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she did it it's 6:30 and I'm going to call the regular J February sorry I'm going back a month February meeting of the Sall St St School Board to order thank you to all in the committee community that are here in person and those watching us
online the expectation of our community is that all participants and attendees will conduct themselves professionally and with respect for other members of our community the first item on our agenda tonight is our pledge of allegiance to of the United States of America and to the repblic for it stands
one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all we look for a motion to approve the agenda Some Mo second okay motion by Jen second by Emily any discussion all those in favor signify by
saying I I those opposed say nay motion carries um I will now ask if there are any further nominations for the position of board chair currently we have a nomination for myself Trisha Ming and a nomination for Jen Smith um um does anyone have any other nominations for
board chair does anyone have any other nominations for board chair does anyone have any other nominations for board chair okay hearing none we will do the same thing that we've done the last two
times um all those in favor of Trisha raise your hand are we doing discussion though oh sorry we have to make a motion to discuss this I don't hear made there's a vot is there one that needs to be made is it just a hand
raising it's not discuss we actually have a chair link but if you'd like to have discussion we can yeah I do because I brought this up at the last meeting and I did follow up with cherry Marl um at msba just because I had questions
about some of the specific duties of chair especially such as speaking to Legal speaking on behalf of the board we do not have an elected chair so um those are duties that are delegated to an elected chair we don't have that so I asked him just how with our policy written the way that it is what actually
should be occurring here and you guys can read the email chain but essentially that was my question um specifically being we do not have an elect a chair who speaks to Legal if we have not approved the acting chair as our authorized contact who make statements or speak on y y y and then I just copied
and pasted what our policy says his response was thank you for your message to the situation you describe as rare and as you say is not addressed specifically in policy or law with that said the general approach would be to have the acting chair and take the duties of chair assuming that a board does not have a vice chair unless the
board votes for a different approach for example the board can vote on which board members may contact the district's legal council Etc So I responded and I just said well we do have an elected vice chair so is the general approach that you're speaking of being that the vice chair would then be in the role of
acting chair and I actually kind of laughed at his response because it was um he said the board could ask the district's legal council for an interpretation of this sentence in your District policy 202 the vice chair shall
perform the duties of the chair in the event of the chair's temporary absence that's the duties of the vice chair um I thought it was funny just because my question was who speaks to Legal if we don't have a chair and that was what he responded with but in general I think what he's saying is that because we do
have a vice chair and because of the duties of the chair it would seem to align that that's who would be fulfilling the role of acting chair while we are going through the process of electing a chair I see that as being correct um because actually having somebody who is not elected in position
fulfilling the role does seem strange um because really there hasn't been any power or duties delegated to that person at that point they have not gotten approval for that role so um I guess starting out that would be my first thing is I do think
that somewhat correctly the vice chair should be fulfilling the role of acting chair until we have an elected chair I am I guess just a little confused because I just got to go through the um officer training last couple weeks and during that Terry
specifically said that when you are elected to a position you are elected to that position for a year or until someone else is elected yeah and I that's why I asked him just because specifically with the chair there's like powers and duties that the board itself is delegating to
that person but if we haven't elected anybody into that we therefore haven't really given that delegation or that power to that person so that was my question for him but this is just our back and forth the response that I was given so um that's why I reached out to him because I figured he would be the
best resource to start with um right off the bat I guess so I it does make sense especially being the conversation that we did have at the organizational meeting the reasons for like my vote um
not in favor of Trisha have a lot to do with some serious concerns of actions that occurred last year so I'm not comtable you know having you're speaking on behalf of the board you're speaking on behalf of the board to Legal councel that's not something that I'm comfortable with which is kind of what prompted this is how does that work if
you've got half of a governing body saying we're not comfortable with that how do we proceed so that's that was the conversation that we had so I think we need to kind of address that first can I say something Vice
chair WR everybody's kind of looking at me um if it comes down to it I'm happy to help however uh we need to help whatever is necessary but I think the key phrase I heard in a lot of what you said was if we want to get our own legal council's
advice that's what we need to do Terry's not our attorney he's a he's a great resource know that and he's been a former attorney but he's not our District's attorney right um so I wouldn't be comfortable moving forward in any different way than how we've been operating until we get advice from our
own legal counsel that says we're not right then the question is who speaks to them could we all agree that the superintendent could do that in this situation as kind of our neutral ex official member of the board we could we could I mean again that would have to be
something that the full board fun although just to interject I do think Dr rard has stayed neutral on it because this is a board decision so well I don't want to make it
a gray area or make it an uncomfortable ask right if it's potentially not something that he's comfortable trying to mediate not speaking on your behalf but just saying I think as long as the request is to
just go to our legal council and to to bring back to us what they say and not try to interpret it or have that and also looking to you to speak on your own behalf as to what your comfort level is with that I certainly could do that and then at the the board's discretion we
can invite counil more but if we want to no there there's a clost that obviously that I always want in our and efficient in our expenditures so I would be glad to take that first step and back
board okay so are we in agreement on I'm comfortable with that approach I don't think like Chelsea said I don't think we're asking Dr rard to make any decisions on behalf of the board just
relay information and set up possible consult with our legal counsel so okay I'm fine with that okay then moving forward does anybody at our January meeting we had a lot of
discussion there was a couple different options proposed and I believe Chelsea and Matt you both said you'd think about one of those potential proposals and get back to you know us with your thoughts on that it never was discussed again
our January regular meeting so do you guys recall what I referring to and just to be safe go ahead and repeat it please we're all on the same page The Proposal that was brought up towards the end was being that we decided and voted
as a board to keep the vice chair role um which we had discussed potentially not having but it was because the vice chair based on the description that we had gotten from the two of you is that the vice chair is kind of like a supporting role to the chair somebody that you bounce ideas off
of if you're not sure how to respond to something you might go to them first um and have conversations with just to uh just to speak it out loud to somebody else so that was the role and what I had proposed is okay if that's the case well Matt is elected into the role of Vice
chair and the way that the role has been described to me is that they are somewhat of a support system to the chair so if Jen to be elected chair and Matt remains as Vice chair wouldn't that be a partnership in which there would be being that we get viewed as two sides
all the time two sides than having input um I can at least speak to so I think also at that meeting I did bring up that I would have preferred that conversation to come up at the beginning of the organizational meeting so we could have taken multiple options into
consideration of does you know is is kind of a a potential experience path into the chair position to first come into Vice chair and then maybe eventually move into chair kind of to have that route instead of because as you've pointed out being in chair does
give a certain level of of kind of a power and authority of communication and decisions on speaking on behalf of the boards even though we kind of say that it is a bit of a partnership acknowledging that there are certain decisions and
Authority that does reside with that position um so I think it was kind of the trajectory of our conversation it just landed there at the end of it based on everything that was said prior to it so so from my perspective I haven't
changed my mind as far as what I countered with as an idea um when we talked at the end of the organizational meeting so I won't repeat myself but the summary of my feelings were I'd rather have somebody more experienced in the board chair role who's been on the board
longer um and then I offered up the idea that you know if Trisha were elected board chair I could step down as Vice chair and have somebody else like kind of dovetailing on what Chelsea was saying somebody else assume that role as kind of a second study or
whatever you want to call that position so that as far as I remember during our discussion that wasn't really has either so um I don't know I as far as what I spent time thinking about in the time between
then and now um I feel this is appropriate time to point out that Trisha as board chair has the trust of a majority of our community and we saw that with the election results we've kind of in this whole discussion really
been laser focused on the six people sitting here at the table and haven't even um paid Credence to what we saw happen in November which is at the tail end of Trisha's year as board chair the community voted her back into this
position um so I think it's really unfair to be sitting here talking about Trisha and having trust issues and that sort of thing when the community trusts the job that she did and approve the job she did by putting her back in this
world this year so I uh yeah I mean really because this is a the election results this is a board vote and it is internal workings of the board and internal communication of the board that's what that's what gets tied into
the chair role it is who is facilitating our meetings facilitating our communication as a board facilitating other things as a board it isn't facilitating the community so the inner workings of what was going on behind theen the community had absolutely no idea and
it's all of those things that have led to a severe mistrust um there was I mean I've got a Litany of reasons as were all stated many times during the organizational meeting very specific things that any regular person would
come to the conclusion that they would have a lack of trust in that leadership moving forward the community is not privy to that because they are internal board things I have to say I completely disagree I know I know you do yeah I I see the election as being about the best
barometer we could get of how much the community approved and trusts Trisha moving forward in this role because she was in the role during that very public issue we had in June she was in the role during the
very um I don't even know the right word for it but obviously very public campaign leading up to the School Board elections where frankly in the past two election Cycles I think our community has paid a lot closer attention to things than previous to that so yeah I I
don't see how anybody can sit here and say that we need to just shut ourselves off from the rest of the community and only consider what's happened at this specific board table in making this decision I think that both of the aspects are a big part of it we need to
consider Community input and trust and we need to consider our history as board members and working together with each each other so you can't turn one of those dials off in making this Choice exactly yes no I can't and I mean a lot
of the conversation at the organizational meeting revolved around one specific thing because the community has absolutely no idea they were not privy to the you know inner workings of what was occurring during the time of the contracts but what a lot of the
focus of the conversation was at the organizational meeting is the meeting that was held held a special meeting that was called for and actually put on the board chair was aware 7 days in advance and multiple forms of
communication after that that there would not be a forum that meeting should have never stayed on the calendar it was known on day one none of the the full board wasn't even aware there was going to be a special meeting as has been stated I found out on
WJ we have never seen scheduled a meeting in that way ever we have always coordinated schedules and made sure it works prior to doing so we've made an attempt to do so iPhone not on WJ that we were having a special meeting and as of that day it was clear and evident
that we would not have a forum for that meeting yet the meeting still remained on the calendar I communicated in three different ways email text phone call multiple times throughout that week I received one response
my last three meals zero and the meeting was still held so revolved around that so my point is is due to that I received my family myself my house I got violent threats so
I then had to be escorted into our following meeting on Friday with a police escort because I was receiving violent threats against my family and a lot of it was due to the fact that there was a believe that I just didn't show up I just on a whim didn't show up there
was so much communication that went unanswered fully and completely leading up to that if you think that instills trust and we're supposed to have a trusting relationship there that is just one event there was many other things that led up to that and there was I I
don't even know how many examples Emily I just one of the things that I feel like I'm missing is I've heard you all very much talk about why you don't want Trisha I would like for us to focus a bit more on why we would be voting for who we are so a bit more on like the
positive so instead of like I know a lot of what you've said you you also went through at the organizational meeting um from my own personal experiences and my relationships you know of have having known Trisha and her Schoolboard role as
another parents of a student having kids in every school and seeing her commitment as a substitute teacher and also volunteering as a referee I see and I have witnessed her care and concern for our community and our school
district and I've also had some difficult conversations with her that I feel like she has kind of been open to hearing about my stance um regardless of what it goes against her own maybe personal beliefs or religious beliefs to
make decisions or to have conversations that are open in regards to like all supporting all of our students in our district so that is why I am voting for her I would love to hear more I know um both Scott and you spoke to Jen's
communication skills I would like to have more um like more information more examples for you to put that same amount of energy into why you would like to see Jen as a chair so I can learn more about that instead of necessarily focusing on
the the negatives as to why you don't want to see Trisha's chair I agree I agree and I would like to see more proposed Solutions I think that we're we're continuing to be stuck in this real of you know I cannot support Trisha as chair moving forward so we'll re we'll remain at this same discussion
with this same vote every month forever so we need to be talking about Solutions because I'm I don't know that we could be more clear that I could be more clear that that's not I will never get that vote of support and
Trisha as a person a parent or a board member is not at all what's being discussed what's being discussed is her ability as chair which we have evidence of being she was chair all of last year so that is the only thing I'm speaking to and that is something that I cannot support moving forward so we have to come up
with some alternative Solutions because we can't keep doing this every month sure but it also seems that we do have um we have different viewpoints on how Trisha did as chair specifically last year and so right so that is where I
would like us to focus a bit more on to you said like Solutions talking things through but also focusing on CU if we continue to sit here and try to throw negative it's not going to help us rebuild this board or the or how the community views us or the community I
agree so I guess then my question I agree my question would be though okay like I asked this at the end of the organizational meeting I gave some reason for Jen the difficult part is is that Jen has never been shair before it would be like me giving an opinion on what you would be like his
chair I know some of the things about your personality I really don't know obviously Jen's been on the board for 2 years so I have some experience with her as a board member but it's a little bit harder to say you know she's fantastic as a chair for this reason but I did give examples of why I think she would
do a good job in the role where I'm getting to though is we just keep ending up back at the same two nominees so if somebody has another idea um outside of that that would be great to bring bring that to the table because nobody's going
to be able to say to a board member that had not been chair before you would be a fantastic chair because you have done all these things that are similar to a chair role I wouldn't have been able to say that about Matt I voted for Trisha as chair I believe last year oh no I didn't I did sorry Trisha was voted in
as chair by the majority of the board last year but I believe I voted for Matt last year um and that was based on my experience with him as chair in that role the year before so it's it is a difficult thing to say this person would be is going to be all the good things about a chair being they've never been
in that before I think that makes the conversation about why Jen would be graded it a little more difficult but I have given examples of what she has shown as far as leadership qualities go that I think would vode well in the position I don't know how much further the conversation can go but I did ask you guys why you believe that she would
not be um or why you would be concerned or have less um confidence in that and Matt I know you said just lack of experience was your reason and Chelsea I know you weren't on the board up until month or two ago so it's a little bit
hard for you to kind of weigh in on that but it is going to make the conversation more difficult so if anybody has another idea or a proposal outside of landing at this same position again every single month I am all years for that so if anybody wants
to chime in here with other ideas I I mean I can I don't know that it's appropriate being a nominee but instead of potentially having Matt St and vice chair there are boards that are at an imp at an
impass um with electing chairs and we could do a co-chair true I know NOA did that when they ended up at an impass I'm chair bye frankly be more comfortable just
keeping on doing what we're doing than do something like that that's out of the ordinary I mean we talked at the last meeting that bringing negative attention to our district yet again would not be helpful and that's something that would certainly bring negative attention that's very Orthodox positive attention
I I think it's very unorthodox I think we're operating just fine having an acting chair but I know I know that you feel that way I will tell you that I am a little personally offended because you're kind of disregarding some extreme strong feelings that I have based on six
months of my life last year and very deep personal experience with this role of chair so to disregard it as if I'm just making this up or that I should just simply move on and feel comfortable with this person remaining as chair
that's not appropriate I never once said I was disregarding anybody's feelings it's a balance you're more comfortable just moving on yeah everything's a balance so I'm more more comfortable that's comparing the options well what option outside of that would you do you have
another option that you would propose that I would personally propose right I don't know can I yeah I don't know I we started this discuss discuss by talking about getting legal council's advice on how to proceed with Trisha as acting
chair as Vice chair we haven't even gone down that road yet so maybe that's the best thing to do maybe we just end the conversation take our three to3 vote and get that legal council's advice and see how we want to move from there I'm looking at this like when we were having
discussions dur during our superintendent interviews and whatever and it was kind of like okay we can we can kick the can and not discuss these things but this is going to be here again next month so I would like to have some proposed solutions that we come to
the table with um because even if even if what Terry is saying is is what legal council is aligned with okay well that would put the vice chair in the role of acting chair but we would still be returning to this vote and this discussion every
month and nothing about it will have changed if there is absolutely no new ideas back forward so I would like to see others bring proposed ideas forward okay well I've repeated twice an idea that hasn't been discussed yet of
keeping Trisha as chair and having Jen take my spot as Vice chair nobody's said a word about that I I have said I have said I am not in any way going to be comfortable having Trish the role of chair yeah so that's one person's opinion so y yep and you said nobody has said anything about it but I have okay y
well I've also spoke up but I kind of to Chelsea's point I don't want to sit here and be constantly negative especially as a nominee I don't think that's real professional or appropriate but it wasn't just feelings
mad like it's not just you me talking about my feelings there was documentation to support what had happened and holding a meeting knowingly and and willingly without a
quorum feels like political Theater which is not appropriate for the board or the community and and that's that's where I'm going to also stand to again I I just can't cast my vote especially when you personally are the one who called me
talked to me when I was on the job and you knew darn well I wasn't even going to be in the state and then you still put together that app or the the the thing and you guys still when news
cameras are in front of you you made phone calls to us knowing we that I wasn't even in the state saying are you going to be here that to me was just that that act of you knew dang well was a show at this point and what that did is it cited the community and split it
down the middle so and with that in regards I just I don't feel comfortable with you in this position to be a a lead it just the fact that I had to take my family out of here through a gauntlet and people in the community were calling
my kids evil and going after my family and as a police officer needing somebody to do EXT patrols on my house because the way that's got completely fanned the fires knowing darn well that nobody was going to lose their job but yet that was
what was pushed out to the community making the three of us tget if we had not made a decision on Friday there were 21 people not have we've already discussed that leg no it wasn't yes it was there's an email there is an email from Tom
specifically asking legal if he should shut down the district if the board did not approve contracts and I made multiple amendments to the agenda for multiple months
asking for individual consideration which would have allowed those contracts individually to be discussed and voted on in February or March I guess again really TR tried and I feel like we continue to point fingers
so I will just say in the if we're going to sit here and say that certain sides are being political and certain aren I think it was also a political statement that three board members were not at all able to attend that meeting in any way or fashion remotely or otherwise so I think that if we want to point fingers
we can again it's only going to continue to cause divide I I hear you saying that you're not comfortable with Trisha I would love to hear more and to get you know Oren if that's you and I on outside conversation of getting the opportunity to know you or to discuss more but from
what at this point I think we're at an impass where to move tonight's meeting along um I guess my only other suggestion would be to nominate mat's chair um if you're looking for other suggestions that would be mine tonight
and then otherwise to allow for Dr rard to go back to legal councel to get that information so that we can take that into consideration for more options or ideas so can I just speak to one thing um I
did open that that road for conversation I did reach out to you and I wanted to offer that opportunity to have a discussion and I haven't heard from you and I'm not calling you out I'm not trying to call you out specifically sure but I do want to say that I did reach out to you knowing that you weren't on
the board at that time and offered that line of open communication so I also would like to say and I wanted to say this a little bit ago is Matt and I have had conversations where we don't agree um and I think a co-chair would
be I think it would be a unifying thing it it's and I were able to you know help with negotiations amongst the administration that was there and that went really smoothly um Matt and I have had
conversations both that we agree and disagree and yet I personally think that we have a good professional relationship where I would like to see both sides be able to be represented
in a way that like you have said where it might look different but that would be a positive that I think I think Matt and I would be able to co-chair and do so in a way that would bring healing to the community and the district as well I
guess I would like I would love more information than on how like a co-chair relationship would work to be able to take that into consideration I can reach out to an NOA Anan they are an NOA I'm sorry they have had coair for two years
for similar reasons largest District in the state so I feel as though if they can find a way to navigate that I think it's certainly can be done and they're not the first to do it either but I mean if we want more information on how that looks sure I just meant
because like our policy doesn't really cover it like how that responsibility would look does that mean that like nothing happens unless you like both co-chairs agree on it or does it give both co-chairs the full power of a chair like though it's more so around like because we don't have a policy that governs what that would look like is
understanding what what that does look like for us yeah and this has brought up yeah I mean we probably should review our policy 202 as well because it's very vague as far as roles and duties of chair but um yeah I believe just from what I have
seen with the NOA they delegate duties so each chair kind of handles and has responsibility in something they both participate in setting the agenda um that is their shared responsibility and then they kind of delegate out the other duties and they oversee those things as
agreed upon so obviously there would need to be a little more information there I could certainly reach out to find out more about that but can I ask and I did ask you days last time but is there outside of experience there's
nothing concerning Mo genen but Matt you work you were chair after two years on the bo correct yeah and I talked to that when we talked at the organizational meeting that I and I even said I I know my position is contrary to how I became
chair but I don't think it's hypocritical because I was kind of stuck with the job at the time for lack of a better ter we had three new board members and then two of us had two years experience and then we had Jason who had
already served his time as board chair and he and I'm going to go off on a little tangent here nobody at the board table should feel threatened nobody should feel harassed by the community that's awful I'm really sorry to hear when that happens to anybody but for
very similar reasons I think Jason probably didn't want any part of having the role of board chair the year I did so it kind of fell to me and that's why I think I don't think I'm being hypocritical and saying I want somebody with more than two years of experience
because like I said at the org meeting I would have been more comfortable first being board chair with a lot more than years experience I didn't feel necessarily comfortable myself having that little experience so do that's my I feel like I could have done a better job with more experience because
it started out pretty Rocky so yeah it it was a very very rough two months and personally it was very tough so yeah I nominated you for boy the next year because I thought that you handled that well so that's any consolation but
thank you yeah I my point is I guess is that um we essentially have only two board members that have been here for a longer event two years right and you know we've discussed one in detail the other is you and the rest of
us are two years or less so I mean I'll go back to my comment from earlier however I can help happy to help so um I appreciate Chelsea's comments about because I I feel the same way I don't even know what co-chair situation would look like I'm not going to be
close-minded about anything I'll take any information that can be gathered I think in addition to people looking into what's been done in Anoka if we're talking to legal council anyway we would have to know if going down that road requires a policy change because then we're three months out I
mean that's that's the process for changing policy so we would need to know again how to proceed until that time if that even was an option I'd be willing to consider um I agree and again if that's the case and we're three months out we can't continue
to return to this every month so what do what do we do at that point so I would like yeah I would I would really prefer to have some sort of plan in place tonight than to leave this as is again because there's going to be another situation that occurs the next
month where the board chair is going to have to speak on behalf of the board well unfortunately I'm not comfortable with that so as the acting chair so you know these things are going to continue to come up throughout the month um and months if it goes three months out because we have to make a policy change so let's brainstorm other ideas
here and sure I did suggest one you I didn't hear any like I guess Fe on that one so well to piggy back off that that would leave the vice chair position open and that goes back to the idea I had earlier that maybe J takes Vice
chair so and Jen taking chair and you taking Vice chair what was the uh response to that is that everything I'm going to say on that but having the vice chair is a supporting role on
that if the board chair is new what You Well the description of the vice chair was that the supporting role of the chair right I'm just talking about back to the topic of level level of experience for me so same comments I
made at the or meeting and a little bit here today okay well I don't know how comfortable I am moving on on that but at this point I think that we need to have a solution for next
month because I I think I can't we'll see if we have I can't continue this way feeling like okay I'm going to approve an agenda that's been set by only a person that unfortunately due to 6 months worth of documented history I'm not comfortable with I mean sorry
but taking a step back are we all comfortable with the idea of Dr rard contacting legal counsel and getting us as much information as we've talked about tonight so the topic of does vice chair take over acting chair duties for
certain areas and what would a co-chair situation look like in our policy at minimum Maybe take that conversation to a different spot I don't know but we still have to hold the vote then regardless next the same
discussion well next month's discussion should have quite a bit more information additional yeah but the vote would still occur between the two nominees unless somebody else is brought forward is there any other further discussion
okay we we'll move on to the vote so all those in favor of Trisha raise your hand all those in favor of Jen raise your hand okay we are still tied 3 three I will continue as acting chair we do not have any visitors for public forum
tonight so we move on to a uh motion to approve the consent agenda much second motion by Matt second by Jen any discussion um I would just love to recognize the
donations that we've received um again extremely generous donations um from our community so it is quite the list I will go through them um the Sabers all sports booster club donated $750 to gymnastics um at the high school sartel fast pitch
softball Association donated $647 to the softball wind screen uh wind screen at the SEL High School magnify finan Credit Union donated $500 to sel High School softball derich donated
$1,500 to sel High School saber robotics Pelco machine donated $1,000 to Sarto High School saber robotics hsky engineering and repair donated $250 to sel High School saber robotics pmmi
Foundation donated $2500 to start a high school saber robotics full circle water donated materials Val $27.40 to tech ed at SEL High School uh Sabers all sports booster club donated
$47.49 to Bo tennis at high school um secure donated $1,000 to sel High School saber robotics jbird Mechanical Contractors donated $150 to sell School saber robotics sartel fast pitch
softball Association donated 488 $8 to start a high school softball uh quanis Club of St Cloud donated $1,000 in the form of a scholarship at high school bernex Pepsi of St Cloud has two donations one in the amount of $2,000 to
start a high school for girls basketball and one for $500 to start till high school for saber robotics Simons and lumber donated $250 to s High School saber robotics Jean hos Foundation donated $2,750
to startel high school saber Robotics and hou or theonics donated $500 to startel high school saber robotics so a huge thank you to those incredible donations from our community yes and I don't remember who does the fundraising
for the robotics team when they came and presented to us they I I forget who it was on the team that is behind that but they I think I complimented them at that time they are amazing at it and I recommend them for out to the that student graduated oh well whoever took
over is equally as awesome it yeah good job and thank you okay any other discussion on the consent agenda okay all those in favor signify by saying I post name okay motion passes then
we'll move on to our saber star report um are we doing oakd or the high school are you both coming up we'll go first okay so welcome turn princial good evening hello Julia V principal oakd Early Learning Center and
I am very happy this evening to present our saber star to Mr Jacob henig Jacob has been our Kindergarten music teacher this year full-time although he started with us in a part-time capacity a few
years back four five years yeah so um he is a 10e teacher here and my staff want to sing his Praises he really makes music fun and engaging and has just this masterful way of um supporting
our kindergarten students the students love the music and movement activities that he thoughtfully plans I think a great strength of Jacobs is his Relentless problem solving skills he works collaboratively with our teachers to really help maximize student
participation in his classroom he has a strong belief that all our kindergarten students will be successful in learning music and those foundational music skills and additionally he's just a really engaged staff member um he helps
with our positive School culture you can always see him in the hallway connecting with staff and students informally during the passing times um he's a Singleton so he is Solo in our department but he really reaches out to his um music collaborative peers and
other buildings and has a strong investment in the mission and vision of our district so congratulations thank you for all you do for our [Applause]
students okay on up good evening Shane kler the high school and I am Sarah crle here um Sarah is our staff star for the month of February um um Sarah's a leader in our school she teaches biology AP biology
and mad physiology um she's been on the buil team since it started it continues to provide a lot of service there she's our high school content specialist for science she's the head uh girls tennis coach and takes on a whole lot of roles
that aren't titled beyond that um members of her team share that Sarah does a great job at truly hearing concerns and then solving them through a combination of ad encouragement teamwork and practicality they say that Sarah has an impeccable way of balancing interests
within the department in combining ideas to come to a solution that they all can see as the best she makes those around her feel valued and comfortable and she continually brings Unison and cohesion to her department and our school Community positivity and sense of humor
bring great life to our team and the high school's lucky to have her [Applause] we'll move on to our Schoolboard student representative reports we have Emily and
Bennett perfect we have some fun updates tonight and we are very excited to be sharing them with you all um starting at Oak Ridge February is I love to read month which involves mystery and guest readers visiting classrooms to share their love of reading preschoolers learned about their neighborhood City
and community helpers with visits from a carpenter and dental hygien hygienist and kindergarteners participated in a royal ball and also marked the 100th day of school and international Global Day of Play students also enjoyed friendship
activities on Valentine's Day and with many days of inside recess both staff and students are looking forward to warmer weather over at Pine Meadow they saw a successful turnout for parent teacher conferences and a book fair February also marked dental health month
with B orthodontist educating for first graders on oral health and sharing fot facts about teeth like how the garden snail has 14,000 of them students received Dental Health bags and Delta Dental provided bags to second graders um Pine Meadow is also
celebrating I love to read month which featured r s student council members reading to classrooms book buddies working together guest readers and a character dress up day to end the month at Riverview for I love to read month fifth graders hosted weekly themes for
events such as get caught reading where students were featured reading around the school and read around the school where teachers switched rooms to read to different classes they also had cozy reading days and VIP readings with over 40 shs students visiting to read to the
student additionally fifth grade student council members read to younger students at Pine Meadow and alongside the other schools riverview's winter conferences were successful and helped strengthen the Rel relationship between the school and the families and then we're just going to move right into the middle of school who
also had family teacher conferences a couple weeks ago very well attended big shout out to the families who came as as we've mentioned um it's also I love to read month over at the middle school um you know keep keeping students reading and they have their Scholastic
Book Fair which was her usual big success we also had the sixth grade students perform The Hobbit um which was an incredible performance it was awesome to see and again thank you to everybody who helped put that on and then certified staff members benefited from a
day of learning from the author of grading From the Inside Out Tom Shimmer I'm sure it was a really interesting day for them and then over at the high school our winter activities have just about wrapped up as we move on to State competitions so in the last couple weeks
we've sent off our dance team GYN gymnastics team Nordic ski wrestling and math Le team so far as well as one act which we talked about last so lot lot of celebrate right there um it's also the orchestra concert tonight I think that
probably started at 7 and then still with Orchestra they their solo Ensemble performances on Wednesday throughout the day those are like small group of performances that they do over on our activity side or it's kind of stuff student council's up to we have our
blood drive on March 12th which is primarily students and staff I'm not do we have community members come in are they able to I don't think they're allow to okay well we usually fill up pretty quick with just students and staff so no worries there Honor Society has been you
know busy as always we currently doing a kindness activity where they have students nominate other students who are being sabber strong in the building or doing kind acts which is cool and then they win a low prize it's a lot of fun uh we had registration wrap-up
talked about that last month and then like Emily said reading to the Riverview kids which is tomorrow morning I'll be heading down there I remember the high was coming down when I was in elementary school so it's fun to head back down there and then we kind of talked about this a little bit but I was I was
honored to be the Kiana student of the month this year so I attended their or this month so I attended their meetings and aside from all the good they do they're just some of the nicest people I've ever met they're very kind and they bought all the kids lunch and so yeah if you ever have a chance to attend their meetings and join their Club I would
highly recommend it I think that's it ask you one yeah clarification can you read off the list of state competitors again please sure and I you might have to correct me if I'm missing anybody here okay um so I have dance gymnastics
Nordic ski wrestling Math League and one act and there's still some activities wrapping stuff up I like to report those to the senior connections appreciate that L thank you yeah anything else
thank you awesome thank you then we move on to our superintendent report good evening members of the board so I'm going to start out I have about five or six items um first I want to thank our community U for their participation in the special election on February 11 but
I also want to thank all those involved in providing information and give some special shout outs Jessie Pig Joe prom Dr dman principal kler who just left um Thompson uh for joining me and being out in more
than 40 presentations um and for their partnership even putting in the website presentations together I think that was instrumental in ensuring that our community was able to hear multiple voices um what was going to be an important V going to our community I want to thank sah KY for some excellent
work on our website and finally I would like to thank marily Lee as our election clerk um all the extra time her expertise in completing a special this is something that we take on we get a lot of help from the county but may lee was our go-to person not only on those
days of the election but also prior to that so I'd like to thank all those people who are part of uh a few other items our Administration is going through training on Marano learning about the framework that we're doing for administrative
coaching and evaluations um as we move into next year teachers learning more about the Mars Island framework um part of our instructional leadership map is um ensuring that uh the board knows and that our community knows we are
working and advocating for continued school funding we have the msba Massa day of the capital coming up on March 10th and School advocacy funding opportunity with saf is coming up on March 18th those will be opportunities for us to be down with the capital and
working with our legislators Ben at covered our folks who have made it down and our kids who have made it down for State qualifying so I look forward to next month opportunity we'll highlight all of our mnor activities uh last I do have a presentation from the Minnesota
school boards Association for Jen Smith that I've received and I'll read it the Minnesota School Board Association awards program includes a category of recognition for those persons who complete 100 more hours hours of attendance at msba sponsored meetings
and activities within a 4-year period of time um this is from Katie L gude who was the msba director of board development I'm pleased to inform you that Jen Smith has attained the director's award for the 2224 25 school year uh we at msba
appreciate the efforts and dedication of all Minnesota school board members put forth for the sake of public school children and we encourage all of us to urge in their continued participation so we thank you and that's thank you welcome okay so we'll
move on to the district Finance Report with Joe all right good evening um just a couple things to report on tonight um we did have uh the J uary uh budget to actual
report is linked on the agenda we are tracking at about 55% of our budget spent to date um just as a reminder we would anticipate having um a revised budget for this year on the April agenda and then the preliminary budget for next year on the June agenda um obviously a
lot of things for next year are still up in the air with a legislative session going on um we did have a finance committee uh meeting this month a couple weeks ago um and will be reporting on that sure very soon um but a lot of
unknown obviously from the legislature at this point the big items that would impact our budget that could change um would be the unemployment summer Unemployment uh funding which is uh due to expire somewhat soon um there are some things being floated in the budget
related to special ed funding um and some other some other things that could affect us as well so uh basically just kind of uh holding holding firm to we know uh what those things are we may not know them all when we have when we um have to pass the June budget or we may
not know them in time to really have them in what we approve at that point um we'll do our best to get all the factors that we know included when we develop so um it's always when it's a funding year it's always a little bit of a little bit of unknown going into the budget cycle but do the best we can to stay informed
and and uh make sell projections there um there are couple things things um on the agenda really one um that I wanted to talk about a little bit with the bond um question one being passed in the
election there is a um resolution on this that is really the first step in issuing bonds to start to pay for some of those project costs and this is called a parameters resolution and really what it does is it gives myself
or Mike The Authority along with a board members to sign off on the initial pricing documents that will come through um and within the within the parameters stated in the resolution so there's the dollar amount of
2.93 that was on the ballot and then um there is a true interest cost not to exceed 4.5% so the next the next thing that will happen is that Beed our financial advisors on this will go through a
process of getting our Bond rating renewed or re-evaluated and then also um pricing the bonds out to Market and coming up with a proposed buyer and bidding through through a bidding process
basically um once that's done there'll be an initial like pricing sheet that we'll have to sign off on and that's why this this resolution is required so that in real time we can do that without waiting for the next board approval but
the the bonds close and won't sell until we have board approval at what they anticipate to be the April board so we'll do the pricing process throughout March um and would anticipate an adopt a ratifying resolution in April and then
we close the bonds sometime sometime after that sometime in late April early early may this resolution also gives us the ability to basically pay our the general fund back for anything we incur in the next few months before B our
issue so if you got any questions on that I can take them now otherwise I'm happy to entertain them if you had any discussion when that action it's up for approval as well any other questions so when you talk about pricing does
that mean that they will go out for bids for the project and that's how the pricing is no they'll go out to the bond market for pricing on the actual sale and structure of the bonds okay so various cial institutions Banks but basically buyers of these will give us
pricing on these the actual um bidding process on the construction side will occur this summer okay thank you thanks thank Youk you okay then we'll move on to our committee reports Matt did you have a Stern's
education District update um yeah so our voyagers facility which is a really old building in so Rabbids um houses our middle school high school and 18 to 22 students uh that get Services through Benton Sterns and that went down for a couple days last week because of a
boiler problem uh we got the update at our um Benton Stern's board meeting just this past Wednesday that the reason it took a while to catch the problem was that I was almost invisible there was a
um I think I wrote it down the ceramic coated ignition Rod had a hairline crack so it caused um the electrical well it caused a short basically in the electrical system which they kind of diagnosed from the start but of course you can't see a
hairline crack in ignition rod that's the thing that's right in the fire so they were looking at all the wiring and everything and we had a great team working on it our um head facilities person over there is just outstanding um very experienced so when they finally figured out what it was they got the
part in as quick as they could it was able to go in earlier than they thought they were thinking they'd have to have kids do distance learning all last week but they got the part in Wednesday and had kids back in the building by Friday everything running okay but it is an old boiler it's a still a steam boiler in
that facility that's how old the building is so um it just gives us this kind of a transition into my next topic it gives us a little more motivation again to look into facilities options for where that program can move to um of course we um have the funding in place
that happened a few months back but have not been able to find anything on the real estate market that would work for us so um we got an update from um Doug Bozer with inventure and my colleague were there uh virtually with us to give
us an update of what's been going on um the last uh facility that we looked at that could house everything all the school age kids and U the main office building and Under One Roof just did not work out it's a facility owned by a essentially
an investment company out of California and the numbers in black and white didn't add up for them so they weren't interested so we expanded our search to look at facilities that maybe wouldn't have enough space to house anything more than the students so keep the main
office here in sartel uh for the time being and see what we can find that would work for the students to move into um there are two options that were presented to us I just as in the past I don't want to affect negotiations so I won't say exactly where or what they are um but they are relatively centrally
located um one of them well they both have a structure that would need some work to get all the students in there but U we're getting our architect uh to look at it I believe it's this coming Friday they're going to walk through one of them and get more
information on the other just to what the cost would be to renovate to get to the point where all the students could eventually be in that building or whichever one it is um yeah they're both intriguing I'll just put it that
way one of them is um not a really great lot in a great area that would allow for future expansion the other one is um a little bit smaller a lot but still enough room to to expand down the road and that one comes with
some fin rooms that are almost usable as is so yeah it's going to be really interesting to see I think at our next Benton Sterns meeting is where I will get the update of how we need to move forward and if I mean they're possibly
thinking that if something would work out it could be done by next fall and at least far enough along to get just the voyagers kids in there out of the oldest facility maybe not Pioneers kids to are right next door here um so I don't
believe we meet for bent and Sterns until two days after our next regular meeting with this board so I won't have any more uh information at our next meeting here but just a heads up that um I should be getting a lot of information soon after that so I would think by the
April work session I could give an update if we want to put that on the on the agenda for that but yeah that's kind of where we are it's good that we have options again that we're at least looking at it's unfortunate that might not house
Everything Under One Roof which would have been our ideal option but that's kind of where we stand thank you um Career Tech Ed do you guys have any okay communication and
Technology yes I will take us through a bit of a high level as my first Community or committee kind of report so um Emily feel free to to fill in if there's more detail I should be sharing um but yes Emily Trisha and myself had opportunity to meet with Sarah and Kyle
um last Wednesday the 19th uh so we started talking out by talking about the saber Spotlight and Community Ed catalog um so Sarah um kind of talked about how we've seen this um having
moved from like direct mailer versus something that now we can kind of Tuck Into The News Leader um how it's been really flexible and it was helpful with like the referendum to kind of coordinate with that timing um also to see kind of the size vary and grow over
the last um few months going back from like eight pages in October to 32 in December and 24 in February so just being able to use it as a form um of that communication and just also having the community ad stuff in there as
well um she also just noted it's also Al available electronically and is also shared at City Halls um then she went through kind of the referendum communication update and took us through the huge amount of effort that
went into all the different Communications so podcasts Community presentations there was over 30 of them um narrated slides were on the website as well as videos media coverage and family announcements um one uh she did um also
see kind of looking at numbers if we can start to look at maybe doing some analysis or post analysis on how that communication went and if we saw like increase in maybe web traffic after there were presentations and so just kind of talking about how we
might be able to continue use statistics and that analysis to see what we have so much of um great ways of communicating what might have worked most and govern the most attention um then she also did a preview of the new website so there's some
really cool functionality that will gain with that um there is still to be uh determined as far as what the go live date is but tentatively kind of planning around Spring Break um and then Kyle took us through some
technology things so reviewed um cyber access so there's going to be a new DHS internal tracker grants that we are receiving that is going to kind of help with um right now it's really costly for
us to do sort of testing to determine um kind of the security of our Network and so this is a grant that's going to help us be able to kind of utilize tools that are out there um and reduce what we're having to pay when she said is a penetration test runs 10 to 12,000 um to
do try to do that every three years that this is going to give us the the tools to be able to do that um more often and at a lower cost so it's just a way to test internal vulnerabilities um he also went
over kind of just a review of the framework um that they use as far as a technology team goes our cyber insurance coverage um which is at 2 million now um
and then some really fun things that he discussed were new technology that we've had in use in our district since December so not that long of a period of time um but there's now a new large projector at Riverview which could be a great opportunity for some maybe
Community presentations in the future um also doing streaming on huddle cameras so there's now um we have cameras now in like the pool and in the gymnastics room so the additional cameras make it really easy to stream because there's less setup
involved with having to like put a specific camera area and then with the Huddle account um essentially through the video you say what sport it is and then it has the technology behind that camera to understand like oh if it's volleyball it's going to expect that the
wall is going maybe back and forth versus wrestling where it's going to be a bit more focused um and then the Huddle immed it streams directly to YouTube which is what allows kind of community members or family members that are out of state to be able to view these events um and then also boardroom
technology they are looking at ways to kind of make this a better setup so they're working with some um uh our our vendors to look at what options might exist for that um golf simulator is also
getting it set up so there has been um they're using a storage shed that is out by kind of door9 by the high school and getting that set up they were just um waiting to add Internet to it for that to be used so they're excited about that
um there's also been a camera upgrade at riverv viw so there were 15 cameras that were replaced which will help improve both the picture and the longevity of the content um and then yeah I think
that's so I had two things one um we were doing so when we first when I first got on the board we were doing direct mailers that we went back from that and we're doing inserts of the newsleader we are now back doing those direct mailers because it allowed us more flexibility to be able to mail when it was more
convenient for us otherwise we were at the mercy of The News Leader when they were going to print um and then I just wanted to like I thought the Huddle stuff was so interesting I just wanted to point out it's also really cool because if you are a I remember what sport they talked about but if you were
as like if you if you are the athlete and you have a huddle account you'd be able to go and the Huddle would be able to give you snapshots of I'm trying to think it was basketball you basketball you want to do a snapshot of the assist that you've had during the two game period it will pull those times for
those three or 5 Second Snippets of your assist and then you can utilize that if to that forward to Coles so huddle is widely used by um schools and travel organizations outside so that's where a lot of high school
students when they're looking to um Reach Out to college teams and stuff put together those clips so that the hudle is also a great resource for our high school students to be able to more easily gain some of those clips like Trisha said I think the example that was
given was yeah basketball type and assist and it will give you can give your jersey number and it'll like throw out all of the clips that it has can I ask a question about the Huddle is that being utilized at the middle school as well okay it sounds like it would be
really a good feature for parents who aren't able to attend to be able to watch so and as far as Chelsea's point about that too they did say head coaches have the discretion on what students can access their hudle account um directly so that they can pull out individual
highlights too um so it's not just everybody can go pull out highlights you know anybody and everybody but that is that is overseen by the headqu and I don't think I had anything else that you did not touch on um I don't know if you
did say the specific views for the referendum towards the end of the meeting um I believe Sarah said that the there was 4,500 page views uh for the referendum um special election on the vote 20125 page and the general election
in November the election page at 3,300 views again it was basically what we were discussing is is there any way to determine how successful our website marketing was being we don't have a ton of past history to go off of um right
now we really don't have that data that but just as a comparison she did throw us those numbers so when I believe she was going to go farther too like go back to like the days after and see if there was an increase and all that stuff so I'm interested and excited to see if she's able to bring us that at our next
yeah or after presentations after any of the presentations was there an uptick in in webs cuos about the podcast s out she did tell me the next day that there was an uptick in those but to actually bring some metrics to that right and see how long the people
engaged with podcast there's a curiosity I have yeah I think all of it just for us to grow on for a future success with any upcoming elections did not have a meeting finance and personnel
um I mean kind of to Joe's point a lot of it is going to be dependent on what the legislature does um one question I had asked was how much Federal money we're getting as a district just because it seems like the
political atmosphere is a little volatile between the feds and the state um it doesn't I mean we don't want to lose any funding so I'm hoping that we don't end up down that road um but it doesn't sound like a significant amount is that
fair to say I mean yeah comparatively to where most districts are we proceive Rel um Joe does a really good job at updating the entire board on the finances there was a little bit of discussion
about um the class siiz policy and it seems like we're okay that way correct Christa so far are um but just there you're bringing a resolution forward too that would allow us to give you the authority to make decisions based off
of finances and if there's any kind of changes with enrollment so I don't know if you two have anything that you want to throw in additionally I don't think so I most of what we talk about we're going to see in
uh April when we get the revised budget and June with the preliminary bud for next year so um a little bit less projected uh what was it
um the unreserved fund balance might go down a bit but yeah so revenues are going to go down some expenditures um are going to go up but it's it'll be
working I think we're going to be okay yeah the only other thing I would add that I had a note on which I think play into the KE update as well is that it was also mentioned when we're looking at kind of the the change in like estimated
students is that we're just we're continuing to see PSO become a popular choice and so that's that impacts um kind of that Revenue as well in that regard than what about legislative Network and school have for funding we had a St
meeting since our last board meeting here um basically just got an update on what our meeting was back on February 7th so it hadn't been too long that the whole legislature was back together at the
state level um they just gave us an update basically on where things were at with the legislature and and um at that point a lot of bills hadn't even been I guess reintroduced yet because the ones that have been introduced when only half of the house showed up had to
be reintroduced after they all got back so um what they did was kind of walk us through some of the governor's proposals which again they highlighted the word proposal this is just kind of the Outlook from the governor's office and we'll see what happens um with bills
that get introduced but um yeah long long story short the committees we going to be meeting by February 10th to get going on their work um there is a let's see I think it's
currently 6766 in the house with a election coming up that if and when that goes the way people are predicting it'll be a 6767 tie the Minnesota Supreme Court has confirmed in an opinion that you need 68
votes to pass a bill so nothing can be done strictly on party lines at the house um so it there's just a lot of uncertainty um the one uh Governor proposal I would point
out that this kind of goes back to what we talk about with Finance um and the uncertainties there is currently the state funding for our unemployment insurance is only um partially funded
through through fiscal year 26 and those are based on estimates but they're not quite half funded for that year so one of the proposals is um filling that Gap with a one-time fund of about $30 million to get financing for that
program at least through fiscal year 26 which is the one we're going to be looking at when we set our preliminary budget so um we'll see uh what happens with that but there were a handful of other things they walk through that I think more appropriate to bring an update once bills are actually introduced and we see what's happening
in committee so um I sorry I plan to attend with Mike uh the day at the capital through saf uh that's the one with our lobbyists they set up meetings that are more uh focused on legislators that represent our area that's March
18th um I may I haven't worked out yet but may be able to attend also March 10th which is the Massa and msba day at the capital and that one is they invites open any board member so I know msba yeah msba has emailed us with that invitation so anybody who wants to go
down on the ATT sounds like a great experience but different than the one saff puts on it's this one's a little more generally focused and you get presentations more than it's just um closed door meetings with
legislators so one comment that I had heard um that goes back to the budget is it had t talked about or they had talked about the budget forecast might not be available until March um and then the gentleman giving the
legislative update also said if everything derails in the session and it goes longer than may it will be everyone's fault not just one party to blame which I thought was kind of a good reminder that it's you can't always point fingers
up just 13 so especially this time cuz like you said Matt you need 68 votes to pass anything so hopefully they can come together and get their work done thank you
negotiations yeah nothing will probably in April or May we'll get the notice from the teachers opening negotiations we have this multiunit this year too yeah so we also have multi-unit and then facilities we haven't had
anything so policy you guys uh yep uh we have two policies that we are tbling that's uh for 17 and 425 um 417 we were seeking some legal
clarification on consent um as it pertains to that policy specifically so that one will come back in April along with 425 uh we I think collectively as a group had a couple questions and we just ran out of time we weren't able to get
to that one so that one will also come back in April um you will see that we have the first reading tonight on policy 51 and then the committee reviewed for 20423
502 and 524 um there were no substantive changes so think I missed anything you to okay mat your question um the membership
dinner where Joe schmi the sports caster presented sounds like it was a huge hit LIF up to the bilding so everybody just gushed about how good of a speaker he was and how interesting he was and how good the food so that's really all I have to update always check their
website they have stuff going on almost every day of the week okay so we move on to caser uh yep principal kler gave us a presentation for the caser meeting um
about some of the new shouldn't say new some of the additional options that the high school is going to have going into this school year on Chelsea's Point part of the reason behind a lot of these things is to essentially attract our high school students back to our high
school um by offering more concurrent concurrent enrollment um courses which is like college in the schools they receive college credit um for taking the courses here uh Minnesota transfer curriculum um and AP courses and then
articulated courses which are taken at the high school you earn partial credit for the course at the tech college so just expanding our options on that to give students more of an opportunity to take college credit courses with in the high school
um there was a 5% increase it sounds like in students looking at doing pcpo in the spring the challenge with that is if they are not in our buildings full-time they do not count as a full-time student and full-time funding so it does affect our overall funding
and what we are able to offer to all students within the building so that's one portion of it is the financial portion and obviously a big driving Factor the other part is just wanting students to want to remain in high school and have the high school experience with their peers with their
friends in our buildings um versus you know going out and essentially becoming college students in their you know junior senior years um so they expanded the options on places where where students would be able to get college credit within the high school also
exploring more opportunities with like independent flexibility with online learning um none of the or no student could be fully online at high school that's not going to be an option but there is going to be expanded options in
some courses for online um and we're just I I mean basically the way that it was explained is it's kind of a trial and error to see how this year goes um how much enrollment they have into the online classes and then how learning goes while they are online so this isn't
necessarily setstone if it goes well they may expand more if learning um or academic outcomes decrease students would have to return to more in person or have less I guess online options but again it's all it's like we're fighting for our you know we're fighting for our
own students we want to we want to be attractive to our own students to keep them in our buildings for multiple reasons it's better for the overall student body if we can do that so just looking at options that we can um offer them that was kind of the gist thank
you so we would move on to our action items our first action item is the par resolution School building bonds series 2025 a move to approve the resolution second
motion by Matt second by Jen any discussion okay hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I I those opposed say nay motion carries U is that a roll call vote they're listed singly at the bottom
I don't believe it has to be okay it's okay I actually noticed that and then forgot so my apologize um then I will look for a motion to approve the amended School District calendar for 2526 second okay motion by Matt second by Chelsea any discussion the only
question I had was are looks like we have early outs again just a reminder that is only through this coming year to complete the letters training correct and then I think there was
conversation there this year and luckily we didn't have any issues right and we should be out of the woods but there was some miscalculation in ours um so if you if you look everyone does everyone have a paper cop um you know this was a tentatively
approved calar but if you do look at the lower section right here we do give an explanation on that and what you'll see is that increment weather for read learning days we're noting that grades k through eight that um there'll be one or
no school inclement weather day per semester so I want to say the snow day but we wanted to call it what it really should be called um and that the remainder Le the weather days are you learning for grades 9 to 9 through 12 though going to be per semester it be
per year so after that first one happens after and that's just for this calendar year correct because of the early outs 256 okay primarily because of the early outs and also because we have a later start on Wednesdays you take all
those instructional hours add them together recognize we well I appreciate you finding that are thank you besides that it is the exact calendar that you when will the 2627 calendar come to
us you know my proposal to this board is that we do give ourselves some time on that um I I have concerns at the legislation legislative level what we might continue to see coming at us um I think we've seen some some things that I want to evaluate
with the seven early Els has always been a possibility that I want to the board to consider after working through the calendar but I sure would like to see this legislative session end and see what comes out of it before we bring that back so I think coming into early fall would be okay we bring the comme
together earlier what weend to do January with that said you wouldn't foresee there being big changes as far as like when to anticipate spring break or things like that just because some people have to plan no and I'm really I
agree I think about that and that folks want to be able to know when they go on spring break this coming March that they know what the next spring break is and while I think it's a great consideration for a Bo to be two years of I'm just not sure if we always promise that to our community I know last year you had to
come back together after approving a calendar and then two months later to come back and thankfully was only related to early Els but I do have some and I think that was just a a board Norm from years past where I
think there was the two years out being improved like April May I feel like we've done it in the past two years so I don't know that there was anything uh behind that other than it was just board Norm up to that point but and if the board wants to insist that we get moving on that I certainly will
that's the I'm personally more comfortable with waiting longer yeah yeah I'm fine with what you la out I just wanted to make sure there wasn't going to be all of a sudden spring break was going to switch to the beginning of the month just because depending upon where you work
you have to okay perfect any other discussion okay all those in favor signify by saying I I those opposed say n okay motion passes I'll look for a motion to approve the resolution allowing for potential budget
adjustments Some Mo motion by Jen second by Emily any discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I those opposed say nay motion carries I'll look for a motion to
approve policies 522 606 66.1 and 620 so second okay motion by Chelsea second by Jen any discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying
iose n say n motion carries I prepared a statement after we had our closed session last month about our superintendent mid year evaluation I'm pleased to share with the SEL St stepen community that our school board reached full agreement to utiliz the msba process to evaluate our superintendent
we conducted our mid year informative evaluation of Dr rard on February 6th the goals we agreed to evaluate Dr rard in October and November were Schoolboard inquiries and development informing the community as a whole and evaluation tools the full board is pleased with the work we see in all of these areas with
the understanding that these are year-long goals we were able to offer him direct feedback on areas where we see great work being done as well as some areas where we see opportunities for growth overall the SEL St stepen School Board is impressed with the work of our superintendent and confident in his ability to continue working toward his goals by June
2025 um I want to State for the record that I am not in agreement with the wording of this statement I believe it is incomplete substance I would like to add some supplemental context to the statement regarding the superintendent midyear formative
evaluation first Trisha you have not been delegated the authority to speak on behalf of the board since you are not elected board chair second I attempted to work with you Trisha on your proposed statement um that was emailed to the
board on Thursday February 20th at 4:30 p.m. after brief email exchanges and offered suggestions I received an email this morning thanking me for my time but stating quote at this time I am uncomfortable making any further changes end quote after reading the the final
copy of your proposed statement that was sent to the board I again shared that I am not in agreement with the statement in How It Was Written after spending time this afternoon looking at other District statements of their superintendent evaluations I would like to add some information to the
superintendent evaluation statement to make it more complete one the superintendent is under the direct authority of the Board of Education per Minnesota State Statute 123b 143 per ISD 748 policy 304 and as
articulated in the superintendent contract the Board of Education executed the midyear formative evaluation two the statement is a summary of the formative midyear superintendent evaluation that was performed in a closed meeting on on
Thursday February 6th 2025 three five of six board members participated in the evaluation process in person one board member's evaluation remarks were read into the record via a proxy selected by the absent board
member four Dr Ra Dr rard also participated informative evaluation by providing supporting documentation and or clarification when asked to do so I do you agree that the collective census of the board was Dr rard appears to be making positive progress towards the
goals being successfully met by the year end evaluation is there anything incorrect that Trisha said I just think that there was some stuff that was missing um okay so she didn't say anything incorrect the the meeting should have been listed as
closed is my understanding that we are supposed to say that it is a closed meeting I also think that which I believe I did say actually just wasn't in my statement I used it as my introduction from the
agenda okay well it's not in the statement so I was just saying that I didn't agree with the statement and How It Was Written I also think that it's important that um it is shared that not every board member was there in person well yes everyone got to participate at
one board member was missing I also think it's important and I had seen in other um statements from other districts that there was participation from the superintendent I do think it's a
collaborative thing so I'm just adding some context that I thought was important to add so that's all our last item for discussion was our first reading of policy 501 anyone have any comments or concerns
I just want to clarify it looks like most of the changes were just statutory is that correct or were the msba changes msba but they also added the definition of dangerous weapon
yeah no yes Matt they were mostly so that's the definition from MSP correct yes they were mostly all statutory and mostly all um not discretionary for us I most of it we had to make the changes to because they were
statut I don't have any suggested edits I'll look for a motion to Mo second okay motion by Jen second by Emily any discussion hearing none we are let's take a vote all those in favor
signify by saying I I those opposed say n motion Carri we are adjourned at 8:04