S6 called the December work session to order and the board spent the meeting's opening hour reviewing which standing committees should continue and how members should be assigned.

The discussion centered on whether to consolidate finance, personnel and facilities into one committee or to move personnel under negotiations. S2 said combining finance and facilities could create efficiency, while S3 and S5 cautioned that finance traditionally has three members and overlaps heavily with personnel matters. "Finance has obviously a lot of entanglements, because that's where the majority of our budget is related to personnel," S5 said, describing the practical tradeoffs.

Board members agreed to a near‑term plan: draft committee descriptions and a proposed 2025 committee slate for consideration at the Jan. 6 organizational meeting, then finalize membership or designate chairs at the committees' first meetings. S6 said the board would bring definitions for committees such as communications & technology, finance & facilities, negotiations (with personnel), and policy to the reorganization meeting for approval.

The board also discussed whether to appoint committee chairs at the organizational meeting or to select a designee at the committees' first convenings. Members generally favored a lighter, informal approach to chair appointments. "I don't know that we would need a chair as much as we could designate," S7 said during the exchange.

Next steps: the administration will circulate draft committee descriptions and proposed rosters ahead of Jan. 6 for the board to review. No formal motion or vote was recorded at the work session.