Um we meet once a month and I'm excited to meet with them too to talk about some other things that are going around uh going on around the building. But one problem that came up was keeping our comments clean. Um and we've been doing that and our custodian rewards one table um per lunch period and whatever the cleanest table is, they get a prize. And I think that's such a cool way to reward not only um the people that are being responsible and throwing away their garbage, but it just teaches students that they need to take care of their space and appreciate the things that they have. So, spring break's coming up. Um everyone's super excited for that.
We did post this 2 weeks prior to the last board meeting and then did a first meeting. So, these will be on a second reading tonight on approval. Happy to also answer any questions or comments on these policies. Um I I missed the last board meeting and caught up, but I did have a question I wanted to ask for clarification on D300. Um I I believe it says that there's a list of things that employees shall um do. One of them is no employee shall refuse to take a drug screen. Um but what if they do refuse? I used to work in an area where this was brought up. I didn't I just wanted to clarify, do we have like an insubordination policy or something that would allow us to take employment position with a person who would refuse to take a drug screen? We would certainly look at that refusal through our other policies and procedures we have in place for insubordination.
Uh 25%. Okay. Me, I'm curious to know, are we going to be able to see and get a copy of people's responses to the open-ended uh comments? Cuz I I think that'd be kind of interesting to see, give give some insight and feedback for the community on both ends. Um cuz if I'm in all grant in all with all due respect, if we're not see that, it's kind of a wasted effort on that part and a wasted question, I think. Uh certainly we can uh we often, I would say, sometimes when you just have all of the comments and share them, folks get concerned about anonymity or losing that anonymity. So one thing we can do that we do for a lot of districts is put together what's called a comment theme analysis. Basically, we go through all of the comments and generate sort of the general themes that show up in uh each question and then deliver that report and that kind of finds that balance between your understanding the content that was shared there and folks feel better about their anonymity.
Senate Bill 88 requires all schools to teach students something called the success sequence. Um which is that they want to teach students and that um if you graduate from high school, get a job and wait for marriage to have children, it is a way to avoid poverty. And so that will be part of I think there's a list of other things that are already sort of listed as um things that we teach and that will be added to that. Um, that bill did have the Ten Commandments language in it, but that is not in it anymore. And it does say that the classical learning test will be treated the same as the SAT and the ACT. So, that's what that bill says. There were three bills that failed that um did not go forward. Um, House Bill 1137, which was a ban on ultrarocessed foods.
Okay, Gary. Um, just thank our admins again for coming in and doing having a wonderful presentation and then uh thank the ladies for coming in from the FFA. Great. >> That's it. >> Um, >> I'd like to pass. >> Um, and I know I know we got Jake coming up here. I did a whole bunch of podcasts um on Monday. Jake was one of those. um that should be going out with a community uh video also hopefully tomorrow, Wednesday at the latest kind of supporting our our middle school project. So that is it actually is live right now on our site but I will push that uh either tomorrow or Wednesday just so you know that I think one of the um when I came here to Knox one of the things that we discussed was making Knox known around the state so that people knew where Knox was and and what we are about.
Uh I I think uh storm water flood plane wetlands for sure. I'm I'm not sure about agreeing to peer review of a RAM report that's under the jurisdiction of D and it's a stateisssued report a stateisssued permit. So I'm not sure why the conservation commission would be peer reviewing that >> because it's jurisdictional for us working in the flood plane. So we need we need some kind of a plan to review for the purposes of this permit. >> So if it comes in the form of a RAM report or another report for remediation, we have to know what's going on there. That is jurisdictional for us. >> Well, m Mr. Chairman, we'll get back to you on that. I think in the interest of time, I think the other ones we can agree to, but I think it So, what you're saying is you not necessarily wanting to peer review the RAM report.
>> I don't have any other budget information to share, but I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have. >> I'm good. >> Yeah. Same here. >> Thank you for your support. We appreciate it. >> Yes. Thank you. >> I know that. Thank you. >> You and school administrators go through this very carefully and thoughtfully and don't ask for pie in the sky. So, I appreciate that. >> Thank you. >> No, it's not not pie in the sky. >> That's what I'm saying. It is not pie in the sky. >> It's not. >> Um Wow. >> So, um I'm sure we will be talking about budget again. >> This is not the last. No, >> no. So, due to the snow, it is a shorter agenda tonight. Um, and we are already upon the uh superintendent. >> That's great. Thank you so much. It is a shorter agenda.
Thanks, Any questions on this? Uh okay. Um, then we had the bylaws uh going, this goes back to our summer retreat that we wanted to tweak a couple things um that we were working on. This is uh this is really what the law is for the board. And we just added a couple of highlights there in red. The the um newly elected members of the board have to complete a training which I know Matt and Heather went to uh workshop in the fall and and we already met. Oh, was it the fall or winter? I guess, huh? You guys were elected in the fall.
And other than that, please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. >> What kind of prizes? I think it's a ticket, right? >> Ticket to student activities and it's a big candy bar. >> Very nice. All I know is I was there a few weeks ago when they announced the the table that won and it was as big as seeing like who won American Idol like >> Oh, and the t-shirt cannon. Can't forget about the t-shirt cannon. >> Very fun. >> So, it's such a great idea to reward that behavior. >> Yeah. >> So, I like that we're hearing that you both feel at school at the campuses that the school the cell phones we're not seeing them as much. What about AirPods? >> The AirPods definitely a factor in what I've been seeing. Um, and I think there's an expectation when instructional time's happening, the AirPods should be away, but when someone's doing independent work or reading or kind of doing things like that, I think um there's been this kind of normalization that the AirPods always going to be there.
Any other questions? >> Um I just want to clarify that it's only employees with for a CDL and safety sensitive positions cannot refuse a drug screen. Other employees not under that category, for example teaching staff, that would not apply to. Is that correct? Dr. Stallbaum and Thank you for the clarifications. Any other questions? We've concluded the recognitions and the report outs for this meeting as we transition to action items. Um, we always allow the opportunity for public comments before the board makes decisions. Um Members of the public can speak for up to 3 minutes. Uh, we did not have anyone sign up to speak this evening. Uh, speakers uh, when you enter the room at the table by the door or at North High School, it will be by the door to the cafeteria. There will be a blue sheet that looks like this and this is how we gather the names of those folks that wish to speak at a board meeting.
But we can talk with your administration about which approach they want as well. Mr. Glick and Ms. Lloyd and and obviously your whole team. I think the questions and the way the data is presented is very helpful to me. I wasn't sure sometimes you put out a survey and you get stuff back and you think oh gosh, what am I going to do with this? But this seems very clear and we're all deducing right now. You know, just hearing it but I think it's going to be very helpful and and at least me helping me make my decision on where to go next. So, thank you. This is our chance. This is the purpose for the work session. So, if there are other comments or questions I have one more. Given your history with other school systems traditionally do they give the cost to the taxpayer in these kind of surveys cuz I believe ours did not include it but I'd just be curious if they do.
Senate Bill 182 saying that um that was about public school students had to use a certain restroom that matched their sex. And Senate Bill 159 um parents um oh that parents cannot make the filters on school supplied devices more strict at home. So those three bills uh were suggested and then reduced but did not pass. So that is I think the highlights.
Uh there there's two things this year um that I quickly want to talk about. Number one, you know, I I presented at the superintendent association um when they had the conference uh in the fall time and that was all over our strategic plan and how we as a district have pushed those academics forward. Uh but I also had the opportunity um at the national superintendent conference was which was just last month there was uh over 6,000 superintendents from from the US that were there. Um it was a great opportunity to present and represent Knox. Uh I sat aside sat next to um a superintendent from New York, one from California and one from Michigan. And it was all about readable English and middle school literacy. Um and showing the data that we had with readable English uh to we had about 40 45 people in attendance.
You're just interested in the flood plane. >> We'd like to peerre whatever work that you're going to uh work in the flood plane that has to do with the contamination there. Yeah, that we're not going to agree to because the contamination is uh specific to D. It's their jurisdiction and their jurisdiction only on how we handle um you know that remediation and the regulations that we need to adhere to. So, we had this conversation, as you know, with the zoning board, and they didn't they didn't pursue or push peer review of anything that that uh George Campbell is is submitted to D. So, in this case, I I think we're we're okay with one of your consultants looking at the flood plan, but we're not okay with the peer review of the full ramp plan. Well, that may be problematic because we do have jurisdiction over that and the ZBA does not have jurisdiction over that, which is probably why they didn't push it.
The Quinn was supposed to join us this evening to do a spotlight on kids, but um Dr. Thomas asked for a little more time because she obviously has students coming and she wanted to better prepare them. So, we've scheduled them out for uh the the next meeting. So they'll So we'll have all of our spotlight on kids, but we will um we'll be doing some rescheduling as I'm sure you can imagine. >> Um so I mean that leads right into talking about the update regarding our recent snow events and the district's response. And I know I put this out there a couple of times last week, but really we can't thank the folks out there in the facilities department, our custodial staff, the town of Dartmouth crews. uh you could tell that there was uh significant work uh toward clearing roads not only for schools but for the community in general and there was a big difference to me when I came I was here in Dartmouth Thursday morning um and drove down Sloum Road and was very concerned about the conditions of the road and then when I left that afternoon I was starting to feel so much more confident that we were eventually going to be able to reopen schools.
So any questions on the board related responsibilities. Okay, we're good. >> Then finally monitoring products and processes. This is the board's self evaluation. Um so we adopted this self-evaluation policy. You know, we talked about, you know, this piece here that it be re, you know, that the evaluation be followed up with a um retreat facilitated by a kid or some other duly qualified individual. A lot of this is this is derived from best practices. We're coming up on this guy here. The cave recognition guidance. >> You're uh you're not sharing screen. >> Oh. so helpful. >> I'm watching you highlighted all those >> screen. Yeah, you're already in the document. I see other people in the document. >> Look, I got 42 tabs, I swear, open on my computer right now, too. >> The color coding is better than it was last meeting. Yeah, I like the uh features on the Google Meet where I can, you know, do this sort of stuff which we have a personal committee meeting of the whole Wednesday virtually to review my evaluation.
Um, me personally, I'm not much of an AirPod person. >> Is that a normalization? I mean >> I mean I I teach at a middle school so as soon as they walk in like I'm checking ears as they walk by. So I'm just wondering like do we are we seeing a lot of white ears? >> Yeah. Yes. And it's that's just I feel like that's just a normal thing. >> It's at the discretion of the classroom teacher, right? So if the classroom teacher asked for them to go away and a student didn't comply, that would be a violation of our rules. >> And they do. No, I mean I think it's I think it's something that we should definitely be aware of. We are so focused on the cell phone. >> The cell phone we know is connected too in in many situations. >> Yeah.
Um We can move on, I think, to item number six, old business. Thank you. At this time, I request approval of item 6A, the minutes of the Reedsburg School Board meeting from February 2nd. We've heard the recommendation. Is there a motion? >> [clears throat] >> Motion to approve item 6A as presented tonight. Second. Who, I'm sorry. Mr. Nollan, did you second? Thank you. It's been moved and seconded.
Yeah, most most usually yes because it's easier for a taxpayer to understand to know the impact on their tax bill than a number like nine and a half million dollars. But in some cases when a survey needs to go out and you know, changes to state funding formulas or what have you can make that more difficult. And so in this case, you know, we talked a lot about trying to do that but it just wasn't going to be feasible. So, we went with the numbers that we could be confident in. And then the other question I had for either you or Dr. Phillips under the state law will we be able to say continuing or will it be the traditional Bartholomew County asks for an increase of X, Y, and Z for ABC purposes? Really good question and one of the decisions that we're going to have to make collectively.
Any questions for Amy? >> Is there a motion to adjourn the meeting? >> Second. >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> Same thing. Escape.