Welcome to the November 24th, 2025 Independent School District 152 schoolboard meeting. It is 6 p.m. I will call this meeting to order. Starting on my left, please. >> Van present. >> Berg president. Mark present. Steph is
present. >> Guard present. Bjorkland present. >> Vote present. >> Thank you. Item B, pledge of allegiance. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Preview of agenda. Dr. Week. Uh there are no additions or corrections. I recommend approval. >> Melissa, >> I move to approve the agenda as
presented. >> Lee, >> I second. >> I have a motion by Melissa, second by Laura Lee. Move to approve the agenda as presented. Any further discussion from the board? >> Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed, same sign. And that
motion carries. Item B, we are proud. This is the time during the meeting we get to recognize outstanding achievements of and community members. After an honor's name has been read, they will accept their certificates and a photo will be taken.
We are proud of Sophia Johnson who competed in the Minnesota State cross country tournament on November 1st. Sophia placed 43rd in the class 3A event. Morehead High School cross country is coached by Isaac Lmberg, Eric
Hansen, Lisa Dunigan, Justin Gaul, and Corey Asfeld. Moving on to item F, the public forum. Public form will be open up to up to 30 minutes prior or at the public comment on a agenda item. Individuals who wish to speak during the
public forum have submitted a request by 1:00 p.m. on the meeting day. The schoolboard chair will call the speakers to the microphone and microphone and recognize the speaker at one time. Each speaker can speak up to three minutes. The public forum will not be recorded or live stream. Do I have any public form
requests? Thank you. Item two, consent agenda items. 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. The items will be enacted by one resolution.
There will be no separate discussion of these items unless the school board member so requests in which event that item will be removed from this agenda considered under separate resolution. To the extent possible, school board member inquiries on 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 the November 10th, 2025 regular meeting and close session meeting minutes. Item B, business and administrative services. We have number one, November
claims. Number two, medical leave. Number three, resignations. Number four, return from leave of absence. Number five, new employees. Number six, additional staffing requests. Keith,
>> move to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Thank you, Cassidy. >> A second. >> I have a motion by Keith, second by Cassidy. Move to approve the consent agenda agenda as presented. Any further discussion from the board?
Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed, same signing. That motion carries. Number three, we have new business. Item A, education Moreheads partnership in the 2025 referendum
campaign. Dr. Munich. Okay. Tonight, uh, Christine Berg is here to make a presentation. Uh, and I believe she's approaching the podium. So, we'll welcome Christine to the podium. >> Thank you for coming tonight, Christine.
Please hold the applause down so we can finish up with the meeting. So, um just wanted to speak tonight to share with you um what the contribution from our union was towards passing the referendum.
Um this first slide is just showing that because of our high um membership percentage that we were eligible um with help from Education Minnesota um for two
mailings and we get $2 per member and that money went towards paying for phone banking, food at the phone banking and some other expenses. Um the mailers, one was sent out the end of September. Um in kind contribution
for that was just over 3,800 for that first mailing. The second mailing that went out then in October was just over $5,000. That was given in kind um by Education Minnesota
um through our um kind of on our behalf as well. So there wasn't any um direct payments that we had to make, but all of that is funded because of our membership and our dues. Um
this really wouldn't have passed without Sarah and Penn's contribution and all the time that they put in. They spent many hours um organizing, putting things together, um getting volunteers going. Um said the mailers
were sent out directly by Education um Minnesota and with approval after going through approval by Penn and Sarah. Um the Northern Plains United Labor Council also reached out asking if it was okay if they sent out a mailer on our behalf
and agreed to that. Um the phone banking was huge. The phone banking is where I think the uh majority of the work was and what really went into um the referendum passing.
So every time we were film banking, we took, you know, pictures of who was there. And it wasn't just teachers that were there. It was we had leaders from other unions that were there. Um you'll see coming up. We had uh Rob Koop came
in and phone banked one time. Um we had the president of the Fargo Teachers Union came and phone banked. we just had a and as well as just friends of people even if they didn't live in the community um reached out and were there
you know making those phone calls from that from the phone calls it was 13 different shifts starting September 17th I think it was and then it was every Wednesday evening from for 2 hours and then we switched to Sunday afternoons
from Sunday evenings and we seem to reach more people doing that um as the init the phone banking first started out with the initial contacts that the dialer was sending out um and the more people we had the more people we could try and reach. The get out the
vote calls then happened like right before that and that's when we then reached out directly to people that had said they were in support of the referendum. They got a follow-up call um by us. There is in total 53 different
volunteers that were a part of this and some were there for multiple um times for phone banking. Um they calculated that there was 126 2-hour shifts for a total of 252 volunteer hours that were
put in by the members of the community. um our dialer and I just saw the other number um a little over 23,000 phone numbers were reached out by the dialer and we talked to about 1,300 of those that picked up but because of how many
people we had we were able to try and contact a huge number of people. In fact, we actually went through the list a few times of reaching out and my understanding is that our phone banking was one of the top ones in the state for
trying to get referendums out. Um, in those from the phone calls, I just also wanted to share some like the feedback and some like what the comments we got from the community. Um, overwhelmingly, you know, some said, "Yep, they support." Those that were
undecided had a chance to talk to them about what the referendum meant um if it passed and as well as what it meant if it didn't pass. And overwhelmingly, we heard from the community that they support the students and the teachers
and that without the teachers, we wouldn't have the skills that we do. Um and a lot of them were also then you know asking you know making comments about that well I did they just gave money for the buildings you know what do
they do with that there had to be some education about well that was something different that money can't be spent for what goes on in the buildings that's just for building the buildings and still had some you know had some conversations trying to teach people you
know what in a short period of time what school finance looks like and what can be used for what. Um, and still had some people that said, um, I support you as a teacher. I thank you for what you do. Um, we want the best for our students,
but we just can't support this because we feel that the funds have been misspent with some other things. And that was the the negative comments that we would hear. Um and a lot of times if they were a no we just you know
conversation was done but some just wanted to be a be able to share what their feeling was why they couldn't support. They said, "It's not you. We just feel like the funds have been mismanaged." And you know, we can't,
it would be too hard of a conversation to have. And some other concerns that um we heard from people, they said, you know, I really support our schools. We want our teachers in there, but they weren't happy with how some special education things were happening and the lack of support for their students
there. So that's those were the what kind of the um common themes were for what we heard for negative but again the positive was we support the teachers we support the students and the I said
there was just some concerns with elsewhere um yeah I think that said it's so we're we're glad it passed but again the the public is really they cuz when we found out like the number of jobs that would
be cut. They said that's just ridiculous and that we need to keep those people in the classroom. And the other question that the public had was why does it have to be the teachers first? That's what we heard from them too. >> That's all I had. Do you have any
questions? Any questions from the board? >> No. Does not look like there's any questions. Uh, thank you for coming tonight. It was very informative. Item B, accepting resolutions or resolution accepting donations. Dr. Thank you. Um, tonight we present
donations um from the following donors. Um, the Edward Jones Trust, a monetary donation for homeless services. Bless Schwab, a monetary donation for the fan bus travel donation and he and James Ship, a monetary donation for homeless
services. >> Thank you, Keith. Move to accept the donations presented and direct administration to send a thank you letter. >> Cassidy. >> A second. >> I have a motion by Keith, second by Cassidy. Move to accept the donations
presented and direct administration to send a thank you letter. Any further discussion from the board? >> Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. Those opposed, same sign. That motion carries. Item C, first reading of
policies, Dr. Lun. Thank you. Policy 102. Uh, no changes. >> Any questions from the board? >> Sure. >> Go ahead. Sorry. >> Any questions about uh policy 102 from
the board? >> Okay. Next, Dr. I have uh Whoops. Sorry. Policy 528. And I believe there were no changes to that policy other than updating some cross references.
>> Any questions from the board? >> Moving on. >> Policy 533. There were also no changes to that policy. >> Any questions for the board? >> Okay, we'll move on. Thank you. Policy
611. There were also no changes to this policy. >> Any questions from the board? >> Is this saying that homeschool kids could participate in Morehead? >> Yes. >> Sports. >> Yeah. >> Yep.
>> Just checking. >> Anything else we want? >> Uh, did we skip 520, Dr. Wink? >> I do have it right here. I just didn't have it on the agenda. We'll pick it up at the end. >> Okay. >> I'm just following my contents here.
>> Thank you. >> Go ahead with the next one. >> Okay. Policy 625, inclusive education program. Please note that this isn't an MSBA policy. We recommend moving the policy to support
policy 102. >> Any questions from the board? Okay, we'll move on. >> Okay, moving on to policy 711, not to be confused with the convenience store, severe weather related closings. And
probably the topic is timely for tomorrow. Uh there are no changes to that policy. >> Any questions? Okay, we move on. Uh policy number 712. Note that there was a revision on the
section 4 A item A I believe if I'm reading that right >> page 59 is what we have and that was the modification of that policy.
Any questions from the board? >> Okay, moving on. 702. Thank you. Policy 702 or 716. 716 is the policy. It's not an MSBA
policy, but we do recommend moving policy 716 to support policy 702 accounting. >> Any questions? Okay, move on to 71872.4.
Policy 718, rental of district musical instruments. Please note that if this is not an MSBA policy, we recommend moving it to a procedure to support policy 702. >> Any questions from the board?
>> Okay, move none. 907. 907 rewards. There were no changes to this policy. >> Any questions from the board? >> Okay. And you still have 520. >> I do have 520. Yep. Uh student surveys.
Uh there were no changes to this policy, but there were some updates to the legal references policy. So, just making you aware of those. Okay. >> Any questions? Go ahead. Thank you. on that 7-Eleven, we're doing three e-learning days. And it's not part of
the policy, I don't believe, but we're doing three e-learning days if there there's a school closure. Is that correct? >> Yes. So, there'll be three e-learning days and then if we move past three and we get to the fourth, that fourth one would be made up. >> Okay. Thank you.
>> Yep. Anything else from the board? >> Thank you. We move on to item four, superintendent updates. Um, next uh the next board needs a billion tonight. We were supposed to have the audit, but uh they didn't have
it ready in time. So, we'll have the audit uh trades and taxation here in December. I like to try to keep those separate. Uh but because of timing, uh we couldn't. So, we'll pick that up at the December meeting. Uh just so you're aware, um meeting will start at 6 and we
do that to not conflict with any truth and taxation rules. I know that there's a concert that night. Um, and if we were to start it earlier, we would have to make some modifications to uh how we do the truth and taxation meeting. So, we've always avoided that by just
starting the meeting after 6. Um, if there's a thought that you want to modify the start on the 15th, we would have to modify how we do uh the truth and taxation component. So, it would be cleaner uh just to start the meeting after 6. then you can embed it into your
regular meeting. >> Okay. Any comments or from the board in regards to that? Any conflicts from the board members? >> What's the concert on this? >> Um I believe there's a a string of
concerts back to back to back and I I believe that they would be conflicting with our meeting. >> Okay. >> I'm not exactly sure uh of the time that it starts, but I just wanted to make you aware of it now. uh as we move forward and what uh I
believe we should do because of the truth in taxation then they >> as long as we have a quorum that's all that >> yeah correct >> so okay if uh if you do have a conflict please let me know >> so the 15th it will be 6:00
>> 15th would be six o'clock >> the only meeting >> only meeting >> the only meeting in December >> okay is that it Dr. That's all I have. Yep. For that. >> Thank you. Item five, close the meeting.
Uh, you're going to be closing the meeting for negotiation purposes or I believe it is. Yeah, >> correct. Yeah. >> I move to close the public meeting at 6:29 p.m. pursuant to Minnesota statute section 1380. 03 for the purpose of
discussion negotiations. >> Thank you, Cassidy. I'll second. >> Have a motion by Laura Lee, seconded by Cassidy. Move to move close the public meeting at 621P pursuant to Minnesota statutes section 13D.03 for the purpose of discussing
negotiations. Any further comment from the board? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed, same sign. This meeting will be closed. Let's come back in three minutes, please.
Except Dan's not ready. >> Good thing we need him. >> Yes. Thank you, Dan. Item six, open the public meeting or open the meeting. I have a motion for that, Laura Lee. I move to open the meeting at 7:10 p.m.
>> Thank you, Lori Lee. Dave, I'll second. I have a motion by Lor Lee, second by Dave. Move to open the public meeting at 7:10 p.m. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed, same sign. That motion
carries. Want to make sure we have nobody outside. I think we got to do that. >> I'll check. Yeah, >> we'll go in make sure I lock the doors too close. >> Item seven, the adjournment.
>> Keith, be my pleasure to move to approve the adjournment of the November 24th, 2020 schoolboard meeting at 7:11 p.m. >> Good job. >> Thank you. I have a second. Laura Lee. >> A second. >> Have a motion by Q. Second by Lee. Move to approve the adjournment of the
November 24th, 2025 pool board meeting at 7:11. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> Those oppos same sign. >> This meeting is adjourned. Thank you everyone. Have a happy Thanksgiving.
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