The Boyertown Area School District’s policy committee on (date) reviewed proposed edits to Policy 4.1, which governs student representatives to the school board, and recommended clarifying selection and reporting procedures.

Superintendent (unnamed in the transcript) told the committee that the draft makes three primary changes: it specifies that student representatives attend the second board meeting of each month, renames the report section to a "board representative report," and clarifies who assists students in preparing reports. "Student representatives shall work together with the assistance of the student council advisor or advisors to prepare a brief report with prior approval of the building principal and representing board representative board member," the superintendent said as presented in the packet.

District staff described the planned selection process: outreach to current 10th graders in March, an interview panel that includes the principal, the student council advisor and the current student board representative, plus the board liaison; the district expects to recruit roughly "8 or 9" candidates based on last year’s turnout. Mr. Hauck, who the superintendent invited to speak, described the interview history and urged including the board liaison and possibly the student council president on future panels. "It would be student council adviser, principal, board representative, and the current student board rep," a district staff member said when outlining the panel.

The committee recommended adding language that the two student representatives be one junior and one senior ("one senior, one junior" has been the practice), and that recommended candidates be presented to the Board of School Directors for formal approval in a legislative meeting before the end of the fiscal year. The superintendent said the timeline will include March outreach and a May or June board approval so the representatives can be introduced in September.

Next steps: the committee will update the policy language to reflect the selection panel, grade composition, reporting timeline and formal board approval, and will bring the revised policy back as a first read at a future legislative meeting. No formal vote on the policy was recorded at the committee meeting.