Correction: Superintendent Taylor and Security Chief Jones were NOT Unanimously Appointed to @mcps. @mocoboe member Grace Rivera-Oven was ABSENT.

The Montgomery County Board of Education has multiple options for remote participation by Board of Education members.  The Board of Education also controls their calendar.

Yet, on June 25, 2024, two major appointments (Superintendent and Chief of Security) were made without the full Board of Education participating.  There are 8 Board of Education members. Only 7 voted on these appointments. 

Board of Education member Grace Rivera-Oven has been known to dissent from other MCPS appointments and she was notably absent from the June 25th Board of Education meeting. Even her name plate was removed for the meeting. 

Her seat was filled in by another Board member and no mention was made of her absence at the start of the meeting.  She didn't call in, or video conference in, or express regrets for missing the meeting. 

The appointment of the new Superintendent and the new Chief of Security were both made with only 7 Board of Education members instead of the full 8.  Unanimous of those present, but not unanimous of the full Board of Education.

All superintendents going back to at least 1991 (Vance, Weast, Starr, McKnight & Felder) have been appointed by the full Board of Education without any Board members absent.  

https://mcpsmd.new.swagit.com/videos/308793

...The county school board voted unanimously Tuesday to appoint Thomas Taylor to a four-year term as the new head of Montgomery County Public Schools after a four-month search that followed the resignation of the former superintendent...

https://moco360.media/2024/06/25/school-board-appoints-taylor-as-new-mcps-superintendent/