Edina Schools Board Approves Policies, Opens Candidate Filing
The Edina Public Schools Board unanimously approved several policy updates and opened the filing period for candidates seeking school board seats at its July 17 meeting. The board also discussed new state-mandated requirements for naloxone storage in schools and reviewed a 10-year facilities maintenance plan.
The school board took action on multiple fronts during Tuesday's meeting, with all votes passing unanimously or by a 7-0 margin. The board approved a slate of policy updates including revisions to the Equity and Educational Achievement policy and Emergency Management procedures. Policy Committee Chair Regina Neville explained that references to the district's strategic plan were removed from some policies "to make the policy more timeless" and ensure they remain relevant across multiple planning cycles.
In a procedural move, the board formally opened the filing period for candidates interested in running for school board seats. The window opens August 1 and closes August 15, with candidates filing at the District Welcome Center for a $2 fee. Director of Business Services Mark Woodard described it as "merely a formal way of opening the filing period." A candidate information session is scheduled for July 26 in Room 350.
The board also reconfigured how board members serve as liaisons to various school groups and committees. Chair Allenberg noted the changes were made after analyzing "capacity of the board, equity and access of our stakeholders." The new configuration takes effect for the 2023-2024 school year.
Legal counsel Trevor Helmers introduced a state-mandated policy requiring each school building to maintain two doses of nasal naloxone (Narcan) starting July 1. The discussion centered on legal protections for staff and students under Minnesota's Good Samaritan law when administering the overdose medication.
The board also discussed but did not finalize updates to the Internet Acceptable Use Policy, which must align with new Minnesota data privacy laws and federal requirements. Board members requested clearer definitions of terms like "social media" and "non-academic use" before approving the policy, particularly regarding students under 13.
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Filing Period for Affidavits of Candidacy
Dissent: None
Moved by Unknown [31:53] · Seconded by Unknown [32:05]
Formal approval to open the candidate filing window for the upcoming School Board election. Candidates must file between August 1 and August 15 at the District Welcome Center with a two-dollar fee.
Board Liaison Roles Reconfiguration
Dissent: None
Moved by Unknown [34:14] · Seconded by Unknown [34:20]
Approval of a new configuration of board member liaison assignments for the 2023-2024 school year, intended to standardize communication and improve capacity/equity.
Approval of Policy Updates (111, 113, 414, 415, 806)
Dissent: None
Moved by Regina Neville [38:12] · Seconded by Unknown [38:13]
A slate of policies including Equity and Educational Achievement and Emergency Management were presented for final approval after previous work sessions.
This is merely a formal way of opening the filing period which begins on August 1st and will close after 14 days.
The board looked at our liaison roles and analyzed them for capacity of the board, equity and access of our stakeholders.
The reference to the Strategic plan in section 3B it's been deleted for clarity so that it's not tied to the Strategic plan... to make the policy more timeless.
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[0:23] um tonight we are going to um oh thank you very much tonight we
[0:30] will have some consent agenda items we have a discussion about long-term facilities maintenance we've quite a few
[0:36] conversations around policy um we have the formal action on for the
[0:43] upcoming School Board election um action on school school board liaison
[0:48] roles that we talked about in work session and then leadership committee updates and we will also be introducing
[0:55] two of our new administrators Stanley we do not have a formal
[1:01] excellence in action to present tonight so I thought we could take a few minutes to introduce our two new members of our
[1:08] Edina Public Schools community that we have here with us tonight absolutely so I'd like to invite up Mr Paul paisal and
[1:16] then Ms Francis BayCare who goes by Franny she does not want to be called Francis
[1:24] to the table up here we're so glad to have you yeah
[1:32] so really excited I will uh Franny started on August 1st and so
[1:38] um I will start with just a little bit about Franny and her overview for any um has most recently served as principal of
[1:46] middle school she also served at high school level as Dean assistant principal
[1:52] and then has quite a substantial um District level work where she worked at the secondary level
[1:59] she also has personal background where she actually served and or actually came
[2:06] in as a multilingual learner into the school system and we know that her position is director of achievement
[2:12] equity and multilingual learner services and so we're just really delighted to have somebody that has such
[2:19] a sound administrative background who really truly understands the multilingual learner experience and has
[2:26] that expertise in leading for that because she served in a school that had
[2:31] just a strong percentage of multilingual Learners and so um like to welcome her to Edina Public
[2:38] Schools foreign
[2:46] thank you and I'm very excited to be in Edina schools and getting getting my
[2:52] feet wet and learning about the new dual immersion program which I'm very excited
[2:58] to get to work with the team and getting to meet some of the multilingual teachers so I'm excited to jump in and
[3:06] see what support I can help provide Edina on its Journey
[3:12] thank you director BayCare and now we made an announcement last
[3:18] week and a lot of folks saw that welcome Paul it's great to have you on board you actually started on on well Thursday was
[3:24] your first technical day but you were you're in the office on Friday and Paul has a 37-year experience in
[3:33] education he most recently served 15 years as a middle school principal in
[3:39] wyzetta um we very quickly got him into green and so we were really excited about that
[3:46] and he worked on that with us really understands High achieving environment he actually served as assistant or
[3:54] associate principal at Wayzata High School you know Wayzata High School has nearly 4 000 students in it and so he
[4:01] has a strong background in that area in getting to know Paul he talked a lot
[4:06] about relationship relationship with all stakeholders and that really excited me he also understands just
[4:14] the level of rigor that we expect for achievement and we're just really excited to have him in the district to
[4:21] serve as interim given that he just retired in his in his current role so
[4:27] really happy that he was willing to join the Hornet family as well
[4:36] thank you Dr Stanley it is uh truly an honor to be able to have this opportunity
[4:42] um as a lifelong resident of the Southwest Metro I understand fully the expectations that Edina brings and the
[4:50] high standards of excellence that uh that you've been able to accomplish over the many many decades and so we look
[4:55] forward to upholding that I've been as Dr Stanley said I've been in the office for a couple of days and getting to know
[5:01] the staff at Edina High School and am very very impressed and so I know that
[5:07] we have a lot of work to do but we have the capacity to do that work and so I'm
[5:12] excited about that and look forward to working with all of you thank you
[5:18] thank you both for being here tonight introducing yourselves we're just really thrilled to have you on board so
[5:23] thank you we're going to move on to our consent
[5:29] agenda I apologize we normally have hearings from members of the public but we do not have any members of the public
[5:35] here tonight you're always welcome to come on our Monday regular meetings
[5:40] um and now we're going to move on to our consent agenda is there anything anyone would like to remove from our consent
[5:46] agenda do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda so moved second
[5:53] excellent we will now vote by roll call to approve the consent agenda allenberg I
[5:59] Ram aye Birdman aye gabler I green I Neville I Shaw I the motion is
[6:09] approved our consent agenda has been approved moving on to our discussion items our
[6:15] first item is our long-term facility maintenance at the plan and I'd like to invite up Director of Business Services
[6:20] Mark Woodard
[6:32] thank you thank you chair allenberg good evening
[6:38] members of the school board superintendent Stanley the long-term facilities maintenance 10-year plan for
[6:43] fiscal years 2025 through 2034 actually starts off our Levy certification process for taxes payable in 2024 which
[6:51] will fund a portion of our operations for fiscal year 2025. so the the state
[6:56] of Minnesota actually requires us to adopt an annual rolling 10-year plan in order to access the long-term facilities
[7:02] maintenance revenue and so this action not action discussion item
[7:08] tonight introduces that that planned action for next week's board meeting for formal approval once formal approval is
[7:14] received from the school board we'll forward that on to the Department of Education who will then load that
[7:19] information into the letter V certification system just as a reminder our district here
[7:25] utilizes a mixture of pay-as-you-go Levy Authority as well as bonded debt in order to finance long-term facilities
[7:30] maintenance projects throughout the district those projects include building envelope improvements interior Services
[7:36] mechanical system upgrades Plumbing Etc I'd also like to remind members of the
[7:41] community that those ltfm funds are highly regulated in nature and can only be used for deferred maintenance
[7:47] projects so things that are existing within our structures that are connected to our buildings new items such as
[7:53] computers laptops servers Furniture cannot be used with ltfm neither can new
[7:59] structures such as our Countryside Elementary Edition so things that are already existing that we can extend the
[8:05] useful life for the 10-year revenue and expenditure plans are included in your board packet
[8:10] tonight again we'll bring those again next week as well as for those on to our finance committee for guidance and
[8:15] feedback if there are any questions we can take those now do board members have questions or
[8:21] comments um just a point of clarification so when I looked at the revenue numbers we
[8:27] basically have a flat number for 10 years sort of how I saw that from there I'm assuming that's just a calculation that you're using in for that I think
[8:33] was the Apu number was at 93 93 something of that effect I can't remember the exact number
[8:39] um but from the from the protocol that I saw in the 10-year forecast you're basically holding it flat over that period of time just to have as a
[8:45] baseline even though that the the actual number might be up and down based off of that but you're using that flat as part
[8:51] of your projection is that correct absolutely so I can answer that question in two Parts director Birdman
[8:56] um as far as the average pupil unit Revenue that you referred we actually generate a possible Revenue stream of
[9:02] greater than that figure because we're one of the grandfather districts from the old alt facilities maintenance
[9:07] program that was sunset and I believe legislative session 2015 and took effect in 2017. so we we generate a lot more
[9:15] Revenue than we actually receive um and you're right we do keep a flat tax rate which is a great benefit to our
[9:22] community and taxpayer years but also gives the school board the flexibility and authority to seek voter approval on
[9:28] bonds without necessarily increasing the tax rate for the community so we're able to stretch those payments out over 30
[9:34] years or so to maintain the most level Debt Service as possible thank you
[9:40] any other questions or comments from board members great thank you director Woodard
[9:49] next up for a discussion I'm is we have our policy review and we have the chair
[9:55] of our policy committee Regina Neville and also our district legal counsel here tonight to talk about a policy so I'll
[10:01] turn it over to you director Neville thank you chair allenberg we have two policies up for discussion this evening
[10:08] policy 516.5 on overdose medication which is a brand new policy for all
[10:16] school districts this year and policy 524 an update on our internet acceptable
[10:22] use policy so I'm happy to welcome Trevor helmers who is legal counsel for
[10:28] the school district to introduce us to policy 5 16.5 on overdose medication
[10:35] welcome thank you uh board members one of the
[10:41] changes a lot of changes this year for school districts in the last legislative
[10:46] session one of them one of the big ones was a requirement that a school district
[10:52] maintain a supply of opiate antagonists each School building having two doses of
[10:58] nasal naloxone available on site and then also saying in that update to
[11:05] policy that you may adopt a model plan for use storage and administration of
[11:10] these opiate antagonists so what you have in front of you is a draft policy
[11:16] on those pieces this is largely based on the Minnesota school boards Association
[11:22] model policy and it really matches kind of what the
[11:29] requirements are in the law it is it's important to know too that this section
[11:34] went into effect on July 1. so this is their now and so this policy is just kind of
[11:41] catching up with some of those requirements with that if anybody has questions feel free to ask them but
[11:47] otherwise you know this is really it's done to be in compliance with one of the
[11:52] many new laws that we will be putting in place this year
[11:58] thank you are there any questions I just had a quick question about um school resource officers and whether
[12:04] or not it extends to them if they are if they are part of extended this coverage and then if they
[12:11] were the ones to administer it within the um the building are they covered under this policy
[12:17] yeah and I um in the actual policy itself I believe
[12:22] that they would be um perhaps the chair of the committee might know more uh closely than me but
[12:30] for sure under the uh under the laws and under the the Good Samaritan laws as
[12:35] well uh related to this because we have about six or seven laws that all have to do with
[12:41] um essentially if you are acting in good faith in providing the uh the Nar the naloxone
[12:47] that you are not liable for you know any actions that occur so they would
[12:53] certainly be covered under that if they were coming into our building and uh you
[12:59] know taking those actions we would want them complying with our policies typically in our SRO contracts we do
[13:05] require them to follow our policies so they should be following these procedures as well if they're in our
[13:11] building Dr Stanley yeah under section three policy responsibilities B1 within their
[13:18] states or Personnel employed by or under
[13:23] contract with and they are under contract with us so they would um qualify for that
[13:30] I know Karen you have a question but I had a similar I guess question to dance
[13:36] or along the same lines is it says for the administration who can administ
[13:42] administer it um however I guess I was wondering in our
[13:47] district right now are all of our nurses already do they already have the ability to
[13:54] administer and do we have someone do we have a staff member on site at all times to
[13:59] administer it is my question yeah so at our schools right now because
[14:05] it is the school buildings we where programming would be in place we do have someone to administer that
[14:11] thank you very much Karen thank you
[14:17] um thank you Trevor for being here tonight I know in policy committee we've talked through this policy and one of
[14:24] the things that was drawn to our attention is that this is in school building during the school day not field
[14:32] trip not hockey games football games all of that my question is more in general
[14:39] um probably outside the scope of this policy but in general as we're talking about this
[14:44] if a student would administer this or let's say something happens there's an
[14:50] overdose at a football game our Good Samaritan laws in place to protect them when they're on
[14:57] our property yes um the the Good Samaritan law that is in
[15:04] place um in Minnesota statute 604 applies regardless of where it is it really just
[15:12] only has that good faith requirement that someone's doing it in good faith so
[15:18] would apply to students it would apply to if a teacher were to do it it would apply kind of across the board and I
[15:24] would say that's that's something a little bit outside of the policy itself but just from the from the legal stands
[15:30] stand standpoint yes they would um they would not be liable for any um you know any harm that came from the uh
[15:38] administering that kind of emergency dose answering that and I know it was outside
[15:43] the scope of this policy but I thought as we were talking about this and had you here today I thought it was worth just asking that general public question
[15:50] thank you I have a companion question to Karen's
[15:55] um which she touched on but I just want to clarify that already it is possible
[16:01] for students to have a prescription to have specifically Narcan
[16:07] on their person and that this policy doesn't apply to that that's already
[16:12] legal and allowed is there anything else that we should be aware of in relationship to a student
[16:19] having narcam um I would say not necessarily
[16:25] um you know that is the type of thing though that we might have an interaction there between this policy and what the
[16:33] law allows and what we might allow in general um because it is still a uh is still on
[16:39] the schedule for drugs it would probably be the type of thing that um in our other policies on student
[16:45] medications we would require a student to bring in that that order to show us
[16:50] in order to carry it so um you could absolutely see a situation where for
[16:55] instance say last last school year a kid uh was having an overdose the other
[17:02] student had it on their body gave it to that student we say thank you but also here's your discipline because you can't
[17:08] have that on school grounds I you know that's that's not what would happen but it would kind of show the interaction of
[17:13] those two policies with each other so that might be something that um you know kind of in a back to school idea if
[17:20] we're talking to students and Families about that we might share that we still don't want unknown uh drugs coming into
[17:27] the school that if you're going to carry you have to bring in your prescription because this is still I understand that
[17:34] it is going to be over the counter soon but right now it is still prescription thank you
[17:40] last question well last question I think oh sorry go ahead Julie um the only thing I was going to ask is
[17:46] can you just clarify that this law went into effect July 1 to confirm that and
[17:51] can you just speak a little bit of that to the community and you Dr Stanley too just how that's rolling out at the schools
[17:58] sure yeah and if you want me to start yeah absolutely it started was put into effect on July 1.
[18:04] um the policy is not required but is a really good idea because if you're going to have it on school property it's a
[18:10] very good idea to have your policy saying how it's going to be administered and what our expectations are so you
[18:15] aren't required to get this policy in place but it's a very good idea this did go into effect
[18:21] um you know I think a lot of these laws were put into effect over the summer with them thinking well schools are actually going to comply by the time
[18:27] students are back maybe not realizing that a lot of our school buildings have students in them all summer with
[18:34] different kind of events so um just from a legal side yes it's in effect right now kind of regardless of
[18:40] what you do with this policy um and thanks a lot for that Trevor so
[18:46] legislatively school school districts are required for each School building
[18:52] this is under section three a each School building must have two doses
[18:59] of nasal naloxone available on site and so director Jody remsing has been working
[19:07] over the summer we do have those two doses of naloxone on site at each one of
[19:13] our school buildings to make certain if there is an overdose and nurses have
[19:19] been trained as well thank you so much for clarifying that
[19:24] quick question and I think it's great that this is available is there any Inc
[19:31] is there any increased liability to our District or employees since this is
[19:37] available and it is in policy if God forbid something did happen to a student
[19:42] and we have our two authorized personnel let's say we can't get a hold of one of
[19:49] them or some like worst case scenario does this somehow increase our liability for
[19:57] um I know what you're asking and I think
[20:02] that um in the abstract no because the law says
[20:08] we have to have it and that we can have a plan it does not say we have to give
[20:14] it um so there are no affirmative requirements for us to
[20:19] um to use these um you could see an argument coming down the line on a potential negligence claim
[20:27] saying why didn't you have more people ready um why didn't you have more people um but again the the that would really
[20:34] go back to well we aren't we're required to have them but we aren't required to give them out so I I from a from is
[20:41] there an increased liability I'd say you're in the same boat first of all as every other school district
[20:47] um and I just don't know that there's really going to be that much of an increase in potential liability okay
[20:52] thank you all right thank you everyone and thank
[20:59] you Trevor we appreciate it this policy will come back at our next regular meeting in August for full approval but
[21:05] as Trevor and Dr Stanley mentioned it is current law and we the district does
[21:11] have a plan moving forward thank you
[21:17] our next policy for discussion this evening is 5 24 internet acceptable use
[21:23] and I'm happy to welcome Natasha monseth daily our director of media and
[21:29] Technology services to walk us through the updates welcome Natasha thank you
[21:34] good evening to Ellenberg Dr Stanley and members of the board policy 524 is our internet acceptable
[21:42] use policy we also you should not have a companion policy a policy 634 which is
[21:47] electronic Technology's acceptable use this policy is really more formatted 524
[21:53] is really more formatted towards students so keep that in mind as we discuss some of the changes and
[21:59] revisions here most of the revisions on that were put into this policy at this
[22:04] time were in regards to new legislation that came out over this past about year
[22:10] or so and so that's really where a lot of the changes in impetus for these came from and in the policy committee we had
[22:17] a lot of good discussion about some of those changes and what they meant um
[22:22] truthfully I'll just say our goal in this policy or my goal in this policy and reviewing it and looking at neighboring districts and looking at
[22:28] what MSB provided for us was to really stick with that MSB language and guidance really until we start to
[22:35] understand the new Minnesota data privacy laws and some of the changes that are coming out in legislation we
[22:41] felt that that was the best to stick with msba policies so what you'll see in the policy is the parts in blue are
[22:49] obviously the parts that we have added ourselves as a district and then a lot of the parts in red as Polly put in here
[22:56] are the parts that were msba specific language and so we felt that those were necessary to include to one provide that
[23:03] def uh definition and guidance and really to just give us a kind of a legal
[23:08] standing point in this policy as we continue to decipher what it means and what it looks like especially with the
[23:13] way that the technology landscape rapidly changes so I'm trying to see if there's some some
[23:19] specific things you'd like me to point out or if you have questions we can just go right to those
[23:26] I would encourage the board to maybe go right to questions that anyone may have
[23:34] which may include specific parts of the policy that you'd like us to walk through or maybe there are no questions
[23:40] that's oh I have a question oh all right sorry no that's fine I have a question
[23:46] slash concern and or clarification under five unacceptable uses
[23:54] um a G where we add in use of social media for
[23:59] non-academic purposes and or um use of social media by students under
[24:07] the age of 13 is um unacceptably is an unacceptable use
[24:16] and I guess my question is what is our district definition of social media
[24:22] because I think that it can be a broad list it can be a
[24:29] narrow list I think that I know that my student has used like
[24:34] Moodle to interact with students on assignments that that can be
[24:40] considered social media and so I'm a little concerned about that this could be overly restrictive
[24:47] and proscriptive especially when we say we aren't going
[24:52] to law students under the age of 13 to use social media at all like I understand the Contemporary use and I
[24:58] assume it's like Tick Tock and Facebook and things like that however I was wondering if we could put some more
[25:04] definition around it to make sure we're not prohibiting some ways that teachers creatively use certain applications
[25:12] or if we truly mean we don't want students interacting with each other on technology I guess that's my question so
[25:20] my question as well because I I know certain
[25:26] what you would consider social media platforms that are a part of an expectation for
[25:31] so there's a couple factors to that one um Moodle or schoology those are not
[25:37] considered social media platforms those are learning management systems and they have a specific name so if it would help us to define those things I think we
[25:44] could do so because a Facebook a tick tock a Twitter is a very different from
[25:49] academic interaction via a learning management system so if we needed to delineate that I think we could add that
[25:55] definition the reason we have the under 13 is because that's part of the um the
[26:01] children's internet protection act which is actually that's a federal guidance in law and so that part about students
[26:07] under the age of 13 I would not change under any circumstances but as I said we
[26:12] could provide further definition or Clarity if that would help I don't think that there is I'm I'm not
[26:20] concerned that this policy would become more restrictive around social media because of the language that's in here
[26:25] but if the board feels that way then we could add that definition in there so can I throw out some like use cases like
[26:32] that were running through my mind so say we have a student newspaper and somebody's job is to upload information
[26:38] onto Twitter or Instagram or something so that would just be under no circumstances can that be done on a
[26:44] school device am I understanding that that's an academic purpose and so then that could be done it's a non-academic
[26:49] purpose so for students using Tick Tock to film Tick Tock videos in the hallway non-academic purpose therefore that
[26:57] would be prohibited but for the use of a classroom or academic we have some teachers that use Twitter for getting
[27:04] like for example in a social studies class for students to get information about other countries and so on and so
[27:09] forth that would be acceptable use except for students under the age of 13 because they can't even sign up for a
[27:15] Twitter account okay so next next use case extracurricular and co-curricular
[27:21] activities what's the question use of social media
[27:26] platforms on District devices say a Discord so we we already have some uh Discord
[27:33] work set up for those kinds of Discord workarounds I'd say set up for those we do discourage that
[27:40] um because those are not things that we are able to filter and control on our end and so in terms of extracurriculars
[27:46] one this policy is not regarding extracurricular time and so that's a different conversation probably in
[27:51] question um but I would say that you know
[27:57] students using Twitter or Facebook if it's a district device we would be
[28:03] saying they wouldn't be using it if they're under the age of 13 or for non-academic purposes I think you can
[28:08] make the argument that an extracurricular activity is pertaining to school and would be an acceptable use
[28:14] so I'm not disagreeing I just don't think we spell that out here
[28:20] I I just think we have to be so clear with what our intentions are
[28:27] that's all I'm saying so so I'm clear for policy committee Direction the request is that a more
[28:35] clear definition be added for social media and and and use cases
[28:42] what non-academic could mean right so if I have a non-academic I'm thinking that's anything outside of the school
[28:50] day right so two definitions for social media and non-academic yes
[28:58] yes yeah and I would I wouldn't I think it'd be interesting to ask
[29:04] like Middle School and High School teachers all the different what ways are they utilizing social media at all and
[29:10] in education especially with some of our like steam things that because we're
[29:16] working on coding and website and so I'm just wondering like at some point are we going to be asking students like embed a
[29:23] Facebook page into a as an academic thing but then they're under so I just
[29:29] think we would not be allowed to do that in middle school so in high school that's a different conversation and we
[29:34] would need to address that but for middle school students we've essentially said no social media can be used because
[29:39] that's we're never going to say I have you sixth graders that are 13 can get
[29:44] Twitter but the other half of you cannot for academic purposes so we've really put a blanket approach on Middle School to not use social media so what we have
[29:52] done and what um Matt flugelm our digital learning coordinator is really good at is providing teachers with alternatives to then either share their
[29:59] work Express their work have those same experiences that don't violate those types of laws and practices
[30:06] can I just add one quick thing too that we talked I know we talked about this in policy a lot
[30:11] and that under the age of 13 it really was on top of federal law but it really
[30:17] was following Twitter Facebook all those Instagram like so they're the ones dictating it whether we want to whether
[30:23] whether we want to have sixth graders doing that sending out tweets or not with out of our control so I think
[30:28] that's what that was directing at but I do agree like a little bit more clarification so someone reading that
[30:34] they really understand that and I think um reading it for teachers and for
[30:39] parents so it's kind of both Anne that's what I hear you're saying okay
[30:45] I wanted to be to get clarification on how I read this so it talks about the internet acceptable use we obviously
[30:50] have the situation with our District provided devices but students
[30:56] can bring their personal devices in and use the internet if they gain access to the Wi-Fi and so on so forth but it's
[31:01] also addressing that as well is it not caveats right so we we can we filter the
[31:08] exact same way we provide the same firewall for personal or District provided devices but if a student is
[31:16] using their personal device at home to shop Amazon there's nothing no no I
[31:21] meant more that when they're in our building they're accessing our Wi-Fi accessing the internet through that connection absolutely the same things
[31:27] apply yep thank you any other questions on this policy so I
[31:35] have Direction back for the policy committee to add definitions for clarifying social media and non-academic
[31:42] and other than that we'll bring this back in August thank you Natasha thank
[31:47] you those are our only discussion items
[31:53] we'll now move to our action items do I have a motion to approve the filing
[31:59] period for affidavits of Canada's candidacy so moved is there a second
[32:05] second I'd like to welcome director Woodard back up to this podium
[32:22] good evening chair allenberg members of the school board the filing period for affidavits of candidacy for office is
[32:29] something that's required by State Statute we provide official notice of the filing period in our official School
[32:35] newspaper as well as certain conspicuous locations around the school building this is merely a formal way of opening
[32:42] the filing period which begins on August 1st and will close after 14 days so five o'clock on August 15th members who are
[32:49] interested in running for office will file their candidacy downstairs in the main entryway and also provide the
[32:56] district with two dollars to file as a filing fee um in addition at the August regular
[33:01] meeting of the school board we'll bring a recommended action item and resolution to actually call for the general
[33:07] election um to like three school school board members to terms of at this point four
[33:12] years um if there are any questions I'll take those at this time if not the
[33:18] recommended action is before you can I ask a clarifying question yes you may
[33:24] where are folks registering because I heard you say downstairs but historically it's been in the superintendent's office
[33:32] no we've actually um received so Ann goes down to the Welcome Center and we've received them
[33:38] there okay I just want to make sure thank you do board members have questions or comments
[33:46] great we will now vote by roll call to approve the filing period for affidavits of candidacy
[33:52] malenberg I
[33:57] arav hi caper
[34:06] the filing period for affidavits of candidacy has been approved uh next are board liaison rolls thank
[34:14] you director Woodard do I have a motion to approve board the board liaison roles so moved is there a
[34:20] second second um so this is actually I know we put
[34:26] board members in their roles earlier this is actually proving the new configuration of the roles
[34:33] um so I I know it's a little bit confusing um so I apologize if that's confu was confusing to board members or
[34:38] any members of the public so this is um the board looked at our liaison roles
[34:44] and analyzed them for capacity of the board equity and access of our stakeholders and making sure that we
[34:51] were standardizing our communication with both within the board and with our
[34:57] stakeholders and this what we're approving are the recommendations for how we move forward in the 2023-2024
[35:05] school year um and I know we've talked about it at
[35:10] the last board meeting and also in a work session but I want to make sure that no board members have questions before we vote on these changes
[35:20] no we'll now vote by roll call to approve the board liaison roles allenberg I
[35:27] oh now I have to air them hi Birdman aye daveler
[35:33] aye green aye Neville I Shaw aye the board liaison rolls have been
[35:38] approved um now we're going to go to our policy and I'll turn it over to um chair of the
[35:44] policy committee director Neville thank you we have several policies before us this evening for approval each
[35:51] of these have been discussed I'm grateful to our admin team who's put in
[35:56] a significant amount of time to provide the updates for the policies um
[36:02] we can just take these one at a time see if their questions start with policy 111
[36:07] equity and educational achievement and there's um
[36:13] oh let's see I have a note I want to make sure what my note means here
[36:18] oh yes so the changes that have been made in this policy since we discussed it were both recommended by the board at
[36:25] the June 12th discussion one is a reference to the Strategic plan in section 3B it's been deleted for clarity
[36:34] so that it's not tied to the Strategic plan and also the reference to work toward the five-year goal that language
[36:41] has been deleted again to make the policy more Timeless other than that the
[36:46] language and the policy remains as we saw it at the last meeting are there any questions before this one is approved
[36:54] okay and chair allenberg do you want to approve should we approve all these at
[37:00] the end afterwards I'll just walk through them then okay I will keep going thank you policy 113 data requests uh
[37:07] there was one change since we saw this on June 12th there was a suggestion that in section one purpose the word relative
[37:15] is deleted so that again the language is more clear other than that all language
[37:22] Remains the Same are there any questions okay we'll continue forward policy 414
[37:29] mandated reporting of child neglect or physical or sexual abuse
[37:35] um that this policy and policy 415 mandated
[37:41] reporting of maltreatment of vulnerable adults have no changes are there any
[37:46] questions okay and then policy 806 Emergency Management
[37:53] this one basic no this there are no changes to
[37:59] this one either since we saw it last any questions
[38:04] all right thank you and we could move forward for action
[38:12] well now by roll call to approve policies 111 113 414 415 and 806.
[38:19] will um allenberg I Arab aye Birdman
[38:26] aye gabler hi green I Neville I Shaw I the policies have been
[38:35] approved that is the end of our action items we're now going to move to board
[38:40] leadership and committee updates anything from board members
[38:47] um I have one um one of the most important things our board does is hire a superintendent and
[38:53] perform our annual review and so at our June board meeting we did our annual review of Dr Stanley
[39:00] um so I'd like to read a summary of our review of Dr Stanley Dr Stanley displays
[39:06] many strengths and the board feels that she has met or exceeded each of her goals for the 2022-2023 year some of her greatest
[39:13] strengths include her ability to set high standards for herself and those she works with while employing great empathy
[39:19] towards individuals she's able to build authentic and genuine relationships with various stakeholders and then through
[39:25] consistency in her own insistence on high standards earns the trust of those stakeholders she Embraces collecting and
[39:32] analyzing data to really focus on student achievement and the whole child Dr Stanley is an effective leader and
[39:38] leans into empowering others on her cabinet team to develop those leaders their leadership skills Dr Stanley on
[39:44] the board continue to grow in their work together this will be an ongoing effort and includes but is not limited to
[39:50] finding ways to incorporate educator voice in our processes and further refining the timeline and process of
[39:56] board superintendent work I think I speak for the board when I say we're very lucky to have you as our
[40:01] superintendent so thank you for a great year thank you
[40:07] I'm Dr Stanley do you have any superintendent updates I do have one update and that is
[40:13] actually regarding the upcoming board seats that we'll be opening up that mert talked about and so on
[40:21] um make sure I have the date and the time right on Wednesday July 26th I'll be
[40:27] offering an information session board members come sometimes we have one or
[40:32] two board members there and it's just general information about um if you're for individuals who may be
[40:39] interested in running that is from 6 45 to 745 on Wednesday July 26th in room
[40:48] 350 and so for anyone in the community who's interested in running for board I
[40:53] encourage you to come out and learn about that in addition to that the board is part of their goals worked on a video
[41:00] that provided an overview of the responsibilities of board and if you're
[41:05] interested but you can't make it to that session that video really provides a
[41:11] really strong in factual overview of what the work of the board is
[41:16] again we're really excited to have a principal Paul Pizza on at the high school and we
[41:25] actually have information sessions that Paul will be holding both for staff and
[41:34] for families and those are being held and not on the website on the 26th as
[41:42] well during the day and later in the afternoon so
[41:47] that's what I have thank you Dr Stanley do I have a motion to adjourn the meeting
[41:53] so moved is there a second second we will now vote by roll call to adjourn the meeting allenberg I Aaron aye
[42:00] Birdman aye gabler green I Neville I Shaw I the motion has
[42:08] passed and the meeting is adjourned thank you everyone
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