2026 08.20 SAU 39 Board Meeting

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Recording

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.