[nelsonfab5]

This will be our 1st official year as a new PTO group at our school. April of this year is when a small group of us got together with the permission of the school and formed our PTO.

Our problem is this.....when it comes time to elect new officers, how do we keep some of the old and bring in some new??? We were trying to come up with some sort of rotation process.....we feel we need to keep a few old officers in place in order to keep the integrity of what we have started.

We are a very small public school.....45 teachers.....196 elementary/jr high student....63 high school students...yes we have been loosing our high school students.....hopefully with the PTO's help our high school can begin to offer more for our children.

We are very proud parents and our school is GREAT.

If anyone has suggestions on elections and keeping some old with bringing in the new...........PLEASE HELP US OUT......THANK YOU......BIG HEARTED PTO MOMS IN A SMALL TOWN IN TEXAS

[LUVMYKIDS]

You could make your term limits 2 years for certain offices, so that when someone gets elected into that specific office they would remain for 2 years before that spot would come open for the election process. You can also have the V.P. automatically become the President the following year, and you could have the outgoing President remain in a non-voting advisory capacity on the board for the year following their term. Lots of ways to do it.

[PresidentJim]

My best recommendation is to make the terms sungle year, but make it so anyone who is interested can run, including the incumbant.

That way the committee, each year, gets to vote and decide on who is best. If the incumbant wants to keep the job then they can run and if the committee feels it is for the best then that person will be reelected.

PresidentJim

[FoxMom]

You could also make it be that the board members would have to help with or run and event to be able to run-- that way you know you are getting someone that is committed to helping the school.-- I think 1 year terms are better also-- this gives an opening for new members to run for a position--

[Menlo Tigers]

I know some schools make term limits. Ours does not. We vote at the last meeting of the year to approve the next year's officers. If you want to stay you can stay. If you want out you can leave. This is my 4th year as president and I'm enjoying it. I don't like the term limits. We barely got any of the new ideas we had going in the first year.

[FoxMom]

=With a 1 yr term... new people have a chance to run for a position and if you were on the board, you could run again.... some people like this and only the President knows if there are multiple parents running for a position, since our policy states that you have until the 1st friday in April to submit in writing that you are interested in running for a particular position... good luck on your decision. Things can always be revised as you go along to what works for your school.

[gjcoram]

We just updated our by-laws to have 2-year terms (we were operating this way in the past), but with a note that "every effort" will be made to stagger so that 2 of 5 officers will be continuing.

[cj3kids]

We have a 2 year term, no limits. We elect President and Secretary one year, and VP and Treasurer the next. That way we can have ones that knows what is going on, and new ones for new ides.

[debbiee12]

Our bylaws state that an officer can hold a position for 2 years - they can have 2 consecutive terms for 4 years if voted in, after that, if they are voted in for another 2 years it has to be a different position.

We also rotate - our President, Treasurer and Recording Secretary gets sworn in this year and then our VP and Corresponding Secretary go next year. This way, someone with experience is always on board.