continuing to move forward. Again, this is just um a comparison of similar schools um based on again certified enrollment. Uh we are ranked 16th based on certified enrollment of the 325 school districts in the state of Iowa. You'll note uh the dollars associated to that with the um certified enrollment count and how those dollars are um uh allocated. Um you'll also note um except for one school, all districts have had a decrease in enrollment um for fiscal 27 uh and most of them are reflected are on

090that budget guarantee for next year. So, uh, you'll see that decrease accordingly or below that, uh, dollars that they would receive of of that 1%. Uh, again, the district's anticipates that $416,133 new new funding from the prior year. So, what does that look like in a three-year average increase over our supplemental state aid? You'll see, uh, again, this is based on those certified enrollment, five larger, five smaller, uh, with Cedar Falls right in the middle. Uh you'll see we we're pretty much the same as a lot of our districts um within in within that UEEN group based on that certified enrollment for the last three years. The supplemental state aid average for the district is uh $723,000. And the last and final um key factor is balance. and balance really is the ratio of property

091tax and state aid um and supporting the districts and it varies by district by district. Um property rich districts will receive less state aid. All districts are required to levy the $5.40. It's the uniform uh levy per 10,000 assessed valuation. The state comes in and back fills up to that 88.4% for that state foundation percentage. We have our supplemental state aid and that covers the property tax increases as a result of an increase in cost per pupil. And then there are additional levies and those vary by district to district and we'll we'll take a look at those as we move forward. So, one of the things we also take a look at is assessed valuation and and I had mentioned that during the original presentation at our first board meeting here this evening and and

092what those um those uh valuations were and what those assumptions were based on those property tax notices. Um you'll see that assessed valuation has changed throughout the years. It continues to grow at a at a at a fair and and stable rate. Um you'll note that the black line indicates the regular uh valuation and the red red box is the tiff. Um for fiscal 27 that new taxable valuation change from the prior year um was a little over 2.29% for for um our our school district area. So and again then this is just a comparison of districts that are located within this area um specifically uh in our regional area uh for 24 25 and 26. You'll see uh again Cedar Falls has um has increased in regards to the valuation of per student um

093for area schools for the last three years. You'll see some districts have stayed flat and some districts have decreased. And so there are some fluctuations even within our regions within uh within those valuations. And the thing to remember unfortunately we don't have fiscal 17 valuations or 15 uh fiscal 27 data yet. So we are comparing to our fiscal 26 year as well. So oops let's see if it goes forward. Yep. And then again, this is just reflecting similarsized schools, a little bit different comparison. Uh you'll note with the exception of Ames and West De Moine, uh in regards to the valuation per student, you know, Cedar Falls, it's it's very similar to to many of the other districts, we're just under that $450,000 uh valuation per student. So, when I talk about the combined district

094cost and the $8,148 per student, this is just a breakdown of how that is determined and where those dollars come from. So, as I had indicated, the uniform levy is that $5.40 per 10,000 assessed valuation, which equates to a little over $2,50 per student um or 25% of that total amount. We then have that back filling, which I had indicated was up to that 88.4 4%. Uh you'll note that for uh for this $8,148, it equates to $5,564 or a little over 68% with then those additional levies um district specific of $534 per student or $6.56 for a total of that $8,148. So, this begins our snippet of the aid and levy and what that may look like um and where those dollars are coming from. Um you'll note that as I indicated the the

095$5.40 as all districts are required to levy. Um that property tax portion equates to a little over $13 million. We then have our final state aid foundation which is that regular programming of a little over $43,525,624. Uh the thing to remember is that does include our our TSS or teacher salary supplement. Um it includes our professional development. It includes um teacher leader compensation which all of those are utilized for um our our our teacher groups um to include uh leadership opportunities as well as professional development opportunities um as well as then we have our early intervention and then our property tax replacement payment within those dollars associated to it. the additional levies that I was just talking about. This does include a section 8. Um if if you're interested in looking at the actual aid

096and levy, um the dollars associated to that equate to that 8 8,227,000. You have some deductions according to that as well as the dropout prevention. That is its own property tax associated to that. Um, we'll get to that in just a moment, but that net additional levy equates to that 5,573,000 um dollars or a property tax rate of a little over $2.3. So, what does that look like? Uh, we have our uniform and our additional levy. So those dollars that I just explained and those property tax rates accordingly to um equate to that $18,235,825 or a tax rate of $743 within that dropout prevention. And that dropout of prevention, just to remind you, is our dropout and at risk program, which we utilize for our SRO's and other programming for our dropout and and at

097risk students um for a property tax rate of a little over 43 cents for a total uh property tax rate of $7.87. So what does that look like? Unfortunately, this is again comparable to 2526 compar comparatable uh to local districts uh within our region. Uh you'll note that um for fiscal 26, the tax rate was $84. At that same time, comparable, as I had just mentioned previously, it did go down to $7.87. So there is a decrease again um in this particular um year for fiscal 27. I don't unfortunately have those comparables for our other districts, but you'll see that fluctuation uh for each of those districts as well. You'll also see similar size school districts based on that certified enrollment where we sit accordingly. Uh very similar um a community member um mentioned Cedar

098Rapids. Unfortunately, um that is not a comparable school based on certified enrollment, so I don't have that data. Uh but you'll see that we are very comparable with all those other districts within our size of our of our school. >> And if this is maybe in a different part of your presentation, you can postpone it to this, but can you kind of explain exactly what she was getting at with her comp >> in regards to the comment? >> The Yeah, the public comment in the during the hearing. >> Well, unfortunately, the tax rate varies by district by district and there's different as as Dr. Pati had indicated there's different levies within that tax rate and so it's very difficult to compare apples to apples. A lot of times it's apples to oranges and part of

099that as Dr. Pati had indicated was um our debt levy that the community did approve um which has been fantastic to allow for our facility improvements. Um and so you'll see in a screen here shortly of where that did increase and why that increased. It went from $243 to $4 and some cents. I'm not exactly sure what it is. I'd have to look at the screen um here shortly. Um but that does impact the tax rate accordingly. And so there are some changes with that and and without actually looking at the valuations and the certified enrollment and all the different tax loveies, it's it's it's rather difficult to to determine exactly how it's it's apples to apples for us. So >> yeah, and I'd say there there's a document within the packet that uh shows

100what is the net value per pupil. basically the uh assessed valuation divided by your enrollment uh which comes to a dollar amount in Cedar Falls is is higher than than Cedar Rapids and um so I'm I'm not exactly sure. >> Yep. >> I mean you kind of looking at the overall rate and going why isn't ours lower than that? >> Yeah. So >> that's the sense I got as well. >> Yeah. So, it comes back to the property rich uh conversation that Danell just had that um if you're have lower assessed valuations, there's going to be more in the uh final levy that you have to have above the 88 >> 4%. Yep. >> Um that has to be made up with local property taxes to fulfill the the total cost per student. Um, so

101since they have a lower assessed valuation per pupil, that means there's going to be more levy that has to be added to be able to fill in that last uh 12%. Um, but then again, it goes back to what other levies do they have? And and do you have a general obligation bond is probably the biggest one. Um, and if you don't that uh uh and I know Danell showed a little slide uh or slide, one slide in her previous presentation last month that just showed what our levy rate would be without our general obligation bonds and what it is with our general obligation bonds. And if we didn't have those uh and didn't build Aldridge, didn't build a high school, didn't renovate and add on to both North Cedar and um Orchard Hill, uh

102our levy rate would be significantly different. >> And and the reason that it doesn't show up on our the reason it doesn't show up on our comparables is that Cedar Rapids is sitting at right now like 14,500 and odd, right? >> They're about 3,000 or three times larger. >> Three times larger than we are. So that's why as well I wanted to make sure I I had to Google it because I didn't know how many how many they had. Great questions. >> Okay, so we've taken a look uh I'm not sure if I've spoke on this one. The combined district cost. Yes. Um so you'll note um again where that was based on 2526 um at 804. Uh but it has decreased for fiscal 27 of a little over $7.80ome. When we take a look

103at the history of the combined district cost, this is actual data in regards to the Cedar Falls district. Um, when it comes to the uh combined district cost, you'll see a decrease from the prior year. It was $7.58. This year, $743. And then we have that dropout prevention which uh again utilizes and goes towards our our uh programming associated to that from 44 cents to a little over 43 cents. again. So there is a decrease from that prior year from 804 to $780 some. So we also take a look at our instructional support levy that is a part of our general fund. Um it is um it is a five-year board approved levy. You'll see that 10% of those regular district cost is a little over $4.4 million less uh the ISL state aid. We

104do have um if you recall a 1% income s uh sir tax um and that is uh state uh state income tax dollars that are paid to the district based on that 1% uh to lower the property tax accordingly within within our uh our district of 595,000 um for a total adjustment of a little over $2.6 million. But we do receive the authority, the spending authority for the $3.3 million uh accordingly, which then that property tax rate of a little over 95 cents per 10,000 assessed valuation for the instructional support levy um for fiscal 27. What does that look like? You'll note that's the history associated to that from fiscal 21 to fiscal 27. That change in that income sir tax uh occurred in fiscal 23. So you'll see that change accordingly which then did

105decrease the tax rate. Um so then for fiscal 27 we do anticipate uh a decrease from the prior year um to that 95 cents for the instructional support um levy that we utilize for um salaries and benefits as well as for um um which is related to our our counselors as well as our kindergarten teachers. It's also equipment and other items associated to our instructional support levy. So, um we do have cash reserve levy uh parts one and two. You'll note uh the cash reserve levy and the board did approve um these particular items associated to that to to allow the spending authority. Um but the cash reserve levy is really to review to the need of cash at times. Um as you recall based on our district financials um uh based on our solveny

106ratio and the review of our cash uh there is not an anticipation for our cash reserve levy for fiscal 20 uh7. This does fluctuate from year to year. So that um so there is not uh a property tax rate associated to that. Uh but there may be a property tax rate associated in fiscal 28. it's not a zero each particular year and it does fluctuate based on the needs and based on on those dollars associated to that. So when we take a look at the overall general fund summary um those combined district costs which was that um uh uniform levy with those additional levies equate to that $18 million or $743. We have that dropout prevention of a little over a million or 43. As well we have our instructional support of 2.6 6 million.95

107for a total of $21,923,58 or $8.82. Again, this just depicts the history of the general fund property tax. And as Dr. Pat had indicated over the last several years our property tax uh rates have declined um from the graph from fiscal 20 to fiscal 27 most recently now from 920 $922 to $883 that encompasses the general fund. Uh we have a few more funds to take a look at um which include our management fund and that management fund is if you recall is a restricted fund and that is board controlled. Um its uses if you remember um and for the community as well we utilize that for our property and liability and auto um our work comp. Um we do have that property loss deductible. If you recall um of of comments that I've made

108previously, we have had a 1% wind and hail damage deductible that has been implemented uh within our policies that is not just specifically to Cedar Falls schools. That is um nationwide. Um most customers do receive a different deductible based on that. Um it also then is available for um severance and benefits which we don't actually partake in. The request for fiscal 27 is a little over $2.1 million or a property tax rate of 87 cents. And again, that is really to ensure that we're able to make those payments in July accordingly to make the um for our property tax and liability insurance as that change. Again, that's not specific to Cedar Falls schools. Um we've seen an increase over the last several years of anywhere to 17 to 20%. We don't anticipate that large of

109an increase this year based on conversations that we've had um which I know they've been working extremely hard to ensure we're covered appropriately and to keep this tax rate lower to ensure our um for our property owners. So um this history of the management fund does reflect those changes and those significant changes. Um and that's because of the do and because of the national storms that we're having, the hurricanes and um unfortunately the the insurance industry has hardened to the point where it is now passed on to the consumer. And so um you'll see that this line or this um where we are at in fiscal 27, we anticipate that to flatten out um not to have such a significant increases unless there's a fluctuation in the market again. um then we will have those

110conversations at that time. But again for fiscal 27 we anticipate um an 87 cent uh tax rate associated to our management fund. We have our physical plant and levy and equipment. Again this is a restricted fund. This does have two parts. Um it's a board of education controlled which is that 33 cents per assess uh thousand cess valuation which is our regular ple as we indicate it. And then we have our voter approved which is a 10-year levy for $134. Um the uses the common uses of that is improvements to grounds and buildings. Um it's for our technology. It's as well as our fleets. You often hear us say our 10-year PPE plan. Um that includes our roofing that we just uh that the board just approved this evening to move forward with. Um and

111so there's multi- things in regards to facilities associated to our physical plant levy and the dollars associated to that. Um, for fiscal 27, the the regular equates to a little over 92,000 with the voted of $3.6 million for a total of $4,566,791 or a property tax rate of $167, which has been um constant over the last 10 years of the 33 cents and the $134. >> Um, yeah, real quick question. So, we know this is going to be expiring in 28. what is what is typically the backing it up to where we would take a look at that at. >> So that will more than likely be within the next uh 6 to8 months uh probably in um March of 27 is what we're looking at for for that potentially. There's so much uncertainty right

112now just due to what's happening with the legislature and some of their uh tax proposals that um we're not exactly sure what that's going to be. Um so we are playing a little bit of kind of wait and see because of just legislative changes. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yeah. And then we take a look at that just that property tax revenue that is received um for the regular and voted and the dollars associated to that. Um again, a little over um uh $4.5 million anticipated for fiscal 27 and again to utilize for our facilities across the district as well as our fleet, our bus, um our vehicles um as well as equipment and even um uh some software and different things like that are utilized for that. So as we move forward then our

113last and final one is our debt service and that is a restricted fund as Dr. T had indicated earlier as well. Um we have this uh based on uh two bonds that were recently approved by the community. Um this fund is utilized to pay the interest and the principal due um on those repayments. Uh we had the $32 million bond um in February of 2017 with then the $69.9 million bond in May of 2022. Uh the 32 million was utilized for the construction of Aldrich and uh the um remodels of North Cedar and Orchard Hill with then the 69.9 for the high school and the stadium. Uh the amount requested or or the amount needed uh for the paying of the interest in the principal's due is 7,484,375 or a total property tax of $2.73.

114So what does that look like? As I was indicating earlier, the difference in regards to the property tax and where those changes did occur, uh the dollars associated to that in fiscal 22, uh the dollars associated to that and that revenue was a little over $2.3 million, which would have had a lower decrease in our property tax versus uh in fiscal 23 when the $69.9 million um did occur. that bond um that did increase the the revenues therefore then increase the property tax according to it as well. So um again you will continue to see that decline over the next several years as we continue to make those final payments of interest and payment um for those particular bonds. So summarizing all of it um as we take a look at this and how how

115it looks in regards to again um the dollars associated to it and the final tax rate and how that's determined. Again that combined district cost with that dropout prevention and that um additional cash reserve levy if required equates to that $19 million uh or $7.87. We then have those additional um levies of that instructional support levy. the management fund as I had indicated um the voted and the regular PEP and then that debt service to equate for $36,129,44 or that tax rate of $14.11 as indicated earlier in the presentation this evening. So how does it impact the the property tax owners? Right? That's the kind of the question that individuals always want. Um this just depicts um based on the the projected residential property tax for the district. Uh you'll note for 25 and 26

116and then 26 and 27 that property value at $100,000. We do have that roll back and that's set by the Iowa Department of Revenue. with the roll back in in um 26 was a little over 47% with 26 or 27 uh 44 a.5%. With uh this does not include any uh homestead or military credits that homeowners may have. Uh but with the tax rates from the prior year to this year, you will see a deduction or a decrease in um a total change of about $61 for this particular example or a decrease of 8%. Um, for this particular example, we also show then the commercial property. Commercial property is a little bit more complex and a little bit more difficult to um, identify, but um, because there's stair steps. Um, the legislation changed a couple

117years ago. those stair steps. According to that, um the first $150,000 is based on the roll back and then the uh anything above the $150,000 is 90% uh to equate for that total taxable value. Again, with that tax rate, um of $14.52 to $14.11, you will also see a decrease for this particular example of about 4% of um for commercial property. So, So, what do we have left? Um, this evening obviously was just establishing that proposed budget, taking a look at where that property tax levy as well as the the rates um uh of that $14.11. Um, it will be published in the proposed the budget will be published um in April uh 16th newspaper, a waterl courier with then um the public hearing and adoption of the budget on April 26 or 27th, excuse

118me. um with then finally um certifying that budget with the county on April by April 30th as required by law. So I think the next slide is actually the amendment so I won't move forward in regards to that yet. Are there any questions in regards to It's a lot of information to take in. Um, but we definitely continue to do our due diligence and to review and to determine the needs of of the district, but be cognizant of the of the community as well as as we move forward. So, >> it's always a great reminder of what we have control over >> and what we don't, right? And most of it is we don't, right? Don't have control. Um but we again provide our accolades to not only you but your entire team to compile

119this information um to articulate it to simplify it for us. Um even though we're going to still ask you many many questions and go what was that again? Uh but we do we we appreciate that and um yes. So any questions on this for now? Okay. Well, we need to set a public hearing. Mhm. So Nate, >> I move I move that the Cedar Falls Board of Education direct the secretary to publish the budget estimate and notice of public hearing as required by law in the Ced in the Waterl Cedar Falls career and that the public hearing for the 2026 27 proposed budget be held at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, April 27th, 2026 at the city of Cedar Falls City Hall, 220 Clay Street, Cedar Falls, Iowa, as presented. >> Okay, that's our motion. I

120need a second, please. >> Second. >> Thank you, Bet. Any additional conversation? >> We've had a couple of directors had to leave. I We still have a quorum. >> We still have a quorum. Yes, we do. Okay. I would say all those in favor would say I. >> I. >> Opposed the same. And that motion carried for the public hearing. Thank you. >> Then we'll have Danell just shift into the amendment aspect of this. >> I promise this is not as long. So, uh, this actually is just a few minutes of discussion. Um, it's in this this time and period. Um, as I had indicated earlier this evening, um, it is an opportunity to review the certified budget at this time as to where we were at, uh, last year at this time. And often,

121uh, this is just Iowa code indicating that districts do have the ability to amend the budget as needed to, um, based on expenditures that do incur that are not anticipated. Um, and that does often happen. Um, most districts do an amendment to their budgets each year um, because there are things that do occur. And so when we take a look at the amended budget for this year, um there are four actually four categories that could be amended. Um this year we are anticipating or recommending amendment um for the 2526 budget to include our instructional and our non-instructional programs. Our instructional is amended due to um district network access points and switches. At the time of our conversation last year, um this was um not um uh fully vetted to determine the cost associated to that.

122Um we recently received notification and are moving forward with the need because it is it is time to update the district network and access points. It is approximately about $700,000. Um part of that though will be covered under our e rate. So the district will be reimbursed for those dollars accordingly. uh about 50% of that but unfortunately um the district is required to make that payment accordingly and then -ate does reimburse the district and so there's just that delay and and those needs of that approval for that. So that is the purpose for the instructional as well as then the non-instructional program that is our food service and we've seen an increase um in our supplies and cost associated to our food. Um though we have um a fantastic program and they do a phenomenal

123job in regards to managing the budget accordingly, we've just seen almost a 12 to 15% increase on some of those costs impacting that were not anticipated at this time last year. So there is um a a an increase request um from the prior year budget um from 3,757,000 to the $3.9 million. Um the one thing to note is this does not change or or require um an increase in tax. This is just utilizing revenues already the district has in the authority that the district has. So there's no increase in tax um cost associated to that. This does require a public hearing. So um it is recommended to move forward with that public hearing um and setting that public hearing again. And again, this just does follow the same um budget cycle and uh timeline as

124our certified budget for fiscal 27 does as well. So amending that budget accordingly. So any questions on the amendment at this time. >> Okay. Public hearing. >> I move that the Cedar Falls Board of Education set 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 27th, 2026 at the City of Cedar Falls City Hall, 220 Clay Street, Cedar Falls, Iowa, as the time, date, and place to hold a public hearing to amend the current 202526 school year estimated budget expenditures as presented. >> So much second. >> I'll second. >> Any last conversation? Just one comment on this. Um, excuse me. There's uh several districts across the state that may may just certify their um spending authority within the budget and just say this is what we anticipate spending next year and it's just a blanket dollar amount. We don't do

125that. Denell and her team if you've seen the worksheet is uh line by line item by item very specific as far as what are past costs what are anticipated increase in costs and what will the expenditures be for this year in a very detailed format so it can be done with a scalpel instead of maybe with a chainsaw as far as where are we seeing increased expenditures and and why is that occurring and how is that occurring um that is why we may be over in some areas because we anticipated inflationary cost of 7% but there some more dollars associated with that over the course of 12 to 18 months and into the future. So, it's really a testament to her team just because we don't take the blanket approach. We take the very um

126I guess studious way of looking at it line by line, item by item. >> Yes. Thank you, Jamal and your team for the hard work you do during this time of year. It's >> Thank you. >> Okay, I guess we go to vote. All of those in favor would say I. >> I. >> Oppose. The same. And that motion has carried. Okay. Moving into the superintendence report. >> Yeah. Just a couple quick items. Uh April 27th is our next board meeting. Uh as we just approved a couple items. There will be some public hearings there. Uh as well as some of the finalized budget components. May 11th and will be the following board meeting. U we do have commencement coming up. It's a great opportunity for a board member if somebody would like to volunteer

127to help uh hand out diplomas. It's really a neat honor and opportunity uh to to just kind of uh see eye to eye with our graduating seniors and just the the sense of pride and accomplishment that they have and certainly would love a volunteer from the school board if they're so willing. >> And would we take two? We used to use two. We have taken one, two, and I think one year we actually had three just because of graduating seniors and and we can work on all those different rotations. >> Yeah. So don't feel like you shouldn't. >> I would love to do it again. I >> I wish it was a pleasure. >> And Kim. Okay. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> We will ask our other two that aren't here. Yep. >> I know

128that Lel has. >> He has. >> Yes, he has. Um I have in the past. Um so perfect. Okay. It's all you have. Okay. I've got a couple of things myself. I will start with these are just reminders. A lot of this u was mentioned about Thursday night the wellness meeting and um again the uh the fact that we've got a track invitational going on. Um next Monday is all city band two performances 6 o'clock and 8 o'clock. Um you are not required to attend both of them but you know as a as a good board member you probably should. So just you know bring a bottle of water. Um, and then yes, our Monday the 27th, um, it was a topic that I sat through recently on a call regarding um, continue advocacy, right?

129Continue advocacy on um, the resolution we passed, right, about fair and adequate funding, right? Um, these aren't things that we can stop just because the legislature did something, right? is not a reason to stop. And so, uh, it it makes it it is challenging. It's challenging how we do that. Uh, but we need to continue that and we need to, um, we need to encourage our community members to continue being advocates for that. Um and um I know that our we had two speakers on the uh regarding policy and um maybe we can just sort of reook at how that how that comes through to the board. >> Yeah. So a couple different things with that. Oops, sorry. A couple different things with that. Um we have different board committees. Um it's kind of weird

130how the election cycle occurs and we get new board members in December. Um and once they're sworn in, you start selecting committees. Some of those committees are really focused on the following year. Policy committee is one of those. We typically don't change policy mid year uh just for consistency and and how things are set up, how handbooks are written uh and how we have to publish all those different uh policies in a kind of forward thinking way. So a policy committee typically will bring the recommendations from the committee to the board in June with a second reading in July just so that they can get published. That committee will meet here shortly uh to be able to go through those, look at different recommendations to bring that to the full board uh with other committees.

131Some committees have started to meet or have met, other committees will meet. Um it's just weird how we start kind of midcycle with new board members to be able to get everybody up to speed and starting those. So um policy committee usually again will come u from uh me working to review commit or the policies based on all the different legal and policy changes that have occurred or are recommended to occur. Um we then invite the policy committee in typically to meet with cabinet and go through each of those and then make that recommendation to the full board. Um other committees um have a different cadence. Uh some have different timelines. Uh again, some have met, some will meet into the future. >> Okay. >> Um I know I have one more question, but I

132don't want to keep asking questions. So, anybody else have anything? >> Um I would say I just joined as the board representative on the is it the Drywin Creek >> um committee. I was going to give like a report. We met a couple weeks ago. I was going to give a report, but I'm going to maybe wait until two weeks from now and when uh Director Rogers and Director Stzman are here to hear it as well. >> Great. Thank you. >> I would say Josh Balk who is kind of the person that runs that uh group. Uh unbelievable group. Uh unbelievable individual. If you have not met Josh um but he did a lot of the work for the water retention at the current or the new high school. uh he actually submitted us as

133a award recipient for an a recognition. That statewide group is actually meeting at you and I here in a couple weeks and and uh we are going to at least I will be in attendance to to accept that award and it's really not an award we did. Uh it's an award that Josh did and in his work just his passion to write grants to get the work to be able to have the retention at the high school that is very uh environmentally uh friendly and forwardinking. I will share it again, but the biggest news out of that committee meeting was that Josh is leaving. He is he took a position down in De Moines with the the DNR and so they are working to fill that position and uh Josh is kind of hanging around

134to help get that person on on boarded when they hire them and hopefully he he or she can hit the ground running when once the time comes. So, we have two um two of our groups that have received their contracts. We know that the CFA is still in closed negotiations. What about food service? Tell me about food service because I can't remember. >> This is not a year for food service. Um they will not be up for renewal until next year. Okay. >> So, they do a two-year >> Their agreement was actually three years. Three year. >> Yeah. So, >> next year we will have all four groups. >> Okay. And as a reminder that um the enterprise fund is in cases everything for them, right? All of their um all of their salaries, all

135of their benefits. So, >> okay. Anything else? >> I'd just like to encourage you all to go to the student art exhibit at the Hurst. It is fabulous. There's some fabulous art there. Astounding for students. It's very good. >> And I think we might be at the highest amount that they've ever received into the lot of things. There were a lot of things there. It was beautiful. >> Um I know that my source has said I have not been there yet, but my sources said there I always look for something that has a CF on it or a tiger and there were none. So I'm going to ask >> there were not. >> There were I'm just going to ask I need a student to have something with I used to put that on, right?

136I can go find my pictures of it too in the past. Silly, isn't it? Just one of those silly. >> Facebook. >> Okay, that sounds good. >> Okay, good. Thank you. Thank you. Because you know I'm all red and black. Okay. Anything else for the good of the order? Again, thank you all for your um for your service. Thank you all for supporting us. Um um it's a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot to take in. It's a lot to uh manage through and we are in challenging times. So um I will take um an adjournment motion. >> I move that we adjourn. >> Thank you Bet. And a second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Jeff. All those in favor say I. I. I. >> And we are closed.