0155 -  COMMITTEES

The Board shall act as a committee of the whole, except for the following standing committees:

1. Finance, Facilities, and Transportation
    
   1. Initial work on annual operating budget with recommendations to the Board
   2. Emergency financial decisions with recommendations to the Board
   3. Financial strategic planning
   4. Facility improvements, maintenance, construction, repair
   5. Bus contracts, bussing issues, school fleets, related policies
2. Human Resources and Policy
    
   1. Contracts, negotiations, personnel
   2. Policy review and development, interpretation
   3. Keep current with state mandates, initiatives and law.
3. Curriculum, Instruction, and Technology
    
   1. Textbook approval, new course review, updating District curriculum
   2. New technology, technology plans, purchases
4. Ad Hoc (as needed)
    
   1. Any special need that does not fall under the leadership of other committees.
   2. Members of ad hoc committees shall serve until the committee is discharged.
   3. The District Administrator shall serve as an ex-officio member of each committee.

General committee responsibilities are included above, although the list is not all-inclusive. Any other responsibility that could fall under the standing committee’s scope will be assigned to the current standing committees.
           
All standing committees shall be appointed by the Board President with approval of the Board. Members of the standing committees shall serve a term of one (1) year.
           
The Board President may appoint temporary committees at his/her discretion.
           
The functions of all committees shall be fact-finding and advisory. All committees may make recommendations for Board action but shall not have legislative or administrative power except when granted power to act by a majority of the Board.
         
All Board members shall be notified of all scheduled committee meetings.
           
All committees shall comply with the Open Meetings Law by providing notices of each meeting, posting the time and date, place, subject matter of the proposed meeting, and any matter intended for the consideration at the contemplated closed meeting pursuant to 19.84, Wis. Stats. In addition, committee meetings may provide for a period of public comment, and recording appropriate minutes of the meeting.  A committee shall require a quorum, consisting of a majority of its members, to take any action.  A committee may conduct a closed meeting provided it is for one of the purposes described in Bylaw 0167.2 and the committee abides by all requirements for the conduct of a closed meeting.

Revised 4/18/18
Revised 9/23/20
T.C. 3/22/23

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