001Mine did that after I got logged in. >> Then it then go down to the right and click the little icon for >> like the internet. >> Yeah. It was disconnected. Okay. >> And then go to connect and then so student >> this one. >> Yep. >> Okay. Oh, now it's okay. There. >> Yes. Needed to get in there twice. Okay. Yours. >> Okay. Okay. It was up when I got here and I just kind of went this mine and I open it up and it's been black. >> I think yours just plugged in. Let's see. >> Were you plugged in? >> Hold on. Now she's going to put this on >> cuz I think I pulled the Oh, wait. Maybe I just need to put these thinking click on the so student. You'll probably
002have to do it later again. and then log in. >> And then once you get in, you might have to choose SO student at again, but I think we're getting it or let me know what doesn't work. >> Always got to remember I have to scroll here than I do >> on your personal Yes. or whatever. >> Oh, like this. Did it Well, now I got to think I got to log in again or the SO student again. >> Just click that so student. >> Yes, >> there you are. Was switching out servers and switches and everything this summer and then these things haven't been on since that's happened. Greg's coming. Kristen, no. >> Kristen, no. >> Okay, >> Greg. I think his I didn't check. It's okay. It's 5:30. I'll go ahead and call
003the meeting to order. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda? I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> Okay. Next we have the five school board basics. Put students first. >> Follow the law and your own policy. >> Sorry. uh respect the chain of command >> base decisions on shared objective information >> operate in the public eye. >> Okay. And next we will um I'll also just review what our mission statement is at Cibiiochin Schools. We build partnerships to challenge minds to invest in community and to embrace life. Oh seems we have no visitors. We will move on to our consent items. Were there any questions on any of those items? >> I'm just sending I didn't get the um additional bills
004printed off. I'm emailing them to Stan right now. >> Okay. >> Possibly. Zoe said >> I just sent it. Okay. Sorry. All right. I just sent it to them. Kendra, I put on the board here. >> Yeah. Okay. Hillar Hillards are maintenance. >> That was to do some scrub repairs on I think all all of them. Two two or three of the scrubbers. >> Um >> some middle school math textbooks. Huddle is our um what we use for the athletic football and volleyball like the stats all of that. There's more to it than just the stats but um that's the that purchase. Game one that is football uniforms. Friitech is to repair the outdoor freezer that was damaged in the when that windstorm came through. So that's most of what that is. Did we get
005some insurance on that or not? >> Still working on it. >> We literally just got that through today to put the order on it. So >> Okay. All right. If there are no questions, do I have a motion to approve the >> I'll make a motion to approve the consent items as presented. >> Okay. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Okay. All in favor say I. >> I. Okay. We will go on to our superintendent report. >> Really tried to put things on here outside of what we're going to talk about tonight. Um, and what we have talked about. There's Christian. Can you hear me? >> Yes. >> All right. Perfect. Um, put things on there that outside of what we're we've been talking about or haven't talked about tonight. So, um, did
006some work in the last month of finalizing some contracts with AA and their new parameters and how they're doing things. We talked about it last month, but finalized some of those things since that meeting. Um, been spending a lot of time on the paperwork and getting things ready for our new staff members. Um, the biggest update is with their to the interview stage, waiting for the actual paperwork to come in. Um, have them corresponding with a realtor in town for residents. So, um they're basically working on the final date to get their passports and then airplane tickets and move in. So, that's all positive. We're excited for that. Um starting the plans for the initial kickoff for the fall when staff get back and things like that and our district goals um which we'll touch
007on later here in the meeting. um financial viability a lot of times on the preparations with site logic meetings and then getting ready for the start of the year and then wrapping up the last fiscal year and projections and things like that. Like I've said, you always have your feed in three years where we're still finishing last year. We're just starting this year and then you're starting to project to the next year. So, um doing a lot of work with that and prep for this coming year. >> Okay. Any questions for Stan? All right. board committees. >> Um, finance and facilities did not meet in the policy. We met virtually um a couple weeks ago um to review the policies we're presenting tonight. >> Okay. And recognition of excellence. >> Yeah, really. So, in the
008last month, um the recognition of excellence in softball, Haley Gakei was Suland Conference honorable mention. And in baseball, Kane Julius was Suland Conference first team all conference and Carter Voss was Suland Conference honorable mention. So congratulations to all three. >> Good. Okay, moving on to the discussion items. Two-minute board policy and finance moment. >> Um, so some other discussion things was keeping this simple, but I put on paying for educational education, excuse me, for staff lensure and endorsements. this came through in like a a superintendent chat and explaining that. We at times, especially when we've asked staff to pick up a class that they need an endorsement for and so on. U might work with them to pay for their um training or education for that when they're adding something. As an example, I think
009I shared this last spring, but with Lisa is picking up some of those tag Lisa Loy, excuse me, our librarian picking up those tag tag duties. Um we asked her to do that. So picking up those um costs for those classes. I think it was four classes and minimal compared to some. But that's something that's becoming a trend in education more and more. There's some area schools that hadn't done before that before and are asking about that because they're like okay we have this open um a school was asking we have this open sped position. We had one applicant but they don't have a sped license. And they're asking us to pay for that or others doing that. and everyone's responding yes because they hadn't historically done that before, but they're like, "If we say
010no, we don't have an applicant and we say yes." So, just kind of putting that out there and making people aware. Um, some schools have policies, some have backed off on that. Um, and what we've done historically in the past, I've only done that when we've needed to or it's to our benefit to um have someone who can add a class rather than looking for um hiring a new staff member or something along those lines. But those does h those have happened in the past, but it's not just someone asks us to pay for it. It's something that benefits obviously the school. So just more of an FYI with that. Um so that's something that we do do if you get asked about it. >> Right. >> What does something like that typically cost? Like
011>> like the tag is there's a there's programs that'll do that relatively cheaply, efficiently. I don't know what the word I I want to use there, but um some programs that maybe aren't as widespread, they might have to go online and get their credits through like a uni online or a Iowa where it's going to be a little bit more costly per credit hour. So that so then it'll then it'll vary. I want to say the tag one, 1400 bucks or something like that. It's a couple hundred bucks each class, something along those lines. But some of them can be a few thousand dollars depending on what course of sequence they're they need for classes and things like that. Um, >> like to become a special ed teacher, >> like if they were starting from
012scratch. Yeah. You know what I mean? >> You're a teacher, you didn't have your special ed, >> right? That's what I meant. like you had no special ed classes versus someone who maybe was halfway there, then that's going to be um something that's going to probably take place over two years cuz they're not going to get it done in a year and then they're going to get like emergency lure from the state. You know, you can show good cause that we have a teacher with a license but they don't have the endorsement. So then you can get an emergency lure and show they're working towards it. Um they can get a a temporary one if they're over halfway working towards it. So then then there would be more costs with that prorated over time. Usually
013those arrangements though we do they pay for it up front and then once they turn in the um transcript for it to show that they successfully complete it then they get reimbursed. That way you're not paying for something that they don't complete. That's generally how the arrangements are made. And like I said doesn't apply in all situations but there are times when you're short staff that's what you got to do. >> Okay. Moving on to IASB training. >> So, just put this on your calendars and working with Luanne. Kind of a followup to that May work session that we had and then some of the work I'm going to talk about here on the next bullet point here um with Lan, but on September 10th, 2025, we can do more details, but let's just plan
014on 5:30. that's worked in the past with her um previously, but we'll plan on that night in kind of a continuation from that end of May work session that we had with our district goals and things like that in finalizing things with her that worked on her calendar. So, she put that down um as one of the dates after the school year had started. >> Okay. Board and district goal alignment that we worked on. Okay. So, it's two sheets. So, you should have two. And this is attached, but I also printed it out. Attach those image files on there. So, this is no different. There we go. So, most of this is template from IASB. and then filling in with things that we discussed from our work session last I think we started in November
015that we did a few I think that was November when we did that what month whatever that was last fall we did that with her and then we followed up with this May and then as we talked about at the end of that May work session putting that together to get some alignment on on some goals and things like that. So other than we maybe strengthened a few words or put some verbs at the beginning, this is pretty much straight from what we discussed in those um big flowcharts that we had. So linking down at Siblio schools, we build partnerships to challenge mind, invest in community, embrace life and talking about our goals for the next three to five years. And we talked about focusing in three areas. Our excellence in students learning, positive district
016culture, financial stability and points that we would look for within that. So, um, things that were labeled in those work sections or identified, I should say, was striving for improvements in performance in math and ELA. Ensure students are prepared for the next level and focusing on all or the needs of all students, including subgroups. Those are all things we identified at that May work session. Positive district culture. We talked about attracting and retaining valuable employees. Build a united and supportive team, promoting a sense of belonging among employees, and promoting a sense of belonging among students. I think that was from both sessions. And then the financial stability is monitoring student enrollment, understanding the diversity in our own community and making decisions for sustained excellence, which moves down to mine our goals here for the next
017three years. And that carries on to the next page. You know, we've talked about how those go back and forth to my goals, supporting student growth in literacy and math. These are the should look very similar to you are familiar. Promoting staff retention, engagement, ensuring financial viability of the district. and your goals. Looking at your priorities, identifying and asking building team and administration to set and report goals in ELA and math scores, focusing on communicating district successes and accomplishments. That's one of the things we said um at our last meeting, and monitoring our UAB balance to both short and long-term. And then that flows down to in our valuation as we've discussed. Those are things we had filled out before, but how do how's the superintendent doing? How do we know that? looking at evaluations
018based on those gold and IS goals, excuse me, and ISB guidelines, doing those formal evaluations and quarterly reviews. Those are things we've talked through from the board. How do how is the board doing? How do we know? Well, we're we're going to look at and review our academic data and scores. talk about like as we did this spring some exit interviews um attending cultural events like many of you done in the past and I'm mentioning here like we did the um kickoff at the beginning of the year last year doing those type of things and staying on top of those financial reports and projections. So we kind of I just kind of summarized and put that in a flowchart um based off what we had talked about overall. How does that structure look based on
019to you guys based on our conversations? >> Looks like that's the way you put it together too. >> Yeah. >> Easy to follow. And then on those board goals specifically on the second page there where it comes down and talking about asking building and team administration to set and report goals. Those are things where we can get specific from our level that we had mentioned. So maybe kicking off the year as we start the year um working into this where they'll set goals in their building specific to maybe ELA and math, right? And those things and they can report on that specifically throughout the year. Okay, here's here was our goal in ELA to improve by X or this many students proficient or you know I don't want to limit them by giving a suggestion
020tonight but they'll make some goals how I'm visioning this and then um our admin can report on that you know midpoint through the year at the end of the year and use that um we can talk about and focus on those successes and accomplishments like we had mentioned and and continuing to focus on and maybe have a stronger focus on our UAB and the other balances both short and long term. So we can use that at our level and then present to you guys at the big level and then our work on the 10th would strengthen this follow up questions. You have ideas and maybe help support us as we develop that at more the building level moving forward. That's kind of the idea on that meeting. These aren't set in stone but based on
021what we did. So thoughts tear apart whatever you add questions. >> I think that's what we had for the last meeting and actually the meeting before that too when we met they all kind of >> sync together. So >> looks good. was just kind of connecting and >> we had a lot of you know those flowcharts from the last meeting and from the December one and then putting that and just kind of tying it in to make it fit was more the >> the ch I don't know if the challenge is the right word but the the job to make it look together. I tried to get it on one page but it looked very cluttered. So that's why it's spread out over two. No, I think when we meet again on the in September,
022we can go over it through then and >> yes, >> maybe narrow stuff down a little. >> And yeah, we could be more, like I said, nothing set in stone here. You want to change some wordings or strengthen or flip something around, we can easily do that on that night. >> Yeah, >> too. >> Lan does a good job guiding that conversation, too. So, that's what Anybody else? >> So, are we good with the start on that? Yeah. Okay. So >> then I'll share that with Lanne and that'll drive some of our um conversation and content that evening. >> Perfect. >> All right, we will move on to the FY24 audit report. >> Kendra will summarize this. We got this uh week and a half ago. >> Yeah, maybe >> there. >> Um I'll just
023highlight a few things. So page seven has um they include 2024 financial highlights. Um you know it shows your how our revenues increased and expenditures increased as well. Um yeah you can you can read through that part. Um I think you guys already knew kind of knew that. So page 15, they always point out economic factors varying on the district. They're pretty much the same as we always have. Um costs increase. You know, our largest cost is salary and benefits. Um it's a concern that we could have declining enrollment in future years. We're hoping that we're level, you know, studying out, but that's always a concern. and then um allowable growth or um supplemental state aid wasn't quite what we had hoped it would be. So that obviously affects things. Um page 58 in the
024towards the back is um shows our activity fund balances of the different clubs and um accounts. Some of them end up being we spending we spend more money than we have more expenditures in revenue and you know some things we just don't have enough revenue or any revenue for that matter. So um those we usually zero out at the end of the year. Um so that just kind of goes goes over the revenues and expenditures for the year. Um the next page has the revenues and expenditures over all of our funds. So you can kind of see the total revenue is 11 million, total expenditures was 13 million. And then um page 67 um they talk about our the findings of the audit. Um, segregation of duties is the is one we've had that on
025there every year that I've been here for sure and many years before that. Um, we've been working to separate some things or have oversight at least. It's hard with a small not very many people in our office, but we're doing what we can for that. Um >> maybe uh what's one of the things we as an example changed this past year? >> Um you looking over journal entries, that type of thing. Those are mainly things that I do, but um S's been reviewing them. Some of it is that we, you know, the same person um takes the money to the bank, takes the enters the deposit, you know, all of that stuff. So, we're just trying to have some oversight over that. It's really not what they're looking for. They'd like to have a different
026person do each step of, you know, you you take the money, you take it to the bank, another person enters it into the general ledger, another person reconciles. We just don't have that many people. So, um but we're working on it. Um page 68, certified budget. So, we did amend our budget last year. However, um we ended up over in um the support services and other expenditures because of our bus leases was the main um thing they had. We got new bus leases last year and the auditors ended up having when they were doing the audit, not when they were here doing their um fieldwork. They had to do some entries for that and then it put us over in the expenditures. So, that one I was surprised that was on there. Um sales tax.
027Um, we had paid some sales tax on district credit cards. This is something that is really hard to get away from when you're when somebody's traveling. You don't have a tax exempt form with you to not pay tax at, you know, McDonald's or wherever. But, um, we we try as much as we can any any of our purchases that we that we're purchasing, you know, that we know ahead of time that we're purchasing, we'll do a tax exempt even if if if they require a credit card payment. But um that was on there this year. And then the late fees, interest charges that was um on one of the credit cards that they didn't receive the payment in time. I think we had a late board meeting and it was due, you know, it takes
028a week to 10 days from when we mail it to when they process it. So I think that's why it was on there unfortunately. Otherwise, I think that's all of the findings that we had this year. Any questions? I know that was really quick. You can take these home and read through them if you want to. Otherwise, it was pretty a pretty normal audit. And if you find something later, if you have questions on it, you can always ask, too. Any questions from anybody right now? Otherwise can take it home look through it. It's a good idea to do that. Okay. Schoolboard election. Just putting this on here as a reminder. Schoolboard elections are this fall. So districts 1, three, and four are up for the election. That would be Laurel's, Greg, and Jamie's districts.
029and they haven't had the full information guide out yet from ISP, but um they have their initial one out. The elections are no on November 24th. And in this packet of information, it just talks about for the basics for you or anyone what the school board election is and um how you can be a candidate, the nomination papers. What I will draw attention to is on page two. Talks about the qualifications and all of that. the filing period. Nomination papers must be filed with the school secretary during the filing period, which would be Kendra. They cannot be be filed before or after the filing period. The period is Monday, August 21st, which is al or 25th, excuse me, which is also our first day of school is the first day you can turn in papers
030um with her. That doesn't mean you can't work on it ahead of time, but that's the first day you can officially turn them in. And they have to be turned in by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 18th. and then we take them from there and bring them to the courthouse. And so it goes through that, but just be aware of that filing period, the 25th through the 18th. So that's a little less than a month. >> Um, wanted people to be aware of that. And then it goes through the the rest of the explanation. I'm not going to read through the rest of the >> support. It's printed out for you too, whoever would like them. >> Yep. >> They're here. I had a quick question on that, Stan. >> Yes, go ahead. >> Um,
031in addition to having this on the agenda, has the election been advertised in the paper or any other form to let people know what spots are open? >> It has not yet. They usually advise us and like I said the ISB hasn't sent their um support thing out but they usually say start that right before leading up to when the the papers can officially be turned in. >> Gotcha. I was just curious how >> Nope. You're right. They have not it is not yet. >> Okay. Any questions on that? Okay, moving on to new business. Consider approval of RA RSAI legislative priorities. >> So RSA is reminders rule school advocates of Iowa and they provide support and um advocate on our behalf. Um each year they're asking us to pick the legislative platform and what
032I will do based on our our responses go through that. I have a paper version and then I will turn that in. There is obviously I put this on as a PDF so you can go through the beginning part. It's just showing you exactly what I'm gonna go through. This one basically it lists some of their top legislative priorities and then asks us to rate them. So it's not the other one if you remember from years past has a whole list of them for ISB and then we have to pick our top four which we'll do in a second one. This one is more of a liker scale rating and then we submit that at the end. So the beginning is demographic information which I'll take care of when we submit. So really we're jumping
033to >> number six here and we'll just kind of I think talk through this together and then I will submit kind of on our consensus here. It says adequate school resources and then there's starting in question six and it goes through about question 16. So 11 of them roughly that we'll rate. So adequate school resources including the the formula for pure per pupil funding TSS which is the teacher salary supplement and other categoricals transportation equity supplemental waiting. How important is it for RSI to advocate for this issue in the upcoming legislative session for your district? One is low in this rating scale and seven's high. >> And like I said, we don't have to rate them one through seven. We rate each one individually. So where on that scale do we want to put this?
034>> Say hi. >> Hi. For us, this is a higher priority. Absolutely. >> Should I put it as a seven? >> Yes. >> Okay. staff shortages including loan forgiveness to grow your own programs emphasis on critical shortage positions lure flexibility and I was even talking about a little bit at the beginning when you're short lure and different ways around that 15 years ago people wouldn't have been paying for that but we are now how important is it for our rai to advocate for the issue in the upcoming legislative session for your district addressing staff shortages High on >> high end. >> Do a seven. Six. Seven. >> Seven. >> Okay. Seven. I put it up. >> Quality preschool. Um, what they're getting at here is places that maybe it's not offered through the school or
035if it is not not transitional kindergarten. That's not what we're talking about, TK. you're talking about just the preschool making that um full day or include full waiting for them because they're waited a half a student because they come half time. Um how important it is is to advocate for that. We currently have a preschool morning and afternoon sessions. >> Just as an FYI. >> Yeah, I was going to say kind of more in the middle. We don't want We don't want to lose it, right? But >> it's not a huge issue. >> Probably not a seven. >> Yeah. >> Five. >> Yep. >> Yeah. Four. >> Okay. >> Local school board authority trusting school boards and educational professionals to make the best decisions for students and community. How important is it for RSAI to
036advocate for this issue in the coming upcoming legislative session? A little background on this. It's coming from the context of those that have been in the seat for a while that there's less and less things that local school boards actually have control or decision-making over. That's where this is coming from. Um, more recent legislation is in the recent years has seemed to gone from from their perspective in the trend of taking less and less decisions away from boards and putting it at the state level. >> So that's where this is coming on. local board authority is what they're getting at as not as an only example but as an example even choosing curriculums right now we're even in elementary and math ELA curriculums we have a state approved list that we have to pick from
037right and if you don't you're not meeting state standards there there's another example of less authority than maybe what you would have had 15 or 20 years ago where a school could have gone through and evaluated the curriculum and decided this is the best fit for us. That's an that's an example of what we're getting at. I think our local authority is pretty important. >> Is that a five? Do we want to go a little higher than that? Lower? >> I'd say five or six. >> Five or six. >> How about let's put it a six? >> Yeah. public school priority. What that means is that private schools receive state funding. There should be a level playing field of regulations and accountability. They public schools should be held harmless for dollars diverted from public schools.
038They're also talking about if anyone's receiving state funding, they should have the same accountability measures and the same reporting measures because that's not true. So that's kind of providing a little more insight of what they're getting at here. So if someone's receiving state funding in terms of educationally that they're they have the same reporting measures and same accountability measures across the board. >> Seems fair. >> I'd say >> so it's different than these vouchers then or is that >> that's in essence where it's coming from. So the vouchers >> you have x many students coming and so now your school private school acts >> gets this state funding. Okay. So they're receiving state funding. Should they have the same requirements and accountability measures that a public school would have? >> Yeah, that's what they're getting
039at. Yep. Right in the ball. >> I think it's a higher number too there. >> A six. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. Increasing students needs including poverty and mental health including specific resources for these. How important is it for RSI to advocate for this? I think that's pretty self-explanatory. >> Five, six based on our own needs. I'm kind of getting >> Yeah, I would say six. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Whole grade sharing and reorganization incentives um to reinstate them as some are expiring. They're talking about districts where maybe they don't combine, but they do whole grade sharing. So maybe district A has kids in grades K6 and then 712 even though they're an independent district, they're going to another district. Um there's some districts that you think are together but they're actually two separate
040districts even though they compete as a moniker as an example and they're talking about the incentives and and financial incentives incentives to do that. That's what this is getting at. >> How important is that to us? It's lower. >> I'd say lower, >> right? Yes. >> Yeah. >> Right. We'll put it as a >> Three. Two. Yeah. >> Three. Two. Three. >> Three. Okay. Operational sharing incentives. I'm going to switch that. I'll put it as a two. Operational sharing incentives. Rightsize the wings for positions and consider some outside of the 25 student camp. So, we've talked about this. For instance, Amos' the transportation position. We share that with HLP. provide some resources for them, right? So, they're paying for part of that salary and then we get four additional students of waiting for that. Um,
041uh, Jordan Menning's position, he comes here a day a week. We're getting two students for that. That wouldn't count the cap, but that's that's what they're talking about. Um, trying to >> Chrissy, thank you for HR and the services she provides with HLP. We get four students. So, that's what operational sharing is. Um there's other positions where you can do that. I want to be careful because then people think I'm giving a hint and I'm not. There's other positions where you can do that and you can explore down the road looking at um doing that where you get not only do you get the benefit of some of that cost of their salary shared at the other district. You get students additional student funding for that. Um you can do that with I'm just saying
042these is examples. I don't want anyone to think I'm hinting. I'm just giving examples because there's a list of them. You can do that for school business officials, whether that's your SBO like us when we have one. Some schools do it because they have more they're big enough to have more than one official, right? So, they have two people in the office. Maybe they share one of them as an example. Um, that's four students. You can do that with superintendent. That's nine students. Um, I'm trying to think of ones that are out there that we don't utilize. Maintenance directors. >> I think you I think there's a kitchen one. What's that? >> Librarian. do that one year. >> You You can share that, but you you can share that one, but you don't get students
043back on librarian. >> Yep. >> There's like school resource officer. >> School resource officer. Thank you. Yes. >> There's all kinds of >> Yep. >> under that you can. So, traditionally, you can't for teachers. >> Okay. >> Like you can share a teacher to people do that all the time, but you don't get students back. This would be for anything that where you get students back. That's what it's getting at. So making sure that it's what they're advocating for is that that that's maintained and maybe bumping up that cap because there's a max number of students you can get. >> And that's what that's why they're talking about bump that up the cap up. So thoughts there. >> Oh, I think that's a higher >> I think so too. I mean, >> we'd love to
044see higher enrollment be better to get it by actually having students in the building. Right. >> But as an example, let's say we continue to share some of those positions we are now and they cut it. >> We're going to lose 12 students of funding in one year. >> So Jordan Manning's position, we do get >> we get Yep. We get two students for that one. >> Amos, we get four. We get four. So just right there, that's 10. >> 10 students. >> So let's say they cut this. Everything else holds power. We lose 10 students the next year. You know what I mean? >> Yeah. >> Six. Six. Mhm. >> Okay. Formula equity continue to close the gap between high and low district cost per pupil amounts. How important is it for this? So,
045some districts have built in from way back when a higher district cost per pupil. So, that amount that we get per pupil, some districts get a higher amount. We had that for us until about two years ago. And then every few years sometimes they'll do an adjustment for that and bring it up. and they had done enough adjustments now that we're at the state cost per pupil, we were higher. But there's still districts that are higher. So when when we get I'm just make up a number 7500 per student, they might be getting $7,510 per student. So that's what this is talking about is putting in legislation closing that gap. So statewide that's the same per pupil. >> And it's less than half that are different. I think it's maybe 20%, but there still are
046schools that from his historical standpoint have a higher cost per student. So, how important is that one? Formula equity. >> Yeah. >> What' you say? >> No. >> Or lower. >> What about like a >> Three or four? Yeah. Three or four. >> Like kind of middle of the road type. >> Yeah. >> We'll do a four kind of the middle in different bond issue dates and other restrictions allowing more special election dates. right now you're limited when they can and making it a simple majority approval for bonds rather than the 60% plus one and then right now there's two levels since this is kind of foreign to us because we we don't have a general obligation or we don't have debt bonds but some districts do you if we were going to do one
047today we'd actually have to have two votes we'd have to approve the debt at 270 $2.70 and then approve bringing it from there up to 405 to max out that's what those It's foreign to us because we just don't have one in place. So that would be adding $2.70 to our tax rate. I'm not hinting this, just giving this as an example, right? Or $45 cents that would go to pay down your debt bonds. Those are your only options right now. So they're they're asking about having more dates where you could vote that in because right now it's about one time a year >> and then um some of the other restrictions taken away. How important is that to our district? probably pretty low if we're not utilizing it right now. >> Right. For us
048right now, it is. I would agree. >> Medium low. >> Yep. I'll put that as a >> three. Sounds good. >> AA services and support provide adequate funding for Aeas, ensure adequate resources for stable staffing and needs and including school improvement. How important is it to advocate for them? Um a and a lot of this was put in place in the year when there was uncertainty with the A.E.A.S. and then kind of some of the changes came through into where they're at right now. Um that's just historically why this one's in here. Is this the last one? Um >> to me, if where they're at and they stay where they're at, we're okay, that'd be kind of the middle of the road. If we think they need to go back and have more services at
049the AA and provide us with some work, then we'd put that higher. But just kind of if what they're doing right now, which is basically providing a few days in general services each year that we have to contract for now, but they're supposed to cover all our special ed needs. That's kind of where they're at right now in the really simple stated. >> Do you feel like we're getting the coverage this last year that we need or >> I would word it this we did not get the coverage we did before. >> No. because they're not as available >> right >> now. Did maybe sometimes we use their support when we didn't need to on every issue? Very possibly. But I don't know where that medium is because I know there are times now whereas,
050okay, now it's going to cost X more dollars for them to come, right? >> And it was a lot harder some of the times because they have less staff. >> So you can just say come Wednesday and they're, oh, I'm already booked, >> which is that's a bigger issue right now. Mhm. >> And your bigger districts are just basically keeping their dollars and doing that position in house >> instead of passing it on the AA. My opinion would be upper middle. >> Yeah. Let's say like five. >> Yeah, >> I would like that. So is is that scenario you just said is that helping us maybe a little bit then because then the bigger schools aren't utilizing that and maybe giving us a little bit better chance of getting some or not really. >> It
051helps a little bit on one hand but also if they're not if they're keeping all their dollars as we are then that's less for the AEA and that's and that's why they're having I can't yeah they're having cuts with their general services. I wanted to say coming in this next, don't quote me, but it was something crazy like they're going to have 30 less people, not on the special ed side, but on the general ed side than they did two years ago or 35 less people serving our whole AEA. But we're also in a unique situation like in our AAA sous city just their budget alone of what what was contributing to that is equal to how many I mean almost the rest of the entire AEA at you know what I mean? So just
052right there, that's what's unique where most other AAS you have a couple large ones like that, but we don't have anyone else in our area near the scope or size of Sous City as an example. You know what I mean? So their choice significantly impacts everyone else. >> Five. >> Yeah. >> Okay, that covers that one. Okay, moving on. ISB legislative priorities >> need to actually approve approve. >> My bad. >> Yeah, >> I I did realize that. >> Okay. Is there a motion to approve the um formula that or not really formula but the ratings that we gave on that form? Yeah, I'll make a motion to approve the RSAI legislative priorities as completed. Second. >> All in favor say I. I. >> Okay, that was passed. Consider approval of IA SB legislative priorities.
053>> Okay, so the first portion of this packet really you got to jump to like page is a summary of what went on last year. Mhm. >> So, you're really jumping. The first 12 pages are that it's page 13, but it's relabeled page one. And the top of it says 2025 legislative resolutions. It looks like this. If you're scrolling through, it's roughly page 13. It says page one on the bottom, but okay. That's where it starts. And what we have to pick is we have to pick four priorities. Now, there's different numbered ones, but then they have subheadings. So like under number one there's student achievement. So that's one of them. Then it says preschool. There's another early literacy English language learners. Does that make sense? >> So there's several headings in here. Okay. That
054we can go through. Some are similar to to last year. I don't know that everyone is. The four that we picked last year are on here this year again. Um and I know that we can change. So I I will tell you what we picked last year and then I'll give a suggestion how we can move forward on this. We picked student achievement on the next page under two. We picked teacher recruitment and lensure. We picked mental health which was one of the sub things under um point 4. And we picked um supplemental state aid which is one of the points under 7. You know like number eight has one point under it. Number seven has so it varies like seven points. So it kind it kind of varies by whatever. I can give a
055suggestion and then I can listen to your feedback. If you want to take a moment and go through and maybe pick your four >> and then we'll just read them and the top vote getters. >> Sure. >> That'd be one suggestion. I've marked them myself. We can go That's kind of how we did it last year. If you like to that we can do that. Does that sound good to everyone? Give you a few minutes to read through. You list your four. I kind of cheated because I had a chance to do this ahead of time. [Music] Yep. Yep. Excuse me. Does anyone need more time? What I'll do is I'm going to maybe say the different than I did last year, the four that I picked and why. And then we'll just go through
056and random I don't have a method to go through but ask yours and we'll just go top tally. Does that sound okay? >> I did under number two teacher recruitment and lure. >> You ranking these in order then or >> I no just pick top four. I didn't >> I wouldn't put them in this order but I'm just picking the top four because I I did check that's all they're asking us for is to give them their four. Um, I didn't do student achievement because I did local accountability and decision-m going back to the authority of the board and I think that could fall under there. Um, what we going back with RSA is local board control and increasing the accountability and decision-making power of the local board. So, I put that as the second
057choice, not necessarily ranked. um supplemental state aid under number seven and then I did under 72 down there property taxes. I just think with the legislation that was proposed but that didn't get passed this past year in terms of property tax reform. I'm not saying that in itself is bad, but just being aware and having people advocating so that it does it holds the public schools harmless in that have reform. That's great, but we don't want to end up with less than we had before in essence. So, those were my four. I'll maybe start here. Kristen, can you hear me? >> Yes. Did you get a chance? >> Yes, I had um the property you just mentioned also. >> Okay. >> Um >> under number seven there that property taxes. >> Okay. What else did
058you have? >> I think that'd be an important one to make sure we have in there, I guess. Or are you just going to go around the room and >> I'll go? Yes, >> all right. >> I will go around. >> What other ones did you have, Kristen? >> Me. >> Okay. Cuz I can't hear you. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Can you hear me now? Okay, there we go. Yes. Yep. >> So, I got property taxes. >> What other three did you have? >> Okay. I had the mental health again. >> Yep. >> And then I had the teacher recruitment that you mentioned and I also had the local accountability that you mentioned. >> Yep. Got it. Okay. Thank you. I had the same ones, Kristen. >> So, teacher recruitment. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Um,
059>> mental health. >> Yep. >> Local accountability. >> Yep. >> Property taxes. >> And then the property taxes. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> It's supplemental student aid, teacher recruitment, and licenses. >> Okay. Teacher recruitment. I heard I know where that one is. Uh, supplemental state aid. I don't remember where that one is. >> That's number seven. >> There we go. Yep. Okay. >> Student achievement. >> Yep. >> And English winner. >> Yep. Got it. That was on page one because I looked at that one. Um, I had the mental health one. >> Okay. >> Student achievement. >> Okay. >> Um, the supplemental state aid. >> Okay. >> And the local accountabil ability decision-m one. >> Okay. I had teach teacher recruitment, mental health, local accountability, and property taxes. Okay. Student achievement at two. Teacher recruitment
060had five. So, I'm pretty sure that will be one of them. Mental health had four. That could be. Local accountability and decision-m had five. Supplemental state aid had three. Property taxes had four. And that's it. So >> property tax. >> So then it'd be property taxes and mental health would be our top and no ties. That makes it easier. >> Okay. >> So teacher recruitment, local accountability, mental health, and property taxes. >> So those would be our top four. So we would just need a motion. >> Yep. Is there a motion to approve those four choices? Make a motion to approve the ISB legislative priorities as listed. Is >> there a second? A second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> That is pass. Consider approval of increase in substitute teacher pay rate. >>
061So we're looking at increasing our substitute teacher pay rate as stated here. And uh a number of years ago, not a number, a few years back we raised it, but now we have kind of moved down. And so in looking at other districts, I've reached out to a few superintendents and Kendra has done likewise and in her group with other SBOs's. Um these are the recommendations we're making. It's being recommended to increase our daily substitute rates from 140 to 155. being recommended to increase our long-term substitute pay from 200 to 220 and increase the teacher. So, this is like when a teacher has a prep and we're asking them to not have their prep and cover for someone else. That's what that means to increase that from 30 to 35. That's just a different location
062than the others. That's why I put that one in there. It's in the teacher work rules. >> Okay. Make a motion to approve increasing the substitute teacher pay rate to $140 per day, long-term substitution rate to 220 a day and teacher class period substitute rate to 35. >> And I see I made an error. We should increase it to the teacher to 155. I put the old rate. My apologies there. >> So move it to 155. >> Yep. >> I'll second that. >> Okay. All in favor say I. >> I. I. >> Okay. that has passed. Consider approval of 25 26 district depositories. >> So, this is something that's to be approved each year now that we're in the new fiscal year. So Iowa State Bank um just what we house there would be um
063general fund dollars, PEP will save some of our debt service debt um service syncing fund, Sibly State Bank for the activity in the nutrition funds and then isjet which don't ask me off the top of my head to say what the acronym is. I could probably come up with it, but >> Iowa School Joint Investment >> Joint Trust. >> That's what I can never remember. Iowa School Joint Investment Trust. um which when we're dealing with some of our proceeds from the bond sale and paying things off, we might transfer because they usually have a little higher rate. So those would be our three district depositories. >> Okay. Is there a motion on this? >> I'll make a motion to approve the 2025 2026 district depositories as presented. >> Okay. Second. >> Second. >> All in
064favor say I. >> I. that is passed. Um, consider approval of new contracts. >> Maria Olivivera as a paraprofessional. Her sister currently works here and that's who gave us the recommendation. And bilingual, so that'll be awesome. And then Austin Krueger as a sub and activity sub bus driver. Confusing how that was worded, but as a sub route driver and activity bus driver to help with those. Yep. >> Okay. Is there a motion to approve these? >> I'll make a motion to approve the new contracts as listed above. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> Okay, that is approved. Consider approval of sharing agreement for soccer. >> Nothing's changed with this other than the timing Sheldon had asked. They're moving up. They're trying to get all their
065sharing agreements done at the beginning of the year rather than haphazardly through the year. So, >> if you're like, we have we done this in July before, you're correct. We have not, but they asked us to do that and we don't have a problem with that. So, it' be for sharing soccer for the coming year. >> Okay. Is there a motion to approve that? >> I'll make a motion to approve um the sharing soccer the sharing agreement with Sheldon for soccer as it presented. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. I. >> And that is passed. Consider approval of contract for project success with WIT. Basically, this doesn't change anything we've done. They've just asked us to fill that out. We do have a student on an IEP who uh graduated from
066Simply Treating and enrolled there in their project, and they're just asking us to um formally approve of the contract with that. >> Okay. Is there a motion to approve that contract? I'll make a motion to approve the contract for project success with wit and sous city. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> If that is passed, consider approval of purchase of painting robot. >> So um this is called the robot prox. It's a painting robot and what it would do primarily we start with it was is it would paint the football field. Right now we have janitorial staff doing that and being short staffed the last few years. Generally in the fall Greg spends about a day one day per week just on football field maintenance with painting and everything else like that.
067Um and if you remember last fall we did not always have an elementary janitor on staff. So that so not only is he out doing that, we don't have someone on staff fulfilling that needs and it takes him away from doing that. um and it cuts down on a lot of other work related responsibilities. So that's where this would down the road we could entail if if interested the baseball team could use that for their foul lines to paint and likewise um the softball team. Um the cost of the robot is $40,55 um pay for that out of pleave. I have visited with the boosters on this and we would pay 20 and they would pay anything above and over that and they had approved that already and I met with them on that. the
068questions. >> So, who will run it then? I mean, >> Greg will get someone. >> Greg will Yep. Greg will get training on it. Um, we've had Tony involved so he'll make sure that it syncs with everything. Um, and he's on board with that. Amy obviously be involved. Um, your biggest setup is the first time you do that and that's where the most work is cuz um, the lines don't just magically go down. There's pins underneath the field and you search and then you mark them and string them out for every 5 yardd line and all this. We just have to identify the corner endzones and then it'll do everything else from there. Um, but Greg would do that. It it comes with it would on a tablet and a remote so it could start
069and if it stops or it sends it'll just stop if it runs out of paint or gets off track and then it would send him alert. So he could do other things while it's painting. He doesn't necessarily have to sit there and just watch. She could clean the concession stands, as he said, as an example, and prepare him for that night's game if they're painting on Thursday or something like that. Rather than just spending his whole time out there, he can do other tasks at the same time. And it paints much more accurately than um a human could. We had it come for a demonstration. So, myself, Amy, Tony Beavers, Mike McCarti, Greg Greenfield was there, and then we had Travis, um Mitch Krakus, um Brett Doden from the Boosters and he's a assistant football
070coach. It's eight. I thought we had 10 people there at various points that um watched this and I said if you have questions or whatever before I presented the boosters, come watch. And when we were done, pretty sure everyone was on board. They did they did an initial painting on the practice field with the lines and so forth. Um because they hadn't been down yet and so then like two oh Daryl Tuji was there and like he said too like now we don't have to go and measure and he just painted over the top of it and you could do that each week. How um as an example how much paint do you think it used just did a light spray but how much paint in terms of cost do you think it used to
071paint both practice fields? I have no clue. >> I'm not going to guess. I'm bad at guessing things like have no idea. >> It cost he the the cost of the paint that we used when the robot painted our fields was just under $3. >> It just does it much more efficiency with the mix. Yeah. Yeah. Now, I'm being realistic. Over the next six years, we're not going to recoup $40,000 in in paint. I'm not going to tell you that because that's not going to be true. But you do spend significantly less on paint. He said you'll spend probably at least half probably less than half up or up to half of what you did in paint just because it's more efficient and it's a straighter line. >> And we did get a grant that
072is in the quote that's attached there. There are a couple other grants that we might, like I said, might win. We'll find out. That would also lower the coast cost after this quote here. They would give us credit for that. So, we're not guaranteed to win those, but we can always help. And there's a lot of other features that it can do that hopefully we can explore down the road. So, other questions like cover a classroom. >> Ideally, let's not replace people. Okay. Any questions? >> I make a motion to approve the purchase of the painting robot. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> And that is approved. First reading of board policies. >> Um, these policies were presented to the policy committee and we just reviewed them remotely. Pretty much
073all of them were recommended changes from IASB based on legislative changes this spring and updating the policies to match those legislative changes. Can't think of anything that wasn't really right. >> No, >> it's been a while since we reviewed them. >> Yeah, >> I don't think there was anything that wasn't. >> No. >> Yeah. >> Whoever makes a motion, please read those numbers. I'll make a motion to approve the first reading of the following policies. 104 104E1 104E2 104E3 211 402.02 402.03 405.02 411.02 501.03 03 501.09 501.09R1 505.05. >> 507.01 603.01 and 603.05. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> And that is approved. Consider approval of LNL builders pay application number three. >> Yep. Pay application number three. Um from LNL. Obviously, we're getting steeper
074into the project. So, this pay applications for $952,244.85 that would be paid out of the um revenue bonds. So they have any like checkpoints from each request I guess like that this stuff's been done and yet yeah generally they're not submitting unless it's been ordered like if we would have ordered um drywall right and come in and it might not be installed but they're they're not going to submit that until we've ordered and it's arrived and arrived and then or were completed if it's for um labor. Any questions? Okay, I'll ask for a motion. >> I'll make a motion to approve the payment to LNL Builders as presented. >> Okay. Is there a second? >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. Passed. Consider approval of LNL builders pay application for middle school.
075>> And this would be request number two. as stated for for this is specific for the middle school high school work and it's for $567,5424. Make a motion to approve payment for LNL builders for application number two of $567,5424. Is >> there a second? Second. All in favor say I. >> I. that has passed. Consider approval of payments to site logic. >> Um to Site Logic, this one is for I know $7,15 significantly last week. I remember we've been paying them throughout the year. >> Paid more to them up front. So that's why theirs are less at this point. >> Okay. Is there a motion to approve that payment? >> I'll make a motion to approve the payment as presented to site logic. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All in favor say
076I. >> That is passed. Okay. Next meeting, >> August 18th at the high school IMC. That will be the week where we have all staff returning. So, usually that's the one traditionally where we have the new teaching staff come and present. So, hopefully most of them will be able to that night. They don't know that yet, but they will. September 22, just a reminder from we moved that approved that last month. Um, it would have been the 15th, but we moved it back to the 22nd. And then the 20th of October is the October meeting. And then the work session is on September 10th. >> I will not be here for the work session. Tate has seen your pictures that night. So, I'm like, "Well, I can't really reschedule those." I tried. >> No, >>
077they really don't work. >> Okay. Talking points. >> Highlights of the meeting. Like we said, we want to continue to focus on the highlights and the positives when people ask us about our meetings. So, what things did you pull out? good audit report. >> Yeah. >> Um continue to get good ideas for legislative priorities for both of them. >> No, there are a lot of good things. I will say I'm and appreciate approving the painting robot. I think we're going to have some staff that are very appreciative of that members. So, >> and it >> it is pretty cool to see it to see it in action. >> Very many who have >> Yeah, there are the last I know one year I was going to say the last two years for sure we've um
078we found the pins but we've done our initial paint with a robot that we rented from another school just because it helps out. Mhm. >> So last year it was either two years ago or last year. I can't remember if we've done it two years, but I know we rented one from um Sue Center because they've had one and I want I want to say that was two years ago. Maybe it was last year and then maybe we used Central Lions last year to do the initial one just because it's very labor intensive the first time you do it when you're doing it with the handheld machine and basically strings and you're following along a stringer and so forth. And so you use that to line it up and then we didn't use it after
079that but you'd use that as your guide basically and so forth. So um there are other areas other area schools that have them. It's becoming more common because helps and it's more accurate. If you football ref, you've talked to anyone who's football refed probably have some stories of where >> crooked lines. >> Crooked Yeah, crooked lines are inaccurate lines or numbers because someone messed up. >> So, I know you gave us a report um on Friday about these the projects right now are on >> on pace and is that I guess is there more you want to let >> overall they're on pace there. I'm going to get a better timeline tomorrow and then I'm hoping to send out a I mean, we're still planning to start school on time. Nothing that's behind will affect
080that. We might have to work around a few things, but >> as of right now, they're they're aware of when staff are coming. >> Um, all staff >> are coming for those inservice dates and when students start in. So, I mean, I just talked to them today and we're not planning on changing that. >> That's ultimately what people want to know. Yeah, >> there might be some inconveniences around that, but we'll work through that and hopefully I'll get a better idea and update some staff on that tomorrow. Um, can't send out last week like we do that jump start. That's starting August 4, whatever. But we're not going to use any elementary rooms because they're not going to be ready. So, we're going to have that all even the elementary kids are going to come
081up to the middle school as an example. Is that a perfect scenario? No. But we can make it work. Doors and drilling are coming along better or still hold up. >> Doors are coming along better. Drilling's been a challenge. So, but I think they have some options. They're going to I'm going to find out tomorrow where they're at or some options to work around it if they're not they don't get everything done on time. So, >> we'll find out. >> Last Saturday you were working. >> They were working Sunday morning when I was out for my walk. >> Mhm. They're putting in the time. That's >> the layout. >> Okay. Um, last thing we need a motion to adjurnn. >> I'll make a motion to adjourn. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All
082in favor say I. >> I. >> Okay, we are. >> Thank you. >> Just leave these here. Where's that card at? >> Right there behind the TV. Oh.