Meeting: 08/28/2026 - 11:30 AM Special Board Meeting Board Meeting
Scheduled Time: 11:30 AM
Location: Central Office Board Room
The Maquoketa Community School District Board is scheduled for a special meeting focused primarily on an eighth-grade athletic participation policy and related handbook updates. The agenda also includes routine roll call, consent agenda action, approval of the agenda, and adjournment.
Key Items on the Agenda
Eighth-Grade Athletic Policy
The board is scheduled to consider the second reading of Policy 504.06: Student Activity Program, Eligibility Requirements, and Participation in Non-School Activities. Superintendent Notz and Activities Director Larson are identified in the packet as facilitating discussion and questions about the policy.
The superintendent recommends that the board complete the second reading, waive the third reading, and adopt the policy with optional language addressing eighth-grade participation in high school athletics.
The proposed language would:
- Allow an eighth-grade student, with permission from a parent or guardian, to participate in interscholastic athletic contests or competitions at the high school level.
- Prohibit an eighth-grade student who participates at the high school level from also participating on the eighth-grade team in the same sport during the same season.
- Require participating eighth-grade students to meet the annual athletic physical examination requirements applicable to student athletes.
- Direct the superintendent, working with the athletic director, to develop administrative regulations and procedures for implementing the policy.
The packet presents this language as a proposed policy change and recommendation for board action; it does not document an outcome from the August 28 meeting.
Athletic and Student Handbook Updates
The board is also scheduled to consider amendments to three district handbooks. The superintendent recommends approval of the amendments as presented.
The packet identifies the proposed updates as:
- Athletic Handbook: Addition of the district's process for eighth-grade athletics.
- Middle School Handbook: Adjustments to bell schedules, highlighted in the materials.
- High School Handbook: Adjustments to bell schedules; the packet notes that the highlighted box shows the previous schedule and page 6 contains the new schedule.
The packet does not provide additional detail about the specific bell-schedule times or the extent of those changes.
Consent Agenda
The meeting includes a consent agenda with a recommended action to approve the items as presented.
The agenda separately identifies Approval of Agenda, with the proposed action to approve the meeting agenda as presented. The packet text does not list additional substantive consent-agenda items.
What to Watch at the Meeting
The central policy question is whether the board will move Policy 504.06 forward with the proposed eighth-grade athletics language. The recommendation would allow the board to waive a third reading and adopt the policy at this special meeting.
The related Athletic Handbook update would add the district process for eighth-grade athletics, while the Middle School and High School handbook amendments address bell-schedule adjustments. These items are presented as recommendations for consideration rather than completed actions.
This packet summary is based on publicly available meeting materials from the Maquoketa Community School District, provided through Simbli.
Civic Translator summarized publicly available meeting materials.
