It is in such poor taste to discuss any member that may not have performed their duty as asked in front of a room full of people. The only possible way would be to discuss the situation at the main PTO meeting but not the person. Make some sort of statement about overall chair persons responsibilities. I'm sure lots of voounteers can use the reminder(whatever it may be)

Let's get real here, we are all volunteers. If you go around slamming your volunteers at meetings it would not take much to get a bad taste in everyones mouth and then what are you left with? I can tell you it would not be volunteers willing to devote their time.

It doesn't seem like there is a clear cut answer. When you are new to a position and problems arise, you always hope the answers are in a book for you to follow. Reading the above posts there are definately differences in opinions.
The meeting was to discuss a chairperson. She was not providing fundraising information that the president thought should be public knowledge. The fundraising chairperson is totally new to PTO this year and the president is new to her position but has several years of experience as a committe chair. The president tried to resolve this one on one without any luck, so for support she discussed this with the other officers and they all agreed with the president. Most of the chairpersons run their committees without much interference, but this one has needed some guidance and for some reason is offended by suggestions. I've passed along this information to the president and our monthly PTO meeting is tonight. I guess time will tell if anything is brought up or not.

In both situations the 'action' should be discussed. Statements should be crafted to ensure the discussions revolve around actions good/bad and used to make corrections & clarifications for the committee chair.
I am still vote for full disclosure.

Its unclear from the posting if the meeting was to discuss a chair POSITION or a chair PERSON.

These things are very very different and should be treated very differently.

Yes, correct spellling is clique, I stand corrected. Unless you think of click click, as in ,a turn off (the TV or whatever).

I'm with Shawn on this one.
We all understand there are trying times between all memebers. There are things said out of meetings frequently but it is the boards responsibility to ensure all memebers have been informed about any & all issues the board has faced between general meetings - having to answer to a body for actions taken is a sure way to ensure professionalism and debockle those click rumors.
PTO's are not 'government' but each person is elected by memebership to represent those who elected you. If we as PTO boards begin to think general memebers 'do not need to know' we have lost the true meaning of our roles in the PTO. We are acting in the best interest for the kids, community and school.

Special mtgs dont need minutes INMO but if it was called as a Board Mtg yes.

Question if you didnt like a vendor in minutes for whatever mtg would you put negative comments or are all minutes from meetings happy and cheery- no negatives?

(Yes memebrship doesnt know a lot of things- that NEVER implies they dont need or want to know)

[ 11-01-2006, 11:28 PM: Message edited by: Shawn ]