Committee of the Whole - Mon., 5/16/2022, 5:30PM, R2i2

Another meeting of the Committee of the Whole (on Safety & Security) will be held on Monday, May 16, 2022m 5:30PM, at R2i2.

No executive session is on the agenda.

No public participation is on the agenda.

The District issued this announcement today:

SPECIAL COMMITTEE MEETING OF THE WHOLE ON SAFETY AND SECURITY ON MAY 16 AT 5:30 P.M.

 

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Richland School District Two Board of Trustees will hold a Special Committee Meeting of the Whole on Safety and Security on Monday, May 16, at 5:30 p.m.

 

Click the link below to view the agenda for the meeting:    http://go.boarddocs.com/sc/rsd2/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=CECTJ4678FD0

 

The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held in the Boardroom at R2i2 located at 763 Fashion Drive, Columbia, 29229. Please note this meeting will not be streamed live or recorded.

 

At the Special Committee Meeting, visitors will need to adhere to social distancing guidelines.

The official notice is attached. [not attached here]

After reading the announcement, I sent this email to the Board members, superintendent, in-house legal counsel, outside legal counsel, and the consultant who tried to work with the board on parliamentary procedure (and executive coaching)

If you feel the meetings should be live-streamed, leave a comment below and inform the board members.

Members of the Board,

I suggest that the wording of the announcement of Committee of the Whole be changed.

Current wording is "The Richland School District Two Board of Trustees will hold a Special Committee Meeting of the Whole on Safety and Security on Monday, May 16, at 5:30 p.m."

This wording makes it a Board meeting, not just a Committee meeting. All State laws apply, including Notice, Agenda, etc. The Agenda for the Committee meeting is published on the Board's webpages. If fewer than five board members show up, the meeting cannot be held.

The meeting should be announced by the Committee, not by the Board.

The Board should carefully consider what happens when five or more board members attend. It then becomes an official board meeting, subject to all the rules for public bodies.

Detailed Minutes of the Committee meeting should be quickly available, so that the public will be informed. I suggested a dedicated webpage on the District's website.

Committee meetings should be live-streamed, so that the public will know what's going on. It is difficult for the public to attend frequent 5:30PM meetings. More specific information should be revealed on the Agenda.