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resenting the South Dakota School Superintendents Association. He said his organization has concerns about the SDHSAA's lack of an appeals process for member schools that don't agree with a board decision.
• Sittig noted an amendment to the SDHSAA constitution that would have prohibited the association from enacting rules that would require Class A and Class B schools from implementing a shot clock in boys and girls basketball without a 60 percent majority vote of members to support the rule change.
• SDHSAA constitutional amendments require a 60 percent favorable vote of members who cast ballots. The amendment garnered a 53.7 percent favorable vote and was not enacted.

• Sittig said member schools brought forward the constitutional amendment because they didn't see any other way of appealing the board's decision to implement shot clock rules.
• "We don't like unfunded mandates," Sittig said, noting that the board's decision caused schools to bear the cost of adding shot clocks and also hiring people to run them.
• While he was at the meeting to start a dialogue about an appeals process, Sittig admitted that the members of his organization didn't unanimously support the change. He said some members believe that appealing the board's decisions would be an inefficient way to run the organization. According to Sittig, that belief led some schools to vote against the amendment even though they didn't care for the board's shot clock decision.
• Board chairman Darren Paulson of Rapid City said there needed to be a determination about what superintendents considered a significant financial

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