District 279 School Board
School Board - Overview
The School Board of Osseo Area Schools encourages you to attend meetings in person or watch them on Channel 21.
During the school year, regular meetings are broadcast on Cable Channel 21 at:
6:00 p.m. on Thursday, the week of the meeting
6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, the week after the meeting
8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, the week after the meeting
Each regular meeting offers an opportunity for members of the audience to address the School Board. Anyone who wishes to address the Board must follow the “Guidelines for Audience Opportunity to Address the School Board”, available at each regular meeting.
Questions or comments for the School Board or Superintendent may be directed to their e-mail addresses or the US mail address below:
School
Board or Superintendent Susan K. Hintz
ISD 279 - Osseo Area Schools
11200 93rd Avenue
North
Maple Grove, MN 55369
763-391-7003
Guidelines for Audience Opportunity to Address the School Board
In the interest of community engagement, the Osseo School Board provides an opportunity for members of the audience to address the Board as follows:
- Anyone who wishes to address the Board must complete a Speaker Card and submit it to the School Board chair prior to the start of the meeting. (Speaker Cards are available on the public information table, by the meeting handouts.) Once the Audience Opportunity to Address the School Board has begun, no additional cards will be accepted.
- The Board Chair (or designee) will call on each speaker who has submitted a Speaker Card, first calling on those addressing an item included in the current agenda, followed by those addressing topics not on the current agenda.
- When called upon, please state your name and topic. All remarks should be addressed to the Board as a whole, not to any specific member(s) or to any person who is not a member of the Board.
- If more than three individuals have organized to speak on the same topic, please designate a spokesperson who can summarize the issue.
- Please limit your comments to three minutes. Longer time may be granted at the discretion of the Board chair.
- During this agenda item (normally not to exceed 20 minutes, subject to the discretion of the chair), the Board and administration will listen to comments, ask clarifying questions if needed, and respond immediately whenever possible. The Board Chair, upon determining a consensus of the Board, may delegate responsibility to the superintendent or the superintendent’s designee to follow up with the speaker within a few days following the meeting.
- Comments and interactions between Board members and the public are expected to be respectful, courteous, professional, and civil. The Board Chair will be responsible for ensuring that interaction meets these standards and will disallow inappropriate interaction. In particular, speakers may not address criticism toward an individual district employee; such concerns should be directed privately to the employee’s supervisor or higher-level administrator, as described in 8, below.
- Personnel concerns should be directed to individuals in the following order: building principal, assistant superintendent for human resources, superintendent, and finally in writing to the School Board.
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