Committee votes to adopt bundled final policies A–F, discusses pull process
Summary
Members approved a bundle of final policies (A–F) at the Dec. 15 meeting and discussed how an individual policy could be pulled or voted on separately; the motion to approve was made by Miss Piper and seconded by Mister Jackson.
The Bristol Warren Regional School Committee discussed and approved a bundle of final policies at its Dec. 15 meeting, and members debated how to handle voting if one policy in a bundle drew opposition.
The chair explained the district's past practice of reading each final policy individually has been condensed into a single bundled motion for efficiency. A member asked how to vote against or pull a single policy without voting against the entire bundle; the chair and other members explained a member can request that an item be pulled for separate consideration and then voted on individually.
Miss Piper moved to approve policies A through F; Mister Jackson seconded. One committee member said that in past years items in consent had been "sort of being hidden there because people didn't know what we were voting on," and recommended greater clarity; another member suggested it might be better to include a 'no changes' note in the document title when there are no revisions since the prior read so reviewers can more easily see what changed.
The committee approved the bundled motion by voice vote. The meeting concluded with an adjournment motion and holiday greetings.
