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Lewiston school committee suspends rules to move agenda item to executive session; motions made for student disciplinary hearing
Summary
At its Feb. 24 meeting, the Lewiston School Committee voted to suspend rules to relocate agenda item 7 into an executive session and moved to enter an executive session to hear a disciplinary case identified as "Student A," citing statutory authorities recorded in the transcript.
The Lewiston School Committee on Feb. 24 moved to suspend the rules and shift agenda item 7 into an executive session, citing "Title 1 4 0 5 6 d," and then moved to enter an executive session to conduct a disciplinary hearing for a person identified in the record as "Student A," citing "Title 20A 10,019" and "Title 4,056."
Committee members listed themselves at the start of the meeting: Scott Harriman (city council representative to the school committee); Donna Gallant (Ward 7); Megan Hurd (Ward 6); Iman Osmond (Ward 5); Craig Charpentier (Ward 4); Elizabeth Eames (Ward 3); Janet Bone (Ward 2); "Phoenix and Welcome" (Ward 1); and Megan Parks (at large). Jake Langley, superintendent, spoke immediately before the motion to suspend the rules.
A motion "to suspend the rules to move agenda item number 7 to an executive session under title 1 4 0 5 6 d" was made and seconded; the transcript records the subsequent vote as unanimous. Later the committee made and seconded a motion "to enter executive session to conduct student A disciplinary hearing Title 20A 10,019 and Title 4,056." The provided transcript excerpt ends after the second was called; a vote tally for the second motion is not recorded in the excerpt.
No substantive discussion of the underlying allegations or disciplinary evidence appears in the supplied transcript excerpt. The items recorded in the public portion are procedural motions to move the matter out of open session and into a closed executive session under the cited statutory authority. The transcript does not include details of what was discussed or any formal findings from a disciplinary hearing.
The meeting record provided is limited to the start of the session and the procedural motions; any outcomes or actions taken in executive session are not included in the supplied excerpt.
