Ball Chatham CUSD 5 meeting recap: personnel approvals, press-policy update, kindness program and communications plans
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Summary
In a roughly 40-minute Jan. 28 meeting, the Ball Chatham CUSD 5 board approved consent-agenda and personnel items, accepted the second reading of revised press policies, heard from GMS principal Christine Laynan about a kindness program, and received a communications update from Danny Frey about social-media metrics and a new 'Rooms' parent tool.
The Ball Chatham CUSD 5 school board on Jan. 28 approved consent-agenda items including minutes, treasury reports and FOIA responses, and approved personnel consent items covering resignations, new hires, terminations, transfers and leaves of absence.
Speaker 1 summarized the consent-agenda approvals; the meeting recap does not list individual employee names or provide vote tallies for these actions. The board also approved the closed minutes from Dec. 17 and recorded the termination of an employee; details about that termination were not provided in the transcript.
Under new business item 7.05 the board approved the second reading of updates to the district’s press policies. The transcript does not include the policy text or a roll-call vote.
Christine Laynan, principal at GMS, described a new kindness program that includes a middle-school kindness wall and instruction on appropriate social-media use “with some guardrails,” as the presenter phrased it. The program was presented as an effort to support student behavior and digital citizenship; the transcript does not include budget or implementation dates.
Communications Director Danny Frey provided an update on the communications department, citing social-media viewership for Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and noting recent updates to the district website and app. Frey also previewed a soon-to-be-deployed system called “Rooms,” described as a two-way communication tool for parents; the transcript does not include deployment timing or metrics for the new tool.
The board reviewed meeting dates for February and held a citizens’ opportunity session during which no members of the public spoke. The meeting concluded roughly 40 minutes after it began.
Actions recorded in the meeting recap were approvals; the transcript does not provide motion language, mover/second names, or vote counts for consent or policy items.