To answer a couple questions. We are a PTO and for each school we hold our own elections at the May meeting. Each school has a President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary we also have our own committees and such not all the schools do the same thing. The coordinating council is basically there so the bylaws are enforced and we all follow them. Also so that we don't overlap for fundraisers, do the same fundraiser, have events on the same night that kind of thing.

Cindy

I would want to assure representation from each school in your group, does that happen anywhere? One school should not have total control so that would be a concern to me whether or not my school was equally represented. I am not sure this answers your question but I would look at this?

Are you a PTO with your own bylaws, or are you a PTA?

Question for anyone who is a PTA.. does National PTA have specific guidelines for this, or are your bylaws the same for each school??

But into the bylaws that a person has to be a member for a least 30 or 60 days to become officer. Something like that.

Question came up about bylaws in that is there a cutoff for nominations for officers elections.

This is the situation I guess that happened a few years ago and they don't want to happen again. I am new to the group so I wasn't around for this. (Thank GOD LOL) Well the elections were taking place a group of incoming officers from the other school came in laid their dues on the table and said they were running for office and ended up taking over.

How can we prevent this from happening. This is our school situation. We have 4 schools in the district (primary, intermediate, middle, high schoo) Now for collecting dues each school is seperate. We want parents to be able to move up to the next school where their child would be. We do have that stipulated that you must have a current or incoming student. But I don't think that you should just come in an ambush a PTO meeting and take over. But because the bylaws were so vague at the time thats what ended up happening.

Now my question how can I handle this in our bylaws? Any suggestions I am sure we are not first school in this situation.

cindy