SAC COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES ANNOUNCES H1N1 CLINIC FOR EXPANDED HIGH RISK GROUPS
Sac County Health Services announces an upcoming H1N1 clinic on Monday, November 23 from 2:00 to 6:00 P.M. at the First Christian Church, 521 Park Ave, Sac City. Persons eligible for vaccination at this clinic include pregnant women, caregivers and household contacts of children less than 6 months of age, anyone 6 months through 24 years of age, children under 10 years of age that received their first dose of H1N1 vaccine on or before October 26 and adults age 25 through 64 with a chronic medical condition. Chronic medical conditions that put a person at higher risk for complications from H1N1 influenza include long term lung conditions such as asthma and emphysema, heart disease (except hypertension), kidney disease, liver disease, diabetes and other metabolic disorders, neurologic/neuromuscular problems, persons with developmental disabilities, HIV/AIDS, and persons taking immune suppressing medication due to an organ transplant or other reason. This is a walk in clinic with no appointment necessary. There is no charge for the H1N1 influenza vaccination. Please call 712-662-4785 or 800-967-3984 if you have questions regarding vaccination.
...In other Sac School Board News
On November 16, 2009 the Sac CSD Board appointed Melissa Bellcock to the Sac Community Center Board as the school’s liaison.
Brent Wilhelm was re-appointed to the Finance Committee and the Building and Grounds Committee.
Marti Huser Volunteered to sit on the Finance Committee.
Dave Sands volunteered to sit on the Building and Grounds Committee.
The next Sac CSD Board meeting will be meeting early on December 21, 2009 at 5:00PM due to a middle school band concert at 7Pm that evening.
The innovative Calendar was approved by the Department of Education.
The High School has 185 computers for students.
Middle school has 150 computers for students.
Elementary has a floating lab and has desperate need of more computers.
It is the goal of the administration that every classroom have a document camera.
October, 2009 SCPD Department Head Report
All people accused of crimes are innocent until proven guilty.
The disposition of all cases are subject to cchange without notice
This is a Sac City Police Department Department Head report on file in the Sac City Business Office obtained through a Iowa Freedom of Information Act Request.
No anonymous comments regarding crimes are allowed.
The disposition of all cases are subject to cchange without notice
This is a Sac City Police Department Department Head report on file in the Sac City Business Office obtained through a Iowa Freedom of Information Act Request.
No anonymous comments regarding crimes are allowed.
Sac School Board offers early retirement to teachers
The Sac Community School District (CSD) has in place an early retirement policy that allows teachers who are 55 years of age with 20 years of experience in either East Sac County Districts or combinations of East Sac County Districts to take a $15,000 lump sum incentive to retire. The following is that policy:
On November 10, 2009 the Wall Lake View Auburn CSD face the decision to either leave the policy in place for the 2010 – 2011 school year or to vote to not offer it.
According to Superintendant Barb Kruthoff speaking for the WLVA CSD and Brent Wilhelm speaking for the Sac CSD, each time their respective board made it known that they were not going to offer an early retirement package the following year, it acted as an incentive for teachers on the edge of eligibility to take advantage of it.
The WLVA board did by consensus continue to offer early retirement for the 10-11 school year. On the evening of November 16, 2009 the Sac CSD board was also leaning the same way, with only Mr. Wilhelm expressing any hesitation saying, “ “the only problem I ever have is that …if you just continue to keep going and going and going, I don’t know whether it has …the effect of giving them the incentive to retire when YOU [the school board] kind of think you need them too or, just… that’s a $15,000 bonus when …they’re fed up. That’s the way I look at it, ‘I’m just tired of this crap, I’m gonna take the fifteen grand.’”
According to Ms. Kruthoff, any teacher that retires would have to be replaced to avoid losing the ability to offer classes. Replacing an experienced teacher with a trainee would lead to short rise in cost of training, but would start to save the district money as the second year kicked in and the teachers was actually costing the district less in wages for a net gain of savings.
According to Ms. Kruthoff, there are 5 people in Sac CSD and 6 or 7 people in the WLVA CSD that will be eligible to take early retirement.
Further complicating the decision as the fact that, again, according to Ms. Kruthoff, there are positions within the pool of teachers that will be eligible that are positions that have personnel shortages, and may be hard to fill.
There was a side discussion in which Sac School Board Vice President Dave Sands made a motion to waive the “Only meeting in joint session once per quarter” requirement so that the two boards could meet jointly to discuss with the WLVA board how to move forward, but the motion died for lack of a second. Ms. Kruthoff pointed out that if the board was going to discontinue the policy, the decision had to be made by December.
Ultimately, the Sac CSD board of Directors decided to leave the early retirement policy in place for another year.
On November 10, 2009 the Wall Lake View Auburn CSD face the decision to either leave the policy in place for the 2010 – 2011 school year or to vote to not offer it.
According to Superintendant Barb Kruthoff speaking for the WLVA CSD and Brent Wilhelm speaking for the Sac CSD, each time their respective board made it known that they were not going to offer an early retirement package the following year, it acted as an incentive for teachers on the edge of eligibility to take advantage of it.
The WLVA board did by consensus continue to offer early retirement for the 10-11 school year. On the evening of November 16, 2009 the Sac CSD board was also leaning the same way, with only Mr. Wilhelm expressing any hesitation saying, “ “the only problem I ever have is that …if you just continue to keep going and going and going, I don’t know whether it has …the effect of giving them the incentive to retire when YOU [the school board] kind of think you need them too or, just… that’s a $15,000 bonus when …they’re fed up. That’s the way I look at it, ‘I’m just tired of this crap, I’m gonna take the fifteen grand.’”
According to Ms. Kruthoff, any teacher that retires would have to be replaced to avoid losing the ability to offer classes. Replacing an experienced teacher with a trainee would lead to short rise in cost of training, but would start to save the district money as the second year kicked in and the teachers was actually costing the district less in wages for a net gain of savings.
According to Ms. Kruthoff, there are 5 people in Sac CSD and 6 or 7 people in the WLVA CSD that will be eligible to take early retirement.
Further complicating the decision as the fact that, again, according to Ms. Kruthoff, there are positions within the pool of teachers that will be eligible that are positions that have personnel shortages, and may be hard to fill.
There was a side discussion in which Sac School Board Vice President Dave Sands made a motion to waive the “Only meeting in joint session once per quarter” requirement so that the two boards could meet jointly to discuss with the WLVA board how to move forward, but the motion died for lack of a second. Ms. Kruthoff pointed out that if the board was going to discontinue the policy, the decision had to be made by December.
Ultimately, the Sac CSD board of Directors decided to leave the early retirement policy in place for another year.
New Middle School Drama Coaches hired at Sac CSD
The following are unsigned copies of the contracts that the Sac Community School Board approved on November 16, 2009.
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