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Lakeland bargaining team applies IBB standards and records unanimous support for adding a preamble
Summary
During an interest-based bargaining session, the Lakeland Joint School District team and trustees applied IBB decision standards and recorded unanimous agreement to add a preamble to the district's negotiated agreement; the vote was noted as unanimous on the record though exact counts were not specified.
Jake Massey, interim superintendent, convened the Lakeland Joint School District interest-based bargaining (IBB) session and walked participants through a draft negotiated agreement the board had prepared. After applying IBB standards — legality, ratifiability, student impact, equity, budget feasibility and clarity — the group considered whether to add a preamble that names the parties and sets cooperative expectations.
Jason Bradbury, a sixth‑grade teacher and facilitator for the process, summarized the IBB approach and the team's standards and led the group through the preamble review. Bradbury said the preamble “keeps us all on the same page” and that, under IBB, the group uses nonbinding signals (thumbs up/sideways/down) to gauge readiness to move forward.
Trustees and LEA representatives discussed whether the preamble should reference statutory language or allow for designees in future years. After the group applied the standards and resolved clarifying language, Bradbury recorded the group’s decision: “So that vote was unanimous,” he said. The meeting record does not list a numeric tally; staff indicated the preamble text will be moved into the draft agreement and edited for placement and formatting.
Why it matters: Adding a preamble clarifies the relationship between the board and the LEA and sets shared expectations for how negotiations will proceed. Because the negotiated agreement will be taken to members for ratification, clarifying the preamble early in the process reduces the risk of later confusion about authority or representation.
Next steps: Staff will place the approved preamble text into the working draft, circulate an editable copy to bargaining members, and resume IBB work at a follow-up meeting.
