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Policy committee allows staff to update legal references, discusses cellphone rule and calendar changes
Summary
Members of the school board's policy committee agreed to allow staff to make non‑substantive legal reference updates to existing policies to reflect recent state law changes, discussed expectations for a forthcoming cellphone policy and reviewed proposed calendar language tied to the district's collective bargaining agreement.
The policy committee agreed informally to let staff make non‑substantive updates to the legal reference sections of district policies to reflect recent state law changes, while reserving any body changes for policies that require substantive revision.
The committee’s discussion centered on several recently enacted bills — including a parental rights measure and a cellphone-related bill — and on technical renumbering of legal citations (referred to repeatedly in the meeting as “306” rule changes). Committee Member 1 said, “I would ask this committee to allow us to just make those end note changes,” and described the edits as housekeeping that “won’t touch the body of the policy.” Committee Member 2 indicated agreement that minor reference edits need not return to the full board for approval and noted that such edits could be documented in the meeting minutes.
Why it matters: several policies in the district package contain legal citations that no longer match current law or agency numbering, and committee members said correcting the citations is necessary so the policy language points to the correct…
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