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School board moves attorney-reporting policy to full board after debate over legal bills and access to counsel
Summary
The board voted to send proposed policy 26.10 to the full board for discussion after attorneys and members debated how much routine attorney contact should be reported and how that affects legal bills and public records requests.
At the July 15 board meeting, members agreed 3-0 to send policy 26.10 to the full board for discussion after an extended conversation about attorney billing, how routine communications with counsel are reported, and how those reports affect public-records costs. The question before the committee was how to balance transparency with practical limits on billing and staff time.
The discussion centered on comments from the board’s attorney and the superintendent about workload and billing. Mr. Krompke, the board attorney, told the committee that his duty is to “represent the school system as a whole” and not individual board members, and said he worries that a reporting requirement for every short communication would balloon…
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