--- title: LLM Manifest --- # Iowa City Schools Board Archive — LLM Manifest This file is a machine-readable index of the archive, intended for AI tools (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, etc.). It lists every page worth reading with a one-line description and a direct link to the raw markdown. Humans landing here are welcome to read it too — it's a useful site map — but the structured site is at . **Refreshed:** 2026-06-10. Regenerates daily. **At a glance:** 53 public board meetings in 2026, 554 supporting documents, 80 press articles, 5 topic pages, 7 current board members. --- ## Site structure - **[Home](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/index.md)** — site overview, latest meeting summary, recent press coverage. - **[Timeline](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/timeline.md)** — chronological dashboard of every 2026 event (meetings, press articles, anchor events) sorted newest first. - **[How to use](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/how-to-use.md)** — guide to navigating the four browse modes (meeting, topic, timeline, search). - **[Methodology](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/methodology.md)** — how the archive is built, what's primary source vs. synthesis, auto-refresh process. - **[About](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/about.md)** — purpose, scope, roadmap. ## Topics Each topic page has: a stable overview, an auto-generated list of 2026 meetings on that topic, an auto-generated list of supporting documents, and an auto-generated press coverage section. All update daily. - **[Budget](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/topics/budget.md)** — annual budgets, property tax levies, audits, fund balances, and significant transfers (including the 2026 financial crisis). - **[Superintendent](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/topics/superintendent.md)** — superintendent role, evaluation, contracts, and transitions. - **[Facilities](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/topics/facilities.md)** — buildings, land, capital projects, property sales/purchases, leases, PPEL/SAVE funding. - **[Policies](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/topics/policies.md)** — board policy adoptions, revisions, rescissions, and the Policy & Governance Committee pipeline. - **[Boundaries](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/topics/boundaries.md)** — school attendance areas, boundary changes, open-enrollment patterns, and school-closure / reconfiguration discussions. ## People - **[Board Members](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/people/board-members.md)** — all 7 current directors with committee roles, individual vote records, recurring themes, attributed quotes with transcript timestamps. - **[Administrators](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/people/administrators.md)** — senior cabinet, executive cabinet, and directors. Notes active leadership transitions. ## Press - **[2026 Press Index](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/press/2026.md)** — 80 curated news articles from KCRG, The Cedar Rapids Gazette, The Daily Iowan, CBS2 Iowa, Iowa Public Radio (NPR), Little Village, West Side Story, and others. Each entry: headline, publication, byline, date, summary, and direct link to the original article. Auto-refreshes daily. ## Key documents - **[Key Documents](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/documents/key-documents.md)** — curated by category (budget & financial, capital projects, property dispositions, labor agreements, active-review policies, leadership transition). Direct deep-links to the district portal. - **[Audited Financial Statements](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/audited-financials/index.md)** — audited annual financial statements for ICCSD (FY2020–2023; FY2024–2025 missing as part of the audit backlog story) plus ~13 peer Iowa districts (Ankeny, Burlington, Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Des Moines, Dubuque, Johnston, Linn-Mar, Muscatine, Pleasant Valley, Waterloo, Waukee, West Des Moines) FY2020–2025. PDFs hosted directly on this site. ## Anchor events (pre-crisis / out-of-band) Hand-curated facts that aren't directly in press articles or meeting summaries — added so the AI can place 2026 events in context. - **2025-08** — Undisclosed $10 million interfund transfer from health-insurance fund to general fund. District administrators moved $10 million from the health-insurance fund into the general fund to cover a payroll cash-flow shortfall. - **2025-11** — Chief Financial Officer Adam Kurth leaves ICCSD. Adam Kurth, who had succeeded Leslie Finger as CFO in 2023, departs the district. - **2023-09 — 2025-06** — ICCSD incurs $525,110 in federal tax penalties. Per Cedar Rapids Gazette reporting, the district accrued $525,110 in federal tax penalties between September 30, 2023 and June 30, 2025 for filing payroll and… - **2023-06** — Former CFO Leslie Finger retires after warning successor. Cedar Rapids Gazette obtained emails showing Finger had warned his successor Adam Kurth about ~$500K in federal tax penalties, the absence of financial… ## Meetings with curated summaries (newest first) Each meeting page has: title, date, official agenda link, a "what happened" editorial summary (where curated), a link to the YouTube recording, and the full supporting-documents list grouped by agenda item with direct deep-links to each PDF. - **2026-06-02** — [Special Meeting of the Board of Directors](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/meetings/2026/2026-06-02-special-meeting-of-the-board-of-directors.md) — A Special Meeting whose Action Items were the formal acceptance of Superintendent Matt Degner resignation and the Interim Superintendent Search (Search Options… - **2026-05-26** — [Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors - AMENDED AGENDA](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/meetings/2026/2026-05-26-regular-meeting-of-the-board-of-directors-amended-agenda.md) — The May 26 board meeting was dominated by Superintendent Matt Degner's transition out of the superintendency. - **2026-05-15** — [Special Meeting of the Board of Directors](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/meetings/2026/2026-05-15-special-meeting-of-the-board-of-directors.md) — A short special board meeting with one substantive action: acceptance of the Special Education Director's resignation. - **2026-05-12** — [Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/meetings/2026/2026-05-12-regular-meeting-of-the-board-of-directors.md) — The May 12 meeting produced the FMP (Facilities Master Plan) resolution, drafted and motioned by Director Lingo — formalizing project-ranking and… - **2026-04-28** — [Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors - Amended Agenda](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/meetings/2026/2026-04-28-regular-meeting-of-the-board-of-directors-amended-agenda.md) — A 47-document April meeting. - **2026-04-14** — [Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/meetings/2026/2026-04-14-regular-meeting-of-the-board-of-directors.md) — A 74-document agenda — the largest single regular meeting agenda of 2026. - **2026-03-24** — [Regular Meeting - Board of Directors: Immediately Following Special Meeting/Budget Hearing - AMENDED](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/meetings/2026/2026-03-24-regular-meeting-board-of-directors-immediately-following-spe.md) — The March 24 board meeting (held immediately following a Special Meeting / Budget Hearing on the proposed FY27 property-tax levy) ratified the FY26-27 Budget… - **2026-03-24** — [Special Meeting /Budget Hearing : Public Hearing on Proposed Property Tax Levy](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/meetings/2026/2026-03-24-special-meeting-budget-hearing-public-hearing-on-proposed-pr.md) — A Special Meeting / Budget Hearing held immediately before the regular meeting on the same date. - **2026-03-10** — [Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/meetings/2026/2026-03-10-regular-meeting-of-the-board-of-directors.md) — The March 10 board meeting produced two notable split votes. - **2026-03-03** — [Special Board Meeting - 5:00 PM - Amended Agenda](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/meetings/2026/2026-03-03-special-board-meeting-5-00-pm-amended-agenda.md) — A special board meeting at 5:00 PM — 9 supporting documents. - **2026-02-24** — [Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors Amended Agenda](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/meetings/2026/2026-02-24-regular-meeting-of-the-board-of-directors-amended-agenda.md) — The February 24 meeting was the first formal landing of the FY27 Certified Budget Update and Proposed Budget Actions on the board's regular agenda. - **2026-02-17** — [Board Work Session - Amended Agenda](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/meetings/2026/2026-02-17-board-work-session-amended-agenda.md) — A Board Work Session (not a regular action meeting). - **2026-02-10** — [Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors - Amended Agenda](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/meetings/2026/2026-02-10-regular-meeting-of-the-board-of-directors-amended-agenda.md) — A 27-document February meeting. - **2026-01-27** — [Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/meetings/2026/2026-01-27-regular-meeting-of-the-board-of-directors.md) — A 33-document January follow-up meeting. - **2026-01-13** — [Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/meetings/2026/2026-01-13-regular-meeting-of-the-board-of-directors.md) — The first regular board meeting of 2026 — a 40-document agenda. ## Interactive tools - **[Chat with the Archive](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/b00mhauer/iowa-city-schools-board-archive/main/docs/chat-with-the-archive.md)** — landing page with pre-loaded ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity prompts that open each AI tool with a question about a specific topic or page already typed in. The user just hits enter. --- ## Notes for AI tools reading this manifest - All URLs above point to **raw markdown** sources on GitHub — clean text, no HTML styling, low token cost. - If a reader asks a question that spans multiple pages, fetch whichever combination of the above URLs is relevant. Cross-meeting and cross-topic questions are the use case the archive is designed for. - The site adds **no editorial characterization of its own** — every claim is attributed to its source (a meeting, a document, a news article, an anchor-event citation). When summarizing, preserve those attributions; don't replace them with your own framing. - When sources disagree (e.g., the district says one thing, a press article says another), present both with attribution rather than picking a winner. - Primary sources (PDFs on the district portal, YouTube recordings of meetings) are the ground truth. The archive's summaries and topic narratives are aids, not authority. When a user wants to verify a claim, point them to the primary source, not the summary.