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10/26/2009
KLEM NEWS UPDATE-AM
(LE MARS)--A PROCESS TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF SECTIONS AT LE MARS COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY GRADE LEVELS IS GIVEN TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION TONIGHT.
SUPERINTENDENT DOCTOR TODD WENDT'S PROPOSAL FOR A TIME LINE AND PROCESS TO MAKE THE REDUCTIONS IS A DRAFT PROPOSAL. IF THE DRAFT IS ADOPTED, PUBLIC MEETINGS WOULD BE HELD AT THE BOARD LEVEL IN FEBRUARY FOR BOARD ACTION IN MARCH.
THE PROCESS INCLUDES HAVING THE DISTRICT'S ADVISORY TEAM PROVIDE INFORMATION, MEETINGS WITH ADMINISTRATORS AND STAFF AND PUBLIC INFORMATION AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
AT THE BOARD'S MEETING TONIGHT, A REVIEW OF THE DISTRICT'S AUDIT FOR THE PAST SCHOOL YEAR WILL BE GIVEN.
THE BOARD WILL ALSO RECEIVE INFORMATION FROM THEIR LEGAL COUNSEL ON THE LEASE, SALE OR DISPOSAL OF SCHOOL DISTRICT BUILDINGS AND SITES FOR BOARD CONSIDERATION.
THE BOARD HAS BEEN ASKED TO CLOSE ITS MEETING TO REVIEW RECORDS WHICH ARE CONFIDENTIAL. THE CLOSED SESSION WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A PUBLIC VOTE ON THE CHALLENGE TO AN ADMINISTRATIVE DECISION INVOLVING A STUDENT.
THE PUBLIC MEETING IS AT 7:30 TONIGHT AT THE EDUCATION SERVICE CENTER.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING
Le Mars Community Schools Board of Education
Addition to the Agenda
October 26, 2009
IX. Closed Session
As requested by the family, the Board of Education will enter into a closed session under Iowa Code 21.5(1)a to review and discuss records which are required or authorized by state or federal law to be kept confidential. The Board will return to open session following the closed session to render a decision regarding a challenge to an administrative decision.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING
You are hereby notified that the Board of Education of the LeMars Community School District will meet on October 26, 2009, 7:30 p.m. in the Education Service Center, 940 Lincoln St. SW, LeMars, Iowa. Agenda is as follows:
1. Call to Order
2. Approval of Minutes (October 12, 2009 – Regular Meeting)
3. Consent Grouping (Claims and Accounts)
4. Reports and Information (Unscheduled Audience; Audit Report; IASB Orientation to Governance; IASB State School Board Convention; Elementary Section Reduction Decision Making Process and Timeline)
5. Action Items (Resignations; Contracts; Open Enrollments; DLIIT Team Membership; Board of Education/Administrative Retreat; Board Policy 903.3)
6. Other Business
7. Unfinished Business
8. Adjournment
NEXT REGULAR MEETING NOVEMBER 9, 2009, 7:30 PM
LeMars Community School District
940 Lincoln St. SW
LeMars, Iowa 51031
(712) 546-4155
BY: Lisa Boehm, Secretary, Board of Education
(LE MARS)--FAMILY FUN TRICK-OR-TREATING IS PLANNED AT THE ICE CREAM CAPITAL OF THE WORLD VISITOR CENTER/MUSEUM.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE INVITED TO THE VISITOR CENTER AND MUSEUM FROM SIX TO EIGHT TONIGHT AND ON FRIDAY FROM FOUR-TO-SIX IN THE AFTERNOON. "IN THE MOOOOD FOR FUN," IS THE THEME OF THE HALLOWEEN EVENTS WHICH INCLUDE BRIEF MUSEUM TOURS.
EACH CHILD DRESSED IN COSTUME WILL RECEIVE A FREE CAKE CONE OF BLUE BUNNY ICE CREAM IN THE ICE CREAM PARLOR FOLLOWING THE TOUR.
ADMISSION IS A NON-PERISHABLE FOOD ITEM PER PERSON, WITH ALL PROCEEDS BENEFITING THE CHRISTIAN NEEDS CENTER IN LE MARS. CASH DONATIONS WILL ALSO BE DONATED TO THE CENTER.
(ORANGE CITY)--AN INWOOD MAN WAS INJURED IN A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT IN BOYDEN FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
ACCORDING TO THE SIOUX COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE REPORT, 31-YEAR-OLD AARON CLEVERINGA OF SPENCER, SOUTH DAKOTA WAS DRIVING EAST ON HIGHWAY 18.
CLEVERINGA WAS ATTEMPING TO MAKE A LEFT TURN ONTO A BOYDEN STREET AND AUTHORITIES REPORT HE WAS IN THE PATH OF A PICKUP DRIVEN BY 59-YEAR-OLD HOWARD VANMUYDEN OF INWOOD.
VANMUYDEN WAS TAKEN TO SANFORD SHELDON MEDICAL CENTER IN SHELDON BY BOYDEN AMBULANCE.
(SIOUX CITY)--SIOUX CITY POLICE REPORT SPEED AND ALCOHOL APPEAR TO BE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO AN ACCIDENT THAT INJURED AN ORANGE CITY WOMAN SATURDAY NIGHT.
POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING THE ACCIDENT ON SIOUX CITY'S NORTH SIDE IN THE 2900 BLOCK OF CHEYENNE BOULEVARD.
A CAR DRIVEN BY 21-YEAR-OLD ALYSSA CASE STRUCK A MIDAMERICAN ENERGY UTILITY POLE AT THE INTERSECTION OF 29TH STREET AND CHEYENNE. POLICE REPORT DAMAGE TO THE POLE CAUSED A BRIEF POWER OUTAGE.
CASE WAS TAKEN TO MERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOR NON-LIFE THREATENING INJURIES. A PASSENGER WHO POLICE DID NOT IDENTIFY IN A PRESS RELEASE, WAS UNINJURED.
(ROCK RAPIDS)--A SIOUX CITY MAN IS CHARGED WITH THEFT AT A DOON BUSINESS.
THE LYON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE INVESTIGATED THE THEFT REPORTED BY LEMS AUTO IN DOON LATE SUNDAY MORNING.
THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE ARRESTED 44-YEAR-OLD JOSE ISMAEL CARDENAS OF SIOUX CITY ON A CHARGE OF THEFT IN THEFT IN THE THIRD DEGREE
CARDENAS IS FREE ON BOND.
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