Welcome
The Board of Education meets on the second and fourth Monday of each month, unless otherwise posted. The agenda is posted on the District website, at the District Office, the DeForest Area Public Library, and at other established posting locations the Friday before the meeting. Board meeting minutes are available after subsequent meetings and approval by the Board of Education. After approval, meeting minutes are published in The Star newspaper.
The meetings begin at 6:00 p.m, in the Board Room or The Glenn of the District Office, 500 S. Cleveland Avenue, DeForest, WI 53532. Location is noted on the agenda.
Board of Education meetings are meetings for the Board, held in public, for the purpose of conducting the School District’s business and is not to be considered a public community meeting.
If you need an interpreter, or other accommodations to access the meeting, please contact the DeForest Area School District at (608) 842-6582. Please do so one week before the meeting so that arrangements can be made in a timely fashion.
Live Stream and Recording of Board Meetings
The Board of Education will live stream and record Regular Board of Education meetings where Board action is likely to be taken. Board meetings can be viewed on the DASD YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/@DASDBoardMeetings. Recordings of meetings will be posted on the District website.
Public Input
The DASD Board of Education welcomes community participation and feedback. There is time for public comment during Regular Board Meetings as noted on the agenda. Board Work Sessions or Special Meetings will not contain a public input agenda item.
Public comment shall be limited to three (3) minutes in duration. If there is a group who all wish to speak on the same topic, a single spokesperson should be selected. The Chairperson may interrupt or stop an individual’s statement if it is too lengthy, personally directed, abusive, obscene, repetitive or irrelevant.
Please refrain from presenting comments at public meetings that introduce complaints or concerns that are directed toward and that identify individual staff members or individual students. Any person with such a complaint or concern may contact the Office of the Superintendent for information on the most appropriate means of raising or pursuing his/her complaint.
The Wisconsin Open Meetings Law requires that Board of Education members do not discuss topics, respond to questions, take action or otherwise engage in conversation related to items that are not listed on the Board’s agenda. Members of the Board may ask questions for clarification purposes only.