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Board adopts resolution creating 2026 standing committees, names chairs and liaisons
Summary
The board adopted a resolution establishing committees for 2026 to oversee a district transformation plan and other operational areas, and announced chairs, co-chairs and liaisons for each committee. The resolution states formal actions were taken in open meetings and directs committees to submit work to an oversight committee.
The Board of Education moved to adopt a resolution establishing standing committees for the 2026 calendar year to provide oversight of the district’s transformation plan and operational functions. Unidentified Speaker 5 introduced the resolution, describing committees for transformation oversight, academic and program redesign, early childhood education, parent/community/staff engagement and student services, budget and finance stabilization, human resources, and legislative and policy review.
Under the resolution, the transformation plan oversight committee will monitor strategic and financial metrics and provide public dashboards and reports. The academic and program redesign committee was described as responsible for evaluating programs, career pathways, special education, and mental health supports. Additional committees were assigned duties for early learning, family and staff engagement, finance and operations, human resources, and state/federal policy monitoring.
Unidentified Speaker 5 read that, pursuant to board policy BCD and BCE, chairs and co-chairs will be named and committees are required to act in public. The board announced chair and liaison appointments: TPS oversight chair Baez (co-chair Unidentified Speaker 5) with liaisons Brian Sticholte and Jim Yang; academic chair Paula Miller Griffin with co-chair Chris Barwick; finance chair Bob Vestas; early childhood chair Sheena Barnes; audit committee member Bob Hesketh; and other appointments as listed at the meeting. The resolution includes a clause stating the actions related to adoption were taken in open meetings and that the resolution will take effect immediately after adoption.
The resolution was moved and advanced in the meeting by voice assent; the transcript records members answering "Yes" during a poll but does not include a detailed roll-call tally. Board members discussed overlap among committees and whether staff engagement should be integrated into human resources, but no amendment to the resolution text was recorded during the session.
