203.6 Consent Agendas
Policy 203.6 – Consent Agendas
Purpose: The purpose of this policy is to allow Crosslake Community School (CCS) the use of a consent agenda.
General Statement of Policy
For efficient administration of CCS’s school board of directors’ meetings, the school board may elect to use a consent agenda for the passage of noncontroversial items or items of a similar nature.
Consent Agendas
- The school board chair, school Director(s), and the board Recorder will develop, prepare, and arrange the order of items for each school board meeting. By using a consent agenda, the school board has consented to the consideration of certain items as a group under one motion. Should a consent agenda be used, an appropriate amount of discussion time will be allowed to review any item upon request.
- Consent items are those which usually do not require discussion or explanation prior to school board action, are noncontroversial and/or similar in content, or are those items which have already been discussed and/or explained and do not require further discussion or explanation.
- Items shall be removed from the consent agenda by a timely request by an individual school board director for independent consideration. A request is timely if made prior to the vote on the consent agenda. The request does not require a second or a vote by the school board. An item removed from the consent agenda will then be discussed and acted on separately immediately following theconsideration of the consent agenda.
- Consent agenda items are approved en masse by one vote of the school board. The consent agenda items shall be separately recorded in the minutes.
Legal References: Minn. Stat. § 124E.07 (Board of Directors)
Cross References:
- MSBA/MASA Model Policy 203.2 (Order of the Regular School Board Meeting)
- MSBA/MASA Model Policy 203.5 (School Board Meeting Agenda)
- MSBA/MASA Model Policy 204 (School Board Meeting Minutes)