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Committee refines draft charter; members seek clearer purpose language and fewer prescriptive claims
Summary
The policy committee reviewed a draft committee charter, suggested collapsing duplicative bullets, avoiding language that purports to 'ensure' legal compliance, adding the board/students/employees to audiences, and deciding whether to include the district mission statement in the charter template.
The policy committee reviewed a draft committee charter and proposed edits to improve clarity and reduce prescriptive language about legal compliance.
Members recommended collapsing overlapping purpose bullets, rewording an item that read "review and revise the PSBA PNN policy recommendations" to a more neutral statement about ensuring policy alignment with legal requirements, and substituting "align with legal requirements" for any statement that would imply the committee can "ensure" legal compliance. Several trustees asked to add the board, students and employees as audiences in a bullet about clarity and requested that outcomes be phrased as achievable outcomes rather than questions. One trustee questioned whether the district mission statement needs to appear at the top of each committee charter; staff noted the charters were based on a standard template and can be adjusted.
Members agreed to refine the charter language and bring a revised draft back to policy for additional review before sending it to legislative.
