The Board conducts its meetings in public in compliance with the NYS Open Meetings Law*. (Please note, you will be leaving the CCSD Website.) It meets twice per month at the Catskill High School Library. The Workshop meetings are at 7:00 p.m. on the 2nd Wednesday of the month and the Regular meetings are at 7:00 p.m. on the last Wednesday of the month. Agendas are prepared jointly by the Superintendent and Board President.

Please click link for Schedule for the 2007-2008 Board of Education Meetings*
*The schedule is tentative and subject to change.

Public participation is encouraged at Board meetings. Members of the public have two opportunities each meeting to address the Board: during ?Visitor Recognition? at the beginning of the meeting and again at the end of the meeting during the Public Comment period. Anyone wanting to address the Board during "Visitor Recognition" should sign-in with the Board Clerk before the beginning of the meeting and identify name, contact information and subject to be presented.

Please see Board Policy 1230, Public Participation at Board Meetings for more details.

The Board (as allowed by The Open Meetings Law) conducts the following business in Executive Session:

• Matters of public safety
• Matters that may disclose the identify of a law-enforcement officer or informer
• Matters related to a criminal investigation
• Litigation
• Collective bargaining
• Confidential information concerning a particular person or corporation
• Preparation, grading or administration of examinations
• Proposed acquisition, sale or lease of real property

For more information on the Open Meetings Law and the Committee on Open Government which oversees this law, go to http:www.dos.stateny.us/coog/coogwww.html*.

Meeting Minutes and Agendas

Board agendas are available in the Superintendent's Office on the Monday morning prior to the Wednesday Board meeting.

* These links will open pages that are outside the Catskill CSD web site. Catskill CSD is not responsible for the content of those sites.