Among the hot topics on the agenda for Tuesday’s Morgan Hill Unified School District Board of Education meeting are accepting the resignation of Superintendent Dr. Wesley Smith effective June 30, as well as outlining the steps for hiring the next superintendent.
Smith, who was hired as MHUSD superintendent in November of 2009, announced last week that he will be leaving the district to become the next Executive Director of the Association of California School Administrators, which recently named Smith its 2013 Superintendent of the Year.
Smith’s successor will be the district’s eighth superintendent since MHUSD formed in 1966. ACSA is the largest umbrella organization for school leaders in the nation, serving more than 16,000 school leaders since 1971.
Also on the agenda are program management options for Measure G projects. Measure G is a $198 million voter-approved capital improvements bond passed in November 2012.
The first such use of those funds – the modernization of the old Burnett Elementary School campus on Tilton Avenue in northwest Morgan Hill – has come under fire by some residents who are opposed to the Board’s decision to move Central Continuation High School to the former elementary school site.
The vocal group of homeowners in the Capriano neighborhood surrounding the Burnett campus have made their gripes known during Board of Ed. meetings in the past and want the facility to be re-opened as an elementary school. The Central-to-Burnett move was already passed in 6-1 vote by the Board last month.
