I understood you were asking about eligibility of school board members.
It's all about whether to curtail their position of power within the PTO management. But a PTO can have the following levels.
Executive Board (Manage the organization)
Elected Officers (run meetings, administer most work)
Members (vote at general meetings)
For some organizations Exec Board = Officers. Or maybe you don't even have an Exec Board.
For us the Exec Board made most PTO decisions and was the group that met monthly. We only held one general meeting per semester. Our Board was 20+ people because it was the officers, committee chairs, principal, vice principal, plus 2 teacher reps. Each board member had one vote. We restricted teachers/district management from holding one of the 5 elected officer position, but they could still be on the PTO Exec Board if they were a committee chair.
We are just now writing our bylaws for a new PTO. By Board, I mean School board not PTO Board.
Based on other discussion posts, sounds like sometimes the school board would like to control PTO funds. I think it would be best to restrict officers to non-school board members.
[FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]It's totally dependent on your by-laws. Note - you also need to be aware of officers versus Board. Sometimes same, sometimes not. (Again, per your bylaws.) In our elementary PTO there were 5 elected officer position (Pres, VP, Sec, Treas, Parliamentarian). But the Board was those 5 plus all committee chairs. School staff could not serve as an elected officer, but they could hold any other position, including a chair which would put them on the Executive Board. This was actually at the request of the principal who wanted to avoid conflict of interests of his teachers.
Then in middle school, there was no such provision. (Much less involvement; we were happy for anyone we could get. A teacher served as officer; school nurse was president a couple years. It worked perfectly fine.
For the one that had the limitation, here was our language (it was in the section on "Election of Officers"
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