The Fulton County Board of Education will meet May 8 for a work session at the school system’s Administrative Center. The board will convene at 12:30 p.m. to executive session to discuss land, legal and/or personnel items, and will hold a series of workshops, including a FY13 budget presentation, beginning at 2 p.m.
At 4:30 p.m., items from the May 17 board meeting agenda will be reviewed and discussed, with action taken the following week at Dunwoody Springs Elementary School. At 5:30 p.m., a salary hearing will be held for employees followed by a recognitions ceremony for outstanding students, staff and schools at 6 p.m. A public comment session will begin at 6:30 p.m. and at 7 p.m., a public hearing on the FY13 budget will be held to allow citizens an opportunity to provide feedback on budget discussion.
The meeting agenda is posted to the BoardDocs web site, an online program that makes the school board agenda and all supporting documents available online. The meeting locations are equipped with wireless technology that allows access to the Internet and the BoardDocs agenda site; however, those visiting with laptops must have supporting wireless software in order to be connected to the wireless network.
School board meetings can be watched live from a computer screen using special viewing software, such as Windows Media Player or RealPlayer. Audio and video recordings of the meetings are archived to the videostreaming web site within 48 hours of the meeting.
All meetings of the school board are open to the public unless designated as executive session, where the board must convene in private to discuss land, legal or personnel items.
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