Northwestern Lehigh workshop meeting

OCT. 5 WORKSHOP MEETING

BUILDING PROJECT, NEPOTISM DISCUSSION

The Northwestern Lehigh school board has a monthly workshop session on the 1st Wednesday of the month. This meeting is usually a discussion session readying items to be voted on at the regular board meeting on the 3rd. Wednesday of the month.

This meeting discussed the upcoming approval of the final plans for the building upgrade and expansion. It also discussed the upcoming approval of D'huy Engineering Inc. as the Construction manager. Everything seems to be on track to begin the 15 month construction project. The plan will then need to be approved by code master and local zoning.

There was also a discussion on implementing a policy on Nepotism. This issue was raised earlier by Charlene Rauscher. Phil Toll stated that the usual policy in most cases is that family members cannot supervise other family members. Willard Dellicker stated that he didn't believe that they had any problems  that would need such a policy. Paul Fisher thought they could have the administration do an investigation as to what the policy should be. The conclusion was that they would have some input from the administration and have further discussion in the future.

A little research seems to indicate the usual policy in most government and corporate work situations is that family members are not to be answering to or be supervised by other family members. Some consider it a threat to moral of other workers who may perceive real or imagined special treatment of related family members by their superiors. Some go as far as to not hire any family members, but that seems to be the exception. Most all professional policies just limit it to the supervising of family members by other family members.