Our by-laws are somewhat sketchy on what types of topics/issues that Exec. Board should handle/vote on and which topics/issues our General Membership should vote on. Can anyone provide some input on what types of issues that their PTO Exec. Board votes on? Or, should all votes go to General Membership? I'm particularly wondering about issues that require spending PTO money.

The bylaws at our elementary stated that the board had authorization to approve non-budgeted expenditures up to $100 and that any items over that required a vote of the general membership.

The big thing for us was to get a comprehensive budget put together and approved by the membership early in the school year, that way the majority of the organization's business was on the budget and we could just operate without having to vote on every single expenditure as long as the expenses related to each event/program were within the approved budgeted amount.

The bylaws at our elementary stated that the exec. board could approve expenditures up to $100 and any item over that had to be approved by the general membership at a scheduled meeting.

The big thing for us was to get a comprehensive budget put together and approved by the membership early in the school year. Having an approved budget in place allowed the group to operate without having to vote on each individual expenditure as long as expenses were in line with what had been approved on the budget for each program/event.

We just approved our budget with similar language about the board approving "small" items.

Good question as ours is vague on the issue too. Ours goes even further to give no specification as to if the membership actually votes on allocations or fundraisers.