001All right, Kelly, will you roll? Absolutely. Um Paul here Heather Emily here and I am here. Okay, moving on to the statement of public notice. Adrian, thank you. Now moving on to approval of the agenda. entertain a motion to approve the agenda. So moved. Any discussion? Okay. All those in favor say I. I. I. All in favor. Okay. We will now rise for the pledge of allegiance. Kelly, why don't you kick us off? To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Person requesting to address board of education. There is nobody here in the audience. So we will move on to communications announcements preser update on changing soon. Um I'm sorry. I had no idea that
002we were doing this. I thought we were just going through um over the contract and Oh, right. So, we brought the a contract to that's it. Okay. Very good. We'll now move on to our um action discussion items for the first item uh election of chair. I will hand that off to the superintendent to walk walk us through that process and manage that until chair's election. I'll solicit nominations to the office of board president. Nominations will be requested three times. If multiple nominations are received, the vote will be by written ballot. If newly elected board president will then preside over the balance of the election of officers. So, do I have a nomination for president? I would like to nominate Paul Carlson. Paul, you don't need We don't need a second. Do I have a
003nomination for president? Do I have a nomination for president? Nomination being Paul. All those in favor of Paul? I. Motion carried. Paul is president. So Paul, I'll turn that over to you now. Well, I appreciate the the vote of confidence. Look forward to working with this board uh over the coming year and excited about uh us navigating this transition. settles into the new role. So now let's move on to uh um the election for the vice president. Um so I will nominate uh Kelly to serve as vice president and then I will request any other nominations. Are there other nominations? Are there other nominations? Hearing no other nominations, uh, we will now vote on Kelly Conrad for vice chair. All those in favor say I. I. I. Okay. Congratulations, Kelly. You want to say anything?
004Thank you. No, I look forward to serving. Thank you. Okay, we'll now move on to nominations for our treasurer. Uh, do you have any nominations? I will nominate Tara. Are there other nominations? Other nominations. Okay, one more other nominations. Hearing none, uh, we will vote on Tara Nicholas for treasure. All those in favor say I. I. I. Excellent. Congratulations, Tara. Tara, do you want to say anything? No. Thank you. Okay, we'll now move on for our nomination for clerk. Do we have any nominations for clerk? I will nominate Heather. Are there any other nominations? Any other nominations? Other nominations. Okay, we will now uh entertain a vote on Heather Giri for clerk. All those in favor say I. I. I. Great. Congratulations, Heather. Heather, do you have anything you'd like to say? No. Thank you.
005Okay. Very good. We'll look forward to working with everybody over the uh coming year. Now, we'll move on to the appointment of committee members. Now, this does not require a vote. This is chair prerogative. Um, and I shared this with all of you before and I appreciate everyone who had followed up with feedback. So, the finance committee, I appoint Tara and Emily to be members of that committee. I appreciate Emily stepping in there as we as Heather did as a new member and as I as a new member. It's a great way to learn the finances of the board and appreciate your service there. Tara, appreciate your continued service as chair of that committee. For the curriculum instruction committee, I will appoint uh Kelly Conrath as chair and Emily as a member to the committee.
006Uh thank you both for your willingness to serve on that committee. For policy committee, uh I appoint Heather as chair and Kelly as a member to that committee. Thank you both for your willingness to serve. And then for the human resources committee, I appoint Tara as chair and myself uh to be a member of that committee. Again, Tara, thank you for chairing that committee. Before we move on, uh, Tara, uh, did you want to talk about the building and grounds committee? Yes. October is so we don't have to have a standing meeting, but I think there are some updates from the October meeting that we should probably meet. Um, especially just to get my caught up on some of those things and we can set a meeting Maybe we can look at your schedule and
007see when you're measure. Okay. So, we will do uh um Again, since it's ad hoc, we'll do uh Tara here as chair uh for that continuity purpose. And then Heather, since you've offered um that's great. One of the things I know that I had share with you is the donor memorials for the donor plaques that have been in storage, making sure we get those up to honor folks who who have financially invested in the college or in the um the school district. So, do you want to set that now or do you three want to just circle back offline and then set a date? Okay. Okay. We will now move on to the CISA7 delegate. I will appoint myself as the CISA7 representative. Moving on to the Wasby delegate. I appoint Kelly to be our
008WASBY delegate. Thank you for serving, Kelly. Next. Moving on to item 5e to set the monthly meeting date. Uh I had received no no feedback uh on changing our current meeting date of the second Wednesday of the month at 5:30. Uh but before we we set that I would just open it up to the group. If there's another date you would like to entertain. Let's discuss that now. I'm fine with it. Um, I would just like to set it and put it on the event calendar immediately for the entire year so that we don't end up with things like tonight where I'm missing a college meeting for my daughter because it wasn't meeting. So, let's get them on there. I was just I was just going to double check that that's okay with Mike's schedule
009because obviously he wasn't a part of that. conversation and typically he will be at all of those. So I just wanted to ensure his voice was heard. Good point. Great. Okay. And I would I I I echo uh um Terara's comments there to get this on the master calendar as soon as possible and absolutely just try and try our absolute hardest to minimize conflicts uh so that folks have to choose between the school board and school uh uh engagement and events. So at this point I need a motion. the monthly meeting dates as the second Wednesday of the month at 5:30 p.m. Motion a second. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All eyes. Motion carries. Okay, we're now moving on to the designation of depository. I need a motion to continue
010the relationship with Summit Credit Union as the designated depository. We have a motion, a second. Are there is there any discussion? Okay. All those in favor say I. I. All in favor passes. Now moving on to the designation of the newspaper. I need a motion to approve Shabboan Press as the school district of Polar's official newspaper designate. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All eyes. Motion carries. Moving on to the designation of Coler Villager. I will need a motion to approve Coler Villager E. Coler Villager as a newspaper for publication of board meeting minutes. Second. A motion. Second. Any discussion? I would just make a comment that we're really fortunate in this community to have the cer villager that publishes the minutes in full and
011great partnership. Okay, without any further discussion, all those in favor say I. I. I. Okay. All eyes. Motion passes. Moving on to the designation of legal advisor. Um our our current legal advisor is Atoi's law SC and I would need a motion uh to approve uh utilizing them moving forward. Any discussion? I I I do have a question here for uh either for administration. So I know we set this annually but that doesn't lock us in. This is a vote that could come at any time. Okay. So, any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. Right. All eyes. Motion passes. Okay. Now I am moving on to I have to announce our school board terms. Uh so the terms for this school board are as follows. Heather Giri term beginning in the
012year 2024 and ending the year 2027. Teriza term beginning in the year 2024 and ending in the year 2027. Emily. Oh, Emily, I'm sorry. I should have asked you beforehand. Regator, I apologize. The term beginning in the year 2025 and ending in the year 2028. Paul Carlson, term beginning in the year 2025 and ending in the year 2028. Kelly Conrath, term beginning in the year 2023 and ending in the year 2026. Those are the school boards. Great. And I move on to item 5K, superintendent transition update. Um I I will kick this off and then welcome comments from uh uh the group and uh Lisa and Mike. Um and talking with both Lisa and Mike. Um, uh, one of the things I think we're all three laser focused on, I know this board's laser focused
013on is a really smooth transition of finishing out the school year strong and carrying that momentum into Mike's start of his trajectory here at the college. And again, talking directly with both Mike and Lisa, you said college. Oh, man. I apologize. I do apologize. forget. Um, one of the ways that made the most sense to do that, I'll be more kind of was um the transition of decision making. And what we have at the moment is everyone doing their absolute best, but we have times when when Mike is here on campus on uh here at the school and we have time Lisa's here and both confusing for folks about who to go to, how are decisions being made, and everyone's trying their their best to do the absolute best work here, but without that clear
014line, it just can we can do a lot of wheels spinning there. And so, uh, uh, and consultation, we we thought the best way to move forward there was to, uh, shift operational and financial decision making to Mike. Uh Mike is currently here coming uh two days a week on Thursday and Fridays. Um a as his schedule changes at Howard Swamico, you know, we'll see some increase in time as those two things that are set. Uh and Lisa uh will shift to a really important consultant role, right, to help make sure that knowledge is being transferred and that we are uh on the best course to move forward in this transition. And I I will pause there and then welcome comments from from Lisa and Mike. And you all have a copy of a communication
015uh that uh uh Lisa would plan plans to send tomorrow to staff. Uh that would be from both Lisa and Mike and the three of us have reviewed that before you all saw. So I would I would welcome uh any comments any of you have? No, I just I think this is in the best interest of the staff and the students to make one person the decision maker so that we're not going in different directions. So, it does get very wonky um in the decision- making with this long transition process. So, I think it is in the best interest of the staff um in particular uh the admin and the core staff making the operational decisions uh to turn everything over to Mike at this point. And that's following a similar transition to what I'm
016also going through on the other side as now stuff has shifted away from me at Howard Swamo to my colleagues that will be replacing. And before I turn it over to ask any uh further questions or comments, just a note of appreciate the graciousness here, Lisa, uh coming up on on 38 years, uh uh to the best that you can being able to just really lean into all the celebrations that are happening right now and connecting with colleagues, just reflecting on a a rich career um that we're very thankful that you're you're here for. So, thank you. Thank you. Are there any questions or um comments from the board? This doesn't require any any board action. I will follow up though after this meeting with uh an email to you uh Lisa just outlining that
017this uh uh is the plan moving forward. And what that does is just uh makes it clear to all parties that this is how we're moving forward. So, thank you. Yep. Okay, we will now move on to item 5 L. Approve the hire of Ugan Morgan. Hi. Y Thank you. Uh I will ask Mike to say a few words here on this hire. Yeah. So, super excited about uh Morgan's recommendation for hiring. I had a number of qualified candidates for the special education uh position and I was able to meet with a few of them and uh Morgan's coming will be joining us from Minnesota too. She currently works in a high school setting. Uh her passion and excitement around transitions and making sure students have opportunities uh was uh very apparent and it was
018exciting to hear about her experiences and what she brings to the table. So in addition to that, she has a strong uh science background as well. So, kind of a a nice skill set that way. She's very excited about this opportunity. Andrea is is also shared a number of remarks, too. And and having met with Morgan, I'm really happy that she'll be joining our team. Okay. At this point, I would entertain a motion uh to approve the hire of Morgan. So, moved. Second. We have a motion, a second. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. Passed unanimously. That takes us to our our final item number six, adjournment. Do I have a motion uh in a second to adjurnn? Second. Great. Motion second. All those in favor say I. I. I.
019Awesome. We stand.