hiring by a school board

[Guest Gary c Tesser]

Partly might depend on how the missing vote went missing. How did it go missing?"

[Guest Alan Healy]

He gets the job unless the board is under a special rule that says, the vote needed is, any one of the following:

a. A majority of the members present.

b. A majority of the entire board

c. Five "

[Guest Gary c Tesser]

Alan, what if the missing vote was a no?"

[Guest Kim Goldsworthy]

b nalesnnik,

I will assume you are asking a question about Robert's Rules of Order, and not asking a question about your customized bylaws.

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If there were 4 affirmative votes, and 3 negative votes, and everybody else who COULD HAVE VOTED bu"

[Guest b nalesnnik]

the member was not present at the meeting."

[Guest Jack]

This is very likely a legal question beyond RONR. Some states have law that governmental boards must define majority based on total membership. Thus if that is the law governing the board ("governing documents") the needed vote is 5. "

[Guest Kim Goldsworthy]

b.n.,

Then, STILL, the absent member is counted toward neither side.

I assume you are asking about Robert's Rules, and not asking about a customized rule of yours, or a superior rule imposed on your org.

-kg

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[Guest Alan Healy]

>Alan, what if the missing vote was a no?

Well the missing vote can't be a vote of no since a vote wasn't cast but it could have same effect as voting no.

In which case you would need at least 5 votes since a majority of both 8 and 9 "

[Guest J. J.]

Strictly under RONR, a vote of 4 to 3 is sufficient to elect.

Assuming that this this is public school board, it would be advisable for the attorney to check statute. Some states have laws requiring a majority of the board to appoint people to c"

[Guest Nancy N.]

I'm going along with the question of whether it's fair to say the missing vote was not cast.

I think I'm agreeing that the missing vote is a high-priority issue here, regardless of the consequences or otherwise how the vote falls out."

[Guest Dan Honemann]

Nancy, one wonders why you and your friend Gary are trying very hard to mess up this thread."

[Guest H.Wm.Mountcastle]

There is no "missing vote". There never was a "missing vote". As explained, "the member was not present at the meeting"."

[Guest Nancy N.]

Well, I, at least, started with the impression that on a ballot vote, one had indeed plain gone missing. And didn't for sure figure that "missing vote" referred to the absentee that the original poster mentioned in his/her follow-up statement.<"

[Guest Dan Honemann]

But surely one must try very hard to read "the member was not present at the meeting", which was posted in direct response to Gary's question "How did it go missing?", as referring to something other than that missing vote.

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