Yes, I was involved in that thread (on a different computer, couldn't recall my login info).
When I received the response "The board may grant it, and the board may take it away. The board need not respect any consultation period of its own creating. " I was confused, went reading in my copy of RONR a bit more, some additional searches, and ended up more confused. At that point, I thought I'd try to clarify some of the questions at hand, without some of the specifics that seemed to send people off on tangents on the other thread.
So this is a school board, where the board are the members.
The relevant portions of their policy on policies says:
Given this language in their policy on policies, I was stunned when they decided to immediately implement two new policies, one on the role of the board, and one on the role of the superintendent, by "waiving" the current policy on how to develop policies. I have been attending these board meetings for years now, and this is quite outside their normal process. That they chose to gave no public notice of what they were planning to do is annoying, but does not reach this level of wrongness.