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Asheville school board narrows how members should request detailed contract information
Summary
After weeks of voluminous board emails about contracts, members agreed to channel large or repetitive requests to the chair and superintendent to determine whether staff time should be dedicated to responses; the board said routine or distilled questions should be handled without exhaustive document reviews.
At a November work session, Asheville City Schools board chair Sarah opened a wide-ranging discussion about how board members should request information about contracts and memorandums of understanding.
"This board and any board acts as a body," Sarah said, asking whether staff should be directed to provide all information sought in emails or whether inquiries that amount to a project should be elevated to a board agenda. The chair told members to email prioritized bullets rather than sending voluminous lists that require lengthy staff review.
Board member Pepe described his process of systematically reviewing past…
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