UPPER LAKE, Calif. – The selection of a new elementary school principal, an updated board meeting schedule and the 2016-17 school year schedule will go to the Upper Lake Unified School District Board for consideration this week.
The board will meet for a 4 p.m. closed session before the regular public session at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, March 22, in the library/student center at Upper Lake High School, 675 Clover Valley Road.
Documents and background information for agenda items are available to the public at http://www.boarddocs.com/ca/ulusd/Board.nsf/Public .
One of this week's main agenda items is the hiring of a new elementary school principal.
Valerie Gardner, who has been the principal and superintendent of Upper Lake Union Elementary School District and a key supporter of unifying Upper Lake's two school districts, is retiring this summer after school ends.
The recruitment began earlier this year and closed in March, with district interim Superintendent Patrick Iaccino heading up a selection committee that included Gardner, and elementary school parents and teachers.
The candidate being proposed for hire is Stephanie Wayment, who is director of Educational Resources and Accountability at the Lake County Office of Education.
The board is being asked to approve Wayment's hire, effective July 1.
In other business for Tuesday, staff will present the 2016-17 school calendar.
The proposed calendar has the Upper Lake Unified School District's first full year of school beginning on Aug. 10 and ending on May 26.
Also on Tuesday, the board – which has been meeting twice a month to work through the many tasks necessary to complete the unification process – will consider moving to a once-a-month meeting schedule beginning April 12.
The meeting also will include a public hearing on sunshine contract openers with the school employee unions, department reports, and reports from Business Manager Sue Milhaupt and from Iaccino.
Board members are President Mel O'Meara, Clerk Diane Plante, and members Keith Austin, Don Meri and Claudine Pedroncelli.
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Upper Lake Unified School Board to consider hiring elementary school principal
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