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Rules of the Road

 



I'm reading up on the Rules of Order that the Natick School Committee has typically adopted as its way of proceeding in meetings - Robert's Rules of Order.  Wow - that's a boring thing to do on a Saturday... unless you are like me! 

Coming up this week Monday at 6:00 p.m. - Policy Review on our School Committee Re-Organization
  • The gist - We are considering revisions to chair term limits and the number of vice chairs that we have and when our organizational meeting takes place. 

Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. - Reorganization of the School Committee
  • The gist - We will volunteer, be appointed and/or be elected to serve on one of several committees of the School Committee and as liaisons to community organizations. 
  • Currently we have a Finance Committee of the Superintendent that is exempt from Open Meeting Law (See Connelly v. School Committee of Hanover, 409 Mass. 232 (1991) referenced on page 6 of this Open Meeting Law document.) which allows for the Superintendent to form a committee (in this case with 3 members of the School Committee and senior staff of Administration) to advise her on something having to do with her job.  
  • I will be making a motion that we add a Finance Subcommittee of the School Committee to the list of work to be done. 

List of Natick Public School's Committee Assignments 

 Items listed below in orange are new to this year's document - added on 4/9/2021

Entity

Permanent Appointments



Collective Bargaining Committees

Cafeteria

Director of HR



EAN ABC

Director of HR, Superintendent, Chair & two other SC Members



Secretaries

Director of HR



Paraprofessionals

Director of HR



Title 1

Director of HR



School Committee Subcommittees

Policy Review

Superintendent 



Kennedy Middle School Building Committee

Anna Nolin

Kirk Downing

Peter Gray

Andy Zitoli

Town Administrator 

Facilities Director

Other Appointees:

Bruce Evans

Jonathan Freedman 

Thomas Iskra

Stephen Meyler, Chair

Julian Munnich

John T KB racy

Elizabeth Heffler – for safety meetings (non-voting member)



Liaisons and Advisory Groups ( previous description: School Committee Appointments to Non- SC Committees)

Audit Committee




Community Senior Center Liaison




Facilities Oversight Committee

Superintendent, Director of Finance



Financial Planning Committee

Chair, Superintendent, Director of Finance



Natick 180




NEF




PCC Liaison




SEPAC




SPARK Kindness Liaison




TEC B.O.D.

Open to all SC members, Superintendent



Town Safety Committee

Director of Finance, Transportation Coordinator



Statewide Advocacy Efforts and Updates




ELPAC

one representative



*Equity Task Force

one student representative




*Racial Equity Municipal Action Plan (REMAP)

one representative



*Finance Advisory Group

three representatives



*Teen Sleep Group

three representatives



METCO

one representative                                                                    



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