Cobb school board to hold public meetings via teleconference

While the Cobb Board of Commissioners and other county elected and appointed bodies are postponing or rescheduling public meetings in the wake of the Coronavirus response, the Cobb Board of Education is carrying on with its scheduled monthly meetings on Thursday.

But they will be held remotely, via teleconference, for board members, Cobb County School District officials and the public.

The district has posted a message on its website that a virtual work session, followed by an executive session and a virtual voting meeting, will begin Thursday starting at 10 a.m.

You can follow the meetings on the CCSD livestream by clicking here.

Late Wednesday afternoon the district posted an agenda that includes a proposal to pay non-permanent employees (school bus drivers, cafeteria workers and the like) through the end of May due to the Coronavirus crisis.

Cobb schools closed on Monday and per Gov. Brian Kemp all public schools in Georgia are closed at least until March 31.

The agenda item, which will be discussed at the work session and voted on in the regular meeting, would use $3.4 million in general funding reserves.

The payroll supplements would include $1.675 million for defined active temporary employees, $1.5 million for the district’s after-school program workers and $225,000 for the school nutrition program.

The full agenda for Thursday’s meetings can be found here.

During typical in-person school board meetings members of the public also have a chance to make public comments to board members, but that will not be the case Thursday.

A district spokeswoman told East Cobb News that “given federal and state guidance about avoiding groups larger than ten and the meeting happening virtually, public comment will not be available.”