Board of Education Regular Meeting
Scheduled: July 13, 2026, 6:00 PM — District Office Board Room
The AGWSR Community School District Board of Education is scheduled to consider a range of personnel, facilities, policy, financial, student activity, and governance matters. The agenda also includes a public forum for visitor comments, a superintendent report, and routine consent-agenda business.
Key Items on the Agenda
Facilities Planning
The board is scheduled to consider a facilities recommendation along with an architect's preliminary plans and costs. The packet's agenda identifies the item for consideration but does not provide supporting documentation describing the recommended projects, specific preliminary designs, or associated cost estimates.
FFA Senior Trip to Missouri
The agenda calls for board approval of an FFA senior trip to Missouri. The packet does not include supporting documentation detailing the proposed itinerary, dates, participants, or trip budget, so those details cannot be established from the packet.
Student Activity Policy
The board is scheduled to consider an update to Policy 504.06: Student Activity Program. The policy addresses student participation in school activities, comparable athletic opportunities, approval of activity events, participation in nonschool-sponsored sports, and administrative requirements for student activities.
A proposed optional provision would allow an eighth-grade student, with parent or guardian permission, to participate in high school interscholastic athletics. Under the language presented, a participating eighth grader could not also compete on an eighth-grade team in the same sport during the same season and would be subject to applicable athletic physical-examination requirements. The policy notes that districts choosing this option should consider student safety, roster and facility capacity, coaching capacity, eligibility requirements, and equitable access.
2026–27 Student Handbooks
The board is scheduled to approve the 2026–27 student handbooks. Packet materials include a comprehensive student handbook covering district information and procedures as well as elementary, middle school, high school, activities, attendance, discipline, transportation, student records, nondiscrimination, anti-bullying and harassment, and other student policies and expectations.
Personnel and Consent Agenda
The consent agenda includes approval of June minutes, financial reports, personnel recommendations and a resignation, open-enrollment matters, and any items removed from consent for separate consideration.
Personnel recommendations presented in the packet include:
- Elementary School Principal: PJ Heinz is recommended to replace Ashley Sires, effective July 1, 2026. The recommendation lists a salary of $95,000, plus an amount equal to the health-insurance cost if insurance is declined because of coverage under another policy. The packet describes Heinz as a retired school administrator with prior principal and superintendent experience.
- Junior High Football: Tim McCloud is recommended for the junior high football position beginning August 24, 2026, at Schedule B, Step 35, 5%. The recommendation lists 34 years of experience.
- High School Volunteer Football: Jessie Peterson is recommended as a volunteer football coach, effective immediately. The recommendation describes prior football and strength-and-conditioning experience.
- Guidance Counselor Mentor: Molly Forgy is recommended to receive a $1,000 mentor stipend, effective August 1, to mentor new guidance counselor Tiffany Maitland.
- Transportation Director: Mark Culver is recommended as transportation director, effective immediately, at $15,000 annually ($1,250 monthly) plus the remainder of the family insurance contribution, listed in the packet as currently $354 per month.
- Transportation Assistant: Jen Stahl is recommended for a transportation assistant stipend of an additional $2.50 per hour, effective immediately. The packet says the position would provide continued assistance to the transportation director during at least the first year.
The consent agenda also lists the resignation of the elementary principal. The supporting resignation letter states that Ashley Sires accepted a position with the Iowa Department of Education and was resigning as elementary principal effective at the end of June.
Financial Items
Routine Financial Approval
The consent agenda includes approval of district financials. A packet report covering paid bills from May 13 through June 9, 2026 lists a grand total of $1,274,126.63 across district funds.
Among the larger amounts in that report are:
- General Fund: $721,778.75
- Debt Service: $445,062.50, associated with a 2013 bond principal and interest payment
- Student Activity Fund: $42,778.09
- PPEL: $20,041.82
- Child Care: $20,162.85
- School Nutrition: $12,597.04
- Self-Funded Insurance: $10,314.01
- Custodial Fund: $1,391.57
The packet's FY 2025–26 general-fund budget report lists a $10,788,093.16 expenditure budget and $9,699,369.68 in year-to-date expenditures, leaving a reported budget balance of $1,088,723.48. The corresponding revenue report lists a budget of $11,486,035.94 and year-to-date revenue of $11,158,108.46.
Banking and AEA Items
The new-business agenda includes GNB Credit Card Application Approval and a Central Rivers AEA funds transfer agreement. The packet agenda identifies both matters for board action but does not provide supporting documents specifying the proposed credit-card terms or the amount and detailed terms of the funds-transfer agreement.
Policy and Governance Items
Board Policies 100–104
The board is scheduled to review Board Policies 100–104. These policies fall within the district's governance and foundational policy series. The agenda identifies the policy range for review but does not specify a proposed board action beyond the review.
Annual Organizational Appointments
New business includes several governance and organizational appointments. The board is scheduled to:
- Appoint a Board Secretary/Treasurer.
- Appoint legal counsel.
- Appoint an official newspaper.
- Name official depositories.
The agenda does not identify proposed appointees, newspaper, counsel, or depositories.
Open Enrollment
Open enrollment appears in the consent agenda, and the packet contains an extensive district open-enrollment listing. A separate new-business item calls for consideration of a late-filed open enrollment application.
Because the agenda does not identify the student associated with the late-filed application or provide a clearly linked supporting document establishing the circumstances of that request, the packet does not support further detail about the individual application.
What to Watch at the Meeting
Several agenda items leave substantive decisions or details for the meeting itself:
- Whether the board accepts, modifies, or takes another action on the facilities recommendation and architect's preliminary plans and costs.
- Whether the FFA senior trip to Missouri is authorized.
- How the board handles the proposed Policy 504.06 language concerning eighth-grade participation in high school athletics.
- Whether the 2026–27 student handbooks are approved as presented.
- The board's selections for secretary/treasurer, legal counsel, official newspaper, and official depositories.
- The disposition of the late-filed open enrollment application.
- Action on the GNB credit card application and Central Rivers AEA funds transfer agreement.
These are scheduled agenda matters; the packet does not establish how the board ultimately acted on them.
