The Snyder ISD board of trustees will interview two superintendent search firms Thursday.
The board will interview Bob Griggs of Bob E. Griggs and Associates and Region 14 Educational Service Center Executive Director Ronnie Kincaid, take a dinner break, and then are scheduled to vote on the firm.
The board chose the two firms during its September meeting.
Superintendent Jim Kirkland’s contract expires in June and he will retire from the system at that time. Kirkland has served as Snyder ISD’s interim superintendent three times.
Trustees also will vote on a change in the district’s student code of conduct related to expulsion for a drug-related offense.
The administration is recommending that the board add to the code that “if a student incurs two or more drug-related offenses within one calendar year, it will result in a referral to juvenile probation with the possibility of placement in a drug rehabilitation facility in lieu of expulsion.”
“Although a drug-related offense is currently a discretionary expellable offense, the administration would like it to be reflected in policy that SISD will explore every avenue to try and help a student who is participating in substance abuse,” Kirkland wrote to board members.
Trustees also will vote on the final reading of a policy update related to video and audio recording devices in certain special education classrooms or other special education settings; a resolution naming Scurry County Extension agents as adjunct staff members for 4-H and Extension activities; approving the designated fund balance for the district; and rescinding the Snyder Intermediate School campus turnaround plan and implementing a targeted improvement plan (TIP) since it is no longer an improvement required campus.
The board will also vote on the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) energy cooperative interlocal agreement, where the district can purchase energy services and fuel at discounted prices.
Trustees will also vote on out-of-state travel plans for the Snyder High School theatre arts program and the band. The theatre group plans to go to Edinburgh, Scotland in August and the band will travel to Winter Park, Colo. in the spring. Both trips are self-funded with no cost to the district. Snyder ISD policy requires board approval of all out-of-state trips.
Following a public hearing on the district’s TIP for Snyder Junior High School and the district, the board will vote on the plans.
Trustees will also receive updates on the TIPs for the high school, intermediate school and the primary school and possible changes to the district’s board policy related to interrogations and searches.
The board also will hear an update on the improved behavior program at Snyder Primary School and personnel.
The meeting will be held in the administration building boardroom at 4:30 p.m. A time is set aside for public comment on non-agenda items.
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