Public Meeting Minutes: August 30, 2021 at 6:00 PM - EMHS GC August 2021 Regular Meeting

I. Call to Order

Action(s):

Motion Carried:

Motion to approve agenda Carried with a motion by Michael Wismer and a second by Karen Thompson.

Doug Darner: Yea
Janea Davis: Yea
Brad Hosmer: Yea
Glenn Hushman: Yea
Brent McCall: Yea
Harley McDaniel: Yea
James Salsbury: Yea
Lindsay Schwebke: Yea
Karen Thompson: Yea
Michael Wismer: Yea

No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.

II. Roll Call

III. Adoption of Agenda

Action(s):

Motion Carried:

Motion to approve agenda Carried with a motion by Michael Wismer and a second by Karen Thompson.

Doug Darner: Yea
Janea Davis: Yea
Brad Hosmer: Yea
Glenn Hushman: Yea
Brent McCall: Yea
Harley McDaniel: Yea
James Salsbury: Yea
Lindsay Schwebke: Yea
Karen Thompson: Yea
Michael Wismer: Yea

No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.

IV. Approval of Consent Agenda

Description: Note: The purpose and rational for use of a "consent agenda" can be found by accessing the following link.

https://www.civicplus.com/blog/am/how-to-use-a-consent-agenda-to-save-time-and-refocus-discussion-on-critical-matters

Action(s):

Motion Carried:

Motion to approve consent agenda Carried with a motion by Brad Hosmer and a second by Doug Darner.

Doug Darner: Yea
Janea Davis: Yea
Brad Hosmer: Yea
Glenn Hushman: Yea
Brent McCall: Yea
Harley McDaniel: Yea
James Salsbury: Yea
Lindsay Schwebke: Yea
Karen Thompson: Yea
Michael Wismer: Yea

No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.

IV.A. Budget Adjustment Requests

IV.B. Monthly Financial Report

IV.C. Check Report

IV.D. Disposal List

Description: List of equipment to be disposed of.

IV.E. Approval of previous meeting's minutes

V. Public Forum/Public Input

VI. Reports

VI.A. Student Representative

VI.B. Faculty Liason

VI.C. Principal

VII. Committee Reports

VII.A. Finance Committee

VII.B. Facilities Committee

VII.C. School Outcomes and Strategy Committee

Speaker(s): Brad Hosmer

Action(s):

Motion Carried:

Motion to accept the purpose, name, and membership of the School Outcomes and Strategic Planning Committee, taking into account the suggestion of detailing the principal's role on the committee. Carried with a motion by Brad Hosmer and a second by Doug Darner.

Doug Darner: Yea
Janea Davis: Yea
Brad Hosmer: Yea
Glenn Hushman: Yea
Brent McCall: Yea
Harley McDaniel: Yea
James Salsbury: Yea
Lindsay Schwebke: Yea
Karen Thompson: Yea
Michael Wismer: Yea

No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.

Discussion: Charter: The Committee believes its charter should include a number of essential elements. We propose:

The Committee is responsible to:

Determine the criteria for assessing student progress, which includes both academic achievement and the soft skills as cited in the strategic plan.

Assess the data on those criteria, reporting to the GC its significance.

Assist the GC and the Administration to develop and implement plans as appropriate to achieve EMHS’ strategic goals.

Name: For the name of the Committee, we recommend: ‘School Outcomes and Strategy Committee’.

We suggest ‘school’ instead of ‘student’ because the goals of EMHS are distinct from student achievement goals, and both are critically important to the GC.

We cite both outcomes and strategy to make clear that both near-term and far-term goals are important to the GC and therefore to this Committee.

Membership: The Committee discussed composition. Our bias is to keep the Committee as small as possible to improve the quality of discussions and outcomes. We recommend to the GC that:

The Principal be considered a full voting member of the Committee. Since the Committee does not have a fiduciary responsibility, his membership is OK and, we believe, fully warranted to assure that our recommendations are both sensible and feasible.

We considered but rejected including a parent member, because we have two parents already on the Committee and the GC. If from time to time we want to have another parent perspective, we can arrange that as needed. [Committee: I do not mention the idea of ‘try one to see if helpful’, thinking we can bring that up when we think it could be helpful. No need for the GC to authorize, in my view]

We considered and rejected including a member of the Foundation in order to keep separate their financial role from the mission of the GC.

We considered and decided that faculty and student representation are likely to be helpful from time to time. On some issues, the Administration’s perspective may be different from the faculty’s and student’s. On those occasions we would invite those representatives as advisors on the issue at hand.

We considered and rejected including a former member of the GC because we did not recognize any with a perspective well beyond that of our current membership.

We agreed with the Principal that including a data analyst is likely to be helpful. Trey is currently negotiating a data analysis contract with an EMHS graduate (2010) who is currently employed by PED. He has been responsible for designing some of the public data presentations currently on the PED website. We asked that Trey include in his contract discussion asking that this person be available to meet with the Committee, monthly if called. His status would be technical advisor, not member.

VIII. Parking Lot Items for Future GC Meetings

IX. GC Board Member Comments

Discussion: Lindsay plugged the EMHS Foundation's Top Golf Fundraiser on Sept. 26.

X. Chair's Report/Comment

XI. Next Meeting Announcement

XII. Adjournment

Action(s):

Motion Carried:

Motion to adjourn at 7:36pm Carried with a motion by Michael Wismer and a second by Brad Hosmer.

Doug Darner: Yea
Janea Davis: Yea
Brad Hosmer: Yea
Glenn Hushman: Yea
Brent McCall: Yea
Harley McDaniel: Yea
James Salsbury: Yea
Lindsay Schwebke: Yea
Karen Thompson: Yea
Michael Wismer: Yea

No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.

August 30, 2021 at 6:00 PM - EMHS GC August 2021 Regular Meeting

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