The Marshalltown Community School District Board is scheduled for a special meeting beginning at 4:00 p.m. The agenda includes a consent agenda covering personnel, contracts and interagency agreements, obsolete equipment, and donations, followed by consideration of a Franklin Parking Lot contract amendment and an initial review of multiple board policies.
Key Items on the Agenda
Contracts and Interagency Agreements
The consent agenda includes several agreements and renewals for the 2026–2027 school year:
- Imagine Learning StudySync: A $31,726 quote covers student licenses for grades 7–12, teacher editions, and one virtual professional learning session. The quoted contract period runs from August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2027.
- Computer Information Concepts: The district is scheduled to consider a $15,852 Annual Peopleware Agreement covering July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027. The agenda identifies PPEL/SAVE as the funding source.
- PowerSchool: A $34,124.60 12-month subscription covering July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027 is included for consideration. The quote includes Applicant Tracking Bundle, Records, Records Contracts, Smart Find Express, and absence-management integrations.
- MICA Head Start partnership: A proposed memorandum of understanding with Mid-Iowa Community Action, Inc. covers the 2026–2027 and 2027–2028 school years. It is intended to coordinate early-childhood curricula and services, school transitions, family outreach, staff collaboration, records and data sharing with parental consent, and services for children with instructional IEPs.
- Anderson Erickson Dairy: The consent agenda includes renewal of the district's milk contract for the 2026–2027 school year and summer program, identified in the supporting material as year three of four.
- Special education agreements: The agenda lists agreements involving one Level 1 student each from the Ames, BCLUW, and Clayton Ridge community school districts.
The board is being asked to approve these interagency agreements and contracts as part of the consent agenda.
Buildings and Grounds
Franklin Parking Lot Contract Amendment
Design Engineer Reese Hageman is scheduled to recommend approval of Amendment No. 1 to the engineering agreement for the MCSD Franklin Parking Lot 2026 project.
The amendment would expand the engineering scope to address cleaning and lining of an adjacent stream channel. Additional work includes topographic surveying, streambank stabilization and rock channel lining design, local floodplain development permitting, and construction administration.
The proposed additional compensation is:
- $7,000 for final design.
- $2,000 for construction administration.
The streambank work is planned as an add alternate in the project bid documents. If that alternate is not selected, the $2,000 construction-administration portion would be used only if the district later elects to pursue supplemental streambank work requiring additional professional services.
Policy and Governance
Initial Review of Board Policies
The board is scheduled for an initial review of a group of policies and related documents. The packet identifies two items as new and two existing policies as rescinded:
- 504.06 — Student Activity Program
- NEW 504.06-R(1) — Student Activity Program: Eighth Grade Participation in High School Athletics
- 603.03 — Special Education
- 603.04 — Multicultural/Gender Fair Education — RESCINDED
- 603.06 — Physical Education
- 603.10 — Global Education — RESCINDED
- 604.01 — Private Instruction
- 604.03 — Program for Gifted and Talented
- 604.05 — Religious-Based Exclusion from a School Program
- 605.04 — Technology and Instructional Materials
- NEW 605.04-E(1) — Technology and Instructional Materials: One-to-One Digital Device Program Technology Adoption Checklist
These materials are presented as an initial review, with draft policies, a draft regulation, and a draft exhibit included in the packet.
Other Consent Agenda Items
Personnel
The board is being asked to approve personnel items presented on the consent agenda. The supporting material includes hires, resignations, transfers, employment changes and corrections, and other staffing actions across athletics, food service, paraeducator, substitute, custodial, administrative-support, and teaching positions.
Obsolete Equipment
The technology department recommends authorization to sell obsolete equipment consisting of:
- 700 Acer C733 Chromebooks
- 47 monitors
- 8 projectors
Miller Middle School Principal K. Kell also proposes declaring several items of no value for purposes of selling, donating, or disposing of them: 30 student desks, six tables, nine file cabinets, three bookcases, and two metal cabinets.
Gifts and Donations
The consent agenda includes acceptance of two donations:
- $1,000 from Shoe Sensation in support of Marshalltown Community School District students.
- $5,000 from Burlington Stores and AdoptAClassroom for Hoglan Elementary School, connected to the opening of a new Burlington store.
The packet says Hoglan's selection considered its status as an elementary school with at least 40% of students eligible for free and reduced-price lunch and its location within five miles of the new store.
What to Watch at the Meeting
The most significant stand-alone action is the proposed Franklin Parking Lot engineering amendment, which would add up to $9,000 in professional services tied to streambank work. The consent agenda also brings together multiple 2026–2027 contracts, including $81,702.60 in specifically stated costs for Imagine Learning, Computer Information Concepts, and PowerSchool.
The policy review is another key item because it introduces a new regulation addressing eighth-grade participation in high school athletics, a new technology-adoption checklist for the district's one-to-one digital device program, and identifies the Multicultural/Gender Fair Education and Global Education policies as rescinded.
