KETCHIKAN GATEWAY BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION
Regular Meeting and Work Session
March 12, 2025, 6:00 P.M.
Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly Chambers
The Board of Education respectfully acknowledges the traditional first people of
this land in Ketchikan, the Tongass Tlingit people.

Agenda

1.     CALL TO ORDER, PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, ROLL CALL
2.     APPROVAL OF AGENDA
3.     PUBLIC RECOGNITION
a. Ketchikan Charter School Robotics Team
b. Ketchikan Charter School Battle of the Books
4.     CITIZEN REMARKS (Per BB9323, each individual speaker is allowed a maximum of 3 minutes to address the board.)
5.     INFORMATION AND REPORTS FROM BOARD MEMBERS
6.     REPORTS FOR INFORMATION
a. Claims of February 28. 2025
b. February Board Financial Report
7.     REPORTS
a. Student Report
b. Superintendent Report
c. RISE School Social Work Report
8.     CONSENT CALENDAR
a. Motion to approve the regular meeting minutes of December 11, 2024
b. Motion to approve the regular meeting minutes of January 15, 2025
c. Motion to approve the listening session minutes of January 29, 2025
d. Motion to approve the regular meeting minutes of January 29, 2025
e. Motion to approve the regular meeting minutes of February 12, 2025
f. Motion to approve out of state travel request for Ketchikan High School Track and Field team to travel to Oregon in April.
g. Motion to approve offering a long term teaching contract to Susan Johnson from March 17 to the end of the 2024-25 school
year at Fawn Mountain.
h. Motion to approve the nomination and confirmation of public members of the English Language Learners Committee of the
School Board
9.     UNFINISHED BUSINESS
10. WORK SESSION
a. Reconsider FY25/26 KGBSD Restructuring Plan - Specialization Plan, Closure of Point Higgins Elementary or Schoenbar, Alternative Proposals, and
Budget
11.  NEW BUSINESS
a. Motion to confirm, amend or rescind direction to district staff and provide district staff with new direction based on work session.
12.  **PUBLIC HEARING** POLICY
a. Motion to revise BP 1250 volunteer assistance, in first reading.
b. Motion to revise BP 5125.3 withholding grades, diploma or transcripts, in first reading.
c. Motion to revise BP 5131.3 bus conduct, in first reading.
d. Motion to revise BP 5131.5 vandalism, theft and graffiti, in first reading.
e. Motion to revise BP 5141.51 at-risk youths, in first reading.
f. Motion to revise BP 6161.20 damaged or lost instructional materials and equipment, in first reading.
13.  BOARD COMMENTS
14.  ADVANCE PLANNING
a. ELL Committee meeting Tuesday March 25, 2025 at 4:00 p.m. in the Social Studies office at Ketchikan High School 
b. School Board Regular meeting Wednesday March 26, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. in the Borough Assembly Chambers
c. School Board Regular meeting Wednesday April 9 & 23, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. in the Borough Assembly Chambers
15.  ADJOURNMENT

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