"Greetings! There are about a half dozen or so districts that I have found having a 1st and 2nd VP. I have done some research on the purpose and success of doing so. There is a built in succession should illness, death or resignation occur among…"

"We have returned to public meetings (in person) and the public who wish to attend have the microphone during public participation. Virtual meetings (if any) - the public submitted email questions and our District Clerk would summarize them and dig…"

"This is a really interesting discussion and not something we have addressed as a board. Fortunately few sticky issues have arisen since the pandemic, but it seems we should set up a protocol for increasing our public participation."

"We have stayed as close to our regular "in person" practice of how public comments are done. We have been back at in person for awhile now and have asked the public to send in the comments via email or come to the meeting. We are not currently…"

"I have to figure out how to "undo" how we are handling it without inflaming. Allowing them to talk without their camera on now feels one step removed from being like a social media interaction. But perhaps I will have to wait until my December…"

"We offer a hybrid on public comment. If someone attends the meeting they can speak and we check our BOE email at the beginning and end of the meeting for any comments. If any come in during the meeting we will read and respond before the end of the…"

"Prior to returning to in person board meetings we allowed the public to make comments during our remote meetings by elevating them to Participants in zoom calls and then returning them to Attendee after they made their comments. Since returning to…"

"We are having a challenging situation to navigate ourselves. At end of August we brought in the the BOE and Admins in person and the community on zoom. They can register to view and then raise their hands to ask questions via live audio. Since we…"

"We offer a "Hybrid" to our in-person public comments using a boe email address having a member monitor during meetings."

"We have been offering a hybrid version for public comment since we have a limit of around 35 people that can fit in the room where we hold our meetings. It's a little cumbersome but we didn't want the public to feel shut out."