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WEA president urges Woodburn board to drop advance-script requirement for public comment as bargaining looms
Summary
Tony Psalm, president of the Woodburn Education Association, told the Woodburn School District board it should end the rule requiring speakers to submit comments in advance and adhere word-for-word to scripts and urged the board to direct bargaining in good faith; the board adopted the agenda 5-0 and recessed into executive session on labor negotiations under ORS.
Tony Psalm, president of the Woodburn Education Association, urged the Woodburn School District Board of Directors to revise the district’s public-comment policy and to direct collective bargaining in good faith during public comment at the board’s August regular meeting.
“We’d like to give a warm welcome to returning both returning and and newly elected school board members,” Psalm said, and asked the board to consider removing a requirement that “all comments be submitted in advance and that those statements adhere word for…
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