2003-01-21 School Committee Minutes

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Reading School Committee Reading, Massachusetts Regular Session January 21, 2003 CALL TO ORDER Chair Griset called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. in the Superintendent's Conference Room. Present were School Committee Members Cavicchi, Dahl, Griset, McFadden, Russo and Twomey. Also present was Superintendent Harutunian. EXECUTIVE SESSION Ms Cavicchi moved to enter into executive session for the purpose of conducting strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with the Teachers' Association, and to discuss the deployment of security personnel or devices and for the approval of executive session minutes to return to regular session at approximately 7:30 p.m. Mr. Twomey seconded the motion. The vote was 6 -0. CALL BACK TO ORDER Chair Griset called the meeting to back order at 7:35 p.m. in the Superintendent's Conference Room. All School Committee Members were present. Also present were Superintendent Harutunian, Associate Superintendent Richards, Finance Committee Members McDonald, Martin and Epstein and Town Accountant Richard Foley. BILLS & PAYROLL The Committee signed bills and payroll for the CITIZENS' INPUT Mrs. Phillips raised a concern about the procedures the School Committee was using to make important business decisions. She stated that there was no discussion about the posting for the high school project which appeared in the central register last week. She asked if Town Counsel reviewed the posting, when the posting was written, who wrote the posting and why there was not an opportunity for public input. Dr. Harutunian advised that the Chairman authorized the posting to be written, the posting was written by his office, the posting was reviewed by Town Counsel and Member Tim Twomey who is both an architect and an attorney. He stated it is not standard practice to seek public input on an RFP.