Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Board of Education will continually monitor district performance and compliance with policy and
participate in an annual and semi-annual evaluation of the superintendents performance.
We will keep confidentiality of privileged information a priority. Discussions and documents
connected with closed session will not be shared privately or publicly.
We will make continual efforts to hear and engage our community. The board agenda will allow
time for public comment on matters before the board as well as general concerns the community
may wish to share with the board. It will be a time for the board to listen and learn from the
community, it is not a time to re-engage with the public. The board will remind members of the
public to be cognizant that the open meeting is available to all age groups, and will expect age
appropriate comments from the public.
The board will begin to seek venues beyond the board meeting where we can collectively engage
community members and listen to their concerns. We will continually educate community members
that one board member has no individual authority to fix a problem, and to follow the chain of
command when a concern arises.
We will attempt to be in touch with all stakeholders and all segments of the community, not just
those who seek us out. The board will monitor our efforts in this area, asking the question which
community voices are not a part of board considerations, and how can we allow these voices to be
heard?
Board members our encouraged to visit schools as appropriate, but will channel visitations/tours
through the superintendents office. Extracurricular and co-curricular events are at the discretion of
each board member.
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2. Cabinet members are not expected to follow-up on a Board question, request, or new initiative,
unless follow-up is requested by a majority of the Board. This operating rule would only apply to
proposals or ideas that require significant staff time or involve a substantial sum of money; it would
not apply to routine Board questions for which an answer is readily available.
3. In order to maintain OMA compliance, all questions and comments to staff and administration will
be communicated via emails. Questions should first go to the superintendent (dont copy board).
Staff will answer and copy board as necessary. Board president should be copied on follow-up
questions, if any.
Adding Agenda Items
We will seek to focus our board work by asking is this connected to policy? or is this a board issue?
before requesting to add an item to the Agenda. Agenda items can be added as a discussion item if
there is an agreement of 4 or more Board members. The determination as to when an agenda item will
appear on a future meeting agenda will be made by the Superintendent and Board President.
Consent Agenda
We will make every effort to minimize Board meeting time on consent agenda items. Items can be
pulled if there is a lack of critical information or a case can be made against approving. If a board
member believes a consent agenda item needs further consideration, the Board president must be
contacted and informed prior to the board meeting.
Voting
Each board member will respect the right of the other members to have a dissenting vote. On
important matters, board members may explain the reasons for their vote either during deliberation or
before casting their vote.
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