The Policy Subcommittee* Update:

Our committee met yesterday. We drafted this vaccine policy for staff (to be negotiated with the union), contractors and vendors. It will be presented to the entire board on Monday night for a vote.

The next policy Subcommittee meeting is Tuesday, September 14th at 1:15 p.m. (in person)

Topics coming up - Student vaccinations and policy subcommittee goals for the year.

*Subcommittees are a 2-3 member groups working with administration on specific topics. It's a way to workshop ideas and draft documents during a public meeting - anyone can attend our subcommittee groups. The full board always reserves the right to amend, send something back to subcommittee, pass or strike something down that comes out of the subcommittees.

Have questions about COVID and Return to School? Testing, Athletics and Negotiations...

Board of Health Meeting, Monday 9/13 at 5:00 p.m. Agenda and link here.

School Committee Meeting*, Monday at 9/13 6:30 p.m. Agenda and link here.

(*Our first hybrid meeting! In person and on zoom! Big thank you to Randy Brewer at Natick Pegasus and Rose Mc Dermot, Executive Assistant to the Superintendent for making our meetings even more accessible to the public.)

Just as a quick review on some of our standing agenda items:

Consent item: What are they generally?

Action Items are items we will discuss and eventually vote upon.

Examples: Appointments, Votes on budgets, grants, or policy items that we have usually seen at previous meetings.

Superintendent's Report - updates and presentations of school information from the School's Administration.

As an example of what these can look like:

Celebrations! Jake Blatnica - Special Olympic Athlete of the Year. Click here for a video about Jake!

Hearing about specific programs (for example dyslexia intervention and Special Education) and about current topics (for example, and unfortunately, COVID.)

Have a great weekend! Thanks for being engaged!

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