The Macon County R-I Board of Education will hear superintendent search survey results and an outside financial review Monday, according to the agenda for a special open session.
The meeting is at 5 p.m. at the District Administration Building, 902 N. Missouri St., the open-session agenda says. Both items are listed under business items marked for action: "Superintendent Search Survey Results – EGL" and "Financial Review Summary – EGL." The agenda does not say what the results or the summary contain, or what vote, if any, the board will be asked to take.
Board President Stacy Quinn told the board Oct. 21 that EGL would send a staff and community survey in November and that the firm’s financial review should reach the board in mid to late November, the Macon Chronicle reported.
The Chronicle reported Nov. 5 that the district had posted a Superintendent Search Stakeholder Survey on Superintendent Bryan Thomsen’s Roar Report page. The anonymous survey asks students, parents, staff, and community members for input on leadership priorities, personal attributes, and professional qualifications, and it sends responses to EGL. Neither the Roar Report page nor the form listed a closing date.
The district’s superintendent opening page, which the district’s site marks as published Sept. 10, lists an application deadline of Dec. 1, interviews the week of Dec. 7, board action in December 2026, and a contract start in July 2027, the Chronicle reported. Quinn also said Oct. 21 that EGL was still taking applications.
The board hired EGL on a 5-1-1 vote Aug. 18 to run the next superintendent search "with the finance addition," according to approved minutes cited in prior Chronicle coverage. Nick Dille voted against the hire, and Quinn abstained.
The financial review is coming as the district runs on a $3.3 million tax anticipation note the board approved Sept. 29, the Chronicle reported Nov. 2. In an Oct. 2 letter to the community, the board said it would use the results "to make careful decisions in the future."
The consent agenda lists approval of the Oct. 21 open-session minutes. The open-session agenda also includes public comment and a board president’s report by Quinn.
After the open session, the board is scheduled to meet in closed session under section 610.021(1) of the Missouri Revised Statutes, for legal actions involving the district and attorney communications, and section 610.021(13), for personnel records, evaluations, and applications, according to both agendas. The closed-session agenda lists that meeting for the Macon R-1 Board Room at the same address, at the conclusion of the open session, and includes approval of the Oct. 21 closed-session minutes.
The Macon R-1 School Board still has refused to provide records requested in an open records request made by Chariton Media in October.
The board’s next regular meeting is Nov. 18, according to the district’s Board of Education meeting list.