The Board of Education of Anne Arundel County is scheduled to receive an update from Superintendent George Arlotto and members of his staff regarding summer learning opportunities and efforts to close the opportunity gap as well as discussions about plans to reopen in the fall at its next meeting, scheduled for Wednesday, July 8, 2020.
The Board is also scheduled to appoint individuals to fill vacancies on the Executive Committee of the Countywide Citizen Advisory Committee.
The meeting will be the first for new Student Member of the Board (SMOB) Drake Smith, whose one-year term began on July 1. Smith is the 47th SMOB and the only one in the nation on a local school board who has full voting rights.
The Board will meet virtually in a public session at 8:30 a.m. for the sole purpose of voting to immediately go into closed session, during which time it will discuss confidential matters as permitted by the Maryland Open Meetings Act including, but not limited to, legal advice, personnel, and negotiations. Closed session is not open to the public. The public session of the meeting will resume at 10 a.m.
PUBLIC COMMENT
To ensure the opportunity for public input during the public portion of the meeting, the Board will accept written public comment for those items that appear on the agenda. Such comment can be sent via email to BoardOffice@aacps.org or dropped off at the Parham Building, located at 2644 Riva Road in Annapolis, no later than noon on Tuesday, July 7, 2020.
Testimony on agenda items must be 250 words or less and must include the name and community of residence of the author as well as any pertinent group affiliation.
Testimony will be compiled and provided to Board members prior to the start of the meeting. It will also be posted online at www.aacps.org/boardtestimony. During the meeting, the Board and the public will be apprised of how many comments were received for each agenda item.
Concerns that are confidential, such as student-specific and personnel issues, cannot be published as part of public testimony.
Testimony that exceeds the 250-word limit will be trimmed to meet the criteria before being posted online. However, the full version will be provided to Board.
Testimony on topics not on the agenda can be submitted under the same criteria as above and will also be posted online.
A complete agenda for the meeting accompanies this news release. More information on agenda items will be posted on the AACPS website in the Board Docs section under the Board of Education tab. The Board may choose to change the order in which agenda items are heard to meet the Board’s needs. Unless changed by the Board, items will be heard in the order in which they appear on the agenda.
The general session of Wednesday’s Board meeting will be broadcast live on AACPS-TV, which can be found on Channel 96 on Comcast and Broadstripe, and Channel 36 on Verizon. High definition broadcasts can be seen on Channel 996 on Comcast, Channel 496 on Broadstripe, and Channel 1961 on Verizon.
The meeting can also be viewed live on AACPS’ YouTube channel here.
Archived videos of Board meetings can be found online here.
Board of Education meeting agenda, 7-8-20