001Good evening. I'd like to call the Coupeville School Coupeville School District Board of Directors special meeting for Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 to order. Is there an adoption of the agenda? Move to adopt the agenda as presented. Second. It's been moved and seconded to adopt the agenda as presented. All those in favor? I. All those opposed? Motion carries. We are here for one exciting special item on the agenda this evening to approve the hiring of our new high school principal and CTE director, Mr. Dan Bard, who is here with us this evening. Okay. Um well, I just wanted to um say that we're so excited to to welcome Mr. Bard to our school district. Um I wanted to extend my gratitude to Principal MCO and to Superintendent Leatherwood for the hiring process. Um that included a
002student panel and a staff panel um who participated and um the candidates were asked to prepare a presentation on data. Mr. Bard did an awesome job and I heard a lot of excitement already around the things that you presented um from our staff. They gave you great praise. Um our student panel was also very impressed um and they look forward to seeing you more. So we're excited. Um for me personally, your heart for servant leadership um and your desire to work in the building level with our students and our staff um really resonated with me. So, just excited to get to know you more and um we're excited to welcome welcome you into our community and to our school and just a little bit more uh about the process. We also had a parent representative
003and she's she's here tonight um on there and um looking forward to this week on Friday. We'll have this similar process for our middle school principal as well with a community member on the as well. So, we're very excited and and I'm looking forward to working with you closely and uh I'm really excited about the energy and the experience that you bring here to there. A motion. I move to approve the hiring of the high school principal and CTE director Dan Barard. Second. It's been moved and seconded to approve the hiring of high school principal CTE director Mr. Dan Bard. Any debate? All those in favor? I. All those opposed? Motion carries. And that is the end of our very exciting meeting. We are adjourned. Thank you.