September 14, 2020 at 8:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

Rationale:  PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
INSTRUCTIONS FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISH TO SPEAK: This is the portion of the meeting when members of the public may speak to the Board about matters of public concern. 

• Getting Started:  When you have been recognized, please stand and state your name.  
•  Time Limit:  The Board will generally allow a total of 30 minutes for the presentation of all public comments.  Individuals may speak only one time and must limit comments to around 5 minutes.  If there are more than six individuals who wish to address the Board, the 30 minutes will be divided equally between the number of speakers.   These time limits may be changed by a majority vote of the board members in attendance to extend the time for a specific item or speaker.
• Personnel or Student Topic:  If you are planning to speak about a personnel or a student matter involving an individual, please understand that the district has a complaint policy and/or procedures to resolve such complaints and concerns.  The Board requests that you follow the policy and procedures before addressing these matters with the Board.  Board members will generally not respond to any questions you ask or comments about individual staff members or students. 
• General Rules: This is a public meeting for the conduct of business.  Comments from the audience while others are speaking will not be tolerated.  Lewd, obscene, profane, slanderous, threatening, and hostile conduct or statements and fighting words (words whose mere utterance entails a call to violence) will not be tolerated.
• No Action by the Board:  The Board will not act on any matter unless it is on the published agenda. 

Rationale:  Executive Summary:

The firm, KSB Law, has been hired to provide the district with complete policy service and legal assistance with all policies.  Also, they have been the firm that I contact with any legal questions, concerns, or issues.  I would consider them at this point to be our district Legal service, but I have found nothing indicates the board has adopted KSB as its Legal Law Firm.  There is no additional cost to the district. 

Rationale:  Executive Summary:

The legislature has made the negotiations process a part of statute.  
§48-818.01 time line includes that the Bargaining agent must request recognition on or before September 1 of the preceding year.  In this case that the request is for the 2022-2023 school year.  The SEM-EA and the SEM-BOE have meet this legal obligation for the 2021-2022 school year.  

It has been our practice to do this on or around the September board meeting a year in advance. 

Rationale:  Executive Summary:

The 1000 Series Policies are general policy statements.  There are only three policies for the board to consider.  I have included the 1000 Series Memorandum from KSB to help explain some of the details.

The current mission statement is, "The vision of Sumner-Eddyville-Miller public school is to empower all students to achieve their best, become productive problem-solving citizens, and embrace innovative tools to learn in a safe environment." 

With the advice or our attorney, we only do not need to have two different readings of the policy.  We can do it in a single meeting.