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Heated public comment focuses on library books and questions about legal-counsel hiring; speakers read passages and criticize procurement
Summary
Multiple public commenters read passages from library books and urged their removal; others criticized the district's expedited procurement and month-long RFP that selected Brad Miller as legal counsel, saying the process limited competition and increased polarization.
The board's public comment period drew lengthy remarks from community members on two related but distinct issues: challenges to school-library materials and concern over the district's recent legal-counsel hiring process.
Several speakers read passages from books housed in district libraries and urged the board to remove titles they characterized as sexually explicit or otherwise inappropriate for school readers. Student speaker Amaya Cleveland described how school librarians helped build her love…
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