Article III – Terms of Membership
General membership shall be open to:
1) any parent or guardian who has a child receiving special education services or who has a child for whom an evaluation has been requested, or is a parent or guardian of a child with special needs with or without and individual education program (IEP) or;
2) providers, who, or whose agencies, serving children under state and federal laws and other interested parties who are not employees of the tri-town school systems or members of the tri-town school committees unless they are also parents of children with special needs.
Voting membership is required to vote in annual officer elections and other business that comes before any TRI-TOWN SEAC meeting.
Voting membership is determined when a general member is a parent or a guardian of a child with special needs residing in the Tri-Town, with or without an Individualized Education Program (IEP) or is a parent or guardian of a child with special need who attends the Towns’ public schools and has attended at least one previous meetings of the Tri-Town Special Education Parent Advisory Council during the last twelve (12) months, or has requested voting status in writing to the Secretary at least one month prior to elections.
The Executive Committee of the Tri-Town Special Education Parents Advisory Council shall determine clarification of membership.
