Section 6.09 - Exemption for School Committee Members and Charter School Trustees(1)Purpose. The purpose of 930 CMR 6.09 is to permit school committee members and charter school trustees to participate in certain circumstances in matters that may affect their own children.(2)Definitions. For purposes of 930 CMR 6.09: (a) A general school fee means a fee, waiver or exemption established by a school committee or charter school board of trustees for a school service, program, or activity, including, but not limited to, fees for full day kindergarten, school bus transportation, preschool or after school programs, sports, or extracurricular activities. The term general school fee does not include a fee that applies to a single event or the children of a single family.(b) Child includes one's biological child, adopted or pre-adoptive child, foster child, ward, and step-child.(3)Exemption. A school committee member or charter school trustee may participate in a particular matter involving a general school fee that will affect a child of the committee member or trustee, or a child whose parent is an immediate family member of the committee member or trustee, without violating M.G.L. c. 268A, § 6, 13, 19, or 23, if the trustee or committee member first files a disclosure of the financial interest. A charter school trustee files the disclosure with the Commission, and a school committee member files the disclosure with the clerk of the city or town.