School board updates fees, fines and charges policy

CHENEY – School board members passed revisions to a policy regarding student fees, fines and charges at an otherwise light agenda for its first meeting in 2020 last Wednesday, Jan. 8.

Assistant Superintendent Tom Arlt directed board members to some minor word changes made since the policy’s first read at the Dec. 18 meeting. Arlt said the language in the first reading came directly from the Washington State School Directors Association.

“Their language has been more liberal than required by law,” Arlt said, adding this could affect other district policies so the policy was being tweaked to ali...