Adams 12 reports compliance on staff ethics, purchasing and high‑value property rules; will expand annual certification

Adams 12 Five Star Schools officials told the board Thursday that the district complied with internal policies governing staff ethics, conflict of interest and high‑value property transactions for the July 1, 2023–June 30, 2024 monitoring period, and outlined steps to broaden required annual certifications and to consider an anonymous ethics hotline.

Brenda McGee, director of supply chain management for Adams 12 Five Star Schools, said Policy 41.30 — the staff ethics/conflict‑of‑interest/nepotism policy — requires an annual notice and return certification from employees in specified classes and that Human Resources currently sends those notices. "We are required as employees to sign those and send those back that we understand the nepotism policy, the conflict of interest," McGee said. She said some classified and regular certified staff who handle purchases (office managers, bookkeepers, teachers who make purchases) are not yet required to sign the 41.30 certification but that HR plans to add that requirement for classified and certified staff…