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Speaker 1 moved to approve the agenda; Speaker 2 seconded; the committee voted 'aye' and the agenda was adopted. This opens the meeting and establishes the order of business.
The Orange County Schools policy committee met to review several policy updates and reached consensus to send multiple items to the full board for first reading, including a wireless devices policy, revisions to seclusion and restraint reporting, a change allowing principals to accept modest donations (with reporting rules), and a new crowdfunding policy limiting approved platforms. Committee members debated specific language around isolation/monitoring in the seclusion policy, set a $1,000 principal acceptance cap (with superintendent authority up to $5,000), and agreed to restrict crowdfunding to approved non-monetary platforms such as DonorsChoose and Amazon wishlists. Several other model-policy updates from the School Boards Association were also approved to go forward for first reading.
