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West Chester Area SD committee approves broad revisions to fiscal and purchasing policies
Summary
At a Jan. 21 policy review committee meeting, the West Chester Area School District approved revisions to multiple Section 600 policies to add administrative-guideline authority, create designee language and remove some hard-coded dates; public commenter urged added board approval for bank depositories.
The West Chester Area School District policy review committee approved revisions Jan. 21 to a suite of Section 600 policies covering fiscal objectives, budgeting, purchasing and related administrative guidelines. Committee members voted unanimously on each policy considered.
The changes approved include policy 601 (fiscal objectives), 602 (budget planning), 603 (budget preparation), 604 (budget adoption), 605, 606 (taxes/assessments) and related subpolicies through 615. The committee also approved corresponding administrative guidelines (AGs). Harry Scully, presenting the packet, said, “So they are the only changes made to policy 601.” Votes on each policy were recorded as 4 ayes.
The revisions add an explicit option for the district to adopt administrative guidelines across numerous policies, add a formal “designee” under references to the director of business affairs and remove or replace several hard-coded deadline dates with references to the Pennsylvania…
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