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BOARD COMMITTEES

 

 

The President, with East Feliciana Parish School Board approval shall authorize the creation of standing School Board committees, to be charged with deliberations of certain issues as deemed necessary.  Such committees shall be composed of members of the School Board whose chairperson shall be appointed by the President, and the President shall be given the option to change committee membership.  The School Board President may be substituted for any committee member who is not present.  If a committee member fails to attend two (2) regularly called consecutive committee meetings, the School Board President would have the option to remove that non-attending committee member from that committee.

 

The East Feliciana Parish School Board shall have standing committees, as follows:

 

  1. Finance Committee

  2. Salary Committee                                 

  3. Policy Review Committee                      

  4. Insurance and Bid Opening Committee

  5. Personnel Committee        

  6. Alternative Education Committee

  7. Building Committee

  8. Technology Committee

         

Committees of the School Board shall meet periodically, provided that the President, Superintendent, or committee chairpersons have the authority to call special meetings should the need arise.

 

Special committees may from time to time be appointed by the School Board to study specific issues.  The membership of any special committees need not be restricted to members of the School Board, but shall include such persons who may have knowledge or interest in the subject studied.

 

COMMITTEE MEETINGS

 

The agenda, time, and date of committee meetings shall be set by the committee chairperson and notification of same to other members shall be issued timely from the Superintendent’s office.  Committee members shall notify the Superintendent’s office if the committee member cannot attend a scheduled committee meeting.

 

All committee meetings shall be open to the public, except in those instances allowed as provided by state law.  A majority of the committee membership shall constitute a quorum for purposes of making recommendations or taking any action that has been previously authorized.  However, once the number of members present falls below a quorum, the meeting shall immediately adjourn.  A member who leaves a meeting still in session shall inform the committee that he/she is leaving and whether or not he/she will return.

 

When the stated time for the meeting has arrived and a quorum is not present, those members present shall wait fifteen (15) minutes from the set time of the meeting for the member(s) necessary to reach a quorum to arrive.  If the fifteen (15) minutes pass without a quorum present, the meeting shall be cancelled.

 

Revised:  March, 2001

Revised:  June, 2001

Revised:  January, 2003

Revised:  March, 2005

Revised and Re-Adopted:  April 5, 2005

Re-Adopted:  August 3, 2010

 

 

Ref:     La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §17:55

Board minutes, 8-17-70, 1-7-03, 4-5-05, 8-3-10

 

East Feliciana Parish School Board