Committees approve multiple revised policies; board member questions 'surplus' language for buses
Summary
Committees recommended and the board approved several revised policy files on notice of meetings, equipment sales, purchasing, emergency/crisis management, recruitment and dismissal; one board member questioned surplus-bus language noting the district leases buses.
During committee reports on Jan. 20, the board approved a series of revised policy files presented by the transportation and related committees.
Recommendations accepted included revised policy file b-12.1 (notice of meetings), d-3.8 (equipment and merchandise sales), d-7.4 (purchasing), E-1.1 (emergency/crisis management), f-9.3 (recruitment) and f-9.14 (dismissal and separation of professional personnel). Each recommendation was moved, seconded and recorded as passing with no public comment.
An exchange arose during discussion of the equipment/merchandise sales/purchasing policy where an unnamed board member questioned wording that references declaring buses "surplus," stating, "We don't own any buses ... We lease all of our buses. So how can we declare them surplus?" The chair responded that the law's wording is written to account for districts that may own buses. The transcript does not record a follow-up change to the policy text.
All policy recommendations in this block were recorded as passing in committee and sent forward for board action as noted in the meeting record.
