FILE: BCB
BOARD MEETING PROCEDURES
It is the desire of the Iberia Parish School Board that meetings be formal enough for orderly procedure, but informal enough to be natural, to encourage free discussion, and to promote group thinking and action. In matters of procedures not covered by law, School Board policy, or the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE), meetings of the School Board, including committee meetings shall be governed by Robert's Rules of Order Revised.
The President of the School Board, or, in his or her absence, the First Vice-President, shall conduct all meetings. In the absence of both, then the Second Vice-President, or in his/her absence, the Executive Committee Member-at-Large shall preside. Should all officers of the School Board be absent, the Superintendent shall preside until the School Board elects a chairperson.
The President shall be entitled to discuss and vote on all matters before the School Board. The presiding officer shall recognize members of the School Board who wish to be heard in the order that he/she deems advisable. No member of the School Board shall speak without having first been recognized.
Each School Board member shall be given an opportunity to express without interruption, his or her views on any agenda item. The President may stop any discussion which does not apply to the motion last made. He/she may also stop the discussion of a matter if the Board has previously agreed to confine discussion to a definite period of time, and that time period has been used.
The School Board may, by majority vote, cut off all discussion by persons other than the School Board. Any School Board member may invoke the call for the question to conclude all debate.
Public participation in School Board meetings shall be permitted during the public comment period pertaining to agenda items. Other persons may be recognized in School Board meetings upon approval of the School Board. The President of the School Board shall have complete authority to remove any person(s) who willfully disrupts a meeting to the extent that orderly conduct of the meeting cannot be maintained.
Ref: La. Rev. Stat. Ann. ยงยง17:81, 42:15
Iberia Parish School Board