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.
Our board of ed is going to put even ONE item on consent agenda – so they don’t even need to read out the topic of the discussion – and will just refer to it as “A. Finance” – and take a vote.
All discussions will happen at a closed session meeting where they will meet FOR ONE HOUR before this 2 minute public meeting just to take a vote.
If the bids are being rejected for budgetary reasons – why do they need to go in closed session to discuss them?
If the bids are being rejected for budgetary reasons – why do they need ONE hour to discuss them? (Are they going to discuss other items that are not listed on the agenda in this one hour closed session?? e.g. referendum?) “
Fish Rot from the Head Down
We get the government we tolerate
By neglect. ..