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Supervisors and school officials.
Tm trying to look at creative ways to change the picture,” he said.
Mills is targeting state funds as a way to increase school resources. Although in the past he said he has considered and even proposed advertising arrangements with business to deliver much-needed money. He said the ideas, such as naming new facilities after corporate donors, were not well received.
Another critical task that Mills believes the school board will soon face is that of finding a new superintendent.
Rappahannock County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Bob Chappell has not officially announced retirement plans, but Mills worries that the school board will find itself searching for a replacement in the next few years, probably after Chappell’s contract expires in 2010.
Chappell said in a phone interview that he will begin making decisions about retirement as the contract end-date approaches.
That board’s number one job is to make sure we have a good superintendent,” said Mills, who helped hire Chappell.
During his time as chair of the school board, Mills enacted a number of reforms intended to address what he saw as a chaotic and unproductive work environment. The meetings would drag on into the night, exhausting the board and the public.
They were out of control,” he said. “We would get to the point where decisions were being made at 10:30 or 11 o’clock at night.”
Mills limited public comments to three minutes per person and would push back discussions until later meetings that required further attention.
“I used that to bring order where I thought there was chaos,” he said.
Mills also made efforts to improve the board’s communication with the schools.
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