By Adam Pagnucco.
The school board is seeking applicants for a vacancy on its five-member ethics panel. According to the board’s website, the ethics panel’s responsibilities include interpreting the Board of Education’s Ethics Policy and issuing advisory opinions concerning its application, conducting hearings on complaints filed regarding an alleged violation and approving financial disclosure forms.
Ethics has been a white-hot issue at MCPS over the course of the last year as every reader of this site knows. How about it, folks? Would you like to apply?
The board’s solicitation appears below.
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Board of Education Invites Applications for Vacancy on Ethics Panel
The Montgomery County Board of Education invites applications for a vacant position on its five-member Ethics Panel (Panel). The vacancy is for a term running through June 30, 2027. Members serve without compensation.
As noted in Board Policy, BBB, Ethics, among the Panel’s responsibilities are: (1) approving financial disclosure forms; (2) interpreting the Board of Education’s Ethics Policy and issuing advisory opinions concerning its application; and (3) conducting hearings on complaints filed regarding an alleged violation.
Panel members may not be incumbent members of the Board of Education, school officials, employees, or persons employed by a business entity subject to the authority of the Board of Education, or spouses of such individuals. The Panel meets once a year to review financial disclosure forms and as needed to review complaints and requests for advisory opinions.
Applicants must submit a letter of interest along with a resumé or other documentation to support the application by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, August 2, 2024, for the appointment to be made at the August 20, 2024, Board of Education meeting. (Applicants are not required to attend this meeting; notifications of the Board of Education’s appointments will be sent to all applicants.)
Please send a letter of interest and resumé by mail to Mr. Tom Lockman, Montgomery County Board of Education, 15 West Gude Drive, Suite 100, Rockville, Maryland 20850 or by email to Thomas_C_Lockman@mcpsmd.org. For further information, please call 240-740-3030.