The process of even just discussing a change to Seaman Unified School District 345’s name will cost at least $30,000 and could cost as much as $70,000 to get started.
The Seaman Board of Education on Monday approved a contract with the Kansas Leadership Center to help assist in the district’s name change discussion, which comes months after student journalists at Seaman High School first confirmed long-held rumors that district namesake and pioneer Fred A. Seaman was also a leader in the Topeka chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Kansas Leadership Center contract, which was approved in the board’s consent agenda, stipulates that the contract’s $30,000 base amount would go toward creating the advisory committee, providing introduction to the leadership center’s framework, and holding three retreats for group discussion on a potential name change.