(Anita) – The CAM School Board met Monday evening in a regular session. Shared CAM-Nodaway Valley Superintendent Paul Croghan says with regard to the District’s facilities, there is a Financial Focus Group meeting scheduled for 6:30-p.m. Wednesday, in Massena.

He says the community had been engaged with and highly interested in, the process of coming up with a facilities plan.

They started out with about 150 people attending the first, in-person meeting. Since then, there’s been at least 70 or 80 people attending, and countless more seeing and listening to the discussion on-line. He says they anticipated things to continue to progress and refining the process as they move along.

In other discussion/action, the CAM School Board made some adjustments in association with the FY2020 Audit Review, by clearing inactive Activity Accounts. There were also minor changes in the Student Handbook.

They approved an Out-of-State Football Trip for a Football Camp for later this month, but if CAM Baseball continues to win as they did Monday night, then the trip will not happen, according to Croghan. It could be made-up this Fall. The CAM School Board renewed an agreement with the Cass County Sheriff’s Office for a School Resource Officer, and Sharing Agreements with Nodaway Valley.

(Radio Iowa) – Republican State Senator Zach Nunn of Bondurant plans to run for congress and challenge the only Democrat in Iowa’s D-C delegation. Nunn served two terms in the Iowa House and was elected to the state senate in 2018. He’s also a member of the Iowa National Guard who was deployed this past year. Nunn is the third Republican to announce they’re running in the current third congressional district, which is represented by Congresswoman Cindy Axne, a Democrat from West Des Moines, so a G-O-P primary is likely. Republicans Mary Ann Hanusa, a former state legislator from Council Bluffs, and Nicole Hasso of Johnston, who works in the financial services industry, also plan to seek to the G-O-P spot to challenge Axne. Axne has said she’s considering her options for 2022 and seeking a third term in the U.S. House is one of them.

The state legislature plans to approve new maps for all four of Iowa’s congressional districts next month and the Des Moines metro — where Axne, Nunn and Hasso live — will be in the same district. Hanusa aims to run against Axne, even if Hanusa’s Council Bluffs home is no longer in the same congressional district. According to the US Constitution, candidates are only required to live in the state they plan to represent in the U.S. House, but there’s no requirement they must live within the district.

The Iowa DOT’s 511 system reports (as of 6:18-a.m.) the right shoulder of Interstate 80 eastbound, one-mile east of the Highway 71/Atlantic-Brayton exit, is blocked due to a crash. Additional information was not immediately available.

A regular meeting of the Atlantic School Board will take place 6-p.m. Wednesday (July 14), in the High School Media Center (and streamed live on YouTube). Discussion items on their agenda will include an update on the District’s Facility Project, and a review of Board Policies, Series 300 and 900. Action items include:

• 2021-22 Student Fees (Superintendent Steve Barber says the current fee structure has remained unchanged for the past three-years, and he sees “No reason to make any change for the upcoming school year.” Adult lunch prices have not yet officially been posted. Mr. Barber says “If these lunches need to be different than $3.95, we [the Board] will need to revisit next month.”
• The Atlantic School Board will act on awarding a 2021-22 Fuel Contract, and
• Spring 2022 Coaching Contracts as follows:
  • Head Boys Track – Abby Becker
  • 8th Grade Boys Track – Trace Petersen
  • Head Girls Track – Matt Mullenix
  • Asst. Girls Track – Derek Hall
  • 7th Grade Girls Track – Casey Pelzer
  • 8th Grade Girls Track – Taylor Williams
  • Head Tennis – Michael McDermott
  • Asst. Tennis – Cole Renken
  • Head Girls Soccer – Dan Vargason
  • Head Boys Soccer – Matt Smith
  • Asst. Girls Soccer – Alyssa Dovenspike
  • Asst. Boys Soccer – Mark Anderson
  • Head Boys Golf – Ed Den Beste
  • Head Girls Golf – Kathy Hobson.

The School Board will also act on approving the resignations of Amber Caudle – MS Paraprofessional, and Rob Hansen – HS Asst. Baseball Coach. The are expected to approve also, Contract Recommendations for: Tori Dolch – Freshman Volleyball Coach; Adam Smith – Volunteer Football Coach; Katy Christensen, Vol. Volleyball Coach; Bruce Henderson – Vol. Cross Country Coach; Clair Acker, Jim Mullenix and Roger Warne – Substitute/Activity Bus Drivers.