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A Summary of the Douglas County School System Board of Education Meetings and Work Sessions


August 16, 2022

A brief summary of the August 15, 2022, 7:00 p.m. Douglas County Board of Education meeting and third public millage rate hearing follows. Meeting agendas for each board meeting and work session are posted online. For an agenda from the August 15 meeting, please click here. To see supporting documents, click on agenda items.

Action Items


Certified and classified personnel were approved


Board policies approved:

IKBB - Divisive Concepts Complaint Resolution Process

LEB - Parent Organizations

JRB - Parents' Bill of Rights


Consent Agenda


Minutes of previous meetings:

  • July 18, 2022 work session/board meeting minutes
  • July 18, 2022 executive session meeting minutes


FY 23 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant Awards


Instructional Technology Tools


Contracts:

  • Contract with AHS Global: Linda Baskerville Lewis
  • Contract with AHS Global: Michelle Shelley
  • Contracts with ProCare Therapy
  • Consultant Agreement with Sadisha Clarke
  • Contract with Advanced Care Partners
  • Contract with Soliant Health, LLC
  • Contract with Nancy Schusterman
  • Contract with School Psychology in Color, LLC


Information Only

 

  • LSHS club proposal
  • Overnight and Out of State Field Trips


Present in the meeting were Board Members Tracy Rookard, District III, Chair, Michelle Simmons, District IV, Vice Chair; Devetrion Caldwell, District I; D.T. Jackson, District II; Glenn Easterwood, District V. Also present were Superintendent Trent North; Associate Superintendent of General Administration Dr. Michelle Ruble; Assistant Superintendent of Operations Kwame Carr; Chief Financial Officer Holly Timms; Assistant Superintendent of Student Services Pam Nail; Chief Data Strategist, Dr. Kristen Carroll; Executive Director of Communications, Kenya Elder; and Executive Assistant to the Superintendent Hannah Washington.


August 16, 2022 - Public Hearing on Tax Millage Rate


For an agenda from the August 16 hearing, please click here.

Chief Financial Officer Holly Timms presented information regarding the setting of the millage rate and the process for school system funding. The first meeting took place on August 9 at 8:00 a.m. The second meeting took place on August 9 at 6:00 p.m. The final public hearing and vote was held on August 16 at 8:00 a.m.


The board unanimously voted to lower the millage for the 7th year in a row, from 19.55 mills to 19.50 mills, and to keep the bond millage rate at 0.5 mills. Without this year's mill rate reduction the school district could have collected an additional $2.2 million dollars in property tax dollars. 

 

Upcoming Meetings of the Douglas County Board of Education

Tuesday, September 6, 2022, 6:00 p.m., BOE Work Session

Monday, September 19, 2022, 7:00 p.m., BOE Meeting

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