001Good afternoon and welcome to the July 22nd Doo school board regular school board meeting. We're calling this meeting to order today at 6:25. I will hand it over to clerk micel for roll call. >> Member banks >> here. Chair Durk Eer here. >> Member Laughler Kemp >> here. >> Member Loel >> here. >> I am member Mike and I'm here. Member Sidowski >> here. >> Member Williams >> here. >> Superintendent Maggus >> here. >> Assistant Superintendent Bonds is excused. Deputy clerk Zunich >> present. >> Executive director of HR and operations severance >> present. Secretary Pakquette, >> he is here but stepped out momentarily. >> Excellent. Uh and our student representatives are excused tonight. Thank you, Clerk Micell. Now we will move on to the pledge of allegiance. Our flags are located in the back of
002the room. I pledge algiance 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. >> Next on the agenda, we have the approval of agenda. Do I have a motion? >> So second. Uh moved by member banks, seconded by member Loal. I'll >> was it? >> It was me. >> Okay. Sorry. I heard it coming. Okay. Ed, [Laughter] >> pull it together. Eater. Okay. The It was moved by member Laughler Kemp, seconded by member Loal, screwed up by member Eer. Um, all those in favor of approving the agenda signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. We have an approved agenda. This month we have no school. >> I actually want to trade microphones with
003you because Oh, yours is buzzing really bad. >> Oh, is it okay? Perfect. Thank you. Um, moving on this month, we have no school or community recognition. We look forward to that returning with the beginning of the school year. Moving on to the report of the superintendent, we have no Oh, that's John's deal. Okay, Superintendent Maggus. >> Yes. Let me just pull up and cast. So my report this month is relatively brief due to uh the limited number of committee meetings and various people um a lot of vacation and things that people take during this time myself included taking a little bit of time here and there but as always we have our superintendent report uh focusing on our mission vision and core values. Uh the student representative reports as we expressed earlier will be
004on hold for July. they may resume in August but is dependent on on uh their availability and interest. Uh also talking a little bit about our cabinet work sessions that we've had some board workshop updates and just anything under other that people would like to discuss. Um, I'd also mentioned that that uh I had the pleasure of of presenting at the national superintendent forum with executive director Zunich and uh we're it was actually something that we were invited to attend and and um present at a national conference and they uh paid our way to do so. So that was a good experience really great um presentation and uh I mean I didn't executive director Zunish's part was was tremendously fine. I'm not sure about my own >> but it was good. Uh and we had
005a v huge number of superintendents that were part of that that um that round table and it was very wellreceived and there were superintendents that taught in very small districts but also um one district with 200,000 students and one with 80,000. So it was really good uh collaborative conversation. But as far as our uh cabinet work sessions, we had one and we're having one come up. our work session on June 16th. Uh we had a day uh at Lake Superior College. We they are gracious enough to let us use the the room there. Uh we had some welcome and purpose building, a little bit of team building. Uh we're reading a book called Crucial Conversations. Um and Todd McGawan, who you know from his role, he actually is teaching a course on that particular book.
006Um and so we had him uh come facilitate the first chapter. Uh we also are working on our teaming calendars just basically when are all the teams meeting? What does it look like? How do they flow into one another? Uh we had some uh significant conversation putting that crucial conversations book into practice working on how can we improve our communication flow and clarification of roles. Just thinking about how sometimes when things get complicated um we need to make sure that we have clear plans. We had a working lunch and then we worked on our three-year operational plan uh working at our action on our action cards which will be at our our our cabinet session in in uh July which I'll talk about in just a minute. Uh we talked about our next step for
007our vision card. The vision card is basically our dashboard of of data of what are we using to make sure that we're delivering on our desired daily experiences. We talked about progress monitoring for the coming year and also uh reviewed some things for our professional learning coming up. Uh and then we had closure the cabinet work session we have next week. It's next Wednesday. Uh that's when we go really much deeper into that vision card work and that vision card we'll be bringing it to the board as soon as it's ready. Uh but I think you'll be excited by it. There should be um a really interesting dashboard of of uh key measures, key performance indicators for us so that you can be outwardly facing. So it'll be something that the district can look at
008and the public can look at to see how we're doing. Then we will be finalizing those action cards and the action cards are kind of the we have our strategic roadmap and and operational plan which lays out the bulk of the work but the action cards are more um strategic plans for the main bodies of work within that nest within that larger framework. And then finally uh we're uh we have our August DUTH leadership team. That's when all admin gets together and we'll be finalizing that as well as anything that's left for the professional development taking place in August. But that uh is our our cabinet work session efforts. As you know, we had a board work session and uh we met on July 8th and we worked with teamworks on board governance and other
009topics. Uh we didn't I think because we went deep deep with our our dialogue we didn't um get maybe quite as far as we were hoping but I think sometimes uh it's better to go deep with our topics and and make sure that we're having extensive thoughtful conversation rather than trying to breeze over the surface. So I was very pleased that the board expressed interest in a second work session to to uh continue that work and go a little deeper. And I know that um uh executive assistant Pquette and others are are working to find some dates with teamworks for for that possibility. Uh so we'll have that coming up as well. Uh other board work that I know that we'll think about for close session and things would be uh my final evaluation and
010things like that. So that'll be coming up. But that uh concludes my relatively brief superintendent's report for this month. Any questions or comments? All right, >> member lo. >> So, I just want to um thank you for the the brief update even though it's interesting. So, two questions like I'd love to know what the topic was of the presentation Simone and and you did at this national conference. >> Sure. So, it was actually on um budget reduction process. uh the process we used and also lessons learned and I think you know we we had we had kind so I think that there were certain things with the um the guiding change document that we used but then we also talked about how did the process go what did we learn from it that we wished
011we would have done or would have done differently and then we also allowed for um significant dialogue amongst the superintendents just you know where are you at in your district what are things that you do um and I I'm not not trying to toot our own horn but like throughout the the next few days had quite a few people come up to us and tell us how much they appreciated our presentation and wanted our our materials. So, uh really appreciate uh uh executive director Zunich and the work that she put in for that and it was it was a steamy time in in Orlando, Florida. I decided I do not really like central Florida in the middle of the summer. We'll see if we can be invited back at another time and maybe you'd want
012some board members to come and >> my real question though revolved around the board work the workshop we did and I think one of the things that um superintendent me has highlighted too is that that I I would be interested in investigating this is that was a really great workshop and we have four on our calendars for every year and we talked a little bit about that at our workshop that we're glad we have those but maybe there's times we could use more. Even though we do meet a lot as a board, I really like that, but I also want to protect your life. Um, but as I watch other boards um on my sizzling Friday nights watching YouTube um board meetings of other districts, I realize that, you know, not a lot of school
013districts have our committee the whole which I wouldn't exchange for anything. We talked about that at our workshop. I think that's really such an an incredible informative um meeting and I don't think a lot of boards have that. What they tend to have is what we have at at least in my opinion what we have at our committee the whole meetings they have at regular schoolboard meetings briefly like the people will come forward from those and I think we get a whole lot more um presentation but what it short changes us on is those workshops because then school boards do have almost monthly workshops like we have those four so we have you know cuz you know we don't get to dive deep sometimes into topics that we maybe could because the committee the whole
014is informative and we have lots of questions and we learn a lot but we don't get into the questions we might um have but just an observation when you comment about you know um the board retreat. So just want to kind of keep that on our >> up and up. Thank you. And we did carry forward the um kind of consensus that we had from the board that we'd like to use some more of the committee the whole uh time so that there could be more dialogue. And so today when we had our committee the whole agenda setting, we did talk a little bit about making sure that we were uh prioritizing that we use some of that committee the whole time for those discussions as opposed to just having like many really long presentations.
015So, keeping the the presentations a little tighter and more aligned to the uh strategic directions that we have and the key updates there was important. And then um thinking about in some of my one-on- ones some of the sentiments that I that I heard about quite often in meetings like in in our meetings we'll say something like, "Oh, we should talk about that in our next work session. We should talk about that in our next work work session." But there isn't enough time in our work sessions to to get all that done. So thinking about how we can use our our committee the whole time a little differently this year and see how it goes. That was something that we wanted to follow through with and thanks to member Mike Cell and uh chair durer
016for following through with that as well. >> Thank you >> member Lafler. >> Thank you. Well I was going to ask the same first question that member Loel did just about the topic that you did it on. I I know we we had heard about it, but if you wanted to expand on it, uh so thank you for doing that. Um I wondered if the the crucial conversations book uh is something that um would be helpful for other groups to have some um book reads on. Uh I know we have our own book that we as a board are are doing a book study on. Uh but that >> we yes we've talked about uh expanding it beyond uh this group and either as a whole district read amongst our administrative teams or at the
017very least offer opportunity for a voluntary you know book club type type of uh setting so that we would have opportunity so that we could uh go more deeply into it. Basically the premise of the book is that organizations that can have difficult conver that can have the difficult conversations about the things that really matter sooner perform better. So if there's if there's an issue that's uh in need of addressing that it's better off just to fi to find ways of having those conversations and do so in a thoughtful respectful professional way but have that that um courageous conversation and constructive conflict uh as an organization that helps us be healthier. So that's I think it there's many people it would benefit and uh they also talk in the book how it can benefit you
018know you and your personal life you know when it comes to um thinking about relation family relations and and u friendships and things like that it's it's important for us to to have that there so it's a good book >> yeah it's a great book so I I would second it's spread out in different ways uh and then my other question was um were we going to get notes from our retreat I know. Um we usually get notes after the retreat. I just we have sometimes >> if we can definitely share the slide deck which has everything so that and then uh if if we want note takingaking during >> Yeah. Ray has given us notes before. Yeah. >> Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. for like the quite often the kind of the summary at the
019end and next steps. Yeah, I'll I'm actually uh I talked to him today about a couple other things, but I'll talk to him again and see that we can we can get that for our next retreat. >> And actually, I know Patty is working with u with their assistant and such on on u some things. So, if you could ask for the notes from the the retreat and see if we can get those out because I think that can be it's helpful. And I also appreciate the board's really uh the board really leaned in during the conversation. I know we talked about things that were important and sometimes the important conversations are not always the easy conversations and I really respect that people uh leaned in with trust towards one another. >> Seeing no further
020questions, thank you Superintendent Magus for your report. Next on the agenda, we have the schedule of the meetings and the events for what's left in July. Um, and now we'll move on to our reports of the standing committee. It is our practice in the month of July that we have no monthly committee of the whole. So, we have no report there. Um, member Saddowski and the HR business services committee are the lucky committee to get to meet in July. So, we look forward to your report. >> I was going to say, meanwhile, we had one of our longest meetings of the year, I think, on um Monday, July 14th, we met here. We had um a little bit of technology issues and so we got out our owl, but I think we actually ended up
021recording it both ways and it was it's on the YouTube for everybody to check out. Um at our schoolboard meeting, as I've I've been saying, um I gave the date, it's on YouTube, we go through our whole agenda. Um we had hundreds of pages to review um including some really important um job descriptions, resolutions um as well as contracts. So um I am just going to give some of the highlights but I would encourage everybody to to take a look at that meeting and um where we went through everything. Um so the first one um piece I wanted to highlight was on our HR report. I just wanted to say again congratulations to Tori Bremer who's moving into an HR specialist role. Um also under the HR we have reached tenative agreements in negotiations with
022the integration specialist and parun units. Um we have initial negotiation meeting dates and those are scheduled with the food service unit and then negotiations are ongoing with principles, education directors and our EA group. So those are the things I wanted to highlight from the HR report under the uh child nutrition report which is on page five in my big binder here. Um, child nutrition was awarded a $31,000 grant for Myers Wilkins for fresh fruits and vegetables. So, I just wanted to lift that up and highlight that under our facilities report. Um, on page seven, check that page out. There's a lot going on. There's a lot of summer projects going on to keep our buildings um, in good shape for our students. So, I just wanted to highlight that. And then on our transportation report,
023fingers crossed, um we had some updates on hiring and at the very end of that report, you'll see that it's that we're looking to be nearly fully staffed for the fall. So, we'll just keep our fingers crossed on our transportation, which would be great news. We really I'm always saying how much we appreciate all of our staff and our bus drivers. You know, they're one of the first faces our students see. And I know when I grew up, I had only two bus drivers, K through 12, and uh really appreciated them. So, I'm happy to see that we're um near fully staffed. Any questions so far on any of those reports or comments? >> Okay. >> Just a side comment. You were mentioning the owl in attendance and thinking about that. And just just for
024the public and for for the board, uh something we clarified just just this week when we thought we might have a board member who might not be able to be present and whatnot. Uh the new there there's a new um legislative change that allows board members to participate remotely without uh being without it being posted that they will be remote and without needing to po post the location, have it open to the public. So, uh, if there's an emergency circumstance for anybody in the future, and I know that's a huge aside from what you were talking about, but I wanted to make sure that I shared it before we forgot about the owl and thinking about that that effort. So, >> yeah. No, I appreciate you bringing that up. That's good to know. Um, and
025I just realized I kind of skipped ahead because we normally do start with our department reports, but the reason why our meeting um on the 14th was so long is that we also had some really important guest presentations that day. The first guest presentation um was from Marsh McClennon Agency for commercial insurance renewal. So, you'll also see a resolution later on in our resolutions about that. Um, Representative Bob Arnold was there and he presented about a lot of our insurance coverages and um, we got to ask some good questions. We are having um, I think it was an 11% somewhere in there increase. Yep. 11 and a half% increase in our insurance. Um, and then we did have a question that came up as far as cyber security. Um, I know that our district's always,
026our technology staff are always doing a really good job to try to prevent that, but we did decide to um increase. Is that an increase, Simone? >> Yeah. >> Excuse me. It's option two by 38,000. >> Perfect. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> It's highly recommended and um they're they're taking good care of us and I know it's very important. In fact, our technology team, our security specialist is working with all the departments now to make sure we have password security and um that person also worked closely with Marsh Mlullen to go through our cyber um security and liability insurance to make sure we're meeting everything. So, I think Peter was part of that too. >> Perfect. Thank you. And I know when we've gone down to our trainings to MSBA, there are often cyber
027security sessions that we've gotten to go to. I know I've attended a couple and um we've also read articles in in the paper Star Tribune about districts that have experienced a cyber attack and we want to make sure that we're very protected and covered. And so I um I think that that's a really good move. So, thanks to our staff for working on that and we appreciate that Bob was here to kind of give us an overview on that. Our second presentation um was a guest presentation from our own um facilities director, Brian Brown, and we also had Pat Over from IC there. And that was a presentation about our long-term facilities maintenance 10-year plan. And again, you will see a couple resolutions related to that which I can speak to in a little bit
028under our resolutions. Um, but we had everyone should have had a chance to look at that. That is, um, a plan that we look at every July. Um, we review our LTFM plan and we approve it as we see fit. Um, we are required to update, approve, and submit our 10-year LTFM plan to the Department of Education, and we're required to let them know how much we intend to levy or bond for this process. This plan needs to be in to MDE by July 31st. So, we will be voting on that tonight. And um, just a little bit of history, I gave this at the meeting, but a history of the LTFM process. Um, it was started by the state of Minnesota in 2017 as an extension um of the original health and safety alternative
029facilities process for districts to utilize for facilities needs. So, any questions or comments on that? And we can open it up for discussion when we get to resolutions, too. But, okay. And then our third guest presentation was um Jen Larva, uh our director of secondary education, was there to um speak to our school resource officer contract for FY26 through um 28. And that contract obviously has been on our board book for everyone to review. >> Do we have any questions for member Saddowski? Chair Saddowski. >> Okay. If not, I'll keep going. There's more. Wait, there's more. Chair Eater, I'm trying to go fast. Um, nope, that's okay. I just I did want to note the resolutions that kind of are the counterparts to some of those guest pres presentations. Um, for me, they're on page
03014. So, we um but it also you can see that in our table of contents. We have um a resolution for our uh FY27 long-term facilities maintenance um 10-year plan. We have uh the counterpart to that another resolution regarding the issuance of general obligation capital appreciation facilities maintenance bonds. So that's um giving permission to bond um counterpart to that um LTFM plan. And then we have a resolution for commercial insurance renewal. We have our resolution for donations to DUTH public schools. And we have our acceptance a resolution for the acceptance of grant awards to Duth Public Schools. And then um let's see here. We had um a few different job descriptions on page 50 that we looked at. um the director of advancing equity, the American Indian coordinator position, and then we also on the
031consent agenda had our teachers on call contract amendment which added um the ability to find sub secretaries and maintenance because those are always kind of hard positions to um to not have around. They're really important and sometimes they're hard to find sub for. So, that's really going to be helpful. There was no financial report this month. That will resume um in the next month or two. And then on page 56, we had all of our contracts. So, just to kind of go over them. Um we had several that had to do with um um like special education. So, you can look at those. Um, there was a lease for the Washington Center for early childhood, which um, I've always really appreciated that we have early childhood in the Washington Center. I kind of spoke to
032the fact that it's really accessible. I've brought a lot of, um, youth and their children there over the years. Um, and it's just a really great program and a great location. So, I was happy to see that. And then we have our contract for our um, school resource officer. And there's a lot more in there, but you can watch the whole meeting um where we discussed it all in detail. But any other questions about our HR member Lafer Kemp? >> Uh not a question so much as um great report too. Uh uh just about the school resource officer program. I just have really appreciated the updates we've been getting throughout the year on this and on the process um with the school resource officer program agreement. uh but also uh the updates that they are
033sending out to uh the community and on our website the section we have on there on kind of the role of school resource officers and the the variety of roles that they play uh in terms of building relationships with our our students and staff. So just a comment on that. I look forward to that continuing. Great. >> Thank you. I've also appreciated getting the data from that all those reports. So great. Oh, member Loel, >> just a comment about teachers on call um working with our substitute custodial and transportation. Yes. >> Secretarial and >> custodians and clerical. Okay. Has that been have we had that has somebody else been doing that in HR contacting um subs or or do we go without them when when we have the vacancy? >> Teresa, >> we have a
034few retirees that are willing to come back on occasion >> and we do that do that contact through the human resources department but it is few and far between and definitely doesn't fill the need otherwise they go unfilled. I'm just imagining all of our elementary schools with the preschools and not having that um secretary there to greet everybody. Yeah. >> And I can I can speak to that just from from the experience we all have with our children in there and and in the schools is that Yeah. I think there's always been an expectation that, you know, I think they get their own subs. If they know someone that's retired, they'll ask HR to reach out or they just don't they there's just no expectation that they'll that there'll be a clerical um in that
035seat um on a day that they have to be gone. And so I'm glad that we're able to support that because they have um needs to be out of the building just like everybody else. So, um, I'd be interested to I would be nice to have an update on teachers on call for both our substitutes in the classroom and then clerical and maintenance and see how they're doing. >> Superintendent Magus. >> Sure. And we uh we're going to be finishing our our u annual review of the program and just uh forformational purposes uh teachers on call is changing their name u to Kelly Services. they they work with Kelly and so they're just uh it's part of their branding and whatnot. But I've I've we've we've been relatively impressed with with teachers on call. Um
036I think it was a change in practice that that took a little bit for people to get used to, but once people got used to it, I think people are are uh very think of it very favorably. And what I do like that I think would be helpful even for this type of situation with clerical and other is that there's um a lot of training opportunity both you online training and other things for support that that subs didn't used to get before and so I think it's it's helpful >> member Laughler camp do you still have a question Okay, great. Seeing no other questions, we'll give the superintendent a minute to dry his tie off there and um move on to We had no policy committee meeting this month. Um the policy committee will resume
037their important work in August. Now, we'll move on to general um where am I? General board committee updates. Do any of our members have any general board committee updates? Member Saddowski. >> Um, no significant updates. I would just say that, um, we were, you know, emailing on our intergovernmental committee. Um, and we all agreed that we would just take, um, we won't be, it's really busy right now for a lot of the folks on that, the city councilors, the county commissioners, and us. So, we're taking a break and we'll resume in September. >> That's great. Seeing no other um general committee updates, let's go ahead and move on to the consent agenda. May I Excuse me. I'd like to u remove an item for further clarifying and uh just uh making sure that the constituents
038I serve in the district have information that's necessary for um 1.b.2d.1 2D.1 and that is the city of Duth school resource officer SRO physical year 2026 through 2028 contract. I would like to have further uh clarification and conversation on that. >> Great. Thank you, member banks. So, we will remove from the consent agenda. I just had that written down as well. um the uh agenda item that member banks removed from the consent agenda. So, do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda without the item that member banks pulled from the agenda? >> So, moved. Um we have do I have a second? >> We have um a motion by member Loalt, a second by um member Williams. Do we have any discussion? Seeing no further discussion, all those in favor of the consent
039agenda as modified, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carried. The consent agenda has passed. We will now move on to the agenda item that um member banks pulled, which is the contract with the city of Duth for the school resource officer. >> Thank you. >> You bet. I just have a couple of questions and need further clarification uh with regard to this contract. Um and I'll just start on the first there which is article two funding of the school resource officer program. We know it's a three-year contract. It's a um in my opinion quite expensive. Uh when I added up uh the total cost for the three-year contract, it comes in a little bit over a million dollars. It's a million66 278. And so I would like for um the superintendent
040and others uh at the table to uh talk a little bit more about that for our constituents and uh ex kind of explain what that is all about because there were some significant increases uh in the cost of the SRO. >> Sure. I can talk about the finances a little bit and Jen Larva worked uh as well on the contract. So she is um director Lara is up here with me as well if there are things that she wants to answer as well. Um so basically in in a nutshell we've been paying for 80% of the salary of the officers over uh the past few years and um we paid for I think 3% of the lieutenant that was that was uh overseeing it. We've kept to that same model of paying for 80% of
041salary, but the salaries for our SRO's through the city uh were negotiated at a higher rate. So basically, we're we're still paying the same percentage, but because of the uh high demand for uh police officers, uh the the pay for police officers has risen significantly. So, so basically we're still paying 80% but that it's 80% of a larger number because of what they've negotiated for for contract. So, uh we we know that there were other things that they would have liked um to have us cover uh and we negotiated in district favor to uh keep it limited to the scope of what we've done in the past uh related to the percentage we've done in the past rather than uh specifically changing there. We also recognize, however, that those percentage increases are more than our
042teacher increases, but that's what the city had negotiated with their police officers for their contracts. Uh we did have a little uh interesting conversation today because we we when we looked at the uh contracts on the website, the actual straight up salary percentages appeared to be a little bit a little bit lower than what we see here. But when there were other things built into the contract that were so when you look at the total package the salary was the 7% the 4.5% and the 5%. So we um we investigated that thoroughly because we didn't want to >> tell you that we were doing the percentage increase and then have that percentage increase be higher than what is reflected on the page. I'm not sure if uh Teresa or Simone if there's anything you'd add
043or >> No. Um yeah, the way it was explained to us um that there are other um paragraphs within the contract that there are certain types of officers that work every day every hour of every day or an 8 10 hour day and they they get an extra piece of their salary for doing that work. So when you total it up it comes to the 7% the four and a half and the five. Um the base salary which we all know how that works. We have base salaries as well was the two and a half two or and whatever it was for the three years. So what we're seeing online is their base salary but there are other um pays to the um officers that are built in within the contract. Can I add um
044through our ne negotiations with the city um we're not paying for any of the benefits either. So I just want to make sure that you're aware of that. That is just that 80% of the salary. >> Okay. So my next uh question or uh concern is u whether or not as I looked at this contract a few times um is there any indication in the contract that would suggest that uh the SRO's have traumainformed education or um a trauma-informed background. The reason I asked that question is we have a lot of uh students that come from a variety of homes and backgrounds and I want to just make sure that our SRO's have that training. If they don't have that training, um could we provide some kind of provision for them to get that training?
045>> Yeah, there was some language in there around the different kinds of training that I think got cleaned up a little bit. Um, so it's not specifically stating that they were going to be attending all school district trainings. I think that was in a previous contract. Um, but they do have to attend um, SRO training and they do do a lot of the responsive training through the DPD. Um, they've kind of made the same commitment that we have um, of doing some of the traum trauma-informed practices. And so um they assured us that that is also happening at on their end cuz they are duluth police department employees. They're receiving the same training that their whole department is receiving. >> Okay. So >> I just I want to clarify too. Uh so there was in
046our previous con so contracts generally spell out uh the more the provisions of the work and the finances uh and they don't always go into the deep details of everything. And so when when um uh director Larva talked about the cleaning up the contract, there's there's another document that is is being worked on that that outlines that further because we had it's kind of like when we do policy work how sometimes there's a lot of managerial and other language that we decide later, let's pull that out of the policy and put it into a regulation. We decided something similar with this contract and we want to have we want to make sure that we have that documented with the DPD but that it is u not something that would normally be spelled out in that
047degree of specificity in in a contract. So when we when we look at what our expectations are we we expect the DPD does do significant training for their officers in um a wide variety of areas that that are partially adjacent to what you're you're talking about. But we also uh talk to them about making sure that they're getting trained up in the trainings of our district whether it be implicit bias training or trauma or or those deescalation uh because we agree with you. We want to make sure that that is well supported. >> Right. Thank you. And that does include the cultural uh trainings regarding what the largest non-white uh demographics in ISD 709 schools are Native heritage and AfricanAmerican heritage. So does that additional document include uh having full knowledge and understanding of those
048uh cultural groups and uh if so um what what would that look like? >> I think I think we would have to look into it for the details but part of it is it's it's an alignment for what it's it's aligned for what we're teaching our staff too. Uh and and that is something that we focus on with with our staff. uh we had significant training on American Indian education and uh diversity, equity and inclusion uh and other things particular particularly the October training that we had was uh very very deep in in that and uh I'm I'm fumbling it's been been kind of a long day and so I'm fumbling a little bit with words but basically >> uh the way you express you know have full knowledge of >> yes >> culture it's
049it's hard to have full knowledge of a culture but we want to make sure that they have um significant understanding so that they can begin and continue their journey of of examining their their implicit biases, their their uh reaction and knowledge of certain cultures, their interaction with certain knowledge and and cultures. I think it goes beyond just that too. I think thinking about working with uh neuro neurode divergent students for instance the way that you deescalate a neurode divergent student as opposed to a neuro neurotypical student is different too. So we want to make sure that our our training for stu for for our our SRO is broad and thoughtful related to the differences within our students. >> Okay. I I have two more questions and I'll get out of your hair on this. No
050>> problem. Under uh 4.1 letter J uh it says if an SRL separates from employment city will fill the vacant position with a qualified candidate as soon as possible. I'm hoping moving forward that uh there can be an actual timeline in there as to when that will be accomplished. >> Yeah, this has been was a topic of a lot of discussion a thorough discussion related to this. Um, I don't know. I think it just came out recently like there's 26 officers that they are short on the DPD or something. I mean, it just came out that I saw in the news. Um, so they're they're always facing shortages as well. Um, we do have the sergeant, the community policing sergeant who will step in. He may not be able to be there the whole day,
051but he does step in. Um, they also have shared responsibilities, so like the Lincoln Park um, SRO might go over to Denfeld and support them um, as needed. Um, so we did have great conversation around that. At this point in time, they don't feel like they can offer us a timeline. >> I I think too, um, and I appreciated you, um, sharing some of these qu questions with me ahead of time. It allowed us to to think about it and reflect. Uh and and one of the things that we discussed as well with the DPD is our shared desire and um the shared desire for the for the outcome that we have people that are not just superficially qualified but they're actually a good match for this that they have an interest in it because
052we don't want to just stick a patrol off nothing against patrol officer by any means but we don't want to just randomly put a officer in into the position that doesn't have understanding or interest in working in in this position because it takes it takes a special person to be a really strong school resource officer. And we have we're we're really lucky right now and and sometimes when there's a vacancy uh we want to make sure that we take take the time to find the right person rather than move it along so quickly and put the wrong person in place. >> I have just one more question. Seriously. So, moving forward, I would like to see if it's possible for uh our SRO's, if we can put this into contract or kind of negotiate this,
053provide a monthly uh report on ticketing um especially to uh the school board as opposed to a quarterly report so that we um can see monthly what's happening in our schools. and uh because of the disproportionality of tickets being given to African-American and Native heritage students uh that has uh data that supports that. If we can get that uh to the board or to uh the necessary entities within the district, it gives us a better opportunity to uh start to really focus on that school to prison pipeline. uh that very much affects our children of color. Is that something that uh could be looked into? >> So, my understanding is that we get a monthly report as far as our tickets and so that gets posted on our website. Um if you would like it
054to be sent to you directly. Um they do send me the reports every month. I can just make sure that you're getting it at the same time that I'm getting it. Um I also have made the request. Um I I know that you are on my SRO advisory and we have talked about some of the touches that they have like the data surrounding like how many interactions they've had with students and and some of the different pieces of that. Um I've asked for that to be more regularly provided to us as well. So I could also share that when they do provide me with that information. >> All right. Thank you very much and I'm satisfied. I appreciate the uh responses. Thank you. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. um member Laughler Kemp and then member
055Saddowski followed by um member Micahil. Okay, thank you. Yeah, good discussion as we always have had around this topic. Um I wanted to uh thank you Jed just for the work on negotiating this contract. I know a lot of time was spent on that and I just really appreciate that you're honor honoring the city of Duth police union contract as well. Um, so that's um, uh, really important to me. Um I was wondering if under the training um when we kind of talked about district training that uh they attend maybe it would be helpful um just based on some of the comments um that have been made to for us to get a list of that as as part of an update at the end of the year what you know trainings um that the
056different officers have had done that were districtwide on some of those topics you maybe mentioned. >> Yeah, I can make that request previously. And and then the other uh thing um under age um 4.1H where it talked about newly assigned SRO's will attend the SRO specific trainings such as NASRO's basic SRO course um which I think we all have understood that SRO's do get a lot of training um that that are are chosen to to to become SRO's but that might be helpful uh maybe to just find out what that training entitles you know what topics they Yeah. Um I feel like and and this might have happened before I was in charge of the SRO project um that you have gotten updates from the SRO. Is this something that you would like me to
057communicate to like when they do an annual update? No, I I was just saying they they do that training and I know when we had some other further in-depth conversations on SRO's over the years, we did get I think it was kind of a list of what was kind of generally covered for SRO the training that they provide through the national SRO association. Uh so that that that's all it would be more forformational. Um, and just again, um, I really, you know, uh, appreciate the work our SRO's do in building relationships with our, uh, parents, with our students, with our staff in our district. Um, Director Larva, I was wondering um just for our community and maybe just as a reminder for us all here, how do we um continue to just assess the SRO
058program um just on an ongoing basis specifically um getting uh student feedback and things like that. um especially if you could talk to um and if you can't that's okay but to different affinity groups within our student groups you know how do we get their input and feedback >> yeah thank you um so this is my first time taking over the SRO advisory and we only actually met twice um the first time we looked at the evaluation tool kind of revamped the checklist to make it more um easier for us to do like we needed to actually complete an evaluation of the program and So we worked on that um and completed that this year. So it's an annual we're supposed to be doing annually like evaluating the program um and sharing that with our
059advisory committee. Met with the principles um and that's really kind of how we did that. We did um do the student survey to get data and information um student and family surveys. um didn't get as much information as we really had hoped to receive and our advisory group did talk about that. Um it's a lot on our students in the spring to ask them to complete surveys. We had the state um survey that had come out. We had our climate survey. We had the SRO survey. I mean, it's a lot on our students. And so, we really did not get the participation that we had hoped. We thought that by connecting it to our school climate survey that we'd get more responses and in actuality we got less. So, um that is one of the
060conversations that we did have was like how can we get to more of the affinity groups? How can we um how can we maybe do more of like one-on-one interviews with kids or group interviews with kids? Um, so we had that conversation at our last meeting and that's kind of what we're going to plan on for next year was to um revamp how we're getting that feedback. >> Thank you for speaking to that. And I know um, Superintendent Magus, you've been speaking about doing a like a citywide city council or I might have the term wrong, but that could be a maybe a topic of conversation to have there potentially. Um, just just a thought, >> right? and and actually director Larva has been helping with that effort as well, thinking about how are we
061going to um work to create that intra district uh student student council. >> Uh and we've we've met with student groups and we've had conversation. We're kind of on a little bit of a pause over the summer, but we want to make sure that we um go deep into it right away in the fall once our students are back so that we can get it up and running for for this next school year. >> Great. Thank you. And then are just one last really quick yes or no question. Are we still going to be getting the SRO newsletter? >> Yes. >> Okay. Thanks. >> I'm assuming so. >> Um, the SRO newsletter, is that something that Adele sends out? >> That was something the police department Oh, the police department sent out. Okay. Yes. I
062was just searching in my email and I >> didn't feel like we Yeah, our last one was in October and I think before that we were getting them a little more maybe quarterly and I really appreciated those newsletters unless I missed one. So >> I think that would be >> it had the data >> that wasn't on my radar. So you've put it on my radar so that's good. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Do you know his name? If you search his name >> is what's the name of the >> community? >> Yeah. Y >> um I appreciate this discussion that we've been having. Um I have two questions. Um one, uh Superintendent Magnus, you talked a lot about the officers uh being able to participate in our school district trainings or some of
063our professional development days in which we talk about different subjects that member Banks was kind of referring to. Um, I'm glad that that's happening. One thing I've noticed though in our new contract is some of the language that um states that job duties of SRO's will include going to staff meetings and participating in other um events with a school has been removed. So, um, if that's something that we want to make sure that continues going forward, that might be something to consider in the next contract. making sure that's very explicit that we are that the expectation is that they're participating in some of those professional development um days and subjects. >> Um second, just from a a fiscal lens, obviously we recognize that law enforcement is um going through challenges recruiting um like over these
064last few decades of and um one of the incentives is um offering higher salaries. And so we can't control the salary that the city has um agreed to pay law enforcement officers, including those who are SRO's. Um but recognizing that every time they do offer them an increase, it impacts our budget. It impacts the the finances we're paying and we're giving 7% increases now the last two years. We'll give another 7% increase this year, 4.5 next year, five the year after that. Um, is there ever a chance during conversations and negotiations of talking about that percentage that the district is obligated to pay when we're not necessarily able to directly say how much their total package is worth. We're not making that we're not able to negotiate directly with law enforcement, but we're Anyway, >>
065so we we did engage in some of those conversations and and uh I don't want to go too much into like what their first offers were and our first offers were and such, but uh there was as as with most negotiations, there was a back and forth about certain things and there were pretty significant asks that they were looking for as far as an increase beyond what what they're asking for here that they feel is justified. For instance, the u the 3% that we're playing paying for uh the sergeant who oversees the program. There's a sentiment that he spends far more than 3% of his time there and they were actually hoping for a considerable amount more than that. But we felt that because we were locking in uh we we we didn't we didn't
066want to increase that that part significantly. So it was it was a little bit of a a trade back and forth. uh to to to some extent. Um I I think they would they would argue very very hard against us paying less than that 80%. I think that they they feel that you know I and I think um I think too and this is our at least our second I think our third time through that we've done SRO contract because when I started we did a one-year extension then we did a three-year and now we're going on to the next three-year if I remember correctly. Um but uh the I think if we are interest like I think that that the the rates are going to continue to go up for what we pay in
067SRO contract and if if we if we did get to a point where we wanted to go down a different path I think we would need at least a year or two to explore other options and make sure that we had solid supports in place uh rather than change things like o over the summer. So, um I think having continued dialogue as to whether or not we can afford like I we know the price is going to keep going up and so I think we have to have have a some conversations as as a district and with the board saying if if the if we know the price is going to continue to go up does the board want us to explore other options because there are cities that do have other options. I'm not
068recommending that at this point, but but that's I don't know. It's just kind of the like I don't mean to say like it's just the way it is, but it's the kind of the financial reality of um where things are particularly with with the city budget. And uh it does seem that um their salaries are outpacing ours to some extent, particularly with the police with the police officers. And I think it's partly due to the the risk involved and also the I think sometimes the sentiments around the country and sometime that that's what we're hearing at least from the police department is it's harder to recruit for the job because it's seen in a somewhat different light now than it was years ago. So I think I'm kind of meandering here. Uh but but I'll
069try and land the plane. um the rate it's going to keep getting more expensive for us and and I I think it will be hard for us to argue too much against that 80%. Uh because that's the amount of time that they spend out of their contracted year in the building. But um we can continue to try harder with our negotiations and if we get to a point and if the board has feedback that they want us to do something different, we be glad to look into it. >> Thank you. Member Laughler Kemp and member Lo. >> Yeah. Uh I was also wondering uh uh director uh Larva when you talked about doing a student family surve a student and family survey and uh surveying the principles um is there a route to uh survey
070our staff on uh the role they just on the SRO's I guess and a similar survey I guess because I I know as we had community meetings around this a few years back. Um, a lot of staff uh participated in those meetings and and uh you know, they're the ones in the buildings um working with our kids directly and and and so I just I would encourage us to hear from them as well. >> Yeah. Um I appreciate that and um it had not been something that we talked about. We've only really talked about families and students, but um it's something that I can add to the agenda for our meeting in the fall. Member Loalt. >> Thank thank you for that update too because I there I think how many of us are on
071the board? Is there four of us that went through the Marneita table and the whole kind of year and a half? Is there four of us? Is it member Zowski? Were you on the board? >> I was attending as a >> community member and then we were still wrapping that up when I got on the board. So a lot of our you know my perception comes from that process where we did do a deeper dive into surveys, a deeper dive into affinity groups and staff groups and you know and it was still hard you know there were still recommendations from Marneita tables consulting that you know needed to be addressed by the duth you know duth public schools and we we we got a lot of of headway and that's where a lot of the
072advisory committee comes from that's where the checklist and stuff comes from. And so, um, I mean, I think we're, this is a good conversation. It's time. I think what, um, member Mikeell brings up has been discussed even in the last contract negotiation where, you know, I I think there was even a that at that contract, you know, the city kind of overstepped as well and only, you know, wanted a one-year contract. And um so there was you know always been some some big discussions about about what we pay for our SRO. So I'm glad even that you know um superintendent mega says you know maybe you know we just we cannot wait we have to have a plan if in 3 years something needs to change because financially it's just pricing us out of but
073the thing I will share with fellow board members is the more the more that we ask for more accountability more professional development more then that's where the 80% % comes from. So be careful what we not necessarily I mean we need to know things but if you're going to go from a quarterly re report to a monthly or I think there is a monthly the newsletter this the sergeant who oversees that's a new position totally I believe in the last four years because of of the board's decisions but also our community that came forward that said they wanted um you know more communication with the with the school board and and with the district and so the SRO's don't have time to do that. So they hired this sergeant Mike Jamar Jam Jambor and you
074know there's been another one before him as well. So there has been added cost um because we we want more accountability. So the 80% might seem high but yet we we are asking more of them than we did six years ago. So they they do get a little bit more. That's why the percentage goes up. So I'm not I'm not saying we're doing anything wrong or I'm not saying we should do anything different. I'm just saying in my mind I think we've we went through the two-year um journey with really deep diving into SRO's and found that they are by and large desirable by our community and by the school board and that they serve a really good process. We just had conversation in the HR business about our safety. I think it was more
075safety in property insurance, but you know, safety is a big part of our board work and SRO's offer that that option for us right now. And so I'm just, you know, there's been great conversation every everybody that added something. It's really important and I really am glad we're going to continue. I served on the advisory committee um and we were meeting more regularly but again the more you you know sergeant um director Tuskcen was there in the beginning and now it's it's um Chief Senoa the more we ask of them to come the more you know compensation they want or or need it it's a respect thing if they're going to come to more meetings of the district and um you know I don't know it's kind of what we what we have to do
076but it's certainly worth a journey of investigating if if we we can't always control what the city is giving for their raises. So, the 80% might be okay, but when their salaries are high, then it's a lot of money. But I I I really would love and you don't need to give me this right now, um, member banks, but I just have a hard time believing that the the four um SRO's and and the sergeants salaries or the cost comes to over a million for our district. It is >> over three years. >> Oh, I gotcha. Okay, that Yeah, that makes sense. >> Very significant, right? Um I I just wanted to clarify, >> member banks. Go ahead. >> I'm sorry. Clarify something. So my request for the monthly ticket uh analysis stuff uh is
077solely to uh have a handle or get a handle on that because uh the data that I reviewed over the last year uh indicated that the the issuance of tickets by our SRO's uh the students that were getting those tickets uh customarily were African-American kids and Native American kids and those kids were on the western part in the western part of our community. And so I'm concerned about that. That's a disproportionality. And so we as a school district need to get a handle on that. And I I would just share that the the two years I sat on advisory the data wasn't conclusive in that area member banks and that I think we have to be careful when we make kind of these general statements when we don't have the data sitting in front of
078us that we give that message to our community. I I understand your passion and your service and I respect that. But I also sat on that committee too where um the principles do talk about it, do look at the data and and there's just a lot there's just a lot of things about how you collect data and who's collecting it and who's reporting it and how often and you know some some suggest that not everybody turns in the data so it looks a little bit more skewed. So you have to be careful about making huge generalizations um without our school district here especially our principles who are the ones you know kind of in the buildings where disruptions and um potential um need for SRO work is there. So just I'm just sensitive about that
079as well because I've sat there as well and I taught in that building or or in the western part. So I I just want to caution us to not have sweeping general generalizations when the people here that could explain it better and show the actual numbers. And we we we met more as an advisory than two times. And I'm not saying you shouldn't. I we had a lot of meetings and a lot of people didn't come. And so it was my suggestion at one point to limit the amount amount of advisories and maybe we get the people at the at the meetings was always a few teachers, the principles and the SRO's and and we needed more at the table. So I I appreciate that as well. But we were getting those information and have
080rich conversation about the topics u member banks that you talk about and there were significant um conversations um from our our teachers and our staff in the buildings discussing about the ratios and about that need. >> Member banks. >> Thank you. And just to uh be clear, not a generalization. Um what I just shared with you is factual data >> that that that is available. Uh as a person that sits on the SRO advisory committee, I've seen the data. The data suggests that the students who are getting the tickets disproportionately are African-American and Native American students in the western part of our city. That's factually correct. And uh we have that information and uh I wouldn't be saying it if it were not factually correct. I don't do generalizations especially with regard to this topic.
081Superintendent Maggus. >> So I think that there in Duth like in in many u parts of the country and there there are uh quite often there's there's a correlation between areas with greater poverty and u populations that have had generational poverty and trauma. uh and there being um sometimes more significant events of uh disciplinary events and behavioral events and sometimes police events and that's I think part of the reason why you think it's important for us to make sure that we continue to train up on trauma and culture and things like that. uh p personally even even myself as as a as a principal uh when I looked at my own data there were disproportionalities and I think part of it is because we need to look in into those root causes too to see
082uh like if if we're working with students that maybe have had significant trauma or generational poverty or things like that that are that are affecting what are we doing to make sure that our staff are not uh unintentionally setting people off uh or that they have as many tools in their tool belt as possible to deal with the situation. I think we need to do the same with our our SRO. Um but again, you even looking at my own data, sometimes it was disproportionately skewed towards um students of poverty, students, special education students, uh students of color. And uh some I think it's important to go deeper with the data too to look at what what were the preceding events, what led up to that because sometimes we realized it was um I mean we
083we I I would love to to go more deeply into it, but basically what I'm saying is that there are disproportionalities and we do need to continue to address them. And I think that I would also say that on behalf of the police department and the district, I think that that we've worked hard to to address those and we've reduced uh the disproportionality, but there still are disproportional disproportional outcomes for the kids. So, we're committed and I think the police department needs to be and is committed on on doing that. And I would also say that um I'd be remiss if if I didn't didn't uh say that the police department has has doubled down on relationship building and you see it in many ways when you're when you're at Denfeld or you're at East
084and there's or or you're out in the community and there's the community policing bus at the Junth and like I I think that we we are lucky to have a police department that is trying hard to reduce those disproportionalities and those are thing. There's still much work to be done. Same as our school district, we have very disproportionate outcome, academic outcomes for our students and and we're making progress, but um when those disproportionalities have been there for for many years and when they're so significant, we need to also keep a sense of urgency around it so that we continue to address it as well. So, it's multiaceted and uh we we will continue to work work to address it. Can I interject? Um, I just would like to share that during the 2122 school year,
085there were 115 citations that had been issued. This past year, we had 18. So, we've made some significant improvements. And yes, we do have more black and brown students that are um receiving citations and they are coming from the western side more often than not. I I would agree when you take a look you can look at the website and you can see that um but we are significantly down which is a celebration and we did talk about that at at the advisory committee as well. >> Thank you. And I guess that was the point I was trying to make is that I I have known that it has reduced so so so well or so many many that I felt that the disproportionality isn't as significant as I guess I thought you were inclined.
086So good to know. Um and I would also say um we spoke at the agenda at the CO agenda setting meeting today and we will be having an SRO presentation coming up and I think this will be a fruitful discussion to continue then. And then lastly, um I would just say that perhaps as part of that discussion or moving on that we all collectively get a good idea or we collectively define when we talk about data. um just because I think it is always a good idea that everybody um especially at this table has a common understanding of what data we find to be relevant and important and um that will help us shape policy and shape what it looks like to have an SRO in our school moving forward. So I think that's something
087that um as part of this new work session meeting that we're trying to do that is something that we can add to that agenda. I'll keep that on my mind and we can we can do that work together collectively. So, seeing no further discussion, do we have a motion to approve the SRO contract? So, moved. Member Lal's moved it. Do we have a second? I'll seconded it. Um, do we have any discussion? Seeing no further discussion, all those in favor of the approval of the SRO contract, please signify by saying I. >> I. Opposed. Motion carries. We have a approved SRO agenda. Thank you. Contract. Thank you. Contract. Moving on. Now we will be looking at our resolution from the committee reports. Member Saddowski. >> We're already here. >> Yep. >> Resolutions. >> That's good.
088All right. Am I moving? Oh, I have the wrong one. Here we go. I'm going to move resolution B-7-25-4109, a resolution for the FY20 2027 long-term facilities maintenance LTFM 10-year plan. >> Member Saddowski um has made the motion. Do I have a second? >> Uh member Laughler Kemp has seconded. Do we have any discussion? Do we have any discussion? No, I can't. I that just busted out in my head for some reason. Um any further discussion? Seeing no further discussion, all those in favor of um the FY2027 long-term facilities maintenance 10-year plan, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion carries. Wa. Okay, moving on. Just breathing into that. We have a resolution B-7-25-4108. This is a resolution regarding the issuance of general obligation capital appreciation facilities maintenance bonds Siri 2025A. I move
089that resolution forward. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Member Saddowski seconds it. Do we have any discussion regarding the issuance of general obligation capital appreciation facilities maintenance bond? Seeing no further discussion, all those in favor of resolution B-7-25-4108, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion carries. Moving on, next we have um member Loalt. >> I move resolution B-7-25-4110. It's a resolution for the um fiscal year 26 on commercial insurance renewal. Be it resolved by the school board of Independent School District number 709, St. Louis County. The FY 2026 commercial insurance renewal is approved. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Member Micel. It's been moved by member Loel, seconded by member Micasol. Do we have any discussion? Any hot topics related to our insurance? Seeing no further discussion, all
090those in favor of resolution B-7-25-4110, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion carries. >> Member Micahel. I move resolution B-7-25-4111 uh the acceptance of donations to Duth public schools. Do we have a second member? Well, it has been moved by member micel seconded by member Williams. Do we have any discussions on our great donations to the duth public schools? The only discussion I have is to thank all of the members of our community who support our schools. Seeing no further Oh, member Saddowski. >> No, just getting ready. >> Seeing no further discussion, all those in favor of resolution B-7-25-4111, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Member Saddowski. >> I move resolution B-7-25-4112. It's a resolution for the acceptance of grant awards to Duth Public Schools. >> Member
091Saddowski has moved. Do we have a second? >> Member Laughler Kemp has seconded. Do we have any discussion about the great grant awards that we are going to be receiving here at the Duth Public Schools? Member Laughler Kemp. not really a discussion, but I just want to acknowledge that this is from our new director of uh executive director of Duth Community Schools Collaborative and uh it's to support the restorative practice practices initiative at Lincoln Park Middle School and that's just really significant for that school, for that community, and also um is our new ED to receive that grant. So, just wanted to acknowledge that. Thank you member Laughler Kemp for lifting up our new ED. Do we have any other discussion? Seeing no further discussion, all those in favor, please signify by saying I. >>
092I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Member Laughler camp. >> I am making a motion to hire the Head Start key hired director candidate. Um >> Oh, I'm sorry. >> That was my practice. Okay. Uh, I am making a motion to hire the new Head Start key hire director candidate. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. Member Saddowski. It's moved by member Laughafler Kemp, seconded by member Saddowski. Do we have any discussion about this great hire for our district? Seeing no discussion, all those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Bam. Okay. Last but not Nope. We got a couple more. Okay. Next, we have the approval of the technology director contract. Member Sidowski. Um I move to um app for the approval of the technology director um individual contract. >>
093Great. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> It has been moved by member Sidowski, seconded by member Loal. Do we have any discussion on this great agreement? Seeing no further discussion, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Bam. All right. Last but certainly not least, member banks. >> Thank you. I move resolution, excuse me, number HR-7-22-4113, which is a resolution education Minnesota duth integration specialist resolved by the school board of independent school district 709 St. Louisis County, Minnesota at the collective bargaining agreement between Independent School District 709 and the Education Minnesota DUTH Integration Specialist, a summary of which is in the hands of all school board members, be approved and adopted for the period of July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028 inclusive and that the chairperson
094and clerk of the school board be hereby authorized to execute said agreement on behalf of the school district. Do we have a second? >> Second. Me. >> Um, it's been moved by member banks, seconded by member Laughafler Kemp. Do we have any discussion about this great contract? >> Great job. Um, my only discussion would be to thank our HR team and our administration for getting this done, including and of course um our integration specialists. We thank them. They are um absolute critical members of our community and support um a lot of our students and a lot of our schools. So, I I just want to lift up that the work that's been done on both sides. Um, do we have any other discussion? Seeing no further discussion, all those in favor of resolution HR7-22-4113, please
095signify by saying I. >> I. Opposed. Motion carries. Nicely done. Moving on to the last couple things. Do we have any questions or any other information that the board members would like to share with our community or our fellow board members? Great. We have no sharing today. So, what we're looking for right now is a motion for adjournment. Oh, member Williams got there first. Who's coming in with the second? >> Second. >> Member Saddowski. It has been moved by member Williams, second in by member Saddowski. Do you have any discussion on that? Take some time. really soak it in. Seeing no further discussion, all those in favor of adjournment, please signifi signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. We arejourn. Thank you everybody.