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Monticello board holds first reading on multiple policy updates including telehealth access and Title IX guidance
Summary
At a first reading the board reviewed updates — including a new telehealth access section in the student medication policy, naloxone (overdose) policy language, DNR/DNI guidance, Title IX procedural changes reverting to 2020 guidance, and an updated internet/cell-phone use policy. No votes were taken; second readings were scheduled.
The Monticello Public School District Board held first readings Monday for a bundle of policy updates covering student medication and telehealth access, overdose response, student recruiting, do-not-resuscitate/do-not-intubate guidance, Title IX procedures and internet/cell-phone acceptable use.
Director of Human Services Rob Daneker told the board the most significant change in Policy 516 (student medication) is a new section on access to space for mental-health telehealth: beginning Oct. 1, 2024, to the extent space and staff are available, the district must provide enrolled secondary students access during regular school hours to a private school space that a student may use to receive mental-health care through telehealth from the student's licensed provider. Daneker described that addition as a response to legislative change.
Daneker also reviewed Policy 516.5 (overdose medication), which adds language about acquiring, storing and administering naloxone on school property for suspected opioid overdoses; Policy 517 (student recruiting), intended to limit employee influence in securing student attendance for activities; and Policy 518, which addresses DNR/DNI requests and staff guidance for life-threatening incidents. On Policy 522 (Title IX), Daneker said the district’s legal support recommended reverting the district’s procedures back to the 2020 federal guidance and deleting a 2024 addendum adopted last fall; the board will consider whether to remove the addendum at second reading.
The Internet acceptable use policy (Policy 524) was discussed in the context of recent legislation about cell phones. Daneker said the district policy already contained cell-phone language but that state law does not prescribe a prohibition; the policy committee recommended directing the superintendent to place rules and procedures about student phone possession and use into the student handbook. Policy 616 (district accountability) was updated to reflect a statutory name change from “World’s Best Workforce” to “comprehensive achievement and civic readiness,” and Policy 806 was reviewed for minor changes related to a commissioner reference.
No policy votes occurred on first reading; Daneker said the items will return for second reading in two weeks. Board members asked clarifying questions during the review; one board member explicitly asked whether the second reading would be limited to eliminating the Title IX addendum, which Daneker confirmed would be the plan.
