Board adopts first reading of wide-ranging policy updates; adds reporting language for employee harassment

The Greenfield Union Elementary School District board on Oct. 9 approved the first reading of a large package of updated board policies and agreed to add language clarifying how employees should report allegations of harassment.

The board’s action covers dozens of policies from nondiscrimination and charter oversight to employee notifications and harassment complaint procedures. The board also directed staff to add a paragraph from an older policy clarifying that employees may report harassment to their direct supervisor, a district administrator or the district’s Title IX coordinator and that an employee may bypass the supervisor if the supervisor is the subject of the complaint. The additions will be shown on the packet for a second reading at the board’s next regular meeting.

Board members and staff framed the change as…