November 22, 2021 at 5:00 PM - DOUGLAS SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION

Rationale:  Travel will allow DHS tech ed students to compete in robotics and other technical skills.  Travel will also allow some exposure to higher education institutions and career opportunities.

Recommend approval of Douglas High School Activity Trips for Tech Ed Teams per Board Policy JHFAA.

Rationale:  Douglas District Board Policy IKFA requires the school board approve students for graduation who have completed application (IKFA-E) and desire to graduate in fewer than the standard 8 semesters.  The attached list of 16 students have made an application, and are on track to successfully graduate12/22/2021.  Students must successfully complete all courses within which they are currently enrolled.  Additional names may be brought forward, as in previous years, as students enrolled in programs such as Dual Enrollment complete their required credits.  All early graduates are invited to participate in graduation ceremonies, with their peers, in May.

 

Rationale:  On November 8, 2021, the board received a final design development presentation for the new Douglas High School from COOP Architects and DLR Group.  They plan to provide a brief summary of that presentation along with cost estimates on the project.  The next phase of the project will be to develop construction documents.   

Rationale:  As part of our facilities master plan to accommodate the anticipated growth from the B-21 expansion at Ellsworth Air Force Base, new elementary schools will need to be constructed to house additional students.  We anticipate the planning process to take one year to complete.  The district continues to plan for this unprecedented student growth.  Starting this process now, will help to ensure that we are prepared for the future.  

Rationale:  LAN members needed for 2022 legislative session
Board members, administrators and ASBSD must work together to advocate for support from the legislature for South Dakota’s public education system.
 
An important part of those advocacy efforts is for member districts to appoint one or more board members to ASBSD’s Legislative Action Network (LAN), which is designed to activate designated members of local school boards to represent the legislative positions of the Association and their local board. Please note, LAN members and Delegates are not the same position.
 
"It’s imperative for the advocacy efforts in favor of public education that every school board appoints one or more board members as their ASBSD Legislative Action Network (LAN) member," ASBSD Executive Director Wade Pogany said.
 
"There will be many testing pieces of legislation in 2022 and we’ll need everyone’s efforts to maintain the public education system we have right now."
 
LAN members will periodically be contacted by ASBSD during legislative session asking them to contact their legislator(s) and advocate for or against a piece of legislation.
 

Rationale:  We are currently advertising for a Buildings and Grounds Coordinator.  With this advertisement comes the need to consider updates to the current job description.

 

Rationale:  Black Hills Occupational Medicine is discontinuing the management portion of the Random Drug and Alcohol Pool Program at the end of the calendar year.

Management of this program includes preemployment screening records, random selections, and reporting of test results. 

I completed research on two companies that offer the management of our Transportation Random Drug and Alcohol Pool (Monument Health and Sanford Occupational Medicine). 

Based on comparison information attached below the recommendation by myself and Pete Haugh Transportation Coordinator is to go with Sanford Occupational Medicine. Advantages are as follows: collection site and process will stay the same, online results, and Transportation Professional Development Training. A requirement with the Sanford Occupational Medicine agreement is registration in the FMCSA Clearing House which has already been established. Required agreements are attached below.