9130

Bylaws of the Board

Committees

Committees of the Seymour Board of Education shall be established at the first regularly scheduled meeting in December, after the municipal elections, or as needed, by a majority vote of the Board.

Duties of each committee shall be determined as a committee is formed.

Each committee may make a report through its Chairperson at each regular meeting of the Board of Education.

No committee shall have power other than to recommend to the Board of Education unless specially authorized. No committee, or member of a committee, is authorized to make any contract or enter into any agreement which involves the expenditure of money, unless such contract or agreement is authorized by the Board either in regular or special meeting.

All committees of the Board of Education shall follow the provisions of the Freedom Of Information Act as required by statute.

(cf. 9132 - Standing Committees)

(cf. 9133 - Special/Advisory Committees)

Legal Reference:  Connecticut General Statutes

1-200 through 1-241 of the Freedom of Information Act.

1-200 Definitions.

1-225 Meetings of government agencies to be public.

Bylaws accepted by the Board:  August 16, 1999

Bylaws adopted by the Board: September 20, 1999