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Board discusses piloting one-evening-a-month model for committee meetings
Summary
Staff and committee chairs proposed consolidating board committee meetings to the third Thursday monthly (4:15–8:30 p.m.) to boost community participation and reduce scattered weeknight meetings; directors disagreed on volunteer burden and whether the model preserves capacity for deep-dive work, and agreed to pilot the approach with semester evaluation.
District staff and committee chairs proposed consolidating nearly all board committee meetings onto a single night each month — the third Thursday — with staggered start times (early subcommittee starts at 4:15 p.m. and committee blocks from 5:30–8:30 p.m.). The stated goals are to increase community access and reduce the number of different…
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