Meeting: School Board Meeting
Date: August 12, 2026
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: High School Media Center, 1201 E 14th Street, Atlantic, Iowa
Key Items on the Agenda
The Atlantic Community School District Board of Education is scheduled to consider a mix of personnel, instructional, athletics, policy, handbook, and contractual items. The agenda also includes building, student activities and athletics, superintendent, and board reports.
Board Secretary Swearing-In
The agenda includes the swearing-in of the Board Secretary, with references to policies 202.02 and 206.03.
Consent Agenda
Consent items include:
- Minutes from the July 8, 2026 meeting.
- Monthly and prepaid bills.
- Open enrollment applications.
- Special education tuition agreements.
- Personnel resignations and retirements.
- Recommendations to hire.
- Gifts, grants, and donations.
- Fundraising requests, including a cheerleading request.
The personnel recommendations cover several roles, including substitute bus drivers, a ticket manager, an assistant high school football coach, the AHS principal secretary, special education staff, a communications specialist/para, school nurse, mentors, volunteer coaches, club sponsors, and a guiding coalition leader.
Discussion Items
Assistant Cheer Coach Position
The board is scheduled to discuss adding an Assistant Cheer Coach position. A corresponding action item later on the agenda calls for approval of an additional Assistant Cheer Coach position on the district's Supplemental Schedule.
Building Trades House Realty Services
The discussion agenda includes Meyer & Gross Realty, with Melissa Ihnen identified in connection with real estate services for the Building Trades house. The agenda states that fees would be waived.
Agreements, Programs, and Services
The board is scheduled to consider several agreements and program-related items.
Athletic Sharing Agreements
The agenda recommends approval of athletic sharing agreements for the 2026–2027 school year:
- Boys Swimming with Griswold and Riverside, with Atlantic Community School District serving as the host school.
- Girls Swimming with AHSTW, Griswold, Riverside, and Stanton, with Atlantic Community School District serving as the host school.
Educational and Service Agreements
Other proposed actions include:
- Approval of a 1st Amendment to the contract for Transfer of State Funding with GHAEA.
- Approval of an agreement with CO.Lab, LLC for early childhood consultations and services.
- Approval of a one-year Imagine Edgenuity quote for online courses serving AHS and LINK students.
- Approval of an iXL program contract.
- Approval of Fee Amendment No. 1 with SVPA.
The agenda does not provide contract dollar amounts for these items in the extracted packet text.
Policy and Governance Items
A substantial policy package is scheduled for a first reading, which the board may waive.
The listed policies and regulations cover several areas of district operations, including:
- Student attendance and conduct: Policy 503.11 Disruptive Behavior; Policy 501.03 Compulsory Attendance; Policy 501.09 Chronic Absenteeism and Truancy; and Regulation 501.09R1.
- Governance and administration: Policy 211 Open Meetings; Policy 202.02 Oath of Office; Policy 203 Board of Directors Conflict of Interest; Policy 206.03 Secretary or Secretary-Treasurer; and Policy 206.04 Treasurer.
- School safety, academics, and student health: Policy 503.1 School Safety Assessment Team; Policy 505.05 Graduation Requirements; Policy 507.01 Student Health and Immunization Certificates; Policy 603.01 Basic Instructional Program; and Policy 603.05 Health Education.
- Employment: Policies addressing licensed employee benefits, tax-shelter programs, reduction in force, employee qualifications and recruitment, classified employee qualifications and recruitment, child abuse reporting, and abuse of students by district employees.
- Equal educational opportunity: Policy 102 and associated regulations, notices, rights information, and complaint forms.
- Financial management and procurement: Policies addressing transfers of funds, financial records, fiscal management, debt management, investments, purchasing and bidding, public-purpose expenditures, federal awards compliance, time-and-effort reporting, and presentation and publication of financial information.
- Records, technology, and data: Policy 708 on school district records and Policy 712 on Technology and Data Security.
The policy package also includes procedures related to open enrollment transfers, school nutrition civil-rights complaints, Section 504 rights, procurement using federal funds, and suspension and debarment of vendors and contractors.
Handbooks
The board is scheduled to consider approval of several district handbooks:
- ACSD Staff Handbook.
- Washington School Handbook.
- Schuler Handbook.
- AMS Handbook.
- AHS Handbook.
- Coach & Sponsor Handbook.
What to Watch at the Meeting
Several agenda items connect discussion topics directly with potential board action. The proposed Assistant Cheer Coach position appears first for discussion and later as an action item, while the Building Trades house realty arrangement is scheduled for discussion.
The policy package is also significant because it spans student attendance and behavior, open meetings, employee matters, nondiscrimination procedures, financial management, procurement, records, and technology and data security. The agenda identifies these policies for a first reading but notes that the board may waive that first reading.
Upcoming Dates
The packet lists two upcoming board dates:
- Board Work Session: August 26, 2026, at 6:00 p.m., High School Media Center.
- School Board Regular Meeting: September 9, 2026, at 6:00 p.m., High School Media Center.
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