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School Board Meeting - 3/20/2023

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there's a lot of wonderful things happening in school but we have a couple things I want to highlight tonight I've invited The Fellowship of Christian athletes to come and do a short presentation for the board this is Matt. Everybody does sertraline that have a positive impact on her school district and I just thought it would be good for the board to know what's going on in the school on Wednesday nights because they need here in our school on Wednesday night so I'm going to turn the floor over to know our students are at Aaron is running the power cords if you just give her an odd when you want it we just want to start thank you for inviting us to tell you a little bit more about what SCA is and what they do give greater and we are all seniors here okay so some quick facts about rfca is beIN Sports on worship of Christian athletes it's a National Organization for colleges and high schools on average we have about 35 students and 18 and we me about two times per month this year in the Learning Center so what is seasea primarily student ran so I can use group anymore so you have adults that stand up in my teeth the lesson sing but each one of us to be taught a lesson to students I think it kind of resonate more just because it is coming from what I seen it and appear to have some adult things and make sure that things are running smoothly and burns Bridget Martin we also have a representative and the blue sweatshirt as she discovered that she really helped us get started get on our feet like that student leadership we offer it to anyone that comes up yet and we really encourage it and then we have M and shadows and so readers are more so the people that will stand up and shadows are the people that aren't quite there yet and we aren't comfortable getting up in front of everybody so they will I want to talk a little more about the leadership so like I said we have to don't have the leader so up here where we represent both of these different kind of passed so a whole leader will Stanley the lesson so at the end of each test a lesson we all need and we all decide who's so we'll take turns doing that and take responsibility with that the plant and leave the lesson that night but leave the whole SCA meeting go plan the games open the whole lesson and everything within it and then they will attend the leadership meeting after I see a whole kind of like round out the whole night. You know how they think they're laughing what and then social media so I can right now I don't know if we like doing this with me use Instagram and Facebook a lot to come to get the word out as kind of help other schools have reached our SPSS program and we use our social media to como esta in the whole teenagers on our phones as it's not an easy way to get out there and then another leadership position like Riley said it's the one beneath the leader so they what kind of lead a small group they don't understand the whole lesson themselves the kind of know their role as to keep conversation going introducing cuz of people and they will also attend the leadership meetings after the last year all right so it's part of SCA just every year that we've had it has been a theme 2021 news Pursuit 2022 is every so just like every like one everything and also pursue meant like just pursue just like get to everyone through God kissing you babe with you any word out and then please make sure he's been greater so I call my lessons have been sort of having to deal with that and it's National so just like all over the Nation finish my demons explain like what does it look like so we can provide supper we actually really lucky this year we said I do genius for families or community members to sign up to provide his meals at school within days hours we've been very blessed with that there's a great supper we had walking tacos ham balls plus that we have supper without a fellowship we are eating here and then after that we do a few games that kind of get everyone talking like nice Icebreaker activities you want to come with that we had a lot of games which is kind of like the same like three games then we'll do a weekly activity report we kind of like to go through exactly what he was involved him you like to just put it out there to support this week's we go through that and then you versus Sunrise we physically we get the bottles out we are provided with Finance or we just put the person on the board and we kind of just go through that and then we either split up into small groups usually or keep it to a bigger kind of dive into that you like to change it up cuz we missed a lot of kids explain definitely should have been doing that with that and then at the end of discuss how the scripture applies and then how we can use what we learned in school and everything that were involved in and that the enemy has more games because it keeps kids having fun and so this is what it looks like when everyone comes in for supper and a lot of people like come in different times whether they're coming back from activities or they're driving from Forest City it just kind of depends book so these all the games that we play so this game is like everyone's into the circle and one person's in the middle and one person on the outside of the circle is assigned to do a movement first and then everyone else in the circle has to follow that movie and the person in the middle is trying to figure out which when is doing it first it is really really hard but it's really fun that's one of us so this is kind of what the scriptures and the last dude look like sometimes we just AB kids sit in the table. They're in and they just stay there and other times Me A Sign like we discount people off depending on if I get the lessons a little bit deeper like a lot of people prefer to just talk about that like with their close friends and they won't like open up as much with people they don't really know so we just try to keep it based on what it is but we try to get people to like talk to people they might not usually talk to and then he was just another like group conversation with sometimes we do the same thing there where we try to Discount people off and go up by that way and then this is just what our big prayer circle looks like at the end sometimes we hardly have enough room in here and we have to like  a Tetris around all the table so that we can fit oh so we do a lot of fun just because specially with meals and stuff we do like how to find a way to pay for that so a lot of like people are able to like and we do a lot of like basketball games like he's very popular with the younger kids and we also have like prizes donated by local businesses like in it like a lot of our church is that we all attend to make a lots of them and then another thing that we participate in is fair at the and so we had to practically mesosphere back in the fall but towards the beginning of this year is our national and that is like a really big thing that like literally super cool and then a few weeks ago we also have one as far as social media goes and Facebook and Instagram and the the main purpose of a remind people that come in like the date and time so happy he's going to stay the night questions High School yes we did one last year this year we did invite the eighth graders to come and when we have like this you started and I was just I need more and more and we're all so busy I mean two weeks ago we had a meeting that there were like 15 people here and then the meeting before that we had sixty-seven people here so it does really buried in early and it's about 35 kids but like I said it just they make sure to know that everyone that we we don't take attendance you don't know we don't care if you come one time we come sometimes we don't care it's kind of fun to see we see people come one time and they come three weeks later Calaveras but it's hard to sometimes go around schedule so we know that we just try to find the night we don't meet the same at every week so we try to find a ride to has the last of us and we'd have really good turnout and we have new people don't have to drive all the way up it's not always on Wednesday Faribault Minnesota Darren Sharper in jail probably from 2015 up until Coronavirus shut it down thank you so much for having us tonight so the other we have is Robotics and you probably hurt her or robotic team which is 3 years old or should I say three years young has qualified for World with you remember last year they kind of got jipped out right and so I didn't ask him to prepare a presentation but I do since they're here I want you to have an opportunity to meet the robot anything and let him just share a little bit they have had a journey this year I have building and rebuilding and late hours at yeah it's so they're going to just show you this a little bit talk about their trip and then later on we're going to be approval in Houston again I think we were here last year we finished the same place at State as we did last year we finished fourth but last year only three teams moved on from Iowa because they were still coming back from covid the numbers were still a little wonky this year it was back to 14 so yeah we move on do this year's challenge is to to pick up cones and then score I'm on poles and the poles are on Earth 1.23 ft roughly top 10 most of the robots actually reach out for a bit and then lift up and score with the same mechanism ours is unique in that it is really reaches out and grabs and then it transfers and weaknesses up now they'll get better oh yeah Randall the Reese way out when it's not out of if you got another one guy that's our little bit faster something that no one is an enzyme that were able to play to a level that is much higher than Iowa but among the world ended up being one of them based on various opr compilations in the world it's been an exciting year so I just don't know if you can talk about that later you'll find it's just can't give the rundown of what world's is our cost of what we think it's going to take to get there Transportation housing food while we're there it's a four and a half day event in Houston and then we have fundraisers set up we had our first class Saturday and then we have time versus for the next three Saturdays and then we've already had some donations starting to roll in so that's exciting to see and then I'm getting the word out in the community Evan did an interview with Megan salois with Channel 13 this morning so there's another team from Johnston and they were our alliance partners we together won the state of Iowa championship and so they're moving on to world's also and so the interview at Channel 13 was with one of their team members and Evan and that will that will appear on Scholastic Spotlight with this are we friends we currently I think the arrangement is 1 suburban and one car one night and we're going to have like a week luggage scale 3D printer in order to reprint understand the events a break during that week anyone have any questions for us well while we're here a number you're supposed to have those quickly running late we ended up missing corporated last year was 2005 so you can tell the age of a team by how long it's been around because numbers are assigned larger events will be like jeans with numbers in the teens from like New York against like jeans it just started like at the beginning of the season with numbers in the 20,000 World Cup qualifying and we're trying to make a small town play more from Johnston and then soldier system back door and then so Iowa the Iowa region also includes Nebraska so teams from Nebraska cantar championship and so the fourth team to advance on his from Norfolk Nebraska so how it ends up working is that advancement goes by gourmands in the game on the day and then awards that you can achieve for outreach to larger community and what not so far as robot performance Man without breaking second at the event judge performance lower down still still strong enough to make it to that work so is performance but also Outreach activities the uniqueness of your robot design and various things like that sorry about that. We have like a portfolio that we make before the event and then we gave a presentation for the area where we have all her equipment to repair the robot ask us questions while we're working on it or in between the first day we're at World Valhalla do the presentation I'll be a five-minute presentation and then ask question and answer time where they'll be before a panel of judges part of that already you have to go out to the community it was only a robot and I want to leave a mark on their community continue going on into the future with stuff like this but also talking to younger kids. bring over into engineering industry level Define skills can be applied to colleges because they see that you have the skills working with now designing innovating getting presentation and it shows all those skills start locking on another's and Iowa State and I believe Iowa interesting wheels are yellow and black those ones are driven the German by bevel gears all four of them are and have rollers on the side so they are driving like a little 45 degree angle until we're able to scrape and turning you also about war and they are not true black lives matter on those wheels and it's a lot more precise does other fancy building were driving then they would slip and we would lose lose that localization in more simple terms the and then the flowers to move in any direction went sideways xDrive and the integration b b b the team name is specific one a lot of trying you have to work as effectively as possible without having to be incredibly expensive so they currently were able to make it we do have joining the program wow awesome what a great accomplishment super amazing so proud of you is it later on if you don't have to say you can he will approve your trip and talk about that I don't know my mom is listening today's my mom sometimes watches the meeting today I get a letter at school it's from my mom that I thought my mom sending a letter to the school I open it and I kind of stand out my mom and I don't I don't think that's for my mom I'm too old for that my mom said to check on everything it wasn't for me I was hoping I'd get a check when I get home baby mom agenda Robert has something he busted made the Ravens work out one of the things we love you and or the same yep Pickwick Theater the proposed and then showing the Raiders advantageous and I know it if you learn there is a name 7 I'm talking about the creepy thing on the I would be honored do you love me conference call 361 is in there in the middle you want the same dollar amount as last year Frontier Young Thug yeah yeah Kia 1454 1454 I can still try to get it at or below ground because just last week we got this new valuation accounting and when the Senate approve that they also approved a so-called class meeting about housing. we can come back and do it right we need to do something different I don't remember what was that it were whentowork Festival schedule we don't need more. I know some board members wanted to know where we were enter all reasonable that was under it's got all the fun find friends they'll have everything under consent in them listen to Prince or without our bus going to buy it and then have to make the repairs so he's still looking that if it was those repairs are made but the board approved yet which means of me see that new stuff coming up a week we're ready to buy it by the way what am I we're going to visit items discussion items once again we had good news on our insurance there was a zero net increase you not had an increase the changes that were made way back when prior to my arrival to the higher the PPO plan into the higher deductible plan are working very very well crap we don't have a high increase in Insurance then we can turn some of that money over that will help us navigate some of the voucher things and so our plans are really working out well every year we have a meeting I literally get an LA Kings eye exam is it going to be on your right and so we had some low years and so I keep waiting every year we're going to get a really high rate of increase and I was talking to you are what you are and I was really shocked at zero so that's good so there are some things that are going to go up a little bit but overall I don't never get any I haven't gotten any complaints mr. Bishop and can you bring Meadows donation I should just give it to the school our annual donation from Prairie Meadows is in Polk County totals $132.18 so what should I do don't have but I put that up to the board to know our annual donation is $100 action items robotics team World Championships participate in the world out of state or approval they compete for or days 18th through the 22nd 23rd again super proud in their third year they have made it. For the kids and so board approval for that they are fundraising but of course blue hatching person cost Rusty they were just talking about him maybe turn is there anyway so yeah we can work now so we can find I didn't know the music travel to the city Houston the highest crime rate yeah I think we make some miles on our vehicle the robot smash I'll move there are raging. We're going to help him with the cops I mean all I can say is if a I'm in this game is going to be like some other activities to raise money to get there which we appreciate it it's quite expensive and so this robotics team is since I've been here before but we first approved I think this is the first year we've had a far more hours then the salary so upon their program and so we'll get them so they have tons of events coming out and we're going to work on vehicle cost and other things to help. Dailymotion second volunteering at 300 South Dakota that one or two of them boys and girls side and against our relationship recharge kids from other schools open enrollment you know conversation they talk about that says welcome home so that's pretty good Washington Coronavirus Master contract really I never thought in a million I never say this about negotiations but even calling the representative from our insurance documents about where we're at we do not start we ever want to undercut our stat want to pay them ball everybody wins on we can attract and retain quality staff and so we had a great settlement Rod Rhino if you have anything else add to that raise the base pay of an alarm exactly out of the districts around here I can give you that so we have to continue we also have to be a little bit conservative with things coming up but our open enrollment has been good about it so I felt like this was an overall we were higher than in the reason that we could do that was because I bet Insurance Group do you make you have a district settling around lower three then we were having settled higher than that because we didn't put money into insurance contracts guy Wood River Energy agreement to this it's an annual we need to approve bad recall that are energy and the Consortium that were in another annual Robert Springwell do whatever you spend the night it's a nice item and Wood River or from that's nice to know angry neighbor my motion yet motion second request to see services so I do know the last year-and-a-half probably little longer than that we've been working with the noble and Martin Garner and they did the assessment and so they left the facility 19 talked about a lot about and now that work is is wrapping up with Dave the field that contract with us and our buildings and giving us that information is presented to the board the next phase of this is do we want them to begin to or not. Do we want anyone to begin to take the ideas and the recommendations and begin to address some of the needs assessment Jean headset and that's the design phase it also is the face that gives you the number right when you say well how much is I'm just going to use a new gym how much is new gym going to cost well we've done nothing to this point in time to know a number eight. you have a construction design you can't get a number you don't we don't even know what we're looking at right we don't know what size we don't know any of that the reason that I'm in front of you is we've had some local our checks come forward and say are you just going to automatically go with Martin Gardner or you going to give us an opportunity to do that and I do support about nope for this next phase we need to open again just like we did with the facility assessment you remember that we we did the RFP and I think someone had 40,000 in this and that and that work was a $18 right we can just continue on with the company and most people do but again I just feel like we need to stop at certain part and say are you ready to go forward and if so resting I need to put together an RFP the RFP the request for funding proposal take a while to do I'm and Rusty has been already considerable time getting it together if the board is not ready to support that next phase of really looking at construction design looking at options we're not going to go to work I'm not going to go out and ask an architect firm to give us a bid for what that the design option phase with God if the board isn't seriously considering that and so it's just not how I know that that was done on the bus when I believe remind doesn't mean you're going to do anything it means you're gay approval to move over to the RFP and a send that out with architect you want to consider what they would come back and talk about a junior high that would be that would be a new edition of what I was looking at I mean we're not even but once you start spending money your stock I want to go on a given to everybody I'm kind of like to go you can't go back as well you guys are good for we are at 1 and it was a horrible what you think what am I supposed to do okay no problem still being from last of the first things I do about those ideas that we came up with I must have missed that one Goodreads here. It looks like it might be with all due respect it's only submitting I respect your time why is in front of you I'd like to hear what them design committee or facility see what they're talking about I'm not in the problem station so I don't know what her what I'm supposed to be doing here can we postpone this request until sometime what was the question that we have is not on our web page is all the agendas and all the presentation I have to go back in are we had a work session designated are we long ago but conditions are up there and I know Alyssa what's on our next Workstation what now again it's just just put it out there Rusty and I mean we can put it on pause it's fine I just don't want to where I can spend time on that we have other things don't you yeah but I don't know if we ever what would Stan one Rises to the top I know we talked about Jen I really talked about about vocational we don't have another second reading any questions it was mostly clean up updates

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