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Board debates ‘committee diet’ and timetable for sunsetting committees; members seek clearer public notice
Summary
Board members discussed a proposal to reduce standing committees and collapse committee work into monthly work sessions. Commissioners and the state monitor urged public communication and a clear timetable; several members requested the change take effect July 1, 2025, not immediately.
The Board of Education’s discussion of a proposed “committee diet” — reducing or sunsetting some standing committees and moving their work into monthly work sessions — occupied much of the special meeting on Dec. 10.
Board staff circulated a draft calendar that would collapse committee subject-matter work into monthly public work sessions and leave only the audit committee as a required standing committee. The proposal was developed with outside support from the Council of the Great City Schools.
Several commissioners said they supported the general idea of fewer committees but pressed staff…
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