During our Annual Meeting, we were to elect three trustees to office for three open positions. A nomination from the floor was put forth for a fourth candidate to the Board position. This was unexpected and no notification of any kind had been given. However, we had changed our Bylaws because of this exact scenario some years before that got really nasty and had repercussions for years, and while we were looking it up in the Bylaws (we got rid of nominations from the floor), a current Board member - who did not like the fourth candidate - verbally resigned her position "I am resigning from the Board for personal reasons." She did this twice, in front of 36 other people, even though we had not even voted. Now, she's saying that her resignation was conditional, i.e. she only wanted to resign if the person she didn't like got voted onto the Board. However, that's not what she said during the meeting, and the impression from the congregation is that she has resigned. We wound up with "no vote" because the Nominations Committee didn't get the notifications out in time anyway, so the entire slate was not according to the Bylaws.
My question: Since she did this in front of the members - twice - is she now resigned? Can she now come back and say "Oops, I really didn't mean it"? Our Bylaws state that resignations (it doesn't specify either Board or Membership) should be in writing to the Secretary. However, Board members have previously resigned verbally with nothing in writing.
Thanks for any help in unwinding this mess, and yes, we'll ALL know the Bylaws next time and going forward.