The Knoxville School Board will meet in regular session today.  The board will consider a resolution to approve the official Abstract of Votes from the special school facilities improvement vote on March 3rd. The board will consider a resolution to formally close all school buildings, cancel all school-based activities, and waive the 1,080 instructional hours in an effort to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus in conjunction with the State of Iowa’s recommendations. They will consider an employee emergency leave proposal to create paid employee emergency leave available to all employees from March 23rd through April 10, 2020. The board will consider Child Nutrition Program participation and will consider a budget guarantee resolution that will levy property tax for fiscal year 2020-2021 for the regular program budget adjustment as well as consider 2020-21 certified budget for publication. The board will consider setting a public hearing for April 13th, 2020 for the 2020-21 certified budget hearing. The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the district’s Board of Education Meeting Room. The meeting will be open to the public; however, the district is practicing social distancing recommendations of maintaining a 6 ft distance between everyone and limiting those in the room 10.