September 12, 2022 at 5:00 PM - DOUGLAS SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION

Rationale:  Recommend approval of request to waive liquidated damages.  

Rationale:  These are annual activity trips and planned expenses have been included in the general fund budget.

Rationale:  The Douglas School District has provided two classrooms for Youth and Family Services to operate their Head Start Program for children ages 3-5 of qualifying families residing in or near Douglas School District. This agreement is reviewed annually for relevance and then submitted for board approval.

 

Rationale:  Regular yearly item.  No major changes. 

Rationale:  We are transitioning to Phase 2 of the Strategic Direction process.  Ellie Martinez, Adaptive Schools Trainer, and I facilitated Phase I of the process.  Katy and I have been working with Brian Riggs of Riggs Enterprises to prepare for Phase II.  Our first, all day, in person meeting with the Strategy Team will be held on Monday, September 26 from 8:30 to 3:30 pm.  We gathered input from all district stakeholders at beginning of the year Values and Beliefs meetings that were held August 15-18 (Phase I).   We invited approximately 37 district stakeholders to be involved in Phase II of the process.  Our second in person meeting will be held on October 26.  

Rationale:  Per Board Policy BK, the Board will annually review its own performance in terms of generally accepted principles of successful board operations and in relation to its  goals and objectives.  After talking with board leadership, we wanted to introduce this concept at our September 12 meeting and be open for any discussion on this topic.  The tentative plan would then be to create a Google form to be distributed by September 26 and ask the board to have their evaluation completed by the first meeting in October.   

A question we might want to consider now or later would be "How might we best implement this self evaluation process and what changes might we recommend to ensure future success?"  

Rationale:  No Changes proposed since FIRST READING Aug. 22, 2022.

GCLA - Attendance at Professional Meetings and Conferences - REVIEW
GCLA-R- TRAVEL ALLOWANCE - REVISED (State Rate Change)


 

Rationale:  Since First Reading of policies IIBGA and IIBGA-E, the admin team has included additional input gleaned from our beginning of the year student checkout process.  

The changes include

• additional minor grammar/language changes.
• The addition of criteria by which families may request waiver.
• Eliminated redundancies within the "Conditions."
• Eliminated reference to "Business Manager" as separate responsible entity.

 

Rationale:  DSD currently collects a Device Insurance Fee of $25.  This insurance fee is required of all students grades 6-12 who are assigned a district owned laptop for the 1:1 environment. Recognizing that some may not be financially able, families are offered the opportunity to apply to the Superintendent, or designee, for a waiver of this fee. NEW Exhibit IIBGA-E(2) formalizes this process.

The application identifies other fees for which the family may request waiver.

The application provides authority for the district to verify Free and Reduced Lunch status.
 

Rationale:  Memorandum of Understanding was last approved 2019.  This MOU is valid for a two year period Aug 2022-Aug 2024 and provides for (3) School Resource Officers and related service. 

PCSO has assisted in developing a supervision schedule for events.  

PCSO added a $5000 potential reimbursement for conferences SRO's may attend at our choosing, however, DSD already pays for employee conference attendance through district leave policies/ travel/ registration etc.  Training is to be mutually agreed upon.

No other changes in service or MOU details were proposed in this agreement.