Adel DeSoto Minburn Community School District

School may be closed, delayed, or dismissed early due to inclement weather or other emergency situations. Decisions to cancel school are not taken lightly, and any changes to our regular schedule are made by the superintendent after consultation with the director of transportation and other related personnel. ADM’s number one priority is ensuring the safety of all students. A decision to close or delay school will normally be made no later than 5:30 AM.

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ADM’s logos and brand elements have been designed to represent a standard of excellence in academics, athletics, fine arts, and all other programs valued by the ADM Community School District, and to reinforce the core essence of ADM’s school pride, accomplishment, and spirit.

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ADM uses an emergency alert and communication system to distribute emergency alerts, official district communications, and notifications of event schedule changes.

ADM’s emergency alert and communication system uses contact information entered by parents and guardians into the Infinite Campus Student Information System. Login to the Infinite Campus Portal below to update contact information to ensure you recieve all communications from the district.

Infinite Campus Parent Portal

Note: If you are not receiving text message notifications of closings or delays, it is possible that you did not opt-in to receive text messages during online registration in Infinite Campus. To opt-in, simply text the word “Subscribe” to 68453, using a cell phone that you have registered in Infinite Campus.

Iowa’s public records law allows for any person to make a request to local and state government agencies. Most school district records are available to the public and many ADM reports, data, policies and other information are available on this website. If you have a public request, you may wish to first use the search bar at the top of this website to see if the information you are looking for is available immediately online.

While many public records are available at no costs and accessed in a short amount time (including immediately for items posted on ADM’s website), state law does allow public entities to charge for the actual costs associated with compiling records prior to the start of discovery. If you would like to submit a Public Record Request, please use the form located at the bottom of this page.

Public Records: All records of or belonging to the school district are public records and available for public examination and reproduction, except those records which are defined by law as confidential and those records which are copyrighted. Copyrighted materials of or belonging to the district are available for examination. Board records include board agendas, agenda attachments, minutes, written communications addressed to the Board of Directors or a board officer. Board records also include all other records distributed to all board members. A communication addressed to an individual board member and not distributed to all board members and not generated as part of a district board member’s official duties does not belong to the district and is not a public record.

Confidential Records: Confidential Records are those records required or permitted by law to be confidential.

Examination of Records: Public records are available for public examination during regular office hours. Persons wishing to review the school district’s public records shall contact the board secretary and make arrangements for viewing.  The board secretary shall make arrangements for anyone to view the records as soon as practicable, depending on the nature of the request. Examination of records shall be done under the supervision of the district employee responsible for maintaining the records being examined or by that person’s designee.  Confidential Records are not available for examination by the public.

Reproduction of Records: Original or reproduced copies of public records will be made available during office hours upon request.  Persons wanting copies may be assessed a fee for the copy. Such copies will be available for a fee of 10 cents for each standard page, except as otherwise provided. Except as permitted by law, copyrighted materials or trademarked materials shall not be reproduced. Persons wanting a compilation of data may be assessed a fee for the time of the school district employee to compile such data. Requests that take longer than one hour of District personnel time will assess a fee and must be prepaid. This cost is in addition to the per page reproduction cost. Records defined by law as confidential records shall only be viewed or copied upon receipt of written permission by the board secretary from the person or entity whose confidential records are being requested.

Cost for Records Requests: Iowa law does allow that persons requesting public records may be charged a fee for the actual costs of the retrieval and review of records, supervision of the examination of records and for copying records.

Examples of actual costs for public record requests to ADM may include:

• Copies: there is no charge for the first 20 pages of photocopies. After that, there is a charge of 10 cents per single-sided sheet and 20 cents per double-sided sheet.
• A per hour charge, based on the hourly rate of employees, for data retrieval, document review and other work related to fulfilling a public records request.
• Postage will be charged, at cost, if it exceeds $1.

Please note that it is the practice of ADM to waive the cost for one hour of work to comply with a public records request.

If there is any cost associated with a request, ADM will provide an estimate of the cost to the requester. If the estimate is agreed to, the district will require payment when the public records are provided or in advance if the estimate is more than $100. In addition, work will not begin on the request until the estimate is approved or paid by the requestor, depending upon the amount. A requestor may always amend his/her request in order to lessen or even eliminate any cost.

ADM Public Records Request Form