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Subcommittee examines legal‑services billing, budget line items and recommends bidding for committee attorney
Summary
Members discussed how district departments use outside counsel (special education, Title IX, discipline), noted legal costs are not broken out by line item, and voted to recommend adopting a model legal‑services policy and to go out to bid for the school‑committee attorney contract (contract noted as expiring in June).
The subcommittee discussed legal‑services practices and the school committee’s attorney contract under agenda item 3‑3, raising budget transparency and procurement questions.
S1 and others said multiple departments use outside counsel for specialized legal matters; S7 (special education department official) described routine use of attorney Michael…
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