Staff won't get to evaluate superintendent

The board determined that a proposed staff survey form was inappropriate.
YOUNGSTOWN -- Youngstown City School District staff won't be participating in the first school board evaluation of the district's superintendent.
The school board won't be distributing a survey form to the administrative staff as part of the review process for Dr. Wendy Webb, said Kathryn Hawks Haney, chairman of the board's Personnel Committee.
A proposed staff survey that appeared on the school board agenda last month was never accepted by the board and was sent to the Personnel Committee for review.
The committee looked at it last week and determined that it shouldn't be part of the process of evaluating the superintendent. Some of the questions seemed inappropriate, and it was uncertain to which staff members the survey should be given.
Hawks Haney said the survey form will be reviewed by individual board members, who will then make suggestions on what questions will be appropriate for evaluations of the superintendent, the board treasurer and the district's EEOC officer. Those are the three administrators directly hired by the school board.
Hawks Haney said the staff survey form won't be used in any evaluations this year but may be implemented beginning in 2006.
The board is conducting its first evaluation of Webb, who became superintendent in August 2004.
Hawks Haney said each board member has begun filling out a board questionnaire form, and the board will meet in executive session during a special meeting Oct. 18 to review their answers and begin formulating a consensus before meeting with the superintendent.
There is no specific timeline for finishing the evaluation, she added.