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Wenatchee board advances three policy revisions to second reading
Summary
After a brief discussion March 25, the Wenatchee School District board moved three revised policies—employment and volunteers, nondiscrimination, and nondiscrimination/affirmative action—to a second reading on April 1 for further review.
The Wenatchee School District board on March 25 advanced three revised policies to a second reading scheduled for April 1, the board said, after staff and directors discussed clarifications to volunteer definitions and updates to nondiscrimination and affirmative action language.
The three policies moved forward were: policy 50.05 (employment and volunteers: definitions of unsupervised access to children, approval processes and certifications), policy 32.10 (nondiscrimination: model handbook requirements, complaint procedure and compliance officer designation) and policy 50.10 (nondiscrimination and affirmative action: rewritten affirmative action language, complaint procedures and training requirements).
Board staff said the employment and volunteer policy updates adopt model language from the Washington Association of School District Administrators to clarify which volunteers have unsupervised access to children and to describe approval processes. The revised nondiscrimination policy reorganizes and restates existing requirements, and the affirmative action policy rewrites the district’s affirmative action language and clarifies complaint processes and training.
The board indicated it had reviewed edits and legal counsel had been involved in alphabetizing or reorganizing the text. After brief discussion, the board “moved these 3 to second read next week, April first,” the presiding officer said. The transcript does not show a recorded roll call vote on the second‑reading referral.
Votes at a glance: the board approved the consent agenda at the start of the meeting (motion to approve the consent agenda was moved by Board Director Julie and seconded by Board Director Miranda; presiding officer called the vote and said “Aye. Aye. Motion carries” -- no roll‑call tally was recorded in the transcript). The three policies above were advanced to a second reading on April 1 for final consideration.
Why it matters: The policies address volunteer screening and nondiscrimination procedures that affect hiring, volunteer access to students, complaint handling and training requirements. Moving the policies to a second reading gives directors further time to review redline changes and for staff to incorporate any additional edits before a formal adoption vote.
