Unapproved CENTRAL SPRINGS SCHOOL BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING MINUTES – August 15, 2022
The Regular Board meeting for the Central Springs Community School Board was held in the High School Library in
Manly on August 15, 2022. The meeting was called to order at 5:30 p.m. by President Dave Luett. Other Board members
present were Jean Schilling, Joe Rowe, Lori Ginapp, and Ashley Kohler. Also present were Superintendent Lehmann,
Rob Hoffman, Ken Estes, Bill Carlson, Laura Cunningham, Christina Hoeft, Derek Straube, Taylor Brown, Jessica Lutz,
Heidi Howe, and Ethan Miller.
Motion was made by Kohler, seconded by Ginapp to approve the agenda as presented. Motion carried unanimously.
Public Comments were heard from Laura Cunningham who wanted to inform the Board there will be an event at the Lutz
farm on September 7th that will include a committee meeting and fundraiser for the CS Ag program, and the Davison
children are currently selling sweet corn and donating the profits to the Ag program.
Superintendent Lehmann asked the Board to move to agenda item 7k - FFA Membership Application. After discussion
motion was made by Rowe, seconded by Schilling, Ginapp, Kohler, and Luett to approve the Central Springs FFA
Membership Application as presented. Motion carried unanimously. A special thank you was expressed to Laura
Cunningham and her committee for helping to make this program possible. Several public attendees left the meeting.
Administrative reports were heard from Principal Carlson who shared that his staff have been evaluating data, especially
the lit scores, and the scores have shown good improvement, Principal Hoffman wanted to acknowledge the custodial staff
on how great the building looks, are still waiting on some tables and desks to arrive, new teachers started this past week
and are getting settled, Principal Estes pointed out the handbook changes, gave a brief summary of the professional
development plan, SEL, VocAg/FFA, Ethan Miller commented that this is his 12th year as athletic director, our summer
sports programs had successful seasons, he has been working with Kristin H on branding for the district, shot clocks are
being installed, outdoor wifi for HUDL streaming is up and running, and they have received interest in sharing girls
wrestling with neighboring districts. Superintendent Lehmann informed the Board that the IASB conference is scheduled
for Nov 16 & 17 and to let him know if he needs to reserve rooms for anyone, after the census we need to have our
boundaries checked to see if redistricting is needed and would like permission to hire Jodi Flory to do this work for us, the
board gave their approval, due to recent legislative changes he would like to change board policy to allow open
enrollments to be handled as they come in instead of bringing them all to the board, the beginning of the year has started
with staff and he thanked Lori for giving the opening statement, and thanked Jean and Joe for helping to serve the staff
meal, August 23rd will be the first day with students.
The Board moved to agenda item 7b – Student and Employee Handbooks. The student and staff handbooks were
reviewed. Motion was made by Schilling, seconded by Ginapp to approve the elementary, middle school and high school
handbooks, and the support staff handbook as presented. Motion carried unanimously.
The Board moved to agenda item 7j – 2022-2023 Professional Development Plans. Motion was made by Kohler,
seconded by Schilling to approve the plans as presented. Motion carried unanimously.
The Board moved to agenda item 7f – Fundraising Request. A fundraising request was received by the Middle School
Student Council to use Pampered Chef as a fundraiser this fall, and the high school would like to use old Central Springs
signage from the baseball scoreboard for a fundraiser for the activity account. Motion was made by Kohler, seconded by
Rowe to approve these fundraising requests. Motion carried unanimously.
The Board then moved to agenda item 7d – High School Girls Rugby Club. After discussion motion was made by Kohler,
seconded by Ginapp to approve the addition of girls rugby as a club sport to Central Springs CSD. Motion carried
unanimously.
The Board moved to agenda item 7e – Synergy Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine. Ethan reported on the situation
concerning providing sports physical therapy services for our athlete students. Motion was made by Kohler, seconded by
Ginapp to accept the proposal submitted by Synergy Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine for the 2022-23 school year.
Ayes – Schilling, Ginapp, Kohler, Luett. Rowe abstained. Motion carried. The principals left the meeting.
For the Consent Agenda motion was made by Kohler, seconded by Schilling to approve the minutes from the July 12th
board meeting, to approve the open enrolled in and the open enrolled out requests, to approve contracts for Myra Timpe,
NS Para, Barb Schmidt, NS Dishwasher, Oretta Waters, Manly Cook, to approve contract adjustments as presented, and to
approve the resignations of Donna Meacham, Manly Cook, and Denise Boerjan, NS Para. Motion carried unanimously.
There wasn’t any Old Business.
In New Business motion was made by Schilling, seconded by Rowe to approve the standard review of Board Policies 400,
401.1, 401.2, 401.3, 401.4, 401.5, 401.5R1, 401.6, updated policies 203, 402.2, 501.14, 501.15, 901, 501.3, and to
approve the first reading of policies 804.7 and 804.7R1. Motion carried unanimously.
Motion was made by Kohler, seconded by Ginapp to appoint the Level 1 and Alternate Level 1 investigators to be Bill
Carlson, Rob Hoffman, and Ken Estes, and to appoint Aaron Pals and Jesse Dugan as the Level 2 investigators. Motion
carried unanimously.
Motion was made by Kohler, seconded by Schilling to appoint Ahler’s & Cooney as our district’s legal counsel. Motion
carried unanimously.
Motion was made by Rowe, seconded by Schilling to appoint the Manly Signal Junction and the Nora Springs Rockford
Register as the Official Publications. Motion carried unanimously.
Motion was made by Schilling, seconded by Rowe to set a depository limit of $6,000,000 with First Security bank for the
2022-23 school year. Motion carried unanimously.
Financial statements were presented. Secretary Mellmann also wanted to thank the Board members who helped this first
day back with staff, a get-well card was sent to Sarah Kinne, the auditor is scheduled to come Sept 26-28th, and the new
fiscal year has begun. Motion was made by Kohler, seconded by Ginapp to approve the financial reports as presented.
Motion carried unanimously.
Board bills were presented in the amounts of: General - $287,160.20, Management - $280,818.00, SAVE - $320,504.94,
PPEL - $2,318.60, Activity - $13,524.80, and Nutrition - $1,310.40. Motion was made by Ginapp, seconded by Schilling
to approve the bills as presented. Motion carried unanimously.
Suggestions for the September meeting include scheduling a facilities tour of one or both campuses like they did last fall.
President Luett adjourned the meeting at 6:38 p.m.
Our next regular school board meeting is scheduled for September 19, 2022 at 5:30 p.m. in the Middle School library.
Respectfully Submitted,
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Dave Luett, Board President Gwen Mellmann, Board Secretary
