Community Solutions mtg 2

Last Tuesday I sat in on the 2nd Listening Session. Again, it was a diverse group of citizens who:

• are seeking to support their schools, students and communities, while ensuring the tax dollars are used wisely
• included a couple of board members, some voter no’ers, some vote yes’ers, some parents of RAS students, some older citizens{ie no kids in district}, some RAS employees, etc
• spent time discussing various RAS challenges and personal concerns with an effort to learn, understand and sometimes influence.

Some of the items discussed included:

• RAS priorities (ie P1 – P3) {wonder where that input/topic came from...}
• School communication to citizen’s without children (ie ~80% of the citizens)
• Financial reporting clarity and consistency
• Standardization of graduation statistics and clarification of school performance expectations. (ie who to focus on, how?)
• Student mobility challenge
• RAS employee expectations and accountability (perf planning and reviews)
• Board and Admin roles and responsibility (details vs output goal setting)

I had to leave early to kiss the girls good night. (long day) However it was civil and productive for the first hour and 40 minutes. Definitely a worthy effort.

They know they will get this one improvement idea... Provide better signage... The conference in the basement was not intuitively obvious...

What else did readers that attended find interesting?