MONTAGUE — New board member Emily Fullmer and continuing board member Cindy Francis took their oaths of office for their terms on the Montague school board Monday at the beginning of the board's monthly meeting.
Francis has been on the board for 27 consecutive years and was re-elected for another term this past November, while Fullmer replaced Tom Johnson on the board after Johnson did not seek re-election.
The board also unanimously appointed its officers for the next year, all but one of which remain as they were in 2024. Brent Raeth will continue as board president, with Joel Smith taking on vice-president duties, replacing Johnson. Cindy Francis will continue as secretary and Amanda Dahl will do the same as treasurer.
The board also appointed school attorneys and auditors, appointed Michelle Culver as board secretary pro-tem and designated Stacey Brown as the district's electronic transfer officer. All appointments were made unanimously and without much discussion.
The board also unanimously voted to establish a new superintendent evaluation committee. Superintendent Jeff Johnson said the committee is being formed as a result of discussion that took place around his most recent evaluation by the board, with the position taken that forming the committee will help streamline the process in the future. The committee will schedule an unspecified amount of meetings prior to the next evaluation.
During superintendent comments, Johnson noted that the board's recent passing of new Title IX regulations has been vacated by a federal court, which on Jan. 10 reverted Title IX sex-dicrimination regulations to how they stood in 2020. The new regulations added gender identity to Title IX, but the court held that those protections already applied under Title VIII.
