The CAM School Board met Monday evening in Anita, and approved the 2019-2020 School Calendar, which is not much different from the current school year calendar, according to Superintendent Casey Berlau. He said the school year will start on Aug. 23^rd 2019 and end May 27, 2020. Berlau said the administration presented a budget for publishing and will hold a public hearing before acting on approving it during their meeting next month. The budget calls for a levy of $10 per $1,000 assessed valuation, which is up a couple of pennies from the current school year. Berlau calls it a “Pretty status quo budget.”

In other business, the CAM Education Association (CAMEA) presented their opening offer for contract negotiations. Basically, Berlau says they asked for a 4% increase in salary for next year, along with a one-year contract. The next step is for the School Board to present its opening offer in the next ten days during an open meeting. The Board also approved the seeking of bids for a facilities study.

Berlau said “That’s kind of a big deal, because we’re like a lot of districts with aging facilities. It just seems like we have a lot of different projects that are coming towards us or actually need looking at in the near future. We just that discussion about the need to have a ‘bigger picture’ look at all of our facilities so we can make better decisions going forward.” He said they hope to have some of those proposals for th Board to consider, in the next couple of months.