# Commissioner says the council broke its promise to meet on school funding within a week

## What happened
Vigo County Commissioner Mark Clinkenbeard told the council it had missed its own week-old promise to meet with the commissioners, the school-oversight board chair, and the superintendent about the roughly $222 million school-funding plan within seven days, saying he emailed council leaders on Sept. 2 with possible dates and didn't hear back on scheduling until the morning of this meeting. Council President Steve Ellis said the three-member review committee could only meet on a date all three members had open, which turned out to be Sept. 29; Clinkenbeard said he now regrets having offered, the week before, to stay as late as midnight answering the council's questions if that offer "didn't really mean anything." No new meeting date was set by the end of the exchange, with the council still weighing a closed-door executive session against a public special-call meeting.

## The outcome
No vote was taken; the council did not settle on a new meeting date during this exchange.

## Sources
- [Clinkenbeard addresses the council, 9:48](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX727b7xcQA&t=588)
- ["We agreed... within seven days," 10:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX727b7xcQA&t=650)
- [Ellis: scheduling around three members' availability, 11:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX727b7xcQA&t=683)
- [Clinkenbeard: "I do regret" the offer, 38:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX727b7xcQA&t=2319)
- [Ellis: executive session is his preference, if legal, 40:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX727b7xcQA&t=2434)
- [Committee formed, Sept. 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj9WTgXtkSw&t=801)
- [$222 million figure presented, Sept. 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj9WTgXtkSw&t=4653)

*Also known as: Option 6.2 · the $222 million school plan · school funding review committee · oversight committee meeting schedule*