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[Music] begin I'll ask oh and [Music] you welcome to the January 13 2025 Morehead Area Public Schools school board meeting
it is 6m I'm calling this meeting to order I'll start with roll call on my please volen present rard present Mar present Steph is present ber present present thank you Item B will stand for the Pledge of
Allegiance pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to for it stands naice item C preview of agenda Dr yes uh there were some revisions to the resignation section on page 18 there was
an addition of a Sally St so with those with that change a recommend approval thank you Dave I'll move to approve the agenda as revised thank you Melissa I second I have a motion by Dave second by Melissa move to approve the
agenda as revised any further discussion from the board seeing none all those in favor signified by saying I I those opposed same sign and the motion carries item e we are proud this is the time during the meeting to recognize
outstanding achievements of students staff and community members after an Honor's name has been read they will accept the certificates forward accept their certificates and a photo will be taken C please read the we're PR we are proud of Morhead
High area um athletes who competed in the 2024 Minnesota State High School league class doua girls swimming and Diving state meet the 200 freestyle relay finished 13th mailla bergus Macy
rolson Olivia rson Maddie Shu uh with other athlet oh excuse me finish 13 Milla bergus I'm all over the place guys I'm so sorry Matilda mey and Olivia Maddie um alternates of Jenna Bren and Grace
Phoenix Maddie Shu set a new school record in the 50 freestyle with her leadoff Sprint of 2487 the team is HED by Pat Anderson Kristen Frey Josh Stark Stark weather Jeff Schneider k and John schmi
you job if you ladies wish to leave we totally understand if you like to say that's fine also congratulations ladies thank you item at public form I don't believe we have anybody for public form de that's correct thank you item two
consent agenda all items on the consent agenda are considered to be routine and have been made available to the school board at least two days prior to the meeting items will be acted by one resolution there will be no separate discussion of these items unless the school board members so request in which event that that item will be removed
from this agenda and considered under separate resolution to the extent possible School Board member inquiry on the consent agenda items are to be made directly to the District administration prior to the time of the meeting item a superintendent we have number one
approval of December 16 2024 school board meeting minutes of the de December 16 2024 Clos session minutes January 9th 2025 special meeting minutes of and January 9th 2025 closed session minutes
Item B under business and administrative service say we have one family medical leave two change in contract three termination four we have resignations five we have retirement and six we have new [Music]
employees motion cassid I move to approve the consent agenda as presented thank you Dave I'll second I have a motion by Cassidy second by Dave move to approve the consent agenda as presented any further discussion from the board seeing none all those in favor
seing five by saying I I those opposed same sign and the motion carries item three new business item a major magnitude field trip Morhead High School cross country team to bman Montana Dr lson Isaac lenberg and some of the cross
country athletes are here tonight to discuss a major magnitude request for a trip to bosan Montana this summer thank you for coming tonight yeah thanks for having us I'm going to turn it right over to them these are our Junior captains to tell you a little bit
about what we're hoping to do hi I'm Haven schling and I'm the captain of the cross country team first of all thank you all very much for allowing us to share with you this trip that we're hoping to take this summer nearly every year since the 90s our team
has taken a camping trip and usually that is in Alexandria Minnesota it is an annual highlight of the Tre team and many of our teammates are always very excited do on it every single year there are all lots of Team activities and contests but this year we're hoping to
take our trip to Montana um I'm Al stal uh I'm also a captain of the cross country team um and the trip that they have planned is in BOS Montana in July and we'll leave early in the morning on the 20th and go
by bus um we always do running on our usual camping trip at pet um but this trip gives us the opportunity to spend time with teammates build more relationships and practice leadership skills um this year's trip will include
some new activities that we can't do Minnesota like run up hills and a chance for many of our teammates to visit somewhere they've never been um and I also excited for hiking and um kaying and my favorite part of our past
trips have been spending time with people on my team that usually I wouldn't part of this trip that I'm most excited for is being able to spend time in the mountains which we don't get here in Minnesota at all and my favorite part in the trip in the past is been the chocolate milk Chucky
contest hey I'm me uh we have between 80 and 90 people uh in Cross Country a little over half of us uh go to the trip every year so like 50 to 55 people um the cost is uh towards uh 375 to 425 per
participant with uh it being covered by families um we're fortunate to have some community members and families who have always stepped up to support anyone in need of financial assistance and some people have already offered to do so again hey you know what and
this trip will be C chaperoned by a few coaches and a handful of bra volunteers EMP emphasis on the volunteers and we're not being forced to do this in the photos on this slide you can see pictures of a cross country Montana trip near nearly two decades ago some of our
coaches that were on the team some of our current coaches were in on this trip we're looking forward to all that Montana has to offer in the summer including hiking white waterer rafting swimming in Hot Springs and maybe even a little bit of running
we are for we were fortunate to find a youth camp that is willing to host us is a rustic Camp setting along the Highlight for the reservoir there will be a parent Guardian virtual meeting sometime in the next month to highlight some of the
details for families and my favorite part of the past of the trips in the past has been hanging out with friends and I'm looking forward to hiking in the mountains and running in the mountains too I'm most looking forward to uh the white
water rafting on this trip and uh it's my favorite part in past trips has been winning spud games Champion over here uh thank you for allowing us to present for you tonight and considering our trip and we would happy be happy to take any questions you guys
said any questions from the yeah I just want to say I was fortunate to meet the team out in Boseman several years ago and I've had two my children that went on these uh these trips and the bonding that happened and and uh just the great
experience it was was just wonderful so I'm so glad to hear that you're planning on going back yeah that would be great any more questions for us I I have one no chugging contest and winners here oh it's part of our spot games that we
do every year it's like one of the mini games that we do in order to determine the winner of the whole thing sounds like fun lber are you in the green there uh in the back row yeah yeah that's that's
me there what's that is Hansen down there too not actually with my senior he graduated the before but yeah there's a a good looking guy there in the red to Mr B might look familiar to you he does
yeah any other questions we're uh hoping for a yes vote out of Dave he's on our chaperon list so if he shoots us down we'll have conversation that mean one of the prerequisites is
chaperon they have to run a mile I thought was a c the CHS are part of the spud games they might have to be we uh we might have a few more this year so that might have to might have to happen
okay it's not helping to V yes to this there's five other ones here okay thank you so much thank you go ahead so I mooved to approve the major magnitude field trip request for Mor
High School cross country team to travel to Boseman Montana on July 20th through 24th 2025 C I'll second I have a motion by Matt second by Cassidy move to approve the major magnitude field trip request more for the morit High School cross
country team to travel to Boseman Montana on July 20th through the 24th of 2025 any further discussion on this matter seeing none all those in favor signify by saying I I I those P the same sign and that motion carries and have
fun with summer thank you for coming tonight item B Minnesota safe routes to school plan Steve I believe good evening we have Metro Cog here Dan barnsworth
and Aiden Joan Perfect all right um we've had a safe rout School plan headed by Metro coog since 2009 and this is a refresh of that um the changes in addition of dpy Dad's Elementary School
in Horizon West um so it's a it's a great plan and Dan's here to give you kind of a brief rundown thank I just go up there okay the green light is on on my microphone Dan it looks like it's on can
you hear me all right thank you and I was just at the Morhead city council presenting this as well just before this so um anyway I was just going to double check how long the presentation are you interested in here I can kind of make it shorter or longer don't want to take too much of your time though okay gotcha we
we quick maybe not quite as quick as thehead city council all right well um I'll get going here so thanks for the introduction um so safe rout the school like um Steve was saying the last plan done for Morhead Public Schools was in 2009 so
it's been over 15 years since the plan was done and um so it's a nationwide initiative to make walking bike your school safer and more convenient and fun for kids students eth K grades 8 k2a excuse me um over the last few Generations you can see how much of a
decrease there has been in students walking your bike into school in 1969 it was 48% and then it's really just gone down over the over the last few decades it's just not as um common but there are advantages to that students arrive more
alert and focused in school it's better for their mental and physical health um they can have improved test scores and so on so those are just a little background there this study here was initiated by actually by the city of Morehead they requested this um based on
some projects that they would like to maybe consider and so a plan like this will help a jurisdiction as well as schools um be able to apply for more funding opportunities but it's also good in many other ways as well um this study was Guided by a 20
person member study review committee and that was comprised of all the principles of the um the schools so it' be five elementary schools and then the middle school and also staff from the city of Morhead Morhead police um also um the operations and transportation directors at Morhead
public schools metrocog and then partnership for health um here's just a little layout of the plan I don't need to really go into this much the heart of the plan really I'd say is the schools I say elementary schools but I mean elementary and the middle school there you can see kind of
the existing conditions in there what challenges that we observed because we went to all schools during that time um during dismissal and arrival to see kind of what concerns we might have seen and then at the end there's also recommendations that we've had each
school um we did host some public engagement and parent engagement and that was toward the beginning of this year in the springtime and so we had some really good turnout we were in person at Horizon Middle School multiple times and there are a few events there
and we gathered 138 responses with the online surveys and then U public engagements events we had three 322 responses so we're happy to see that um there is that section in the report if you want to look at public engagement and if you want to read
specific comments that would be found in the appendix of the report so this is just one slide of um when we asked parents what keeps your children from walking biking to school uh the number one thing I'll just mention what's in green are things that
we would say are controllable things that are in blue are really not so easy to control traffic speed number one thing um followed by distance so there's you know distances from homes to school especially in the case of horizon which is feeds the whole city uh weather can't
really control that that's a concern that parents have and then intersection safety as well we heard quite a bit on that um if I can just highlight some themes after reading through the comments um that I might have heard and not saying that um these are
comprehensive but just some themes that have popped out from different schools Ellen Hopkins the the main thing that we probably heard the most from parents was Crossings at busier high speed roadways so 8 Street that's a high speed one really busy and to some extent 11th and
14th Street um heard a little concerned about stranger danger um might have been some um maybe panhandlers I saw that was one of the comments I'd heard um people maybe waiting for the bus and things like that so just a concern maybe some parents had probes field similar um with
intersections and traffic on some busier streets a street 20th Street and then to some extent 24th and 28th Avenue um I think that's some concerns or questions about busing I'm not an expert at how that all works at that school but that was something I noticed um SG reinertson
Elementary School um probably thing that a little surprised but crossing guard could had some concerns about maybe the existing crossing guards could be more attentive and assertive with slowing down and stopping traffic where necessary um and that included adult and student Crossing yards um and then they
request for more crossing guards see on 14th Street but it is nice to see that there are crossing guards because not all schools have that not all school districts have that so that was nice to see Robert asked um we heard concerns about distance for some students to have to go to that school if they're cheting
a block or bike um proximity to the jail or courthouse is another theme that I saw in some comments as for Dorothy dods elementary school things kind of seem to revolve around vehicular traffic where be the speed um I think one or two comments was about you know just doesn't have that
neighborhood School feel like like maybe some schools have so concerns with intersections there um and then Horizon um also intersection safety but particularly 34 Street seem to be quite the barrier and we heard that quite a bit from parents and so we do have a
recommendation in this plan that um and I like I said I just was at the city council mentioned that to them as well about 34 Street and improving Crossings at that on that street uh distance J Horizon Middle School obviously it feeds the whole community and then uh they more crossing guards at
various locations and we know that those require resources for crossing yards um just an example of the recommendations for each school this is Robert as and you can see those circles there on the map um are different recommendations and then we have a
corresponding table um that you can take a look at those recommendations I'll just show one for example this is um the southeast side of Robert as school there's this turn here this is I think 13th Street maybe and 8th and a half and you can see just a
lot going on here you have traffic wanting to turn around the corner we've had complaints about speeds on that corner and we saw you know some C Sterns there ourselves and then you can see the crosswalk goes from um a sidewalk to grassy area and that's not preferred and
um there's a driveway right next to that as well that that vehicles are coming into so and then there's not like the Ada handicap accessible curb Cuts there either so there's just a lot going on there for just any driver try to navigate that if the student is crossing so in this case we had some
recommendations one option could be uh for the city in coordination with the school there to construct like a raised um intersection there that could slow down traffic naturally and then the curb Cuts could be available for the crossing
of the crosswalk to um allow for those disabilities or kids on bikes to cross there another option could be to reconsider where that uh that East entrance to the parking lot could be uh here's an option here where it could just be a T intersection off of there
and then it could be a oneway entrance into the school that could make it a little less um busy as far as trying to navigate everything another option too could be to just say close that Crossing on the east side and just have a full access Crossing in line with the
intersection to a block to the West just an example here um and then each school has a recommended um suggested routes map now it's not saying that these are all safe the safest routes but this is where traffic control typically exists along a
route so this is also Robert G school and then um at the end of the plan toward the end of the plan there are um programs that could be initiated by parents or by the school district or pto's whatever it might be um that
there's a link in the plan to each one of these um Minnesota the state of Minnesota has some great resources if you want to learn more about this or initiate any of these and so those links are in the plan a bike F I think Morehead school district has a bike Fleet um so that could be something to
help educate uh students for safe biking to school um crossing guards um safety patrol which the school district already has um walking school bus is an interesting idea that's something where a responsible parent um say starts you know five blocks from the school and
says okay we're going to pick up so and so at this time go down the block pick up the next student and so on consistently every day and then alleviates the concerns that parents might have about their child walking alone in school um and then there could be safety campaigns I know the state of
Minnesota does a lot of that um there could be education classes um there could be a walk by school day and maybe the school district has done some of these before Bike Rodeo I know this there's been at least one of those hosted was streets live when that was going on and maybe there's other ones
too and then there could just be other communication to parents through the schools as well this is the last slide this is just showing um a little table of the different funding sources out there different grants that the city or the
school district or any other partners could look to apply for if they want to apply for some these projects that are in the plan so that be Happ you take any questions any questions from this is prob you guys do you know
what programs we do teach Brit kids for walking and biking and those things is there a program in place okay I was any for sure I know we do something with the bicycles because that Fleet rolls around the district in that trailer I
just couldn't tell you what it's called else on 34th Street um what are the recommendations that you've been seing for that cross at 12, right the thing kind of the Cadillac that the city be interested in and which is why they like to buy for some GRS is
actually a tunnel there so similar what you might have on H Street at 40th Avenue something like that that's what I was kind of hoping to hear that's something I would like to see right Reach Out City but it sounds like they're looking to apply for that yeah
because that that's a major muscle movement a major cost and that also would involve buying out property to make that tunnel but in the interim I've been working with John Atkins the traffic engineer so I purchased School District purchased an r
rrfb a reflective rectangular flashing Beacon signal that's going to be installed by the city um in the spring when the ground thaws so it's going to robust that pedestrian Crossing it's similar to what's at um if you go
down um Village Green Boulevard near that Park area it'll be that so the button will be pressed and then and the beacon will flash so it'll help out there and make that Crossing safer okay thank you is there anything we can do to
if they're looking for Grants or something like that is there anything we can do to help with the grant process um yeah I'm not familiar with any of the the details of those grants but I'll be I'll touch base with the city and we can be a partner in that so we can kind of uh have our endorsement
on something like that in terms for the school district and a partnership with the city so thank you st that's something I'd really like to see in in the near future so thank you anything else I don't know if this is in
relationship to the study that was done but interestingly enough I've seen some changes on 12 in the last four to six months or even less that there's been some observances and some traffic
control and the change in the crosswalk and and it's a little seems a little more comfortable to drive and not be concerned that kids are going to jump out dirt yeah we added uh with with the city we added we they added some four-way stops some additional signage
on 12th Avenue and then we uh they added a pedestrian Crossing at Bridgewood in 40th Street and then I did an observation in the morning and night for crossing guard application at 14th Avenue South and 40th Street South and
the data uh the result of that was that it didn't really need we didn't really need a crossing guard there but they did city did add a four-way stop which I think uh if if they hadn't have added the four-way stop then the crossing y D
work been different thank you anything El school board thank you Dan for coming tonight and telling us about this you bet thank you we'll be bringing this to our policy board for official adoption and that can be used for for plans and also like to
give some of your schools some Kudos on actually implementing these before we some these recommendations before we even approve the plan so it's glad to see they're excited about making things safer there yeah yes thank you item C end of the year superintendent
evaluation this is myself I guess reading off a little presentation here of Dr uh at the December 16 2024 Clos session the Morad Area Public Schools Board of Education conducted the 2324
end ofe superintendance evaluation in attendance were Scott stephus David maror lur Lee Bergen cie bin Melissa Berard Matt ven Keith V Dr lck Dan marker and Deb Becker three performance
areas that we reviewed included create a 10-year long range facilities plan number two present a a balance budget for fiscal year 24 number three work with area businesses to secure Career Academy
Partnerships mid Area Public Schools board of education has concluded that expectations have been met in the 20 23 2024 end of year superintendent evaluation the school board degrees with Dr lits areas of strength and success
and demonstrating his ability to reach out to a multitude of stakeholders in developing a 10-year long range facilities plan for the district Dr L is a strategic planner who brings every asset to the table in that plan the
board has recognized superintendent lunix Financial Long View and foresight and and will continue to support them Dr wck has skillfully faced complex legislative outcomes and economic challenges School Board also recognizes
that Dr lck has ex excellent relationships with community and Business Leaders which has fostered a sense of connection the school board would like to see superintendent Looney continue to bring in new Partnerships to help the Career Academy
grow any anything else from the board besides what I just said I think that pretty much sums everything up so we're going to move on to superintendent updates Dr L thank you uh
those that are attending MSB conference this week Deb has placed some itinerary uh in your area uh just so then everybody's aware check in is 3:00 on Wednesday and if you have any other questions or you might misplace your
itinerary just reach out to Deb if uh if there needed thank you item five organization of the school board first thing we have is the setting of dates times and locations any questions from the board
on the setting of dates times and locations l i see dates but I don't see time they will continue to be at 6 o' that we normally have I was refering to next thank
you and this is a res action item so res motion for I move to approve the meetings of the school board at 6m in the maps Operation Center uh boardroom 600 on the 2 and fourth Monday of each month except the
change of date to Tuesday May 27th 2025 due to the Memorial Day holiday and one meeting during June July and August the summer meetings would occur on June 23rd 2025 July 21st 2025 and August 18th 2025
and one meeting in December which is December 15 2025 at 6 p.m. Laura Lee call second I have a motion by Dave second by Laura Lee moveed to approve the meetings of the school board at 6 p.m in the maps operations center boardroom 600 on the 2 and fourth Monday
of each month except for a change of day to Tuesday May 27 2025 due to the Memorial Day holiday and one meeting during June July and August the summer meetings will occur on June 23rd 2025
July 21st 2025 and August 18 2025 and one meeting in December December 15 2025 at 6: p.m any further discussion seeing none all those in favor signify by saying I I those opposed same
sign motion carries uh committees Schoolboard committees I'm going to look at the Committees here is is there anybody that wishes to either get off a committee or uh change in the committee if not we're just going to stick with what we
have that's okay with the rest of the board any of this change to uh there' be one that would change according to chair and vice chair Treasurer I suppose we would have to no I think you just know that it's
auta comme treasury you're on the SEL Comm thank you li is good with what they have unless we have to change because of chair and vice chair or
Treasurer okay and the schools and uh school buildings we going to keep the same unless somebody like change for whatever reason because we just got those in July September September that's okay with
everybody okayy this is an action item can I get a motion from somebody I move to approve the standing committee appointments as to turn thank you Cassidy a second have a motion by lur Lee seconded by Cassidy move to approve the standing committee
appointments as determined any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I I those same sign and that motion carries and now we'll move on to last official depositories it looks like
the action item we have in front of us is moved to designate the school district's official depositories as presented and those depositories are the US Bank and Trust byn y melon and Persian grer Bank Bell
Bank and Trust Minnesota District liquid asset funds plus and capital fund I I move to designate the school district's official depositories as presented thank you Melissa I second
motion by Le second by Melissa move to designate the school district's official depositories as presented any further discussion see none all those in favor signified by saying I I those oppose same sign that motion carries Legal Services
uh the school district uh has historically obtained Legal Services on a time and material basis therefore the administration recommends authorizing the administration to obtain Legal Services on a time and material basis move to approve obtaining Legal
Services on a time and material basis thank you Melissa I second motion by Matt second by Melissa move to approve obtaining Legal Services on a Time material basis any further discussion seeing none all those in favor signifi by saying I I those oppos same sign and
the motion carries the next item is the designated official newspaper I guess I'm supposed to be asking Dr about this Administration just this is what administration recommends the extra
for the thank you have motion now move to designate the extra as the school district's official newspaper thank you second Cass a second motion by Matt second by Cassidy move to designate the extra as
the school district's official newspaper any further discussion see none all those in favor signify by saying I I those oppos same sign and motion carries election of officers
Minot law Minesota statutes 123 b14 requires school boards elect a chair a clerk a Treasurer from among the school board members Maps Board of Education also has included an additional officer Vice chair and its slay of officers
officers shall hold office for one year until their successors are elected and qualified first we'll start out with Treasurer we have any nominations for the treasurer Cass I nominate Matt do we have any other nominations for
treasurer any other nominations for treasurer any other [Music] nominations I was ask if we would like to cease nominations for treasurer yes L Lee says we'd like to cease
nominations like to cease nominations for Treasure thank you all those in favor signify by saying I for mat's treasurer I those oppos same sign thank you Matt we now move on to the clerk you have any nominations for the
clerk Melissa nomination for Melissa for clerk do we have any other nominations for clerk we have any other nominations for Clerk and do we have any other nominations for
clerk I move to close the nominations second and the nomin only for Melissa for clerk any further discussion see none all those in favor signify by saying I I those a PO same
sign Melissa is now our clerk thank you Melissa on to Vice chair do I have a nomination for vice chair Cassidy um because chair and vice chair usually are a two-year role I'd like to
see Dave markart nominated as Vice chair do we have any nominations for vice chair any other nominations for vice chair any other nominations for vice chair shall we cease nominations for
vice chair nominations thank you Cassie you have a second a second thank you Melissa we only have one nomination for vice chair all those in favor for Dave being and vice chair signify by saying I I those opposed same
sign motion carries thank you Dave and for chair we have any nominations for chair B I nominate Scott step for chair thank you B any other nominations for chair any other nominations for
chair any other nominations for chair see done do we have a we I would like to seee nomination your chair thank you a second a second thank you Melissa so Scott stephus for chair all
those in favor signify by saying I I I those opposed same sign motion carries thank you everyone for that item six adjournment move to I guess we'll just ask for somebody to make a motion L I move to approve the
adjournment of the January 13th 2025 School board meeting at 6:40 p.m. Dave I'll second a motion by low Lee second by Dave move to approve the adjournment of the January 13 2025 school board meeting at 6:40 p.m. all those in favor
signify by saying I I those oppose same sign and that motion carries this meeting is adjourned that nice work