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Iroquois board agrees to move February meeting to Feb. 4 to allow member advocacy in Albany
Summary
After discussion of attendance and advocacy at the Erie County School Boards Association event in Albany, the board informally agreed by straw poll to move the scheduled February meeting to Feb. 4.
IROQUOIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT — The Board of Education discussed whether to move its scheduled February meeting so board members could attend advocacy events in Albany and, after a straw poll and table discussion, agreed to move the meeting to Feb. 4.
Board members discussed tradeoffs between maintaining a published meeting cadence and enabling board advocacy at the state level. One board member said moving an occasional meeting to allow members to attend legislative advocacy was reasonable; another urged the board not to make moving meetings a habit. The board president asked who could not make the Feb. 12 date and then took a straw poll; several members raised hands in favor of moving the meeting. The president concluded, “So there are enough people to move it, to the fourth. So what? Dawn? I guess we're moving it to the fourth.”
Board members agreed staff should consider the Erie County School Boards Association calendar in future scheduling to avoid conflicts. The change was recorded on the meeting record as a board decision to reschedule the February meeting to Feb. 4; meeting materials and public calendars will be updated accordingly.
