(Atlantic)The Atlantic School Board passed the return to learn plan to change mitigation measures for those testing positive for COVID.
According to ESSER regulations, Atlantic School Superintendent Steve Barber says that anytime a school district changes the return-to-learn plan, the board must take action.
Barber reported last summer that they would treat COVID in students as a communicable childhood illness. The adults testing positive for COVID would be required to isolate for five days, with day zero being the first day of symptoms. Upon return, symptom-free, they would be encouraged to wear a mask for five more days. All illness policies remain effective.
This is a change from the district’s previous mitigation of quarantining ten days from when symptoms first appear.
In other business:
*Approved 1st Reading revised Board Policies from the 2021 Legislative Actions except for policy 804.5. Iowa School Nursing Association having narcan and bronchodilators. (Taken out because those two items have not been completed on the new updated legislative actions.
*Approved the Strategic plan Business Manager Sarah Sheeder created to flow better and captured ideas drawn from the board’s two previous conversations surrounding this year’s plan.
*Approved the updated affirmative action plan providing a comprehensive workforce analysis for the 2022-2023 school year.
*Approved the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the TRPA program at BVU. The cost to the district is $13,000.
*Approved the 2022-2023 committees: District leadership team includes: Steve Barber, Scot Aden, Stacey Hornung, Heather McKay, James Northwick, Michael Applegate, Mandi Bauer, Sarah Dorsey, Macie Harringa, DeLana Harris, Missy Goergen, Elizabeth Reid, and Rebecca Wallace. School Improvement Advisory Committee: Steve Barber, Stacey Hornung, James Northwick, Ed DenBeste, Sierra Johnson, Delmy Lam, Jesse McCann, Val Stickler, Nick Bennett, Charlotte Saluk, Jerricka Brousseau, Tammy DeBord, Emily Kennedy, Ann McCurdy, and Paul Wood.
In other business:
*Approved the following teacher lane advancements:
Michelle Fritz, BA+15 to BA+30 – $1,500
Cayleigh McBee, BA+15 to BA+30-$1,500
Molly O’Hara, MA to MA+15 – $1,900
Anna Pauley, BA to BA+15-$1,300
Amberly Schechinger, BA +15 to BA+30 – $1,500
Allison Widrowicz, MA to MA+15 – $1,900
The total cost to the district is $11,240.64. These lane advancements are effective within the 2021-2022 school year; teachers will only be allowed to advance one per lane per school year.
*Approved the Lynch Dallas Collective Bargaining contract. Dallas Lynch has been the district’s legal representative for many years. Last year the district did not negotiate a contract. The cost to the district is $12,000.
*Approved custodian appreciation day for October 2, 2022.
*Approved pay application for the high school parking lot project for $131,111.59.
*Approved change order #1 for the AC roof improvement project for $6.727.00, bringing the total to $221,298.00
The School Board approved the following contracts:
Dr. Jumar Sadsad, High School English Teacher
Lairssa Erickson, Special Education Paraeducator
Donna Green, CCEOC Paraeducator
Camryn Helvie, Washington Paraeducator
Misty Rhodes, School Bus Monitor
Ligia Cohrs, Car/Suburban Driver
Ligia Cohrs, School Bus Monitor
Julie Phippen, School Bus Monitor
Karyn Joyce, School Bus Monitor
Elizabeth Herrick, Spring Play Sponsor
Dan Vargason, AHS Fuel Sponsor
Tori Dolch, Assistant Tennis Coach
Trace Petersen, Assistant Tennis Coach
Dexter Dodson, Homecoming Float Sponsor
Taylor Williams, Homecoming Float Sponsor
Elizabeth Herrick, Homecoming Float Sponsor
Misty Rhodes, Dance Team Volunteer Coach
Gaylor Schelling, Volunteer Coach
The School Board also approved the resignation of Tracy Purkapile, Car Driver
