An advance calendar of meetings of the federal credit union regulator’s board is “unlikely” to be published in the future, according to a report Thursday, which, if enacted, would upend a long-standing practice of the agency.
The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) said advance notice its meeting schedule – which, up until this year, were published in November for the next upcoming year – is “unlikely” to continue into the new year. The CU Daily first reported the development.
An agency spokesperson, CU Daily reported, said publishing the meeting schedule “creates a false expectation that a meeting will occur when it’s meant to be a courtesy scheduling heads up.”
The NCUA Board has publicly posted its meeting schedule for many years. However, over the past year – and particularly after President Donald Trump (R ) fired the two Democratic members of its three-member board, leaving the lone Republican Kyle Hauptman as chairman – the board has convened sporadically, it at all. The two fired board members are challenging their dismissals in federal court.
The NCUA’s procedure of publishing its meeting schedule made it somewhat of an outlier among federal financial regulators. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has a single regulator with no public rule-making or policy sessions.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) and the Federal Reserve both have boards, but neither typically publishes advance schedules of meetings. However, both are required to publish their meeting dates, and agendas, under federal sunshine act statutes in advance of their meetings. NCUA will also be required to do the same
CU Daily: NCUA Says It’s Unlikely It Will Publish Board Meeting Schedule for 2026
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