With state budget issues in mind, San Benito High School
Superintendent Jean Burns Slater has enacted school district board
policy that allows her to set up a district advisory committee.
With state budget issues in mind, San Benito High School Superintendent Jean Burns Slater has enacted school district board policy that allows her to set up a district advisory committee.
The committee is designed to be advisory in nature to assist Slater in formulating recommendations to the SBHSD Board of Trustees for “policy and operational decisions,” Slater said. The SBHSD Board of Trustees does not have its own budget committee.
Slater is looking for two current or future parents, two community members, two certificated staff members, two classified staff members, two administrators and two students to serve on the committee, which will focus on the 2003-04 fiscal year.
The first meeting of the advisory committee will be Thursday at 7 p.m. Anyone interested in serving should attend, Slater said. The meeting will be at San Benito High School in room 135, upstairs in the main building.
Qualities desirable in members, Slater said, include an open mind and willingness to set priorities; an active interest in the SBHSD goals, funding and budgetary issues; active communication skills; and representation of interests of school community members while cognizant that student needs are the district’s priority.
SBHSD Board Policy 1230, adopted in December 2000, affords the establishment of an advisory committee “to provide input to the superintendent regarding community perceptions, concerns and, recommendations regarding the operations, decisions and direction of SBHSD,” according to Slater.
On the agenda for the meeting is the establishment of meeting procedures, methods to increase revenue, current issues facing the SBHSD and reduced expenditure areas.
For more information, call Slater at 637-5831, ext. 134.
