001told you about this one. You guys are halfway there on the betta fish. Hey, Becky. Halfway there. Knowing what you need to know. Oh, yeah. But are they the ones also? Yeah, that you can put plants on the top of it, right? And then they live off the roots of the plant. You hardly have to feed them. We haven't got that. I guess we put it in feeders that'll last for seven days, but like if you're going or something. Mhm. summer for you. I think so. He didn't usually pretty good at letting me know if he won't be already. Oh, yeah. This I'm looking at it. They're not going to dayare. making some changes. I don't have that addresses or anything. Would you do the recognition of excellence? So, it's April 29th. Okay, let's scare
002There's too much. [Music] Okay, it's 5:30. We'll go ahead and call the meeting to order. Um, can I motion to approve the agenda? So moved. Okay. Is there a second? Second. All in favor say I. I. and it is approved. Okay. And the schoolboard basics, I'll just go ahead and read them tonight. Put students first. Follow the law and your own policy. Respect the chain of command. Base decisions on shared objective information. And operate in the public eye. We'll move on to the consent items. I did add the um after our last work session, I put for C in there the mission statement that we had talked about too. Oh, yep. Just so that see that and read that at each meeting. Right. Is that where did you have that? It's yours not coming up.
003You're in 2024. What? I'm in the wrong meeting. The beginning is the same. Well, let's just change that. That is the right one. There we go. There we go. Perfect. Yep. We also want to uh read our mission statement just so that we keep it fresh in our minds. At Sibliochin Schools, we build partnerships to challenge minds, to invest in community, and to embrace life. All right. We have no visitors tonight. So, we'll move on to the consent items. Were there Kendra gave us some extra ones here? There wasn't too many. No, just a few. Were there any questions on anything? No questions. No. Okay. Is there a motion to approve the consent items? So moved. Is there a second? Second. She Oh, okay. Sorry, I didn't hear you. All in favor say I. I.
004I. And those are passed. Move on to the administrative reports. So, I've included my uh end of the year report similar to what we've done the last few years. Um, as Mr. Herz like to say, I like to to fancy it up a little bit. So, um, yeah, pretty pretty straightforward. A couple of things I'd like to note is um at the elementary building our enrollment has increased slightly um over the last four years. So um fairly encouraging. I thought it was pretty interesting that we were exactly at a 50/50 split by gender. Um I don't know that I've always seen that. Um, some other demographic information. Um, in terms of the ethnicity, uh, we're seeing a rise in the Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander ethnicity. Um, as well as our Hispanic and Latino um, increases, the
005community increases here. So just um some things to be aware of as we kind of um continue to try and make a appropriate education for for all students. Um kind of a breakdown of some of our subgroups um in our elementary building. Some students that saw the counselor about 58 total students that spent time with our elementary counselor. Um 55 we classified as e English language learners. um 42 students in special education. I will say that we had um three I believe three um it was either three or five. I know it was an odd number and I'm sorry off the top of my head I don't remember exactly what it was but um of them exit out of special education. So um definitely making some good progress there. We did um accept a few
006more in through the eval special education evaluation process as well. Um and then our title title one reading numbers. Um and we've just seen those numbers increase. I think it's based a lot on our social economic numbers um in terms of free and reduced lunch and our title numbers just continue to grow and that we see more and more needs there um through that that subgroup. So, um, our attendance totals, we're down a little bit this year. Uh, right in line with our with our average, but definitely something that I would like to get better at. Um, and to put a little bit more emphasis on. Not that that's a bad number by any means, but, you know, we're over our 95% goal. Um, but, um, something that I think we can continue to work
007with families and work with our community on to encourage that attendance there. So um our chronic absences is is fairly standard. Um we did have that 5 to9 subgroup of number of students that missed 5 to9 days was a little bit higher uh than traditionally. Usually our um 0 to four absences are closer to 200 and that uh 5 to9 is closer to 100. Um but it definitely decreases down that way. So, um, just kind of piggybacking off of we talked a little bit what I mentioned about our attendance total in terms of our chronic absences. Uh, the next few slides are um behavior or discipline uh slides. Um, the main types of um referrals that we saw this year um did have one founded case of bullying. um a few bullying and harassment that
008didn't quite reach the founded level of bullying. Um but continue to work with those students. Um talk uh the next one would be the our reaction to um the disciplinary incidents. How did we handle those? Try and connect with the families as much as possible. Um and then we kind of jump right into our literacy um assessments. Um what we hope to see is growth from fall to spring. Um we'll notice that some of our you know kind of made mention of it um last winter that saw some of those numbers kind of go down a little bit. Uh some of them rebounded looking specifically at first grade um started at 78 went down to 52 and rebounded back to 60% proficient. Um but you know we look at a couple of the other ones
009and um as we go throughout the year that proficiency scale that level changes a little bit but definitely something that we need to continue to evaluate and look at in terms of um is our curriculum meeting the needs of our students is um what we're supplementing with it supplementing it with um meeting their needs. And so yeah definitely some some things that we will continue to focus on there. um our ISASP literacy results um which is just a one-time snapshot not not horrible um but again that third grade level um kind of mirroring some of the things we saw from our fast assessments there as well fourth grade looks good um will note that the third grade we've been doing our ELA curriculum here now this is the third year of implementation so you know
010fourth grade started out with a with the previous curriculum and had that kind of foundation. So, I'm kind of asking the question, I don't have an answer for it yet, but asking the question, is that kind of what's leading to these scores and some of those kind of things. So, um the next one would be math. And again, we're looking for growth. Um very proud of these math scores here as we go. Um the kind of the um number that sticks out to me is that second grade level um in terms of proficiency. Um and again those proficiency measures continue to grow throughout the year. So we did see good growth but um sometimes that growth just wasn't quite enough to maintain that proficiency. A lot of students kind of right on that borderline. Um
011the following one is are um I ready assessments and the on one and two plus are students that are on grade level one grade level behind or two or more grade levels behind. And so again you work from left to right the green from fall to winter the yellow from fall to winter. We want to see the green increase and the yellow and the red decrease. We had five students that were two or more uh grade levels behind in the elementary building in our spring math assessments. So feel like yeah, that's definitely a good number. Um and one of those five came to us um with no schooling for the last three years. And so again, some good growth there. But um um yeah, we had a lot of growth to make too. So our
012ISAs assessments for math, we're at 82% proficient um and kind of tried to do a breakdown for you in terms of proficient, not yet proficient, and then advanced. So you could see those little bit detailed numbers. Um again, very proud of our math um scores there, proficiency scores there. Um, kind of following that up is looking at absences, number of sick days, um, times that staff, both certified and classified staff are out of the building. Uh, we try and hire good people and let good people do their job. Um, so yeah, um, our staff attendance summary just in terms of numbers and connecting those back to the board goals, you can kind of see how those were. uh you know our goal board goal of 100% uh PD attendance is a pretty difficult one but
013um we did have five staff members the elementary building make it and then another 16 um were only miss one or fewer so uh yeah we were at about 60% attendance there. So and then we had about uh twothirds not not about we had twothirds of our staff attend 95% um of those days. So uh successes we were successfully able to um implement a common team grade level team planning time and collaboration. Um we implemented a new daily rotation schedule mainly to get that um common planning time and and time for teachers to to collaborate and work together and see the good things happening there. Um, I continue to believe that our mentoring program, especially our in-house mentoring program is a good thing for us. Um, and then the staff support that we're trying to
014put into place is is a good thing. Um, the engagement of staff I felt was up this year. I don't have any um quantitative data to show that, but um qualitatively felt like a a good year. students and and uh staff were were engaged and and uh working together and then continued to place the needs of students first and foremost. So um in 2526 we're going to keep looking into the the math curriculum review. We've got a good timeline uh set for first semester. We're hoping to have a decision made in by December by December so we can then uh start implementing some training for um 26 27. Um you know some of the numbers there are not as good as we want them to be. So we'll continue to dig into that data. How
015can we use it? What can we glean from it? Um working on continuing to um maintain strengths and improve weaknesses. Um, as I mentioned before, I'd like to continue to work on improving attendance and then behavior responses and interventions. Um, feel like our SEBH um, MTSS process, our social emotional behavioral health that our support system for that can continue to be a little bit more robust. Feel like we have a good process in place um, for our academic side. But in terms of the the social emotional and and getting kids ready, I think we can continue to work on that and then we will continue to place students first. Keep growing too. They do keep growing. Yep. For sure. Point. So kind of buzzed through it, but any questions? Looks good. Thank you, Casey. Awesome.
016So, last year I presented and I was very jealous of uh Mr. Deo's format. So, at the end of the year, I asked him to share his format so I could use that skeleton but input high school and middle school data. So, it's going to be the exact same look but different data. And I think that is sharp. So, thank you, Mr. Zil, for letting me use your template. All right. Um, started with enrollment. Just kind of going back to 1718. One, I think, you know, kind of interesting thing we talk about declining enrollment. Elementary is pretty flat, but this is 5 through 12. And from 2021 to 2425, we're down 100 kids 5 through 12. So we did bounce back from 23 24 a good ch a good chunk which we've talked a lot
017about here. But you know that's 5 through 12 is where we're seeing you know those numbers go down. So and very lopsided uh male female. So, we have quite a few more male students. Again, this is 5 through 12, but this does play a role in some of those uh female athletic participation issues that we've had. We have smaller numbers and just fewer girls, too. And I think that contributes to, you know, some of the issues we've had there. Next slide is just demographic data pulled from our um uh grade report online, the school profile report. So high school on the left for 2425 and middle school on the right. Definitely seeing similar trends to the elementary. You can see growing Hispanic population. You know, those middle school numbers will be the high school numbers
018here in a few years. and also uh Pacific Islander has grown this year as well. So those are trends we see across the district. Next slide is subgroups. So 45 students receiving IEP services, 38 receiving ESL services and 13 on 504s. And that number's really grown uh since Megan Block has been in that role and identifying kids. And I think that's been a really great support for our students, trying to catch those kids that don't qualify for an IEP, but still need additional support. And I think that's something that we've gotten a lot better at. So, credit to her and her work um and identifying those kids and going through that process with families. So, next slide is high school attendance up a little bit from last year. Not quite at that 95% goal, but
019getting closer. Um, so I think we're trending in the right direction. Um, and want to continue that. Middle school did get there 95.84 and a good jump from last year as well. Um, and their truency numbers were better year-toear as well. We'll kind of get into that on the next slide. Didn't break it down. middle school, high school, um, and a little bit different display of data than Mr. Zo. So, I just pulled what the state is is looking for, the 10% absent, the 15% absent, and the 20% absent. That's how they're tracking it, not by days anymore. Uh, so that's how I'll present it going forward. Um, so we had 20 at that 10% absent. The percentage is a little misleading. That could be, you know, a kid who was here a quarter and
020missed 10 days, nine days, or that could be a kid who was here all year and missed 15. So, yeah, it just kind of varies how many days were they enrolled here. But this also pulls in period attendance, too. So, if they missed 10% of the periods, class periods throughout the year. So, that catches some of our high school kids who come to school a little late, maybe miss first period pretty frequently, they can get pulled into this data, too, where going by days I don't know if it does or not. So again, high school pretty similar with absenteeism compared to last year. Middle school was better. So that's a good good growth for middle school. High school our behavior referrals. The vast majority like 90% are centered around attendance, tardies, skipping class, and cell
021phone policy. That's the majority of the issues that we deal with. um which I think is a a great thing. We don't have a lot of the other um issues. Uh and I think that is a credit to our kids. We have really good kids and and staff who work well with our kids. Um so yeah, grateful for that. But again, consequences do come with even being tardy and having your cell phone out. So the next slide is kind of a breakdown of what we do there. So the timeout, detention, and the ISS, the majority of those are from tardies. So if you hit a certain number of tardies, you serve a detention. You hit another metric of tardies, then you serve an in school suspension, and then it resets at the high school, middle
022school. And then additional responses are 10day and five-day absent letters and conferences with students are most common approach. At the high school, our out of school suspensions were down quite a bit from last year. So, that was something I was glad to see. Then the middle school breakdown behavior-wise, pretty similar. The biggest chunk is tardies. There is a I'm not sure why, but this second line from the bottom, that 13.95% that's the fiveday letter. I don't know why that wording didn't show up, but I didn't notice that till today when I was looking through. So again, tardies and absences are a big chunk, but in the middle school and and typical with middle school kids, you have a few more of the, you know, aggression or defiance, things like that, refusals. So they deal with
023more of that behavior. Mrs. Schuler deals with that and has done a great job with those kids this year. So a little bit more of those behaviors in the middle school. And then with that, you see a little bit different picture as far as dealing with those. Again, detentions and five-day absence letters, but conferences with students, lunch detention, in school suspension, OSS, parent contacts are all bigger than they are at uh high school level, which makes sense. Uh then jumping into the fast data, again, Mrs. Scheler and Katy Schroeder and our middle school teachers did a great job of starting and continuing that process. So assessing kids three times a year, but then using that data to start and continue for 56 the intervention process down there. Similar trends to the elementary are literacy. We
024didn't perform as well and that kind of surprised me. There were a few grades that did show growth across. Uh, sixth grade did really well, grew from fall to spring, but fifth grade trended down. And that's going to be interesting when we look at ISASP data. Just a hint there. Remember that. So, sixth and sixth and seventh grade grew, eighth grade stayed about the same, and fifth grade went backwards. Again, the the benchmarks changed throughout the year. also. So, kids are making progress, but they may not be keeping pace with the benchmark. And then, uh, just proficiency for fifth and sixth compared to the AA in the state and we're right in line with both of those groups. Then the next side slide is the ISASP data. So again, that fifth grade group who didn't
025keep pace in the fast testing grew 15% year-toear. So even though they didn't keep pace with fast testing, they were our biggest growth from all the grades that take ISAS tests in this building and in the middle school. So I don't know if that's the fast me metric moves faster than the ISAS metric does or they're just a little bit different or kids just tested a little better that day than they did on the fast assessments. But proud of that growth. That's really good growth for the fifth grade group. And then sixth grade who did keep up with the fast benchmark had negative growth on the ISASP. So fewer students made it year-toear. So again when you're testing with kids a lot of variability in what happens there. Um we want that trend to be
026growth over time and we're seeing that but at different points we see certain groups move backwards and certain groups move forwards. So yeah, I ready data agree with Mr. Zo. That was the surprise this year. I thought our middle school kids showed a lot of growth. Again, that fifth grade group did phenomenal uh in this metric. But then when we look at there'll be a little surprise there. Um but that's great growth from 74% proficient to 90% proficient in one year. That's that's huge growth. So proud of their work. Um, another big outlier that seventh grade group uh 66% in the fall to 82% and that's percent of kids proficient if I didn't make that clear. So but overall good growth throughout the middle school and IASP. And then again that next slide showing our
027proficiency for fifth and sixth compared to the A.E.A. in the state and we're outperforming them in math currently and I think that's due to a lot of our growth this year. So then if you go to ISASPs again a little bit of a shock uh fifth grade who who grew really well throughout the year on the I Ready went backwards on the ISASP. So uh not by much 6% would be you know maybe two students. So two students have a bad day and don't test well and now you're heading in the wrong direction. But so yeah, we would expect to see I ready growth and ISAS growth to be in a line at and just it worked out this year that that didn't always happen. A good example of how we want it to work
028would be seventh grade. Really good growth in the I Ready, really good growth in the ISASP. So they they performed really well on both assessments this year. uh high school did much better in math than we did in uh reading. Um so a lot more growth there than we had in in the English reading segment. But and then science is the next slide. That's a little tricky. There's not a great way to show growth year-toear because they only take it as fifth graders, eighth graders, and tth graders. Um so each grade, you know, is a new set of fifth graders. So you're going to see those numbers kind of jump all over, but happy with our performance there. And you can see as time goes on, we do improve. So 65% as fifth graders and
02969, then 72. And that is a trend that we see as they get up into high school and through 10th grade. Those scores tend to grow. One additional metric I threw in here that I thought was pretty interesting was extracurricular participation. So I think if you go back a slide, nope, I must have made another edit. So on my screen, I'm looking at grades 12 through 7. You can see uh 12 through 9 there. Just wanted to show um participation across the grade levels. Um the total number is in that mid80 range. Like to see that more in the 90 95 range. Um and this is all extracurricular. So not just sports but band, choir, FFA, art club, uh Spanish club, um just kind of any outside of academic time activity that kids participate in.
030I've I've included that. So, you know, we only have a few, you know, a handful of kids at each grade level that aren't participating. I'd really like to see us get all those kids participating in something. We do have a lot of great clubs and activities and athletic and arts that I think kids would benefit from participating in. We just haven't captured everybody yet. So, one outlier here that I thought was interesting, that 10th grade group is at 80%, that's our lowest participation. So, that'd be this year's 10th graders are going to be 11th graders next year. Um, so yeah, want to kind of dive into those numbers a little bit more and see who we're missing and maybe if we can pull them into something. I did include on my slide. I must have
031edited and not uploaded the most recent version. Sorry about that. But eighth grade had 97% participation and seventh grade had 82% participation. So eighth grade all students but one were involved in something which is great to see and we'd like to see other grades get to that point too. And then the yeartoyear I I'm just going to track it year-over-year. Our our participation percentage changes for 7 through 12. So in 2023 we had better participation. This year we were down a little bit. Um not sure what's driving that, but hopefully with conference change and things like that, we see that number go back up. Staff attendance um throughout the year kind of bouncing between that uh upper 90 mid 90 range. I'll share the total average here on the next slide. We were at 93.87%
03287% so missed that 95% goal. Um we did have 19 of our 34 staff members 5 through 12 hit that 95% a little over half. Um professional development we were at 92%. We had six have perfect attendance and 11 have fewer than one day missed. Uh both of those are up from last year. successes. Uh, super happy about the DECAP performance and the work that went into that for the high school and at the middle school level. Uh, but just feel like we made a lot of growth there and was excited about that. At the middle school level, very happy with again Mr. Schuler's work and Mrs. Schroeder's work on the intervention implementation for 512 or 5'8 for math and for reading. And that was a big undertaking and it took a lot of their
033time especially in the fall getting it started but I think we saw really good growth and definitely time well spent. Thought we also had a lot of really fun engaging um good culture building moments throughout the school year. Prom, winter formal, homecoming. We had a lot of success reward days at the high school and middle school level. So, I just thought, you know, we put in a lot of time to make this a place kids want to be, and I was happy about that. Record-breaking and high quality performances across the board in academics, arts, and athletics. Super impressed with our kids and and the work they've done this year. And our coaching staff, fine arts staff applied for several grants that we've been awarded. The STEM best grant. We have a grant in for industry
034recognized credentials. Matt Vermeier did a lot of work on that. Um that's going to be for $40,000 if it's awarded. Um so just yeah funds going in to support other academic uh needs for our school. Then Mrs. Schuler did add on here 103 middle school students earned honor role at least one quarter and we had 12 middle school students earn uh 4.0 GPA. So other things to celebrate. Then looking at next year, things to look forward to or continue to work on. So want to continue to improve attendance, participation, and academic performance and and put kids first. As Mr. Zo says, that's our goal. Um, a little change to the structure of success. hopefully, you know, less class time missed for students, more time to intervene when students are struggling, but still uh incorporating a
035lot of the career and future ready curriculum that we started this year. So, kind of trying to get best of both worlds. We'll have a speaker, Timmy the Dreamer, come and speak to fifth through 12th grade students in a couple different sessions during homecoming week. Excited about that. It's a resilience message, which that's talking with our counselors 5 through 12. That's something that we think our kids really need. So, I'm excited about that. I have a record number of students enrolling in college classes and school to career at the high school. We'll continue to work on MTSS and classroom instruction, and that's going to be more of a focus this year for me, trying to be in the classroom more. um felt like the first two years was a lot of procedures and schedule changes
036and things like that. I think hopefully those are set and we don't have to make any more of those and now can spend more time in the classroom hopefully. Um and then at the end uh Mr. Schuler I think added two new um new to United States but also new to Iowa teachers in the middle school. So excited for them to join our team. um going to continue to improve middle school lunch and lunch recess behaviors and there'll be a new tag program at the middle school with David Johnson's retirement. So, lots of new and exciting things to look forward to. Can I ask them one question? Yeah. So, with Julie in the back, Kent and Casey, um, now that we're a year into this with Casey as 512 principal, but Julie being the middle
037school dean and and Kent being the elementary principal, how have you felt that's gone this past year since it was about a year ago that we approved this and started that, right? I know we could talk an hour on it, but maybe a short version of how you guys felt that winter and worked together with that. definitely felt more available to support staff. Um there were innumerable times where we would get together on Wednesday mornings for admin team meeting and um I would get a call for a behavior at the elementary and the door would be knocked on and Mrs. Scheler, we need you for a behavior at the middle school or we would share stories a little bit and kind of talk about, oh, on Monday, you know, and just there was just so
038many of those times, like I said, it was innumerable where felt like we can just best support um students and staff. So, I felt like it was a a very very positive change. Yeah, same for me. I am certain that we would have not gotten fifth through 8th grade math and reading intervention off the ground. that would have not happened because I just didn't I would not have been able to put the time that Mrs. Schuler put into that and I think that was a huge benefit to our kids. So that alone to me is worth it. Kids got the extra support that they needed uh because of that. But yeah, also definitely you saw the behavior breakdown for middle school. There's a lot of behaviors there and it needs those students need kind of
039immediate attention and and um those situations have to be handled right away and having Mrs. Schuler allows us to do that. So grateful for her. I would piggyback too off of the the intervention plans. Um we've been required to do literacy intervention plans. Um, and now I just was reading an email this afternoon that said the state is going to require us to do math intervention plans. So, um, we're a step ahead there. Uh, we've got that process in place now to meet that requirement from the state. So, feel good about that. Yeah. Okay. And like Mr. Herd said, wouldn't be possible to do. And do you see the new teachers coming abroad getting here? Yep. Very encouraged. When Oh, when do we see them getting here? Hoping prior to August 1. It's kind of
040our timeline. They've been very responsive. Um already both licensed in Iowa. So, that was a big hurdle. Um and that's done. and they've worked with our immigration attorney really well, been super responsive to emails and uh gotten on with us several times, me several times through Zooms and once the three of us, the attorney and Mr. Zo and I. So, yeah, hoping August one. We'll see timeline wise if that works out, but I think we're kind of waiting for Yeah, the the immigration the big hurdles that have happened to this point have been passed. um they got their from the BOE their Iowa license um issued to them already and some of the other immigration hurdles and paperwork that they thought might take a while has amazingly gone through. So, I've been I've been very
041much more cautiously optimistic, but very um much more uh what's the word I want to use? Not that I didn't think it was happen, but I also wanted to go, okay, this isn't just a done deal, but as time has moved on here, it's been more positive momentum with that. So, I'm excited about that happening on time. So, they can't guarantee a date yet, but all things are pointing positive that hopefully by August 1. That's the plan. We'll see. So, great. It's good to hear those positives of how having that new position with Mrs. Sheler has really benefited, you know. support to the staff but really helping with the student success too. So thank you for sharing that. Um moving on to Mr. Dio. Yeah, I just wanted to add that and thank you guys
042for approving that that just hear a little tidbit of the benefit of that and and there's a like I said we could have had a long discussion on that but just putting those guys on the spot. They didn't know I was going to ask that. So appreciate you guys doing that. Um, a lot of the work with district literacy and math. It's, you know, looking from the top end and supporting and making decisions there. Um, a lot of work has gone into by this team, these three right here, and doing our PD schedule and continuing to look at that with our curricular needs for next year and trying to keep you guys updated on that as well as the board. Um and we have later agenda items that are dealing with that and finalizing that
043workbased learning coordinator position with central employed that contract last month but just finalizing that with those three now that the AAA is out of the picture alto together um and thank you for your work on the work session that we had since our last meeting for driving our goals and things like that and I'm um going to try and keep that on the forefront this summer and get that done before we return next fall. A lot of behind the-scenes planning for next year and and and continued and ongoing with that and some of the things those guys alluded to. Um trying to keep you guys up to date and like I emailed you I think last week that we have all our teaching positions and the administrative assistant at the elementary field. We might have
044some other positions and support positions to fill that I'm confident we can do when we get back here and hit a little bit harder at the end of July with some pair of positions in a kitchen position. But right now, we're in a really good spot and and I don't mean this to glow. Not every school's in that position. And we got contacted by someone today asking for some help to fill some positions. So, there are still schools scrambling. I'm glad we don't have to do that. um kind of a whole another beast that started this summer is just keeping up with the projects and coordinating that and and that's a good thing. But um making sure that stays on track for next fall and then doing a lot of things with Kendra and keeping
045track of bonds. I could have listed bonds and payments for the project about four or five times over but doing that talking about saving and ple projections and some other things that we'll discuss tonight on renewing our voted ple and things like that. I won't go through every item. So that kind of summarizes some of the things that I've been working on the last month. Okay. Any questions for Mr. Dale? Okay. Moving on to We had no board committee. So recognition of excellence. All right. Drake relays qualifier. Tate Marco for 400 hurdles. Tate finished ninth in state for all classes. 2025 state track and field shot put uh Gage Greenfield the 4x800 Dawson Krakus David Poppin Kale Ryder Ben Buyers uh finish state runner up 400 meter open doc Dawson Krakus distance medley relay Lou
046Kyleman Tate Marco Ben Buyers and Kale Ryder again 400 meter hurdles Tate Marco finished third place so ninth in all classes But third place in our class 4x400 Dawson Craigus David Poppin Kale Ryder and Ben Buyers and the 800 meter open Kale Ryder. So a lot of great performances this year from our boys at state track. The generals of the week for May, May 2nd, elementary, Riker Lushian, middle school, Gracie Odin's high school, Ella Howard. Staff, Anastasia Gustafson. Estson, Gestson. May 9th, elementary, Ethan Alisento Pizaro. Middle school, Weston Voss High School, Gracia Garcia Martinez, and staff, Ashley Hench. May 16th, elementary, Grayson Glade. Middle school, Carson Peters High School, Hayden Glade. Uh, staff Marisa Gayia Valverdea Kisha Valv. And May 23rd, elementary Genesis Monzan, Middle School, Kyler Maxwell High School, Haven Felix, and staff Clint
047Ryder. Congratulations to the class of 2025. Thought ceremony and all that went really well and happy for our graduates. Very good. Moving on to our discussion items. Two minute board policy and finance moment. Um so the first thing if you can recall from previous conversations, do you remember what TSS stands for? I think so. Teacher supplemental salary. salary supplement. Yes, teacher and say hope Laurel probably has the best chance of knowing this one. So that was one of the ways the state was funding um the teacher minimums is the increased dollar amounts to to to meet those. And so for FY25 we were getting and that was increased from the year before but roughly $1,68. This is separate of what we love for and everything, but $1,68 per pupil of TSS dollars to go to
048um support those minimums and increases the teacher pay, which is a good thing. And then for this coming year, the number came in. And so our increase is now $1,224, roughly $1,225 per student. So an increase of I'm rounding here, 175ish per student. And so you can see the increase and that'll go to meeting the new minimums which is a good thing. I'm also pointing that out because you have to remember now after this year that that won't change. That's what we get. They don't keep upping that dollar amount after this year to meet minimums. Um that will go up according to the same percentage as TSS, but not on that whole amount, the the state amount. But we won't have those type of big increases moving forward. And and trust me, it's a good
049thing to pay teachers. I'm not complaining about that, but we have to also realize that the the state put those in place and that won't be a yearly increase we get moving forward. So, just more of anformational thing there trivia and then any more what's on their thoughts on anything in that continuing something or not really? The last I heard is the plan is not to address it after this year. they think it's sufficient because I asked that question in one of our forums with other um with some other superintendents and they said they addressed it. That was the answer I was given. So will it be completely gone or just no increase? No increase. Correct. Correct. Yep. So the increase will So there's a standard TSS amount. I can't tell you the dollar amount.
050That's a couple hundred bucks. And then schools are getting now for the first time varied amounts. It used to be pretty uniform based on what your needs were to raise up to those minimums. So let's say TS this year was 2%. Let's say that's again 2%. Next year our TSS will go up by 2%. But it's not of the whole $1,200 amount. It's of whatever the state portion of that is, 500 bucks, 400 bucks. Um, but we won't see a $175 increase per student, which yeah, you multiply out by 600 some students is is substantial and support that won't happen without a change in legislation, but it appears that that's not going to happen. And then just a reminder, the school board uh elections, just bringing that up, that's coming up here in districts 1,
051three, and four are um up for election this fall. So that would be um Director Clawson, Aaron, and Athetherton. And I did put on the the map on here. I won't pull that up, but people can see that. I did attach the election guide just to make people aware of some of the dates. I'm not going to read through this verbatim. It says what the qualifications are, the nominations papers, but the just as a reminder to um all those that are interested, the filing period, nomination papers with the um there's a second P affidavit of candidacy are can't be filed before Monday, August 25, and then they are due. They have to be turned in by Thursday, September 28th. And there's links on here on what those look like and what the qualifications are by
0525:00 p.m. That's a hard deadline. So, it's about a month window to get that in. And then the election date is what's November, but I don't know the actual date off the top of my head without looking. I'm sure it says it on here. Whatever the voting date in November is. What is it? Thought I go right by it. Tuesday the Oh, there. There we go. Thank you. Uh, Tuesday, November 4th is when the elections are. So, and then this just kind of from the um is this the Secretary of State? I think I we got this from Kendra. Is that right? Yeah, the Iowa Secretary of State just the guide for school elections and the requirements on there and that is attached here. So, um just pointing that out, making people aware and didn't
053know if you guys had any questions on it, but I wanted to make sure that it's in the back of our minds right now. Uh, next is lot sale discussion. So, I'm bringing this just to make you aware. I wanted this out there, but the city's in the process of selling three city-owned lots located in the norththeast portion of the city kind of by the recreational trail. And I'll pull up the map here in a second. And then putting some in infrastructure. The other side of that street if the infrastructure would get put in is schoolowned property. And so there's a possibility that um once that moves forward been approached on would we be willing to sell off that portion of our property as three more lots that are on the other side. Obviously we're
054not voting on that tonight but just answering some questions and making you guys aware if we get to that phase. So, where where we're looking at here is okay. Get into the meeting here. Excuse me. Oh, there we go. So, up above the satellite view here is this is this is the FFA field. Okay. Ignore this grain gray thing that's just from Google Maps. But right here's the wreck trail. Okay. Um and so the three lots are here. So where they're talking would be the school lots would be right here. That's the baseball field to kind of orient it. I took a picture on street view here. Um this is where silers currently live to kind of orient you and the street is a dead end, the recck trail. And so the lots would be
055behind their house three here. The other side of the trail is school owned property. That's what they're referring to there. And then I did this on Google Maps to kind of indicate that. And that's where it's um but it's the same point. Here's our school and this is where the FFA plot is. Nothing to vote on tonight, but just showing that discussion has been brought up to me and and for those that have asked, I've told them I can't promise anything. But when we get to that point, that is something that we can look into. Um, based on where the where the lots are, I don't know that there's anything that we would use that for in the future anyway, as you can see, especially when that's city-owned on the other side of the trail,
056right? And so forth. So any questions you have, I can try to answer. I don't have all the answers. Obviously, if we got that point and we were willing to look into that, we'd use a lawyer and someone to help us to do the proper way to sell those lots off. But just kind of making you guys aware of that questions that you guys have about that. How far would the street just come as far as the lots? That's my understanding. Yes. I don't know that 100%, but from what conversations with the city and those that have asked about it, the the street would continue like it is now with a dead end. If you've been there, you can kind of see the dead end. It would just be extended and then be equal distant
057with the end of the third lot. And there are some utilities in place in there. Not that that affects our decision, but just there are Any questions? So, there's three lots total on each side. On each side. Yes. Three lights of the lots that the city is going to sell on the if you're looking to be the east side. So then if let's just say we get there, we agree to do this and we have the same side on the west side, then it'd be six lots total if we would sell our portion. Is that kind of what you're asking? Yep. Greg. Yeah. This is obviously from Google satellites taken a while ago because I'm pretty sure these evergreens are all all gone. Y yeah. Okay. Um moving on to new business. Consider approval of
058new contracts. Got four of them there. Sorry, just catching up here. All right. So these were the last few positions that were open and I just want to say number one we're excited but also thank between Julie Kent Casey and the others that the work they did sometimes people don't think or they don't think there's progress on that but that doesn't mean there isn't work happening behind the scenes though they did a great job to um get the people hired and filled these positions. So we're super excited about that. Okay. Is there a motion to approve these new contracts? I'll make a motion to approve the new contracts as listed. Second. All right. All in favor say I. I. I. And those are passed. Consider approval of the 2526 student handbooks. So these are for
059the student handbooks. And yes, we have three buildings, but we technically have four handbooks because we have to have a separate one for the early childhood um preschool handbook. There's no major changes there. um the preschool through fourth grade or the elementary handbook. No major changes. Obviously, some of those, you know, they list staff and some other things like that and dates. Those are updated, but those aren't major changes that we're not listing. The middle school hand book, the biggest ones on page 19, they updated the food and drink policy and some of the procedures with this and updated our eligibility policy. And then page 17 of that handbook added some language on dropping band and choir that we've been talking about putting in there and making that official for the middle school. And then
060on the high school student handbook, those changes are highlighted in yellow like the others, but the major changes were to the absent policy um was that to more match what we need to do with the state, right? Correct. Yeah. Language to match the state's requirement. States. Yeah. And I believe that was likewise in the in the middle school. Updated language for seniors and late arrival and some of those policies. And then updated requirements for English, which actually I don't remember what board meeting, but you brought it up. I mean, it wasn't anything we didn't mention, but you you brought it up at a board meeting. Yep. Yeah. allowing the college classes to substitute for that high school fourth year of English, giving our kids a little bit more flexibility in schedules and allowing them to
061earn more college credit in high school. Was that April or May? Maybe. Yeah, probably April. April. So, just actually putting that in the handbook now. And I can bring them up if you got any questions, but I don't have anything else to add. Okay. One other highlight I guess I'll make for the high school, this is a a suggestion from a parent, but I thought really good idea. The policy for college visits was two for senior year, one for junior year. They're the parents point to me was, you know, a lot of these schools are now requiring that you have certain things met or apply by the beginning of your junior year. and their suggestion was, could there be a visit put in place for sophomore year? So, we did add that. We didn't increase
062the number of college visits. We moved one from senior year to sophomore year. I thought was a really good idea because we had some students miss out on some opportunities this year because they made a decision as a senior and weren't able to get into the programs that they wanted. We really want kids making those decisions a little bit earlier so they're able to get into the programs and apply for the scholarships and opportunities that they that they want. So is there a motion to approve these change handbooks changes? Make a motion to approve the handbooks for the upcoming year as presented. Okay. Is there a second? Second. All in favor say I. I and that is passed. Consider approval of district insurance policy. So Becky is here block to answer some questions that you
063have. Um and I can pull up the invoice, but overall going through the materials Kinder and I have reviewed we put what our recommendation is and I can pull up that information and then we can answer any questions and Becky can as well here. But um that's what our recommendation is. So, thank you for having you um having me speak to you guys today. Um probably one of the biggest things that you're looking at is premiums from last year to this year with the volatile storms that um have gone around everywhere. Um I feel like we've been hit every week for years now. So anyway, um last year your premium was $317,812. So you can see this year it's up about $22,000 give or take um in your premium. That does not consider or that
064does not take into consideration your cyber policy. However, the good news on the cyber policy, I just got that late this afternoon and shot that off to Kendra. That stays the same. There's no changes in that policy. premium coverages, deductibles, anything. So that um that will be $8,85367. So again, that cyber stays the same. Um there's a storm protection fund which I think stands visited with you guys about. Um that premium we got um back in today and that um that premium is 23,184. So, um, that's an additional onto that. And then there's other two other things that I kind of wanted to talk about is your umbrella. Last year, you had purchased an extra umbrella um to the tune of $10 million. That was 14,000, excuse me, it's 14,89921 for this year. Last year,
065um, it was $13,358. So, it's about a, um, $1,300 increase. What we'd like to put out as a suggestion is you can buy another $5 million. You don't have to. We're just offering it to you. And for an additional 5 million um premium on that umbrella, that would take you to about $4,200. And you know, for us to answer when is enough enough? So much of that is based upon nuclear verdict, the civil lawsuits that we have. If you Bill's saying is tell me what's going to happen, I'll tell you what you should have. So, um, that's where you're sitting at now is you've got that three plus the 10. If you want to purchase an additional five, that is something that you guys can talk about. Let us know and we can um, put
066that into place if you need to. And I wanted to move along to the property um, coverage that you have. You can increase. Right now, the value of the middle school and um high school is at $44 million. Franklin is insured at $17 million. Not sure if you want to look at increasing the coverage on those. If you did increase by $5 million and you can kind of pick which building you want, that would be an additional 26,000. Or if I broke it down for a million dollars in coverage, it's about $5,400. So, that's something um to kind of think about on those two items is the five million increase on an umbrella or if you want to increase anything on property. And I don't know, Stan, if you have anything you want to add
067on property at all. The reason Becky's doing that is in in looking at what the value of the buildings are insured for. Worst case scenario that we need to replace that. We're not going to replace the elementary for 17 million. we're up here. I mean, and we're not going to replace the middle school high school for 44. So, bringing it up to actual value all in one year is a huge chunk. So, we had kind of asked what does that cost per million and you know doing that year by year and over time adding that because that's going to be a big increase. So, that is our the actual policy quote was for the same um Becky was referring to the same values for those buildings as last year. And then what she mentioned we
068would add 22. No, 24 grant. What's the next page? If you would the next page million worth of coverage, then that would um it's that would increase that premium instead of at 194,000 it would be 221. There we go. Thousand. So, it's about $5,400 per 1 million to increase property coverage. So, if you kind of look at that, if I'm going to pay $5,400 and get a million more dollars of coverage, something to think about for coverage. And so, that's where why she was throwing that out, what that would cost for because that's kind of what we said to throw out. I think we need to start pumping that up. um to do that to the full cost in one year I think's a lot to swallow but I think doing that peacemail is something
069we need to start looking at insurance-wise you know and just the work we're having done just as an example the work we're having done on all now that's all the facilities this summer but just that between the entrances the fire alarm um and the roof on the middle school portion I mean we're spending over six million for So kind of doing the math there, putting a brand new facility, I don't know that that dollar amount is going to cover us at the element 17 million as an example. And so that's that's why we said I think we need to start pumping that up. Um, and we had initially before we came up with the idea asked what the umbrella increase would be and I appreciate them putting to do that but maybe to offset that
070leaving our it yeah it's hard to know leaving our umbrella coverage at the 10 million not increasing that but then increasing our um property insurance by that 5 million bucks I think makes sense from our end of things to this page here. any questions additional that you have for me or for Becky here? I appreciate her coming in to present here. And I have one other quick thing I want to talk about is the work comp. Oh, um, right now you're at 500,000 and you can increase that to a million dollar for an additional $137 for the year. I know that seems really crazy, but that's what the the price would be. So, currently your work comp um is at $48,59. If you want to go to a million dollars, you would add another $137
071to that. It's a no-brainer. So, um, maybe an easier decision. Should I say Bill when when Bill first recommended that, I'm like, I don't know if we want to double our premium there. We just got a lot of these things back this afternoon. She told us the price today and I was like 100red like per month or a day. She said no. I'm like oh okay. So those are just if you don't have any other questions those are just the three things we're asking you to look at is do you want to increase the work comp from 500 to a million at the increase of 137. Do you want to increase any other property and then that five do you want to take take an additional 5 million umbrella? Those would be just kind of
072the three choices or three things that we are asking um for guidance on. So you guys can talk about it and then let us know. Your policy renews the 1st of July. So that'll be here sooner than later. Hence why it's presenting tonight. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. thoughts or questions you have on that in talking this through with Kendra and then correct me if I don't want to put words in her mouth but what we were comfortable with is increasing the workman's comp um using the EMC renewal policy but increasing that by 5 million for the property values and then we said staying at 10 million for that excess liability the umbrella coverage that would what we talked through update. I I added that. Thank you. Any questions or discussion? I think, you know, when you
073really think about it, it's like you said, if we knew what was going to happen, we'd know what to do. But of course, we don't. Um, but we do, I think, have a pretty good understanding of costs going through this process of what we're doing with the buildings. And it's not cheap. Everything's going up. So, I don't know what everybody else thinks. And just as a reminder that what Vicky said the storm protection fund what we approved last month that's will sep well part but separate from this that we'll take part in so that worst case scenario we have an event where we have to pay the 1% deductible you know when your v buildings are and they're going to be valued at more than what we're paying here and you have to pay that
074um and now you have to come up with $500,000 as an example us paying the 23,000 or whatever which is like you know, going back to more to our deductible a little bit more easier to swallow and they protect us against that. So, that's what the storm protection fund is about and we approved that last month. But just as a reminder, we certainly appreciate you Stan um volunteering to be on that committee to represent the small school of Northwest Iowa's um you know that that would be great representation. So, we thank you for being a part of that. questions or comments or anything? If not, is somebody wanting to make a motion based on the recommendation? I'll make a motion to approve the EMC district insurance policy renewal with the 5 million increase to property
075values, 10 million excess liability policy, work comp policy increase, and the payment through the HP insurance for FY26. Is there a second? Second. All in favor say I. I. Okay, that is passed. Okay, I will go. Thank you guys so much for um your time. Appreciate it very much. Thank you for all you got to work on that Becky. Appreciate it. Uh consider approval of public record records associates. Annually, we need to appoint this and currently Kendra and myself serve in this role. The motion's below. We had just started this last year, but just as a reminder, if you list the position that why it's it's not tied to the name, not that we're expecting anything to happen, but the motion is recommended right there below. Make a recommendation that the school business official and
076superintendent continue to serve as the custodians of the public records. Is there a second? Second. All in favor say I. I. That is passed. consider approval of 2526 teacher work rules etc. So I I listed them there and I will say a disclaimer up front up front. I did not spend as much time as I did the last two summers reviewing these. I did a fair amount of work last summer but found with some of the other things going on that this slipped to the back burner. So I tried to make all the clerical changes and thought maybe next summer I'll review more heavily again. But um there weren't as many content or heavy changes. Um the teacher work rules and I tried to go through remember with our um policy update we had to
077take gender identity out. So I was trying to do that in all of those listed that there. And then we had also talked about instead of listing um the positions um for uh people for certain things just listing their position if they have to make a claim. So listing K4 counselor if they have a um complaint instead of putting Janelle Jensen as an example or the high school counselor instead of listing Teres Teresa Rugles so that when those positions change we don't have to go through every document in our school and find out where their names listed. So that was the biggest thing not anything specific in the business procedures. Um yeah I won't read them all but most of the bigger changes are listed there and there was not anything too specific here. Okay.
078Is there a motion to approve this? Make a motion to approve the handbooks as presented. Is there a second? Second. Okay. All in favor say I. I. I. And that is passed. Moving on to approval of affirmative action plan. So, we're required to do this every two years. um and scheduled an odd number of years. Last year we did do an update or amendment to it because it had not been officially approved by the board the year before. Um I had noticed and so but we'll stay on the plan. So this is the updated plan and would be good for two years. Okay. Is there a motion to approve this? So moved. Is there a second? Second. Okay. All in favor say I. I. And that is passed. consider approval of contract for transfer of
079state funding. So this is new. So with House File 2612, the change of the cash flow for our special education funding um became effective this coming school year. And so now school districts, we get 100% of the money. We did not get that before. That went straight to the AEAs. That comes to us, but then we still have to pass that on to the AEAs. um they get a minimum of 90% and then we have some discretion what to do with the final 10 or what that will fund um and then that happens on a schedule basis. So the funds are automatically transferred in 10 monthly payments similar to how we receive state aid. So um the districts are required to approve and sign a contract to approve of these transfers and if it passes
080Laurel will do I think it's a docu sign and myself will do that and we'll complete that. So that that is something new. In the past we would not have seen this money. it would have gone straight through to the A.E.A.S. But with the change in legislation, this will be something as of right now without any further legislation that we'll have to approve annually. Okay. Any questions? All right. Is there a motion? Make a motion to approve the contract for transfer of state funding as presented. Okay. Is there a second? Second. All in favor say I. I. And that is passed. consider approval of contract with Northwest AEA for general services. So the same being we used to have two levies, general ed services and media services that went straight to the AEA. This last
081year um they kept 40%, we had 60% and then um they were a fee for service model. This year now we will get all of that money and every thing outside of special education that we contract them is a fee for service model. And so we have um to sign a contract with them. We had to sign up for some recommended days. Our best estimate I put that attached here. We are not bound to that by days. But if you look in visiting with our admin team and visiting with them, this is our estimate for about roughly 24 days for next year. Um is where we're at. But we do have to have a motion to approve that. Their rate for this coming year for a full day of training or a full day of
082their use is $922. Questions on that? So if you use less or more, pay for more. You can't get more, you can we can get if we need more, we can get more. If we don't fill those all, we won't bounce to it. They want us to be somewhat close to that. And so just for their in a tough spot because yep, before they knew how much was money coming in and how many employees and now they're guessing this and like we don't know for sure how many days and they have to meet their budget as well. Um so ideally that's why we're trying to do a good faith estimate of how many days we think we'll contract for so that they can fulfill their own budget and their budgets has to be filed before
083ours which makes it even tougher. But um off of that rail, yes, we do have flexibility. You know, I don't know that we're going to use 10 math days every year, but we are probably this coming year just because we're going to continue evaluating our math curriculum, especially at the lower levels. The upper levels, we'll have a motion for that tonight. So, um and the three days for early childhood, I know we'll use because they're required to come in for two days of training before the school year starts. I mean, we we need to have them come in, you know, for for our certification. So there's certain things that will happen regardless. So what would they do like an example of a math day? I mean what So at the beginning of the year they'll
084probably come in and do some more um present different why we have them for 10 days. We're looking at getting a new math curriculum and so they'll present some different curricular options. We kind of held off because of the legislation this past year of what would be approved to meet the new math standards. the um the Department of Education is supposed to come out. They have a recommended, but it hasn't been officially approved list of what would meet their new highquality um curriculum guidelines at the state level. And so then the AEA will have that list and they could present or help us look at the different options um because they'll have people that are just dealing with that versus also looking at math and then teaching second grade the next day. They'll come and
085present that and then maybe our team has an idea of we like these two. There's four of them, but we don't like these two. We like these two. Help you sort through and then help sort through and do that. Yeah, that's what a lot of it will be spent on at the beginning of the year. Ideally, what um Kent referred to halfway through. He said hopefully we can make that decision by December and then that way the last half of the year we know we're going to purchase but then hopefully get some training specific to whatever curriculum they choose. Um they would have liked to have that help with that. They would help with that, right? or at least point us in the direction to get that. Ideally, that could have happened this last year,
086but they pumped the brakes. They wanted more time and with the legislation, they just the staff felt rushed with doing that, which was the right decision and didn't want to buy something and then realize it didn't meet the new math legislation that came from the legislature. That would have kind of been very depressing and then realize you have to do it all again after spending that amount of money. So that's why they kind of held off specifically for the lower levels. So when we buy curriculum, it's not the curriculum company that comes out and does the training. It could be depending on some companies they do provide training with that. Like so we've had that with our literacy curriculum. Okay. Amplified they did but some companies don't or or they've trained someone at the AA
087to do that for them. Okay. That's what I mean. At least point us point us in the right direction. Right? Maybe for this company the EA has received training but for this company they haven't. Okay. And so then we'll maybe have to contract through them or by purchasing the curriculum we'll get a certain number of days. If you find you don't want one of the days you selected under a certain category, can you use it elsewhere or are they for let's say we only use eight for math but for whatever reason we want to use some more literacy days as an example I think is what you're getting at. They would allow us to switch that. Yes. Okay. Or we need more support because of a student issue. So, we need more support for social,
088emotional, and behavioral health to come in and do some problem solving. We we could do that, too. I make a motion to approve the contract for Northwest Aea for general education and media services. Is there a second? Second. All in favor say I. I. And that is approved. Consider approval of resolution to transfer funds from general fund to activity fund for safety equipment. So we do this annually. Um works hard to go through and figure out the numbers and that we spent on this you know happened in what 2017 when the legislature enacted this and that we've spent from in the activity fund on safety equipment and then we can do a transfer with the general fund to cover those costs. Mostly football equipment, helmets and pads and things and stuff. Is there a motion
089for that one? Make a motion that allow transfer $7,8925 from the general fund to the student activity fund. Is there a second? Second. All in favor say I. I. That is passed. Consider resolution to call an election on the question of continuing to levy a vote or approve physical. So we talked and discussed the framework of this and we have to officially approve that. We did that last month officially approve that and bringing the resolution up. Um and it's the motion will be to make a motion to approve the resolution of election as presented on this one. Yep. Um, and the resolution reads, "Whereas the board of directors of the civilian community school district deem it necessary and desirable that the district had determined that an election should be called on the question of continuing
090a levy of voter approval for the physical plant and equipment property tax to be used for purposes as authorized by chapter 298 of the Iowa code. And whereas the district wishes to take action to allow voters to approve continuing a physical plant and equipment levy consisting of a combination of a property tax on all the taxable property in the school district commencing on July 1st, 2026 and a physical plant and equipment income sir tax upon the state individual income tax of each individual income taxpayer resident in the civilian community school district on December 31 for each of the calendar years commencing with the 2025 calendar year with the percent of income tax not to exceed 20% to be determined by the board each year with the total of said taxation not to exceed $1.34 per
091$1,000 of assessed property value in any one tax year for a period commencing on July 1st 2026 and not exceeding 10 years. Now therefore, be it resolved by the board of directors of the Sibliochean Community School District in the county of Oyola, state of Iowa, that the secretary be requested to present the following question to the county commissioner for elections for the presentation to the voters of the district on September 9, 2025, which and it reads exactly what I just read there. I'll make a motion to approve the resolution of election as presented. Okay. Is there a second? Second. Okay. We'll do a roll call vote. Laura, yes. Jamie, yes. Kristen, yes. Greg, yes. Moving on. Consider approval of I Ready purchase. Um, I Ready is used as our second math assessment for math. You
092heard both principles refer to that tonight. Just kind of giving you a little bit of context. So, this would be for us to use that for instruction at K8 for the 2526 school year. Um, and the amount of the quote is $14,72.50. Someone to make a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the purchase of I Ready for Curriculum Associates in the amount of $14,72.50. Is there a second? Second. All in favor say I. I. And that is passed. Consider approval of Lexia purchase. Lexi is an additional tool that we use to support our students um more so at the middle or at the elementary, excuse me. Um there are two estimates 14,400 for the Lexia core annual renewal for our elementary school and then 1,150 for the middle school and that's based on the
093number of users. It's more supportive there. It's not used districtwide. So that's why that quote is low is lower there. And it's recommended to approve purchasing Luxia for the total amount for next just for this next school year 15,550. Okay. Is there a motion? What What fund does this come out of then? When we purchase this stuff. When we When we purchase the curriculum, you mean? Yes. The general fund. Yeah. I'll make a motion to approve the Luxia for the 202526 school year in the amount of $15,550. Is there a second? Second. And all in favor say I. I. I. that is approved. Consider approval of is another tool we use to support its um supplementary or additional um curriculum. It's not our core curriculum, but we use that to help with some interventions and
094other things like that. And so for the next school year, the quote for is $10,593.75. What grade levels is that for? K8, I believe. K8. Not that the lower grades use it, but that's where the they kind of start mid quote elementary quot is for. Yep. Um math and ELA, PK4 and 78 and then math ELA. Um and then they do a little bit of science and social studies at the five six level. So that's why it's broken up that way additionally because um five and six use it for multiple subjects. Okay. Is there a motion? I'll make a motion to approve purchasing the EXL for the 2526 school year in the amount of 10,593.75. Is there a second? Second. All in favor say I. I. That is passed. Consider approval of math curriculum. So,
095we said we're holding off and and we are with the curriculum, specifically K8. But why do I have a quote on here for the um seventh and eighth grade? Cuz um we need something for the next year. So the quote is just for this next year. They may end up using that permanently after that for or they may go something different, but we needed something to get through for the next year. And the high school is pretty set into they liked the curriculum for this. And our math curriculum was probably our oldest curriculum. Like the last rotation that we had in math, the high school did not buy curriculum. Um and there's a lot more alignment at the high school. It's it's harder at the lower levels, but they're moving to um an AGA format.
096Um, and I've learned this in the last half years. Do you know what AGA is? Algebra, geometry. Yes. Yes. Right. What is it? Algebra, geometry, algebra, geometry, algebra. We used to go algebra 1, algebra 2, geometry. That's how we used to kind of sequence our stuff. And then upper level. And we're one of the few schools that did that. So, we've been kind of Last year was the start of this. Next year we'll be fully into that to switching into that model. And then for those that maybe aren't ready for algebra, yes, we still have pre-alggebra for an additional support there and and some of those extra, but your your core high school algebra geometry algebra is pretty standard. A GA is what they call that in um the quote for the algebra geometry algebra
097through envision was for 34 um grand and change. And then the HMH or Into Math different company for just for the seventh and eighth grade for this next year is $5,748.93. So will it be used after this year then or not necessarily? So a lot of that is for consumables and m materials because we've been buying the last few years the seventh grade annually anyway and so doing that to be consistent. Sorry, just the 5,000 part. Just the 5,000 part is for seventh and eighth grade and that's just for this next year. The high school stuff is that's what they're planning to do because it includes hard hard coverver versions that was hard to say of textbooks and things like that and the teachers editions. Is there a motion? Make a motion to approve purchasing
098Envision algebra geometry algebra circulum for the amount of 34,440 and 80 cents and HMH into math circulum for the amount of 5,748.93. Is there a second? All okay. All in favor say I. I. That is approved. Consider approval of payments to site logic. um just like we've been doing for roughly the last year, monthly invoices. Obviously now with the bond coming through, we're paying the full amounts, but other than that, is there a motion? I'll make a motion to approve paying the payments to site logic for services in our elementary, middle school, high school fil facility improvement project. Is there a second? Second. All in favor say I. I. That is approved. consider approval of Johnson Controls invoice. Attached is the invoice um with the remaining amount. We purchased that separately so that we could
099get that ordered and here on time. That was something recommended to get things done on time rather than waiting for the contractor to order that and it probably wouldn't have been here if we wouldn't have done that. So, the remaining balance is listed there. Is there a motion to approve this? Make a motion to approve paying the invoice to Johnson Controls for 157,96875. Is there a second? Second. All in favor say I. I. And that is passed. Consider approval of LNL builders pay application number two. Pay application number two. The requests for a little over 107,000. Um, and you'll be seeing these more regularly too here the next few months as the work's getting done. Okay. Is there a motion to approve this one? I'll make a motion to approve the pay request from Alan
100Builders amount of 107,625.50. Is there a second? Second. All in favor say I. I. That is passed. Consider approval of LNL builders pay application number one. And same description except this was a separate one and it's for $21,428.20. This one's high school middle school. The other one was elementary. Elementary. I'll make a motion to approve pay request number one for Lan Builders Middle School High School for 21,428 26. Is there a second? Second. All in favor say I. I. I. That is passed. Consider approval of change to September regular board of directors meeting date. Just the way the dates fall, the third Monday in September would be the 15th, but that's not a lot of business days before then because you have Labor Day in there, which is the the first Monday and and so
101forth. In terms of bills and invoices, we're recommending moving it our board meeting for September back to September 22. Okay. Is there a motion on this? Make a motion to change the September 2025 board of directors meeting to September 22nd, 2025. Is there a Is there a second? Second. All in favor say I. I. Okay. Before we go into close session, does anyone need to I got a question real quick. So the elementary, do you have to keep these projects separate? part of the yes and no. Overall for us it's one project. It is for the contractors because of how they bid it. Okay. That's why if we had to do that that's why they're doing the pay apps like that cuz they bid it as two okay two parts. So that that is why
102for us it doesn't it's one project but they're sending us the bills that way for more for their purpose.