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Bloomfield Hills board debates committee structure, scheduling and transparency
Summary
At a Feb. 24 meeting the Bloomfield Hills School Board discussed whether to keep its three-subcommittee model or return to a 'committee of the whole' cadence, debated meeting schedules that conflict with members' work lives, and agreed to revisit committee assignments and improve committee-to-board communication.
The Bloomfield Hills School Board spent much of a Feb. 24 study session debating how its committee structure should work now that two new trustees are onboarded, with discussion centering on meeting cadence, member burden and transparency.
President Hill opened the organizational-planning discussion by saying the current subcommittee model — curriculum & instruction, strategic planning, and finance & operations — was adopted under a previous seven-member board and that the change was intended to create focused, productive work between meetings. Superintendent West told the board the district prefers committee meetings about two weeks before the regular board meeting so…
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