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School Board Meeting - 9/15/2025

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yes yes all right have any motion to approve the agenda thank you like all those in favor say I motion carries constituents correspondent there is no tonight it will move on to Good News okay uh first off have some good news to have somebody who's sitting at the table with us I'd like to introduce Zack Richards uh it'll be our student representative uh for the board and um I think it just it's another reminder for us that decisions that we that we make of our wraparound the best of students and so I think it's also an opportunity for student voice as things come up to be able to invite Zach for any input just a little bit about Zack I had an opportunity to meet if you don't mind to meet with Zack Zack gets it home a little bit more uh he's a he's a senior and student body president this year and he's also involved in Cross Country wrestling soccer um working he's currently working on his post High School plan still I'd love to travel all over the US and all parts of the world and was a foreign exchange student in Australia his sophomore year so welcome Zach we look forward to having you this year thank you okay uh just a few more good news items uh back to school was a success thank you to all of our staff members who work uh diligently to make your first days run smoothly uh congratulations to everyone who auditioned for the high school fall musical you're a good man Charlie Brown uh the turnout for addition was great with almost 30 students trying out this year the director Michelle robe yes say that correctly thanks thank you uh hopes to have 2 casts uh performing which will involve more students in the Productions mark your calendars catch the show on Friday November 14th uh November 15th and November 16th and then Prairie City Elementary hosted its Leader in Me Fair on Friday September 5th that was awesome to see in person um students learn about the available job the form in their school and rank their top picks the next step is for students to apply an interview for the jobs they want in which I think they've they yeah they just pick their top 3 and they don't have to interview and and then I placed them all and they all got the job they were um they were hired for all their jobs on Friday and got to go meet and they then everything officially started today thanks yeah really cool to see and I know that Monroe you guys same thing they did interview here yeah um not every kid has a building has 1 they had to apply and interview but everyone did get a job nice and then another leader in me news lynville Soley administrators will visit our elementary schools to see how PCM has brought the program to life through instruction environment and school wide culture absolutely anybody else have any good news Okay move to community updates uh we went through car reporting just 3 year 25 year end everything's looking good um we also did we started looking at some projections for the unspent authorized the key factor we have to keep an eye on um so their forecasting uh future years keeping an eye on what's going to look like um continues to decline um we have some work to do so definitely something that's keep an eye on the future um yeah yeah the forecasted software really nice to have yeah yeah stay in front of thing yeah uh finance committee we did incorporate we didn't meet but Russia's got 1 that is on the agenda tonight there's not to open them so that's why I can talk a little bit about that last month talked about the windows okay perfect thank you we'll move to consent agenda imagine the uh the Remy insurance it was partially covered you know how much of that was covered and how much of you're that big expense on that we haven't we haven't received the payment back yet we submitted it so not the consumables so I think he asked is probably an expensive part of it okay yeah yeah so you're looking at maybe 40% of that reimbursed or I don't know what the breakdown of the 1 is so I can look up the you know okay post print I like our the first day went off without hmm it was good to see I guess I don't think we've ever seen that note I guess but that's good thanks everybody for the hard work I want to know Sam as an officer for all yet that's my own day reality is the reality hey thank you everybody for those I will move down to business finance District need to meet playground dedication to get to see messages hard work here don't worry we didn't record the resting pce today we are here for a special celebration dedicating our updated playground that this past spring students from White the lighthouse team went to the school board and asked permission to update the playground and there we go to see those dreams come true this summer a lot of hard work went into making our playground better place for everyone we are so excited to share with new some of the older creepy women now instead of worn out areas we have for him to claim Explorer in its place a beautiful turf was added it is a safe clean area where we can sit with friends read or even just relax our soccer field also got an upgrade with fresh chirp so we're going to be perfect for running scoring goals and cheering each other on and we can't forget the goal of all this with Turf inside is more fun than ever to play and it's ready for lots of exciting games thankfully our Knuckles and knees shouldn't be up anymore we also have new basketball backwards Hoops in this now our basketball games will be even more fun and inside all of these updates will make recess Gym classes and after school activities even better for years to come none of this would have been possible been possible with Rusty and his team that worked hard all summer to make sure everything was ready for us at the start of school thank you to Sean Wilson for donating some time and equipment to produce that video he had the Drone and it was windy but there was helicopter fly over right before the kids go to see it was really neat we're a helicopter came to us just as we were getting ready to start I wish it would have made videos I had a school so that was for you Rusty thank you thank you thank you you can just see how just even the small the small and upgrades like a playground of how important it is to kids and how they can help good they feel um within their learning environment so and see okay thank you okay we'll move to graduation date um yeah so all I need is is approval for uh graduation on the 17th of May 2026 at 2 p.m. it seems very far off but it will be here very fast I still will say I will be sending a survey out to this the senior soon about whether it'll be inside or outside I let them choose uh and then we'll go from there I'll make a motion to approve second we have a motion and second to set the day of high school graduation on May 17th at 2 pm all those in favor say I I anybody posts motion carries stolen property all right we have some a few Vans and a few spare uh buses that basically didn't pass inspection and repair would be more than what they're what they're worth so looking to be able to put those out on good deals so we did have a maroon that is TV also in their cell it was talking about that 1 the maroon Suburban yeah I thought we've got to move that a couple years ago and roll it so I'm wondering why we we just didn't even I wondering what to do with it well I was still able to have students in it so yeah it's at this point in time I think it's got 150,000 almost 150,000 on that so okay another 1 of those things where we could that could be something I could do very near future it's on the fleet kind of on rotation it seemed like it was on the rotation and I didn't hear anything about it yeah last time it's on the chocolate ball yeah I was thinking that we could look at yeah so is there a motion yes the motion and second to dispose of the property listed on go deals all in favor say I anybody opposed motion carries disposal of property and instrument so our Middle School band director Miss Mullen uh it's been pretty good about going through everything that we've got I think her first summer here she went through all of our music and got a catalog um in this past year and some are now past summer she's gone through all of our instruments um if you look in that statement there there's a couple pictures that show kind of this condition of some of the instruments that are in there um however that happened it it happened and that's kind of what we got but she's been looking at how we can dispose of those but still get something in return so she's going to work on the company out of Michigan I believe Middleton instrument recycling so they give uh 579 dollars for what we've got um which is a pretty good deal uh especially when they're going give us um a tuba actually in in exchange for that and like she says in her uh letter these 2 was smaller 2 of us so better for middle school and usually go for about 2 Grand so it's a pretty pretty good uh exchange their no approval like a motion and second to approve this proposal from the band instrument all those in favor say I I post motion carried thank you FFA Nationals yeah you can hear so I we um have all the for FFA questions about um their plans is a pretty brief summary um they do have plans to do fundraisers throughout the year um obviously fruit sales is their big fundraiser to help pay for the trip um but it's the you know same same as it is year after year I had a right around the same time that I've had it to Indianapolis um if you have questions there's our guy back there that's scary approval second motion and second to approve the FAA National trip all those in favor say I anybody post motion carries annual physical year reports attached to the agenda and these are in reports purchased later 25 you know or I don't think smells or anything the highlighter can you tell me what our caught for pupil is on the trans I was trying to read out my phone now I have it here let me open up my I know the average used to be 350 close to that the average cost per mile is 5 dollars 54 cents um but there's not just a little bit of 475 the prior year that would include wouldn't that include all of our activities and stuff like that the per student yes I'll figure it out I'll get the total so it's got a lot of come on yeah I do that's what I want to think about yeah the cost per pupil to confirm you go up to the website that day they have average cost per student from the state of Iowa like Cedar Avenue they might be 500 yeah we might be 200 but that ain't right it was around 3050 I was just curious that would give us an idea of like how much more dollars is costing us and you get especially since enrollment down yeah and and I know you can go on a website and find that out but it might be a year old I was just wondering about yeah probably that would help to stay in the bus route yeah what I call yeah so I I noticed in there like in the pebble and Save there's pretty significant role over and stuff is that truly where we sit that those numbers on our ending your balances are as of June 30th it looks like a lot of a lot of the progress cost a lot less and um it just reflects that the the budget and that we've implemented last year with with art and with Team here that you know that's just kind of held in having that budget I think really helped this last year in comparison to the year before with where we ended and moving forward during and use that again this year so we'll just continue with that truth anybody else has anything else okay we'll move to fundraisers approval approval second I have second for approval of fundraisers listed all in favor say I I post oh boy I am wondering what flush of Brandon so my understanding have you seen where you can put something in somebody's yard you like okay and then it and you pass it on to a friend like I think you they've done it for Library fundraisers and things like that it's a toilet is my understanding put it in your yard I didn't get paid to put it in a friend's yard and then they can pay to put it and they and you just it's so stupid we'll put 1 Ryan George 1 razor yeah all right to Monroe Elementary we have the recommendation for Paula glass to complete second phase of Windows which will start right here at the library lower section of Windows in all casement windows around to the superintendent's office here and that it goes through then we can order the windows it's like 6 or 8 weeks to get the actual windows in here at this point or hopefully we can get them done before the snow applies if for some reason we can't then we we would wait till spring but you know so do you have a phase 3 plan for the rest of the windows on or is that yeah be the gym area and then finish off this case and when we're going to back side really special this is a good spot to do this because we want to walk classrooms and choose which ones we want to do and I also found 1 window over the summer I had enough moisture to actually bust some window so I probably should be better better get going quick on these ones that's definitely a need so I'll make a motion to approve second we have a motion to second I'm actually Windows Phase 2 all in favor say I I post motion carries no removal bid the full meeting yeah yeah I'm surprised more people didn't bid for it but well I know after last year in the last year 2 years ago we had all kinds of last year we had Vandal called me the in October and said he didn't want to do it I like to find somebody real quick but then so you need to pick from I guess I did a good job last year didn't I I'm assuming I'm going to move approval there isn't any second I have a motion and second to approve the snow removal bids from Ben rights and I can't be small engine all those in favor say I oppose motion carries no board policy yeah I'm a superintendent okay uh and those out these are hard copies of uh the summary from iasb from our our Workshop some I did send it in the board update electronically also uh but if you hadn't had a chance to uh see an electronically and hopefully I have enough okay um but uh you know I just appreciate the time for us to to talk and talk through governance but then also talk through uh some of the the goals uh goal areas or priority areas that we that we came up with so you have a summary of that of of the gold we came up with yeah so that's that's part of this so it's not gold so this is like your themes or priorities areas so that's on the that's on the back again that's in um if you look electronically that be there to in your email so those 3 areas academic Excellence well there's little area or I would um and then roll 2 with facilities and goal 3 was strong finances and so um we had a couple couple of those areas had um different things that would identify with those goal areas and so some of the next next work will be is to work with the administrative team to put some language language to goals that we can eventually bring back back to bring back to you as a board or approval in October I'd say no later than November but I'm hoping for October that we can get some of that that work done administratively based on the conversations that happened that like and just put some uh language to those goals and how we can actually measure those goals um and so um we'll eventually be looking for your approval for those goals and once we do um that should help us guide a lot of our work at the board level for a long time coming but then from if you remember from that that Workshop that'll guide my indiv individual superintendent goals but it also start to give Clarity to the buildings of how they should um use these umbrella goals and build some of their own building goals that they can focus in on at the High full level of the Middle School level and Elementary because they'll they'll look a little bit differently um just based on just based on age so I I was proud of the work that we did that night and it's going to start to give us some definite direction as we move forward so um but yeah we'll hopefully we'll bring those back to you with some language that that are in goal format and then give us any feedback or we approve of that night so questions on that at all and we can also see some of the work too there what makes queries grow best place to be so just some good just some good feedback in there what we talked about that and I also culture Community great District Family Focus um tighten the community great staff great kids um small school with large school opportunities have this all goes so okay uh next thing for me uh would be just a reminder or for Board elections September 18th 5:00 pm will be the is the deadline to turn those turn anything in or any anybody that's interested for those board board spots that are open so September 18th 5 PM we will also have um a crease training which is civilian response 2 active shooter events September 22nd in all of our buildings something that um administrative team we've been working with the Jasper County Emergency Management um director law enforcement local law enforcement and what their their goal is is to to have the same type of um procedures protocols within the within Jasper County so other other schools within Jasper County have also gone through the same the same training so that if worst case scenario something happens they know that they're coming to support a school that has the same same protocols in the in the event of an emergency like this so we never use it but we definitely have to prepare so they'll be they'll be coming um say either an hour and a half or 2 hours per per building um on Monday so we'll have um it's going to be open to our teach but also to our classified staff um that they're able to able to be there on Monday so um also we'll be looking at enrollment for on October 1 1 pound days coming up so kind of monitoring that what that looks like and uh I'll give that give that information to you once we once we get there on October 1 so also looking for I'll be sending out a a message to you about some possible dates for October work session on about facilities and how we want to how we want to move forward you know I think that's something that came out of our our meeting the other night um is that work session to give us an opportunity to really dive in on 1 1 topic and be able to share our thoughts opinions how we um things that we feel are priorities wrapped around an item so um I think that would be sometime in early October try to get a few dates out to you and see what see what makes sense and what might work for you to to come in and start having more conversations uh wrapped around facility work for and some of that goal work that we just talked about the other night that's all I have for my report any questions comments I'm thinking about the safety of school and we have the app guys for the SRO and you know this so I talked with Chief Chambers uh probably about a week we can have to go and get just put it out I have not heard from him recently if he has any other applicants but um those once a plan for coverage when we don't have if say Carter had to leave by the time we have somebody you know Chief Chambers will just be that local police call or chief got their Department otherwise it's the administrator administrative team will work through the the agreement we don't have services for x amount of time that's something that I'll be talking to Chambers about okay this contract for the time that we don't have maybe an SRO beverage right but you know in times of of need though if sick part is gone we would still be able to call on those the police departments I mean my my would be like a part-time once you're ready you're you're on duty this time or this yeah a couple days or yeah I will do press the like then when you first see about this I don't know what the newest part is sitting there and watching those kids going on Highway thank goodness every day yeah yeah Jeremy that number was for Excel that we should get reimbursed for was 9,000 740 tests right okay anybody have anything else we'll take a motion to oh man

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