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Board reviews voting rules for BOCES vacancy; candidate list read, but motion unclear
Summary
The chair read rules allowing component-district trustees to cast up to three votes for a vacancy (no more than one per candidate) and read a slate of nominees; board members then debated whether to move, abstain or reject the item and no formal vote on the vacancy is recorded in the transcript.
The chair read a resolution describing how trustees of component school districts may cast three votes for a vacancy to be filled but no more than one vote may be cast for any candidate, then read aloud a list of nominees as presented to the board. The names were read verbatim in the transcript as: "Ronald Ronald, Ellerbee; Michael a Jamie Elmont; Fran Langston, Levittown, Douglas, Pascarella, Plainage; and Robert Shellen Baldwin." The transcript contains apparent transcription errors in some names; the list above is presented as read in the recorded segments.
After the chair read the rule and the candidate slate, board members exchanged procedural remarks about making a motion or abstaining. One board member (speaker 3) said, verbatim, "To not pass." The chair and other members attempted to clarify whether there was a motion or an abstention, but the recorded segments end with procedural confusion and do not record a final vote on the vacancy or a confirmed mover/seconder.
