The Board shall follow Robert's Rules of Order, Revised, latest edition as modified by this policy and subsequent rule.
The purposes of modified rules adopted by the Board are:
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To establish guidelines by which the business of the governing Board can be conducted in a regular and internally consistent manner;
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To organize the meetings so that all necessary matters can be brought to the Board and that decisions of the Board can be made in an orderly and reasonable manner;
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To ensure that members of the Board, concentrating on the substantive issues at hand, have the necessary information to make decisions, and to ensure adequate discussion of decisions to be made.
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To ensure that meetings and actions of the board are conducted so as to be informative to the staff and the public, and to produce a clear record of actions taken and decisions made.
*Reviewed: 09/16/02
*Reviewed: 01/10/05
*Revised: 12/13/10
*Reviewed: 11/14/11
*Reviewed: 8/8/16
*Revised: 08/09/21