Wednesday, December 10

District e-mails announcement of December meetings to press

The Delaware Valley School District e-mailed to the press at 9:23 this morning an announcement of tonight's transportation meeting and two other committee meetings in December.

Is less than 10 hours notice to the press enough? According to board policy (Meetings 006):
Notice of all special meetings shall be given by publication and posting of notice at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the time of the meeting...
From the e-mail:

(Wednesday) December 10, 2008
Transportation Meeting
6:00 PM
Delaware Valley Administrative Offices

(Tuesday) December 16, 2008
Budget, Finance, and Audit Committee Meeting
8:30 AM
Delaware Valley Administrative Offices

(Thursday) December 18, 2008
Personnel Meeting
6:00 PM
Dingman-Delaware Middle School Cafeteria

View the announcement (Word document)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Apparently the meeting notice was in the Pike County Dispatch although the announcement of the meeting was not made at the December 4, 2008 re-organization meeting.

The other two new meetings (the audit meeting and the personnel meeting) were announced at the December 4th meeting.

I believe that the email notification problem has been resolved and was an artifact of the retirement of Mrs. Kaden.

I believe that the DVSD School Board can do better, but they seem to have mostly complied with the PA Sushine Act. The board seems to have a continuing problem in setting meting dates.

Anonymous said...

"Apparently the meeting notice was in the Pike County Dispatch" I wrote that after talking to The Dispatch on Wednesday. When I had time to look through the legal notices in last week's paper I could not find it. I will find out when this notice was published.

The meeting was apparently held just to discuss alleged irregularities with Krise bus use for non-school use and alleged use of DVSD fuel (provided at $1/gal) for non-DVSD use. I had to leave early, but from what I hear there was no hard evidence of recent transgressions. There was a former Krise driver that recollects using DVSD buses without the proper license for non-school use in the period of 2001 to 2003.