Property/Policy committee posts revisions to budget, facilities and maintenance policies for public review

The Property/Policy Review Committee of the East Stroudsburg Area School District voted unanimously Feb. 24 to authorize administration to post proposed revisions to several operational and facilities policies for public review, with final board action to follow in March.

Committee members spent the meeting reviewing language changes in budget preparation (policy 06/2003) and a bundle of facilities- and operations-related policies — 701 (property/facilities planning), 703 (sanitary management), 704 (maintenance), 708 (lending of equipment and books), 710 (use of facilities by staff) and 716 (integrated pest management). The committee discussed clarifying who is responsible for particular duties, eliminating or rephrasing obsolete role titles and resolving potential conflicts with other district policies.

The committee chair moved to authorize posting the listed policies for public review during February, with subsequent board consideration in March; the motion was seconded and carried. Committee members present for the vote were George Andrews, Jason Goldstrand and Keith Carcutt. David Kulick was absent.

Why it matters: the posted revisions change how the district documents and communicates preparation of the budget and how it plans and maintains facilities, maintains records of pest-control treatments, and handles district equipment and…