Board meetings are televised on:
Wed: 6:00a.m., 7:00p.m. and 10:00p.m.
Thu: 10:00p.m.
Fri: 7:00p.m. and 10:00p.m.
Sat and Sun: 10:00p.m.

NON AGENDA ITEMS
Requests to address the Board regarding non-agenda items must be made by 4:30 p.m. on the Thursday before the upcoming Board Meeting. The Board will make efforts to hear all individuals/groups but at times, due to heavy agendas, may need to limit the number of groups able to speak. In that case, the Board will offer alternative dates to those individuals/groups.

Individuals and groups wishing to address the Board on non-agenda items should give written notice to:

Julie Hammers, Board Secretary
Email: jhammers@sps186.org

Or by mail to:
Julie Hammers, Board Secretary
1900 West Monroe
Springfield, IL 62704

Email is the preferred method of communication regard requests to address the Board.

Please include with your letter or email the following:

Group name
Name(s) of the individual(s) that will address the Board on behalf of the group
The date of the meeting
The subject to which they will speak

AGENDA ITEMS
Individuals that wish to address the Board on a topic on the agenda simply need to sign in at the Board Meeting at which the topic will be discussed. The President will be informed and the individual will be called during the appropriate time.

On January 4, 2010, the Board of Education began conducting all meetings utilizing the Electronic School Board. This is a paperless system. With this in mind, below are instructions for accessing the Agendas, Minutes, Personnel pages and all other Board Meeting related items formerly available in the Board Packet. Additionally, with this system there is an RSS feed that you can subscribe to that will notify you when a new packet is ready for viewing. Instructions to subscribe are listed below as well.

Accessing the ESB system:

1. Go to the District's homepage.
2. Click on the link to the Electronic School Board on the left hand side of the page about half way down.
3. Next, click on the date of the meeting that you would like to access.
4. Then, scroll down to the item that you would like to view. For instance, if you would like to see the personnel pages, scroll down to the Roll Call Action Items and click on the "Approval of Personnel Recommendations" link. Each item on the Agenda is a link to additional information.

Additionally, on the right hand side of the page, you will see a link to a minutes catalog as well as a search engine. You can now search for an individual item from past Board Meetings! Currently, the meetings from December 21, 2009 and on are searchable but in the future, meetings from before that date will be added.

To subscribe to the RSS feed to receive updates when the latest packet is ready:

1. Go to the District's homepage.
2. Click on the link to the Electronic School Board on the left hand side of the page about half way down.
3. Next, click on the "Agenda List" on the right side of the page.
4. Then, click on the orange symbol at the top of the page next to the title "Agenda List".
5. On the left hand side of your screen, under "Actions", click on Subscribe in Mail. This will add the subscription to your mailbox.

For additional information or questions regarding access the ESB, please contact Julie Hammers at 525-4406 or jhammers@springfield.k12.il.us.