001call the meeting to order roll call please B said I always am you never are Nelson here Wagner here Yates here I guess called order at 631 next up public comments is there are there any public comments St no all right board comments Julie I like you okay Thunder um so tomorrow is the last day to register for the spring iasb division meeting is it Rocky High School on the 27th of March and tomorrow's the last day to sign up so free dinner I don't know what they're serving but they'll come up with something and then um professional development planning afterwards and correspondence U we got to thank you from the kids that attended the uh it was the the symphony day where they went to uh what's the place where you guys go the
002ad theater there we go yeah went to see the symphon so they wanted to get send this little thank yous so I meant to start passing those around my letter said that she's going to be a superintendent when she grows up and she's going to let kids go to the symphony I told her that was a great letter they had a good time it looked like com went to the last Julie or not I always enjoy it but last night I don't know why I was just touched by I L of those kids and um it's just great to see those kids lifted up and and have some time U we're an ad Community but you look at those kids and you don't just see Farm kids there's lots of people in FFA that are
003doing a lot of good stuff and it's just nice to see uh the school and staff recognize them and give them some time to shine um at my hats off especially to uh Mrs lmst and Mr Hart and Mrs hton she's a great edition of the program good hands and I'm glad we've got I'm glad we've got that opportunity for those kids it was a good experience encourage you all to come next year whether you've got kids in there or it was wonderful addition to have Jenn State officer jacket framed inory she was my camp counselor when I went mom was my superintendent any other corespondent we'll move on to the approval of the consent agenda anything in the consent agenda that any board member would like removed or have any questions about I ENT
004motion to approve the consent agenda I move to approve the consent agenda roll pleas lower yes mson yes Nelson yes SM yes Wagner yes yes Balmer yes car 7 number sixtee report we have Finance hinks to draw to call out that moving on building did not have a we did not have a building grounds meeting since last month so move past that so we're on to informational and discussion items for requests none none interesting seems light this year still going to mret tired plausible deniability right all right I'll turn it over to Mr for for the acemic Improvement I'll start with the district goals are five buckets uh student academic growth and achievement uh still working to continue to strengthen k k through Ela literacy math curricular instructional approach and continue to modernize our curricular
005approach programs and services still working to strengthen social emotional student supports and increased Target to pathway based course opportunities uh under District Comm relations streng Community involvement schools and Sol under facilities and accessibility still working to develop and Implement long-term capital Improvement planning uh and solidify security safety and District crisis plan and under Finance uh develop and Implement long-term budget and L projections plans increase operational efficiencies keeping the student needs first with that under academic planning as a discussion item as you you saw in the administrative reports I just Tred to grab some headlines from there uh at the ELC uh teachers met with their various or with their instructional coach and a nearby veteran teacher uh Paulo continues using intervention blocks in grades three through five to inspire growth and acceleration they've after school
006tutoring opportunities as well uh Kagan strategies in particular in New Boston but in the the high as well and I think some in Apollo we have some teachers are being used in the classrooms to increase student participation social skills in learner agency apologies for they not being an r in learner L makes spelling one of our district goals next year uh continued planning and prepping for spring assessment season uh in particular at the um the middle school and the high school but some of our younger kids will test take various tests also uh at the high school we continue to see fewer failing grades I think this is of last week right M Cooper yeah when iot 19% fewer FS for the week as compared to the same time last so a lot of effort
007you know being placed in acemic sliding down to Capital Improvement Plan update uh not much of an update pretty much the same as we last last month which with regards to summer project plans uh so at the ELC hbac and domestic water downsizing at Apollo uh security if we move forward with the ffs stuff tonight kitchen small scale concrete landscap New Boston we've got the building demo the parking lot and the playground preschool classroom Apollo and New Boston still have a little bit of punch list you know to go also the junior high again targeting security some small scale concrete exterior light Landscaping parking lot ceiling and potential HVAC controls depending on how our other projects are going at the high school we've got a uh pretty substantial vocational hbac project and then the potential
008house if we roll right into the district design team update uh not much uh new here either exterior design and land planing are the the target activity uh in particular with an emphasis on Earth Day um having a native plant focal point you know as far as our exterior campus goes with the target initial Target being right here with ap Juni High conceptually supporting pollinators and working with student students to support the work and some potential private Partnerships also uh school calendar just to as an update um we sent out a poll uh last year at this time the school calendar was developed and the Monday after Easter was marked as an emergency day so we sent out a poll to the staff Community uh kids everybody had a chance to vote if they wanted
009to to see if they preferred to have school the Monday after Easter or not most people12 to have school the Monday after Easter so we will have school Monday after Easter don't have any um as far as a referendum goes uh we still have the three focal points Safety and Security classroom enhancement and building modernization all of the high school campus um we presented information to the Exchange Club uh at the Eliza Community Center at New Boston Elementary um we've got a media information sharing scheduled we worked with the architect and their marketing team to develop some materials for that uh a newsletter is finished and it's scheduled to hit mailboxes next week we have a referendum web page an email address we have our last Community information session next Thursday at 7 o' school
010count is is there someone that can down questions Julie's done a very good job of taking down the questions that were asked at both sessions we are and then we add that to our FAQ page okay if not we'll figure it out um and then just a reminder you know on our web page we've got that school tax impact calculator um so folks could enter their net taxable value of their property um and again the emphasis to you know trying to communicate the value that you see isn't necessarily the value that your taxes will go up it's your share of the new Bond payment um I anticipate that our tax levy will be $482 $483 every year for the next8 years really you know what I try to communicate it really comes down to um
011do you want to have you know do you want to invest in a a newer facility and know that the what comes with that is longer term de or do you want to Levy for health Life Safety funding to renovate the existing fac we have kind of what it boils down all right action items we've got the 88.1 shortterm emergency housing and merer County better together and did you see the email from Kyle I did I didn't get a chance to study it I didn't really read it so it sounds like they I just read through it um they are still wanting to move forward with the project they check with Amon and it costs $10,000 per block for them to like move get power L power lines out of the way so they're looking
012at different properties they're trying to find something closer yeah oh so they're so they're looking at or or a different route that has less power lines I'm sure Kyle knows where all the power lines are Ino now so it's an action item um we could table it or we could vote to prove it if they you know to give them the house if they're able to secure and we can put a timeline on or we just wait till they decide hey we did find a property we can vot at that point in time I don't think it really matters that much I don't think if they found a property we ready to I don't know if they'd be able to move it in four weeks you know so if we were like if they found
013a place tomorrow and decided to do it I would bet they taking the garage and everything we haven't really talked about that I'd like to keep the and it doesn't really you'd have to have a property that was matched up the same way I'm sure we can use the garage for storage in a principal parking spot right off that's how bad we need space I'll take it so I guess I my recommendation would be we just continue expl we don't really need to take any action it anyone motion we can bring it back right okay so then moving on to 8.2 FSS Inc security upgrades okay these are our numbers that we got from JJ FSS you can see uh numbers came in for Apollo he's got several different line items for Apollo 8226 for
014cameras and server upgrades 1,271 for upgrad and then a new controller for the system the system at Apollo is a different more outdated system that we have here Jun $1,480 for security components in the office so that they can view the different doors and then 42 496 uh for camera software UPG strikes again so that then similar to what we have down in New Boston where we've got the TV and it shows the map of the district uh and any door that might be a jar that's what we're trying to upgrade here at the at the junior high so they can have the VIS andri any okay I was like really cool that at the district office yeah back door open so is this money this would come out of Tor so my recommendation be
015to approve FSS has presented my understanding is they've done all the previous work District I move to approve the security upgrades from FSS as presented lower lower seconds we'll do a roll call please menson yes Nelson yes SM yes Wagner yes Yates yes Balmer yes lower all right motion carries um 8.3 Public School calendar okay our school calendar committee U met on March 3rd they're tasked with bringing non-binding recommendation to the board for the school calendar next year um we've got a hyperlink to kind of our running minutes that we'll just keep adding to every year we started approach of a corresponding calendar uh and then through conversation um decided to see what folks felt about a May 1st emergency day so we sent out a poll U this was as as at about 2
016o'clock as of 2 o'clock yesterday we had 297 responses um so the question was I prefer to make up all emergency days at the end of the school year or do I prefer to list Friday March 1st as an emerc that way if we use three or less emergency days Friday May 1 be a day off of school a vast majority of people prefer that option as a committee we voted to you know we have the calendar set after working together a few different ideas settled on this and decided to allow that poll be the recommendation on what we do with emergency days so is a corresponding calendar this is the recommendation from the committee uh two days of teachers Institute to start the school year August 12th and 13th of course Labor Day Off
017in September October Columbus Day Off in then parent teacher conferences I like the student Leed conferences October 23rd and 24th uh the Wednesday Thursday Friday off for Thanksgiving uh the two weeks off for Christmas and Institute on Monday January 5th partner King Day off the 19th into February with President's Day Off the 16th into march with a week of spring break uh the 16th through the 20th April that third is Good Friday and then may you see that Friday the 1 if you look we've got a five-day week uh April 6th 13th 20th uh and then if we use three or fewer emergency days then we would have a 4- day week there to end April and then come back with two full five day weeks and then if we don't use any emergency days
0184day school week with ending the year on a Friday Institute our other four emergency days are baked into the Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday after Memorial Day so done by the end of May um another thing that I I'm really you know proud of the work that the committee did if you look kind of in the lower right hand corner you can see our 176 documented uh student attendance days you can see quarter 1's 43 days quarter 2 is 44 quarter 4 is 42 pretty balanced and the one quarter that has more days is the third quarter and that's typically when you have your most snow days so it's as balanced I think quarters and semesters as you can get anyone have any questions motion to approve the 2526 Public School calendar as presented 26 School
019seconds discuss roll call oh never mind Voice vote foret about that all those in favor say I I oppose same sign all right 8C okay then we are on to admin reports and one thing I noticed it looks like uh behaviors are better they're ramping back up I didn't want to jinx it you just gave up on [Music] theaa I thought I saw your I thought Tim I thought yours had zeros no that was last last couple months is I I SC all the way you only had two though just a couple that's still pretty good A lot of conversations it sounds like oh four I guess two inappropriate to I scrolled down and I was on February and I forgot to scroll back feary yeah feary so 14 days of school probably Andre did
020you have anything you wanted to highlight or add uh musical was last weekend and great job to cast crew directors lots of students involved not high school students as well the Le seven gr a great job excited toost APO students andon students wedes all them it was a great and then the FFA banquet that was last night was wonderful tomh and Rissa did a great job at the regional gam since I mean I think bias but I think our pet band is awesome and I love the the uh star spingle banner but I know at the regional if they play one game they got to play them all so to have the star springle banner versus some recorded old school rendition of it I I liked it was good we have officials comment all the
021time on one of the reasons they love coming to us is to listen to our they'll come up early Mr C you have anything to add or highlight um couple pretty cool positives in terms of kids and extracurriculars and coaches doing phenomenal things like um kind of watch my phone a little bit right now but like we have our volleyball kids that yesterday upset Shard was a one seed in the regional and they're in the championship right now against United they're playing right now they won game one it's 2320 on the second game down um absolute I know Lori as a coach she was robed maybe during she hasn't had reg chionship hopefully it's um then wrestling over the weekend I went down with Mr Brock to see uh the state wrestling event and the
022kids down there representing um the 70 pounder we had a fourth place finish with Gade Raider 75 pounder state champ was Colt Raider 105 state champ Boston Morpher and then 165 second place Eli Boswell and just like the finish of all those kids I don't know that we' had a state champion since since um 2015 I think is when they look back I don't we state champ so Absolut for wrestling and Smith Mr Smith and his coaches that were down there and just the parade they put on for the kids where they put on robes and the coaches got like these sequin gold jackets big time where you're at they did it I cool experience for our kids um I have one other item that's prob you bleachers a bleach the kids really enjoyed the
023it I know he's constantly and then we have the family nights I know right solid minutes it's not going to be like it was last year got littleway en um like was mentioned before our fourth and fifth grade you have to go to the Quad City Symphony so that was that's a good experience some of our kids don't get to experience things like that so um the fact that we get to take and do that is great also the high school play you know some of our kids would wouldn't experience a play so we're grateful that the the high school allows us to come over there and watch out you it gives them some practice before the the real thing and our our K two students that and they loved it U April 14th around
024our Fine Arts night at Apollo just displays our music and art creativity with with our elementary students kind of like a family night kind of thing so stop 6 o' thank you YCA screen and then we met today with the apoll staff staff we have thank you all all right then we on we're on record Pace tonight I would entertain a motion to go session session roll call please SM yes Wagner yes Gates yes Balmer yes lower yes mson yes Nelson all right motion carried we'll come back at 7:15 we yeah his wife put too many layers of for