If there are no bylaws and the outgoing board and principal send their blessings- I'd say go forward ! Be sure to get some bylaws written though and you may want to include issues such as a quorum, board seats, voting rules etc.
When I re-wrote ours I made it clear that active members of the PTO can vote. A majority vote is needed to pass anything. A quorum is the number of people who are in attendance at any one meeting and that board seats can meet as needed and make decisions regarding the PTO in the event of emergency decisions needing to be made.
If you google or swag search PTO ByLaws several schools will come up- check them out- you'll learn a lot about how other PTO's are functioning.
Best of luck !! I hope you soon get more active Parents/Teachers involved and you don't hit rough waters along the way !
- Shan
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Thanks for your help and kind words!
- oliver
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