001close. I think we're just waiting for Lacy. So, let's give her just a minute and then we will get started and Lacy when she can join us. So, let me call the meeting to order. And we do have a quorum. So, we've established a quorum. Uh, let's do the pledge of allegiance and I will get it started. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States and of America >> and to the republic for which it stands nation and justice for all. >> Oh, how I've missed doing that. over Zoom. >> Something about on Zoom, but yes. >> Um, okay. So, I don't know, uh, Joel or Marilyn. Oh, hi Mike. Thanks for joining. Um, did we have any visitors or public comment come in tonight? >> You you had one visitor register, but
002she's not actually on. It was a Kathy Lou. >> Uh, they registered as being a attendee, which means you don't get you don't see them. They just watch and observe. but I don't see her on the meeting at the moment. >> And you had nobody register to talk. >> Great. Thanks so much, Joel. I appreciate that. Um, so I if I can get a motion to approve the agenda. >> I move to approve the agenda. >> Thank you, Tim. And a second. >> I second. >> Thank you, Debbie. All in favor, please raise your hand. And motion passes. So, let's go ahead and move forward to our new business. Um, our first item is to determine if we are going to select a superintendent search firm. So, I did have Marilyn do a little uh
003research for us and if someone would be willing to make a motion, the motion would be or it would be to move to select a superintendent search firm and then that'll allow us to move into nominations and voting if we uh choose to select. >> I move to select uh search superintendent search firm. >> Thank you. in a second. >> I'll second that. >> Second. >> Okay. So, I think what we can do then is um have a discussion if uh and we can talk about our options and then if anyone would like to nominate a search firm, then we can vote on a particular search firm. So, just so we're all on the same page, our options really are run our own search. Um so not have a search firm or we had two
004uh um consulting firms put uh in proposals which one being OSBA and the other being oh I already don't remember the name was it human capital >> yes okay human capital so any discussion before we have any nominations or would anyone like to nominate >> well I would like to say that Uh uh since Lacy's not here that uh and and please correct me if if if my memory is is uh faulty, but uh I originally supported OSBA. Uh but then uh Lacy made a very good point that uh human capital uh in their proposal talked about uh the perception was that they perhaps would do a little more complete of a job of the preliminary uh selection or uh the weeding through of the initial uh applicants and that uh that would be of
005value to her uh because of how busy she is. And although I don't mind weeding through all of them, I do remember how many we had to go through when we selected the current superintendent Johnson. And I remember how long that took. And if going with human capital can make my life a little easier and and help Lacy out, uh, I'm in for that. And I'm about to, uh, nominate that we go with human capital. So, does somebody want to say something before I do that? Okay, you had your chance. >> Well, hang on a minute. Hang hang on a minute before you do that. Tim, >> what what all is involved if we run our own uh search? Is that going to be a lot of work for everybody? >> Yes. Well, I keep
006the reason I say that is we have somebody in house that's trained and I guess if we nominate capital then she joins the rest of the applicants to come in for the job. >> Correct. Yeah. Anyone could apply, right? And they would become part of the process. Um I can personally say if we did it in-house, I could not take on running or chairing that particular endeavor. Well, it it'd be it'd be it sounds like it'd be an awful lot of work, but I'm just curious what would happen if we did. >> I kind of think that I mean, I feel like there are things that we can discuss with human capital about how we wanted the process to run for maybe what we see a need to be. So, if we put them into
007place, then I think that we'll probably still have the ability to have some conversations with them regarding what we want to see happen for the process and and that person, you know, being possibly involved as well. I don't know, but I would suspect that they wouldn't be, you know, saying that we couldn't have input. Yeah, I I think they uh and OSBA both talked about how we could have such input and I also think that uh if since we do have an in-house candidate that uh spending a lot of time searching the state of Washington or across the United States is not necessary. I mean, I think we need to uh we need to do a fair and honest job of this. and we need to post it nationally and we need to post it
008in Washington and post it in Oregon and we need to get as many applicants as we can just in case our in-house applicant is not the best qualified but I don't think anybody is going to forget about the in-house applicant that we have and so I don't think doing a fair and honest search no matter which firm we go with uh is going to hurt their chances. >> Yeah. I I would say regardless, this is my opinion, irregardless if we have someone we think in house, I think it's prudent to our community to make sure we do an appropriate search to determine if that is the best candidate or someone else. I don't think it would be doing justice to the process to not to try to do it ourselves. I'm not an expert in
009it. I don't think any of us are an expert in evaluating for proper candidates for superintendent. >> Okay. >> Sorry, Mike. I didn't mean to burst your bubble. >> No, no, just I just wanted to ask that to see what >> No, now's now's the time to ask that, Mike. It It's It's good to get this discussed. candidate is a really great candidate. >> Sorry, Ken. I'm gonna >> I think Sarah has a comment. Sarah, go ahead. >> Our in-house candidate is a really great candidate, but we're not doing the district or our community due diligence by just appointing somebody. In my personal opinion, it is our job to make sure. And if she's that great, she's going to show up in our top two, three, five. So, I fully support doing at least a
010statewide search and I have no doubt that she will show up in front of us. But I feel like it's our due diligence to the district to make sure that while she's great that there's not somebody better. >> Thank you, Sarah. Well said. >> Well said, Sarah. So Tim, would you like to move forward with nominating human capital? I don't want to push you, but I just I think you were going there. So >> Okay. >> I was going there, but uh some people had some things to say, and I don't want to trample on anybody. >> Nope, you're doing great. >> Uh but but we can we can still have discussion after I do this. Uh especially if it doesn't get seconded. Uh, I formally move that we employ human capital as the superintendent
011search firm uh, in this endeavor. >> Great. Any second? >> I second it. >> Thanks, Debbie. Uh, any discussion or any other nominations? >> How do we decide which package we go with? Do we have to decide that right now or >> is that something that we decide later? >> I think it's probably uh fair to say if we select these guys then we should probably talk about what package we want to go with so we can get it contracted. I think that's the goal is to give Mike approve this so Mike can move forward with contracting with whoever we decide on. >> Okay. >> Yeah, great question. Um, okay. Any uh if let's vote on this unless there's any more nominations and then Sarah to your point, we'll move into discussing what package we
012want. So all I think Tim has the motion and Debbie seconded. All in favor? And I see all hands I think. So motion passes. Um, so let's discuss what would we like to do? I already forgot the names of the two searches. The I'm streamlined. >> Comprehensive and streamlined. >> Yes, the streamlined or comprehensive was probably the name of the other one. >> Any discussion or ideas of what people would prefer? >> Uh, I personally am in favor of streamlined. >> Okay, >> Sarah, go ahead. No, I agree. Especially when you think about like we need to also be diligent about the cost because there is a big difference between both firms and so we need to be very like-minded and make sure that we're doing spending wise money. >> Yes, I agree. Is there
013anyone who isn't in favor of the streamlined that would want to talk about the comprehensive? Okay. >> Then I formally move that we instruct Mike to employ human capital on the streamlined version or or option. >> Any second? >> I second. >> All in fa uh any discussion before I before we vote? Okay. All in favor? And I think I see all the hands. Okay. Uh motion passes. So with that, I think Mr. Johnson, you are officially requested to go start the contracting process with human capital. Um and we would love to hear from them on if they can come to our December board meeting and we can talk about timeline and planning. But to get moving, I think we are ready to go. Perfect. I will notify them first thing tomorrow and let them
014know they're on. >> Great. Thank you all. I'm gonna say have a wonderful holiday. I hope you guys get to do some wonderful things. And with that, we are adjourned. Bye >> everybody. Happy Thanksgiving. >> Bye.