001hmm okay we're live okay good evening and uh welcome to the Board of Education policy meeting on December 13th 2022. mrski please call the roll sure Mr grippo here miss Rosenberg and Mr White here Mr chairman you have a quorum thank you um I'll rise for the pledge oh 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 Jeff I appreciate the uh the quick flag thank you I got right on it yeah that queued up and ready to go that was great okay foreign okay is there any public comment there is now before we begin okay fantastic um then I guess we'll move into uh first reading for strategic goals performance standards so
002Jeff I'm guessing uh so if if you recall um the board earlier this year adopted strategic goals for the school system uh that reflected our focus on complex thinking and social emotional learning as well as you know our vision of The Graduate and our performance standards that had to be approved by the board and now we just update our policy accordingly and so it should be you know relatively straightforward but I'll present on the screen and for viewers that policy um this is where it starts again it's it's not verbatim but it's very close this uh this Preamble if you will and then we have the uh everything else is verbatim that the board approved earlier this year so we have our theories of action around complex thinking social emotional learning um The Guiding principles
003for success that we reviewed and then the vision of The Graduate this was a work pulled from the personalized learning task force Adam you remember that and as well as this was revised from that so this this is actually already part of our our board policy the revised performance standards but I put it in all together in front because it just made it easier to read this is what we had before uh that's that's strikethrough font here these are the 16 goals we had as a district before that again you know nobody could really tell you what they were even myself being a principal I couldn't tell you all 16 it was very hard to follow [Music] and ultimately we ended up shaving it down to the two that everybody knows and really focuses our
004work so like I said these I have this in strikethrough font but this is identical to what we had before so right so the these new sections that's that's replacing the strikethrough font basically yeah I mean the the new this here the treasure performance standards is identical to what we had in our board policy and maybe it's easier to you know maybe avoid confusion I can delete this part and not and take out the strike through fi on the other part May and I might avoid some confusion because the performance standards are the same as they've been since 2019. people that aren't changing now you got to remember how to do that under format Jeff and texting Q I could find it in the word in a heartbeat so like I said this is everything
005that we adopted as a board in the fall just replacing the old goals that we had well hold on I'm confused you you had stuff that was strike that had was strike had a strikethrough and then you unstrike unstriked it yeah unstruck it unstricken I don't know what we did unstricken whatever the correct tense is there D striking who knows yeah yeah you D striked it so like um so what so the the language that was stricken um and then she on the screen in front of you right now yeah that is being replaced yeah those are the old goals from 2011. okay okay so that was still in there okay that are being replaced as a district in 2019 after the um the uh personalized learning task force we updated all of this the
006these are the performance standards complex thinker creative thinker self-directed learner effective communicator collaborative Cooperative learner and Community contributor this is what I had originally when I put the other stuff in just for I thought it would be easier to read uh I this was listed twice in there but this was uh had strike through five and then I just realized well maybe this is a little confusing to people looking at it so I just deleted one of the versions and took the strikethrough file off of this okay there we go that's where I got lost yes sorry all right so now we have a version that the board had looked through and approved right already and so what we're doing is just taking out the old stuff right and where it was sort of more
007of a formality on this one yeah okay because this is like you know like you just said the board already approved this in the fall yeah we did it in reverse right yeah okay too many comments yeah just administratively I mean I don't know I can't recall what the motion was exactly but from my perspective you know if we're updating something to me it kind of is like you would just be deleting the old stuff anyway right so I don't I like it anyway yeah I just in the future as far as I'm concerned I don't know what the law is but as far as I'm concerned you have like free you know free pass to just delete the old stuff when we're adopting the new stuff from my perspective you know I think that's
008logical Tim I I think where I I just didn't want um because we only adopted that in the one meeting and policy says you need three readings unless it's oh got it I was just like you know yeah okay okay I got it for the formality we could work through it maybe the next time we do this we could approach it a different way but we didn't do it that way so I figured just for the formality of it we would do it so I mean you can you you can decide and talk with Tony or whatever but I I have no desire to see this on a full board agenda I mean we're just deleting stuff so right right yeah okay so we're uh we're good on that one then yeah okay um we'll
009move on to uh nepotism okay you can see the um this was a discussion item last month and we is part of that discussion made the following changes you can see the uh the strikethrough and highlighted font and at the end of that conversation we decided to put this uh up for a first reading so like the last one this should be eerily familiar to you yeah it's kind of not both of these are not typical in the way that we would approach the process but um just kind of coincidental that they came up together and we were pleasantly surprised to find that we just that we could um maintain the uh intent yeah yes the intent of our original policy by just changing it to adapt to uh more recent developments right yep although
010they would not so uh these changes do not are not retroactive no correct right so whatever occurred occurred but so going forward this will be in effect once if and when we the board approves it correct correct okay um any comment Tim no I mean oh you know we had this meeting we we had this discussion with the attorney a month ago uh and the gist of it was there was this other piece of the law that we were able to use that we wanted by intent but for whatever reason it didn't happen with the original policy a few years ago the attorney said no we can't do it we said okay good let's put in the policy and that's all we're changing right yeah and the one other point just for for anybody who's
011viewing this is there was a particular situation that did arise um and that with this even with this being passed uh that situation doesn't exist anymore anyway because the org chart basically has just been sort of moved around a little bit uh but the when anyone anybody who was specifically involved in that one particular situation those reporting Lines no longer exist well those are the other one that was the public um hearing that we had in the fall uh and that you know that that was a grievance where we indicated initially that we wouldn't transfer somebody because we felt a violation of nepotism the state laws and the way that the the [Music] um it's interesting that the Department of Labor would still see a foreman as somebody who's not uh supervisor which we took
012exception to which is why we we could change our policy to include that specific carve out I think when we initially drafted the policy we thought Common Sense would rule the day that a foreman would be perceived to be a supervisor and Department of Labor doesn't say that so you know here we made this adjustment to to address that specifically but when we when we assuming that we pass this there's no situation that will exist at this time correct got it okay yeah because when we pass the nepotism um policy initially the uh the uh we did have a relation not by Blood but by marriage working together and there was a transfer there that resolved that issue okay thank you I'm fine with this okay um seeing that I guess um I will make
013a motion uh to move uh strategic goals performance standards uh policy number uh is this a yes the policy number zero zero two five and policy four one one two dot eight Dash 4212.8 nepotism employment of relatives uh for a first reading do I have a second second um all in favor unanimous for those present thank you we'll um move on to Second reading administering medication okay I apologize that my mic keeps lighting up even though I'm not talking that's the heat turning on it keeps banging and it's loud enough that my my mic picks it up uh so for the administration of medications if you recall this is related to Narcan this is we kind of treat this the same way we would treat an AED it's a life-saving device that we keep on
014stock in our buildings actually with the aeds uh in the event of some sort of emergency um people ask me really there are that many overdoses that you need in our can and the answer is no we don't have heart attacks every day either and we have an AED it's it's a life-saving tool that is easily stocked and so we provided and um I believe it's mentioned in the policy but the uh the Narcan is is it stored um explicitly in the nurse's office or their strategic locations in our buildings or yeah we have strategic locations where we store it okay the nurse definitely has it um and then you know where we have the most uh public use of our buildings like the high school there are other other resources there like in the
015AED kit on the on the wall and um you know unlike um uh I'm trying to think so is it Suboxone and um what's the uh the heroin replacement drug uh I forget what it was called well anyway you know how those uh are sort of drugs on their own right does does naloxone have any value as a drug as a controlled substance by itself like is it no only for the Val the only value is that it will prevent death it does not get you high um right so there's no Daedra if we just we're storing it about the building then people are like oh we can go try and get a stash of nalak the naloxone like that's it'd be like the equivalent of an EpiPen okay that's good so it's not like
016we're not you know like I say we're not we're storing a controlled substance to overcome another you're not going to feel good if you use it but it's not going to hurt you either right at the end of the day okay thank you [Music] um all right what's that Tim do you have any other questions there no it's just the nurses who are allowed to give it no anybody who's trained uh okay can do that so you do there are are we talking to elementary schools Dodd the high school only um it's available for the nurses at the elementary schools those aren't really high Community use areas but middle and high school administrators and um our sros are trained okay it is as easy as an EpiPen it's a nasal inhaler um the thing the
017thing that's concerned me like you said EpiPen so I'm okay with that but I just don't want someone to misdiagnose somebody oh yeah but you do have you do it more than just the nurse the sros and uh administrator yeah okay okay yeah no that's good there's a Cadre of folks that are trained thank you myself included so okay um then I guess um I'll make a motion uh to move uh 5141.213 administering medication uh for a second reading do I have a second second um all in favor unanimous of those presents thank you uh we'll move on to uh third reading school activity fund foreign policy up this was one that we revised um and it's a very simple revision it just changes the uh so all we all we change here is from
018director of management to coo okay so school activity fund um is this the same one that was reviewed by our Auditors or yeah okay it's the same one okay that was reduced down to three pages and yes okay great uh yeah Tim yeah so I know I've mentioned this before and I can't recall the answer um why don't we just switch these titles to superintendent's designee in general and not that we have to change this right now I'm comfortable you know vote in favor of this I want to slow stuff down but just in general was there a reason why we don't do that I think for clarity's sake I mean we do use the um the board the board policies when people are looking up information and uh even internally and if it just
019always says superintendents designee like Carol's phone we're kind of bringing off the hook with questions about who's the designee for XYZ when it's like so Carol's the one who put the kibosh on this that's fine I get it I understand yeah listen to the boss all right but basically you know it just is for clarity's sake okay that's fine thank you sure okay um and I had no other questions um I guess we'll move on to electronic Board of Education meetings sure this one is um again these are policies we've already reviewed this is a change in law that allows us to engage in what we're doing right now and I know this is something that you know uh we had talked about on numerous occasions through the pandemic saying you know how it's great
020that you know families can access this these meetings remotely real time and we can meet makes it easier for board members to participate in public service so it's kind of a win all around and this is just the the state law that provided a policy for this to take place and this would theoretically allow us to have a business meeting virtually as well if we wanted to even though you most likely aren't going to correct I mean if there was a you know something like this Mega storm coming on Thursday we knew it you know that we're gonna get eight inches of snow or something I guess we could have a remote meeting under those conditions we would have to provide a location for somebody if they requested to come in person but um you
021know it's pretty rare in our community okay uh too many uh questions uh no I I mean I think this is uh I think this is something that we need to do uh I think it's important just to remind the public that I don't think definitely myself and I don't think anyone on the board of ed would hold remote meetings at least at this time using current technology we would not hold remote meetings if we had reason to believe that people were going to show up even just a couple people were going to show up um but the reality is is that you know many of our committee meetings for the Board of Ed no one ever turns out we can we might hear things you know uh at the grocery store or wherever and
022you know get feedback that way but typically at committee meetings people just don't show up and so I think having the meetings remote is uh valuable and the other thing I just want to make the plug is that we just had a state level election and looking forward to next the next election cycle local My Hope Is that this is something that people consider who may have been hesitant to run for Board of Ed because they felt there might be too many nights out at meetings and you get to stay at home and have have some of those meetings so I think this is I think it's a great thing that's um in doing this creating this sort of enabling policy or bylaw I forget what it is but yeah no I'm happy with this
023yeah we definitely come a long way you know when I first came on the board it was a challenge to even sometimes get a uh an audio sometimes audio recording never mind a a video recording you know Carol would basically be handwriting notes and that sort of thing so uh to do a uh you know the traditional note-taking method and uh um so anyhow um we will go ahead and move that if I could just make one more Point yeah about the um the technology limitations so Jeff correct me if I'm wrong on this but basically if we're going to have a meeting we want to get it online we only have one person Mike who we typically have there when he's unavailable it could be difficult to make that happen and so this just
024makes it a lot easier to get the uh the meetings videotaped is that generally true well Mike is currently at another meeting tonight so if we had a situation where we were all in person it would be indeed more difficult but I know how to stream live um from the computer and Mike's helped me with that and so we can run this without him which makes life for him a little bit easier too so it makes accessibility easier in a lot of different ways that you guys have already enumerated but that's just another one yeah just in this meeting you've you've shared some documents in this meeting and sharing them in that situation would not be jiggly easy so right yeah that's something we've talked about in this Committee in particular where you can actually
025see really up close and personal the information yes if not Mike has to basically zoom in on the screen that's in the room yeah it makes it a lot easier to follow I'm happy with this okay me too um all right so then I will um make a motion uh move that policy 3453 school activity fund and policy 9321.2 electronic Board of Education meetings be moved to a third and final reading a second 10 seconds all in favor unanimous of those presents um on the left so uh for we have uh number six for discussion um I was thinking maybe we uh table that um until Sam is here so we could have a full discussion yeah I would just preface that by saying this is not a required policy um what is required was
026clearly articulated by our attorney in the last policy yeah so regardless of whether we adopt a policy we don't um we still have to follow the law and so you know to Adam's point there really is no rush to to get this out for a conversation or whatever at the end of the day we're still following the law so I would certainly support tabling it or you know we can discuss putting out on the agenda next go around or not yeah that's fine with me Tim uh any thoughts no that's that's fine I I did I did have some comments at our legislative meeting last night yeah but that's nothing for me to discuss right now okay um do I uh do I need to make a motion to table or since it was just
027a discussion point we can just uh you're okay we discussed the discussion Point yes for now consider it disgust right all right we have discussed um we have no other business uh on the agenda um so I guess I will entertain a motion to adjourn motion all right second all right all in favor all right we are adjourned Jeff could you hold on for one second oh awesome just a quick question it's not about the meeting at all okay well um in that case we'll cut off the stream and um thank you all right