Agenda for June 30, 2020 Published

The agenda for the June 30th Board meeting was published this morning. The meeting starts at 4:30PM, with an immediate adjournment into Executive Session. The open meeting will reconvene at 5:00PM. The meeting will be held via Livestream (Zoom). Find the link on the District's homepage, where it is now posted. Or just click here: www.richland2.org/livestream

To examine the agenda, go to the District's website. Then
Click on EXPLORE (top right), then
Click on School Board; then
Click on AGENDA; then
Notice the Guidelines for Public Participation in Board Meetings *; then
Click on Regular Board Meeting; then
Click on View the Agenda

On the agenda for the Executive Session is the superintendent's evaluation. I imagine most of the board members will have their rubber stamps handy, because the agenda allows only 30 minutes for the Executive Session to evaluate the superintendent and conduct other Executive Session business.

Of course, they cannot approve the evaluation in the Executive Session. They will do that as part of Item 6.1. There should be a discussion of his performance. This is the place where they will reveal how big of a salary increase they will award to the superintendent this year. Last year's increase was a whopper.

* The "Guidelines for Public Participation in Board Meetings" are out-of-date, plus Board Policy BEDH was rescinded. The public is no longer allowed to participation in board meetings; not even remotely. It could, but the Board has shut out the public. And it gets away with it, because it never publicly announced what it had done.

I'll venture a guess that the public doesn't even know it can no longer address the board at meetings or suggest items to be added to the agenda.

The District has never altered or notated Board Policy BEDH to inform the public that it was suspended; i.e., suspended indefinitely, which might just be the same as permanently.