Freetown-Lakeville panel forms Gray's Pool subcommittee after open-meeting law complaint; committee names seven members

Chair Jen Blum announced at the Sept. 24 meeting of the Freetown-Lakeville Regional School Committee that the committee will formalize the Gray’s Pool subcommittee’s purpose, charge and timeline after an open-meeting law complaint was filed. The committee voted to approve the subcommittee’s purpose, tasks, charge and timeline and to appoint seven community members to the panel.

The complaint, filed in August by Margaret French, chair of the Town of Freetown finance committee, alleged the subcommittee had not been properly formed and that a meeting had not been published within 48 hours. Blum said the district consulted the Massachusetts Association of School Committees (MASC) and district legal counsel and “we do not feel as we did anything wrong,” but the committee will formalize the subcommittee’s structure to avoid further complaints.

The subcommittee’s stated purpose is to review, evaluate and make recommendations to the full school committee based on an…