Nevada Community School District Board Of Directors Minutes of Regular Meeting Monday, February 16, 2026 Gates Conference Room

Nevada Community School District Board Of Directors Minutes of Regular Meeting Monday, February 16, 2026 Gates Conference Room PRESENT: BOARD MEMBERS: Marty Chitty, Leanne Harter, Emily Schaack, Carsrud, Maier arrived 6:32 p.m. STAFF: Dr Steve Gray, Tammy Ellis 1. Call to Order at 6:30 p.m. 2. Approval of Agenda-Motion to approve the agenda by Harter second by Schack, Motion Carried 5-0 3. Public Comment–None 4. Information 4.1 Policy Review: 302.4 – Superintendent Duties Dr Gray presented Policy 302.4 Superindent Duties for review, Carsrud and Harter recommended a few edits, Dr Gray will update the policy and bring it back for the March 2nd board meeting. 4.2 Off-Schedule Bus Research Dr Gray updated the board on a possible used bus purchase and is looking for direction from the board if they were like to move forward, we could pursue the bus at a lower price and pay for it with our vehicle allotment (we don't need a vehicle at this time), the rest would be paid from PPEL reserves. Dr Gray will continue to have Jason Sampson, Director of Transportation do research on a used bus not to exceed $90,000. 5. Public Hearing: 2026-27 District Calendar: Close public hearing 6:39pm 6. Action Agenda 6.1 District Calendar 2026-27 (August 24. 2026 start date) Motion by Carsrud to approve the district calendar as presented, second by Harter, Motion Carried 5-0 6.2 NCRC Rates 2026-27 Motion by Maier to adopt Proposal A $10 increase keeping the reduced rate the same for qualifying families, second by Schaack, Motion Carried 5-0 7. Consent Agenda Harter recommended an edit to the February 2, 2026 minutes, Chitty praised Barb Elgersma for her work with the district as she is retiring in March. Chitty also mentioned Kasey Taggert being a great fit as she moves into the NCRC Director position when current Director Chris Burling retires in June. Motion by Carsrud to approve the consent agenda second by Harter. Motion Carried 5-0 7.1 Minutes February 2, 2026 7.2 Bills/Financials 7.3 Personnel: Marty, thankful for Barb's work. Marty wants barb to get flowers Appointment: • Jennifer Cornelius Key Club Sponsor • Kim Steddom Food Service Resignation: • Morgan Pruin MS SpEd Associate Retirement: Barb Elgersma District Office Admin. Asst. March 27, 2026 Resignation/Retirement Withdrawal: • Kate Huse requests to withdraw her intent to retire and continue at NCSD beyond her current contract. Education Support Personnel Salary Supplement – Division VII in HF 2612 included a $14 million dollar appropriation to provide supplemental pay for education support personnel. The funds were distributed based on the district's 2024-25 budget enrollment; Nevada received $40,745. Education support personnel who are eligible for supplemental pay are "regular and part-time employees of the district who are not salaried, they are hourly employees." Employees that are eligible for the supplement pay will receive payment on their June 19, 2026 paycheck. 7.4 Fundraisers 8. Board Items 8.1 Board Member Comments Schaack mentioned Colton Mitchell going to state for bowling. Carsrud gave a shout out to Dave Kroese and his maintenance crew on the savings in electricity. Chitty mentioned the slight decrease in health care costs being a nice surprise. Grimm mentioned that high school going well, the jazz band concert coming up. Tables and Tunes is a fun time as well. Grimm talked about some wrestlers going to state.and the last home basketball game is tonight. 8.2 Next Meeting: March 2, 2026, 6:30 p.m. 9. Adjourn 7:11 pm Respectfully Submitted, Marty Chitty, Board President Tammy Ellis, Board Secretary Nevada Community School District Bills for Payment 2/16/26 Rev Trak 17.67 BFG Supply 1431.59 Copyworks 33.88 Hokel Machine Supply 49.77 Key Cooperative 2604.07 Wessels, Ryan 170 Alley's Pizza 13.15 Arnold Motor Supply 26.98 Bartello, John 125 Bauman, Chad 85 Big Inning, Inc 698.99 BSN Sports 2138.16 Cartwright, Scott 300 Engebretson, Luke 125 Harvest Pickleball and Tennis 371.25 Heartland Co-op 2473.65 Kruger, Blake 155 Miller, Nick 255 Nevada Hardware 75.43 Noel, Cayden 70 Dallas Center Grimes CSD 90 Pick, Nathan 70 Schwartz, Leland 125 Wee's Tees 50 Wempen, David 125 Willman, Ryan 105 Echo Group, Inc 2849.84 Sherwin Williams Co 358.95 Klug Construction 6200 Alliant Energy 46546.33 City Of Nevada 3568.8 Rev Trak 1190.27 Rev Trak 582.27 Ahlers & Cooney 674.5 Amazon Capital Services Inc 1857.41 Anderson Erickson 406.64 Ballard CSD 61048.91 Border States 921.48 Capital Sanitary Supply Co 1817.08 Central States Roofing 1132.84 ClaimAid 1979.16 Culligan Ultrapure 19.73 Decker Sporting Goods 1280 DHS Cashier 1st Fl 19623.01 Gilbert Comm School 38306.63 Heartland Area Education Agency 40049.8 Interstate All Battery Center 1427 Iowa One Call 4.6 ISFIS, Inc 300 J W Pepper & Son Inc 598.08 Kelly Laundry 230.24 Martin Brothers 2429.56 New Century FS 4203.21 Premier Athlete Training 2100 School Bus Sales Co 127.81 Verizon 103.55 Burling, Chris 240 Couser, Brigietta 120 Smith, Dustin R 1250.2 Taggart, Kasey 300 Trine, Allison 45 21st Century Rehab P C 6000 Access Systems 113.89 Ames CSD 220139.16 Ames Ford 348.32 Arnold Motor Supply 353.93 Bauman, Chad 180 Bauman, Melissa 60 Blast Back To School 2000 Boone CSD 273.63 City Of Nevada 109.76 Con-Struct, Inc 935 Des Moines Public Schools 1720.56 Farmer, Josie 120 Farmer, Mindy 180 Filter Shop 4307.2 Houston, Kim 180 Independence CSD 5180.28 Lundgren, Andrew 250 Mediacom 262.5 Millenium Technology of Iowa 813 Nevada Hardware 533.7 Williamson, Allix 270 Parker, Larry 210 Petermeier, Karisa 24.61 Rasmusson, Ted 240 Reed, Joel 180 Roland Story CSD 21259.25 Toot, Joe 90 United Community School District 8535.25 Vasey, Gary 300 Whitehead, Ashley 210 Whitehead, Lowell Ernie 60 Woodward-Granger CSD 8025.47 Woodward-Granger CSD Grandwood Consortium 73870.9 Amazon Capital Services Inc 35.13 Anderson Erickson 6197.24 Atlantic Bottling Company 2045.47 Martin Brothers 21640.44 Rotella's Italian Bakery, Inc. 1146.51 Loffredos Produce 759.14 VENDNET 20.31 March 5 2026 LIOW0470718