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Board adopts Title IX policies after 5–1 roll-call vote; adds 30‑day review clause
Summary
The D C Everest board voted 5–1 on Aug. 21, 2024, to adopt policies po2264 and po2266 with acknowledgment that court rulings could alter them; an amendment requiring a 30‑day review if a court ruling conflicts with district policy also passed 5–1.
The D C Everest Area School District board adopted two Title IX policies (po2264 and po2266) at its Aug. 21 meeting. Larry Schaefer moved the resolution and Ben Bliven seconded; the board approved the resolution on a roll-call vote with five members in favor and one opposed. The votes were recorded as: Ben Bliven—Yea; Joshua Dickerson—Yea; Katie Felch—Yea; Shannon Grabko—Nay; Larry Schaefer—Yea; Yee Leng Xiong—Yea; Lindsey Lewitzke—Absent. The minutes show the vote tally as 5‑1 with one absence.
An amendment to the resolution, introduced by Yee Leng Xiong and seconded by Larry Schaefer, added language that the board will have a 30‑day time limit to review the resolution if a court ruling contradicts the district’s current policies. That amendment passed by the same roll-call tally (5‑1, 1 absent). The minutes note that the resolution was adopted "with acknowledgement that any court order could modify or nullify" the policies.
Public comment earlier in the meeting listed two speakers who raised Title IX concerns (Gayle Marshall and James Juedes), but the minutes do not include verbatim remarks from those commenters. The board recorded the policy adoptions and the amendment in the minutes; further policy texts and any subsequent legal guidance were not included in the minutes and would be found in the background materials or future board correspondence.
