The Christian County Board of Education will have a retreat meeting at 9 a.m. Saturday in the lodge dining area of Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park.
Public agencies like the school board generally hold retreat meetings for long-range planning and to build consensus among the elected members and staff.
The fact that a meeting is described as a retreat and held outside the board’s normal meeting venue does not mean it is private. In fact, these sessions must remain open to the public under the Kentucky Open Meetings Law.
Agenda items listed for Saturday’s school board retreat include “relationship/communications,” “COVID-19 impact and planning” and “fiscal and budgetary planning.”
District spokesman John Rittenhouse told Hoptown Chronicle the meeting is slated to run until 1 p.m.
The school board began 2021 with two new members elected in November: Tiffany Mumford Brame (District 2) and Mike Walker (District 4). They join three returning members: Jeff Moore (District 1), Lindsey Clark (District 3) and Tom Bell (District 5).
The Pennyrile Lodge, 20781 Pennyrile Lodge Road, Dawson Springs, is approximately 30 minutes from downtown Hopkinsville.
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. Brown was a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era, where she worked for 30 years. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board past president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition. She serves on the Hopkinsville History Foundation's board.
