"We are starting on September 1. The students will be in school on Sept 1 and 2nd and then will return. In the 9th."

"Heidi, in our district, the superintendent sets the agenda for committee meetings, while a board committee chair reports out at BOE meetings."

"We do not have community members on our BOE committees (Budget/Audit, Policy and Facilities) but do solicit members of the public to ad hoc committees. A recent example was a school consolidation/facilities study committee that resulted in a…"

"Our board has spent some time defining the board committee structure, membership, chair responsibilities, and protocols. We have created a reference document with this information to help guide us. We are also working on a district plan for…"

"We have several Board Committees - Finance, Facilities, Policy, Audit, Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment and Communications. No community serve on these but all meetings are open to the public and they are welcome to observe whether in person or…"

"I am a new president, but a BOE member for 5 years. All our "committees" right now are district committees- and we only have one right now which is a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force. Facilitated by our superintendent and it has sub…"

"All questions should follow the chain of command in your district, so a Facebook page would undermine that by making whomever runs the page the face of the board and the district. That's a lot of responsibility (or liablilty!) on one person. Your…"

"Board committees are sort of new for us too- other than Audit committee. We just started a Policy Committee and Communications Committee last year but getting them off the ground and really working has been slow, in part thanks to pandemic. As of…"

"We don't have community members on any of our committees, however we have a robust report out process at our BOE meetings so the community can keep up with what the committees are doing. It used to be that they could voice questions or concerns…"

"We utilize a dedicated email that goes to the board clerk and each board member. We treat this the same as if a question is asked at a public board meeting. Questions are referred to the Superintendent for response. We are careful not to discuss…"

"Kristin Sunser-King, I would love to hear more about how your board is using Parent Square to connect with stakeholders."

"We have three community members on our, audit, policy and capital project committees. Three board members also serve on each committee (6 members on each committee between boe and community). We have had the same community member serve on all three…"

"Our board president appoints trustees to their committee seats. We have community members on some of those committees but they do not speak at board meetings. The board trustee assigned to that committee gives a committee report to the rest of the…"

"This is a new concept for me. We have never had community members on our board committees. That being said, from time to time we have formed committees to deal with specific issues that have included members of all our constituencies. For…"

"We use the Let's Talk program. If questions are for the Board then I respond. We did not have a Facebook page. It's too much to monitor. We explain the chain of command for responses. Teacher, principal, Superintendent, board or coach, athletic…"