001those Chinese remind. Call to order the regular meeting of Independent School District 695, which is Minnesota. Pam, can you perform roll call, please? Uh, director Solder here, director Raha here, director Laffy here, director Karan Simon here, director Rice here, chair Casey here. Thank you. Uh, at this time we open the floor for public comments. I see that we do have two up. Nothing. Okay, thank you. Moving on to reports. Nobody for reports. Probably would have reports if we had some new principles. Motion to approve the agenda. Um I would like to make one addition. Um, director Randa Solder had add had had sent me a request to put on the agenda to request Tibby and Chisum School Board joint meeting. So, I'd like to add that under administrative business. Um, item M, I guess. Did
002I entertain a motion for that? I'll make a motion. Support. Motion by director Rander Solder. Support by Director Mappy. Any discussion? All hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Item six, motion to approve the consent agenda. These are the minutes of the June 9th, 2025 regular meeting. I'll make the motion but we need to make changes. Uh there was a typing error in who adjoined the meeting. Uh it was adjourned by Raha supported by solder and the meeting ended at 5:34. Those changes have been made. I'll support that motion by director Randa Solder supported by director Raha. Any other uh changes? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I opposed. Motion carries. Item seven under personnel. Motion to accept the resignation from Carla Winter prek through
003six principal effective June 30th, 2025. Motion by director Lappy. Support Simon. Any discussion? just like to wish Carla well in her new venture and her new position actually. Um I know many of the teachers spoke very well of her. So we appreciate everything that she's done here and again wish her the best. Any other discussion hearing? None. All those in favor signify by saying I. I oppose. Motion carries. Item B, a motion to accept a one-year leave of absence for Robbie Albert from the dean of students, elementary curriculum coordinator, contingent on approval of her being hired as interim principal. Make a motion. Motion by director Cry Simon. Support by director Lappy. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I I opposed. Motion carries. Item C. Motion to approve Robbie Albert
004as interim prek through six principal for the 2025 2026 school year. I'll motion. I'll support. Motion by director Raha supported by director Ronda Solder. Question. What's the salary? It would be in the principal's contract the same as first year contract. Uh just you know, all I'm asking is, you know, first year and there there's graduations. Oh. Oh. Um, we've so in the past our past president, we when we've had people that have had similar experience like Mrs. Winter came in, she didn't have principal experience, but she had very similar experience coordinate. We've always given them those years of service. So, that'd be a negotiated item. Okay. What would be So, I see what you're saying. I misunderstood person. So for this year basically it's Miss Winter's salary. Okay. Yep. I don't think so. Okay. Any
005other discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Item motion to accept a one-year leave of absence request from Panioski from local union number 536. Technical support specialist effective June 10th, 2025. Make a motion. Motion by director Pry Simon. Support by director Rice. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppos. Motion carries. Item E, motion to approve the confidential superintendence administrative assistant contract of Pat Pioski for the period of July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028. I'll motion by director Raha who support by director Vappy. Any discussion? Just one question and I did bring it up and I noticed again today the front page says confidential superintendent administrative assistant. Then on the second page and this might be something Jackie um confidential
006superintendent secretary. Should those both say the same thing? Cover page to this the probably the type just so that the term is correct on the front. It's a typo. I would just say administrative change administrator. And then does it matter that under insurance benefits section three it states that there's an C appendix A and there is no appendix. Should that be removed? There's no appendix attached. There's nothing to look at. Health insurance. That may be because it's going to change. Yeah, those were my only two typing things that everybody falls under the same insurance. Everybody is the same insurance. So it just but it refers to seeing appendix A and there's no appendix A. So what are we looking at? Yeah. And how you remove it or you could just slide it in there. Okay.
007More than likely we'll slide it in once we figure out what the insurance is going to be. Uh Mr. Kazar and Morgan have been working on that along with Mr. Morrison. So well yeah that's what I'm saying. You just cross cross off appendix A because there isn't an appendix. If I remember correctly, in the original contract, it listed out all the insuranceances and that was appendix 8 if I remember correctly. The other the other contracts do they always change from the first year of the contract to the second year anyway? Yeah, that's probably why it's done. Yeah. Okay, that was my only thing. So when we do get an appendix A, we will slide that into a contract. Um, no sense in putting the old one in right now if it's true and then it's
008going more than likely will change. So that's Yeah, we just need to Yeah, we can just change that cover page to match the verbage in the contract of what she is. Okay, we do have a motion and a second with those changes. Any other discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed? Motion carries. Item F motion to approve Chelsea Winen's request to enroll in the K through six mathematics education program through Western Governor's University. I'll make a motion. Motion by director Ky Simon support support by director Rice. I'm assuming that Western Governor's University is an accredited. I checked it out. It's accredited. There's been a lot of discussion amongst the soups in the last year or so about some of these universities popping up. I We've been checking into them
009and having conversations specifically about a lot lot of different colleges because there's actually not that you need to know this, but there's a college out there. I won't name them, but there it took one soup 30 minutes to complete the course and they decided to take the course and go complete it. So, yes, I've been checking in on some of these, but there's only so much you can really figure out online. It was accredited. Okay, any other discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Item eight, administrative business. Motion to approve the property and liability insurance renewal in the round of $229,750.88 [Music] effective July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2026. A motion to testify. Motion by Dry Simon. Support by director Laffy. Any discussion? Went up a
010little bit but not too much. Well, considering we all feel too. Yeah. Yeah. So about 8 8.7% increase. Um the data we were provided the state average is about 11%. So we beat the average little but Mr. Morrison was saying did add some coverage for the ball field the fencing and bleachers and I'd just like to to add into the motion that it's Marsh Mlennon agency just so it's in the record. Any other discussion hearing? None. All those in favor signify by saying I. I oppose. Motion carries. Item B, motion to approve membership to the Minnesota School Boards Association and Policy Services renewal for the period of July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026 and authorized payment of duc in the amount of $7,634. All motion motion by director Raha support by director Randa Solder.
011Any discussion? And I just think that MSBA has made it um has simplified the process for our purposes and especially for policies all the districts themselves too. So it doesn't mean to say that their policies are always right but uh so far but they gave you a good piece of any other discussion hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I opposed. Motion carries. Item C. Motion to approve a do bid auction to declare and set identified as excess unusable equipment and storage. These are chairs, desks, and miscellaneous classroom items that have been sitting in storage down basement. Yeah, Ron had asked me to they could clear out some of this some of the stuff in this building. We're not going to get anywhere near the threshold is 25,000. Um, we got to
012do 25,000, but it's be it's going to be so low. We'll be lucky to get anything for it. So, I'm just trying to clear some space. So, because we're going to really have to uh next spring we'll have to do everything in this building and lot be a lot bigger project. So, he's just trying to start rip instead of ripping the band-aid get a little bit of a head start. They can't because they're working in the high school. They're they're basically looking for things to do because they can't clean. So they're he figured this would be a good project for the summer to get started on this budget. So I'll make the motion. Motion by director Ronda Solder. I'll support motion by or support by director. Any other discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor
013signify by saying I. I opposed. Motion carries. Items D E FG H I J K L are all first readings of policies. I will just uh read through the policies themselves. Policy 101 legal status of the school district. Policy 101.1 name of the school district. Policy 103 complaints students, employees, parents, and other persons. Policy 210 conflict of interest. with board members. Policy 14 414 mandated reporting of child neglect or physical or sexual use. Policy 414 mandated reporting of malreatment of vulnerable adults. Policy 417, chemical use and abuse. Policy 422, policies incorporated by reference. Policy 903, visitors to school districts, buildings, and sites. Those are all first readings. Uh we'll have those on the next agenda for our second reading and uh we'll go from there. Policies to change policies. Our next item is the one
014we just added. Item M. Uh, director Randa Solder has requested a joint meeting between Chisum and even full school boards. Is that correct? So, what you're full school boards or collaboration committee. Either way, whichever one. I'm not interested. So, should be either collaboration or I'm going to have to follow. Director Raha, did did you have a chance to talk to John? I did. I asked him and I asked the superintendent both if they would put on their agenda an invitation to have us and them meet. So I haven't heard back from him, but I will see Chair Burkage tomorrow. I have a meeting in Mount Iron and I will confirm that. So other than that, I don't know anything. Okay. So I I think at this point we'll we'll make a motion or we'll entertain
015a motion. Um that would be the collaboration collaboration committee pending uh Hibian's response. I'll make that motion. I'll support it. Motion by director Ronda Solder. Support by director Raha. Any other discussion? And this is to discuss collaborative sports. the request that they have asked us to verify what they asks are. Any other discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I opposed. Motion carries. And just so we're to clarify, the collaboration committee on our side is you, me, and Bob. I'm Michelle. That was me. Item nine under discussion. Uh, I think we've had some information given to us by the superintendent on maybe a timeline of of reviewing applicants and setting up um interviews. Uh, the position, the superintendent position doesn't close until June 30th. That is next Monday. So, I don't
016think it's in our best interest to to come in and review them until the closing till the closing of the position. But what we could do is is set up some some dates to review the candidates. U Mr. Morrison has mentioned uh July 1st and 2nd uh special board board meeting to review candidate to review applicants. I want to make sure I say that right. It's not to review candidates but to review applicants. Well, in the past, we came in on our own time and reviewed the applications and then we had a special meeting for discussing who we wanted to invite for interviews. I think we pre-rated them like A through whatever, you know, who we thought the top x amount of candidates. So when you did that, you you had a list saying applicant
017one through 10. Yep. And applicant 10 might be your M director of Raha's first choice and and so on. And then based upon that you brought you brought in. Yeah. I think we Yeah, we made a decision at that time. I think we didn't we asked five people but only three three came or something like that. [Music] The sooner the better so that they don't take another position if they applied somewhere else. But well, if that's it, if that's how the board would like to do that, come in on I'm going to have to come in earlier because I'm going to be gone from the I I'm going to be gone on Sunday, probably the 29th until after the 4th until I not I won't come home until the 6th or the 7th. So, um
018I mean we're not going to interview during the 4th of July obviously, but I mean if I can just come and review them before that then I mean I'll be set. I'll be ready to do whatever. But if you review, we could get an application on the 30th, right? Well, I because it doesn't close. But I mean, no, that that's that's fine. At least you can get you and then you can adjust when we meet. That's fine. Um, however, my understanding is the way you did it before, the board members would contact uh the administrative assistant, confidential administrative assistant to set up a time to to come in and review them individually. The last thing I want is two or three people there at the same time. We can't. We all were in there one
019by one. We came in at the same time. There was like one over there. I wasn't here by myself, you know. So it was spread out if we part our times similar. Mhm. Um and you did have applicants names blacked out. Blacked out. So we'll have to make copies and anything that would tell us who the person was was blacked out. So we picked them off of their credentials and what their application looked like. Um, you know, you see the job history, you see what they've done. Yep. And that's it. That's all you see. And names, you know, I'm assuming there's going to be some local people. Mhm. That we may just know. We might know. I don't pick it up. But again, there was like A, B, C, D. Yeah. On the top of
020it. Yeah. Yeah. And then Mark, we just took notes as to who we liked and then excuse me when we when we met then we just kind of picked the top five or you know there was more than that. We might have done more of it. Our last time we we were pretty much in sync as to who the people wanted to talk to at least called. Okay. So just so it's clear for Pam. So you want once we get done on the 30th probably on July 1st have all their applicants print all the applications printed out redact all the names y that might identify them obviously use job history probably have some local people you'll know but or you'll know um and then you'll have a chance to come and look at them probably
021are you here on July 1 yes okay then maybe no one can help out with that and then so maybe by the afternoon of July Of course, you can come review them maybe the morning, July 2nd. So, okay. I just want to make sure it was clear. That works. Okay. And you're going to be here on the second. And would the board like to set up a tenative uh interview date or interview dates? Well, we'll have to have is we would have a closed meeting on whom we're picking or special. Well, I would say a special meeting and I would look at July 2nd afternoon or so. She's not going to be here. Well, I mean, if you guys are going to do I'll just have to try. We we could do it the following
022week because second though it if we can review the first week of July because you've got Fourth of July in there and then if we just planned a meeting the second week in July a special sess session to pick who we want to request. If it's the week of the 7th I'm out of town the 9th 10th and 11th. So I you know so can we have our special meeting the 7th to pick the candidates? I mean that's yeah that works for me. I don't have a problem with that. Entertain a motion to conduct a special meeting on July 7th. Um the time Jackie here is that one day. Yeah. Do you want to do it early or you want to do it at 5? I can do it any anytime. attend um here by
0233:30 if you guys want to go earlier. That works for me. Special meeting July 7th at 3:30. 3:30. I'll entertain a motion. Or I'll entertain a motion. I'll make the motion. I was like, "Oh, will you now change? I'll make the motion." Okay. Well, I'm so used to what you say. Okay. I'll make the motion. And I'll support that in case anybody didn't hear me. And that was at 3:30. 3:30 on July 7th. This is a special meeting to pick candidates or pick applicants. Yep. And I'm just trying to go over my notes here as to whether that meeting can be closed or open. I would say it can be be open. We're not giving any names as long as Okay. Uh we have a motion and support. Any other discussion? Can we pick an
024interview date that night? That night we we can do that. Okay. Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I I opposed. Motion carries. And then uh do you think I should bring up what I got the phone call? Yeah, I was going to I was going to get to that. Okay. In just just a moment. Um and we'll we'll at the seventh meeting we'll have it on the agenda agenda to set a special meeting to select a candidate. So two items. So okay just for discussion sake here we have multiple candidates. Mhm. So we pick some five whatever interview. Yes or no? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. We need to interview them. There's a date for that and then we choose. Mhm. Are we letting any other committees ask questions like we did last time
025or No, I think we need to have I think it was very helpful to have the the some of those staff members helping us. Well, it's going to be a little different now because it's summer time. Well, we could regurgitate some of their questions. We probably have some of the questions. Yeah. I mean, they have duplicates. They kind of compile the list. each candidate gets asked the same questions. So, you know, um MSBA maybe had a list of questions you can ask a superintendent candidate, you know. Um I don't remember the last time honest about it. We had questions and Shelley said, "Hey, I'll take these." And Jackie says, "I'll take these." And we just kind of went through them and we each had like three questions for the candidates. Yep. And that's about all
026I can remember. I remember what the questions were. When we were interviewing, didn't we have the staff members in here listening to the interview? I thought we had a representative. We had separate We had separate committees. So that was on level and then Yes. administrative when you hired superintendent Norman. Yeah. So we had separate committees on that one, but that was MSBA set up for us. Sure. I can work on that this week, too. As long as I have dates and time, but then you're looking at a whole Well, even if we just talk to like the union presidents and ask them to, you know, gather a couple questions if you have any. If you don't, then just don't then. I mean, but I would say the union presidents would be helpful in that manner.
027I mean I mean even the principles, well, the new principal maybe could ask questions. But okay, that's good direction for the Well, I just Yeah, Mr. Morrison will work on some of those items this week. I just also want to put out there, normally in July, we only have one meeting. I think we may be having another meeting. So, um, so then I guess my question is, do you want a separate committee that they interviewed twice or are you looking just for information and input on questions? Information questions. It got too drawn out if you ask me. Well, that part Yeah, that's why you can representative from those fit in on the interviews and just have their little tally sheet. Y we liked candidate B. we like you know have their got to be too
028much I okay so Mr. Morrison has has some work to do uh one other thing is um director Rice brought to my attention that should we not come to a decision there is the possibility of um temporary superintendent positions looking at. I I know in from my experience, city administrator, they do have temporary city administrators from time to time inter and um that's also a possibility for us if need be. I know Mr. Belo, who's in the audience, um after he retired, stepped in um back in as a temporary superintendent. So, it's it's something for us to consider, especially after everybody has reviewed the applicants. So, that might give us some breathing time if we need it. Mhm. So just keep we'll all keep that in the back of our minds for now. Anything else
029in our discussion? Anybody like to add M organ? [Music] Okay. Item 10 information. This is Mr. Morrison's last meeting. [Music] So we wish him well. Thanks. Yeah. And thank you. Thank you. Yeah, we do. Thank you. So, uh, anything else? Anybody else have anything input? Nothing. Bob's golf game is going well. Hopefully improving on Wednesday. Uh, with no other business before us, I will entertain a motion to motion by director. Okay, happy. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. Time is 5:32.