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Following are drafts re WWSU initiatives. Please reveiew and submit any thoughts to Kent. ... Wavell WWSU May 21 Excom Meeting: The Moretown Board have reviewed the draft minutes of this meeting and request that these minutes be amended as follows: 1. Discussion of Harwood Assessment, insert at the end: This executive committee decision is opposed by the Moretown Board on the grounds that any proposed new assessment formula must be approved by a separate vote of all WWSU communities. To maximize the likelihood of a consenting vote in all towns, all school boards should strongly support a final proposal. This is best ensured by having all boards participate in the discussions which develop a final proposal. The WWSU board is by far the best vehicle to ensure this outcome. 2. Ad-Hoc committees, insert at the end: The Moretown Board believe that the Executive committee is the proper venue for substantive discussions in most of the areas set forth by the Moretown board and thus feel that the establishment of most of the ad-hoc committees to deal with these issues is unwise and ill advised. Nevertheless, the Chair of the Moretown board requests that he be notified as early as possible of scheduled meetings of any of the ad-hoc committees so that he can arrange for Moretown representation. 3. Next Meeting, insert at end: This schedule is opposed by the Moretown Board whose position is that the WWSU executive committee cannot properly discharge its responsibilities unless it is prepared to meet on a regular basis. 4. Director of Curriculum & Assessment Position: Specify terms, since reference to executive session is meaningless. 5. Performance Bonus: Specify to whom and how much since reference to executive session in meaningless. Also add the following: The Moretown Board do not feel that it is in the best interests of the operation of central office that the WWSU board should be acting in this administrative capacity. It is unwise to offer one employee a bonus in the absence of a well thought out bonus program for all employees as developed and supported by the administration. Further the WWSU board should not make important decisions of this nature without allowing for general local board consideration prior to adoption. WWSU Policy Manual: Concept: Wherever possible it is sensible that policies adopted as needed in one school of a supervisory union will be adopted in all schools of the union, and that these policy statements will be identical for all schools. In this way a single policy manual for the WWSU suffices for all schools and one shared policy development procedure replaces the inefficiencies of six separate and independent policy development procedures. Shared Policy Development Procedures: Any school board including the WWSU board can initiate the development of a proposed new policy or an updating of an old policy, which proposed policy will be submitted for review to the WWSU executive committee. This committee will in turn seek input from all other boards in respect to this policy and act as a final forum for developing concensus for a final draft acceptable for separate adoption by all school boards. Local Departures from Shared Policies: For certain policies local conditions can argue eloquently for local policy variations, or even for unique local policies. Where such conditions clearly apply, the policy as included in the WWSU policy manual will be clearly annotated in respect to its variant or unique application. Rules for Policy Development: 1. No policy will be adopted by any school board until it has passed successfully through the WWSU review process. 2. The WWSU shall be responsible for the proper production, review, and maintenance of the WWSU master policy manual in an electronic form with appropriate back up, copies of which will be distributed to all local boards after any update or upon the specific request of any board