andice [Music] for all right item 3.0 approval of the agenda I need a motion I'll make the motion second second any discussion
questions all right if not those in favor say I those oppos name right 4.0 we have public comment none this evening 520 approval of the consent agenda motion I'll make that motion
yeah all second you see any discussion or questions on that not those in favor say I I I those oppose me maybe just to extend a thank you to the
staff that have resigned and for their service to our district okay communication report pleas awesome thank you good evening everybody um the uh the little prux of this meeting for me as always is
going to be based on the handbook some copy of the handbook out for you uh did receive a little bit of feedback I know there are some errors in there um please understand that the the essence behind the handbook is just make sure that we have the uh the correct things in the correct spot what I always do every year
I've always gone back through and just make sure it's time for a find F col after it gets approved so there will be some additions especially those that are recommended and requested by you um however uh with the email that I received today from Mark I had gone through and for instance uh page 18 there was a state then appendix and what
I did was I just switch that over to the policy so was clear so everything in the handbook that is highlighted in yellow is new and we as always we utilize msba model student handbook uh which used to come on DVD nope that's a lie CD streaming wise I can't get my technology
stra I used to come on CD and then you could just cut and face things do that now it's PDF and we do the same thing so as such uh the uh the thing one thing that did not change uh two things that did not change was the address
code very successful so very happy with that and then the other component I wanted to address was cell pH we've been paying attention to the news uh it's all over the place as far as we need to make sure that we have some policy in place and some districts are going pilter Camp
thingss um we do what we have in place does meet the requirement the requirement is just that every District have a cell phone policy in place by the March deadline next year and so ours fits that um I am requesting that we just continue with it because as I
stated in my notes it's a roll up So eventually we will be facing out it's just gradual pH out so the middle schoolers when it started will never have their phon in hand except for passing time and during say this year we're increasing through six through 10th grade then then will be six
through 11th grade so on and so forth um of course if you choose to to make that change then we will certainly do that and I'll up a letter and get it sent out but very happy with it I can tell you without a doubt that there were significant changes in students had and really um to me that goes back to last
year when I asked you for your blessing in using that scale up method and what I then did was when we had our back to school meeting with the students I put it on them and I said they were ready to pull the plug on the cell phones but I advocated for you and I requested you need to show that you're capable of
doing this because if I give them the feedback that we're ready for a change and it's September or it's January and they say yes let's make the change then you will not have them so own this and they're responding very well with it so that's why the request that I
did um moving forward um today was my first full day back in the office I've been coming in on Mondays and um we have we're kicking things off right away with new teacher Workshop tomorrow so we've got them coming in we be in this exact same space and they going to have one
full day of training as we lead into our back to school workshop for everybody at the end of the month so we're excited to be back excited to get things going and there's always a good energy that takes place at this time of the year so have any questions for me at all I know you're going to go over the handbook at a later time but anything now you want
mention how many new teachers are you hosting tomorrow I believe we're going to have around nine uh potential one may not be able to make it than Youk you
next all right well thank you uh told me or Kim told me that if did a good job i' get real time so make sure you share good comments with me first of all thank you uh I'm really honored to be your new uh prek 5 PR principal I'm super excited
to be your staff has been just over the top um accommodating helpful friendly so um it's made that transition really easy for me um I'm I guess I I want you to know about me that I'll do what's best for the students here that I'm committed
to making uh student based decisions uh to supporting staff to help them create a classroom that's supportive and um educationally sound so uh I'm really excited to get started this year I've probably been uh back and forth a dozen times or so so in that process variety
of things I was able to attend some some workshops so thanks again for uh allowing me to kind of stretch out I was up in Roseville for the Mesa training so I had two days of kind of mentorship training with new principles uh ended the service Co-op um for new principles
just the services that are provided to McCrae and then we did a a data mine today so uh we spent a few hours just kind of going through a lot of Excel spreadsheets and data on on our students so over the next few months we kind of be unpacking that and then using that to
make decisions moving forward on what we think is best for our kids especially in regards of like reading and math so that'll kind of help guide our decision making you guys know about the read act so we've been working with the the letter training uh Mitchell had a lot of things in in place through that
transition and kind of a a slow response by by Lexia we kind of got a late start but uh we've got our roster in inputed now imported and uh we should get our code so we'll start that training relatively soon for our staff kind of for year Ro one for about 27 of the pre6
staff um schedule wise class lists have been mailed out we're going to continue to tweak those a little bit we have some students that left but some new students that we're going to add as well looking continue to modify those uh just the last few things probably 95% of our schedule is done so just squeak that um
it's crazy as it seems that things were tweaking are like lunch in recess but uh the important stuff is in in place and set aside for that and then as as Jud mentioned we' got our our Workshop tomorrow that will'll take take part in
uh two new staff and then myself down prek 6 and then we're working on kind of retooling a little bit of our um our handbook for the the elementary as well working with John on kind of the sequence of consequences that follow
and then kind of retooling a wolverine way or our kind of reward system the pis on kind of getting recognition for making good choices not just punishing those that are bad so that's going we spend most of our our effort on so far in the month of July you have any questions for
me welcome board thank you okay Josh thank you good evening to everybody hope you've had a good summer what if all the days were like this oh just beautiful all day long um it really been a pleasure I'm working with Todd as he's joined our family here at the par um he
brings a tremendous passion you know four kids and that's obvious just in his remarks that he shared today but he's been involved with with activities he's been involved with academic clubs and just you know his own family and stuff like that so I feel very good about his positive wellbeing that that he brings
to us at the prey um Jud is making me to be a liar in the next bullet because I put down that we have 11 new uh new teacher so my math might have been off but we've got I think closer to a dozen coming in tomorrow um to spend some time with with with just some mentors um
Jesse is going to spend some time and talk about our mentorship and ntique program and where where they're going to get support as as the year goes on they'll be introduced to some of the paperwork in the business end of it here in the district office they'll have an opportunity to um tour the building you
know and see you know where other people where their rooms might be and just be able to kind of go through the halls and and uh realize that this is real and that the school starts in just a couple short weeks and and get them excited about that um really preparing them for success and making connections among
that among that new staff um you know if you look at Trends over the last five five to 10 years you ask some new teachers that have left education you ask them why they've left education and quite often you'll hear they'll say they weren't supported and so this is our one one way to put our best foot forward and
support them uh as they come to be part of our family um on August the 7th our PC participated some of you just right on this table um got to walk through the athletic produ project and walk out on the turf um right now the the turf has been in installed and there's still some
areas that they're sewing together and now they're adding a a granual um groundup type of a product um that as we were talking is is coming in they they bring it out there in the great big bags and that's what those great big white bags that you see out there are it set
of on top of a a trailer and on top of the trail trailer has like a sharp pyramid and it just sets that bag and it breaks the bottom of the bag and in those little pellets go and then it goes it's kind of like a manure spreader and it just up and down the field um and they'll put about two inches or so of that that b in around the turf um very
interesting to watch um that that process very educational too um electrical and and light testing will be happening I think within the next week or so which will'll be excited to see those lights turned on uh Press Box has not been in installed quite yet but it is sitting out on the on the premise
and uh many visitors are are coming up up to the school and uh we were talking to his name is Juan he's leading the group from Mammoth that's putting in the turf and we're visi with him he said the smaller the community the more people that come up to visit so I I talked to a gentleman today and he said that when we
have our our open house we plan to have an open house or Ribbon cutting on U uh September the 20th and he would like to be up in the bleachers at 2 o'clock that afternoon he wants to be the first person um there so which that's exciting um back to
school Workshop is upon us um we have a visitor coming his name is Kevin Honeycut who is going to share at 1:00 on Tuesday the 27th he is um an arts teacher he's a musician he is a very well-known speaker across the country um
talks about many different things um primarily just to excite all of us to come back to school um and just to fill the kids with learning uh Dean erall um will be coming during our professional development we'll also be talking about workplace safety which needs to be done each an or each year um just special ed
conversation we have a new special ed director from the co-op name is Larry Severson and he will be coming to to greet the staff and share some things we talked about about um mandatory reporting um safety review from chiplock County type three training which has to do with uh staff members driving
Vehicles school be trock will give some education on that um suicide and substance abuse just to name a few of the topics that our staff will have during that professional development um also Mr trulock is planning for all coaches me to with his coaches just to
set expectations and to answer questions they might have um McCrae this year has four new special ed teachers um to to our district and so Jesse and I have been working with the co-op to provide some mentorship for them um that's just a
little different than a classroom teacher would have just a little different responsibility so giving them that that mentorship opportunity and so that's been a great collaboration with with Mr West Brock and Southwest West Central um both Mr Wheatley and Mr Bertram done a great job with updating
staff and staff and student handbooks as you noticed in those attachments they're not a short do ment um there's a a lot of things in there um and they went through it with a fine tooth comb and did a very nice job I too appreciate the fact that you've allowed me to do some professional development this summer um
going back to the mde U Back to School workshop and also to attending the Kennedy and Graven um law conference which there's not as many um legislative changes that the school board schools will need to adopt this year as we did
last summer at this time um you can see some of the topics that were discussed both at the MBE back to school event and also the Kennedy and Graven uh presentation but a new Statewide system called Compass uh which is collaborative Minnesota partnership
to advance Student Success react and curriculum updates more school Finance um looking at non-exclusionary discipline and trying to keep our kids in in the classroom you know so they not miss out on the academic time um multi
Language Link multilingual Learners um and then also policy update and legislative impact too uh Mr beram did already go over a little bit about the redact it's now been called now it's called reeda 2.0 uh they continue to make some changes to it I think they'll continue to tweak it over the next
probably year to to two years um right now it's at McCrae it's K through five teachers and many of our special ed teachers but across the state there's close to 40,000 teachers that that need to be educated in the literacy training um and so when Todd made a comment to
Lexia which is the mother company of letters training um that's that's a lot of data process so what it was not McCrae that was running behind but they had a lot they needed to get in order from March until June um pallets of curriculum continue to arrive all summer
long and uh getting those things into teachers uh work space and learning spaces and we look forward to 2024 I can't believe it 2024 20 25 school year um so thank you very much questions you
folks might have I was wondering for the um track project with all the rain we've had are from a timetable is it still on schedule yes which which is kind of crazy you know we talked about having you know there being over 1,500 semi loads of dirt being brought in and out
and stuff like that um once that that the tile was was p in it did allow them to get in and out just a little bit easier so I think that was a plus um but yeah it is not has not slowed the process down so what a time frame on
completion so the time frame on on comp on football field sure so the the plan is is to play our first home game would be on September the 13th is that correct Mr TR first the 13th yeah
no the second weakest I didn't mean to catch you off I think it's third week of football third week yeah so right now there still is some settling of the product out there before you can actually go out and use it um but I would imagine that will be out
there by the end of August or very close that's homecoming also if you didn't say that the 20 no 13th is home yes yeah so that product just lays on top of the turf yeah it works its way down they they
they have like and it's he's out there right now doing it but they they go over with a brush and they kind of puts it into the into the actual Turf is like that long long think they've been yesterday they
were I don't know they they have they have multiple teams like I don't know there have I don't know if we've seen any more than eight people out there does that seem like the most there were 12 out there one weekend when I so some sometimes they're working on multiple
fields at multiple so the main gentleman or the main crew there will come in and make sure supervised to get it started then he'll go race off to another one and another crew will come in and do different things so it's it's not always the same group right there the rest that
will follow this fall the B other field will be done this year yet they'll be they'll be they'll be finished they won't be able to be used because the drafts to um we'll just have to see what that next spring looks like and that'll be the same for the grass field that's out by the palace to is that will be um
seated and then hopefully it'll it'll begin to germinate before we have Frost and be ready to go next year but I mean if next spring we get a wet spring on top of brand new brass I what that's going good question so we don't intend on
using football field we will need to we'll start for practice Yeah and then will there be some junior high or J we have at least one Junior High game scheduled there and there might be a couple more we just have to figure out scoring and use stock
watches but all right any other questions for Josh all right joke um 6.2 committee the only committee that's met since the last meeting was that PC we just covered pretty much everything we discussed there and took a look
at Dan from ICS did update us on budgetary things and that might not be totally correct well he was he was optimistic that we have a slight cirle at the time but it's not done yet so
we'll change since that well at least it's on time that's great news with this rainy rainy spell we okay 6.3 board discussion just a comment um we've
talked about this before but I know when I kind of on the building it seems like the pride the ownership at our new facility with the weeds growing around the we uh the building the weeds around the elementary playground we've asked it back to please get taken care of it's just a very poor first impression even
when you drive up it's it's we whipped around the sign but around that utility box it's it's not and it just we did have we did have somebody come out and give some education to our custodial staff um the the lawn that is to the
west of the elementary school um it it never established itself with the heat and lack of rain last year and so we it is we have been they have told us to allow that to actually grow and so it goes to head so it recedes it so that
that is going to look tall and and unapt until it goes to seed but we can still trim the weeds around the fence right yeah we can still do that and around the building yeah like even right here and right there there's a lot of weeds in the Landscaping part of it I would say
so yeah understood I I hear okay anything else on board discussion okay then we'll go on to 7.0 business items uh which is the first one is a resolution calling for the general
election read a motion for I'll make that motion people don't like that all right I need a second Okay resolution relating to the election of school board members and calling the
school district general election be are resolved by the school board of Independent School District 2180 state of Minnesota as follows one it is necessary for the school district to hold this general election for the purpose of electing three Schoolboard members for terms of four years each
three are this election season okay the clerk shall include on the ballot the names of the individuals who file or have filed Affidavit of candidacy During the period established for filing such affidavits as though they had been included by name in this resolution the
clerk shall not include on the ballot the names of individuals who file timely affadavit of withdrawal in the matter specified by law number two the general election is hereby called an elect to be held in conjunction with the state general election on Tuesday the 5th of November 2024
number three pursuing to Minnesota statute section 205 8.11 the precincts and fing places for this general election are those fing places and precincts or parts of precincts located within the boundaries of the school district and which have been established by the cities or towns located in whole
or in part within the school district voting hours at those polling places shall be the same as for the state general election number four the clerk is hereby authorized and directed to cause written notice of said general election to be provided to the C o of each County in which the school located
in a whole or in part at least 74 days before the date of the set election the notice shall include the date of said general election and the office for offices to be voted on at said general election any notice given prior to the DAT of the adoption of this resolution
is ratified and confirmed in all respects the cour hereby authorized and directed to cause notice of said general election to be posted at the administrative offices of the school district at least 10 days before the date of said general election the cour is hereby authorized and directed to
cause a sample ballot to be posted at the administrative officers of the school district at least four days before the date of said general election and to cause two sample belts to be posted in each polling place on election date sample ballot shall not be printed on the same color paper as the official
ballot sample ballot for a polling place must reflect the offices candidates and rotation sequence on the Ballance used in that place is hereby authorized and directed to cause notice of said general election to be published in the official newspaper of the school district for two consecutive weeks at the last
publication being at least one week the date of set election the notice of election so posted and published shall State the offices to be fill set forth in the form of valid and shall include information concerning each established precin and Point Place the clerk is authorized and directed to cause the
rules and instructions for use of the optical scan voting system to be posted in each holding place on election date number five the CL is authorized and directed to acquire and distribute such election materials as may be necessary for the proper conduct of this election and generally to cooperate with election
authorities conducting other elections on that date Clerk and members of the administration are authorized and directed to take such actions as may be necessary to coordinate this election of those other elections including entering into agreements or understandings with appropriate election officials regarding
preparation and distribution of ballots election Administration and cost sharing the CLK is further authorized and directed to cause or to co cooperate with proper election officials to cause ballots to be prepared for you set of election in substantially the following
form which such changes of in form color and instruction will be necessary to accommodate the that's it any discussion or questions on that all right have to do a roll call on
this one so de yes John y carel yes Mark yes Scott yes me on yes as well so that resolution is passed and adopted 7.2 I need a motion here about policy 522 which is the title 9 sex discrimination policy agre procedure and
process yeah second second thank you all right questions concerns so just to understand it looks like after reading the msba like it's a pretty weighty policy like there's a lot
of technical stuff stuff in there so msba basically like because it wasn't highlighted they just started over and adopted everything like federally that was required so there was federal law that change and they took it upon themselves and update the policy and
they they pretty much wasn't overall yeah um yes it's a long process the big change if you will for for schools and specifically for me is that if you have there used to be a time in the past in which you had to have two people
investigate it and then a person make a decision based on this this is now more efficient not every school district has a human resource person and a superintendent and four principles and you know exra people so in terms of resource and time I think I believe
you're able to get more done in a shorter amount of time which I think is very important in cases and if something should happen with those court cases and things that are out there then we may have to R this again that's you think we're good for
the year I think we're good for the year year I think other states may have issues more issues than okay we currently okay any other comments those in favor say I I those OPP
me okay 7.3 I need a motion to adopt policy 722 which is public data and data subject requests make the motion to adop policy okay Scott second I'll
second thank you all right any questions or discussion on that this policy has a lot of just changes of definition of updates of of definition lot of terms right those in favor say I those
suppos me 724 I need a motion to adop policy 806 this is the crisis management policy I'll make that motion John question say I those
me 7.45 the motion to adopt the 2425 student CID second that one before voting yes sir so
um as a school board you adopted the new um Title 9 sex discrimination policy um as you will look at the updating of the handbooks that new policy we put in there to take place of the old one so
when Jud and Todd were working on the handbooks prior to August 1st the August 1st New U policy 722 did not exist and so we would take the the new policy to put it in that place
so do we maybe need to do a friendly amendment to that motion that that you're approving it based upon the addition because now you have you have adopted um 522 but just to know that that that new piece is going into the
handbook the handbook have be revised if we pass as because corre it just is yeah we need to make sure the new policy is in that that you're that has to be adopt so we want to the 2425 student handbook with updated
policy I please you may absolutely um so I also want to clarify for you um I did update the grading scale in the handbook to a straight 10% okay now straight straight
10% doesn't mean the way it's listed in there it looks like literally you would get an A anywhere between the okay that's not the case a 10% grade scale it'll still be pluses and minuses but it gets rid of the A+ gives a larger top bracket um it's like six seven
points for the a range and then you get the a minus range then you go B plus b b minus so what I wanted to do is uh first and foremost last spring I brought it forward to staff at staff meeting they overwhelmingly said please let's do that
um I want to bring it to you and put it in the handbook but I'm not going to finalize it without talking to the staff okay so that that will be a it will be updated and it will look very familiar but it's just going to be on that 10 point scale inste traditional seven
point scale is that the same the elementary school that that's something that we need to discuss um if there's more of an impact especially when you're talking scholarships and those kinds of things um so I I think a case could be
made either situation U but when it comes down to we thank you other questions on hand I read through it and it's extensive so thank you for all your hard
work my Hur it's a labor of something I did yeah like you said there was a bunch of patting things I kind of stickers formatting um couple things I just printed out pulled out um maybe for clarification
sake like under the e-learning day plan it says teachers will have office hours y if I I read that for face value that said to me they're coming into the office could that word be used work hours instead of office hours yep um
another thing was excused absences must be called into the school yep for e-learning who's going to be here so maybe it's Leal message again trying to be a little bit more clear um and then I wondered what on page 11
what the placeholder it says placeholder and so if we're going to prove it what is the placeholder I sit down oh so I I can I can refer to that so so last year um we developed a middle school high school schedule that had more rigor and
with that more rigor we had expectations that kids would attend all their classes on' be a little bit of a passing time before they log in with the new teacher um we didn't have it that rigid at the elementary level because if you have five and eight-year-old at home they don't have their com books at home how
are we going to expect that and so then MCH worked with his uh Mr Kent worked with his team you know last year to have some some time in which if you wanted to contact and be live with that fourth grade teacher you could and uh there was two times there was a morning and an afternoon time and then there was some
expectations with um with Allied classes whether it be the fied teacher or the music teacher and things like that so that that document was a letter that Mr Kent had sent home to two families and Mr Bertram did not have access to that
letter he has he has that letter um now it's available he's already updated it so that's why it says placeholder we we had there were multiple conversations about this so as soon as you brought it up it's just a matter of getting the the
transition from Mr Kent to Mr Bertram so that he should he was able to dig it out so that we can get the answer um then just curious as to why employment background checks is showing up in the street t uh that would be something that was part of uh that would have been
something that was part of the msba language that came up I'm sure it would be um there are students that are hired maybe to be you know Junior High officials or to you know they get paid because they do custodial work after school um check but it talks about
athletic fores it's scho assistance advisors it doesn't yeah volunteers independent contractor yeah it has it does list student employees but I just thought that was odd um then I just as I read through it
it was kind of like um many topics were splattered like we had food stuff on on page 12 then we had food stuff on page 14 I think it was and just wondered if that's how it came out from msba and it
it was like I had to like search all over and kind of read I just I'm thinking from the eids and the perspective of parents looking through this can I have those page numbers uh 12 and 14 you talked about who in the classrooms but then it also 14 it talks about lunch break so it's kind of a
consistent topic it's food okay but just some of my thoughts um then under on page 20 for the transportation of public students I wondered if we needed to reference the met app and then also again here's another one I'm just maybe not putting things
together under academics on page 21 we've got about the college and the high schools then we've got another section on 25 about postsecondary PSO classes so is that seem to be quite similar in my perspective so I just thought could they be put
together spy and stuff um then you I would say if you put the devil in the detail you better follow through on it because there's more liability if you don't and this is something really simple but it's like um the Trapper Keeper on page 26 five star
notebook or something similar in nature so the similar nature kind of like excludes the 12 inches by 12 by 3 and 3/4 inches by 12 so I'm just wondering is it one or the other do we put it specific or do we leave it something similar
what page was that 26 thank you and then the proverbial the one that comes up all the time um the dress code yeah it was um a little maybe confusing to me about students must wear
shirts that extend to the Belt Line and must have and must have an opaque Fabric in the front back and sides so you mean you won't allow something like this that's not that's not Opa if you look at the detail and how it's written that's what it says but
then on the other side it says students May wear tops with fabric from top to bottom armpit to armpit and then Footwear there's nothing in there about foot is that just that you have to wear shoes it just says Footwear pretty sure that was all straight from msba last year because
that was doesn't mattering it looking at it making sure that it fits for our district so um is any Footwear that wouldn't be allowed or just said Footwear must be worn it just says Footwear Sol in the car students must
wear Footwear and then their students May wear that's the other column right but it's not clear but I don't know how detailed you need to get because yeah if there's nothing like can't wear right if
there's anything excluded the he my kids can do that I don't want to go through that again yeah I mean I mean it's one of those things that like you talk shop class you don't want you don't want uh sandals flip poops that kind of stuff
but doesn't necess necessitate something go you steel code well but that can be addressed by the teacher that's you know for shop is you I'll take maybe a little bit more definition
there yeah and then I just I thank you for your um your comments about the cell phone policy because I did get a lot of um calls from parents about did you see this Redwood Falls is doing those cell phone these MC great why are we not and so thank you for that I appreciate
that what was your comment about the opaque you don't student must wear they must wear a shirt that extends to the Belt Line and must have an opaque Fabric in the front arm and on the unders sides of the
arms well that just means you can't see through it can't see through it well but like you don't come with a me on that has again again if we have it in here then we need to hold people
accountable to it that's that's one of my points that's one of my points if if this stuff is in here the specific then we need to hold people accom to it and then just on the flip side I didn't see anything about a dress cod in the staff and and I don't know if there's one in there or not I has some language in
there that talks about um professionally inappropriately which is up to interpretation you don't want to get you shouldn't have to get specific but in this day and age like even even the spaghetti tops here you can have a spaghetti top AR T it but it can be
a top too then how do you hold people well there's a little diagram and I do know this this last school year both Mr Wheatley and Mr Kent did have conversations with adults in the building but you know prob dressed less than appropriate whether it was a pajama
pants on a non- pajama pant day so those conversation are being okay anything else on by student hand if not I'm going to ask for those
in favor of adopting the 2025 student handbook with the revised ped 9 sex discrimination policy those in favor say I oppose me okay 7.6 I need a motion to adop the
2425 STA and make that motion we need a second a second is that John all right any questions or comments on that right there's no let take a vot those in favor say
I me okay we have a list of our SCH board meetings uh for Monday September 9th October 14 and Tuesday November 12th I need a motion to
adjourn Scot second second car y right those in favor say I all right we are done