A meeting of the Community Engagement Task Force scheduled for this Tuesday has been canceled via an e-mail sent only to Task Force members. The e-mail actually creates more questions than it answers:
- Will the Task Force even continue in its current form? Some school board members were not exactly thrilled with the idea of another task force.
- Assuming the task force continues, will Mary Ellen Havel-Lang continue as a member (now as a citizen?
- Will a new school board member be appointed to serve in the role formerly filled by Havel-Lang?
- Should this notice have been posted publicly?
- Could this e-mail be considered a "violation" of open meeting laws? Several board committee citizen representatives have been publicly chastised at board/committee meetings for sending e-correspondence to other committee members. Is this really any different? (Oh...wait...of COURSE the board will find some rationale to justify it!)
- Are materials which are sent to committee members (as referenced in this correspondence) made available to the public at the same time?
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