B.E.A. notes from 2-27-17 BCSD Board meeting

note- I don't know enough about the current middle school schedules to understand what impact, if any, the schedule changes discussed tonight will have on staff and students. I also had a hard time keeping up with the slides. Sorry.

Closed Session-Expulsion Recommendation

6:30 p.m.

The mission of the Burlington Community School District is:

Inspiring and challenging students through diverse opportunities

I. Call to Order – Welcome 7:00 p.m.- called to order at 720

II. Pledge of Allegiance

III. Adoption of Agenda- kendall moved hatt seconded

IV. Public Comments- no one spoke

The Board encourages citizens to attend its meetings. Citizens have this opportunity

to comment on issues and concerns (Policy 210.9 & 213)

V. Consent Agenda- slight revision to minutes- handed out to press- Bross moved to accept revised- Garwood 2nded

2. Minutes, Bills, Financial Reports, Human Resources Report, Travel and Gifts

VI. District Positive Accomplishments-Aldo Leopold After School Program- Mr. Yeoman, Mrs. Butler, and students-

Yeoman- students introduced themselves- Cree Gully director- talk about some of the things after school program has done this year. Took 19 kids to des moines 2 weeks ago- got introduced on house and senate floors to talk to lawmakers about program- got outstanding press in register- had students express importance of after school program-  Students went to city council meeting- Harvestville trip on a Sat morning. Part of North Hill reading program. They do a little bit of reading a little bit of crafts. Got to tour Great River medical center. More pics from Des Moines trip. Students took STEM kits with them to show the lawmakers what they do. Students got to go to the Science center in Des Moines. Before school made some food- starts at 615 and runs until 740. Hours- 334 hours this year. 54 kids, morning and afternoon. 3rd year with the grant. Had a parent night tonight- had 14 attend. Student 1 likes the homework makeup- Student 3 liked how club gives opportunity for students to do what they want to do. How many days do you attend from Robberts- Monday-Friday. Students have to have no missing work to attend dances. 55 kids with no missing work attended last dance. Garwood says students are a great advertisement for after school program.  Vickstrom- did you find out education can be fun. Bross excited about chess club. Garwood hopes the students are appreciative of teachers/club sponsors. Robberts thanks them for coming.

VII. Student Representative Report- student unable to attend.

VIII. Superintendent’s Report- Mrs. Dentlinger presented in Coen’s place. Congrats to Katherine Frevert for Speech and Debate. BILA for define me program- entertaining. Thanks to Sharon for filling in Coen’s spot.

IX. Items for Discussion

3. State of Condition of Grimes Elementary School Information Only- Joe Rector- thanks Liz Vanerstrom for putting together powerpoint. Rector is thankful for how nice the facility is. 407 kids. P-5th, 2-12. 34 staff, 17 support staff. 3rd grimes school that has been on the site. PBIS at Grimes- started in sept with a learning curve, Feb is looking good. Grimes is a banner school. Wall of Fame of students nominated for positive recognition- want to recognize positive behaviors. Recess times are spikes for behavior issues. Academic achievements- made growth on state report card- Grimes went from Needs improvement to acceptable. Teachers worked hard on instruction, Liz worked hard with teachers.  FAST reading scores- showed significant growth in most areas. Saw a dip in 1st grade, felt that test in fall changed to winter and caused dip. CBM scores- use scores to put together interventions for students. PCL model- Beth Whetstone started the ball rolling. Whole group instruction, anchor charts, learning logs, small group instruction, Independent/One on One instruction, and sharing. Giving students a chance to share learning with others. Cooperative learning. Older grades helping lower grades. Supporting independent learning times. Pictures of lead team meetings and shakeout meetings. Bross- how do you feel 1 to 1 is going at lower grades- Grimes has 2 tech coaches in the building- helped the building and reluctant teachers. Garwood has 2 grandchildren at Grimes. It’s a remarkable building, Hatteberg likes the building as well.  

4. Food Service Price Increase- we have to take a price increase- based on elementary and secondary paid lunches. Current rates 1.35 ele 1.55 sec breakfast, lunch 210 ele 220 for sec, adults 205 and 345. Hatteberg moves to approve, Garwood moves to 2nd. There isn’t really a choice. When we don’t use recommended tool they take away our funding, as Robberts stated.

5. 2017-18 Calendar- Ms. Mitchell- asking for discussion of calendar options- confusion about contracts for next year, will impact things like professional learning days. Samples of these are not on district fb page or district page. Calendars went to public, calendar committee, then back to the board. Don’t have more vetting from the community. Robberts- school calender causes a lot of contacts from public. We need to wait on teacher contracts to be able to decide.

Draft- in the box- parameters that all of the drafts- 176 day student calendar- trimester calendar- 8 days for professional learning. Had to have sept 1, same holidays as in the past. Flex days are in the calendar. Created most similar to this year’s calendar.

Draft 2- Aug 23- May 31- people didn’t want long spring break. Trimesters could end in middle of week and that’s ok. Seniors last day- don’t want graduation on Memorial Day- Make last day be May 23 and Memorial weekend be grad, or have June 5 be graduation. By ending on May 23 on draft 4, seniors would be missing 10 days on a trimester.

Garwood- are you asking that next month board meeting we would vote on calendars. We are still asking for information from the state. (I don’t know what information they are waiting on). Bross likes that finals isn’t as close to christmas. Kendell thinks staff likes Friday PDs. Many people want us to have those Fridays according to Mitchell.

No action taken on Calendar.

6. Cell Tower Contract- Proposed contract- have Kesterke and reps from US Cellular. Julie Scheebeck does site acquisition, Kevin Hanes from CR- Cell tower will be next to admin building (to the S of building between here and park). What are the dimensions of tower- 25 x 35 area, with fence around it, tower and equipment, tower will be 69’ tall. FAA dictates height. Was there attendance at community meeting- 4 attended from neighborhood- 2 were ok with it, 2 weren’t. Typical lease would be 30 year lease, board has no right to keep it from being sold to a different company. Lease doesn’t increase until after a 5 year period. Board hasn’t incurred very many costs with this yet, other than legal fees for reviewing contract. All other testing will be at US Cellular expense. 2000 option paid to board, then 1500 a month for the lease. For example, June 1st commencement of lease. Approximate distance from wall to tower would be what? Asked Kendell. They aren’t sure. 25 year lease- 5 years from now if Board wants to sell white house, could impact value of the property. Fence would be 20-25 feet from building. Robberts- with our current budget condition, a new admin building isn’t in the near future. Robberts sees this as a source of revenue that will help us fund an associate, or one less cut they’ll have to make. Robberts like financial support from any source. Could provide over 600,000 income to district. Kesterke wants it to look nice. Hatteberg- want it to look nice, but we really need the money. Goes to general fund. Garwood, financial straits. Hard to turn it down. Robberts- motion to accept lease- Garwood moved- Hatteberg 2nd. Kendell voted against, but said Aye.

7. Middle School Administrators on Opportunities for Students (Trimesters) Information Only- I couldn’t keep up with this- I don’t know what the schedule is like now. Mr. Johnson and Mr. Yeoman- want to give info about Trimesters at MS. Core classes, applied arts, Rotation. Core classes will remain mostly unchanged. Will remain year long. Applied arts- share ind tech and fcs teacher between two buildings. Dividing two people over 3- personel at both ms the same- 8th grade will have art health and ind tech, 7th will have fcs, art and ind tech. Snyder is going to do PLW for 7th grade,8th grade at aldo Sparrow has PE will help with the Health situation. FCS teacher and Sparrow can coordinate what they do. Sparrow and FCS teacher can trade off. Snyder- Thompson can parallel teach

Stone- 8th- Art Health- Ind Tech

7th- FCS, Ind Tech, Art

6th- Computers, Art, Computers

Aldos- 8th- Ind Tech, Health, Art

7th- Art, Ind Tech, FCS

Computers, Art, Computers in 6th

Music will be on a 3 day schedule

Ind Tech gains 30 days, Computers loses 60 days

Students don’t need as much with computers because they get it all day.

Academic Focus and Tech Lab will be changed to Life Skills. Will look at using teacher librarian to teach that class- smart use of the library staff

Having public library come to do book talks with students

Library science 80% of the year, 20% will be by guidance counselor

Examples- Leadership, Choices, Goal Setting, Financial Literacy

Best thing is that 2 buildings are working together says Garwood.

Bross- you see transient populations between buildings.

X. Board Communications- Bross had something, but can’t remember. Heard a lot of good things about trimesters. Hope that it continues on a smooth landing. Can’t wait to see that.

Vickstrom- Hope is eternal. Thinks things are working well right now. Change- people feel threatened- that’s life, folks. We all have to deal with it. Upward and onward.

Garwood- When trimesters was first introduced to me, hesitation because of lack of information- more and more excited about it.

Hatteberg- banners promoting kids outside buildings. March is music in our schools month.

Kendell- Banners are outstanding. Put alumni of buildings on those banners. Sad to see Krieger Coen’s resignation at HS. Had a chance to go to Corse PTO meeting- what a great group of people. Jealous of their energy. Good mix of admin and staff and parents. Have gone through struggles with leadership of PTO.  Got an interesting fundraising to buy coffee. Only 2 of them knew about the calendar survey. I wonder if PTO presidents should be invited to Board meetings to be recognized.

Robberts- great meeting tonight, Grimes and Middle Schools, great to have students here. Congrats to Katherine Frevert. Getting into spring. Opportunity to have students come to office for career day.

Will have a brief exec session after this.

Bross moved to adjourn, Kendell 2nded.

The members will have the opportunity to share items and events.

XI. Adjournment

XII. Exempt Session-Negotiations

Friday message from B.E.A. President

Good morning,

As we all know by now, the legislation passed.  We are working with ISEA to develop a plan for moving forward.  I will release information to you as soon as it is available. I wish I could say the assault on teachers is over, but there is talk of legislation to change IPERS.  Attend the forum Saturday, West Burlington City Hall, 9 AM, and let  Mr. Greene and Mr. Cohoon know how you feel about their votes and the possibility of changes to IPERS.   I know the power of doing this.  I attended the forum at Donnellson last weekend and Mr. Heaton (R)  was on the fence about the legislation but listened to his constituents and voted against it.  

Your president,

Liz Sanning

Statement from ISEA President Tammy Wawro

Statement by ISEA president Tammy Wawro on all night debate in House and Senate collective bargaining bills

DES MOINES, IA (02/16/2017) (readMedia)-- A huge thank you to the Iowa legislators who stood strong in the face of their Republican counterparts who would rather debate about working Iowans in the dark of night when our members are sleeping then have the courage to face us in the light of day.

I alternated galleries all night into this morning as legislators took emails from ISEA members past midnight pleading to be heard. I listened in horror as I learned the bill was fashioned by a "secret committee" of Republican legislators who did no research, took no input from working Iowans and acted punitively against unions they dislike.

As ISEA members were getting ready for work this morning, Republicans refused to support an amendment that would have recognized the bravery of our members who work to protect students, along with other public safety workers, as they put their lives at risk in classrooms, schools and on campuses every day. Sadly Republican legislators do not consider protection and dedication to students important work.

I do not know a teacher who would not lay down their life to protect a student.

I am proud to have witnessed the courage of so many Democratic legislators and even the one Independent, spoke on behalf of educators throughout the night. I am proud of the more than 34,000 ISEA members who will persist in the deep care and concern they have for their students, their profession and their union.

It is a sad day that Republicans do not understand or appreciate our work and the work of all 184,000 public sector employees in Iowa.

This fight is not over, we will continue to work for all students and educators. The ISEA has existed for more than 160 years and we will weather this terrible storm, we shall persist.

B.E.A. President's Meeting Minutes 2-15-17

The President’s meeting between the BEA and the Administrative team is revamping the purpose, norms and structure of our meetings.  We are working on cooperatively discussing issues and concerns from staff  and administration.  Included are the minutes from our first meeting.

 President’s Meeting Joint Agenda

February 15, 2017

4:15pm

Attendees:  Andy Isaacson, Tom Buckman, Liz Sanning, Pat Coen, Sharon Dentlinger, Matt McKee, Greg Reynolds, Jeremy Tabor

Time: 4:20

Purpose/Goal of Meeting

1. Keep the flow of information open between stakeholders in the district
2. Develop a positive relationship
3. Identify issues, brainstorm solutions for continued growth, and share information
4. Create joint communication for stakeholders

Create Ground Rules/Norms

1. If an item is tabled, it is not available for public consumption at the time it is tabled.
2. The team is open to gathering information (jointly if appropriate) to make informed decisions.
3. Not interrupting
4. Create a focus on our current reality and focus on moving forward with respect to the past
5. If an issue needs to follow chain of command, the process has been followed.

Creation of Agenda

1. Timelines for submission and completion of agenda is the Friday before the meeting
2. Meetings on the 4th Tuesday of the month
3. Submitted items will be prioritized before the meeting agenda is complete
4. Informational items will be discussed the last 7-10 minutes of the meeting (these do not need to be on the agenda)

B.E.A. Minutes from BCSD School Board Meeting 2-13-17

School Board Meeting Minutes 2/13/17

1. Call to Order- Welcome
2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Adoption of Agenda
4. Public Comments
1. Dave Zeller - Employee of district. Sharing concerning early retirement and pay.  Sharing information about all that they do, their certifications and wages.  Gave the board starting wages they would like to have to start with since they don’t have a union.  
2. Amy Drew - Teacher for 14 years - started teaching with the focus on students.  Went for the TLC position for literacy.  She worked hard to get the training for that position and works hard with teachers.  Mentioned how teachers have worked hard and we are people and she has worked hard for teachers.  She asked that the board think about the staff and teachers as the new legislation goes through.  We are people.  Please contact legislation to support teachers.  Ended on a quote along the lines - “A person who feels appreciated will put more time and effort than required.”  (I tried to get all her major points- she spoke well).
5. Consent Agenda
1. Minutes, Bills, Human Resources Report, Gifts
1. Kendell mentioned something with $300,000 +, Robberts mentioned that open enrollment affects that.
6. District Positive Accomplishments-
1. Aldo Leopold English/Language Arts
1. Amy Drew and Melody James came up to talk about good things happening.  Melody talked about doing the PLP training this unit over Charles Dickens, and she asked Amy to help. They worked together to make it a student focused unit.  Research/training showed that collaboration between students is a much needed practice.  Melody talked about some of the hands on activities to relate to child labor, counting beans and carrying buckets with weight, smashing rocks, carrying bricks, washing clothes in buckets.  Talked how it connected to other units.  Read Christmas Carol and the importance of mankind helping, and then kids chose a charity to support and then presented it to a board (principles and TLC coaches).  Showed images of all the work that the students did and the importance of seeking information, presentation/speaking skills.  Then three charities were chosen.  Then did a penny war to raise money.  Selling cookbooks at Fairway.  School wide garage sale.  Raised over $1600 for the three charities.  Board thanked and appreciated all the work.
7. Student Representative Report
1. Boys swim team made it to state, with a broken record in there.  Three boys made it to state wrestling.  Iowa Assessments were exhausting but done.  Future Problem solvers with Mr. Fleece.  Sam Schulte performance at the SE Iowa orchestra - read about more in the paper.  Regional Scholastic Art Reading and Writing had several winners.
8. Superintendent’s Report
1. He mentioned the following. Art work on Facebook page.  Google Doc - Cabinet meeting.  Completed audit of transportation.  Get your 12 program. Principle audits.  Greater Burlington meeting - Robberts and Coen were there with safety, tax rates and how that works.  Alumni representatives - discussion about a water feature and talked about cost.  Round table at BHS - information in the notes (Ed Stone round table cancelled).  Meeting with Pres. Hawkeye about 1.1% increase, Piece program - Nationwide.  Saturday breakfast at faith temple.  Swimmers and Wrestlers.
9. Items for Discussion or Action
1. Harmony Bible Church Lease Extension
1. Harmony bought Tom’s Market.  Extending time for them to rent.  Lease Expires Feb. 15, 2017.  Extension requested until May.  Rent of $450 per week.  Worked well between the two.
2. Early Retirement Applications
1. Tabor - 12 applications for the voluntary retirement - Agreed in the order of seniority - 9 applications can be accepted with limit, but asks board to accept all 12.  Robberts - Clarify with Mr. Reynolds - could you share the affect this would help us? Reynolds - Savings to the general fund for accepting 9 is $259,000.  When looking at the 12, the savings is $326,000.  Annual cost would be  $119,350 for 9 and 12 would be $146,250.  Something about the management levee.  Able to keep the management levee the same and get a savings in the end.  Board accepted all 12 retirees.
3. Audit
1. Mr. Reynolds - Audit Report - Board members had… bare with me (there are a lot of screens with numbers and I don’t know what they are)…  Mr. Reynolds - Footnotes and something else is good to look at when the board goes through this.  Recieved and unqualified opinion, no adjustments to the financial statements.  $59,767,436 combined revenues - Combined expenses was 56,526,223. (there are a lot of numbers). Economic factor - Highly dependent on student enrollment state aid at 1.11% combined with low allowable growth and more numbers. Revenues for 2016 were $50,544,414 (earlier # ?).  Expenditures $49,678,111 salaries with the highest.  Capital projects are increasing.  Proprietary fund - numbers are going up, but the numbers have be measured differently after 2014 - Ipers is apart of the factor.  Summary - BMO - automatic payment - update policies every 5 year - consult with legal counsel about something about business transaction associated with board members.  Report approved
4. Cell Tower Update Information Only
1. Approached by US Cellular about putting in a cell tower.  Getting close to bring a proposed contract about it. Potential recommendation of $1500 a month and looked at every 5 years with some kind of increase ($18,000 a year to general fund). Plan to hold a community wide meeting about this at the White House at 6 (I think).  Representatives from US Cellular there to answer questions. Proposal hopefully next meeting.  Placed in the corner of the white house.  Doesn’t seem to conflict with technology or location.  US Cellular will tear it down if it has to come down.  It will be smaller tower that some others
5. Board Policy 501.12 Second Reading
1. Mr. Tabor - Equity Audits said that there needed to be equal access is needed for pregnant students.  Policy approved.
6. Trimester Update Information Only
1. Mrs. Dentlinger and Mr. Keane - High school - all teachers made an effort to set up a meeting with the houndoom teachers and parents and then help students get the schedule imputed into Infinite Campus.  Already seemed to start positively.  Middle School and elementary - change to trimester leads to a change in grading - fast testing three times a year, fall winter and spring - there will be a change in report card time - Contact time with parents will be a little different - exciting to offer new opportunities that we have not offered.  We will be back to inform you more about these changes.  Mr. Keane - the Incoming 9th graders had a parent meeting at Ed Stone and there were some good questions - Mr. Keane got good vibes from the conversations that he had with parents.  The middle school counselors did a real nice job about getting this all set up.  Coen - Brian Johnson has a solid plan for next year with this.  The calendar is being set up to align for trimesters.  Mr. Keane - registration is happening to check numbers and finding problems early to fix changes before the final schedule happens - Question asked about transfer students and trimesters - Mr. Keane there is a way to help with that, BILA can help with that, trimesters can help because if a kids comes in and the student can be held in BILA until the next trimester and do online work.  Hattenberg - Some middle school parents didn’t like the shortened time period to get the new schedule turned in along with the four year plan did make some parents nervous.  Mr. Keane - the four year plan is a fluid plan, not a definite document for an 8th grades.  Hattenburg - special thanks to the counselors.  Will the elementary keep the same conferences schedules?  Sharon - Trying to find time for conferences to align with fast testing (something like that)  Hattenberg - What about specials in the middle school?  Sharon - trimesters will open some of those periods. Can add some focus trimesters - Bross - In 8th grade class, and Grimes, - trimesters didn’t seem to bother students.  He brought up kids graduating early how will that affect that (48 graduating credits) - Mr. Keane - Government should be taken senior year because of maturity of the student, some kids should be able to early (TAG). Said he will bring up proposed graduation changes to account for students graduating early (no numbers said) - Talked about a math class where students make graphs and have basic skills in spreadsheets and data analysis with statistics.  Shareon - we are offering more classes like internship, where students are leaving campus to get reworld experience.  Coen - Keane and Sharon has brought up increasing requirements, Coen said let's get it started before we raise the graduation bar (does this mean freshman will still be held to 48 and can graduate early? This could lead to more decline in enrollment- my question/thought - not in the minutes).  Sharon - We are excited and the teachers have embraced it, change is hard but they are working hard - Anna - how will the grades work in a transcript - Mr. Keane -  three chunks of grades.   Coen - talked about some teachers with advanced degrees wanting to teach college/credit courses at zero hour (sounded like any teacher in the district).  Kendall said there was a good effort for the parent contact night.  Sharon encourages anyone to contact them about any questions about next year.
7. Assessments Update Information Only
1. Smarter balance assessment - the state board was heading that direction, but got pushed back - costs about 5x the time amount of Iowa Assessment, so the state is saying hold back (cost of 2 full times positions) plus a science assessment.  Our assessment forever has been Iowa Assessment.  Smarter Balance head is in California, not Iowa.  Suggested to Iowa Assessment change the test - the test does not align to the Iowa Core.  Every Child Succeeds Act requires an assessment.  So the future is unclear, and Iowa testing is waiting on legislation before they act.  She anticipates Iowa Assessment will stay until funding is provided with smarter balance or iowa testing comes up with a new test.  Coen mentioned that Iowa Assessments supports thousands of jobs and if that goes away, jobs might be hurt.  
8. 21st Century Update Information Only
1. Cassie Gerst - Coen - She is a hard worker who gets stuff done, she has helped us out so much.  Cassie then proceeds - Wonderful site coordinators that work hard - had a site visit by the state and passed, Aldo, Ed Stone, and summer school, there will be decreased funding, but partners said they would cover the shortage - participation numbers goal for summer school 143 students, but had 223 students.  Seeing similar trend in the at North Hill.  Aldo goal is in the 80s but did not go that high, but 60 regular attenders.  Survey from kids found that the kids like to be there, majority says the staff does listen, they try new things, it makes the kids want to do better and they generally feel better after going to the programs.  Programs is looking at Iowa Assessment data to see how kids show progress towards proficiency, there was a one years grow, but stronger numbers will be put together.  Stronger growth the second year around.  Make sure staff is intentional about the program to make it educational as well.  Looking at absenteeism to see if there is data to show that the program helps to keep numbers down.  She is seeing declines in ODRs  in elementary, but not in the middle school.   Are we doing all that we can to meet the needs/wants of the students.  New partnership with the YMCA - regular attendees can attend friday night youth nights, and the grant helps pay for that, - the library and Stars Cave also have been good.  Lots of people are happy with the program
2. Jennifer Laymen - She ties into how the change in the numbers ties into the attendance of students to the programs.  The hard work of the staff helps tremendously to this program and the success the kids are showing.  There are a lot of community supports that is just incredible, and the effort they show into the program is great.  The family engagement is good - the parents are overwhelmingly positive to the program.  The numbers Cassie gave is just great.  The success of the programs is due to the best practices that the state of Iowa has set for the program.  Bross - can the other schools benefit from this? - Cassie - yes, but I am waiting from the grant application, I worked hard on it and it would expand to several other schools.
9. Supplemental State Aid Update Information Only
1. New Money Projections is now -174,000 to now something over -200,000.  We are losing money next year, we are getting more money from the state, but enrollment is going to lower our funds as well.  The new money is spending authority. Our revenues are declining...Greg talked about raising property tax (I think that is what he said).
10. Superintendent Contract
1. Superintendents are hard to replace.  We feel that we don’t want to have an opening so we want to keep him so he keeps.  We want to make sure the Hawkeye to know that he will not be getting a raise for the fourth year in a row (emphasized it several times).  Coen does not want to take a raise since the district is experiencing cuts.  Garwood - I am very pleased with your dedication and connection to the community.  We commend your family.  Kendall mentioned an error in the contract.  Kendall wanted to amend - mentioned that Coen’s insurance should not exceed that of certified staff that.  Brought to discussion to the table - Bross said we cannot see the future and Coen is not part of a collective bargaining.  Robberts and says up to 90% allows for less.  Bross didn’t agree with the amendment, we want to keep him and is says up to 90%.  Kendall wants it to be fair for certified staff. Hattenburg said we could look at it next year.  Coen said if the staff gets a reduction in insurance, he should too, but it does say up to 90 percent which allows for not to exceed.  Bross we can talk about it into the future, but now we need to keep it as is.  Motion to amend did not pass.  All voted to approve contract.
10. Board Communications
1. Robberts - We have a lot of good, awesome things going on , but right now is a hard time for education.  We don’t know what is going to happen in our state, and we want the best.  We ask that the staff be willing to work with us and need to work together for the hard decisions we will have to make.  We care for you and want what is best.
2. Bross - worked with Grimes and PTO - Talking about a test that students are taking that is hard for students.  Employees are our most important resource.  We understand that wage, benefits are important for our employees.  We want to keep doing what is working well no matter what happens of the state level.
3. Garwood - Good news about participation of our students, after school programs and community.  Bad news is our money situation.
4. Vickstrom - Our teachers are in a hard time, we are getting a double wammie.  I am sad to see the retiree staff go, I don’t think some of the people of the community don’t realize how awesome these people are.  
5. Brueck - echo, we are all in this together, we are doing our best to treat the staff as best as we can.
6. Hattenberg - Amen to what others said - contact our legislature. We something else was said.
7. Kendall - Matt Rowland for breaking a 15 year old record, Sam Schulte in music, wrestlers, after school programs (Cassie is awesome) are awesome.  
11. Adjournment

What You Can Do

Good morning BEA members,

Here are four things you can do locally:

1.  Email every Republican legislator -  Iowa Legislator Email Addresses.

2.  Continue to call our local legislators.

Geode Legislators

SD39 – Kevin Kinney, Oxford (Home: 319-631-4667)

SD41 – Mark Chelgren, Ottumwa (Cell: 641-777-7047)

SD42 – Rich Taylor, Mt. Pleasant (Cell: 319-931-1568)

SD44 – Thomas Greene, Burlington (Home: 319-754-5539)

HD77 – Amy Nielsen, North Liberty (Home: 319-853-0276)

HD78 – Jarad Klein, Keota (Home: 641-636-2082)

HD82 – Curt Hanson (Cell: 641-919-2314)

HD83 – Jerry Kearns, Keokuk (Home: 319-524-1570)

HD84 – Dave Heaton, Mt. Pleasant (Home: 319-385-9342)

HD87 – Dennis Cohoon (Home: 319-759-2168)

HD88 – David Kerr (Home: 319-868-4159)

3.  Attend the event at Central Lee today:

     LISTENING POST

     Attack on Iowa Workers  
2 PM on Saturday, Feb. 11Central Lee High School Cafeteria
Donnellson, Iowa

4.  Attend the school board meeting Monday February 13 at 7:00 P.M. 

    Speak during the open comments portion.  Express your concerns.

   The board is voting on the superintendent's three year contract which gives him  a set $185,000/year salary, 90% paid family plan insurance, and a severance package.

   

Your president,

Liz Sanning