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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