001[Music] feel. Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] This feel [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] feel. Hey [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey hey hey. [Music] Oh, hey. Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Please let me go. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] away. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Okay, we'll call the meeting to order. Start with roll call. Dave Wrunner here. Becky Engel here. Jeremy Weller here. Jan Week here. Christina Shark is here. Morgan Brown and Brian Jones are absent tonight. Um, next up is adoption of agenda and declaration of a quorum. Make a motion we
002approve. Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor raise your right hand. Motion passes. Next is citizen speak. I do not have any green cards tonight. Um, next is the consent agenda. Make a motion we approve the consent agenda. Second. Have a motion, a second. Is there any other discussion? All those in favor, raise your right hand. Next. Board priority. We will promote and monitor growth in student achievement and all students will be challenged with high expectations that meet or exceed measurable targets. We have an Evans Junior High update with Brad and Mike tonight. All right. Thanks for having us here tonight. I just brought some wonderful people with me tonight and I promise I didn't tell them what to say. I don't even know what they're going to say. Um
003I want to start with some data that we had. Um and the first one is on attendance and I this is a trend from the blue line being the year of 2223 uh the red line being 2324 and then uh the green would be our current year. um the the 87% in blue and the 86 that's during the the flu epidemic or when that all that was going on. But this was important to me because I got to see our rise in uh the importance of our kids coming to school and and it's been sort of at that same trend. we haven't dropped below that 92% which was in 23 24. Um but it's been sort of constant and at a rise throughout uh this year so far. So I was pretty excited about that
004and wanted to share that with you cuz we do have kids that are attending school uh and so that means if they're attending it must be a welcoming place for them to be. So I appreciated this one. My next one is on our uh discipline again 22 being being in blue uh 23 is the brown and then 24 25 is the current year. This is currently where we are and I think since we've started it's just constantly dropped um from the beginning of school year. I think in uh week six and seven it was up on a rise but it's still lower than what we've had in 22 23. So um just another piece on data that I think our kids are understanding our expectations and we're holding our students accountable for that and you
005can see that trend starting to drop even more. This here is our um this is a challenge for me because I I'm just a competitive person. So when I look at these things um I see that these are ISAPs. Um the 37 being not yet proficient, 59 being proficient, but then you have four that are advanced and not I'm I'm really working uh with our staff, Mrs. Beimis, myself and Mr. Willis of changing those numbers so that um we have more in that proficient area on both sides of it on the math and ELA as and we've been doing a lot of work with our staff to make sure that happens. So this is our biggest challenge so far uh at Evans. And so I have uh Miss Robinson uh our ELA teacher. She's also
006a BLT member and head of our student council. Also, I have with me Miss Avery Wood. She's a new teacher. Um, and then we brought along Camden Cartright to my right and Isabelle Hera. Did I say that right? Um, another one of our members that they were going to just talk a little bit about how uh everything's going at Evans. And I'll start with Camden since he's to my right. Hello. Um, my name is Cam Cartwright. I am current the current president of the student council here at Evans Junior High and I'm here tonight to provide some updates of what we're doing at Evans. Um, our main goal of the student council is to help build and core school spirit and um, community engagement. We have put on one dance this year and we have
007another one coming up this Friday that allows our students to chill out and have some fun. Um we also take on more responsibilities this year as we have um taken up announcements. We have done pep assemblies and um done some other things. We've helped teachers um we've gave out conference cards at the um conferences. Um we also assist the building and festivities before winter break. Um, coming up in April, we are going to be fundraising for autism awareness and donating a portion of the funds we received to uh autism foundation. We will also be looking forward to the end of the year when we um support our local firefighters with a fire and ice fundraiser. Um we're excited to finish off the great year and we are excited for what the next one will bring.
008But does anyone have any questions? Okay. Thank you, Avery. You want Okay. All right. Hello. I'm Avery Woods. Um I'm a first year teacher. I just graduated from Central College in Pella. I'm teaching ELA with Taylor. Um I also have preap and I'm the talented and gifted teacher for just 8th grade level at Evans. Um I wasn't initially um applying for the TAG position, but it was I was asked to do that when I was hired um and I really enjoyed it. So far, it's something that I wouldn't have explored. So, my admin has been very supportive in giving me all the help that I need there because I wasn't um prepared for that role. Um, and then on the other side with uh English language arts, Taylor is my mentor and she has been
009incredibly helpful. We went through a struggle midway through during the semester. We lost our third member of our eighth grade ELA team. Um, but our administration has been incredibly helpful in in helping us um, keep our curriculum up and getting us the support we needed by getting a long-term sub. Um, but I think that we've been working really well together. And I don't think it's impacted the students at all thus far. Um, and I think that, you know, we work really well as a team, but it only really helps when we have our admin backing us. Um, so anytime I've had a question, they've been forward with me and are constantly checking in on my classroom, which is great. They don't stay too long, which is nice. Um, but constantly putting their heads in there
010to help me or to for me to ask a quick question has been great. I really haven't had any complaints about that so far, and I feel like I've have a whole lot of hands behind me to push me forward. Um, overall. Okay. Um, hi. Um, I'm Isabelle Werta and um, I'm in eighth grade and I am part of the student council and I have been attending Evans ever since 6th grade and honestly ever since the grades have gone from 6th to 8th and then to 8th to 9th. I've seen a big change in the maturity level and I've seen a lot of good things and from the beginning till now it's it's gotten better and I see a lot of progress also from the phone policy of people interacting more with each other and
011talking to one another more. [Music] Um yeah. Um there's Hi, I'm Mrs. Robinson. Um I am really glad to hear that the students are really liking the phone policy because I also love the phone policy. Um, we've had a lot less referrals this year, I feel like, um, regarding phones or classroom disruptions with technology. Um, especially the earbuds. Um, I'm really liking that we initiated that this year and I love the support that we get from our admin for that. Um, if we do catch a student, you know, with their phone. Um, so I really love our new phone policy. Uh, I also just want to mention our admin team this year. Uh, I'm really enjoying having Mr. Davis, Miss Beis, Mr. Willis, um as our admin team, uh they're really open to uh talking
012with us whenever we need help. Uh they're really supportive, um with parents, with disciplinary actions. Um I feel like I can go to them with anything and I'm not judged or I'm not um being, you know, that extra parent watching you over your shoulder kind of feeling. So, we're really really enjoying our admin this year. All right, thank you guys. Uh, couple more slides I have. This is our We just celebrated this uh two or three weeks ago. This was our top 10% uh attendance uh which is 95%. Referrals were zero. I could have went zero to one, but we had so many that were at zero. I wanted to make sure that we uh were able to award them reward them with some of the things and these students also had 3.85 GPA or
013higher. Um this was our eighth grade group and again this was just our top 10% and then this was our ninth grade group. Same criteria. Uh we also um acknowledged our teachers of the semester. Uh our eighth grade teacher was Mr. officials. And then our teacher for our ninth grade was Miss was Mrs. Jinx. Um, and then I also did an award for uh our cafeteria, Miss uh Jackson, Mr. Piltchure, Miss Dowy, Miss Beimis, and Mr. Willis, just to show some appreciation for all the hard work that they have put in along outside of me to make sure that that building is ran in a uh top condition. Uh the last slide I have um this was just part of our our school improvement plan and I just I put this one here because where
014we started at the beginning of year with the PLC's and collaborative teams and scales was not where we are right now. We were really in struggle on a struggle bus. But to see where we are right now, we are probably I can honestly say about 98% of our uh teams have showed that growth. So we're we're almost reaching this goal that that we set on our school improvement plan with the PLC's and uh and the data cycles and all that that's going on. So very excited uh about that. This is my last slide and this was just an appreciation uh just to everyone that has something to do with Evans Jun Junior High being successful. Uh our central office has been very uh important to us because I've asked for a lot but everything that
015I've asked for is to help manage the building or make teaching easier for our teachers. Uh the EPASS is a pass system so we know where every student is uh at any time. Um, and then securely, which is new, but being a one-on-one building, uh, we a teachers are able to watch our students screens and and able to turn that off if they're on a tab that they shouldn't be on. Um, and right now the the students think I'm the one doing it from my office and which is okay because that takes the pressure off the teachers. But I get an email about every day of saying, "Hey, Mr. Davis, can you turn my game back on? So, that lets me know it's working because our teachers are actually doing it. But I just wanted
016to thank our central office uh and everyone there that that plays a part in making our building successful. So, thank you. Do we have any questions? Mike, one one question I have for the group and anybody can answer this is that one of the things I'm definitely seeing at Evans is um a huge decrease in and what I call aggressive type discipline um you know whether it's fights or or those type of uh discipline incidents and then also um the decorum of of Evans by being more small or personalized. I just it has a whole different feel to it than it used to. And if anybody wants to talk to that like what is that what you're seeing? Is that your experience and thoughts on that? Thoughts? Um it's good. I think we have a
017lot less um aggressive stuff happening overall and it's a lot more personalized and it works really good. I like what you guys have done. So, thanks. Um, obviously I wasn't here last year, but I've heard of anything that might have happened. Um, because students love to gossip. Um, but as far as like not having their phones, they used to say that they'd have videos of things that might happen all the time, and now we don't have that unless for some reason something happens after school or off of school grounds. So, I think that has helped in a way. Good. I just want to say I appreciate not hearing about Evans if that makes sense. A few years ago, you know, that's all you ever heard and it was usually not good, but I don't hear
018I really don't hear anything good or bad. The students I've talked to enjoy going there say it's okay. So, um I want to thank you, Mr. Davis, for all you've done. There there was one slide I don't think and I can't believe they didn't mention this. Our second semester we started hall sweeps. Uh it's just important to me that our kids get to class on time. And if and um it's like one of the toughest things is kids they gather up and talk and they wait until the tardy bell rings and then they make it to class. Well, that's a class disruption for me because you're interrupting that teacher. she can't get started. So, I had a had a tough time dealing with that. So, I implemented a hall sweep and we did it two
019days a week and you never knew what day it was. Then it went to three days a week and now it's at five days and I can tell you I walk the halls and they hear my voice or they hear Mr. Willis or Miss Beimis and they are running the class and uh we're watching them on camera run the class and so it's important to me because now our staff they are saying hey I appreciate you doing that because now my kids are in in my class on time so now I get the whole 47 minutes to teach our class instead of start teaching there's an interruption kid coming in and then so I just appreciate the fact that our teachers understand that you go in there, you close your door, and you go to
020work, and if there's someone left out, I'll promise you I'll get them. And we do get them. Uh, and so, and that has changed a lot in our building because our students are starting to realize that we want you in class. It's important that you be there and not disrupt our class. Thank you. And thank you for what you're doing at Evans. Like Becky, I've heard really good things this year. So I think it's coming around. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Next board priority to be the best. We will create a positive learning and working culture for our stakeholders and embrace our community partners through communication and transparency. We have three action items. The first one is solution tree professional development services with Brad. Yeah, I think you have a copy of the uh contract
021that our teacher quality committee looked at. Uh we're bringing in Tom Shimmer. Uh one of our big initiatives is standardsbased grading, standards reference grading um and assessment just to really make sure that we're communicating uh to our kids and our parents more clearly what students are able to do or where they're struggling. Um and with that, that's a heavy lift for some of our educators depending on where they're at with their awareness of it. So we're we're uh proposing to bring Tom Shimmer who is under the solution tree umbrella and he's one of the best out there. So his his price is a little bit more per per day. Uh but it's coming out of a designated professional development fund that that's what those funds are are u explicitly uh targeted for bringing in the
022best PD services we can provide. So, we're recommending to approve that contract for Tom Shimmer for next school year. And he's going to be talking about assessment, standardsbased grading and assessment. He offers lots of different different sessions. So, what we'll do is we'll make sure that he offers multiple sessions over two days that provide people services and PDIA what they what they need. Yep. Hey Brad, do we I'm not picking on this one. I'm just in general we have speakers or TQ days or all of the other acronyms that you use. Um Yep. Do do you survey like the staff that's involved? Do you know was it did I learn something? Did I not really learn something? I mean, is that something that whether it's teachers or whoever involved that they fill out like a
023survey or something? Every time that they not only do we have our internal surveys, but like solution tree, one of the things I appreciate about them is they also send those surveys out and then they also give us the results. And so, we've used a guy this year because professional learning communities. You'll hear the acronym PLC's a lot has been a big major focus for us. Um, just making sure we have strong teams at every level of our of our organization. Um, and we just had him in last month and got his survey results back and shared that with our committee. It's called the TQ or teacher quality committee. Actually, we just met tonight and went over those results and we we make decisions based on those surveys. Okay. Yeah. Overwhelmingly positive. Solution Tree is
024a great organization. They've been a good partner to us. Marzano is also under the Solution Tree umbrella now. Um, they're the best in the business. This is an action item. I make a motion that we approve the contract with Solution Tree. Needs a second. Second. Any other discussion? All those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion passes. Next up is board policy updates, second and final reading. I can just answer any questions, but this would uh no changes since the first reading at our last meeting. So, if there any questions about the policies, I can answer. Otherwise, this is just the second final to put them into place. Make a motion to approve as presented. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any other discussion? All those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion
025passes. Next is the budget guarantee resolution with John. Okay. Uh this one we do this every year. So the budget guarantee is um what Iowa has for districts that may have declining enrollment or looking at less funds year-over-year. It guarantees them spending authority uh to ensure that the district's authorized spending limit is no less than 101% of the prior year. We will not need this this year as long as the legislature passes SSA of something. Um that is still pending. I believe they're 30. Well, last week they were 36 days past that deadline to do so. Uh we are patiently waiting, but um we just passed this resolution just in case if anything were to happen and we needed that budgeting guarantee, uh we do this. And it all it does is it just says
026that um we will levy if needs be for that dollar amount. Um just a note, uh the budget guarantee is funded entirely by property tax. So when the state legislature has a low SSA uh that doesn't keep up with inflation, they put the burden on the districts to ask the local citizens for more property tax dollars. And I know there's a big big push at the state level to focus on property taxes. Uh this one kind of goes against that because when you when you have um in this case, I think at 2% there would be 159 districts out of the 330 some that would be on budget guarantee. It's about $58 million if all those districts were to to go and ask their taxpayers for that. And in a lot of communities, you can't
027do that. I know it would be difficult for us to go to the community and raise our levy by a dollar or$2 dollars to make up a shortfall at the state level. So, um, fortunately, we don't um, appear to need it. Um, but just wanted to kind of share a little bit with the board on that and also say, yeah, it's the same thing. We're just waiting. We just really have no answers yet. So, we'll do this the next meeting, April 7th. we'll have kind of the formal budget presentation. Um I really hope we know something is and more finalized by then. Uh but if not, we've got a pretty good idea where we're going and we'll share that at the next meeting. So any questions? I make a motion to approve the budget guarantee
028resolution. Second. We have a motion, a second. Is there any other discussion? All those in favor, raise your right hand. Thank you. Thank you. Next board priority. Through the board's financial stewardship, we will provide operations, technical, and curricular resources to staff, teachers, and administrators so that all students have consistent and sustained achievement. We have four action items here. The first one is the OS cafeteria floor. So, the os cafeteria floor, we uh solicited bids to to do some repair work on that. the Tazzo's pitted in areas and the u the lines in there. They're going to pressure wash. But anyway, it's pretty hard to find people to work on Terzo in the state of Iowa. We end up getting a couple and then sending two more out. So, we sent four bids out and we
029only had one response and that was from Daario. Um I can't pronounce his company name. It's too Italian for me. So, um I would ask for board approval on that. Um second item, the OS wooden gym floor. We had uh we sent four bids out on that. Phillips Flooring, um H2I Stalker, and a company called BB's. Um, if you noticed, um, BB's I believe was just a little bit lower on price, but we went by by the rubric and, uh, Phillips end up getting that just from the work they've done for us in the past. So, I'd ask that the board approved that. And then the Fourth Street houses, the demo, um, I'm sure you guys all seen the houses burned down Friday, so quite a sight. But anyway, the cleanup on that, we had
030we sent seven bids out and we got four back and Doug Renfro was a low bid on that at $28,000. So, I would ask the board to approve that. And the last item we had on there was the Hackberry Street. This is the John BB property right next to the house that we demoed last year. It was a vacant lot that we got uh on back taxes. the county and the city are going to wave those uh uh penalties for that, but this is just the process of finishing that up to take ownership. I got a question on the the wooden floor in the gym and this is the the high school. Isn't that going to be the wrestling? Is that going to be the wrestling room? No, that's not Is it going to be
031a wrestling room? No, we're going to we're going to refinish it to sand it down. Oh, the wrestling room's in the new gym. That's right. Yeah. Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. Never mind. But they'll still use this one for whatever gym, whatever they need, PE classes, stuff like that. Okay. Yeah, it would be the rubber gym. And um I think what we're thinking is that uh it just needs some real care. Yeah, we can approve these four together. If there's no more questions, make a motion that we approve items A, B, C, and D as presented. Second. We have a motion and a second. Is there any other discussion? All those in favor, raise your right hand. Next up, a superintendent report. Thanks, Christina. Um, the first thing I have is I'd like to thank the fire
032department. Um, as many people know, they were very gracious and and very collaborative when we asked them if they'd be willing to help us as far as burn down some houses if they wanted to do that for training. And it helps us tremendously as a district because it saves us a lot of money uh by them doing that. And it worked. The partnership I thought worked great. Um, they were also able to get a lot of training. They had the experience of going in, what it's like to go in when a fire is going on, how to put out fires on the outside. Um, and it I think it was a great training experience for them. But it I think it was a great example of how collaboration can work in a community and so
033we really appreciate the fire department's willingness to do that and and thank them for that. Um, the second thing I have is making up time for our weather delays. So, we as a district, uh, we have three and a half hours left to make up that we went over. Um, superintendents always love talk about weather and so forth. It's one of our funner things. But we're with the three and a half hours, we have several different options. We have options of adding it to the end of the calendar. We have options of doing a Friday. Um, the Fridays we get have early outs. Um, and then now we also have the option of virtual and I'm going to talk with uh the union tomorrow and probably make an announcement because I think the other thing
034uh our staff wants to know and parents want to know is like when will we make it up also like what what's the timeline when we're going to do that. So, it's not a lot of time, but um I think talking with people, talking with the staff and administrators, the one that resonates the most is looking at a Friday and doing a three and a half hour um virtual. And that allows us to do it all in one day. Uh where we wouldn't if if we had it in person, we'd have to do it two different Fridays probably if we did it that way. uh or we'd have to add it to the end of the school year or something like that. So, I think that one is the one that makes the most sense.
035Uh I'm going to get the feedback from our teachers union tomorrow uh to see if they would agree. And then also when's the best time to do it? I think usually teachers like it done if you have to make up hours usually earlier than later. Not so much in May, but maybe more in April. We look at something like this. So, ask them that as well. So that's our plan as far as making up the time. Uh any questions that board members have on that. We should have an announcement uh by the end of this week. So if not, uh the next thing I have is I I sent this out to the board, but I wanted to kind of I haven't had a chance to spend any time with the board on on this,
036but uh we we had a really neat collaboration here recently with Iowa State Extension. Um they have in the past, many may know this or may not know this is in the past they've worked with our our city, our county and legacy in the school district to provide them mainly provide them data on our community. And what we use that data for is to help make uh a lot of our decisions moving forward. And kind of an example would be some of our decisions we've made as a district. We use some of the data they collected as far as uh community members feelings on uh preserving uh the the small north side uh elementaryaries or building one large. And they were taking the survey data more mainly from the perspective of uh perception of our
037school district and so forth. Which one would uh have a more positive perception? And I think we'd all agree that the direction we went I think was the right way to go. I think it uh definitely brought a lot of trust I think but also uh people really appreciated us going that way. So we we we used our a lot of the survey data in that way. And so it was really a helpful collaboration with us and they asked if we would participate in a video uh that we'll show here um that really incorporates how our district has helped change the perception in a positive way of our community and how legacy has also uh helped change the perception of our city as well. So, we're just going to show that really quickly and answer
038any questions afterwards where we looked at all the data that we had and the question was asked, are we happy with all these negative indicators? And at the end, our decision was no, we're not happy and we knew that we needed to change a lot of things in order to change uh the decades of decline that we had been suffering. One of the first objectives that we had was to really work on our downtown as the heart of our community. What we were hearing from folks that were coming in is that they would come down to our community. They would drive through the downtown and they would see the lack of care that was there and they would make a decision not to come to our communities. Perception work became really important to us. Whether
039it was working on the downtown and improving the the facades and the streetscape and all of those things that we have done in the past decade that have been phenomenal um but also how people feel about our schools. When I came in we had a lot of different issues that uh we needed to address. We were struggling with community perception of our district academic performance eroding facilities. So that's what we really focused on. So over the last 10 years, we have been in the decision- making rooms. We have provided research, we have provided best practices, we have visited communities. We've been very pre appreciative of the ISU extension uh outreach program uh because it's helped us in so many different ways. really giving us a focus and helping us create our vision of what things
040we wanted to focus on as a district and then also helping us from the vision to actually the reality of making that vision happen. If you look at the way the downtown looks now compared to the way it looked 10 15 years ago it is like night and day. We worked with a lot of different community partners to improve the facades. We worked diligently on adaptive reuse and upper story housing and have put in over 100 apartments downtown that are all immediately full. We've impacted almost every aspect of our district, whether it's student learning, whether it's for our facilities, whether it's meeting the needs of our students. When I first came, we were probably at about 79% graduation rate and last year our high school HS was at 96%. With the changes we've made, the
041correlation between what we're doing and how the community feels about not only just our school district, but about our community has dramatically changed over the last 5 years. ISU Extension and Outreach has been just a wonderful resource for us. And I think the reason why they're successful and why we utilize them and will continue to utilize them in the future is because of the expertise and resources they have available and the fact that they are in communities. They are seeing what communities are challenged with and they're adapting their services to to fit those needs. I think the biggest moment for me was when people started to bring their kids back to our school district. Just a a wonderful image of what change can happen if you're patient, if you have a plan, and if you
042give it the time and the resources and the energy needed. My hope for our community and hope for other communities is that they look at what we're doing and they realize they can do it as well. I think having people be proud to be from a tona and be proud to live here is maybe the most exciting and wonderful thing there is. Well, I just I thought it would be worthwhile seeing that because it it really um well, first of all, I want to thank the Iowa State Extension for all their support and and helping us as a district and helping our community. Um and it's really um um it's nice sometimes to reflect on um where you've been and where you're going. And it's nice to see that people recognize um where we're going
043and and they really supported and they're really positive about the direction of our district. Um so one of the things I wanted to mention too is Legacy. I want to thank Legacy too because they've been so supportive of our school district. Um and we have a meeting coming up to talk about expanding our brain health retreat rooms. uh we have one at the high school and we're looking at putting one at the middle school and they're going look we're looking at helping with funding for that. And so that's another example of how I think as a community we're working together uh to support each other. And so I wanted to also give a shout out to the legacy as well. Um the next thing I have is I wanted to get board feedback. Um, I
044I'll be honest, this one I I've gone back and forth on a lot of different times is what should we do with the area we will uh have now that the houses are knocked down. So, what should we how should we utilize that space? It's a it's a pretty prime space for us. Um, and so I've talked to a lot of different people and trying to figure out what is the best usage. I I know some people parking is always big. Um but I think it's also an opportunity to look at, you know, how how we could utilize that space to meet some of the needs that we have as a high school and some of the needs of students. Um, so we're thinking about at first we talked about do we need another mini
045pitch and talking with a lot of people is that right now we we really appreciate and thank Musco for their support on a lot of our mini pitches and they're getting used a lot but we probably have enough mini pitches is what we've kind of decided and so we start to look at what what would be a potential use of that and we kind landed on looking at maybe a Morton type building that would encorp encompass um some of the activities that we currently don't support at a real high level. And so what I mean by that is probably looking at where band could have an area for marching. Um our JOTC could have an area for marching. Uh but also beyond uh we don't have a great place. One of our larger clubs is
046archery and we don't have a great place for that. They need a place for storage as well. Um, we don't have a a great place uh for well this this one is kind of interesting is one of our most successful activities we have is bowling. We don't do a lot to support our bowling program. So, would we ever look at maybe putting in some lanes, practice lanes that that could show a huge sign of support for that program? But there's so many other programs. Uh golf would be another one. Would it be something we put a golf simulator in there? Um, so there's what as as meeting with my activity people, uh, we came up with a lot of different ways that we potentially could utilize it. And and kind of what we'd like to
047do is is invite all the people that represent those groups to see if this is something that would benefit them and they would they would like to have. And I was thinking also of maybe when we get to that point if maybe if if any board members would be interested in serving on that committee too. Uh you could let me know just uh you know I was thinking one or two if you'd have an interest in doing that. Um that would be great. And uh and then from that committee we determine kind of what the needs are right now and how what that building could look like. As we talked, we have two other areas there in the building that we potentially could put some activities in as well. Uh so it could be where
048we look at that whole area uh those three different areas and determine what you know what are the best usage of of those areas. So I wanted to first get feedback from the board if you you like that direction um if you think it makes sense and then also um thoughts you have. So, I'll just open it up. I know Archery would love to have a place Yeah. to store all their stuff. Um Yeah. It was I think it was difficult this year. Yeah. Yeah. And it's it's great. And they've gotten moved around and Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And for a lot of those places that do get moved around a lot, you it's hard. You start to feel like you're the unwanted stepchild or whatever. Right. Right. And the numbers we have in that group
049are huge. Yeah. Yeah. Other thoughts or if there's something else you think we should be looking at there. Certainly open to that. We're kind of in the early stages of just exploring. So what do you think? See, I think the committee uh is a good idea to try to get some ideas floating around. I don't really have a I guess a giant opinion one way or the other. Definitely don't think we need another mini pitch. That's for sure. Um in my my opinion. Um but yeah, I think I'd be open to a lot of things. Um I don't know I don't know if we need more parking or don't need more parking. Um, but yeah, it would make sense to to do something with that lot if we if we don't really need the parking.
050It would be nice to have something usable. Okay, I'm pretty open. Thanks, Dave. Anything else? If not, um, is anybody adamantly opposed that you don't like want us to explore this or Okay. Okay. What I what I'll do then is uh when we start getting the meeting set up, I'll just send out to the board to see if anybody'd like to volunteer for it and uh and we'll kind of go from there. Um and I'll just keep the board updated on it. Uh the next thing I have is um a couple announcements. We have our OS theater department will be presenting the play Puffs on April 4th, 5th, and 6th. um fourth and fifth will be at 7 p.m. and then on Sunday the 6th it will be at 2 p.m. and then we also
051have OCCP having a play on uh April 11th and 12th and 13th. So kind of similar where 11th and 12th is at 7 and then uh April 13th is at 2 p.m. Uh so we're excited to to have both those groups. Um, one of the things that, as the board knows, we've worked hard on is getting more people involved in some of our uh, activities and so we're always happy to uh, support those groups. So, with that, I think that's everything I've got. Christina, thanks, Mike. Up next is board member topics. Does anyone else have anything to add? Well, Mike took mine about puffs. Um, but I want to say that right before spring break, I was fortunate enough to participate in um the Iowa State Extension with their program that they did with money.
052I can't I know there's a name for it, but what a great time that was. They gave the kids a certain amount of money. They had a certain job and then they had to uh figure out the budget for the month and I happened to be at the uh charity table, you know, contributions, whatever. And some of the kids would want to give me all this money. like you haven't been over to food yet, you haven't been, you know, so it was really a great opportunity for the kids to learn about making a budget and how to survive. So, anything else? Next on the agenda is a close session. We need a motion to go into close session. Make a motion we go into close session. Second. There's no more discussion. Oh, all those in
053favor, raise your right hand. Okay, we are officially in close session. Don't take about