South St. Paul Public Schools — Transcript
7 Topics in This Document
Student School Board Representatives Oath of Office
Teacher Pipeline Grants (Grow Your Own & Special Education)
School Resource Officer (SRO) Services Agreement
Federal Micro Purchase Threshold Increase
Proposed Levy Certification
District Updates and Community Engagement
Student Board Report
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“Minnesota State High School league uh has a part of their bylaws bylaw 403 for a non-exclusive uh Cooperative agreement which allows students that attend Charter Schools but don't offer Minnesota State High School league sponsored activities to return to their resident District to participate in a Minnesota State High School league activity.”
“on the South St Paul side we know that our youth hockey numbers are declining um and we're looking for something to solidify that so we can continue to offer uh Packer hockey so under this Cooperative agreement we would essentially be absorbing New Life Academy we would maintain the Packer name the Packer logo and so on which is incredibly important for our um Packer families”
“Tonight we are pleased to announce the eight that eight additional staff will be receiving scholarship Grant Awards to begin their teacher preparation and or continue their growth as a teacher and expand their license areas”
“about these uh this remarkable program that we're building into our district”
“According to Minnesota statute 123 b195 school board members may be employed by the school district as an employee as long as the amount earned does not exceed $20,000 in a fiscal year Additionally, employment must receive majority approval at a meeting in which all board members are present”
“we're not looking to police our students in our schools at all we're looking for our students to build positive relationships with law enforcement so that they know that's a trusted person they can go to uh you know in our school are out in the community”
“I mean I'm neighbors with officer Cavalier so I already know her but she's very sweet and just meeting all the meeting all of the sro's like we see them at football games and they walk around the halls they very nice to students and if there's a serious issue to come across they handle it so love that”
“so all we're proposing here is that we raise it up to match State Statute so our processes can be consistent and um whether it's state or federal funds we're still using the $25,000 threshold to get those multiple quotes so that's just to try and align and streamline Federal requirements with state requirements um within the purchasing processes”
“by certifying the max it allows us to capture any additional tax revenue by through mde correcting those formulas and and those calculations”
“We have two donations tonight one of them is a cash donation from the cation hall for the softball program and then we also have a donation from the sou St Paul youth youth baseball of a synthetic pitching mound for the north uh Fields North baseball field at the high school”
“we are uh required to have the board approve one Community representative and excited that Beth Johnson retired teacher from our secondary building is interested in taking on that role so hoping we can uh have one of our retirees continue to support our teachers in that way”