001Okay, I'd like to call this meeting to order. Trustee Greg G, are you online? Yes, I'm here. Can you hear me? Yes. Yes, all trustees are present. Krina, has the agenda been posted according to the open meeting law? Yes, sir. Thank you. Pledge of Allegiance. Superintendent Parsons, would you mind starting this? Where is the pledge? [Music] Just kidding. We cleaned up really good. This was put away for the prom, right? We don't have that little They're all United States of America. Thank you. Moving on to public comment. Members of the public who speak as to state their name for the record and will be limited to uniform number of minutes. Board members may respond briefly to public comments, but cannot deliberate on matters that are not listed on the agenda. For matters on the agenda,
002the board will conduct public comment after discussion of each agenda action item, but before the board takes action. A summary of public comments will be noted in the minutes. Are there any public comments tonight? Okay, thank you. An adoption of agenda. I'm going to ask for a flexible because we have a couple items. Consent agenda does not exist and close Move for a flexible agenda. I got a motion by Trusty McFadden, second by Trusty Bullock. Any public comment on this? All in favor? I get. Okay, thank you. It is unanimous. So number seven, consent agenda. We do not have a consent agenda. So we will move on to number eight, new business. Hey, for discussion and possible action, the board will receive and may take action to approve a recommendation from the superintendent to hire
003a middle school principal. The name of the recommended candidate will be posted as material supplemental to the agenda, including on the school district website. Um, uh, Superintendent Parsons. Thank you, President Malovich. Trustees, I'm glad to hear with you tonight. We posted up the memo um that explained the interview process or part of what we we did. And so this last Saturday, April 26, the interview committee met and we interviewed the applicants for the principal position. Um, and in the end, um, I'm here to recommend tonight that we, um, hired Dr. Dina Petta as a principal of Churchia County Middle School. Through this process, we we had extensive process. There were lots of questions answered. background checking has been done and we we discussed in the committee discussed a lot of things about vision moving forward
004and what is required and I also brought in Dr. PA did follow-up interview with her. Um, she's been with Chester County School District for several years now. She has been a vice president middle school for three years. We had a a very good and in-depth discussion about what I feel the superintendent needs are there. Um, there are some things that we definitely have to make some changes. We talked about possible goals and things that we we have for the school. Um, we know that we need to look at behavioral, academic, social, emotional concerns. There's lots of things that need to be addressed and going on there. Dr. P is very aware of those. I really feel that she has what it's going to take to bring the school together, move things forward and to be
005able to that we that the board is within this was that she has um I think be the right word school students get it to where it needs to be. There's lots of things we have cutting out a little bit, I guess, to make it better and and and there's some things there. And I believe that Dr. Pa is up to the task. Um I've appreciated working with her um for the past few years. I've known her for several years here um in this past year. She did set some goals and things that she worked on um to get to this point if this opportunity would arise again. So I feel comfortable in making this recommendation. Um she is here tonight and I've asked to go ahead and come forward and and maybe tell us
006a little bit about her and her background and and if we have some um other things we want to know about her, but she's highly respected and I feel that she is going to be a very good principal. Um, with that being the case, as the board were approver, he's ready to move and and move forward fast on filling vice principal positions and getting things in place for next year. Go ahead and tell us just a little bit about you and about your passion for middle school. Evening. I'm Dr. Dina. This is my seventh year uh being in Churchill County School District. Um, as I've passed out for you guys to look at, kind of my introductory letter, a 90-day plan. Go closer. sorry, a 90-day plan of what I foresee us working towards within
007the first 90 days of me um hopefully being the vice princip or the sorry the principal at Churchill County Middle School starting in July 1st and moving through November really working towards getting that communication out to our staff, our students, our stakeholders and having that goal that we want people to be in our building. We want people to come see our school. We want to be able to brag about 650 South Main and I'm ready for this challenge. I got to tell you one thing that um I heard from a student was that Yeah, I know Dr. P because they were just I didn't hear the student say this student. I heard from a parent that told me that that their child had said um yeah because the kids are talking about who's going to
008be the next principal. Um, and they said, "Well, we want Miss Poretta because she's a rule follower. She follows the rules. She does those things. Um, and we've seen kids get in trouble, but when she does it, she's also nice about it. She's not real mean, but we're also afraid to step out of line because of a military background. I thought that that was just kind of a a good sense to get in there." And we've talked about that. She does have a she was in the military for seven years, I believe. Yes, seven years. in the United States Army. I think all of those qualities and characteristics are there and going to help Dr. Pred be successful in this endeavor. And I fully this recommendation and support her and that's recommending to the board
009that we're glad to answer any questions that the trustees may have. Trusty uh Guell get you have any questions? Um yeah, I sure I I appreciate that and um basically just want to be pretty candid about my thoughts. This was um I had a little bit of a struggle um at first being that the middle school has been a topic of concern for this board for quite some time as um you've heard myself and others reference the challenges at the middle school and not only with um behavioral issues and academic issues Um and and so you know my concerns were with the fact that um you know a a person who is in a leadership role is being um recommended for a principal and has been with the school for the last several years and
010and yet we still have so many concerns and challenges. However, I will say that um generally speaking, I you know, I always strive to reconcile my concerns and and be supportive of the superintendent's recommendations when it comes to hiring. I was able to do that through doing some of my own homework and have heard a lot of good and positive things about Dr. Praa. But I do just want to share that um you know there will be a lot of of uh I think watchful eyes if you will. Um we are you know definitely excited to see change or I'm excited to see some some positive changes and things headed in the right direction over there. Um but basically I I just want to say that I mean we are um also making this um
011or this recommendation is being made and Dr. Petta hasn't been a principal before. And so then I think that was another area that I had some concern just because of the challenges at the middle school. In my mind, I was thinking, you know, it'd be nice to have somebody who's a seasoned principal coming on, but but again, um, Superintendent Parsons felt that, um, Dr. Praa is the the right person for the job. And like I said, I did some of my own homework and and I um am feeling um better about supporting this recommendation and just um really kind of rooting for some positive change at the middle school is basically what I want to say. Thank you. Um just say a few things. I I think all the board members have have concerns and
012we're probably all have same concerns. Um I was able to talk with Darald and had a really good conversation and and talk through a lot of my issues um not with the hire but with the middle school. And with that said um I think the good governance is supporting the superintendent's recommendations and letting him do his job while reserving the right for accountability. With that being said, I would like to make the motion to hire Dena Pere, Dr. Dena Petta for the middle school principal. Motion from Trusty McFad and a second from Trusty Whitaker. Any more comment from the board or the public? I just want to second not only the motion, but trust me's comments about supporting the principal, excuse me, the superintendent um and the principal in turn um with his recommendation and
013trusting because we we've made it pretty clear uh what our concerns are about the middle school and um and so we are excited to have you um as a leader and look forward to hopefully seeing the changes that we hope I would imagine that you would hope to see as well. Um I I hope we're the expectation is that what what we hope is the hope for the person who's hired. Um so welcome. Uh and we look forward to working with with the superintendent and the middle school and getting things done. I'll just quickly say uh I kind of look at the middle school right now like a golf game. You hit the ball way out of bounds. You've set the ball down. You keep the same stance and the same swing, you're going to
014get the same result. Stance in the swing, probably have to change it a little bit. Ball back in the fairway and hopefully on the green. Welcome. We got to take a vote first here, I guess. Uh, any public comment? Anybody else? Hey, seeing none, all in favor? I It is unanimous. Thank you. Congratulations. Welcome aboard. Thank you. I look forward to working with you all this next year and hopefully further on and welcome you into 650 South Maine anytime you all are able to come over and visit. We are already back to uh public comment. Members of the public who speak are asked to state their name for the record and will be limited to uniform number of minutes. Board members may respond briefly to public comment but cannot deliberate on matters that are not
015listed on the agenda. Any public comment? Okay, we will move on. We have no closed session, so we just cannot reconvene into open discussion of possible action regarding future agenda items as requested by the board of trustees and clarification of requested agenda items. Trusting Fatten Trusty Whitakery Trusty GH. No. Thank you. And I have none. So this meeting is officially adjourned. Everybody have a good night.