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Reader wants stop signs on
S 9th
2 years. At the time of the next election, there will
be the opportunity to elect board members in any
themselves as two separate factions.

way that is allowed by Iowa law, which means that ** As I write this, it occurs to me that if I were the
13. Twice a day I cross the street at Audubon and the “2,2,1” method currently advocated seemingly director of an entity that is trying to lure business
9th, and I can tell you people turning off by everyone on earth, (but me,)* is totally possible. to Sac County, I would be ENCOURAGING the
Main down 9th just plain GUN it. If I had kids on 9th Given the current “evil” status that has been attrib- growth of a strong school in the fastest growing city
I’d be damned worried. Anonymous uted to the “at large” method the “2,2,1” method is in the county, instead of standing in its way. Maybe
maybe even probable. in light of all the fail that has thus far happened on the
development end of things in this county, the pow-
Melissa Bellcock “O.K.” with There are two things that widely publicizing the “at ers that be actually have this whole thing backwards
under-representing voters large” voting issue has served to do. and think fail = succeed. (Actually, the more likely
scenario from my observation is that the individu-
7. I personally heard you say that you were for mel- 1. It makes voting as a single unified school district als who would be good at luring businesses to Sac
lisa bellcock before the election.. and now you are seem like a bad thing, (and by association, damage County recognize the overpowering bureaucracy in-
bashing her. do you change your mind in 5 seconds the core concept of unifying the schools in the first grained in the organizations currently contracted to
or are you just hipocritical. Stop judging because place.) do said luring and do not bother.) Curtis Bloes
obviously we all know you dont like people judging
you. Everyone needs to stop and think about if they 12. i am not the director of an entity trying to lure
realy want there kids to go to a school were their 2. It handed Shirley Phillips, the president of the business to sac county I am a student. So maybe i
town is not represented at all and the superintendent school board that voted to play politics with the was wrong but that means a lot of people are wrong
could not care one ounce about sac city. Anony- school’s basic ability to do shared business by no since i heard the at large thing from several people.
mous longer regularly meeting as a joint board, a puppet Anonymous
candidate who will vote the way that the candidate
8. 1. What I said was that I thought Martha and Me- is told to vote, thus prolonging the divisive policies 13. The Anti-East Sac County School Board through
lissa would be elected. This did not mean that I was that stand in the way of smoothly transitioning into Melissa Bellcock, chose to make this a campaign is-
voting for them, though your enthusiasm for Melissa one unified district. sue during the school board election.
may have led you to believe that my prediction was
an endorsement. There are only two sides here. The side that wants to The election should have been about choosing a can-
go forward and unite the schools and avoid having didate that is willing to work with their counterparts
2. Actually I’m disappointed when I open up my the quality of our education decrease at the same rate from WLVA to build the strongest possible school
email and don’t find hatemail. People judging me as our populations, and the side that wants to sow for the region, Instead, and sadly, it became a politi-
makes life spicy! discord between the towns in order to use that ani- cal land grab that did nothing but drive a wedge be-
mosity to attain more political power, and increase tween the two towns by giving us a majority school
3. *shrug* Shirley Phillip’s puppets, Melissa Bell- their own paychecks. board who have already telegraphed their intentions
cock and Dave Sands were not brave enough to towards how they would like to “work” with WLVA.
speak these strongly held views of yours at the This whole concern about “what’s best for Sac City” (as infrequently as possible)
public hearing tonight. Maybe if they had, the AEA evaporates once you have a child that is facing a
board wouldn’t have approved the petition and al- lower quality education as the result of a faction The AEA dealt with this as a discussion point during
lowed the vote to move forward… You should show that is obsessed with using one particular building the hearing, and came to the conclusion that by as
up on Oct 19th at the Anti-East Sac County School over another. Nobody ever wants to say this be- soon as the first election, and maybe by as far out as
Board Meet and ask them why they dropped the ball. cause it’s so “negative” but our future reality is as the second election that the “2,2,1” method of voting
Curtis Bloes a bedroom community for the neighboring counties could be put into place if that is what the interim
whose directors of development are actually focused board, (2 from Sac, 2 from WLVA, one at large) want
9. So you want your child to go to a school where on bringing in jobs, (as opposed to playing political and that it was therefore not a block to approving
he will become just a number and the town that they games.) the petition to vote on February 2, 2009. Curtis
are from has no representation and becomes forgot- Bloes
ten about? (which essentially means that the children Luring in one mid-sized business per decade is clear-
from that town may be forgotten about) Anony- ly not bringing Sac County the growth that it needs TheSacNews.com is edited by
mous to sustain itself into the future. It may be that there Curtis Bloes
will be a different development entity in the future
10. My opinions are only my own and I understand that will be able to actually find businesses to come You can subscribe to theSacNews.com by sending a check
that everyone including you and me has the right to to Sac County, and at that time we may find ourselves for $35.00 to:
their opinions. I can not vote in february, however I growing and in need of a more localized school dis-
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graduated from Sac which is why I care about what trict.** Until that future happens, it seems to me that 237 s 9th Street
is happening. Could you post a poll on your site ask- our primary concern is leave the emotion out of it Sac City, Iowa 50583
ing people how they will possibly vote concerning and to make the business decision to consolidate our
the consolidation given that the board members will schools in such a way as to keep enough spending Comments can be left at
be elected at large? Anonymous authority happening to provide our children with a (712) 830 - 7373
quality education. Letters to the Editor can be sent to
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elected at large. The first members of the interim *I feel that if the interim board chooses to hold elec-
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According to documents obtained from the Sac County Courthouse Dararath Khiev of 709 Maywood Drive, Storm Lake, Iowa...

CRIME
All people accused of crimes are innocent until proven guilty.
The disposition of all cases are subject to change without notice.
These documents are freely available for inspection at the Sac County Courthouse.

Help East Sac County Support the Arts on October 20! Planning and Zoning Board
Review Building Permits for
(Please note the time change from original article) September

At the October 5, 2009 Sac City Planning

As many of you already know, the fine arts are an essential part of a child’s educa-
and Zoning Meeting, the building permits
tion. But a great education in the arts does not happen by itself. On October 20, at
for the month of September 2009 were
6:00 PM in the HS Choir Room in Lake View, the fine arts teachers/sponsors will reviewed. The following two items were
be hosting the first meeting of the East Sac County Fine Arts Booster Club. This discussed:
organization will seek to promote, support, and celebrate the fine arts program in the
East Sac County School system. 1. The P&Z board noted that noting that
Larry Mohr is going to appear before the
Interested adults could include any parent of a child in an art, music, speech, or board of adjustment on October 6, 2009
drama activity in the East Sac County school system, or any adult simply willing to (the following evening) to get permission
help ensure that the students of our school receive the best the arts have to offer. to rebuild his garage. Since the time that
his garage was originally built, the setback
Topics will include: promoting art, music, and speech to our children, creating more requirements in his neighborhood were
moved back.
opportunities for students in the arts, creating more opportunities for students to
experience the arts at a higher level, recognizing outstanding student achievement in 2. Terry Duffy, the Sac City Zoning Of-
the arts, and arts advocacy in our community. ficer cleared up a misunderstanding for
Board member, Sharon Mayo regarding
If you have a student that participates in the fine arts at ESC High School, or if you the building permit issued to Cary Conger.
just feel strongly about students receiving a quality education in the arts, you will It was noted that all of the properties on
not want to miss this important meeting! If you have any questions, feel free to 5th street are going to experience problems
contact any music, art, or speech teacher. regarding setbacks in the future because of
how narrow the properties are.
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According to documents obtained from the Sac County Courthouse Dararath Khiev of 709 Maywood Drive, Storm Lake, Iowa...

CRIME
All people accused of crimes are innocent until proven guilty.
The disposition of all cases are subject to change without notice.
These documents are freely available for inspection at the Sac County Courthouse.

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According to documents obtained from the Sac County Courthouse Dawn Blanchard of 417 Hanson Blvd, Odebolt Iowa...

CRIME
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The disposition of all cases are subject to change without notice.
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Third Time the Charm?
After two long years, The Sac City Planning and Zoning Board has at last passed a new zoning map that they feel can pass city council muster. For the last
several months the map has been bouncing back and forth between the Planning and Zoning board and the Sac City Council.

There are two distinct schools of thought battling it out. The first, held by the zoning board members is that in order to prepare for the growth they believe Sac
City will see after the town is bypassed by highway 20 they need to zone areas that will accommodate for that growth. The majority of the Sac City Council,
on the other hand, has an eye on the property rights of those landowners for whom the rezoning will restrict future land use.

On October 5, 2009 Meeting of the Sac City Planning and Zoning Meeting, board member Steve Gerry proposed the following compromise. There is an area
on the north side of town on 5th street that is currently zoned agricultural A1, that will be rezoned as residential R1. There is an area on the north side of town
on 16th and Greenly Avenue currently zoned for manufacturing M2 a portion of which will be rezoned agriculture A1 and the rest of which will be rezoned as
manufacturing M1. There is an area within the school that is zoned agricultural A1 that will be rezoned as residential R1. Lastly, there is an area on the south
side of town on the west side of 16th street that is zoned agricultural A1 that will be rezoned residential R1. What will not be changed is the land owned by the
Country Club. It will remain zoned as agricultural A1.

Before proposing this new map, Mr. Gerry made sure that it would not adversely affect the property owners on the south side of town between the vicinities of
south 16th street and south 5th street. According to Sac City Administrator Adam Ledford, the primary difference between residential R3, the formal proposal
and residential R1, is that R1 would allow more opportunity for development for businesses like clubs and lodges, doctor and lawyer offices and other non-
residential developments like cemeteries and parking lots. It was determined that R1 was generally less restrictive generally and nobody could come up with
an answer to the question of what residential R3 land would be used for.

The map will be considered an ordinance and as such needs three readings to become law. According to Mr. Ledford, the map will be ready to present to the
council on October 23, 2009. If this schedule is adhered to the second reading will be on November 9, 2009 and the third will be on November 23, 2009.
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According to documents obtained from the Sac County Courthouse, Cole Thomas long of 619 N. 5th St, Sac City, Iowa...
CRIME
All people accused of crimes are innocent until proven guilty.
The disposition of all cases are subject to change without notice.
These documents are freely available for inspection at the Sac County Courthouse.
Transcripts of testimony at the public hearing for the petition to vote on consolidation
During the Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency 8
public hearing to rule on the petition to reorganize
the WLVA and Sac school districts into one district,
hearing several people stood and testified.
Following are the transcripts of those public
testimonies.
In any case where the person stammered or stuttered,
I have cut out those instances and replaced them with
“…” in every case where I could not make out the
exact wording of their testimonies, I have replaced
the words I could not understand with
“[UNINTELLIGIBLE]” The reason for this is that
the transcript was made from the audio of a video
recorded at 15 frames per second in an auditorium
with lots of echo in it and some speakers talked fast
enough to bury their words or phrases under the echo
from previous words or phrases when they were
speaking.
In all cases where it the speaker seems to be
addressing a person or body of people, that person
or body of people is a member of the Prairie lake
AEA 8 board.
Danielle Haindfield:
My name is Danielle Haindfield and I am an attorney
with the Des Moines firm of Ahlers and Cooney and
I’m here to speak on behalf of the Wall Lake View
Auburn District and the Sac Community School
District with regard to this reorganization.
Over the past several months I’ve been working with
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Superintendant Barb Kruthoff, as well as the the affidavits that were filed with the total number
reorganization committee chair person of registered voters in each district, with Wall Lake
[UNINTELLIGIBLE] drafting, circulation and View Auburn being 2496 and Sac being 1977 there
filing of this petition for reorganization of these … were 400 signatures required from the Wall Lake
two districts into the district called East Sac County View Auburn Community School District and …395
Community School District. signatures required from the Sac School District. As
you will see in the petition, there were 417
I’m here tonight to ask that the AEA board approve signatures from the Wall Lake View Auburn
the petition for reorganization and enter an order Community School District and 408 from the Sac
fixing the boundaries for said reorganized district Community School District, therefore clearly
and authorize the said public measure calling for the meeting statutory requirement.
reorganization of the two districts to come
before the electors …on the ballot for an election Secondly: the petition shall describe the
to be held February 2nd, 2010. I will be discussing boundaries or accurately describe the area included
with you briefly, how the petition conforms to the therein by legal descriptions of the proposed district
legal statutory requirements …and the AEA which boundaries or area described shall conform to
reorganization plan. Superintendant Kruthoff will the plans developed.
then discuss with you why this reorganization …is
in the best interests of both districts, and why the As you also see on the petition, the complete legal
reorganization will not only meet the overriding description for all property in both districts, was
principals of the AEA plan, but will stand the test of separately provided for in the petition and with a
time in the years to come. couple of minor …clerical errors in the legal
description that I have corrected tonight by a formal
As you are probably all aware, in order to be a valid amendment which you all should have a copy of …I
petition for reorganization, and be considered and gave it to your council, Mr. Engle.
approved by this AEA board for placement on the
ballot at the upcoming February election …there are It was made clear in the petition that all property
several statutory requirements that must be met. listed on the petition is to become part of the new
reorganized district. It is noteworthy that no land
First: A petition shall be sign by eligible electors objections were received during the objection period
equal to 20% of the number of registered voters as was previously noted.
in both districts or 400 eligible electors from both
districts, whichever number is greater. Based upon Number three: the petition shall not be accepted if
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According to documents obtained from the Sac County Courthouse, Julie Kay Hummel of 1116 hobbs St, Sac City, Iowa...

CRIME
All people accused of crimes are innocent until proven guilty.
The disposition of all cases are subject to change without notice.
These documents are freely available for inspection at the Sac County Courthouse.

any of the school district affected have approved the voters living in the district at the time the petition
issue as a general obligation bond and an was taken out. No objection to the affidavit was Thank you
election pursuant to section 296.6 during the filed during the filing objection period. Barb Kruthoff:
preceding 6 months. This provision is not applicable
in this case as neither district has approved the issueNow in addition to the statutory requirements, the There are four primary areas that I will address this
under general obligation bonds within the preceding petition does not conflict with the AEA plan. Upon evening. And those areas are historically what’s
6 months. reviewing the AEA plan neither district finds there happened with the two districts up to the current
to be an inconsistency with the petition language point, efficiencies that have occurred through whole
Number four: The petition shall state the name of and the AEA’s plan. The face of the petition clearly grade sharing and will continue to occur through
the proposed district. The petition clearly states the states that the proposed reorganization reorganized reorganization, incentives for sharing and thus
new reorganized district would be named the East school district is not inconsistent with the incentives for reorganization and providing
Sac County Community School District. reorganization plans developed by the AEA. [UNINTELLIGIBLE] at the state level, long range
planning and what that might look like for the
Additionally, the provision shall state the number of As Superintendant Kruthoff will discuss in a few districts well as at the end I will address discreetly
directors which may be either 5 or 7 and the method moments, the reorganization of these two districts the directors [UNINTELLIGIBLE] those that were
of election of the school directors of the proposed will result in improved services, programs, and mentioned by Danielle.
district. As you will see, the petition states that the enhancements of the efficiency and economical
board of directors of the reorganized district will be operations of the district, the meeting of the The district, for people in the audience who had
comprised of 5 directors appointed in accordance minimum educational standards required by the experience or who have lived in the district for a
with Iowa Code Section 275.41 and that the method state, and will provide long term stability for both long time, know that for many, many years there
of election for all of the board of directors shall be at districts and communities. have been some kinds of sharing off and on between
large from the entire district by the electors of the the two school districts. Many years ago, special
entire district except [UNINTELLIGIBLE] with The two districts have demonstrated through the past education programs have shared in the county and
Iowa Code Section 275.12(a) …Superintendant co-operative whole grade sharing arrangement that I was a teacher at the Lake View Auburn district at
Kruthoff can address how this decision was made they have a level of compatibility needed to make that time and I remember there being some shared
with regard to the …board of directors and the this reorganization a success. teachers. I think a lot of people in the two
means of election. communities, or the four communities, (the two
Finally: the district engaged in a thorough study districts,) would remember Ag Education as being a
Number 6: the petition shall be accompanied by an [UNINTELLIGIBLE] involvement before issuing program that had kind of longevity to and was shared
affidavit showing the number of registered the circulated petition. [UNINTELLIGABLE] the between the two districts was [UNINTELLIGIBLE]
voters living in each affected district or portion AEA board entered an order fixing the boundaries coming to Lake View Auburn.
thereof described in the petition and signed by a for the proposed reorganized district and
registered voter residing in the territory. The petition subsequently gave written notice of the election to Continued on page 09
was accompanied by an affidavit and signed by the the county commissioner of elections for the “TRANSCRIPTS”
county auditor attesting to the number of registered February 2nd, 2010 election.
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Questions and answers from the
Prairie Lakes AEA 8 Public hearing East Sac County School August Financial Report
The question of how the school boards will be elected. If consoli-
dation passes, the first board will be made up of 2 board members
from the board of the Sac School District, 2 members from the
board of the WLVA School District, and one member appointed
unanimously at large from the remaining 6 school board members.
If the initial 4 board members are unable to unanimously appoint
a 5th member, then it will go to special election and the voters will
decide in an at large election.

Working with the lawyers for the school, that board can then de-
cide how future boards will be elected, specifically if they will be
elected at large, or if they will be elected based on the populations
of the former districts, which in the case of the Sac and WLVA
districts, will be 2 from Sac, 2 from WLVA, and 1 at large. The
interim board will have a little more than a year and a half to decide
how to conduct future elections.

The question of how buildings will be used in the future. There

has been no long term discussion about how the buildings will be
used.

There was an amendment to the petition that had to do with the spe-
cific acreages that would be included in the new district. Accord-
ing to information put out at the meeting that took place before the
public hearing, minor changes to the legal descriptions on reorga-
nization petitions are very common and are often getting changed
right up until the last moment. The amendment was approved.

With no further questions or objections, the petition to allow the

question of consolidating the schools was approved and will be on
the ballot on February 2, 2010.

Sac County Sheriff Office

Participating in Scheduled
Traffic Enforcement Project

The Sac County Sheriff’s Office will be participating in a traf-

fic enforcement project scheduled for October 16, 2009. Extra
deputies will be patrolling the county concentrating on traffic
enforcement as part of the Governors Traffic Safety Bureaus
“Western Expansion” project which is being conducted in the
western half of Iowa. Special attention will be paid to speed and
seatbelt violations as well as drunk and drugged drivers. Sheriff
McClure will be assigning additional deputies to this project in-
cluding the Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit.

Sac County Supervisors Making Cuts

The area professional paramedics serving Sac County

asked for a raise of 3% on their contract for the fol-
lowing year. At the October 6, 2009 Sac County
Supervisors meeting, it was disclosed that the Supervi-
sor’s counter offer was actually a 1.5% cut in pay.

Supervisor Rick Hecht suggested that the county isn’t

sure how deep the cuts from the state will be. If the
state lowers funding, the county will have to figure out
how to do with less.
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 Consolidation petition approved

The Board of Directors of the Prairie Lakes AEA

8 met on Tuesday October 6, 2009 to determine if
they would allow the question of reorganization to
come to a vote on February 2, 2010. This will be the
consolidation vote. If it passes, the WLVA and Sac
districts will reorganize into one single district. At
that time, the two school boards will reorganize into
5 directors... two from the current Sac School Board,
and two from current WLVA school board.

Those four board members will then choose one ad-

ditional member from the remaining members of the
current boards to be the 5th board member. If those
four members are unable to choose a 5th board mem-
ber unanimously, then there will be a special election
by the public to choose the 5th board member. There
are no plans to utilize the buildings in any way that is
different from their current use.

The Prairie Lakes AEA 8 Board voted to allow the

vote to go forward, and we will vote to consolidate or
not on February 2, 2010.
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According to documents obtained from the Sac County Courthouse, Samuel David Kime of 115 N. 11th St., Sac City, Iowa,

CRIME
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Small Claims 10/01/09 - 10/07/09 As that all filtered out over time, you could… we had all sorts of suggestions for
Sac and Wall Lake View Auburn names, but nobody would have any idea. So we
SCSC 013970 continued to talk. [UNINTELLI- really thought that it should have something to do
DEFENDANT: Tim Snelling, Cherokee IA GIBLE] to the west [UNINTEL- with Sac County, and it turned out this is the kind
PLAINTIFF: City of Sac City Restitution LIGIBLE] which is now a school of …suggestion that seemed positive and we had
JUDGEMENT FOR PLAINTIFF: $307.61 + $104.00 costs district, a whole grade sharing community input, so we’ve been called the East Sac
district for its first year and County Schools and now we’re beginning our third
SCSC 013972 Schaller-Crestland was looking at year of whole grade sharing.
DEFENDANT: Michelle Lee Menke, Aurelia IA a direction other than back to the
PLAINTIFF: City of Sac City Restitution east and they’re currently talking The efficiencies that we’ve been able to realize as a
JUDGEMENT FOR PLAINTIFF: $89.24 + $107.00 costs with Galva-Holstein …related to result of whole grade sharing: In some ways I call
whole grade sharing. them efficiencies, but …in another way I would call
SCSC 013986 them opportunities that have come as a result of us
DEFENDANT: Stephanie Tebben, Wall Lake IA So in those conversations between being a whole grade sharing district.
PLAINTIFF: Discover Bank, ADDRESS NOT AVAILABLE Sac and Wall Lake View Auburn
JUDGEMENT FOR PLAINTIFF: $4375.96 + $118.10 costs we were lucky enough to have Some things that have happened, both at the time
our music teachers come forward that we established whole grade sharing we had
SCSC 013991 and say, “You know, we would some attrition, we had some retirement, and we’ve
DEFENDANT: Randy Carter, Exira IA like to be a shared program.” been able to do some of that without it being pain-
DEFENDANT: Terrie Carter, Exira IA And we started out, really, mov- ful. Last year we reduced some staff, it was a little
PLAINTIFF: Cooks Siding Supply, Inc., Wall Lake IA ing students back and forth with painful and in all of that at the current time we have
JUDGEMENT FOR PLAINTIFF: $5000.00 + $114.04 costs music and then we also have not had to reduce programs and I think we’d be
some activities that we started to relatively certain that [UNINTELLIGIBLE] Sac
SCSC 013992 share. Middle school football for and Wall Lake View Auburn would have to admit
DEFENDANT: Tom John Bolan, Wall Lake IA instance where we each had small that if we hadn’t reduced that number of staff mem-
PLAINTIFF: Midland Funding LLC, ADDRESS NOT AVAILABLE numbers of students, but together bers over the last three or four years, as individual
JUDGEMENT FOR PLAINTIFF: $621.86 + $118.10 costs we can at least field a 7th grade districts, programs would have potentially been
and 8th grade team. We added to jeopardized.
SCSC 014003 that in subsequent years, before
DEFENDANT: Julie Lamaak, Lake View IA whole grade sharing occurred Other sharing that the district does: For the last
PLAINTIFF: Larry Beckman Motors, Inc., Odebolt IA Auto Tech, Health Science, Indus- four years I’ve had the opportunity to be the shared
JUDGEMENT FOR PLAINTIFF: $321.80 + $95.00 costs trial Tech and Ag Science. superintendant for Sac and Wall Lake View Auburn.
For the last three years we’ve shared a business
…You’re well aware I’m sure, as manager who focuses on HR duties, so he does
CASES FILED board members that every school payroll, things like insurance payroll, [UNINTEL-
district has a need for high quality LIGIBLE] we thought it was important that we
SCSC 014011 vocational technical programs had one person that communicated those kinds of
DEFENDANT: Maria Lagos, Odebolt IA but there are classes associated important information to employees.
PLAINTIFF: Credit Management Services Inc., Grand Island NE with those that aren’t associated
FILED: 10/05/09 with traditional core classes and it For the last two years, we’ve shared a transportation
really was an advantage for both director. One of the things that we’ve tried hard to
“TRANSCRIPTS” districts to share those programs. do is when people choose to leave the district, “is
Continued from page 06 that a position that can be shared?” We each had
Three years ago, we began whole grade sharing and had a transportation director up to that point and
8 years ago, it just happened that the 4 we currently have two elementary buildings. Wall it hadn’t been our goal to terminate one, someone
superintendants of the county, Schaller-Crestland, Lake has the pre-school through 4th grade building retired and it’s now a shared position. This year we
Odebolt-Arthur, Sac, and Wall Lake View Auburn and all the students in the Wall Lake View Auburn approved sharing a director of food service and part
were all new to the districts that they came to. Some District stay at that elementary. Sac City has an time buildings and grounds personnel.
of us had experience, but we were new to those elementary, pre-school through 4th grade and Sac
schools and we met as a group of 4 superintendants, elementary students stay at that elementary building Although whole grade sharing involves only 5th
we spent quite a lot of time through that year talking and the only Sac Students that might travel to Wall through 12th grade, we also share the following
about what might be some possibilities or ways that Lake View Auburn’s elementary building or the teachers: Elementary Art, Elementary Vocal Music,
we could look at sharing within the county with those elementary at Wall Lake would be the pre-school Talented and Gifted, Elementary Physical Educa-
4 school districts. We came to some agreement and special education students because it’s the only tion, Elementary Counselor, Elementary Principal,
presented some information to the 4 school districts place in the district that we do have pre-school the Technology Coordinator, and we currently
in the county and we talked about an East-West com- special-ed shared program. have a [UNINTELLIGIBLE] ¼ time Curriculum
bination of schools. East would mean Sac and Wall Director and that person is shared. We also share
Lake View Auburn, West would have been Odebolt- The middle school is at this building, 5th through all activities, meaning coaches and sponsors for
Arthur Schaller-Crestland And then we talked about 8th grade, and the high school is at Lake View activities.
a North-South arrangement that would have been a which is 9th through 12th grade.
Schaller-Crestland Sac arrangement and Odebolt- With our programs, I think that any of our faculty
Arthur, Wall Lake View Auburn arrangement and at The combined districts adopted the name East Sac who are at our high school and many community
that time I think …there was probably …that might County. It was really through a district wide effort, members will tell you that we’re very proud to
have been the instigation or the impetuous that re- both districts and one of the things the boards were say that we have 6 very strong vocational techni-
ally caused a lot of conversation and we talked about very concerned about, really rather adamant about cal programs. We’ve been lucky enough to get
what would a high school look like, where would it was they wanted a name for a district that might [UNINTELLIGIBLE] in from Iowa Central Com-
be, where would those schools be with those kinds give someone, at least in Western Iowa or North- munity College, they’re very supportive and good
of arrangements. Western Iowa an idea of where the heck was this to us. We have lots of students participate in those
school. You know, you could be Prairie-Ridge or courses. Individually we would not be able to offer
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those. Currently we offer Auto Tech, Health Sci- of the incentive, though, is based on the fact that it represent the new East Sac County Schools, and I
ence, Business [[UNINTELLIGIBLE], Industrial has to proceed a reorganization year and that really think what they believed was that it was a mat-
Technology, [UNINTELLIGIBLE] Family and will be one of the pieces of information that we’ll ter of “get out and vote” so that you cast votes to
Consumer Science. want our communities to understand. Currently, represent your own district. Another piece of their
each district receives about $140,000 of weighted consideration was concern about 4 year terms as
We also offer, each semester, 12 to 15 courses of enrollment dollars because of the students that we board members and in director districts you might
college credit, with credit being established through share in whole grade sharing. In addition to that, find people who would like to run, multiple people
Iowa Central Community College and I can assure we have revenue generated from students that have in some director districts but no one running. And
you, that would never happen if the two of us were shared instructors so when I mention earlier that we that was another piece of their thinking about it,
separate school districts. Each of us would be have Counselors, P.E. teachers, Art Teachers at our so why wouldn’t we have election at large? And
able to offer a few of those courses, but we would elementary levels, those generate incentive as well. if there’s any clarification that needs to take place,
have to be involved in some sort of sharing with right now I know we’ve got several members of the
someone for us to have that kind of offering for our The reorganization incentive is for the first three reorganizational committee that are here tonight
students to take. years of reorganization and that incentive ends by that could probably help answer some of that in ad-
legislative action in 2014. I would like to empha- dition to the comments I made.
Other areas of sharing: We share an alternative size that if we think about the financial condition
school, and we’ve done that for quite a long time across the country and the state of Iowa and if And with that, I would end my remarks.
with Schaller-Crestland. It’s a necessary piece we think of the financial condition of schools in
of what we do at the high school level, and we general, this district has reaped the benefit of the John Scott:
appreciate that Schaller-Crestland is interested in legislative incentives, but both district are sound
sharing that program with us. Although profes- financially and are amazingly similar in their finan- My name’s John Scott and I’m from Lake View
sional development has been shared for 4 years, we cial positions at the current time. and I was part of the reorganization committee and
have a common school calendar and have had for I just want to give a couple of reason why I …said
four years. All school board policies are identical Long range planning: Well, this is a little tougher I would be on that committee. And I … have stu-
and actually by the time we were ready to whole to be able to talk about because three or four years dents that are in the first grade and I have a fourth
grade share, nearly all of those were common. Our ago would we have thought that we were sitting grader and a fifth grader and a tenth grader.
handbooks have been common from the beginning in the financial positions that we are today? Many
of whole grade sharing. This year we’ll be apply- schools in Iowa are talking to each other when And my first reason for being on that committee is
ing for the innovative calendar jointly for the 2010 they’ve never been able to talk before. But the that I wanted …I was looking out for the best inter-
– 11 school year. things that there are, the three or four things that ests of their educational opportunities. And …I feel
I can share with you. The one thing that I know with the declining population and …the declining
Our master contract are not identical, I’d say about personally is that we are a viable 2A school district enrollment that they had a better …that they’ll have
half of the contracts at the current time have identi- in west central Iowa. I know that in 5 years we’re better opportunities through their school by having
cal language, but we’ve worked at doing that each going to be smaller. I don’t know how much [UNINTELLIGIBLE] and a more vibrant school
year and negotiations and we are proud to say that smaller, but I’m pretty certain as do all the commu- and each has been evident by their whole grade
we have a schedule “B” which is a coaching and nity members in our communities, know that we’ll sharing agreements.
sponsor contract that is an identical contract in the be smaller. But all of northwest Iowa is getting
two districts. smaller, and the majority of reduction in students in And another reason that I liked to be on the reor-
the state of Iowa comes from the Northwest quarter ganization committee is that I like to see a strong
What have the incentives for sharing done for us? of Iowa, so we’re part of that. school district in our county rather than having
Incentives in some way in my estimation are not two small …school districts. I think our county is
only the financial incentives that each district can I do think, and I can say this with certainty that better off with the larger, stronger district both for
reap from sharing and the savings that each district we’ve been able to preserve the academic integrity economic and tourism development.
can incur, but it would be my responsibility in the of the district in a period of financial distress not
leadership position that I have to see academics as just of the state, but for the nation. Both districts So I ask the AEA board to approve our petition, not
certainly an incentive for sharing. are currently financially stable, which I mentioned only for the betterment of our communities and our
earlier. I think I’m … saying something next to county but most of all for our current and our future
The district does participate in operational function you that’s accurate; that East Sac County Schools is students. Thank you.
sharing, I’m not sure if you’re familiar with it, a well respected district, and we provide an educa-
you may be, so don’t be insulted when I explain tion that allows students to move on to work or to [AT THIS POINT DR. YOUBERG, KATIE
it briefly. There are positions that were legislated post secondary education. YOUBERG, AND CHUCK BROTHERTON DE-
that are called operational functioning positions and FURRED THEIR COMMENTS.]
we have a number of those that are sharing. Those That would end my remarks about those four pri-
generate supplementary weight for us. Currently mary areas. Danielle spoke about the directors and Dr. Brenny:
we receive weighted enrollments or financial incen- means of election on the petition that the reorga-
tives for our shared superintendant, shared business nization committee organized and we’ve found a I’m Bill Brenny from Sac City. The two school
manager, HR position, shared transportation direc- couple of comments that I can share with you about districts that comprise East Sac County are both
tor, and this year we’ll add to that with our shared that and maybe the reorganizational committee two very strong school districts, and I support the
building and grounds position. We can do that for 5 members have to address [UNINTELLIGIBLE] reorganization. Each district is not large enough
years, with a 20% reduction in incentive each year. but when I sat in on those committee meetings, to survive well on its own and yet offer us a strong
This year, for example, the Sac and Wall Lake View what I remember them talking about most was that curriculum with choices for our students. Is each
Auburn Districts will each realize over $100,000 of they viewed a general election, election at large, school district going to obtain exactly what it
supplementary weighting for those shared positions, to be the most equitable when they looked at both wants? Perhaps not, yet I hope the respective
those operational sharings. districts and they looked at those maps of districts school boards and administrators work through it,
of population. and our citizens support it as we go forward. Thank
We also realized benefit financially in whole grade you.
sharing. There’s a financial incentive for every Each district, they believed has an equitable op- Continued on next
student in grades 7th through 12th grade that’s portunity to elect board members to the board to page
available to us for up to three years. The third year
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[AT THIS POINT TIM HUSER DEFURRED HIS
COMMENTS.]
Sally Lines:
I believe that the reality for a good chance of this
consolidation election happening is if the …elected
board members are not at large, at least for a limited
period of time, but that there is election occurring in
existing district even if those districts only occur in
people’s minds.
Cary Conger:
I just want to say that I’m really for this reorgani-
zation. I don’t have children, I don’t have grand
children. One of the things I did was ask the two
barbers in town, they barber all those boys living
in this community, “What have they heard from the
high school kids that come in and get haircuts?”
Both of them told me the same thing. It’s unani-
mous, they want to go to consolidated school, they
do not want to go backwards so that said you know,
I want to know what the kids want.
I know that high school boys in Sac City that get
their haircuts in Sac City, they want to go forward
with this reorganization, or consolidation. And it’s
happening all over, you know we look at IKM-
Manning, Arthur and Ida Grove, Schaller-Crestland
and Galva-Holstein, Rockwell City and Southern-
Cal, Pocahontas area and Pomeroy-Palmer. It’s
kind of a no brainer, it’s gonna happen. Our popu-
lation is decreasing, has decreased every year since
1960 if you go to the data center at the state library
if you look that up on the Census, every year since
1960 the population of Sac City has decreased.
It’s now somewhere around 2000 and was up to
3600 at one time. If we were to …not consolidate,
we’d have to hire our own …superintendant and
cost us …a lot of increased cost to …not be con-
solidated. Thank you.
[AT THIS POINT SHIRLEY PHILLIPS, DAVE
SANDS, AND A FEMALE PERSON WHOSE
NAME I COULD NOT MAKE OUT, BUT
SOUNDS LIKE “HAGUE” DEFURRED THEIR
COMMENTS.]
Mike Fischer;
I would like the AEA board to … when we started
this whole grade sharing three years ago …we had
the students in mind because at that time it was
going to be the best thing or our students. As we
look forward, I think when we come to a vote that
the individuals voting should be considering the
benefits for our students. We should be able to
keep offering our students the … classes that we
have now and maybe even have the possibility of
increasing classes if we have a school district that
has ENOUGH money to be able to do that.
I believe that it was mentioned earlier that long
range academic ability is assured if we can continue
on our path that we are and THEN continue into
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consolidation. be really a struggle for both of our districts to oper-
ate by themselves again. I would think …I would
When I left home to come here to this meeting, my be afraid that we’d have to really cut teachers and it
seventh grade daughter was very concerned that I just …I don’t think it’d work.
was going to a meeting to discuss us splitting apart
because that’s what some of the students were talk- So I’m totally in favor of sharing, of reorganization
ing about at school And she was very blunt to me into one district …I hope the board approves this.
about, “Why would any adult think about doing that That’s all I got, thank you.
to us now?” Now that’s about the students.
Stephanie Bellcock:
What we do as adults will play an impact on our
kids, and I think that’s the biggest thing that we My name’s Steph Bellcock, …I’m a young member
need to be thinking about, is our students. So I of the community. My husband farms. I’m actu-
would ask the AEA board to please approve this ally a Sac City graduate. …I just want to say I’m in
petition so we can move on with providing our support of the consolidation and I also am con-
children what they would like and what they need. cerned regarding the board composition.
Thank you.
…a lot of the surrounding communities have done
Steve Irwin: the two, two and one …makeup. …I guess I just
want to know whether it be …the reorganization
Well I can tell you that Mary Farmer is rolling over committee or our boards …can this be altered at
in her grave knowing that I wrote my name that this point, or are we approving the petition as is, or
poorly [AUDIENCE LAUGHS] [THERE WAS AN can this be altered later would be one of my ques-
ISSUE WITH THE PERSON CALLING NAMES tions and then I guess the other one is …just for a
NOT BEING ABLE TO READ THE MAJORITY little later is just regarding the future planning …
OF THE SINGED NAMES PROPERLY.] most [UNINTELLIGIBLE] are …created, whether
it be staff reductions or building utilization and I
Steve Irwin. I have a comment and a question. guess I’m just wondering what our future planning
First of all, I’d like to say that I’m fully in support is for …decreasing the …probability that we’re
of the petition, the reorganization. I have three chil- going to have some half …empty buildings. …just
dren, one graduated from Sac City, one graduated kind of what the future plans are in that.
just like a year ago from the reorganized or wholly
shared East Sac County, I’ve got one that’s still in But my big thing is, I do support consolidation …
High School that has kind of gotten that full effect but I’m very concerned regarding board composi-
of the sharing and all three are going to make it, all tion at this point and I know I’ve heard that from a
three are fine, but I think my family would say that lot of community members also.
overall the experience has been very good. Now
is everything perfect? Of course not what is? But …that was one thing that was …left out when
I would say that I’m very much in favor of the people brought the petition to have individuals sign.
reorganization. They didn’t fully explain that and
[UNINTELLIGIBLE] felt a bit mislead.
Now that being said, I do have a question and a
concern and it is about the districts of the proposed [AT THIS POINT THE AEA BOARD EXPLAINS
school board, and I think having them all open and THAT HER QUESTIONS ARE NOTED AND
not having, say two from each district, one at large, WILL BE ADDRESSED LATER]
whatever it might be, is a concern. I have heard Alright, thank you.
that from others, I have that concern myself. I think
the devil is, obviously, in the details and I certainly Louie Wright:
hope something can be worked out with that. …
again, I don’t know if that question can be answered My name is Louie Wright and I hope you would
by you folks or somebody here tonight. approve this [UNINTELLIGIBLE] reorganization.
I have four young kids from 7th grade down to a
Again, I’m in full favor of it, but with that concern. 3 year-old and I participated in the …sharing, the
Thank you study on sharing, and the reorganization commit-
tees so I’m just all for it and I think that the districts
Kim Larson: are moving in the right direction …and we would
benefit by reorganizing. Thank you.
I’m from Sac. I used to be on the school board in
Sac a few years ago when we were by ourselves and Kevin Litterer:
at that time we saw a dramatic drop in our enroll-
ment and it was really tough on the district, we had I’ll speak on behalf of opportunity. …Mr. Fischer
to let teachers go and we started in with sharing and mentioned that as well but as high school principal
we went in and started sharing superintendants with …I’ve had the opportunity to work with …teachers
some other districts which helped a lot and brought under Sac [UNINTELLIGIBLE] to those of WLVA.
us back into the black and we became pretty sound, Professional people, who come together in the best
financially and …I just hope … the future looks like interests of kids, and I think that’s the underlying
we’re going to still keep losing students, I mean, framework of what we’re focusing on.
that’s just the way it’s going to be and I think if we
don’t share totally …reorganize together …it would
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…the other opportunity is the opportunity to give school district? Yeah, yes I do. My wife was on
kids a better education than we could have sepa- the school board for many years and we’re aware of The thing that I want to emphasize is this is not
rately. …every year when I go through and I watch the decreasing enrollment. We’re also aware of the about communities, this is about kids. This is what
we’re here for. We are two education institutions
the kids go across the graduation stage and I watch fact that ….the two districts may not have enough
who’ve come together in a whole grade sharing
them go across with their lives in front of them, enrolled to run a good school system. situation that has been very, very beneficial to all of
knowing that we have, in a small way, for some of the students involved and as Cary Conger pointed
us a greater way, impacted their lives. …but we think this petition is premature. You’ve out, the kids are very happy with it. I really believe
heard people on both sides question, say that they that if you announced tomorrow morning that this
College credits. We will have kids this year that really don’t like this at large thing; they would like whole grade sharing agreement, and the possibil-
will graduate with 30 college credits …before they to maintain some semblance of community repre- ity of a reorganization was going to be dissolved,
that you would have a major walk out and revolt
even get ready to go to college. …I don’t think we sentation …on the new board.
on your hands on the part of students. They are
can do that without coming together and maintain- with this. Our kids are doing very well, our level of
ing that so I hope …you guys consider the reorgani- …then when the petition was passed and this … achievement has improved, and I’m sure that this is
zation. Thank you. probably is nitpicking but I don’t really think so. the right way to go.
When the petition was passed, and some 400 people
Dr. Youberg: in this community signed it, the petition and the list Yes, there are some questions and …the question
of names was not together. What will happen was that has arisen here about …representation? I’ve
I’m an old time family practitioner from this town a list was passed down through the grandstand, or heard that same question in our district and if I’m
not mistaken, this board can alter that, so if you
for 40 years and …of course as I hear people talk I through the seating at the football game and people think that’s a consideration that needs to be made,
want to tell you that I’m one of those who’s abso- were …asked to sign. They signed, but the petition fine, but I hope that you will approve the petition.
lutely against children and absolutely against good was not attached to that list, and we’ve heard that
education. many times. We’ve only heard occasionally that Thank you
people said they didn’t know what they had signed,
With that in mind; …I don’t know whether this has that they just signed. That would be kind of an [AT THIS POINT TIM HUSER DECIDED TO
ever happened in …your own towns, but when the idiotic thing to do, but …I have heard a couple of NOT SPEAK PUBICALLY]
newspaper began to talk about whole grade sharing, comments. Mostly people just said they were told,
Shirley Phillips:
no one in this town, unless maybe there were a few, “Well, we want to get this out of the way so sign.”
I think my wife [UNINTELLIGIBLE] who knew Hi, my name is Shirley Phillips. I not only have the
that that meant we might lose our high school to an- So I would say that I want you to think that, to honor of being the …president of the Sac School
other town. Finally the word got out that something know, that all is not happiness and light with this. Board, but also the county economic development
more was afoot than just sharing… with Lake View Many of us think that eventually we will join with director and so when I listen to declining enroll-
and …so we had …so a public meeting was …here Lake View or some other town to …oh, and then ment in Northwest Iowa I kind of take that as we’re
working hard on that to make way.
in this building and about 80 people came and they I wanted to add. Someone said the students were
discussed …they didn’t know for sure what was happy. They are very happy; I think you’ll have a …a couple of the things that I do want to reiterate,
going to happen, but they discussed it, they surely hard time finding a high school student who is not Chuck spoke about that from his district as well,
didn’t want to lose their high school, they surely happy with reorganization. There’s more girls to there is a lot of concern from our district regarding
didn’t want to lose their athletic team …without a be had, there’s more, you know, whatever it is that …the election of the …members at large, and he …
little more warning. makes them happy, they’re pretty happy [UNIN- asked, I guess if this alter that. I’m not sure, work-
TELLIGIBLE]. Maybe that’s always the case I ing with cities and counties for the past 21 years if
The following week, or perhaps it was later that really do think [UNINTELLIGIBLE] is the case. you can alter a petition or not, you’ll have to tell us
whether that’s proper or not to do that and I don’t
week, I can’t remember, the two boards met and 90 know that you can alter one portion of the petition,
people from this town came and talked with those I think I’ve about said about my peace thank you I guess, that’d be a question for everybody here.
two boards, our board and the Lake View board, very much
(it was a joint board meeting,) and at that meeting, You heard the concerns from everybody. The kids
the people of this town asked for their board not Katie Youberg: are getting along quite well. I have granddaughters
to move the high school to Lake View. They … in the school district and many nieces and nephews
rose individually, many of them, and they just said, I’m Katy Youberg and as my husband said, I was and [UNINTELLIGIBLE] as well so. It is an op-
portunity for our students. We want them prepared
“please, don’t do this this quickly, we’re not ready, on the board for 8 …years and during that time we
for a global economy in any way that we can pos-
we’re not prepared. We don’t want to lose our were looking for people to share with, people to sibly do that. It’s nice to have a sharing situation.
high school.” However, the board then cut off the consolidate with and …I think we’re happy to have Once again I guess we have more questions than
debate, moved to move the high school and …to …Wall Lake View Auburn as a sharing partner. It answers. We’re not sure where we go from here
join the two schools …for whole grade sharing and isn’t all happiness as I look around this auditorium before the vote, but I would certainly hope that we
the high school moved to Lake View. I agree that, you know we gave up this auditorium would be able to hold quite a few public meetings
for an onsite gymnasium. I don’t know, that both- [UNINTELLIGIBLE] all of our schools.
Many people in that meeting, I’d say the majority ers me a little. We’ve got a Rec Center with an old
I represent all of the communities involved in this
of the 90 who were at that meeting felt that we had gymnasium in it that we think is suitable for middle whole grade sharing [UNINTELLIGIBLE] and
been betrayed. Evidence for that betrayal is this: school, but …the choice has been to bus out the many others in the county, so it is important I think
…since then we have replaced every one of those modern gymnasium at the elementary school, so that we get the public information out to them in
board members who voted for that to move the there are a lot of little nitpicky things but I think a timely manner and as often as we can so that we
school. Everyone in the subsequent elections for we’ve got [UNINTELLIGIBLE] with the reorgani- can have all of our questions answered.
board members has been replaced except one, we zation and share with Wall Lake View Auburn.
missed him because there were two people running I guess I’ll wait for your opinion as to what you can
do about the district representative and how they’re
and we only had one person to run. Chuck Brotherton: elected. Thank you.

So…I just wanted to let you know, if you would I’m Chuck Brotherton, the president of the WLVA [AT THIS POINT DAVE SANDS DECIDED TO
listen here, you would think that everybody, that board. I want to thank you Dr. Forsyth and mem- NOT SPEAK PUBICALLY]
it’s all go and everybody is really happy with this. bers of the board for considering this petition and I
Do I think that we need to eventually, no not even hope that you will …pass it. …you’ve heard a lot [END TRANSCRIPT]
eventually, do I think we need to join with another of pros and a few cons about …the proposal.
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 Class 2A
District 1
Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley 31, Western Christian 21
Central Lyon/George-Little Rock 42, Sibley-Ocheyedan 7
Sheldon 48, Unity Christian 14
Sioux Center 23, Spirit Lake 6

District 2
Cherokee 35, Buffalo Ridge 0
Eagle Grove 45, Clarion-Goldfield 8
Humboldt 31, Okoboji 0
Pocahontas Area/Pomeroy-Palmer 34, East Sac County 33

District 3
Dike-New Hartford 47, Central Springs 8
Gilbert 39, South Hamilton 7
Hudson 38, South Hardin 0
Osage 21, Roland-Story 6

District 4
Cascade 41, Jesup 0
Monticello 28, Columbus Catholic 14
North Fayette 48, Beckman 14
Sumner-Fredericksburg 40, MFL, Mar-Mac 0

District 5
Center Point-Urbana 31, Wilton 10
North Cedar 33, Tipton 12
Iowa City Regina, 49, West Liberty 13
Solon 61, Camanche 8

District 6
Davis County 29, Mediapolis 7
Mid-Prairie 28, Columbus 6
Sigourney/Keota 42, Central Lee 13
West Burlington/Notre Dame 47, Louisa-Muscatine 12

District 7
Albia 21, North Polk, Alleman 20
Collins-Maxwell-Baxter 67, Colfax-Mingo 16
PCM, Monroe 41, East Marshall 0
West Marshall 21, Bondurant-Farrar 14

District 8
Maple Valley/Anthon-Oto 40, Clarinda 6
Kuemper Catholic 35, Missouri Valley 20
IKM-Manning 62, Red Oak 0
Odebolt-Arthur/Battle Creek-Ida Grove 62, Shenandoah 0

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Minutes of the 10/06/09
Sac County Supervisors
Meeting

The Sac County Board of Supervi-

sors met in regular session with
all members present, Rick Hecht,
Chairman, presiding. The minutes
of the last meeting were approved
as submitted.

It was moved by Stock and sec-

onded by Bensley to approve the
agenda as posted. Ayes all, motion
carried.

During the citizen input segment of

the agenda, Don Oxendale of rural
Odebolt, addressed the Board re-
garding large rocks being applied to
the gravel road by the gravel trucks.
He reported several vehicle tires
were ruined because of the sharp
rocks on the road. The Board will
refer this to the County Engineer.

It was moved by Stock and second-

ed by Bensley to approve the Sher-
iff’s quarterly report for the quarter
ending September 30, 2009. Ayes
all, motion carried.

Sheriff Ken McClure informed the

Board that the County Attorney had
re-appointed Doug Reis of Early to
the Sac County Civil Service Board
for a three-year term, and that the tion of wages and called for a 1.5% post remediation samplings after
Supervisors needed to make two reduction in wage rates. No further the required 6 month stabilization
appointments to the same board as action was taken at this time. period. Ayes all, motion carried.
soon as possible.
It was moved by Bensley and It was moved by Stock and second-
The Board of Supervisors presented seconded by Stock to approve the ed by Bensley to accept the resigna-
a counter-proposal to the Sac Coun- proposal from Tirleaf Corporation tion of Grace Green from the Sac
ty Professional Paramedic Associa- to the Iowa DNR to shut down the County Condemnation Compensa-
tion in response to their proposal air sparge and soil vapor extrac- tion Commission and to appoint
for contract renewal. The Board’s tion system located on the property Mike Green to fill the position.
proposal accepted the language of at 3rd and Main Streets, and begin Ayes all, motion carried.
the current contract with the excep-
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It was moved by Stock and seconded
by Bensley to approve an application
submitted by Frontier Communica-
tions to bury cable within the boundar-
ies of DD 67, located between Sec-
tions 23 & 24, Eden Twp. Ayes all,
motion carried.

It was moved by Bensley and sec-

onded by Stock to approve the claims
as listed on the claims register in the
Auditor’s office. Ayes all, motion car-
ried.

The County Engineer updated the

Board on activities of the county road
crews and the status of current mainte-
nance and construction projects.

With there being no further business,

on motion, the meeting was adjourned.

Items 1 - 3 dealt with homecoming

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have pled guilty to these charges on or
between the dates of October 1, 2009 and
October 7, 2009

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Theodore Liautaud, Carroll IA Robert Lee Hart, Elm City NC
Jeffrey Clint Maymon, Storm Lake IA UNSAFE PASSING
REGISTRATION VIOLATION Richard Clay Lester, Altoona IA
6-10 OVER IN A 55 MPH ZONE Wayne T. Monroe, Ida Grove IA
Jeffrey Joseph Rubino, Urbandale IA
PASSING CONTRARY TO HIGHWAY
Jessica A. Cannova, Spencer IA FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH SAFETY
REG.RULES
SIGN/MARKING
Joseph William Combs, Des Moines IA
William Lowell Devine, Cartersville GA Joseph R. Poulin, Augusta ME William Burton Racobs, Castana IA
John Allen Smith, Albany MO Peter Francis Feller, Fulton IL
Diane Marie Wernimont, Auburn IA 6-10 OVER IN A 35 MPH ZONE
Gregory Michael Bixler, Des Moines IA PERMITTING UNAUTHORIZED PER- Daniel Lee Hilsabeck, Manning IA
Toni Lee McCormick, Newton IA SON TO DRIVE Loren Charles Heckathorne, Nevada IA
Jeremy Robert Johnston, Vail IA Lynne Annette Toyne, Odebolt IA
Randall Martin Donner, McCook Lake SD 6-10 OVER IN A 30 MPH ZONE
Jeremy John Boger, Battle Creek IA FAILURE TO CARRY OR REFUSE TO Sheila Ann Griffin, Curlew IA
Ryan William Schweitzberger, West Des Moines IA SHOW LICENSE
Dawn Marie Margaret Delotto, Heron Lake MN Amber Paige Kroll, Ricketts IA 1-5 OVER IN A 25 MPH ZONE
Victoria Kay Perkins, Washington IA Colby Christian Nepper, Ida Grove IA
Kyle Stan Crum, Galva IA PASSING TOO NEAR BRIDGE, INTER-
Daniel Leo Gesy, Denison IA SECTION, OR RR 1-5 OVER IN A 55 MPH ZONE
Dennis Keith Larson, Groton SD Steven Craig Hanson, Sac City IA
Bryan Sigle Smith, Des Moines IA FAIL TO
DEFECTIVE OR UNAUTHORIZED MUF- USE OF LIGHT RESTRICTING DEVICE
FLER SYSTEM Wendy Sue Buss, Mapleton IA MAINTAIN SAFETY BELTS
Joshua Peter Ernzen, Ida Grove IA Mickey Donavon Lott, Lytton IA
MAX. HOURS OF SERVICE VIOLATION Olivia Roxanne Jensen, Galva IA
11-15 OVER IN A 55 MPH ZONE Brian M. Barber, Columbus NE Daryl Ray Glasnapp, Rockwell City IA
William Charles Huxford, Norwalk IA Todd Leroy Kelley, Early IA
Barbara A. Reinhart, Odebolt IA DARK WINDOW/WINDSHIELD Bonnie Lou Peters, Lake View IA
Kristine Rae Burman, Manson IA Marlin Francis Rohmiller, Sioux City IA Mikel Carstensen, Schaller IA

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