{"id":5016,"date":"2018-12-20T14:18:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T23:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/?p=5016"},"modified":"2018-12-20T14:18:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T23:18:28","slug":"new-2019-testify-school-board-meeting-homer-seward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2018\/12\/20\/new-2019-testify-school-board-meeting-homer-seward\/","title":{"rendered":"New in 2019: Testify at a School Board meeting from Homer or Seward"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>News Release<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2015\/10\/KPBSD-logo-4c-no-tag-SMALL.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2243\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2015\/10\/KPBSD-logo-4c-no-tag-SMALL-150x150.png\" alt=\"KPBSD logo 4c no tag SMALL\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong><em>New in 2019: Testify at a School Board meeting from Homer or Seward<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Sign up no later than 3:00 PM the Friday prior to a Board of Education meeting to guarantee the remote site will be open and staffed.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nSoldotna, December 20, 2018\u2014The KPBSD Board of Education will open two additional locations for public testimony via video during a school board meeting. Homer Middle School and Seward Elementary School sites will be open\u2014if there are advance signups\u2014starting with the January 14, 2019, school board meeting.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000080\">Sign Up to Testify<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Advanced sign up is required in order to accommodate remote testimony. The deadline is 3:00 p.m. on the Friday preceding the meeting. <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To sign up, call or email Debbie Tressler, 907-714-8836 <a href=\"mailto:dtressler@kpbsd.k12.ak.us\">dtressler@kpbsd.k12.ak.us<\/a>, by the Friday, 3:00 PM deadline. If no one signs up in advance for video testimony, remote participation will be cancelled in that location (Homer Middle School, or Seward Elementary School).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Kenai Peninsula Borough School Board welcomes and values public comment on agenda and non-agenda items. Citizens have four opportunities during a board meeting to address the Board of Education on education related topics:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Public Presentations (non-agenda items)<\/li>\n<li>Hearing of Delegations<\/li>\n<li>Public Comments on Action Items<\/li>\n<li>Public Presentations (any topic)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Links<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Testifying at a KPBSD School Board Meeting guidelines: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2QHKjRb\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2QHKjRb<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Board of Education meetings, policies, and library documents are available to the public through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boarddocs.com\/ak\/kpbsd\/Board.nsf\/public\">Board Docs<\/a> online: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boarddocs.com\/ak\/kpbsd\/Board.nsf\/public\">https:\/\/www.boarddocs.com\/ak\/kpbsd\/Board.nsf\/public<\/a><\/li>\n<li>To view the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BOEvideochannelKPBSD\">live-stream<\/a> of a Board of Education meeting from a computer or digital device, or view past board meetings, visit the school board video channel: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BOEvideochannelKPBSD\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/BOEvideochannelKPBSD<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/board.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPBSD Board of Education webpage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>School board meetings are held in the Kenai Peninsula Borough Betty J. Glick Assembly Chambers, 144 N. Binkley St., Soldotna, unless otherwise noted.<br \/>\n###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Release New in 2019: Testify at a School Board meeting from Homer or Seward Sign up no later than 3:00 PM the Friday prior to a Board of Education &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2018\/12\/20\/new-2019-testify-school-board-meeting-homer-seward\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New in 2019: Testify at a School Board meeting from Homer or Seward&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-5016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kpbsd-district-stories","tag-board-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}