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Notes from Franklin
The Globe's Conor Nevins is at the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Council meetings at the MIAA offices in Franklin today. The group just broke for lunch and Nevins passed along a few tidbits:
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The MIAC is scheduled to vote on the softball mound issue later in the day. We'll have more from Nevins as the day progresses.
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For those wondering the role of the MIAC. Here's how it is explained in the MIAA's Q&A on governance, from the MIAA's website:
Question #6 – What is the role of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Council (MIAC)?
Answer – The MIAC was created in 1950. It has a Constitution which is separate and independent of the MIAA Constitution. The MIAC membership, excluding at-large gender or diversity appointments, includes five school committee members, five school superintendents, five MIAA member school principals, two middle level school principals, and one athletic director. The two major functions of the MIAC are to act on all rule change proposals, and to serve as an appellate body to the Eligibility Review Board or the Board of Directors. The Council may not act on any topic that has not been reviewed by the Board of Directors, or in the case of individual student eligibility, that has not already been denied by the Eligibility Review Board. Conclusion: Because the Board of Directors is most engaged in this notion of Governance as it plays out within our Constitutional committee structure, all questions of committee
jurisdiction will be considered and acted upon by the Board as they are presented. Over a period of time, resolution of these questions will lead to an increasingly helpful committee governance document.
It also says in that document that: "The(MIAC) has the ultimate authority for modifying Handbook rules."
