001Good. Saying Jim never has any problems. I've never had any problems. At least it was a business manager. He can do superintendent. He can do just make sure that we're not taking over his job. That's so Okay. Welcome everybody to the June 9th board of education meeting. We are going to start with our community forum this evening. Having seen nobody in attendance this evening. No one signed up. We're going to end the community forum. We will now wait until 6:05 to start the uh official meeting. Thank you. All right. Good. All right. Okay. We will begin uh calling the meeting to order tonight for the June 9th uh board of education meeting. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
002republic of the one nation of Okay. Uh this meeting has been posted in all the normal and customary posting places. Just looking for a motion to approve tonight's agenda. A motion and a second to approve the agenda. Any discussion? All those in favor say yes. Yes. Post say no. Motion carries. All right. Looking for a motion to approve tonight's consent agenda. Second. We have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda. Any discussion? All those in favor say yes. Yes. Oppose say no. Motion carries. All right. Moving forward to delegations to be heard. Nobody here. So, we're going to move forward from that item. That's true. Maria, do you have anything you like to Maria Peggy? Okay. Thank you. No. Thank you. All right. That had to be we move forward to the
003district administrator's report. Ron, over to you. Yeah. So, again, um big thank you to uh uh Stacy Rice who is retire who retired again. We just approved her uh retirement. Again, thank you very much. She's been very active for almost the last 20 years and as a full-time staff member the last days. So, thank you Stacy. We wish her the best of luck and she will be around and you'll be seeing her in the school subbing. So, we're really looking forward to that as well. So, was a great end of the school year um you know, real positive and really highlighted by graduation. A great last week of school certainly too. So, um for donations with a big thank you to we did have an anonymous sponsor who paid for all the lunches for the
004math team and uh the math team again was was successful but we didn't take home any hardware. uh a very good lesson to the kids uh you know so but uh again they tried really hard and they had a really great day a lot of fun and then we did have a person donate all the lunches so it's great so big thank you to that too and for open records the the normal stuff again we are really actually starting to get a lot more national type of open records requests uh the most recent one was for all of the board agendas for now and in future and navigating some of that too just some some interesting requests people are looking for how long agenda how long do they generally take um this one is it's
005it's on the website and actually they're asking to be part of whenever we would uh send something to the newspaper the request is for them to be included on the request for the the agenda we do have to honor that. They do recommend uh legal counsel is recommending that we do honor that um is the request sunlight tell me tell me it's a national organiz it's a national press organization uh and it has been reviewed by both WSB as well as they've said hey you can do with it what you want but to fulfill it it's easier to do this to be perfect correct go forward with the wave allowing me we did we sent it out to in our community newsletter. Um and I think so far I think we've had two people sign
006up for it. So we'll continue to push that but again we'll get those two people involved and and away we go. Good. Y does. So that's all I got. Thank you. Okay. On to committee reports. No committee. No committee this couple weeks. Okay. Moving forward to uh new business. Our first item under new business is the final review and approval of the 202526 employee handbook revisions. So just uh through feedback and again not much has changed from the last time. Uh just looking for uh the board to make a motion to approve the 2526 employee handbook changes as presented. So move second. We have a motion and a second to approve the uh changes to the 2025 2026 employee handbook revisions. Any discussion? All those in favor of uh improving the employee handbook for 2526
007say yes. Yes. Yes. Post say no. Motion carries. All right. Moving forward to the uh approval of the 2526 student handbook revisions. Sure. So again uh second reading has gone through the policy and personnel u highlights the uh some of the changes there. But uh the administration is recommending the board make a motion to approve the 2526 student family handbooks as presented. Second. We have a motion and a second to approve the 202526 student handbook provisions as presented. Any discussion? Just have a history question for the tardy policy. Is that something that's coming about because we're noticing an issue with it or is there a was everybody should probably put this in here? No, it's something the the staff and this and Mr. Newcomer implemented it at semester time. they've liked it and they figured
008that it should go officially into the student handbook. So, he did notify the families, you know, via email and things like that. Uh the teachers have been enforcing it. Now, it just was the appropriate time to place their meeting. And this appears to be more addressing a problem of getting from class to class on time and not attend arriving. It's it's class to class. It's like holding kids in between that just like we all did. You have three minutes to get from point A to point B, which is plenty or three or four. Um please do so. And if not, there's these consequences. Pretty lenient still. Pretty lenient. Pretty lenient. Quarter to quarter, right? Laid out. Yeah. Any further discussion? Okay. All those in favor of approving the 2526 student handbook revision say yes. Yes.
009Post say no. Motion carries. On to approving the 2526 teacher contracts. So, uh, as presented, we have, uh, the 2526, uh, teacher contracts. Again, first state statute 11822. These contracts were all officially renewed uh basically back in April and early May. Uh and there is our list. So, right now, the teachers have until June 15th to turn them back to us. Um and uh once we get them in July, we will bring them to the board meeting and then we'll have board members sign. So, the administration recommends the board approve the 2526 teacher contracts as presented. We have a motion and a second to approve the 202526 teacher contracts. Any discussion? Any discussion? All those in favor of approving the 2526 teacher contract say yes. Yes. Oppose say no. Motion carries. Moving forward to our
010district 20 2526 staff professional development plan. So, as first presented at the uh student achievement committee last month, uh we have our tenative professional development plan. Big thank you to Maria and her team and again the instructional team to put this plan together. Again, it's fluid. It's going to continue to meet and uh and change as needed. So, the administration recommends the board make a motion to approve the 2526 staff professional development plan framework as presented. We have a motion and a second to approve the district 202526 staff professional development plan as presented. Any discussion to see? All those in favor say yes. Yes. Yes. Post say no. Motion carries. Moving forward to our final new business item which is a new policy approval policy 345.41 third grade to fourth grade promotion and retention. were
011presented at the May 19th, 2025 board meeting. Yep. So again, uh this will be the second read. It was first presented to the policy team last month. First presented as a first draft, and here it is for final ver. So the policy personnel committee is recommending the board make a motion to approve policy 345.41, third grade to fourth grade promotion and retention that has been recommended by the policy committee and provided to the full board for its consideration and action. Got a motion and a second to uh approve uh new policy 345.41 third grade fourth grade promotion of retention. Any discussion? One of clarification question under the third grade students promoted fourth grade without completing their personal reading plan. At the bottom it says if the summer reading program is authored the parents can decline
012it. Is there any implication of that for the students who are performance with them? Any question? I also just want to point out that while the policy and personnel committee is making the recommendation, this has to be gone by July 1st. Correct. Yep. Not really. Not really up to us. Yeah, we approved the wording policy. You have to have a policy. You have to have a policy. We just recommend that this is what it says. This is what WSB recommends. I'm just putting it out there. This isn't a burger. Yeah. Yep. Very good. Any further discussion? Okay. All those in favor of approving uh new policy 345.41, third grade to fourth grade promotion and retention say yes. Yes. Post say no. Motion carries. All right. That closes out new business. Moving on to future meeting
013and agenda items. So our next meeting is July 21st. Uh again, Dean, we did put on it'll be placed on the the fourth grade conversation about potentially moving to Merin Intermediate. Um then we have the August 25th meeting which was set. Uh then we have the September 9th annual meeting and which was set a year ago at that annual meeting. And then if we wanted to set our September meeting, we certainly can. Right now that works. We're all fair then. Yeah. Um the last Monday in September is September 29th. Always I am iffy for September 9th. Yep. Is that 22nd? There's five of them. Actually 15. 15 would be the third. Should we do the 22nd? It's fine. About 20 seconds later 30 second mark to the best of my knowledge the 22nd. So we'll
014September 22nd dean. Okay. We'll tentatively set it for September. Um, Rebecca, if there is an issue, let me know and we can I don't think there will be. Any other agenda items? Second motion and a second to adjurnn. Any discussion? All those in favor say yes. Yes. Say no. Sorry, I'm a yes. Motion carries. Thank you everybody.