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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSchool Comm. 10/03/2024Approved 11-14-24 Mansfield School Committee Policy Subcommittee Meeting Minutes for October 03, 2024 Superintendent's Office, 2 Park Row, Mansfield, MA 02048 A meeting of the Mansfield School Committee Budget Subcommittee was opened and called to order at 5:08 p.m. SC Members Present: Lynn Cavicchi (chair), Jenifer Sellon Others present: Teresa Murphy, Superintendent Approval of Policy Minutes: Approved 2 — 0 • 06-13-24 • 07-16-24 • 07-31-24 Old Business: None 11 2 New Business; Review of policies in preparation for upcoming school committee m +h o ADDA and ADDA-R (Background checks): Legal counsel Felicia Vasudevan reviewed t4selyglici%jeryd provided input. Human Resources Director Jocelyn LeMaire reviewed and provideajoiput out; ,c practices. Further edits are needed to clarify the three types of background checQ9111, ORI and CHRI). What is in handbooks? How do we notify families/staff that SORIs are doneTeres o d;�uss with Jocelyn. co C7 rn JICFC and JICFC-R (Teen Dating Violence): Legal counsel Felicia Vasudevan reviewed and provided minor changes. Subcommittee reviewed and made additional modifications. Policies with edits are ready to move forward. Teresa will follow up with school health curriculums to ensure this is being taught to students. ADC (Tobacco Free Schools): Lynn Cavicchi met with Health Director Christine Dooling on this and several other health related policies. Changes proposed by Lynn and Christine were approved. Ready to go to full committee. JJIF, JJIF-R, JLCEB are still in review. Postpone. JLC Student (Health Services), JLCA Physical Examination of Students and JLCC Communicable Diseases:. Changes were reviewed and additional modifications suggested. Policies with edits are ready for school committee. Led into a conversation regarding school nurses and field trips. It is becoming more common that we need to have nurses on extended or overnight field trips. For example the last two world travel club trips needed some attention to how various medical needs would be met. Going forward if a nurse is needed the cost would be in the thousands as we would have to hire someone outside of our staff. Even here, our nursing licenses are often not valid in another state. Need to review how we manage this going forward. Do we include the cost of a nurse in every trip? What if we don't need? Where does that money go? The district can't cover expensive nursing costs and we need to determine if we can pass that cost along to ALL students on the trip. JLCB (Student Immunizations): Changes were reviewed and approved as stated. Ready for school committee. Approved 11-14-24 Mansfield School Committee Policy Subcommittee Meeting Minutes for October 03, 2024 Superintendent's Office, 2 Park Row, Mansfield, MA 02048 JLCEA (Comfort Care/DNR Orders) and 1LCEC (Allergies): Reviewed by Lynn and Christine. No changes required. JLCEC-R (Allergy regulations): Changes proposed by Lynn and Christine are good. Ready for school committee. KF-R-1 and KF-R-2 still need additional work. DDA Gifts and Contributions can be deleted but will hold until it can be looked at with KCD Public Gifts to school. Need to start looking at this policy as it relates to outside gifts to our district; entitlement grants and other grants for which we apply. We accept some gifts without waiting for school committee because there may be a time factor. For example, when a local business drops off school supplies at the beginning of the year or when there is a quick turnaround on a grant application. Grant money should be presented to the committee- what it is; how it will be used and allocated to cost centers. Typically gifts of "impact" have been sent to the committee for approval. Examples would be changes to our facilities, items that require ongoing upkeep, items requiring technology support. Perhaps at the end of the year we can acknowledge gifts from MESA and PAC. This is possible but would require some level of effort for each of these parent groups to provide us with these lists. Will begin work on this policy for the next subcommittee meeting. Other items within 48 hours- GCJ: Teacher Professional Status. Andy Waugh of MHTL reviewed and responded to us today. Since this language is all in statute and contracts, no policy is needed and it can be deleted. Upcoming Agenda Items- Next meetings will be 11/14/24 5:30 or after and 12/12/24 5:30 or after Meeting adjourned at 7:27 pm Respectfully submitted, Diane Nugent, Administrative Assistant