The CAM School Board held its annual Organizational meeting Monday evening, in Anita. The Board voted to keep Gary Dinkla as President, and Chuck Kinzie as Vice-President. Lindsay Jahde was appointed Board Secretary Treasurer. Superintendent Casey Berlau told KJAN their Board meetings times and dates remain the same: the third Monday of the month at 6:30-p.m. Berlau said two facility projects were presented to the Board, Monday: Roof repair at the High School will come to $10,000. The other was the exterior walls of the Massena building. The Board approved a bid for $26,000 to have exterior work conducted on the gym at Massena. He said the joints of the precast walls are starting to wear away on the wall, and it’s hoped doing the work now will prevent greater damage later.

Berlau said there were no resignations for the Board to approve, but they did agree to offer several contracts. Lexie Winther and Anna Amdor were offered para-educator contracts; Brian Sexton – Junior High Football Coach; Manda Thomas – Co-Head Speech Coach; Middle School Student Council – Heather Scar and Samantha Rosenbeck; Joe Wollum and Nick Hodges will serve as Co-Coaches for Golf. Superintendent Berlau said the Board also discussed a revision to a District Policy regarding meal charges.

The policy stated that when a family is $50 or more in the red on their meal tickets, the student would have to receive an “Alternate meal.” That clause was removed from the proposed policy. The District will continue to inform families when their accounts are negative and work with them to get those paid, but they will no longer continue to offer an Alternative meal. The student will continue to get the regular meal.