issue with school board meetings starying on time

[janetdixon112]

I am a member of a 9 member local school board. We are scheduled to start our monthly meetings at 5 P.M.

When both the President and Vice-President are late for the meeting, who is next in line to start the meeting on time and conduct the meeting until one of them gets there? Would it be the school superintendent who is hired by the board or one of the committe chairpersons? We have the following committees: Finance, Personnel, Education and Executive (this committee sets the agenda for each board meeting). Thanks much. Janet

[Dan Honemann]

I am a member of a 9 member local school board. We are scheduled to start our monthly meetings at 5 P.M.

When both the President and Vice-President are late for the meeting, who is next in line to start the meeting on time and conduct the meeting until one of them gets there? Would it be the school superintendent who is hired by the board or one of the committe chairpersons? We have the following committees: Finance, Personnel, Education and Executive (this committee sets the agenda for each board meeting). Thanks much. Janet

"If neither the president nor any vice-president is present, the secretary—or in the secretary's absence some other member—should call the meeting to order, and the assembly should immediately elect a chairman pro tem to preside during that session. Such office is terminated by the entrance of the president or a vice-president, or by the adoption of a motion to "declare the chair vacant and proceed to elect a new chairman" (see pp. 651–52)." RONR, 11th ed., p. 453, ll. 3-11.