Chair postpones budget public hearing after no quorum

At a brief meeting in Rural Retreat, the presiding chair announced the meeting lacked a quorum and postponed the scheduled public hearing on the budget until the next meeting, the chair said.

The chair opened by noting, "Looking about the room, I see we don't have a quorum," and then stated, "Public hearing until the next meeting," indicating the budget hearing would not proceed as planned. The chair initially said, "The next regularly scheduled meeting will be on the July 23," then appeared to correct that, saying, "May I do June 23," and, "June 23 is when we have gathered to have a public hearing... For the budget." The exchange left the scheduling point that the budget public hearing is to be held at the next meeting on June 23.

Because no formal motion or vote was recorded in the brief transcript, the postponement was announced as a procedural decision by the presiding officer rather than the result of a formal roll call. The chair closed the session by declaring, "that's adjourned," bringing the short meeting to an end.

Next steps: the public hearing on the budget was rescheduled for the next regularly convened meeting, which the chair identified as June 23; no additional materials, formal motions, or votes were recorded in the transcript.