The Kimball School Board heard a proposal to change the calendar to accommodate the Longhorn football team and Mary Lynch students read poetry entries to the board at their regular meeting Monday, Oct. 10.

The students, from Carma Weisbrook’s class, read their winning poetry to the board as part of Pride in Excellence. Weisbrook also read some entries for students who were unable to attend the meeting.

Kimball teacher, Jeri Ferguson, proposed a change to the calendar for the week of Oct. 24-30. This change would accommodate the football players headed to playoffs. The conflict arises with playoffs scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 28, a day already full with volleyball games, Senior Parents Night, and parent-teacher conferences.

The proposed change would move everything off of that Thursday night. Parents with both volleyball and football players in school would not have to choose which game to attend. The change would also allow parents to not have to choose between parent-teacher conferences or supporting their athletes.

The calendar can only be changed by the board, and since the issue was not in the action items, the board could not make a decision at that meeting.

Board member Lynn Vogel suggested allowing Superintendent Troy Unzicker to make arrangements and then take the action himself.

“If all the ‘ifs’ fall into place, I don’t have an issue with you (Unzicker) making the change as needed,” Vogel said.

Other board members agreed, but Unzicker declined to do that. He suggested instead that the board have a special meeting in the next week to address the change if everything fell into place and a change could be made.

“This really should be a board process,” Unzicker stated.

Unzicker reported on the Wind For Schools resolution. According to Unzicker, the paperwork involved is already done and the grant is in place. The program allows for a small personal windmill. The windmill would generate a small amount of energy, but would be a curriculum tool for the schools.

FFA advisor and agriculture teacher Alan Held would use the windmill as a teaching tool, as would science teacher Dani Shaw, according to Unzicker. The total cost to the school system would be around $1500 with the grant that has been given by the state.

“This sounds like a good teaching tool,” board member, Rick Perry said.

“I think is will be a good investment,” Vogel added.

The board passed the resolution to acquire the windmill and accept the grant unanimously.

Unzicker updated the board on the safety and security review, and stated that Kimball schools did very well on the review. He also reported on the advisory council meeting.

Kimball Schools has an advisory council comprised of students, parents and patrons, staff and administration. Each group met separately to answer some questions set forth by Unzicker. The answers to those questions were compiled and Unzicker reported them to the board.

At the next meeting all groups will be present together to review the different answers received. They will then begin discussing the actions needed to address each concern or thought.

Unzicker asked the board to consider moving the superintendent’s evaluation up to Nov. or Dec. to allow the current board to evaluate him. This would eliminate a new board member coming in in January and evaluating the superintendent on comments and scores from a previous board member. The board agreed to move the timeline forward to the end of this calendar year.

With no further actions to take at that time, and nothing else to discuss the board adjourned.