Votes at a glance: Holliston committee approves consent agenda, two policies, job description and moves to executive session

At the Jan. 8 meeting the Holliston School Committee recorded a series of unanimous roll‑call votes.

Consent agenda: The committee approved the consent agenda after a motion and second; roll‑call votes were recorded as 'yes' from Don, Hillary, Joe, Frank, Tracy, Dan and Chair Sarah.

Policies: The committee waived the third reading and approved JLCA (physical examinations of students) with a minor wording change (spell out "body mass index" and include "(BMI)") and also waived the third reading and approved GBEB (staff conduct) with no changes.

Personnel job description: The committee approved the director of student services job description and discussed adding a qualification line indicating that an assistant superintendent license may be considered, to broaden the candidate pool; the job description vote passed by roll call.

Superintendent search communications: The committee authorized Chair Sarah to distribute finalists' names and bios to the community once the screening team identifies finalists and candidates accept, and approved a community update with allowance for immaterial changes to dates/enclosures.

Advocacy letter: The committee approved a draft advocacy letter to elected officials addressing federal/state policy changes affecting transgender and non‑binary students and authorized non‑substantive edits depending on recipients; a distribution list including the governor, attorney general, Senate President Spilka and local delegation was discussed.

Executive session: The committee voted to enter executive session to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining or litigation (HFT), citing GLC 30A and noting the meeting would not return to open session.

Roll‑call results noted in the transcript list the same committee members voting 'yes' on the recorded motions.