Article 2: Meetings and Agendas
The board shall have at least six (6) regular meetings each year, unless otherwise determined by the board. Meetings will ordinarily be held at Michigan State University in East Lansing, but may be held at any time and place as the board may determine. Special meetings may be called by the board, at the written request of five or more trustees.
A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may meet and adjourn to some other time or until a quorum is obtained.
At all meetings, it shall be valid to act on any subject within the power of the board, unless the call of the meeting is limited.
The business at each meeting shall be conducted under general parliamentary rules set forth in Robert's Rules of Order as modified by the board.
Meetings of the board shall be open to the public as provided by law. A portion of the board’s regular meeting is reserved for persons who wish to address the board. Those wishing to address the board must submit a Public Speaker Request Form to the secretary in advance of the posted deadline for doing so.
Individual presentations on topics that are germane to the action items on the board’s agenda are limited to three (3) minutes.
Individual presentations on topics that are not germane to the action items on the board’s agenda are limited to three (3) minutes.
The secretary is responsible for the implementation of this section and may develop guidelines consistent with this section. Requests for interpretations of the policy shall be referred to the Office of the Board of Trustees.
The secretary shall have delivered to each Trustee by regular or electronic mail not less than seven (7) days prior to any regularly scheduled meeting a notice of the time and place of the meeting, together with all pertinent materials for the meeting. Notice of special meetings of the board shall be given to each Trustee at least two (2) days in advance and will state the purpose of the meeting. The secretary shall give notice to the public of formal meetings of the board by means reasonably calculated to give due notice to the public.
Trustees may participate in any meeting of the board by means of videoconference, conference telephone, or other similar communications equipment whereby all persons participating in the meeting, including any members of the public in attendance, can hear each other. Participation as described in the preceding sentence is the same, for all purposes, as participation in person.
No motion or resolution shall be voted upon at a board meeting which is not included on the agenda distributed to board members prior to the meeting unless the motion or resolution is endorsed in writing by three or more trustees. No motion or resolution which is included on the agenda can be removed unless the removal is endorsed in writing by five or more trustees.