The Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. board will meet on a more consistent schedule in 2025.
School board members on Monday night voted to approve meeting dates for 2025, designed to keep the number of days between meetings at a more steady level.
BCSC officials said they hope the change will make it easier for the public to keep track of when the board is meeting.
In the past three years, the amount of time between when the school board convened has ranged between 14 and 42 days — the new schedule has that amount of time down to between 21 and 28 days, with the expectation of the summer break months of June and July when the board will meet 35 days apart.
For the most part, the board will now meet every four weeks. There will sometimes be three weeks between meetings, such as in September in October as the board meets to discuss the budget.
The board has met about 17 times a year the past three years, BCSC Superintendent Chad Phillips said, and the new schedule has the board meeting 14 times.
District 6 Board Member Logan Schulz had asked about what the lone January meeting meant for assigning board members to committees, which in the recent past has happened in a second January meeting.
“We usually have an organizational meetings at the first January meeting, and during that meeting, officers are elected,” Phillips said. “The following meeting, the board president assigns the committees that each board member serves on and so this doesn’t allow for that.”
The plan would be one of three options: either wait until September to assign committees, schedule a special meeting in January for that purpose, or get someone who is considering serving as president already have their appointments ready for the first meeting in January.
The board meeting schedule approved for next year is as follows:
- Jan. 6
- Feb. 3
- March 3
- March 31
- April 28
- May 19
- June 16
- July 21
- Aug. 11
- Sept. 8
- Sept. 29
- Oct. 20
- Nov. 17
- Dec. 15
Phillips said he had heard from a couple of people from the public about potentially changing the night the board meets from Monday night.
” I decided, considering all of the other things that I’ve changed in the last few weeks, that I wasn’t going to propose changing that evening for now,” Phillips said.
