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Corning–Villisca joint boards enter exempt session for negotiations; approve agenda change and adjourn
Summary
At a Feb. 5, 2025 joint special meeting, the Corning Comm School District and Villisca Community School District boards approved an agenda change removing a CTE presentation, discussed the 2025–26 calendar, entered an exempt negotiation session under Iowa Code Chapter 20.17(3) at 7:31 p.m., returned at 8:25 p.m., and adjourned.
The Boards of Education for the Corning Comm School District and the Villisca Community School District met in a joint special session Feb. 5, 2025 at the Southwest Valley High School Board Room.
President Staci Venteicher called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. The boards approved the meeting agenda with the deletion of the CTE presentation after a motion by Stephanie Hodapp that Howard Anderson seconded; the motion carried unanimously. The minutes record that there were no visitor comments during the public comment portion of the meeting.
Board members discussed the 2025–26 school calendar; the meeting minutes record discussion but do not show a final calendar vote or any calendar dates being adopted. At 7:31 p.m., the boards entered an exempt session for negotiations under Iowa Code Chapter 20.17(3). The boards returned to open session at 8:25 p.m. and Hodapp moved, Roberts seconded, to adjourn; the meeting adjourned at 8:25 p.m. The minutes record all formal motions as carried unanimously.
The meeting record lists Superintendent Chris Fenster, Board Secretary Jodi Lyddon, school principals Jennifer Bissell, Liz Timmerman and Allison Thomas among those present. The minutes do not provide additional detail about the content of the negotiations or calendar specifics.
