February 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM - Independent School District 507 Regular School Board Meeting
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1. CALL TO ORDER
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2. ROLL CALL
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3. VISITOR COMMENTS
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The school board meeting is a meeting in the public, not a public meeting. Nicollet School Board Policy provides that persons who wish to have a subject discussed at a public school board meeting are encouraged to notify the superintendent’s office in advance of the school board meeting. The school board chair will recognize one speaker at a time and will rule out of order other speakers who are not recognized, violations of data privacy, or inappropriate comments.
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Visitors: Emmelyn Kin, Caroline Stutsman, Mike Slater, Nicole Helget, Heather Robb, Jake Robb, Liberty Allen, Brittany Anderson,Bridget Olsen, Joan Hulke ,Julie Olsen, Carrie Hoffman and Katy Meister.
Vistors that wished to speak: Joan Hulke, Julie Olsen and Bridget Olsen, and we allowed one online-Ashley Swenson to speak on the topic of racism in the school. |
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4. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
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5. 2023-2024 AUDITOR PRESENTATION
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Auditors Report - presented by BerganKDV / Jim Friehammer (attachment) Questions from the Board |
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6. REPORTS AND PRESENTATION
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6.a. Superintendent's Report
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6.b. Principal's Report
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6.c. Student Representative's Report
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6.d. Board Committees' Reports
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7. CONSENT AGENDA
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7.a. Approval of Minutes
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7.b. Approval of Bills in the amount of $
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7.c. Approval of Personnel Items
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7.d. Accept Donations
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8. POLICY ITEMS
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8.a. Policy 524.5 PERSONAL ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICES
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The policy attached has been updated to include the required cell phone language policy. Policy 524.5 is an addition to Policy 524 Internet Acceptable Use and Safety
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8.b. Policy 515 PROTECTION AND PRIVACY OF PUPIL RECORDS
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Policy 515 PROTECTION AND PRIVACY OF PUPIL RECORDS
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Policy 515 PROTECTION AND PRIVACY OF PUPIL RECORDS The superintendent recommends editing Policy 515 as follows: Under III Definitions - Add A. Authorized Representative and correct the headings for the letters B - R. Add D. Directory Information #2 Under Minnesota Law. This addition authorizes the school district to limit directory information by not designating a student’s home address, telephone number, email address, or other personal contact information as "directory information". |
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9. 2025-2026 CALENDAR
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Superintendent recommends the school board adopt the attached 2025-2026 calendar as presented. The calendar meets the contract days for teachers, allows for staff development and improvement implementation, and provides the days required by law for student attendance. The superintendent also recommends the Board establish a procedure to create two calendar years of service beginning with the 2026-2027 and 2027-2028 to coincide with contract negotiations.
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10. TEACHER EARLY RETIREMENT INCENTIVE REQUEST
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Jodi Murphy requested the Board consider early retirement application as allowed under MS 122A.48 in which a teacher who has at least 15 total years of full-time teaching service in elementary, secondary, and technical colleges... and has or will have attained the age of 55 years but less than 65 years as of the June 30 in the school year during which an application for an early retirement incentive is made. Jodi Murphy submitted her application February 1, 2025 to Adam Erickson, Board Chair and Robin Courrier, Superintendent. Adam Erickson directed Robin Courrier to meet with Negotiations Board members Jill Martens and Abbi Carleton to review the application. Robin, Jill, and Abbi met Wednesday, February 5, 2025 7:20pm-9:00pm. The Board negotiating team recommends approving Jodi Murphy’s request for early retirement as defined in the attached agreement.The Board negotiating team also recognizes that Jodi Murphy has the option to accept the agreement as written or choose to withdraw her request for early retirement.
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Terms of retirement incentive as follows: $20,000 contributed to HCSP, one time payment. From then on, $11,000 annually with the difference to paid by the teacher until medicare.
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11. BUSINESS MANAGER REQUESTS FOR APPROVAL
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11.a. Approve Resolution for a Corporate Line of Credit in the amount of $150,000/$250,000 with ProGrowth Bank effective February 12, 2025 through February 12,2026.
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11.b. Remove and add authorized signers with ProGrowth. remove Mike Slater, add Jill Martens attached a copy of the corporate resolution that was done in July 2023.
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12. Enrollment Task Force
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The superintendent is recommending the Board approve the establishment of an Enrollment Growth Task Force led by Nancy Remmert K-8 Principal. We request approval of a beginning budget of $10,000.
Purpose: To promote and generate opportunities for open enrollment to Nicollet Public Schools. To enhance current programming to support College in the School opportunities to retain Nicollet Secondary students who are college bound and to provide CIS opportunities to Open Enrolled Secondary students. To build a promotional advertisement inviting attendance to Nicollet Public Schools. To create a recommendation outlining transportation options for open enrolled students to attend Nicollet Public Schools.
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13. ADJOURNMENT
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