Our P.T.O. board is spending $6000 on a project for the school. The executive board announced at last night's meeting that they are going ahead with the project and there does not need to be a vote on it because they are for it and it doesn't matter what the rest of the P.T.O. wants. Can a project of this size go ahead without a vote from the membership at a meeting. Many parents are now upset with them and the school staff has been upset all year.

And they wonder why other people won't get involved!!!!

What do your bylaws say?

Tim

I second Tim. You need to check those bylaws: ours limits the board to expenditures not to exceed $100. That's enough to cover most "emergency" types of things that come up at odd times when you can't put together a meeting. Even if yours don't have a limit, the board should have the courtesy and professionalism to realize that this money was raised by the entire school and those parents should have a say in how it's spent.

Time to rewrite bylaws if it's not covered.

Thank you for your input. We are trying to find a copy of the bylaws someplace in the school. Teachers will not be involved if they are not listened to.

I would NOT want to be one of those parents who say it was okay to spend that money without input from everyone...yikes. Stick to your guns, if they do it once they will do it again, that money was raised as a group and it should be spent as a group. I have never heard of any board that has approval to spend that kind of money voting amongst themselves.

Unless the project is funding itself through grants and sponsors, they really should not. If the bylaws allow for this, then why even have members.

Actually, even if the project funds itself, it should have member support.