here. Thomas here to approve of the agenda. So move second. Moved in a second to approve the agenda. All those in favor signify by saying I. I oppose. Same sign. Part three. We are my opening statement. uh for the proposed tax information. This public hearing is required as part of the district's certified budget. The notice provided to each resident shows the maximum total property taxes the district will adopt as part of the certified budget which will be adopted by April 30th. The board secretary is hereby directed to enter any written comments into the record of this public hearing. For those of you in attendance, thank you for being here today. We value your input and are interested in hearing your comments. If you are planning on speaking, please fill out the form on the back table, including your name and address, and handed to the board secretary. Your names will be called in the order received. Each speaker will have a maximum of five minutes. Your public comments will be considered as part of the district's final budget decisions. As a reminder, board members are present to listen to and receive those comments. Board members will not engage in dialogue or respond to questions during this meeting, but may address issues that arise at a future board meeting. We are ready to proceed. Please call the first name. Um, well, first of all, to receive written comment, I just want Excuse me. Yeah. I just wanted to say that um I thought that we needed to read written statements out loud but but after further review I was incorrect on that. We just enter them into the written record. Um the law states at this hearing the political subdivision shall receive oral or written testimony from any resident residents or property owner of the political subdivision. And we had one written comment that was dropped off this morning here in the office. The individual did not want to give their name and wanted to remain anonymous, so I can't verify if they're a resident or a property owner. But in the spirit of wanting to remain transparent, I went ahead and made a copy of that statement for all of you guys. And if it's at the board's decision, I'll just enter that into the written record. Any questions about that? Okay, now we're ready to receive oral comments. I think it's Janet Longley is first on the leg. Yes, Miss Longley. Yes, ma'am. Well, whatever you feel. Um, I really don't have anything to say except that I I hear I might be wrong, but I've heard that Abance County in this area is high enough on taxes compared to other places in this state and I think it needs to stop. I need I think we need to do other things than increase taxes. Thank you. Uh the next person I have is Jan McB. Yes. Um on this uh notification of proposed tax uh of proposed property taxation. Um it shows the proposed tax rate um the effective rate and then it has this little blur down at the bottom which is cut off. um levying the full rate authorized by the nothing. I think it's it it seems to me that we have um no information, you know, as taxpayers, we should have a full understanding of what it is that has caused this deficit. And I don't hear that. I don't see it. Um, have you printed it? Have you shown in your budget why we are having these this this deficit? Okay. As as stated here, we cannot answer questions. I thought that's what this hearing was for. No, it's where we are supposed to listen to and receive comments, but we will not engage in dialogue or respond to questions. It's the way the law is written. But I'm happy to take calls in the office during the day, the rest of the week, too, to to answer questions. Why is it a public hearing if you can't answer questions? That's how public hearings work in the law. Yeah, that the school office number here, I'm happy to answer any questions for anybody. I'll sit down with somebody and kind of explain that that form with you if you'd like and help out. Mark Taylor, superintendent. Please feel free to stop in or call if you don't want to stop in. Is this already a done deal? You're already going through with this tax levy increase of about it that looks to me 15 16%. You're already going to do this. I'd be happy to explain it to you during the during the week. Feel free to stop. Honest to goodness. What public servants you at the risk of violating any sort of federal law. We're following the law. Okay. And Mr. Taylor will be happy to explain anything that you want. That's that's the best we can do. When did this change? Two years. Last year. Was the first year that this notice went out. It's a state law. Yes. Yes, ma'am. was adopted by the legislature last year and you agreed to it. Do you have to agree to it? No. No, we don't agree to a lot of things that the de and all those give us, but that's just what happens. We have to follow the laws. So why is this a public care? for us to hear comments. So if you have a comment speaking towards it, we can hear your comments. But by law, we're not allowed because of the sunshine laws, we're not allowed, the board is not allowed to have deliberation about those. They're not allowed to respond back. Not much sunshine. A little confusing. Anyone else? I only had these two here to speak. How many here are for uh increasing your property taxes? So, should we have a vote since that's kind of a public thing? How many of us would like to have our in our taxes increased? I'm sorry. That's the best that's the best we can do. So, Mr. Chair, maybe we can't answer this and if I'm if I'm out, I'm out. Um, can we provide clarification on that document and why it has to be sent out and why those numbers are not? So, the middle column on that document is is a number that never existed. um that's based on this year's valuations. It's based on this year's state allowed um amount that you can get and it's there's actually a statement from Larry Cickle who is the leading expert on Iowa school finance in the state uh explaining how the department of management comparison there with that middle column is something that can't exist. Um and that's on your table there. Um and it's based on roll back rollbacks that changed. It's based on assessments that changed. It's based on um school district budgets are largely driven by enrollment. Um so that's something where the number of students that a school district has determines how much the budget uh for that school district is, which has some impact on um property tax. In a district such as Centerville, it has a smaller impact than in a district such as say um one of the northern lake lake cities um Spirit Lake or something to that effect because we're consider what we are what's considered a property poor district which means that a larger percentage of our school district's budget actually comes from the state coffers than comes from our local property tax coffers. So we um every district has what's called a uniform levy. So that uniform levy is that it has been 540. The legislature has had some discussions of changing that amount this year. Um so potentially lowering that amount. So that's levied to the local property taxpayers in a district. And maybe this would be something for future we can ask if we can do this before because that might help answer these questions every year when we do these meetings. We'll we can ask permission on that. But um that uniform levy will make up a portion of the total district cost per pupil, which is approximately $7,800 per student is what a district receives to educate that student. Um which is closer to to national average. It's a it's a little on the low side, but it's close to national average. um 540 per student year makes up I think it was like a buck 30 a buck 40 uh or makes up a small amount of that we get state aid that takes us up to 87.5% of that and then the additional levies go on top of that some of which is supplemented by state in the case of like a Spirit Lake when they do their 540 per thousand levy it actually makes up a large portion of their $7,800 per student so they do a a lot from their local property tax there because their property valuation is so high per student. So if you have a small number of students and a high property valuation, 5.40 for $1,000 makes a whole bunch. If you have more students but poor property value, then your 540 per student doesn't make up a lot of that. So for us, we just happen to be one of the benefits. We are a on average a much bigger taker from the state coffers uh to be equal with the rest of the schools in the state uh as a result of our property valuations and number of students um because we're barely in the upper half in terms of size of districts but we're well into the lower lower half on property valuations per pupil. Um, so I don't know if that answered your question very well, but it kind of roughly explains kind of how school finance works. Like really roughly. Um, it was too much. I'm not on the list to speak, but may I ask a question in regard to what he just said? You can ask, but I can't guarantee you'll get an answer. That's fine. If I understood you correctly, you're saying that you get about $7,800 per student. Per pupil. Okay. So, are you saying that on an average it costs more than $7,800 per pupil to educate that child per year? And if that's the case, what what do you anticipate it actually costing to educate that child? If I can I can give a little bit on that. That depends that actually depends on the situation. So a student with special needs that would require a one-on-one associate might cost more than that. So a lot of times your your your average cost per people to educate people might be would be lower than that because we we actually underspend our budget by a little bit each year. We are very fiscally conservative. Our um our unspent authorized budget um is actually in a very healthy condition and we do that because we realize that the state coffers are in danger. So we try not to spend what we can in a year so we can be safe. We're we're fiscally conservative. Um the school business official I this year as of February of 24 the state increased it by 3%. the 2025 2026 year. Yeah, I'm not really here to debate politics. I'm just telling you what the financial experts that tell us how to manage a budget tell us. Oh, we're well past that time on that. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. I I'd be happy to help out some more. No, I I think I understood you correctly. I just wasn't certain and I wanted Yeah. to ask if I was understanding what you said depending on the needs of the student. Yeah. Right. And I didn't think of that portion of it and I apologize for that. But I was trying to comprehend what you were saying and that's what I thought you were saying. Somebody would like to nerd out over school finance with me sometime. I'm totally hands on that. I I'm a nerd about that. Love to talk. I think that probably the governor which forced your planners on budget or money to schools uh pushing money toward private schools and helping with tuition is going to affect that money. Okay. I I'm convinced of that. The other thing is that we uh I agree with the lady back here. We're designated as one of the poorest counties in state, but we continue to build and expand in all levels. I I got two other meetings to attend with the city and the county. And yet everybody keeps saying we're we're we're monetary and conservative. for Christ's sake. I don't understand all that. But I do know that I I've never seen in my lifetime a tax come down. We don't the last three years lower the taxes. That may very well be true and and I'm not going to debate it with you. You know, I don't. But I'm just saying that on basis of overall taxation, they move up, not down. Okay. Um, I think I've pushed it as far as I believe we can go here. Okay. And I'm sorry we didn't answer all your questions, but they will be answered if you contact Mr. Taylor. At this time, I don't think we have any other formal comments. I would entertain a motion to adjourn. Second. We have moved and seconded to adjournment. All those in favor signify by saying I same sign. I we are ajourned regular board meeting uh here. for financial people at this time. I would like to visitors. It is our public forum. Anyone wants to speak? We have one person here. Elizabeth Longston. Yes, sir. Yes, ma'am. Um, good evening. I want to start off by thanking you for allowing us the time to be here and to voice our opinions tonight. For those of you who don't know me, I am Elizabethston. I taught at Centerville for 15 years and I have been the track coach, the head track coach for 16 years. Um, I have grown this team from five athletes to 60 athletes over that time. My my team philosophy has always been that our team is the reason some of these athletes come to school and that the reason they are have to pass their classes. We strive to develop not just athletes but athletes who are respectable, who are good sportsmen and who are good leaders. Our team has also had four athletes go on to compete at the college level. All have received scholarships to Indian Hills Community College. Our team has been virtually self-funded except for the use of your bus driver and your bus and our two coaching salaries. We have not asked the school for any money or support for our facilities or our team supplies in 16 years. We could not do that without the help of many generous businesses including those who fund us solely because of our affiliation with Seymour. Some of those businesses include Young Trucking, AP Rolloffs, Lockbridge, Southern Iowa Gutters, and Duke Reynolds. I couldn't have built this team without the help of many very important people over the years. I would like to introduce you to a few of those stakeholders now and allow each of them the opportunity to speak as to why they hope that the board will consider allowing the Seymour athletes to continue to be a part of our team. First, my assistant coach Chad Butler. He's a dedicated volunteer for over six years and a parent of two graduated team members. Um, Lisa Carter, grandparent of two of our Seymour team members and a cheerleader for our team at every meet. Matt Haringman, his assistant coach, team volunteer for over five years, a bus driver and a parent of a graduated member. Ronnie Robertson, assistant coach for four years and father of three of our senior team members. um once they've all had a chance to share opinion their opinions. I'd love to answer any questions that you have. Thanks for allowing us to be here. I'm Chad Butler. I'm the assistant coach um for the track team and I just I'm here just because I want the board to understand the impact that the agreement has to see more having those kids with us. Um it doesn't only affect the the coaches. Um we we with 60 athletes um we have to we have to have a bunch of coaches on this team. Okay. Most of them are volunteer. Liz and I are the only two paid coaches. Matt's a volunteer. Ronnie's a volunteer. We have a couple others. But um with 60 kids, there are times we go to trap shoots and there are four or five ranges out there and we have a squad on each one maybe at the same time. So there's five coaches. You have to have one coach on every range at least. So there's five coaches. If we lose Seymour, we lose coaches. If we lose coaches, we may have our kids are going to suffer too because we're going to have to cut the team back in in size in order to be able to to compete. Um just because of the safety factor of it. You know, this is you have to have one coach per range. If you're on four ranges or five ranges, that's that's four or five coaches. Um so our kids are going to miss out. I know when this first started, it was strictly high school that shot. There was no middle school and now we have middle school shooting with us as well. um which added a lot of kids to our to our roster. But um so I just I just want to make sure that y'all understand the impact that would have on on the team. We if we have to cut middle school back out of it because we don't have enough coaches and strictly go back to high school only. I mean that's our kids suffer for that. So I just want everybody to understand what the impact is on having that agreement with with Seymour or any other school for that matter. So thank you. Can I ask a question? Sure. Are you talking about coaching track or trap? Trap. Track. Okay. I have a little bit of hearing loss. Okay. Sorry. And are you coaching track in for Centerville schools or for Seymour schools? Both. Yes. Both. Okay. Which is the primary? I mean, are you I am paid by Senator. That's what I want to know. Okay. Thank you for the clarification. I thought you said track and I was really confused. No, I don't run. Okay. I don't either. But so thank you for gun shot. She doesn't run, she shoots. Who was next? Hello, I'm Lisa Carter. I have um two athletes now that shoot for the team. Um five years ago, Rodney were in Teamwork and wanted to put our my granddaughter and his two daughters on this team. And um I knew nothing about this sport whatsoever. And um so we we got our girls involved in it and it has been such a great thing for them. The discipline, the the coaches have been excellent with them. They have learned so much and our girls collectively have went out for a lot of different sports, softball, basketball, volleyball or whatever. But this has been the one constant. His his daughter will graduate this year and it'll be her fifth year and our the other girls are juniors and are in their um fifth year also and would love to stay with this team to finish out their high school career. Now we have a grandson and his son Lane are shooting in their seventh grade and eighth grade. And I look for them to shoot all through their high school careers. And it has opened up a lot of opportunities for them, not maybe being um physical athletes maybe, but giving the kids who who maybe don't have that opportunity um the ability to be able to apply for a different scholarship, you know, and they've been very successful at this and they really enjoy it. And I would really hate to lose the opportunity. I think we will have a lot more kids from Seymour that will be interested in in shooting. I think we have seven or eight now. Seven this year. So, and we did have two or three that really wanted they missed the sign up. So, we'll work on that next year. But I hope they'll reconsider and, you know, let us stay. Uh, as far as the facilities, like I said, I have three kids that are shooting. Uh, I went to school in Centerville. I have more pride for this school than I say to see more. I can go there. My kids might, but uh it's an honor to volunteer for over here. Um the sport is really uh it's one of the fastest growing sports in the nation. U there's going to be four scholarships for long for college and stuff. U but as far as facilities wise, we all share the same range. I know several shelter the college share the same range. Um it'll almost be impossible if we have to separate for us to shoot anywhere because there's not enough days to a week to practice. Um it would be really hard. Uh then on top of that the the funding like say you have seven kids. I mean we don't have you have to have at least five in the same age bracket. same shooting year I should say to even have a team and it's pretty much impossible for us right now. Uh so I greatly appreciate if you allow us to continue and I will look forward to it. Like I say my son will be shooting for another four years and I really enjoy the coaching background. That's all I have. Thank you. I I don't think I have anything else to add. I think these guys covered it well other than uh keep it going for us. And just I'd like I just want to add another thing to what Rody said here is it is one of the fastest growing sports. When my kids shot and they're both graduated, my daughter went on to shoot for Indian Hills. Um it is huge. When my son started shooting, we went to state it was only on a weekend. It was a Friday, Saturday, Sunday and everything was done. crazy. Now they have so many kids in the state doing that do shooting in this sport that they have it during the week. So we have middle school uh that shoots like on Monday and Tuesday in June and then high school strictly on the week on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. That's how big thousands of kids are up there for the state shoot. So this this sport is huge and it's a huge opportunity for a lot of kids that don't have opportunities for other other sports. So just just please keep it going for us. We appreciate it. Thank you. Um, I just want to thank all of these guys for being here with me tonight and um, thank them for expressing their opinions to the board. And if you have any further questions about our team, I'll be happy to answer them or I can stick around until it's on the agenda, whatever you like. Okay. Uh, any questions or comments? What? Yeah, we'll I'll see. Thanks. Yeah. Yeah. No, I just I want to thank all of you for showing up and giving us some insight because that's a lot of information I know I personally didn't know. So, thank you guys for taking the time of your evening to come in and tell us that. Yeah, I think what I think about any sport that keeps more kids involved in school is good. Maybe sometimes it keeps them in school. So, you know, sports have a lot of advantages and some disadvantages. We all know that, too. But there's a lot of advantages to be active. I think it's important to note that these aren't just center kids. We're talking about the the opportunity for the the the kids at Seymour as well to have those advantages as well. So if their school isn't able to provide it, we we need them. We want them and we'd like to keep that. Okay. I'd like the board to sort of reserve any other comments they have. We get out of that agenda item. U next uh item three is the approval of the agenda. Second. All those in favor of the agenda, please signify by saying I. I post same sign. Approve minutes of the previous meeting. We have motion and a second. And a second. Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the minutes of the previous meeting signify by saying I. Post sign. We have no business. New business. We have our student representative again. Sorry, I came from soccer practice so I didn't have my notebook with me, but um we had a career fair last week and many students were involved with that and I feel like it was an opportunity to get more like job insights and connections, right? And we have the ACTs and sophomore Indian health career day where we got to go see the opportunities there. And then for our homecoming competitions, which is a while ago, but we had a senior pizza party because they won. And that's about it. We don't have much going on. Any questions for our representative? Did you try to land the plane? Did he try to fly? I think you did. Yeah, he brought flight simulator with the I was too busy talking to you. That's true. Now I know. That was all about going with my daughter. The flight simulator was not cool at all. So He will see you outside. Thank you for that. Just because you couldn't land. Any other questions about our student representative? All right, we're going to move on to item B, resolution authorizing the redemption of general obligation school bond series 2021 dated June 28, 2021, approving an escrow agent agreement at living and tax for fiscal years 2026 for the redemption of general obligation school bond series 2021 dated June 28, 2021. Move to adopt the resolution. Second been moved and seconded to approve the resolution. Any discussion hearing? None. All those in favor signify by saying I. Roll call. Sorry. Oh, excuse me. This is a roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Moore. Yes. Thomas, yes. Yes. All right. We're down to item C, approval of the Aea proposal. Okay. So, you um probably saw in your packet the a the item that had the AEA logo on it and said quote. So, our AEA flow through dollars for next year um that we get to choose how how to spend um are 172,397 for the general ed and media services. and for the 10% that the district will keep from the special ed dollars and choose how to spend is 42,486. The uh proposal that you see there that came in your packet is slightly off. We made an adjustment to increase days for the science consultant and decrease days for the um UAR. Yes, thank you for which I'm going to admit to you Julie is the expert of that. What is up, Julie? uh universal screener for students who need some accommodations and training. So, because Julie is extremely gifted, um we don't need as much support there, so we can save some money there. Um so, overall, the cost should be about the same as what's on there. It's just changing which people we have, which days. So we um of the 172,000 we would only be spending 144,34836 which means we'll be able to offset general ed costs in the district save money for the district to the tune of 28,48.64 64 cents um from that. And of the special ed costs listed on there, we'll only spend 33,390, saving our district special ed money uh 9,96 um from that and still getting I'd say probably even more services than we received in previous year. I mean, honestly, it's a great amount of service. It's going to be really valuable to our kids. Um, so we just were able to kind of Julie and I were able to put our heads together and find some great ways to be kind of efficient with how we use these services to to get the best bang for our buck and save some money. Question would be, is this quote this what do we do with this quote if that's not it's our me? Oh yeah. So, I'll tell you on the line that says um the line that says science consultant, it says 2 days on your packet. It should say 4 days. Uh which will change the amount for that line item to three $3,688. Then the um the line near the bottom of that top section under educational services that says up will go down to two days, which changed the cost to $1,844. I guess what I'm ask do we need a it updated quote it'd be nice if the motion were to uh approve as amended okay there um I think that would be a good way to do that overall dollars didn't change the overall dollars didn't change just where we're spending it we didn't go seek out we didn't expect this would be a place to find savings when we started the process uh but managed to find some in here. What's the membership? That's what lets us do like the curriculum director network, the superintendent network and all that. Um they've got some other networks too. Well, and I think you had to pay that to be able to get any services like I mean it's like their Yeah. for service to begin with them. So I see we have you know the social worker is there psychological services down here somewhere? Um they do offer sharing of social workers and counselors but at this point we actually determined um cuz there was an offer on the table to maybe share one of our counselors the one that we share through the AA and use ADA dollars for that. Uh but when we did the math, it was actually going to cost us more for less time. So we elected not to not to propose that um and to hire our own uh social emotions. We can we can do it at a little cheaper rate because they don't necessarily provide direct service of that specific area. It's more consultant type. Make a motion to approve as amended. Second. Have a motion and a second approval of the Aea proposal. Any further discussion hearing? None. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Both same sign. Motion carries. Item B, approval of support staff makeup day plan. So, after looking at records of who's made up, what days and um what is available, we actually propose we talked about how many days to forgive to the support staff. We're actually proposing uh that we forgive two days because we've had some people that have made up um beyond that. And instead of paying for extra days for having had snow days, this allows us to to give everybody the same benefit and not not hurt anybody uh that's done their part to make those days up to this point. That's what we're recommending to the board for the number of days to forgive the support staff. I move accept that. Second. Make a motion and a second to approve the support staff make up day plan. All those in favor signify by saying I. I the same sign. Thank you. Item E, discussion of the elementary science position. Okay, so this one's kind of a fun one. Um, and I'm excited because this is instructional and I don't talk instruction much. Um we have an opportunity with the we it looks like we will have hit our savings goals for the year based on the declining enrollment uh to where we have a teacher we're we are in excess in one classroom teacher at the elementary level beyond what we would need for our class size um kind of maintaining small class sizes. Um what we would like to do is to hire a one of our an internal only person not somebody external um to hire somebody to teach science as a special at the elementary level. The in there's been an increase in the testing requirements for science and the importance of science on our school report card. Um and what has happened in the US since No Child Left Behind and our district is no different. the amount of science instruction at the lower levels has drastically dwindled from when we all went to school. And this would give us an opportunity to get students uh a 40minute uh science um in each grade uh K through 5-minute science once every four days um in a dedicated space where a person has ability to set up labs and have them set up for the day and somebody who's really focused on just doing a great job teaching science. We believe not only will this help us with our science scores and in turn our school report card, but also it'll probably help our students be more interested in STEM field careers. And it's something that can be very unique about us as a school district. Something that maybe other places aren't able to offer, but we can offer to students in our elementary school to give a little bit more to them. And also, it allows us to free up some time of our counselors. So, I saw Brian just came in. I He's hiding. Oh, right there. Right in front of me. Um, this will allow him to use his counselors instead of in teaching guidance class all the time, he can move back to like a once a month guidance class and allow them to respond to individual student behavioral and emotional needs. So, we're using those counselors for what we pay for an actual counselor to do. Um, kind of a unique opportunity given that we have that extra I don't want to say extra body because that doesn't sound right, but an extra person that uh we could we could do that. What we'd like to do is open it up to the teachers at the elementary and allow those teachers to apply uh as they see fit to try to hire one of the people into that and then adjust uh grades appropriately to make sure we have the four sections we need in each grade. The reason I say it might be a one-year proposition is tentatively the incoming kindergarten might be a little bit back to our normal. So, we may need five sections of that going through in years down the road. And depending on where we are financially, maybe we'd hire a new person to be that fifth traveling person or we pull that science person back in and put our counseling person in. Uh, but we believe this could be a great solution and something that could be unique for our district. I've seen one district do this before. Um, Winter Set had done this for a number of years uh at their elementary school and and saw some benefit for it for their for their kids. the superintendent who was there that instituted that then went on she worked at the AA out west. Uh Susie um Susie me um she she told me all about it. I went there and met with her about it. It was a really good deal for their their school. I think it could be good for us. And really today I'm just kind of looking for just a yeah seems like a really cool idea or a what is wrong with you so that I know whether to start the process and and make that happen. There's not really a job description. It's something that this will be a little bit of a hopefully we can get the process done and and locked in quick so we can have that person hired and spend some time this spring to plan that person because this is going to be like building the ship, right? Because there's no such thing as a science special curriculum available to us right now. So, we're going to have to pull out standards from each of those grades and really put something together so they have a chance to do hands-on learning with those kids. Any questions you like to answer? And we have elementary teachers that have that expertise. Yeah, I think we've got some that would do a really nice job with it. The good news is is every uh elementary teacher can teach this position because it's just an elementary classroom position. And I think what we would look for is somebody who's got a passion in STEM. Um somebody who wants to, you know, I I don't want to say we got to find Miss Frizle, but you know, somebody like we're looking for a Miss Frile here or Mr. Frile. Maybe Mr. Frile. So, so they would they still have science? Yes. In the classroom? Yep. But this would supplement that. This is just a Okay. Yeah. Have science in the classroom. Yeah. But right now, our science in the classroom, as is the case for most districts, is pretty minuscule. I mean, science really dwindled as most schools move to 120 minutes of literacy instruction, 90 minutes of math instruction. The day is very much eaten up in elementary schools in the US. So, this gives us some set time that we know for a fact once every four days you're going to have a 40-minute lesson and it's going to be really focused on science. Um, which we think could be a real benefit for us, especially as we figure out what in the world that looks like as this is added to the school report card. Um, because the fact that that got added in the most recent update uh kind of threw some people for a loop on on just what that'll what that'll mean for schools. I really like the idea because if the kids, you know, see more science at that rate, then they'll take more science when they get in health school and take more chemistry. Sure. Physics. How are we historically with these extra extras, for lack of a better word, keeping them beyond a year? Like, let's say we create something for a year. How are we how have we been in the past and maintaining that? Well, so this the way that we're talking about it with it already being built into the budget for moving forward the way that we've got it, we should be good financially on that. Again, unless we lose 60 kids, everything changes when you lose 60 kids, but uh um I don't know that I've got enough history on on knowing that to be honest with you. The other position that I can think of that it would be similar to would be like the at risk position which we just are as you saw in your packet our at risk person is is leaving us um we do have that posted right now but um obviously that would be a position we would fill after we fill other other kind of more vital jobs like the science well the science position still and you really hit the nail on the head when you talked about so much of the day you know you have this many minutes for your core subjects And there's no time. And that's the kid thing the kids love. Yeah. Yeah. But I had a superintendent that always said, and I kind of laughed when he said it cuz he was really probably I'm informal, but he was even more informal. He said it reduces the suck factor, you know, of school science and sports and music that reduce and draft shooting that reduces the suck factor for kids. That makes school fun to be a part of. And I think this could be a chance for that just like art and PE and music. Yeah, I'm buying it 100%. I just I wouldn't I double-edged sword. I want to see the enrollment in the next years increase for kindergarten. So I don't want us to get into a position that has to go away. Right. So I think and I'd say my thought would be let's roll with it. Right. If that is bestowed upon us, we increase that enrollment and we'll figure that out. But the most likely thing to cause that issue making this go away would be bodies, right? Um finding qualified quality teachers in the environment that we've got with teacher shortages. We were really lucky with some good contact good contacts at the career fair this year, but I'll tell you, I've got friends who would say they don't feel nearly as lucky this year. That the shortage is hitting them hard still. So I think you're right that is a concern right like a good idea would be and science is so much preparation you know if you can have one person doing all of that that would really take the load off and it help wouldn't have so much that's kind of what you said actually that's why I looked at it yeah I like the idea a lot So, kind of feeling good. Go ahead and start the process. See if there's a teacher that's interested. And do you have anything to add, Mr. Baker, about it? How you No, other than that, me and Mr. Taylor have talked and um but I wanted to get a second position. I thought it was success with that. And that you have the space for it. Yeah. Yeah, we would have a space for it. And um I kind of like you said, there's just so much medics. We we do science of course, but there's just very if we had somebody that was dedicated, I think the added bonus of having that counselor free up. I mean, it is just part of it to get them out of rotation is going to do a lot for kids. So, I think you can get some science curriculum. I think you can get a counselor out. They can still get social emotional stuff in classrooms. They can do a 20 minute, you know, you're on a weekly rotation. We'll still do that, but they're available to be your kids. So yes, I think it's all so needed. Yeah. And I have seen it where that teacher becomes a resource. Oh yeah. A regular classroom teacher also. Any other discussion? We are moving on to discussion of the advertising campaign. I did put together a little something for you. You probably noticed that we the people who were here earlier heard me say we killed a tree today, but I printed um information from each of the companies that we've worked with on the advertising for you. And I did put together a little something to organize our thoughts. Cameron, how do I how do I do this or I go up there? I share your screen. I'm going to email you the link right now. How do I do that? He's going to email you. Okay. Awesome. just to organize us because I'll admit we were sitting together and we were we're kind of planning for this the team of us here and I realized if we just kind of jump in and just okay what do we want to talk about that's going to be really difficult to organize. So we we thought of just organizing it just a little bit here uh to kind of help us have a plan. So, a lot of that starts with uh examining our current um current reality with advertising and what we have. So, we've had an agreement with the Iowa Media Network for uh since before I came here. Uh we adjusted that a little bit uh second year, I think it was last year. Um in terms of the amount of money and the amount of um service that we are purchasing um I'm getting in here twice on there. That wouldn't be fair to anybody. Okay. All right. Here we go. That went up there for us. So, just talking about current reality, Iowa Media Network, we've been working with them. They had a they did a series of testimonial ads for us this um uh February. Um, you see some Facebook posts from those. Um, I'm I'm going to have show you just a couple of them here. Um, they blasted this and and I am not a great social media person, but I will tell you I have heard from some students that they saw our ads on Tik Tok. Um, recently heard from an adult that they they saw one of our ads on Tik Tok, too. Um, Tik Tok too. Yeah. Um, Facebook obviously, which I'm a millennial, so that's kind of where I see stuff. Um, and Twitter or X, depending on what you want to call it. Um, and then the bottom third ads, which airs, so when the Go Pitch does their morning show or when they do a ball game, they'll air this little area down here you can see, is our bottom third ad. Um, so just an example of one of these ads for you. I I won't play three, I'll just play one. I hope it does. While I'm here, my family moved here from Arkansas and we chose over other schools in the area for it outstanding facilities and opportunities. The local media coverage allows my kids to be recognized at the next level and our family across the country. It didn't um it didn't do super well on there, but that was probably because I connected in a weird way. But they actually did I think it was 23 ads total like that. Uh that was Brandy Hampton who is a parent of Eli uh Hampton and um Tibo Hampton. Uh two boys in our district. Um moved here um in time for their I think their oldest son's freshman year I want to say. Um really great supporter on the on the boosters and everything. Um we have some student ads. Um, well you I can't get you out of here without letting you see us mad at the freedom to be creative and artist. The support from my teachers and the opportunities in the art program have given me the confidence to share my work with others. Through art classes, I have discovered career opportunities I wouldn't have otherwise known about. And my teacher is helping me learn more about how I can pursue those careers. It doesn't look choppy on the actual ad. It just does when I share a zoom. So, uh, sorry about that. Um they shared with us some analytics and there was a packet that kind of came to you on how that is doing. Um it should be paper clipped together. Oh, I'm sorry. Staple together. Um so it says analytics for February 1 through March one is what's on there. Um, so just a little email there about some of the things that they're working on for us from AJ uh forwarded to you here. And then page two has the analytics on just what our advertising reached um February 1 to March 1. And you know, I don't I don't want to read everything to you, but for those playing along at home, I want to make sure they get a little bit of information. So, um, our ads received 5,000 528,763 views, uh, 413,082 minutes of views. Um, 61,626 individual people reached. Um, this uh, the views to get a view, a video has to play for 10 seconds, for more than 10 seconds by somebody. So, I guess prior to that, Kevin talked with the last thing about that, how it doesn't count if it doesn't go long enough, and I think that's probably a little bit of that. Um, so they've got it broken down by age and gender here, kind of showing where they put some of our stuff on um on the newspaper and everything. There's a second page of analytics there, just on the testimonials. And these were shared, it says, by Tik Tok, Facebook, and Instagram stories, which I have no clue on Instagram stories, but I I think that's a lot of pictures that Sorry, just blowing fun with it. Um, but again, it's the testimonial ads that went out there, some of the banner ads. Um, you've got that broken down one more time by uh gender and age, which seems to be a big thing in advertising cuz you'll see that with our tunnel radio information, too. And then the last few pages in that packet are just some pictures of some of the ads that they posted on Facebook. So, you can kind of see what that looked like. Uh, pretty pretty decent engagement on there on on some of them. Um, at least in terms of views, um, which is a a nice thing. Uh but that kind of gives you an idea of our current efforts with Iowa media network. Uh we also had a an effort with Toma radio through the open enrollment period. Um and that packet has the little binder clip. So um some of the engagement information on that. Um we could skip this part for now. This is the engagement from theirs. So it's got the graphs. So, it looks like um theirs is laid out just a little differently. So, um again, 5 5783 is the reach uh on that 10,181 impressions. I'm not sure what makes a difference between a reach and impression to be honest with you. Um an impression, a reach is when somebody actually looks at an impression that you're going through your feed and you scroll by and it just even flashes by. It's just an impression. Yeah, you should have one that looks like this attached to it. Say that again, Kevin. I'm sorry. My understanding too is the reach is if somebody stops and looks at it, but like on Facebook, an impression. If you're going through your feed, you just scroll by it and you see it. You don't stop and look at it. You just keep scrolling. That's still an impression because it flashed in front of you. And if AJ is probably listening, he'll probably fair enough. I'm sure I'll get a text in that. Yeah. So, on uh their second page there from Atumb Radio, uh we did get uh some information on Facebook versus Instagram. Um their scale there is uh on one side it says five up to 5,000. I think that's for the dark blue or purple, whatever that might be. I might be slightly color blind, I guess. Um the other side is the 10,000 is for the uh light the light blue, I believe. Or maybe I'm backwards. Actually, it looks like I don't see likes or shares. I don't know that we've got that on either of them to be honest with you. Um there was there was all of them. Oh, I'm Oh, you mean just from anecdotally seeing I thought you meant in the info. Sorry. No, no. I I mean sorry that out. Their third page breaks down the age and gender as well, just like the what we kind of saw on the other one. And I don't I don't know why it it did twice on the um on the data for some of that on there. Um this is the packet we got. There is if you get a little bit down the line, there's a page that looks like this. It shows like a number of different ways that people were reached. It looks like we've got um some audience um more audience of Facebook and Instagram, very little with the other areas that they listed. Um but I I don't know uh much about that. Um let's see, age and gender distribution once again. And then total reach is that last page. So just to kind of give you an idea of how our current advertising is uh reaching people, the uh attachment from a summer radio there on the radio and digital is some of the radio and digital options that they have available um and that they can help with. I know uh it was communicated with me uh by Iowa Media Network that they can help with us some and it might be worth finding out uh all the area companies that can do that if if the board would decide to do additional advertising beyond what we are doing now. Um just to kind of get some ideas. Um, I would recommend that we talk a little bit about our purpose behind advertising because I think when you talk about how you want to advertise, if you're going to spend money to advertise, you want to know who it is you want to reach. And so I think it would be wise if we could talk about that a little bit. I think I think for me that's a that's a a big factor in me making the decision is what's what's our purpose about it? what what are we wanting to get out of it? And I I know the the short answer is more students, right? Most likely, I'm assuming, but I I don't know. I guess I if I'm a parent and I I'm just going to shoot from the head. If I'm a parent and I just get constantly hear brought to you by Centerville Community Schools or this or that, that's not going to make me that's not going to say, "Oh my god, I think I'm going to move my kid to this school today." If I'm thinking of moving my child, that that bus is already in motion. Um, I have no problem spending money, as I've said multiple times, whether it's for our students, for technology, for our staff. To just go out and and just do a blind campaign is irresponsible. We have very talented students within our district. We have a very talented business in our community. Why don't we let our students tell the story? They know this stuff better than any of us in this room. Why couldn't that be part of, you know, a marketing class? I mean, I think we can we can throw money at it, but okay, we want we want five students. How are we going to gauge that $12,000 got us or whatever we determine got us those students? You know, in the last meeting it was the conversation was the majority of open enrollment out and never set foot in our district because parents went to this school, that school, whatever. They work here, they work here. Okay, then that doesn't really then in my impression we don't have that big of a problem with new open enrollment out other than those that are just skirting disciplinary issues. If I'm wrong on that, please correct me. So, I I think we're trying to just throw something to roll the stick, but we really don't know what the hell we want to do. I was kind of looking through on the pitch here, who was listening to this, and it looks like women are the ones who listen the most. You like the age 35 to 44, 27% of the audience was, you know, was that age of women. And then you go down and other ages and still women are listening to them a lot more than men. And they may be the ones that are making the decision. Yeah. Of where their student is going to go to school. I'm not saying men don't make that decision. Of course they do. They're probably starting the conversation. I agree. Yeah. I I just phrase a little bit different than I genally. Yeah. I think I would argue the students are making that push that effort. That's where we need to reach them where they are. Yeah. and and see that group was not included too much on usually the demographics don't if you look at both if you look at both of the analytics from the Iowa media network and radio group so the age and gender distribution for radio group the highest thing is it's men they're listening to the radio where the women are on Facebook. That's what the demographics and that's what in this study. Can we ask the kids what they listen to? I can tell you what the kids listen to. Streaming. If they're listening to music, they're streaming. If they're doing something else, they're scrolling. And if you're hearing something on the radio, you're hearing it in that moment. Granted, it would be run multiple times, but you know, I'm going to hear it one time in the car today. But if I'm on Facebook or Tik Tok or whatever and it has links and all these things, I can revisit that. I can go to the links. It can take me all these other places to get more information than just 30 seconds of from a business perspective. And I know Kevin, you mentioned it a lot too, front of mind. I mean, I every year in my business plan at work, that's what I lean into. I want repetition. I want it out there. I want it out there. I want it out there. And in some aspects we have to we do have to think of the district as a business. That is our our job. It's not the fun part of it quite frankly. But at the same time it's a little bit different than trying to get my name out there for financial needs versus trying to sell our story. And if we're doing things that are selling our story, that's fine. But just a brought to you by Centerville Community School District or just the generics I am not in favor of at all. We've got to we got to sell our successes, you know, elementary science. Okay, that's that's something we get out there. We put out there, but what do we what's our current financial with contract with the So, it is yearly. Um, and I got that from Lisa 14900 and I think it's just schools I believe. information. So, it's 1400 just while schools in session. Sorry. If I go to it, then my email will be on the meeting sharing. So, so that's about roughly $14,000. I got nothing to hide, but Okay. So Derek, do I is this proper to interpret your comments that you're inclined to do local like the pitch stuff versus the tunnel radio or you wanted our kids to do it? I either um I mean I think we need to we need to figure out what we want to do and and rather than getting another okay we know we want to do social Tik Tok this and that let's use what we're paying for right now through IO media network and if we need to add that other vendor add that other party we can but I'm afraid we get get too many hands in the mix then number one that risks can potentially risk our reputation and our brand um if the advertising campaign if we decided to use two vendors you're what I'm hearing you say and I agree 100% is that advertising campaign would have to be very coordinated. Yes. So that both groups kept telling the same message because that you know the the the open enrollment I'll be honest the what was what was put out there on Facebook um our ad versus other schools um on the radio night and day difference. Um, one looked well put together. Ours in my opinion, you know, I you don't want to see me try to play with Microsoft and PowerPoint, but it did not reflect the brand. And I think that's something this group needs to come together with. We need to get people smarter than usual market. We all need to be using the same kind of branding. Can't be, you know, the Indian can't look this way on one and this way on the other. But I, you know, I we need to go down to determining a district font. Yeah. If you want to go macro level with it, so I will tell you I've reached out to a few branding companies to try to get a branding guide for a district. I worked with one when I was in Burlington. Um, unfortunately, each company has turned me down so far because they don't want to have anything to do with an Indian themed logo. That's applied for. Yeah. So, I'm still on the hunt for a a company. Um, and I do have a lead that I got at one point that I need to follow up on, but I we we had even with ours there was it in Burlington. It was purple and gray. There was a purple you're going to use. There's a gray you're going to use on things just like we've done. Aaron has done a really nice job of of solidifying the paint colors that we use in our buildings. there is a white that's used. So, you're not going to run three different lights down the hallway and it looks tacky. Um, using those same um RGB codes for the colors that we use on web and print um our logos, our fonts, all that stuff. We can't use our local talent for that. We might need to. That's probably that's probably a place we could go. I bet I could probably reach out to um some of our current vendors and because we have, you know, people, our local talent, they're invested in us. Yeah, I like that. Yeah. So, what you're talking about is called omni marketing. That's the term for it where everything across all your advertising platforms are the same. So, it's an omni marketing. So, if you Google that, omni marketing is is kind of the concept that you're you're looking for. I'm glad we have a couple board members that have been involved in this. We got a few advertised because if we're going to push it, we're going to promote it. We want to do it right. We don't want to look sloppy because then it's just like, oh, you know, you ever send an email, oh my god, I can't believe this felt bad. You know, something like that. But what what I hear is we need to be consistent. We need to get some help figuring out what that consistency would look like. We're not just going to throw something out there and another one brought to you by Centerville Community Schools. But I I think the whole point of it for me, okay, was that we're in a fight. Yes. We're going to fight for bodies. Okay. Like it or not, we didn't used to have to be that way. Our borders were defined. We had every kid in there. And now we've got open enrollment and school vouchers and all kinds of things that are that we're competing with. And that is a whole new thing for us to think about. And I'll play devil's advocate on this one just because it was a conversation that happened at work this morning from a parent outside of our district. And the comment was, you know, if you guys get get in on this push and, you know, really focus in on this and right, wrong, or indifferent, um, can kind of turn us into that David and Goliath situation where we look like we're purposely trying to knock out the smaller, which is not the case. Not a good thing. U, but just perception is reality. So that's something we really need to be cognizant of as well, right? We need to be the benevolent. Yes. Okay. But that I mean I would have thought that you know a few weeks ago I'm sitting here you know on the hill with everybody we need to protect our kids our constituents and had a lot of conversations that have had to change some details on things in the past few weeks. So and just sure throwing that you're exactly right. We have to come across as the sort of I would call it the benevolent one. Uh we are different. We do offer many many opportunities that the other districts don't. And as from my perspective, this is just me, we need to promote those differences. Not that we're brought to you by Centerville Community School District, but that we give away $35,000 in scholarships. We do have trap shooting and golf and we do have all of those activities that your kid will fit into. And the people that make those decisions are not going to be those kids streaming Tik Tok and streaming their music. They might push the needle a little bit, but they're not going to make that decision. And like Kevin said, mom's going to make that decision. Well, those kids are going to be the one seeing that on the Tik Tok or started. They're they're going to bring it up. If mom knows that we have esports, is that going to mean anything to her? Whereas the students, it's like, "Oh my god, Centerville has esports." Well, you it's both. I think you got to you got to talk to both. Yeah. Like because esports, I think, is an underappreciated activity. Mhm. Uh and I know when we started now there's three of us around the world when we first talking about esports all of us are just like what is it? Why in the world will we spend money on gaming, right? But I think we've all come around to understand it. So I'm not sure that esports has truly understood. So so there's there's some things I think but you know what I mean? you know, something that, you know, a kid may, but but a kid might bring it up and say, exactly. So, so that's why you got to reach the kid and yeah, I think mom may or may not be assumed, but she probably will start the family discussion most likely, right? So, yeah. And it's Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. But I say, and I I don't always remember everything correctly, but Mark, I think if you go back and if you reached out to AJ, I think AJ put together a marketing guide for us many years ago. Okay, thank you. That that is good. Yes. And there's there's lots of things that we can promote. Okay. One of the first things I would promote is that trap shooting is a lifelong sport. Bowling is a lifelong sport. Football ended the last day you turned in your cleats. Okay? It's just a memory. Whereas we have golf and we have many many other sports and activities that are will become lifelong. Like you know we talk about benevolence but we can be benevolent but if we keep losing and losing students we can't be benevolent. We need our share of students here. So everyone that we can get that 7,800 helps us keep the teachers and the coaches and that. But we have to have that. I do want to be fair. Almost every district in the area include students this year. Um so I it it it's not necessarily like I said no problem. It's a southern Iowa. It's a rural Iowa. It's rural America. Um and Iowa is not gaining right gaining population. We are losing population. In terms of something that some next steps that I've talked with AJ about on our media network advertising, we want to start moving into the realm of some of the testimonials on our academic work. Admittedly, people get more excited about activities a lot of times. Um, but we have a lot of good stuff happening um academically and we want to talk about the fact that um if you go into seventh grade math um and um you know, you have that seventh grade math teacher who can focus on the standards for seventh grade math, then you go to a new person who can focus on the standards for eighth grade math, then you go to a new person who can focus on the standards for 9th grade math. Whereas in a lot of other smaller districts, you have a 712 math teacher who has to know all those standards and as as a result it is often times not always it can often be a little bit less deep on those standards. So this allows our teachers to be specialists and allows them to teach at a little higher level uh for college preparedness. So I think that's the kind of thing that we want to I don't want to denigrate any others like that. Really don't want it to become like political ads, right? Um, and I never want to have to say I'm Mark Taylor and I approve this message ever in my life do I want to do that. Well, and I know you know with the that push towards the deadline, you know, even even with the go's testimonies, you know, I had seen some comments, oh my god, is it election season or something? Because it was just I mean they were awesome, but yeah, they were they were they were out there and because otherwise you start seeing us so much then you just got to tune it out and hide that ad. Don't show me this again. Yeah, we I I think we're we're not ready to make a decision about anything. Okay. I think we need a lot. I mean, that's just my opinion that we need more information. We need a better idea about what our message should be. And I don't think this group knows all the advantages that has. I think we need to I think we need to ask all of our staff, what are the advantages of being here? I think we need someone to guide us. Someone that's been through this decision, you know, how to make this decision before and we need an expert, so to speak. Do you have anybody? Yeah, I can ask. Um, and a list of bullet points of we need this and this and this and this. I will say um you know this is kind of a weird thing and I've talked to other superintendents that are kind of going through some similar conversations in their districts and um you know we definitely in superintendent school and principal school didn't get anything on advertising. I'll be honest about that. This is a a wholly new thing um in public school um because it used to be mo in most areas you wouldn't advertise to try to steal somebody else's kids. Um, we had one district in this area who when I was a teacher here would put ads in our paper to try to steal kids away through open enrollment. But generally the idea was you're a good neighbor to your neighbors and you don't try to steal theirs. You they don't steal yours. And then the whole thing happened where you had private schools that were advertising pretty heavily in some of the bigger areas and that started to spread out to more rural areas. And this has really hit our state pretty hard. Um, and with the vouchers, the the private schools now get 11,000 something per student. Um, in two of the dascese in the state, they increased their tuition to be $4,000 above what the public schools get per student. So, they now have $4,000 extra dollars to advertise to steal more kids to have a larger increase. So, this is increasing in our state. I know IASB has done some wrestling with this. I don't know that they have an expert on this issue because I think it's so new to schools to be dealing with this, but I can reach out and find out who they've got and if they could workshop this with us. I don't I'm just I'm going to throw it out there. I guess I I think we're one of the things that, you know, we're talking about we want to get students in, right? I think we're forgetting we want to keep our students. Yes. That's that's one thing I think we're forgetting to say. And I think I'll throw it out there right now. We have a 100% better chance of doing that by going with Iowa Media Network than anyone else. 100%. They do give our students the opportunity to work sideways or camera, you know, but and I I think if we if we were to I think we can tweak what we want from our contract that we're paying for. I think right there's our answer. I think the I think the highlights were incredibly huge. Um the showcases, things like that. Um, you know, the more programs and whether whether it's, you know, sports, academics, extracurricular, whatever it is, the more we can showcase like that, the better we're going to be for our district in keeping our students. I agree. And they know what's going on. Yeah. They're part of it. I I would agree with that to a point. And I don't certainly don't want anyone to take this the wrong way, but Iowa Media Network is a relatively newcomer to this game. And I don't think they have the experience and maybe even the expertise that we should take advantage of. I I guess I'll I'll disagree on that one wholeheartedly. Um I think we have all the people that work there are alumni of our school system and so they have the expertise of being a central school student in our district. We have one or two of the guys that basically started this whole trend in the state of Iowa right here doing it. He's you know AJ you're getting a shout out. you started this whole process of what other districts around the state are trying to do and they can't do what the Iowa Media Network does 100%. Now you throw in the part about having one of our ex teachers there that was an art teacher. You throw that into the mix. I mean, to me, there's nothing but benefits from tweaking our contract and tweaking what we want with Iowa Media Network. There's nothing but benefits from that. And we won't get that sort of dedication, that sort of I guess down home. This is what we are from anywhere else. So let me um let me throw a little angle in this that to consider. Part of the advertising is not new versus old experience, inexperienced alumni and non-alumni. It's what what advertising platform you want to be on. And you want to be on the platform that connects with people because there's certain platforms that you're going to go out there and you're just not going to connect with people. So an example from years ago when we had the I region in there, I can tell you from going to trade shows where there were 4,000 appliance dealers across the country, nobody was doing uh newspaper ads. I was because it worked here. It was it was outside of the trend and people couldn't believe I would say how effective those ads were because that was not the trend. Some of those trends markets it was all digital. Some markets it was it was other things. So you you you've got to look at what what is your target audience going to respond to and that's something to really look at. And then you know as the trends have evolved over time it's you used to see on websites banner ads. Well, that just became background noise like classified ads. People didn't see it. You went you gloss over it. You know, when it was new, you looked at it. So, when people start to gloss over that, what's the next way to get your attention? Well, adding motion. And so, now they started, this was years ago, they started motion to get to try and get your eye to go over and look at that. Well, that's kind of everybody's gotten used to it. And so, what is it now? It's things like over the top. It's the pre-rolls because more and more and more people are streaming than they are having a cable or whatever. I bet you if you go around, everybody's got a sub subscription to a streaming service except for me. I have zero subscriptions, but just about everybody has that. I I watch YouTube, but I I got different things I watch there. So, I'm still in that over the top deal. And so I think that's what we really need to sit here and say is what is the goal of advertising? Who do we want to reach? And what are they watching? I I will tell you I had somebody come in to my store years ago and asked when I started selling appliances. They've lived in I'm sorry, Lisa, Molton for 14 years and didn't know there was an appliance store and they came to school all the time. I had somebody come in after we started doing furniture and says, "When when did you start selling furniture?" It' been like six years. And I was just like I said to myself, "About $300,000 of advertising a bill." And so it you can spend so much money, but there are some people you're just not going to reach. So the question is in spending your money, how are you going to reach the most people? And specifically targeted on those that you're looking for. So, we're we're in the day age of pre-roll and and that's where a lot of those ads are coming because anything, you know, who even goes to a to a a lot of websites on a on a other than on a on a phone or a laptop or something like that? A lot of people aren't doing that. This is where they're going to they're going to the Tik Tok. They're doing all that kind of stuff. So you really have to evolve your advertising program as the trends change. So that's the first question to ask. Where is that going to go? And my opinion is free roll. So the question then becomes who can do it? And if AJ and those guys can do it, great. Um I don't know how long a tunnel radio can do it. I don't. But I know that that is a a primary way that could get your message out to people right now. And um because some of that stuff is just kind of going past a I mean how many people are going through Facebook and you just go like this and not even look at it, you know, because it's so inundated with that, you know? So, so I I think there's some things to think about and the question is who do we want to reach? What are they paying attention to? And then who can provide that connection? You're absolutely right. We Joyce and I went on a cruise last week and I took the book by Chuck Underwood. We saw him two years ago. He was keynote speaker about generations. That book is about that big. I read it again. And there is so much in there that I don't think about, but I'm going to have to think about that. And we're going to have to find someone who understands his his research in order to reach the group we want and the method they use. I don't know who that is. I think sorry. What if we I guess put out a request for proposal, bring the companies in that want to say, "Hey, this is what I can offer. This is how I'm going to do it." We don't have to have necessarily the content yet, but this is what I capable of doing. I mean, an RFP. Yep. Yep. I think that's a good idea. Okay. I mean, basically, they have to sell themselves to us. Convince us they know what they're doing. Yep. I like that idea. Tim, you haven't said much. Take in a lot of this, but I just never would have dreamed that we'd be discussing like this four years ago. Look how much that's changed. Yeah. Um, and I do agree with that. We need to keep who is here. We want them to stay here. So, we do have to get the message out. But I think there is there's been some culture change in school in the last few years. Clearly, I've seen it. So maybe some of the root cause of why would somebody do it. I don't know. Maybe some of that needs to be investigated a little further. Some of it is apparent that we're somewhere and some of them aren't. So yeah, I think I think you're right. We'll probably see a lot less leaving because we've seen a lot of improvements happening and a lot of good things. But your story does need to be told. Yeah, you're right. So frankly, I think this is a lot like mutually assured construction. Um, so it's like everybody's got a new button, right? And right now everybody's pressing the new button. I wish if I had a dream and I could wave magic wand, it'd be that the legislature would ban for all public and non-public schools could not advertise. That would be my dream. Then nobody would have mutually assured destruction. We'd have nuclear non-prololiferation that be beautiful and we can go back to a realm of it is what it is. Um, but that's probably not going to happen. Probably not. I'm never going to be quoted as So, I guess looking back at what's the purpose of our advertising? What is the purpose of it? We never I guess I I brought that up in the last board meeting and I don't think we've necessarily nailed that down in this work session, right? I I personally think it has to be at least two or three things and it falls back to that old adage, you know, you have to tell your own story or somebody will tell it for you. And you know, bad news always travels a lot faster than the good news. And so I think, you know, we need to assure parents, our parents that we're doing a good job and some of our our taxpayers that we are spending their money wisely. I think I can sum it up pretty simple. We just we need to tell our story. We're not trying to sell anything. We're not trying to poach. We tell the story. You awesome. That's that's that's I like it. So I I tend to do things in threes, you know, groups of threes is always a good good methodology. Um we have better facilities, better academics, better activities, something like that. So the question is why come or why state? There you go. principles. There you go. Principals, they're not even paying attention. I should gave you a shout out. I heard it. We just even if you look at the activity board up there and you count all of those, I don't know how many are. I need to update a lot. Sorry. Then you said, you know, we have 42 opportunities for you to be involved or whatever. I think a number. Well, that's kind of what you've been saying. Numbers. We we we have to get some numbers out there to differentiate ourselves because almost 99% of the time people evaluate something based on a number. You know, it's bigger, it's better, it's when a person wants parent wants their child to go to the school, how do they figure that out? They talk to other parents. They talk to other kids. That's how If this was a business and it is a business, that's how they get the information a lot of times. So that's why you have to it's called word of mouth. Word of mouth best advertis a long time and that's where most you look at these activities and we telling our story and and more activities. Let's have those sponsors write a four or five paragraph article and it'll get shared on online and published in in the news weekly. It just goes back to telling our stories. Share the And you know another thing about this um you know how one of the things that smaller districts will do is they'll pull out their test scores. I can't remember how this is going to go but you'll know once I Yeah. And then they don't even have to report out stuff like do you do you? So one of the messages that gets out there is oh well you know we have this and this and this score. Well it's not you know it's apples and oranges because the subgroups too small. That's what you're talking about. Yeah. Can you tell? Yeah. So like we report on like our special ed subgroup. So if our special education students aren't proficient that shows up on our school report card. Well by definition in Iowa you have to have a discrepancy from your peers to have an IEP. So if you don't have a discrepancy, you'll be exited from your IEP, which Julie leads people in doing a wonderful job to make sure happens in our district. Um because we have enough special needs students in a grade, for example, um that it reach reaches a certain threshold with the state, we have to report on that and we can be dinged. And that's the only time the only places we really get dinged. We don't get dinged on our our pre-induced lunch uh rate students. It's just on our special needs students. and proficiency uh on the school report card. Um so actually we have great outcomes for low-inccome students in our district um when compared with the state averages. We actually do quite well in that area. Um so income has a smaller impact um while we don't have a a great deal of diversity has a very small impact in our district as well uh which is different than a lot of districts in the state. Um, but the one that stands out is special education. It's just because we hit the threshold of where you have to report it. So, every every school that has that number of IEPs in a grade level will be dinged for that. That's just kind of inevitable. we do hit the growth marker sometimes and that that can kind of help us in some grades like for example Lake View uh is off the off the naughty list because actually we saw extreme growth for our our students with IEPs on the testing period that was last used to make the school report card. Um but it doesn't account for severe and profound. So if you have a student who's severe and profound disabled um that student will still count um I hate to say against your scores for that which just feels like dirty to say that it you know I'm glad that we're educating that child and doing good things for that child. I mean we're the ones that are doing it. Yeah, bunch of schools aren't doing it. But if you don't have to report like a lot of surrounding districts because of their numbers, then it their test scores and it makes it look like, oh, they're here when we're here. When in fact, so if one of the three is the better academics, then you take and turn that into a positive statement. Well, and that's is this is what we're doing for kids that need help. Does your kid need help? We have all these services. Turn that into a benefit. Yes. Because I think, you know, just like you see with everything, the politicians are really good at this. You, if there's a statistic, you can find some way to make it tell the story you wanted to tell. And that's 76% of statistics are made up on the on the fly. I've heard that one. There is one more group that we haven't talked about, and that would be people that are thinking of moving to this area. And so part of our plan has to provide information to help those people who sign here. That might be a pretty small number, but you know, somebody moves in with four kids, we just hit the jackpot. So I think something with that um that's pretty real estate community and even packed. you know, I believe they're they're getting the years ago they used to have local money and somebody would move to town and have information on businesses and, you know, insurance, whatever it may be. So, you know, somebody's got to move here, you know, yeah, they may buy them right on the outlier, but, you know, we get ahead of them, get some of that information. Yeah. That way, that way we're we're targeting. We're not just throwing stuff out there for the wind to catch, but if somebody's already talking to somebody in the in the area, that real estate agent could be our best friend. That's right. That's that's a good point. Or if they're trying to get, you know, a new business to come and if we have this media guide or whatever we do, we have that available what we have. And so that could be part of that enticing with pack and and your local real estate community that that could be huge partnerships to capture those potentially coming into the area stand. I know some of us go to other meetings once in a while and you know there's a lot going on the supervisor meeting right now the honey thing and all that you know. You know, we got to realize, and I think we do realize, our economy, you know, we have farming, we have industry, and we have recreation. People come here for recreation. And so, we need um people that like that kind of recreation. Maybe their job, they can do it from home and things like that. We can get those people here. That helps. We have seen a lot of that in recent years. We have a lot 2022. Anything else? I would like to move to discussion of the athletic sharing agreement. I think we got some folks here ready for that. Very patient. I did make up a little one pager for you. It's this this two-sided thing. And I apologize. I was going to make it two separate pages uh so you could wouldn't have to figure out which one's the front. But the front is the page that shows our current year agreements. And so um I worked with uh Mr. Johnston and Mr. Johnston is going to kind of join in on some of this conversation with us just because he's got the perspective of actually running the program. So uh I think that helps us. Um but these are the current agreements that we have. Uh right now we currently share uh boys and girls swimming. Uh that is a 2024 through 2029 deal with Albia Marabia and Seymour that was approved this fall. Uh boys and girls golf 24 through 2029 with Molton and then approved for this year only with Seymour. uh boys and girls soccer uh 2024 uh through 2029 for Molton, Moravia, and Seymour, football with Molton 2024 through 2029, and a current year only for trap shooting uh approved this spring for Seymour after we found out we didn't have an agreement in place. Um so that that kind of gives you an idea of where we are. Um the good news is Jared and I believe that we've caught all the ones where we were sharing without an agreement in place. There was a big concern around that from a liability standpoint. Um not so sure that students traveling with us or involved in our activities had we not put a sharing agreement in place would have been covered by our insurance potentially um because they would have not been our student at that point. So having those agreements in place helps cover the district, helps cover the coaches, helps cover the students. So really glad that we've got all those caught up. Uh we don't believe anybody's hanging out in the woodworks that we don't know about anymore. Um you have a number of options that you can do with these agreements. Um and uh and any other agreements that we would look to have. Um you could maintain current contracts and not renew expiring contracts. Um you could maintain current contracts and and renew expiring contracts. Uh you could cancel current contracts and put in place new contracts with a paid component. Now, I will tell you at 11:59 last night, I received an email from the lawyer. So, the information on the back of pay per player, I I I'll tweak that a little bit when we get there because she is advising that we charge districts slightly differently uh because she feels that it's it's iffy in the code to charge per player. She recommends just charging a flat fee flat fee to a district to be involved. So, there's no question about that cost being pushed on that another district might push that cost on to the student. Um, she just says that opens us up for potential trouble. Not saying that I think anybody would. I'm I'm close with each of the superintendents in the area and I know they wouldn't do that. Um, but you just you never know if you get a bad actor in in the future how they might behave. So, she recommends keeping ourselves clean on that. Um, a couple notes for you to know. Um, current football classifications are based on continuing the sharing with Molton Udell. So, they've set those districts for a couple years at a time. You'll you'll notice that's why we don't know homecoming yet because we just got our districts and fingers crossed in the next couple weeks we have our full schedule and know when homecoming is. So we're what are we in that process right now? Can you explain that process? Yeah. So first of all for speaking to this chair agreement specifically um though the state has it included in the classification it had zero impact on our classification. So if we dropped Molden off we would have still been in the same class. Um, so it didn't affect our classification, but they're on there for the next two years if if they continue on with that agreement. Uh, in the classification process, uh, the state released the districts about two and a half, three weeks ago now. Um, last Friday was a deadline for everybody to submit their non-dist opponent preference list. And so hopefully in the next few weeks, they'll piece together and send out everyone's schedules for the next two years. Football's a little weird. I don't know if you remember a couple years back they decided to start accounting. They have a like a I don't know multiplier a div divisor that they use based on poverty in your district to try to account for that. It was something there was kind of a push. I think some the mo even had maybe started some of the push that sound off guy was pretty big on that and uh I think the old Iowa City football coach also was a big part of that. Yeahward. Um so that really took off and they they decided to to pursue that. Um, and I think it's been good for competition, but I will tell you it has been a bit of a challenge for travel. Um, there's certainly more travel for the districts over there. And every two years you wait forever to find out what your district is um to be able to set homecoming and and here we set homecoming early. That's a big deal. Yeah. Um cuz we got a lot of stuff to plan. I got a couple calls a week and I thought as soon as we know it'll be everywhere to help. I'm so on Facebook. It'll be on Go Pitch. It'll be everywhere. Trying to plan their classroom. Yeah, cuz you got to have place. That's the problem right now. But you know when you don't know, we're we're making progress, I think, though. Um so anyway, I took on the back side there. I just took a program for example. Swimming came up as a program that we've discussed in the past. So, um, the cost for the coach per year 2,17920 for boys and the same amount for girls. So, it's 4358.40 uh for the coaching costs for that. Transportation to events, you're paying gas, wear and tear on a vehicle. Entry fees, again, it varies based on how many events you get you go into. Equipment varies based on the year. Um, so I just kind of put in at this point I was thinking if we did $250 per student and you had eight eight boys and eight girls, you know, that would produce 2,000 that offset 4,000 of the costs. Um, but uh since she's recommending since Danielle said not to do it uh per she just said to negotiate an amount um and I printed off her letter, but she said to negotiate an amount um just for their share of a program if you do a shared program like that. So that is an option that you can do. Um you can charge a district to allow their students to participate. Um or not allow participation. All all three are kind of options. Not charging, charging, and uh not allowing. Uh some things for you to consider. Some sports need to charge more and some sports need to charge less. For example, football has more paid coaches and very expensive safety equipment that you'll notice like every other year or so we do a transfer from the general fund uh for helmet replacement or refurbishment. Um so that you probably need to charge a little bit more than say swimming which really there's not a lot of equipment with that or maybe even trap. It sounds like, you know, a lot of their ammo is purchased individually and some of their I think their guns are purchased individually. So, probably not as high of a cost on some of those things uh for equipment. Um you know, we need to probably look at entry fees and and look what that looks like and co coaching costs. Um another consideration is the number of kids from each school can vary year over year. Uh we talked a little bit about um one sport having one one kid from our district um but in the past it has predominantly been kids from our district. So um you know that can change year to year. Um we could do a policy to divide the cost equally uh to allow all schools to plan though so that then a school would know, hey, we're in it for $1,500 to be a part of that program. That's what it's going to cost us to be in that or you $2,000 whatever it is. Um, and then they can plan their budgets because just like we are right now trying to figure out how are we going to make it work with less kids next year, they're all doing the same thing. How are they going to make it work with less kids next year? Um, a consideration that is wise for us is that some sports are a struggle to fill competitively at a 2A size. Um, for example, um, sports that have less than four categories. So 1 A, 2 A, 3A, 4A, you've heard of that before. Soccer only has two. Am I right? Believe two. Okay. So, it's down at least one in soccer. So, we compete against a Tama is one of the schools we compete against and swimming. Uh we are the smallest school in the state and it's a one class sport. So, it's kind of hard to fill those competitively as a two-way district. Um, so if we want wearing that Centerville uniform to to mean something and to be competitive um and to have a chance at winning sometimes in those sports, we may need to do some sharing uh for the sake of of of our students as well. Um, and access to facilities in the area cause practice conflicts and some activities. And I put that down for swim and trap shooting is the two that I kind of thought would be the most likely to have challenges um in our community with that just because we have limited legal shooting locations. I think you you got to get out of town pretty far to there's not a lot of ranges I don't think. Um and uh swim there are not a lot of pools that you can do that kind of swimming in. So um those are factors that could impact our scheduling um either way. But really that's just kind of to give you the information and I to guide the conversation. I mean I'm comfortable going with what the board would like to do but Jared and I just want to make sure you had information and did you have some things that to add? Yeah, just kind of going on what War said, both of us are comfortable with proceeding however you guys best see fit. Um, just some kind of added context for you guys based on the sharing agreements that are in place this year. Uh, we had 12 students um, from other districts come in like Mark said, numbers wise, swimming every other year, it depends on the year. Um, but boys traditionally up until this year, most of our team about seven or eight boys a year were from Centerville, just a lower year. There's a decent sized eighth grade class coming in. So that'll go back up a little bit next year. Um, so 12 swimmers uh came in from Albian Morabia this year uh for swimming. Uh there's interest from Davis County. So can I go back? So there was 12 that came in to swimming and we had how many internally? Uh one and one. So we had so 10 girls came in, we had one, and then uh two boys came in, we had one. And then um obviously from a competitive standpoint that can't do a relay without four. So it's nice to have the sharing rooms to hopefully get you to at least um four so you can do individual races and some relays. Um Seymour didn't have any swimmers. I don't think they ever have this on my research. Um boys and girls involved. Uh there's no no girls um currently. I don't think there ever has been there. Uh I believe there's two boys. um from Seymour participating in uh golf uh soccer. Uh there's four boys uh I think two from Moravia, two from Molton playing this spring helping us kind of coming back from a year where we were unable to have a team. Now we're talking about can we add some baby games potentially because we're in the mid to high 20s numbers wise there. Um so that that's helpful there just in those extra bodies. Uh football, they had a couple kids on the team this last fall and as they mentioned, they had seven um Seymour kids for trap shooting. Uh ultimately, you know, there there's pros and cons to everything. Uh I don't think, in my opinion, I don't think we're taking away any opportunities from our kids, which would be my priority number one, is making sure that our Centerville kids have their opportunities and they take first priority. I don't believe based on our current sharing agreements, we're taking away any opportunities from our kids. So, I think um there's a pro there. Like I said, it helps I think with swimming as far as trying to get us so we have enough kids to do relays and some of those other things. Um and a lot of those kids swim together for years through the Y program all the way up. So, uh like I said, there's a huge middle school group right now in that Y program that's going to feed into that swim program the next few years. Um it it allows us to kind of have those points of pride like you guys were talking about during that advertising um with things that we offer that other people don't because you know we we're the only soccer program in a county. We're the only swim program really in southern Iowa. You have to go as far west as Indianola as far east as Burlington and Kak and all the way up to Grenell Williamsburg to find another swim program. um ATM was the closest one and that was about it. So u we that's kind of a point of pride for us where there's really nowhere else for those kids to swim. So if we didn't have a program none of those kids would be able to swim. So um I think like I said overall it's good. You know, there's a lot of pros there and and the biggest thing is it helps us kind of build those relationships with those kids because it it kind of eliminates the rivalry, eliminates the strangeress and lets them build those relationships with kids from other schools that they're going to interact with as adults and and just be positive and productive. Couple on shooting, how many CHS do we have? you guys are program from Seymour in um 40 40 some high 40s 40 plus high 40s between and then in soccer we I got that one in golf you said we have two two boys two boys and how many do we have in our own roughly yeah pull off the spreadsheet yeah I love my spreadsheets Um, one guess 10 plus. Yeah, that's that's all I that's close enough to make. He's got a spreadsheet for all that. So, it's context 14. Uh, golf plus two. I'll start conversation. Um, I have no problem with the sharing agreements. I think that I would like to see districts help fund it, the sharing districts help fund it. Um, my biggest thing is I do not agree, and I know there's some possible legal things there, but I do not agree that if you open and roll out of our district, you should not be able to participate in our curricul. Um, but I have no problem with sharing with the other districts. Um, I said I it unfortunately talking to Danielle, the only way to do that is to not share, right? Otherwise, it's a discriminatory practice. This this is more just personal. I don't agree with it. I just want to make sure that I'm if we've paid the lawyer money, I better share the information. Personally, personally, I think it's completely wrong if you open and roll out of our district and want to come back and use our activities. That's that's wrong to me. So, um, but as far as the sharing agreements, I'm completely good with them, but the district's not help. You know, I am on board with the first part of what you said. I think they should until I listen to the track shooting. Can you please review those businesses and more that are contributing to your club. Mr. Sure can. Um, this is just some this is just the ones that were kind of off the top of my head. Young Trucking, AP Rolloffs, Lock Ridge, Southern Iowa Gutters, and Duke Reynolds. Are they doing like finan financial? They sponsor um some $250 range per year for a spot on the back of a t-shirt that says that they sponsor us. So that you where does that money go? To our um parent organization. So our parent organization does our fundraising and that's why we don't have to ask you guys for funding except for the bus and the driver and the entry fees I believe. So no that is money that I I get. I you do not pay entry fees for our team. See I think that's fantastic. I mean, I would feel I would feel like it was wrong to say, "Okay, now you're doing all this to support our program monetarily already," you know, and so I don't feel like it's But we have Centerville businesses that support our programs, too, and we as a school still pay our share to make the We got the boosters. So, a couple questions. Is this because I want to understand crap and I've got some general comments on here. Is this like a sanctioned sport or is it It is not. Can I answer that? Yeah, please. It is not an Iowa High School Athletic Association sanction. We are sanctioned by other governing bodies. the Scholastic Clay Target program, which is a an a United Stateswide program, and the SSSF, which is the um Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation. Um, all of those, the the ATA, we have other governing bodies that govern that that allow us to be coaches. So, we have training with those governing bodies, not with the Iowa High School Athletic Association. Yeah. I'm I'm going I appreciate all that. I'm going somewhere else with it. So, from our perspective, like when esports started, you have to start three years of club before you can become a sport. That's what our Yeah, that's what we had had in place. Yes. So, from our standpoint, are they a sport or they've been around track shooting's been around for a long time. I started at 16. So, they're not a club status from a district standoint, right? Yeah. We would count them as a sport in our That's what I was going to because my question is if if they're a sport, why aren't we paying their entry fees like we do for everybody? Well, that's Yeah, we probably should. That's where I'm going with that. We should be paying the entry fees. So, if you're a sport, that's why I wanted to know because there's a there's a definition I wanted to get to on that. Kevin, I got a bunch of stuff to go. So, I guess sorry, but this to me this opened up another big door is Yeah, if it's our sport, we need to be paying the entry fees. That's what we need to be doing. But on the flip side of that, it was my understanding and and and not to take away from what you and your sponsors are doing, but all that money has to be going through the It doesn't come through. It has to go through the school. Yeah. If it's for our sport. Yes. Yeah. or a booster club. Sorry. It's the same thing as we have we did that but it it has to be associated with we said and so there since there's no key like we won't we won't have income for that program to right but I mean if it's associated with our school we have to approve the fundraising then we have to it has to go through our system yeah it has to but it has to go through us it's a legal requirement for auditing for school districts. Yeah. I I have a question. You know, Go ahead. So, it's a sport from our school. So, that you know, if if we have someone that does that sport, you know, if they do football or track or whatever, they have to have a they have to take have courses and take a get a license to do that. So, because this technically wouldn't be IHS, this would be High School Sports Association. I don't know that they would necessarily need a coaching endorsement. So, have to go get a culture endorsement. We have to go through rigorous training. Our our coaches go through rigorous training but not through the not through Iowa High School Athletics. That's fine. It's done through the theater. And then you have to have background checks and all that too for your assistant coaches to do background checks. They have all Yes. Every year they're being fingerprinted every year. So let me go back one. I I think so are we. If you're considered a sport by the district, we should be paying the entry fees. Yeah. So then the question is, is the funding that's being raised, is that a booster club money or is that a So it would probably be like the booster club. So that probably means we have certain things for the auditor that we need from them, don't we? We already have expenses that come through. We purch ammo to the school. I mean, treat it like it's a resale. It's a reason, right? But it comes through the district. It still comes. So, you're okay from an audit standpoint? Well, no, not with that organization because we don't have what we have for the boosters for audits. So, technically that's a that's an organization that shouldn't be raising for Centerville school district activities right now. So, we just need we don't have any of that information. So, so there's a there's a sort out to keep everybody legal, but I think we should be that's my thinking that we should be paying those things. Then the other question I have is Is a school district allowed to buy ammunition? No. Okay. Yes. Yeah, we do it through resale. Yeah. Yes. Okay. Cuz obviously with all the the cont um it's treated a lot in the financial world like reads valve oil and all that with musicians. So it's a consumable resource that you can do on resale and as a result I believe we get a little bit of a discount for volume. Right. Is that why they do it through us? Um, yeah. I mean, I'm offered a a discounted rate at the beginning of the year, no matter whether you write the check or I write the check. There's been years when I've write written the check myself. Okay. See, I'm in favor of supporting trap and I think, you know, with proper gun safety to be taught and all those things that you guys do with it, I'm 100% behind it. I just want to make sure we're not doing anything that's going to violate an audit or anything illegally and just so that we support you properly from from that standpoint and then we should be paying your your entry fee. Hopefully that makes sense. I'm trying to help her. Who is the president of that? Can you get us the information of the president of that organization so we can get the email it all to you? That'd be awesome. Then we can get it clean with the auditors. Sorry to open up another door, but it we have to we have to run that. That helps actually. That'll be good. It's a 503C. So, it's got like a board and everything. We've learned a lot in this whole process of keeping things legal. So, excellent. Yeah. Um, so in in general on on this thing, so I'm I I will go along with the group as far as sharing agreements. I have some pretty strong opinions kind of like you do a little bit of a twist of you know if we're investing all this money in infrastructure duh and we're trying to spend money in advertising to get kids to come here and one of the things for the activities then sharing agreements goes against that right but if the if the the board says hey we still want to have sharing agreements and I'm going to wholeheartedly support that but it does seem counterintuitive and counterproductive I should say to an advertising campaign. But in that when I say, okay, we're going to have football team anyways, we're going to have track shooting anyways. We're going to have at least this year soccer in some years we don't have it. We're going to have golf anyways. If we want to have a couple kids and I I can get behind that. I struggle with swimming. Two CHS students and 12 coming in. That's the one that I really and and I don't want to take anything away from the swimming program, but that's at a certain point I think we got to look at activities and are is it a viable activity. That being said, that's the sport that I put in the bit about um different years have different enrollment. Yeah. And and I think that's a a really valid thing to think about with that sport cuz I think there was kind of a there was a big number that went through a couple years back a bigger number that went through a couple years back and we're in a little bit of a lull right now with some middle school kids coming up. So it it would be before my advice would be to study it for a couple years rather than making any big decision because when you look at the total cost it's a really small total cost. Yeah. So but like in a classroom you know you have a like the kindergarten for example let's say this year we had a really small enrollment we wouldn't just keep all five sections we would down because you are right. So, one of one of my many kids best friend swam and and that family drove that swimmer to a tumbla to be part of their team. Mhm. That was a big effort on the part of that those parents to do that. So, I don't want to just say throw swimming away as an activity, right? But my question is if if we're paying 100% of the expenses for two Mhm. and we got 12 coming in, that doesn't seem right. And so that's that's one that we really need to figure out something that the district pay for. So I'm not saying get rid of swim. I'm just saying financially it doesn't make sense unless the district and we've talked about this in previous meetings. So that's that's a sharing agreement I think needs to have some pretty hefty uh financial reimbursement from the other districts. I was going to try really hard not to give an opinion and just ask questions and coach instead and I'm going to fail at that again. My advice would be that we look at keeping sharing agreements but what a cost to each and and consistently there is a cost for any sport to share so that it's the same across the board. There's no question about you don't want to share with this school because they want to share this program and that it not be some of the kind of traditional like there's probably not a reason to share basketball with somebody. Uh there's probably not a reason to share. Um or maybe track. I don't know. I don't know much about track. I know looking at me, you probably think I run all the time, but um well, talking about swimming specifically. So, like Mark said, it's an up and down thing. Um for boys swimming, uh we had the first year we had the program, eight out of the nine swimmers were from Centerville. Second year, nine out of 12, um five out of eight, seven out of 10, seven out of 11. This year's kind of anal amount little lower. Um like I said, there's a big middle school group coming in next year. I think they'll pop that number back up in our favor. Uh on that side of things and Jared has been working with the coach on some ways to kind of recruit some more more kids locally. We and we worked with the Y um we cleared up the question about whether a student has to be a member of the Y to go to our practices for swim and that is no longer that is not the case. They are not required to be a member to go to swim practices, just if they want to do the extra swim club and practices outside of our practice schedule. So that gives us a chance to maybe make sure that doors open for more kids in the district too. You talked about this family guarding their kids. Did they ever consider opening their child to a time because they had too far? Good question. I would make the comment that you you showed an example of how we would charge and what I would look at is we'd know what our costs were for past year, right? And I would I would base next year's sort of charges based on last year's costs, but you know what the transportation was, you knew how many trips they took, you knew what the entry fees were, and you knew what the equipment was. So, now would you have the same charge for every sport? Because it doesn't seem like that. Well, and yeah, like I put there, some sports you need to charge a little bit more for just because of the cost of the equipment, especially cuz helmets for football are ridiculously expensive. That's the big one. Don't want to go with that. No, we really like to wear those. They really do work. Uh, that work. Mark, do you want to talk a little bit about the one-year agreement with Seymour? Yeah. Trap. Yeah. And that was put in when we found out this spring that we didn't have an agreement and had kids shooting on the team. Um so, and that has been going on, I think, for quite a while, right? A number of years since since the year of the tornado. So, I'm I I'm super glad to report that. Thank goodness nobody must have gotten very injured in that time cuz that could have been a major liability for the school district. I'm really glad we caught it and we have it fixed now. Um but we put it in for one year for the board of bill have these conversations uh to not lock in long term. I will tell you I did talk to superintendent over there who had a plan uh for next year for the two one-year sports. Um and I didn't pry into what the plan was. I had a plan for what that could look like moving forward for them. Um, so I I while I assume if we extended an offer they they'd probably be interested. Scott's a great guy. I really like working with them. Um, uh, I think they also have some options available to them. As far as the track goes, information I didn't know before they all came in tonight. If we if we did not extend that, I mean, I don't think that's going to have a bigger detriment to our students than if we did. Absolutely. Because if we lose coaches, we are some of our kids, we have to back our numbers down because of the amount of coaches we have. Cuz most of your coaches are coming out of Seymour. No, just just a couple. Okay. But I mean, when we were talking about having to have five to six coaches Yeah. at a time, at cost and these guys are volunteers. Sorry. You're fine. That's why they were here because I know nothing about traps. So if we're going to do this trap deal, what we're and it sounds like we probably are. We just got to decide. We got to figure out the cost logistics logistics. And I think if if I had from the board permission to negotiate that with the superintendents, I think we could come to a reasonable I all the guys in the area or gals starting next year at Davis County, Bolton um are they're reasonable people. They've been in education a long time. We know we kind of work at at what our community needs us to do and we can negotiate something out and bring it back to the table as a an item to vote on at that point. Okay. And I do agree that it Do you So the question that I would need guidance wise coming out of this so that kind of solves one sport for us. Um do we do we want to make any changes to the other sports on this list? Um looking at the agreements that we have I did put in parenthesis none of our current agreements have any pay for a part. So we are giving those out of the goodness of our heart right now. Um, do we want to exercise our options within those sharing agreements to um to make a change to a different agreement? Do we want to stay with what we've got? What what would the board like us to do? Because Jared and I will work together to work with their teams to get this rolling. Um, so boys and girls swimming is currently through 20 29 with Albian Maribia and Seymour with no pay. Um, are we wanting to transition that to a a pay model? Yes, next year. And while we're on that, um, like I said, Dave kind of did reach out about swimming and I told him I was in a holding pattern until tonight. So, I don't know what your opinion is, on potentially extending that swimming offer to them as well. To be honest with you, to make sure that we can have enough kids to be competitive, I would sure love to make a Centerville jersey mean something or a speedo, I guess it is. I don't know. Swim cap. Swim cap. Well, and and for what that's is that what Jared is as I also had prepared from Molton to ask about swimming as well when we were in our agenda. I I think I mean you don't want to I did you doing a percentage percentage of coaching wages? Do we we could we could factor in our costs. So if you look at it's it's our jersey, you know, it's our program. And I will say like swimming wise like we have there's really not a huge equipment expense into that. Um you know entry fees are pretty standard. Transportation's hit or miss. We usually just drive suburbans or Amber will drive. You know usually take two two Suburbans to those. So it's once again transportation cost isn't huge. Do we pay the wine? No. It's part of the agreement where um they use our gyms for their stuff and then we use the pool for swimming. We're going to be working on that. Actually, I just want you to talked to Garrett, the new Y director that we've got. So, I'm on the white board and Julie's on there with me and um and and actually we had talked a lot Sarah Lyn and I had talked about, you know, we need to work away from these handshake knot agreements that are happening around places and get to some things on paper um so that we're all taken care of and and kosher. So, uh she's going to work with him and and us to help with that. We've got some good people on that board. Listen, it's been a long day. Oh, shoot. My evaluation is next month. I'm telling you now. Do we have any anything else to uh discuss? Um, should we be working on an extension of all as well? I think I'm prepared to extend them all, but I think they all need modified for so modify each financial and let Mark and the other districts work out the financial the financials they bring. I really appreciate that. There all of these that say like for example the swimming 2024 to 2029. I mean do they all need to have that kind of time frame on them? They don't have to. No. Okay. They don't have those were just because it was the template that provided. Um but they all have an exit agreement after that a either district can exit any given year or two. I just hate to see programs every year going through this. Oh, they're going to or that one, you know, well, in the favor of I was kind of hoping to maybe bring back um our agreements to line up two years for all these. So, just every 5 years would just be discuss. Um that's what I was hoping to do. But like you said, they're all built in where you could opt out right now for next year. They could opt out for next year. Yeah. And if something would happen that happens with agreements all the time. Sharing agreements for people happen that way too. Like a person goes somewhere else and you can't hear that person anymore. So that cancels it. Awesome. Thank you very much. Okay. I would uh I would like to thank you folks for coming in. Yeah, that was really good. I think we have a better understanding. I hope you also understand and the board I think of all the support and traffic. I appreciate see that as a very valuable. I appreciate you guys time and I please in the future come to me. I consider myself kind of an expert in this that's my team. So um if you have questions don't hesitate to ask me. We appreciate your passion for that and that's good for kids and that's why we're here. Yeah. I thought you were going to give it up. Your kid your role is graduating. Yeah. Here I am. There's a lot of passion. That's good. That's what needed. We certainly appreciate that. If you like get some license, too, if you like each of these teachers, all three of us to all hunting season behind it. And I'm glad the girls are involved in it, too. It's fantastic. So, you have the 11th. I'm very happy about that. We get parents and kids doing things together. Yeah. What's next? Uh, the last thing I want to say is we always like to see students. So, we'd like to see some of your folks preferably with unloaded guns. Our kids are very capable. Thank you. I didn't want to fill your room with 60 of them. Thank you. And I don't know what a DCA presentation is. Julie's going to tell you about it. Very good. Julie, you're up. All right. So, um it's actually decap. Uh I presented to you this um very similar presentation last year. It's an annual thing that we have to do. Our DECAP plan is due to the AEA on May 1st. Um it is the district career and academic plan is what DECAP stands for. Um it encompasses a lot of different moving pieces and parts and lots of people. Um and it's a team of people. We come together and we talk about all the things that and document on a plan. Um all the things that incorporate uh career and academics and how they fit together, where they fit together. It's about a 30page document of all these things that we do uh to prove that we're doing them. Um we include uh CTE teachers, we include GED teachers, we include the counselors, uh we include eighth grade staff, um Mrs. Squelfield, uh Mrs. Donald's are a part of that. Um just all these people so that we can make this plan happen. Um part of the DECAP plan is the IAP plan which is the individual career and academic plan. um very very similar to what you probably all know as the four-year plan for students who are leaving 8th grade going into 9th of how you're going to graduate Centerville High School and um how are we preparing you for what your uh life after post or after graduation looks like from Centerville High School whether that's college career um apprenticeships whatever that looks like for you internships things like that so these are the five components of an IAP plan um and every student we provide provide information about these five essentials throughout their career um through 8th grade through 12th grade which is a huge comp component of uh the DECAT plan as the district plan. This is for the individual students though. So in your packet you were provided this future ready district summary and last year you got the same thing. This is um a whole bunch of information provided to us from our school performance profile which um we can share with you more of. It's a live document that came out in October. Um, it has a lot of different information on it. Um, and so this slide that I have up, the top smaller section that has three of the circles, 55, 76, and 61, that is last year's information. Uh, the postsecondary readiness index that's on the bottom part of our screen is this current information that is also a part of this um piece. These are the ways that we are uh judged, graded, evaluated, whatever word you want to use um from the state. Um and they're important information. And you can see that we um have more students than the state because the little dot is the state average. We have more students um than the state earning college credit. Uh which is a a positive um especially on our uh student our school performance profile. Um but you can see that work-based learning is something that we are a little below um the state. The state average is 25% of students um have had work-based learning and there's a whole coding system of that which Jenny and I had to do this spring and we learned a lot. Um and we are currently working with Amanda Brink and um the AA agreement that you approved um tonight uh we plan to work with her even more next year and help her come in or have her come in to help our teachers um create some of these um opportunities and it takes a lot of paperwork. It takes a lot of planning um and a lot of uh going out and getting with businesses and things so that students have that work-based experience because it has to be community- based. um we can do a few things inhouse but it really is about um creating uh partnerships with our businesses. I want to make sure you do know this is old data because the state always provides us old data. So the top uh three are from the class of 22 and the bottom one is just from the class of 23. So it is 2-year-old data. Um but that is how they work. They're very retroactive in that. Um so we will get more data next fall and it will be from 24 um as we are almost to 26. So just know that we're making state. Yeah. Yeah. We're making good progress. Um and it's just important data to look at but it's also not necessarily current reality because we have already made changes from things that have happened in the last two years to improve some of these scores hopefully. Um and the state also keeps changing how we're graded or looked at. So that's helpful as well. So now the target is all about this work-based learning experience and coding those correctly in your Power School or Infinite Campus as we transition. Um and so making sure that we have that done correctly so that we get the credit that we deserve. Um is something that we've worked really hard on and will continue to do. If you have more questions about this future ready data, this is just like you can see over here um we have a great preschool percentage which I'm really proud of um of our kindergarteners. Most of them have had preschool. We very rarely have any that where have you been? Um there's a few usually handful, three, four, five every year, but that's a huge number. As you can see, we're way above the state average. So um that's something to be proud of in Centerville that we have students who participate preschool because we know early foundation sets the tone for their entire school um career. Uh conditions for learning is also on this paper. We will not give this this year because it is not part of the requirements. Um, and so that's data that we look at, but not necessarily data that we're going to focus on. So if you have more questions about this, I'd be happy to answer that. Um, it's just a kind of a summary and then the back tells you kind of where that summary came from. Um, and why it's there. Just so you know, the reason conditions for learning is something we won't be given is the state transition the conditions for learning off of the list of items that were just allowed to give and you now have to get expressed written consent from every student's parent to be able to keep it and all it asks is am I safe at school? Do teachers care about me? So, we're finding some other ways to get some information like that. So, the decap has goals. Um, every year we set the same uh similar goals. I shouldn't say same, but um because we've had a lot of transition um of of staff in the last few years, um we really want to make sure and this is a requirement, but just that we're hitting that that 100% of our eighth grade students um will come to high school with a completed IAP plan. And I think the biggest piece of this is we've been doing this for a very long time, but a 100% of them completed with it done well and with some opportunities of really thinking how can I fit what classes in not just oh I have to take these but what am I want to do in the future and how can I shape my four-year plan to fit that and it may change and that is perfectly awesome um and okay but really helping guide students. So, um, Mrs. Spurgeon, Robin Spurgeon, the high school counselor, is going to start that process April 10th with students, which is also earlier than it's ever been, and that's exciting. Um, with students, uh, at Howard um, and then she's having a they're having a parent meeting with students um, in May. Then they're having another check-in at the Howard building, and then they're also having what they're calling a move up day. So really the whole piece of all of DECAP is just being really um um what's the word I'm looking for? Just really intentional of making sure kids have a somebody that works with them and understands what's offered. But also if you're thinking you want a medical path, then these are some things you should look at. If you're thinking teaching, if you're thinking I just want to work after school, the here's some ways to look at that and see some opportunity. Um, our career fair goes with along with all of that. The next goal in our DECAP plan, this is last year's percentages. We wanted to increase 42 to 60% of all seniors. Um, that was our goal for this year. We currently are sitting at 34%. Uh, again, data is hard. Um, and so the data that we get is definitely a little slowed in that. So, we we are close um to the 34%. I think it's a little higher just because it takes some turnaround time after they submit the FAFSA. But we know that students are 84% more likely to en enroll in college if their FASA is completed. So that's why it's been put upon from the state and ourselves to really help families by having nights and different um venues and things that we have them fill out the FASA and have help for that because it is cumbersome and it's a lot and it's a lot of questions. Um colleges will help with that as well as they get closer to that, but um it's just really important that they have that done because they're more likely to go to college if that's the route that they take if it's completed. Um the third goal is just that students will have these reviewed. So uh this is an example of an IAT plan or the four-year plan. Um and that shows all the required courses that you have. Um it also shows what your career goal is. Um if you want to get that honors diploma or the standard diploma, um you don't maybe know that and that's okay. But parent verification is something that we've really worked on this year. Um having parents be able to see that and know that that's coming home. um to look at with their family members so that they can chat with them and discuss future plans and know where they are with getting their credits for the high school diploma. Um our fourth goal for the DECAP is that 100% of our students um know what they want to do postsecary. Again, that does not mean they have to go to college. That could mean I know I'm going to work at CNC because we have a lot of kids that do that. Um, and so we're going to have a decision day and that's another career fair to provide them with 85 vendors. I think 88 88 vendors at that career fair to allow them exposure to career plans. Um, I know some kids even have gotten jobs, summer jobs from some of those career um things. So, or hey, come work for me after you graduate high school. So, lots of opportunities for kids, but that's where this comes from. um some of that stem from if you have questions just about me too but um this last school is uh IDA which we've talked a little bit about I also wrote about in my board report I think last month uh had a meeting again about that today we meet monthly it's a it's because of our special education students were identified through the state as a level three so we intensify what we have to do with that but it's really to improve post-secary outcomes with IEP students so students with disabilities um we have a lot students that once they graduate high school, they don't do anything um after high school. So whether that becomes working at a local business, whether that becomes going to center community betterment or um first resources, hooking them up, which through this process we have really learned a lot about our community and have um started to partner with some of those um entities and have another visit with OPTIM um to learn more about that and connect our um special education teachers with that because parents trust their special education teacher. they have a relationship with them. So providing that information when it's so overwhelming um can be a really big benefit that we are hoping to see. Again, this data is from 2022. So we will be redd designated in the fall and uh working with the state department today. Um the division chief does not know what that looks like. So stay tuned and we'll figure that out. Um last year two of our biggest things that we wanted to do was provide training to uh career information system which is cuda navigator also known as K navigator. Um we did that in September and we have across the district 612 given at least um two to three assessments for each student. Um and so we met that action step or goal and um continued to improve the IAP plan. I cannot say enough great things about Robin Spurgeon and her team at the high school and how they have really um worked hard um with Jill Whistler to and the whole team in that um office to really make uh careers the focus at the high school and to continue to have kids plan because they need all the help they can get. Um and a lot of them are like we have no idea. And so providing a lot of opportunities and our gear up funds have helped with some college visits and some other things. So we're excited about that. So we've met a lot of that and are going to continue. So we are going to continue with these two things. This this is a different slide I promise. But instead of um getting the training now we're going to come up with systematic ways so that kids are taking different assessments in that K navigator 8th grade through 12th grade because they can repeat those but it would be silly to repeat the same career interest survey every time in every grade when you maybe know what you want. So then you can continue to find ways to do that. We also are purchasing an I can curriculum which will be used in uh 9th through 12th grade during some of their advisory lessons and maybe some freshman seminar and some different ways um which will help a lot with career path um ways. And then like I said earlier with Amanda Brink and the AA uh working through the workbased learning um with Elizabeth Weinberg and Missy Sysler who um helps do that with our special education students getting them out into the community, building those partnerships, internships, um job shadows, things like that. Uh there's just a lot that businesses want from us um to for the liability sake and then on our end as well. But there's tons of people in the state to help us with that. And so we're excited to keep that moving and going um to help our students have more opportunities um which we know a lot of our students stay in the area. So if we can connect them now um then hopefully their jobs will they'll come back or just start right after high school. Uh I did that really really quick um just because of the time that we're at and uh we continue to work on the decap plan. It's uh been a great evolving process and um I'm really excited to see where our district is headed with career education um and the opportunities that students really have um through Centerville Schools. Any questions, comments? I think it's great. Great program. Thank you, ma'am. Yes. Thank you. We are down to approve personnel business procedures. I would like one person the face of Taylor may something he could add. Mrs. Phil gave me some of statistics on uh Mrs. Do uh who has been definitely a mainstay in the district for uh a number 33 years to be precise actually. Uh she started in the district as a district's volunteer coordinator, worked as a curriculum secretary for 20 years was the face of Mystic School as a secretary. Uh was at Lincoln for 5 years. Um and then eight years up in the front office there at Lake View. So she is she's been around the district and cared for a lot of kids. very uh a very kid-focused secretary, the kind that we in fact we had some meetings uh with a kid who was having some behavioral needs and one of the interventions was he just really loves to check in with Miss Pat in the morning and and that made a real impact on him. So she's a real special lady and she's going to be very very nice. Yes. district like my boys were a little disheartened with me when I read that out of the packet to them this weekend. Yeah. Yeah, she's my kids went through she knows every p every parent you walk like oh how is he or how how do you keep this straight lot of practice everybody kindly everyone Yeah. There you go. The two of her girls in school. Yeah. Mystic. She's a special lady. Great lady. So, yes, sir. I was going to say move to approve personnel with special recognition of Pat with a lifetime activity pass. Okay. The same way you were thinking too. That's perfect. We probably need to look at a policy. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. And it may be a anybody that's done over 30 years in my district, I call it my district like Marty SC might deserve a little more than that. I would ask our administration maybe think about that. We have a motion and a second for all the personnel business procedures. All those in favor signify by saying I. Oppose. Same sign. And it carries. We are down to director reports. Mr. Taylor, who goes first? Uh, Aaron. Okay. Mine's nice and short and sweet. Um, main things we're working on right now is getting athletics facilities ready for spring sports. Um on top of that doing our uh spring um routine per maintenance on HVAC equipment um plus a couple of other things. But um at the high school the temporary gravel lot have been taken out and Clark's landscaping has been working on doing the first of two seings on the second half of the property. Uh I also am working on a um gathered a few more estimates for the summer projects. Um about almost have the uh bids in for the Lake View Bandrew project. Those are being finalized. Um yeah, pretty much it. As a board member, we asked certain questions. Of course, finances is one of them, but I got asked about what happened to that gravel that they took off there that Well, it was in the project um originally when when we signed with the high school construction project that will be torn out and what what Joiner did with it, I don't know. They had it allocated to other projects. Yeah. Okay. So, it's probably being used. Yes, it'll be reused. It's not going in for anything. No. But thank you. Any other questions for Mr. P? Who's next? Um, pretty much just in my report um had been real good responses with um the National School Breakfast Week Foods. Um so that was fun. Our numbers were up. Um as far as in the office, um got some state reporting type stuff coming out. Um, we've had some received some donations from uh local organizations to put towards um some of the negative balances. So, we'll be working on um looking at policy for that. Anything else? Oh, no. We'll be working on the infinite campus transition uh in the near future. So, that that's exciting. That's it's going to be a big project that's going to provide us some nice benefits. Any more questions or comments? Thank you, ma'am. Mr. Um March 12th we had our three-hour annual required bus driver in service. Mike got to be a part of that fun. That's what we're calling it. Every bus driver in the state of Iowa has to do it once a year. So we got that out of the way for another year. Um we did a bus driver training course with Indian Hills. Got Crystal license. She uh she's a rock star. She went on her route one day. I put her on a kind of an emergency situation the next day and she killed it. So, wow. She did an awesome job. Well, did a great job. Thank you. Thankful for that. Um it's good especially heading into the busiest time of the year. So, that's what we're getting ready for. That's about it. Any questions? Thank you, sir. Uh just getting ready for ISAS starts next week. So making schedules, putting in accommodations, making sure we got plenty of extra computers ready and going off what Kate said. We had that first meeting this morning with the campus and it's going to be a project we'll be working on for a while. So a lot of hours, a lot of data. All right. Any questions for Thank you, sir. Mr. on the performance, Jerry. Uh my report's pretty short and sweet because it's the lull between winter and spring. Um as Mike said, we're getting ready to kind of ramp up next week for the busy season. But uh so far this year, uh as I mentioned in my report, 62% of students at CHS have participated in at least one activity. Um and then in here, I had one student that leads everybody that participated in 13. She's actually out for tennis right now, so 14 um 14 activities. So, you know, just a rock star there. Um, big numbers for cheerleading with 34 trying out and making the team there. Uh, and and just some of the other stuff. Uh, we had really good turnout for our baseball, softball, and soccer clinics that we did on the no school days. Uh, we're going to do a basketball one next or in April on that Monday, PD day. Uh, as just another alternative for kids on that no school day to get in and do something with somebody. um been really fortunate with some of our non-teer coaches kind of stepping up and helping out with those and and doing a really great job. And then lastly, just invitations. So, um tomorrow is the and AJ texted me to tell me to remind you, right, but uh SEC academic banquetss tomorrow night. Um it will be broadcast on Go Pitch if you um are unable to make it over to Sheridan for that, but it will be on Go Pitch for you there. Uh this weekend we have our dual plays at CHS on display uh Friday uh or Thursday, Friday, Sunday. And then the big week is April 7th we have uh soccer home game. Um April 8th we have middle school track. April 10th we have high school track. So it'll be a busy week down at Paul Johnson Field. So thank you. Any questions? Thank you sir. Julie's kind of already given a curriculum report there with the decap. Anything you need to add to that? Nope, we're good. Infinite campus. Yeah, Brad. Um, all my numbers are in my report. Uh, I was really happy they were good. I even did some math on it to figure out how good they were, so I took it in green. But, you know, it's nice to see in February we had every grade level had an increase in attendance. And I think that's that speaks well for the spring. Um I was really happy to see those middle grades really start really improve. Um they were they were getting a little low. So I think the things we're doing are working pretty good. We got really good help in all the buildings. Um and like you talked about the secretaries, all three buildings, you they know these kids and they know the back stories and they know everybody. So um seems to be going pretty well. Thank you, sir. principal. Shall we go to principles then? Um I I told Terry, so Terry has a senior event tonight. So um let her excuse her from that. She did put a report in. I believe she was the first report turned in this time around. So you see give her a pat on the back. Um Brian, you want to you want to give our first in person,000? Sure. Sure. I'll I know we're been here a little while, so I'll go use you can look through all the many things on it. This now that I'm looking back at this board report, there's a lot of student council things. So, shout out to the student council at Lake Elementary because they're doing a lot of great things. So, um you can see here there's a couple things I put on here. Uh one thing the student council did in this past 30 to 40 days or so, uh was reach out to the kids and and get, hey, what what's one thing that we can improve? And you always get those crazy ideas, you know, but what's one thing we can improve school? And a big thing they got was we need more balls outside. And so they organized and used some funding and and pumped up all the balls. So you can see a picture there with the balls. And that's been a big hit. So um with the balls there, one thing I want to emphasize, if you look at our Facebook, we did the book blast this year. It was really successful. Um something that I want to try to bring here that we had some success at Burlington and there's been some other areas around the school. Uh, in the end there was 1,600 or so books that went to our kids. So, uh, and the nice thing about it is we had kids regardless of if they were able to get funding or not get funding from parents, friends, or whoever out there, every kid got a book. So, um, PK through fifth grade, every single kid got at least one book. On average, it averaged out to about five, six books per kid. So, it's just really good to see that excitement in the books for the big thing that kids are excited about. So, that was exciting. and it it brought some extra funds that we'll be uh purchasing more books. We purchased some for the uh the library. We were able to use some of those funds. Uh many of you know we had a family that's tied to Lake View that unfortunately lost everything and we've had many donations. So, thank you to to the whole community for bringing in those donations. But one thing I brought to the staff was, "Hey, we've got these funds. Can we buy books, too?" And and yeah, so we we just got them in today. Okay, I got to reach out to that family. But we got 10 bucks for each of those kids, too. So, that's something else that we can kind of provide to that family. So, that was good. Um, something else with student council is they did the kind. So, you can see that on there as well. They also did a food drive. So, they've been very active. So, there's been some great things with our student council there. Uh, and then the last thing on there, if you may have seen on Facebook and Officer Moore was part of this, so thank you. and Ty Stewart um our county attorney as well on the fourth grade got to go and do their at the courthouse this year and just really cool and awesome feedback from that too. So some great things going on at Lake View. There's more in there but some some great stuff that's going on. Any questions, comments? Thank you, sir. Yeah, Jenny. Okay. Um, there are so many things going on at the high school right now that I I can't even keep track. In fact, today we double booked on a intentionally on a Wednesday because we're literally out of Wednesdays for celebrations and to schedule like banquetss and awards type things. So, um, so we're we're double doing some things. So, u, we've got no choice at this point because it is it feels like a a race and we're not even I mean, you know, they say the big three. We've really only gotten through homecoming as the big one. We still have prom and graduation left, all in these last. So, it uh it's getting tight. It's getting really busy. Um, our ACT testing went really well. Sophomores went to Hills. And, you know, Julie touched a lot on the the career development pieces and the workbased learning side of things and just the the four-year plan. We still have a junior meeting coming up here uh right after Iowa assessments and then we've got our sophomore meeting um or I'm sorry, our sophomore meeting coming up. regarding our junior meeting and then our freshman meeting which both of those will really uh play heavily into scheduling and their their IAP plan for each student and some of that piece. So, we've got a lot of things scheduled to try to help kids get ready for next year and obviously years down the road. Um Jared mentioned our our celebration tomorrow for our top 5% that was started by Ray Miller the way I understand it, former principal here. So, um do take a moment to watch that. I think uh Mr. Taylor and Mr. Spurgeon and Jared and I are going to go recognize those kids in front of the rest of the conference tomorrow. I listed their names in our report. So really big congratulations to those kids. They know it's coming so it's not necessarily a secret and the parents are hopefully going to come and support them tomorrow as well. Um Iowa assessments that's in full download mode for us to try to get all of those pieces in place. And there's a lot there um including like new building, new spaces, where are we going to do all this and how that's going to feel and look. So, a lot of that going on. Career fair was also already mentioned. You have no idea how much work Joe Whistler and Molly Venro, Robin Spurgeon, and Robin H put into this this event. Um, and it was a huge success. I mean, I huge is an understatement. We did have more than I think 88 and if I say that wrong, Joel will correct me tomorrow. Um, but just so many people, businesses that came. U, she talked with me a little bit today. The feedback from kids has been amazing. so many kids so appreciative and and learned things that they didn't even know know existed, opportunities that they didn't even think were available in our part of the state. So really big ahas there for a lot of kids. The only feedback that was maybe negative from the businesses was it was too long of a day, which um I don't know how to fix that because we had so many kids that wished they had more time. So, um, we talked about maybe reorganizing to try to put like businesses together and maybe that would help kids maybe not do so much searching, but I don't know. I mean, it it was a really great event with a lot of really good things that happened and saw a lot of you all there. Um, and you know, just exactly how awesome it was. Kudos to Mrs. Wester Camp and our advanced food class. They prepared a wonderful pulled pork meal with macaroni cheese and scotcheroos and the whole thing. Uh, it was really good. They did a fantastic job. So, our students really appreciated that and I think our businesses appreciated it, too. Um, just the other pieces on here, I hate to say it, but they feel like they're less important right now. So, uh, we've we've still got a lot of professional development going for our, uh, special education teachers. We're still working all the EA stuff through, the SDI pieces through. Uh, our teachers have last PD day got together and we've really taken a look at students that they share. So, grade level teams and we've really talked about students that we're worried about that we need to provide some extra support to because we are midway through this last semester as of last week. And so, it's really important that we get kids that are struggling or failing uh that they understand what that means for them in the future. So, if they need help, we want to try to get them on the right track in every way possible. Uh and then our our meetings coming up just in terms of uh parent teacher conferences. We've also got the the sophomore and the freshman meetings coming up to help plan. We've got an academic banquet that we've scheduled that I don't know that we've done here before just to honor 9th through 11th grade students that have um done well academically this school year and in consecutive years. So, be looking for that. Um our senior awards night is scheduled for early in May. Um our move up day was mentioned for eighth graders coming up to test out the high school, see what that looks like. So, we've just got a whole lot of things jammed into the calendar right now. Yeah. Yeah. Any questions for me? Sorry. No questions, comments. Thank you. Okay, we are at the point where I know we approved the agenda, but it doesn't say superintendent report anywhere on there. I apologize for that. That's something I could I could serve as like a principal in that regard. Um, and my report would just be I I really appreciate um I mean you you get my reports every week so you kind of see the nuts and bolts of what's going on. And yes, Infinite Campus is going to be a major undertaking this spring, but um I think the most important thing uh coming out of this meeting. We knew looking at this meeting was just going to be a a big meeting. There's a lot of heavy subjects here. I just appreciate working with a group of people. Again, I'm not sucking up because my evaluation is next month, but like we really we went through a whole process. We talked about the sharing agreements and we talked about the advertising. I think we really found some ways to put things on the table and really kind of mess with it and find out what's going to work well for us. And I appreciate that conversation at these meetings and that we're able to to disagree and and agree about some things and uh come to a conclusion that's good for the kids. Okay. Question. We are at that point of meeting where it's four takeaways. Who would like to go first? Rock, paper, scissors. No, I'm not getting the chance. I got to hats off to the career fair. That was there on behalf of my employer. Um to those that said it was too long of a day. I I challenge you. I didn't think there was enough time. I mean so many good kids from freshman uh you know holding you know engaging conversations and even if it wasn't finance you know it's just having a conversation what are you interested in I don't know I think you know electrician well there's a guy over there I hate it over here you know go do the drunk bottles over here you know so fun it was it was a fun day have the flight simulator but yeah it was it was fun to be a part of Kevin, are you next? Sure. Okay. I enjoy the career fair, too. And uh I'm kind of glad that I talked to guys from the airport coming out because there's some kids that never thought about aviation as a career. And we walked a couple of them over to Indian Hills and like I'm interested in the flight program. So, I think it's huge and and I think it's a great thing. So, thanks for letting us be part of that. So, I would like to thank Lisa even though this is a long meeting. I think it's been five or six packets. It's been less than 100 pages less reading. Thank you very much. Keep up the good job. Um my main takeaway though is um I we're not used to public comments. We're not used to having a lot of people in here. And so that was a little bit different. When we did the tax thing last year, nobody showed up. And so all of a sudden this year they showed up. And so as as I was listening to them, there's a lot of frustration. People get frustrated over taxes and everything. And it was unfortunate that they didn't come to the preceding meets where we laid a lot of that stuff out where we spent time going through it in detail. But they weren't here for that. So just my the lesson learned from that is next time we do that maybe that should be part of the public hearing agenda is to do some education so that they see it because to sit there and verbalize and and throw all these terms out, they're not going to pick up on it. But if we can have a presentation ahead of that talks about some of that because they're not going to come to the preceding meetings and that way it would help to maybe better explain some of the things that we're doing just so that we can help the taxpayers understand a little bit better. So yeah. Yeah. So you're saying have the sort of open part of the meeting second to to do a presentation ahead. Do a presentation as part of the public hearing. Yeah. If if that's permissible permissible. Yeah. Just so that we we do some education before because I think there a lot of them are frustrated that what do you mean we can't talk? What do you mean you won't talk to us? We thought that's what it was for. Even though you read the statement the people just we don't have people that come to these enough to understand that's how it goes. So even though you read the statement it it didn't click because they're not used to coming. But I'm just talking about how does the budget work? How does the statement work? That center column I think is one of those things you talk to, but unless you put up there and say this is mandated by the state. We this is all we get in there. This is all we have. No district in the state likes that. We're trying to put out the best information with this crappy template. But I think to educate them so that when they do come to question or do come to comments that I do think we need to be careful on interaction. Yeah. Yeah. We were we were tiptoeing along the line. We were more tiptoe. Yeah. Yeah. More than I wanted. But anyway, so I'm just saying maybe do part of the the public hearing is to do some education to the public. It doesn't have to be in depth of what we did in the past, but just a little bit. That's good idea. That's it. Who's next? And to go from what I will um just to kind of go with what you said, Kevin, it is really hard to sit here and not reply because it kind of gives the message that you don't care what they're saying and you do, but that's the rule. And so, so that is really um hard. And the other thing is that I really, you know, we had a lot of really good conversations about some, you know, the sharing and advertising and we all I just love the way we all listen to each other and share ideas and sometimes don't agree but yet it's respectful and it's just very enjoyable conversation ready you ready for the camp uh what we do we did baseball softball soccer so far soccer so far did we advertise for that. Yeah. So, we sent it was on the district Facebook page. Uh some of the coaches put it in like their band groups to let people know. Uh and I emailed it to like middle school kids. That's about So, I know that somebody seen it on Facebook that's doesn't their child doesn't even go to the school that came and participated in it and they thought it was wonderful. So, so it's a I've heard good things. So, yeah. advertising work there. You can find that later. It cost him $7,800. It's good. All right. Yeah. Yeah. They're all free. Yeah. Yeah. We got two. Well, I'll talk about the advertising, too, because I thought the conversation, like you said, was really good to have and it's good that we have some people that have some expertise on that, but you know, I thought Kevin, you know, done a lot of that and some of them been involved to a certain extent with it. Never had to advertise that much, but it helped to have the expertise here to tell them some things. And what Mike said, it really bothers me when they open the road and then come back here for a sport. But I guess well maybe if they do come back for their activities, they'll realize that they miss us and want to come. There we are. Mr. Mo, mine is for Mark and the team. I think uh what you guys have come up with for next year looking at positions and different things like that. Excellent job from what I understand and what I know. So thank you for putting the work in and coming up with the ideas being creative on things. Uh, one of the things I thought about for a while is we have a meeting and some people come like they did tonight and I I really appreciated those people coming. Maybe I didn't really I was frustrated. Uh, but I've often wonder you know how they the president gives his speech and then they have all those commentators and interpret it for you. What if what if we had on the pitch, for example, Mr. Taylor go in the ne tomorrow morning and say, "Well, this is what they talked about and here's the background. Here's why they thought that way." Well, that would that make sense to have him explain what happened in the meeting. I think I'm not done with my Oh, taking away. Yeah. People don't understand the process and the state has made it that way just the same as you know they put the max this is what people you they see the max on there and that's automatically what you're getting taxed it I don't think people are going to understand it because all they look at is well this is the max that I'm going to be taxed right here this is what's happening and I'm not I would be too if I will tax that max, but they're not understanding whether it's school board, city, county, that's not true numbers. So, I don't think I get where you're coming from, but I mean, I don't think it's going to matter. Well, 30 days after the condition of the state report, which is the statutory requirement for the state legislature to set the budget that I'm glad that you brought up her point there. I had me in place here. So that was good. Yeah, nobody nobody notices that. My last comment has to do with and we do it every meeting approved personnel business procedures. And I thought about that and we have resignations, transfers, employment contracts, and volunteer agreements. And what we're really what that really represents is a human being's most valuable commodity, their time. And you know, we kind of we kind of blow right through it and I understand. But when I stop to think about it, those people have given us hours, years of their life. And I don't know that I have shown enough appreciation for that. And maybe I can figure out a way to do that. But is there any other comments before we adjourn motion to second? Second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. We are.