All meetings in Truro are remote only. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join.
Friday, Nov. 12
- Community Preservation Committee, 5 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov.16
- Board of Health, 4:30 p.m.
- Select Board, 5 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 17
- Cemetery Commission, 10 a.m.
- Planning Board, 5 p.m.
- Walsh Property Community Planning Committee, 6:30 p.m.
Conversation Starters
Suit Drops From $5.7M to $41
Christine Markowski and Beth Dietz, two Truro Central School parents who believe the school committee did not conduct its search for a superintendent properly, originally sought $5.7 million in a civil suit against the committee. This has since become a small-claims complaint filed at Orleans District Court on Oct. 25. The new amount of damages on the line: $41.
Markowski, one of the plaintiffs, claims that the school committee, the defendant, owes $1 for violating “its own Affirmative Action Policy and the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Law.” Should the committee lose the suit, it may also have to pay $40 in court costs.
“This thing is just symbolic,” Markowski said, “because I want the judge to mandate that they start a new search.”
Markowski is not represented by a lawyer. She was an editorial assistant for law journals at Harvard Law School.
Stephanie Costigan currently holds the position of Truro Central School superintendent. The committee, Markowski alleges, never advertised the job, apart from an internal listing.
After the public portion of the Nov. 3 school committee meeting, the board went into executive session to discuss two items: litigation strategy regarding Markowski’s lawsuit and a complaint against Costigan. Markowski said she did not file this complaint. The meeting minutes of the session are not public unless a committee member moves to release them and the committee approves the motion. —Jasmine Lu
