Our school has been around for about 5 years now. We currently have a PTO pres. and that is it. All of the other active members aren't in any office because no one is clear on how we go about doing this. How do we start? Is it completely up to us on how we do these kinds of things. Is there some nationwide forum on how we are to do things. And I have heard of people on this site talking of bylaws? How do we make our own??? Please help. We are in desperate need of reorginization.

You can basicly do what is right for your community. Some PTO just have co presidents and nothing else and some have president, vice president, 2nd vice president, secretary , treasurer and chairperson . I don't know of any set rules that apply to PTO. PTA does have some set ways that you might be able to follow. Our PTO just has a president, vice pres.,secretary and treasurer. In the past though we have just operated with co presidents. I hope this helps a little.

You can find a whole host of sample bylaws at the following link:
http://www.ptotoday.com/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000048.html

Hope this helps.

Tim