001Good morning. Today is Tuesday, May 20th, 2025. This is a special meeting of the board of education policy subcommittee. Uh we have a number of items that are on the agenda today in the memo, which I appreciate, Marge, you put together. It's very, very thorough. Um just one quick note. It says that the memorandum came from me. I didn't see this until it was delivered to all of the subcommittee members. So uh just noting that for the record. Uh it's very thorough like I noted. Uh anything you wanted to hit high level on any of these uh as a batch and then maybe if people have questions on the specific policies we can take them one by one. So the the high level is that many of these are just mandated because of changes in
002the law especially the repeal of the bullying policy and replacement with the prevention of school safe climate. Cab developed a model policy. The legislation says boards of education will adopt the model policy, but we did vet it through doctors McCarthy and dad. It does reflect what we're planning to do. And as it mentioned, Shipman and Goodwin because there are still questions about some of the language in the statute, they're going to do a training um for us in for all the administrators at our retreat in June. Perfect. Great. Um, I guess from there if anyone had any questions on any specific policies, um, I don't need know that we need to go one by one, but we can kind of go in order if anybody had anything they wanted to raise. I mean, it just
003seems like all this is pretty, you know, preuncter and going through with what's what is required and what is legislatively required. So, there's anything that's not No, I mean, especially school climate plan, my questions are not about the policy, but about mechanics need to be addressed right now. Right. So that's one of the reasons why Shipman and Goodwin developed the regulations is because the policy was all the procedures were absent. Um but both Scott and Alicia said that these are the procedures that we would use. Some of the clarification that we're looking for is days are all of them school days for notification. I mean there's much broader notification for parents which will be a good thing but we it's literally just the mechanics that we need the training on. Joanna, as you're concerned about
004mechanics or syntax or some sort of, you know, like there's um family members and students on some of these and I was just wondering like how that how they'll be picked and like that kind of stuff. I didn't pick it up. There's what? Oh, sorry. There's like uh it says some of these committees there's some students. I assume that's like for the high school. There's families. I you know, I was just wondering about that kind of stuff. Yes. And um so that is very broad and comes from the statute but students would be I think somewhere it says developmentally appropriate um and then families and also community members. So we'll look to um Jessica for some guidance on that. But our first um at our first reading we thought that community members would give the
005school climate specialists some discretion in who to include. community members or other staff members who aren't specifically named. Right. Okay. So, thank you. So, I just had one question on 5175 that you noted at the end of the memo, Marger, on this section that Shipment doesn't have a model policy on this one yet. So, is any thought on the timing? Does it make sense to hold off or are we obligated? Shipman's not going to develop a model policy because the statute says we have to use caves, but they filled in some of the missing pieces from caves with regulations. Okay, perfect. So, I'm not hearing a whole lot of questions or issues or thoughts. So, is it consensus to maybe move this ahead to the full board for consideration? So, uh seeing that seems to
006be the sense of the meeting here. We're going to move this ahead to the full board for a read. Uh sorry guys, you're going to have to read quite a bit here. So, enjoy your Memorial Day weekend reading board policies. Uh with that, I think that's all the business we had before us today. Yeah. All right. So, I'll turn it over. We have no members of the public in the audience or online. And with that, that'll conclude today's meeting. Thank you all for attendance.