By Sam Parsons

The Pella Community School Board met last night and received an update on the status of their Early Childhood Center from DCI Construction. Structural masonry is expected to be completed within a couple of weeks and foundational work is still ongoing.

The board also reviewed the results from their Cultural Survey from HumanEx. The survey was conducted among faculty and staff to receive feedback from their perspective. Superintendent Greg Ebeling said that this survey has been conducted yearly for several years, with this year’s survey seeing the highest level of participation to date. Among the results reviewed from the survey, 70.52% of respondents reported being both highly satisfied and highly engaged with their job and culture. That number has dipped from the mid-to-upper 70s since before COVID. Some differences were observed between different buildings within the district; Ebeling said that the plan was to meet in February with employees of the various buildings to come up with an action plan to address some of those differences.

The next meeting for the Pella Community School Board will be held on January 23.