BB 9324 — Minutes and Recordings
Section: 9000 - Board Bylaws
Status: Active
Adopted: 2015-03-24
Revised: 2019-03-12
Policy text
MINUTES AND RECORDINGS
The Governing Board recognizes that maintaining accurate minutes of Board meetings provides a record of Board actions for use by district staff and the public. Accurate minutes also help foster public trust that Board actions are occurring in public in accordance with law.
The secretary of the Board shall keep minutes and record all official Board actions. The Board’s minutes shall be public records and shall be made available to the public upon request.
The Superintendent or designee shall distribute a copy of the “unapproved” minutes of the previous meeting(s) with the agenda for the next regular meeting. At the next meeting, the Board shall approve the minutes as circulated or with necessary amendments.
In order to ensure that the minutes are focused on Board action, the minutes shall include only a brief summary of the Board’s discussion but shall not include a verbatim record of the Board’s discussion on each agenda topic or the names of Board members who made specific points during the discussion.
The minutes shall include the specific language of each motion, the names of members who made and seconded the motion, and the individual votes of each member, unless the action was unanimous. When a roll call vote is taken, the names and votes of each member shall be listed. Motions or resolutions shall be recorded as having passed or failed. All Board resolutions shall be numbered consecutively from the beginning of each fiscal year.
The minutes shall record which members are present and whether a member is not present for part of the meeting due to late arrival and/or early departure.
Official Board minutes and recordings shall be stored in a secure location and shall be retained in accordance with law.
Any minutes or recordings kept for Board meetings held in closed session shall be kept separately from the minutes or recordings of regular and special meetings. Minutes or recordings of closed sessions are not public records.
Recording or Broadcasting of Meetings
The district may tape, film, or broadcast any open Board meeting. The Board president shall announce that a recording or broadcasting is being made at the beginning of the meeting and, as practicable, the recorder or camera shall be placed in plain view of meeting participants.
Any district recording may be erased or destroyed no less than four years after the meeting. Recordings made during a meeting are public records and, upon request, shall be made available for inspection by members of the public on a district recorder without charge.
Legal
EDUCATION CODE - EDC
35163 Official actions, minutes and journals
GOVERNMENT CODE - GOV
54953.5 Audio or video recording of proceedings
54953.6 Broadcasting of proceedings