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Page 110 May 24, 1976 Mr. Barnes presented a suggested grievance procedure for complaints TITLE IX of discrimination on the basis of sex within the Lexington Schools. He outlined the requirements of the Federal Government in relation to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. He said there were four things needed to be done' by the Lexington Public Schools. 1) They must begin an internal evaluation of its current policies and practices. 2) They must designate one employee to coordinate the efforts of Title IX. 3) They should adopt a public grievance procedure. 4) They should pub- licly state that it does not discriminate on the basis of sex. He noted that adoption of a grievance procedure would indicate that the ,policy of Lexington schools was not to discriminate on the basis of sex in any educational programs, in compliance with Title IX of the Edu- cation Amendments of 1972. The grievance procedures were reviewed and it was suggested that a few minor changes be made and presented at the next meeting. He agreed to do this. Mr. Spiris presented a list of Professional Salaries for 1976- PROFESSIONAL 1977 school year. Dr. Rotberg said he did have some concern that the SALARIES school committee was being asked to vote on the names of administra- tors without reviewing the administrators evaluations. He said that he would like at least one week to look over the evaluations, since this was the first year we had a formal evaluation and it would be dere- lict of the school committee not to use it. Mr. Spiris said he took ex- ception with the viewpoint that the administrator evaluations were de- veloped for school committee use. He said there were intensive evalua- tions that were prepared for the superintendent to analyze prior to his recommendation. His recommendations were based upon satisfactory per- formance, and stated that the role of the superintendent was to recom- mend to the school committee. Mrs. Swanson agreed with him saying that it would be wrong for the school committee to get into the area of eval- uation of staff. Dr. Rotberg disagreed saying he was unable to vote before being properly prepared with evaluations, and that it would be prudent to review the material prior to a vote. Mr. Spiris again dis- agreed saying the material was prepared for the superintendent. A vote was called and it was VOTED: to accept all professional personnel salaries for the school year 1976-1977 contained on pages 170A-170Z, with the exception of the 11th name on page 170R and the 1st and. 11th name on page 170Z. (Yes, Brown, Wadsworth, Michelman, Swanson, No, Rotberg) (See next page) It was VOTED: at 10:10 p.m. , to go into Executive Session to discuss the charac- ter and reputation of one or more individuals. It was announced that the School Committee would be coming out of Executive Ses- sion to Public Session at a later time. (Yes, Rotberg, Yes, Swanson; Yes, Brown; Yes, Michelman; Yes, Wadsworth) .