How to resolve AdBlock issue? The meeting will take place beginning at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28.
The physical meeting location in the boardroom at the Lakeport Unified District Office, 2508 Howard Ave., will be limited to the board of trustees and selected senior administration to ensure recommended guidelines for social distancing are practiced.
All other members of the public can participate in the public session of the meeting via Zoom: https://lakeportusd.zoom.us/j/86090868306.
The agenda can be found here.
At its Jan. 14 meeting, the board accepted the resignation letter of Superintendent Jill Falconer, effective June 30, as part of its consent agenda.
During Thursday evening’s meeting, the school board will discuss the process to select Falconer’s successor.
Falconer, who had worked in the district for 25 years by the time of her hire as superintendent in 2019, told Lake County News that she plans to retire in June.
“Originally the plan was to be able to care for my husband after a heart transplant. Things don’t always go as planned, but I decided that life is always shorter than we expect and I wanted to be available to help care for my new grandchild,” she said.
Her husband of 36 years, Todd Falconer – a veteran of the United States Air Force, pilot, local businessman and gentleman farmer – died Jan. 2 while awaiting a heart transplant.
The couple met while attending college at California State University, Chico. After his service in the Air Force, they moved to Lake County, where they raised their family and Jill Falconer built a long and respected career in education.
In May of 2019, the Lakeport Unified School Board hired Falconer as superintendent – then the principal of Clear Lake High School – after she topped a field of nine finalists.
Since then, she’s helped the board navigate the challenges of school closures in response to COVID-19 while working to address the concerns of teachers, staff, students and families regarding reopening schools.
Board members on Thursday will consider proposals from two consultants to assist in the new superintendent search – Education Leadership Solutions of Kelseyville and Leadership Associates of Santa Barbara.
The Konocti Unified School District hired Education Leadership Solutions, headed up by founder and chief executive officer Dr. C. Richard Smith, to oversee its search for a superintendent two years ago.
That search resulted in the hire of Superintendent Dr. Rebecca Salato in May 2019, just a week before Lakeport Unified hired Falconer, as Lake County News has reported.
Also on Thursday, Falconer will update the board on the full implementation of stage two hybrid learning, which will see most students return to school for in-person instruction, and the board will consider the district’s revised calendar for the 2020-21 school year.
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