Fayette County School Corporation

 Board of School Trustees

Policy 1.09 Election of Board Members

Meetings

• Regular Board meetings, open to the public and media, are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the FCSC Administration Building.

• Special meetings, are open to the public and media and are called when needed.

• Executive sessions, used for discussion of sites, litigation, negotiations, and personnel are closed. No action is ever taken by the Board in any executive session.

Board Meeting Agenda

•  The agenda serves as the framework for transaction of public business. Detailed information is provided by the Superintendent in advance of each meeting. The formal document, noting varied items of business is posted at the Administration Building, 1401 Spartan Drive, on the FCSC website, and forwarded to the media representatives prior to any scheduled session. Business categories for the agenda include:

  • Patron Comments On Agenda Items:  When a stakeholder uses the "Request to Speak" sign-up paper (available on the table in the hall) and submits it to the Board secretary at least five minutes in advance of the start of any Regular meeting, the stakeholder may address the Board for a specified number of minutes. 

  • Consent:  This portion of the agenda is voted upon by the Board and contains routine matters related to the day-to day operations of FCSC.

  • Action:  Action is the time during an agenda when the Board will talk about, and vote upon, an idea, program, proposal, or issue.

  • Discussion:  Discussion provides a time for the Board to discuss ideas, programs, proposals, and other issues. Discussion is not a time for Action by the Board but, often, occurs when the topic for Discussion will be offered for Action at an upcoming meeting or workshop.

  • Action:  Action is the time during an agenda when the Board will talk about, and vote upon, an idea, program, proposal, or issue.

  • Public Comments:  Public comments is a time when persons wishing to make the Board aware of suggestions, ideas, and/or comments may address the Board. Comments which involve personnel or students must be discussed in private.

Board Meeting Minutes

• Minutes of Regular and Special sessions include all formal Board motions and formal Board actions. When pertinent to Board action, data may be attached to the minutes. After being approved by the Board, minutes become official and are open for inspection by the public 

• Minutes of Regular scheduled meetings are posted to the website after the minutes have been approved by the School Board. For example the September minutes will be posted after the October Board Meeting approval. 

Board Meeting Live Streaming and Recording

• Indiana Code § 5-14-1.5-2.9 requires governing bodies of state agencies and some non-state agencies to record meetings if they can't live stream them. The recording must be archived and made available to the public for at least 90 days. The public can inspect, copy, or download the recording for free. The law also requires governing bodies to include the website for the recording in the meeting notice.  You may access both live streaming and archived recordings for Fayette County School Corporation Board of School Trustees meetings at the following link: 

• https://www.youtube.com/@LocalTV3/streams

**School Board Information - Meeting Agendas, and Minutes (BoardDocs)

School Board Policies

*The Fayette County School Corporation will begin a thorough review of school board policies beginning in October 2024. In the process, policies will be converted to a new numbering system. Each month, a new batch of policies will be uploaded to BoardDocs for public view when they are presented to the board for a first reading. Once all policies are adopted, they will be housed on the district's BoardDocs page under Policies, and the previous version of the policy will be removed from this page.

School Board Links

• Indiana School Board Association

• National School Board Association

• Consortium Of State School Boards Associations

Years of Service