7.15.26 Citizens' Ad Hoc Committee relative to Renaming Chavez Elementary School

The Madison Board of Education's Citizens' Ad Hoc Committee met on July 15, 2026, to discuss the renaming of Chavez Elementary School. The meeting focused primarily on committee member introductions, public comments supporting the renaming to honor Roberto G. Sanchez, and the process for evaluating and scoring 76 proposed names for the school. The committee reviewed procedures for scoring, confidentiality of individual scores, and addressed questions about potential redundancies and conflicts of interest in the naming submissions. No procurement, contracting, or budget decisions were discussed during this meeting. The committee set a deadline for scoring submissions and planned further research and public hearings before final recommendations are made to the Board of Education.