Now, the board salary will be set — $1,900/member/year with $56 for extra mtgs/exec sessions. Members can also get employee health and life insurance packages same as offered to administrators.
Somers runs down the committee assignments. They include Vogt to strategic planning initiative; Somers to textbook adoption committee; and Hathaway to redistricting school boundaries.
Re: redistricting, Somers says he’s not trying to scare anyone but previous presentations have shown elementary enrollments are out of balance.
Regular meeting has begun. We are in public comment. First speaker just ended.
Speakers so far offered commentary on board/elections and cafeteria policies at two schools.
Next speaker said she wasn’t going to attend tonight but something she heard this morning about how silence is consent prompted her to come.
She ran out of time before addressing a specific topic other than how it is unavoidable to bring politics into the board room, if my paraphrasing is correct.
Another woman — all speakers so far have spoken at previous meetings— is questioning the law firm hired.
That was done during reorganization meeting.
The last speaker is a 9yo boy in third grade.
His focus was having to be quiet during lunch.
Somers shares info about each board member having a NACS email address. The general board email address will soon be shut down. He says this gives stakeholders an additional way to communicate with members.