001Testing, testing, testing, testing. Testing. Test one. Two. Test. That foreign glow come. Sure. Um, just to recap our special meeting today, uh, we called the meeting to order. There was a motion made to go into executive session to discuss the matter of um, employment personnel. Um, that was discussed. We are now back in open session and um we'll discuss we will have action to make a motion uh to authorize the superintendent to hire an outside investigator for the purposes of investigating um certain complaints of either employ well employee uh misconduct second. And just to add a little bit of I guess cander to that, I don't think it's a a secret we've been, you know, hearing that different complaints uh have been made about um employees of the school district, some through social media. Um,
002you know, we have the volume of the complaints and the seriousness and and our desire to move, I think, in a swift manner in understanding these complaints and addressing them appropriately. Um, we've got a lean staff here. Uh, we want them focused on our students. We also want a investigatory process that I think everybody feels like is objective and has an u integrity. I think our internal folks certainly uh have that in certain circumstances, but they also don't have the bandwidth to dedicate themselves to be investigators for weeks at a time to get through the volume of information uh that that needs to be uh get through. So I think in that sense it makes a lot of sense for us to make the investment in an outside investigator who will collect facts, chase down
003uh information to the extent we can get it, help us triage and prioritize what we're getting and what we can and how we should take action on it. And then from there ultimately the decisions on what happened still remain ours but the leg work uh third for us. And I think just to piggy back off of Stacy Hend's comment, you know, our our number one priority at her city schools is education. Our number two priority is the safety of the kids that our our community entrusts to us. And we want this community to know that we are taking this very seriously. Um that's why we are we're taking the measures that we're taking today. U Mrs. Henners. Yes. Mrs. Hartley. Yes. Mr. Rger got Dr. Lefay to make a second motion if I can. Certainly
004we've got uh you know acute complaints uh in front of us and and we're talking you know we've now taken action to investigate those and and we'll act accordingly on the evidence that comes back to us. But I think this board has the ability to take action now um on making sure that um the policies that we've set in terms of uh student to adult interaction are appropriately set with student safety uh in mind. Um, and two, to make sure that we're um, utilizing best-in-class like practices and and resources available to educate not just our own employees, but our students and our community on how to best keep um, our students uh, safe um, from abuse, from bullying, from all the things that we know um, of our student. you know, so many students struggle
005with. Um, and so to that extent, I' I'd make a motion that, um, we hold a work session dedicated to kind of brainstorming those solutions. Um, you know, the public can certainly be a part of understanding our discussion on that. And then from there we'll commit to taking the appropriate action and getting the the the right partner, the right resources and the right um strategy to be able to kind of elevate uh our approach to, you know, educating our community and holding ourselves accountable to keeping our kids as safe as we possibly can um while they're at at school and add extracurriculars. So work session second. Um I just So are we tasking Dr. Tman with finding resources for us? Will those resources be given to us to review at a work session? So we
006we're we're coming into that work session prepared. Um been an outside uh you know consultant for a short time to what's out there. I I mean I think that's open too. Come come in through the work session. We'll let James do a little research for Julie but they recommend something like that. I mean like we just said that we have a lean staff and they're not experts in everything. So if they need some help in doing that you know they could propose that to us too in my opinion. No, I think I think that's if if we can be let's we're not going to set it immediately because we want to leave time for us to investigate what options are available for us, right? And resources are available for us. So maybe something I don't
007know, June or July, um but we'll give, you know, give back on this. But the goal being that this next school year we're level setting everybody's understanding of what what is and isn't okay uh in terms of student conduct. uh when it's connected to this school district and student student conduct you're talking about um the broad range of issues here so I think looking at measures for not just the staff and the district which I know we will already do a commendable job with professional development with the staff so maybe adding this um in light of new laws that have taken place too but information for parents and students and I know it gets tricky when you have like what kind of turnout do you have but I really love for us to be able
008to offer the information to parents and to students so everybody is really clear what the expectations are um for all of us. Yeah, that sounds good. Can for the clarity of the minutes, could we just give that mo like a tight statement for the motion? We could try. It's been good discussion and I have and I I mean I understand what the expectation is but just for the minutes motion to set a schedule work session uh this summer uh on the topic of um student safety in there student safety student relations student student relations Yeah, we're not talking about locks on doors. Okay. Uh, Mrs. Hers, Mrs. Hartley. Yes. Mr. Regger. Yes. Dr. Lefay. Yes. Yes. Motion to adjourn. Mrs. Mast. Yes. Dr. Lefay. Uh, Mrs. Hers. Yes. Mrs. Hartley. Yes. Mr. Rager. Yes. Thank
009you everybody.