001[Music] It is 35. on May [Music] 19th. And Bill will you have an agenda change? [Music] We'll talk about when we get there. Okay. Yeah. I didn't want to get anything off here. Okay. Yeah. No, I I brought the current legislation that's in right now. All right. Yeah. All right. So, now it's budget allegiance. [Music] To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. [Music] I look at that flag. I look at those holes and I'm like, it's a good thing we're in we're starting to fix some things around here. because we're a couple of years. That's one of them or holders. [Music] Um Jess, you were policy reviews in the old business. You were going to
002hold that. Yeah. So, we got that um response from the attorney saying that um we can't change nobody nobody is allowed to have tobacco products or substitutes on public school grounds. So, um we have to probably take out that section. Oh, yeah. [Music] And that was a memo that you sent us. Yeah, that came we sent this to Mark. Yeah, he was part of it schools attorney and he he just said we can't any exceptions unless the law changes. Yeah, I think um Mrs. White changed theirs, but maybe they did it [Music] without all the policies. It was more than just some grammar. [Music] All right. So, the next step of that one is to We did some other changes, right, Jess? Yeah. And this policy. So I think the other that's fine just I'm
003so what I left the house literally flying. That's all right. We can help. We can all help each other. That's what we do here. We all help each other. tobacco. Yeah, that was pretty much everything else talked about having ceremonial tobacco be allowed. So, yeah, this copy is the one that will move forward. Yeah. Okay. So, we'll move it forward for review by the full board. Yeah. Okay. at the next meeting, next month, June. [Music] And C2 is that or was [Applause] [Music] that you sent us? [Music] Yeah. So, this the revision is one of the red [Music] Let me give [Music] you the current model revision. draft. So the draft has all the revision in it. So I think that that one is ready to go to the [Music] board. Was there can you
004remind us just if there was anything in this one that we were going back and forth about last time it's been a few weeks. [Music] Yeah, I think it this one it just was moving some things around and adding more language that was in the model policy. [Music] Does anyone up to speed on that? All right. So, we will bring that forward to the full board and Phil, what were what was the um uh update on in terms of procedures for each of the schools? just so people feel each of the schools are feeling like they're good to go. So for this for the yeah for the drug and alcohol. So what we would do is if this gets adopted by the board um I don't think it would be I don't think be much
005change in procedures looking at the language that's in here because we have that already in our handbooks and so it just be there about how we the procedures for how we handle them which is I don't think I've come to the board since I know definitely since being a superintendent. I know I did consistency my memory could be off but really under drug and alcohol because we're treated so much with education I know I've got there are a couple students I like six seven time I've got close but said let's keep trying the education and the sensation yeah I mean I've heard from the board pretty clearly like keep keep working at this where I would come is if I had distribution in terms of sales. Yeah, I'm telling you that's how I would do
006it and that's why I was like I think it's more about like are people following the same procedure? Yeah, actually a really good conversation between the high school and the middle school's happening. Um Karen. Yeah. So, uh the section 504 and ADA grievance protocol for students and staff. um honestly was identical. Um the only question that I had for the group um is it notes. So if you go to the second page where it says step two, it says um submitted to either the district section 504 coordinator um it says see list at the end of the document for contact info. um here just versus it being embedded which was you know which was the recommendation. Um I wonder if we need to you know it says uh you know it says in a few
007places. I don't think we need to embed it there. I think anytime it's noted just my question is should we just say C list at the end of this document just so that people I think it's noted in there enough it was just the question um as to whether we wanted to every time it says the district 504 coordinator um or school B so see how it says district section 504 coordinator school coordinator C list um and then again down here it says submitted to the director human resources. I don't know if we also there want to say CD contact info. They're there or if we feel like what's up above is it is a little it's a little piece. Yeah. So otherwise it's perfectly fine. It's just whether we want to site more than
008once. See contact list at the end of this. I'm assuming that this changes. We do that. So you have to change the policy someone changes out the contract. So I think it's finally I don't really have um you know the model one has it embedding the contact information many times throughout the policy. So my recommendation is it's fine the way that it is unless people feel like we want to oversight contact information. [Music] All right. Um, so we are good on that. Bill, everything good? I think so. It looks like it's the same as what we had. So I don't think we need that does not need to go anywhere. I think we would just know that it's been reviewed on the state. Yeah. And honestly, it was supposedly adopted two years ago. It was
009still very recent as policy. So, okay. So, we will move C14 to the full board. We will not be moving into the word. We will even though there's no revision. There's no there's no revisions. You don't need All right. Yeah. Just note that it was reviewed. That's what I was trying to say. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. If you just review it, then we know at the bottom it's been reviewed and we put it into the matrix of that spreadsheet that you went through and look at it here and compared it and said, "Okay, you want to keep it what it is." Um, may I just ask a quick question? Uh, and I may have missed it and I apologize. Um, I just just sent my kid to to Europe. So, which is awesome. Yeah, that's awesome.
010Little stressful. Um, okay. Did you talk about the tobacco prohibition? We did. Did you talk about it both in terms of student and staff? It's two different policies. Okay. So, because I was responsible for the uh workplace on drugs, but there's no there's no tobacco in there. So, I just wanted to ask Yeah, there's a separate workplace tobacco one looked at. That's what I looked I supposed to look at. Did I wonder if I was supposed to do that. I only saw myself responsible for the alcohol and drug one. Um, but I just wanted to make sure that it got Oh, it's not on the list. I looked at it. I guess I signed it to myself, which is fine. I just want to make sure that it that it got assigned and that you
011know we we're we're doing it because that would be one that is it's when it's needed needed and difficult and and um something that I you know we probably need to bring up in terms of other people who work at the school who are not school employees specifically the Abbey group and our biggest our biggest issue Yeah. Our biggest our biggest issue is up at the complex. Oh, I I guarantee you it's the Abbey group as well. Anybody who works with the Abbey group, they go out and they take smoke breaks and often times they do it on school grounds. So, that's an issue. And um some of the um custodians as well. So this definitely some very specific post where it's an issue ongoing issue all the [Music] time not just at the [Music]
012complex is it um Jessica when you when you went through it did it meet I have not looked at it because I've always seen it yeah I didn't print it off I looked at it Um, I don't know. I just mixed that up, but it was pretty much in line with the model policy. Okay. But I didn't look for those details specifically. So, whenever when we put it on the agenda, I guess maybe for next month. Okay. Did you see the center? I just saw that. Just wonder where this wonder that should be. Is it in policy? [Music] That's just this [Music] is so Bill what you sent what you gave to us today was that just for students or was that for No, I mean because it talks about community the the 140 16
013BSA 140. Yeah. We can't we can't have tobacco for any reason, right? I guess your question is really around sort of if it's not our students and it's not like if it's it's in our student policy and eventually in the staff policy but what about people who don't follow your staff or students because we have some contractors but this is still true still true and there are signs things like that yeah um so it doesn't say possession Um, it just says use. Sorry, I said possession is used. Okay. But you're not supposed to got to have them on in your possession, too, right? It says students under 18. Under 21. Is it 21 now? Yeah. Okay. I'm totally wrong. I didn't look at the There is not a separate adult tobacco. I didn't think so.
014I looked up the so that would be something for us to discuss and it doesn't have to be today, but I don't think that there is a tobacco workplace one. If there is, I didn't see it. Do you know if there is one? Don't look at the list. This one says that a plot extends to employees with the tobacco prohibition. Yeah. Is that what you mean? [Music] Extends to any student, employee or visitor. I don't know. Would you want to add like contractor in there? The add is more about a contracted position. Thank you. I think I checked with our attorney, but if it says staff contract through our contractor, they still Okay. [Music] So maybe this is maybe this is um enough and maybe we just need to make sure we have it both
015in the uh personnel part and in the student um section. You know what I mean? So it carries over to both [Music] Are you thinking for the general public that's in the personal we have a personal handbook? I'm just trying to think I'm just trying. Okay. Then maybe I maybe it's uh unnecessary. I'm just thinking that um we could use some better enforcement or better education, better awareness of tobacco policy within the district. Okay. Specifically to um staff and so uh making sure that because you see staff members see the alcohol sorry alcohol and drug-free workplace but do they see one for tobacco is I guess is my question. is that I can't tell you if they see it. I can tell you that we post it. We post it. I can tell you like
016I give people the handbook. Do they read it? Yeah. I can't tell you that. No, of course not. So, I mean, that it's easily accessible like so they're looking through it. Sorry to be so literal about it, but it's like it's like I I can't I wish I could control staff, but I can't. I have that expectation at all. I just wonder if they decide or something. Um, yeah. I mean, maybe it's more in the accountability. I don't know. It just needs to be discussed more because it's an issue. Is there signage up at this early? Yeah. I can tell you every morning I go by and there's a community member from housing that stands on the side of that road every morning. And he would argue with me that he's in the road right
017away. I would argue he's in Collinsburg. I guess that argument at 7:50 every morning when I go by, right? Is there signage? Are we are we clear that there's signage in every school? I'm not I got perspective. Yeah. So, I don't know. Okay. So I think if there's signage again there's like by the downstairs wherever the people go outside of the cafeteria or wherever they might a matter of communication maybe with some of like the subcontracting groups around the policies of Run is that I don't know what that I think it's about accountability. I think that when there aren't um administrators around at night in the evening for um and when people are going out on you know meal breaks for breakfast and lunch it I've I mean I've seen it. I know it happens
018but people are very uncomfortable with confronting it. And so some people might feel comfortable confronting it, but other folks do not. [Music] So one thing that I guess the only thing that I would be uncomfortable with would be if somebody was trying to quit and they were using a nicine gum or whatnot. It look like it said on the one that you passed out [Music] um tobacco products or tobacco substitutes. It's not a tobacco substitute, it's a nicotine substitute. Um you know, would we not support that for an employee or even a student that was trying to So this I I hear you. This is what our attorney, the school district attorney is telling us is that it can't be a tobacco. Didn't say it can't be a nicotine substitute. Can't be a tobacco substitute.
019The way I read that, what's a tobacco substitute? Uh, well, if you want to take what can't get put into a va machine that's not tobacco. I'm not saying it is, but it could be a substitute for that high. [Music] Yeah, I think it's a tricky line with the nicotine cuz they're not supposed to have it if they're under 18. So then there's those pouches that kids are using. Yeah, you definitely don't want them to have that. But I think this allow for some discretion. says the superintendent develops rules and rags that are within your judgment to implement this policy. Okay. I there are pediatricians who are you know putting like prescribing their your their patients prescription nicotine replacement but it's still nicotine replacement. So I'm just just want to make sure that it's open.
020You know what I mean? that you know if somebody is trying to quit vaping and because we're trying to support that right so if somebody is could they go to the nurse and say here's my seven sticks of nicarette gum for the day you know can I come down and and get them from you are we you know is that within our policy are we able to support that the policy last sentence specifically mentions tobacco substitutes nicotine it clearly identifies nicotine as tobacco substitute uh two sentences up. Okay. So, so this isn't it's not accurate then because nicotine is the drug that's in tobacco policy states. people drinking that is linking nicotine with these baptisms. So yeah, that's not I don't know. It's not really accurate, but I don't want to take up too much
021time on it. I'm just saying like it's just interesting that that's how it's written and that that's how the lawyers are saying to write it because it's not accurate. you know, nicotine is the addictive substance. So, I'm gonna generalize outside of this. The law sometimes, not sometimes, many times, I'm watching what's happening in law right now debate is not technically accurate with the science. Okay. Okay. And they do the best they can. I would say your knowledge of tobacco and sensation because of the work you do is much more in depth as that's why it has that piece of the superintendent can okay do those rules and procedures and I mean I've just I've seen us caught other places that way too and there is no perfect law has greatness in it always So, I
022just want to make sure that it supports a student or a staff member who is trying to quit. Yeah. To be able to have some of these substitutes on them if they are being, you know, maybe I mean, I don't even know how you would handle that as far as a staff member goes. A student I would understand because they're not 21. they would need to make a nurse or, you know, their counselor aware of it to be to make it okay for them to use that. Um, a staff member, I don't know how you're, you know, legally how how that would go down, I guess, is what I'm saying. [Music] Just in terms of do they have to come and show you that? Do you know what I mean? Like I just didn't know
023how how that would work. I don't go asking. Yeah. The other way asking if I see someone that you were talking about Yeah. using tobacco products. Yeah. Blatantly. Yeah. Y. [Music] Thank you, Diane. Um, number four, student club policy. This is a new one. Um we have the model policy uh C22 the student athletic clubs and activities and um I've just handed you guys what I created um specifically for Maple [Music] Run. the Maple Run Unified District student clubs and activities. Um that includes non-curricular clubs, limited open forum, noncurricular student clubs and non-instructional time. Those are all [Music] definitions and we can go over this another time because I wanted to give you guys time to go through it since I just handed it to you. Um this is more of the procedure like kind
024of a lot of there's a lot of procedure. Yeah. Okay. Um but would it be the policy? It's just how we do it. And we don't have an actual policy right now. Is that correct? Right. Okay. Right. and it includes um non school sponsored [Music] folks. So I would like to move that we we all take this and just kind of look over it if you want for next month and we can go forward with the new policy. Is this based on the modeling? It it takes parts and pieces of it and um I we had a club that came to us a couple months ago that I wanted to make sure that we were covering nonsponsored in our policy. So they have access. They have access. So what's the reason for this? Just piece
025cuz it's not written. You don't have a policy. I just want to make sure that is not necessary. I don't think it's necessary. What's the difference between these two? Because this is just I just um the board approved on June 26th, 2024. Do you know what I mean? [Music] So you wrote a policy based off the school boards. It's a similar. Okay. It's similar. Okay. I just wanted to pull that one. So these two are similar. We have this in place right now which is more of a procedural. Right. Okay. And then we have, you know, this little thing here that just says club and then how to that could be even added to this in terms of like how you um start a new club, right? Okay. So, make sure I'm cool. I thought
026there was so like this one that we have now is extracurricular and cocurricular, right? It's a procedure. It's not it's not a policy. We we we recognize that we did not have an actual policy. Okay. So, we need to look at these two and see I mean I think it says that we have a policy the school board association policy. You can see 22. And then the one that I just handed out, it's kind of both. Okay. I bet you couldn't have school endorsed, religious or political club endorsed, but you're allowed have to have them be able to forum. They should be able to participate. They're able to have their They're allowed to have us use if we if we allow our space to use by nonschool sponsored organizations. Anything then that opens it up
027to non secular secular religious clubs. And so we do we map let's just use maple fest is our facility right so it's not in our organization. So great and the board has said that with our use of our the policy on um use of facilities in our facilities it says we it right in there we allow non to use our facilities. [Music] I'm finding glad just saying that that's you asked me to direct you. I think I need it. No, but if the board feels we need it then for [Music] sure you open it up that we provide it says bulletin boards other resources. So then we would have to do that for anybody any group that comes in any group that comes in they can have a bulletin board and use I'd have to
028read through it. Yeah. And that's that's some of the places you have to look at to say we didn't want to go down that road. I don't think I would want like a non ailated political group to come on board. Well, the club would have to be student. Yeah. Let's take some real experiences. So, we had a student like said that alignselves with the KKK would want them to be able to put it in the school system. I think the KKK is isn't it a hate group? It is a hate group. Well, this is where you get into a fuzzy area. An interest based group because it gets into that judgment piece. Yeah, that was my that was my picture because when you go to um I definitely want your school's attorney to give you
029some advice. Thanks. Yeah, I know that's something the school attorney and I talked about is like don't want to be in judgment places. If you look on the second page of the model policy and you go to under the definitions, um it says athletics, clubs and activities may be one school sponsored and related to the curriculum, two studentrun and not related to the curriculum or three community sponsored and not related to the curriculum. This policy addresses the first two categories and the third is addressed in the district's policy on what you're saying, Bill, right? the community views of school facilities. So, the only suggestion that I had about this was maybe making sure, you know, how we talked about referencing other policies and making sure that we have those two policies together and then we
030don't have to worry about it. Okay. Does that make sense? Yeah, that does. And then it's just it's just more broad about being more specific. [Music] that works. So my one the reason I started this thing was because of that the club that came to the or they weren't being given permission until they came to the board to use the announcements for their meetings. They were already in the schools. Yeah. But they weren't being allowed to really use it and that was the principal decision. Yeah. Yeah. Now they are. Yeah. So I just want to make sure that that doesn't have to happen again. I think you have to think about what are the daily announcements if you're what however they are allowed to advertise their meeting time so that their group can it doesn't
031matter what group it is um how do how do all students right all students advertise access to impromptu meetings that you know might come up you know daily meetings or flyers or whatever um that they are allowed I think it has to It has to be equal for non school sponsored Yep. activities where they are allowed to post for their meeting times. I I want to be I want to be the same. Yeah. You know because an example is UVM puts out a piece on I use this example and I use this with that principle of the expand. I said, "Do we post stuff about the governor's institute, which is not us, has good things to do for learning for kids, but it's not ours. Do we put that in the announcements?" And I got
032a Yes. I'm saying so I think you just opened it up to non-school sponsored activities. Very interesting that you used use that. Yeah, that's a that's a great So if you did that if you did that, you've got to do it for everyone else. If you had a different way of posting for governor's institute that wasn't the electronic announcements then you could say everyone has to do that method that's nonschool sponsored but you have it. So now you have it and that's where the that's actually how we solve this. I said I think you just opened it up for everyone. If you wanted something different for the non-school sponsored than the electronic, you've got to provide that. But you've already got downloads for it. Doesn't mean you can't change it later on, but you've got
033to have the same for everybody. Yeah. If they're a non school sponsored activity. Yeah, that's interesting because I actually took exception to that one one time because they were like some of the guidance counselors were really great about making that accessible to their students and some of the guidance counselors were not right and so some people knew about it and some people didn't. Another great one was Beta Technologies has some internships. Yep. If you're going to put that up that's not school sponsored and someone's that's work based. it. So then that could be in the workbased learning. And that's what Stephanie's doing now, right? She has like another aspect of announcements that she's, you know, making. So maybe that's something that the student voice could do is figure out a way to advertise uh school
034and non-school sponsored clubs for students. But we've already started doing that. We've already been doing it. Not all our schools. We have a couple schools, two schools in particular here in Field City and that don't put outside organizations announcements. I said the schools that have you've got to continue doing that. [Music] So, I'm fine either way. I just wanted us to be fully transparent about what we're doing. Yeah. Is there room in in the policy or is it in here where there's some discrimination allowed by the principal? So it's not like any group. So discrimination that you don't have discretion that you don't it's either all or none. You don't go one way or the other. that otherwise we set us up for liability left and right. So if you've done it already, you keep
035doing it for anybody unless you get the reason Marian called down the right thing. If you've got a group that's known that's been designated a hate group, you're still on shaky ground. My attorney says attorney, sorry, attorney pro says I I back says that you're still on shaky. We're still on shaky ground even though it might be a group if you're and that's one of the reasons things that we've actually been advised as superintendents to allow none but I don't think that that meets the curricular objectives for the kids when I think about all the good things that policy. If we adopt the, you know, we can look at at what you presented here, but we adopt the model policy, right? Then and we, you know, put a little um asterct including the school use
036or our syllabus use policy in there. I think we're hitting what you said you hit policywise. I think the procedure was a sticking point, you know, for for you cuz that should have been able to happen in the appropriate way. Thank you. I agree with that. Our policy was standard. [Music] We didn't have we had this. So we have nine facilities used. Okay. Right. Okay. So we'll move this to next. What's the this? Um I just want to be clear so we know or if you want people to read it and compare it and come back next time as you initially said. I understand what you're saying. I just want to make sure it's fine to give us time and it's fine for us. Yeah, I'd like just read it. I would like you to
037read it and just Okay. I know we just looked at the the community use policy too, but maybe we could look at that as well just to make sure it's So yeah, can you send out to everyone the facilities use policy? Okay. And thanks for pointing that out. Yeah, no worries. [Music] I sometimes I say it out loud. It also just reminds me the difference between the policy and the procedure. [Music] All right. Now we are at new business. Yeah, I'll bring I'm bringing this for Brienne. She's going to be with us today. She's at a a required training. Um, so in this the state law has changed for the capitalization the amount which is down on line 15. It was $3,000 or no was it was 5,000. We're trying to move it to 10
038the laws changed to 10,000. So our auditor has suggested and along with the state law changing that that line you'll see in the red line that that just changes from 5 to $10,000 and that we need that for July one. So we want to get that through here to the board. [Music] So we have it into effect. [Music] So that means it's there's certain ways that we do accounting around capital assets. That's the only change. That's the only change. [Music] Okay. So he will bring it before [Music] Next is policy reviews and bill. Well, how about the behavior assessment is 5B. Oh, oh, yours a little different than mine. Sorry. Yeah. Right. So, this is one that you were talking to me about in the agenda review. Yes. So, right now in the uh omnibus
039education bill, they're extending the timeline for the behavior threat assessment. In current statute, we must uh approve a behavior threat model policy by July 1. In the Omnibus bill, which is this big bill that goes at the end of the session that kind of takes care of all the different fixes, we're moving it out to October 1st of this year. The reason being is that the AOE has gotten some they put together this model policy and some of the we we're not one of them but some of the um districts have said hey some of the language you got in here is going to impure extra costs for districts that currently don't have. So, we're in that tricky place right now along with the other districts and all the other districts in the state of
040we have current law that says we've got to take this model policy it's here and adopt it or something more stringent um or it becomes part of our by law it becomes enacted for us. We also know that that at the legislature right now there's this bill in place that's gone through the house and is at the senate that's the on bus that does technical changes giving time for more updates to this model policy and giving us till October. So, if that doesn't go through, we don't get time to put this in, but it automatically comes in under law. We had that happen before. Um, and so my recommendation is actually let it go through the legislature. And this happens at times. There's technical changes that happen legislative and they change and give us time
041to kind of go back. Um, so we could wait and and do this work, you know, by October, which I think, you know, we'll have to talk about when we're meeting next, but we have a June meeting and hopefully we'll take July off, but we would know by then where we're going and get things ready for August and September. Yeah. just just you know the only thing that I would care about is just making sure that all the schools are doing it the same way and none of you have a good procedure in place that I can tell you is happening right right no I know I'm just saying like in in between um putting that in yeah makes sense so that's where we're at do it twice All right. So, we will let the
042process play out. Yep. Um, selection of library materials. So, we're a little bit in the same place. I went you can I have it in front of me here that Bill actually went to and I read it today and I was like I don't see much that's different except for there's a 2024 Vermont freedom to read statement that's not in the model policy. Well no it's there. It's actually there. that freedom to read Satan from January 2004. So they're doing like literally like two crossouts that are different in the library from looking at this. Um so I I think from and I only did this like a half hour ago before the meeting. I was like, okay, what are the changes, the latest changes? And so I think I'm I'm going to recommend to all
043of you that this go forward as the model policy. I don't see anything substantially different from what they're doing in the Omni Bus technical changes [Music] bill. And then we have procedures that our librarians have put together that Erin, I know you were just quickly getting into the packet that you wouldn't have seen before electronically, but our librarians have put together. They actually wrote as a policy one of those procedures. Um, but I know you were quickly doing some edits, right? It should be changed. It should have been changed that these would be our procedures on how we select materials and they actually put together a form for it and all that. Um, but they did some great procedures. When I read through them a week or two ago, I was like, "Oh, that looks
044pretty good. Thanks, librarians." [Music] Um, and that we review that. So, I would recommend to you that you take the model policy. I don't see the difference um between what's in the Omni West change law and what's here. But if you'd like to wait, it doesn't it's not going to change the implementation date, which is interesting. That's what I always look for first, which is on this, you know, when this section this section, it's under section 16 of the bus is amended to read and the effective date is still July 1st of this year. So, I don't see anything That's the house. I think it's just saying that each superintendent head of a school of an approved impact school shall develop implement procedures. That's what's underlined in here on the bill. So that might be
045just the news saying that that's affecting everybody and that may not have been in there before. [Music] So I recommended that go to June. Go to the June. Go to the June. Yeah. [Music] Okay. [Music] Um A1 board member complex [Music] videos that you know um down carum [Music] I apologize if that was me. I think I had the volunteer volunteer and work study students, but I'm happy to do that next time. Sorry. So, I picked two and I write my name down. It's my gate, too. So, Okay, my apologies. I will do that one for the next one. We forgive you. Oh my goodness. Okay. Yes. Absolute apologies. Oh, please. No worries. Don't sweat. [Music] All right. Think I have bill for substitute teacher. Good. [Music] I just have a little underlining. You have
046some underlining. Great. Yeah. It's not not too much though. [Music] He underlined red. Little underlined. [Music] Um so uh in the unlicensed persons paragraph or section the maple run policy says that um substitute teachers can be employed 30 consecutive school days. Uh the model talks about consecutive days from calendar calendar days. The model changed to what the model is. Okay. That should be changed. That should Yeah, consecutive days. Consecutive calendar days is what the model uses. Um under the administrative responsibilities in the second paragraph uh that first sentence about the superintendent conducting an orientation session for substitute teachers each year is not included in the model. Uh that also I don't know if that would want if you want that removed that would give you a little bit more flexibility as to whether there's orientation
047session held this year that placed into the procedures portion. Um could be I mean we do orientation when they move it's not each year changing when someone comes in oneonone does that so as needed instead maybe as needed and then in the model I've just got one sent it's underlined uh and I'm guessing this may be something added to the policy about specifying that they're going to be given information to prevent identified unborn child sexual abuse. So, we're suggesting that be added under the administrative responsibilities. That's second paragraph under admin responsibilities and put it into our policy. Right. Only that first sentence though. The other Yeah. The second sentence is already that makes sense already. [Music] There. Second power. [Music] sense right after the Yeah, I think you're right that right after the orientation notes
048here child abuse [Music] right there and I as needed. Okay, everyone. Okay. The the changes. Yes. All right. So, we will bring that board. [Applause] [Music] volunteers and work study students. That is me. So, it's very similar. Um I don't have a copy for you, but I'm just going to tell you where it's different. So, um under so under definitions where it says work study students, the maple rhyme says work study students slashin intern. Um the other piece is this one spec the model policy specifically designates postsecary students. The maple run does not say that. I'm assuming that is somewhat intentional to allow for students who are not postsecary. So um that's the only place that that piece is different. Um and Maple Run adds the term intern and defines it. Um so an intern
049is working without pay will be considered as a working without pay will be considered a work study student. Um so it's a little bit broader in its terminology. The only other place that it is different is that under uh it adds student teacher in here and then underneath student teacher it adds the sentence on volunteer. So lines 18 to 23 or 22, excuse me, are um in the Maple Run policy but not in the model policy to specifically outline a student teacher. Um and then 21 and 22 is just saying that the superintendent or his or her designate can remove um someone who's a volunteer work study student intern or student teacher which is not in the model policy but I think that's probably a good thing to have in there in the event that
050there is an issue. Um, so there's a little bit extra in here, but I think it really clarifies um the people that we have in the um I would recommend that we stay with the maple run policy because it does specifically have that line about removal but also um talks about interns and students teachers and the big reason for the work study piece is we have quite a few seniors, okay? especially their second semester who come in and work as parent educators or we actually have quite a few juniors and seniors that are working as custodians in second shift and we're compensating [Music] my recommendation I don't think anything exciting in there but I appreciate that um the maple run policy just is strong yeah it's clearly defines those additional uh people who are in
051the schools. So my recommendation is to delete the red policy as is review [Music] date. All right. B3 alcohol and drug free work. Okay. Also, um mostly following the model policy in its entirety other than the last paragraph. [Music] Um so it ends the model policy ends with in addition an employee who violates the terms of this policy will be subject to disciplinary action. And in the Maple Run policy, um it goes on to say including but not limited to non-renewal, suspension or termination at the discretion of the superintendent or if required the board. So, I don't know if that's a legal um support that you were in, not you specifically that the district was encouraged to put on there or it's redundant or the only difference everything else the um so if you're looking
052at the Okay, if you're looking at the maple run policy Yeah. Um it changes on line 43. Okay. Um it ends I'm sorry line 44 it ends at will be subject to disciplinary action period for the maple for the um model policy. Excuse me. And then run just has that last piece there. [Music] I could ask our attorney, but I knew this was done back in 2018. Yeah. So, I'm just putting it back. [Music] And so teachers want us to look into that. leave it. I don't I don't know if it's necessary. I mean, it doesn't speak much to me. Um, so if it's if it's not a problem, then it's not a problem for for me. My only question was around um like um uh if people felt that it was encompassed in this
053policy um like over-the-counter uh [Music] drugs, over-the-c counter or prescription. I mean, it does say controlled substances, but not all drugs are controlled um substances. And you know, just making sure cuz again, you know, you every once in a while you have folks that say feel that it's okay to give, you know, a student a pop drop or if they have some tongues in their pocketbook or if they have, you know, whatever. Like, is it clear in here? Do we want something in here stating that shouldn't be sharing over the members? any Yeah. Anything with with anybody else? Do we need to have that? That's a good question. And if you don't want to go there, that's fine. It just like you know how the nurses all have the health forms of everybody, right? About
054what they're allowed to have and what they're not. I'm not a what if what if you know colleague B gives colleague C you know something that they're not supposed to have but they didn't reply you know I don't know I just Is that all in there? I think it's a good [Music] question and then people giving kids stuff. Well, that's I was going more stuff and less of the teachers but more coaches like hey take somebody in case that's not your and I know that they get trained this but teachers it's not your role right not your role so I just wanted to throw it out there question [Music] over the camera. [Music] Let me let me do a quick email on this. Sure. Yeah, of course. And and you know, prescribe it doesn't have
055it just says controlled substances. So, I mean, if that again, that's just a a word choice, whatever. I'm just throwing it out there. just prescription and over the counter [Music] meds, you know, it says it says in there that you're not supposed to have them. They need to be tucked away basically, but like what does that mean? Yeah, let me ask Mark McD it's worth question come back to you get the answer to psychedelic tobacco and uh natural supplements too. That's probably a good question. Well, I'm just saying people say, "Oh, I have some article in my pocketbook or I have this or I have that." You know, like just Yeah. important. Yeah. That's a good [Music] one. All right. So that will come before us in June again. Cancers um B5 employee non-emp employee
056harassment. Yeah. Maple runs policy [Music] and the state policy, the model policy. And I really [Music] liked coffee, but I don't like it anymore. Um, [Laughter] Then everything is really defined out and broken out better than in the in the Maple Run policy. I didn't really see any changes that needed to be made. I think it's pretty pretty clearly laid out. When you did this in 2016, you did a good job. None of us were here. [Music] No, that's where that comes from. That's not me. It's pretty self-explanatory. My recommendation is that we just accept it as a review. Okay. Review policy. All the new definitions are out there. [Music] and weapons. I was spending a long time looking for the model policy on weapons and Aaron just explained to me there is not one.
057They Oh, they pulled it. Okay. So, that being said, um before you do you know why Did you have a conversation? They did not have a reason why only that it was pulled in 2022. I'm just curious if something had happened or there was something missing and like what just curious documentation as to why they did only three years ago. I believe you. That's really weird to think there' be a reason, right? Well, there clearly was a reason. They don't have documentation. Interesting. Right. So, when I read this, um, and what was the other uh was the the policy close to this is the uh firearms. Firearms. Yeah. Right. Um, so like when I look at this uh look at lines between 13 and 17, I see that that's a conflict, you know, right there.
058Right. every student who is in violation of this policy may be brought by the superintendent to the school board for an expulsion hearing. And then it says if a student is in possession of a firearm or school officer statute, the superintendent is required to bring. So it just seems confusing actually. So it isn't it could be yes it could be confusing to people reading this the first time. To me it's about what's a weapon versus what's a firearm. Okay. Thank you. I didn't even That's why it's confusing. It's not confusing. Okay, I'm with you. So, the the Well, people get very confused and read lots of conversations. So, I use the example of a baseball bat can be a weapon. Sure. But it's not a firearm. Sure. Right. Because we talk about violation of the
059policy versus and that one specifically says firearm. Okay. Thank you. So then if we're going to have this I would want to really bold that because um I didn't catch it then I just so I think I think and that's this discussion is exactly the discussion I wanted to have because I like having this policy but I think there needs to be a clear definition of a weapon versus of what a firearm is. Okay. And maybe we can get something from the firearm. I think I don't think we're done with this here today in this group, but I think it's because I can think about every time I've had to have a discussion about a firearm, people are like, "Well, you have a weapons policy that says you may, so why are you taking me
060to the board?" And I'm like, "So, I need you to take you to the law that says if it's a firearm, I have to take you to the board." It's that definition of like what's policy and what's law, right? But I also want to be able to say if you're intent with the I'm going back to that baseball bat, it's going to hurt me. And I can't get through with our discipline policy. And that was one of the things I know Aaron, you were trying to get when you there was some confusion with BSBA. Well, maybe your discipline policy covers weapons. To me, if you're going to come to intend to hurt somebody with something Yeah. and and consciously it could be a pair of scissors. It could be a pencil. It could be a
061lot of different things turned into a weapon. Right. Exactly. An object that is being used. I mean, I'll tell you, I've had I've had some of those discussions and it depends on the grade level. Yeah. Right. No doubt. I was actually thinking of like a pencil in like the younger grades. You got it. But kids have definitely Yeah. and how I want to respond to a first grader versus an eighth grader with intent are very different, you know. So, but I think it's a good policy to keep. It may be that we need to do some rewriting or clarity and defining things. I'm happy to work on that and the other people if they want to as well, but I'm happy to Yeah, I would actually what I would ask is if you want to
062work on it, there's a couple there's I want to send it to our assistant principles because they got a little bit they're the ones working with this and say what do you think? I wonder what else is out there though for examples. That's about as good as we did. Yeah, I'm sure that there are other school districts who have policy although not the well maybe they because of this issue right it couldn't be specific so they just left it as broad some people they get into a definition and I'm not suggesting we go here but I'm going to bring it up anyway a night and in my previous district if it was over I think three inches it came to the board. If it was under 3 in and we had environmental clubs that require
063that you have a wilderness site, those things are 6 in long. The kids forget those are in their bag because they went to wilderness school. Yep. And I'm glad we don't have that because when that that has happened here like parent, please come and pick this up and please make sure Johnny or Susie don't have this in their when they come to school. I know you look each time, but Well, even I mean students in building trades or forestry and then you got to look at that. Yeah. Or I went to work and I've got a box cutter in my Yeah. And you don't necessarily need an automatic hearing. [Music] So we will bring that back in June. Watch your pork. [Music] Okay. Are we going to look at any Sorry, we have three right
064now for I'm doing my count right. Maybe four behavior, but um We I think I wrote notes for weapons, conflict of interest, the student clubs, and the behavior threat assessment. So, I don't know how many that want that weapons, conflict of interest, student clubs, and I wrote the behavior threat depending on where the legislature Okay. And you wrote what? Behavior threat. Yeah. Behavior threat, student clubs, board member conflict, and weapons. And do you want to see if there is a tobacco for the workplace or just leave it? We could do that. We can do some research on that. Let's do that. Yeah. Tobacco for workplace. Yeah. For school system. Yeah. I'd rather be as clear as possible if I was like, hey, yeah. No tobacco on school grounds. Right. Right. And I wonder like, you
065know, in the beginning of the school year when you go through like all the the training. I know it's in our handbook. I've seen it. That doesn't mean it's Yeah, that's what I'm trying to get at. Yep. Can't guarantee it's comprehensive. Okay. So, do we want to add some more? [Music] Yeah, I don't have the file with me. I do. Yeah. So, it looks like we started. So, I can't remember what the yellow was. They're required. Yes. Yeah. So we have gotten through the personnel and the students one section and instruction and then the only required one that we haven't gotten to I think is the general and travel reimbursement under non-instructional operations as far as I can tell. And that'd be good to have B and Becky look at too because it hits both
066their departments, the HR and the business. I know that every January we send out, hey, here's a new [Music] IRS. That's when the IRS updates. What number is that? That one is F01. It looks like I don't know if anyone sees any other any that we're missing. That looks like the last one of the required. Yeah. And we might leave time again then to talk about what's our strategy after that. That's our first strategy besides several requires that aren'tated, right? Because maybe we conflict with Okay. Right. There's no one to make around his policy after. [Music] So to what we have, how would we have one? Aaron and I we write we actually sit down after this meeting. Okay. What were the tasks that we just got? Let's reassign ourselves to make sure they get
067done. Usually it's anyone else. But that's how we do this. So we would say, "Hey, let's make sure Becky and Bri look over at Sarah and they have any suggestions." Yeah. Just like Bri did today. She said, "Hey, this one's got to get changed before July." Okay. But then I would suggest that if we just did that, did the four that we identified and then had a discussion about, okay, we we assigned ourselves, hey, let's do the ones that we had looked at that had updates that were after the required policy adoption and we had those, you know, let's talk about what we want to tackle next and then we figure that out. And then I'm going to suggest that we don't meet in July and then we could pick it back up in August
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