Policy committee forwards revised 'BSR 5' superintendent-relations policy to full board

The Horry County School Board Policy Committee voted unanimously April 20 to forward a revised draft of BSR 5, the board–superintendent relationship policy, to the full school board for consideration.

Policy Committee Chair Pam Dawson opened the discussion and asked staff to explain changes to BSR 5. A district staff presenter summarized edits made since the prior meeting and said committee feedback — including written comments from Janet Graham — had been incorporated to better align policy language with current practice. The committee’s superintendent then reviewed the policy section by section, describing the proposed framework for evaluation and monitoring and the types of measures the district would use.

The superintendent said the policy requires an annual plan and a board monitoring calendar, calls for multiple measures (including leading, summative and qualitative indicators), and sets an informal monitoring cadence of three times a year; November was named as the timeframe to review the superintendent’s evaluation tool. Chair Dawson emphasized that the revisions were board-led and refined by staff "to be acceptable legally and on a regulatory basis, and implementable going forward."

Following that review, Wendy Hodges moved that the committee forward BSR 5, as amended, to the full board for consideration. A committee member seconded the motion, and the chair announced the motion passed unanimously. The committee did not record a roll-call tally in the meeting transcript; the chair described the outcome as "a unanimous decision to move BSR5 forward to the board for consideration."

The chair and members thanked staff for their work and said the revised language completes the Superintendent Relations section of the Policy Committee manual. The item will appear on the next full-board agenda as a discussion item.

Next steps: the full school board will consider BSR 5 at a future meeting; the Policy Committee asked staff to provide the updated policy language and supporting materials when the item is docketed for board consideration.