we're good okay okay me to order today is July 15 2024 the time is 65 get a motion to approve the agenda as presented second second agenda is approved could have
everybody stand for the pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic one naice thank you moving on to school Community um today for school Comm
recognition we have Dasher board members who could join me up here Mr we anybody else here from the uh oh wonderful all right come on up please like love to have you join us yeah all right members of the board
members of the public and Community uh we want to take this moment to honor uh Dasher and all the things that they do for us uh I can't think of anybody who's working harder right now in our school district than our Dasher staff uh you do all the things that help us do the things that we do when our students walk in the building when our staff walk
in the building you keep us safe moment we get over our vehicle we get in here um I'm just amazed that we're doing this new building project and yet over the years in our facilities that have been fading you found a way to keep them shiny bright those floors are just absolutely gorgeous I love the way that they just pop every year uh you've
navigated through some tough things with us this last year our boilers went out in the middle of the year we had to find a way to heat our buildings uh and we have some WEA in the spring and you worked through that process uh you constantly are problem solvers and helping us find ways to help support our staff and our staff are just so thankful
for the work that you do and just how you keep allow us to do the things that we need to do with kids you are a huge part of our community you help us make a difference in children's lives and we just want to say so I invite you all to give all of you to join me a round of applause for das there you go right
we still have a picture I'm in the camera all right Mark we're gonna have you just step right in around there there you go thank you one two [Laughter] [Music] yeah thank you yeah you too fun oh yeah
thank you good job yeah you are always work thank you very much um moving on to visitor recognation and public comment me is there any public comment oh I'm
sorry it's okay no okay information items uh superintendent report uh members of the board uh super attorne report why I just give you a little update on the building and kind of how those things are going uh right now uh the project is still on time and
on budget so those pieces are still moving forward as we had said before uh the rain has had a little bit of an impact on a few things uh as well as the plumbing permit but so right now um around the footings they're doing some different construction techniques uh to help with the water drainage and as it
continues drain to get that water out of there to make sure that we continue to stay on time uh there's a little bit of additional cost with that but that gets covered through our contingency that's why we have that 5% set aside for those different types of things as they happen so right now we still uh we still on
time and we're still planning on things uh the plumbing permit is moving along however uh due to the timing of the plumbing per permit approval which we submitted last January uh it is looking like the SE the fields may not be seated on the west side of the building so that would have impact on baseball and
softball the first year we in the building it's possible that we won't be able to utilize those fields because it needs two seasons of growing I could also impacts on recess and other outdoor play uh we will have soft play we will have playground uh we'll have hard play surface basketball grps and things like
that too but it might impact us using that grass area right away if we do start using it right away it's just not going to be able to take rot and we would end up destroying it so we'll continue to work through that process um still hold not hope that maybe but it's not looking very goodat that so um
happen simultaneously with us right now is that the city Gman did go out for Bond uh on the uh um sewer connection line so they did get that stuff back uh the bids came in a little bit lower but there were some additional fees for engineering construction costs and whatnot so that is that will all get
figured into our operating budget before as we've talked about before uh that has allowed us to maximize the site and the building and all the things we're doing out there so that'll be something as we uh work through our fiscal year 26 budget whatnot that that'll just that'll be adjusted into their sot uh other than
that uh since last month it's been a little it uh we have the Fourth of July break and so a lot of folks are Tak taking this time to do vacations and things like that so we're happy that our staff can get well rested and um and do those types of things VI a family because we know in a couple weeks uh
we're really geing up here uh in two weeks we're going to be getting our back to school packets ready we're getting the staff development plan onto our staff and letters and whatnot and it's um the district office is buzzing by the last week of July and into August so we have a lot of things to get planned for
um and uh I also just want to say thank you to the school district for the past uh past four years and memb of the community the press all of you I just really appreciate my time here at gfw and um I will do what is needed to help with a successful hand off uh as as you
see fit uh so we're we're preparing those things right now and ke and trying to make sure we can have a smooth hand off so students and staff can have a great experience coming back that is the end of my superint School Board filing and Julie is gonna
talk about Schoolboard filing thank you thank you board members School Board filing opens July 30th at 8 A.M and runs through August 13th at 5:00
pm. so we have three seeds open if you'd like to run again please come in and fill your paperwork and it has been in the paper as
such pry good it's outstanding really you said August 13th August 13th at 9 o' thank and uh suppose there's no reports
today know it's been pretty quiet our commit ask a question so um and I can talk to car Sanderson too but what kind of technique are they telling you that they're using for water drainage around the boings and what's the cost of it I would I would have information with me
right now but um I do have them coming out to our FFL or meeting on August 1st perfect so we can get you all that information there and I can let them know that you're looking for that as well awesome thank you yeah I suppose for executive committee we've just been uh setting
agendas for the transition coming up here other than that uh expecting to find out some news tonight so other than that uh I don't know finance committee didn't meet I don't believe no so that
have nothing and Poli committee didn't meet either no got we got all of our work done for the year and so we celebrated yeah the community engagement didn't meet today we're uh engagement is still waiting on updated mascot renderings so
they're still working through that piece um they came back with some pieces but there's a little bit more work that need to be done and uh we were hoping they'd have it ready for today but they just didn't have it so we have any items okay moving on consent get a motion to approve the the
consent agenda I make a motion to approve the consent agenda and a second and second any discussion no PA a Pap appr moving on to resolution and action items a super superintendent search
updates approval of candidates I'm just the room so you have to keep moving let me know try to stay once for you okay we'll try to get all right chair school board members
guests we're back here uh Harold's handing out we call District profile and you kind of tell you but part of our search process is getting input from staff students parents community members and board members on the status of the school district we asked four simple questions and they were on the online
survey typically in a normal search we had spend time visiting with groups and getting more input we didn't have a lot of time this time for part to happens we truly went with board informal conversations and then with the online survey results so when it came to the online survey you know we had actually
129 survey members or members that provided stuff for us and of that parents were the largest group you had uh 67 parents um we had 23 certified staff only4 students and the downside is it's summer you're not going to have a lot of students giving you the input
you'd like to get from students as well we typically sit down with student groups during a typical search process to get their Fe feed back on the school and what they'd like to hear because schools are for students um we did have four or six board members complete the surgy but overall this information gave us enough to put together what we think
is the attributes of what the district is looking for for the interim superintendent that's really what the purpose of getting the feedback is to put together what call the attributes so in our packet there on the second page we call it the input summary comments the strengths of
the school district big strong or strong Community Support what's going on small class sizes the parents really appreciate the small class sizes that are offered here at gfw again they like the opportunities both academic and co-curricular which would be the sports the Fine Arts those type of things uh
the staff who care um and then the strong sense of community within the schools not just the community support for strong the community and the challenges we call these are challenges retaining attracting high quality staff a lot of comments about the turnover transition of staff not able to retain
the the ones with experience and the actual liers so that'll be one of those Focus points how do you address that coming forward um student discipline and expectations and I'll tell you you know almost every school board search we do that comes up every time just so you know so it's not like it's isolated to
gfw uh Stronger collaboration and communication between staff and administration uh they'd like to see more I'm sorry my challenge sorry declining enrollment and lack of community growth that comment really attribute of the three main communities making gfw making up gfw there's not a
lot of growth in those communities hence the student enrollment isn't going to climb so that's a challenge right there uh you're looking at fiscal or financial planning and transparency uh board division completing a new school facility on time and on budget that was that was mentioned numerous times from
all different groups about making sure that the project is on time and on budget uh as a challenge and then Communications uh better Communications with all sectors of which the school district represents as far as academic achievement in school operations where
to improve retain quality staff High qualified and experienced staff student discipline and expectations stronger collaboration and communication between the staff Administration you'll see the same thing with challenges on how to improve academics kind of rolling together here
uh set maintain high standards for all and purposeful structured and accountable professional development sticking to it it shouldn't be a one and done it should continuous multiple years of professional development and making getting every to a better place in their profession the desired characteristics
for the next superintendent good communicator good listener strong School Finance background strong school facility experience supports all students and staff they're visible in the classroom and the community they're approachable and visible and available
they're consensus Builder transparency integrity and humility honest and a collaborator and as we went through all this information and knowing where you're at today in gfw the superintendent is going to have to hit the ground walking running they can't
come in here start to start to learn who a superintendent is and what that looks like for a requirements so as we're looking at the candidate list we'll talk about that in a little bit the three things we're looking at that really are the overriding factor and who we're going to recommend tonight is prior experience as a superintendent
Minnesota strong fiscal background and have done building projects those are the three overwriting things for an inter from superintendent to come in because they don't have a lot of time they have to hit the ground running in in a month from the time they're hired school's in session so there's a lot of things that have to get done pretty
quick um for this person coming in so those are the three overriding things we did when we did our measurements of the candidates so then on page uh four we have in that pack called superintendent characteristics and attributes there are 10 of them and I'm not going to read those all to you because there's
definitions of them but this attribute page you'll be using Thursday night during the interviews to compare the candidates to see how they do to fit these attributes because these attributes are based on all that input what are we looking for in this next superintendent to come here for gfw so
you'll see this again the sheet this is just to give you an idea tonight of what the attributes are going to be for our incoming candidates on Thursday night page five are the questions that were asked on the online survey in page six is the current timeline and where we're at how you see
the first one ju 15th we're here tonight we're going to make a presentation about the district profile we're going to make a presentation on recommendation of candidates to interview you'll do a board motion um and then you also going to get a timeline or schedule of events for Thursday and pro that that schedules
we're going to stick to so we can get the candidates lined up in here for Thursday and then next Monday we have a special board meeting to approve the contract and then we have an anticipated start date of August 1st because of the timeline to get this turned around and Dan and I had a conversation about what
that looks like with the contract well I'll be working with he he and the vice chair on finalizing the contract through the negotiations once the candidates identified so that's the port that's kind of our profile report any questions on the profile report I think so okay very well
explained thank you next up we're going to give you our recommendation of candidates to interview and the way we do this you're going to see a candidate ABC no names on them because until you vote on them it's still confidential information after you vote on the
candidate list of ABC then we'll give you the name so you know who you're going to be having for interviews you had 10 people complete applications and I'm hoping most of you had a chance to come in a look at them we also had one or two that came after the fact we had a couple more that were interested but didn't put applications in so really you
had quite a lot of interest in a quick turn around for an interim position an interim usually means they're available they've had experience and they're interested in coming here and we do all of our vetting so we called the candidates once they apply to see what their interest is their background why
gfw what can you bring to the table we check references we make sure that they are vetted before we bring them to you for recommendation uh we also tell them the timeline here's the timeline are you available for these events will you be available to start on August 1st so with
our candidates we have ABC uh and at this point bring them up here the first candidate on that list you see they have education to Bachelor a masters and a sixe certificate and then a superintendent license a six-year
certificate is what you get to become an administrator and you take a few more courses you get your superintendent license the property licensed in Minnesota um the current person here has a superintendent license K12 principal Li Li and a math license the experience is listed there online School director
from 22 to 23 school year superintendent from 2014 to 2022 assistant superintendent from 2012 to 2014 a middle school and high school principal from 98 to 2012 a admin assistant from 96 to 98 and
a math teacher from 1984 to 1998 that'd be the experience of category or candidate a candidate B has a bachelor's a sped certific ation master's degree and a specialist degree licensed as a superintendent and a K12
principal in Minnesota experiences at an inter superintendent for the 2223 school year and interim principal for the 21-22 school year Elementary principal from 2005 to 2021 and an assistant High School principal from 03 to
05 and then candidate C has a bachelor's a match a masters a six-year certificate and a Doctorate in Education licensed as a superintendent and secondary principal experiences at Baker Tilly Municipal adviser from 2015 to 2022 superintendent
from 1992 to 2015 in four different school districts assistant superintendent business manager from 1990 to 1993 all three of these hit those marks of they've been superintendent of Minnesota they have strong financial backgrounds and they've done School
building projects along with other things they have in their background but these are the three we are recommending of the 10 that applied to be offered interviews Thursday night I'd be happy to answer questions is there a chance that any of
these could potentially be a full time after their inter that's a conversation you as a board will have with whoever you pick um any one of them can have that conversation we ask them that question because at this point we don't know what you is a board one after this
next year a lot of them are open to if there's an additional year or two maybe staying on or helping you with a transition to find the next person they can go either way they're not St one way or the other they just know you're looking for somebody for this coming year that'll be a conversation probably late fall you as a board you're going to want to have with whoever you pick and
what the direction is going to be okay good question and we put somebody else on the list that's a discussion you can bring up but we can't name names right agre um again going with what we make for a recommendation based on their
experiences we need those just going through my Matrix yeah um so you know these three have building experience finance and else they're licensed in Minnesota have Minnesota
super academic strengths so teaching they've all been teachers yep I'm asking is that one of their strongholds I think when you look at for an interim superintendent a lot of them have been especially for what you're looking for here they've been removed
from the classroom for a long time when they were a teacher were they good teachers possibly but were they good leaders to lead teachers is the question we're looking for here and can they make teachers become better can they get to a better place can they move the academic wall they all have that experience as
Leaders I think these are three quality people that are available for you in this interum situation that you're in right now true question was asked would they be interested in something beyond that I
guess we we can't promise one way or the other three these candidates are Minnesota people they have licenses in this is the the vetting we do to give you the ones that we think make the best but you still have interviews you'll be able to isolate from the
interviews on who you think is going to be the best one the difference so I say your job is not easy based off what I read um so I thank you guys for your due diligence for sure um I think there's possibly some good
candidates in there that applied that maybe aren't the right fit for this job but maybe for the next next one and I don't disagree with that this time and place is what time and place and we have uh like you said hit the ground running
be able to pick up a lot of pieces um I think personally I'm a so I've Ed it myself and then the staff cabinet I believe will be able to the staff will be part of an interview interview in a different room all right
yep so we'll get their recommendations I I'm a big fan of two of the three Turtle what's your thoughts you don't have to answer right now either you can well it's like picking up a quarterback through your
football team a lot the Fay on so time will tell I guess I think you'll get a better flavor Thursday with the interview process who they are their experiences paper can
tell you only so much that's why we we devise questions that'll elicit more information for you to have a better understanding of the candidates I feel one is almost like uh it's their thing um they're good at it filling in
for a little bit um one might actually be overqualified for inter but they're all good choices than they're all good choices so i' make this recommendation because you know you have the interviews coming up they help through the final
betting is that approve the Slate of these three then you'll get the names um and then we'll talk about the schedule so we know what the schedule is back on Thursday there's enough well everybody's okay with the the three is
there somebody that you rather see on that's not on there are they expected to work five days of a week or so days or what this will be this will be a fulltime full contract the question of whether they can work remotely or not will be in the contract it states to coordinate with
the board chair what possible for that that would and there's um myel says that five days we would be really nice person and the ones we spoke with they are interested in being here to meet
people be with people on this list um okay well if that's satisfactory did I get a motion to approve the selected candidates sou Central Services
clad chance to talk to much yeah okay I'll make a motion to approve the three candidates recommended by sou Central second fav okay all right out pretty similar
except there's names instead of alphabets doing the same thing only with the names so candidate a is Pat Divine who was recently at wakia schools he uh retired there and then he took a job for years as the online School director for
their school so he's ready to enable and able to come in and start with his feet running Frank Norton is the one who was an interim superintendent with Dreadwing schools both as the principal and then the superintendent and then Kelly Smith is the one who was at Baker Tilly and then
with B PL schools before that and then Kelly Smith has a long history of many schools as superintendent and actually started in Fairfax as a math teacher so he's got different experiences but these three we feel have the most to bring to the table for you to interview and then see which one you would want to see
match for the district and then last last ly we have a schedule built on three now this schedule that Harold's going to hand out we're going to have an interview with the staff committee an interview with the board and then a tour for each candidate now the tour takes 90 minutes
because of the going back and forth between the two communities where the schools are with the kids so there's a little bit of a leg time on some of this to buy the time for that tour to gr because the interviews are set for an hour each so you'll interview for an hour with the committee with the board with the staff committee and a 90 minute
tour of the district and in that schedule notice there's also a built-in lunch break for you uh for the Committees both board and staff committee to have a lunch break and then when it's all said and done what happens is the staff committee will give will
have recommendation sheets you're going to get copies of all those to be part of your deliberation when you're looking at your point sheets to figure out what the staff input is for the candidates versus what you have and then you'll have a final determination conversation about who you want to offer TR
to the actual interview on Thursday is not a call to order meeting but it's a public meeting you'll call the meeting to order when it's time for deliberations and have conversations we'll go through that on Thursday when it comes time for the in service okay
who's uh who's doing the uh uh tours Brian the guy who knows the buildings and has the keys yeah that's picked that's who Julie
picked I would pick Julie go away any questions with the timetable there so what it means is that both staff and board members have to be here at three o'clock the board will be in the gym because it's an open meeting we make sure enough space for people that they want to watch and particip
participate means watch they can't ask questions they can't participate in the interviews and then the staff committee will be meeting in here and then Harold and I will facilitate Harold will be here facilitating the staff interviews I'll be facilitating the board interviews we'll do the flipflop based on the time schedule harl and I are the
timekeepers during this so pleas see that candidates talking and talking and talking we y kind to move to the next question we want to make sure you get your information you need to make a decision without getting in the weed so far that you can't get pulled out so Mr BR you
said you'll be in the with the board the whole time for all three okay any other questions board member Breeze will be back for the interviews correct we'll be back tomorrow and we don't know about board member steer yet she didn't say honestly depends
on okay I'll ask if you could send a message okay what we do is we we've crafted questions for both the board interviews and then for the staff interviews we assign them to people on the committee a lot of it sometimes
assigned based on your experiences and background so you can get asked that question we can be flexible with it but we try to get those pretty prepared for the packet on who's going to ask the questions so you have a list of uh questions already pregenerated your email request that if we want to add any
we add them by tomorrow time so if you still have some you have tomorrow to get them to me um did you send the list of questions that's already generated Noe nope I just there's a question you want to make sure is asked send it to me I say that's on the docket okay because I don't know what questions you so we
can't ask questions off the floor it's be fre down no because you're have to ask every question of the same of all the candidates to be true with your evaluation of the candidates and we have to make sure they're all proper questions has to be consist all candidates but a lot of times what
happens is a question be asked you can do a follow-up question that might help you get something out little further clarification and we'll go through this at the end service how the interview process works and how many questions are they going to have between 15 and 18 depending
on the depth of a question sometimes a question has three questions or it's a or it's a scenario so depends on the length of the question I work to get you the okay well now you've approved these
three candidates and and I just I didn't hear you say this but we do have to contact them tonight and know that there's still interested we assume they are they told us they were when we talked to them that's the final we don't know if they changed in the last five days so we have to make sure that that's
if anything changes you'll get an email and just say one of wouldn't be interested anymore than you pick another I would not recommend adding another one to it if one of them says I'm no longer interested we go to two candidates for you
any other questions we can [Music] answer how many staff did you say participated I missed just their number in the surve certifi St four board four students and certified staff I had 23 support
staff 10 and then two Administration um okay thank you all right well thank you and we'll be prepared for you guys for Thursday CL it
good work to this point uh it's no easy [Music] task we so he can do a up our website do [Music] moving on to the 2425 calendar uh 24 25 calendar uh let me
just went there's nothing substantially changed here uh minor edit with the moving of the fifth grade back to the elementary school we're just updating the fifth grade to coincide with the the start dat so it was just a minor change no date changes outside of
anything that said K4 K so just a very minor change of that and one so when's the first day for elementary versus High School uh look to it here uh the first day for
elementary school would be um um third the third I'm sorry um I'm sorry four for yeah 6 through uh 6 through 12 is going to start the day after lab dat but Elementary starts day later our
staff do a uh back to school conference where um families have a chance to do more of a dive the elementary teacher so it's a little different than school school both have both have a back to school open house and we the way we did it last year was uh we got a lot of
positive feedback with the middle school and high school thought ran last year versus past Year's so we'll continue with that but Elementary still gets that uh Tuesday meet with so 93 is high school 6 and 12 and then preschool starts the following week
um ni anybody see anything else that they dve no dates there anything changed outside of the fifth grade so what was the feedback last year on the open houses versus how they were in the past
uh just the organization of it the timing of it the date of it uh all seem to flow a little bit better uh from I would say staff STP point from a commun standpoint uh just uh thought it went pretty smooth and that was principal Jacobs since first year doing it so
coming back at a second time I'm sure she's going knock that one thank okay get a motion to approve the 2425 calendar and a second second all favor
ra calendar is approved resolution for ltfm plan uh ltfm plan is something that we need to approve every single year in July or by the end of July so uh this is uh recommended for approval tonight uh we
are exiting our buildings so we will continue to maintain them keep them safe and do the things we need to do but we're not going to be making major investments into that uh when we move into the new building I would strongly encourage the board to make sure that pres Anderson completes the facilities
assessment and gives you a timeline of the new building on when things should come du uh with that happening you'll um you'll kind of know when things are and decide how you want to budget with that FFL or you eventual board approval so you'll be updating your long-term facility maintenance plan a lot in
another year and the year after that probably as you continue to learn more about your new facility and decide what you want to do with your existing facilities so right now it's it's a 10-year plan but it's going to change dramatically of course going to get into new facility so this really is kind of a
we have to do a 10 year plan for statute so it shows a 10e plan but really we're just looking at one year um we're able to reserve some of the money we do not use to then go into your uh fund balance for ltfm and uh we have a plan in place to build that up as we transition into the new site so you have a little bit of
money there saved up uh because your allocation will change uh in the new building and depending on what you do with these um we want to make sure that you had a nice fun balance to work with moving forward so that'll uh negate need to potentially brother funding sources
for that and we don't know what um so we talked about this at the last meeting um because it's based off square footage and age and stuff like that right so we don't really know how much um is is it a dollar amount that you
request or go after or it's determined through a formula the St you get your allocation okay we currently get in the neighborhood of 240 $260,000 a year uh with the depending what you decide to do with the winr building and the uh
given building that'll have an impact um as I shared before the there's a kind of a magic date in February that you keep the buildings beyond that date you get another year of allocation um even if you're not utilized for buildings um if you make a decision to uh transition buildings before that time when you
would not get that allocation so you'll have to make a decision as you get closer when you want to transition those buildings with all the other p and PS costs involved so but the plan for right now is largely as we discussed at our um at
our work session um really we're gonna keep the building safe and operational but we're not going to be making big Investments be like that so we should be we should be able to realize savings as long as you know a boiler something
I know every time you send me an email I Flinch ever since you sent me the the one on the boilers I I have uh I just I'll never forget that yeah
we any more questions we talked about quite a session pursuant to the due call and notice there of a school board meeting in Independent School District number 236 by state of Minnesota was held on July 15 2024 at 6m for the purpose of
part of approving District's fiscal year 26 long-term facility maintenance 10year plan is established in Minnesota statute section 123 B- 595 get a motion to approve the long-term facilities maintenance 10-year
plan second all in favor your hand resolution approve fundraisers fiscal year 205 uh this is an annual approval item every year we bring forward fundraisers at this time of year uh in consultation
with the principles who works with their teams and our athletic activities director uh these are the known fundraisers for the upcoming school year one of the important reasons that we do this is so we have a chance to review this and understand that we when fundraisers are happening we don't want
multiple fundraisers happen at time we're trying to balance the community ask and we truly appreciate their support and their financial contributions and we want to make sure that we're you're not over asking uh on those things and and doing things back to back so uh any approve any
fundraisers that are brought up in between which does occasionally happen we have we would bring them back to the board of approval prior to do this so uh this is to help you be aware of what's happening at the elementary middle and high school for uh for different fundraisers that we have these are
fairly consistent with ones that we've done in the past and we' recommend uh approving those question how do they know I guess I mean so they jump over hard that's it's like a donation driven
uh I'm used to digital I'm working through my I'm working my thing here I think that's the heart challenge one right that we do y y so um that in the past I yeah so what's what's the club Choice
one we do most food or one we do is the re of course every that's element one of our biggest fundraisers been a huge
success okay get a motion to approve the fundraisers for FAL year 25 I'll make a motion to approve the fundraisers for fiscal year 25 and a second all fav again
approved moving on to E employee handbook 2425 uh employee handbook is largely unchanged from previous years uh one thing that we make sure to do is that we uh link the handbook to our policy so as
our policy committee and goes through policies and our board updates them that those uh updates legislatively stay live that takes place um the one thing that we that was that did come up that was uh asked to be put here is in in regards to
staff time off when they're out of sick days so you'll see a little bit language around there that if us if we've had situations where staff had exhausted their leap and are asking for additional time off that that would have to be preapproved we've had some situations where it was done kind of after the fact
when they do get pay deduct and so was langu which there saying that those all have to be approved in advance if you've used up all your vacation the that is the one difference really on ask here did the staff has had a chance
to at this yet uh this is something that we would share with staff during our back to school training to send to staff every year our principes go through it so in a couple weeks then they'll see it yep uh usually the principes have done that in the past which would happen at back to school workshops in August but
each principal ATT has their own own approach to how they sure that it sent everybody then I believe um I can't speak for principal Jacobson but I know principal Thompson spend time highlighting and so really it was just
the the time if they run on vacation that's the B versus what they signed for last year correct okay so just so they're not surprised they come up to work always have policy changes and legislative updates that come up there
staff meetings and different mechanisms are used to update those change any other questions on the employee handbook get a motion to approve the bul handbook for 2425 I'll make a motion to approve the handb and
second Al second all those in favor raise your hand handbook is approved F resolution governing right in vote County so uh there was a uh legislative change that happened that
allowed for school boards not to have to count right in votes uh that they don't accumulate past the lowest total of a um person who's running by name do I say that well enough Julie uh so uh this passed this was a
while ago but the up passed a while ago but with the um Coming election this would just simplify your process as school help help so um sometimes Mickey Mouse gets a couple of hosts and sometimes Donald Duck peeks him out and uh that goes we see sometimes you don't
have to count those does that still have to get reported to the county still anyway the it draws to the county the county does not have to count them okay this is where the county so it doesn't make it easier for us no
it has nothing to do really with us it has to do with the county having to count yeah all that the um right in vs okay yeah but if you had a writing candidate who would seated so somebody then it would
be so we can still do writing candidat and this is up to you it's not app to this is if you're okay with it and want to pass okay having a motion second I'll second
um J you call R yes R yes Miller yes bur yes thank you moving on to acceptance of donations acceptance of acceptance of donations to gfw
schools whereas Minnesota statute 4 65.3 requires school district to accept donations by resolution Express in terms prescribed to the donor in full and where is acceptance of the donations in accordance with the donor's terms send the best interest of gfw schools now
therefore be a resolve that gfw schools does accept the below described donations from set organizations in accordance with the terms set forth year in be it for the resol that gfw wishes to extend its grateful appreciation to these various individuals and
organizations donor cf3m Sarah Burr $1,000 for Middle High middle school high school robotics team program I get a motion to approve the resolution make a motion
appr second second with motion second Mar yes yes yes yes um future meeting dates Thursday July 18th special meeting superintendent
interviews Thursday July 22nd special meeting approval of new superintendent contract Monday August 5th work session meeting Monday August 19th regular meeting Monday September 3rd next work
session any other thing talk about I was unable to get uh team they weren't available but they were available for October and November okay so um currently we don't have a uh
agenda item there not to say that the new superintendent won't have anything there but just that that's sitting there right now that ex yesd the one that says Thursday July 22nd 24 that should say Monday oh nice
catch will correct that Monday July 22nd not THS day for clarification I will be here Monday some reference these meetings maybe ask put on the agenda item for us to discuss
but at some point do we want to start having the public be able to see these uh committee meetings or um you know there's a lot of work that we do in these that they don't see um so something maybe we can talk
about make about recording public oh yeah yeah work by just got to discuss how we want to do it we want to keep it all available to you had a we kind of talked about
this about six months ago I just uh just a note is that um the public meeting you subject to the open meeting Law And so there's a little different requirements that you have to go through with that so we have to make sure that a board member will be present
and then those not would have to post their location uh just kind of would for a different so uh just something to be aware of not saying that you shouldn't do that just there's a few extra steps you'll need to take and we'll just have to make sure you're coordinated uh so yeah we still really no big
difference in a a business meeting so it just still all right so it just feels like so the uh Mr Warner the general public can go right on right now and look up any prior meeting right well
they are on YouTube the older meetings are much unlisted there's L after how long they're in our archives okay and then so if we do this if we invite them to these committee meetings and uh work
sessions that we do those would all be we can decide if they're recorded or do they have to be recorded we last just the regular meetings to be recorded so far but we can we can change all that we want all that I mean sometimes there's discussions that's kind
of you know we have time to talk some stuff over before it becomes public so I don't know if that's a good idea or not I mean right now anybody can come to a committee so there kind of open to the
public to begin with to come just so they they understand all the you know hours that we spend behind uh that's the camera's not on talk about not that they just see us up here and
you know just stamping things um and it seems like there's a lot of members in the community that are very interested and and want to partake so just let know discuss well let's we have to put it on
agenda for to discuss with the other members maybe when they're say just email the chair super chair superintendent that your name is agenda could be a possible work session it for discussion um January 3rd I know I'm sorry September 3rd I know he's wide
open so doesn't have that's all uh missmer could you please makeing note of that I just something I would want us in transition um that maybe need get Circle back upon at some
point all anything else motion and a second second all in favor meeting is thank you meeting 22 yes