The Pleasant Valley School Board will not be broadcasting its meetings on Zoom anymore. Thursday’s meeting was the last one.

Superintendent James Konrad said Zoom is being cut because of the cost - $6,549, he said.

Instead, the district is providing two new ways for the community to get questions answered - a form on the district’s website for submitting questions before the school board meetings and a discussion session prior to district planning meetings.

Konrad said that the school board meetings are taped and posted on the district’s website within 48 hours of the meetings.

“In an effort to promote community engagement and transparency, we’ll have a Q and A session before our next board meeting,” Konrad said.

Konrad said a Google link will be on the district’s website on the Monday prior to the board meeting when the agenda for the next meeting is posted. They have until midnight on Tuesday to submit questions.

“I understand that we might not be able to get through every single question, ” Konrad said.

Konrad said he and his administration will go through the questions and prioritize them. Still, he said it is important to him to get responses to people’s questions.

The second route to get answers is before the district planning meetings. The discussion sessions will run from 6 to 7 p.m. in the conference room in the district building.

Ron Reynolds of Chestnuthill Township said some families can’t physically attend meetings, and being able to watch and participate in the meetings through Zoom is important to them.

“That is a tremendous, a tremendous mistake,” he said. “If you want to facilitate communication with this community and interaction, removing Zoom, that’s not going forward. That’s going backward.”