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District staff seek MOU with Chimes Holcomb; Community Progress Council to expand Head Start days at Wallace
Summary
School district staff presented a memorandum of understanding request with Chimes Holcomb to expand behavioral small-group services into secondary grades and said the Community Progress Council will increase Head Start days at Wallace from 129 to 180 days, requiring calendar alignment and occasional off-day meal provisions.
A staff member told the School District Board of Directors that the administration is asking the board to approve a memorandum of understanding with Chimes Holcomb to expand small-group behavioral interventions from elementary grades into secondary grades. "It is for kids groups ... they've been in the elementary for the last few years, and they want to do an expansion to the ... secondary level at some point in time," the staff member said.
The staff member said the proposed MOU would allow the district to place those programs in district schools as small intervention groups for students with behavioral needs. "These are small groups where students with behavior needs will have intervention programs and small groups working with them," the staff member said.
The same presenter described a separate contract change: the Community Progress Council, which provides the district’s Head Start program at Wallace, is increasing its days of operation from 129 to 180 days. "They are going from a hundred and 29 to a hundred and 80 days," the staff member said. The presenter said the district provides meals for Head Start students and that the increased days mean the Council will "have to add Fridays." The staff member said the district and the Community Progress Council are working to align calendars so the district can provide meals when the Council’s students are in the building and to clarify when the Council must provide meals through its own food service when district students are not present.
Board members asked whether services described as "LOU non public school services" were for students in district buildings or at nonpublic schools. The staff member clarified: "They're at the non public. So they're at, like, maybe your Catholic or the Christian School ... They're not in our buildings." That LOU language was presented as an existing arrangement for students placed in nonpublic settings.
No formal vote on the Chimes Holcomb MOU or the Community Progress Council calendar change was recorded in the transcript. The staff member indicated the MOU and contract renewals are being presented for board consideration; policy and contract items will return on the agenda for future action.
Why it matters: expanding small-group behavioral supports into secondary grades would change where students with identified needs receive interventions, and lengthening the Head Start calendar affects meal service logistics and district–provider coordination.
What’s next: The district will continue contract and calendar coordination with Community Progress Council; the Chimes Holcomb MOU was presented for board consideration and will return as an action item on a future agenda.
(Ending) Board members did not record a formal vote on the MOU during the excerpted discussion; the items were presented for consideration and will be returned to the board as required for formal approval.
