Manatee County School Board Reorganization Meeting

Choosing a chair and vice-chair is the main business of the Manatee County School Board’s annual organizational meeting, which the superintendent runs until the board has organized and where each nominee needs a majority vote. Two of the five seats, Districts 2 and 5, were decided in this fall’s election, so new members may be seated first; in 2024 three newly elected members were sworn in by a county judge before the board picked Chad Choate as chair and Cindy Spray as vice-chair. No rotation rule exists, which leaves the choice open each year.