The Greene County School Board met last night.

The Board approved bids of $2,250 for its Wilcox Way lot and $1,111.11 for the Adams Street lot.  The Board also approved several other items including paying $11,000 to the Jefferson Fieldhouse to continue its lease agreement to use their facility for the wrestling season, participating in the 2015 Iowa Drug and Alcohol Testing Program, appointed about 24 members to the school improvement advisory committee, all winter sports officials and sending out bids to purchase an 84-passenger school bus by next school year.

The Board also approved $45,295 for 7.4 additional students for its allowable growth request along with $2,681 in allowable growth for the River Hills Consortium agreement for two special education students.  The Board approved to change the district name from East Greene to Greene County School District on the Rippey baseball field lease.

Construction instructor Chuck Wenthold told the Board that they are up to nine students who have enrolled in the construction class that will begin in the second trimester.  He laid out the coursework for November and December and mentioned that the students will get to held with some of the renovation work on a Habitat for Humanity house in Jefferson next week with weather permitting.  The Board requested to have monthly updates of progress for the students along with pictures to document their work.

The Board also looked at selling the Rippey School property to the City of Rippey.  Options that were discussed were selling the property to the City for $1 but to have the City pay for the costs of the engineers to prepare the site and re-assess it and another option was splitting the engineering costs and still sell the land to the City for $1.  No action was taken on the topic.