001safe and caring climate and culture in which we engage, inspire, educate, prepare, and empower all learners in partnership with our surrounding community to be successful in today's and tomorrow's society. Heather, can you please lead us in the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance >> to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands nationy and justice for all. >> Thank you. And then when you're ready, can you call please call roll? >> The following board members are present at the district administration office. Gina Veto >> here. >> Scott Andre >> here. Natalie Copeland >> here. Zack Dhalt >> here. >> Diana Fenton >> here. >> Shannon Haw here. >> Heather Williams. >> The following cabinet members and staff are present at the district administration office. Superintendent Dr. Lori Putnham. Assistant Superintendent of
002Secondary Education Dr. Jason Harris. Assistant Superintendent of E5 Learning Nikki Hansen. Executive Director of Community Education and Community Partnership Partnerships Shannon Avenson. Executive Executive Director of Finance and Business Services Amy Scallarude. Executive Director of Human Resources and General Counsel Tracy Flimbo. Executive Director of Innovation and Technology Services Katie Herbolt. [sighs] Executive Director of Special Education Danny Mayer. Media Technicians Paul Novak and Gordy Scott. And the custodian on site is Emerson Beamer. >> Thank you. Then I'm looking for a motion to approve tonight's board of education meeting and work session agenda. >> So move. >> I have a motion by Scott, a second by Natalie. Heather, can you please call vote? Zack Dorhalt, >> yes. >> Diana Fenton, >> yes. >> Shannon Hos, >> yes. >> Heather Williams, yes. Gina Speedo, >> yes. >> Scott Andre,
003>> yes. >> Natalie Copeland, >> yes. >> Then we have the consent agenda. The consent agenda consists of non-controversial items the board adopts routinely without debate. Any single member may remove an item from the consent agenda by requesting removal at the time the consent agenda is moved for adoption. On tonight's consent agendum agenda, item A, approval of personnel staff changes. Item B, approval of monthly financial reports for March 2026. Item C, approval of monthly treasures report for March 2026. Item D, approval of proposed revised board policy 533, wellness, third reading. Item E, approval of proposed revised board policy 510 510, school activities, third reading. Item F, approval of proposed revised board policy 599 in district transfer policy, third reading. Item G, approval of board policy 203.6, consent agenda reviewed and no changes. Item H, remoderation
004of board members tabled from January 5th, 2026 reorganization agenda meeting. And item I, tech single-use restrooms remodel change order totaling $6,311.13. I have one request to uh remove an item A. Do I have any other requests? Okay. So, I'm looking for a motion to approve items B through I. >> So, move. I have a motion by Scott and a second by Natalie. Heather, can you call vote on that? >> Natalie Copeland, >> yes. >> Shannon Hos, >> yes. >> Scott Andre, >> yes. >> Gina Speedo, >> yes. >> Zack Dorhalt, >> yes. >> Heather Williams, yes. Diana Fenton, >> yes. >> And then we just have item A. Heather's recusing herself. Um, so looking for a motion to approve item A. >> So move. >> I have a motion by Scott, a second by Natalie.
005Heather, can you call vote on that without yourself? >> Diana Fenton, >> yes. >> Scott Anderson, >> yes. >> Natalie Copeland, >> yes. >> Shannon Hos, >> yes. >> Zack Dorhalt, >> yes. >> Janice Vido, >> yes. >> Okay, thank you. Uh, moving on to information items tonight. We have two of them. First up is community partnerships update. I'm going to be presented here by Shannon Avenson, an executive director of community education and community partnerships. Welcome Shannon. Good evening, Chair Hos, members of the board, Dr. Putnham. All right, let me get set up here. Just a second. It's sorry. We'll show more. There we go. Okay. So, tonight I'm excited to share with you a brief update on community partnerships. And you'll notice in my title, I now have executive executive director and community education
006and partnerships in my title and that was intentional. Um, in my previous roles, I had the opportunity to work with several partners around mental health, chemical health, and some various things in the community. And so when I moved into this role, we just said like it makes sense to move that with me and then try to systematize some of our other partnerships in the district. So there was some intentionality around that. All right, I will start with community partnerships and how they benefit our students and families. Uh some obvious ways are increasing student opportunities uh such as real world real world learning, internships and mentorships. Examples of that would be our work experience um opportunities and uh events like Epic. And then uh we also would have enhanced resource accessibility and that's collaborations with our
007local organizations um also bridge gaps by connecting families to essential services such as healthc care mental health support. Um a great example of that is the work that was done this year with LEAF um and providing an opportunity to have a food pantry here at the district office. So, just a great example of that. And then strengthen social emotional support. Um, I've I I've talked about our great collaboration with Greater Minnesota multiple times and that's just a great example of a partnership where we're able to have um colloccated therapy within our schools. Um, so there's an example there. And then increased family engagement. Um I will be sharing with you later um some examples of what we were doing with our full service community schools which is a great um opportunity to engage our families
008at Discovery and North. And then finally um the long-term outcomes for students. And so by aligning our school efforts with our community expertise um we are creating systems that uh support our students attendance, academic performance and career readiness. Um, one of one of my favorite events of the year is Future 100 and the opportunity to uh partner with our local colleges and um organizations um in in St. Cloud and to provide that opportunity for our students for that college preparation piece. It is really my favorite event. All right. Another piece that I'm doing in the systems work um is around risk mitigation. And really what that's about is creating a system to ensure that we have all of the right steps in place. Um it's not only for the safety of our students, but it's
009also for the safety of our district. And so one one of the first steps now is we have a Google form where our partners will uh put in a partnership proposal. So, we have a a system where we have a small team at the district level that will review those Google forms and those partnership proposals and determine if that partnership is the right fit right now. Um, and so that is the first step in that. And next steps include risk assessment and insurance. And I am sad to say that I know way more about insurance than I should. Never thought, right, Amy? >> [laughter] >> So, um, lots of things around insurance when it comes to having partners on site with our students. And so, and it really depends on the nature of the relationship
010of those partners in our schools. Will they be working with students? Um, will they not be working with students? And so, obviously background checks is a piece of that. We also ask for certificates of insurance that names us uh, St. Cloud District as insured, additional insured. Um, and then depending on what those programs are, if it's going to be providing transportation, there's a certain level of automobile liability insurance. And we could go on and on. Um, that's kind of the boring part. Uh, and then also um after uh that insurance piece, we get into that contract stage. Um, not every partner requires a contract, but certainly um we want to make sure that if it's at that level where we have mutual agreements. Um so again, for example, Greater Minnesota, we have a contract in
011place um with them and then we have contracts in place with um multiple other partners, but really it's about having a current contract and establishing what we agree to and what they agree to and formalizing that process as well. And then another step this year has been taking all of that, putting it into a beautiful Google spreadsheet, um, with the help of my more technology savvy friends. Um, and then we're actually tracking when those certificates of insurance expire. We're tracking when those contracts expire or need to be renewed. Um, and then one other piece that we are doing is we are um, sharing with our principles when we deem those partners engagement ready. And what that means is have they've met all of the required conditions to be in our schools and working with our
012students. So it's really a one-stop shop for our principles and administrators to be able to look at and say, "Okay, this partner is ready to go. They can be in our schools." Um, so that is there's still some work to be done. It's a work in progress, but we've made some great strides with that this year. I also in my new role have um got the wonderful opportunity to work with North and Discovery in full-ervice community schools. Um as you may recall, we have a full service community schools grant at both of those sites. Um we have uh I also work alongside S Maxwell and Omran Ysef um to support uh really building those family engagement opportunities and um also uh creating an opportunity for some resources for our families that are above and beyond
013what we have going on in our other schools. Um a couple of examples of that. Um, one that I'm very excited about is um, we just surveyed some of our parents at Discovery and we we had Ellison uh, come in and do a parent session with them and our parents indicated that they would be interested in having Ellison Center come back next fall and do uh, what's called circle of security. It's really about helping our parents understand child development and really how to engage with their students and build that family student connection. and Ellison just does a beautiful job. They provide it in multiple languages and so really um that's one opportunity that we're excited to get off the ground and running. Some of the other great opportunities we have uh great theater is a
014great partnership with us right now. They've been in discovery for the last month uh working with different level of grades um offering an a free afterchool activity for our students to to join that great theater camp. Um they're also coming back to Discovery this summer. Um and they'll also be on uh the north side too. We were able to find a different grant to support that on the north side targeted services as well. Um and then with North activities, I'd say one of the most exciting things that we just had recently approved through the federal um grant is um this one of the goals in here is around arts enrichment. arts and music enrichment is kind of speaks through the volume of the of the goals in here. And we are able to purchase um
015quite a few instruments, both band and orchestra instruments so that we can reduce that barrier of rental fees for our students at North. And so it's it's very exciting um to have that um just recently approved as well. And there's, as you can tell, uh, lots of other things going on, but those are a couple of the the ones that we most recently put into place that are very exciting. All right, here we go. Almost there. Okay. And this is probably what I'm the most excited to share with you tonight. We have not gone live with this. I wanted to wait until after you had an opportunity to view it. Um, and I want to start by saying if there are any partners listening, this is not completed. So people, if you if you don't
016see your name on here or a story highlighted about the great work you're doing in district 742, please reach out to me or your district contact. We'll get it up here. Um, but this is very much a work in progress. And so starting, you can tell, um, we just have a statement about the importance of community partnerships in our schools and strong schools are built by strong communities. Um, and just reaffirming how how fortunate we really are in district 742 to have these strong partnerships in our community supporting us. Um, and I do have to say that I did not create this website. You know, there were some great ideas up here, but really I have to give a lot of thanks to Tammy's communications team. Um, Cararissa and Carla for sure. And then also
017Didge in the welcome center has a passion for this website stuff and he works with me and so he was a great uh a huge part of this as well. What you'll notice is that we've got this great partnership news and that's connected directly to what Tammy's team is pushing out there regularly. So if you keep an eye on it, you'll see announcing the future uh the the future 100 initiative. Um you'll see the article about the district cop house. Um, it already has our district celebrates the apex groundbreaking. And so, and this one's one of my favorites. Grandma Mary, our foster grandparent. So, the the cool thing about this is when you click on these, you can read a little story about that event. Um, and and so that's an opportunity right there. And
018it it just keeps flowing on through. Next, um it's not just the icons that are down here of our partners, uh, but what's here. I'm going to go here. Let me show you Shields here. As you know, Shields has been a great partner with us. They do both a a Shield care closet for our schools to donate, um, uh, items for our students and then also that one district one book opportunity. Um, and so, uh, all of this is just kind of a nice way of sharing what the wonderful job that they're doing in our schools. I want to go here. We have Leaf, of course. Um, so a great little blurb about Leaf. And I will say what was really fun about this is that when we started to reach out to some of
019our partners, they were super excited to share um to share some of the work they were doing and help us determine what what's going to be put up here. Big Brothers Big Sisters, another example. Um, and it talks about the various programs that Big Brothers Big Sisters has um happening in our schools. Um, and that will just continue to flow through. There's multiple there. And we do not have that set up with every single partner yet. We're still working with our partners to get all of those in place. You'll see a more comprehensive list on the right hand side of partners. It's [laughter] it's long. And then finally, um, become a partner. Um so this is uh we created this to make sure that people understood what are some of the criteria around what we're
020looking for in a partnership. Um does it align to our mission? Um is it equitable, accessible? And uh another piece here we're looking at is that kind of that quick check. We want to make sure that this partnership benefits our students andor our families. And so that is kind of loud and clear here with this. And then um we also included the community partner interest form. It's this is a Google form and it has several um questions just asking the partner about what what it is that they're hoping to achieve or what their program is that they're wanting to um to work with us. Um and this is a really uh great way for our district level team to really kind of look at and say, is this a duplicative program? Do we already have
021something like this in place? Maybe now is not the time. But I will tell you um it's provided a great opportunity for us to um in um build some additional partnerships this year for sure. And um and then of course my contact information down there for you just in case anybody wants like I said to get the to get some more information up here on this page. So that was relatively quick but any questions? Does anybody have any questions at all? Scott, >> future 100. Uh, well, Dr. Harris, do you want to talk a little bit? >> Uh, Scott, you put got me put right on the table of uh discussions for for our future 100 is for our seniors and having a a plan uh developed for their next steps in their future. So
022every senior once they graduate they should have a plan on the next steps. And so we bring all the industry folks, we bring our higher institutions, uh St. Cloud State, Scloud Technical, all the folks that we know that could help our students get prepared for the future. So students have an opportunity to specifically uh fill out college applications right on the spot with mentors. They have opportunity to hear panels from uh students that were our alum that are now in college. they come back and talk to the students. It really sets the stage for the culmination of when we get to the 12th grade, we have a solid plan not just around graduation, but how do we get them ready for the future? And then we have all the folks come to our Apollo Tech
023and McKinley. Uh and it's been a good success. Uh all spearheaded by the superintendent and we've now taken it to the next step and it's just a school experience that all seniors once they get to this point, we have them take uh participation in. Thank you. Um, background checks, >> what are we doing on those? >> Oh, uh, a lot of our background checks, we have obviously the ones that go through human resources in our district for our staff, but in addition to that, we have a background check that's very thorough that goes through community education. Um, it's a volunteer background check process and and we do for a number of our volunteers and partners, um, that's part of our um, somewhat of our inind that we provide. if you're going to be on site
024and be a foster grandparent or we we try to help out with that that background check process. >> Uh who pays for it? >> Uh it depends in some of the situations. Um community ed sometimes pays for that from the um from like a children's dental standpoint or a like I said a a foster grandparent standpoint and then um sometimes our partners will agree to pay for it. So it's kind of it's kind of a mixed bag. Um, I know it's been a concern in the past and that uh some people simply didn't have the money to pay for it. >> Yeah, we if anybody would have um trouble paying for that background check, then um I would ask them to reach out to me because we worked that out. >> Okay. Do you have
025uh any involvement with a greyet with the city of St. Cloud? >> With who? >> Granite Net. >> No. Okay. Um, that's good for now. I'll think of something else. >> And there might be involvement that I'm not aware of. I certainly there there are things going on out there that I might not be aware of yet, but yeah, not that I'm aware of right now. >> Okay. Katie and I work on that one, too. Y >> um, how about RSVP? >> RSVP. Uh, we are using RSVP. I know for sure with AB and our volunteer programming. Um, we have a volunteer part-time volunteer coordinator and in adult basic education who I know is using RSVP as well. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yeah, >> Heather >> Shannon, [clears throat] I know I know Lori
026was very excited when you uh accepted this position and you've done a phenomenal job and I think it speaks to just the leadership and um I I think it's a highlight of this uh I think of this community. talk a little bit about where you think you've had your best opportunities um and can you talk a little bit about the feedback from our community partners in um maybe the alignment and just the outreach that I think this district has picked up over the last couple of years. >> Wonderful question. Thank you. I I I will tell you that anytime you're putting in a system and you're really following all the processes of that system, there were some bumps initially just to be quite honest. Um because you know you get the well why why this
027why that and so we did have to kind of pause on some activities at the beginning of the year and some programming to ensure that things were in place for those partners. Um, and I will say that, you know, after we got those pieces in place, our partnerships are incredibly grateful knowing that that is protecting them as a [clears throat] partner and us. Um a couple of the partners that um we've had been able to really expand um some opportunities with United Way working really closely with uh 21st century programming at North and at Tech um and and some great things that are happening with some esports equipment and just beautiful things happening this summer. Um so that's one of the ones that we've really flourished in this process. Um we've also as you know
028with the facilities um restructure we've had a lot of people um put in the partnership proposal form that are have our youth organizations like our our youth lacrosse or you know some of those organizations so that they can get that reduced that 50% reduced fee for our facility rentals as well. And so this this process has really provided an opportunity to have it all in one spot and really streamline it. Um, but once we got through that kind of like I said that those initial hiccups in the beginning, um, I really feel especially next year out of the gate that it's it's going to allow us to, um, have even better and stronger relationships with our partners. >> Can I just add one additional question? Yeah. So, obviously with the fire at Westwood and the
029partnership that very quickly came about with the um children's museum downtown, does it make it easier when you have those processes and systems in place? Um obviously that was probably an unexpected obviously an unexpected partnership that came about. Um does the process make it easier when when those opportunities or challenges come about? >> It really does. Uh what happens is is people then just know what the next steps are and it's it's much easier to process those steps more quickly uh to put together a a quick little memorandum of agreement to make sure that they have their background checks in place. Um but absolutely yes once you get this process in place with the partners it makes it much more easy for us to get them on site or for us to go on site
030with them much more quickly. So that that provides that turnaround time. It gets us moving faster for sure. Yeah. >> Is this typical um in school districts of our size or or would you identify this potentially as a model program um in terms of just the operations and and the work that that this district is doing. I will say that when um I've had some opportunities in my role to talk to other community ed directors um they are really kind of asking what we're doing around this because uh not a lot of people have a a a system in place for this yet. So I would say from a systematized standpoint um we probably are pretty forward thinking and being very thoughtful about the process. >> Yep. >> Okay. Anyone else? Thank you, Shannon. >>
031Thank you, Scott. >> Yeah, we just uh were out to the Apex uh groundbreaking yesterday. Um what are you going to be doing with the new Apex stuff? >> I will have the privilege of uh supporting hiring um when we need a facilities coordinator to support with uh with Apex. Um so I'll get the privilege of working right alongside with them. We have a as you know we have Nanda as a facilities coordinator um and so we'll be looking to um obviously have someone working in in that capacity. So I I'll get the opportunity to work alongside um them and kind of grow that. >> Thank you Shannon. >> Thank you. Next we have the summer projects update presented by superintendent Dr. Lori Putnham. >> Thank you Chair H. Uh board members. I am um
032glad to be able to share this uh tonight as I'm connecting um on behalf of uh executive director of operations Matthew Buchet who was unable to be with us this evening. Um so we will Amy and I could might be tag teaming this. We will uh see how we do. [snorts] Um and is that big enough? Yeah. Can you see that? Okay. Instead of the actual presentation. So this is what we get. Um, you know, I think one of the things that uh is is really important is this is certainly a facilities project update, but I think um you know, one thing to to call out um is that this is an integral part of us having a balanced budget every year, right? Because we are so um thoughtful and uh attentive to our facilities
033um and we follow our 10-year facilities plan, our long-term facilities maintenance plan. um we make sure that we aren't in a position of having to um you know ask for additional funds from the voters right in terms of a levy um and that we aren't ever putting ourselves in a position where we have to deficit spend because our facilities have a crisis um thanks to Amy and Matthew and Mike Span um and that and Marcus that facilities team um we we do a really thorough job of analyzing the needs and being planful so that we always can stay within budget every single year. So, I just want to give a shout out to those F folks who are so very thoughtful because without without calling that out, right, sometimes that can get missed um because
034it just seems like an update of what's happening. But, uh that's the vital one of the vital messages to take away. Um the other is that we have work basically happening everywhere as you can see here. Um and we will go through each of these sites so that you can see what is happening. Um but it is a very busy summer. So, at Discovery and Lincoln, we will be updating the classroom flooring. As you um may recall, we had started that last year um and then had planned that we would continue on into this year. And so, that will get completed. Um and then we'll be replacing those rooftop HVAC units at Lincoln. Madison and Oakill. Again, you'll see classroom flooring. Um uh Madison will also have some plumbing repairs. And then um if you've
035gone by there, you gone by Madison, you've seen that there's already some construction work happening which then of course impacted outside of north as well. Um and so they will be doing that is there the city's work um though it will impact um uh near some of our our uh property as well. Taking a look at Tahi and Westwood. Tilah will have extensive uh work happening there including roof replacement, parking lot reservicing and if you've been to tried to park at Tahi we all know that there is a need for expansion along with some minor HVAC work and then some replacement of gem doors from Westwood Elementary. Uh looking at our middles um we'll be doing a a geothermal assessment. Um if you recall uh Kennedy does not have a boiler. We uh rely on
036it was a green certified school. Um and so we rely on the geothermal um mechanics that are built underground on that property um to heat and cool that uh school community. Um and then we'll also be doing exterior lighting control and line repair. Um I have no idea what this means, so I'm going to read it to you. There's a glycol replacement in boiler loop. You all you all can put that in chat GPT and find out what it means cuz I can't answer. And apparently it's happening at south as well. But I promise you there is somebody in this district who knows very well what that means and why it is important. >> Could go on an hour. >> I So if you want to hear about it, Marcus would love to spend an
037hour with you. [laughter] Uh we're also doing some uh possible uh kitchen electron electrical renovations. The track is being resurfaced. We know that is a community asset and want to make sure that we are maintaining that for our our [snorts] uh whether folks are dropping by or if they're renting it. And then those football uh field goal posts are being removed at Apollo and Tech. Um you'll see uh the site work and prep for the apex uh is already going on. We as as you heard we had the groundbreaking yesterday. Um and then the storm shelter which is also the auxiliary gym is going to be um you'll start to see some of that work happening over the summer and then some dead tree removal um just to make sure that we keep it looking
038beautiful. And then as you also heard there's a single user restroom installation happening at Tech High School. McKinley, [snorts] you'll see some beautifification around the hallway wall painting and uh the sound mitigation paneling in the gym, which is actually um not just about beautifification at all, right? But about really making sure that classroom because gyms are classrooms, right? Making sure that it is suitable um and [snorts] then not impacting instruction in other classrooms. And then some stairwell safety improvements are happening at Katherine Johnson um which we are excited for. We've been um working closely with Katherine Johnson staff and Mike Spanner to get that done. So [snorts] that is our overview of the many many things happening across the district. >> Very busy. Thank you. Uh Scott, >> Katherine Johnson, there's been a wall that's
039adjacent to Grady Foundry that's causing some vibrations. That's been a problem since for many years. So, I know my wife used to work in that uh building and there was problems way back when. So, I I hope you have some luck uh working with Grady Foundry on that, but it's been a problem for a long time. Um I guess that's it. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay, then we're moving on to reports. We have the board of education standing committee reports. Um, board development policy and governance committee chair Zack Dorhalt has a report. The board the board development and governance committee met on April 22nd to review updates on three district policies. The committee determined that policy 203.6 consent agendas require no changes and will move forward as an item on the consent agenda.
040For policies 204 and 205, updates were made to improve organization and phrasing to better match MSBA language. Both were recommended for first reading on May 6th. All right. Thank you. I think that's it for reports. Okay. Uh then we have future agenda items. May 20th board meeting topics will include the district retiree recognition. Reminded to board members that there'll be a social from 5:45 to 6:15 that night. Then we have graduation and end of year celebrations. Uh transitional services update. The 2026 summer programming review, approval of tenative agreements. We have one still out there. Okay. Um if any approval of list of graduates for Apollo Techch High School and some policy readings at this time, does any board member wish to suggest a future agenda item? Scott, >> uh, when is the retirement, uh, board?
041Is that the next meeting or is that in June? >> Yeah, May 20th. So, it'll be held both. So, 5:45 here. >> Good. I'll put it on the calendar. >> There you go. Okay. Um, so that was everything on our regular board meeting. Looking for a motion to adjourn our board meeting so we can open up the work session. I have a motion by Heather, a second by Natalie. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Okay. Board meeting is adjourned at 7:04 p.m. And at that same time, we are opening up our board of education work session. We have three items tonight. First up is proposed revised board policy 204, first reading, presented by Shannon Ason, executive director of community education and community partnerships. Good evening again, everyone. Uh 204 is schoolboard meeting
042minutes and our purpose of this policy is to establish procedures relating to the maintenance of records of the school board and publication of its official proceedings. Uh it really is in alignment our policy is in alignment with the MSBA model policy and we don't have any recommended changes or maintenance of records and that is because it's almost entirely driven by statute or a state law. If we move on to the next section which is publication of meetings, we did have some recommended language changes according to MSBA polic changes are because so many actual newspapers are going away and so um it's they've given us some different language to use. Uh we agreed that um we would have the school board shall cause its official proceedings to be published once in the official newspaper of the
043school district within 30 days and um we would out St. Cloud Live because they are our official newspaper but that it may change in the future or could change. So we um we did not put that in there. Um, also, uh, we took out language that was not applicable to us. And then we added that section to say in addition to publication in the official newspaper, the school board shall publish the official proceedings on the school district's official website. And this is what we've done and have been doing for quite some time. And it just made this more um, obviously direct andformational for anybody reading the policy. And then in part B, uh we did not change the content of this. Uh what we did is we just uh rearranged it so that it was
044easier for people to understand um and so that it was more clear uh what types of um proceedings will be published. And so it just calls that out much more clearly. Go ahead. Yep. Um, and part C, uh, we just we actually had, um, just a typo in there and then we decided that the word indicate made more sense in that one. And then finally, um, we have some changes to just again the the legal references. Uh, some of those have been updated um, since the last time we did um, we approved this one. And so those are our recommended changes. Any questions? >> Okay, I think we're good on that. Thank you. And then when we have one more first reasoning, we have the proposed revised board policy 205 presented by Kat Katie Herbald,
045executive director of innovation and technology services. >> Uh good evening. This is very similar to what Shannon just went through. Um this one is with open, close, special, and emergency meetings. A lot of the changes here are grammar and some other just general readability changes that are suggested by MSBA. And you can kind of see that here. Um, changing a philosophy of openness to accountability and transparency, saying the same thing, just slightly different words. Um, and some fixes in grammar. When we get down to procedures, this is really the only spot of change. Special meetings. We had the same bullet points as MSBA, but we had them in a different order. And we're proposing that we put them in the same order um as MSBA. So that would be for A through E in the
046section of special meetings. Again, same content um just bringing us in alignment with that MSBA policy. The rest of it again are very minor changes of grant it more. There is an addition here um meetings by interactive technology. This is under the area of emergency meetings. So um a meeting may be con conducted publicly available interactive technology means in compliance with Minnesota statutes. That was an addition that MSBA had added. Um again minor changes as we go through this part pursu uh which is about labor negotiations adding pursuant to Minnesota's public employment labor relations. A lot of it's adding statute here and again adding the occasional word through. Um they're adding the number written out instead of just the plain number. That happens a lot in this policy as well. They went from ABC in
047this area meetings to discuss certain not public data to numbering instead of lettering. Um, and then the rest of the changes here in the legal references. >> Okay. Are we good on that one? Any questions? Thank you, Katie, very much. All right. Um, last up for the night, we have a schools update presented by Nikki H, superintendent of E5 learning, Dr. Jason Harris, assistant superintendent of secondary education, and Danny Mayor, executive director of special education. Welcome. >> All right. Good evening, Superintendent Putnham, Chair Haw, and members of the board. We are at our final schools update for the year where we get to take you through those highlights of our pillars of safety, belonging, collaboration, and excellence. Here for safety, we have two items to highlight. We are wrapping up another great year of partnership
048with YMCA and our safety around water. Um there you see some of our second grade scholars dipping their hands in and learning about water safety. We also had severe weather awareness week in April where all of our schools uh participated in lessons and informations on how to keep us safe if that severe weather should come here in Minnesota. All right. And I have the opportunity to highlight belonging tonight. Um in the top photo on the left hand side you will find um our SLP retiree group photo. Um just honoring that group of belonging. We have two longtime speech pathologists that have been with us for a really long time and we had the opportunity to get all together as a group um earlier this week and celebrate them and our SLP team is 34 members
049strong which is not um in that photo but a a good opportunity. Uh the other photo um in the top upper corner is from our instep 18 to22 program and they hosted a community dance. Um so some other um program 18 to 22 programs around our local community joined for a dance celebration that they had on site. Um in the bottom left corner you will find a staff uh belonging activity completed at Katherine Johnson Education Center where they had an opportunity to draw each other for an activity and um the supervisor and director there uh asked me to join. I unfortunately was not able to um but it was the highlight of of their week for sure. And then on the bottom right you will find a photo from um our Native American graduation ceremony
050uh that was last week along with um Misty and Kip who helped in that celebration at the technical college. And then moving into collaboration, that top left photo is our autism team wrapping up their year of learning around a deep dive into ASD programming. So you can see that wonderful dive form and I believe there's even a dolphin in hand. Um and then the bottom picture there underneath it comes from Principal Nagorski over at Discovery. Uh lots of collaboration went into preparing our third graders for their first ever MCA test opportunity. And believe it or not, she said they were ready and jazzed for that experience. Uh, and then over to the left, we see our wonderful early childhood members of that team who won a collaborator initiative programming award. Um, which was a really
051awesome opportunity to receive that accolade for that wonderful program. Talked about already today a few times. We have up in the top right our Apex groundbreaking and just extremely grateful for our community surrounding that wonderful opportunity. And then there in the middle uh top you're going to see tech and Apollo students working together in the SCSU physics college in the schools lab. And so a great partnership there with SCSU and I get to do all the fun stuff with the excellence. Uh it's celebration season. So, uh, what better way to talk about our top teachers that were Minnesota, uh, 2026 Minnesota teacher of the year finalist and Deon Boer, a biology teacher at Apollo High School and Paige Jorski, fourth grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary. Uh we got a chance for uh Karen Cruz was
052a Fox 9 top teacher and if you haven't got a chance to see her in action in music uh my first time was last year at the uh our celebration when we brought everybody together and I wanted to go get in that choir. She was so she was so jazzed and pumped up and I said every student I know wants to be that way and so she just draws out in students and so she was a top teacher. And then you have in the middle uh our tech and Apollo students uh planning for their futures and they had uh national uh letters of intent days they signed to their futures if it was uh postsecary arts uh military services to start to prepare for their future. And then we had our central division uh Minnesota
053association secondary principles uh principal scholar at Apollo and then principal Hansen at uh North Junior High School. So, uh, two and one year, uh, we should be celebrating. These are two fabulous leaders that I get to work with every day. And then in the top right, you see we're, uh, excellence with our McKenley students and getting bilingual sales certificates, preparing for their future. The bilingual sales certificate, uh, students get earn a certificate for proficiency in the language. They can use that towards college credit in certain Minnesota colleges. So, shout out to those students. And then we had Westwood and Oakill students that competed in the math contest uh within that. So we had a lot of good excellence going on in the system. >> Thank you guys very much. Okay, that's everything on our work
054session. So looking for a motion to session >> and do have a second. I have a motion by Natalie, a second by Scott. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Uh, work session is adjourned. 7:15 PM. Have a good night. Thanks for watching. >> Wow, we got out of here early. >> That's wonderful. >> Yeah, >> go home. >> Not yet. >> Oh, okay. >> Cheers. to see you. >> Yeah. >> Quick meeting, huh?