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Iowa Falls board signs curriculum purchases, multiple vendor agreements and approves routine personnel and open-enrollment requests
Summary
The board approved purchases for new 9–12 ELA and math curricula, multiple service agreements (including a PowerSchool contract and multi-year HVAC service), and accepted personnel contracts, resignations and several open-enrollment requests.
The Iowa Falls Board of Education on May 12 approved a package of curriculum purchases, vendor contracts and routine personnel and student-enrollment items recorded on the consent agenda.
The board approved purchase of a new 9–12 English Language Arts curriculum for $146,212.98 and a new 9–12 math curriculum for $47,597. It also approved a $7,750 purchase of a middle-school vending machine and the Senior Year Plus course offerings (with an in-person attendance requirement when an in-person option is offered). The ELA and math purchases each passed on separate motions and were recorded as carried 5–0.
Contracts and agreements listed in the minutes and approved on the consent agenda included a Des Moines University student capstone experience, Iowa Valley Community College agreements for Summer College Credit and Senior Year Plus programming, a Grant Wood AEA — PowerSchool agreement (recorded in the minutes with a numeric transcription error and here corrected to $20,651.10 annually), Vestis (dust mops and cleaning products/services), Vista Software (accounting and time clock system — $19,440 annually), Johnson Controls (fire alarm system service — $5,205.31 annually for two years), Web School Tools (board-agenda website — $3,400 total for five years) and a Trane HVAC service agreement with year-one cost $12,712, year-two $13,096 and year-three $13,480 listed in the minutes.
Personnel items recorded in the consent agenda included multiple extracurricular and staff contracts (Jennifer Wiley and Jennifer Eubanks as MS Science Club co-sponsors; Drew Mourlam — HS assistant softball; Kelsey Lammers — HS assistant volleyball; Emily England — HS assistant basketball; Jared Ites — MS Industrial Technology teacher; Keaton Mulford — HS assistant baseball) and resignations/retirements (Autumn Schott — Varsity Dance/Drill Team; Lyric Gillespie — PV associate; Kate Stalzer — HS Yearbook sponsor; Ryan Kuker — MS Baseball, current season). The board also recorded five open-enrollment approvals: Millie Brinkmeyer (from AGWSR), Jace Vierkandt (from Alden — HSAP), Dylan Hall (from Alden), Parker Mill (from AGWSR) and Jackson Mill (from AGWSR).
The minutes show the board reviewed capital projects and noted an upcoming debt service payment and discussed scheduling a work session with IASB to align with a summer meeting; Dr. Neumann was to reach out to schedule that session.
What happens next: Contracts and purchases approved at the meeting proceed to procurement and implementation per district procedures; the minutes do not record contract start dates or detailed funding sources for each item.
