Board Meeting Protocol

Order of Business

  • Call To Order – A quorum of four members is necessary to transact business.
  • Welcome
  • Report by Superintendent of Schools
  • Recognition of Special Guests and Announcements – Throughout the year, the Board recognizes the accomplishments of students and staff.

Board Operations

  • Speaker Participation –Any visitor may complete a form to speak and address the Board. Beginning in March 2024, the Speaker Participation Form will be available as a fillable online form available through the CFB Website. The form will be available when the meeting agenda is posted and will close at 1pm the day of the Board Meeting. 
  • Consent Agenda – A consent agenda groups a number of routine items together and may be used to expedite action on routine business matters such as minutes of previous meetings, monthly financial reports, acceptance of gifts and first and second reading of policies.
  • Comments From Individual Board Members
  • Closed Session – State law permits Trustees to go into closed session to discuss such topics that include dealing with students, personnel, land acquisition, security devices and consultation with the attorney. The Board reconvenes in open, public session to take formal action on any matters.
  • Reconvene Public Session
  • Adjournment

Seating capacity is limited in the Board Room and will be strictly adhered to based on Fire Code. Due to anticipated high attendance, attendees who arrive after the board meeting room is at capacity will be accommodated in the overflow room located at the ESDC building. 

GKA — Community Relations: Conduct on School Premises

A person, other than a primary or secondary grade student enrolled in the school, commits a Class C misdemeanor if the person, on school property or on public property within 500 feet of school property, alone or in concert with others, intentionally disrupts the conduct of classes or other school activities. It is an exception to the application of the offense that, at the time the person engaged in the prohibited conduct, the person was younger than 12 years of age.

Education Code 37.124

A person commits a Class B misdemeanor if the person, alone or in concert with others, intentionally engages in disruptive activity on the campus or property of a public school.

Disruptive activity means:

  1. Obstructing or restraining the passage of persons in an exit, entrance, or hallway of any building without the authorization of the administration of the school;
  2. Seizing control of any building or portion of a building to interfere with any administrative, educational, research, or other authorized activity;
  3. Preventing or attempting to prevent by force or violence or the threat of violence any lawful assembly authorized by the school administration so that a person attempting to participate in the assembly is unable to participate due to the use of force or violence or due to a reasonable fear that force or violence is likely to occur;
  4. Disrupting by force or violence or the threat of force or violence a lawful assembly in progress; or
  5. Obstructing or restraining the passage of any person at an exit or entrance to the campus or property or preventing or attempting to prevent by force or violence or by threats thereof the ingress or egress of any person to or from the property or campus without the authorization of the administration of the school.

Education Code 37.123