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Wakefield School Committee accepts donations, approves international trip and adopts two policies
Summary
At its Feb. 25 meeting the Wakefield School Committee unanimously accepted two donations totaling $53,000, approved a student trip to Italy and Greece, and adopted two district policies.
The Wakefield Public Schools School Committee on Feb. 25 accepted two donations, approved an April student trip to Rome and Athens and adopted two personnel- and committee-related policies in unanimous votes.
The votes matter because the donations directly fund school athletics and coaching stipends, the field trip is a school-run, curricular travel program for upper-level language students, and the policy votes change governance and staff expectations for the district.
The committee voted to accept a $3,000 donation from the Wakefield girls basketball program to cover stipends for two assistant girls basketball coaches for February. Christine (staff member), presenting the financial items, moved the motion; the motion passed unanimously. A school committee member called the gift “amazingly generous.”
The committee also voted to accept a $50,000 donation from Andrew Lambara in memory of Ella Lambara for Wakefield athletics. In the meeting record the $50,000 was described as allocated with $25,000 for the Wakefield Memorial High School football program and $25,000 for the Wakefield Memorial High School athletics program. The committee approved that acceptance unanimously.
On student travel, the committee approved a proposed April field trip to Rome, Sorrento (with a Capri side trip) and Athens for high school world-language students. Amy McLeod presented on behalf of the trip organizers and described the itinerary, cost structure, tour-company safeguards and optional travel protection; the committee approved the trip unanimously. The motion as read at the meeting referenced April travel dates and the destinations Rome and Athens.
Finally, the committee adopted two policies that had been laid on the table at a prior meeting: a revision identified as CPAC policy 223 and a newly titled policy replacing the working title “code of conduct” with “Professional Expectations for Wakefield Public School District employees.” Committee discussion included a clerical amendment to the title; the motion to adopt the policies passed unanimously.
Votes at a glance - Accept donation of $3,000 from Wakefield girls basketball for assistant girls basketball coach stipends (motion presented by Christine; outcome: approved, unanimous; counts not specified in transcript). - Accept donation of $50,000 from Andrew Lambara in memory of Ella Lambara, described at the meeting as $25,000 for Wakefield Memorial High School football and $25,000 for Wakefield Memorial High School athletics (outcome: approved, unanimous; counts not specified in transcript). - Approve April field trip to Rome, Sorrento/Capri and Athens for qualifying world-language students (motion approved, unanimous; counts not specified in transcript). - Approve CPAC policy 223 as presented (approved, unanimous; counts not specified in transcript). - Approve policy titled “Professional Expectations for Wakefield Public School District employees” (amendment changing the working title from “code of conduct” adopted; approved, unanimous; counts not specified in transcript).
Meeting minutes acceptance was postponed to a later date and therefore not voted on at this session.
The committee did not record numeric vote tallies in the public portion of the transcript; each listed motion was announced in the meeting as passing unanimously.
