Recap of Tonight's Board Workshop

Our Board held its monthly workshop meeting tonight.  Here's a recap of the issues discussed and actions taken on tonight's Agenda.

Our first agenda item was a discussion of the District's FY 2009 Budget.  We have had 4 meetings on the Budget, so this discussion was very short.  The Board will have a second public hearing on the Budget on May 19 at 7:00p.  For more information the FY 2009 Budget, see these prior posts here and here.

Our next discussion item involved a presentation by the Homework Task Force that included their recommendations for modifications to the District's homework policy.  The Board will continue to discuss this issue at our next several meetings with an eye toward approval of a new policy no later than our July Board meeting.

Next we discussed the District's new staff appraisal system.  Significant effort has been made to make the appraisal system uniform and more robust.

We then concluded our meeting with a lengthy conversation on the second readings on the following Board policies:

BQA (Local) Planning and Decision Making Process: District Level
BQB (Local) Planning and Decision Making Process: Campus Level
CDA (Local) Other Revenues: Investments
EHAC (Local) Basic Instructional Program: Required Instruction (Secondary)
FD (Local) Admissions
TASB Policy Update 82

Numerous amendments were offered, and final approval of these policies will occur at our Board meeting on May 19.