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P 0440 Notification of Board Meetings

The Board shall give notice of the time, date, place and tentative agenda for each meeting in a manner reasonable calculated to inform the public. Notice of each regular, special or proposed closed meeting, record or vote of the Board will be posted as provided in §610.020, RSMo., including the following:

  1. Notice shall be given at least twenty-four (24) hours, exclusive of weekends and holidays when school is closed, in advance of the meeting, unless for good cause such notice is impossible or impractical, in which case as much notice as is reasonably possible shall be given. The nature of the good cause must be stated in the minutes.
  2. The notice shall be posted on a bulletin board or other easily accessible public place clearly designated for that purpose at the principal office of the Board, or, if no such office exists, at the building where the meeting will be held.
  3. A copy of the notice and the tentative agenda shall be made available to area newspapers. All interested news media organizations will be notified, upon request, of all meetings of the Board. To be notified of these meetings, a news media organization should make a request to the secretary of the board.
  4. If the Board plans to conduct a closed session, the notice should include the specific exception of §610.021, under which the closed session is authorized, and the agenda should include the closed session.
  5. Where meetings are conducted by telephone or other electronic means, written notice of such meetings will include the specific mode by which the meetings will be conducted and the location where the public may attend such electronic meetings. If a meeting is conducted through the Internet or other computer link, notice of such meeting will be posted on an existing District web site.

All Board meetings shall be held at a place and time reasonably convenient for the public. In addition, reasonable efforts shall be made to make the meeting accessible to individuals with disabilities. If either of these statutory requirements is not met, the nature of the cause for noncompliance for the meeting should also be stated in the Board minutes.

A formal subcommittee of the Board may conduct a meeting without advance notice during a lawful meeting of the Board, a recess of that meeting, or immediately following that meeting. The subcommittee's meeting must be announced at the Board meeting, and the subject of the meeting must reasonably coincide with the subjects discussed at the Board meeting.


Board Approved Date: August, 2004
Last Updated: August 2004