Guest Jean Warren Posted January 13, 2011 at 03:19 AM Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 at 03:19 AM Just came home from a school board meeting. Five board members present. One board member said he wanted to nominate a different board member to the position of president. He then moved to close the nominations. Vote was seconded by the person he nominated and that was all she wrote. The person he nominated became president. Anyone have anything to say about this or something I can read on the subject?Thank you in advance for any assitance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted January 13, 2011 at 03:37 AM Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 at 03:37 AM Just came home from a school board meeting. Five board members present. One board member said he wanted to nominate a different board member to the position of president. He then moved to close the nominations. Vote was seconded by the person he nominated and that was all she wrote. The person he nominated became president. Anyone have anything to say about this or something I can read on the subject?Thank you in advance for any assitance.A motion to close nominations is normally not required. The chair usually declares them closed without objection, when everyone wishing to nominate someone has done so. But if it is made, the motion to Close Nominations is not in order if someone is seeking to make an additional nomination. Was anyone trying to do that? You said the "vote" was seconded. Did you mean the motion was seconded, or the nomination was seconded? Nominations do not require a second, but the motion would have.If moved and seconded, the motion to Close Nominations requires a 2/3 vote to be adopted. Was a vote taken? Was 2/3 achieved? If not, was a point of order raised?If only one person was nominated and the bylaws to not require a ballot vote, or contain an exception for unopposed elections, then declaring the president elected by acclamation was proper. Do your bylaws require a ballot vote?Are you a member of the board? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jean Warren Posted January 13, 2011 at 07:20 AM Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 at 07:20 AM Hi Gary, Thanks for your response. No I am not a board member. I ran but was not elected. Our school board has been out of control for a number of years. The meeting lasted 8 minutes before they went into exec session to discuss salaries. The meeting had been pre arranged and each person knew what they were to say. That is a every meeting occurrence for this board. The person that was nominated has been president once before. The oldest member of the board 28+ years on the board is the one that made the motion and said the others misunderstood him. “He made a motion to close the nomination and cast one vote.”I don’t see anything in the policy manual for this occurrence. I have looked at the AZ School Board Web Site and don’t see anything there either.The other board members looked like they knew this was how it was to be done. I will post the sound file on my cloud drive in the morning. Can’t figure out why it won’t post right now. Too late in the night for me sorry.I am currently being sued by this school board along with 3 other women. Two mothers that were asking for information on their children in the school. Lunches and school files. The other mother is my daughter. She has not lived in the district for 7 years. She was added to the lawsuit because in 2002 the ADE found the district non compliant on 28 out of 29 complaints. Removing him from services without following proper procedures.We are to go to trial again on Feb 24th. The district voted to appeal the April 15, 2010 ruling of throwing the case out.The district has been found in violation of numerous OML’s and Public Records laws. To name a few. I am being sued because I have asked for the district to provide budget information to patrons at budget hearings, or mins and agendas over the years. In 2009 the district finally provided a paper copy for the taxpayers of the budget. However we found out at the meeting that the board had a different set than we did. The county received the official copy with all numbers included. The copy for the public did not have any numbers for the year just past 2009 and had few numbers for 2010. This may be more info than this forum wants. I am just looking for answers and only see that no one cares how corrupt this district is. The Goldwater Institute for Litigation contacted us in March when the story first broke. They requested we allow them to represent us. We of course said yes. The district has now added two new charges to the SLAPP lawsuit in regards to a request I made on April 14 2010 and on Jun 17th 2010. The strategic lawsuit is meant to bury ordinary citizens to stop any public participation in their local government.http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/case/4505 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Harrison Posted January 13, 2011 at 09:54 AM Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 at 09:54 AM I wouldn't bother posting the sound file (I don't even know if the forum software would permit it) because it is very likely that no one would listen to it. Since you are not a member of the Board you have no right under RONR to attend the meeting let alone obtain any information regarding the Board. However, given this is a School Board it is very likely that you as a member of the public do have some rights that are beyond RONR which puts it beyond this forum's purview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jean Warren Posted January 13, 2011 at 11:25 AM Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 at 11:25 AM Thanks for your reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted January 13, 2011 at 04:35 PM Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 at 04:35 PM This may be more info than this forum wants. I am just looking for answers and only see that no one cares how corrupt this district is. The Goldwater Institute for Litigation contacted us in March when the story first broke. They requested we allow them to represent us. We of course said yes. The district has now added two new charges to the SLAPP lawsuit in regards to a request I made on April 14 2010 and on Jun 17th 2010. The strategic lawsuit is meant to bury ordinary citizens to stop any public participation in their local government.http://www.goldwater...e.org/case/4505Yes, your situation goes well beyond the rules of order contained in RONR. Once things are in the hands of lawyers and Institutes for Litigation, that's where they tend to stay, until resolved.Good luck, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jean Warren Posted January 14, 2011 at 01:06 AM Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 at 01:06 AM Thank you for your response Gary. It's good to know there is an organization and friendly knowledgeable people willing to answer a question honestly. This will be my last post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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