BYLAWS AND POLICIES | Policy Manual | Whiteford Agricultural Schools

0131.1 - BYLAWS AND POLICIES

The Board of Education shall adopt bylaws and policies for the organization and operation of this Board and the District and shall be bound to follow such bylaws and policies.

Those bylaws and policies which are not required to have a public hearing by the statutes or rules of the State Board of Education or ordered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction or a court of competent authority may be adopted, amended, or repealed by a majority vote of the Board at a regular or special meeting after completing two (2) readings at two (2) scheduled meetings except that the Board may vote to waive the two (2) reading requirement and then vote to adopt, amend, or repeal a bylaw or policy with one (1) reading, provided the amendment or adoption does not conflict with the law.

Bylaws and policies may be suspended by a majority vote of the Board. Any resolution suspending a bylaw or policy under this provision shall expire automatically at the next public meeting of the Board.

Periodically, it may be deemed necessary to make technical corrections to policies that have already been adopted through normal procedures. These technical corrections may include statutory references, scrivener’s errors, renumbering that does not change the order of the sections or subsections, grammatical corrections or additions including punctuation or typographical errors, as well as alterations and omissions not affecting the construction or meaning of any sections, subsections, chapters, titles, or policies as a whole and that are of a non-substantive nature. Technical corrections may also include the updating of the named individuals in these policies where the originally named individual no longer works for the District or no longer works in the applicable position. The Superintendent is authorized to identify and make technical corrections to the policies and regulations without Board approval. Upon completion of the technical corrections, the Superintendent shall provide a brief summary of the technical corrections to the Board for review. Should the Board determine that a technical correction is substantive in nature, it will utilize the normal policy adoption procedure to adopt the amendments to the policy or regulation.

The adoption, modification, repeal, or suspension of a Board bylaw or policy shall be recorded in the minutes of the Board. All bylaws and policies shall be printed in the Board policy manual. Any policy or part of a policy that is superseded by a term in a negotiated agreement shall no longer be in force and effect as a policy.

Revised 9/12/14