Applicant remove self from agenda

[Guest Heather]

Recently an applicant requested to be removed from the agenda 1 1/2 hours prior to the scheduled meeting. Can the Board still discuss/motion on the application?

[Robert B Fish]

Non-members have not rights to control the agenda for your meeting.

Unless you have some rules to the contrary, it's not even required that the applicant be listed o the agenda in order to consider him/her. The motion "that Mary Jones be hired as executive director" would be in order under new business. Your rules may vary.

-Bob

[Kim Goldsworthy]

Recently an applicant requested to be removed from the agenda 1 1/2 hours prior to the scheduled meeting.

Your subject line says, "Applicant remove self from agenda."

That is impossible, outside of a meeting (i.e., "...1 1/2 hours prior to the scheduled meeting...")

You don't officially add or subject anything outside of meeting (i.e., no quorum, no vote).

Can the Board still discuss/motion on the application?

Yes.

What a member says or does OUTSIDE of a meeting has nothing to do with a board agenda, or what business a board entertains.

[Shmuel Gerber]

Recently an applicant requested to be removed from the agenda 1 1/2 hours prior to the scheduled meeting. Can the Board still discuss/motion on the application?

If the applicant has withdrawn the application, then there is nothing to discuss, is there?

[Josh Martin]

If the applicant has withdrawn the application, then there is nothing to discuss, is there?

Yes, but it's not entirely clear whether the applicant has withdrawn the application or if the applicant just wishes not to have the application considered at this particular meeting, for whatever reason.