NEWARK – School board members continue to discuss the possibility of adding more night meetings to the annual calendar.
School board member Katie Addis again asked her fellow Worcester County Board of Education members last week to consider scheduling three more evening meetings. Other board members said it was something to be explored.
“Rather than approve three at this one time I’d like us to take some time to see where we can best fit them in,” board member Bill Gordy said.
While most school board meetings are held at 12:30 p.m. each month, in recent years the board has made an effort to schedule two or three night meetings each year in response to public requests. Last Tuesday, at one of those night meetings, some parents used the public comment portion of one of those night meetings to request others. Area resident Kate McCloskey said maybe a third or half of the annual meetings could be held in the evenings.
“I enjoyed hearing from parents who could only comes to a meeting at night,” she said.