During the organizational portion of the meeting, a committee member moved to adopt the Chelsea School Committee rules of 2020 for the 2025 year "until or unless such time the committee votes to add or amend" the rules. The motion was seconded and discussed. The transcript records the motion and second but does not record a roll-call tally or a final vote outcome for that motion.

The committee also moved to designate four standing subcommittees for 2025: Budget and Finance; Policy and Procedures; Human Resources; and Curriculum and Instruction. Under the plan described in the meeting, each subcommittee will have four regular members officially appointed by the school committee; any committee member may attend subcommittee meetings because these meetings are public. The chairperson will sit ex officio on all subcommittees.

Members were asked to submit first, second and third preferences for subcommittee assignments to Veronica Dyer Medina and to return the attached form no later than Monday, January 6. The chairperson explained that appointed members will be expected to attend subcommittee meetings and report back to the full committee.

The meeting record shows the motion to adopt the rules and the subcommittee-designation motion were moved and seconded; the transcript thereafter continues to other organizational items and an adjournment of that section. The transcript does not show a recorded vote tally for the rules motion in the provided excerpt.