Policy 8460

Meetings

Annual Organizational Meeting

Reviewed and affirmed by the Board: 
Last Revision: 
Original publish date: 09/23/2008
Related policies & regulations:  8441
Legal references:  79-566, 84-1407 to 84-1414

 

An organizational meeting of the Lincoln Board of Education shall be held on the third Monday of May each year for the purpose of seating any new members and electing officers.

The following are procedures for election of officers and other business to take place at the annual organizational meeting of the Board:

  1. After new members are sworn in by the Board’s legal counsel, the Board will elect from its members a President and a Vice President with the Board’s legal counsel acting as chair for the election of a President.
  2. The Board will then elect as Secretary, the Superintendent, and elect as Treasurer, the Associate Superintendent for Business Affairs. All officers will assume office upon election.
  3. Upon call for nominations for each office by the chair, nominations will be made by written ballot. Voting will be by written ballot on all members nominated and repeated until a majority is achieved for a nominee. If a tie is not broken after five ballots, the chair will determine the winner by a flip of a coin.
  4. The President will assume the chair immediately upon being elected.
  5. The motions for the officer’s election should read:  Move that (nominee’s name) be elected as (name of office) to serve a term of one year or until the person’s successor is elected and qualified.

The order of business for the remainder of the meeting should be as follows:

  1. The election of a Vice President by the same method as used for the election of the President.
  2. Election of the Secretary and Treasurer.
  3. The adoption of an order of business to guide in the preparation of future agendas and conduct of meetings.
  4. Review of existing temporary committees or special appointments involving Board members.
  5. Approval of current Board policies and regulations.