001Okay. All right. Let's call the special meeting to order for Wednesday, April the 9th, 2025. We'll start with a roll call. Miss Jenkins. Mr. Richards. Mr. To here. Miss A. Mr. West Morland present. Mr. Duncan here. Mr. Anthony here. Mr. Moore here. Mr. Paso here. Ming present. All right. Would ask you to please stand with us. I would like to ask Miss Dominguez and to Strawberry Week to lead us in the pledge pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. May be seated. Yes, they are. Thank you for saying that. Um, Miss Abrams and Miss Richards are both at a conference with the superintendent in Nashville on a magnet conference. So,
002item 2A is consider approval to wave the rules of policy BD, schoolboard policy to consider adoption of a policy. Um, this is timely because the court has given us a deadline of Monday to um have this answer and to have this u back to him. So, to do that obviously is why we're having a special meeting tonight. But to have that special meeting for us to change any policies, first we would have to unanimously wave the rules for our policy. So do I hear that in form of a motion? Second. Okay, we have a motion by Mr. Duncan, seconded by Mr. Piaza to wave the rules. Any discussion hearing? No discussion. Call for you to vote your device, please. Once again, this has to be unanimous vote to wave the rules. I would like to
003motion that we go into executive session before we vote on the actual motion to make sure we speak with council before it is officially voted on. We have a motion to go in executive session to discuss the motion. Yes. To go ahead and do our exact adjust. Okay. We can do that. Um, we have a motion. Do I hear a second? Second by Mr. Westerland. And basically that would just move up agenda item 3B. And it should not take long. Mr. Moore, I want you to be here all night. Channel 17, proudly serving the Florida parishes. Coming out of executive session and then we're going right into item 2B, consider approval to adopt the policy GBJJ-P, unsuccessful school and district leadership applicant administrative review process. Miss Indigo, good afternoon board. For those of you that
004are not present today and maybe don't know me, my name is Indica Deickman. I'm one of the attorneys for the school board. I'm here to present a new policy that our office has drafted at the recommendation of a federal judge in one of the cases that you are in. Um, I would like first off, this policy will not go into effect until we receive unitary status or a consent in the employment practices area of the of the MOA versus TBSB case. That being said, this policy was highly recommended by the judge and we've looked into it. There are other districts that do something similar. Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago do something somewhat similar, but this is specific to Louisiana because Louisiana has what's called act one, which means that the board cannot do anything to overturn
005a superintendent's decision on hiring. So, we wanted to be very careful to make sure that the board and the superintendent is protected in this case. It provides a review process for someone who is unsuccessful in a hiring practice for a leadership or a district position. All of these definitions and the eligibility for the review process are very detailed. They're outlined here. It's recommended in order to provide additional due process and administrative relief to that uns an unsuccessful applicant prior to them seeking remedies of relief from the EEOC or other litigation. It creates a pillow between Tangabajoa and litigation or EEOC claims because in order to have an EEOC claim, you must exhaust all of your administrative remedies. This would be a reme an administrative remedy. Again, the it just this document uh the policy provides
006timelines as well as the eligibility definitions. It creates a fair review by what would be called the administrative review committee. The administrative review committee is the board's personnel committee, the assistant superintendent of innovation, which is a new position that would be created from the desegregation case if we receive consent, as well as the human resources director. So, it's a mixed group of individuals who have an interest in various ways of ensuring fairness within the school system. The remedies you'll see are under step three, the decision, specifically B. Like I said, we want to protect the school system under act. So, it's always that the administrative review committee makes a recommendation for the superintendent. The superintendent has the final say on whether or not to adopt that recommendation, basically changing his or her decision. The board
007maintains a checks and balance on that because the board hires the superintendent. If there are any questions, I'm happy to answer. You have to hold it down. Okay. So Andrew, just also for the benefit of the public that's watching this review process that we're um that we're considering is a process that happens after our very extensive interview process which is after an open application process. And the the interview process that we have includes an interview panel of all of the applicants, a scoring system, um a subjective and non-subjective score, like a very extensive process that we go through there, right? And so then it's only after that that interview panel makes a recommendation to the superintendent who then makes a decision as to who to hire. But then after that is when this review process
008would come into place. So over all we will have probably the most exhaustive documented transparent extensive hiring process that you can imagine. That is the hope. Okay. And and just so again for the public to watch and this committee or this review process would also eliminate what we have currently which is the advisory committee when somebody has an issue. Correct. That's exactly why we came up why this policy is recommended because if unitary status when unitary status is met or if we reach a consent that policy that is currently in practice the appeal process is part of a court order that is within that world of that of that case. So it would go away effectively. It would no longer exist. So this is to provide a continuing administrative remedy, a review process outside of
009what would go away in that reaching of unitary status. Thank you. Is it still? So, I'll make the motion at this time that we adopt this new policy GDP JJ-P subject to the court's granting of unitary status in the area of staff assignment. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any other questions? And I would like to just say that, you know, the reason that we're doing this is because it was recommended to us by the plaintiff through the judge to us. This is something that we're doing as a solution trying to move things forward and it it only highlights it only highlights what this board has been doing in the past years when we have something that we know can fix an issue. We are open to it and we discuss it openly
010with one another and we adopt it if it's the right thing for the system. And this one I agree is a right thing for the system. So thank you. Any other questions? Any comments? Any public input? Hearing hearing? None. Votes been called for. Please vote your devices. Mr. Piaza, I'm sorry. Okay, moving on to item 3 A and B. We've already done that. Hearing any public input? Having none, we will call this meeting adjourned. Thank y'all.