FILE:  BCB

PROCEDURES

It is the desire of the Lincoln Parish School Board that meetings shall be formal enough for orderly procedure but informal enough to encourage free discussion and to promote group thinking and action.

The President may stop any discussion which does not apply to the motion last made.  He/she may also stop the discussion of a matter if the School Board has previously agreed to confine discussion to a definite period of time, and that period has been used up.  Aside from such limitation, the President shall not interfere with debate as long as a member wishes to speak.  Each School Board member is encouraged to express to the fullest his/her opinion regarding all issues concerning the School Board provided, however, that no individual or sub-grouping of School Board members shall dominate discussion.

Adopted:  July, 1976

Ref:    La. Rev. Stat. Ann.  §§17:81, 42:12, 42:13, 42:14, 42:15, 42:16, 42:17, 42:19, 42:25

Lincoln Parish School Board