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Granville County Board of Education ratifies Dec. 2 actions after attorney explains remote-vote policy
Summary
At a Dec. 9 special meeting, the Granville County Board of Education voted to ratify actions taken at its Dec. 2 meeting after board attorney Eva Duerson said remote participation did not violate open-meetings law and recommended a ratification motion under Robert’s Rules; the transcript does not include a roll-call tally.
The Granville County Board of Education on Dec. 9 voted to ratify the decisions it made at its Dec. 2 meeting after a legal briefing on whether board members could vote remotely.
Board attorney Eva Duerson told the board that a recent policy revision from the Scribe Board Association restricted remote voting "unless there's a state of emergency," but that the Court of Appeals decision prompting that model language had been later deemed non‑precedential by the North Carolina Supreme Court. "I didn't realize this. I apologize. None of us, had caught it," Duerson said, urging the board that it could use a…
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