001We'll pick up afterwards. Let me say so. Yes, sir. One minute questions. Question assignments. Susie being the board assignments are there. Can we make a motion? We would make a motion first to put somebody in to do it. Thank you. I appreciate that. Okay, it is 2 o'clock. We have a meeting at Lake Park Ottabban School Board. Uh like to call the meeting to order. Can we take a roll call? Marge here. Jade here, Sarah here, Jen here, and Susan I am here. Uh first honor Oh, we open to a pledge of alle allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. For all. Okay, our meeting is in session. Can I
002call the meeting to order? Um, do I have an approve? Can I get an approval to agend approval to accept the agenda? Second. Okay. First on the order is one point. Uh is no old business. Number two. Number three is three. Oh. All in favor? I uh first on the agenda 3.1 new school board member vote and resolution. Okay. So, can I get an approval to do our school board member vote? a motion to approve it. Can I get a second? I'll second that. Okay. So, what we now open up to discuss them. So, what happened is we did not do a roll call vote. We cannot do paper and ballots. We need to go around the table and roll call. And speaking with Christie, she wants everybody to vote exactly the same as what
003they voted before. Okay. Okay. Uh, everybody has their candidates. I just Thank you. She has it. I got it. Yeah, I got it. Okay, I'll go around the table and then if everybody that wants to list their vote, um I am renouncing myself from this vote. I do a conflict of inference and interest and I did not participate in any of the voting or the policies or procedure. Um March Marv Barber Jay Megan Hernandez Sarah Aaron Shber Eric Schobert Okay. Uh a quorum of five board members are present and the vote for the candidates goes as follows. Two votes for Aaron Schober, one vote for Mark Barber, one vote for Megan Hernandez. Candidate Aaron Scherber is elected, two votes as majority of the quorum in attendance today. Copy the resolution. I should have copy the
004resolution, Julie. [Applause] Yep. Uh whereas a vacancy exists in in the office of a schoolboard member with the term expiring on the first Monday in January 2027 and whereas the vacancy occurred January 1st or afterwards in the third year of the vacant term or any date during the fourth ter of the vacant term. Therefore, it be resolved by the school board of Lake Park Ottabon Independent School District number 2889, state of Minnesota as follows. Pursuant to Minnesota statute section 123P.09 subsection 5P, uh Aaron Scher is hereby appointed to fill the vacancy and to serve the remainder of the unexpired term. The appointment shall be effective 30 days after the adoption of this resolution unless a valid petition to reject the appointee is filed with the school district clerk pursuant to Minnesota statute section 123b.09 09
005subsection 5B within the 30-day time period. Assign that at your convenience. Okay, we're moving on to 3.2 board assignments. Uh, you need to vote to adopt the resolution to on that one. Okay. Can I get a I asked that. I thought I did. Okay. Can I get a motion to adopt the resolution of of appointing Aaron Schobert to the state park school board? I motion that we accept. Okay. Can I get a second, please? Second. Thank you. Do I need to say who votes first and second? Um, no. This is the roll call just to adopt it. Yeah. Okay. So I said so March March seconded. Yeah. Okay. Yep. And then the roll call vote for this for the resolution. Need a second one. Second one. That's what I was asking. Uh okay. Can I
006get a roll call vote to adopt this resolution? March. Yes. Tim Jade. Yes. Sarah. Yes. Uh J. Yes. Okay, resolution is adopted. Aaron Schober, welcome to the Lake Park Audabon School Board. Uh, number 3.2, board assignments. Uh, we have open vice chair and treasurer. Mark, uh, can I get a motion to adopt new board assignments? Motion. I'll second that. Okay. Uh, anybody have a discussion? Mr. chair. Um I thought we were just going to vote for a treasurer and not have to have a vice because that would automatically put March as a vice if you'd be right. Well, there's nothing. No, it would be if we can as we open it up for discussion. I would say Marge, are you interested in being continuing as clerk or would you be interested in vice chair position?
007I'll do anyone. I guess I was confused. So I thought like she didn't have to be cuz I asked if she had to be vice or be vice chair in order to get it like cuz if the chairman's gone then the clerk right away, right? If you don't have a vice chair. So if you're board chair and then if the board chair is gone, vice chair takes over. If the vice chair is gone, clerk takes over. If the clerk's gone, treasurer takes over. So we do have to have a vice chair. We don't have to. In the state of Minnesota, there's lots of school districts that operate without a vice chair, but we in the past about I don't know how many years dating back, but since my time on the school board, we've had
008vice chair. But it would work if there if she's gone, you know, so either way. Yeah. So, I mean, can we do that? Can we operate without one and then we just know that Marshall is the acting clerk or she's the clerk, but then she'll be the next Yeah. the next line, the vice chair. We could do that. like to hear your thoughts on why you want to continue in that operation. But I don't know if you have to do the resolution for that or not. Well, I guess my thing is she's great at clerk, but she'd also be great at vice chair and she can't be both. But I don't want to take the clerk away from her because then somebody else has to take on the clerk, you know? Yeah. But like I
009think she would be great. March. Which do you if which office would you prefer to hold? I'll do the vice chair. That's fine. Okay. Except I like the cursive. I like the cursive. You were fantastic at teaching cursive. Cursive. I know. I'm I'm relating back to what my kids were in your class. Um, so we could do that that way, but I would I would almost think personally be best practice if we have all positions. Someone else could be you could open up for someone else. Somebody else could be clerk if we voted Maria as vice chair. I I guess for me the one that we obviously have to have right now would be the treasurer and then if we wait until we have our new board member and kind of revisit the vice chair
010thing. Not that I don't want you to be cuz I think that you would be great but then this way we just we have a full board to kind of fill all of the spots. I think the treasur is the most important that we need to do tonight or today and we'll use some meeting at 5:00 um this afternoon. But that's just me because it I mean it still leaves Sorry, Miss B. It still leaves you obviously as our as our second right now and then once we get everybody here and then we do another vote then we can you know vote to move you into the vice chair and and then have another clerk. But that's just me. I think that makes sense. I'm just one. So treasure that's a separate entity correct? Yes.
011So no one else wants to be treasure. I hope somebody wants to be treasurer. That's what we're saying. Jay, would you have interest in being treasure? I would know the first thing about it. And I think with my lack of knowledge on that, I don't think it'd be in our best interest. I'd almost feel somebody that would have board experience and understand how a treasur position works would be our in our best interest. And then as sir had mentioned wait till we staffed maybe more positions to give them some say on who they would want the those last two role pieces to be because well I will say that if we by the time we fully staff the school board it could be a while. It could be a while and they will be coming
012in unexperienced. So they will be new to it. I have no idea what clerk does and I'm pretty certain that I would not actually I believe I have all the even even if they're inexperienced in the board. It's not that they would be inexperienced in the position of what the responsibility would be. No, I understand. I I mean in the best interest of the district, I feel like we probably have somebody that here that could participate in that treasure role really well. I But what I did for was I did confer with Sarah and because she does it in her job, she's less interested. But I will say finance is so much my position and it would be a lot for me to have this financial position and be responsible for finances. Madam Chair, why
013don't you describe what the treasurer does? The treasurer makes deposits, pays bills promptly according to contract terms or if none within standard time 35 days, make the report to the board request and perform duties incumbent on such officer. I will say MSB Which ones have you done? I I have done you don't deposit. I don't deposit. I don't pay the bills. They have people for it. I will say the training from MSBA is fantastic and they tell you to take it slow. It can take up to three years to be really good at being a treasurer and MSBA does have fantastic training. I knew nothing of being treasurer when I stepped in and I just and I was only a treasurer for a short period of time. Now the clerk's responsibilities is uh school district
014elections notice candidate filing ballot preparation and printing absentee voting return of results records and reports. Like I signed Excuse me, Madam Chair. Like I signed report cards. Excuse me, not report cards. The deal. Thank you. You know, and uh the resolution that right there. I will be honest, all positions are really good and you can do My feel is we're going to have two positions for sure they're going to fill in the next 60 days. And I feel like there's there's a value allowing them to participate versus us already built the foundation. Now you got to build a house on what we gave you. My only thought would be is do you feel that since they would be so new, do you feel that you would bring more to it with the experiences you've already
015had since January? You know what I mean? Because we will be redoing these elections again in January. I don't I could tell you. I wish I knew more. It's not a full year because then we very short term and by the time they got some experience, we'd be looking at voting above school time when school starts. And I did and we cannot have an empty treasure and stuff like that. We want to we want to be very professional responsible because now we have the same. It's only temporary. It's till January. Then we vote together as a board and to vote on a to vote on a board assignment someone has to be nominated. Correct. Yep. Go ahead. Go ahead. I nominate Sarah to be our treasurer. I I don't I understand back to vice chair,
016but we still talking about that. I guess we're talking about all Sarah. Is that something you would consider? Yes. So, we're doing them all. We're doing them all. All right. So, then but you don't nominate yet because we have to one at a time, right? We do nominate one at a time. being we're so skinny again. I mean, like somebody here had said, do we wait? I did have an inquiry on potentially being have interest in the board and that individual could be the any part of it would be an issue whatsoever. Very rehearsed. I mean, could be any part of the board and would miss a beat. Sounds fantast. Yeah. But anyways, I mean whether So I don't know. I would like to make a motion that we only vote on the treasurer tonight
017and then we wait and vote until we are full board for a vice chair because Marge would still step into that role for the time being. That's my motion. I miss a beat that way. I'm going to second that motion because I do understand the point of view of it. But then you can open that up to discussion. Okay. Does you have a motion? Second motion. Now you can discuss that. She can be the clerk and acting past vice, right? Perfect. Then when we get more people, then we can nominate you to be vice president or vice chair. Y okay. Is that what everybody is thinking then? Wait on this. I do feel the treasure. There's a clerk responsibility piece that would get missed. Right. Right. Right. Whereas or vice chair, I'm not going to
018be comfortable in saying that there wouldn't be something that would get missed if you Okay. You all look in this something over there. There's like music or something. No, I just I just I don't want to make the decision just because that's all we have to choose from and then we miss and I I don't think it's in the best interest of the board at the moment. Marge can handle what she's been at and if you're not here, she can handle what she would have to do. Yep. Yeah. And we wouldn't miss a beat. Okay. March, how are you feeling on that? It's it's fine. Okay. So, we have to pass resolution on that then to go without a board chair or we can just do it. You can just vote. Okay. We have a
019vote to hold off on filling the board chair position at the uh vice chair position at this time. Um we'll do it as roll call. We do everything as roll call. Marge, yes. Jade, correct? Yes. Sarah, yes. Jen, yes. Okay. Uh Susan, yes. Um, can we have a motion to vote for the treasurer? A motion to vote for the treasurer. I second that. Okay. Go ahead. I motion to um elect Sarah as our treasurer moving forward. Okay. Do I have a second? A second. Okay. And then we would be doing another call on that. Yes. Okay. Um March, yes. Jade, yes. Sarah, yes. Jen, yes. Okay. Thank you, Susan. Thank you. Yes. Uh for a four five board members are present in the to vote for the treasurer candidate is as follows. Five votes for
020Sarah Hill. Uh candidate Sarah Hill is elected at in a majority of the quorum in attendance for the treasurer position of Lake Park School Board. That was all I had to do there, Spizzy. Okay. Okay. Now, we're going to be moving on to 3.3 committee assignments. Okay. Can I get a motion to assign committee assignments, please? Motion to assign committee assignments. Can I get a second? Okay. Um, now we'll open it up for discussion. Uh, we have an opening. We cannot have one person on any of the committees. We have an opening for transportation, legacy foundation, and legislative liaison. We do have two on the other one. So, if somebody wanted to step in and make a third on them and after speaking with Christie, we can do this. Oh, this we can vote and
021fill our open vacancies today. And then when we have other board members on, we can reach them. Madam chair. Yes. Could you name them off? Absolutely. Transportation. I am on transport. Transportation is just Jade. But Paul. So in finance, we have Jen and Susan. In Paula Sweet, we have Marge and Susan. And meeting Confer, we have Susan and Marge. In Legacy Foundation is open. Legislative legislative liaison is open. Who was on legislative? Paul. Paul. Jay, what other one were you on? We're missing state high school, which there has. I have received nothing this year. That concerns me. No, not really. I mean, yeah. Well, I mean, if there's there should be something somewhere along the line, but um I would be interested in stepping into the meet confer actually. Can we have Madam Chair? What
022do you mean to I thought Paul and I were the only ones on there. I was on it with you, too. How come you didn't show up? I never had got an email on a meeting. I was asking why we didn't have meetings. Yeah, they said um that your name must not have gone over there. I believe it's on the schoolboard website. So, what are the two that we have open? Legislative. Uh uh we have open legacy foundation legislative liaison transportation. But I did just think of something if we being well we just we voted somebody in because normally we can't create quum. So, if we were sticking with five board members, you would never want three to walk into a meeting. But Sure. Sure. We will have We can hold six. No, we will
023have six because you we just voted them in. Sure. Um legislative liaison. What do we what what's the responsibility unless they have a meeting and confirm you? Yeah. Uh legislative liaison. You look I know you look up legislation you are contact all legislation based I've actually never held that committee who has in the past Paul obviously Paul may I send you information of what's going on any bill changes any legislative session information we already kind of get that don't we but it's really good to have somebody stay a breast and inform the board sure so we definitely need somebody in that Sure. Yeah, I'd love to. And the Legacy Foundation, Miss B, don't you Were you ever on Legacy Foundation? No. No. Uh, but are we going to leave some of these open for We
024can redo it when they come. Christy said fill the spots and then we can redo it again later when more people board people are here. But just so that we have them filled. I'm willing to do this in transportation. Okay, Madam Chair, I'll do uh legacy. You need one there? I do need one there. Okay. Do I need to make a motion or anything on that one? Okay, Jade. Uh Sarah's going to go on to transportation at the very end. Miss B will take legacy foundation and legislative leaison will be jaded. Do we end up getting on a list then or we get more data sent to us or we don't? Yeah, I think I would assume so. Uh I know when I was reelected to ECF I got an email that was sent over
025to Ann and it said just so you know Susan is the ECF leazison on for the year. So she knew to contact me. Yeah, she'll get a list. She puts it up. Okay. I am unsure. Well, being that if we had a do we ever have mean and confirm meetings in the summer? I would say leave that alone then we're we got two on and we're good. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So, well then we got our committee assign committee assignments picked and we move over to close session for Oh, ma'am. Oh. Um, do we have anything to fill for the lake? I'm on the lakes. Lake Agasses. Yeah, I'm on that one. What about those? Um, that one should stay. That one's not out here. Uh, well, you and uh Jen and I are on finance.
026Those are just the ones that were that were needed today. Just those three. So, the ones that we previously held, we still hold. Just checking. Yep. And then yes, when everybody comes on, it's you get a tiny taste of it. I don't know if you have any meetings in the summer, but then when we get all of our board member seats built, we can reassign this. Everybody's interested. Sound good? So, I'll make a motion to u assign myself to transportation, Miss B to legacy, and Jay to the legislative liaison. I second. Didn't think we Okay, I didn't think we needed a motion on that one, but sounds good. Uh Sarah will be on transportation. Miss B is on legacy foundation and Jade is legisative liaison. All in favor? All in favor say I. I. Okay,
027moving on. We have 4.1 uh 4. We're going to move over to close session. Do we need a motion for that? Do we need a motion for that? To move into a motion to move into close session. I have a motion to close session. Get a second. Perfect. Okay, we are moving into close session.