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Long debate ends with request for draft subcommittee calendar; members split on mandate for minimum meetings
Summary
After a lengthy debate over committee governance and subcommittee meeting frequency, the school committee asked the superintendent to draft a proposed schedule of subcommittee meetings for the committee to review in coming months, rather than imposing an immediate mandated minimum number of meetings.
The Farver School Committee spent a large portion of its April 29 meeting debating whether to require subcommittees to meet at least quarterly. The discussion covered staff workload, public transparency, and how policy items get moved from subcommittees to the full committee.
Some members argued a minimum cadence would prevent long delays — several subcommittees had not met in…
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