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- Motion to enter closed session under Section 19.851(g) to confer with legal counsel. Moved by Tao; seconded by Bica. The board took a roll-call vote and the motion passed (recorded as affirmative by roll call). The board then adjourned to closed session and reconvened later in open session.

- Approval of the superintendent’s consent agenda, which included personnel and financial items: payments of all bills (amounts and payroll lines were listed in the superintendent’s consent packet). Motion to approve the superintendent’s consent agenda was made by Commissioner Farrar and seconded by Commissioner Beka; roll-call votes were recorded as affirmative.

- Approval of the board’s consent agenda, which included meeting minutes and board documents. Motion by Commissioner Beka; second by Commissioner Farrar. The motion passed.

- Motion to adjourn to a work session for policy discussion. Moved by DeMent; seconded by Beka. Motion passed and the board went into the work session.

- Final motion to adjourn the meeting. Motion moved and seconded; the board voted to adjourn.

Vote details and movers/seconders (as recorded in the meeting transcript):

1) Enter closed session (19.851(g)) — mover: Tao; second: Bica; outcome: approved (roll-call recorded yes).
2) Superintendent’s consent agenda — mover: Farrar; second: Beka; outcome: approved (roll-call recorded yes).
3) Board’s consent agenda — mover: Beka; second: Farrar; outcome: approved.
4) Adjourn to work session — mover: DeMent; second: Beka; outcome: approved.
5) Final adjournment — mover: Farrar; second: DeMent; outcome: approved.

Notes

- The superintendent’s consent agenda listed payment batches and payroll totals for specified periods; the transcript records the payment totals in the consent packet but the board handled the entire consent packet as a single motion.
- No recorded votes failed; no amendments to consent items were recorded during the meeting.

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Parent and past governance-board president Mark Lundeen spoke about Chippewa Valley Montessori Charter School, describing its classroom practices, community events such as Montessori Fest and Art Show, and programs like Fun Fridays. Lundeen said he hoped the school could expand to eliminate its wait list and thanked the board for supporting the charter school.

Later, Mark Goins, speaking as outgoing or long-serving ECAU leader, praised the district’s leadership and partnership between teachers, administrators and the board. He recognized the incoming ECAE president, Jeremy Trainer, and thanked outgoing leaders for their service. Both speakers emphasized community support for public education and thanked staff for going above and beyond during recent years.

Why it matters

The comments highlighted local support for alternative and charter programs inside the district and reinforced the board’s stated priorities for community engagement and program-based learning options. No formal board action resulted from these public comments.

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Domet said Assembly Bill 101 would prohibit schools from allowing students whose biological sex is male from participating on athletic teams or sports designated for females and would let a school designate athletics based on the biology of participating pupils. He said Assembly Bill 103 would require schools to adopt a policy that, among other things, “prohibit[s] school staff from referring to a minor pupil by a name or pronoun that does not align with the pupil’s biological [sex] without written authorization from the pupil’s parents or guardians.”

Domet prefaced a personal comment by noting it did not represent the board and said, “In my personal opinion, which should not be construed as representing that of the board, [this bill is] blatantly bigoted, anti‑trans, and anti‑student.”

Why it matters

Board members were informed of rapidly moving state legislation that could affect local school policy on student names and athletic participation. No formal board action was taken at the meeting; the legislative liaison’s report was informational.

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Board members and district staff said why it matters: the monitoring reports are the board’s primary mechanism for checking whether district programs and practices follow adopted policy and produce results for students. Several members said long appendices and outside-sourced data make the reports harder to use, and several requested more district-controlled indicators and a clearer line between program descriptions and outcome evidence.

Discussion highlights

Board members and staff said the district is completing its fourth cycle of monitoring reports and that the reports are evolving. A proposal from administration suggested combining OE 5.2 (research/best-practice review) with OE 5.8 (program evaluation). One board member said the two items serve distinct purposes — reviewing best practices versus evaluating program outcomes — and favored keeping them separate; others said combining them could streamline the reports if indicators and evidence were tightened.

Members pressed the administration on several recurring problems with evidence in the reports: reliance on data from external organizations (for example, energy use figures sourced to Xcel Energy) that do not clearly reflect district actions; indicators that cite activities (such as solar installations at Memorial North and Putnam Heights) without reporting outcomes; and indicators that lack evidence when the district is awaiting external data releases. Superintendent Johnson and staff said some data limitations are driven by external reporting cycles, DPI schedules and vendor availability, and that the district is working to build more in-house measures over time.

Board members and student representatives also urged improved disaggregation of demographic data, particularly for Asian subgroups (commenters noted Hmong students as a distinct local population), while staff cautioned that state reporting categories and small subgroup sizes present privacy and practicality constraints. Staff said they are exploring additional internal indicators and the new social-emotional screener administered this year as sources of future district-controlled evidence.

Several board members asked for shorter, tighter monitoring reports and better front-end summaries (including links to the prior two years’ reports and a three-year visual history of compliance status) so new board members and the public can find the key evidence without wading through long appendices. Staff and board agreed to try drafting a combined OE 5 item that preserves the district’s need to show both best-practice grounding and program outcomes and to circulate a draft among the superintendent and key executives before bringing it back for board action.

Ending

Board members and staff concluded the session by directing the board chair to draft a combined OE 5 text for review and by asking administration to continue building district-controlled indicators (including program review cycles on a multi-year rotation and the social-emotional screener) and to investigate safer ways to present finer demographic disaggregation without violating privacy rules.

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