The Cobb Board of Education on Thursday will be presented with an amendment to bylaws involving the Cobb County School District’s partnership with the Cobb Schools Foundation.
But there’s no information on the board’s meeting agenda on what the amendment is about, and board chairman David Chastain of Post 4 in Northeast Cobb said that details will be presented at a work session starting at 3 p.m.
“The Board will be briefed at the meeting. It’s a normal procedure,” he told East Cobb News on Wednesday. “I am not going to brief the media before I brief my colleagues. That’s why we have a working session.”
The agenda item to be presented by Chastain states that the amendment to the bylaws is “for potential action.”
The monthly school board meetings also include a voting session at 7 p.m. and an executive session in between.
All meetings take place in the board room of the CCSD Central Office, at 514 Glover St. in Marietta. An executive session will follow the work session.
You can read through the agenda details for the meetings at this link; and you can watch the public meetings on a livestream on the district’s Boxcast Channel.
The Cobb Schools Foundation (formally known as the Cobb County Public Schools Educational Foundation, Inc., is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit the district operates that provides support for school families in need with learning interventions, food distribution and scholarship assistance.
Most recently, CSF created a “Fan of the Game” program to invite “community partners” to promote their businesses and organizations by becoming sponsors of athletic programs within the district.
The funding would be used for equipment, coaching development, scholarships, wellness and safety initiatives and uniforms and warmups.
Extracurricular activities are not funded directly by the district, as we noted in April about a new video scoreboard at Walton High School that was paid with private funds, but that board had to formally approve.
The board also will be asked to vote on a measure to approve a permanent utility easement at Sprayberry High School for an existing cell tower.
Georgia Power is requesting the easement due to a new location for a power transformer and power pole providing power to the cell tower.
At the Thursday night meeting, recognitions include the district’s financial services division and its strategy and accountability division.
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- Lassiter graduates encouraged to ‘find your community’
- Kell graduates asked to ‘never forget where you came from’
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