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North Providence committee approves resolution on employee background checks and several contracts
Summary
The school committee approved a resolution to send to the state delegation urging retention of current school employee background-check standards and approved renewals and contract awards including SRO MOU renewal, student assistance counselor services, Chartwells food service award (with a caveat), and a move of employee life insurance to the trust for contract review.
The North Providence School Committee approved a resolution asking the city’s state legislative delegation to maintain current school employee background-check standards amid proposed changes at the state level.
Superintendent Gojo presented the resolution and said the measure "speaks for itself in terms of what we would like to see maintained." A committee member asked whether the proposal could affect senior projects or mentorships that involve volunteer mentors; Gojo replied, "This is about the school employee background check," and said volunteers are treated under separate law and the district did not expect volunteer access to be curtailed under the resolution as drafted. The motion to send the resolution passed on a voice vote.
The committee also approved a package of routine renewals and contract actions. Members voted to extend the memorandum of understanding with school resource officers at the middle and high schools; renew state- and district-funded student assistance counselor services; approve a title-change memorandum of agreement for the finance administrative assistant (no change to duties); and renew a dual-enrollment memorandum of understanding with Roger Williams University.
On procurement, the committee approved the district’s recommendation to award the student food services contract to Chartwells after a public bid that produced three proposals. Superintendent Gojo said the district will bring a contract to the June meeting and that, if the state awards a bid to the same vendor, legal staff will compare bids and consider piggybacking the most favorable contract terms.
The committee approved a process to move employee life insurance under the trust (pending HR, finance and legal review of final contract terms) and approved the bills on the agenda. A property-use packet was approved with one youth soccer request excluded from approval and tabled. Two agenda items (f and g) were also tabled pending union and legal review. The meeting concluded with an adjournment motion.
The transcript records voice votes and "motion carries" for the listed actions; individual roll-call tallies were not specified in the meeting transcript.
