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Board approves second reading of trust-model policy with amendments after debate over agenda-item safeguards and named contacts
Summary
The board accepted the second reading of the district’s trust-model policy manual with amendments, including removing a two-board-member requirement for future-agenda requests and keeping named staff contacts where legal advised; the change passed after extended debate over workload, transparency and administrative burden.
The Washington Elementary School District Governing Board approved the second reading of the district’s trust-model policy manual on May 22, adopting proposed amendments that alter how future agenda requests are placed and leaving several named contacts in policies after legal counsel’s guidance.
Board member Bill Adams proposed redlining language that required two board members to agree at a meeting before a requested item would be placed on a future agenda. Adams said he wanted the district to drop that safeguard, calling it a relic…
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