001good evening it is a little after 6:30 I will call our Monday March 3rd meeting to order I'm here here I'm here here and Nola is this evening I here [Music] flag of the United States of America and to the rep for it stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all someone like to [Music] read I can the MB Area School District in partnership with the community is dedicated to nurturing educating and challenging all students preparing and empowering them to be productive responsible and self-fulfilled members of society thank you number two approval of the agenda approve our agenda I'll second motion by Carly second and by Adam all those in favor of our agenda please say I I anyone opposed 2B approval of February 17th regular board and executive meeting minutes motion
002to approve second motion by Joel seconded by Tom to approve our February 7 regular board and executive meeting minutes all those in favor please say I anyone opposed our February 26 special Board of Education executive meeting minutes motion to approve second motion by toed by Carly to approve our February 26th special Board of Education executive meeting all those in favor please say I I anyone oppose number three addressing the board building good news in student Spotlight Mrs Johnson hi hi hi tonight you ready on the spot you can stay there okay can I brag about you though so this is my friend Evan and so what I do is again at the um every time we're up for our student Spotlight I put it out to the entire staff sport staff teachers everybody have a
003chance to nominate someone um with all of the nominees um and looking at what Mrs roit wrote about Evan talking to the recess teachers lunchroom teachers our art music F all of those folks Evan was a Sho so let me tell you little a little bit about Evan um so his classroom teacher Mrs rois nominated him with the following words of Praise Evan markline is a wonderful role model at the ecpc he knows what's expected and he strives to do his best in everything he does he is kind polite friendly helpful and has a genuine concern for others his gentle smile lets those around him know he's happy to see them he has a quiet demeanor yet he participates often in class where everyone can learn from his thoughts and ideas he is a good
004friend others enjoy playing with and interacting with you can count on him to be respectful responsible and ready throughout each day Evan is a shining example of what it means to be a home for thank you can we give a round of applause for see all these people who love you and care about want you to celebrate this special night with you congratulations thank you for being the very best of our Vikings and as a small token of our appreciation we have this certificate for you do you have a special place maybe in your bedroom that you could put that up and be reminded of how you make other's lives so much happy and as a small uh token of appreciation we also have this Viking pin and do you think I could give you
005an extra one of these to give to your teacher Mrs roitz who's also very special person just like you wonderful and last but not least can we take a picture together everybody outside uh maybe out out this side there's a nice bulletin board over here that would be sure terrific wouldn't it let's do that come on over and [Music] ask the course job bud way to [Music] go know years I was still in my 30s this Mo definitely reminds me Tanner helped us on Friday for like half Henry actually came was like I just came off of s I was like what move my baby grand piano to get tanner and his friends have moved that no I just put it in the garage he like Mom holding stairs need to build house around one
006of those [Music] [Applause] things Dr ask him to introduce his you don't have to do you just have to be here that's what's she did she did you as well my co is ever when I with me to get in line before her to speak because she's so good yeah you never want to follow her that true it's true cute I feel tall I got toang the little kids you should never be with them I think that's mates my shoes so keep we were just talking about my move and I was talking about moving piano that ran came over this piano yeah I'm like well so Rowan she took my old kitchen table and chairs and then my T stand house and I'm like let's just send this piano over to Rachel good my son
007said it was Heavy yeah I'm surprised Rowan didn't just move it herself put it on her back she was she was leading the boys leadership skills she's foran that's why she's perfect for Tanner she keeps him in line we have some good news also from the elcc yeah around couple things that I wanted to highlight um just a food drive um even our Littles can make a big difference in our community so we spent some time Gathering items and although they didn't count everything it was an entire truck load that they took and contributed to neighbor Neighbors helping neighbors so that's thanks to um the leaders ERS ship of Heather Hurley K Moore who are both kindergarten teachers and our social workers so be like Camp um so they did a great job and our
008kids had a lot of fun bringing in items and watching the pile grow and know that they're making a difference in our community and that's part of one of our um District pillars if you will is kind of that service to others so we were excited to do that as an ELC and PC um this week it's R Across America week so we are celebrating the love of reading um every day we have a different theme um from wearing your favorite outfit to tomorrow's um uh superhero Bea Viking day so you can wear your Viking stuff we have our big assemblies tomorrow to give out our PBIS trophies on top of it all um and then ending the day wearing shirts with words so we can just read each other um so things hoping families
009aren't going out and spending any money things that they have around the home but again another way we're also doing drop everything and read which we haven't done in a really long time so we're doing that at different St spots through the week and even demonstrating as adults that we love to read our kids don't get to watch us read very much it's important um and then um just continuing to support my amazing teams um I am so proud our collaborative teams have been working really hard on our CCL curriculum um sitting around the table weekly in their meetings and the problem solving and planning they're doing together is really paying off the conversations we're having something we end up doing kind of of last minute that I'm really proud of my first grade team
010about is we had um some needs that we needed to serve and so we ended up actually dividing our team based on some of the needs and now more kids are being served based on their flexibility and understands so half the group is doing number corner while the other group is doing a camper RTI block and then vice versa so we're looking at that model potentially moving in a different direction but it's serving more students in meeting needs where they're at and if that were not enough principal Johnson has assembled a really remarkable team of professionals uh to go on a tour next Tuesday can you tell a going on where are you going oh boy you're going to jog my memory okay we are we are headed to go see two renovation or editions
011and one brand new building um so we have a whole team that's headed on a bus uh we are starting off in new glaris and then heading to ederton for two remodel editions and then we're ending in Fitchburg in a brand new facility so our hope is to ask questions like you know what are you so thankful you did and what do you regret not doing um some of my colleagues have already reached out to people they know in some of those um places to find out for example the big Hot Topic kindergarten should the bathrooms be in the classroom or now we don't know what we don't know and so that's just making sure we're asking questions taking photos of things that we think would be intriguing to um pursue it's so funny between
012many of us as colleagues who travel for basketball we've all been taking pictures of you know different spots that we've seen like that would be intriguing I even got a picture of a slide that a school has on the Second Story down into the cafeteria like right not sure that that's a plan but there's so many amazing ideas out there right something for us to to take a look at so keep up the great work please extend our gratitude to your amazing team I absolutely will thank you for supporting our students today and we had a bunch of um kids who were nominated and so I go see each one of them to let them know their teacher had something very or an adulted school has something very special for them and they get a
013red token for me and just making sure that they know that they're doing great stuff and we want to keep it up thank you I think PB could go through the roof if there was an option you could go down the slide if you got so many tokens like a way to lock it on both [Music] both smart just important so thank you so much thank you all righty 3B citizens comments we have two speakers who signed up tonight first is Mrs Scher hi everyone thank you for having me back as I told you two weeks ago when I was here um members of P flag and supporters of P flag will be at each and every meeting from now until we're using word f so I just want to introduce Mary and Carolyn and
014ly and Christine are all here supporters of all of our children and we're here to support you and to keep our to see what's happen so thank you thank you we're pleased to welcome Miss an okay hello again um my name is an Brown for um people that haven't um that w at previous meeting I am the mother of an e8th grade student uh Gina who will be at the high school next year and I just wanted to share um another um perspective that I have I am um I my background is an educator I have a master's degree from alno college which is a leader in standards based education um in 2009 I had the opportunity to Shadow English classes at a really high performing e BG evidence-based grading high school called Stevenson High
015School in Lincolnshire um I just wanted to bring your attention to some of the great things that Stevens in high school and lincolshire is doing that's helping them be so successful uh one thing that they're doing is they have a Learning Center where they have certified tutors The Learning Center is available after school when students are struggling in a class they can go to the Learning Center during the school day or after school and get help from a certified tutor and wow that's got to be expensive Stevenson High School also has 4,500 students so I mean and they're in the Chicago area so there's um industry with that as well um as far as the tax base goes um another thing that Stephenson does is they have this really um like laser focus on standardized
016test scores so if students score low like if there's a reluctant reader who takes their standardized test like 15 minutes they might get a score that doesn't represent their true ability and then they might get put in a um reading class where they need extra help and this reading class would actually be an additional period it's called reading for academic success and it takes the place of one of their electives it's not cool to punish kids for getting low test scores but the fact that if they need extra help they get it during a period that they'd otherwise have been elective motivates them to do their best and to show their true potential um on their tests also so they've got these advanced classes that even freshman can take so kids who know like oh
017I want to be successful I want to be an engineer I want to do this I want to do that they really try their standardized test so that as a freshman they can get into Advan Lo classes um so I just wanted to um bring up that idea that you know the label that you put on a grade if you call it a four or you call it an A or you can call it an extending or you call it a c or approaching or two it really does doesn't matter um we really want to focus on like what great things schools are doing thank you so much all right Tracy School news I have start um of course we send our well wishes to NOLA who I was feeling a little under the weather
018today so I'm sure she would have probably focused on the great work of our girls and boys basketball teams just had a wonderful run this past uh weekend uh and we're grateful for the way in which they represent us both on and off the court um I want to also acknowledge the great work of our Science Olympia team uh they uh just competed at Regional competition and Mrs Telson who's one of our newer teachers here in the district has just done an exemplary job of leading the charge I think I saw close to 15 students participate and as you know that's quite a quite a bit of a commitment on the parts of our students I'd be remiss of of course if I did uh just focus on the the high school at the elementary
019level I just want to talk about the power of our parents and Community uh what they did uh to pull an audible uh on Friday night's activity was just nothing short of amazing uh and they were uh fortunate to uh Marshall their resources when uh they had a bit of a setback with their annual fundraiser and uh had a wonderful uh movie night uh with popcorn and good food and fellowship and seeing all of the young people dressed in their little PJs made me wish I could have my kids back again now they're 27 and 28 and I don't want to see them in their be but just those little faces they were so excited and they were singing along with the movie sing and it was just really a treat so a thank you
020to the parents who put that on and I want to extend a note of personal gratitude to our very own clerk Leah Lipa who was instr inal in that effort next time we meet as a board we'll have the opportunity to welcome a number of our artists whose work was on display over at the historium and if you're interested in seeing some additional artwork uh tonight the middle school has all of their artwork on display if you were to go towards the gymnasium gosh I wish I had half the energy or half the ability I should say of those young people they really truly are remarkable and I can't wait to celebrate our young people and then last but not least a personal invitation to all of our community members to two special events around
021the anxious generation you may recall that's a book uh that we've been reading communally and this will take place at the mour public library on March the 18 uh we're really looking to get people's feedback uh about the book itself but then how that book should inform our districts policies procedures routines might that be differentiated uh at the elementary middle in high school uh ultimately uh we'd like to have a recommendation to the board of education at some point in April uh April 2nd though will be an a second follow-up uh evening for those interested in which we are bringing a doctoral student in from uh Ohio State University whose uh area of expertise is in the topic of play based learning as well as um a use of cellular devices to uh inform instruction
022and mental health so a lot going on at the home of the Vikings but a lot of good stuff as you can see Tom you had a visit recently didn't you to the intermediate Center I do I have some other things first that I'd like to to share as well um you touched on boys basketball they have their playoff game this Friday um also this Friday the fourth grade will have their music program at 2 p.m um also next Monday I believe it's High School orchestra will be uh performing on 311 this mon um from the state wrestling congratulations out to Eli Meyer who finished third place at 165 lbs in the state state wrestling so that's awesome for him um I believe there's a bingo night next Friday uh two weeks on March 14th
023at the red mouse that's for PTO um and I give a one last shout out to I'm going to probably butcher her name and I apologize for that um but Delina nice onean um she has an art piece that made the young Art Exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art on State Street in Madison so that's really impressive and uh congratulations out to her um I guess yeah and then I'll go into I was able to spend a half a day at the intermediate Center and I visited um four class periods um I started out um in Mrs Le's third grade class um and they were starting a new unit uh what was called what is light and the kids had to start out describing what light was and light sources and I thought it
024was kind of interesting where they you know came up with some ideas um you know basic ideas of Saw light bulbs but some of them had some more interesting ideas like laer pointers and of course the lightsaber so I thought that was fun um and then they went into discussion why light is important um during the discussions uh they used their uh whiteboards um and they took turns reading s sentences um um it was really interesting to see the how how the kids really wanted to participate um and they were patient with with kids that maybe couldn't couldn't uh share as well as others um a special note that happened that during my time in that class um two fifth graders came in um during the later portions of the class and they were coming
025in every day during their recess to help the third graders and I thought that was a really nice uh program um that I didn't know about um and what a great great thing that the bkings do to kind of help each other out um from there I went to Mrs horse and Mrs power and Mrs clary's class um and they were just starting to research um volcanoes on a way to how to make research papers to par paraphrase and scan work um and that was really interesting and again uh the kids took turns um reading off of their doents and sharing and then they transitioned to decimal learning uh T and hundreds um on their individual whiteboards and they were really quick about it so each one had the right board and the teacher would
026say something they would have it up before they could even amazing how fast they were um in that class there was one controversial moment uh when there was an announcement for the entire school where recess was restricted to the black top because of the snow melting and this was pretty disheartening to a lot of kids that like um from there I went to fifth grade to Mrs da and Mrs mau's class um and that was very interactive to start the learning with mixed fractions related to distances and multiplication um and again the kids were really uh involved and attended it um then they had a breakout SE session um where uh the questions got more difficult um and more individualized to to where the kid individual student students were um and the teachers and myself
027would kind of went around and help kids if they needed it um one individual really had a difficult problem um and it stumped me for sure uh he had to find the surface area of a cube and he was only giving given very little information about it um and it stum me I didn't know how to do it and then we had to go to the teachers um and also when I was in that class uh I was luckily enough to see uh CLA Lindley one of our high school seniors she came in and she did uh was part of the program of like a TA basically so yeah so that was really interesting then finally I went to Mr sh Mr shs and Mr mcg's uh health and F class um and they were
028teaching bad M Basics and they let me play a little bit so that was nice the kids enjoyed me playing with them for a little while and then um we went into uh more of a health class and we learned Basics on a skeletal system and it was all really good and the kids were really well behaved and I was impressed with um the structure in each class um and and the pace that they're moving so it was really good visit um and I felt really lucky that I was able to participate in a half half of day only but it was still really great um after that I snuck out um as the buses were coming um just to check kind of check out how the badge system worked um so I was able
029to see kids coming off of the buses using their Badges and then switching to their uh Final Destination bus um the badge badg has worked really well and the kids were really smooth in it so just thought would share all that thank so much that's awesome thank you anyone else I do I just wanted to mention I was at solo Ensemble here um at the high school on Saturday um and I think it's it's something to note that a lot of other districts in the State uh they get together with multiple districts at one school to do solo on time but Mount horb does not because we have so many kids that participate um so there was just so many kids banned Orchestra and um choir students it was great to see so many kids
030there um so yeah it and and I would give I I want to give props to the uh you music teachers throughout the district who are there um the ones who are accompanying these students and work with them beforehand and then are running around back and forth the different rooms and and know where they've got to go to meet each student to make sure they're on time for for playing piano for them and um and then also on that note just to note next week Wednesday um at bricks at 6 o' there is a trivia event that is being hosted by our three high school music um teachers M and they will be the hosts and that um is a fundraiser for the London music trip and then next week Thursday the 13th if you
031need a treat head over to iy Sticky because they will be donating a portion of the funds from that day to the London trip as well one of my favorite parts of Saturday was seeing even some of our retired music educators [Music] there including many others in addition to our dear than but you did so much um the one thing I was going to add was uh just the work of the music boosters yes and everything they do to promote that event to promote music in our school is really cool and it's too bad that Noah's not here tonight cuz I got to see her play tuba She Wonderful she even got called out by the judge he out anybody else um so also on Saturday the middle schoolers went to U science L ads
032um they didn't place for state but there was a lot of medals um that's an all day I don't I was exhausted just getting text updates so um so they did that and then this Saturday at the middle school is the Southwest Wisconsin jazz festival so if you are a morning person from 8:00 a.m. to 8:40 a.m. there will be a little performance before the kids go in and have like master classes and stuff so if you're up at Saturday at 8:00 a.m. that's a fun little thing you can do Jaz something that get you ready for the day I don't know I just know I have to have the child to school before 800 a.m. mom I've been informed a few times uh it's it's Mom it's before 8 a.m. on satday so just
033just if you're an early bird I think it'll be fun Jo did you catch that it's 8 a.m. I'll text you to remind you8 on Saturday that's all anybody else okay moving on number four Personnel transactions not tonight motion to approve second motion by Leah second by Adam to approve our Personnel transactions all those in favor please say I I I anyone opposed number five consent agenda is there anything that anyone would like to discuss motion to approve consent agenda second motion by Leah second by Sarah to approve our consent agenda all those in favor please say I I I anyone opposed number six discussion items our Committee Member reports Tom do you want to start with with buildings grounds and transportation sure I'd love to um we start off with uh buildings and grounds
034update um we continue to be fully staffed we handled the snow event that took place really well um salting continues to happen where the freezing fall happens um each morning um spring Sports will be starting soon so they're giving things prepared for that the best they can um they're keeping the floors as clean as they can B on the amount of salt that still gets checked in on a daily basis um switching to Transportation um our new driver fully licensed and will be taking over a morning route um we have the bus drivers uh breakfast about two weeks ago and that was a really nice breakfast uh with the with the drivers and some nice conversation was had with them for those who attended uh the Wisconsin school bus regional meeting is coming soon uh
035this next week and we will have a present representative there for learning with what goes on at that meeting um we discussed the special meets transportation and Staffing um currently we have three new requests um for transportation in that regard um and there's lots of things to consider uh based on the timing of pickups and drop offs um with the specialized bands that we have um we might have to consider um another staff member for that uh purpose um the mornings are currently booked so it's a bit of a problem and the drop off times in the afternoon are kind of a little more spier than in the morning and then we switch to De brief uh long-term facility analysis which will be brought to the full board in about a month or so um
036a couple things of note on on maybe on the short term um one thing that was noted was the Middle School doors might need some work and um the playgrounds um particularly at the PC playground seems to be getting vandalized a little bit um so one thing to consider might be more lighting not only at that playground but um maybe at all the playgrounds to imate this issue um and make it more inviting for families to use them after hours um as we discussed earlier on March 11th we're going to be touring um other schools to kind of get a feel for how we might want to approach our project and our next meeting will be held in April but there will be a an update given at the end of March question Joe would
037you like to talk about Finance sure so as is part of the course with the finance committee we talk about it we vote on it at a full board table and then I give you a recap of what we voted on so congratulations you guys successfully passed budget revisions which is wonderful that's what we been most of our last meeting talking about uh a little bit of a deep dive on on some of the things that's we right there uh taxes receivable or received excuse me uh went over that those look to be coming in just like we would expect percentage wise where we would expect it to be with uh what is it about 70% of our taxes collected early and the remaining about 25% later in the year right okay so uh but
038those are right on where we expect them to be um and then we spent a little time with the budget calendar again talking about the fact that once the summer rolls around even though we have no idea what the budget looks like we get to budget anyway so we're excited about that but that's pretty much what the plan agenda was any questions for Joel car you want to talk about safety and wellness yes of course we met um the 17th of February um so about two weeks ago we had a couple guests with us first we start off with Emily mle middle school high school social worker and she was there to walk us through and talk a little bit about sources of strength um sources of strength is a program at the at the
039middle school and the high school that um really was a a recommendation that came from the office of school safety after May 1st um and also employs evidence-based strategies for original focus of the program is suicide prevention but also but it generally just has a lot of good practices for mental health and and wellness overall um and the idea behind it is that the you know kids know when their friends are struggling before their teachers do so we get get a group of kids involved um and give them the information train them and have them be influencers and leaders in the school um so they ask teachers to nominate leaders got about 30 students from each building and got parental permission and those students are off and R doing um the first campaign is just
040kind of getting the word out about the about the campaign this week they're going to start working on a wall of Hope like a window display at the high school and they're taking the lead on daily announcements communication social media so it's really really cool to hear froming here with what our kids are doing um with an equity update our guest who hunenberg was was here it Ted a little bit um we we kind of recapped the family support event that had happened at the beginning of the month and um Sue shared some of people AC plans with us including their June 25th event at Rundle um mental health update we talk briefly about the youth risk behavior survey that's coming around again this may um we had a brief update on Title 9 which
041the short answer of that is we're just kind of watching waiting to see exactly what we need to change before we actually take any action on on that at this point um and had a brief update on safety that Brian was attending the um drills around school as we were starting to practice barricading this month so uh that's about it our next meeting is March 17th anybody question Adam did The Villages Park Rex and four Street we did meet yes um the nothing specifically schools related they came up there uh just more Community aspects and some of the things that our kids are involved in that I'll just bring bring up right now I think the big thing is is that um this was an ongoing conversation and at the next meeting on the fourth
042Tuesday on the day right in front of me in um I'm sorry it'll be in April here be this month um you're going to be looking at the uh I'm getting my meetings mixed up we are doing that one buildings some grounds system one they're not doing parks on R is going to be the fourth uh Tuesday in March to discuss the ground par playground and we've gotten further down the line with this we had a Gerber fure products person in to try to talk about a lot of the different setups that we had not sure that we'll make final selections that night but it'll be really close so if anyone's interested in seeing how that comes together andless say I would say please come out for that one in particular there were a couple
043of different structures that made structures that they were pitching at us and both have some advantages disadvantages are going to come back with uh um the same look again for us uh a couple the different um you know Arrangements of different uh playground equipment that were in play um it's kind of we describe U verbally but uh basically there's one main plane structure there's a set of swings that'll be there including some that are accessible and U for made for different ages as well and then there'll be a separate play area for younger kids so they're not totally consumed by the the big kids running around and and jumping around and then there's a lot of like individual elements that are scattered throughout that basically just to spread out the area a little bit and
044give kids a different interests or abilities a chance to to operate so obviously we um it's a really cool area a lot of people use it um lot of daycares use that in the area um so definitely come out and check it out and weigh in if you have any decisions that you'd like to weigh in on that um there is a there's going to be consideration of a storage facility at the baseball di there's a need for more storage there by both the Z committee and for the village they're looking at either building onto a tearing down the existing structure there uh that is right by the baseball diic rumo and replacing that with something that's a little more modern has some kitchen facilities and whatnot that they could rent out in that space
045that building correct yeah yeah and just making sure that it's up to par electric they have to do some work on it anyway and so they're kind of deciding which way to to go about it and then I think the the only other element out there is like it's still out the ways in terms of defining the focus of it but the luckan farm um came up again and the usage of that and how that space will be used for parks and they're going to bring back three different choices for Consultants to start working through some planning on that area and again that's like a 20 acre space that they have dedicated to breed space and play Space so that'll be something to Monitor and I know that talked a little bit offline with Dr
046selo and Jessica about um obviously there's overlap in facilities in this town there should be in terms of how we're thinking about school facilities and park facilities and to think through um where we're following bit short um maybe some things that we want to think about even if it's not officially partnering with the village on about making sure our our feelings are known about what we'd like to see in that spot that's it thank you questions where do you meet have for that is at The Village at the municipal office yeah um was there 5:30 you said 4th Monday so it be March 25th I think Tuesday Tuesday fourth Tuesday 4th Tuesday yes it is uh excuse me it is March 25th is a Tuesday okay great awesome all righty number seven action item I
047think we have seven policies no wait we have six we have six policies all righty oh Brian is this evening yeah I'm happy to pinch it board members this is just a second reading of a policy which we discussed at length the last time we visited in essence giving um our families an opportunity to seek an independent uh education evaluation and using the results of that uh to inform a potential placement decisions in our district and answer your thoughtful consideration or I'm happy to answer any questions you may have any have any questions okay motion by Sarah second by Carly to approve revisions to board policy 3421 three independent education evaluations all those in favor please say I I anyone opposed all right number two first reading of consider Visions to board policy 664 cash
048and school buildings um so the finance committee a couple months ago um reviewed this policy um our Auditors have always been um very supportive and appreciative of the process we use for Security money and as you can imagine over time the amount of money that we collect becomes less and less because of online collection systems and so forth nevertheless it's important to make sure that our policy reflects how we handle things on a day-to-day basis um the policy was very short and sweep which is what we're essentially Crossing out at the bottom of the screen and inserting um three small paragraphs to um updated most notably as at the finance committee we wanted to make sure that it was understood that when money was collected during the school day that it needed to be submitted
049in the main office by the end of the day so the question was what was considered at the end of the day and so in our in my mind I was thinking okay extreme an event that goes on on a Friday or Saturday night right football game on a Friday night at find our event on Tuesday night or whatever um end of the day would be the find is when the last activity of that building is done for the day might be 10:00 and a Friday night that money needs to be secured in the main office we have a safe for example where it gets locked um and then when people are back at work the follow we it gets receed and accounted for accordingly um so we're not changing how we do practice but
050certainly reflecting the importance of making sure our policy is updated any I have questions I have to go first though do I have a moner or shadow in there Le well I have kind of a Leah is one you go first the only thing I noticed like when I was in the first sentence District TR be capitalized capitalized everywh else um does cash include checks or are we specifically talking cash well I would say both but um my work is Cash okay so I I purposely have cash in there okay um and then receipts and record of all cash transactions that's not a receipt like me like I give my check to the London trip I don't get a receipt back you're talking accountant e receipts like you guys are putting in The Ledger debits
051and credits okay receipts deposits to the bank where states that come to the business office for our consolation in okay I the only reason I asked about checks is often times I send a check and then 6 weeks later it gets cashed so when I was like it's going to be deposited Within one week that's awesome that's sounds sounds like I have a little updating to do with some folks in the buildings there it is it is notorious when I write a check that I think it lives in a I don't know I imagine I imagine it goes in an envelope and then it goes from one building to another till it finally gets to your office and somebody does something with it then it I don't know where it goes but it's a very
052long time that would be slower than the Pony Express we don't want is very it is very slow checks take a long time so that's that's why I was asking if it's checks and cash because that in the back we drive into the bank put the Vault yeah I'm with you that that was my that's really it all the shells and shs and mites and Ms are great seemly I pay attention so mine is the capitalizing the D you didn't have anys just clarify no just clarify anyone else Scott can you remind me again a couple of famous um who this policy does or doesn't apply to I'm trying to think if if there's activities in the school that are separate from this uh because they go through a booster group or something that's offsite
053School sanction School sponsor okay our our District activities got it got it and if it's a just procedurally like it's a it's a football game or a basketball game or whatnot the main office is locked do stuff get put in that drop or what do people do at the Casual link um it gets locked at the main office somebody someone has the key to okay good great question that's it no approve second motion by Adam second by Sarah to approve policy 664 cash and school buildings the first reading roll call vote Jo yes yes yes Sarah yes yes yes I also yes thank you SC thank you first reading revisions to board policy yes7 Andy policy we were working on this over a few meetings um in our personel committee um the Personnel Committee just
054as a reminder for folks met on it do that committee does have representatives from our sport staff as well as our teaching staff so we looked at this policy um and they gave some great feedback as we looked through it um originally um the policy that we have on the books right now hasn't been up updated since 2012 so we're needed some revisions not only to make sure that um we meet some of the state statutes requirements on non-renewal and things like that but also just for usability to making sure that employees know and can navigate the the grievance process if they ever choose to use that so I'm just going to go through um kind of by the headings here since this is reworked quite a bit um it starts out with some definitions
055of what can be grieved and then it goes right into the informal resolution process on working um working any agreements with their direct supervisor unless it's an issue of um termination um and of course now alls and not handled in that fashion either um if it goes to a formal resolution process and the informal um resolution was not satisfactory there are some different steps um first goes to Human Resources um there's timelines within the paragraph in which uh folks have to um follow as well as what information needs to be provided to um file a formal agreements um again if that's not satisfactory it goes to the superintendent which is be there similar process using the same criteria um and if that is not to set um satisfactory um it goes to the impartial hearing
056officer this section has more um bullet points and details on how the impartial hearing officer is selected um what how they can rule on the situation and such um but that's meant to be really impartial for both parties to get a the ruling if that um does not is um not satisfactory to either party then it would go to the board um and so it defines how the board makes that decision there excuse me real quick Ain is that order of operations required by State Statute um there are lots of things that are required by State Statute in this and how we go through um I wanted to say that publicly thanks yeah there there is quite um some legal references um to this policy as as um noted on the back there too thank
057you questions the I'm reading that right on the theal resolution if that does not take place if someone doesn't file within that period of time does that negate someone's ability to bring forward that issue with through that unless it's one of those other reasons okay like employee termination would not be an informal resolution process right okay by Statute our employee grievance policy cannot allow for non-renewals or for employ determination that's set forth in state law 18 okay the only question I had on the on B the superintendent step is when I first read it that first sentence reads as it almost reads as if the HR person op the HR step optional right because of the way it says either party Beyond human resources and so that's kind of what I thought as I was
058reading it and I wasn't until I got a little further I like oh no no it's supposed to be like this then this then this so I don't know I'm curious if others stumbled on that too or it's worth rephrasing that it says formal resolution if we take out would it make sense if we just said If either just either party we advance the grievance beyond the human resource Direct and just take off take off that proposition if anyal resolution is that read or just if one resolv I par or if an informal resolution and the human resource review does not matter [Music] questions and this was B with faculty and staff you said okay had great input it's really wonderful for them to be a part of the the process I think that uh
059I think that I have my answer I'm reading this again but that there was um certain employees who's like the thought would be there I'm going specified about Employment contract at the end of the you know like the board's decision shall be a majority vote of a corner president unless specified differently by employment contract yes I was just curious just because I don't know like what positions that would entail we have some super majority langage okay in my it's only in St super majority for some things yep any other questions do you want to approve it with the rision or do you want just bring it back I move to approve this policy with theion of of res and second all right motion by General second and by Carly to approve Provisions to policy 527
060employee ingredients with the one noted revision all those in favor please say I oh it's WR yesul yes yes yes yes yes and I also yesk you thank you Sarah first reading consider rision policy 323 get there getting there all done so the ceremonies and observances policies look at um more secular observances and also religious ceremonies and observances um the and patriotic ceremonies and observances uh so what is new to this policy is the the special observances section um looking at State observe base so see that in r I line on the screen um and then Joel had the idea that we should um divide these out a little bit more so so we did that as well um inste the final version in the administrative regulation indicates the state dates who knew cashier palaski
061was a date I not joking I about when I looked at I was like leave Eric [Music] great questions SAR a question um students may be allowed an excused absence it still counts towards their 10 days right correct part a little bit this part yeah so students actually the part that's highlighted there excused absence so they it's an excused absence just like if you went on a like a parent request right yeah which we don't really have but we do have it still confuses me so like or like a college visit but it still counts towards your absences I guess College business don't but yeah in our if count as like I'm so that c that's excused okay that was question the um clean version shows the you guys have as well shows the Joel
062had mentioned about the state federal ceremonies observances section and religious cies and obces so yeah just adding that section and then reformatting slightly for clarity make motion to approve I move to approve second motion by Adam sign by Sarah to approve revisions to board policy 323 ceremonies and observances roll call vote Joel yes yes yes sh yes yes yes also is all right Sarah got two more to go revisions to board policy 381 religion in classroom thank you um sles um adjustment of section as well have better section headers but then a couple larger pieces um when a student needs a foundation use course content materials initially that request would both the teachers um however through WB they recommended for better confidentiality for students on the family that that request go straight to the principal
063for review and the principal will will put all that a request in motion um with staff and accommodations so that's the first piece the second piece then is the appeal process our appeal the appeal process that was listed um didn't really mesh well with policy 411 um which does have um DPI as the last stop and policy 411 so we wanted to make sure um that we were we had consistency between our polic and practices so that's why we have the updated changes um to alignment policy for1 make a motion to approve I have a i a question on the um I don't know if I saw it address in here tell me if it is the the first paragraph that talks about um not compelling or pressuring any student to participate in classroom in
064devotional exercise in classroom or District curriculum how does that set extent to practices to HS to other student Gatherings outside the classroom does the schools in the policy the policy title are you looking just in general schools yeah yeah I mean the sentence there District staff will not promote religion from po pressuring student to participate in the classroom a devotional exercise in the classroom or an addition curriculum so does that I'm just making sure that extends to I don't know a coach that is leading a practice I was going to say I thought I was as I was reading it I was asking that question to but I thought I saw somewhere in here where a spe specific section of music I don't music education and school performances right yeah which and so in answer
065to your question when we sort for the languages specifically yes um to your question anything is co extracurricular activity this would be extended to okay and so you me that it doesn't specifically state it I thought it did I just don't remember where think in the second and the last paragraph it does it within School sponsor activities a school can restrict distribution cred the limitation is reasonably related to a legitimate ucation concern there you go M and so we we would have that would be what we had if there a concern that would that's specific to distribution that's would it be cleaner to just add in an addition or make this a seriation to a good cat I think so in so we saying in classroom comma schools comma or in District's curriculum and coex
066that clear just coex I think the the appeal it says DPI is the final Arbiter on something like this is what we have written into our policies correct I'm just thinking of the well current political environment and the fact that we may end up with as long as we have it that we go to DPI that's yeah at least we have a place to go to start with s you made a motion do you want to revise your motion to I would yes I would move to approve um with the revision second motion by Sarah seconded by Carly to approve policy 381 religion in the classroom with the noted revision roll call vote Jo yes yes yes yes Sarah yes Tom yes car yes also yes all right Sarah last one consider revisions to board
067policy 4341 release time for religious instruction uh this was just a review uh but we did update and made sure we had all our cost references that were needed so no changes I love to approve oh I have questions lot of questions okay so question one is why why do we say absent from school at least 30 minutes but not more than 100 days 80 minutes 60 Minutes Or sorry yeah 60 minutes and not more than 180 like why do we need that at least 60 like what's the rationale there so like if the church is in town and they have they go to a thing I don't know and they're gone a half an hour it doesn't count towards this do we only count it if it's at least 30 minutes or 60 I
068keep saying 30 um but I mean 60 so I don't I don't understand the at least part we could go back and look to see if we can find the minutes from January of 2001 is to why this is existing language yeah and we'd be happy to do some research if it's still available I still why the board elected to do that back in the day I don't have an answer for you unless I did not have an answer I'm sorry no that's so if it's like if it's like a requirement like part of the legal ease like it it doesn't count if it's if it's less than 60 Minutes it can't be used that would be my one one well that's one question my other question would be um principales keep a record and
069then we send that to can I can I answer your first question yes in a state statute language okay it's just one of those things that they put in there that makes no sense good it's like when they don't use the right that wasn't a hour long so okay that's number one so does the statute also say that the principal has to to keep this log of kids who are doing this uh one the please hold there's I just lost it um sorry sorry I didn't have to go look at the statute the principal of the school where attended um supervisor such religious instruction shall report monthly to the principal of the school regly attended the names of the P who attended weekly religious instruction the school board your questions all are does the principal
070need to keep track yeah like what why are we logging it what's the log four like it's in Infinite Campus so why does the principal also keep a log that that may be Antiquated language assuming that the log is somewhere that that back the policy and I don't know maybe we don't have like religious excuse as a drop down in infinite campus but it seems like extra busy work if we're already having to track stuff an infinite campus like what do we need an extra log for so Le tell the first I'm talking about the principal should keep records Le the our principes are our attendance officers so it's not necessarily a physical log it's just their job to record and know where kids are but like at the high school we have an attendance
071person so it's not the principal who's actually doing that I think it's even more about I don't know if it's direct work versus the principal's in charge of keep kids law is says they shall keep the records so my brain immediately just imagine them writing no the record is okay in campus for any attendance okay um and then I don't oh it's not the the last sentence in that paragraph said the border design may deny release time to students who are absent from religious instruction or school after requesting the leave nowhere in here did we say they have to request the leave so how do we deny the leave when does it come to the board or our designed to deny this leave and where where who's the design and it's your official agent which
072is the superintendent who turned then works with their principles so that again also appears to be in U there in in State Statute as well this is weird yeah so I mean if a student is is skipping class instruction you can say sorry you can't go anymore got it that's how I interpret that I mean that's kind of what I thought but then way worded I'm like how does it even get to the board good question like so let's say a parent we're just say Steve I I hear you but I'm going to try to appeal it to the board of education then it would automatically come to you and you always DET whether or not you would because it would follow our regular like we don't agree with the situation the statute does say
073the school would deny the privilege who asset themselves from religious instruction so it's one down which and I assume that these minutes hours whatever they fall on under their 10 days so like if they're gone for 60 minutes and we do our calculation if that is 60 to 90 whatever the percent are I looked it up even today to try to but they do count against their 10 days they don't get like extra so it's different than like medically excused right so this is under 18 which is uh which is the compulsory attendance school law uh whether not counts against um the parent time I have to go back and double check my guess is it probably does but if it's 1 hour a week it's not going to it's not going to equate to
074you know the yeah right I was just as I read it it was just a question that I I'm like because I know you can like if it's a if it's a uh College visit doesn't count towards you 10 days if you got your medical note doesn't count towards your 10 days so I'm just like trying to know where that falls in if this is one of those um policies that we don't attend to very much no it yes those records considered part of a student's private record yes okay question the only one I had on the heels of this question about the board involvement so it just skips right to the board or can the principal say sorry you've been you you don't have proof that you're were showing up at this I'm not
075releasing the time for you correct so it would follow due process and a progressive approach which would mean yes it would typically go to the assistant principal first and if it's a secondary student if the family was displeased with that decision then it would go to the principal if they were displeased with that then it would go to the director of student services yeah and if they're displeased they go up to the superintendent and to the board and then ultimately I'd have to look to see if the board's decision is final or if the Department of Public Instruction had an opportunity to wait I just don't know the answer that please all the while we would not uh Implement any kind of treny piece unless of course um this was part of a much larger
076pattern of concern for attendance sense in making someone's life miserable while they have the process you can I start a religion called skipping school we just do that you only get one hour up to 180 minutes per week home it coming to work so all you can skip I it may not to belor but as I read it like my interpretation was a student could be out for 3 hours every single week of the school year be covered under this policy and not necessarily penalized servicing school because I read it I read it as like a is substituting for the educational T there is that that's that's correct 3 hours per week that doesn't mean that the student isn't to hold to the work that was done during their absence still be held responsible for
077completing the work right okay and it's not just even once per week right they could go an hour three [Music] times that's where right because then they would say if you do 30 minutes it doesn't right so you couldn't be gone 30 minutes every day now that's now it does make sense that that so this POS doesn't have any changes yet it's a review good review appreciate that any other questions I want you to bring it back motion do I get to retract my motion first or is my stand because we didn't make any changes we didn't make I just jumped discussion I'll second it all right motion by seconded by Sarah to consider rision to board policy 34.1 release time yes yes yes yes yes yes also yes do you not believe we have
078any c comments number agenda item anyone want talk remind the board as well as audience members who may be listening March 17th I think will be a really important meeting and that will also get a chance to in addition to recognizing our art students um visit with Bray Architects uh to provide a status report of the committee's good work we meet again this Thursday morning from 10: to noon and uh if you're interested in participating in those visits by all means let me know if you could let me know 48 hours in advance uh just simply because I would need time to notice the so thank you any other meetings to highlight uh well yeah so we have a couple of meetings on the on the list just as a fly reminder to um as
079Mr schin so fly suggested that there will not be a buildings grounds and transportation meeting on March the 24th but because we're in the throws of the legislative season we felt it was important to still hold a community and legislative engagement meeting on the night of the 24th that will also be held online at 5:30 p.m. thank you [Music] by Carly toour all those in favor please say [Music] I thank you every check one is impr rot I know [Music]