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Edina School Board Meeting 8/10/20: Virtual Part 2
Edina City CouncilTuesday, August 11, 2020
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[4:24] straight brady bunch right now
[4:26] it is so good evening we're continuing
[4:29] our
[4:29] uh board meeting we are back from recess
[4:32] and i just wanted to
[4:33] um confirm that we all agree that we
[4:36] will have an extra
[4:37] 15 minutes to our board meeting yes
[4:40] okay um we have a pending motion
[4:44] on the table to approve our board norms
[4:48] and then um yes lenny
[4:51] so carry on so the motion is my motion
[4:54] of i think i understand the request for
[4:57] the friendly amendment
[4:58] and i would request that we instead vote
[5:01] upon the motion as pending
[5:03] without the friendly amendment i i
[5:05] reworded the friendly amendment
[5:07] um while we were gone so
[5:12] okay i i will say that i think that we
[5:15] need to vote on this particular motion
[5:17] if people want to look at
[5:20] and revise the policy then they should
[5:21] vote the motion down
[5:25] um but if i have right now that
[5:28] friendly isn't there a friendly
[5:30] amendment on the table
[5:32] there was a request for a friendly
[5:34] amendment i believe that the person that
[5:35] brings the motion
[5:37] has the right to either accept the
[5:39] friendly amendment or not
[5:41] and i'm not accepting it i would like to
[5:43] have the vote on the policy
[5:46] i'm open to hearing whatever your
[5:48] rewording is and then people if they
[5:49] like your rewording then they should
[5:51] simply vote against the policy
[5:54] so should i can i read what i would
[5:56] change what i would change
[5:58] yeah well from my perspective okay
[6:01] so i think the first part is is really
[6:03] important um the one that
[6:05] is uh with respect to number three it
[6:07] should be speak or right in an official
[6:09] capacity
[6:10] um i think that clarifies what the what
[6:13] we're talking about
[6:14] and um if we don't want board members
[6:17] speaking in an official capacity we
[6:20] certainly don't want them
[6:21] writing enough in an official capacity
[6:24] so
[6:24] i would suggest that that would be one
[6:27] that is an easy insert
[6:29] the next insert is on to number five
[6:33] and i would add board members may
[6:36] respond to emails
[6:37] but will only give substantive responses
[6:39] after conferring with the superintendent
[6:46] lenny um so i'm still ready to vote on
[6:50] the motion that people want to
[6:53] if people prefer that language from my
[6:54] perspective they should
[6:56] vote no on the motion and then a new
[6:58] motion can be brought with that language
[7:01] okay
[7:02] let's go ahead and vote on this motion
[7:04] and then if
[7:06] it's not passed then we can look at um
[7:08] the other language
[7:10] but either way i just want the board to
[7:11] know that this is a living document
[7:14] and if we need to clarify something um
[7:17] we can do that
[7:18] so i i just wanted to mention that
[7:21] so sarah do you want to do the roll call
[7:24] vote
[7:26] sure allender aye
[7:30] fox
[7:34] fox
[7:38] i off of mute
[7:41] green i jones
[7:45] nay michaelson name
[7:50] shaw aye wallon friedman
[7:54] hi okay the board norms have passed
[7:58] um but like i said we can revisit these
[8:01] so i don't it's not
[8:02] um a document that's written in concrete
[8:05] um
[8:06] is there a motion to approve the hr
[8:07] committee name change
[8:09] so moved is there a second second
[8:13] um this is basically we talked about is
[8:15] changing the name of the hr committee to
[8:16] the governance committee
[8:18] um and there's not much beyond that
[8:21] so um
[8:25] unless there are any questions we can
[8:26] now vote to approve the hr committee
[8:29] name change
[8:31] ellenberg hi fox
[8:34] hi green hi jones
[8:37] hi michelson hi
[8:40] shaw hi ron friedman
[8:43] hi okay the hr committee name change is
[8:47] approved and now
[8:49] uh owen you get 10 minutes to go through
[8:52] about
[8:53] 15 policies all right well let's rock
[8:56] and roll and we've already discussed
[8:58] this at our last board meeting and so
[9:00] this is up for action we've got two
[9:01] groups
[9:02] we have um big emotion
[9:05] i'm sorry that's my bad i move to
[9:07] approve policies 5 25 26
[9:10] 5 29 5 33 5 34 6 10 6 19 and 6 32.
[9:15] i second all of that sorry about that
[9:18] owen that was a procedural error on my
[9:20] part so
[9:22] okay uh so can i continue to jump in
[9:26] okay and we've already discussed this
[9:29] these
[9:30] and so i recommend we
[9:33] vote to approve but i do want to make
[9:35] one call out and that is to policy
[9:37] 6 10.
[9:41] janie you asked that we discussed
[9:45] this is on student homework in that we
[9:47] discuss the homework policy of wednesday
[9:50] evening
[9:51] and we talked about it and we thought it
[9:54] might be a good idea to have a survey
[9:55] but right now it is difficult to do so
[9:59] and so in the course of time we thought
[10:03] inserting a survey question when we have
[10:05] another general survey of the
[10:06] of the parents of the district to ask it
[10:09] then
[10:10] and but to keep your your question alive
[10:13] with that
[10:14] that's a great idea thank you okay so
[10:18] then
[10:18] with that then i recommend that we vote
[10:21] to approve
[10:22] this slate of policies
[10:23] [Music]
[10:25] are there questions about these policies
[10:29] okay we'll now vote by roll call to
[10:30] approve policies 520
[10:32] 526 529 533 534
[10:36] 610 619 and 632.
[10:41] ellenberg hi fox
[10:46] all right green i jones
[10:50] aye michaelson aye shaw
[10:54] hi walden friedman hi
[10:58] okay the policies are approved is there
[11:00] a motion to approve policies 213
[11:02] 604 612 618 636
[11:06] and rescind 635. so left
[11:11] second second okay owen
[11:15] okay um i would like to move that we
[11:18] separate policy 213
[11:20] and vote on that separately and vote on
[11:23] the rest of the group
[11:28] i'm i'm fine with that so um
[11:31] i withdraw my motion as stated instead i
[11:33] move to
[11:34] approve policy 604 612 617
[11:37] 618 620 636 and a recision of 635.
[11:42] is there a second for okay um are there
[11:46] any
[11:46] comments or questions about those
[11:50] that grouping of policies
[11:53] nope okay um well about now vote by roll
[11:57] call
[11:58] to approve policy 604
[12:01] 612 617 618 620 636 and recent 635.
[12:16] [Music]
[12:23] hi well in friedman hi
[12:28] um the policies are approved and now is
[12:30] there a motion to approve
[12:32] policy 213 so moved
[12:35] second second okay
[12:39] and just quickly i have the same
[12:41] inhibitions about approving this policy
[12:43] that i had
[12:44] about the board norms and that's it so i
[12:46] vote that we
[12:47] um i move that we go ahead okay thank
[12:51] you owen
[12:51] um we'll now vote by roll call to
[12:53] approve policy 213.
[12:56] allenberg hi fox
[13:00] hi green hi
[13:04] jones hi
[13:08] michelson nate
[13:12] shaw shot hi hi
[13:15] well in treatment all right 213 is
[13:20] approved
[13:21] um so that is the end of our action part
[13:24] of the meeting
[13:24] we have five more minutes left and i
[13:26] wanted to move to see if there are any
[13:27] leadership or committee updates
[13:29] um from the board or a leadership update
[13:31] from john
[13:34] i have nothing more to add just to ask
[13:37] the board and community to stay tuned as
[13:38] we continue our planning
[13:40] great um the only thing i wanted to add
[13:44] is that um i just wanted to take a brief
[13:46] moment
[13:47] to acknowledge the fact that we've had
[13:49] quite a few teachers take early
[13:50] retirement
[13:51] due to the coronavirus pandemic and i
[13:54] just wanted to