Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8 streamlines meeting packet prep with Diligent Community
Modern Governance 100 honoree Shiona Nash is the Executive Assistant to the Superintendent and Board of Education for Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8, which serves over 9,000 students.
Creating board packets was a major source of stress and frustration for Nash. The manual process involved creating, printing and collating hundreds of pages of materials. Often, Nash would have to hand-deliver packets to each board member before the meeting and make last-minute edits that usually required full packet reprints.
“I always told my coworkers that if there were one reason I would quit it would probably be because of the board packets,” Nash said.
With Diligent, Nash has removed the frustrations from packet preparation, empowering her to:
- Streamline packet prep from two weeks into an efficient three-day process
- Boost community engagement with a public transparency website
- Publish meeting minutes instantly to the website, taking away a time-consuming web update process that used to take hours
“Through Diligent, we’ve been able to increase our transparency with our community,” Nash said. “Our mission is to develop a generation of world-class learners, and Diligent helps us to achieve that mission — helping our board members to do their jobs to their fullest ability.”
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