The Atlantic Community School District’s Board of Education will hold their its regular monthly meeting this evening (Monday), in the Media Center, at the High School. The meeting begins at 7:30. During the session, the Board will act on items as part of their Consent Agenda, including: Open enrollment requests; General Education & Special Education contracts; Amended Contracts and/or Letters of Assignment; Volunteer coaching positions; And, any resignations.

Other actions items include approval of: A fuel bid for 2015-16; A bid for the bleachers at the Schuler Elementary School; High School Parking Lot repair bid; The District’s Affirmative Action Plan; 2015-16 Student Handbooks; A Leave of Absence for Jeremy Blake; IASB Legislative Priorities; Bank Depository Limits for 2016; 2015-16 Board Meeting & Work Session Master Calendars; And, approval of Cooperative Sharing Agreements.

During the Discussion portion of the meeting, and prior to adjournment, the Atlantic School Board will talk about Superintendent Dr. Michael Amstein’s goals for the 2015-16 school year.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The backyard of Iowa’s historic governor’s mansion is about to get a major facelift, with a new reflecting pool and vintage style greenhouse. Jeff Boeyink, a former chief of staff to Governor Terry Branstad who heads up a fundraising effort, says both projects will be privately funded.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Family members of a Davenport man who was fatally shot are working to keep his case in the public eye. The Quad-City Times reports that relatives of Justin J. McBridge held a vigil Saturday to mark the six-month anniversary of the day he was found dead in his apartment of a gunshot wound.

EVANSDALE, Iowa (AP) — Motorcyclists have rallied in an eastern Iowa town to honor two cousins who were abducted and killed three years ago. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier says the third annual “Memorial Ride and Drive for the Girls” drew supporters Saturday to mark the anniversary of the day 10-year-old Lyric Cook-Morrissey and 8-year-old Elizabeth Collins were taken. The Evansdale girls disappeared on July 13th, 2012 sparking a massive search that ended tragically when their bodies were discovered on December 5th, 2012 in Bremer County.

OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) — Police say they plan to ticket a motorist who crashed into a southern Iowa stadium building. The Courier newspaper reports that the driver went through a chain-link fence at Schafer Stadium in Ottumwa on Saturday and struck the facility’s newest building. The driver was taken by ambulance to a local hospital.

A man from Minnesota who was a passenger in a vehicle that rolled over Sunday afternoon in Pottawattamie County, was transported by helicopter to a hospital in Omaha. The Iowa State Patrol says 34-year old James Vocelka, of Park Rapids, MN., suffered possible, serious injuries and was taken to Creighton University Medical Center following the crash that happened at around 1:10-p.m. on northbound Interstate 29, near the I-680 split.

Authorities say Vocelka was a passenger in a pickup truck that was struck from behind by another vehicle. After the impact, the pickup went out of control, entered the ditch and rolled onto its side. Neither the driver of the pickup, 34-year old Candace Schilling, of Osage, MN., nor the driver of the other vehicle, 29-year old Joseph Victor, of Council Bluffs, were injured.