In January there will be a School Board organizational meeting and if additional subcommittees are going to be restored they’ll do so most likely at that meeting.

Aside from the Measure E oversight committee that will become the Measure G oversight committee if Measure G passes in February, there is the independent citizens school bond construction Measure B oversight committee and they have been active since passage of Measure B.

All meetings including subcommittee meetings are suppose to operate within the Brown Act rules requiring notication to the public of agenda items and the right of the public to speak to items on the agenda. Additional right of the public under the Education Code is the right to put items on the Board’s agenda for public discussion. This right does not extend to subcommittee meetings. If a subcommittee discusses an item and allows the public to comment at its subcommittee meeting, the Board does not have to allow public to comment when that same agenda item comes before the full Board for a vote.

For those interested, the Board Bylaws posted on its website lists the rules governing both subcommittee meetings and school board meetings.

Jim Mordecai

There will be a story about it in the paper tomorrow, and hopefully online today. It’s written!