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Welcome to Storm Lake Community Schools!
Citizen’s Advisory Committee
Please put Monday, March 12 at 7:00 PM on your calendars and plan to attend the Citizen’s Advisory Committee in the middle school media center. Citizen’s Advisory Committee is one of the ways parent and community members can let the school district know their thoughts on how to improve our school district.
Over the years, Citizen Advisory Committee meetings have not been very well attended. It would be great if you would help to change this trend. Please put March 12 on your calendar and plan on bringing a friend. It would be great to pack the middle school media center with parents and community members.
Agenda items for the Citizen Advisory Committee at this point include: next year’s school calendar, student handbook changes, a charter school report, and updates on the auditorium and South School. There will also be time for parents and community members to discuss issues that are important to you.
Auditorium Committee
The school district has hired the I&S Group to assist in putting together a proposal for a performing arts center in Storm Lake. The committee has visited auditoriums in Spirit Lake, Emmetsburg, Holstein, and Buena Vista University to get ideas on what to include in a possible future auditorium in Storm Lake.
The auditorium committee will have several meetings scheduled this spring with hope to have a proposal for the board of education to consider at their June meeting. The next meeting of the auditorium committee is scheduled for Thursday, February 2 at 7:00 PM in the middle school media center. If helping to design a future auditorium is something you are interested in being a part of please contact me at 732-8060.
South School
As you have probably read in the newspaper and heard on the radio, the future of South School is the focus of many discussions. On January 4, a public meeting was held in which a developer discussed a proposed plan to convert South School into 30 plus apartments. Several neighbors of South expressed concern about the apartment plan and offered alternative plans. Alternative plans include moving some students back into the building from the middle school and elementary school, demolishing it and building houses on the lot, updating the building as an arts and cultural center, and moving the central office and community education to the building.
Each of the proposed plans has merit but also will cost money. Since the district budget is not unlimited, any dollars spent on South School are dollars that are not spent on other facility needs. Also any plan has supporters and opponents. If you have ideas or concerns on the future of South please let me know by either email cturner@slcsd.org or telephone 732-8060.
Weather Decisions
As a superintendent I realize that no matter what weather decision I make that I am going to have people agree and disagree with my decision. Here are the factors I use to make a weather decision: the weather condition, forecast, condition of roads in our district and what neighboring districts are doing.
I will do my very best to have a decision made by 6:00 AM. If I decide to have school and you disagree with my decision please call the school your child attends, tell them you disagree with my decision and it will be an excused absence.
When an announcement is made, I will contact KAYL/KKIA, Iowa Alerts and KTIV. Iowa Alerts and KTIV Channel 4 offer a text message service which you can sign up for to be informed of late starts and closures.
As with any issue, I appreciate your thoughts and input. Please call me (732-8060), email me at (cturner@slcsd.org), or stop in and see me at 419 Lake Ave. |
