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Trustees debate campaign‑finance transparency and eligibility as board meeting devolves into heated exchange
Summary
A trustee urged the policy committee to consider changes to the school‑board election process to increase transparency of campaign funding; the discussion provoked heated responses from fellow trustees and was paused before the meeting moved into executive session.
During public business, a trustee asked the board and the policy committee to examine whether the district’s school‑board election processes and campaign‑finance disclosures are sufficiently transparent and accessible to local voters.
The trustee said modern campaigns increasingly resemble professional political campaigns, with outside donations, robo‑calls and online fundraising becoming common; the trustee argued that current disclosure practices — three required campaign finance filings, the last of which is only…
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