001639. [Music] I'd like to welcome everybody to the county board of education special board meeting June 3rd 2025 5:30 p.m. Central office call to order and roll call Braxton here. Drew here here. Chair's here. Superintendent search process Mr. John Le. Yeah. So, and I'll give the committee similar binders. Those are all the applicants, as I was saying, minus one that Melanie has printed off for me today. We did have someone apply at 11:00 p.m. last night. The the way the application was placed on our website, it just said apply by yesterday. It didn't have a cut off time yesterday. So, in fairness, I mean, it came through at 10:40 p.m. I'd already prepared all those binders and was not Melanie has one more to give you guys that divider, but that's a copy of all
002the applications. Just generally speaking, 11 people applied, two current district employees, four people that have worked in the district at some point in time, and then there's seven other individuals that have not lived or worked in the district. There were nine males and two female applicants. um wide range of experience in there and different jobs as you all see. And the other thing I wanted to ask the board just for some guidance of the committee that's here now that kind of knows what you're looking for is how many interviews are you all wanting to conduct? Because that will help the committee know kind of how many names try and narrow down to when they make recommendations. And that's kind of up to you all. Everybody think me myself three. We can do three in one
003night. Last time we was here for night at 45 minutes at a time. Every interview that's Yeah. I would ask most interviews are 45 minutes to an hour. Um, so yeah, three and one night doable. Four if you push it, but it gets it gets hairy because if anybody goes an hour and 15, then all of a sudden you're getting pretty far behind and then you don't really have time to discuss the interviews after it here at 9:30. Nobody's going to want to sit around top for an hour after that. No, that's just kind of a if we didn't do could we do three and then are we allowed to like all right here's four names and then us pick three of the four to interview. Yeah. So the way this process works is they
004the screening committee will make recommendations to the board. It's not binding on the board legally. It's just a required step in the process. I mean there have been people hired superintendent jobs that didn't even apply. I mean, so it's one of those things that you all once the screening committee makes their recommendations, then you all take that information as you want to take it, but it's designed to give stakeholders in the district some input with you all so you know how they're feeling. Process wasn't how we did it last time. We the committee picked five and we picked three to how we did it last time. I can't remember off the top of my head, but I mean I think the way I have it set up right now, Tony, is for you to come
005back next week after I meet with them a second time. They'll make their recommendations and then we will go into executive session and you all decide who you want to interview. Then we'll set the interviews up for the following week. That's why I gave you all these today because by next week the goal is to have them with their recommendations done, but also giving you all a chance to review all the applicants so that after you get their recommendations, you can be educated and ready to make a decision yourself. Three interviews for We still only do three interviews, but send us four names. I mean, there's there's no requirements on how this is done. I mean, the committee may look at it and decide to send two names, but the reason I wanted you all
006the reason I wanted you to have an input was ideally you know, if you only want to do three interviews, you don't want them to send you seven names because then it just kind of it doesn't help anybody at that point. And if they choose to choose to send seven, still they can. I mean, that's the committee's right, but you know, I wanted them to hear from you how many you're looking to interview so they can spend some time to try and decide who their top three are, who their top four are, whatever, so that they can hopefully help you all with the input in the process. I mean, I'm all for on interview three, but I don't want you guys to feel that you want to send for language. Yeah, that you totally up
007to. Sounds good to me. All I got for now. Are there any days next week to come back that don't work for anybody? Monday on Monday. So the 10th Yes, the 10th Tuesday. That's a week from tonight. Um, just by then kind of get through the binders. I'll get that last application from Melanie for you all to put in there. So, you've got all 11 and then we'll be ready then. Is it going to be at 5:30 or 5? Uh, well, we'll have to start with the search committee first. So, I I can't even tell you what time it's going to meet with them. um they will meet first to make the recommendations and then the board will come in after. So the board will wind up meeting later next time and until I meet
008with them tonight, I can tell you what time that I'll let you know. That's all I got. So the next meeting will be at McCra County Board of Education special board meeting June 10th, 2025. be announced at central office. Yep. We need a motion and second to adjourn. Make a motion to motion in second.