The retiring CAM School Board and newly reorganized CAM Board of Education will meet this evening at the CAM High School Media Center, in Anita. At 6-p.m., the retiring board will review and discuss old business and review an abstract of votes before adjourning. The newly reorganized board meeting will follow immediately thereafter, with the swearing-in of new board members and election of officers.

Other administrative matters include discussion with regard to Tax Increment Financing, and Energy Audit, usage of the Anita Wellness Center, adjustments to the school lunch prices, and the fitness equipment program. Action items will include a request for allowable growth and supplemental aid for a negative special education balance, a contract revision, and the purchase of a truck.

The Elk Horn-Kimballton Board of Education will meet at 7-p.m., in the Family and Consumer Science Room at the High School in Elk Horn. On their agenda, is action pertaining to contracts and resignations, and discussion with regard to the high school parking lot. The old board will then adjourn and new board members will be sworn-in, followed by the election of officers.

New business during the session will include administrative matters, and action on school lunch prices, continued sharing of activities with other districts, approval of an Acceptable Use Policy, and other, board policies.

The City of Atlantic’s Park and Recreation Board of Directors are set to this evening, at City Hall. Action items on their agenda include those pertaining to the Election of a Secretary, the Schildberg Fishing Dock repair and replacement, and an update on Parks and Rec Director Roger Herring’s conversations with Councilman Kern Miller about his concept to move the skate park from its current location at Sunnyside Park to another spot.

The Board will also hear an updates on the Schildberg Quarry Lake number 1 Trail and Bull Creek Pathway Projects, and discuss sidewalk replacement at the City Park, along with other matters, including the Sunnyside Tennis Courts and Restroom replacements.

The meeting begins at 5:15-p.m.

A volunteer, on-duty firefighter with the Shelby Fire Department was struck and killed by a car Sunday evening at the scene of an earlier crash on Interstate 80, in Pottawattamie County. According to the Iowa State Patrol, 41-year old Michael Collins, from Minden, IA, was directing traffic at around 6:50-p.m. just east of the Shelby exit on I-80 eastbound, when he was hit by a car driven by 43-year old David Lee Thies, of Ames.

Thies‘ 2001 Honda Accord was in the closed lane of traffic when it hit Collins. Collins died at the scene. His body was transported to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Ankeny for autopsy. The accident, which remains under investigation, closed I-80 eastbound for about two-hours.