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District proposes removing 'Meet & Confer' sentence from Article I, suggests board policy review
Summary
District negotiators proposed deleting the "Meet & Confer" sentence from Article I of the 2026–2027 draft agreement and suggested that meeting-related language be considered through Board Committee policy rather than the contract.
At the July 21 negotiations meeting the district proposed deleting the "Meet & Confer" sentence from Article I of the 2026–2027 negotiated agreement and recommended that related language be handled through a review of Board Committee policy. The suggestion, as recorded in the minutes, framed this as a relocation of meeting governance language from the contract to board policy.
The minutes do not record a formal vote on the proposal; they indicate the district "suggests" deletion and to "review Board Committee Policy to see if language regarding meetings be included there." The record does not identify which district representative first raised the proposal beyond the attendee list. The committee scheduled a follow-up meeting for Aug. 7, 2026, to continue work on the agreement.
