Oh, excellent. Okay, we'll pause then for just a couple minutes. All right. Today is Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026. The time is approximately 3:47. I will now call the policy committee meeting to
order. Miss Kenny, is there a quorum present? >> Yes, there is. >> All right. Thank you. Please stand for the pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God,
indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Is there a motion to approve the agenda? So move. Thank you. Is there a second? >> Second. Um any discussion? Discussion. Discussion.
Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. Opposed. All right. Motion passes. All right. We'll move on to the review of policies. So these policies are being reviewed as part of a three-year review cycle. So therefore, we will look at the
entire policy. Is there a motion to approve sending policy 504, student dress and appearance to the school board with no changes? >> Some move. >> Thank you. Is there a second? >> Second.
>> Um, the motion has been uh it's been motioned and seconded. Is there any discussion? Discussion. Discussion. Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I.
>> Opposed. All right. Motion passes. >> Is there a motion to approve sending policy 505, distribution of non-school sponsored materials on school premises by students and employees onto the school board with no changes? >> So moved.
>> Thank you. Is there a second? >> Second. >> All right. Um discussion discussion discussion hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Right. Motion passes.
>> Is there a motion to approve sending policy 527 student use and parking of motor vehicles, patrols, inspections, and searches to the school board with no changes? So move. >> Thank you. Is there a second? >> Second.
>> Right. Discussion. Discussion. Discussion. All right. Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Right. Motion passes.
Uh is there a motion to approve uh sending policy 605 alternative education services to the school board with no changes? >> So moved. >> Thank you. Is there a second? >> Thank you. Uh discussion
discussion. Discussion hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I opposed. Right. Motion passes. We will now move on to uh revision of
policies. So the following the following policies have provos revisions to review. We only are looking at the revisions. All right. So, is there a motion to approve sending revisions to policy 406, public and
private uh personnel data to the school board? >> I'll move. >> Thank you. Is there a second? >> Second. >> All right. Uh discussion. Uh so, a couple things to keep in mind. This is uh policy 406 is a mandatory
policy. Um and then if you look in article three section H uh MSBA has added uh the Minnesota statutory revision to article uh 5F.
So that is the revision to this policy. Any further discussion >> Mr. Chair? >> Yes. >> Yes. I Okay. Um so I see Okay. This is on F, right? >> Uh >> uh yes. So, it's actually they're referring to Minnesota statute 1343. I
think it's subdivision 8. Um, so this is from what I can see this is already in Minnesota statute. So, why do we have to add this? It's already in statute. We do are we are we adding this for clarity or
>> my guess is it's it's being added for clarity. Well, it says it corrects I apologize. It corrects reference in article 3 section H is but that's not the one you're talking about. >> Uh no cuz it talked about chapter 13.
>> So I did look it up as chap uh 13 uh colon 43 subdivision 6 and it's almost ex it's almost exact wording. So I was just wondering why you know if it's in statute why do we have to add it? >> Yeah. Um and it just says that it adds the statutory revision. So it must have
been that must statute must have been revised. So they're updating it here is my guess. So >> yeah, it's been in statute before though. So I'm guessing it's for clarity which I think is good. I think we need to clarify our policies and also I just
they're talking the exclusive representative. That's a different word. So I guess I'm just having a problem with that but that's whatever. So okay, that's it. Third call for discussion. Hearing none. All those in favor signify
by saying I. >> I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> No. >> All right. Motion passes. Uh be 5 to one. Uh is there a motion to approve sending revisions to policy 503 student attendance to the school board?
>> So moved. Thank you. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Right. Um discussion. So the description is MSBA adds Minnesota statutory provisions to
article two and to article three and it updates uh I what I believe is the term habitual. So article two starts on the first page. You can see the updates there at the bottom of the second page. And onto the
third page. I think there's on page eight too. There's another >> Yeah. And I believe that's probably where >> and page eight and page 10. >> I think there's three revisions >> discussion. So,
>> okay. So, there's three and there these are all MSBA, correct? >> They're adding Yeah, it says they adding Minnesota statutory provisions to article two and article three. >> So, article two and article three.
Sure. I understand. And oops. Okay. be article >> there's two revisions under three >> article article two uh section
uh A4 they add a C and a D so C and D >> so I do have a question on page two uh so it talks about the district must count a student as in attendant and each day the student receives supervision so if the student received just one hour of
instruction you can count that as or let's say if the the student is that school they received social maybe the social worker from school visits. So that would still be counted as a day then >> that you would you would what it says is that you would you would need to count
them in attendance for at least that time >> depending on how your system is set up to count attendance. So I know at the elementary level I believe we count attendance by half days >> because we count it in the morning and afternoon and at our middle school and high school
it's counted by period. Okay. So, if a child actually receives minimal instruction for a given day, that child then is counted as is not counted as absent. >> If they're receiving Yes. So, if they're receiving supervision, instruction, or
services, they're counted >> anytime, even if it's minimal. >> Mhm. Yes. >> To me, that I guess that's not to me it's not fair to the child. So, because if they they're not receiving the full day that they're supposed to. So that's
what I I guess I wanted a clarification. Thank you. >> Any further discussion? Any further discussion? >> Right. Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I >> I >> opposed. >> No.
>> All right. Motion passes 5 to one. Uh, is there a motion to approve sending revisions to policy 5 uh20520 student surveys to the school board? >> So move. >> Is there a second?
>> Second. >> All right. Um, discussion quick just so everybody knows this is a mandatory policy. 520 is and MSBA is aligning article 4 with current
Minnesota laws and it adds resources. So article 4 starts on the second page. Uh you can see what is underlined there has been what is added and then those go through
a couple pages there and then you go to the resources which are added starting on page believe it's 11. Oh, >> any further discussion?
>> Uh, yes, Mr. Chair. On page three, it uh talks about the right of a parent of a student to inspect upon request of the parent. A survey including an evaluation created by a third party before the survey is administered or distributed by a school to a student including any and
they add any applicable procedures. Uh, I guess I have a problem with that because I think it's really limiting parental access. So, and then down there down farther to on C, they talk about any applicable. So, I think at some
point it just doing that is limiting parental access. So, I have a problem with that one. Okay. >> So, I won't be voting for this. >> That's it. >> Any further discussion? Last call for discussion hearing none. All those in favor signify
by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> No. >> Motion passes 5 to one. There are no new policies at this time. Uh our next meeting is April 7th, 2026
at 3:45 here. Um there's no more items to discuss. Is there a motion to adjourn the meeting? >> So move. >> Thank you. Is there a second? >> Second. >> All right. Discussion. Discussion. Discussion. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I.
>> Opposed. All right. Meeting is adjourned.