Nebraska Statutes 18-2436. Directors; number; voting; quorum; meetings
Each participating municipality shall be entitled to appoint one director, but with the approval of each of the participating municipalities as evidenced by an ordinance or resolution of the governing body thereof, an agency‘s bylaws may contain a provision entitling any of the participating municipalities to appoint more than one director and specifying the number of directors to be appointed by each of the participating municipalities of the agency. The number of directors may be increased or decreased from time to time by an amendment to the bylaws approved by each of the participating municipalities as evidenced by an ordinance or resolution of the governing body thereof. The board may establish in its bylaws classes of membership which provide for allocated voting rights. Unless the bylaws of the agency shall require a larger number, a quorum of the board shall be constituted for the purpose of conducting the business and exercising the powers of the agency and for all other purposes when directors are present who are entitled to cast a majority of the total votes which may be cast by all of the board’s directors. Action may be taken upon a vote of a majority of the votes which the directors present are entitled to cast unless the bylaws of the agency shall require a larger number. The manner of scheduling regular board meetings and the method of calling special board meetings, including the giving or waiving notice thereof, shall be as provided in the bylaws. Such meetings may be held by any means permitted by the Open Meetings Act.
Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 18-2436
- Act: shall mean the Municipal Cooperative Financing Act. See Nebraska Statutes 18-2404
- Action: shall include any proceeding in any court of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
- Agency: shall mean any of the public corporations created pursuant to sections 18-2401 to 18-2485. See Nebraska Statutes 18-2405
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Board: shall mean the board of directors of an agency. See Nebraska Statutes 18-2406
- Director: shall mean a member of a board and shall include an alternate. See Nebraska Statutes 18-2408
- Governing body: shall mean the city council in the case of a city, the village board of trustees in the case of a village, the equivalent body in the case of a municipality incorporated under the laws of another state, and the board in the case of an agency primarily comprised of municipalities. See Nebraska Statutes 18-2409
- Municipality: shall mean (1) any city or village incorporated under the laws of this state, any equivalent entity incorporated under the laws of another state, or any separate municipal utility which has autonomous control and was established by such a city, village, or equivalent entity or by the citizens thereof for the purpose of providing electric energy for such municipality, (2) any public entity organized under Chapter 70, article 6, and incorporated under the laws of this state for the sole purpose of providing wholesale electric energy to a single municipality which is incorporated under the laws of this state, or (3) any agency primarily comprised of municipalities. See Nebraska Statutes 18-2410
- Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.