2026 08.20 SAU 39 Board Meeting
On August 20, 2026, the SAU 39 Board addressed policy updates and budget matters. The board appointed Dan McCer to the SAU 39 budget committee via motion and second. Policy JFAB, concerning open enrollment, was presented for introduction before moving to individual district boards for final approval. Several policies were sent to district boards for updates: Policy DF's review date was approved for update, while first reads included policies EPB (school safety), C policies, and E safety policies, all involving minor wording changes. The board approved the consent agenda, which included draft minutes from May and June and a budget transfer request, with Mr. White making the motion. The meeting concluded with the group breaking out into individual district sessions and subsequently beginning a retreat.
It is Thursday, August 20th, and we are happy to welcome you here to our SA4 meeting and retreat along with few other fun surprises. And so with that, I would like to turn it over each of the board chairs to also open a individual report starting with Mr. >> Good evening. Welcome to the city of school board meeting of Thursday, August 20th. We have one, two, three, four people in attendance. And Mr. >> uh three school board meeting. >> Thank you. And Mr. Amber, will you be open? >> Yeah. So >> or someone. [laughter] >> Okay. Thank you. And so next we will move into the pledge of allegiance and Mr. Manning would lead us. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay, the next thing we're going to do is move into public comment. Uh, is there anyone on line? There's no one here in the room. And are they indicating they might be interested in Okay, they have like a 30 second polit they want to raise their hands. All right. The first thing we're going to do is um turn it over to policy committee to go over uh policy jab. Um, and Melissa is with them today. Um so um policy jab is um is being moved out to individual boards. This is the policy that uh controls um open enrollment or concerns open enrollment. It's um open enrollment languages in addition to um uh other forms of enrollment that were already listed on the policy. So sorry. >> So you know it's it's in there and so uh most uh all boards have been presented this policy and the policy has committee has spent some time to it. So, what we're looking tonight is after we introduce it and just field some and you know general questions on this, we're going to break out into the individual board meetings and approve it there. And each board has a maybe one or two other small additional things to do when we break out. But this is the policy uh JFAB that we you know adjusted to meet the the new open enrollment uh uh RSA. and in that conversation. So it's the admission of tuition and non-resident students and um so um us we don't have to have any discussion here. Uh we can have discussion in in our small group meetings but we just want to say that's the reason we're breaking out into three districts. You should see this policy on your individual board meetings. And the only reason we brought it up here is in case anyone has a question that might contain the larger group before we go off um with the hope that I believe soon that we able to vote on it so we can move forward here. Okay. And then I apologize everyone, I missed an agenda item on my way here and we have a budget committee. Um, as I head back to our SAU agenda from the county, um, budget committee 11, we're looking for a motion to appoint Dan McCer uh, to the SA39 budget committee. I'll make a motion to appoint Dan to the 39. or second. >> Second. >> Okay, I think I got Raj. >> Y >> Is there any discussion about appointing Mr. Clair? >> All in favor? >> Is there is there a vacancy? Is there an odd number already? What's the priority? >> I'm sorry, David. The question was, is there a vacancy that we're on number right now? So there they're one the committee member from each district. Um I'm not sure we have all range. So there's certainly an open and he'll either >> Okay. So this board that's boards board. >> Okay. Perfect. >> All right. All in favor? Any opposed? or abstaining. Okay. Um with that we will move into our individual boards and Mr. Perry will tell you where we're going. >> All right. So I saw a gonna stay here in this room. Uh MV will go across other side of the learn comments with Dave Clap and Amy Spacey and I will move with Ammerson to the the library. >> At this time I will ask to affirm the agenda for the evening. uh and in doing so we have the opportunity to ensure that we've all reviewed the agenda and are aligned on the scope and objectives of our discussion this afternoon. If there are any clarifications required on the agenda, now is the time to address them. Is everyone good with the agenda? Okay, we are in agreement on the spoken objectives for our time together. Thank you. And we are not quite ready to close out our board. So, let's resume our board business back in our SAU agenda. Under board business, uh number four, there are back to policy. So, um item A under policy is uh a D policy that just needs a reviewed date um update. Uh no changes made to this one. Um just keep a motion to update the review date for the B this policy policy DF cash in school buildings. So >> moving Oh, moving to the district boards for updated review by review. >> So this is kind of you'll see him again at your next meeting. >> Yeah. Um and then we have some first reads. So, um looking for a motion to um uh noted these ones first rating for the SAU and moved to district boards for approval. minor wording changes. A lot of those are deep policies that Amy went through and and made small adjustments to um bring more closely in line to our our district uh needs and practices. EPB school safety was some updated wording. questions. You got to view the um C policies to move to the district boards uh warranty policies uh with some again um Amy taking a look at those uh financial policies and and looking for change needed. um the e safety policies, most of those concerned um updates especially to you know what's considered school property and things like that. any questions about any of the policy So those you can all head down to district boards. We don't they're not SA level policy so we don't with them. Um but I do want to commend the policy committee for the amount of work that they are accomplishing and getting through that piece for several years and so I'm excited when we get so many calls coming to us ready to go. Um so we will now turn over to Mr. to close out this board meeting. >> I call this meeting board to vote >> and >> I adjourn the am >> and since Mr. Amber opened it so I'll let him close it. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Great. Um moving into the consent agenda. We have some draft minutes from May and June and a budget transfer request. Is there anything that needs to be pulled off of the consent agenda tonight? Can I get a motion to accept that? >> Motion to accept agenda. >> Motion made by Mr. White. >> Second, >> and seconded by Mr. We have a couple of operational reports, some treasure reports. Any questions about those? >> Oh, yes. Thank you. I'm moving so fast. We're just going. Thank you. Mr. Prince would like us to vote. And that is exactly what we should be doing. Oh, quick box here. [laughter] Any oppose? Or listen, I heard people wanted to get out early, so we just Thank you. I appreciate that. Um, now on to the operational input. Okay. Um, and so we have reached the end of this part of the meeting and we're going to move into our retreat now.