Richland School District Packet Summary — 2026-08-11
Meeting: School Board Meeting
Date: August 11, 2026
Richland School District’s August 11 agenda includes a 4:00 p.m. special meeting for a budget workshop, followed by a 6:00 p.m. executive session and the regular Board meeting at 6:30 p.m. The regular meeting is scheduled for both in-person and remote participation.
Key Items on the Agenda
Budget Workshop and Budget Hearing
The Board is scheduled to begin with a 4:00 p.m. special meeting devoted to a budget workshop. The regular meeting agenda later includes a budget hearing, giving the Board another scheduled budget-related item that evening.
The packet identifies supporting materials for the budget hearing as “Budget” and “F195,” but the extracted text does not provide enough detail to characterize specific proposed revenues, expenditures, fund balances, or tax impacts.
Superintendent Search Firm
The regular meeting agenda includes a “Superintendent Search Firm Discussion and Decision.” This wording indicates that the Board is scheduled not only to discuss the superintendent-search process but also to make a decision concerning a search firm.
The extracted packet text does not identify the firms under consideration, proposed contract terms, costs, or a staff recommendation.
Policy / Governance Items
Policy No. 5401 — Sick Leave
The Board is scheduled to consider Policy No. 5401 — Sick Leave as a business item. The extracted packet identifies the policy number and subject but does not provide sufficient substantive text to describe the proposed changes.
Policy No. 6910 — Construction Financing
The agenda also places Policy No. 6910 — Construction Financing under regular business. The extracted packet does not provide enough substantive policy language to characterize what changes or actions are proposed.
Board Discussion and Future Agenda Items
A separate business item is reserved for Board Discussion/Old Business/Future Agenda Items. The agenda references August 25, 2026 and September 8 in connection with this item, but the extracted text does not provide enough context to characterize what matters may be scheduled for those dates.
Executive Session
Before the regular meeting, the Board is scheduled to enter an executive session at 6:00 p.m. The agenda identifies personnel, legal, and real-estate matters and cites RCW 42.30.110(1)(g), RCW 42.30.220(1)(i), and RCW 42.30.220(1)(b).
The agenda states that the Board meeting will be called to order and move immediately into executive session before the regular meeting.
Consent Agenda
The agenda describes the consent agenda as items proposed for approval by a single vote of the Board. Scheduled consent items are:
- Personnel Actions
- Approval of Minutes from July 14, 2026 and August 6, 2026
- Hanford High School 2026 ASB Constitution
- Cash Grant — Partnership for Learning
- Payroll and Warrant Approval
The extracted packet text does not provide sufficient supporting detail to characterize the personnel actions, cash-grant amount or terms, or payroll and warrant totals.
Public Participation and Communications
The regular agenda includes a Requests and Comments period, with two minutes per individual and a 30-minute overall limit.
The communications portion also includes reports from the Board, student representatives, and superintendent. The agenda provides boardfeedback@rsd.edu for members of the public wishing to send feedback.
Meeting Schedule and Access
- 4:00 p.m. — Special Meeting: Budget Workshop
- 6:00 p.m. — Executive Session
- 6:30 p.m. — Regular Board Meeting
- In person: 6972 Keene, West Richland, Washington, Benton County
- Remote: Zoom conference; the agenda directs participants to the district website for remote-access information.
What to Watch at the Meeting
The agenda places particular emphasis on the district’s budget and superintendent search. The Board has both a budget workshop and budget hearing scheduled, while the superintendent search-firm item is expressly framed for discussion and a decision.
Two district policies—Policy No. 5401 on Sick Leave and Policy No. 6910 on Construction Financing—are also scheduled as regular business. Because the extracted packet provides limited supporting policy text, the nature and scope of any proposed revisions are not clear from the available materials.
The official public-body source used for this packet was the Richland School District meeting material available at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14TmKMw_KkYNd7lAqG8kyDUADz11gnnAw/view?usp=sharing
Richland School District’s meeting/document listing page is:
https://www.rsd.edu/district/school-board/board-meetings
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