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5 <br />Commissioner McKee agreed. <br />Donna Baker said that she could go back ten years to research this item. She will do <br />this over the summer break. <br />This item will be brought back for further discussion. <br />5. Mandatory Adjournment Time <br />The Board currently has a 10:30 p.m. adjournment time. The Board discussed amending <br />its start time to 7:OOpm on 2/17/2010 but left the adjournment time at 10:30pm. However, in <br />holding with past precedents, the Chair would call to the Board's attention that it was <br />adjournment time and would take a Board vote to see if the Board would like to either adjourn <br />the meeting or continue the meeting. <br />The Board's Rules of Procedure state in two places: <br />Rule 11 -Agenda: <br />If there is no objection, the Chair may call items in any order most convenient for the <br />dispatch of business. The meeting will end at 10:30 unless there is a unanimous vote of the <br />Board to continue beyond that time. <br />Rule 20, Procedural Motions (2): <br />To Adjourn. The motion may be made at the conclusion of action on a pending matter; it <br />may not interrupt deliberation of a pending matter. <br />Comment: this motion differs from the Robert's Rules of Order motion in several <br />respects. In Robert's Rules of Order, it is not debatable or amendable and can be made <br />at any time, even interrupting substantive deliberations. In view of the small number of <br />members and the available procedures to limit debate, this rule allows debate and <br />amendment of the motion to adjourn but allows the motion to adjourn only when action <br />on a pending matter is over. The motion to defer consideration or to postpone to a <br />certain time or day maybe used if the Board wants to adjourn before completing action <br />on a matter. <br />Decision Points: <br />Does the Board want to proceed with a mandatory adjournment time, with the Chair <br />calling the 10:30pm time and asking the Board to vote on continuance of the <br />meeting? <br />Or would the Board prefer to continue as it has with the meeting continuing until all <br />agenda items are discussed? <br />Commissioner Gordon said that they should have a 10:30 p.m. mandatory adjournment <br />time, which can be extended with a unanimous vote. <br />Commissioner Yuhasz said that they have gone past this time quite frequently and there <br />is no point is having a mandatory adjournment time if it is ignored. <br />Commissioner Jacobs said that he has never been a fan of the mandatory time <br />adjournment time and if someone wants to leave at that time, then so be it. He does not want <br />one person to have a veto over the Board's business. <br />Commissioner McKee agreed. He does not have any problem with someone needing to <br />leave, but he does not want to put business on hold so that it continues to get backlogged. <br />Chair Pelissier said that she likes finishing the Board's business and does not like the <br />mandatory adjournment time. <br />Commissioner Gordon said that she has been on a Board with no mandatory <br />adjournment time and it does not work because the meetings go too late. She said that it is a <br />