20-15-224. Board of trustees -- organization, meetings, quorum, mileage, and seal. (1) (a) The trustees of each community college district shall annually organize as a governing board of the community college district at the next regularly scheduled meeting after the regular school election day and after the issuance of the election certificate to the newly elected trustees.

(b) In order to organize, the trustees of the community college district must be given notice by the coordinator of the time and place where the organization meeting will be held, and at the meeting they shall choose one of their members as presiding officer and as secretary. In addition, the trustees may employ or appoint a competent person who is not a member of the trustees as the clerk of the community college district.

(c) The presiding officer and secretary of the trustees of the community college district shall serve until the next organization meeting. The presiding officer shall preside at all meetings of the trustees in accordance with the customary rules of order. The presiding officer shall perform the duties prescribed by this title and any other duties that normally pertain to the office.

(2) The board of trustees of the community college shall hold monthly meetings within the community college district on the day of the month the trustees may set. The presiding officer and secretary of the board or a majority of the board may also call special meetings of the board of trustees at any time and place within the community college district if in its judgment necessity requires the meeting. The secretary of the board shall give each member a 48-hour written notice of all special meetings.

(3) A majority of the board of trustees constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business, except that a contract may not be let, teacher employed or dismissed, or bill approved unless a majority of the total board membership votes in favor of the action.

(4) A member of the board of trustees must receive mileage, as provided for in 2-18-503, for the distance necessarily traveled in going to and returning from the place of the meeting and the member's place of residence each day that the trip is actually made.

(5) The board shall keep a common seal with which to attest its official acts.