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| How to Address the Board of Education |
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The Board of Education encourages your participation in its deliberations and has tried to make it convenient for you to express your views to the Board. If you wish to address the Board on an agenda item, please obtain a card that is on the table along with the agenda; fill the card out completely and give it and any supporting materials (e.g. copies of your remarks, charts or graphs, copies of articles or reports) to a staff person sitting at a table. Please turn your card in prior to the presentation of the item you wish to address. The staff person will see that your card and materials are presented to the President of the Board of Education, who will call upon you at the appropriate time during the discussion of that agenda item. At regular meetings, the Board will follow this format for major agenda items:
- staff presentation
- preliminary Board and staff discussion
- community participation
- Board deliberation and decision, if appropriate
During study sessions and special meetings, this format may vary.
If you wish to address the Board on an item that is not on the agenda, you may speak during the Open Forum which generally is held at the first opportunity between otherwise regularly agendized Board items occurring about or after 9 p.m. Board members are legally prohibited from discussing non-agenda items and, therefore, will not respond to items presented in the Open Forum.
Board agendas are very full and time is limited. For that reason, we request that you speak only once on an item and that you limit your remarks either when addressing an agenda item or when speaking in the Open Forum to a maximum of three minutes. If numerous individuals request to speak on a particular item or in the Open Forum, the Board President may limit the total time allocated to that item, thereby reducing the time for each speaker.
A citizen may place an item on the Board Agenda by submitting a written request and supporting information to the Superintendent's Office. The Superintendent, in consultation with the Board President and Vice President, will determine at which upcoming regular Board meeting the item will be scheduled. The person who requested the item will be allowed three minutes at the meeting to present the information to the Board. Following this presentation the Board may address the issue, put the issue on a future agenda for more discussion and action, refer the issue to the administration for follow-up, or take no action.
Revised November 2002 |
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