sorry Poli for the pledge Al I pledge aliance 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 good evening some school board members District staff and community members as a reminder for us all the mission of St Francis Area Schools is
to equip all students with the Knowledge and Skills to empower them to achieve their dreams and full potential while becoming responsible citizens and World our first uh item for tonight is adoption of the agenda are there any questions prior to a motion being made on the agenda hearing none is there a call to motion for the February 10th 2025 meeting agenda thank you M Anderson is there a second second thank you Mr working any
discussion hearing no discussion all in favor of uh the motion to accept the agenda cany by saying I all right motion passes next item consideration of visitors we have one individual tonight Mr Ryan K you'll have five minutes again the five minute comes up if you're still speaking Please wrap up your comment my name
ran president of Education Min St Francis I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today on 66.5 the book Review Committee I know we've kind of cleared the honeymoon phase through a few meetings and now it's time to start talking about some of the activities or actions that we will or won't work on and I know that this is a hot button topic but I'm really asking that you review the policy um and restore the power of decision making for our school district here with the school
board uh the opportunity I know it's not going to be popular with some folks but the idea that book looks is one of the sole hurdles in order to be or quite frankly the only hurdle to get to stage two uh in any sort of review process is concerning to me uh most importantly so that we don't even have a say in what happens at that website or how those decisions are made we could arbitrarily wake up tomorrow and all the modifications to the system could be changed we don't have a representative on their committee or decision- making board or
even an interest in the outcomes of anything that's decided there Beyond it's now embedded in policy I understand that you have concerns over lewd or inappropriate information uh in books and those concerns I think we the community has made it loud and clear that's a concern and I think we should respond with that by seeing the original process through which would have landed it at the school board where they would have made the decision and I trust the individuals wasn't here to make that decision moving our district forward where if there's a problem with it
you'll hear it from the community and have to modify and adjust right now there's no conversation for many of these books that are being suggested and they're just slammed down and moved out I know it's not a perfect system either of them but I don't think we honestly gave a fair shake to the old system I get it you might some folks might not agree with what the book Review Committee came forward with but that was part of the process I nobody here even got the download of what that book Review Committee like reviewed and it might have they said to keep it and
they I would hope that the board would then get to review it and go you know what guys that didn't that didn't hold mustard we're going to get rid of that one we're sorry let's do better at the committee consider these new things we haven't even tried the process through months um and it was turned over to a website to make all the decisions for us as a parent in this community I am greatly concerned that that's how we handed over that power I think we're better than that even when we go through negotiations one of the loudest things I hear is local control it's whenever I work with something that's Education Minnesota
coming in that's what I hear from school board we want local control and I try to minutia and change it so it meets our needs here but then on this case we didn't follow that through so I just want us to really consider the idea that just because you remove book looks as the sole determining factor in the first step doesn't mean you're destroying the entire system it would just restore power to the school board to make the decision and whether or not it's a conservative or liberal agenda it
will be decided here with you and that will be the makeup of our community which you quite frankly represent and my time working here and seeing it I think we would have a quality discussion on what's there hopefully it would come after the book the book review committee so you would have those discussions because I don't think my understanding from that committee is it wasn't a slam D I don't know how it's been presented but they had hard conversations on it you never got to review their notes their consideration their ideas what each of the ratings for each of the
systems are so we can develop a better system to move forward I know there's frustration with how long things take but I think we can build something better so I hope don't say that here um we can build a better process in order to move things forward on behalf of our kids so I do I do think we have the skill and the will and the ability here whether or not we like it or not I don't want to see us hand it over there I really hope you'll reconsider it at some point and we're taking a look at every opportunity in order to hopefully make
you do that um if you have questions please call so thank you for your time thank you Mr F all right our next agenda item is the consent agenda we currently have five items on the meeting's consent agenda are there any questions or requests to remove an item from the consent prior to a motion being made hearing n is there a to motion to approve the consent agenda M
Anderson a second any discussion hearing none all in favor of the approving the consent agenda signifi by say I all opposed JY to say name hearing none motion passes all right moving on to uh information items and reports again we have the privilege of having Jack Humphrey with us tonight to give
us an update on the St Francis High School student council Jack the floor is yours thank you very much Mr bur good evening School Board Council superintendent chair and the rest of you hey D my name is Jack Humphrey I'm here with the student council to represent us at tonight's Schoolboard meeting it's a pleasure for us to once again be invited here over the past couple of weeks the main thing that's been on our focus of course was the snow days pet Fest which we had last or the Friday before that
whatever day that was and so we had our pet Fest and we I have the sheets right here to list off the names of our uh snow days court but otherwise since then we've started Carnation sales during lunchtimes which we hope to pass out this Thursday the 13th as this uh state dance tournament has pushed back some of the people who we would have been giving these flowers too so other than that we haven't had much going on other than the petfest and the selin of carnation now to get on to the important stuff that everyone wants to know our court this year consists of freshman Gavin
Lance and Avery lson sophomores SI Jong and Lila Olen Juniors Logan Herzog and Mackenzie KO and then seniors Sam rud and Sophie Edwards Jacob Walter and McKenna Sanders Jacob Tilly and Madison bakes Nathaniel ewal and Ella Donner Michael dwire and Alexis scist and I believe that is it and our snow days King and queen this year were McKenna Sanders and Jacob Tilly and so we are glad to have them and to
have had our snow days dance this past Friday hosted by girls basketball and Mr shonrock I believe that it was all a great success and we look forward to our next snow day's pep Fest otherwise moving on WE of course have the Carnation handout this Thursday and otherwise we haven't had a meeting so there's not that much else for me to report you guys any questions thank you all very much question thank you our next item is Administrative
report superint Anderson has a few items to go through tonight as wellerson uh first I'll highlight um a couple of our student athletes for groups um Evan is it hord uh is competing in the Alpine state tournament uh ski race tomorrow at Giants Ridge so good luck to to haveen uh Friday and Saturday our dance team is performing at the Target Center in the state tournament the Jazz line
uh is this Friday at 7 o or starting at 1:50 to 4:00 p.m finals are at 7 and then the same happens on Saturday except it's the the kick line uh same times just on Saturday uh the rest of the packet um for my report I'll just I'll just mention the topics and then you know you can let me know if you have any questions I'm working on the response to letter of non-c concurrence we're hoping
to make a donation to Centennial Schools a piece of equipment from Saints manufacturing program mot and the DNR visited Saints manufacturing uh they want to continue the Rel continue relationships with our program and so they've had groups of people walk through and then our kindergarten enrollment is up compared to this time last year B War though we did a a better job with Communications of those events this year so that
does not necessarily mean we'll be higher at enrollment when school starts in September you can see the discipline data through January one thing I do want to note is that sometimes these numbers will change um even after the month is over just because it depends on when the the discipline data is entered so don't be surprised if next month you know there's different data showing for January for example and then you can see that we've had a third book uh that was
removed uh due to our policy 66.5 received the notice today that a fourth book was also removed but it was after the packet was issued so I'll includ that in the next meeting administrative report and that's all I have are there any questions for the superintendent Mr H so it was brought to my attention that uh the non-c concurrence has to be written by the school board um and I'll just read what they sent me 124 d78 in the case of non-c concurrence the
school board has given 60 days in which to respond in writing to the committee's recommendations uh I I think that it's wise because I mean for you or someone in the no to write it and then I guess we approve it is that why we're going that route or yeah what we've done since I've been here is we uh take the letter of non-c concurrence or the notice of non-c concurrence and then I write a rough draft uh we presented at one
meeting you know so I can explain why that's in the draft and then the board members can provide feedback suggestions say yes or no and then I come back at the next meeting uh with a revised copy and the board can approve it then so we'll make the 60-day timeline with that in mind if if the process I think works really well I like that thank you for the clarification Mr sh so this is kind of off the topic
from what you're on there but the Min State High School a came out last few days that they're going to allow transgender to participate president Trump did the executive order basically saying that they couldn't or he would withheld funds have we talked about that District level or where are we at uh by the way Rob did ask me these questions in advance um but you know I thought it
would be good if Rob could ask me uh this question and another question so thank you um some interesting news uh because I read the same press release you did and I came to the same conclusion um but I just received something today saying that the State High School league has 60 days to make um those decisions final and so there
there's a request going to the state attorney general for clarification because the Federal Executive Order seems to conflict with Minnesota's um Human Rights Act and so hopefully the the Attorney General will get his opinion on you know that particular issue so I don't have anything to share right now um but uh you know certainly that'll be front and center you know as soon as the State High School league acts Mr then
the other question the chances it happening here or low but has there been discussion if something were to happen with ice coming in with yeah I agree with you I think the the chances are very low here compared to a lot of districts um but there has been discussion I have a a rough draft of procedures that that school employees should follow um if uh any federal
agent comes on to school ground school grounds about this issue or any other issue and uh really it's focused on two things uh first and really none of this is different compared to current policy or practice it's just a more of a reminder uh first of all we don't want people just walking around our buildings during the school day that's just terrible practice and I don't think any of us would endorse that and so uh one thing we're going to encourage remind people
to do is if there is someone who wants to walk through the buildings regardless of their purpose they need to be referred back to the building uh office and the principal consultant um in that case the principal will communicate with me or Cabinet member uh to talk about um you know the warrant that you know a uh immigration official might have with them and then we'll confer with legal counsel to see
um if it's a Judicial warrant or an administrative warrant because that makes a big difference with a Judicial warrant we will follow it word for word the administrative warrant is very different um and so you know we're going to work with our federal officials um but at the same time we want to protect the rights of our kids you know including privacy rights so that's one part of it uh another part of it has to do with um just the
Privacy rights in general uh for students and employees uh you know really we uh can only share certain information with others and even that information should be channeled through the superintendent's office through a data request um of director information and so if there's someone who is asking an employee let's say tell me about this food where does where where is he or she
born or where does he or she live really that's not our business to share if it's an ice agent or anybody else um you know if there's a request for that kind of information and our building office will work with them to get the requests to me right away and then we'll we'll process it as soon as possible yeah I don't Envision that occurring here and I think we'll be um we we'll we'll handle it well so that you know the uh
because we want to work with our federal officials and we want to protect the rights of our kids thank you any other questions for the superintendent all right see none moving on to our one and only action item for tonight uh 6.1 approval of the teacher seniority list this is the same list that we saw before there have been a few Corrections that were sent through to HR
in made this is in essential information in the event we have to make any decisions the future related to unrequested leave Mr Nelson if there's any questions we'll refer them to you at this point we will need a motion to approve the 2024 2025 uh teacher seniority list Merson thank you is there a second second thank you Mr sh any discussion I hearing none all in favor
of the motion for approval of the 2024 2025 teacher seniority list I signify by saying I I motion pass AB thank you agenda item seven upcoming meetings and per dos topics are there any questions for any upcoming meetings or topics at this time as you can see the next meeting's got a little more um agenda items when
it comes to information and updates and we'll have some more details on those as we get closer okay next item Schoolboard member report member Anderson I the start um so uh we last Friday I volunteered at the dance that Jake had mentioned um it was a lot of fun and a lot of a huge success I think um it was the second year of having that dance and well and his crew did a great
job of organizing it um and getting volunteers and there was a lot of kids there and they were having a great time um I would have recommended some of them wear jackets and maybe a little bit more CL um but that would have BL the outfits that they were wearing so some of the girls were pretty smart they put hoodies over their dress and their hoodies were longer than the dress So it kept them warm getting into the building with the snow coming down but it was a lot of fun and then ear tonight I attended um the policy committee we discussed two policies one will be coming for a first
read at our next meeting the other one was 6065 um and there was a good discussion and it doesn't look like we'll be discussing it again until late March that's all I have Mr humy uh so I was at ACT earlier uh and that is a conflict with my policy meeting so we'll end up beiging that out hopefully later but uh there we kind of wrapped up what we had been covering so far
with like uh um English Second Language um teacher evaluations and AI in the schools uh I was only able to spend about 40 minutes in that meeting though so um I don't know how it all Sol uh was resolved or what we went forward with but I have all that emailed to me uh one thing that we're putting in a new teacher evaluation uh situation that has to be rolled out on July 1st of 202 and then um all that with knowing on the horizon that Governor walls has asked for Q
comp to be U done away with so there's a whole bunch of changes on those aspects coming forward um policy committee with Jill you said there's one because of a lawsuit and then the second one because the continuing conversation about um the library situation uh I want to remind everyone that the poow is this Saturday at our St Francis um a lot of the uh main things are the initial walk and then the drum ceremony so if you're here midday there
are food trucks there's um a whole bunch of crafts a whole bunch of activities it's a great cultural thing there's supposed to be a lot of people perhaps coming this Saturday in our very own gym in the high school for a pack so um I think uh eventually I'd like to discuss what our plans are with the Department of Education possibly I'm going away federally and then as far as uh uh
anything else goes uh there is an econ uh organization head by Mr Kelly Linsky who really uh uh puts together a great uh course and and activities for these kids and it's another one of these activities that has real world usage so I'd like to someday um discuss that more because I'm quite impressed with uh the conversation I've had with him over that as a business owner and as a parent um these are really things that are life skills that can uh put these kids in
a good position in their so um that's about all I have one more actually i' like to um toot my son's horn um a Deca is officially a gold standard accredited situation because of the paper he wrote that i' mentioned just recently um you're they usually write one and then you get in in a couple attempts at it but uh he pinned it he got every single thing at the highest level and so according to his work uh he's gained
uh access to the National um in Florida this year um and so I'm bringing this up because I'm obviously proud of him but this Deca program is something else Miss shrag is on top of it and the fact that it's now this uh um overwhelming and accredited and kind of a uh nationally what a nationally official situation uh because of putting their business plan together which had guidance from M but uh my boy wrote that so pretty proud of
that and uh it's good for Deca and deca is growing enormously so anyway I just like to that's all I have to say thanks thank you Mr Sher yeah just add on to the P for this Saturday is 1 to five and everybody is invited to the high school um you don't have to stay the whole time you just come peek for a half hour hour and just check things out but everybody is welcome and then yeah we had the dance on Friday a bunch of
kids show up and have a good time it's just nice for those kids to go out and have an activity or something to do on a Friday night then just want to congratulate the dance team making it the state and then winter sports are wrapping up dances this weekend and then it just continues after that from wrestling to hockey to basketball so get out there and support those kids that's it Mr or um I
spent the weekend in St Cloud this weekend with as a youth traveling basketball coach um I just want to say thank you to the traveling Basketball Association for making that event work it's an overnight deal most parents and kids stay in the hotels um tournament was fun I watched a lot of kids have probably too much fun but they got to bond outside of school and really come together as a team and it
was it was a lot of fun so thank you had meeting thank you um I had we had early Ed advisory meeting um Mr Anderson already gave you the kindergarten enrollment numbers we're excited to see them at that level and hope that they keep com from there but great job from the district on that communication plan and how we've got that out and gotten better at that over the last two years and then uh two comments um huge
shout out to our entire Community for the support that they've provided to uh the cancer events that we've had with h basketball and wrestling um absolutely amazing support that we've seen the entire Community come around and support one of our own as well as other teams and and their struggle and their fight through through this cancer thing so that was great to see and then the other thing is out to community Ed had a individual was just walking down the street by my house stopped and said
hey I just attended a community ed program and it changed my life um and it was something it's a an individual that lost the spouse recently and was completely lost when they came the finances and what our program provided for that individual super excited I think she enrolled in three other courses that night because it went so well so a shout out to our community program and those that from our community that that as well so that was great that's all I've got for my report with that we're
going to do a agenda adjournment um right after we adjourn we're going to go into a work session which will be approximately 45 minutes we'll be talking about our school board member handbook and we are not going to be recording during that time frame yeah we'll uh we'll have about a 10-minute break to get everything set up and ready for that so is there a motion to adjourn tonight's meeting Mr sh you have a question before we do that yes is there a reason we don't record we can
I we our current policy says that we don't okay um record those but we only record our regular meeting so we can have a discussion on that while we talk to piece okay is there a motion to adjourn Mr work there a second all in favor we will start at 710