LEADER Wednesday, August 7, 2019 Inside ■ Nomination process underway for the MSBA Delegate Assembly Page 2 ■ RSVP today for a stop on 2019 MSBA Advocacy Tour Page 2 ■ Submit Leadership Conference workshop topics, nominate board members for MSBA awards Page 3 ■ MSBAIT Matters: More options for transferring surplus computers Page 5 Calendar September 10: Advocacy Tour (St. Peter and Marshall) September 11: Advocacy Tour (Fergus Falls and Staples) September 12: Advocacy Tour (ief River Falls) September 17: Advocacy Tour (Cloquet and Sartell) 2019 Legislature includes additional requirements for testing lead in water Safety By MSBA Staff In 2017, the Minnesota Legislature passed “Lead in School Drinking Water” legislation (M.S. 121A.335) that required school districts to accurately and efficiently test for lead in drinking and food preparation water at public school buildings serving students from prekindergarten through grade 12 once every five years. Prior to the passage of this legislation, many school districts had already voluntarily conducted lead testing for years. For school districts that did not have such lead testing plans, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) and the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) jointly created a Model Plan at www.health.state.mn.us/ communities/environment/water/docs/ pbschoolguide.pdf. During the 2019 legislative session, the “Lead in School Drinking Water” statute was amended regarding frequency of testing and reporting: ■ Adds charter schools to testing requirements. ■ Requires a school district or charter school that finds lead in cooking or drinking water to formulate, make publicly available, and implement a plan consistent with established guidelines and recommendations to ensure student exposure to lead is minimized. ■ Requires school districts and charter schools to follow actions in guidance from the Commissioners of Health and Education. ■ Requires school districts and charter schools to remediate the presence of lead to below the level set in the guidance, verified by retest, or directly notify parents of the result. ■ Requires school districts and charter schools to make the water source unavailable until the hazard has been minimized. In addition to creating a Model Plan, MDH and MDE developed a “Education and Communication Toolkit: Reducing Lead in Drinking Water” at www.health.state.mn.us/ communities/environment/water/docs/ toolkit.pdf. For specific questions about “Lead in School Drinking Water Testing and Remediation,” please contact MDH at 651-201-4667 or MDE Division of School Finance – Long-Term Facilities Maintenance at 651-582-8779.
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LEADERWednesday, August 7, 2019
Inside ■ Nomination process underway for the MSBA Delegate Assembly
Page 2
■ RSVP today for a stop on 2019 MSBA Advocacy Tour
Page 2
■ Submit Leadership Conference workshop topics, nominate board members for MSBA awards
Page 3
■ MSBAIT Matters: More options for transferring surplus computers
Page 5
CalendarSeptember 10: Advocacy Tour (St. Peter and Marshall)September 11: Advocacy Tour (Fergus Falls and Staples)September 12: Advocacy Tour (Thief River Falls)September 17: Advocacy Tour (Cloquet and Sartell)
2019 Legislature includes additional requirements for testing lead in water
Safety
By MSBA Staff
In 2017, the Minnesota Legislature passed “Lead in School Drinking Water” legislation (M.S. 121A.335) that required school districts to accurately and efficiently test for lead in drinking and food preparation water at public school buildings serving students from prekindergarten through grade 12 once every five years.
Prior to the passage of this legislation, many school districts had already voluntarily conducted lead testing for years. For school districts that did not have such lead testing plans, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) and the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) jointly created a Model Plan at www.health.state.mn.us/communities/environment/water/docs/pbschoolguide.pdf.
During the 2019 legislative session, the “Lead in School Drinking Water” statute was amended regarding frequency of testing and reporting:
■ Adds charter schools to testing requirements.
■ Requires a school district or charter school that finds lead in cooking or drinking
water to formulate, make publicly available, and implement a plan consistent with established guidelines and recommendations to ensure student exposure to lead is minimized.
■ Requires school districts and charter schools to follow actions in guidance from the Commissioners of Health and Education.
■ Requires school districts and charter schools to remediate the presence of lead to below the level set in the guidance, verified by retest, or directly notify parents of the result.
■ Requires school districts and charter schools to make the water source unavailable until the hazard has been minimized.
In addition to creating a Model Plan, MDH and MDE developed a “Education and Communication Toolkit: Reducing Lead in Drinking Water” at www.health.state.mn.us/communities/environment/water/docs/toolkit.pdf.
For specific questions about “Lead in School Drinking Water Testing and Remediation,” please contact MDH at 651-201-4667 or MDE Division of School Finance – Long-Term Facilities Maintenance at 651-582-8779.
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The MSBA Delegate Assembly election process for school board members — for two-year terms covering 2019 and 2020 — is now underway! School board members and superintendents should have received an email in their inbox Tuesday, August 6, explaining how school board members are nominated. The nomination deadline is August 30.
If you did not receive this email and would like to nominate a Delegate, please send a message to MSBA’s Bruce Lombard at [email protected].
The Delegate Assembly is responsible for adopting MSBA’s legislative positions.
Elected school board Delegates meet each December to vote on various legislative resolutions submitted by school boards and individual school board members. The resolutions that receive a majority vote at the Delegate Assembly become the basis for MSBA’s legislative platform and staff lobbying efforts on behalf of all Minnesota’s public school boards.
Advocacy
Board members: Nominate yourself or colleague for MSBA Delegate Assembly
Learn more about the upcoming Delegate Assembly nomination process, elections, and Delegate duties at
www.mnmsba.org/Portals/0/DA-Nominations-2019.pdf.
RSVP today for the 2019 MSBA Advocacy TourThe MSBA Advocacy Tour returns in September. The
Advocacy Tour brings together school board members and superintendents to discuss policy and funding issues that are impacting their school districts.
During these meetings, ideas are generated for MSBA’s legislative agenda. There is no fee to attend any of these meetings, but we request potential attendees RSVP in advance via www.surveymonkey.com/r/2019AdvocacyTour. For more information, please visit www.mnmsba.org/AdvocacyTour.
2019 MSBA Advocacy Tour■ 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 10: Marshall and St. Peter■ 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 11: Fergus Falls and Staples■ 5:30 p.m. Thursday, September 12: Thief River Falls■ 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 17: Cloquet and Sartell■ 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 18: Grand Rapids and Willmar■ 5:30 p.m. Thursday, September 19: Rochester■ 8:30 a.m. Saturday, September 21: St. Paul
The synopsis for the August 6 Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) Board of Directors meetings is available online at https://www.mshsl.org (select the “Board Synopsis” tab). The MSHSL Board approved its 2019-2020 budget and took action on a number of other items. The MSHSL Board is scheduled to meet again Thursday, October 3, in Brooklyn Center.
Latest MSHSL Board meeting synopsis available online
Wednesday, August 7, 2019 Page 3
Help MSBA prepare for its centennial at the 2020 Leadership Conference by sharing interesting images from your school’s history. Send your images by email to Greg Abbott at [email protected].
Send classroom photos from the 1900s, a yearbook photo from the hippie era, a picture of a stately school building in your history, a photo of your school board from the 1950s or 1970s, a big event when the commissioner of education or the governor came to visit your school or board, or a photo of your science classroom during the “space race” era.
We’ll take your images through August 31 and feature some in The Leader newsletter, some in a PowerPoint presentation during our 100th reception in the Exhibit Hall, and even a few in our Journal magazine.
Next year, we’ll be learning from our past and leading into the future!
Help MSBA prepare for its centennialMSBA: Celebrating 100 Years (1920 to 2020)
Participate in the 2020 MSBA Leadership Conference by submitting a workshop proposal or by nominating a school board member for one of MSBA’s awards. The Leadership Conference is scheduled for January 16-17, 2020, at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
■ The Call for Presentations form allows you to submit workshop and/or roundtable proposals you’d like to present during the Leadership Conference.
■ The School Excellence Showcase application is for school districts to showcase exemplary student, adult, or early childhood programs to the 2,000-plus conference attendees. The program displayed can be unusual or traditional and should be a program that reflects an innovative activity or program in which staff and students from your district are actively involved.
■ Nominate one of your fellow school board members for the 2020 All-State School Board or Rising Star award:
• All-State School Board nominees must have attended the Phase I, Phase II, Phase III and Phase IV workshops and have attended at least two Leadership Conferences.
• The Rising Star award is for outstanding board members who are in their first term of service.
Links to all these forms are available at www.mnmsba.org and www.mnmsba.org/LeadershipConference.
Submit workshop topics, nominate board members for MSBA awards
2020 Leadership Conference
The 2019 MSBA All-State School Board
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Due to the overwhelming response to the school bus replacement grants offered in 2018, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has created an additional funding opportunity for school buses.
As with the previous opportunity, these grants will help replace older diesel school buses (model years 1992 to 2009) with newer, cleaner models. Grants will be for $15,000 or $20,000 per school bus, depending on whether the school district has 40 percent of students in the free or reduced lunch
program.This second round of funding is
specifically geared towards school bus replacements in Greater Minnesota, to ensure our commitment to distribute
school bus grants throughout the state at a 60/40 split between the metro area and Greater Minnesota. Projects in the seven-county Twin Cities metro area are not eligible for this grant.
The total funds available is $580,000, which is anticipated to fund roughly 29 bus replacements.
Applications are due Tuesday, August 13, 2019. For more information or if you are interested in applying, please visit www.pca.state.mn.us/air/greater-minnesota-school-bus-replacement-grants.
Apply for bus replacement grants by August 13Grant
MSBA has again teamed up with the Minnesota Secretary of State’s Office to offer a one-hour training to review election timelines, new laws that affect elections, absentee and early voting, pre-election and post-election duties and more.
The School Officer Election Webinar will be available for members to view now through September 15.School election officials can simply register for the Election Officer Webinar at https://mnmsba.wufoo.com/forms/
m1xi1u9n0djjkmb. The cost is only $50. When your election officer registers, a link to the webinar will be sent to the person and a form to document training will also be sent along. After the training, the form can be given to the district’s county auditor. Direct questions to MSBA’s Greg Abbott at 800-324-4459 or [email protected].
Webinar available for odd-year school election officialsElections
The Minnesota Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) is reminding teachers, school districts, and charter school administrators that Tier 1 and Tier 2 licenses are limited to only the district or charter school that originally requested the license.
Tier 1 and Tier 2 teachers who wish to move to a position in a new district or charter school must submit another
license application to PELSB with the support of the new district or charter school.
Districts and charter schools completing Tier 1 and Tier 2 applications should read all instructions and complete applications carefully to avoid processing delays.
All tiered license applications are available on the PELSB website at https://mn.gov/pelsb/aspiring-educators/apply.
PELSB: Tier 1 and Tier 2 licenses limited to sponsoring districtLicensure
Learn about paperless meetings through BoardBook webinar on August 14MSBA is offering an ongoing series of
FREE webinars on how to incorporate BoardBook to streamline preparation, distribution, and publishing of agenda
packets for board meetings. BoardBook is an MSBA-endorsed
product.The next BoardBook webinar is set
for 11 a.m. Wednesday, August 14.Visit www.mnmsba.org/BoardBook
to access the webinar registration link or schedule a private online demo.
Wednesday, August 7, 2019 Page 5
MSBAIT Matters
Cut down the risk of injury for your new employeesBy SFM Insurance
Hiring new employees always comes with certain risks. Maybe they won’t fit in. Or they’ll decide they didn’t want the job after all. But have you thought about the risks to them — to their safety?
According to SFM claims data, more than half of workplace injuries involve employees who are in their first five years of employment at their workplace.
Why do new employees get injured? Recent data shows that as the
unemployment rate drops, the number of new workers increases, along with the percentage of claims with less than a year of employee tenure. When unemployment is low, there is a smaller
pool of job candidates to choose from, and your new hires might not stick around as long.
New workers can be more susceptible to injury because they often haven’t developed the necessary skills to safely do their work. For those who work in manual labor jobs, they may not have built up the muscle strength, flexibility and endurance needed to complete the jobs.
Read the rest of this article at the SFM website at https://www.sfmic.com/cut-down-the-risk-of-injury-for-your-new-employees.
More options for transferring surplus computersBy Denise Drill, MSBA Director of Financial/MSBAIT Services
In addition to the authority available under current law to transfer surplus school computers to another school district; the State Department of Corrections; the Board of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities; or the family of student residing in the district whose total family income meets the federal definition of poverty, school districts now have the authority to transfer a computer to:
■ A charitable nonprofit registered with the attorney general’s office, or
■ Sell or give a surplus computer to currently enrolled district students who intend to enroll the following year. School districts are required to give priority to those students eligible for free or reduced-price meals and distribute the remaining computers by lottery.
School districts must use the competitive bidding process to dispose of computers and related equipment
unless M.S. 123B.52, Subd. 6, is used. In addition, M.S. 15.054 states
property or materials owned by a school district and not needed for public purposes may be sold to an employee after reasonable public notice at a public auction or by sealed response, if the employee is not directly involved in the auction or process pertaining to the administration and collection of sealed responses.
For additional information on the “Bid Law,” please refer to “Chapter 13, School Law Bulletin F” of the MSBA Service Manual and watch for the updates in MSBA Model Policy 802.
Denise DrillDirector of MSBAIT/ Financial [email protected]
Data compromise exposure — schools may be most susceptibleBy Liberty Mutual Insurance
The media tends to focus on large data breaches because they impact a significant number of people, but breaches impact entities of all sizes. In fact, schools may be more susceptible because they may not have the resources to dedicate to the issue. Every school has an exposure to data compromise. Read the complete article from Liberty Mutual Insurance via www.mnmsba.org/Portals/0/Liberty-8-7-2019.pdf.
SFM Mutual Insurance Company is a participating workers’ compensation insurer
in the MSBAIT Risk Protection Program. Learn more at www.mnmsba.org/MSBAIT-
RiskProtectionProgram. Visit the SFM website at www.sfmic.com.
Liberty Mutual Insurance is a participating property and casualty insurer in the MSBAIT Risk
Protection Program. Visit the Liberty website at https://viewpoint.libertymutualgroup.com.
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Job OpeningsSuperintendents■ LeRoy-Ostrander — interim superintendent (application deadline: August 7)
Principals■ Zumbro Education District — area learning center principal (application deadline: open until filled)
Other Administrators■ Glenville-Emmons — business manager (application deadline: open until filled)■ Minneapolis — chief academic officer (application deadline: open until filled)■ Zumbro Education District — dean of students (application deadline: open until filled)
Visit www.mnmsba.org/DistrictJobOpenings for application information.
Visit https://www.msdlaf.org to access the current Minnesota School
District Liquid Asset Fund Plus rate.www.facebook.com/mnmsba www.twitter.com/mnmsba
The Leader is published as a member service by the Minnesota School Boards Association, 1900 West Jefferson Avenue, St. Peter, MN 56082. The Leader is edited by Associate Director of Communications Bruce Lombard. Call 800-324-4459 with any questions.
Job openings, marketplace notices and other information can be emailed to [email protected] or faxed to 507-931-1515.
EXECUTIVE SEARCH SERVICE
800-324-4459 | [email protected] | [email protected] | www.mnmsba.org/ExecutiveSearchService
■ A search process from a school board perspective■ School board maintains control of all search-related decisions
The MSBA Executive Search Service supports school boards in fulfilling one of the most important school board responsibilities — hiring a superintendent
Contact MSBA’s Sandy Gundlach or Barb Dorn for more information today!
Find the right superintendent
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