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Saurabh Dani from the Facebook Group “It takes a Ridgewood Village”
“”CONSENT AGENDA” in a meeting exists to make the meetings faster / save time when there are many items to cover and “standard / repetitive / procedural items can be bundled in one agenda item”, or when items that were already discussed at a previous work session and agreed to in public can be added to a consent agenda for approval.
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Ridgewood NJ, Saurabh Dani the Admin of It Takes a Ridgewood Village pointed out some odd discrepancies between how the Village Council conducts business and how the Board of Education conducts business . In a post Dani said:
“Our village council has work session discussions and then at the next meeting they have vote. Many school boards follow similar structure but they don’t always meet in public for work sessions but still keep minutes – they call it “caucus meeting” where agenda and minutes are published, e.g. Jersey City, Rahway etc.
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