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Ball-Chatham Community Unified School District 5 Policy Committee met Aug. 21.

Here are the minutes provided by the committee:

In Attendance:

Laura Calderon - Board Member

Ann Strahle - Board Member

Andrea Rediger - Board Member

Becca Lamon - Superintendent

During the meeting, the committee members discussed the process by which a full review of the 284 district policies would be conducted.  Close examination of the 97 district created policies will be conducted to establish the need for these policies outside of the PRESS recommended policies.  Once the process and procedures were agreed upon the following policies were reviewed.  Any policy with a change will be added to the September 27, 2023 Board agenda for a first reading.

Policies Reviewed:

1:10 - Policy will have minor language updates to match PRESS policy and the Legal Reference and Cross References will be updated.

1:21 - Policy will be revised to match PRESS policy 1:20.

1:20 - This policy will be eliminated.  It was a district added policy.  Building and grade configurations do not need to be policy.

1:30 - Updates will be made to the vision, mission, and belief statements from the new Strategic plan.

1:31 - The policy will be eliminated.  It was a district added policy and the information was already part of 6:040, 6:60, 6:260.

1:11 - This policy will be eliminated.  It was a district added policy.  It conflicted with other Governance policies and does not match the legal reference to the Illinois Constitution Article X.

2:010 - No changes were made   

2:020 - Cross reference will be updated

2:021 - This policy will be eliminated.  It was a district added policy and the information was already part of 2:140 and 2:080.

2:030 - Legal Reference will be updated

2:040 - Language will be changed to match PRESS policy

2:050 - No changes were made   

2:060 - No changes were made   

2:070 - Legal Reference will be updated

2:080 - Language will be added and removed to match the PRESS Policy, Cross Reference will be removed to match PRESS Policy

2:100 - No changes were made   

2:105 - Legal Reference will be updated

2:110 - Language will be added to match Press Policy and Legal References will be corrected

2:111 - Will be combined with 2:110.  This was a district generated policy and not a PRESS policy

2:112 - No changes were made 

2:120 - Language will be added to match Press Policy and Legal References will be added

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