Preschool report, software and legal contract renewals filled out USD 308's Sept. 14 agenda
The agenda listed no public-comment period, moving from board discussion into closed sessions on a student matter and personnel.
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Sign up freeThe USD 308 Board of Education was scheduled Monday, Sept. 14, to hear an annual report on its Lil' Hawks preschool and to approve a consent block renewing parent-notification software and outside legal counsel. The published agenda is the only record available at this writing, so the items can be described only as scheduled, not as decided.
The agenda placed the Lil' Hawks annual report on the meeting as an information presentation with an attachment, an item that concerns the families of district preschoolers. The agenda text gives no enrollment count, cost, funding source, staffing level or finding from the report, and it does not name who was to present it.
Seven items rode on the superintendent's consent agenda: the July 2026 treasurer's report, August 2026 accounts payable, the annual renewal with Apptegy — the vendor whose platform districts use for websites, mobile apps and mass notifications to families — a 2026-2027 legal services letter of engagement with attorney Carole DeWald, grants, gifts to schools and a superintendent search proposal from ESSDACK. Each item carries an attachment, but the agenda states no dollar figure for any of them, no term or price for the Apptegy renewal and no rate or comparison with the prior year for the DeWald engagement.
The ESSDACK proposal appeared on that consent block even though the search process was also set for a separate presentation, an item Citizen Journal previewed before the meeting. As Citizen Journal reported Sept. 16, the agenda listed a recognition of the Kansas State Department of Education's approval of the district's bond application, which does not state the bond amount. A separate board consent item covered minutes of the district's budget hearing and of the Aug. 24, 2026, regular meeting, placing Monday's meeting three weeks after that budget hearing.
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