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At Thursday's full board meeting, community members again pressed the Souderton Area School Board for greater transparency surrounding school board proceedings, specifically the attachment of documents to BoardDocs agenda items.
For several months, parents have been urging the school board to facilitate access to information through more detailed agendas and minutes, recordings and livestreaming of board meetings and indefinite storage of meeting recordings.
Currently, board action meeting recordings are broadcast on SATV and temporarily posted on the district website. Committee meetings, where most business is conducted, are not recorded.
Unofficial results showed Republican incumbents Carolyn Crouthamel, Eric Kratz and Bob Jacobus as well as Democratic newcomers Meredith Torres and Katherine Farina securing enough votes to be elected to the council.
A party officer for the Keystone Party, a statewide libertarian political party that emerged in 2022 as a response to the direction of the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania, will appear on the ballot as the sole challenger to an incumbent Republican later this year. In a press release shared with…