School Staff Inquiry Posted November 20, 2017 at 05:17 PM Report Share Posted November 20, 2017 at 05:17 PM Is a quorum required of a School Board if they are offering a time for public comment and then having a work session on budget, school attendance zone changes, etc and no votes (straw or official) are being taken at the public meeting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Brown Posted November 20, 2017 at 05:23 PM Report Share Posted November 20, 2017 at 05:23 PM 1 minute ago, School Staff Inquiry said: Is a quorum required of a School Board if they are offering a time for public comment and then having a work session on budget, school attendance zone changes, etc and no votes (straw or official) are being taken at the public meeting? In all likelihood, the answers to your questions will be contained in your school board's own rules and governing statutes. If the rules in RONR control (and they are likely superseded by superior state and local rules), a quorum must be present in order for a deliberative assembly to conduct any business except for the four exceptions contained in RONR (to adjourn, fix the time to which to adjourn, recess and take action to obtain a quorum). Your state's open meeting laws (sunshine laws) will also likely have something to say about this. I think these questions would best be asked of your school board attorney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Martin Posted November 20, 2017 at 08:02 PM Report Share Posted November 20, 2017 at 08:02 PM 2 hours ago, Richard Brown said: If the rules in RONR control (and they are likely superseded by superior state and local rules), a quorum must be present in order for a deliberative assembly to conduct any business except for the four exceptions contained in RONR (to adjourn, fix the time to which to adjourn, recess and take action to obtain a quorum). Conversely, if no business is conducted, no quorum is required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shmuel Gerber Posted November 21, 2017 at 02:45 AM Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 at 02:45 AM 6 hours ago, Josh Martin said: Conversely, if no business is conducted, no quorum is required. But if a board is required to hear public comment, and there is no quorum of board members present, then the board has not, as a board, held the required hearing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Who's Coming to Dinner Posted November 21, 2017 at 03:11 PM Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 at 03:11 PM According to RONR, can they "ratify" the hearing (whatever that might mean) at a later meeting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Katz Posted November 21, 2017 at 03:38 PM Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 at 03:38 PM 25 minutes ago, Guest Who's Coming to Dinner said: (whatever that might mean) This would strike me as being the problem. In any event, I think the answer to such a question would have to be statutory, not parliamentary, and would almost certainly be "no." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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